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Liberty is maintained only through vigilance 2010 could be the most decisive year in the history of the United States. Our standing as the leader of the free world could be further threatened, and the struggle of the American people to remain free and independent of the repressive federal government now entrenched in Washington, could be decided. Will we become subjects of power-hungry corrupt politicians, or regain control of our government and be allowed to live our lives as our Constitution and Founding Fathers intended? We will determine the answer in the next 11 months. Our national security and the safety of our citizenry are in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians. They have no concept of how to fight a war or maintain an honorable peace through strength. Obama, the “apologist”, is a weak, naïve, inexperienced joke in the international theater. Ceding U.S. power to the U.N. is his concept of foreign policy. Add into the equation his treating of foreign terrorists as common criminals and a Congress who long ago abdicated its responsibilities of war, peace and border security; and we have a country sinking into an abyss that may never again rise to the world prominence and national security we have for so long taken for granted. We are no longer secure within our own borders, and our national leaders are doing nothing to remedy the circumstances; rather they are doing everything in a reactive, politically correct manner that is causing greater damage. It is utterly essential we unite, coordinate and network with Conservatives across this great land. Each and every group regardless of size, location, name or political party affiliation, must come together as one voice at the ballot box. Whether or not you are a member of a group of patriots, if you fervently believe in the U.S. Constitution, free enterprise, and the capitalist system and in our Republic, we must unite. We must seek the truth and become millions of modern day Paul Reveres, spreading the word. I envision a network of millions of Conservatives using social networking sites, local meeting halls, media, telephones, computers and person to person contacts so extensive as to create a tidal wave of reaction to any and all political chicanery and oppression by our leaders. If every conservative in our nation would lock elbows and march as one, there would be no power in Washington that could stop us. The liberal, progressive agenda will be in overdrive this year. They realize this may be their last opportunity to institute their leftwing policies. They have a super majority in Congress and a wannabe dictator and his henchmen in the White House. They view this as the perfect storm, and they must push their corrupt and unconstitutional laws and dictates down our throats before the November election. Living within our Constitution is not an option for these leftists. They will viciously attack anyone standing in the way of their dictatorial philosophy, and anyone insisting on upholding our most cherished American document. The massive graft, corruption and payoffs accepted as the norm by this Congress, trumps the wishes of the American people. Nancy Polisi, when asked where in the Constitution does Congress get the authority to enact the Healthcare debacle, she deadpanned, “Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?” The arrogance of Obama and Congress is on display daily in the compliant media, as their scheduled press conferences have degenerated into propaganda sessions of talking points and lies. Reporters who are brave enough to ask questions face scorn and contempt, as are voters who dare to assemble peacefully in the streets or town hall meetings and question their government. Dissent is characterized as “just a bunch of racist, ignorant, rednecks” or “shills controlled by business”. We must stand up to these attacks and be unafraid. Obama is the epitome of arrogance with his scripted TelePrompTer speeches. In true Hollywood style he poses nose and chin in the air, camera shooting upward giving the illusion of greatness or superiority. He bounces his head from side to side like a Charley McCarthy dummy. You can see his mouth moving, but you know it is all rehearsed, and someone else is writing the script, doing the talking and pulling the strings. This does not mean that he is not dangerous - he is the most dangerous politician ever to hold office in this country. The very fact that media hoisted him atop their liberal, progressive shoulders because he gave them a "tingle" with his charisma and communist, Marxist principles, makes him even more dangerous. Neither Congress nor Obama believe the Conservatives have the numbers to affect change in their agenda, and think they will have their system in place, and most of their programs passed to “fundamentally change” this country before election time. The ones displaced in November will have jobs in the New Obama Bureaucracy awaiting them. In the coming months, I will be opining on all of the prominently reported issues that I believe will adversely affect our Constitution and our country. I will also attempt to cover the sleight-of-hand, behind our back, and ambush issues we will have to deal with as a country. I hope we can continue to build upon our informational highway locally and nationally. Let us use our connections and resources to respond instantly to the political machine's propaganda and lies. By keeping all the information flowing, we have a chance to slow down their run-a-way totalitarian takeover of our country. May America have a better year in 2010 and see a revival of the Republic! Jim Mullen
Back To Home Page Contents Our own wannabe dictator, President Obama - who believes his country is so evil he must personally seek atonement from the world - has blessed the climate summit in Copenhagen with his presence. He not only seeks to transform and reshape America, but the world, as well. He is most eager to redistribute our wealth and cede our sovereignty to the United Nations. With the entire world as his stage, he must bow and apologize profusely to all of the other dictators, communists, Marxists and fascists, for America's worldly sins. Sins like building the greatest, freest country in the history of civilization. Sins like inviting the abused, the wretched, and forgotten of the world, not only to share in our bounty but to share our home, as well. All that was ever asked in return for living here was that people come by legal means, work hard, love their new country and prosper. Most did so and quickly became a part of the greatest and most successful experiment in government in the history of civilization. The ones not coming were nonetheless recipients of our sinful generosity. They soon forget the billions of dollars in foreign aid that have flowed from the pockets of hard-working Americans to feed the unfortunate and the disadvantaged of the world. When natural disasters occur anywhere in the world, Americans are the first to delve deeply into their own pockets for money to buy food, essential supplies and send emergency workers. Our money has also been used to enrich the coffers of every two-bit dictator who ever donned a uniform and goose-stepped over his own people. Yet, we paid and paid and paid. We then committed the unpardonable sin of staining the beaches and fields of their countries and filling the oceans of the world with the blood of our young men and women. They answered every call to fight and die defending people in nations around the world who allowed themselves to become weak and complacent. Weakness led to appeasement and appeasement led to enslavement. We sinfully became involved in the affairs of other nations and freed the ingrates. Still, we pay. We will be thanked once again by the nations of the world for our generosity and sacrifice with that same old, enduring and relentless whine for "more"... give us "more". Obama has stated publicly that he will submit to the summit a "politically binding commitment" from the U.S. on carbon dioxide emissions. In other words, he intends to enforce it even if the Senate fails to ratify the treaty. He also stated he might go further in the talks than had been expected because of lagging U.S. legislation on climate control, thus firing a shot across the bow of Congress and issuing a direct threat to the American people. Obama has added another weapon to his arsenal by holding the EPA sledgehammer over our heads. He is threatening to come down on us with this bureaucratic behemoth to regulate carbon emissions, thus making our lives even more unpleasant if he does not get his Cap and Trade bill passed. This treaty and his proposed Cap and Trade legislation seek to control the way we conduct and live our lives. They both would redistribute American taxpayer's wealth to the federal government and to "poorer" countries. Manufacturing jobs will continue their flight to third-world nations and China. Crippling taxes will follow, and our energy prices will, as Obama stated, "Naturally skyrocket." The liberal progressives of the world have taken the naturally occurring phenomenon of global temperature fluctuations that have been occurring for millions of years and are using it to enrich themselves, their friends and anyone else willing to manipulate numbers, ignore facts and torture statistics until they scream for mercy. Facts known by thousands of scientists for years have surfaced. Numbers do not fit the alarmists' computer models or their agenda, and the "settled facts of global warming" are not facts at all. The left-wing scientists and liberals have been cooking the books and engaging in a massive cover-up. This giant conspiratorial fraud is strangely eliciting more outrage from the perpetrators than from the victims. Much like a small child when caught in an act of misconduct or lying, their protestations become more animated and forceful as evidence of their misdeeds unfolds. Without alternative energy sources or fuels and only a politician's promise of what we will use in the future, there will be enormous price and tax increases and shortages. Decades will pass before the development of appropriate "clean" solutions. No sensible person believes that China, Russia, India or any emerging country will observe this treaty. The U.S. taxpayers and workers will suffer irreparable harm in this international power grab by the United Nations. Our apologist-in-chief Obama is placing the world's noose around America's neck and tying our hands. When will the paying cease? Only when there is a taxpayer revolt. Jim Mullen
A New Year's message
2010 must be our year to stop the onslaught
by Jim Mullen
Copenhagen, Obama and America's sins
By Jim Mullen
Group thinking is a contradiction in terms. I am unaware of any appreciable
invention or idea that was ever conceived by a consensus or in a committee. Great men who thought and acted as individuals have always been the greatest contributors to the betterment of mankind.
Jim Mullen
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Government seldom elevates. Rather it lowers everyone - except for the elite class - to the lowest common denominator...
Jim Mullen 
Beware of Obama on gun rights!
Previous anti-gun record is more
than troublesome
Since the first flicker of life appeared on this planet, there has been the inherent right to self-protection in order to survive. It has always been a part of natural law. It is a right of little consequence without the means to enforce it against those who would do us harm. Titanic struggles have occurred between those who maintain the right to possess weapons to implement their own self - defense and those who believe no such right to weapons exists. Our nation’s Founding Fathers so fervently believed in the citizen’s need to bear arms, it installed that right as the 2nd of the first ten amendments to the United States of America’s Constitution; the Bill of Rights. I believe that ranking to be significant. It is the only right pertaining to self-defense, and it guarantees that we have the means to defend ourselves. Without the right to bear arms, they understood that none of the other rights could be defended from threats by foreign countries or their own tyrannical government and was crucial in maintaining freedom. They also recognized that no person could be truly free without the right to defend oneself - not only in his or her home – but also anywhere in our country. Although the Supreme Court ultimately affirmed the seemingly obvious right, that Americans do have a Constitutional right to bear arms, that decision did little to dampen the spirits of anti-gun zealots in our country. They know there will be no blanket exclusion of guns on a national, state or local level for some time, so they will continue with their tried-and-true methods of success by attrition. In a liberals' dreamy little world, the 2nd Amendment makes us all unsafe. They would never consider that there is not a possibility to rid the world of guns and; therefore, peaceful citizens need to own them. I would issue a challenge to the anti-gun zealots. Put your beliefs to the test. Place a sign on your front lawn that reads, “The owners of this property do not believe in the right of private citizens to own firearms.” They will, most assuredly, learn some of these cold, hard facts of life. · The threat posed to criminals of everyone owning a firearm is as crucial in the prevention of crime as the thin blue line of the under-appreciated police force. · Unilateral disarmament is suicidal. · Liberal policies of the “revolving door justice system” will quickly fall from favor. · There is always a reduction in crime when criminals do not know which homes have guns. · When seconds count, the police will take minutes to arrive. · Unless you can afford an armed bodyguard, there had better be a friend or a kindly neighbor who has your back; so be careful whom you call a gun-toting redneck. · If you have learned your lessons well, you will soon know the smell of cold steel and hot lead at the shooting range. · You will be able to say NRA without a scowl on your face or a snarl of your lip. Things we can all do to protect our gun rights: · Learn “liberal speak” and know what they mean when they talk of “reasonable regulations”. Know that registration of firearms tells government where to find the guns of lawful Americans and that criminals do not register firearms. There is no Constitutional authority for the registration of your guns. Fight registration on every front! v Finally, remember that the people who want to take your guns are the same ones who let criminals roam your streets. They are more interested in a criminal’s right than they are about you or your families’ safety. As long as there are criminals and government, all lawful citizens need to be afforded the absolute right to arm themselves. Our Founding Fathers knew this exceptionally well. Do not allow anyone to disarm this great nation.
Jim Mullen
Watch Charlton Heston’s Speech
“…from my cold dead hands”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw
Diversions
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Girl-Child of Autumn
Girl-Child of autumn, with mirthful delight,
Chases old summer and spurns him to flight.
Panting and breathless, he’s tired of the chase.
She frolics and laughs and quickens the pace.
Sipping the nectar from summer’s drab green,
She tans the tall grass; violets careen.
Seizing a rainbow she colors the trees.
Quiets the thunder; puts chill in the breeze.
Then crowns the maple, with scarlet and gold.
While summer withers, defenseless and cold.
Dew turns to crystal, the sky darker blue.
Flowers of summer lament their lost hue.
Dawn speaks much softer, the crows’ sound more crass.
Wild geese grow restless and gather en masse.
A daisy lies down in brown leafy bed.
The cricket silent, so much left unsaid.
The old man battles, he rattles and tries.
But now defeated, just lies there and sighs.
Now, not a robin, remembers the cheer
Of love songs whispered, in young summer’s ear.
Jim Mullen
States' rights have long been a problem for liberal progressives’ ambitions of creating an omnipresent, all-powerful federal government controlling every aspect of American life. Our Founders were adamant in their belief that individual states be self-sustaining and self-governing with limited power given to a central authority. The powers granted to the federal government were enumerated perfectly in the Constitution and countless other documents. By the same token, they left all other powers to the states.
Power-hungry liberal politicians never tire in their efforts to subvert the Constitution and make irrelevant the tenets to which our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
The latest in an avalanche of backdoor, progressive attacks is the rebirth of a sneak attack on American liberty and the Constitution calling for abandonment of the Electoral College system. In Massachusetts, bastion of liberalism, the legislature endorsed the concept of electing our President by a popular vote. This democratic-sounding attempt to thwart the Electoral process would diminish or completely destroy smaller states' roles in Presidential elections.
Currently, the popular vote backers have legislation enacted in Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington. Massachusetts’ 12 electoral votes added to those already approved would bring a total of 73 of 270 electoral votes needed to trigger an end run around the Constitution. It is highly likely if enough states enact this legislation to reach the 270 threshold; the outcome of most Presidential elections will be predetermined.
Consequently, the liberal Democrats rightly believe the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the large urban population centers would most assuredly overpower the smaller states and perpetuate a Democrat in the White House for decades to come. Logically, we could expect voter fraud to skyrocket and see elections tied up for months while all 50 states field the legal challenges guaranteed to ensue.
Over the years, efforts to amend the Constitution and change the electoral system have fallen by the wayside because smaller states realize they would become inconsequential because large population centers, especially East and West coast areas, would receive all the focus from Presidential candidates. Areas receiving the most generous of governmental assistance would vote for the candidate who brings the bacon to the largest group of voters.
Failure to get a Constitutional amendment is nothing more than a minor annoyance to liberal Democrats. They simply use another back door approach using fallacious arguments, misinformation, and progressive, politically correct jingoism.
The total elimination or dissolution of states’ rights is the final goal of socialists, Marxists, and centralized government advocates. The nation will be unable to survive destruction of our Republic form of government and supplanting it with direct democracy. Democracies never survive their own greed.
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"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
--From William Shakespeare's As You Like It
Shakespeare penned these lines about man’s seven ages of life, not politics. However, it is applicable to the world stage of players seeking power, money, and fame performing their roles in nefarious, villainous plots. Schemes designed, not to entertain, but to hoodwink, bamboozle and ultimately exert control over their audience.
Politicians, like actors, must portray what they are not, if they are recognized as preeminent in their field.
Politics is also about learning lines, projecting, and making people believe they are what they portray. The set properly staged, props in place, and everyone doing their job, a good politician can turn an audience into adoring, fawning fans by flawlessly delivering lines and striking the right pose.
The best, of course, are the veteran politicians who have learned to perform their craft with perfection and bring their adoring fans to their feet with thunderous applause and reverence, assuring them cult-like status and massaging their ever-increasing egos. With each performance, they build an air of confidence that quickly manifests itself in arrogance. From time to time, however, a newcomer like Barack Omama catches the fancy of a group looking for someone new to be the object of their idol worshiping.
A great actor or politician is nothing without a superb script comprising an intriguing plot featuring snappy, witty dialogue, villains, and heroic characters with strong emotional appeal. The story is then brought into sharp focus by a director who knows every nuance of finding the right tenor in moving the audience in the desired emotional direction and eliciting intense reaction.
One can imagine the horror of a writer or director when an actor becomes caught up in his ego and extemporizes on his lines. When political actors improvise, it is often the only chance we have to hear the truth spewing from their mouths. When a politician tells the truth it is most often accidental and is commonly referred to as a gaffe, also known as a Kinsley gaffe. It is the opposite of a lie; more a Freudian slip.
President Barack Obama is one of the best political actors on the world stage, but his enormous ego gets in the way and often compels him to go off script in ad lib fashion, so that he can enlighten us with his brilliance. His performances are, however, less than commanding when speaking extraneously. He not only shows his true beliefs, but exposes his ineptness when left to his own wits and skill. He is infamous not only for his gaffes, but for the rambling, unintelligible attempts at answering simple questions.
Without positive reviews from an adoring press, few would know the greatness of an actor’s performance or, indeed, the greatness of the performer. Barack Obama has no shortage of groveling admirers in the press who get that leg-tingling feeling just watching and listening to the master. However, to see through the façade and witness his backstage performances without script or director, one should watch the following, less than stellar, performances. All, of course, were virtually ignored by main-stream media because they did not mesh with their narrative of portraying Obama as the next savior of the world.
“…I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody." Obama-Spread the wealth around . If the audience did not figure out from this statement that Obama is a socialist, they were asleep in their seats.
“…at some point, You've Made Enough Money”. He was unable to contain his anti-capitalist urges.
"…under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Electricity Rates Skyrocket. More proof that Obama is an income redistributionist and high taxation socialist, intent on destroying coal at any cost.
“…I think that whether you are a white executive living out in the suburbs, who don’t want to pay taxes to inner-city children for them to go to school… White Executives Don't Want To Pay For Inner City ... Obama’s race baiting at its ugliest.
“I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that the Cambridge police acted stupidly. Cambridge police acted 'stupidly' shows more race-baiting and anti-police bitterness.
“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FEDEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” Another Obama Freudian slip while talking about his healthcare plan.
You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." (Watch video clip)
This video speaks for itself. Make your own call if this was a Freudian slip, gaffe, truth, or fiction.
As an example of how closely his handlers want to control Obama’s words, they brought TelePrompTers along for his Jan. 19 visit to Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va. They set them up in a classroom where the president made a statement to reporters after chatting with 6th grade students.
Barack Obama touted and revered as the next Messiah by the progressive Democrats and main-stream media, anointed himself as savior of the world at a St. Paul, Minn. rally. “…this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”
In truth, Barack Obama is but one more bad actor on the world political stage whose ego and bravado have grown tiresome. Additionally, regardless of the talent he has for delivering the lines; the progressive script from which he reads is shallow, repetitive and hackneyed. From the balcony to the front row, whistles and boos are raining down upon the master. Likewise, the audience now dismisses the daily exultations and ravings by the leftist media. He is type-cast as one who can portray a leftwing ideologue, nothing more. America can only hope that Obama’s performance will be a short, one-act play.
Jim Mullen
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Congress appears to have a consensus in the health care debate. Consensus, of course, being a liberal-progressive word meaning they have a majority agreeing to mediocrity and incompetence. In other words, a formula for disaster crafted and enacted by leftists, socialists and Marxists that will reflect their philosophies of tax, spend and control. Only government could start with a goal of stopping the increase in health care costs then propose spending more than 80 billion dollars a year, and call it budget neutral. If that is indeed the case, we are going to face massive cuts in the overall health care we receive plus experience Draconian tax increases. Obama has already stated he wants cuts in Medicare. This is just the first proposal, so it will get much worse. Social Security and Medicare are already going broke, so he obviously is not going to give us factual details. Government must take money from people who have it in order to run any program. The result is that everyone will be reduced to the lowest common denominator. We have witnessed this phenomenon since the institution of government programs. This means people who have substantial health care coverage will receive the minimum standard, and we will see further deterioration and the subsequent loss of private-sector employer based health insurance. Government-run insurance will replace all insurance - especially for retirees. Shortages will result in longer waits for doctors and medical testing and will cost lives. We have all the ingredients for a regime power grab in their grand scheme of totally socializing medical care in this country. Obama has attacked doctors, hospitals and insurance companies. He has equivocated on the number of people uninsured and lied about illegal aliens' coverage. The courts have already decided this issue. While there are flaws in the system, the majority of Americans are satisfied with their health insurance, doctors and hospitals. If we would only allow competition between states for insurance rates, adopt appropriate tort reform and expand Medicaid to those who cannot afford insurance, we would solve most of the problems at a fraction of what this new boondoggle will cost. Control of health care will provide the optimum authority of government over its citizens. Every decision we make could conceivably affect health care costs. Everything from exercise, weight, leisure activities, what and how much we eat and how many miles we drive will become governments business. They will tax anything they cannot directly control - literally to death. Doctors will be "encouraged" to reduce testing and drug costs by fining them for "bad" behavior or rewarding them for "good" behavior - as defined, most certainly, by bureaucrats in government. Regardless of the final bill passed from all the chaos now under consideration, it will be but a harbinger of what is to come. Complete government control of our health care is the goal of Obama and congress. They will proceed to that point incrementally and costs will skyrocket. Tyranny requires only that we have perceived victims to avenge, and villains to vanquish. Government sows the seeds of distrust, turmoil and uncertainty then declares an emergency where none exists. Cries of “legislation now” descend from Washington, followed by complex and comprehensive reform, which nobody will read or understand. More government control and loss of freedom will follow. This time it is your life not just your money.
Make no mistake; this health care plan is not about providing the best health care for the American people. It is about a massive government power grab and a rationale for unbridled taxation for the redistribution of income.
It will, very simply, kill Americans and allow the government to control every aspect of our lives.
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A young girl was trudging along a mountain path, trying to reach her grandmother's house. It was bitter cold, and the wind cut like a knife. When she was within sight of her destination, she heard a rustle at her feet.
Looking down, she saw a snake. Before she could move, the snake spoke to her. He said, “I am about to die. It is too cold for me up here, and I am freezing. There is no food in these mountains, and I am starving. Please put me under you coat and take me with you.
“No,” replied the girl. “I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you will bite me, and your bit is poisonous.”
“No, no,” said the snake. “If you help me, you will be my best friend. I will treat you differently.”
The little girl sat down on a rock for a moment to rest and think things over.
Suddenly, she said, “I believe you. I will save you.
The little girl reached over, put the snake gently under her coat and proceeded toward her grandmother's house.
Within a moment, she felt a sharp pain in her side. The snake had bitten her.
“How could you do this to me?” she cried. “You promised that you would not bite me, and I trusted you!”
“You knew what I was when you picked me up,” hissed the snake as he slithered away.
Remember, when politicians tell you to trust them, and that they only have your well being at heart, they are acting naturally and being normal politicians. You should know what they are and never trust them with your life, your freedom or your money. They will bite you every time.
Obama, (H.E. B.A.D.)
New anti-terrorism policy now in effect
Jim Mullen
The Obama administration has unveiled a new anti-terrorism policy to go with their philosophy of talking nicely to cold-blooded killers in the hope they will be nice to us. The new policy will involve Obama and all of his appeasers crossing their fingers, closing their eyes and loudly wailing, "Please, please, please, don't let any bombs explode in the U.S. until we are out of office!" Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano announced this policy has been in effect for some time and has worked so well it was time to go public with the announcement. Eric Holder quipped, "Works for me!"
The program, dubbed "Hope Every Bomb's A Dud" (H.E. B.A.D.) by Obama, is thought by the administration potentially to save taxpayers nearly one trillion dollars in national defense and homeland security costs over the first 10 years. The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) noted their savings has not been finalized, as yet, due to conflicting data submitted by the administration. Nevertheless, their initial examination leads them to believe the possibility is there for the savings. When asked when the CBO would receive the needed information, Obama scolded, "Information becomes a distraction and a diversion. They need to listen to me!"
In a related story, Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates announced he is proposing massive cuts in defense spending. Gates said much of our military appears to be superfluous now when you add in Obama's old policies of announcing our intentions to our enemies and apologizing for all the past transgressions of America.
Furthermore, Gates reminded everyone how the world has stood down from the militarism of the past, now that the great peacemaker, Barack Hussein Obama has taken to the world stage and eliminated all militant terms and radicalism from the American lexicon.
In an unrelated story, seismologists were mystified by unexplained earth tremors occurring in the original 13 colonies. Intelligence officials quickly allayed fears when one sharp cookie realized it was only the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves.
The handwriting is on the wall for liberals
Jim Mullen
The handwriting, as they say, is on the wall for many of the politicians in Congress. Several are losing primaries to fellow Democrats and Republicans are leading in polling data. Additionally, increasing numbers are announcing they are unwilling to run for re-election largely because of sagging poll numbers.
Nonetheless, most are not finding fault in themselves, but in the stars. Fate is dealing them a bad hand, and of course, those annoying Tea Party people, Fox News and Talk Radio are exposing their corruption. Their left-wing ideology, backroom deals and everything else to which they have grown accustomed in their decades of slimy "service" is all out there for everyone to see, and their power over the people is slipping away.
What's a good thieving Congressman or Senator to do? One might conjure up some ideas besides sitting back and reaping the rewards of the riches wrested from the savings and incomes of the American people. Assuming one has developed a warm and fuzzy relationship with Obama, you would have good reason to believe appointments to prestigious panels or an ambassadorship could be in the offing. Additionally, the Regime could always use a few more fascists in the administration.
However, I fear far more sinister thoughts are swirling in the heads of these lame duck politicians. From this date forward to the swearing-in of the new Congress, there are no controls on these disaffected, disillusioned remnants of a tyrannical government. Think of the mischief they could cause.
There is always a possibility that, among these politically stale politicians, enough bitterness is stuck in their craw toward the American people, they may decide to go down in flames. By voting for every radical left-wing program presented to them between now and the commencement of the new Congress, they could exact one last bit of revenge. It is frightening to think of the number of bills that could pass a Congress armed with a spiteful mood and a leftist agenda.
The People's House has fallen into disrepair and taxpayers have begun repossession. Some of these socialistic leeches will fade into obscurity, living on lavish retirements and benefits supplied by American taxpayers, and ill-gotten gains harvested from years of graft and corruption. However, others may decide to further the attack on our House by granting Obama free rein to wield the hammer of government bureaucracies. The EPA, Interior Department and numerous others have the power to exercise complete and total control over our lives, unless Congress steps up to protect us.
U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder made an offer to the obscure, tiny South American nation of Guyana to provide advisors who could help with their crime-fighting strategies.
Guyana’s home affairs' minister, Clement Rohee, says there is no reason to take the United States up on its offer.
What kind of advice could this inept, left-wing radical possibly give that would help anyone, except for terrorists, criminals, and thugs.
This is the same Attorney General, who dismissed charges against Black Panthers after video surfaced clearly showing them wielding clubs and intimidating white voters at a polling place. Likewise, he is the one who wants terrorists from GITMO tried in New York and ordered suspected terrorists be read their Miranda rights.
Mr. Holder also believes we should help Mexico by infringing on our 2nd Amendment and ban weapons he feels are bad. His past criticism of individual ownership of firearms could suggest he would like to see a total confiscation of American’s guns.
He criticized the Arizona Immigration law, yet admitted he had not read the simple text written in almost the same language as the federal law. Of course, that does make sense, as he does not like federal immigration law either and wants our borders to remain unchecked and all illegals declared legal.
This United States Attorney General will not allow the words, “Radical Islam” to cross his lips, and Global War on Terror has been replaced by Overseas Contingency Operations”.
Isn’t it just peachy this man now wants to spend our taxpayer dollars to help Guyana with crime-fighting strategies? Our border states with Mexico are bleeding billions of dollars and shedding the blood of American citizens in a losing effort in halting the invasion by illegal aliens and stopping the flow of narcotics and human smuggling. This paragon of progressive liberalism has his nose in the affairs of South American governments. Meanwhile, according to Hillary Clinton, he is finalizing plans to sue the American citizens of Arizona for enforcing the law he so despises.
Holder has long been an advocate for international law replacing American law and sovereignty, and as is the norm for his ilk, subscribes to case-law and not constitutional law. The U.S. Constitution is a hindrance to the progressive’s agenda, therefore, dismissed, scorned and held up to ridicule. In addition, laws which are unpopular with progressives, go unenforced. Every court decision made citing case-law moves our country farther down the road toward dictatorial rule instead of constitutional law.
Considering Mr. Holder’s track record of blatant disregard of American law, Guyana certainly made the right choice in declining help from a left-wing ideologue. His tiny country would soon be overrun with Eric Holders, drug lords, illegal aliens, and terrorists.
NASA's administrator, Charles Bolden's startling revelation of President Obama's directive to the agency, has to rank near the top of the zany, head-scratching moments in this Muslim-
bowing, America-hating administration.Bolden made a stark admission to the Muslim news organization, Al Jazeera, that Obama wants him to reach out to Muslim nations to make them feel better about themselves. NASA's scientists, engineers, and technicians, have gone from the mission of reaching for the stars, to their new mission under Obama of reaching out to Muslims to make them feel good. Just what this mission has to do with our space program is, and shall remain, an enigma.
Bolden added that the U.S. is incapable of space exploration without international help. Any further mission Obama has planned for this agency seems convoluted, vague and underfunded with no defined goal for the space program. Furthermore, travel to the space station or any low orbit mission will only be possible by hitching a ride on a Russian rocket.
If Obama wants to tell the American people, we are broke and unable to afford a space program, let him come forward like a leader of men and lay it out. The truth is he would rather spend the money repaying his leftist, socialistic friends. Additionally, the space program does not fit the Obama model of welfare dependency, green jobs, and his inexorable march toward a repressive federal government.
A white house spokesman, Nick Shapire said, “The space race began as a global competition, but today, it is a global collaboration.” This statement lines up nicely with Obama’s world governance view and his overwhelming desire to cede United States sovereignty to the United Nations and any number of other international groups.
It would be interesting to know exactly with which Muslim nations Obama wants the United States to “partner up” and collaborate. Perhaps, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia would be a good beginning. While we are in full exploratory mode seeking a real far-reaching space program, we could add Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Any one of these could step up to the plate and share their vast knowledge and expertise of their formidable space programs. The possibilities are indeed abundant; and would fall right in line with Obama’s stellar leadership abilities.
Another positive for Obama comes to mind; regardless of the problems encountered; explosions, miscalculations, or loss of life, he could just parrot his favorite, infamous, and infantile retort, “It’s not my fault!” One can almost sense the blossoming of a new campaign slogan for his 2010-election bid; “Imagine the Possibilities; More People to Blame”.
This week Obama and his Justice Department declared war on the people of Arizona by filing a lawsuit in federal court for the unpardonable sin of upholding law-and-order, practicing
self-defense, and seeking relief from the crushing burden of supporting over 460,000 illegal aliens. Arizona, the biggest gateway into the U.S. for illegal immigration, faces bankruptcy from the increased health care, education, and welfare costs. Moreover, their citizens face terrorism and murder by illegal aliens. Every past action and inaction undertaken by the federal government contradicts each other and their arguments in this lawsuit. What they are saying in the suit is that Arizona is depriving them of their do-nothing policy. In other words, Feds have the right to do nothing or to do anything, as they please; they are unbound by law.
Before reading the bill, Barack Obama slammed the Arizona law as abusive and divisive, when the truth is the federal government’s arrogant lack of enforcement of immigration law is abusive, divisive, and illegal. Obama and Holder find it incredulous that American taxpayers, who pay an enormous toll in treasure and suffering from the illegal immigration problem, would be less than understanding of the federal government’s incessant refusal to enforce immigration laws and seal the border. Over 60 percent of Americans favor the Arizona law while Liberal Progressives dismiss them all as being racists.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement, "Setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility," His department added that Arizona’s state law hampered the authority of the Obama administration to enforce national immigration policy and usurps federal authority to protect U.S. borders and American citizens. Furthermore, “The nation’s immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests.”
If these statements don’t smoke the Polygraph, they certainly peg the laugh meter. The lawsuit says that comprehensive federal laws already on the books cover illegal immigration — If this is true, why do we need new comprehensive immigration reform?
The Mexican government welcomed the move, saying the Arizona law “affects the civil and human rights of thousands of Mexicans.” This comes from a country with some of the most restrictive immigration policies in the world. Incredibly, Obama is giving Mexico a seat at the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive table in the enactment, adjudication, and enforcement of American immigration law.
Sanctuary cities and states have violated federal immigration laws for years and ignored by the Feds because it meshed with Liberal-Progressive doctrine. Conversely, the Arizona law does nothing to violate federal law; rather, it nearly duplicates the statute and simply requires police to protect American citizens because immigration authorities refuse to enforce the law.
Other very disturbing facts and questions are coming to light with this lawsuit. For instance, Obama and Holder’s loathing of American citizens and the disregard for the rule of law and American justice leaps out and begs to question their motives in pursuing this course of action. However, more specifically, what was once tacit approval of the illegal invasion of our country now becomes an overt, blatant, and deliberate violation of the Constitutional obligation by the federal government to enforce immigration law and protect American citizens from foreign invaders. Nevertheless, they have the audacity to slap down with full force, any attempt at self-defense.
The code phrase for legalizing the estimated 15 to 20 million illegals is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”. One of the subsets of this is also legalizing tens of millions of their family members, citing “ending the separation of families” from around the world, but mostly from Mexico, Central and South America. The fact that any separation of their families is the direct result of their own illegal actions falls upon deaf ears by the administration. Those who are here illegally could simply go home and take their families with them. Another canard tossed about claims that it would be impossible to deport all illegal aliens. Eisenhower deported millions in the 1950’s, and it could be done now. However, by simply depriving them of jobs, most would return home voluntarily.
Progressives rightly believe that the political dynamic will shift to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party for decades to come when these people move to the voting rolls. An extremely high percentage receives government assistance and will therefore, vote for the “Party-of-Enslavement”, the Democratic Party.
Of the 40 % of people who want open borders, one should question their commitment to this radical policy if they have not lived near the southern border and have not been subjected to the lawlessness firsthand. Just as these people most assuredly would be unwilling to live in houses without fences, or with open windows and unlocked doors, neither would they advertise their home is open to all, or let intruders know they would face neither resistance nor prosecution.
Of course, Obama’s perfect solution is to wave his magic liberal wand and declare all illegal aliens as legal. Presto, problem solved! Every indication is that he will do just that. He has made perfectly clear, his contempt for what the American people want, and he proves it daily.
Finally, nothing in all these discussions addresses the terrorism aspect of open borders and unenforced visa policies. Does anyone truly believe we will not pay another terrible price if we, again, fail to heed the warnings and learn from our past mistakes? One day at a time and one federal lapse after another will sooner or later bring us to another terrorist disaster. Washington will once again use it as an excuse to control American citizens…not deal with the real problem – government arrogance and incompetence.
With three months to go in the budget year, the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion revealing the reckless, irresponsible spending of Obama and this Congress.
The only thing more irresponsible than this and all the other self-induced disasters by this administration is the biased reporting by the main stream media. The AP reports this news, as if they are the White House information center charged with the responsibility of repeating Obama's propaganda.
The AP report states that the deficit shows the lasting impact of the recession on the government finances and spins that it is better than last year's $1.09 trillion for the first nine months.
They report further that Republicans have held up legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless because of its effect on the deficit. The fact is, of course, that Democrats completely control Congress and Republicans are unable to hold up anything.
This AP story mimics the White House talking points of crying about Republicans and a few Democrats blocking more spending on job creation and "other efforts." Government spending is the cause of much of the unemployment and distressing economic developments. However, that would not fit the liberal narrative of the White House taskmasters. The economy is an open wound in our country that will remain unhealed until Obama and the Democrats stop picking at it with massive spending and regulations.
Deliberately allowing the economy to fester and worsen accomplishes dual roles for the administration and Congress. Foremost, spending billions to redistribute wealth appeases Obama’s liberal base of supporters and, secondarily, allows him to blame everything on business, banking, and Bush.
Condemnation of others for self-induced misfortunes is juvenile, yet as old as dictatorial regimes themselves. Every dictator is a master at creating victims and oppressors then convincing people they are “working hard for you”.
There are reasons to believe media purposefully rubber-stamps White House press releases and reports everything fed to them by the administration or liberal Democrats in Congress. We may well be witnessing a deliberate distortion and misreporting of news by media to extract themselves from their own dire financial straits. They could be looking for government bailouts by currying favors and stroking egos. The administration ran this bailout flag up the pole previously but was unable to find the political winds to make it fly.
The misrepresentation in AP’s article on the deficit is just one more in a daily barrage of liberal propaganda by the AP, print media, and much of television news. They use the First Amendment to bludgeon Americans with games of hide and seek with the truth. Media are more of an extension of government than a watchdog in charge of protecting our country and its citizens from the government. In any case, if media do not report facts and dispense with the blind support of Obama, our liberty is at peril. Accordingly, if the government becomes involved in financing media in any form whatsoever, it will doom our republic.
The Senate by a 59-39 vote passed a jobless benefits extension for another 26 weeks sending the measure to the President for
his signature on Thursday.Obama had maintained his political onslaught against Republicans for their alleged blocking of a $33.9 billion extension of jobless benefits and leaving more than 2.5 million Americans without unemployment checks.
“They finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed,” Obama said. “They’ve got no problem spending money on tax breaks for folks at the top, but they object to helping folks laid off in this recession.”
It is telling that Obama equates tax breaks - or letting people keep the money they earn – with government’s seizure and spending of taxpayer’s money. To believe this long-held tenant of progressivism, one would have to believe that all money, wealth and income belong to government, and people should shut up and gladly accept whatever amount politicians allow them to keep. Those who resist are always savagely condemned by liberal politicians and their attack dog counterparts in media.
Once again, Obama and truth went to loggerheads, and truth lost. Republicans were asking to keep the bill free of pork and pay for the expenditure; thereby not adding to the staggering deficit. Democrats and Obama wanted to grease the bill with unnecessary spending and worry about paying for it after the November elections then hit Americans with monstrous tax increases and be unanswerable to voters’ wrath for another two years.
Obama is the person most responsible for the 3.8 million jobs lost since he has assumed the mantle of leadership. He has spent $545 billion in stimulus money and created 682,370 jobs; many of those will be temporary and/or will become unfunded mandates for local and state governments when the last federal money trickles from that giant spigot in Washington.
Liberalism is not a jobs program. Big, unwieldy bureaucracies are the natural result of trying to force government into performing functions best left to private enterprise. A large centralized government does few things well and nothing efficiently. To Obama, installing his leftist policies is more important to him than jobs for Americans. Therefore, he must create villains to blame for his failed policies. His rope-a-dope, obfuscation, and attacking are means to confuse the American people and divert attention from his real agenda.
He is also at odds with more than a few other Democrats, who have expressed disagreements with his political ranting and demagoguery.
For example, Larry summers, head of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors said, "The second way government assistance programs contribute to long-term unemployment is by providing an incentive, and the means, not to work. Each unemployed person has a 'reservation wage'—the minimum wage he or she insists on getting before accepting a job. Unemployment insurance and other social assistance programs increase [the] reservation wage, causing an unemployed person to remain unemployed longer." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303828304575180243952375172.html
Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA) in June made the comment, “…we have 99 weeks of unemployment insurance now. The question comes, how long do you continue that before people just don't go back to work at all and are permanently stuck [inaudible]." http://www.calitics.com/diary/11916/what-did-dianne-feinstein-really-say-about-unemployment-benefits
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, whose panel oversees the benefits program, said, “You can’t go on forever, I think 99 weeks is sufficient.” http://www.mlive.com/michigan-job-search/index.ssf/2010/04/lawmakers_draw_the_line_at_99_weeks_of_u.html
During last fall’s extension of benefits, Obama took the stance of allowing unspent stimulus money to pay the cost. This year he and other Democrats want the stimulus used as a political slush-fund before November elections. In essence, keeping their power by buying votes with the remaining $425 billion is more important than funding the extension.
The political gamesmanship was once again won by Democrats because media have joined them in battering Republicans, and because they are far better at the ruthlessness and lying required to win the game. Republicans are too timid and consistently back off from a fight. They remain satisfied with placing or showing, thus, emboldening the Democrats for the next showdown.
Liberals understand they need only to hurl a few invectives involving class warfare or race, and republicans quietly fold their hand. Unfortunately, the American taxpayers are the losers, once again. Furthermore, unless Republicans learn how to fight to win before November, the next two years could be worse.
