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Posted on The Moral Liberal-By Bryan Fischer-On May 17, 2011:

Moses is a figure who towers over biblical history and world history, widely recognized, even by secular sources, as the greatest lawgiver of all time.

His writings were frequently cited by the founders of Christianity, beginning with Christ himself. He is described as a“man of God,” and had the rare distinction of speaking with God face to face, “as a man speaks with a man.”

Here’s the kicker: when God called this man of faith, this giant of faith, he called him into politics.

God did not call him to start a church, or an evangelistic endeavor, or a soup kitchen. He called him to build and lead a nation. He called him to speak truth to political power and lead his people from political bondage to political freedom.

God called Moses to free his people from the heavy and oppressive hand of a tyrannical government which was taxing the labor of people beyond their ability to bear. (Note: do we need another Moses today or what?)

It’s time to get over this silliness we hear from many Christians, even Christian leaders, that Christians shouldn’t be involved in politics.

This view is foolish on its face, since it means that these folk actually seem to believe we should just turn over the running of the entire country, at every level, to atheists, pagans and secular fundamentalists.

Now this even can be a convenience for certain preachers, because they can continue to use the inevitable results of such godless leadership as sermon illustrations of just how bad things are, while at the same time condemning any people of faith who want to wade in and actually do something about cleaning up the mess.

Not only is this view foolish, it is dangerously unbiblical. To say that men of faith should not be involved in politics is to accuse God of malfeasance, since the biblical record shows he sent more people into politics than anybody.

Joseph, Moses, Joshua, all the judges, David, Solomon, all the kings of Judah, Nehemiah, Daniel, etc. etc., all of them were destined by God himself to make their impact in the world of public policy.

If the principle is that godly men shouldn’t be involved in politics, then God is history’s biggest offender. If Christian preachers are looking for someone to criticize for mixing faith and politics, they had best start with God. Good luck with that.

You can’t even get away from this truth by taking refuge in the prophets of old, since much of their messaging was addressed to kings and others in political power. And they not only had the cheek, as preachers, to publicly rebuke politicians, they even had the temerity to rebuke the politicians of other countries.

They knew that every bit of political power exercised by kings had been given to them by God, and that it was entirely appropriate to evaluate these politicians according to one simple set of criteria: were they using their political power to do what was good or what was evil in the sight of God?

And you can’t even escape this truth by turning to the pages of the New Testament. John the Baptist publicly rebuked Herod for his personal sexual and marital foibles. Jesus called Herod a “fox,” which was a metaphor for someone who is sly, sneaky and devious. He did not mean it as a compliment.

And Jesus openly clashed with the politicians of his day, the scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees and the whole Sanhedrin. And make no mistake, they were politicians one and all. They passed laws that affected the details of everyday life, and they had the power of arrest, incarceration, trial and punishment. The only reason they went to Pilate with regard to Jesus is that they wanted him dead and the death penalty was the only punishment they could inflict with Roman authorization.

We know from Romans 13 that all political power comes from God. Who should have a greater interest in how the power of God is used, or misused, than the people of God?

So let’s be done with this naive and simplistic idea that men of God should not be involved in politics. To borrow phraseology from C.S. Lewis, “God has not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.”

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Source:

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/05/17/men-of-faith-should-be-involved-in-politics/

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Do Marxism And Christianity Have Anything In Common?-Posted on Forbes-By Bill Flax-On on May 17, 2011:

http://blogs.forbes.com/billflax/2011/05/12/do-marxism-and-christianity-have-anything-in-common/

Secularists, or Just Anti-Christians?-Posted on American Thinker-By Keith Riler-On May 17, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/secularists_or_just_antichrist.html

Note:  We, as God, family and country loving Americans, must remain vigilant and keep our eyes on the ball and not be distracted by the relentless propaganda being fed to us on a daily basis as part of this President and his minion’s transformation strategy.

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

Faith of Our Forefathers!

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

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

Should Americans Fear Islam?

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

Restoring Honor In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/restoring-honor-in-america/

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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“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

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“No amount of throwing money at such problems (as the $787 Billion Obama stimulus attempted) is going to magic-a booming economy or viable green technology into existence.  No amount of word-magic is going to assure that 8% unemployment will never be reached if real economic principles are ignored.  It is capitalism and inventors that create goods and services and advances technology; NOT the childish dreams of progressive politicos.  In short, Emperor Obama, you’re not wearing any clothes."

 

Rajjpuut

 

 

Common Sense Vindicated AGAIN!

Obama-Stimulus Killed REAL JOBS

 

http://web.econ.ohio-state.edu/dupor/arra10_may11.pdf

 

 

            The (PDF) link above documents a study by economists Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor on the impact of the nearly $800 billion stimulus package passed early months in  the Obama Administration: the stimulus which we were guaranteed would ensure that the nation’s unemployment never would rise above 8%.

            Conley an Dupor’s exhaustive and detailed study (36 pages in summing up) results suggest that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created or saved approximately 450,000 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed or forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs.  The common sense verdict that government spending kills private sector jobs was vindicated by the study.  In other words, the most clear-cut principles of good economics from Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson still hold true.

 

“The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks  also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economistsees only what the   effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups.”

 

          According to the study, state and local government jobs were saved because the ARRA funds were largely used to offset state revenue shortfalls and mandated Medicaid increases.  Boosting private sector employment seems to have been an afterthought, if it ever occurred to anyone involved with ARRA at all.  The majority of destroyed/forestalled jobs were in growth industries including health, education, professional and business services.

Conley an Dupor suggest the possibility that, in absence of the ARRA, the vast majority of government workers (on average relatively well-educated) would have found private-sector employment had their jobs not been saved.  And across the board roughly 215 such jobs in the private sector were lost or forestalled for each government job saved or created.  Again these findings are consistent with other such studies done in the past four decades.  For example, a study of the impact of the green jobs program in Spain found that the government stimulus (subsidies) cost 2.2 real jobs in the private sector for every new green job created (more on this later).  All of this ties in with the famous Hazlitt “Broken Window Fallacy.”

 

http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/

 

illustrating another common sense adage:  Government cannot create jobs.  When the government (through taxation) seeks to create jobs, these government-created jobs typically cost 2-3 real jobs in the real economy and sometimes more.
            Meanwhile foolish Keynesian economists (excuse my redundancy) such as the New York Times’ Paul Krugman have suggested that the problem with the stimulus is that it wasn’t big enough.  Krugman infamously has never been known to criticize a progressive (we must ‘progress’ beyond the ‘outdated and ill-conceived U.S. Constitution’ in order to ‘progress’ toward our Marxist-Socialist earthly utopia) boondoggle so long as sufficient debt is incurred.  Let us return to the well-documented Spanish green economy example.  In 1997 Spain had the most vigorous economy in Europe with less than 4% unemployment.  When the study was conducted it had the fifth worst and today it has the third worst economy in Europe with more than 20% unemployment.  What happened?  And what does that mean for the United States here and now?

            What happened was Spanish government interference in the up-to-then relatively free market Spanish economy.  Their government decided that 1998 was the time to begin a transformation to a green-jobs dominated lifestyle to ensure that Spain’s economy remained vigorous and strong.  As mentioned, on average 2.2 real jobs in the real economy were lost for every government-subsidized green job created. 

The average cost of each green job in American dollars was $676,000.  But the story gets worse.  Just as in America, the Spanish government is known for counting subsidized jobs of eight-week and four-month duration just as if they were real permanent jobs in the real economy.  At the end of the day the average green job lasted very little time.  Only 10% of them proved permanent.  Thus 22 real jobs in the real Spanish economy were lost for each of the rare permanent green jobs created.  By the way the average green job created paid $10-$14 per hour.  That’s what happened, that’s why Spain is in the doldrums now.  What it means to us, can be divided into two scenarios.

            First of all, some jobs were created in the private sector by the Obama 

stimulus . . . and a whole lot more private sector jobs were lost.  Just as in Spain among all the jobs in the private sector created by the stimulus, a lot of two-week jobs were counted by the Obama people as if they were real bona fide jobs in the real economy.  The only blessing is that a larger percentage of the government jobs created or saved here in America might prove permanent.  Secondly, the Spanish example is right on in another respect:  Barack Obama has promised/threatened to create five million new green-tech jobs in America.  Taking the Spanish example at its face that means the loss of eleven million real jobs in the private sector . . . and eventually it means only half-a-million permanent green jobs created to show for devastateing the economy.  What’s going on in Barack Obama's mind?

            What’s going on is that arrogance, ignorance and childish “word-magic”  have replaced adult common sense.  When we are children we discover that words have power and virtually every child enters a stage where he believes his words are magical and if he can only find the right words, express them the right way, repeat them the right number of times while shaking one’s fist or stamping one’s feet or lying on the ground turning blue . . . OPEN SESAME, Ala Kazam, PRESTO!  We’ll then be able to make the whole world respond to us and bring us what we want.  The green technology that Obama and the lunatic environmental fringe want is not yet available.  No amount of throwing money at such problems (as the $787 Billion Obama stimulus attempted) is going to magic-a booming economy or viable green technology into existence.  No amount of word-magic is going to assure that 8% unemployment will never be reached if real economic principles are ignored.  It is the sweat and effort and risk-taking of capitalists and inventors that create goods and services and advances technology; NOT the childish dreams of progressive politicos.  In short, Emperor Obama, you’re not wearing any clothes.

 

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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Obama’s AG Eric Holder: Who IS This Man?

Posted on The Patriot Update-By Ann-Marie Murrell-On May 17, 2011:

We’ve all seen the waves Attorney General Eric Holder has made over the years.  As head of the Department of Justice, he has gained public notoriety for his extreme dealings with everything from the Black Panther case to suing the state of Arizona.

National Review article introduced America to Holder in November 2008, calling him a “conventional, check-the-boxes creature of the Left.”  The NRO editorial said: 

“He (Holder) is convinced justice in America needs to be ‘established’ rather than enforced; he’s excited about hate crimes and enthusiastic about the constitutionally dubious Violence Against Women Act; he’s a supporter of affirmative action and a practitioner of the statistical voodoo that makes it possible to burden police departments with accusations of racial profiling and the states with charges of racially skewed death-penalty enforcement; he’s more likely to be animated by a touchy-feely Reno-esque agenda than traditional enforcement against crimes; he’s in favor of ending the detentions of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes of crime.”

So who exactly is Eric Holder?  Where did he come from, what is his background?  I thought learning about his past might help us understand what his plans might be for our future.

Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in The Bronx, New York on January 21, 1951.  His parents, Miriam and Eric, emigrated from Barbados to America, where Miriam worked as a telephone operator and Eric was a real estate broker.

Eric, Jr. and his two younger brothers went to a predominantly white public school in Queens, which Holder says forced him to keep his “foot in both worlds”. 

After high school he went WAY over to the Left and attended Columbia University where he became active in civil rights.  (Obama also got his undergraduate degree from Columbia 10 years after Holder but they didn’t meet until 2004.)

At Columbia, Holder met his wife, Dr. Sharon Malone, who was attending Columbia Medical School after graduating from Harvard in 1981.  (Dr. Malone’s sister was civil rights activist Vivian Malone Jones, famous for her part in theStand in the Schoolhouse Door which led to integration at the University of Alabama.)

He received his bachelor’s in American history in 1973 and then attended Columbia Law School (while clerking for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division).  Holder graduated law school in ’76 and soon after got a job with the Department of Justice in the ‘Attorney General’s Honors Program’.

The first U.S. president to take notice of Holder was actually President Reagan in 1988, when he nominated Eric to become an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (presiding over civil and criminal trials).

Clinton years:  Controversy Begins:

Holder’s next job was working for the Clinton administration where he served as the first black U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C (under Janet Reno). 

At the urging of Clinton, Holder created Lawyers for One America—a group for bringing “greater diversity to the law profession and increase pro bono work among the nations lawyers.”

Eric’s first major political controversy occurred when he and President Clinton gave last-minute pardons to some very unseemly people—including Weather Underground terrorists Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans.  Rosenberg and Evans were friends of co-terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and had been in jail for bombing American government facilities.

But for some reason, releasing terrorists took a backseat to the pardon of “fugitive financier” Marc Rich.

Marc, who had been wanted for extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges, was allegedly pardoned because his wife Denise’s generous donations to the Clintons.  Denise was a major donor to both Bill and Hillary’s legal-defense funds and also gave lots of cash to the Clinton library.

The last-minute pardon of Rich prompted Congressional investigation hearings, which concluded with House Government Reform Committee chairman Dan Burton saying that Holder had “played a significant role in facilitating the Rich pardon”.

After the hearings, Holder said “I’m done.  Public life’s over for me.  I had a moment in time.  That moment has passed.”

But his public life wasn’t over, and when President Bush took office Holder briefly served as Acting Attorney General until the confirmation of John Ashcroft.

Once Ashcroft took over in 2001, Eric went back to the private sector at a law firm where he represented clients like the National Football League (during the Michael Vick dog fighting investigation) and Illinois Governor Rod BlagojevichHolder’s firm also represented Guantanamo inmates (although Holder “never participated directly” in the firm’s work) and the Swiss bank UBS AG (which he later recused himself from all legal matters when the U.S. government accused them of tax fraud.)

Obama Years & “Nation of Cowards”:

In 2007 Holder began working with then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as a senior legal advisor.  He later again made history by becoming the first black Attorney General under the first black president.

Holder’s first bit of hot water occurred when giving a 2009 speech during Black History Month, calling the United States a “nation of cowards”.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”, he said. 

“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we average Americans simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

In a strange twist of “pot calling the kettle black,” even Obama thought Holder had overstepped his liberal boundaries.

“I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language,” Obama said.

In Part 2, I’ll go further into the work Eric Holder has done during the Obama years.  While maybe not as charismatic or outspoken as some members of the president’s staff, Holder silently keeps pushing that envelope and does so largely unnoticed.”

Source:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obamas-attorney-gen-eric-holder-who-is-this-man-part-1-of-2

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to the above article and/or blog post-You Decide:

President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-contributed-to-the-racial-mess-in-our-country/

Obama and Holder’s Hidden Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/obama-and-holders-hidden-agenda/

When Did the American People Elect Eric Holder Commander in Chief?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/when-did-the-american-people-elect-eric-holder-commander-in-chief/

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 & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

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George Washington's Farewell Address  (Excerpt on Religion and Morality)
George Washington September 19, 1796

Religion and morality are necessary conditions of the preservation of free government.

…Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim
the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of
human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens. The mere
Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them. A
volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for
life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are
the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution
indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of
peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

’Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of
popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every
species of free Government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with
indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric.

Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives
force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be
enlightened….
[From George Washington, A Collection, ed. W.B. Allen
(Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1989), 521-22.
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Posted on The Patriot Update-On May 17, 2011:

All the Republican candidates should understand that the media will come after them with a ferocity that could be unprecedented. We’re seeing it already. If a Republican candidate criticizes the President, he or she is often branded as Racist.

Next year the Republican nominee will not only be competing against President Obama and the Democratic party but also against the mainstream media which is going to be even more committed to reelecting Mr. Obama than it was to electing him in the first place. That’s because a loss for Mr. Obama would reflect very poorly on the media. If Americans repudiate the liberal value system that many in the media embrace, that would be a personal affront to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_DBRD2acY&feature=player_embedded “

Source:

http://patriotupdate.com/videos/race-republicans-and-the-presidential-election

Note:  I believe that part of this President and his minion’s transformation strategy includes the use of Hispanics, African Americans, union thugs, and our youth as pawns, with the help of the main stream media, to push their unrelenting racial and/or class propaganda as a means of dividing our country to the point of causing civil unrest and an uprising because this would allow the President to declare “Marshal Law”, as a means of completely doing away with our “Constitution Of The United States Of America” and/or “Bill of Rights”, and take over as our country’s dictator, which would be the final step in their transformation process. 

It is for this reason that I also believe that we, as God, family and country loving Americans, must keep our cool, remain vigilant and keep our eyes on the ball, which is to take our country back and not be distracted by the relentless propaganda being fed to us on a daily basis. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE&feature=player_embedded#at=73

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

President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-contributed-to-the-racial-mess-in-our-country/

The Racial Mess!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/the-racial-mess/

Obama is fomenting a race war?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/obama-is-fomenting-a-race-war/

'Game Change':  New Book Reveals 2008 Campaigns' Messy Moments-To Include Racism!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/game-change-new-book-reveals-2008-campaigns-messy-moments-to-include-racism/

Obamanites Get Violent in Support of the Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/obamanites-get-violent-in-support-of-the-agenda/

How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/how-abc-cbs-and-nbc-have-dismissed-and-disparaged-the-tea-party-movement/

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/

Is History Repeating Itself?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/is-history-repeating-itself/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

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And these people Breed.....

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY:  What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS:     He said , 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY:  And why did that upset you?
WITNESS:     My name is Susan!
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS:     Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Are you sexually active?
WITNESS:     No , I just lie there.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  This myasthenia gravis , does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS:     Yes.
ATTORNEY:  And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS:     I forget..
ATTORNEY:  You forget?  Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS:     We both do.
ATTORNEY:  Voodoo?
WITNESS:     We do..
ATTORNEY:  You do?
WITNESS:     Yes , voodoo.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Now doctor , isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep , he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS:  Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________

ATTORNEY:  The youngest son , the 20-year-old , how old is he?
WITNESS:      He's 20 , much like your IQ.
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS:     Are you shitting me?
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS:     Yes.
ATTORNEY:  And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS:     Getting laid
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  She had three children , right?
WITNESS:     Yes.
ATTORNEY:  How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY:   Were there any girls?
WITNESS:      Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS:     By death..
ATTORNEY:  And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS:     Take a guess.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS:     He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY:  Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS:     Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
_____________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS:  No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS:     All of them.. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  ALL your responses MUST be oral , OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS:     Oral...
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS:     The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY:  And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS:     If not , he was by the time I finished.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY:  Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS:     Are you qualified to ask that question?
______________________________________

And last:

ATTORNEY:  Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS:     No.
ATTORNEY:  Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS:     No.
ATTORNEY:  Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS:     No..
ATTORNEY:  So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS:     No.
ATTORNEY:  How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS:     Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY:  I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS:     Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.


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The ‘Arab Spring’ Is a Fraud!

Posted on The Blaze-By Scott Baker-On May 16, 2011:

CBS News:  Now, I am going to tell you the truth about the so-called “Arab Spring,” and about the Middle East generally right now.

First, the “Arab Spring” as a force for democracy, human rights and peace in Egypt seems to me to be a fraud.”

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ben-stein-the-arab-spring-is-a-fraud/

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/

Is President Obama in on the Uprising in Egypt?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/is-president-obama-in-on-the-uprising-in-egypt/

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               “Besides the ignorant things he said, however, Gingrich suggested that the G.O.P. symbol might be an elephant riding on a magic carpet which (if you look closer) proves to be a paycheck; while the Democrat’s symbol would be a Donkey living in a food stamp book teepee.  Gingrich also said that it was wrong for Republicans to talk about cutting Medicare since it left them open to being demagogued for the next decade and Medicare had only increased 14% under Obama while the federal side of Medicaid had risen 54% and food stamp costs had risen 60% under Obama, then he cited a food stamp increase from 33 million to 47 million Americans now on food stamp rolls an amazing 39.4% jump” in just two years.

 

 

Trump, Huckabee Drop-outs and Ex-Speaker’s

Implosion Puts Romney in Catbird Seat

For 2012 G.O.P. Presidential Nomination

 

 

               In a dramatic turn of events, the last three days marked climactic upheaval in the ranks of the Republican presidential candidates to replace Barack Obama in the Oval Office starting January, 2013.

               ITEM:  Mike Huckabee cited “spiritual reasons” for deciding NOT to contest the 2012 primary waters in an announcement made at the end of his Huckabee show on FOXNews channel Saturday.  With no effort at all, Huckabee was #2 in the polls among all candidates.  This is a huge game-changer among Republican and many other conservative voters.

               ITEM:  Pressured by his television network, NBC, Donald Trump announced today that he would NOT be running for president either.  Trump said “Business is my greatest passion and I’m not ready to leave the private sector.”  He also cited all the money that his hit show “Celebrity Apprentice” had been making for charity as a reason NOT to run.  Most pundits do NOT believe the Trump announcement changes much in the battle for 2012.  Most conservatives believed “The Donald” was moderate or even liberal; and had very little to offer conservative voters.  Especially after his recent foul-mouthed tirade, he’d lost a lot of his standing as a potential “statesman.”

               ITEM:  Only short days after announcing his decision to be a candidate for 2012 -- saying the election was the most important in America since Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 -- Newt Gingrich seemingly committed political suicide and greatly muddied the waters of the debate on Capitol Hill over raising the national debt ceiling and the Ryan Budget.  Gingrich (imitating Joe Biden??) offered not one but two terrific gaffes:

1)      He appeared to say that Obamacare was not so bad and that he personally supported something like it.

2)    He criticized Paul Ryan’s budget.  The Ryan budget which passed in the House with 238 Republican votes, Gingrich said was “radical.”  He continued, “I don’t support social-engineering from the right anymore than I support social-engineering from the left. 

               Unless Gingrich’s ploy will be to run as a Democrat and contest Obama in the primaries, his candidacy can no longer be regarded as valid.

 

               At this early stage these three key recent developments seem to put Mitt Romney in the driver’s seat.  He’ll presumably emerge with somewhere between 30-35% of the G.O.P. vote in upcoming polls.  He could have a lead of 2 ½ to 1 over his next closest rival presumably Gingrich (who had 15-16% in recent polls but hurt himself recently.  Rajjpuut believes that Mitch Daniels, Indiana Governor; Michelle Bachmann, Minnesota Representative; and businessman Herman Cain would benefit even more than Romney will from the three news items mentioned above.  The big winner, however, might just be the TEA Party.  Let’s look a bit closer at Romney and Gingrich and the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party . . . .

               Discussing Romney, DickMorris.com put it this way, “Romney was having a terrible week.  His speech on health care was terrible.  With Massachusetts up in arms over Romney-care and Republicans dead set against the individual and employer mandate, his failure to repudiate his program would have cost him dearly.  But now he is sitting on top of the world.”  Much truth there but perhaps a bit too rosy a picture painted for Romney . . . .

               Morris later made a personal appearance on the Hannity show on FOXNews and opined that Gingrich had not actually hurt himself, but rather that people just got the out of context version from the mainstream media.  NOT HARDLY, Richard!  However, in Gingrich’s favor these things must be said.

               Besides the ignorant things he mentioned, Gingrich suggested that the G.O.P. symbol might be an elephant riding on a magic carpet which (if you look closer) proves to be a paycheck; while the Democrat’s symbol would be a Donkey living in a food stamp book teepee.  Gingrich also said that it was wrong for Republicans to talk about cutting Medicare since it left them open to being demagogued for the next decade and Medicare had only increased 14% under Obama while the federal side of Medicaid had risen 54% and food stamp costs had risen 60% under Obama.  Then he cited a food stamp increase from 33 million to 47 million Americans now on food stamp rolls an amazing 39.4% jump in 28 months.

               Michelle Bachmann, Morris told Hannity, would benefit because she might get a lot of the social-conservatives favoring Huckabee.  Since Bachmann is a TEA Party favorite and the emphasis of the TEAs is on fiscal- and Constitutional-conservativism, that does not compute . . . . Rick Santorum and possibly Sarah Palin would be more likely to gain in Rajjpuut’s not-so-humble opinion, with Bachmann and Herman Cain getting some lift as well.

               Morris said that “for Daniels, the withdrawal of Trump opens the way for him to become the main establishment business community rival to Romney.  And Huckabee's withdrawal opens the door for conservatives to support him as well.”  Morris thought that both Daniels and Bachmann needed to enter the race very soon.  Pawlenty, already in the tussle, was another one who Morris said would benefit greatly . . . but he left no doubt that in his view Romney might right now be the presumptive nominee.  Rajjpuut believes there’s a huge long way to New Hampshire not to mention the Oval Office and he doubts that Romney will get 30% of the Republican vote in Iowa or 25% in South Carolina.  Besides, who knows . . .  Chris Christy might just wind up running.

 

               Mitt Romney is the unquestioned early leader, that’s obvious.  But, the millstone of the Romneycare program in Massachusetts hangs heavy upon him.  His biggest worry has to be the TEA Party.  Romney has already pleaded with some TEA Party leaders for the TEAs NOT to run a third party candidate in 2012; some TEA Party folk recently took the opportunity after Romney’s weak Romneycare speech to call him “a walking hypocrite.” Surely  1) Michelle Bachmann, 2) Herman Cain, 3) Mitch Daniels and 4) Tim Pawlenty (after the three shake-ups this weekend) have to be considered far more compatible with the TEAs than Mitt Romney who is at best a moderate Republican and may because of his failure to repudiate Romneycare be looked upon by some as progressive (like Obama).  We’ve a long hot summer ahead of us . . . if one of these four separates himself or herself from the pack, Romney may be in jeopardy . . . then there’s the specter of a locked convention choosing Chris Christy as everyone’s favorite dark horse . . . we do live in exciting times.

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

The Obama administration will begin to tap federal retiree programs to help fund operations after the government lost its ability Monday to borrow more money from the public.  The Democrats refuse to cut spending while they claim they do want to cut spending.  The BS artists are at it again trying to muddy the waters.  The tax spending public is again getting the shaft.  The Republicans refuse to tax the rich.  Its all a big smoke screen to hide what is really going on and that is that both parties want to continue to take our money for their pet projects and for giveaways to their friends and those who fund their reelections.  They all should be voted out at the next election for not doing their job but especially for trying to deceive the public.

 

I ask you as a tax payer aren't you tired of getting sheered like a sheep?  I am really tired of this ongoing nonsense.  What right do they have to shirk their duties and responsibilities.  They should be able to find enough spending cuts for the next 5 years and enough taxes for the same period. If they can't or won't they should simply cut 5 % right acrossthe board from the budget for the next 10 years.  Since they can't or won't stop wasting our hard earned money we have a moral and patriotic obligation to vote them out of office.

In the meantime we should ask Our Lord in heaven to give them a sense of responsibility and honor.  Pray! Pray! Pray!

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

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FACEBOOK AND YOU

Fellow WebItes:

     How many times in the last 90-120 days this year have you been scammed out of your own prowess of web usage upon Facebook? Or, anywhere else for that matter?

I personally have 4 accts with this web server, and not a very happy camper neither.

Recently, I mean within the last 48 hours, they (FB) used a friends name to scam me into doing something in a prideful manor assuming I'd be so gullible to fall for their scamage. I did a quick chek of the information they were seeking and in the crux of their Hyperlink I saw HACKER written all over it.So I refrained from utilizing its contents and backed right out.

But, my friend didn't fare so well. I sent him a msg asking him if he'd purposefully sent the msg to me in good faith. To which he replied NO!

Then, He proceeded telling me what they did to him.

Friends, Facebook, and all of these other so called ISP ENTITIES are within the boundaries of the Federal Communications Commission Guidelines of the Policies and Procedures of The Public Trust.

What they are doing and have done have blatantly violated our Public Trust and are to be held accountable by the FCC to these charges brought about by you and I as Traitors and Treasonists.

They have NO RIGHTS as far as I am concerned to violate our trust nor our space (Which they so sullenly supply) and rights to access, privacy, and usage.

I may not know it at all about the legalistical logistics about all of this, but one thing I do know is that when I'd applied for and received a FCC Radio Operators license back in 1985, it was clearly stated and understood that this and these type of misappropriations of the Public Trust were held and deemed solely Sacred and Sanctem to the Public Trust, i.e. you and me.

If these Corporations insist that they have a seductive need to cop a quick feel of the American Right, then, Let Them Taste American Freedom  WRATH by its own people.

Instead of sitting upon our weary little hands waiting for our congress to do anything about nothing and same ol' / same ol'. We need to start our own Internal Warfare against this anti-citizenry politbureau of political pawns and do the WWF Slapdown to SmackDown Anti-Politicianry Republic of America: REDEEMED RIGHTS FOR ALL.

And please don't be so crass as to put these things into an acronym just for the mere sake of doing so. That Cliche-ism is for the flickin' birds.

Always American, Always True to Myself, Always in Christ.

Max Simon Uhrig

San Tan Valley,  AZ

 

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The True Story of the Financial Crisis!

Posted on The American Spectator-By Peter J. Wallison-May 2011 issue:

As many readers of The American Spectator will know, I was a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member body appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis of 2008. The Commission issued its report in late January 2011, with a majority concluding that the crisis could have been avoided if the private sector had not taken so many risks and government regulators had not been asleep at the switch. I dissented from the majority’s view, arguing in my dissent that the financial crisis would not have occurred if government housing policies had not fostered the creation of an unprecedented number of subprime and otherwise risky loans immediately before the financial crisis began.

After the majority’s report was published, many people lamented that it was not possible to achieve a bipartisan agreement even on the facts. But the way the Commission was organized and run made this impossible. One glaring example will illustrate the problem. In March 2010, Edward Pinto, a resident fellow (and my colleague) at the American Enterprise Institute who had served as chief credit officer at Fannie Mae, sent the Commission a 70-page, fully sourced memorandum on the number of subprime and other high-risk mortgages in the financial system in 2008. Pinto’s research showed that he had found more than 25 million such mortgages (his later work showed that there were approximately 27 million). Since there are about 55 million mortgages in the U.S., Pinto’s research indicated that, as the financial crisis began, half of all U.S. mortgages were of inferior quality and liable to default when housing prices were no longer rising. In August, Pinto supplemented his initial research with a paper documenting the efforts of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), over two decades and through two administrations, to increase home ownership by reducing mortgage-underwriting standards.

This information, which highlighted the role of government policy in fostering the creation of these low-quality mortgages, raised important questions about whether the mortgage meltdown would have been so destructive if those government policies had not existed. Any objective investigation of the causes of the financial crisis would have looked carefully at Pinto’s research, exposed it to the members of the Commission, taken Pinto’s testimony, and tested the accuracy of his research. But the Commission took none of these steps. Pinto’s memos were never made available to the other members of the FCIC, or even to the commissioners who were members of the subcommittee charged with considering the role of housing policy in the financial crisis.

Ultimately, I dissented from the Commission majority’s report. There was no alternative. The Commission’s management—particularly its chairman, Philip Angelides, a former Democratic treasurer of California and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate—would not allow the staff to pursue any theories about the causes of the financial crisis other than those embodied in the standard left-wing narrative. And in the end a majority of the commissioners—never having been presented with any contrary evidence—signed on to a report that said the financial crisis could have been avoided if there had been better regulation of the private sector.

The question I have been most frequently asked about the Commission is why Congress bothered to authorize it at all. Without waiting for the Commission’s report, Congress passed and the president signed the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA), far-reaching and highly consequential regulatory legislation that I believe will have a strong adverse effect on U.S. economic growth in the future. In enacting the DFA, Congress and the president acted without seeking to understand the true causes of the wrenching events of 2008, perhaps following the precept of the President’s chief of staff—“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

But to avoid the next financial crisis, we must understand what caused the one from which we are now slowly emerging, and take action to avoid the same mistakes in the future. If there is doubt that these lessons are important, consider the ongoing efforts to amend the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA), which currently requires all insured banks and S&Ls to make loans to borrowers at or below 80 percent of the median income in the areas the banks service. If these loans were profitable, of course, there would be no reason to require by regulation that they be made. In the last session of the 111th Congress, a bill was introduced to extend the CRA to all “U.S. nonbank financial companies,” and was lauded by House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank as his “top priority.” If enacted, the proposal would have applied to the whole financial community the same government social policy mandates that were ultimately responsible for the mortgage meltdown and the financial crisis.

Because of the 2010 election, it is unlikely that supporters of this idea will have the power to adopt similar legislation in the current Congress, but in the future other lawmakers with views similar to Barney Frank’s may seek to mandate the same requirements. At that time, the only real bulwark against the government’s use of private entities for social policy purposes will be a full understanding of how these policies were connected to the events of 2008.

What Caused the Financial Crisis?

GEORGE SANTAYANA is often quoted for the aphorism that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Looking back on the financial crisis, we can see why the study of history is often so contentious and why revisionist histories are so easy to construct. There are always many factors that could have caused a historical event; the difficult task is to discern which, among a welter of possible causes, were the significant ones—the ones without which history would have been different.

Using this standard, I believe that the sine qua non of the financial crisis was U.S. government housing policy, which led to the creation of 27 million subprime and other risky loans—half of all mortgages in the United States—which were ready to default as soon as the massive 1997-2007 housing bubble began to deflate. If the U.S. government had not chosen this policy path—fostering the growth of a bubble of unprecedented size and an equally unprecedented number of weak and high-risk residential mortgages—the great financial crisis of 2008 would never have occurred.

In this article, I will outline the logical process that I followed in coming to the conclusion that it was the U.S. government’s housing policies—and nothing else—that were responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.

The inquiry has to begin with what everyone agrees was the trigger for the crisis—the so-called mortgage meltdown that occurred in 2007. That was the relatively sudden outbreak of delinquencies and defaults among mortgages, primarily in a few states—California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida—but to a lesser degree everywhere in the country. No one disputes that the losses on these mortgages and the decline in housing values that resulted from the ensuing foreclosures weakened financial institutions in the U.S. and around the world and were the precipitating cause of the crisis.

This raised a significant question. The U.S. had experienced housing bubbles in the past. Since the Second World War, there had been two—beginning in 1979 and 1989 -- but when these bubbles deflated they had triggered only local losses. Why was the deflation of the housing bubble in 2007 so destructive?

The Commission’s answer was that there were weaknesses in the financial system—failures of regulation and risk management, excessive leverage and risk-taking—that were responsible for the ensuing devastation. To establish this idea, the Commission had to show that these weaknesses were something new. It didn’t attempt to do this, although that was an essential logical step in establishing its point. And the Commission ignored a more obvious answer: the quality of the mortgages in the bubble. As I noted earlier—and as the Commission never acknowledged or disputed—by 2008, half all mortgages in the U.S. -- 27 million—were subprime or otherwise risky loans. If the Commission had really been looking for the reasons that the collapsing bubble was so destructive, the poor quality of the mortgages in the bubble was a far more likely hypothesis than that there had been a previously undetected weakening in the way the U.S. financial system operated.

This in turn raised two other major questions. Why were there so many weak and risky loans in this bubble? What had happened to mortgage underwriting standards in the preceding years that caused such a serious deterioration in mortgage quality?

“Affordable Housing Goals” and the Deterioration in Underwriting Standards:

RESEARCH SHOWED that the turning point came in 1992, with the enactment by Congress of what were called “affordable housing goals” for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two firms, which were shareholder-owned, had been chartered by Congress more than 20 years earlier to operate a secondary market in mortgages. The original idea was that they would buy mortgages from banks and other originators (Fannie and Freddie were not permitted to originate mortgages), standardize the mortgage document, resell those mortgages to institutional and other investors, and in that way create a national market for U.S. mortgages.

From the beginning, Fannie and Freddie’s congressional charters required them to buy only mortgages that would be acceptable to institutional investors—in other words, prime mortgages. At the time, a prime mortgage was a loan with a 10-20 percent down payment, made to a borrower with a good credit record who had sufficient income to meet his or her debt obligations after the loan was made. Fannie and Freddie operated under these standards until 1992.

The 1992 affordable housing goals required that, of all mortgages Fannie and Freddie bought in any year, at least 30 percent had to be loans made to borrowers who were at or below the median income in the places where they lived. Over succeeding years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) increased this requirement, first to 42 percent in 1995, to 50 percent in 2000, and finally to 55 percent in 2007. It is important to note, accordingly, that this occurred during both Democratic and Republican administrations.

At the 50 percent level, Fannie and Freddie had to acquire at least one goal-eligible loan for every prime loan that they acquired, and since not all subprime loans were goals-eligible Fannie and Freddie were in effect required to buy many more subprime loans than prime loans to meet the goals. As a result of this process, by 2008, Fannie and Freddie held the credit risk of 12 million subprime or otherwise risky loans—almost 40 percent of their single-family book of business.

But this was not by any means the full extent of the problem. HUD took Congress’s enactment of the affordable housing goals as an expression of a congressional policy to reduce underwriting standards so that low-income borrowers would have greater access to mortgage credit. As outlined in my dissent, by tightening the affordable housing goals, HUD put Fannie and Freddie into competition with the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), a government agency with an explicit mission to provide credit to low-income borrowers, and with subprime lenders such as Countrywide, that had pledged to reduce underwriting standards in order to make more mortgage credit available to low-income borrowers. Moreover, all these organizations were joined by insured banks and S&Ls, which as noted above were required under the CRA to make mortgage credit available to borrowers who are at or below 80 percent of the median income in the areas where they live.

Of course, it is possible to find borrowers who meet prime loan standards among low-income families, but it is far more difficult to find such loans among these borrowers than among middle-income groups. And when Fannie, Freddie, FHA, subprime lenders like Countrywide, and insured banks and S&Ls are all competing to find loans to borrowers in the low-income category, the inevitable result was a significant deterioration in underwriting standards.

So, for example, while one in 200 mortgages involved a down payment of 3 percent or less in 1990, by 2007 it was one in less than three. Other credit standards had also declined. As a result of this government-induced competition, by 2008 19.2 million out of the total of 27 million subprime and other weak loans in the U.S. financial system could be traced directly or indirectly to U.S. government housing policies.

Private Sector Securitization of Subprime Loans:

IF THE GOVERNMENT was responsible for 19.2 million of the 27 million subprime and other risky loans, that leaves 7.8 million similar loans that came from other sources. These were mortgages securitized by the private sector (often called Wall Street in the Commission’s report) and held by financial institutions around the world. How were these mortgages the result of U.S. government housing policy?

This is an important question. Even though these privately securitized mortgages were less than one-third of the total number of subprime and other risky loans outstanding, they are the reason that banks and other loan originators generally have been blamed—in the media, in most books and films about the financial crisis, and of course by the Commission—for the financial crisis.

The securitization of subprime and other risky loans was also a new phenomenon in the housing bubble that ended in 2007, and it was a direct result of the extraordinary growth of the bubble itself. Most bubbles in the past lasted three or four years. In that time, delinquencies begin to appear and the inflow of speculative funds begins to dry up. The bubble that deflated in 2007, however, had an unprecedentedly long 10-year life. The reason was that the money flow into that bubble was not from private speculators looking for profit, but primarily from the government pursuing a social policy by directing the investments of companies or agencies it regulated or otherwise controlled.

Housing bubbles tend to suppress defaults. As housing prices rise, people who can’t meet their obligations can sell the house for more than they paid, or can refinance, so delinquencies are limited. By 2002, five years into the bubble that began in 1997, investors were beginning to notice that subprime and other risky loans—which usually carried higher than normal interest rates because of their risk—were not showing delinquencies or defaults commensurate with their risks. In other words, the data suggested that mortgage-backed securities (MBS) made of these loans were offering unusually high risk-adjusted yields. This stimulated the development of a private market in securitized subprime loans—something that had never existed before.

This market was about 4 percent of all mortgages made in 2002, but by 2004 had grown to 15 percent. It kept growing through 2005 and 2006, but completely collapsed in 2007, when the 10-year bubble finally topped out and began to deflate.

Thus, the 7.8 million subprime and other risky loans that were securitized during the 2000s and still outstanding in 2008 were also the indirect result of U.S. government housing policies, which had built an unprecedented bubble in the late 1990s. The bubble created the necessary conditions—a long run of subprime loans without the expected losses—for the growth of a huge securitization market in subprime and other risky loans in the mid-2000s.

Before leaving this subject, it is important to address one statement that has appeared again and again in the mainstream media, in statements by members of the Obama administration, and was repeated in the Commission report. This is the claim that Fannie and Freddie became insolvent because, seeking profits or market share, they “followed Wall Street” into subprime lending. This idea neatly avoids the question of why Fannie and Freddie became insolvent in the first place, and focuses the blame again on the private sector. The statement, however, as the following quote from Fannie’s 2006 10-K report makes clear, is untrue:

[W]e have made, and continue to make, significant adjustments to our mortgage loan sourcing and purchase strategies in an effort to meet HUD’s increased housing goals and new subgoals. These strategies include entering into some purchase and securitization transactions with lower expected economic returns than our typical transactions. We have also relaxed some of our underwriting criteria to obtain goals-qualifying mortgage loans and increased our investments in higher-risk mortgage loan products that are more likely to serve the borrowers targeted by HUD’s goals and subgoals, which could increase our credit losses.

Subprime and Other Risky Loans Cause the Financial Crisis:

WITH HALF OF ALL mortgages weak and of low quality by late 2007, an eventual financial crisis was a foregone conclusion. No financial system could withstand the huge losses that occurred when the delinquencies and defaults associated with 27 million subprime and other risky loans began to appear. Alarmed by these unexpected and unprecedented numbers of these delinquencies and defaults, investors fled the multi-trillion dollar market for MBS, dropping MBS values—and especially those MBS backed by subprime and other risky loans—to fractions of their former prices.

Mark-to-market accounting then required financial institutions to write down the value of their assets—reducing their capital positions and causing great investor and creditor unease. In this environment, the government’s rescue of Bear Stearns in March of 2008 temporarily calmed investor fears but created significant moral hazard; investors and other market participants reasonably believed after the rescue of Bear that all large financial institutions would also be rescued if they encountered financial difficulties.

However, when Lehman Brothers—an investment bank even larger than Bear—was allowed to fail, market participants were shocked; suddenly, they were forced to consider the financial health of their counterparties, many of which appeared weakened by losses and the capital writedowns required by mark-to-market accounting.

This caused a halt to lending and a hoarding of cash—a virtually unprecedented period of market paralysis and panic that we know as the financial crisis of 2008.

The Policy Stakes:

THE FAILURE OF THE Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to do its job is one more obstacle to persuading the American people that the Dodd-Frank Act is illegitimate and should be repealed.

The act is far and away the most restrictive piece of legislation ever imposed on the U.S. economy, and it will have a long-term effect in slowing economic growth, just as the uncertainties it has created have already slowed the recovery from the recession.

The DFA was sold to the American people by the media and the Obama administration as necessary to prevent another financial crisis, but as outlined in this article and made very clear in my dissent, the financial crisis was not caused by weak or ineffective regulation.

On the contrary, the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by government housing policies—sponsored and promoted by many of the same people who framed and ultimately enacted the DFA. If we don’t learn that important lesson, we will make the same mistake again, and then we really will have another financial crisis.”

Source:

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/05/13/the-true-story-of-the-financia

Note:  We, as God, family and country loving Americans, must remain vigilant and keep our eyes on the ball and not be distracted by the relentless propaganda being fed to us on a daily basis as part of this President and his minion’s transformation strategy.

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

Who or what caused the economic crisis that propelled President Obama into office?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/who-or-what-caused-the-economic-crisis-that-propelled-president-obama-into-office/

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 & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

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WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

 

The following exercepts have been taken from "This Apocalyptic Age" by Robert Bergin.

 

When General Douglas MacArthur died a thought-provoking speech made by him aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri at the time of the Japanese surrender was not reported in most of the biographies.  Part of it is given hereunder:

 

"Men," the General said, "since the beginning of time have sought peace.  Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations.  From the very start, workable methods were found insofar as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful.  Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war.  The utter destructiveness of war now blots out this alternative.  We have had our last chance.  If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.  The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudenscence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2000 years.  It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

 

And on another occasion this is the manner in which he described our present crisis and prayed for our preservation: 

"There are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavor leading directly to the path of Communist slavery.  As a counterbalance to those forces is the deep spiritual urge in the hearts of our people--a spiritual urge capable of arousing and directing a decisive and impelling public opinion.  This, indeed, is the great safeguard and resource of America.  So long as it exists we are secure, for it holds us to the path of reason.  It is an infallible reminder that our greatest hope and faith rests upon two mighty symbols---the cross and the flag;  the one based upon those immutable teachings which provide the spiritual strength to persevere along the course which is just and right---the other based upon the invincible will that human freedom shall not perish from the earth.  These are the mighty bulwarks against the advance of those atheistic predatory forces which seek to destroy the spirituality of the human mind and to enslave the human body.  Let us pray for the spiritual strength and innate wisdom to keep the Nation to the course of freedom charted by our fathers;  to preserve it as the mighty instrument on earth to bring universal order out of existing chaos; to restore liberty where liberty has perished; and to reestablish human dignity where dignity has been suppressed."

The strength of General MacArthur's moral fiber was especially indicated when in 1942, while accepting an award as outstanding father of the year, he said:  "My hope is that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle but from the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer,  'Our Father who art in heaven......' "

The author, Robert Bergin, followed these words with the following:

"By their fruits you shall know them."  Our Lord said: "Do men gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?  Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit", (Matt. 7.16)

The fruits of the doctrine of Christian love are peace.

The fruits of the doctrine of atheistic hatred are wars, and yet more wars.

The bottom line folks is that without the help of Our Lord and Savior we are going nowhere fast.  St. Paul wrote "Now the Lord is a spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."  (2 Cor. 3.17).

In the Old Testament Isaias cried out:  "Woe to the sinful nation, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel.  If you be willing and hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.  But if you will not.....the sword shall devour you.  Because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."  (Isaias 1.4.;19.20).

 

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

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               "It’s all GASP been put off!   Damnation, are our beloved Revolutionaries just procrastinators at heart?  Hope this blog puts you in the pink!"    

                                                                                                                                                                          

 

                          Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” Date
Changed for 4th Time, Now late June
 
 
“Beware the Ides of May” is apparently no longer their rallying cry . . . apparently scheduling “The Revolution” is proving a bit more difficult than Marxist-progressive activists anticipated. According to the Associated Press (AP), the much ballyhooed “2011 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, now operating under the name “Gaza Aid Flotilla” has changed its departure date for the fourth time in recent weeks and will now sail in “late June” according to the latest information. Popcorn, drinks and candy will be available in the lobby; please silence your cell phones and no tweeting or texting will be permitted.
 
The flotilla aiming to create a confrontation again this year with the Israeli Navy,  which monitors all shipments into the Gaza Strip (weapons ammo and “war supplies” are banned), was originally scheduled to sail on May 15, the date of the “Palestinian Holocaust” which the Israeli’s celebrate as the date of their nation’s founding. The history in question occurred 63 years ago. The original sailing date would have marked precisely one year since a similar flotilla attempted to outrun the Israeli naval blockade of the area.
 
            In that 2010 incident, nine of the people on a Turkish ship were killed and seven Israelis were wounded when the protestors began attacking the Israeli military boarders with sawed-off pipe segments.  One badly-injured Israeli was thrown overboard and had to be rescued.  The media worldwide treated the story as an “unprovoked Israeli massacre.” About a dozen of the well-known Jihadists on that flotilla had created videotapes of their “living wills” . . . so the question of who provoked what is really not a question. 
 
The sailing date for what’s now expected to be a 9-ship flotilla has changed from May 15, to May 22, to May 31 and now to “late June.” The “event” last year and purportedly the one this year have been funded by the Marxist/Feminist group Code Pink “Women For Peace” and planned by (70’s Weather Underground bombers and bomb-makers) Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dorne (both her names have been spelled various ways and she’s often called “Bernadette” as well) close political allies and personal friends of Barack Obama.  The American Ship “The Audacity of Hope” joins this year’s activities. The original May 15, 2011 date had been trumpeted in progressive and Marxist media as a date when simultaneous “uprisings” against capitalism and oppression would begin.  More on that ongoing collaboration between the radical left and Jihadist Muslims later . . . .
 
Turkish officials have stepped up criticism of Israel since the three-week “war” in Gaza ended in early 2009, and have stated that the Turkish activists are permitted to sail from its shores.An Islamic aid group in Turkey has said it expects the convoy to be at least twice as big as the one that attempted to reach Gaza last year. If so, since six ships set sail last year the most frequently released “nine boats” information would be a low estimate. This year's convoy includes the Mavi Marmara, the same Turkish vessel operated by IHH (Islamic “Humanitarian Relief “Fund) on which the activists died in the raid, and American vesselThe Audacity of Hope, the title of President Obama's second autobiography and of the sermon from Reverend Jeremiah “God damn America” Wright which Obama based his book upon.
 
Eight Turks and a Turkish-American died in the “event” last year. Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded. Each side said the other started the violence. The incident  plunged ties between former allies Israel and Turkey to new lows. Israel eased its land blockade of Gaza amid an international uproar over the raid. But it says its blockade policy prevents weapons from reaching Iran-backed Hamas militants who violently seized control of the territory in 2007. The original May 15, 2010 flotilla seeking to outrun the Israeli naval blockade was the first recorded instance of collaboration between the radical American leftwing and Jihadist Islamicists. The sudden and surprising “revolts for democracy” all over the Middle East were planned and funded by American unionists . . . the same people who bragged publicly in Wisconsin that the new union movement in the Middle East was “with us” as they ‘desecrated’ that state’s capitol.
 
For their part, Israeli military officials have confirmed preparations have been made to stop any new flotilla while avoiding casualties, and that different tactics would be employed this time around. The flotilla sailing on May 15th was lauded as a simultaneous event with mass “walk-ins” by Palestinians crossing the Israeli border to “reclaim” the land they lost 63 years ago. There’s been no mention of that concurrent event being planned this time around or of other synchronized events such as a planned destruction of America’s banking system first revealed by SEIU union bigwig Stephen Lerner planed by him also has not occurred. Here was their original scheduling:
 
#1 Code Pink, Ayers and Dorne again uniting for a repeat of the blockade-running event on May 15, 2011 with The American ship Audacity of Hope joining the festivities.
            #2 As SEIU Union bigwig Stephen Lerner promised (it’s all on videotape at my Rajjpuut’s Folly blog site in a different blog): 
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-obama-toady?xg_source=activity
 the assault on the American banking system he’s personally planned . . . and designed to deal the ultimate crippling blow to capitalism is scheduled for May 15, 2011.
            #3 A whole range of nasty union demonstrations are scheduled to coincide with . . . wait for it . . . May 15, 2011.   The Union movement has now gone global (Workers of the world unite!) and far more Marxist. Go to the websites of the AFL-CIO or SEIU and see all their propaganda about all the countries “standing with Wisconsin.” They believe that Capitalism is on the ropes and all they have to do now is keep attacking the free market system until they can land a haymaker . . . and move their twisted statist philosophies into the forefront.
            #4 A restoration of lost land in which Muslim Arabs on all sides of Israel are supposed to simply walk into the country and “reclaim their acreage” is also scheduled for, yep, you guessed it . . . May 15, 2011. Beware the Ides of May???? 'er beware some other date . . . .
 
         It’s all GASP been put off!   Damnation, are our beloved Revolutionaries just procrastinators at heart?  Perhaps they see discretion as the better part of Marxist valor and now consider coordinated attacks a little too PINK to actually work without bringing backlash?  Nevertheless, despite the postponements, the facts are simple and straightforward, with this being the headline: 
 
The Radical Left has Now Joined with Radical Islam to
Initiate “THE Revolution” NOT Only Here in the
United States, but Around the World . . .
 
These moves are a culmination of several trends long in evidence such as the push for Shariah Law across Europe and here in the United States. To say that this new tactic is treasonous is a huge understatement.
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
 
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What follows is an article and/or blog post that seems to provide us with the answer to this question-You Decide:

Establishment Blues-Posted on The American Interest-By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD-On May 12, 2011:

I don’t want to make this a habit, and I suspect he doesn’t either, but Paul Krugman and I are once again in (very) partial agreement.  We both think the American elite has intellectually and morally lost its way, and we agree that the problems our country faces today have more to do with elite breakdown than popular stupidity.  We locate the blame somewhat differently within that elite; Krugman splits the blame between George W. Bush and the economic policy makers of the Clinton/Obama administrations.  I think the rot goes deeper and has spread out more widely.  But the United States today — in both parties, in the corporate and business worlds, in academia and among the intelligentsia, in religion and in many other fields — does not have the strong and thoughtful leadership that we need.

That is not what the elite thinks, by and large.  To listen to many bien pensant American intellectuals and above-the-salt journalists, America faces a shocking problem today: the cluelessness, greed, arrogance and bigotry of the American public.  American elites are genuinely and sincerely convinced that the American masses don’t understand the world, don’t realize that American exceptionalism is a mental disease, want infinite government benefits while paying zero tax, and cling to their Bibles and their guns despite all the peer reviewed social science literature that demonstrates the danger and the worthlessness of both.

As the thoughtful and discerning Dan Drezner noted on his blog, the complaint isn’t all wrong.  Americans historically want generous government support for themselves and their families, and we do have a tendency to think that government exists to give us something for nothing.  Most of us think God has some kind of plan for the United States — that the wealth and the power this country has accumulated over the centuries is intended to benefit humanity as a whole in some way.  Nobody is going to argue that the American people are walking encyclopedias of knowledge about foreign leaders, new developments in European philosophy and WTO regulations.  If world power was determined by fifth grade math scores, the US would rank somewhere between Burkino Faso and Chad.

But by historical standards, the average American is actually ahead of his or her ancestors.  Today’s average Americans are smarter, more sophisticated, better educated, less racist and more tolerant than ever before.  Immigrants face less prejudice in the United States than ever before in our history.  Religious, ethnic and sexual minorities are more free to live their own lives more openly with less fear than ever before.  There is more respect for science and learning, more openness to the arts and more interest in the viewpoints of other countries and cultures among Americans at large than in any past generation.

The American people aren’t perfect yet and never will be — but by the standards that matter to the Establishment, this is the best prepared, most open minded and most socially liberal generation in history.  Unsatisfactory as the American people may be from the standpoints of Georgetown and Manhattan, this is as good as it gets.  Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman could only dream of the kind of sophisticated and cosmopolitan understanding that folks in Peoria have now compared to the old days.

The American people are less prejudiced, more globally aware and more willing to meet other cultures and societies halfway than ever before.  Minorities today are better protected in law and more fairly treated by the public than ever in our history.  No previous generation has been as determined to give women a fair chance in life, or to attack the foul legacy of racism.  The American people have never been as religiously tolerant as they are today, as concerned about the environment, or more willing to make sacrifices around the world to promote the peace and well being of humanity as a whole.

By contrast, we have never had an Establishment that was so ill-equipped to lead.  It is the Establishment, not the people, that is falling down on the job.

Here in the early years of the twenty-first century, the American elite is a walking disaster and is in every way less capable than its predecessors.  It is less in touch with American history and culture, less personally honest, less productive, less forward looking, less effective at and less committed to child rearing, less freedom loving, less sacrificially patriotic and less entrepreneurial than predecessor generations.  Its sense of entitlement and snobbery is greater than at any time since the American Revolution; its addiction to privilege is greater than during the Gilded Age and its ability to raise its young to be productive and courageous leaders of society has largely collapsed.   (There are, of course, many honorable exceptions to generalizations this sweeping; anyone wise enough to be reading this blog can safely assume that none of these terrible things apply to you.)

Take Wall Street.  (Please!)  Our corrupt financial and corporate establishment has by and large lost its concern for the well being of the American state and the American people.  Raj Rajaratnam’s conviction on 14 counts of insider tradingis only the latest of a string of scandals, blunders and crimes that demonstrate the moral vacuity of the best and the brightest in the United States.  Matt Taibbi’s article in Rolling Stone may be a little over the top for some tastes, but even if the Goldman Sachs executives he describes did nothing illegal, it is painfully clear that a great American financial institution has lost its moral compass. There is a dangerous moral vacuum at the heart of the American Financial Establishment. 

We have had financial scandals before and we have had waves of corporate crime.  We have had pirates and robber barons.  But we have never seen a collapse of ordinary morality in the corporate suites on the scale of the last twenty years.  We have never seen naked money grubbing among our politicians akin to the way some recent figures in both parties have cashed in.  Human nature hasn’t changed, but a kind of moral grade inflation has set in and key segments of the American Establishment are increasingly accepting the unacceptable as OK.  Investment banks betray their clients; robo-signers essentially forge mortgage documents day after day and month after month; insider traders are lionized.   Free markets actually require a certain basic level of honesty to work; if we can’t be more honest than this neither our markets nor we ourselves will remain free for very long.  

Many problems troubling America today are rooted in the poor performance of our elite educational institutions, the moral and social collapse of our ‘best’ families and the culture of narcissism and entitlement that has transformed the American elite into a flabby minded, strategically inept and morally confused parody of itself.  Probably the best depiction of our elite in popular culture is the petulantly narcissistic Prince Charming in Shrek 2; our educational institutions are like the Fairy Godmother, weaving shoddy, cheap, feel-good illusions into a gossamer tissue of flattering lies.

Because the idea of an elite makes Americans nervous, and because American culture likes to blur class and power realities rather than highlight them, we don’t have much of a national conversation about the state of our elite and about how to improve it.  That’s a mistake — and it is one of the reasons our elites are performing so poorly.  The United States actually needs a healthy and far-sighted elite, and that means we need to look at the subject head on.  I’ll be posting on this subject from time to time over the next few months; here are some initial, and not particularly Paul Krugman-like thoughts on what I think has gone wrong.

Guild Mindset:

I’ve posted in the past about the power of the learned guilds in our society: lawyers, doctors, university professors, journalists (marginally) and other professionals.  These are the institutions in which much of the American elite makes its living.  That’s a problem, because the most important problems America faces today involve the need to break up these guilds and drastically reshape the professions.  This isn’t something our elite wants to think about — and it doesn’t want the rest of us thinking about it, either.  The system works fine for them, so what’s to reform?  Rather than leading the country into the Promised Land, the elites want to keep us in Egypt.

Progressive Myopia:

Some of the problem is intellectual.  For almost a century now, American intellectual culture has been dominated by the values and legacy of the progressive movement.  Science and technology would guide impartial experts and civil servants to create a better and better society.  For most of the American elite today, progress means ‘progressive’; the way to make the world better is through more nanny state government programs administered by more, and more highly qualified, lifetime civil servants. Anybody who doubts this is a reactionary and an ignoramus.  This isn’t just a rational conviction with much of our elite; it is a bone deep instinct.  Unfortunately, the progressive tradition no longer has the answers we need, but our leadership class by and large cannot think in any other terms.

The old ideas don’t work anymore, but the elite hates the thought of change.

Blind Faith in Meritocracy:

Past generations of the American elite were always a little bit nervous about their situation; it is morally difficult for an elite based on birth, ethnicity or wealth to justify itself in a country with the universalist, democratic values of the United States.  The tendency of American life is always to erode the power and prestige of elites; populism is the direction in which America likes to travel.  Past generations of elites were conflicted about their status and struggled against a sense that it was somehow un-American to set yourself up as better than other people.

The increasingly meritocratic elite of today has no such qualms.  The average Harvard Business School and Yale Law School graduate today feels that privilege has been earned.  Didn’t he or she score higher on the LSATs than anyone else?  Didn’t he or she previously pass the rigorous scrutiny of the undergraduate admissions process in a free and fair process to get into a top college?  Haven’t they been certified as the best of the best by impartial experts?

A guilty elite may be healthier for society than a self-righteous one.  Teddy Roosevelt and his cousins Eleanor and Franklin worked as hard as they did in part because they felt their privilege was unearned.  They were also a little bit afraid; nobody wants to end up in the tumbrils on the way to the guillotine like the French aristocracy.  Best look after the people before things get out of hand.

I don’t make this point because I want to go back to the days when a tightly knit WASP Establishment ran the country; I merely observe that some important things have been lost in what, on the whole, is a very beneficial transition.  We need to think about recovering what was lost even as we hold onto the gains we have made.

The Great Revaluation:

There is an intellectual and a moral problem that undermines the ability of the American elite to perform one of the necessary functions of a leadership class: to draw on the country’s traditional values for the vision and the confidence to move into the future.  During the 1960s and 1970s, many of the most hallowed assumptions of American life were challenged.  Especially when it came to race and to gender relations, two of the deepest and most complex elements in the makeup of traditional American society, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed wholesale and radical change.

I am not, repeat not, saying this was a bad thing.  Having grown up under Jim Crow, and having seen the University of North Carolina deny my mother a chance for an advanced degree because it refused to admit married women into certain professional programs, I have no nostalgia for Tara.  Count me in with the carpetbaggers, scalawags and civil rights activists; I’m marching with Martin, not sulking with Scarlett.

But it has given the United States a complicated and kinky relationship to our national past.  The racist, Indian-killing, woman-oppressing America of the past was not a perfect society, but it was the source of the values that enabled us to grow.  Disentangling the good from the bad and finding a way for society to connect ever more deeply with the good in our roots without resuscitating old evils is one of the essential skills national leaders need.  A country like ours, needing both to reject and to embrace the past in complex and subtle ways, is a hard country to lead.  Unfortunately, our leadership class — impatient with the “bitter clingers” — sometimes doesn’t even seem to be trying.

The leadership class of a country like ours needs to exemplify and to teach smart patriotism: a deep love of country that expresses itself in a concern for the well being of our fellow Americans, a sense of personal dignity and economic restraint, a willingness to set the example of sacrifice for the common good.  Progressive taxation is a poor substitute for the kind of progressive patriotism that we need.

Too many American intellectuals today spend their time mocking popular expressions of American exceptionalism and other forms of patriotic thought without working to create and promote a richer vision of the country, a deeper and wiser patriotism that connects with the sentiments of ordinary Americans and raises them to a wider and more magnanimous plane.  It is worth going back to read some of Daniel Webster’s great patriotic orations like the Second Reply to Haynesor the speech of March 7, 1850 to ask how in today’s circumstances we can articulate a vision of our union that can equally inspire its defense and its reform.

A leadership class is responsible for, among other things, giving a voice to the feelings of the nation and doing so in a way that enables the nation to advance and to change.  Most of the American establishment today is too ignorant of and too squeamish about the history and language of American patriotism to do that job.  In the worst case, significant chunks of the elite have convinced themselves that patriotism is in itself a bad and a dangerous thing, and have set about to smother it under blankets of politically correct disdain.

This will not end well.

The Evaporation of Religion:

The religion gap between the elite and the rest of the country is a big part of the problem — and in more ways than one.  I can’t help but notice that the abandonment of serious religion by most of the American elite has coincided with a massive collapse in both the public and private morality of the American establishment.  Kids who weren’t raised in church or synagogue or mosque, who were taught that ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ were simplistic categories in a complex moral world of shades of gray, who were told that their highest moral duty was to be true to their inner passions, who were the first generation in American history to be raised in a Scripture-free educational medium, turn into self-indulgent, corner-cutting, self-centered adults.

What a surprise!  We raised a generation of bright kids without a foundation in religion, and they’ve grown up and gone to Wall Street.  We never told them that the virtuous life was both necessary and hard, that character was something that had to be built step by step from youth, that moral weakness was both contemptible and natural: and we are shocked,shocked! when, placed in proximity to large sums of loose cash, they grab all they can.

Religion is no guarantee of righteousness; Elmer Gantry is not the only sticky-fingered preacher in the history of the world.  But at least in western history when the culture and habits of mind of an entire social milieu have lost touch with their cultural foundations in ethical monotheism, trouble is usually on the way.  The estrangement from religion is also an estrangement from the ideas and cultural values that bind society into a workable whole.

The French aristocrats laughed at the manners and the morals of the common people and ridiculed the faith that lit the darkness and softened the harsh conditions of ordinary lives.  Enlightened and cosmopolitan, the establishment mocked the attachment of the ignorant peasants to the king.  The well educated, well connected elites accepted no limits on their ability to convert their social privilege into personal wealth; they accepted no limits on the gratification of their physical desires — flaunting their romantic affairs in the same spirit in which they feasted at Versailles while the gaunt peasants starved.  They used and abused to the fullest all the privileges that came with their status while mocking and rejecting any sense of duty and obligation.

It was fun while it lasted.”

Source: 

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/05/12/establishment-blues/

Note:  We, as God, family and country loving Americans, must remain vigilant and keep our eyes on the ball and not be distracted by the relentless propaganda being fed to us on a daily basis as part of this President and his minion’s transformation strategy.

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

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

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/

Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy web site and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial is being censored-what happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

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The McDonalds Beating video

This is a blatant disregard for America and its citizens to be so lackidasical as those workers were posed to be. In not assisting to thwart the assault on that woman is an outrage against McDonalds Corporation and its fundamental stand in America as to serving anyone, anytime and reaping their profits as they do.

Policies and Procedures were thrown out the door right behind their counter, as the employees just stood around and watched.

Cause and Effect?

Video Violence allowed to thrive in America is partly to blame here upon both sides of this issue.

1) On the part of the attackers, I'm not sure what purposed the incident I've just watched, I wasn't there, and neither were any of us watching or at least hearing the reports. Yet, video gaming in this country should have its course nearly completed by now and HALTED once and for all.

2) On the part of the Employees, as so called Innocent By standers, and impartial witnesses to this attack, to cowardice as part and parcel of company policy, video gaming in the effect that they're so full of the Blood, guts, and gore, that their (even subtle) Human compassion was hacked up and spit upon the floor of that restaraunt.

To put it nicely, yet not to the affect of Political Correctness:

"Don't Step There, Until It Dries!" mentality in America should be a WAKE UP call to the societal dysfunction here in this country.

How can we call this country GREAT when this kind of garbage is taking place, video taped, and broadcast within the realms of any media is a sham and shame upon the American Right.

Stop it NOW!

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I’m receiving a lot of comments like this one, young people reading my blogs and understanding what I’m telling them.  All this fear politicians instill in the gullible of old people being left to eat dog food is not impressing the young who know they are being taken by political hacks.

 

Talk about getting taken, President Obama asks the American people if we are not asking too much of him to ask that he protect our southern border. Perhaps, said he, we want him to dig a mote along the border and put alligators in it.  Be very suspicious of Obama’s remarks.  He is extremely treacherous.  Not only has Obama not secured our southern border, he has not helped the sick economy; unemployment is higher than when he took office; he has run up the national debt to an unsustainable level;  America is weak and getting weaker.  Division is great in America.  When you see Republicans talking out of both sides of their mouths—no answers to very pressing questions, you have every reason to believe you are getting taken.   

 

With our southern border upon, it has been reported that the State Department is making it impossible for some people to get a passport. I’m a disabled World War II veteran. The VA asked me these questions:  Did I feel stressed?  Did I feel threatened?   Did I feel like doing harm to someone? If I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my right to carry a concealed weapon. The VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.  Veterans, be forewarned. Be aware that Obama is watching you. You know Obama not looking out for you.  The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans potential terrorists.  While he’s giving guns to Mexican criminals, who have shot and killed border patrol agents, he is going strong on the elimination of guns to American citizens, says the National Rifle Association.

 

President Obama, a Roosevelt Democrat, has for his agenda “collective salvation,” ortransformation to Marxism.  Franklin D. Roosevelt, according to some of America’s most prominent historians, was one of America’s greatest presidents. They are completely oblivious of undeniable facts.  I’ve been here to watch it all take place, from Roosevelt’s beginning. I’m a World War II veteran who saw combat in Germany, and one of the few World War II veterans, who served in the ETO 15 months and then sent to fight the Japs.  The war ended with me on the high seas. I was in the Army of Occupation in Japan.  

 

In all but four of my working years, I was an entrepreneur fighting both government and competition to survive.  What a shame that after fighting for freedom I would have to fight the IRS. Obama, furthering Roosevelt’s great cause, redistribution of the nation’s wealth, according to his conception of fairness, a distinction is to be made. Government, no different than private industry, concerned with growth,  government growth  solely concerned with spending what private industry produces, until private industry cannot exist without government help, socialism is the result.  More than half of America, thanks to Roosevelt’s Fabian Socialism, today depends on government. The power lies in Big Labor, Big Money, Big Government, the people pawns, the name of the game, might makes right,  I don’t think that is so great for the people. I don’t think you could call that progressive, and where are the Republicans? You don’t know because they are beating about the bush.  It doesn’t hurt me in my present circumstances.  I’m being rewarded for my former effort to defeat the income tax.

 

We humans were created with reason and logic; we’re not of insect mentality.  We are not here to do Fabian Socialism’s philosophy, for the good of all.  It goes against human nature.  There is no better example than my own case. In 1973, a year in which I made zero income, and owed capital gains tax, I wrote Attorney General William B. Saxbe a letter, stating therein that the United States was unconstitutional in its implementation of federal income tax. Double digit inflation made the land I sold worth double what I paid and the dollars I received worth half as much. I had no capital gain and yet the government was treating dollars worth half as much as 100 percent taxable.  I paid an income tax when I had no income.  The government took my existence and gave it to somebody else.

 

Saxbe forwarded my letter to the IRS. The IRS doesn’t make federal income tax law, the IRS informed me. Congress makes the law.  The IRS wrote that Congress has authorized the IRS to take, in the name of tax, up to 100 percent of the taxpayer’s income, notwithstanding capital gains.  Black’s Law Dictionary defines it as “legal fraud,  or fraud implied or inferred  by law or made out by construction.”  In that more than half of the American people  benefit from this out-and-out fraud, or at least think they benefit, and the majority rules, or better said, when might makes right, the taxpayer can be taxed out of existence. This government of the people, for the people prefers after me you come first government.  It will not be long until government will be killing people who don’t agree.  

 

It remains in the law that when one has a personal stake in the outcome, he or she is permitted to take his or her cause to court, in the case of income tax, to the tax court.  No matter what, the taxpayer is not going to get anywhere by claiming the income tax is unconstitutional.  It can’t be helped, not anymore  than runaway spending can be helped.  They go together.

 

In any event, nobody but a fool would try to challenge this fraud.  I did.  The outraged IRS called me “a Fifth Amendment Freak.  The IRS wasn’t prepared for what I did, nor were the courts. What I did just doesn’t happen.  On my own, I went through the whole legal process.  Had I have hired a lawyer it would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Even if I won, no court would have awarded my lawyer the legal cost. The government thinks it has taxpayers right where it wants them. The Department of Justice and courts accommodated me to the extent that I took my case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Remember my letter to the Attorney General, which he forwarded to the IRS?  He was forced to appear against me, with a pack of lies,  in the Supreme Court. To be sure, the Supreme Court dismissed me. I went public.  A front page story appeared in The Palm Beach Post.  The IRS hung itself with its own rope—and ate crow on the front page.  “A Fifth Amendment Freak?” The cat was out of the bag. Much to government’s chagrin, I proved my personal power.   

 

I now have my own blog. Since last February, I’ve received 6,000 favorable comments.  On the other hand, in spite of your complaints on this blog; in spite of the fact that the statistics indicate the people are against the excesses in taxing and spending,  on our side,  none of it has caused government to change directions.  Since more than half of the American people depend on government, what you get from the politicians is doubletalk. Complaining will get you nowhere.  Unfortunately, you end with zip. Say I to the Tea Party, “Come to the party.”  

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Pamela Geller on Fox Business: Obama's Birth Certifcate 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArF2jLEIOs  

 

Pam Geller is from ATLASSHRUGS 

 

They left out a whole lot of stuff. [But at least they are talking about it]

....Dan, NY

 

On the "Certificate of Live Birth"  Obama's father has his age listed as

being 25 years old. Several documents state that Obama Sr. was born

on June 18, 1934 which would have made him 27 years old in 1961.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

 

See FOIA request show 1934 & 1936 [Univ. of Hawaii list him as born June 18, 1934]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54015762/Barack-Hussein-Obama-Sr-Immigration-File  

 

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=293113   

 

Then there is the "Rubber" Certified Stamp at the bottom which spells

the word  "THE"  as "TXE".  The first short form "Certification of Live Birth"  has it spelled correctly. Its quite obvious that it was done on purpose.

 

Whitehouse  copy

4063306012?profile=original

4063305983?profile=original

March 2011

 

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=298101 

 

There are several other anomolies on the alleged BC . These are just a few.  Let's see if they ever get "specific" on Fox News and invite certified Experts on the show to prove the errors.

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