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The Rule of Law

Posted by james seigfreid on March 28, 2011 at 7:47pm

I don't know how many people saw or heard Donald Trump this morning on Fox News' "Fox and Friends", but I had to clean up my coffee mess after I jumped off the couch hollerin' and clapping.

It's wayyyy past time that somebody with a national voice stood up and said what needs to be said, and the "Donald" did it again.

He was asked about his appearance on "The View", and Whoopie Goldberg's reaction to his comment that Obama should just produce his birth-certificate and be done with it.

It really was quite the thing to hear.  Mr. Trump said that all he wants to see, is Obama produce his original long-form birth certificate and end the controversy.  He then added that he didn't think it was that big of a deal at first, but now, with additional information he's been receiving, and the continuing refusal to provide confirmation of Constitutional eligibility by the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he's really curious about the refusal to provide documentation.  Just a short time ago, Trump posted his own long-form birth certificate on Newsmax, among other places.  "It took me less than an hour", he said.

He also said that..."the COLB means nothing.  Any one can go to the state of Hawaii and get one...", which is absolutely true.  He went on to question the ads that announced the birth days later in the papers, and the claim of the governor of Hawaii, Abercrombie, as to remembering visiting the baby Obama 50 years ago in the hospital after his birth.

Well, I applaud the Donald whole-heartedly.  He wasn't that concerned until he started seeing what a lot of us have seen all along---Obama is a fraud, and an illegal one at that.  He cannot, nor ever could, pass Constitutional muster, and has been engineering the greatest downfall of a nation ever witnessed in history.

Like Donald Trump, I'm not a "birther" either.  I just want to see the birth certificate. 

And, having spent a few years and many hundreds of hours researching and writing about this usurpation, my final question to any deniers or obfuscators would be this:

WHEN DOES THE RULE OF LAW AND OUR CONSTITUTION MEAN NOTHING?

 

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Who are the rebels we are protecting?

Posted by Bob J Criswell on March 28, 2011 at 6:16pm
(Search the names for yourself ... while the US Press will not mention their names, who they are is no secret)

The Libyan Fighting Group (LIFG) also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya is the most powerful radical faction waging Jihad in Libya against Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime. Shortly after the 9-11 attacks, LIFG was banned worldwide (as an affiliate of al-Qaeda) by the UN 1267 Committee.

LIFG was founded in the fall of 1995 by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It aims to establish an Islamic state in Libya and views the current regime as oppressive, corrupt and anti-Muslim (which is what makes it corrupt and oppressive to the rebels), according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. LIFG claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Gaddafi in February 1996.

Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi's] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi’s government “an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty” and declaring its overthrow to be “the foremost duty after faith in God.” This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain….

Emerged in 1995 among Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, the organization declared the government of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi un-Islamic and pledged to overthrow it. Some members maintain a strictly anti-Qadhafi focus and organize against Libyan government interests, but others are aligned with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization or are active in the international mujahidin network.

As recently as February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include … the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.”

Derna is famous as the home of a large number of suicide bombers in Iraq. It is also deeply hostile to Gaddafi. “Residents of eastern Libya in general, and Derna in particular, view the Gaddadfa (Gaddafi’s tribe) as uneducated, uncouth interlopers from an inconsequential part of the country who have ‘stolen’ the right to rule in Libya,” US diplomats were told in 2008, in a cable since released by WikiLeaks.

The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began (the 1995 uprising not the 2011 uprising). One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida’s top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya....

Also Search:
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (Libya) and the Safist Group for Preaching and Fighting:

Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links (searchable headline)
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya". Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
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No Brainer

Posted by Junior Sampson on March 28, 2011 at 5:12pm
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida... 



Not me.  I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It's a win-win situation. 
+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. 
+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies. 
+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border. 

Any other problems you would like me to solve today?  Yes? 
Think about these:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments   

C O W S   

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.   

T H E    C O N S T I T U T I O N   

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq   .... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.   

T H E   1 0    C O M M A N D M E N T S   

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:  You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment. 
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WHAT WOULD DEMOCRATS CUT?

Posted by Cathy O'Brien on March 28, 2011 at 4:16pm

As Congress finally returns to work, many are reflecting whether or not they made the right choice in the GOP's "second chance" election. This doubt began within a few short weeks of the historic November 2010 election shellacking, and the shellacking began to fade away, as the Democrats appeared unsinged.

WHAT WOULD DEMOCRATS CUT?
It is understandable why the Senate is so afraid to offer its own spending plan. http://bit.ly/hCM34O

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Who Has War Powers?

Posted by tom whitmore on March 28, 2011 at 8:00am

Who Has War Powers?

 

Our Constitution provides that the Congress make declarations of war or define and punish international offenses, in Article. I. Section. 8. “The Congress shall have Power to declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; To raise and support Armies; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”, although the President is “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States" he has no such power to declare war. 

 

As Commander in Chief the President has full authority to direct the military of the United States of America in her defense by repelling attacks, but within the confines and regulations set forth by the Congress.  Nor was that executive power meant to extend to foreign soil or the high seas except in self-defense without the express consent of Congress.  

 

It is clear that the Congress was meant to be in control of the armed forces and that only the Congress has the Constitutional authority to declare War or to "define and punish, Offenses against the Law of Nations", as in the case of Libya.

 

The fact that many previous Presidents and Congresses have ignored the Constitution, whether it is in matters of war or otherwise, is not solid grounds to support an argument.  The Constitution is very clear in it's original intent, it is when we fall prey to the "living Constitution" advocates or the precedent of other failures, that it's meaning becomes vague.

 

The founders were very careful to create a Republic with a separation of powers so as not to vest our President with another monarchy like King George enjoyed.  One of the powers they strove to separate from the President was the ability to make war (as opposed to defending the country).  A constitutional student would find that, even President George Washington, more than once, reinforced this separation of powers by deferring to the Congress when asked to endorse an offensive operation.

 

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (commonly referred to as the War Powers Act) was an effort in part to make sure the intent of the Constitution would not continue to be ignored.  It states that “(c) The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”   Whether heretofore ignored, it is still the law of the land, and should be adhered to and enforced, unless/until it was to be found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

 

The original intent of the founding fathers was that, Congress was to make the rules and regulations, and decide when and where we went to war or enforced international laws and the President directed the armed forces in that effort and in the defense of the Union.  The founding fathers’ concept of maintaining a standing Army and Navy was for the sole purpose of defending the Union and its interests from uprisings and foreign attacks.

 

I believe, too many people view the Commander in Chief, as like a head coach directing the offense and defense.  Where, indeed, it is the Congress that is the head coach of our armed forces, the CinC is like the defensive coordinator by default (directing training and defensive operations) and may take on the duties of the offensive coordinator when under attack and/or authorized by the head coach (Congress). 

 

One of the greatest challenges our nation has faced, and will continue to face, is the usurpation of power by the executive branch, as forewarned by the founding fathers.  A second great challenge is stopping and reversing the abdication of responsibility and power by a Congress engrossed in squabbling over how to spend (waste) our money.

 

Are you up to the challenge?  Will you hold them to account, to debate and authorize with appropriations and limits of engagement, all offensive military operations?  Will you help restore Constitutional limits?  Contact your U.S. Representatives and Senators by phone (877)-762-8762, mail, email or fax, but do it!!
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Darkest Before the Dawn

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on March 27, 2011 at 9:37am

Darkest before the dawn comes from the knowledge that sometimes we have to hit rock bottom to see the light. Similarly, comes “necessity is the mother of invention.”

 

The way I read the Bible and the Constitution the “Higher Law” says we are here with increasing purpose. For instance the discovery of nuclear energy meant to use it for constructive purposes. We used it to build bombs.  We’re not following the leads we get from the Bible and Constitution. We keep reverting back to the law of the jungle.

 

Speaking of the “Higher Law” opposing the law of the jungle,  when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1933 (I was eight years old), America was in her darkest hour.  Roosevelt’s answer: “We have only fear itself to fear.”  His motive in saying that was to rewrite the Constitution.  The “old Court” was hanging tough on its interpretations.  Roosevelt’s New Deal law was considered welfare state socialism and unconstitutional.  The old Court lost the battle.  A Roosevelt appointee to the Supreme Court, Justice Brandeis, reasoned: “Property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means an end.”  Individual effort and the rewards was no longer the end.  The makers and keepers of the law, under New Deal law, made the welfare state the end.   Your sweat, in addition to government services, is the state’s to use for the good of all.  More than half of America’s population today depends on redistribution according to the dictates of those who make and keep the law.  

 

Drunk with power, the self-serving defenders of New Deal law, both Republican and Democrat, have overspent to the extent that generations to come are enslaved to the welfare state.   New Deal law is reverting back to the law of the jungle.  The Constitution is merely a historical document in a glass case.

 

Since Roosevelt was elected, we’ve come full circle.  There is no way out. The makers and keepers of the law, having painted themselves into a corner, are lying—Republicans and Democrats.  With the nation bankrupt and divided, adrift and heading for the rocks, give them credit for doing a job on us. Our God-given rights are going up in smoke.  We’re facing an economic storm the likes of which we’ve never before seen, and just when the Mayan calendar says the end of the world is on December 21, 2012.

 

President Obama and his like minded one-world friends, including Iran’s leadership, for the good of all, have orchestrated a situation that places the focus on Israel, the homeland of Jews, on their “promised land.”   Their “promised land” has about as much chance of surviving as a snowball in hell.  Israel provides the above mentioned leaders with their opportunity to start World War III, divide up the spoils, and fight amongst themselves for final control.  What about other people’s belief in God.  Nobody else has a promised land.

 

On the other hand, for the good of all—collectivism—it boils down to the final control of all. President Obama refers to it as “collective salvation.”  Going back in time millions of years, the law of the jungle produced dinosaurs.  When they grew so large the jungle could no longer support them, a rock fell from the heavens and destroyed them. The increasing purpose of life on this planet bought us humans.  The above named, sub-humans, leftovers from the past, are still living by the law of the jungle.  

 

In Matthew, we read that three Persian astrologers (the Magi), guided by “the Star of Bethlehem,” traveled to the birthplace of Jesus and gave the “King of Jews” gifts. We read that the King of Jews died on a cross, and that the Jews’ temple was destroyed. They were made Roman slaves. 

 

The Jews have been persecuted since ancient times, and, coincidentally, the one and only people God promised land.  Unfortunately, that is the bone of contention right now. Once again, Jews are looking to God for help. They got zero help from God in Nazi Germany.  You would think they would have learned by now that God did not promise Jews land, not anymore than God promised Muslims land.  Read it in the Bible in Genesis1:26. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . .” 

 

You can take isolated passages in the Bible and make any case you want to make, but you are wrong to do that. You are out of context. The Bible is the moral story of man.  You have to take the whole Bible to make the case.  The Bible doesn’t give anyone land; it gives man a moral guide.  Religion is man’s plotting to grab power, the cause of wars.  Land is external. By looking externally, you will never find God, for God is internal.  

 

An inalienable right is internal, a right that can’t be taken from you without your permission.  You may be externally forced to obey man’s law, but God’s law is yours.  It is by your choice when you give up your God-given rights.  God takes care of those who take care of themselves. 

 

By looking no deeper than my ego, I learned from experience long ago that if anything could go wrong it did.  I was out to get my pound of flesh from the IRS.  It was my ego that caused me to study the Constitution.  It was when I studied the Constitution that I felt voices of the past were speaking to me. I looked past my ego, into my inner self.  Instead of a personal fight, it changed to a fight for the good of all.  So we’ve a choice: collectivism, for the good of all, managed externally, or the inalienable rights of the individual, for the good of all, managed internally.  

 

We are all subject to acting out of passion.  It is never a good idea to entrust people, no matter how good their intention, with doing what is for the good of all.   We don’t learn from other individual experiences what is for our own good.  We don’t learn from the majority vote what is for our own good.  The Higher Law doesn’t make us worker bees.  It is not in human nature to all work the same.  Why is it in man’s law that we should all share the same? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know the answer to that. The fact that we’ve lost sight of the “Higher Law” is the reason America is now going down the tube.  

 

The latest scientific discoveries tell us that ultimately it all comes down to universal consciousness, each of us inextricably attached.  We, individually, limit our conscious awareness, but what would we be without our thoughts?  A thought has no shape or form but from our thoughts comes our reality.   If you want to know how something works you take it apart.  That’s was quantum physicists do.  By studying the microcosmic world, they find it to be our world before it becomes reality, in a state of infinite possibility.   Why don’t you know that you are more than meat? You’ve been dumbed down by the orthodoxy.  The observer is a co-equal in the creation of reality.  

 

Quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker:  “in the development of quantum theory, the observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.”  So give yourself credit for being human. 

 

 

 

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The seemingly disparate nature of the Tea Party movement is an asset to us all.  It is through our affiliation, as sovereign, collegiate entities, that we have our strength.  We cannot be taken down a

Posted by james seigfreid on March 25, 2011 at 7:45pm

The seemingly disparate nature of the Tea Party movement is an asset to us all.  It is through our affiliation, as sovereign, collegiate entities, that we have our strength.  We cannot be taken down as an organization, as we have none codified.  We are many, all sovereign, seperate yet united in purpose.  If you've ever watched a bird build it's nest, we reside in the same atmosphere.  We take many seperate pieces, and place them in just the right place.  A piece of straw here, a leaf there, a twig here, a swatch of earth there.  When you watch the bird build the nest, you've got to wonder..."how does it know?"...

     The answer is very simple.  The laws of Nature, and Nature's God.

     Now, if you read the above, and thought that it sounded just like what the left, the communists, socialists, Marxists, Islamists, and anarchists do, you would be correct (except for the reference to the Laws of Nature and Nature's God.)  It is the same principle they use, but without God.

     The cornerstone is the key.  The foundation...the first layer of the nest...

     The first layer of the nest, if you've ever found one on the ground after a storm and examined it, is a tightly woven layer of twigs, grasses and then leaves.  How the birds know how to do it would be a mystery, unless you were aware of the Laws of Nature.

     We are all bound by the same laws.  They are immutable, unchangeable and timeless.  Times may change, birds nests may change according to climate or location, but the basic laws remain the same.

     When we look at the changes that are imminent, we know that there were, and are a set amount of variables, and CERTAINTIES, that exist to codify the nature and extent of that "change."  When we look at the vaccuous words of a narcissitic wannabe spouting off about "Change we can believe in", we instinctively know, just by the character and nature of the one saying it, that we can truly believe there is a change coming, and it will not be good.  That nest has been in the process of building for a long time, and it's got serious bugs in it.  Eventually, those bugs will kill the host and the babies in the process.

     Anologies aside, everyone reading this, and involved with this site and any other of like-mind, please know this: We are in this together, there is a complete disaster awaiting us if we do nothing, and probably one to come anyway no matter what we do.  Which is why it is absolutely imperative that we get ourselves together in defense of this Republic, under the banner of the Laws of Nature and Nature's God, and refuse to capitulate in any way, means or manner to anything less than that which has already been sacrificed for us..."Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..."

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then ask yourselves, 'What should be the reward for such sacrifice?'  Whether ye love wealth better than liberty, servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.  We seek not your counsel, nor arms.  Crouch down then, and lick the hands which feed you.  May your chains rest lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were ever our countrymen."---Samuel Adams, in the Philedelphia Statehouse, August 1776

 

 

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Selling Lies – The Formula the Left Uses To Take Away Your Rights

Posted by Trent Derr on March 24, 2011 at 6:00pm

by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism

 

As part of their dogma, the Left believes society only operates “fairly” when more power is concentrated in the Federal Government and fewer rights are exercised independently by individuals. In their view, one of the major purposes of the Government is to equalize outcomes across society (try to find that in the Constitution). Note that it’s the equality of outcomes, not equality of opportunities, that is their definition of fairness. To achieve that goal, Liberals need an excuse to take rights and responsibilities from individuals and shift that power to the Government. Then that Governmental power can be used to institutionalize fairness by passing laws and regulations that provide for the equality of outcomes across society. However in spite of these plans, the Left has a major cultural roadblock in their way. One of our traditional American values is to treasure and defend our individual rights. When Americans are thinking rationally, we rarely, if ever, voluntarily give up any of our rights.

 

When the Liberals want to influence American opinion on an issue, they need to overcome that obstacle. To do so, they use a consistent formula to warp the public perception in their favor. Their approach does not involve an in-depth analysis of the facts with the subsequent generation of possible alternatives to be evaluated. Frankly facts get in their way. Their strategy is simply based on manipulating the public’s emotions. Liberals want to generate guilty feelings or stir up hate or trigger rage. Their tactic is to generate strong emotions in the public and with those emotions shut down rational thought. Create a crisis. Create an injustice. Pretend there is no time to think about, discuss, or even read the bill. We have to act now! Sound familiar?  Continue...
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Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama Toady Lerner Caught on Tape Plotting Economy's End

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on March 22, 2011 at 10:55pm

Video Tape Exposes Union Rush to start “The Revolution”

 
 
Union Economic Terrorists Conspire
to End Western Civ In America NOW
 
 
       I’ve never had someone who’s visited my home several times, wind up plotting the end of Western Civilization, have you?   Well, it seems Barack Obama can’t say the same thing.  
Among Barack’s more radical friends like Van Jones, Steven Lerner, AFL/CIO President Trumka and SEIU President Andy Stern and 60’s bomb-builder William Ayers of Weatherman Underground infamy . . . are a lot of violent people who think that American consumption and your prosperity and your property are obviously the world’s biggest problems. White House logs show that SEIU (Service Employees International Union) bigwig Stern is the single most-frequent visitor and Trumka not only visits the White House almost as often as Stern, but brags among the Union rank and file, “I talk with the President every day.” Recent evidence suggests that they’ haven’t spent all their time talking about an American Renaissance, no sir . . . not talking about creating jobs and rebuilding the economy either.   No, quite the contrary . . . .
Frequent Whitehouse visitors Steven Lerner and Van Jones (ex-Green Jobs Czar) have discussed this little matter of bringing down capitalism quite often in public meetings and over the public airwaves and internet.  In Van Jones' case dozens of hours of his "let's blow the whole capitalistic system to hell and replace it with our superior one" speeches are available.  But Van Jones never gets down to specifics about how to do the dirty deeds. Lerner, on the other hand who’s only officially visited the White House four times to see Mr. Obama has just had a speech of his (plotting the immediate overthrow of capitalism through the destruction and scape-goating of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank) now going ballistic over the internet.  And Lerner gets down and dirty about sabotaging the American economy and why it's necessary:  to save the unions' power.   Silly Americans, can’t they see that "The Revolution" is good for everybody but those capitalist pigs? 
            To those of us who’ve been monitoring the Obama administration carefully, none of this is a surprise.  What might be surprising, nay shocking to the rest of America is that The Revolution has already started . . . the first steps toward Lerner’s planned for destabilization are underway already.  Lerner, who is a high official involved with finances for one of the country's most-powerful unions, SEIU, has a secret plan to "destabilize" the country.   Which, Thank God! are no longer secret . . . .
The entire Lerner tape can be found here . . .
OR here:
What follows is a full transcript from The Blaze, the Glenn Beck website that uncovered the bigger story and also this Lerner speech made Sunday, March 19, 2011, just two days ago. Notice how you’ve heard Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, President Obama and all the union leaders and key Democrats tell us that “there is no debt problem,” yet Lerner talking to his "fellow travellers" (Communist code phrase), has no reason to fib about the obvious facts and reveals the truth about how serious the debt crisis is . . . and how he intends to use that truth to strangle the economic lifeblood out of this country . . . .  So, damnit, wake up, and you decide . . . is this real? Are the Unions and (by extension) their great friend Barack Obama plotting to destroy this country so that they and progressivism might thrive? Remember progressivism is a hundred +-year old movement in this country saying, “We must ‘progress’ beyond the ‘outdated and ill-conceived U.S. Constitution’ if we are to make ‘progress’ toward a socialist Utopia on earth.” Listen to the video and you decide. Is the chaos they’re deliberately hoping to evoke with all its anger, fear, confusion and violence . . . is that what you want for your nation, your children, your family and your future? 
 
FULL TRANSCRIPT FROM THE BLAZE + background info
 
The SPEAKER: Stephen Lerner. Speaker at the Left Forum 2011 "Towards a Politics of Solidarity" Pace University March 19, 2011

Stephen Lerner -- is the architect of the SEIU's groundbreaking “Justice for Janitors” campaign.  He led the union's banking and finance campaign and has partnered with unions and groups in Europe, South American and recently in the Middle East in campaigns to hold financial institutions accountable and destabilize governments. As director of the union's private equity project, he launched a long campaign to expose what he called “the over-leveraged feeding frenzy of private equity firms during the boom years that led to the ensuing economic disaster.” 
The Speaker’s unexposed LIE: Lerner never mentions that a progressive mortgage program** (CRA ’77) that forced lending institutions to knowingly make ill-advised home loans to unqualified recipients created the sub-prime lending crisis that bankrupted the country.  After only 1 in every 404 home mortgages was “suspect” in 1977 and the system wasn't broken . . . Progressives of both parties, but about 88% Democrats, saw that CRA ’77 was created and expanded five times in the ensuing 21 years so that almost a decade later, in mid-2007, one in every three home loans(34%) was suspect . . . as $400,000 homes were in some cases pushed by ACORN for illegal aliens; and people whose only income was “food stamps”; and all sorts of people without jobs and without decent credit ratings.  What was Barack Obama doing in 1994-96? He spent it working as an ACORN lawyer shaking down mortgage lenders to force them to make these terribly stupid loans in accord with CRA ’77.  Nor does he mention how Cloward-Piven progressive strategy almost bankrupted New York State; did bankrupt New York City (requiring a federal bailout in 1975); and caused huge fiscal problems for all 50 states . . . nor how Cloward, Piven and George Wiley publicly bragged about the great thing they'd deliberately done in the name of progressivism.

The TRANSCRIPT:  Steven Lerner speaking . . . .

It feels to me after a long time of being on defense that something is starting to turn in the world and we just have to decide if we are on defense or offense.  Maybe there is a different way to look at some of these questions  it’s hard for me to think about any part of organizing without thinking what just happened with this economic crisis and what it means.

                I don't know how to have a discussion about labor and community if we don't first say what do we need to do at this time in history what is the strategy that gives us some chance of winning because I spent my life time as a union organizer doing justice for janitors, a lot of things.  It seems we are at a moment where the world is going to get much, much worse or much, much better

                Unions are almost dead we cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations (Like ACORN, Rajjpuut) are almost dead also and if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability

                 Every time there is a crisis in the world they say, well, the markets are stable.  What's changed in America is the economy doing well has nothing to do with the rest of us.  They figured out that they don't need us to be rich they can do very well in a global market without us so what does this have to do with community and labor organizing anymore?

                 We need to figure out in a much more through direct action more concrete way how we are really trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital for how corporations operate.  The thing about a boom and bust economy is it is actually incredibly fragile.

                 There are actually extraordinary things we could do right now to start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild the movement.  For example, 10% of homeowners are underwater right now -- their home is worth a lot less than they’ll end up paying for it.  10% of those people are in strategic default, meaning they are refusing to pay but they are staying in their home that's totally spontaneous they figured out it takes a year to kick me out of my home because foreclosure is backed up.  If you could double that number you would; you could put banks at the edge of insolvency again.

                Students have a trillion dollar debt.  We have an entire economy that is built on debt and banks so the question would be what would happen if we organized homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike if we get half a million people to agree to it; it would literally cause a new finical crisis for the banks not for us we would be doing quite well.  We wouldn't be paying anything.  Government is being strangled by debt

                The four things we could do that could really upset wall street:

1. One is if city and state and other  government entities demanded to renegotiate their debt and you might say why would the banks ever do it  - because city and counties could say we won’t do business with you in the future if you won’t renegotiate the debt now.

              So we could leverage the power we have of government and say two things,  "we won’t do business with you JP Morgan Chase anymore unless you do two things: you reduce the price of our interest  and second you rewrite the mortgages for everybody in the communities.  We could make them do that

2. The second thing is there is a whole question in Europe about students’ rates in debt structure. What would happen if students said, “We are not going to pay” ??  It’s a trillion dollars. Think about Republicans screaming about debt a trillion dollars in student debt

3. There is a third thing we can think about what if public employee unions instead of just being on the defensive  put on the collective bargaining table when they negotiate they say we demand as a condition of negotiation that the government renegotiate - it’s crazy that you’re paying too much interest to your buddies the bankers it’s a strike issue  - we will strike unless you force the banks to renegotiate.

4. Then if you add on top of that if we really thought about moving the kind of disruption in Madison, Wisconsin but moving that to Wall Street and moving that to other cities around the country.

              We basically say, "you stole seventeen trillion dollars - you've impoverished us and we are going to make it impossible for you to operate.  Labor can’t lead this right now so if labor can’t lead but we are a critical part of it  we do have money we have millions of members who are furious.  But I don't think this kind of movement can happen unless community groups and other activists take the lead.  If we really believe that we are in a transformative stage of  what's happening in capitalism.

            Then we need to confront this in a serious way and develop real ability to put a boot in the wheel^^  then we have to think not about labor and community alliances  we have to think about how together we are building something that really has the capacity to disrupt how the system operates.  We need to think about a whole new way of thinking about this not as a partnership but building something new.

            We have to think much more creatively. The key thing. . . What does the other side fear the most - they fear disruption. They fear uncertainty. Every article about Europe says as they rioted in Greece the markets went down.  The folks that control this country care about one thing how the stock market goes what the bond market does how the bonuses goes. We have a very simple strategy:
  • How do we bring down the stock market?
  • How do we bring down their bonuses?
  • How do we interfere with their ability to be rich?

               And that means we have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them  and disrupt them.  It’s not all theory I’ll do a pitch.

               So a bunch of us around the country think who would be a really good company to hate we decided that would be JP Morgan Chase  and so we are going to roll out over the next couple of months what would hopefully be an exciting campaign about JP Morgan Chase that is really about challenge the power of Wall Street.  And so what we are looking at  is the first week in May can we get enough people together starting now to really have an week of action in New York I don't want to give any details because I don't know if there are any police agents in the room.

               The goal would be that we will roll out of New York the first week of May. We will connect three ideas:
  • that we are not broke there is plenty of money
  • "they" have the money  - we need to get it back
  • and that they are using Bloomberg and other people in government as the vehicle to try and  destroy us

               And so we need to take on those folks at the same time and that we will start here we are going to look at a week of civil disobedience - direct action all over the city then roll into the JP Morgan shareholder meeting which they moved out of New York because I guess they were afraid because of Columbus.
               There is going to be a ten-state mobilization to try and shut down that meeting and then looking at bank shareholder meetings around the country  and try and create some moments like Madison except where we are on offense instead of defense.

               Where we have brave and heroic battles challenging the power of the giant corporations. We hope to inspire a much bigger movement about redistributing wealth and power in the country and that labor can’t do itself that community groups can’t do themselves but maybe we can work something new and different that can be brave enough  and daring and nimble enough to do that kind of thing.

Read more:  http://www.businessinsider.com/seiu-union-plan-to-destroy-jpmorgan#ixzz1HN3ZPmnt
 
            Looks like the ball is in your court now, Citizen, do you think they, (people like Lerner, Stern, Trumka, and yes, Obama) should be able to bring the whole country down? Do you think America is evil? Or do you think this country’s worth fighting for? Maybe you’re tired of your taxes paying for union benefits enough to bankrupt our staes; and for monstrous political war chests a lot; and those war chests getting people elected who are plotting your destruction and making their own political power permanent?
            As for Rajjpuut, he's looking for a Red, White and Blue Old Glory ascot. I think Bill O’Reilly would be willing to sell one for $10 and use the money to fund 7-8 worthy charities with . . . do good with charitible giving; show your patriotism; and let the anarchistic pinkos know that people don't see it their way at all.
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
**The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA ’77) was passed about as quickly as Jimmy Carter could get into office. It was expanded five times with the steroid version expansion happening in 1998 under Bill Clinton. Clinton was responsible for a presidential edict expanding the law in 1993 (as soon as he got into office); two more expansions in 1995; and the steroid version mentioned earlier, in 1998. Bush tried to get the law undone in January, 2005 but was defeated in congress. Finally, 30 months later a bi-partisan bill that was much weaker was passed in July, 2007. It proved too little, too late, but did prevent an absolute collapse in home prices. Mr. Lerner’s actions would finish the job . . . .
 
^^ Wooden shoes or sabots were thrown into the machinery of the forced labor camps: hence our word “sabotage.”
 
 
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Where Do You Stand On Libya?

Posted by tom whitmore on March 22, 2011 at 11:13am

Where Do You Stand On Libya?

 

Whether you are against Muammar Qadhafi and his regime or not, it must be recognized that enforcing a no fly zone over Libya is tantamount to a declaration of war.  Both Admiral Mullen and Defense Secretary Gates have acknowledged that to enforce a no fly zone would require the destruction of Libyan air defense capabilities, amounting to an attack on Libya, a sovereign state that has not attacked the US and a country where the U.S. has very little if any interests.

 

Granted the civilian casualties are atrocious and the U.N. has voted to take all steps necessary to protect the civilian population, our Constitution provides that the Congress make declarations of war, in Article. I. Section. 8. “The Congress shall have Power to declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”, although the President is “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States”, he has no such power to declare war.

 

It is the duty of the Congress to take the U.N. resolution under consideration, to debate the proper course of action and to weigh the U.S. options and expense.  The U.S. Congress must make the decision to invade a sovereign state under a declaration of war and it is the President’s responsibility as Commander in Chief to carry out such declaration.  It is the duty of the Congress to appropriate the funds and to determine the scope of the war effort if a declaration of war is to be made.  Are we to just enforce a no fly zone along with other allied partners, who is in control of such an allied effort, what branches of our military will be committed, are we only to protect civilians, are we wanting a regime change, are we supporting the rebels, how much money are we authorizing the expenditure of, these and a litany of other questions are up to the Congress to debate and authorize action upon.

 

Keeping tight rein on Constitutionally limited powers in a case such as this should fall under the Tea Party’s aim to restore Constitutionally limited government.  We must insist that the U.S. Congress stop abdicating it’s responsibility and take up the debate on an authorization and declaration of war.  We must insist that the President present before the Congress and seek such authorization, as the U.S. Constitution requires.  To require the Congress to debate and authorize the spending in such a war effort should come under the Tea Party’s goal to restore fiscal responsibility and cut spending.  We should insist that the Congress appropriate the funds and establish limits to the spending and scope of the conflict or to direct the President to withdraw our troops.

 

Remember, every penny spent on this new war effort will add directly to the deficit unless the Congress will vote to redirect other funds, which is unlikely given the resistance they have exhibited toward making any substantive spending cuts. 

 

I urge all of you to contact your Representatives and Senators and ask them to take up the debate on the declaration of war against Libya and to set the rules for the engagement and appropriate the funds to do so, if the Congress concurs, as the Constitution requires.  You may reach their offices at (202)-224-3121 or Toll Free (877)-762-8762.  You can also reach them at their local offices, email or fax, by going here: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/

 

Thank You, for all that you do for Freedom!

 

For Liberty’s Sake,

 

Tom Whitmore
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Rajjpuut's Folly: Selection Judges Guilty of Worst Madness for March Basketball Tournament

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on March 21, 2011 at 2:00am

 

 

 

Big East Tournament Teams

Prove Unworthy in NCAA Battles

 

 

            It was a stupid, stupid thing to do and the results were highly predictable.  “It” in this case was the lunacy of  the NCAA’s selection committee on Selection Sunday putting eleven Big East teams into the NCAA 2011 Men’s Basketball Tournament and top-seeding two of those teams (one at #1 and another at #2).  The Big East has done nothing to justify that kind of reverence from the selection committee; and more importantly, history predicted they would do little.   

           Given that the Big East’s track record in the 2010 tournament was a combined record of 8-8 futility from its eight entrants and none of them made the Final Four -- one can only regard this year's selection committee as eaters of loco weed.  At present, only the Big East Champion UConn Huskies and the under-rated Marquette Golden Eagles are still in the NCAA hunt.  Some mighty good teams like Colorado, Cleveland State, Missouri State, and Harvard had to stay at home because the selection committee decided that mediocre teams from the Big East were more exciting and more competitive than strong teams from other areas. 

           Rajjpuut suggests that the selection committee stifle its erection for the Big East and adjust their thinking in terms of fairness.  For example, in a 16-team league only the top seven teams should qualify at a maximum; in a 12-team league only the top 5 qualify at max; in a ten team league a maximum of four qualifiers; and a maximum of three qualifiers from an eight-team league.  The play of Butler (from the always ignored Horizon League), to name just one upset-hungry fivesome, both this year and last shows that the top teams in some of the lesser-reputed conferences deserve far more respect . . . and that goes for tough runner-ups in those conferences.  Green Bay-born Rajjpuut, for one believes that Colorado would have easily handed every Big East entrant except for U. Conn its head had they been allowed into the tournament.  The Big East largely sucked this year and last, the only question is “Why?”**

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

 

**   Rajjpuut suggests that teams that are struggling for high positions in their conferences gain a certain edge that mediocre teams never get.  Certainly teams in 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th place in an over-rated conference have little to brag about.  Only two of the Big East losses have been to other Big East teams this year.

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The Elephant In The Room

Posted by james seigfreid on March 20, 2011 at 6:22pm

In the well-researched blog by Torm Howse concerning the legal mandate required of Obama, or any other President, to have his records exposed for the public domain, the point is made quite clear that this is a legal and Constitutional requirement.  The only thing that Mr. Howse left out, however, is the simple fact that Pelosi, Reid, and the entire Congress of the United States are guilty of "misprison of felony", essentially just as guilty as the usurper for not doing the job they are Constitutionally obligated to do.  Pelosi, in particular, as she devised and signed TWO different certifications, one for Hawaii, citing eligibility, and the other, ignoring it by not mentioning it.  This is unprecedented, criminal, and treasonous, and completely in line with all the other un-Constitutional and illegal acts this and many other Congresses have taken over the decades.  This just happens to be the MOST egregious in our history.

     It is stunning, to say the least, that this will not be brought to light in any venue where it will make a difference, as in Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, or Limbaugh (although Micheal Savage does hit it pretty hard.)

The entire rest of the Lame Stream Media are predictably out-to-lunch, doing all they can to support an illegal alien who is "fundamentally transforming" the greatest nation on earth, because he's got skin color, and an idea that has been a murderous failure for all of human history, and some folks just get all ginned up about thinking that this is a really great new idea.  Given his history, and that of his Kenyan communist father, whom he apparently patterns himself after (read his own words in "Dreams From My Father) this should come as no surprise, and is a clear blue-print as to who we're dealing with, and a glimpse into the future as to what we should do to defeat this ideology. 

It is unfortunate, but well within the realm of the "playbook", that anyone who speaks up about this will be hyterically and loudly decried as conspiracy-theorists, nutcases, and far-right lunatics.

I say to you all---the volume of their denunciation, is a direct indicator of their guilt, and the inherent truth of the matter.  So, we NEED TO BE LOUDER.  Truth can NEVER be realized, when it is only spoken of in whispers.

     

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Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama’s Cunning Assault upon the 10th Amendment

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on March 20, 2011 at 5:00pm
 
What Obama Gains

from Multi-State Bankruptcy

  

            If ugly truth is worse to you than lovely myth, go read someone else’s blog, I won’t myth you.   Most Americans are woefully ignorant of their foundations and the great vision of the Founding Fathers.  Over the years the progressive minority has attacked those foundations and the Founding Fathers incessantly and used that ignorance against us as they seek to destroy our Republic and replace it with a communist state. Progressivism, after all, is a desire to “progress” beyond the “ill-conceived and outdated” American Constitution in order to achieve progress toward a progressive-socialist (Marxist?) utopia on earth.

            Barack Obama believes that American Exceptionalism doesn’t exist and never actually existed. Most Americans feel there’s something definitely wrong with the President’s approach to things, but find it difficult to point a finger at exactly what’s not right. Let me give you a clue. The word “democracy” that he and others bandy about so pointedly is meaningless. 

Yes, our American Republic employs democratic means to select Representatives and Senators and semi-Democratic means to choose our president (the Founding Fathers put the electoral college into the mix for a damn good reason). But Democracy is not all that it’s cracked up to be . . . 

         A.  Justice and Freedom count; democracy can be misused and often is and doesn't matter        
         B. There is always the possibility of “tyranny of the masses” in any democracy   
         C.  Democracy among ignorant folks has happened often in history and the resulting mob rule has never been pretty
         D.  Words are one thing, reality is generally another.  The Peoples' Democratic Republic of China is not for the people; not a Democracy; and certainly not a Republic.  They mow protestors down in the streets. 
         E.  Democracy among savages amounts to nothing more than Thugocracy and often Theo-Thugocracy.  

            Right now there is great talk of democracy in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain all Islamic countries.  The chances they will degenerate into theocracies like Iran are excellent.  And Iran is definitely a Theo-Thugocracy. In a recent survey in Egypt a week before Dictator Mubarak was ousted, 85% of those surveyed approved of Shariah (strict Islamic code) “Justice” and Shariah Law. That is, 85% of the Egyptians think stoning people to death for not being a good Muslim; for adultery; for teaching other religions; believe that raped women must have four male witnesses to back up their case; think thieves should lose their hands; and see public lashing as fit punishment for women failing to cover themselves properly from head to foot . . . how much is democracy worth among such savage people? 

Democracy is certainly over-rated. Here in America, we have a Republic and the most successful republic in history and American Exceptionalism is alive and well, but severely threatened by Mr. Obama and his cohorts. The most Republican documents in our nation are: Paine’s Common Sense; the Declaration of Independence; The Constitution of the United States; The Bill of Rights added to the U.S. Constitution; and recently two more have been added  . . . The TEA Party’s “Contract from America;” and the Republican Party’s Pledge to America.   Perhaps two or three American in every 1,000 have read all six of these documents: a great pity that so many are so willfully ignorant. Here are some brief excerpts to serve as background before we get to the meat of this discussion with links to the whole documents provided so that the ignorant folk you know might be educated:

 

http://pledge.gop.gov/

 

“America is more than a country

“America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government’s powers are derived from the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any man or woman can – given economic, political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their families, and the common good.

           “America is an inspiration to those who yearn to be free and have the ability and the dignity to determine their own destiny.

           “Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to institute a new governing agenda and set a different course.

            “These first principles were proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, enshrined in the Constitution, and have endured through hard sacrifice and commitment by generations of Americans.

            “In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and regarding the policies of the current government, the governed do not consent.”     From “A Pledge to America” a 2010 document of the Republican Party

 

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/text.html

 

            “SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

            "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer! Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”    From Common Sense by Thomas Paine

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

 

 

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . .” from the Declaration of Independence unanimously approved by the 13 colonies

 

http://archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

 

                “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”    The Preamble to the United States Constitution notice the huge size of the first three words . . . .

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

 

                                                “Amendment X

              "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”   as added to the U.S. Constitution four years after the Constitution was approved. Of the 27 Amendments to the Constitution, the first ten are the vital Republican documents cementing our freedoms and limiting government known as the Bill of Rights.

 

http://www.contractfromamerica.com/Idea.aspx

 

The Contract from America

      We, the undersigned, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items, work to bring each agenda item to a vote during the first year, and pledge to advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom.

Individual Liberty

      Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government. It is essential to the practice of these liberties that we be free from restriction over our peaceful political expression and free from excessive control over our economic choices.

Limited Government

      The purpose of our government is to exercise only those limited powers that have been relinquished to it by the people, chief among these being the protection of our liberties by administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or outside our country’s sovereign borders. When our government ventures beyond these functions and attempts to increase its power over the marketplace and the economic decisions of individuals, our liberties are diminished and the probability of corruption, internal strife, economic depression, and poverty increases.

Economic Freedom

      The most powerful, proven instrument of material and social progress is the free market. The market economy, driven by the accumulated expressions of individual economic choices, is the only economic system that preserves and enhances individual liberty. Any other economic system, regardless of its intended pragmatic benefits, undermines our fundamental rights as free people.

1. Protect the Constitution

      Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)    From the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party Contract from America in which Americans voted on their top ten issues and resolutions from among 24 key proposals. In the case of this #1 “plank” 82.03% of respondents thought that it was vital and it became the #1 issue for the TEA Party.

 

                In fairness, Rajjpuut has included some input from “the other side”:    When Barack Obama wrote his first autobiography, Dreams from My Father, here are the dreams he was referring to from his father’s article in the “East Africa Journal” as taken from a liberal website:

 

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9610.html

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html

 

                    “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income . . . I do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more . . .”    From Barak (no ‘c’) Hussein Obama’s article “Problems with our socialism in the East Africa Journal

 

                So, the question naturally becomes, “Besides Obama’s attacks upon American Exceptionalism and his utterly weak foreign policy, what exactly is it that Barack Obama, the progressives of both parties, the Democratic hierarchy and the union leadership are doing that threatens to destroy the American Republic? We could write whole volumes . . . .  

               Three main things come to mind:  1) Undermining the American Dollar and preparing its elimination as the world’s reserve currency right now thanks to Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Banks’ unrestrained money-printing, theoretically the 2011 dollar is worth about 3.2 pennies from the late 2008 dollar 2) Bankrupting the federal government with trillion dollar deficits and refusing to aim for a balanced budget and reduction of runaway federal spending and 3) Setting up multi-state bankruptcy so that the individual states (re-

read the 10th Amendment above) will be made so weak and so totally dependent upon the federal government that all power will reside in Washington, D.C. and the federal government will run the life of the country totally and completely with the states no more than weak agencies of the federal government. 

               One of the overlooked aspects of Obamacare is that it mandates state takeover of much of the present federal side of Medicaid and of a great share of Medicare to pay for Obamacare. These provisions would bankrupt all 50 of the states sometime between 2022 and 2026.  

              The main reason that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did not pass a fiscal-2011 budget is that they had hidden $105 Billion in set-up fees (unconstitutionally hidden in Obamacare’s 2,900 pages. That is, they illegally took away all power from future congresses to control Obamacare and to save the states from financial ruin. If they’d passed a budget that $105 Billion would have stood out as stark evidence of their malfeasance. That final copy of the 2,900 page bill was given to the House to vote on just two hours before the vote. At that last minute, a cave-in by so-called anti-abortion Democrats led by Michigan’s Bart Stupak passed the bill (on receipt of a one-page promise from Barack Obama that no federally funded abortions would ever be part of Obamacare – so far over 200,000 have been paid for under Obamacare) with every Republican and 32 Democrats voting against it.

              Barack Obama wants to nullify the power of the states and the power of the individual citizens guaranteed by the 10th Amendment and his and the Union leadership's assault on Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan aims to hamstring all the states with government workers unions once and for all.

 

 

Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,

 

Rajjpuut

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Another dumb program, courtesy of Washington, D.C.

Posted by Valerie Farris on March 19, 2011 at 9:41pm

I'm new here, and I'm new to this posting stuff, so please bear with me.

I'm also a farmer, so I get all the latest details regarding ag. subsidies.

Let me tell you about the lastest brilliant program.

 

Greenhouses. In Nebraska. For growing edible vegetables only.

1) They must be 100 ft. long.

2) They should be 48 feet wide.  (so far so good)

3) They must have open endwalls. (no walls on 2 sides)

4) They cannot be heated. (see #3)

5) They must be located within 200 acres from a farmyard. (where are you going to get water?)

6) Uncle Sugar pays $1.04 per sq. ft. per year. ($4992.00 per year)

7) They pay the $4,992.00 for 4 years. ($19,968.00)

8) After 4 years, you get to keep the greenhouse and use it as you wish.

9) 200 applications for this program are available.

 

Can someone please tell me how anyone in Nebraska, can grow veggies, in an unheated greenhouse, with no endwalls, and no available water supply?

If it's warm enough to grow anything inside this thing, it's warm enough to grow them outside, no walls!

 

If 200 people signed up for this program:

3 million, 993 thousand, 600 dollars ($3,993,600.00) gets ripped from your pocket.

Multiply that times our 50 states= $199,680,000.00

That's 200 million dollars.

Courtesy of the USDA and the ASC.

 

That my friend is a lot of veggies.

And, it's the truth.

You won't hear about this on ABC, NBC or CBS.

 

 

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Rajjpuut's Folly: Ill-Wind from Japan Blowing "Good" for the United States?

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on March 19, 2011 at 5:57pm

 

“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.”   Old saying

 

 

How to Best Protect All Future

Nuclear Reactor-Powered Generating Plants

 

 

    This blog will concern two closely related aspects of the Japanese tragedy that began over a week ago . . . .  

              1. John Heywood’s “Book of Proverbs” published in 1546 included this now famous saying: "An yll wynde that blowth no man to good, men say" and how it relates to the American economy now

              2. How to protect the nuclear power industry and, more importantly American citizens and the American economy

              Let’s begin with a current anecdote that thematically ties the two stories together: did you know that in response to the “meltdown” of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s support, Russia --which holds U.N. Security Council veto power -- was the main obstacle to the world agreeing to institution of a no-fly zone over Libya? Why? Because as one of the world’s greatest oil producers, Russia enjoys all manner of chaos that regularly tends to drive the price of oil skyward. In other words the “ill-wind” in Libya was blowing the Russian economy lots of good, thankfully worldwide pressure has seen the Russians capitualte. Similarly, that same “ill wind” in Libya is causing lots of consternation here in America as oil prices rise and drive gasoline cost at the pump inexorably higher. The connectedness of the world’s economy is both a curse and a boon depending upon which way the wind blows.

             America has a duty to help out our long-time ally Japan, no question.   At the same time, the American auto industry and auto- parts industries and all other American manufacturers need to respond to fill the vacuum left by the severe hit on Japan’s manufacturing from the combined 8.9 magnitude earthquake and horrific tsunami. Demand for automobiles and their parts; and electronics; and other manufactured goods is not going to drop substantially, someone needs to fill that void and it might as well be us. An ongoing and surprising example is the present boom in the sales of American Geiger counters and of American nutritional sales of potassium-iodide pills to the Japanese and to our own West Coast citizens.   On point #1, the ill-wind** needs to be exploited in our favor, ‘Nuff said.

 

             Point #2   As a former navy nuclear reactor operator on an American warship, Rajjpuut is aghast at the apparent state of the peace-time American nuclear industry in general; and more on our blog topic, those in Japan run by TEPCo (the Tokyo Electric Power Company); and most pointedly at the reactor plant grouping found at the Fukushima Daiichi generating station in the northeast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. As a former trainee of the Kepner-Tregoe management advisors, Rajjpuut believes that nuclear safety while a very complicated and utterly critical requirement: is ultimately quite easy.   “Yes,” complicated and critical, therefore NOT simple, but also “Yes,” easy. 

             Nuclear power safety issues are made easy by the utter necessity of ZERO failures. If cost, for example, can become a serious issue, then you wind up weighing-balancing cost and safety; and cost vs. safety  . . . clearly cost can NEVER become part of the decision-making process. Quality at every step, in every decision ties in to virtual 100% safety planning.   The key question as it always is in Kepner-Tregoe’s PPA (potential problem analysis) process is “What could go wrong?”

             With that key question “What cold go wrong?” guiding us, then it immediately becomes obvious that Japan is one of the worst places in the world to build nuclear reactors.   That does not mean that smart-safe reactors cannot be built there . . . it just means that SAFETY, which we knew was vital before, becomes absolutely a thousand-fold more critical.    Why? Because sitting on the edge of the Pacific Rim of Fire where severe and violent earthquake and tsunami activity are relatively common activities a whole lot more can be expected to go wrong on a regular basis.   TEPCo (a Japanese corporation with a scandal-ridden past throughout much of its fifty-year history in the nuclear industry) is the corporation ultimately responsible for cooling down and safeguarding the public from the threatened Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.   However, TEPCo clearly hasn’t lives up to the challenge as its communications generally appear at odds with the international nuclear power agency’s evaluations and even to be internally contradictory.  Since TEPCo has five times been cited for false safety records in just the last decade, it’s an easy call to say that even though logically COST cannot matter . . .   TEPCo has badly violated that principle in the past and presumably is doing so right now also. Planning for a 7.5 magnitude earthquake in the initial stages and then not protecting reactors from potential tsunamis is a travesty. 

             Someone deliberately violated the safety before cost principles and now the whole island nation is at risk. Rajjpuut’s betting that in future, nations will be insisting upon nuclear plants built a minimum of five miles inland (away from tsunamis at any rate) capable of withstanding magnitude ten earthquakes.   Rajjpuut will also bet that common sense will prevail and future nuclear sites will contain only one reactor within a three-mile radius. Obviously the problem at the Fukushima complex has escalated so that if one reactor becomes a new Chernobyl, than the prospects are that the immediate three other reactors and the other two reactors at the site (six in all) will also become part of a monstrously greater problem.

              It’s been a long time since Rajjpuut worked in a nuclear reactor environment. However, referring back to his magnificent Kepner-Tregoe training, he believes that virtually any thinking man or woman with even a moderate exposure to the basic concepts of nuclear physics (and learning those basics are no harder than mastering many principles of the internal combustion engines (ICE) powering our cars) could plan how to safeguard virtually any nuclear reactor with very little effort. Again, the key concept is that failure is NOT an option/100% virtual safety is the goal. So what’s the idea here?

             What is the worst-case scenario with Japan’s nuclear reactors right now? Something Chernobyl-like at least in the public consciousness? And why does that situation now exist?

            The problem exists because power was cut by the earthquake. Power was cut by the tsunami. Power which was supposed to keep the reactor cooling system was not available. Backup systems that were supposed to replace essential cooling systems all failed 100%.  And the tsunami corrupted the reactor area itself. So what is the essential problem underlying the potential nuclear disaster in Japan?

            The cooling of the reactor’s fuel cell and total core has failed. If, despite the 8.9 quake and the ills brought by the tsunami . . . somehow the reactor core remained at normal operating or normal shutdown temperatures . . . no harm, no foul. So here’s Rajjpuut’s failsafe method . . . offered to the world for free:

            With each reactor (and remember they should each always be located separate and independent from other reactors and away from potential tsunami damage) build two rectangular buildings capable of withstanding an earthquake of magnitude 11. Each will house a diesel-powered emergency generator -- each generator built integral with the building itself. The generator, for example might be attached to the building with four solid beams attached one to each wall.   Test Generator A every Wednesday and Generator B every Sunday and examine all their connections to the reactor electrically and mechanically every other week. Even if all hell breaks loose as happened in Japan, you can lug in portable pumps etc.   just knowing you’ve got lighting, fans and electric power would be a “Godsend!”    Expensive? You bet? But public safety should NOT be compromised. Short of an earthquake with its very epicenter below the reactor and the two emergency generators . . . nothing except a one in a quadrillion hit by a giant meteorite will bring on the equal of today’s problems at the Fukushima site.

 

Ya’ll live long strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

 

**        Sidebar here:  By the way, speaking of ill winds, there is a growing body of scientific knowledge that says that very small amounts of radiation from nuclear plants; x-rays; security scans; etc. is actually beneficial . . . it’s called “radiation hormesis:”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20110317/cm_ucac/aglowingreportonradiation

and actually helps prevent cancer for just one of its many indicated benefits.  That means it’s quite likely that the thinking that any sun at all is bad for you; and any radiation at all is bad for you is just utter nonsense. No sun, for example, means that millions of Americans are suffering from inadequate levels of Vitamin D-3 . . . .

            The trouble with “medical science” is that so much of it is tied to profit for somebody or other which gets in the way of serious science.   It’s all reminiscent of a time when health educator Rajjpuut was telling people back in the 1970’s that eggs were a wonderful food and that cholesterol didn’t cause heart attacks despite their so-called scientific evidence (based upon a mere 47% correlation between heart attack deaths and high cholesterol – less than a coin flip; while triglycerides in some studies show 86% correlation). Cholesterol levels used to be considered high at 280; then they were adjusted to label “high” at 250; then 200; and now some idiot doctors are saying that a 175 reading is “high.” Two comments: 1) Very low cholesterol readings can leave you vulnerable to strokes (and the idea that taking an aspirin every day can prevent heart attacks also makes one similarly more vulnerable to strokes) that waxy substance cholesterol is absolutely vital for your body’s well-being and your brain needs more of it than any other parts do and 2) if you drop the cholesterol readings low enough soon you’ll have a 100% correlation that will mean exactly nothing. When they can explain ultra-high cholesterol readings in highly fit aboriginal peoples (for one example, in Eskimos who subsist on blubber) and in Third-World peoples who never have heart attacks, then Rajjpuut will be listening.

 

 

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