Thanks to the hard workers at WaterSurvivors.com (THE STAND), spite personal issues, like cancer surgery, have taken the time to write a letter we all can share and send to our state representatives. Even if you are not effected directly by the contamination at Camp Lejeune, NC, you certainly know someone who is.
Send this letter along with your personal stories to as many representatives as you can.
You are not alone. There are millions of us, we just have to work together and spread the news, write letters, and keep advocating for water survivors to those who have the power to help us.
And as always- Vote 2010--incumbents out--Patriots in!
Letter To Send To Representatives Listing Our Expectations As Survivors.
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WaterSurvivors.com
Outline of Expectations
1. Health Care and Compensation (at government expense) for Camp Lejeune’s sick survivors (veterans and their dependents and civilian support personnel and their dependents).
A. Health screenings, at government expense, for Camp Lejeune’s victims.
B. If health issues (as documented by a doctor or through health screenings) are found to exist in any Camp Lejeune Veteran (no matter his/her discharge status), his/her VA Claim should be accepted under VA Presumptive Disability.
In the words of the ATSDR, Vinyl Chloride “can be formed when other substances such as TCE, trichloroethylene, and tetrachloroethylene are broken down."
Vinyl Chloride causes behavioral changes in humans. Vinyl Chloride causes “sensory- motor polyneuropathy; pyramidal, extrapyramidal, and cerebellar abnormalities; neuropsychiatric symptoms such as sleep disorders, loss of libido, headaches, and irritability...”
As you can see, Vinyl Chloride causes damage to the brain. One might say that it causes traumatic brain injury. It also causes behavioral changes.
2. The men and women who served at Camp Lejeune followed orders, when they were required to clean (while wearing no protective gear) their equipment with full strength TCE. By its nature, TCE would have begun to break down into Vinyl Chloride, when used to clean the surfaces of jeeps, trucks and fork lifts which had been heated by the sun. By their devotion to duty and through no fault of their own, they were exposed to full strength TCE and its breakdown components.
By the nature of Vinyl Chloride, behavioral changes were to be expected.
In a highly structured atmosphere such as the United States Marine Corps, Vinyl Chloride induced behavioral changes are not well tolerated by superiors.
The behavioral changes exhibited by contaminated Marines are, once TCE and Vinyl Chloride are considered into the equation, the result of COMMAND FAILURE.
If illness (as documented by a doctor or through the health screenings mentioned in section 2) is found to be present in any civilian support personnel, their children or grandchildren of military personnel who were aboard Camp Lejeune, Presumptive Social Security Disability should be provided.
The medical community should be informed by the CDC that contamination at Camp Lejeune is real.
3. Medical professionals should not be allowed to refuse treatment to survivors of Camp Lejeune and places like it.
4. Qualified professionals should train doctors (at government expense) in proper treatment methods for victims of severe contamination.
5. A call center, staffed (at government expense) by trained toxicologists and other appropriate qualified experts, should be established and operated 24 hours a day seven days a week. Contact information for the call center (including a toll free phone number) should be provided to all health care professionals (the AMA, IRS, Medicare and Medicaid should help with that effort).
The call center should be accessible to all health care providers at all times, in the event that they need advise on properly treating survivors of Camp Lejeune and places like it.
The experts who staff the call center should (with one exception, Dr. Gerald LeBlanc) have no connection to the DoD, the Department of the Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the EPA, the CDC, the ATSDR (which is part of the EPA and whose Camp Lejeune budget is funded by the DoD) or the State of North Carolina.
The Poisoned Patriots of Camp Lejeune would be pleased to have Dr. LeBlanc involved with the call center.
6. Qualified experts (who have no connection to the agencies listed in section 8) should be required to end the backlog of risk assessments now bogging down the Integrated Risk Assessment System (IRIS).
According to Congressman Sensenbrenner, at the IRIS Hearing in June 2008, IRIS is assessing chemicals at a rate of 2 per year. With 70 chemicals on the list to be assessed, that is a 35 year backlog.
If a chemical were put on the IRIS list today, it would take about 35 ½ years to complete the assessment. Many more people could be contaminated in that time.
7. Bonuses for VA personnel should be (if they haven’t already been) suspended until the backlog of VA Claims is reduced and claims are paid. Shredding claims should not be an acceptable method of reducing claims.
8. Independent qualified experts (who have no connection to the agencies listed in section 8) should, at government expense, test all NEW WELLS in the nation for the presence of COCs.
If contamination is found, the home should be connected to the public water supply, if that public water supply contains fewer parts per billion of COCs than the homeowner’s water sample. Because the EPA and other government agencies which were supposed to protect the public from COCs failed to do so, municipal water system connection fees should be paid by the EPA.
If an existing well is found to be contaminated with COCs, the home should be connected (at EPA expense) to the municipal water supply, if that municipal water supply contains fewer parts per billion of COCs than the homeowner’s water sample.
9. An investigation should be launched into the agreement (concerning Camp Lejeune, North Carolina’s contamination) which was reached by the EPA, the Department of the Navy and the State of North Carolina. That investigation should determine what the agreement says and whether the agreement impacts the way the EPA, other federal agencies, state agencies and local agencies across the nation respond to contamination cases.
The fact that The Department of the Navy and the State of North Carolina involved the EPA in an agreement concerning Camp Lejeune’s COCs potentially impacts all Americans.
The EPA is a federal agency which is charged with protecting all Americans and the environment in which they live. If the agreement was not intended to influence the way the EPA responds to contamination issues (enforcement and remediation in particular), then there would have been no reason to involve the EPA in the agreement.
Is it acceptable for the State of North Carolina, the EPA and the Department of the Navy to enter into an agreement (which has the potential to influence EPA policy and remediation procedures) without consulting those who represent all Americans?
Is it possible that The Department of the Navy, the EPA and the State of North Carolina have set EPA policy which harms all Americans?
The bottom line is that all Americans have a right to know, if that agreement impacts enforcement and remediation of their contamination issues.
10. After decades of watching Camp Lejeune’s Survivors struggle with “lost” military records, “lost” studies, delayed studies, delayed funding of studies, denied claims, inaccurate information, inadequate medical treatment and generalized apathy, Congress can make a decision to pay the tort claims of Camp Lejeune’s Survivors.
11. Presumptive Disability should cover cancers (all males & females), lymphomas, tumors, skin disorders, thyroid and parathyroid disease, cysts, miscarriages, anxiety disorders, neurological, spastic colon, fibromyalgia, gastric antrial vascular estasia, adrenal cortial carcinoma, muscle deterioration, bone deterioration, kidney disease, heart disease/ cardiac, lupus, bowel disorder, teeth deterioration, reproductive disorders, ADD, ADHD, urinary disorders, learning disabilities, lung diseases, spasams, gall bladder, club foot, spinal bifida, scoliosis, diabetes, fibroid disease, parkinsons disease, anemia, migraines, endometriosis, and bladder and other numerous illnesses and diseases not mentioned which have been a common thread among the survivors of Camp Lejeune.
Jun 15, 2009
20/20's Glenn Beck Interview Brings High Ratings - mediabistro.com: TVNewser
20/20's Glenn Beck Interview Brings High Ratings
Friday's "20/20," featuring interviews with American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and Fox News' Glenn Beck averaged 5.98 million Total Viewers - making it ABC's #1 show for the night. The program beat a re-run of CBS's Numb3rs, but came in second to NBC's Stanley Cup final. This was also 20/20's best performance in more than a month. If you missed John Stossel's interview with Beck, here it is in its entirety:
20/20's Glenn Beck Interview Brings High Ratings - mediabistro.com: TVNewser
Glenn Beck rocks!
If you don't know Glenn Beck, you should. He is a true American Patriot! Watch the video of the ABC video to get a glimpse of what he is all about. I watch him everyday... and listen to his radio show when I can. He speaks for me (98%), that much I can say.
Visit and join your local chapters of the THE 9-12 PROJECT to learn more about what other American Patriots are doing.
Vote 2010--incumbents out--Patriots in!
- Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune -- Report release June 13
New Report Due Out
- Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune -- Report release June 13
Not that they will tell us anything ... and who is it they are recommending for testing and studying?
Will it be in a form? A questionnaire that ALL of us complete or will they just pick and choose who they will consider to be part of the study.
A friend of mine went to this meeting she says: Terry Fristoe Dyer, who has been working on this issue for years says...."THEY" didn't study anybody! It wasn't even a study....it was a report and they used the same data the ATSDR used with the public health assessment that was kicked to the curb! This report will end up on the same curb when the real "EXPERTS" get hold and dissect this thing! This week should prove very interesting in the media. The over weight lady is not done singing yet!
None of us are done singing... and we are watching, and more of us are learning.
- Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune -- Report release June 13
Not that they will tell us anything ... and who is it they are recommending for testing and studying?
Will it be in a form? A questionnaire that ALL of us complete or will they just pick and choose who they will consider to be part of the study.
A friend of mine went to this meeting she says: Terry Fristoe Dyer, who has been working on this issue for years says...."THEY" didn't study anybody! It wasn't even a study....it was a report and they used the same data the ATSDR used with the public health assessment that was kicked to the curb! This report will end up on the same curb when the real "EXPERTS" get hold and dissect this thing! This week should prove very interesting in the media. The over weight lady is not done singing yet!
None of us are done singing... and we are watching, and more of us are learning.
Jun 13, 2009
Kansas High School Teacher Fired for Being Conservative? - Vox
Kansas High School Teacher Fired for Being Conservative? - Vox
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Vote 2010--incumbents out--Patriots in!
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Vote 2010--incumbents out--Patriots in!
Jun 12, 2009
Sungevity.com offers free quotes on residential solar power on clarkhoward.com
Sungevity.com offers free quotes on residential solar power on clarkhoward.com
Jun 12, 2009 -- Sungevity.com offers free quotes on residential solar power
While much of the world has embraced alternative forms of energy, we're still playing catch-up in America.
The problem for homeowners has been figuring out how to implement technologies like solar, wind and geo-thermal. You can't exactly just call around for quotes.
That's where the power of the Internet comes in.
Sungevity.com allows you to enter your street address and get a guaranteed quote on installation of a home solar system. The assessment is done by satellite mapping, so no visit to your home is required.
In addition, there's federal and state money available as part of the stimulus law to install alternative energy at your home or business. Clark predicts this will be a real growth area for entrepreneurs who can do energy-efficient retro-fitting on homes.
Jun 12, 2009 -- Sungevity.com offers free quotes on residential solar power
While much of the world has embraced alternative forms of energy, we're still playing catch-up in America.
The problem for homeowners has been figuring out how to implement technologies like solar, wind and geo-thermal. You can't exactly just call around for quotes.
That's where the power of the Internet comes in.
Sungevity.com allows you to enter your street address and get a guaranteed quote on installation of a home solar system. The assessment is done by satellite mapping, so no visit to your home is required.
In addition, there's federal and state money available as part of the stimulus law to install alternative energy at your home or business. Clark predicts this will be a real growth area for entrepreneurs who can do energy-efficient retro-fitting on homes.
Jun 11, 2009
Trillions of reasons to audit the Federal Reserve
D o w n s i z e r - D i s p a t c h -mousedroppings
Quote of the Day:
"We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator Source: speech in the Senate, 1833
Subject: Trillions of reasons to audit the Federal Reserve
Since last September the Federal Reserve has made $9 trillion in transactions that are not reflected on its balance sheet. This compares to $2 trillion in transactions that is reflected on the Fed's balance sheet.
What was the purpose of this $9 trillion? Who got how much, and why did they get it? No one knows. Congress doesn't know, and neither does the Inspector General charged with monitoring the Fed, as you can hear for yourself in the video embedded in a blog post by David Theroux of the Independent Institute.
Likewise, neither Congress nor the Inspector General knows anything about the profits or losses the Fed may have experienced from the $2 trillion that is reported on its balance sheet.
Add up the numbers -- the Fed has done things in your name with $11 trillion. This is only a few trillion shy of the total annual gross domestic product of the United States.
It's also several times the total annual spending of the federal government. Would it be an exaggeration to say that the Federal Reserve has become a shadow government, several times the size of the entity that's supposed to be our real government?
If we can judge by the resources involved then we would have to answer yes. The Federal Reserve seems to be disposing of more of your wealth than even your cancerous elected government does.
But apparently, neither you nor the people you elected is even allowed to know what the Fed is doing, let alone exert any control over it. This is a strong argument in favor of Congressman Ron Paul's bill to audit the Fed -- the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (HR 1207).
There's good news in this regard. HR 1207 now has 200-cosponsors, which is 46% of the entire House of Representatives.
But there's also bad news.
The companion bill in the Senate, S. 604, has ZERO cosponsors. It seems like your Senators are asleep at the switch, or perhaps complicit in the scam. Who will watch these supposed watchmen if not you? Here's what you can do.
First, find out if your House Rep. needs to be thanked for being a cosponsor, or encouraged to become one.
* Go here http://thomas.loc.gov/
* Click on the radio button for "bill number"
* Type in HR 1207* Look for the link for cosponsors, and click on it
* See if your House Rep is listed.
Then go to DownsizeDC.org's "Audit the Fed" campaign to send a message to your Rep. and your two Senators. If your Rep. is a cosponsor then acknowledge your Rep., and thank him or her so that the Senators can see it. If not, encourage your Rep to co-sponsor HR 1207.
Either way, tell your two Senators to co-sponsor S. 604.Use your personal comments to mention the fact that neither Congress nor the Inspector General knows anything about what the Fed has done with $9 trillion in off-balance sheet transactions, or anything about the profit or loss from $2 trillion in on-balance sheet transactions.
Tell your Congressional employees that this is unacceptable, and that you will hold them personally accountable for failing to audit the Fed.
To exceed the 36,512 messages we sent last month we need to send at least 1,672 messages today.
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"We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator Source: speech in the Senate, 1833
Subject: Trillions of reasons to audit the Federal Reserve
Since last September the Federal Reserve has made $9 trillion in transactions that are not reflected on its balance sheet. This compares to $2 trillion in transactions that is reflected on the Fed's balance sheet.
What was the purpose of this $9 trillion? Who got how much, and why did they get it? No one knows. Congress doesn't know, and neither does the Inspector General charged with monitoring the Fed, as you can hear for yourself in the video embedded in a blog post by David Theroux of the Independent Institute.
Likewise, neither Congress nor the Inspector General knows anything about the profits or losses the Fed may have experienced from the $2 trillion that is reported on its balance sheet.
Add up the numbers -- the Fed has done things in your name with $11 trillion. This is only a few trillion shy of the total annual gross domestic product of the United States.
It's also several times the total annual spending of the federal government. Would it be an exaggeration to say that the Federal Reserve has become a shadow government, several times the size of the entity that's supposed to be our real government?
If we can judge by the resources involved then we would have to answer yes. The Federal Reserve seems to be disposing of more of your wealth than even your cancerous elected government does.
But apparently, neither you nor the people you elected is even allowed to know what the Fed is doing, let alone exert any control over it. This is a strong argument in favor of Congressman Ron Paul's bill to audit the Fed -- the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (HR 1207).
There's good news in this regard. HR 1207 now has 200-cosponsors, which is 46% of the entire House of Representatives.
But there's also bad news.
The companion bill in the Senate, S. 604, has ZERO cosponsors. It seems like your Senators are asleep at the switch, or perhaps complicit in the scam. Who will watch these supposed watchmen if not you? Here's what you can do.
First, find out if your House Rep. needs to be thanked for being a cosponsor, or encouraged to become one.
* Go here http://thomas.loc.gov/
* Click on the radio button for "bill number"
* Type in HR 1207* Look for the link for cosponsors, and click on it
* See if your House Rep is listed.
Then go to DownsizeDC.org's "Audit the Fed" campaign to send a message to your Rep. and your two Senators. If your Rep. is a cosponsor then acknowledge your Rep., and thank him or her so that the Senators can see it. If not, encourage your Rep to co-sponsor HR 1207.
Either way, tell your two Senators to co-sponsor S. 604.Use your personal comments to mention the fact that neither Congress nor the Inspector General knows anything about what the Fed has done with $9 trillion in off-balance sheet transactions, or anything about the profit or loss from $2 trillion in on-balance sheet transactions.
Tell your Congressional employees that this is unacceptable, and that you will hold them personally accountable for failing to audit the Fed.
To exceed the 36,512 messages we sent last month we need to send at least 1,672 messages today.
Thank you for being a part of the growing Downsize DC Army. To see how we're growing, check out the Keeping Score report below my signature.
Jim Babka
PresidentDownsizeDC.org, Inc.
KEEPING SCORE
We grew by 20 net new subscribers over the past two days, which brings us to 1,198 net new members for the year. The Downsize DC Army now stands at 25,547 -- nearly 55% of the way from 25,000 to 26,000!
YOU can make the army grow even faster by following our quick and easy instructions for personalized recruiting. We can also grow faster by doing more outreach to potential DC Downsizers. Please help us do this by starting a monthly credit card pledge -- it can be as low as $5 a month (which is just 17 cents per day).
You can start your pledge using our secure online contribution form. Please let us know if its okay to advertise your support here:
NEW MONTHLY PLEDGERS IN JUNE: Dwight E. Baker, David H. Abernathy, John Murphy, Jeremiah J Blanchard --
IN MAY: Don Matesz, Silvy Berman, David Jones, Barbara Baxter, Nancy Kovar, Ryan Ackroyd, WM Michael O'Brien, John C Houghton, James Alan Speedie, THREE unlistedOr, you could make a one-time donation. Please let us know on our secure contribution form if its okay to advertise your support here:
NEW ONE TIME DONORS IN JUNE: Edward J Krieger, Jan Berridge, FOUR unlisted -- IN MAY: Dorothy Davis, Arlene Lindstrand, Dee Clary, Joan Garro, Jennifer Tarling, Richard Linchitz, Steven Palmer, Bruce N. Liddel, Ernest P. Eusea, Chris Reulman, David Anthony, Christopher T Wagner, Thomas Sartwelle, Jr, EIGHT unlisted
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Jun 10, 2009
Apply Pentagon contracting standards to ACORN | Washington Examiner
Apply Pentagon contracting standards to ACORN Washington Examiner
By: Examiner Editorial-06/10/09 5:40 AM EDT
U.S. Navy officials have severed ties with a defense contractor under suspicion in connection with an on-going federal investigation of fraud allegations against PMA Group (Paul Magliocchetti and Associates), a defense lobbying firm that was shut down following an FBI raid last year of its office. But the Navy would not be able to do that if Rep. Barney Frank’s logic on behalf of the Association of Community Activists for Reform Now (ACORN) were applied to defense contracts.
ACORN is being investigated for voter registration fraud in least 14 states. At the same time, a dissident group of present and former members and officials known as the ACORN8 are raising multiple questions in the media and before Congress about the organization’s internal finances. Frank says ACORN should have the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. We don’t recall hearing the Masschusetts Democrats call for the same treatment when the Pentagon barred a defense contractor suspected of wrong-doing.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act to bar the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from giving tax dollars to groups like ACORN that have been indicted for violations of state or federal laws. ACORN has received at least $53 million in federal funds since 1994 mostly through HUD, and the controversial group is eligible for over $8 billion in additional taxpayer funds under the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program. Bachmann’s bill faces bleak prospects in the House where more than 200 House members voted recently with are on record for supporting a measure introduced by Frank to assure ACORN’s ability to keep getting federal tax dollars.
Frank attached an amendment to $140 million dollar Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act last month that lowered the bar for groups under criminal investigation to receive federal funding. Only four Democrats opposed Frank’s amendment in a vote that essentially gutted an earlier amendment offered by Bachmann. Her new bill would block pending allocations from the HUD budget. “No one has right to federal funds,” she said. “We have a fiduciary responsibility as members of Congress to establish criteria by which groups can gain access to federal dollars. Federal funding is a privilege that must be earned. This in no way denies someone their due process rights in court.” The U.S. Navy and Bachmann have the right idea when it comes to setting standards. We look forward to hearing Frank explain why he applies different ones to different groups.
By: Examiner Editorial-06/10/09 5:40 AM EDT
U.S. Navy officials have severed ties with a defense contractor under suspicion in connection with an on-going federal investigation of fraud allegations against PMA Group (Paul Magliocchetti and Associates), a defense lobbying firm that was shut down following an FBI raid last year of its office. But the Navy would not be able to do that if Rep. Barney Frank’s logic on behalf of the Association of Community Activists for Reform Now (ACORN) were applied to defense contracts.
ACORN is being investigated for voter registration fraud in least 14 states. At the same time, a dissident group of present and former members and officials known as the ACORN8 are raising multiple questions in the media and before Congress about the organization’s internal finances. Frank says ACORN should have the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. We don’t recall hearing the Masschusetts Democrats call for the same treatment when the Pentagon barred a defense contractor suspected of wrong-doing.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act to bar the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from giving tax dollars to groups like ACORN that have been indicted for violations of state or federal laws. ACORN has received at least $53 million in federal funds since 1994 mostly through HUD, and the controversial group is eligible for over $8 billion in additional taxpayer funds under the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program. Bachmann’s bill faces bleak prospects in the House where more than 200 House members voted recently with are on record for supporting a measure introduced by Frank to assure ACORN’s ability to keep getting federal tax dollars.
Frank attached an amendment to $140 million dollar Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act last month that lowered the bar for groups under criminal investigation to receive federal funding. Only four Democrats opposed Frank’s amendment in a vote that essentially gutted an earlier amendment offered by Bachmann. Her new bill would block pending allocations from the HUD budget. “No one has right to federal funds,” she said. “We have a fiduciary responsibility as members of Congress to establish criteria by which groups can gain access to federal dollars. Federal funding is a privilege that must be earned. This in no way denies someone their due process rights in court.” The U.S. Navy and Bachmann have the right idea when it comes to setting standards. We look forward to hearing Frank explain why he applies different ones to different groups.
Jun 9, 2009
Honor Their Service- update
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News about Move America Forward’s upcoming Troopathon continues to spread quickly—especially with the help of Fox News and the powerful conservative blog community.
Fox News’ “Red Eye” featured Troopathon co-host and “Red Eye” regular Andrew Breitbart Monday night. Impressed by what Andrew had to say about our upcoming Troopathon, “Red Eye” then invited Melanie Morgan to appear on the show Tuesday night. Melanie’s segment covered many exciting details about the Troopathon and you can check it out on our website here.
And not to be outshined by Fox News—we’re proud to announce that esteemed bloggers and fellow troop supporters Michelle Malkin, Ron Winter, Matt Lewis, Ed Morrissey and Robert Spencer will appear on the Troopathon. The influence of these bloggers is undeniable and we believe their participation indicates that “Honor Their Service” is a real web event with a strong online presence!
But, if we’re going to send the largest shipment in history to our brave troops serving in harm’s way, we’re still going to need more help to spread the word! Please check out our banner ads here and post one to your blog.
Lastly, stay tuned as we prepare to launch of our blogger care package competition. To increase your involvement in this year’s Troopathon we will be hosting a blogger referral competition to see which blog’s followers contribute the most for care packages. Teams will be established and prizes will be awarded!
We will continue to keep our website http://www.troopathon.org/ updated with the latest on this great event. Thank you! Erica Anderson Move America Forward eanderson@moveamericaforward.org (916) 441-6197, ext. 315
This afternoon I got this one..
A million heartfelt thanks goes to Gary Senise and Kelsey Grammer!
TROOPATHON WELCOMES KELSEY GRAMMER AND GARY SINISE!
Kelsey Grammer and Gary Sinise will participate and appear on this year’s Troopathon—adding a little more sparkle to our already star studded guest lineup!
Both Kelsey Grammer and Gary Sinise are great patriots and longtime supporters of our troops. Grammer, best known as “Dr. Frasier Crane” on the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, has also appeared in numerous other television shows and major motion pictures. Sinise portrayed Lt. Dan Taylor in the Academy Award winning movie Forest Gump and has since directed and starred in other movies and television shows including his now starring role in the television show CSI: NY.
Blogger Competition Update: Stay tuned for our blogger care package competition announcement coming later this week. We will organize teams by the end of this week to launch the competition starting Monday June 15. More information will be released with the competition announcement. And remember, our banner ads and media appearances are posted to the Media Kit.
Please help us bring attention to this great effort and post a banner ad on your blog. More exciting guest announcements are sure to follow.
For the latest check out our website http://www.troopathon.org/.
Thank you! Cheers!
Erica Anderson
Move America Forward
eanderson@moveamericaforward.org
(916) 441-6197, ext. 315
News about Move America Forward’s upcoming Troopathon continues to spread quickly—especially with the help of Fox News and the powerful conservative blog community.Fox News’ “Red Eye” featured Troopathon co-host and “Red Eye” regular Andrew Breitbart Monday night. Impressed by what Andrew had to say about our upcoming Troopathon, “Red Eye” then invited Melanie Morgan to appear on the show Tuesday night. Melanie’s segment covered many exciting details about the Troopathon and you can check it out on our website here.
And not to be outshined by Fox News—we’re proud to announce that esteemed bloggers and fellow troop supporters Michelle Malkin, Ron Winter, Matt Lewis, Ed Morrissey and Robert Spencer will appear on the Troopathon. The influence of these bloggers is undeniable and we believe their participation indicates that “Honor Their Service” is a real web event with a strong online presence!
But, if we’re going to send the largest shipment in history to our brave troops serving in harm’s way, we’re still going to need more help to spread the word! Please check out our banner ads here and post one to your blog.
Lastly, stay tuned as we prepare to launch of our blogger care package competition. To increase your involvement in this year’s Troopathon we will be hosting a blogger referral competition to see which blog’s followers contribute the most for care packages. Teams will be established and prizes will be awarded!
We will continue to keep our website http://www.troopathon.org/ updated with the latest on this great event. Thank you! Erica Anderson Move America Forward eanderson@moveamericaforward.org (916) 441-6197, ext. 315
This afternoon I got this one..
A million heartfelt thanks goes to Gary Senise and Kelsey Grammer!
TROOPATHON WELCOMES KELSEY GRAMMER AND GARY SINISE!
Kelsey Grammer and Gary Sinise will participate and appear on this year’s Troopathon—adding a little more sparkle to our already star studded guest lineup!
Both Kelsey Grammer and Gary Sinise are great patriots and longtime supporters of our troops. Grammer, best known as “Dr. Frasier Crane” on the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, has also appeared in numerous other television shows and major motion pictures. Sinise portrayed Lt. Dan Taylor in the Academy Award winning movie Forest Gump and has since directed and starred in other movies and television shows including his now starring role in the television show CSI: NY.
Blogger Competition Update: Stay tuned for our blogger care package competition announcement coming later this week. We will organize teams by the end of this week to launch the competition starting Monday June 15. More information will be released with the competition announcement. And remember, our banner ads and media appearances are posted to the Media Kit.
Please help us bring attention to this great effort and post a banner ad on your blog. More exciting guest announcements are sure to follow.
For the latest check out our website http://www.troopathon.org/.
Thank you! Cheers!
Erica Anderson
Move America Forward
eanderson@moveamericaforward.org
(916) 441-6197, ext. 315
Jun 6, 2009
Jun 5, 2009
ACORN Added As Official U.S. Census Bureau Partner - No Background Checks On Hires // Current
ACORN Added As Official U.S. Census Bureau Partner - No Background Checks On Hires // Current
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Biden: Obama to Announce Plan Monday to Ramp Up 'Stimulus' Over Summer - Political News - FOXNews.com
Oh Boy! I can't wait! Come on Summertime.... take us into the shackles of Fall and then to our deaths in winter......................./sarc-ism
Biden: Obama to Announce Plan Monday to Ramp Up 'Stimulus' Over Summer - Political News - FOXNews.com
Biden: Obama to Announce Plan Monday to Ramp Up 'Stimulus' Over Summer - Political News - FOXNews.com
Bachmann Blog:The 535 New Directors of GM
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 11:48 AM
One of the many problems with the federal government controlling a private company like GM is that each Congressman in Washington will be looking our for their own state or district's interests -- even if that works against the interest of the company they are running.
Take, for instance, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Congressman Frank put a call into GM CEO Fritz Henderson on behalf of a GM distribution center in Norton, MA that was slated for closure as part of GM's restructuring plan. After talking with the Congressman, the decision to close the center and put about 90 people out of work was reversed. I'm not faulting Barney Frank for his actions--no Representative wants to see closures in his or her district, but this exemplifies how unsuited the federal government is in running private enterprise.
Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to say about it:
"Mr. Frank's spokesman, Harry Gural, says the Congressman discussed, among other things, 'the facility's value to GM.' We'd have thought that would be something that GM might have considered when it decided to close the Norton center, but then a call from one of the most powerful Members of Congress can certainly cause a ward of the state to reconsider what qualifies as 'value.' A CEO who refuses the offer can soon find himself testifying under oath before Congress, or answering questions from the Government Accountability Office about his expense account.
"Not only will decisions like plant closures be made now by politicians – politicians vulnerable to political influences particularly when they’re up for re-election every two years – but so will such decisions like what kind of technology to use in manufacturing.
In a great editorial by the Washington Post this week, GM's New Owner: What kind of deal did you get?, the editors write:
"In practice, the political manipulation of the company has probably only just begun; Democratic Rep. Eliot L. Engel (N.Y), for example, has declared that the government should require GM to install "flex fuel" technology in its cars. If GM still isn't profitable enough to attract private investment a couple of years from now, the pressure will be intense to shovel even more public money into it. Administration officials say they hope and expect that this $30 billion for GM will be the last. But they don't promise, because they can't."
We need to take a good hard look at this government power grab. Not only is it unprecedented and unconstitutional, it will ultimately prove disastrous.
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 11:48 AM
One of the many problems with the federal government controlling a private company like GM is that each Congressman in Washington will be looking our for their own state or district's interests -- even if that works against the interest of the company they are running.
Take, for instance, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Congressman Frank put a call into GM CEO Fritz Henderson on behalf of a GM distribution center in Norton, MA that was slated for closure as part of GM's restructuring plan. After talking with the Congressman, the decision to close the center and put about 90 people out of work was reversed. I'm not faulting Barney Frank for his actions--no Representative wants to see closures in his or her district, but this exemplifies how unsuited the federal government is in running private enterprise.
Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to say about it:
"Mr. Frank's spokesman, Harry Gural, says the Congressman discussed, among other things, 'the facility's value to GM.' We'd have thought that would be something that GM might have considered when it decided to close the Norton center, but then a call from one of the most powerful Members of Congress can certainly cause a ward of the state to reconsider what qualifies as 'value.' A CEO who refuses the offer can soon find himself testifying under oath before Congress, or answering questions from the Government Accountability Office about his expense account.
"Not only will decisions like plant closures be made now by politicians – politicians vulnerable to political influences particularly when they’re up for re-election every two years – but so will such decisions like what kind of technology to use in manufacturing.
In a great editorial by the Washington Post this week, GM's New Owner: What kind of deal did you get?, the editors write:
"In practice, the political manipulation of the company has probably only just begun; Democratic Rep. Eliot L. Engel (N.Y), for example, has declared that the government should require GM to install "flex fuel" technology in its cars. If GM still isn't profitable enough to attract private investment a couple of years from now, the pressure will be intense to shovel even more public money into it. Administration officials say they hope and expect that this $30 billion for GM will be the last. But they don't promise, because they can't."
We need to take a good hard look at this government power grab. Not only is it unprecedented and unconstitutional, it will ultimately prove disastrous.
Wounded Warrior Project - Florida Governor Charlie Crist
Wounded Warrior Project - Wounded Warriors Front and Center for Florida Governor Charlie Crist
Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs bills for Wounded Warriors!
There were four bills to benefit Florida’s military and veteran community. The bills included:
Senate Bill 316, High School Diplomas/Vietnam War Veterans, which granted the Florida Commissioner of Education the authority to grant high school diplomas to Vietnam veterans who were unable to finish high school because of their military service.
House Bill 509, Veterans, which waives several permit fees for disabled veterans undertaking safety and accessibility renovations to their homes; removes the cap on license tag fees that assist Florida’s Veterans Nursing Home Trust Fund; and integrates the new national GI education benefit into Florida’s laws.
House Bill 685, Educational Dollars for Duty Program, which expands the educational benefits available to Florida National Guard Members in return for their service.
House Bill 635, Military Affairs, which strengthens legal protection for Florida’s National Guard members in the workplace by affirming their right to re-employment and fining any employers who discriminate against individuals on the basis of their Florida National Guard service.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs bills for Wounded Warriors!
There were four bills to benefit Florida’s military and veteran community. The bills included:
Senate Bill 316, High School Diplomas/Vietnam War Veterans, which granted the Florida Commissioner of Education the authority to grant high school diplomas to Vietnam veterans who were unable to finish high school because of their military service.
House Bill 509, Veterans, which waives several permit fees for disabled veterans undertaking safety and accessibility renovations to their homes; removes the cap on license tag fees that assist Florida’s Veterans Nursing Home Trust Fund; and integrates the new national GI education benefit into Florida’s laws.
House Bill 685, Educational Dollars for Duty Program, which expands the educational benefits available to Florida National Guard Members in return for their service.
House Bill 635, Military Affairs, which strengthens legal protection for Florida’s National Guard members in the workplace by affirming their right to re-employment and fining any employers who discriminate against individuals on the basis of their Florida National Guard service.
Honor Their Service - Move America Forward
Mark that date for a live webcast event brings together talk radio hosts, megastars of film and television, musical guests, journalists, military and Gold-star families, pro-troop groups and many more.
On June 25th, Move America Forward will be holding our 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor their Service.”
Honor Their Service - Move America Forward
The goal of this charity fundraiser is to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to our brave men and women of the armed forces serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
On June 25th, Move America Forward will be holding our 2nd annual “Troop-a-thon” titled “Honor their Service.”
Honor Their Service - Move America Forward
The goal of this charity fundraiser is to send the largest ever shipment of care packages to our brave men and women of the armed forces serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
Jun 4, 2009
Minnesota Independent: Bachmann renews ACORN attack with new bill, petition
Rep. Michele Bachmann ramped up her campaign against ACORN on Thursday with the introduction of a bill and the initiation of a petition. Both aim to pressure Congress to ban ACORN from receiving funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an aim critics say is way off base.
Bachmann introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, which would prohibit any organization that has been indicted for violations of state or federal election laws from getting HUD money.
Minnesota Independent: Bachmann renews ACORN attack with new bill, petition
Bachmann introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, which would prohibit any organization that has been indicted for violations of state or federal election laws from getting HUD money.
Minnesota Independent: Bachmann renews ACORN attack with new bill, petition
Vote 2010 -the 9/12 Candidates
Tune in and see what these Patriots have to say. Vote 2010!
Some of the 9/12 Candidates for upcoming elections can be heard on the Patriot's Pipleine Radio Show. He graciously gave the 912Candidates.org facebook group the following post:
David A Hill (Dallas / Fort Worth, TX) wroteat 12:43am on May 30th, 2009
As host of the Patriot's Pipeline Radio Show, I am proud to promote and give air time to the candidates and organizers here at the 912 Candidates Project.
http://blogtalkradio.com/patriotsheartnetwork Our interviews over the past 3 weeks have lifted my spirit and I have a renewed faith in our great country.Here are the links to our past 4 9:12 guests:
Chris Lewis (Maryland) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/30/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Chris Sloan (California) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/23/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
RJ Harris (Oklahoma) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/16/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Franciene McDonald (Texas) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/09/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Learn more about http://912candidates.org/. We the people have a voice and we the people need to put forth people and vote for the candidate who will live by and vote by the values and principles the States of America was founded on.
Some of the 9/12 Candidates for upcoming elections can be heard on the Patriot's Pipleine Radio Show. He graciously gave the 912Candidates.org facebook group the following post:
David A Hill (Dallas / Fort Worth, TX) wroteat 12:43am on May 30th, 2009
As host of the Patriot's Pipeline Radio Show, I am proud to promote and give air time to the candidates and organizers here at the 912 Candidates Project.
http://blogtalkradio.com/patriotsheartnetwork Our interviews over the past 3 weeks have lifted my spirit and I have a renewed faith in our great country.Here are the links to our past 4 9:12 guests:
Chris Lewis (Maryland) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/30/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Chris Sloan (California) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/23/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
RJ Harris (Oklahoma) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/16/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Franciene McDonald (Texas) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/PatriotsHeartNetwork/2009/05/09/Patriots-Pipeline-with-David-Melissa
Learn more about http://912candidates.org/. We the people have a voice and we the people need to put forth people and vote for the candidate who will live by and vote by the values and principles the States of America was founded on.
San Diego withdraws Bible study warning
San Diego withdraws Bible study warning -"I want to offer my apology to you, your wife and your congregation for the unfortunate events of the past several weeks," said the letter from Walter F. Ekard, chief officer of the county. "My review of the situation shows that no administrative citation warning should have been issued and that a major use permit is not required for the Bible study you have in your home."
Jun 3, 2009
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
According to Capitol Hill newspaper, Politico, the President has some other non-troop items to add to the war supplemental, including $2 billion to address future bouts with swine flu and an extra $200 million for refugee aid in Pakistan.
According to Capitol Hill newspaper, Politico, the President has some other non-troop items to add to the war supplemental, including $2 billion to address future bouts with swine flu and an extra $200 million for refugee aid in Pakistan.
Jun 2, 2009
Jun 1, 2009
May 30, 2009
Update: Deadline set in banned Bible study case
Update: Deadline set in banned Bible study case
The sequence of events developed this way.
"On April 10, 2009, Good Friday, a female county employee came to the Joneses' residence. The county employee appeared in the front yard and proceeded to take pictures of our clients' home," the letter said. "She noticed the Joneses' daughters in the front yard and asked to speak with their mother. Although she did not provide any paper work or identification, subsequent information obtained by the WCLP leads us to believe that the county employee who went to the Joneses' residence was Code Enforcement Officer Cherie Cham."
"Do you have a regular weekly meeting in your home? Do you sing? Do you say 'amen'?" the official reportedly asked. "Do you say, 'Praise the Lord'?"
The pastor's wife answered yes.
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This one story I can't seem to help myself in following ... read the rest of this story. Free Speech under attach with a few others as well, like freedom of releigion, freedom to assembly and no doubt some others. Do not allow this to happen in your home town.
The sequence of events developed this way.
"On April 10, 2009, Good Friday, a female county employee came to the Joneses' residence. The county employee appeared in the front yard and proceeded to take pictures of our clients' home," the letter said. "She noticed the Joneses' daughters in the front yard and asked to speak with their mother. Although she did not provide any paper work or identification, subsequent information obtained by the WCLP leads us to believe that the county employee who went to the Joneses' residence was Code Enforcement Officer Cherie Cham."
"Do you have a regular weekly meeting in your home? Do you sing? Do you say 'amen'?" the official reportedly asked. "Do you say, 'Praise the Lord'?"
The pastor's wife answered yes.
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This one story I can't seem to help myself in following ... read the rest of this story. Free Speech under attach with a few others as well, like freedom of releigion, freedom to assembly and no doubt some others. Do not allow this to happen in your home town.
May 29, 2009
Cap and Trade and a Value Added Tax
--Mouse droppings - Repeal the 16th Amendment!
Breaking News - Could There Be a VAT in Your Future?
Things are moving pretty quickly in Washington these days.
Here is a Washington Post headline called "Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html
To summarize, the President and Congress are considering a VAT (Value Added Tax) that might coexist with some changes to the income tax.
Here's what the Post says about a VAT.
"A VAT is a tax on the transfer of goods and services that ultimately is borne by the consumer. Highly visible, it would increase the cost of just about everything, from a carton of eggs to a visit with a lawyer. It is also hugely regressive, falling heavily on the poor."
While the increase in retail price is highly visible, the actual tax is not because a VAT is embedded into the price of the goods or services as they move through the manufacture or delivery process. So the price you pay will be high, but you won't know how much of that price is the VAT. Just as you don't know how much of the prices you pay today are the result of income, payroll, and other taxes and tax compliance costs of the businesses that create and sell what you buy.
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Investor's Business Daily was right on top of this story with a poll.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=328320428336434
But when do politicians listen to polls that they disagree with?
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was bold enough to state on the Senate floor during the TARP debate in September that her office had received over 85,000 calls from constituents running 95% against the bailout, yet she voted for it, because she knew better.
Look at Congressman Henry Waxman. With encouragement from the president, he is going full bore to get a Cap and Trade bill onto his desk despite similar polls showing vast disapproval of the idea.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=327111385953165
When you look at these polls, you'll see that about 10% to 15% (look at the "Not Sure" percentages) of Americans are clueless or uninformed about their government.
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Please forward this message to everyone in your contact list.
Cap and Trade and a Value Added Tax are both targets that the TEA party movement must address.
The possibility of an income tax and a sales tax should have the entire country up in arms.
Best Regards,
John Hanson
Repeal Income Tax July 12th Movement
http://www.repealincometax.com/DOM/?T=201000796-2002a
P.S. If you are not the original recipient of this message, please sign the Declaration to Repeal the Income Tax Amendment right now.
http://www.repealincometax.com/DOM/?T=201000796-2002b
Breaking News - Could There Be a VAT in Your Future?
Things are moving pretty quickly in Washington these days.
Here is a Washington Post headline called "Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052602909.html
To summarize, the President and Congress are considering a VAT (Value Added Tax) that might coexist with some changes to the income tax.
Here's what the Post says about a VAT.
"A VAT is a tax on the transfer of goods and services that ultimately is borne by the consumer. Highly visible, it would increase the cost of just about everything, from a carton of eggs to a visit with a lawyer. It is also hugely regressive, falling heavily on the poor."
While the increase in retail price is highly visible, the actual tax is not because a VAT is embedded into the price of the goods or services as they move through the manufacture or delivery process. So the price you pay will be high, but you won't know how much of that price is the VAT. Just as you don't know how much of the prices you pay today are the result of income, payroll, and other taxes and tax compliance costs of the businesses that create and sell what you buy.
---
Investor's Business Daily was right on top of this story with a poll.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=328320428336434
But when do politicians listen to polls that they disagree with?
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was bold enough to state on the Senate floor during the TARP debate in September that her office had received over 85,000 calls from constituents running 95% against the bailout, yet she voted for it, because she knew better.
Look at Congressman Henry Waxman. With encouragement from the president, he is going full bore to get a Cap and Trade bill onto his desk despite similar polls showing vast disapproval of the idea.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=327111385953165
When you look at these polls, you'll see that about 10% to 15% (look at the "Not Sure" percentages) of Americans are clueless or uninformed about their government.
---
Please forward this message to everyone in your contact list.
Cap and Trade and a Value Added Tax are both targets that the TEA party movement must address.
The possibility of an income tax and a sales tax should have the entire country up in arms.
Best Regards,
John Hanson
Repeal Income Tax July 12th Movement
http://www.repealincometax.com/DOM/?T=201000796-2002a
P.S. If you are not the original recipient of this message, please sign the Declaration to Repeal the Income Tax Amendment right now.
http://www.repealincometax.com/DOM/?T=201000796-2002b
Marines hope for action in cancer fight | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette
Report that Camp Lajeune water didn't increase risk pulled
Marines hope for action in cancer fight greenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press-Gazette
Marines hope for action in cancer fight greenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press-Gazette
May 21, 2009
Al Gore and Co. Must be Stopped
*Posted as a concerned citizen who believes in this cause. If you do, please donate and pass along the information.
Gore must be stopped, he must not be allowed to steal generations of income.
SAY NO TO GORE. WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN! TELL THEM NO, NO AND HELL NO!
Mouse droppings-
From American Solutions-
And as Politico reports, he's had a "hidden helping hand" this week from Al Gore.
They write that Gore has "mobilized his green grass roots, marshaled his well-endowed lobbying organization and even personally called Democratic committee members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee."
So, we're launching a nationwide "Stop the Energy Tax" campaign to stop this.
It's been estimated that the Waxman energy tax bill would raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500, and destroy 1-3 million jobs per year, over the next 15 years.
Can you afford to pay $1,500 more a year for energy?
Our "Stop the Energy Tax" campaign is how we can fight back, but the first step is launching it.We need to raise $100,000 in the next two days, so we can set up a rapid-response operation, create internet ads, and deliver your petitions to Congress.
Think about this - you are one of 1.3 million people getting this email today. If 10,000 members chip in just $15, we'll beat our goal.
Can you make a secure donation right now for $15, $25 or whatever you can afford? If so, here's the link to contribute:http://www.americansolutions.com/contribute/index.php?id=70180000000JAdi§ion=energytax
A generous donor has agreed to match up to $100,000 in online donations. Your contribution today will have double the impact in stopping this massive tax increase.
We can have a "Full Power" American energy policy that produces more energy here at home while protecting the environment. This will lead to more jobs and a more prosperous America.
Thank you for what you're doing.Your friend,
Newt Gingrich, General Chairman, American Solutions for Winning the Future
P.S. Remember, a generous donor is standing by to match your donation if we can reach $100,000 in the next two days. If we can get this campaign rolling, we'll be able to take this fight to Rep. Waxman and Al Gore, and all those who would punish the American people with higher energy taxes. Click here to make a secure donation of $15, $25, or whatever you can afford.
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Barney Frank Lies About ACORN
The American Spectator : Barney Frank Lies About ACORN
By Matthew Vadum on 5.21.09 @ 6:07AM
House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) lied to Lou Dobbs on national television the other night but no one seems to have noticed.
On the May 18 edition on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) said she was worried about the fact that ACORN and other organizations would "have access potentially to $8.5 billion" in federal funds.
By Matthew Vadum on 5.21.09 @ 6:07AM
House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) lied to Lou Dobbs on national television the other night but no one seems to have noticed.
On the May 18 edition on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) said she was worried about the fact that ACORN and other organizations would "have access potentially to $8.5 billion" in federal funds.
May 20, 2009
ACORN-Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Well, lo and behold: Just yesterday, the House passed – with Chairman Frank’s vote -- the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act with a provision that sets new eligibility requirements for lenders to be approved Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lenders. One of the standards is that the lenders may not employ individuals that are “under indictment for, or have been convicted of, an offense that reflects adversely upon the applicant’s integrity, competence or fitness to meet the responsibilities of an approved mortgagee.” This was in both the original House-passed bill and yesterday’s Senate version. There’s no blaming this on a compromise with the Senate.
Well, lo and behold: Just yesterday, the House passed – with Chairman Frank’s vote -- the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act with a provision that sets new eligibility requirements for lenders to be approved Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lenders. One of the standards is that the lenders may not employ individuals that are “under indictment for, or have been convicted of, an offense that reflects adversely upon the applicant’s integrity, competence or fitness to meet the responsibilities of an approved mortgagee.” This was in both the original House-passed bill and yesterday’s Senate version. There’s no blaming this on a compromise with the Senate.
May 19, 2009
Bachmann vs Frank on ACORN
Facing off against Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank on ACORN with CNN's Lou Dobbs. The question is, why should the federal government and the American taxpayer be funding supposedly non-profits groups like ACORN to the tune of billions of dollars? ACORN has been indicted and its employees convicted time and time again, yet the taxpayer continues to fund their fraudulent behavior.
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May 18, 2009
'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives
'New York Times' Spiked Obama Donor Story - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives
Congressional Testimony: ‘Game-Changer’ Article Would Have Connected Campaign With ACORN
Congressional Testimony: ‘Game-Changer’ Article Would Have Connected Campaign With ACORN
NYT Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story | NewsBusters.org
Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.
But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom's reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady's "public editor." Hoyt used the word "nonsense" to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.
Hoyt writes...
But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom's reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady's "public editor." Hoyt used the word "nonsense" to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.
Hoyt writes...
May 17, 2009
CURB! Free Toys that once belonged to children who hate to clean up
AD of the year! Guess Mom took back control on the toy issue... too funny! Way to go MOM!!!
CURB! Free Toys that once belonged to children who hate to clean up
My kids have said, "NO!" for the last time. They hate to clean or pick their things up, so I have released them from that job. Their toys are now on the curb. Come and get them! There are little boy and little girl toys. Stuffed animals, games, "guys", cars and trucks, more.
CURB! Free Toys that once belonged to children who hate to clean up
My kids have said, "NO!" for the last time. They hate to clean or pick their things up, so I have released them from that job. Their toys are now on the curb. Come and get them! There are little boy and little girl toys. Stuffed animals, games, "guys", cars and trucks, more.
May 16, 2009
Obama Sways Congressman to Pass on New York Senate Democratic Primary - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com
Can you say stacking the deck?
It's rare for a president to inject himself into statewide politics. And a host of New York political insiders with ties to several House Democrats say they're angry that the president even got involved.
"What? You can't have a primary? It's decided in backroom deals?" asked a source who spoke to FOX News on the condition of anonymity. "What if someone told Obama he couldn't have a primary and Hillary (Clinton) would just be the nominee? Where would he be? It's an outrage."
Sources:Obama Sways Congressman to Pass on New York Senate Democratic Primary - Presidential Politics Political News - FOXNews.com
It's rare for a president to inject himself into statewide politics. And a host of New York political insiders with ties to several House Democrats say they're angry that the president even got involved.
"What? You can't have a primary? It's decided in backroom deals?" asked a source who spoke to FOX News on the condition of anonymity. "What if someone told Obama he couldn't have a primary and Hillary (Clinton) would just be the nominee? Where would he be? It's an outrage."
Sources:Obama Sways Congressman to Pass on New York Senate Democratic Primary - Presidential Politics Political News - FOXNews.com
May 15, 2009
Mario Diaz : It's a Small World After All - Townhall.com
This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to support Harold Koh’s nomination to become the top State Department legal adviser. All freedom loving Americans should be concerned about his nomination and should call their senators (202-224-3121) and urge them to oppose his nomination when it comes to the floor for a full Senate vote.
Mario Diaz : It's a Small World After All - Townhall.com
Mario Diaz : It's a Small World After All - Townhall.com
Michelle Malkin » Bad habit: Companies say Obama inflated promises again
This is getting to be a habit. During the stimulus debate, President Obama exploited Caterpillar and spread exaggerated claims about the massive spending program’s effects on the manufacturer’s jobs. Caterpillar had to publicly refute Obama.
He’s moved on to Michelle Malkin » Bad habit: Companies say Obama inflated promises again
He’s moved on to Michelle Malkin » Bad habit: Companies say Obama inflated promises again
Michele Bachmann still a lightning rod - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
Michelle Bachmann -
“What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating exposé and take a look. I wish they would!” Bachmann told Matthews. “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America. I think people would love to see an exposé like that.” Read more: "Michele Bachmann still a lightning rod - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com" -
Michele Bachmann still a lightning rod - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
“What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating exposé and take a look. I wish they would!” Bachmann told Matthews. “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America. I think people would love to see an exposé like that.” Read more: "Michele Bachmann still a lightning rod - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com" -
Michele Bachmann still a lightning rod - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
Lie Exposed: Pelosi's Power, Oversight and Control of the CIA Two months after being briefed on Waterboarding - Smart Girl Politics
Watch the Video
Lie Exposed: Pelosi's Power, Oversight and Control of the CIA Two months after being briefed on Waterboarding - Smart Girl PoliticsLie Exposed: Pelosi's Power, Oversight and Control of the CIA Two months after being briefed on WaterboardingNancy Pelosi in her own words allocating money, admitting her oversight role, and saying the interrogation community deserves our appreciation
Liberty For All » America: A police state
“The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans’ freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight.”
- President John F. Kennedy (President 1961-1963) Columbia University, ten days before his assassination
The writer knows that many people believe America is developing into a police state in which human rights, justice, truth, liberty, and overall righteousness are going by the wayside along with security, such as that provided by our shores being defended against invasion.
The writer maintains, though, that America is already a police state and that security of the people has nothing whatsoever to do with its development.
Liberty For All » Blog Archive » America: A police state
- President John F. Kennedy (President 1961-1963) Columbia University, ten days before his assassination
The writer knows that many people believe America is developing into a police state in which human rights, justice, truth, liberty, and overall righteousness are going by the wayside along with security, such as that provided by our shores being defended against invasion.
The writer maintains, though, that America is already a police state and that security of the people has nothing whatsoever to do with its development.
Liberty For All » Blog Archive » America: A police state
May 14, 2009
Michael Steele throws weight behind Michele Bachmann - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Good For Steel- Great for Bachmann- BAD, OH SO BAD FOR ACORN & Co.
Michael Steele throws weight behind Michele Bachmann - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele urged supporters Thursday to get behind Rep. Michele Bachmann’s drive to block public dollars from going to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Minnesota Republican’s efforts have been hemmed in by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, whereRead more: "Michael Steele throws weight behind Michele Bachmann - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22524.html#ixzz0FWM1SuSm&A
Michael Steele throws weight behind Michele Bachmann - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele urged supporters Thursday to get behind Rep. Michele Bachmann’s drive to block public dollars from going to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Minnesota Republican’s efforts have been hemmed in by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, whereRead more: "Michael Steele throws weight behind Michele Bachmann - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22524.html#ixzz0FWM1SuSm&A
The Arena - POLITICO's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers | POLITICO.com
Friday at 12:30 EDT-Join us here for a live reader chat with Rep. John Dingell
The Arena - POLITICO's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers POLITICO.com
The Arena - POLITICO's daily debate with policymakers and opinion shapers POLITICO.com
Top Dem: 'Don't be a Flake' - Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
Enough with all the arm-twisting already...
Top Dem: 'Don't be a Flake' - Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
Top Dem: 'Don't be a Flake' - Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com
George F. Will - The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness
Tincture of LawlessnessObama's Overreaching Economic Policies
By George F. Will
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil -- the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness.
George F. Will - The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness
By George F. Will
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil -- the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness.
George F. Will - The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness
ifeminists.com: / E.R.A. A Red Herring at Best
Found this interesting site today... thought I'd share this excellant article on the E.R.A.
---The Equal Rights Amendment is at best a red herring. If it is ratified, and even if the judges and lawyers do not warp it into another statutory engine of statism, then it will rule on government policy. To a libertarian, this is meaningless for how could a libertarian benefit from it? Is it of great concern whether the State drafts only one sex, or both, or is it more important to see to it that the State drafts neither --
ifeminists.com: Content / Editorials / E.R.A. A Red Herring at Best
---The Equal Rights Amendment is at best a red herring. If it is ratified, and even if the judges and lawyers do not warp it into another statutory engine of statism, then it will rule on government policy. To a libertarian, this is meaningless for how could a libertarian benefit from it? Is it of great concern whether the State drafts only one sex, or both, or is it more important to see to it that the State drafts neither --
ifeminists.com: Content / Editorials / E.R.A. A Red Herring at Best
Conservative for Change: Rand Paul to Make Major Announcement Tonight
Conservative for Change: Rand Paul to Make Major Announcement Tonight
This is from his Facebook invitation to watch the show tonight:
Rand Paul is going to make a MAJOR announcement on Rachel Maddow's show Thursday night (5/14)! It will be worth watching as Rand has discussed a potential run for US Senate from Kentucky.
For the past fifteen years, Dr. Rand Paul, son of Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, has been the chairman of the Kentucky Taxpayers United, a group that monitors and rates the State Legislature. Dr. Paul has been traveling the state of Kentucky for the past several months meeting, talking, and gauging his support.
This is from his Facebook invitation to watch the show tonight:
Rand Paul is going to make a MAJOR announcement on Rachel Maddow's show Thursday night (5/14)! It will be worth watching as Rand has discussed a potential run for US Senate from Kentucky.
For the past fifteen years, Dr. Rand Paul, son of Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, has been the chairman of the Kentucky Taxpayers United, a group that monitors and rates the State Legislature. Dr. Paul has been traveling the state of Kentucky for the past several months meeting, talking, and gauging his support.
ACORN born in leftist revolution
ACORN born in leftist revolution -Originated in strategy to 'hasten the fall of capitalism'
ACORN, the radical organization charged with voter fraud in several states, owes its origin to a revolutionary strategy developed by two Columbia University sociologists in the 1960s.
After completing his legal education at Harvard, Barack Obama returned to Chicago to work in an ACORN-funded voter registration project that developed directly out of this radical revolutionary strategy.
ACORN, the radical organization charged with voter fraud in several states, owes its origin to a revolutionary strategy developed by two Columbia University sociologists in the 1960s.
After completing his legal education at Harvard, Barack Obama returned to Chicago to work in an ACORN-funded voter registration project that developed directly out of this radical revolutionary strategy.
NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF OBAMA CHEERLEADERS - Nealz Nuze on boortz.com
NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF OBAMA CHEERLEADERS - Nealz Nuze on boortz.com
The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs.
The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs.
2nd congressman: Prove eligibility
BORN IN THE USA?
Representative signs onto plan to demand evidence that would require presidential candidates to verify their eligibility to hold the highest elected office in the United States.
2nd congressman: Prove eligibility
Representative signs onto plan to demand evidence that would require presidential candidates to verify their eligibility to hold the highest elected office in the United States.
2nd congressman: Prove eligibility
The GOP Comeback » Join the Fight for Freedom Call
Join a free telephone call with Governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas to collaborate on our plan to fight for freedom and win America back.
The GOP Comeback » Join the Fight for Freedom Call
The GOP Comeback » Join the Fight for Freedom Call
May 13, 2009
Conservative for Change: The Return of the Sugar Act (1776 Style)
Conservative for Change: The Return of the Sugar Act (1776 Style)
The Sugar Act...a tax introduced in the revolutionary age of America to gain revenue for the British Empire. It now seems that the current federal government is considering a new tax on sugar users through the avenue of soda pop.
The Sugar Act...a tax introduced in the revolutionary age of America to gain revenue for the British Empire. It now seems that the current federal government is considering a new tax on sugar users through the avenue of soda pop.
Michelle Malkin » Stop Al Gore and the eco-taxers
Michelle Malkin » Stop Al Gore and the eco-taxers -Al Gore wants to create his own green “1984.” CEI hurls a sledgehammer at the eco-tax-and-spenders with a new ad campaign. Watch and spread the word:
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Open Up the Government Books
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 10:23 AM
Yesterday, the Medicare and Social Security Trustees issued a new report that laid out unequivocally that our current Medicare and Social Security programs are on a path for financial implosion and are in need of serious reform.
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Open Up the Government Books
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at 10:23 AM
Yesterday, the Medicare and Social Security Trustees issued a new report that laid out unequivocally that our current Medicare and Social Security programs are on a path for financial implosion and are in need of serious reform.
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
We The People Foundation
May 11, 2009
DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT:WTP Federal Lawsuit to Ban All Electronic Voting Heads for Trial
Discovery Begins, Jury Will Decide the Law
We The People Foundation
DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT:WTP Federal Lawsuit to Ban All Electronic Voting Heads for Trial
Discovery Begins, Jury Will Decide the Law
We The People Foundation
Bill Cosby- Write-in for 2012
Mouse droppings-
Bill Cosby has always had a great way of distilling things. Looks like
he's done it again! Some of these are very good points!!
I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE in 2012.
HERE IS MY PLATFORM:
(1) 'Press 1 for English' is immediately
banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait
at the border until you can--we'll send Peace Corps
volunteers to help set up ESL centers.
(2) We will immediately go into a two year
isolationist posture to straighten out the country's
attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will
use 'Wal-Mart 's policy, 'If we ain't
got it, you don't need it.'
(3) When imports are allowed after those two years,
there will be a 100% import tax on all of them..or whatever
percentage the exporting country charges US for our goods
going the other way.
(4) All retired military personnel will be required to
man one of our many observation towers on the southern
border (90 day tours, with benefits). They will be
under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5) Social security will immediately return to its
original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you
ain't getting nuttin out--and that includes CONGRESS:
not the President nor any other politician will be able to
touch it..
(6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at
the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful
completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.
(7) Professional Athletes--Steroids... The FIRST time
you check positive you're banned for life.
(8) Crime - We will adopt the method that holds
down crime in many Eastern nations: the first time you
steal, you lose your right hand. There are no more life
sentences. If convicted of murder, you will be put to
death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun,
knife, strangulation, etc.
(9) One export will be allowed during the two-year
isolationist period: Wheat. The world needs to eat.
HOWEVER, any bushel of grain sold to oil-rich nations
will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money
will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the
national debt and ultimately lower taxes.. When disasters
occur around the world, we'll ask the American people if
they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can
make the decision whether it's a worthy cause.
(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day
at school and every day in Congress.
(12) The National Anthem will be played at all
appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc..
Sorry if I'm not sorry--I've surely stepped on someone's
toes!
GOD BLESS AMERICA .
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby has always had a great way of distilling things. Looks like
he's done it again! Some of these are very good points!!
I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE in 2012.
HERE IS MY PLATFORM:
(1) 'Press 1 for English' is immediately
banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait
at the border until you can--we'll send Peace Corps
volunteers to help set up ESL centers.
(2) We will immediately go into a two year
isolationist posture to straighten out the country's
attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will
use 'Wal-Mart 's policy, 'If we ain't
got it, you don't need it.'
(3) When imports are allowed after those two years,
there will be a 100% import tax on all of them..or whatever
percentage the exporting country charges US for our goods
going the other way.
(4) All retired military personnel will be required to
man one of our many observation towers on the southern
border (90 day tours, with benefits). They will be
under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5) Social security will immediately return to its
original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you
ain't getting nuttin out--and that includes CONGRESS:
not the President nor any other politician will be able to
touch it..
(6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at
the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful
completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.
(7) Professional Athletes--Steroids... The FIRST time
you check positive you're banned for life.
(8) Crime - We will adopt the method that holds
down crime in many Eastern nations: the first time you
steal, you lose your right hand. There are no more life
sentences. If convicted of murder, you will be put to
death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun,
knife, strangulation, etc.
(9) One export will be allowed during the two-year
isolationist period: Wheat. The world needs to eat.
HOWEVER, any bushel of grain sold to oil-rich nations
will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money
will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the
national debt and ultimately lower taxes.. When disasters
occur around the world, we'll ask the American people if
they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can
make the decision whether it's a worthy cause.
(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day
at school and every day in Congress.
(12) The National Anthem will be played at all
appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc..
Sorry if I'm not sorry--I've surely stepped on someone's
toes!
GOD BLESS AMERICA .
Bill Cosby
States to feds: Stay in D.C.!
States to feds: Stay in D.C.!
$11 trillion 'micromanaging' price sparks explosion in sovereignty movement
By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily
$11 trillion 'micromanaging' price sparks explosion in sovereignty movement
By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily
If you disagree, don't do anything.
Mouse droppings
by Pam Geller
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years.
The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We learned recently that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.
Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change...radical change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming.
And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and...change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust);
I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong.. But, I do not think I am.
About the author via Google...
Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child, but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss.
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Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close, or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was quoted by Bloomberg with the following statement:
Daschle says "Health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them." ???!!!
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard! Let's do it!
If you disagree, don't do anything.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
by Pam Geller
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years.
The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We learned recently that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.
Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change...radical change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming.
And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and...change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust);
I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong.. But, I do not think I am.
About the author via Google...
Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child, but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss.
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Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close, or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was quoted by Bloomberg with the following statement:
Daschle says "Health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them." ???!!!
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard! Let's do it!
If you disagree, don't do anything.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
May 12, 2009
American Legion Riders
My baby brother, American Legion Rider, is the Flag barrier in the cowboy hat just behind the orange bike. He says it is such an honor and he is enjoying the ride.
The Tonganoxie Mirror /
Some members of the American Legion Post 370 and 41 as well as a member of the VFW 11499 stand outside of the Quisenberry Funeral Home to honor William Trieb, 83, who died on April 26.
The Tonganoxie Mirror /
Some members of the American Legion Post 370 and 41 as well as a member of the VFW 11499 stand outside of the Quisenberry Funeral Home to honor William Trieb, 83, who died on April 26.
May 11, 2009
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Are the States Up Next for a Bailout?
The latest word around Capitol Hill is that Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s next big legislative item is to put the full faith and credit of the United States up as a guarantee for state and municipal bonds. In fact, he held a foundation-laying hearing for such legislation just this week.
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
The latest word around Capitol Hill is that Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s next big legislative item is to put the full faith and credit of the United States up as a guarantee for state and municipal bonds. In fact, he held a foundation-laying hearing for such legislation just this week.
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
May 10, 2009
Jail evicts Keyes against his will
WND is the first news source to speak with Keyes following his release.
"It was weird, because I said, 'I don't want to leave; I didn't post any bond,'" Keyes explained. "But the police wouldn't let me stay. I asked them, 'Has anyone ever been re-arrested for resisting expulsion?' They laughed, for they had never heard anything like that. It didn't seem like the appropriate time to be engaging in civil disobedience."
Jail evicts Keyes against his will
"It was weird, because I said, 'I don't want to leave; I didn't post any bond,'" Keyes explained. "But the police wouldn't let me stay. I asked them, 'Has anyone ever been re-arrested for resisting expulsion?' They laughed, for they had never heard anything like that. It didn't seem like the appropriate time to be engaging in civil disobedience."
Jail evicts Keyes against his will
May 9, 2009
The Hayride: Pelosi Knew. She's A Liar. She Should Resign.
The Hayride: Pelosi Knew. She's A Liar. She Should Resign.
--- It's time for Pelosi to do her patriotic duty for the first time in her life. It's time for her to go back to San Francisco.
--- It's time for Pelosi to do her patriotic duty for the first time in her life. It's time for her to go back to San Francisco.
May 8, 2009
DownsizeDC.org
...join over sixty other organizations in signing a letter to all members of the House of Representatives urging passage of H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. The letter appears as a full-page ad on page A5 of today's Washington Times. Here is the letter:
DownsizeDC.org
DownsizeDC.org
May 7, 2009
Statutes & Constitution :Constitution : Online Sunshine
Florida State Constitution- look up your state and read your states rights
Statutes & Constitution :Constitution : Online Sunshine
Statutes & Constitution :Constitution : Online Sunshine
May 6, 2009
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Bachmann Blog : News & Views from Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann
Examples abound.
The threshold for gaining taxpayer funding should not be so low. An organization that is repeatedly under suspicion of fraud and criminal activities should rightfully be held from accessing your money.
Examples abound.
The threshold for gaining taxpayer funding should not be so low. An organization that is repeatedly under suspicion of fraud and criminal activities should rightfully be held from accessing your money.
May 5, 2009
Whores of the State: Social workers target rural families | RFD America
Whores of the State: Social workers target rural families RFD America
Sometimes.. though few.. I am so happy not to have a kid these days.
Sometimes.. though few.. I am so happy not to have a kid these days.
American Thinker: The Top Ten Reasons Obamanomics Won't Work
A brute inflationary monetary policy of the kind we are experiencing today can hardly avoid leading to a growth in GDP that, after all, is largely a record of consumer spending. But we cannot judge an economic policy to be "working" simply by detecting such an increase in GDP. Nor may we say policy has "succeeded" just from increases in government jobs or government-subsidized jobs. An economy's success, properly speaking, is one that increases long-term levels of production with robust private sector employment. In short, inflation and public sector growth do not mean a policy has "worked." As the essence of Obamanomics is easy money and government aggrandizement, there are lots of reasons for pessimism. Here are ten of them
American Thinker: The Top Ten Reasons Obamanomics Won't Work
American Thinker: The Top Ten Reasons Obamanomics Won't Work
The Steady Drip: AKA Obama Fans: All together now – say OMG!!
The Steady Drip: AKA Obama Fans: All together now – say OMG!!
...As long as we are on the subject of falsified documents, it seems that AKA OBAMA never registered for the draft, as required by Selective Service laws. When his career began to be noticed by the public, suddenly draft registration records appeared. Unfortunately for AKA OBAMA these documents have also been exposed as forgeries. ...
...As long as we are on the subject of falsified documents, it seems that AKA OBAMA never registered for the draft, as required by Selective Service laws. When his career began to be noticed by the public, suddenly draft registration records appeared. Unfortunately for AKA OBAMA these documents have also been exposed as forgeries. ...
Educate, Empower and Engage: Welcome to SGN! - Smart Girl Nation
Educate, Empower and Engage: Welcome to SGN! - Smart Girl Nation
May 5th, 2009 By Tabitha Hale Category: Media, Politics
Since the 60’s, liberal women have been beating their heads against the wall, trying to be “equal”. Conservative women already know that we’re equal - we don’t need an amendment to tell us that. We don’t need to go to go to the legislative powers that be and wage political war to validate ourselves. We have been feminists since before liberals invented the term “feminist” - we didn’t wait for the government to grant us “permission” to be equal. We know what we want, then we simply go out and get it. Confidence breeds success, and that success is the very reason we are despised by liberals. Our independence and confidence embody everything they have been trying to obtain through legislation for decades.
Anyone who follows politics is familiar with the tactics of the Left when it comes to conservative women. I’ll spare everyone the rehashing of how Palin was treated since it’s been so widely covered (c*** tee-shirts, hanging her in effigy, etc), but the hatred coming from liberals toward us is not limited to national candidates. Conservative bloggers and commentators regularly receive threats and are lambasted by hate mail. We get photoshopped into pornographic pictures. We are attacked on the most personal levels they can possibly manage.
Why these ideological rifts? I believe it’s because the Left has been telling us for nearly 50 years that in order to be a “feminist” you need to be a victim. On a lot of levels, the draw of women to liberalism makes sense - they want to empathize with the woman trapped in the circumstances. They relate to the single mother who has 3 children and can’t afford to feed them. We’re emotional creatures - it’s natural for us to respond with our hearts. However, it is exactly this response that breeds the victim mentality of so many liberal women.
Conservative women are different. We do not view ourselves as victims. We don’t need the government to take care of us. At my core, I am a conservative because I believe in personal responsibility. I believe that in the case of abortion, the choice is made BEFORE you find out you’re pregnant. Once you’re pregnant, you’ve made your choice, and you are responsible for the life you’ve created. I believe that once you have children, you are responsible for their welfare - I am not. The idea that people need to handle their own affairs is one that escapes the Left on many levels, but the emotional connection to women’s affairs seems to further cloud the issue.
Several weeks ago, Tammy Bruce was on O’Reilly to talk about the Eminem attack on Sarah Palin. When O’Reilly asked if there was ANYONE who would go to bat for conservative women, Tammy could only mention one group: Smart Girl Politics.
We kicked off last fall, following the Presidential election. Since then we have grown to around 10,000 members. Smart Girl Nation is an online webzine for conservative women. We are here to talk about things that are relevant to you - politically and otherwise. Comment. Become a part of this community. Our goal with this site is to educate, empower, and engage conservative women. This is your site. We are glad to have you on board.
May 5th, 2009 By Tabitha Hale Category: Media, Politics
Since the 60’s, liberal women have been beating their heads against the wall, trying to be “equal”. Conservative women already know that we’re equal - we don’t need an amendment to tell us that. We don’t need to go to go to the legislative powers that be and wage political war to validate ourselves. We have been feminists since before liberals invented the term “feminist” - we didn’t wait for the government to grant us “permission” to be equal. We know what we want, then we simply go out and get it. Confidence breeds success, and that success is the very reason we are despised by liberals. Our independence and confidence embody everything they have been trying to obtain through legislation for decades.
Anyone who follows politics is familiar with the tactics of the Left when it comes to conservative women. I’ll spare everyone the rehashing of how Palin was treated since it’s been so widely covered (c*** tee-shirts, hanging her in effigy, etc), but the hatred coming from liberals toward us is not limited to national candidates. Conservative bloggers and commentators regularly receive threats and are lambasted by hate mail. We get photoshopped into pornographic pictures. We are attacked on the most personal levels they can possibly manage.
Why these ideological rifts? I believe it’s because the Left has been telling us for nearly 50 years that in order to be a “feminist” you need to be a victim. On a lot of levels, the draw of women to liberalism makes sense - they want to empathize with the woman trapped in the circumstances. They relate to the single mother who has 3 children and can’t afford to feed them. We’re emotional creatures - it’s natural for us to respond with our hearts. However, it is exactly this response that breeds the victim mentality of so many liberal women.
Conservative women are different. We do not view ourselves as victims. We don’t need the government to take care of us. At my core, I am a conservative because I believe in personal responsibility. I believe that in the case of abortion, the choice is made BEFORE you find out you’re pregnant. Once you’re pregnant, you’ve made your choice, and you are responsible for the life you’ve created. I believe that once you have children, you are responsible for their welfare - I am not. The idea that people need to handle their own affairs is one that escapes the Left on many levels, but the emotional connection to women’s affairs seems to further cloud the issue.
Several weeks ago, Tammy Bruce was on O’Reilly to talk about the Eminem attack on Sarah Palin. When O’Reilly asked if there was ANYONE who would go to bat for conservative women, Tammy could only mention one group: Smart Girl Politics.
We kicked off last fall, following the Presidential election. Since then we have grown to around 10,000 members. Smart Girl Nation is an online webzine for conservative women. We are here to talk about things that are relevant to you - politically and otherwise. Comment. Become a part of this community. Our goal with this site is to educate, empower, and engage conservative women. This is your site. We are glad to have you on board.
May 4, 2009
Taxpayers to Get Rude Surprise
Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.
The government is going to want some of that money back.
The tax credit is supposed to provide up to $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples as part of the massive economic recovery package enacted in February. Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in the past month.
Taxpayers to Get Rude Surprise
The government is going to want some of that money back.
The tax credit is supposed to provide up to $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples as part of the massive economic recovery package enacted in February. Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in the past month.
Taxpayers to Get Rude Surprise
Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus - NYTimes.com
Playing games with words to sell us more BS!
Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus - NYTimes.com
Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus - NYTimes.com
FEMA Blasted Over 9/11 Images In Children’s Coloring Book
FEMA Blasted Over 9/11 Images In Children’s Coloring Book
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been forced to remove sections of a children’s coloring book from its website after concerned parents made complaints regarding the use of crude images of the 9/11 attacks.
The disaster preparedness activity book, titled ‘A Scary Thing Happened,’ features various disasters, such as hurricanes and floods, and includes an illustration on it’s cover showing what is clearly one of the World Trade Center towers on fire with a plane flying toward the second tower.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been forced to remove sections of a children’s coloring book from its website after concerned parents made complaints regarding the use of crude images of the 9/11 attacks.
The disaster preparedness activity book, titled ‘A Scary Thing Happened,’ features various disasters, such as hurricanes and floods, and includes an illustration on it’s cover showing what is clearly one of the World Trade Center towers on fire with a plane flying toward the second tower.
OpenCongress - Text of H.J.Res.5 as Introduced in House Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-se...
OpenCongress - Text of H.J.Res.5 as Introduced in House Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-se...
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Don't Let Them Get Rid of Term Limits for OBAMA! - Smart Girl Politics
HJ Resolution 5 http://news.opencongress.org/bill/111-hj5/text
This bill would repeal the article that allows only two terms for President.In plain English: Certain people are attempting to make it possible for Pres. Obama to have what???? Three terms? Four terms? As many terms as he wants?????? Check it out for yourself. Please. You need never take my word for anything ... but I would hope you would care enough to check things out for yourself.
Don't Let Them Get Rid of Term Limits for OBAMA! - Smart Girl Politics
This bill would repeal the article that allows only two terms for President.In plain English: Certain people are attempting to make it possible for Pres. Obama to have what???? Three terms? Four terms? As many terms as he wants?????? Check it out for yourself. Please. You need never take my word for anything ... but I would hope you would care enough to check things out for yourself.
Don't Let Them Get Rid of Term Limits for OBAMA! - Smart Girl Politics
May 2, 2009
Gateway Pundit: Dear Leader Threatens Chrysler Investors With White House Press Corps
Mob activity?? Chicago gangsters in the White House-
Gateway Pundit: Dear Leader Threatens Chrysler Investors With White House Press Corps
Gateway Pundit: Dear Leader Threatens Chrysler Investors With White House Press Corps
May 1, 2009
In the name of feminism-
I watched Laura Ingram filling in for Bill OReilly tonight. Her guest, Gloria Feldt, a feminist, was on with her. Topic of discussion was Carrie Prejean and the treatment she has received from (lame) "entertainment" personalities. Laura asked her where the feminist were while this woman has been visciously attack and degraded.
Why are they not standing up for her and why are they allowing her to be treated as she has been over the last two weeks? Now the pageant officials wish to strip her crown because she is speaking out for the family unit and premise of traditional marriage. How dare they! Who do they think they are to be her thought police? She has the right to her own opinion and she has the right to speak out for it since it was made into an issue, not by her but by others who feel they have license to trample all over her for her beliefs.
Gloria Feldt (gloriafeldt.com) seems to think she deserves what she is getting. She seems to think Carrie Prejean needs a heart transplant. Feminism = justice and equality? I do not think so Gloria! If so, you would seek justice for this young woman, you would be protecting her from the maliciousness and you wouldn't be adding smarly comments about her physical appearance. You might want to hold off on anymore botox, it seems to have gone straight to your brain and made it not work quite right. Where is your heart Gloria Feldt? Maybe you need a heart and brain transplant instead.
WHAT? How can anyone, especially a woman, stand by and allow self-serving, egotistical maniacs trashtalk what seems to me as a bright, beautiful young woman who has worked hard to get to the pageantry and was raised with what appears to be 'christian values'. What is wrong with Christan values? I admit, I myself am not a Christan. I myself could care less for the religious sect. I went to church when I was younger. I saw how people look down their noses and judged you. I saw how they went to church, then go home, got mad or sometimes drunk, beat their kids and then go back to church that night as all is forgiven. No thanks... I don't need religion like that. I do however feel that the principles of the bible are solid and good for one and all. I find nothing in the Ten Commandments nor the Constitution that is put forth to hurt a one human soul. The principles and practice of basic goodness is for all people. I may not feel church is for me, but I surely do think that tolerance and goodness is something everyone should strive to achieve.
What is wrong with a woman answering honestly a question that I do not think should have ever been asked in such a forum? I blame the pageant people. If you don't want to hear the answer and accept it as my own thought, then don't ask! Why is that when one does speak their mind, nasty people have to make fun, resort to calling them horrible names because they aren't kissing up to what the judge wants to hear. How dare they! How dare they push their own personal agendas. How dare HIM!
I never became a 'feminist' even though I thought, in my 20's (with the second wave of feminism 1960-1980's in the process), they were all about equality for women in the workplace. I agreed with that premise. It seemed fair that I should be paid the same as my male counterparts for the same work. However, I have worked with women who were paid more than I and did a lot less work. There is and never will be equality in the workplace.
I thought, if you worked hard, showed your bosses that you were there to give your best abilities to help the company in which you worked grow and make profit, that recognition and promotions would come and money would surely follow. WRONG! No one really cares how hard you work or how loyal you are no matter if you work for man or a woman. I have worked for both. There is no difference.
When I grew up, (sheltered as a military dependant) women were expected to find a husband, have babies and take care of her family and home. They were also expected to pitch in and help out when the family unit was in financial crunch. If you wanted to go to college, you paid for it, not your parents. You worked and went to school at the same time. If you wanted a career you could have one. Fair enough. I got married, I worked and went to college without the help of any feminist. In fact without the help of anyone. I did it, me, all by myself.
Over the last 30 years, the family unit has collapsed. Women are expected/forced to work long hours outside the home only to come home and work longer hours taking care of the family and home. How is this fair? How is this equal? Why have women been told over the last thirty years that you must work, you must have a career and that the family should take a backseat to your ambition? Why is that women who choose to be at home, raise their children and take care of their family is somehow less of a woman than those who run corporations or have a career? This premise is wrong on so many levels.
What the hell have these FEMINIST done to our families? I blame them for the loss of the family. I blame them for forcing women to carry the burden of two and three jobs, paid and unpaid. I blame them for not standing up for ALL women, no matter what their personal beliefs are. Shame on those feminist!
Women having babies alone without the help of a mate, so they are forced to add to the welfare roles...is what they wanted? Children having babies! Is that what they wanted? Did they want children to go to school only to come home to an empty house, spend hours unsupervised and left to their own devices as to what is right and what is wrong. We have children killing children now! The family unit has been destroyed in the name of feminism.
Now they cannot bring themselves to defend a young woman from the devastating harassment and intolerance in which she has been subjected to. They can't be bothered. Ms. Fedlt is an embarrassment to women. She has participated in the loss of our family unit and many children have suffered in the process. I hope the feminist are proud of this accomplishment.
I am glad I never became a feminist, I would hate to be represented by this woman, Gloria Feldt and others like her. If they cannot defend all women, then they need to get out of their feminist skirts, put on some pants and join the rest of us in the trenches. I'm glad I never became a feminist. I think what they have done to the family unit has done far more damage than making sure we get treated equally even though they cannot seem to treat other women equally.
Why are they not standing up for her and why are they allowing her to be treated as she has been over the last two weeks? Now the pageant officials wish to strip her crown because she is speaking out for the family unit and premise of traditional marriage. How dare they! Who do they think they are to be her thought police? She has the right to her own opinion and she has the right to speak out for it since it was made into an issue, not by her but by others who feel they have license to trample all over her for her beliefs.
Gloria Feldt (gloriafeldt.com) seems to think she deserves what she is getting. She seems to think Carrie Prejean needs a heart transplant. Feminism = justice and equality? I do not think so Gloria! If so, you would seek justice for this young woman, you would be protecting her from the maliciousness and you wouldn't be adding smarly comments about her physical appearance. You might want to hold off on anymore botox, it seems to have gone straight to your brain and made it not work quite right. Where is your heart Gloria Feldt? Maybe you need a heart and brain transplant instead.
WHAT? How can anyone, especially a woman, stand by and allow self-serving, egotistical maniacs trashtalk what seems to me as a bright, beautiful young woman who has worked hard to get to the pageantry and was raised with what appears to be 'christian values'. What is wrong with Christan values? I admit, I myself am not a Christan. I myself could care less for the religious sect. I went to church when I was younger. I saw how people look down their noses and judged you. I saw how they went to church, then go home, got mad or sometimes drunk, beat their kids and then go back to church that night as all is forgiven. No thanks... I don't need religion like that. I do however feel that the principles of the bible are solid and good for one and all. I find nothing in the Ten Commandments nor the Constitution that is put forth to hurt a one human soul. The principles and practice of basic goodness is for all people. I may not feel church is for me, but I surely do think that tolerance and goodness is something everyone should strive to achieve.
What is wrong with a woman answering honestly a question that I do not think should have ever been asked in such a forum? I blame the pageant people. If you don't want to hear the answer and accept it as my own thought, then don't ask! Why is that when one does speak their mind, nasty people have to make fun, resort to calling them horrible names because they aren't kissing up to what the judge wants to hear. How dare they! How dare they push their own personal agendas. How dare HIM!
I never became a 'feminist' even though I thought, in my 20's (with the second wave of feminism 1960-1980's in the process), they were all about equality for women in the workplace. I agreed with that premise. It seemed fair that I should be paid the same as my male counterparts for the same work. However, I have worked with women who were paid more than I and did a lot less work. There is and never will be equality in the workplace.
I thought, if you worked hard, showed your bosses that you were there to give your best abilities to help the company in which you worked grow and make profit, that recognition and promotions would come and money would surely follow. WRONG! No one really cares how hard you work or how loyal you are no matter if you work for man or a woman. I have worked for both. There is no difference.
When I grew up, (sheltered as a military dependant) women were expected to find a husband, have babies and take care of her family and home. They were also expected to pitch in and help out when the family unit was in financial crunch. If you wanted to go to college, you paid for it, not your parents. You worked and went to school at the same time. If you wanted a career you could have one. Fair enough. I got married, I worked and went to college without the help of any feminist. In fact without the help of anyone. I did it, me, all by myself.
Over the last 30 years, the family unit has collapsed. Women are expected/forced to work long hours outside the home only to come home and work longer hours taking care of the family and home. How is this fair? How is this equal? Why have women been told over the last thirty years that you must work, you must have a career and that the family should take a backseat to your ambition? Why is that women who choose to be at home, raise their children and take care of their family is somehow less of a woman than those who run corporations or have a career? This premise is wrong on so many levels.
What the hell have these FEMINIST done to our families? I blame them for the loss of the family. I blame them for forcing women to carry the burden of two and three jobs, paid and unpaid. I blame them for not standing up for ALL women, no matter what their personal beliefs are. Shame on those feminist!
Women having babies alone without the help of a mate, so they are forced to add to the welfare roles...is what they wanted? Children having babies! Is that what they wanted? Did they want children to go to school only to come home to an empty house, spend hours unsupervised and left to their own devices as to what is right and what is wrong. We have children killing children now! The family unit has been destroyed in the name of feminism.
Now they cannot bring themselves to defend a young woman from the devastating harassment and intolerance in which she has been subjected to. They can't be bothered. Ms. Fedlt is an embarrassment to women. She has participated in the loss of our family unit and many children have suffered in the process. I hope the feminist are proud of this accomplishment.
I am glad I never became a feminist, I would hate to be represented by this woman, Gloria Feldt and others like her. If they cannot defend all women, then they need to get out of their feminist skirts, put on some pants and join the rest of us in the trenches. I'm glad I never became a feminist. I think what they have done to the family unit has done far more damage than making sure we get treated equally even though they cannot seem to treat other women equally.
US does about-face on Camp Lejeune's tap water - washingtonpost.com
US does about-face on Camp Lejeune's tap water - washingtonpost.com
"We can no longer stand behind the accuracy of the information in that document, specifically in the drinking water public health evaluation," William Cibulas, director of health assessment for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, said at a meeting in Atlanta. "We know too much now."
"We can no longer stand behind the accuracy of the information in that document, specifically in the drinking water public health evaluation," William Cibulas, director of health assessment for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, said at a meeting in Atlanta. "We know too much now."
High School 1957 vs. 2009
Mouse droppings
HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over; looks at Jack's shotgun; goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled..... though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not be still in class; he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class; sits still; and does not disrupt class again.
2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time; grows up normal; goes to college; and becomes a successful businessman.
2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2009 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school; passes English; and goes to college.
2009 - Pedro 's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist.. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro 's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway.... but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July; puts them in a model airplane paint bottle; and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2009 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better... and goes on playing.
2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Sad state of affair, the innocence of youth is stolen, common sense and compassion lost.
HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over; looks at Jack's shotgun; goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled..... though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not be still in class; he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class; sits still; and does not disrupt class again.
2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time; grows up normal; goes to college; and becomes a successful businessman.
2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2009 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school; passes English; and goes to college.
2009 - Pedro 's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist.. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro 's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway.... but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July; puts them in a model airplane paint bottle; and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2009 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better... and goes on playing.
2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Sad state of affair, the innocence of youth is stolen, common sense and compassion lost.
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