Former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is warning that efforts to prohibit states from legalizing online gaming is a form of corruption.  Speaking to Human Events, Abramoff warned that legislation pushed by billionaire Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson is a form of bribery.  Adelson has pledged to "spend whatever it takes" to enact the ban and has hired an army of lobbyists to see it done.  News reports suggest he will write a $100 million check to the GOP over the next few months, money that could help grease the skids to get the legislation passed:

Washington’s most notorious lobbyist told Human Events that the effort by gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson to outlaw online gambling is corruption. Adelson has crossed the line, but he is not alone, said Jack Abramoff, a former Washington operator and author of  “Capitol Punishment: The hard truth about Washington corruption from America’s most notorious lobbyist.” Abramoff served 43 months in federal prison for activities related to his lobbying. In addition to his media and speaking appearances, he comments on Washington events and people at his website: abramoff.com. Adelson is the CEO and chairman of Las Vegas Sands, a $14 billion-a-year gambling conglomerate and a major contributor to the Republican Party.

In the 2012 election cycle, Adelson is the man who stepped into keep the presidential campaign of former speaker Newton L. “Newt” Gingrich afloat, enabling him to come back and win the Georgia primary and seriously challenge the eventually nominee former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney. After Romney was the GOP nominee, Adelson supported him, too. In the 2014 election cycle, Adelson has given Republicans notice that if they want his support, they need to pass a ban online gaming. To organize this effort, he created a front group, The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, has gathered up a roster of strange bedfellows, such as Republican Texas Gov. Richard J. “Rick” Perry, former Republican New York governor George Pataki, as well as, Democrats, such as Massachusetts Attorney General Martha M. Coakley and former speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown. The pressure to ban Internet gambling comes as Adelson is getting ready to stroke a massive check to fund the final mile of the GOP’s campaign to win the Senate in November. Some Capitol Hill whisperers put the check at $100 million based on the plans Republican strategists presented to Adelson. The political world is full of similar examples of businesses or industries using politicians to improve their own situation, Abramoff said. “It is a line that everybody is crossing all day,” he said. “Everytime an individual contributes money to a public official and then asks that politician to do something, you have crossed that line—that is the essence of D.C.—it is not just Sheldon Adelson.” Abramoff said he wanted to be careful in his phrasing regarding Adelson. “I don’t know all the details,” he said. “But, in general, if someone is giving money and asking for things back that is crossing that line—and unfortunately it is going on all over the place.” It is bribery. It might not be statuary bribery, but it is bribery, giving a public servant money, he said “I don’t know Sheldon Adelson, I only know what I read about him,” he said.

“But it seems to me that he has been very active politically with significant money before he jumped into this Internet gambling thing,” he said. “I don’t see any reason to believe that this is the reason he got active or gave money in the past,” he said. “I think it was more related to Israel and conservative issues.” The move against online gaming is new turn for Adelson, he said. “Obviously, this relates directly to his business and he is hiring lobbyists to protect his business,” he said. Adelson may profess to have traditional or other reasons to oppose online gaming, he said. “But, this has a major impact on his land-based casinos—or at least, he feels it does.” Then Abramoff was actively operating in the capital, he worked against banning online gamble because he believes the Internet should be free from government control, he said. The former president of the Massachusetts College Republicans said there are two reasons why he opposed the ban. “I didn’t want to see the government regulating the Internet, except for national security reasons,” he said. The second reason was that given that there were already land-based casinos, the real concern was being able to protect children from going to the sites to gamble, he said. The Adelson bid to outlaw online gaming is not really what he considers crony capitalism, he said. “It is different from what we have seen with the Obama administration, where the donors use their political connections to get the government to bail them out, give them loans, give them huge grants, give them contracts, and that kind of thing.” It could be that plying the government to outlaw your competition is a cousin to crony capitalism, he said. “Frankly, it is under the category of corruption.”

Words can not express my disdain for the reprehensible behavior of VP Joe Biden and his Democrat co-conspirators. At a gathering of mostly black civil rights leaders Biden strategically launched a nasty false narrative for the sole propose of ginning up racial hate and division.

Republicans are requesting that Americans show an ID to vote, which is only common sense. This vile little man, Joe Biden, characterized the Republicans' identification requirement as racial hate and an attempt to block blacks from voting.

As my late mom would say, adding yeast to his lie, Biden claimed Republicans have tried to curtail voting rights 83 times this year.

Biden's accusation is absurd; a self-serving evil lie conceived by a deviant mind. Insidiously, Biden's game plan is to rip open and pour enough salt into old 1960s civil rights movement wounds to motivate blacks to flock to the polls in November to vote against their perceived white racist enemies.

POLL: Should Voter ID be required in every state?

I refuse to give Biden's “hate speech” a pass by chalking it up to politics as usual. Stoking the flames of racial hatred for political gain, polarizing Americans along racial lines is serious business, irresponsible and extremely dangerous.

Biden and his fellow Democrats cavalierly throwing “race grenades” whenever it serves their political purpose is a slap in the face to Americans, black and white, who suffered, sacrificed and died to bring us to where we are today; a black man occupying the Oval Office.

My 86 year old black dad, Dr. Rev. Lloyd E. Marcus was very active in the early civil rights movement. Dad knows the price that was paid to win blacks the right to vote. Upon my four siblings and me reaching voting age, Dad stayed on our case. “Today is election day -- make sure you vote!” Dad instilled in us that voting is a duty and a privilege of being a citizen.

And yet, Dad's Democratic party people are attempting to devalue the right to vote by giving it away to anyone they believe will vote Democrat, regardless of their legal status. The Democrats' propensity for voter fraud cheapens the value of every American's vote . This is why Biden and the Democrats vehemently oppose voter ID.

Meanwhile, rather than challenging the Democrats' absurd claim that Republicans are trying to keep blacks from voting, political know-it-alls advise Republicans to concede the point. They say Republicans must convince blacks that they are not racist by lightening up on requiring blacks to show an ID to vote. Surrendering to the Democrats' ridiculous claim and pandering in accordance to it is sickeningly immoral and cowardice.

By the way, as a proud American who happens to be black, I am extremely insulted by the Democratic Party's entrenched bigotry of lowered expectations. While Americans are required to present an ID to complete a plethora of daily transactions, Democrats are saying presenting an ID is too challenging for us blacks. We're special...a bit slower than other Americans. With friends like the Democrats, blacks do not need any enemies.

In regards to national race relations, America has come a long way, baby. Older Americans have powerful memories, deep scars and countless stories of Americans behaving at their best and worse in our struggle to achieve Dr Martin Luther King Jr's dream. I am talking much blood, sweat and tears.

And yet, Biden and the Democrats have callously tossed hard-fought national race relations on the alter into the fire to be burned as a sacrifice in worship of Obama and furthering their socialist/progressive agenda.

There is talk of Joe Biden running for president in 2016. The last thing America needs is another vile little man in the Oval Office willing to fuel the flames of division and racial hate, pitting Americans against each other for political expediency.

As my patriot brothers in New Jersey would say, “So you wanna be president Joe? Forget about it!”

Lloyd Marcus, Unhyphenated American

Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions said today that the Obama Administration's proposed "Executive Order" amnesty for "5-6 million more illegal immigrants is unlawful and that:

"...Any action Congress might consider to address the current border crisis would be futile should the President go forward with these lawless actions. Congress must speak out and fight against them. It must use its spending power to stop the President’s executive amnesty..."

In a communique to the press the Senator said in reference to what is known as "the Granger Package," organized and introduced by Texas Representative Kay Granger:

"...That the House leaders’ border package includes no language on executive actions is surrender to a lawless President. And it is a submission to the subordination of congressional power.

Sessions said that after years of falling wages and rising joblessness, American workers are pleading for someone to hear them.  "How can it be that our President is brazenly advertising that he will nullify and strip away American workers' immigration protections, and their own elected leaders will not rise to their defense?  Or to the defense of our laws and our Constitutional order?" Sessions asked.

 Sessions said "...because it does not fix our asylum rules and loopholes, the end result of the additional judges and hearings will be more illegal immigrants gaining asylum and access to U.S. welfare. It is a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal...Nor will this package make our rogue President actively enforce anything, coming nowhere close to the kinds of reasonable enforcement activities needed to restore the interior application of our immigration laws..."

The "Granger Package"  purports to "...address the national security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border..."

The Congresswoman issued a statement today that said:  "...This is a crisis that deserves decisive leadership from President Obama, but his Administration has failed to lead, so the House will take action this week to resolve the urgent situation at the southern border. It would be irresponsible to allow this crisis to continue unabated for another month without immediate action to secure the border and deter more unaccompanied minors from making the journey and crossing the border illegally.

“The working group recommendations that have been included are the options I believe represent the most urgent actions that need to be taken to curb the flow of unaccompanied minors, along with women with children, from making the perilous journey to the U.S. border. Additionally, this plan provides the tools necessary to process and humanely return unaccompanied children and family units home as quickly as possible as well as to secure our southern border..."

The statement lists the salient points of the measure: 

Policy Recommendations Included in the House Border Crisis Supplemental Package 

•    Amend the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require that all unaccompanied minors are treated the same as unaccompanied minors from Canada and Mexico for the purpose of removals. Additionally, this would require unaccompanied children who do not wish to be voluntarily returned to their home country to remain in Health and Human Services custody while they await an expedited immigration court hearing that must occur not more than 7 days after they are screened by child welfare officials. Priority removal will be given to the children who have most recently arrived in the United States.
•    Deploy additional temporary judges to expedite the hearing of asylum and credible fear claims.
•    Change the Immigration and Nationality act to strengthen the law prohibiting criminals with serious drug related convictions from applying for asylum.
•    Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from denying or restricting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) activities on federal land under their respective jurisdictions within 100 miles of the US-Mexico border.
•    Deploy the National Guard to the Southern border to assist Border Patrol. 

Today's statement from session follows yesterdays address by the Senator in Congress, where he said:

"...The president is preparing to assume for himself the absolute power to set immigration law in America.  'Well, I'll just enforce what I wish to enforce.'  The absolute power to determine who may enter and who may work, no matter what the law says, by the millions.  Our response now is of great import.  It will define the scope of executive and congressional powers for years to come..."

In his address broadcast by C-Span, Sessions issued a warning:

"...Let me state a warning... The American people are being roused to action -- and once activated, their power will be felt.  They will not be mocked.  They have begged and pleaded for our nation's immigration laws to be enforced for 30 or 40 years.  The politicians have refused, refused, refused...There's one thing the powers in Washington fear; that is being voted out of office.  Before a member of Congress acquiesces to any action of this kind, they should consider their responsibility to their constituency...Mr. President, you work for the American people, they don't work for you, and they will not accept nullification of their law passed by their elected representatives...I'm calling on all members of Congress today to stand up to these lawless actions and sponsor legislation that will block them... I'm calling on every person in this body and in this house and in the House of Representatives to stand and be counted at this perilous hour..."  (See the full video HERE)

In today's statement, Sessions addresses the Granger Package and concludes with:

"...And finally, a package that is silent on blocking executive amnesty creates an opportunity for Senate Democrats to add elements of their party’s open borders and mass immigration agenda.  This legislation is unworthy of support.”

By Craig Andresen on July 30, 2014 at 4:29 am

After yesterday’s article, “MH-17: Searching for the Truth,” co-written by myself and Diane Sori, a small handful of readers, those with connections to Ukraine, got their panties in a wad and accused us of all manner of things.

Naturally, they have a right to do so but none of them offered any viable or even veiled facts to refute anything in that article. They did however, resort to personal attacks in their knee-jerk reactions as they blindly follow their Ukrainian government the way liberals here are velcroed to the ass of Obama.

In examining evidence and pouring through sources, none of which are the sources we were accused of pouring through by the way, both Diane and I presented the possibilities and identified what, according to the available information, looks like the most likely scenario for the downing of MH-17.

Sometimes, the intel doesn’t lead in the direction you would like it to but that will never keep us from exposing where it DOES lead.

But let’s get something clear right off the bat here…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Palestine Makes You Dumb

To argue the Palestinian side, in the Gaza war, is to make the case for barbarism.

By

Bret Stephens

July 28, 2014 7:29 p.m. ET

Of all the inane things that have been said about the war between Israel and Hamas, surely one dishonorable mention belongs to comments made over the weekend by Benjamin J. Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.

Interviewed by CNN's Candy Crowley, Mr. Rhodes offered the now-standard administration line that Israel has a right to defend itself but needs to do more to avoid civilian casualties. Ms. Crowley interjected that, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jewish state was already doing everything it could to avoid such casualties.

"I think you can always do more," Mr. Rhodes replied. "The U.S. military does that in Afghanistan."

How inapt is this comparison? The list of Afghan civilians accidentally killed by U.S. or NATO strikes is not short. Little of the fighting in Afghanistan took place in the dense urban environments that make the current warfare in Gaza so difficult. The last time the U.S. fought a Gaza-style battle—in Fallujah in 2004—some 800 civilians perished and at least 9,000 homes were destroyed. This is not an indictment of U.S. conduct in Fallujah but an acknowledgment of the grim reality of city combat.

Oh, and by the way, American towns and cities were not being rocketed from above or tunneled under from below as the Fallujah campaign was under way.

Maybe Mr. Rhodes knows all this and was merely caught out mouthing the sorts of platitudes that are considered diplomatically de rigueur when it comes to the Palestinians. Or maybe he was just another victim of what I call the Palestine Effect: The abrupt and often total collapse of logical reasoning, skeptical intelligence and ordinary moral judgment whenever the subject of Palestinian suffering arises.

Consider the media obsession with the body count. According to a daily tally in the New York Times, as of July 27 the war in Gaza had claimed 1,023 Palestinian lives as against 46 Israelis. How does the Times keep such an accurate count of Palestinian deaths? A footnote discloses "Palestinian death tallies are provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs."

OK. So who runs the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza? Hamas does. As for the U.N., it gets its data mainly from two Palestinian agitprop NGOs, one of which, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, offers the remarkably precise statistic that, as of July 27, exactly 82% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians. Curiously, during the 2008-09 Gaza war, the center also reported an 82% civilian casualty rate.

When minutely exact statistics are provided in chaotic circumstances, it suggests the statistics are garbage. When a news organization relies—without clarification—on data provided by a bureaucratic organ of a terrorist organization, there's something wrong there, too.

But let's assume for argument's sake that the numbers are accurate. Does this mean the Palestinians are the chief victims, and Israelis the main victimizers, in the conflict? By this dull logic we might want to rethink the moral equities of World War II, in which over one million German civilians perished at Allied hands compared with just 67,000 British and 12,000 American civilians.

The real utility of the body count is that it offers reporters and commentators who cite it the chance to ascribe implicit blame to Israel while evading questions about ultimate responsibility for the killing. Questions such as: Why is Hamas hiding rockets in U.N.-run schools, as acknowledged by the U.N. itself? What does it mean that Hamas has turned Gaza's central hospital into "a de facto headquarters," as reported by the Washington Post? And why does Hamas keep rejecting, or violating, cease-fires agreed to by Israel?

A reasonable person might conclude from this that Hamas, which started the war, wants it to continue, and that it relies on Israel's moral scruples not to destroy civilian sites that it cynically uses for military purposes. But then there is the Palestine Effect. By this reasoning, Hamas only initiated the fighting because Israel refused to countenance the creation of a Palestinian coalition that included Hamas, and because Israel further objected to helping pay the salaries of Hamas's civil servants in Gaza.

Let's get this one straight. Israel is culpable because (a) it won't accept a Palestinian government that includes a terrorist organization sworn to the Jewish state's destruction; (b) it won't help that organization out of its financial jam; and (c) it won't ease a quasi-blockade—jointly imposed with Egypt—on a territory whose central economic activity appears to be building rocket factories and pouring imported concrete into terrorist tunnels.

This is either bald moral idiocy or thinly veiled bigotry. It mistakes effect for cause, treats self-respect as arrogance and self-defense as aggression, and makes demands of the Jewish state that would be dismissed out of hand anywhere else. To argue the Palestinian side, in this war, is to make the case for barbarism. It is to erase, in the name of humanitarianism, the moral distinctions from which the concept of humanity arises.

Typically, the Obama administration is hedging its bets. The Palestine Effect claims another victim.

Write to bstephens@wsj.com

By Oscar Y. Harward

Capitol Hill GOP leaders are joining President Obama and Senator Harry Reid to ‘cram ‘illegal’ immigration down (y)our throat’, one way or the other; very much replicating the 2009 Capitol Hill Democrat Party’s majority to ‘cram’ ObamaCare down (y)our throat.  Conservative Republicans are rejecting their decisions on this issue.

GOP leaders, McConnell, Boehner, and their co-leaders appear to be in support of President Obama’s ‘illegal’ immigration AND/OR changes in our current Immigration laws.  Do not be misled!  There are NO major problems to our US Code on ‘Immigration’ laws.  All ‘illegals’ must be compelled to obey the laws.

Veterans injured, damaged, delayed, and/or rejected by the Veterans Administration for accidents and other sicknesses as legally covered under VA services, funded by our Capitol Hill legislators, and signed into law by the then sitting President(s), are forcing Veterans to suffer and/or die under Government agencies’ erroneous decisions; yet continuing to invite more ‘illegal’ immigrants into America, and at taxpayers’ expense. 

Speaker Boehner must lay out the facts; appoint or elect a proficient leader with a solid knowledge under US Law, to bring charges of ‘Impeachment’ against President Obama.

The Senate GOP then, must elect a Senator as defined under law to join the process in prosecuting the ‘Impeachment’ of President Obama, as the Majority Democrats defend Obama.

Impeachment is the solution as Americans are now witnessing an ‘ unneeded, unwanted, and unlawful’ invasion.  A 1984 Wendy’s Restaurant advertisement emphasized, ‘Where is the beef’ as now related to ‘illegal’ immigration today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUs2AqWvs

By: Juan Reynoso, activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

http://anticorruptionact.org/.     STAND FOR AMERICA        http://www.teaparty.org/

"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."

Seek the truth and let the people know. America will never be destroy from the outside; it will be destroy from within. The love for money is evil. The evil factors-Corporate greed bribes and corrupts our government. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves by ignorance and apathy.

Conservative columnist George Will, stunned "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace when he said that the thousands of children who have entered the United States illegally should be welcomed to America with open arms and say to these children, 'Welcome to America. You're going to go to school and get a job and become Americans,'" Will said, We have 3,141 counties in this country," he said. "That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous. "George Will said the country has plenty of space to accommodate the 57,000 children who have flooded across the border since October last year, most of whom are from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
MR. Will is right, we can do what he proposed, but the problem is that we will reinforce the Reagan’s immigration solution, the amnesty of 1986. The only solution to this huge immigration problem is to enforce the immigration laws that we have in place today and work on our immigration law to make our immigration law simple. The only criteria for admission to this United State  as an immigrant, must be: 1- to subscribe to our system of government, to our American culture, values and believe in our constitution and the natural rights to all people without compromising their religion as private and be allowed to be practice in any place and respected as an individual right. 2- To be a person of good moral character and no criminal records. 3- To be educated and able to provide for his support and no be a public charge. 4- Visas for students should be granted to students from countries friendly to the USA. only.

There should not be any immigration laws to fill employments needs, refuges programs, religious immigration, political asylums, or the immigration of person’s enemy of our country for the purpose of using their intellectual knowledge or technical expertise.

This United States should focus in reforming the character of the American people, principles and values that will make our Nation a Nation of laws that promote the education, culture our system of government and the economic and welfare of the people of this United States.

Mr. George Will stamen about NAFTA is a lie; NAFTA is a failure the biggest deception of the elite that promoted free trade and globalization. Corporate American, The news media and the Republicans and Democrats the whores that demise our political system and the economy of our country.

Sources for this article include:

The truth about NAFTA

http://ourfuture.org/20131217/nafta-20-years-of-spin-for-americas-failed-globalization-model

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/George-Will-border-crisis-minors/2014/07/28/id/585239#ixzz38ou1ENkk 

http://www.voanews.com/content/influx-of-undocumented-kids-overwhelms-us-border-patrol/1941764.html

By Craig Andresen on July 29, 2014 at 5:26 am

Article Co-Written by Diane Sori

On July 17th another Malaysian plane…MH-17… went down but this time it was different. Different than MH-370 in that this one did indeed crash. However, crashing is NOT what makes this different…being shot down out of the sky does.

While early reports have everyone blaming Vladimir Putin or Russia for this take down there are a few things that just do NOT add up.

First, Putin was the one who told Obama that a plane was down and that in and of itself seems an odd thing for someone supposedly involved to have done. What’s even odder is that Obama was fast to accuse Putin of downing the plane before the debris of the plane even had a chance for its fires to die down.

The more we learn…in mere bits and pieces…the more questions are raised. Questions like…was this an actual surface-to-air take down or was this done by an air-to air-missile?

The actual flight path as compared to what should have been the flight path was changed. According to Malaysian air officials, the common route for these planes traveling to Asia would have been about 200 miles south of the flight path this plane was on. Malaysian Air is saying that air traffic control out of Kiev moved MH-17 to a flight path 200 miles north of the one normally used which sent MH-17 directly over the war zone, an alteration probably done while the plane was still in Polish airspace.

Why did they move this plane 200 miles north over the exact area where other military planes had recently been shot down? Part of the problem is that the Kiev government has reportedly seized those records from air traffic control so we might NEVER know.

Another part of the problem is that air traffic control knew damn well this was a civilian airliner and NOT a military plane yet they diverted it over rebel held territory, which raises the question of why would Ukrainian officials send a civilian plane over enemy territory?

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Volcanologists say that one Volcano (Mount Pinatubo Eruption.)spewed out more pollution than the whole industrial age !

In June 1991, the second largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century* took place on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, a mere 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of the capital city Manila. Up to 800 people were killed and 100,000 became homeless following the Mount Pinatubo eruption, which climaxed with nine hours of eruption on June 15, 1991. On June 15, millions of tons of sulfur dioxide were discharged into the atmosphere, resulting in a decrease in the temperature worldwide over the next few years.

My Friends we have volcanos going off all over the world. Some are constantly erupting ! So how can we be to blame for climate change ? IMHO this is all a plan to screw the common man and bring big brother into being !

Al Gore and his screwy lies about anything has made millions of the hoax !

By Craig Andresen on July 28, 2014 at 5:15 am

Most people would be apt to consider any farmer who was trying to milk a BULL to be a complete idiot but to be honest, it rather depends on who the farmer IS and the name of the bull….don’t you think?

Let me explain.

Let’s say, for instance, that the farmer is Barack Hussein Obama.

And, for the sake of argument, the BULL’S name is…Hamas.

Liberals…pay attention…this is for you…

Picture in your minds, Barack Hussein Obama sitting on one of those little three legged milking stools with a bucket, he’s got his hands up under that old bull…and he’s just a pullin’ and a pullin’ for what little he’s worth.

I think there’s two things here we should all be in agreement over.

1)      What’s fillin’ that ol’ bucket ain’t nothing you’d want to be pourin’ on your Corn Flakes and…

2)      That ol’ bull’s gonna be mighty appreciative.

There, in a nutshell, is the Obama doctrine as applied to the current situation between Israel and Hamas.

Perhaps a further explanation is needed…

Last week, try as he might, John Kerry was negotiating for some sort of a cease fire between Hamas and Israel on behalf of the Obama regime but exactly what sort of “DEAL” was he trying to make?

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

This should boggle your mind!! And scare you as well!

1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 5.8133333% margin

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer. And most can't speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie).

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing transactions will occur at a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

13. Let Wal-Mart bail out Wall Street.

 
Origins:   No doubt, Wal-Mart is the behemoth of the retail business world. In November 2008, as many other retailers were retrenching while experiencing plummeting sales figures amidst a severe economic downturn, Wal-Mart's same-stores sales actually exceeded its expectations, increasing by 3.4 percent over the previous year. The figures cited above attempt to place the scale of Wal-Mart's operations in context, demonstrating how truly large it is even in comparison with the other top retails chains in the U.S.

At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

According to Wal-Mart's corporate fact sheet, the chain recorded $374,526,000,000 in sales for the fiscal year ending 31 January 2008. That works out to an average of $42,754,109 in sales per hour (although this figure includes worldwide revenues, not just money spent by Americans).
 

This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 5.8133333% margin

Given the figures provided in the previous entry and this entry (sales of $36,000,000 per hour at a 5.8% profit margin), that would work out to a profit of approximately $34,880 per minute, not $20,928. For the $42,754,109 worldwide sales figure we used above, the corresponding per minute profit would be about $41,400.

Wal-Mart's income statement for fiscal 2008 reports a 5.8% operating margin, so that figure appears to be an accurate one.
 
Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

The 76 days between January 1 to March 17 represent 20.8% of one year. If we take 20.8% of Wal-Mart's sales for fiscal 2008 ($374,526,000,000), that works out to a total of $77,901,408,000 for a 76-day period. (We acknowledge that this is only an approximation, since sales are not evenly distributed throughout the year.)

Target stores reported sales of $63,367,000,000 for fiscal 2008, so it's fair to say that Wal-Mart does indeed sell more (in dollar terms) between New Year's Day and St. Patrick's Day than Target sells all year.
 
Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

Using Yahoo! Finance, we obtained the following yearly sales figures for fiscal 2008 for the listed retail chains:

In the aggregate, these five companies accounted for $334,137,020,000 in yearly sales. If sales is the metric used to determine "bigness," then Wal-Mart, with over $374,000,000,000 in yearly sales, is indeed "bigger" than these five large retailers combined.
 

Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer.

According to Wal-Mart's corporate fact sheet, the company employs 2 million associates worldwide, including 1.4 million in the United States. This makes Wal-Mart the largest private (i.e., non-government) employer in the U.S. (and, according to Wal-Mart, it is the largest employer in Mexico and one of the largest in Canada as well).
 

Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

This statement is somewhat ambiguous, since it doesn't indicate what metric is being used for "bigness": Largest number of outlets? Greatest number of employees? Gross revenues? Net profits?

Fortune magazine, which ranks the world's largest corporations in its Global 500 list based on gross revenues, does indeed place Wal-Mart at #1 in that regard, with the next three contenders all being oil companies: Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP.

Forbes magazine, which ranks companies in its Global 2000 list according to four metrics (sales, profits, assets and market value), places Wal-Mart at #16.
 

Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.

In 1988 Wal-Mart developed its supercenter "one-stop family shopping" concept, which combined a full grocery and general merchandise under one roof. In the two decades since then, Wal-Mart has opened over 2,600 supercenters and has grown to become one of the nation's leading grocers. It's difficult to validate the statement made above with hard numbers since (as far as we can tell) Wal-Mart does not break down its sales figures by category, but it seems likely that Wal-Mart supercenters generate more food sales than the Kroger and Safeway grocery chains combined.
 

Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

According to Wal-Mart, as of 30 November 2008 it was operating 894 discount stores, 2,610 supercenters, 146 neighborhood markets, 599 Sam's Clubs, and 14 marketside stores in the United States, for a grand total of 4,253 retail outlets.

According to Yahoo Finance!, as of 31 January 2004 Wal-Mart was operating 1,478 discount stores, 1,471 supercenters, 538 Sam's Clubs and 64 neighborhood markets in the United States, for a grand total of 3,551 retail outlets.
 

This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing transactions will occur at a Wal-Mart store.

We haven't yet located a reliable source for statistics on the number of purchasing transactions that take place at Wal-Mart stores. (It also isn't clear what "transaction" refers to in this context. Number of customers who buy at least one item? Total number of items purchased by all customers?)
 

90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

The statistic that anywhere from 90% to 94% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart is a frequently cited item, but we don't know the origin of that stat or how it was determined (and therefore how accurate it might be). The 2006 book The Wal-Mart Effect cites the following statistics about the proximity of U.S. consumers to Wal-Mart stores:

• 53 percent of the U.S. population lives within five miles of a Wal-Mart
• 90 percent of the U.S. population lives within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart
• 97 percent of the U.S. population lives within twenty-five miles of a Wal-Mart

I THINK WE NEED TO HIRE THE WAL-MART MANAGERS TO RUN OUR GOVERNMENT FOR A YEAR OR SO AND GET IT BACK ON TRACK!

This should be read and understood by all Americans, Progressive Democrats and Republicans.

TO PRESIDENT OBAMA and all 535 voting members of the legislature.

It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt and incompetent or ineffective as well many are communist and have no desire to see America prosper as a free capitalist society.

1. The U.S. Postal Service established in 1775. You have had 237 years to get it right and it is broke.
2. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 77 years to get it right and it is broke. Much of the money was robed from these accounts and wasted on giveaway programs.
3. Fannie Mae was established in1938 you have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
4. War on poverty started in 1964. You have had 48 years to get it right: $1 Trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to the so called “The Poor” and they want more.
5. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 47 years to get it right and they are broke. You have failed to stop the billions of fraud in these systems.
6. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 42 years to get it right and it is broke.
7. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of 24 Billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 35 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
8. You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
9.  And you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government –run health care system??

 We are “broke” & can’t help our own seniors, Veterans, American Orphans, and Homeless etc.??

But we can allow millions of illegal’s stay in our country living off our tax dollars for democrat political reasons?? The Obama administration is purposing we give millions of our tax dollars to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to “help” the children. Do you really think this money is going to the children that need it? Meanwhile, Mexico is charging us for allowing them to pass through Mexico to get to the US border, paid for by the drug cartels. They are keeping the border guards busy changing diapers while the drug lords funnel tons of drugs into the US to turn our children into zombies.

 In the recent past we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, Japan Turkey... and Pakistan the previous home of Bin Laden. Literally Billions of our tax dollars!! Not counting the millions we give in aid to our Muslim Brother Hood enemies that hate us.

 In GITMO, the 147 Muslim terrorist have one doctor for every prisoner. A state of –the art hospital system are provided Korans and prayer rugs, food approved by the Koran, exercise and additional perks. While our veterans die while waiting to see a doctor while the directors get bonuses.

 Congress wants to freeze Social Security payments?

You do know that Congress voted themselves a pay raise for 2013?

I believe our government is run by idiots and is totally out of control!

The summary below of Barack and Michelle Obama's 6 year reign in the White House is by far the best I've ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head.  And it took a black reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is. A white man's account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obama's is penned by a well known journalist of color?

BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA EVER!

(Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles ..)

The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obama's. Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama's? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture." 

 The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state. 

 I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. 

 I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagan's made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. 

 His arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs? 

 Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama's have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility. 

 I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America . I view that statement and that Mind set as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.

 Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do that. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide." No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. 

 And what the two of them have shared has been proven to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. 

 He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel. 

 His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare. 

 I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority. 

 Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.

 I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color. 

 As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. 

 He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequaled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

 Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed. 

Israel has been under the gun of the Palestinians sense 1948 they have fought to keep their country. I sure wish they would teach History in school again people would know what they have been through all these years. They won the 6 day war, 4 countries tried to invade them, but with Gods will and determination they fought off this countries. In the 1960’s Israel had to put up with PLO and Arafat, you would think that the Palestinians would gotten smart about having peace in the world and the Middle East. No they let the Hamas come in and rule them. If the Palestinians want peace then they need to turn on the Hamas and get rid of the Terrorist from the face of this earth.

      The American people have fought for are freedoms sense 1776 to this present day. I believe we will continue to fight for it as long as there are idiots in this world who think they can dictate to the world.

   In case people here in the USA don’t know this but we have terrorist in the “Outhouse” just seat back and connect the dots. This Butthead has gone against the laws of the USA sense day one, and has done nothing but lied daily. He doesn’t know anything about our Constitution of the United States.

 There are so many people here in the USA that were born in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s that don’t know squat about history. They are too busy playing with their cell phones, I pods and their computers. Just about wasting their money going to college not knowing if they are going to have a job when they finish college.

   This crap started in Syria “NO” do not support either side in that conflict. Just keep an eye on whoever wins that war. But “Butthead” and some of these dead head Senators that think we should support the rebels are nuts. Yes we should have left the military in Iraq, if for no other reason to keep the Terrorist from invading Iraq. Its past time to turn our airpower loose and don’t stop until they wave the white flag. To me a good terrorist is a dead terrorist period!!!!

  It’s funny that these idiots which support terrorist by support the Palestinians, throw rocks at their homes and see how fast they throw the rocks back to put an end to it. But only bigger rocks.

   The dirtiest word in the English language today for the younger generation is the word “WORK”. They everything comes for nothing and NO respect for their alders, so what is being taught in schools today “BS” period.

   America had better start getting their heads out of the sand or do they have to wait until it happens to them before they do anything. Well it’s going to happen then they be asking where is our military!!