BYU VS. AIR FORCE

I want to post something very positive today, something that was
forwarded to me by a very close friend of mine and is something
I wish to share with everyone.

Some people take their football and the cheering for their alma
mater way too seriously. In the "big" picture of life, a game
should be a game, with good sportsmanship and no hard feelings.
Here's a good model. Just prior to the start of the Air Force
BYU football game, Sept. 22, 2009,this video was broadcast in
the BYU stadium in Provo, Utah. Later, the USAF Academy
Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Gould, showed this clip to his faculty
and staff. He told everyone that BYU ran it minutes before
the kickoff at the game. He was clearly moved by it, as were
those who watched it. BYU is a class act.


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=72OhOWFMf84

These people are so clueless - They are not Americans

Both these clowns have rings on their ring finger, their left hand. His suit coat is buttoned correctly, this is not a mirror image. Anyone who has been brought up in this country knows that you put your right had over your heart.... these two are clueless!

We the People

Wake Up America - By Matt Bruce

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a
youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist.
People said it didn't matter...

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were
strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school,
introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it
didn't matter...

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim
child in school and his father and step father were both
Muslims, People said it didn't matter...

When he wrote in another book he authored "I will
stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in
an ugly direction". People said it didn't matter...

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist
friends and professors in college, People said it didn't
matter...

When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an
unknown national passport, People said it didn't matter...

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in
1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, People said it doesn't
matter....

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and
listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach
black liberation theology, People said it didn't matter...

When an independent Washington organization, that
tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title
as the "most liberal senator", People said it didn't matter...

When the Palestinians in Gaza , set up a fund raising
telethon to raise money for his election campaign, People said
it didn't matter...

When his voting record supported gun control, People
said it didn't matter...

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his
election campaign, as other candidates had done, People said
it didn't matter...

When he received endorsements from people like Louis
Farrakhan and Mummar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, People said it
didn't matter...

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer
and had absolutely no experience at anything except community
organizing, People said it didn't matter...

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill
Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals,
People said it didn't matter...

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in
the U.S. Senate came into question, People said it didn't
matter...

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so
only after a public outcry, People said it didn't matter...

When people started treating him as a Messiah and
children in schools were taught to sing his praises, People
said it didn't matter...

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for
the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance,
People said it didn't matter...

When he surrounded himself in the White ho use with
advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro
homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro
government control over everything and wanting to curtail
freedom of speech to silence the opposition, People said it
didn't matter...

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and
a host of other issues, People said it didn't matter...

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten,
including homosexual indoctrination, People said it didn't
matter...

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and
nothing could be found about him, People said it didn't matter...

When his first act as President, literally within 5
minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489
that sealed his own records, People said it didn't matter...

When the place of his birth was called into question,
and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues
to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, People
said it didn't matter...

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco,
a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had
helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home,
People said it didn't matter...

When it became known that George Soros, a
multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him
elected, People said it didn't matter...

When he started appointing czars that were radicals,
revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, People
said it didn't matter...

When he stood be fore the nation and told us that his
intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into
something else, People said it didn't matter...

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers
in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, People said it
didn't matter...

When he appointed a cabinet members and several
advisors who were tax cheats and socialist, People said it
didn't matter....

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who
believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing
babies from teen mothers, People said it didn't matter...

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and
he believes in "Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs
without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented
in court, while banning all hunting, People said it didn't
matter...

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual,
and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight,
education network, as safe school czar and it became known
that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, People said
it didn't matter...

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he
believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving
to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez,
People said it didn't matter...

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior
White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, People
said it didn't matter...

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director
said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person
she turned to most for inspiration, People said it didn't
matter...

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming
czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and
trade as the nation's largest tax hike in history, People said
it doesn't matter....

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed
Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when
this was made known, People said it didn't matter...

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human
services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a
tax cheat, People said it didn't matter....

When as president of the United States , he bowed to
the King of Saudi Arabia, People said it didn't matter...

When he traveled around the world criticizing America
and never once talking of her greatness, People said it didn't
matter...

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to
support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time friend,
People said it doesn't matter...

When he took American tax dollars to resettle
thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States ,
People said it doesn't matter...

When he upset our European allies by removing plans
for a missile defense system against the Russians, People said
it doesn't matter...

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending
troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, People
said it didn't matter...

When he started spending us into a debt that was so
big we could not pay it off, People said it didn't matter...

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of
stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and
individuals that got him elected, People said it didn't matter...

When he forced the takeover of insurance companies,
car companies, banks, etc, People said it didn't matter...

When he took away student loans from the banks and put
it through the government, People said it didn't matter...

When he designed plans to take over the health care
system and put it under government control, People said it
didn't matter...

When he set into motion a plan to take over the
control of all energy resources in the United States through
Cap and Trade, People said it didn't matter...

When he announced he was returning the masterminds of
9-11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals --
not war criminals -- and thus allow them the benefits from our
system of jurisprudence, The mainstream media loved it and the
people said it didn't matter...(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF,
NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or
a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center
9/11/2001 and see if it matters...)

When he finally completed his transformation of
America into a Socialist State , people finally woke up, but
it was too late...

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not
really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a
phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is
determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist
society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have
been put into place. All can be documented very easily.
Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The
last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will
write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a
more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like
happy endings...

If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that
you have elected a president who is a 'socialist'. There is
simply no debate about these facts. But you need to seek the
truth; you will be richer for it. Don't just belittle the
opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats,
Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and
what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull
together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and
cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation...

Never before in the history of America have we been
confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of
our country is in jeopardy.
Don't rely on most television news and what you read
in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes,
there is a lot of bad
information, lies and distortions there as well, but
you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a
dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the
government. Do you really think they are about to print the
truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except
Fox who he is currently waging an open war against. There must
be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, and
he has failed to refute any facts presented - because it is
all true. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he
doesn't.
Please, find the truth, it will set you free...

Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia or Iran ; no,
our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in
Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support
the previously mentioned things...

Wake Up America! There's still time in 2010 to take
back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who
think 'it doesn't matter'...

I happen to think 'it does matter'....

God Bless America !

Matt Bruce
An American Independent Conservative Who Thinks 'It
Matters'...

*AND THAT'S ALL TRUE FOLKS!!!!
* http://web.me.com/thibbard/The_Lobbyist/A_New_Novel.html

Obama vs The Supreme Court

This story was posted by Newsmax. Watch the video at bottom of page.

The stunning sight of a Supreme Court justice and the president of the United States at odds during a State of the Union address, especially over a ruling made by the constitutionally independent judiciary, immediately set talking heads buzzing on cable television, and touched off a firestorm of commentary on the Internet.

The exchange came as Obama, with the Supreme Court justices in their formal robes seated just a few meters in front of him, lectured the court saying that their decision had opened the “floodgates” of special-interest political donations.

“Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections," the president said.

"Well,” he continued, “I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that's why I'm urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong."

CNN’s John King reported that Justice Alito could be seen shaking his head and mouthing, and possibly speaking out loud, the words: “That is not true.”

The clash was startling given the traditionally subdued role of justices at state of the union speeches. It also brought to mind the breach of decorum during the president’s address to the joint session of Congress last year, when South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson blurted out in response: “You lie!”
The incident seemed oddly out of place in a speech the president used to renew his calls for post-partisan politics.

The president prefaced his remarks about the Court with the statement, “With all due deference to separation of powers …” But he then went on to take the U.S. Supreme Court to task in a way that left observers pondering whether there was any precedent for a president lecturing the high court on the fine points of law during a joint session of Congress.

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder reported that the president “directly rebuked” the justices “to their faces.”

He added that the administration is expecting to fill one, and possibly two Supreme Court vacancies this summer, presumably due to retirements.

TONIGHT'S OBAMA LIE LIST (A RUNNING TALLY)

1. "The worst of the storm has passed"
2. "Despite our hardships, our union is strong"
3. "We recovered most of the money we spent on the banks"
4. "We took steps to get our economy going again"
5. "We cut taxes for small businesses.
6. "2 million people working ...who would have been unemployed."
7. "Jobs ......must be our NO. 1 ....focus."
8. "China and India are making investments in clean energy"
9. "I'm not interested in punishing banks"
10. "It means opening new areas for offshore oil and gas development"
11. "Overwhelming evidence on climate change."
12. "We will double our exports over the next five years"
13. "It's because of the middle class that we need health insurance reform"
14. "I took on healthcare because of the stories I've heard."
16. "We will eliminate programs which won't work"
17. "I'm calling on Congress to continue down the path of earmark reform"
18. "We can't wage a perpetual (political) campaign"
19. "I will not give up trying to change the tone of our politics."
20. "Let's do what it takes to defend our nation."
21. "Our troops can begin to come home from Afghanistan in 2011"
22. "All of our combat troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this August"
23. "We will secure all unsecured nuclear materials in four years."
24. "Iran will face growing consequences"
25. "We should continue to work to fix our broken immigration system"
26. "Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,Blame,it's not my fault"

Why No One Invades Switzerland

The Shot Heard Round The World

This morning I just want to say to MSNBC's Ed Schultz: Your statement of "Do whatever it takes to keep the Bastards out" has fallen short and you and others like you will be trampled under the feet of patriots who refuse to sir come to your kind of socialist rhetoric and Satanist values. With God’s help we will rise up and fight against you and we will stand victorious in our fight to bring America back to God!! As Romney said last night: "This win in Massachusetts was a shot heard round the world" ........ and you had better believe it!!!

MSNBC Talk show host promoting cheating in Massachussettes elections????!!!!

January 18, 2010 10:53 AM EST
MSNBC television and syndicated radio host Ed Schultz declared that he would stuff the ballot box in Massachusetts if he could to prevent Republican Scott Brown from upsetting Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the state's Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy.

"Whatever it takes to keep the bastards out of power. I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I'd try to vote 10 times," said Schultz on his Friday radio show. "I don't know if they'd let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah, that's right. I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would cause that's exactly what they are."

To many times in politics it comes down to this, cheat so you can get what you want, lie so you can get what you want, tell people what they want to hear so you can get what you want, and then to have this kind of statement put out on a national radio talk show, totally supporting cheating, is down right wrong, and I don't care who you are or what party you belong to no one should ever condone this kind of behavior. Every election we are now faced with cheating, dead people voting, voting under other peoples names and illegals voting....it has happened in the past, it will happen again in the future until we take back our government and make it work by the Laws of our Constitution. I only have one thing to say to Ed Schultz.... cheating is wrong you pompass blowhard and everyone should immediately demand that MSNBC kick you off the airwaves. You can damn well believe that if one of the conservative talk show hosts made such a statement the liberals would be camping on the doorsteps of the broadcaster in droves, screaming and acting like a bunch of wild animals demanding his resignation, and you know that I am exactly right!

Why is the SEIU boss the White House’s most frequent visitor?

This is a bit long, but well worth your time to read!

By: STEPHEN SPRUIELL

The Friday before Halloween, in response to requests from the public, the White House released records of the visitors it had received between January and July. George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams were among the famous names on the list. But the man who appeared most frequently is less well-known. His name is Andrew Stern, and during the first six months of Obama’s tenure, he visited the White House 21 times — about three times per month. Most of these visits included an intimate meeting with the president or other senior officials. Among outsiders, Stern enjoys unrivaled access to the White House. And the more you know about him, the spookier that sounds.

Stern is president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a federation of health-care, public-sector, and custodial workers that claims approximately 2 million members. Stern replaced former president John Sweeney in 1996, the year after Sweeney won a bitterly fought battle for control of the AFL-CIO. At the time, Sweeney’s win was viewed as a victory for the left wing of the labor movement. Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in these pages: “Many of the people in [Sweeney’s] camp have backgrounds in the New Left.” Andrew Stern certainly fits that description.

Stern lacks the traditional blue-collar pedigree of a union boss. In a profile of him for The New Republic, Bradford Plumer wrote, “Stern was part of a generation of idealistic union leaders who came to organized labor from college, not the factory floor.” He started at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school in the late ’60s, dabbled in student radicalism, changed his major, bummed around Europe, came back to the States, and went to work as a welfare case officer in Pennsylvania. SEIU had just organized his shop, and he got active in the union. He ended up as one of Sweeney’s protégés, his successor, and, eventually, his bête noire.

In the 1950s, the percentage of American workers who belonged to a union peaked at around 34 percent. Today, that number is closer to 12 percent — 7.6 if you’re counting only private-sector jobs. Against this backdrop of declining union membership, Stern managed to double the size of SEIU in his first ten years as president. Other labor leaders stood in awe. In 2005, Stern engineered a break with the AFL-CIO over frustrations with Sweeney’s leadership. Six other unions, including the Teamsters, followed Stern. The breakaways formed their own federation called Change to Win and adopted SEIU’s one-two punch: intimidate businesses and, if that doesn’t work, exploit their soft spot for corporate welfare.

On the intimidation front, SEIU has worked with the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The group once served as a valuable ally, but its reputation now lies in tatters thanks to a pair of amateur journalists who, costumed as pimp and hooker, filmed themselves obtaining advice from ACORN staffers on how best to shelter the proceeds of a child-prostitution ring from taxation.

SEIU did not sustain much damage from the scandal, even though, as a colleague of mine quipped, ACORN often acts as its paramilitary wing. SEIU’s former political director, Patrick Gaspard, remains comfortably ensconced at the White House as political director — Obama’s Karl Rove — and the connection does not appear to have hurt him.

The SEIU-ACORN link is deep and longstanding. At least one SEIU local, Chicago’s Local 880, was organized by ACORN and run by it for 20 years. An SEIU official recently testified that the local had severed its ACORN ties, but Chris Berg, a former special assistant at the Office of Labor Management Standards, says, “I’m very skeptical.” Keith Kelleher, who spent many years running ACORN in Chicago, is still the local’s head organizer. “They’ve been wed together for so long, I don’t think they can divorce,” says Berg.

The local, which represents home health-care and child-care workers, attracted scrutiny when former governor Rod Blagojevich helped it secure a lucrative collective-bargaining agreement with the State of Illinois. Many cried foul, pointing to the $1.8 million that SEIU and ACORN had donated to Blagojevich’s campaigns. This story surfaced again when Blagojevich concocted a scheme whereby he would appoint someone of Obama’s choosing to Obama’s old Senate seat in exchange for a six-figure sinecure at Change to Win. Obama and Stern are so close that Blagojevich thought a favor to one would be repaid by the other.

SEIU has given ACORN nearly $6 million since 2006 — including $250,000 this year — according to U.S. Department of Labor disclosures and the union’s own statements. Some of this money took the form of grants, but ACORN also received significant sums for doing the SEIU’s dirty work. In 2007, the SEIU paid ACORN $140,000 to harass a shopping-mall operator called General Growth Properties that would not let the union use the card-check process to organize the company’s janitors (more on card check later). According to the company, ACORN’s tactics included “making allegations and filing unsubstantiated claims with government agencies, then implying in handbills and press releases that the claims — before they are even investigated, let alone proved — are fact.”

SEIU isn’t above these tactics, but it reserves its full attention for bigger targets, such as Bank of America. It has repeatedly tried to unionize Bank of America’s workforce, to no avail. The government bailouts, however, offered the perfect opportunity for SEIU to launch what’s known as a “corporate campaign” against the bank. Paul Levy, the CEO of a Boston hospital that has been on the receiving end of an SEIU corporate campaign, has written that the tactic “consists of publicly denigrating the reputation of the targeted [company], its senior management, and its board of trustees in an attempt to put pressure on the [company] to agree to certain concessions in the union certification process.”

Over the past year, SEIU has helped organize dozens of protests over the size of executive bonuses at Bank of America. Stern’s was one of the loudest voices calling for the ouster of CEO Ken Lewis for the bank’s role in the financial crisis, even though its acquisition of troubled firms Countrywide and Merrill Lynch probably prevented the crisis from deepening. After Lewis was ousted following an SEIU campaign to deluge shareholders with inflammatory talking points, the union sent a letter to executive-pay czar Kenneth Feinberg asking him to seize Lewis’s pension. “I’m not a cheerleader for B of A,” University of North Carolina–Charlotte finance professor Tony Plath told the Charlotte Business Journal at the time. “But let’s be objective about this: These attacks are all about card check.”

SEIU’s corporate campaigns, however effective, are nothing new. Stern’s real breakthrough came when he realized that labor could offer a carrot as well as a stick Around 50 percent of SEIU’s members work in the health-care industry as nurses, hospital attendants, and lab techs. The facilities that employ such workers benefit from a number of government programs. SEIU’s pitch was simple: Let us organize your workforce, and we’ll use our lobbying power to push for increased government spending on health care.

It worked. Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo recently observed in The Weekly Standard that, “under the brilliant leadership of Dennis Rivera, [SEIU Local] 1199 built a top-notch political operation, and with the hospitals, which were barred from political activity, formed a partnership to maximize the flow of government revenue.” The alliance has been so successful, they wrote, that New York now spends as much on Medicaid as California and Texas combined. Rivera now serves as the SEIU’s point man on national health-care-reform legislation, with over 400 union staff members working full time at his disposal. Sen. Chuck Schumer called him “one of the few key players” shaping the final bill.

In pursuit of his vision, Stern has turned the SEIU into a massive grassroots army that can mobilize in behalf of candidates and legislation. The scope of its activities in 2008 was epic. Stern bragged that “we spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million, to be exact — and we’re proud of it.” Ironically, SEIU spent so much in 2008 that it had to take out massive loans to keep operating, including $10 million from — you guessed it — Bank of America. The cash crunch also forced SEIU to implement a round of layoffs, leading to a surreal hall-of-mirrors moment when the Union of Union Representatives filed a complaint against SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Undaunted, SEIU has set aside $85 million to spend over the next two years on political advocacy. The union started the year with three major objectives: a union-friendly stimulus, a union-friendly health-care bill, and a bill that would make it easier to organize workers into unions. It has brought its influence to bear on all three of these debates, with varying degrees of success.

Union-friendly stimulus: The stimulus bill was a top priority for SEIU because it contained massive bailouts for state governments and Medicaid. As mentioned above, states such as California, New York, and New Jersey have expanded their social-welfare systems beyond what they can afford, in response to pressures from SEIU and other public-sector unions. At the same time, their progressive income-tax structures have made them especially vulnerable to boom-and-bust cycles. When the credit bubble burst, these states were looking at massive deficits, layoffs, furloughs, and budget cuts. The stimulus bill included a $50 billion slush fund for state governments and $90 billion in Medicaid expansions, helping the states avoid a necessary round of belt-tightening and tax reform.



SEIU president Andrew Stern
Nam Y. Huh/AP

The most illustrative example of SEIU’s clout during this process came when the Obama administration threatened to withhold stimulus funds from the state of California if it went ahead with a planned reduction in payments to home health-care workers. The administration set up a conference call with state officials to discuss whether the cuts violated the terms of the stimulus, and state officials were surprised to learn that the administration had invited SEIU representatives to join the call. “This was really atypical and outside any norm I am familiar with,” California secretary of health and human services Kim Belshe told the Los Angeles Times. The administration backed down from the threat, but only after the story had leaked and caused significant blowback.

Union-friendly health-care reform: During the month of August, when tea-party protesters showed up at town-hall meetings in droves to express their opposition to the Democrats’ health-care plan, liberal commentators and members of Congress tried to portray the movement as “astroturf” (which, in political parlance, means fake grassroots). Democratic senator Barbara Boxer famously said that the protesters were too well-dressed to be anything other than corporate stooges. But, contra Boxer, the most visible trend by far in protest-wear at the town halls this summer was the purple SEIU T-shirt.

SEIU has poured millions into a group called Health Care for America Now, which has dispatched envoys to deliver portable pavilions, professionally printed placards, and uniform attire at almost every major health-care protest this year. Dennis Rivera sent hundreds of union activists to meetings this summer in an attempt to counteract opposition to the Democrats’ bill. “We’re running this campaign like this was a presidential campaign, and our candidate is health-care reform,” Rivera told the New York Times. Why does SEIU care so much about health-care reform? The subsidies and mandates in Democrats’ legislation would drive up demand for health-care services, meaning more revenue for hospitals, more health-care workers, and more members for SEIU.

The creation of a government-run insurance plan is an especially important priority for the SEIU. “The nexus between government and private industry would give SEIU a toehold to organize more workers,” explains J. Justin Wilson, managing director of the Center for Union Facts. Once the public option is in place, SEIU can pressure the bureaucracy to implement union-friendly policies. For example, the public option “might only reimburse hospitals that are unionized or have a neutrality position toward unions,” Wilson says.

So far, SEIU has been successful at getting most of its priorities included in the health-care bill. Democrats have renewed their commitment to the public option, which once looked dead on arrival. The only problem for organized labor concerns the excise tax on “Cadillac” health plans — plans that cost more than $8,000 per year for single coverage or $21,000 for family coverage — contained in the Senate Finance Committee’s version of the legislation. The proposed tax evolved from Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus’s earlier plan to raise revenue by taxing all employer-provided health benefits. Unions objected to that idea because many of them have negotiated generous benefit plans for their workers. Employers could be expected to scale back these plans to avoid the tax.

As a compromise, Sen. John Kerry proposed taxing only the most expensive plans, and the White House embraced this tax on “gold-plated Cadillac” plans because it sounded like the kind of tax-the-rich scheme that plays well with the Democrats’ base. But a number of unions still objected, leading Democrats to propose an exemption from the tax for all benefits granted through collective bargaining. This obvious sop to organized labor was immediately ridiculed and never actually made it into the legislation. Soon after the Senate Finance Committee approved the tax on “Cadillac” plans, a group of 27 unions ran an ad criticizing it. Notably, SEIU was not among them. “We don’t have a substantial disagreement with their point of view but we chose to communicate our views privately,” Rivera told The Hill newspaper.

“I found it interesting that they weren’t willing to sign on,” says Berg, the former Department of Labor official. “The United Auto Workers union is the one that you think of being impacted by this, because they had negotiated these kinds of plans with the automakers. SEIU has become a bigger player because they’ve been rapidly expanding, but they’ve been organizing a lot of lower-income workers.” Because the tax doesn’t affect that many of its members, SEIU is thought to have quietly signaled that it would not oppose the tax too loudly if it proved necessary to the bill’s passage.

Card-check legislation: As important as the Democrats’ health-care plan is to SEIU, the union’s top priority remains the Employee Free Choice Act, otherwise known as the card-check bill. Under SEIU’s preferred version of the bill, employers would have to recognize a union once a majority of its employees had signed petition cards. This process would allow union organizers to identify holdouts and pressure them into signing up. The bill would also require business owners to allow union organizers to hold meetings with employees on the business’s property, while forbidding the owners to hold mandatory meetings to discuss unionization.

Finally, the bill includes a binding-arbitration provision that would allow the NLRB to impose a union contract on a business if negotiations with its union broke down. SEIU loves this provision, because Obama just named one of its lawyers, Craig Becker, to the NLRB. Businesses negotiating with the SEIU would have two choices: accept SEIU’s demands voluntarily or have the SEIU-friendly NLRB accept them for you.

These three goals have one thing in common: All are meant to raise the percentage of workers who belong to a union. State by state, unions are ensuring that the only employers eligible for stimulus money are those with union workforces. On health care, the Democrats’ bill is designed to shift a mind-boggling amount of money into the health-care sector while increasing the government’s administrative control over it — and anyone who believes the Democrats’ rhetoric about cutting costs is encouraged to look at what Dennis Rivera accomplished in New York. Meanwhile, card-check legislation would throw open the doors of private businesses to union organizers and tie their hands when they try to resist.

This is good for unions, but it’s even better for liberals. The past three decades have seen unions embrace left-wing positions on everything from affirmative action to gay marriage to the war in Iraq. (Times have changed: Former AFL-CIO president George Meany refused to support George McGovern because McGovern opposed the war in Vietnam.) The bigger unions grow, the more power they have, as Andrew Stern will tell anyone who will listen. Stern’s obsession with size has embroiled the labor movement in some of the nastiest fights it has ever seen. Old-school union guys like Sal Roselli, a former Stern lieutenant whose National Union of Healthcare Workers split from SEIU earlier this year in a bitter divorce, told Bradford Plumer that “Stern’s drive for growth at all costs” had caused him to ignore what was in the best interest of his members. But Andrew Stern was a liberal before he was a union organizer, just as Obama was a liberal before he was a community organizer. Unions may have existed to serve workers’ interests at one time. These days, they exist to serve liberalism.

“The most important thing to note about what SEIU is doing is that it’s really become a lobbying arm for the president,” Berg says. “Much like Organizing for America [the community-organizing group run by the Democratic National Committee], they are trying to drive bodies nationwide to lobby their congressmen and senators to try to implement the president’s agenda.” Seen in that light, it is entirely unsurprising that Stern’s name should be the one that appears most frequently in White House visitor logs. Obama and Stern are working together to make America a more liberal place, and they want you to join them.

Modern Day Mafia

Below is an article about Democrat Senate candidate Marth Coakley, her refusal to answer questions and the goons she has surrounded herself with. The more I see this type of behavior the more I am totally convinced that we are dealing with the new mafia in America and if you are paying attention you will know that it is being controlled by the labor unions such as the likes of SEIU and Andrew Stern, who incidently visited the Whitehouse 21 times in the first 6 months of Obama as president. All the union bosses were at the white house just a day or so ago and the footage of them leaving was like watching a scene from the Godfather Movie. These bosses are tied in so tight with Obama that you can't tell where one starts and the next one ends. These people have Obama in their hip pocket, they bought and paid for him, it's 1920's Chicago all over again, but this time they have the big fish in their back pockets! I don't base this on here say, I make those statements on facts and figures of the money and jobs that have been doled out by the Obama administration since he took office in payback for the millions and millions of dollars that flooded his campaign coffers through the unions. The unions along with Obamas help are already on the path of taking over total control of America, look at how deeply they are involved with the health care bill they are trying to get passed. The corruption in Washington has got to be stopped in its tracks before it is virtually too late. Where is Elliot Ness when you need him!! Coakley is currently the Massachusetts Attorney General and is also up to her neck in the corruption and scandal of this administration, if not, she would not have continued to walk away from the situation behind her knowing full well what was going on. She is surrounded by thugs who do her bidding and act the part of those who used to terrorize American citizens and protect their crime bosses.

Someone with the Coakley campaign shoves WEEKLY STANDARD reporter outside of a Capitol Hill fundraiser.
BY John McCormack
January 12, 2010 8:59 PM

Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley attended a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill restaurant Sonoma tonight. After the event concluded, Coakley took two questions from the media but declined to say whether or not she stands by her statement at last night's debate that there aren't any terrorists in Afghanistan (and that they've all gone to Pakistan or Yemen).

After taking a question from a CNN reporter on the street outside the restaurant, I asked her:

TWS: Attorney General Coakley, you said last night that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan--that they're all in Yemen and Pakistan. Do you stand by that remark?

COAKLEY: I'm sorry, did someone else have a question?

GRIFF JENKINS, Fox News: I did. Why are you in Washington tonight?

COAKLEY: We planned an event after the primary that would be a unity event in Washington. We're also in the middle of a very intense campaign [...]

After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn't reply.

As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.

He asked if I was with the media, and I told him I work for THE WEEKLY STANDARD. When I asked him who he worked for he replied, "I work for me." He demanded to see my credentials, and even though it was a public street, I showed them to him.

I eventually got around him and met up with the attorney general halfway down the block.

"Attorney General, could I ask you a question please?" I said. "We're done, thanks," Coakley replied. She walked back toward the restaurant, apparently searching for her car. She remained silent as I (politely) repeated my question.

Coakley staffers told me they didn't know who the man was who pushed me, though by every indication he was somehow connected to the campaign.

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw

Update: Someone owes me a new pair of pants. I just noticed there's a large tear in the back of my suit pants.

Update II: The man who owes me a new suit may be the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Michael Meehan.

The Nuts & Bolts of the Pelosi ObamaCare Bill

Please read this, especially the reference to pages 58 & 59, my particular favorite!
An excellent article in a local paper, the River Cities Tribune, published in Marble Falls, TX on the 17th of August 2009. It was written by their former county judge, David Kithil. He voiced his opposition to HB 3200, and gave EXACT SPECIFICS, to include page and paragraph in the bill on why this Health Bill is BAD.

Thomas Edwards, editor of The River Cities Tribune, was contacted to get legal permission to quote David Kithil's comments from an article he wrote on August 17th 2009. Permission was granted, so here are excerpts from the article, giving EXACT pages and paragraphs in the bill and why it is so bad. I think Judge Kithil hits things right on the head, and the opposition you may encounter cannot argue over these points:

JUDGE KITHIL wrote:

"I have reviewed selected sections of the bill and find it unbelievable that our Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could come up with a bill loaded with so many wrong-headed elements."

"We do need to reform the health insurance system in America in order to make coverage affordable and available to everyone. But, how many of us believe our federal government can manage a new program any better than the bankrupt Medicare program or the underfunded Social Security program?"

"Both Republicans and Democrats are equally responsible for the financial mess of those two programs."

"I am opposed to HB 3200 for a number of reasons. To start with, it is estimated that a federal bureaucracy of more than 150,000 new employees will be required to administer HB3200. That is an unacceptable expansion of a government that is already too intrusive in our lives. If we are going to hire 150,000 new employees, let's put them to work protecting our borders,
fighting the massive drug problem and putting more law enforcement/firefighters out there."

NOW, here comes the good stuff. JUDGE KITHIL continued: "Other problems I have with this bill include:

** Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.

** Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individuals bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

** Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the government) for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations (such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ( ACORN).

** Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their right mind come up with that?)

** Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of specialty, and the government will set all doctors' fees.

** Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patients age.

** Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an exception.

** Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five years.

** Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order.

HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on:

"Finally, it is specifically stated this bill will not apply to members of Congress. Members of Congress are already exempt from the Social Security system and have a well-funded private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on our Social Security plan, I believe they
would find a very quick 'fix' to make the plan financially sound for the future."

Honorable David Kithil
Marble Falls , Texas

How many times in those few short lines did you see "the government will" or "mandates?" If you have any questions as to where Obamas loyalties lie, pick up Michelle Malkins book Culture of Corruption and read it, it will give it to you in black and white and I assure you that it will make you see exactly how corrupt this administration is if you have any doubt in your mind that it is not. I've read the book, it will really open your eyes!

Cyber Spy's

For those of you who don't believe that you are being watched using Facebook you better think again. These kids may have been only talking among themselves making off the cuff comments that were never intended to take shape, but they soon found out that cyber spy's are all around you just looking for an excuse to take you down. Be careful what you write, and be prepared for the consequences that could come knocking at your door for what you did write!

Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears

Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears


Some warn expansion of military involvement in domestic security could lead to “end of United States as a Republic”


Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010


An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations for martial law.


The order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”.


The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom, Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the Pentagon “in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments,” according to the executive order.


In October 2008, Northcom, a Unified Combatant Command of the United States military based out of Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, was assigned the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq. An alarming September 8 Army Times report which was later denied after it sparked controversy stated that the troops would be used by Northcom to deal with “civil unrest and crowd control” in the aftermath of a national emergency.


The Obama executive order states that governors will help advise the feds on National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.


The fact that the order further blurs the lines between state and federal power, as well as greasing the skids for more military involvement in domestic affairs has stoked fears that Obama may be laying the groundwork for his promised “national civilian security force”.


Conservatives and libertarians responded to the announcement by expressing their suspicion that Obama is preparing to give governors their marching orders in targeting “anti-government” types that have long been characterized as a terrorist threat by the feds in numerous reports stretching back over a decade.


“There is a definite purpose to this,” wrote one commenter on the popular Free Republic website, “The initial steps toward a domestic “Civilian Security Force” in each state, as called for by the fascisti during the campaign. It will be coordinated at the state level, under the authority of DHS and DoD and assorted agencies. The provision will be made for it to be “federalized” in an emergency, as is the National Guard.”


“This is a concrete step toward eliminating the independent authority and dissolving the sovereignty of the several States. It lays the groundwork for the end of the United States as a Republic,” she adds.


Others warn that Obama could be preparing to cancel elections under the justification of a national emergency, a fear that was often expressed when Bush was in office but one that never materialized.


However, the executive order clearly represents another assault on Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law that bars the military from exercising domestic police powers, which was temporarily annulled by the 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act before parts of it were later repealed

Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL In America - Is The ICC Next?

Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL In America - Is The ICC Next?
By Steve Schippert, Clyde Middleton


Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order "Amending Executive Order 12425." It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select o the r "International Organizations" as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.


By removing language from President Reagan's 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates - now operates - on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.


For Immediate Release December 17, 2009
Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425


EXECUTIVE ORDER
- - - - - - -
AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is fur the r amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2©, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes the m.


BARACK OBAMA


THE WHITE HOUSE,


December 16, 2009.


After initial review and discussions between the writers of this analysis, the context was spelled out plainly.


Through EO 12425, President Reagan extended to INTERPOL recognition as an "International Organization." In short, the privileges and immunities afforded foreign diplomats was extended to INTERPOL. Two sets of important privileges and immunities were withheld: Section 2© and the remaining sections cited (all of which deal with differing taxes).


And the n comes December 17, 2009, and President Obama. The exemptions in EO 12425 were removed.


Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.


Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable. (Emphasis added.)


Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens' Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery ("unless such immunity be expressly waived.")


Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever the y may be in the United States . This could conceivably include human assets - Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.


Context: International Criminal Court


The importance of this last crucial point cannot be understated, because this immunity and protection - and elevation above the US Constitution - afforded INTERPOL is likely a precursor to the White House subjecting the United States under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). INTERPOL provides a significant enforcement function for the ICC, just as our FBI provides a significant function for our Department of Justice.


We direct the American public to paragraph 28 of the ICC's Proposed Programme Budget for 2010 (PDF).


29. Additionally, the Court will continue to seek the cooperation of States not party to the Rome Statute and to develop its relationships with regional organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS), the Arab League (AL), the African Union (AU), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), ASEAN and CARICOM. We will also continue to engage with subregional and the matic organizations, such as SADC and ECOWAS, and the Commonwealth Secretariat and the OIF. This will be done through high level visits, briefings and, as appropriate, relationship agreements. Work will also be carried out with sectoral organizations such as IDLO and INTERPOL, to increase efficiency.


The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute - the UN treaty that established the International Criminal Court. (See: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court)


President George W. Bush rejected subjecting the United States to the jurisdiction of the ICC and removed the United States as a signatory. President Bill Clinton had previously signed the Rome Statute during his presidency. Two critical matters are at play. One is an overall matter of sovereignty and the concept of the primacy of American law above those of the rest of the world. But more recently a more over-riding concern principally has been the potential - if not likely - specter of subjecting our Armed Forces to a hostile international body seeking war crimes prosecutions during the execution of an unpopular war.


President Bush in fact went so far as to gain agreement from nations that the y would expressly not detain or hand over to the ICC members of the United States armed forces. The fear of a symbolic ICC circus trial as a form of international political protest to American military actions in Iraq and elsewhere was real and palpable.


President Obama's words have been carefully chosen when directly regarding the ICC. While President Bush outright rejected subjugating American armed forces to any international court as a matter of policy, President Obama said in his 2008 presidential campaign that it is merely "premature to commit" to signing America on.


However, in a Foreign Policy in Focus round-table in 2008, the host group cited his former foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power. She essentially laid down what can be viewed as now-President Obama's roadmap to America rejoining the ICC. His principal objections are not explained as those of sovereignty, but ra the r of image and perception.


Obama's former foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, said in an early March (2008) interview with The Irish Times that many things need to happen before Obama could think about signing the Rome Treaty.


"Until we've closed Guantánamo, gotten out of Iraq responsibly, renounced torture and rendition, shown a different face for America , American membership of the ICC is going to make countries around the world think the ICC is a tool of American hegemony.


The detention center at Guantánamo Bay is nearing its closure and an alternate continental American site for terrorist detention has been selected in Illinois . The time line for Iraq withdrawal has been set. And President Obama has given an abundance of international speeches intended to "show a different face for America ." He has in fact been roundly criticized domestically for the routinely apologetic and critical nature of the se speeches.


President Obama has not rejected the concept of ICC jurisdiction over US citizens and service members. He has avoided any direct reference to this while offering praise for the ICC for conducting its trials so far "in America 's interests." The door thus remains wide open to the skeptical observer.


CONCLUSIONS


In light of what we know and can observe, it is our logical conclusion that President Obama's Executive Order amending President Ronald Reagans' 1983 EO 12425 and placing INTERPOL above the United States Constitution and beyond the legal reach of our own top law enforcement is a precursor to more damaging moves.


The pre-requisite conditions regarding the Iraq withdrawal and the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility closure will continue the ir course.. meanwhile, the next move from President Obama is likely an attempt to dissolve the agreements made between President Bush and o the r states preventing the m from turning over American military forces to the ICC (via INTERPOL) for war crimes or any o the r prosecutions.


When the paths on the road map converge - Iraq withdrawal, Guantánamo closure, perceived American image improved internationally, and an empowered INTERPOL in the United States - it is probable that President Barack Obama will once again make America a signatory to the International Criminal Court. It will be a move that surrenders American sovereignty to an international body who's INTERPOL enforcement arm has already been elevated above the Constitution and American domestic law enforcement.


For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL's central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That the y now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with "inviolable archives" from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds.


This is the disturbing context for President Obama's quiet release of an amended Executive Order 12425. American sovereignty hangs in the balance if the se actions are not prevented through public outcry and political pressure. Some Americans are paying attention, as can be seen from some of the earliest recognitions of this troubling development here, here and here. But the discussion must extend well beyond the Internet and social media.


Ultimately, a detailed verbal explanation is due the American public from the President of the United States detailing why an international law enforcement arm assisting a court we are not a signatory to has been elevated above our Constitution upon our soil.


By Steve Schippert on December 23, 2009 3:00 AM


After reading this, I am totally convinced that Obama is a Terrorist!!

Final Thoughts For 2009

2009 has been the worst year on record that I can remember, and I go back well over 50 years. I have not only lost most of what I had, but I also cannot get work to try and save what I have left, but I am not on the government’s doorstep looking for a handout or a free ride. I am not the only one, many people are suffering at the hands of our stupid politicians and most everyone out there has not been immune to the disastrous progressive socialist agenda that our current politicians in power are desperately shoving down our throats. Of course if you are the likes of ACORN, SEIU, AIG, Citibank, Bank of America or all the corrupt people holding offices and are associated with the likes of Obama and his Chicago style politics, such as those who adorn his administration and the Czars who are being illegally handed our country on a silver platter and who have received billions of taxpayer dollars to bail them out or rather to line their pockets, then of course you have no worries!




The healthcare bill is being muscled through by way of payoffs to politicians in order to get them to play ball with Obama, who refuses to listen to the will of the people who are screaming about his actions louder than they did Hillary care. Some of the politicians such as the likes of Senator Mary Landrieu who was against the health care bill have caved in to payoffs such as the 300 billion dollar payout Landrieu will receive for her state of Louisiana for switching her vote to support Osama’s health care bill. Our president is nothing more than a lying deceitful self proclaimed Muslim who shows us daily that he has no regard for the American people but rather his loyalties to those who are intent upon destroying us and while the press keeps his big mouth wife under wraps because she hates America and is so vocal about it, we still actually have people in this country that are so damn stupid they cannot see the obvious. Just look at what he did on December 17th 2009 signing and amending executive order 12425 to immunize INTERPOL in America. You will need to read my next post to get all the details; it is guaranteed to piss you off!!


I love this country and know that it was created under the direction of God to allow us a nation where we would be free to practice the religious beliefs that our forefathers stood for so many years ago. It is the responsibility of each and every American to stand against the evil that is trying so desperately to destroy us from within and I for one will not be deterred, I will stand for what God and my forefathers worked so diligently to create and protect. My deepest appreciation goes to those who have fought and died to protect this great country and the Constitution, but as we have all seen, Obama has no regard for the military or what they stand for.


As we approach a new year I urge everyone to become heavily involved in the process of removing these thugs from office and replacing them with people who will stand for America and the Constitution protecting them at all costs. I am tired of all the rules we are being subjected to about political correctness and minority rules. The majority of this country are religious God fearing people who have worked hard for what they have and frankly it is total BS that they are required to hand it over to some low life illegal or lazy good for nothing minority who feels that they are due a reward from others just because they happen to be alive and living in this country, and our politicians see nothing wrong with it. Doing the math I have come to the conclusion that it would have been much cheaper to round up all the low life’s in this country and ship them off to places like Iran, Iraq or Venezuela where they would get just exactly what they deserve, a place where they could live under socialistic rule having the government take total care of them and treating them like the scum they have become.


Everyone in this country has always had the opportunity to succeed, but if you were foolish enough to believe that the government was there just for you, then I say it's too damn bad you didn't succeed and it’s time for you to pack your bags and move on. We have got to stop living in fear of the government and under the current rule of tyranny that is plaguing us at this time. Wake Up America, come to your senses and stand up for what you believe. There are millions of us that are already doing just that and it is time for the rest of you to wake up and come to the party!

Is Anybody Paying Attention??

$34,000:
The amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.
True: http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/01/timothy_geithner_obamas_nomine.html

$75,000:
The amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Dominican
Republic rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant
and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish.
True: http://www.nypost.com/seven/09102008/news/regionalnews/rangels_spanish_excuse_128444.htm

$93,000:
The INCREASE in the amount of petty cash each of our Congressional representatives voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.  That's a $40 + million INCREASE!
True: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot..com/2009/01/its-recession-congress-gives-lawmakers.html

$133,900:
The amount Fannie Mae "invested" in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also "invested" over $105,000 in
then-Senator Barack Obama.
True: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html

$140,000:
The amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle(D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

$356,000:
The approximate amount of income and deductions that Dasc hle(D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes.  This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.
True: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335984751235247.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

$800,000:
The amount of "sweetheart" mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation's largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma c. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following "a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards tosell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them."

$1,000,000:
The estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich.  The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric
Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.
True:  http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/20/nation/na-holder20

$12,000,000:
The amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie
Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank's former directors.
True:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html

$23,500,000:
The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan(D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of "tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners."
True: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051401032.html

$2,000,000,000:
($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriation s Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son's lobbying efforts. The son, Craig Obey, is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus" package.
True: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_plan_for_stimulus_money_national_parks/C530/L37/

$3,700,000,000:
($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA).  Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of 20 the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms?."
True: http://www.sfgatecom/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL  http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dianne-feinstein-0704.html

$4,190,000,000:
($4.19 billion) the amount of money in t he so-called "Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter
registration ACORN group?under the auspices of "Community Stabilization Activities". ACORN
is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio .
True: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/stimulus-economy-percent-2295331-bill-pelosi

$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion):
The approximate amount of annual; United States exports endangered by the "Stimulus" package, which provides a "Buy American" stricture. According to international trade experts, a "US-EU trade war looms": which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.
True: http://www.asiaing.com/2008-national-export-strategy-the-new-global-main-street.html
 http://www.powerlineblogcom/archives/2009/01/022685.php
Background: Smoot-Hawley Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act

It's not just a culture of corruption; it's a culture of corruption and stupidity. In addition, these folks appear to be above the law. All of the afore mentioned are still in office, ruling like royalty they've become. 

All this happened in just the FIRST QUARTER of 2009.  Look at where we are now!

Government and the People

When a government founded by the people for the people enacts something that a over whelming majority of its citizens do not want then this is a government controlled by special interests or a government interested in control. The new administration promised us change, fundamental change and transparency in government. Yet they write new legislation, that everyone agrees will have a huge significant effect on America, behind closed doors. Why? Legislation that if passed into law will impact everyone of us and control a significant part of the economy. Legislation that has far reaching tentacles into all of our lives and more control than most of us even know about or realize. Why? If you wonder why like I do I suggest reading some of the bills that are being passed, there's a whole lot that concerns me and should you to!


"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." "A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" - Thomas Jefferson

From His Own Mouth

Makes Perfect Sense To Me

"When the people fear their government there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty."   Thomas Jefferson


Proposed Amendment 28
Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,
and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the
United States .

This Says It All

THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for that gives them secure jobs, lifetime healthcare,
great retirement benefits and the opportunity to vote for their own pay raises, solitaire, Facebook, checking baseball scores while convened to vote on a new budget.

One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Why is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town?

Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD
Why Is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town?
December 22, 2009

The Wall Street Journal reports this week that U.S. investigators are discovering that more and more young Muslims are vanishing from mosques, madrassas, and Islamic centers.

The disappearances, the Journal notes, are raising grave concerns among FBI and Homeland Security officials who fear that an onset of jihadist activity will take place on American soil in the near future.

Hundreds of Muslim men are also missing from Islamberg and this is not a propitious omen.

The sentry post is gone and no guards are in sight at the entrance to the 70 acre Islamic settlement located in the dense forest between Deposit and Hancock in upper New York State.

Young men in Islamic garb no longer congregate before the makeshift mosque, and no students are in attendance at the one room shack that serves as Sheikh Gilani's “International Quranic Open University.”

Gunfire no longer can be heard from the firing ranges along the eastern parameter of the property – and no grunts come from new recruits at the obstacle course.

A new sign at the entranceway reads, “Welcome to Holy Islamberg: The International Quranic Open University.” Next to this sign, which features the image of a mosque emerging from the mountains, is a pot of plastic carnations. Another sign proclaims that the community is home to the “United Muslim – Christian Forum.”

Such statements of welcome are offset by the “No Trespassing” signs that have been nailed to trees throughout the compound.

On the opposite side of the road leading into the community is a rack of metal mailboxes bearing such names as Abdul-Haqq, Abdul Jalil, Mumim Roberts, Abdullah Simonds, and Salam Insan.

What has happened to this once bustling complex of radical Islamists – a place where the cries of muezzins were accompanied by the incessant rat-tat-tat of machine gunfire? Where are the Arab dignitaries that used to visit this remote community in chauffeur-driven limousines? Where are the armed sentries who warded away all intruders?

A handful of children play in the mud and muck before rows of rusty old trailers, and a few women in full burkas walk along the rutty dirt road that leads to the heart of the squalid Muslim compound.

The few residents who remain in the settlement are not environmentalists. Sewage seeps from septic tanks and outhouses into the creek that flows at the base of the settlement. Bags of rotting garbage remain stacked between the trailers. And the once pristine countryside is now littered with junk cars, moldy mattresses, empty tanks of propane, and old appliances.

Where are the men?

What has happened to this bustling center of jihadi training?

Why has Islamberg become a ghost town?

The same phenomenon of vanishing Muslim men is taking place at mosques, madrassas, and other Islamic communities throughout the country and at other Jamaat ul-Fuqra paramilitary compounds, including one in Red House, Virginia.

U.S. investigators have now discovered that many of the missing Muslims are showing up in the killing fields of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

Five American Muslims recently were arrested in Pakistan following a raid at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistani movement designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2001.

The five American Muslims – identified as Ahmed Abdullah, Waqar Hassan Khan, Eman Hassan, Yasir and Rami Zamzam – were planning to join forces with the Taliban to fight the U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Zamzam is a graduate dental student at Howard University, where he served as president of the Muslim Student Association.

David Coleman Headley, another Muslim who disappeared, is a native of Chicago who attended Lashkar-e-Toiba-operated terrorism training camps in Pakistan and helped Lashker-e-Toiba members and others plan and execute the attacks in Denmark against the newspaper which published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims found offensive, as well as the violent attack in Mumbai, in about 170 people died.

At the same time Headley was taken into custody, U.S. investigators discovered that 20 Somali immigrants, who were reported missing from a mosque in Minnesota, had joined the Islamist insurgent group, al Shabaab, and were engaged in fighting Somalia's U.S.-backed government.

And there is the case of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old resident of Denver, who made a trip to Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2008 for the stated purpose of visiting his wife only to show up at an al Qaeda training camp where he received instruction in making and detonating explosives. In September, Zazi was collared by federal officials as he made his way to New York City to carry out attacks with the same back-pack bombs that were used to blow up a train station in Madrid and several subway stations in London.

Where are the Muslim men from Islamberg?

The answer comes from a heavy-set woman in a long black burka who stops to check her mail box. “The men – all gone,” she says in halting English. “All – in Pakistan.”

Islamberg was established in 1980 by Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, a Pakistani cleric who served as the imam of the Yasin Masjid in Brooklyn. A quack practitioner of something called “Koranic psychiatry,” Sheikh Gilani presented himself to the Brooklyn congregation as "the sixth Sultan ul Faqr,” with a lineage that dates back to the prophet Mohammed. He claimed to have supernatural powers that came from his regular reception of visits by jinn and “non-human beings.”

Sporting ammunition belts, Gilani called upon members of a Black Muslim street gang known as Dar al-Islam (DAR) to take part in the holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Hundreds answered the call and headed off to training camps in Pakistan, which had been established by Osama bin Laden, and other members of the mujahadeen.

Under Gilani’s direction, the DAR transformed into Jamaat ul-Fuqra (“the community of the impoverished”) and continued its prison ministry under Muslims of the Americas, a new, non-profit corporation. The sheikh soon came to realize that it would be financially advantageous to train new recruits for the holy war on American soil rather than shelling out the freight of sending them to Lahore and Peshawar. He purchased a 70-acre parcel of land near Green Haven, set up a firing range and an obstacle course, purchased a slew of old single-wide trailers and created a paramilitary compound called Islamberg.

When released from the federal prison, former convicts now received not only the customary $10 and a suit of clothes but also a one-way ticket to Gilani’s compound.

What took place at Islamberg and the International Quranic Open University?

The answers came from Sheikh Gilani in his recruitment videos: “We give [students] specialized training in guerilla warfare. We are at present establishing training camps. You can easily reach us at Open Quranic offices in upstate New York or in Canada or in South Carolina or in Pakistan.”

Similarly, in a handbook, published by the university, Gilani wrote that the foremost duty of all students is to wage war against “the oppressors of Muslims.” The students are expected to sign an oath that reads: “I shall always hear and obey, and whenever given the command, I shall readily fight for Allah’s sake.”

Now that the recruits at Islamberg have been trained in the basics of guerilla warfare, they have been deployed to Pakistan for advanced courses in explosives and weapons of mass destruction.

They will be returning home soon.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

An American

Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

The Warrior Song - It Speaks For Itself

I was given the link to this video by my friend MG, a big thanks to him for passing this on! It is well worth the watch!
I want to take a second to say thank you to all our military men and women past and present for the huge sacrifice they have made for this country, and even though we have a current administration who cares nothing for them and their safety, I for one am proud to fly the American Flag in my front yard 365 days a year to show my gratitude to those who have fought and died to protect it. We shall not be overcome by this corrupt administration and the corrupt politicians who are destroying this country in the name of power and greed. We shall prevail, we are the people of America who's fighting spirit will rise up against those who feel the need to destroy it. God Bless America, God Bless our military men and women and may he give us the strength and the fortitude to stand strong against an enemy that has risen up from within!

Progressivism - Socialism - Communism - Obama

Lets get technical here for a moment folks....this mess we are in right now really all started with Roosevelt, a republican, Taft also a republican, and then Wilson, a democrat, all whom were big time progressives trying hard to nationalize our country. Unfortunatly, since then, people have continually allowed the government to grow bigger and bigger, looking for more and more handouts, more entitlements, more freebies and it has continued to move in that direction with nobody doing what needs to be done to stop it.
We then move through time initiating the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Farm Loan Act and America's very first federal progressive income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913. That was only to affect the top 1%, and only for a short time, but it quickly worked its way through the rest of the American public and never went away. Today Americans are paying in excess of 55% in tax, and they want more! Roosevelt attempted to move the Republican party in the direction of Progressivism with trust busting and increased regulation on businesses. Wilson also wanted internationalism which called for the U.S. to enter the world arena to fight for democracy, but it never materialized, until now however as we look at a coming One World Order. We now skip forward to modern day, dealing with the likes of the family business of politics including the Bush's, and the Clinton's, all pushing progressive agendas nipping at our freedoms one bill at a time, little by little, and now we have a man called Obama, who actually has people lining up in the streets on rumors of free money, who has people saying, I won't have to pay for my gas, I won't have to pay for my home, I will get everything for free because of Obama...we love Obama, Obama, Obama.....how utterly stupid can you get! We are now faced with a president who has brought himself to a new level of stupid! Combining all the previous presidents back to Roosevelt, Obama has outspent them all, and it only took 9 months!! Now he wants more money for bailouts and socialized health care which will skyrocket the national debt that will literally sink this country! We are in a financial nightmare and now this administration wants to spend more money?? What are they thinking? What dark part of their anatomy do they all have their heads shoved up?? The current administration has communists working in the white house as Czars. He also has the likes of Anita Dunn working in his administration who claims that Mao Tse Tung, a dictator who murdered more than 70 million of his own people, is her favorite political philosopher, he's her idol, she looks up to him. Really?? Do you think for one second that Obama is not doing everything in his power to grab power?? He's now attacking your religious freedom, your right to bear arms, and is trying desperately to stifle free speech!! This is not the going's on of an honest political figure, this is the going's on of a wanna be dictator in full forward motion! I have a firm belief that at the very least, 95% of the politicians in this country are dirty, dishonest, self serving, power hungry crooks, no matter what their party affiliations and it is time to clear them out and put good honest people in office who will do the right thing I feel that we should never vote for anyone a second term! I also believe that anyone living in this country that thinks that socialism is the route to go, they need to leave the country and live in Cuba, Venezuela, or Iraq for 5 years, and then I would love to hear what tune they would be singing. Black Panthers leader Eldridge Cleaver fled this country and returned after a few years saying he would rather be in an American jail, than to continue to live in a country that is controlled by a dictator. We right now have a man who wants to be dictator more than anything else in this world sitting in the oval office! We are now faced with a situation where everyone is going to have to come together to fix the mess we are in. This is not an issue about color, race, religious beliefs or political sides, this is about Americans coming together to take back our country and getting back to the way our founding fathers intended. I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who would rather sit in their own little corners and wait for the day when they can raise their hand to the fuhrer and shout Sieg Heil, 50% of the German population did exactly that. That however is not my choice, and I refuse to sit back and allow it to happen! How about you????

Couric Interviews Glenn Beck

Couric tried to trip Glenn up but ulitmatly got "stuck on stupid" and she did not have answers for Becks questions. I felt like Glenn did an excellent job being interviewed by one of the most liberal morons in the news media. This is a bit long but it was worth the watch!

House Resolution 615

I have done this….and I urge everyone receiving this to do the same and then pass it on!!
THIS IS QUICK AND EASY
On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan. Congressman John Fleming (Louisiana physician) has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would have for us. (Under the proposed legislation they are exempt.) If it is good for all of us, then it must be for them also! Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition.
The process is very simple. Go to: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html .
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!
If Congress is going to force a "health care plan" on us the American citizens, they should have to accept exactly the same level of health care for themselves and their families....nothing more, nothing any different!!

Obama's Peace Prize

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore. He got this on a promise??? It is obvious to me that the socialist left is fully in charge of the award and not following the direction or rules of its original founder.
From Yassir Arafat to Barack Obama, in my opinion a bunch of frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts stretching back over just the past 20 plus years. The Nobel Peace Prize has become a joke!
Obama has done NOTHING! Oh he has created bigger long term problems for the American people, adding over 4 trillion dollars to our deficit in just 9 short months, and he is looking to add to that figure even with the public out cry from angry citizens....so is that the diplomacy that caused them to give him a Nobel Peace Prize???
What he is creating here folks is NOT peace, and believe me when I say, I strongly believe it is time for everyone to get their houses in order, food storage needs to be updated, water storage needs to be updated, protection and supplies need to be updated. People in Germany fell easily as they had no provisions to take care of themselves, and people who are hungry, cold, thirsty and have no means of protection can be coerced into doing whatever the government wants ....and Hitler not only knew that......he counted on it!

Let me give you a quick statement made by Benjamin Franklin:
The very fame of our strength and readiness would be a means of discouraging our enemies for tis a wise and true saying that "one sword often keeps another in the scabbard." The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

America used to be a force no one wanted to recon with, and then along come the likes of the Clintons, Reids, Pelosis, and Obamas just to name a few, who have destroyed our military power and put us in a position where we have been attacked on numerous occasions because our preparedness for war against any nation has been destroyed buy those who could care less about America and her freedom, just so long as they gain power and money in the process. We used to deem that as treason in this country, and those who would put America in eminent danger would have been shot. Today, America is a joke in the eyes of the world, we are no longer feared, we are laughed at and considered to be a country of idiots and fools. Frankly, I don't appreciate being looked upon this way, I know too many people who have lost loved ones who fought to keep this nation great, and I am appalled that there are those who would sell the soul of America down the drain for a few messily pieces of silver. These are the same people who want your guns.....because they know that once they have your guns, they have it all! Again.....They that are on their guard and ready, are much less likely to be attacked!

Stand up America, stand up and fight back against those who have taken us for granted. The time has come, it's now or never, the choice is up to us....and I for one will not go quietly!

Oklahoma, A State That Gets It

These new laws in the state of Oklahoma are true.
Oklahoma House bill 1330 authorized a monument resembling the Ten Commandments to be placed in the State Capitol Park in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma House passed a final version of the bill by a vote of 83-2, on April 23, 2009. The Oklahoma Senate had passed it on a vote of 37-9. Click for Pyro Daily Times article.

On April 23, 2009, House Bill 2245 passed in the Oklahoma Senate with a vote of 43 to 0. The Oklahoma Criminal Illegal Alien Rapid Repatriation Act of 2009 "would allow the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to immediately send inmates who are in the country illegally to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation." Click for KTUL article.

State Bill 1102 would require that illegal aliens and criminals convicted of a host of misdemeanor crimes submit themselves to DNA sample collection from law enforcement and data to be entered into a federal database. Named after a University of Oklahoma ballet student raped and killed in 1996, the bill was approved April 20, 2009. Click for article.

Oklahoma's House Concurrent Resolution 1028 will give the state sovereignty. The resolution’s author, state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City, told reporters, "The point of the resolution is to tell federal lawmakers and the president to stick to their jobs as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and quit handing out federal money to failing companies." There are several other states sovereignty movements in the nation including Texas, California and Alaska. Click for Oklahoman news article.

House Bill 1025 was passed by the Oklahoma house by a vote 70-8 which would make it a misdemeanor for employers to inquire if job applicants own a gun according to May 13,2009. HB 1025 is on its way to the Senate for a vote. Click for Oklahoman news article.