Archive

Archive for October, 2011

Socialism in Action: Obama’s Education Chief Says Student Loan Bailout to Address Income Inequality

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Socialism in action. The Hill reported, via Memeorandum:

President Obama’s education reform efforts will address growing income inequality in the U.S., Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Duncan promoted the administration’s jobs plan, portions of which are targeted at updating school facilities and hiring teachers.

He also blasted Congress for not moving forward with Obama’s jobs bill, saying the nation needs to “stop subsidizing banks and give that money to young people.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com …

via Socialism in Action: Obama’s Education Chief Says Student Loan Bailout to Address Income Inequality.

FBI reports gang ‘infiltration’ of U.S. military | Campaign 2012

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Hell’s Angels graffiti written on the back of a military vehicle in Iraq. / FBI

Gang members have been signing up with the United States Armed Forces, posing a “significant criminal threat” to law enforcement, according to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

“Gang infiltration of the military continues to pose a significant criminal threat, as members of at least 53 gangs have been identified on both domestic and international military installations,” the report says, resulting in American gang graffiti in Iraq, among other things.

Every branch of the military contains some gang members, the FBI reported, but most gang members join the Army, the Army Reserves, and the U.S. National Guard. And gang member enlistment doesn’t require a sinister intention. “Many street gang members join the military to escape the gang lifestyle,” says the FBI, while others join at the behest of a court “as an alternative to incarceration.”

But the military sometimes proves a bad environment for gang members, who “often revert back to their gang associations once they encounter other gang members in the military.”

Numerous U.S. gangs, according to the report, “advise members without criminal records to join the military for necessary weapons and combat training.” Military deployments, in the event, end up placing gang members alongside other members of the armed forces on active duty…..

EXCERPT

via FBI reports gang ‘infiltration’ of U.S. military | Campaign 2012.

Prison Planet.com » Can Obama Assassinating People Be Considered Foreign Policy Successes?

October 26, 2011 2 comments

Can Obama Assassinating People Be Considered Foreign Policy Successes?

Print The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones’ Facebook Infowars store

YouTube

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Cafferty illustrates how Obama’s foreign policy “successes” are nothing of the kind.

via Prison Planet.com » Can Obama Assassinating People Be Considered Foreign Policy Successes?.

There is no “President Obama”| The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 2 comments

There is no “President Obama

BUT THERE ARE TRAITORS IN CONGRESS, THE COURTS, AND THE WHITE HOUSE

August 17, 2010

Dear Editor,

If Obama is a usurper, will we ever see justice served and adequate punishment carried out?

The Obama “Presidency” is nonexistent. The media refers to Barack Obama as “President Obama.” I have said it many times in the past and will reiterate it now:

Barack Obama has never been the President of the United States of America. Under the U.S. Constitution, one has to be a “natural born Citizen,” which means born in the U.S., of parents, both of whom are American Citizens, in order to become President of the United States.

Given the facts and circumstances of Barack Obama’s birth, Obama had only one American citizen parent. Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a British citizen. There is some talk that Obama may actually be the son of Malcolm X. Who really knows who Barack Obama is and if that is his real name? His entire past has been purposely obfuscated…..

EXCERPT

via There is no “President Obama”| The Post & Email.

Editorial: Pollution czars’ plan to choke California business

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

California foolishly is going where Congress fears to tread, and where even European global warming zealots are backing away. Nevertheless, an unelected, virtually unaccountable board of government overseers has voted unanimously to impose mandatory cap-and-trade regulations on California businesses that will likely kill jobs, chase companies out of state and impose $2 billion in new taxes, all in a Quixotic quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a highly questionable, perhaps meaningless, goal…

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com …

via Editorial: Pollution czars’ plan to choke California business.

James Carville: ‘Herman Cain is not going to be President of anything.”

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

In an interview yesterday with Scott Hennen, former Clinton campaign manager James Carville admitted he was worried that President Obama can’t dig himself out of the hole he has dug for himself and the country. He then went on to completely dismiss the candidacy of Herman Cain.

Carville: “Everything worries me in this environment. Nobody’s gotten elected with these kinds of numbers. So, I’m worried in the general election.”

When asked about the chances of Cain replacing the President, the ‘serpent-headed’ Carville said “Herman Cain is not going to be the president of anything…. Herman Cain is a salesman.”

I didn’t come up with the serpent-head myself. Carville’s wife former Bush and Cheney assistant Mary Matalin did.

via James Carville: ‘Herman Cain is not going to be President of anything.”.

Obama tells students: ‘I need your voices’

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

DENVER (AP) — President Barack Obama urged thousands of enthusiastic college students Wednesday to make their voices heard, telling a boisterous crowd in Denver, “Young people, I need you guys involved.”

“I need you active, I need you communicating to Congress, I need you to get the word out,” Obama said at the University of Colorado, Denver. “Tweet `em. They’re all tweeting all over the place, you tweet `em back.”

(Excerpt) Read more at centurylink.net …

via Obama tells students: ‘I need your voices’.

Putin voices disgust at TV broadcasting of Gaddafi’s death

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he was disgusted by TV coverage of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death.

“Nearly all Gaddafi’s family was killed, his corpse was shown by all TV channels around the world. It was impossible to watch without disgust,” Interfax news agency quoted Putin as saying.

Speaking at a meeting of the Russian Popular Front in Moscow, Putin also said that none of the world religions would allow TV channels to broadcast the killing of a bloodstained but yet alive man.

“There is nothing good that all these scenes were demonstrated on the screens and millions of people, including children, saw that,” Putin stressed.

He added that the media must take moral responsibility for the broadcasting.

Gaddafi, who was in power for 42 years in Libya, and his son Mutassim were captured alive last Thursday when forces of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) wrested full control of his hometown of Sirte. But both of them died in murky circumstances shortly after being seized by NTC fighters.

via Putin voices disgust at TV broadcasting of Gaddafi’s death.

A New Wave Of Islamic Terror, Courtesy Of Obama

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Using the murky reasoning of Obama Logic, best described as an enigma, An Islamist Spring has been imposed upon the world with the aid and encouragement of Obama. In his latest attempt to impose freedom and mayhem on the people of Libya, Obama has used the American military to insure that the people of Libya could depose their despot and pave the way for a wave of terror and bloodshed, while they determine their own Islamic Fundamentalist destiny.

While Socialist revolutionaries praise the vision of Obama, there are others who are willing to realistically appraise what the Narcissist in Chief and his personal direction of the American military has accomplished with this latest foreign policy disaster.

Libya has some of the richest sweet crude reserves in the world. The crude is called sweet crude because it costs far less to refine than other crude oil. In the world of oil, on which the true economy of the world is based, an economy in which Obama wants America to be only a consumer of wealth and not a producer of wealth, this sweet crude is among the most valuable. Thus it will be a great generator of wealth for whatever Islamic Fundamentalist Strongman that forces his way into power.

It is the nature of Obama Logic that nothing he does is ever explained or needs to be explained: whether it is because he is incapable of explaining his actions or he refuses to explain because of wishing to maintain a self-imposed image of omnipotency or perhaps, he knows if the country knew his true intentions, he would need to deal with his own American uprising, we will never know.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net…

via A New Wave Of Islamic Terror, Courtesy Of Obama.

A New Wave Of Islamic Terror, Courtesy Of Obama

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Using the murky reasoning of Obama Logic, best described as an enigma, An Islamist Spring has been imposed upon the world with the aid and encouragement of Obama. In his latest attempt to impose freedom and mayhem on the people of Libya, Obama has used the American military to insure that the people of Libya could depose their despot and pave the way for a wave of terror and bloodshed, while they determine their own Islamic Fundamentalist destiny.

While Socialist revolutionaries praise the vision of Obama, there are others who are willing to realistically appraise what the Narcissist in Chief and his personal direction of the American military has accomplished with this latest foreign policy disaster.

Libya has some of the richest sweet crude reserves in the world. The crude is called sweet crude because it costs far less to refine than other crude oil. In the world of oil, on which the true economy of the world is based, an economy in which Obama wants America to be only a consumer of wealth and not a producer of wealth, this sweet crude is among the most valuable. Thus it will be a great generator of wealth for whatever Islamic Fundamentalist Strongman that forces his way into power.

It is the nature of Obama Logic that nothing he does is ever explained or needs to be explained: whether it is because he is incapable of explaining his actions or he refuses to explain because of wishing to maintain a self-imposed image of omnipotency or perhaps, he knows if the country knew his true intentions, he would need to deal with his own American uprising, we will never know.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net…

via A New Wave Of Islamic Terror, Courtesy Of Obama.

OWS Protesters: Rush More Dangerous Than Al-Qaeda

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, a couple days ago, might have even been yesterday, our buddies at the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell, they sent a guy down to Ground Zero, the Occupy Wall Street. By the way, folks, let me ask you something. I don’t know about you. I’m getting Occupy Wall Street fatigue. I’ve had it since day one. That’s not a problem for the media. They’re hanging on the every action that the Occupy Wall Street people are taking, and I’m convinced that the media is hanging on here hoping and praying that we get the equivalent of a car wreck. They’re hoping some sort of Kent State type massacre is gonna take place. They are hoping that there’s going to be some kind of civil disobedience. They are hoping that general unrest is gonna take place, the riot is gonna start, the cops are gonna go in there to try quell the riot. I think that’s what they’re hoping for. This is the chaos that everybody is looking for.

Have you seen the photos? Have you seen the photos of these parks after the occupation protests have been forced, to de-occupy ‘em so people can go in there and clean ‘em up? Where’s all the recycling? Where is all the saving the environment? Where’s all the organic stuff? Where’s whatever these people claim is necessary to save the planet? I can’t tell if these are pictures from Occupy Wall Street or from that earthquake in Turkey. These people are pigs! They’re leaving their places an absolute mess — and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of recycling going on, unless you count recycling bunch of hippie nonsense from the sixties in terms of attitude and behavior. I thought these are the people that love Gaia. I thought these are the people that love Mother Earth. I thought these are the people that didn’t like any pollution, didn’t like any trash, didn’t like any garbage. Look at the mess they’re making wherever they are, and you didn’t see these kind of messes following Tea Party rallies.

Anyway, the people at Media Research Center sent one of their reporters down there yesterday (Dan Joseph is his name) and he went around and asked them a simple question: “Who do you think is more dangerous to American society, Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?” And here’s what he got.

JOSEPH: Who do you think is more dangerous to American society, Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?

WOMAN: Both.

JOSEPH: Both, equally?

WOMAN: (giggling)

MAN: Both.

JOSEPH: Both equally?

MAN: Yes.

JOSEPH: Wow. Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?

MAN: What’s the difference?

MAN 2: Rush Limbaugh.

JOSEPH: Okay. Al-Qaeda or Rush Limbaugh?

WOMAN: Probably Rush Limbaugh.

JOSEPH: Why Rush Limbaugh?

WOMAN: Because he has a greater effect. He’s on TV every day speaking to us. Al-Qaeda’s not.

RUSH: This… (laughing) I don’t know. (laughing) (interruption) You mean about being on TV every day? I am on TV every day! I am on TV practically every day. There are snippets. (interruption) No, no. She didn’t specify that. There are snippets from the Dittocam taken every day, and they are played all over cable news networks. I am on television every day. I’m not being paid for it (and of course not doing any extra work for it, either), but I am on television every day. I’m probably the most recognizable radio person ever, ’cause I am on television every day. So these people… You know, I went back and forth about whether to even play this or not because it’s silly, “Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?” But I wanted you to hear this one woman: “Limbaugh is worse,” and there’s another bite here, one more, I think.

WOMAN: That’s a hard question.

MAN: It’s tricky.

WOMAN: Very.

JOSEPH: Think about it.

MAN: They both inspire hated, so, ahhh, Al-Qaeda’s is sliding its way out, Rush Limbaugh seems to be going up in popularity.

MAN 2: Has an instigata.

JOSEPH: He’s an instigator?

WOMAN: Yeah.

JOSEPH: Okay.

MAN 3: We see things such as Fox News and CNN but we’re not seeing what’s going on in the world and in fact we’re the terrorists going to other countries such as Iraq and Iran and overthrowing their governments to institute a — a — a — a democracy, so to speak, and something that can obviously be not be worked with, at least at the level that they’re at. So, ultimately, Americans are the terrorists.

RUSH: Right out of the thought process of Jeremiah Wright: “So, ultimately, the Americans are the terrorists.” I decided to go ahead and air this once again just to illustrate in their own words who these people are, how utterly dumb they are, how purely stupid they are. And they’re products of their education. They’ve been taught this. They believe it.

END TRANSCRIPT

via OWS Protesters: Rush More Dangerous Than Al-Qaeda.

Will cities cater to G8 ANARCHISTS as they have OWS BRATS?

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Former tenants of college dorms, parent’s basements and police drunk tanks currently known as OWS (Occupy Wall Street) protesters have alternately amused and disgusted television audiences across the nation.

Deluded enough to believe “the world is watching” and actually supportive of their disgraceful antics, this crew of doped-up reprobates has proudly defecated on police cars and turned city parks into slums, all the while demanding free goods and services from politicians, city officials and local vendors.

New York‘s Zuccotti Park–squatter central for the Big Apple’s OWS contingent–has become “…a breeding ground for bacterial infection loaded with potential health-code violations…” said city health regulation expert Wayne Yon over the weekend. “It’s like a Walmart for rats,” he continued.

Yet convinced the official REQUEST they vacate the area for an afternoon of cleaning was really just a sneaky method of bouncing them from their urine soaked, excrement laced “headquarters,” the OWS crowd refused to leave so Brookfield Properties, the Park’s PRIVATE OWNERS, could take care of the mess.

In fact, protesters learned from a New York Times article that Brookfield had received “…a flurry of threatening phone calls from elected officials…” demanding they postpone the cleanup in order to avoid any possible confrontation with the maggot infested crowd.

For weeks, property owners have been besieged by OWS protesters with demands for everything from 24 hour access to store restrooms to handouts of food, clothing and more.

Shop owners have seen business suffer as customers now avoid the once thriving area. And city officials have done nothing to stop the harassment or enforce the law, often even taking sides with the protesters.

And this is where a very dangerous situation begins.

(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com …

via Will cities cater to G8 ANARCHISTS as they have OWS BRATS?.

Ron Paul Had 43,000 People Donate In FIVE Days! To His 2012 Presidential Campaign

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Ron Paul Had 43,000 People Donate In FIVE Days! To His 2012 Presidential Campaign

Print The Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones’ Facebook Infowars store

YouTube

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Cavuto talks to Ron Paul about his successful money bomb.

via Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Had 43,000 People Donate In FIVE Days! To His 2012 Presidential Campaign.

Newt and the Next-in-Line Problem

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Of the remaining viable candidates, there is only one who is not a part of the establishment, has laid out a viable plan to rescue the country, is not intimidated by the mainstream media or the Democrat smear machine, is knowledgeable of how to get drastic changes through the congressional legislative meat grinder, is more than capable of overwhelming Barack Obama in a debate, is experienced in foreign affairs, has a record of conservative legislative accomplishments, and can articulate to the American people as to where he will take the country. It is time for the Republican primary voters to rediscover Newt Gingrich.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com …

via Newt and the Next-in-Line Problem.

Perry says he opposes Confederate license plate

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Gov. Rick Perry told a Florida television station today that he opposes the creation of a Confederate license plate in Texas.

(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com …

via Perry says he opposes Confederate license plate.

CARA suggests polls on creation of a third party: Christian Democrats

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

The author of this post goes on to say that the Founding Fathers did not intend to create a system where parties would form and cause factionalism. The CATO Institute disagrees:

People persist today in arguing that the Founders were anti-party. Yet Madison concluded, “Parties … seem to have a permanent foundation in the variance of political opinions in free states.” Madison saw politics as essentially partisan: “No free country has ever been without parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.” Indeed, he observed, “The Constitution itself … must be an unfailing source of party distinctions.”

It is tempting to concur with Madison and conclude that partisanship to this day is rooted in the Constitution.

Some insist today that the Founders did not expect political parties to form, that parties only arose later in American history. But in a 1792 essay titled “A Candid State of Parties,” Madison concluded that parties of distinction are “natural to most political societies,” and will likely endure. Even to this day, perhaps?

Admittedly, “A Candid State of Parties” is a partisan tract, just as were The Federalist Papers. Madison the Founder was a statesman, a politician, a political theorist, and a partisan. And that is not a criticism. Madison clearly understood that “in every political society, parties are unavoidable.” In fact, he concluded parties “must always be expected in a government as free as ours.”

EXCERPT

via CARA suggests polls on creation of a third party: Christian Democrats.

Tear Down That Wall of Central Planning’s Prison State by Scott Lazarowitz

October 26, 2011 1 comment

The denial amongst the American population in particular is characterized by people who know their candidates have a questionable background or record, openly engage in doubletalk and/or outright lies, and who just do not understand what actual liberty is. Yet the people support these candidates anyway, still hoping that the candidate of their choosing will get a clue after being elected and make the appropriate changes for better governance.

Deep down, those unrealistically hopeful voters know full well that such candidates will not be any better than the office-holders they replaced. The entire process has been a continually-degrading rearranging of deck chairs.

Central planning statism is a system that is doomed to fail, doomed to kill economic growth and doomed to destroy a society, right from the get-go. Just look at the Soviet Union, the European Union, and, of course, our United States. But when voting, the people look the other way, hold their noses and hope for the best.

EXCERPT

Such denial over many decades has led to the crash of the American (and world) economy, the destruction of the work ethic and a nearly full shutdown of productivity. Contrary to what the populist pundits and the Occupy Wall Street crowd have been asserting, the situation we are now facing was not mainly because of the irresponsible actions of banks and other financial institutions, but by, as Doug Casey pointed out, the U.S. government (and its pathologically incompetent central planners). The crisis has been a direct result of the government bureaucrats in charge, including Alan Greenspan, Barney Frank, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and, especially more recently, Ben Bernanke. The irresponsible actions of the banks and financial institutions were enabled by the decisions and recklessness of those government hacks.

via Tear Down That Wall of Central Planning’s Prison State by Scott Lazarowitz.

0bama’s Target List [VDH]

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

While calling for civility, Obama demonizes everyone in sight.

What with exhaustion, overexposure, and the temptation to comment on just about anything in the news, presidential candidates and presidents alike naturally often slip up. Given their hectic speaking schedules, they frequently mispronounce words (“nucular,” “corpse-man”), engage in the trivial (inflating tires and tuning up cars in lieu of drilling for more oil), and simply get things wrong (57 states). “Bushism” was coined about 2001 to refer to all the various ways that George W. Bush mangled the English language. There are, of course, just as many “Obamaisms,” though they are rarely commensurately lampooned by the media.

FDR unfairly and often demonized his political opponents. Truman could be coarsely blunt; Nixon far more so and in paranoid fashion. Jimmy Carter’s beatific façade seemed to hide all sorts of inner mean streaks. But what seems somewhat different from past presidential sermons, malapropisms, and flat-out wrong statements is the tendency of Barack Obama to lecture, talk down to, caricature, or even insult various people and groups — even as no other president in recent memory has reminded the nation so often of the need for civility, unity, and tolerance.

After only one year plus of campaigning and three years of governance, there is already a sizable corpus of Obama’s targets. The common theme is less ideology, politics, race, class, or gender than a sense that many groups and people simply don’t measure up to Obama’s high standards. Some are deemed lazy, stupid, greedy, fearful, or clinging; others are too affluent, of questionable ethics, and ill-informed and ill-intentioned — and thus are culpable for our current problems.

Where did the president pick up this habit of hypercriticism and…..

EXCERPT

via 0bama’s Target List [VDH].

A Dire Warning About The Democrat Party From 120 Years Ago

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

A Dire Warning About The Democrat Party From 120 Years Ago

ChicoER Gate ^ | 10/26/11 | ???

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 1:41:28 PM by Korah

120 years ago, a patriot went home to the Lord.

Before he died, he requested that a warning about

the Democrat party be inscribed upon his tomb stone.

via A Dire Warning About The Democrat Party From 120 Years Ago.

Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing “Government Criticism”

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

US Authorities Hit Google With 70% Rise In Takedown Orders

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information, including videos containing “government criticism,” increasing by 70 per cent.

Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing Government Criticism youtubezensur

“In the US, Google received 757 takedown requests across its sites and services, up 70 per cent from the second half of last year,” reports technology website V3.co.uk.

“US authorities also called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down.”

The figures are revealed in Google’s newly released transparency report, which also details how the number of “user data requests” by US authorities increased by 29 per cent compared to the last reporting period.

The reason listed for the removal of a You Tube video in one instance is “government criticism”. The exact identity or content of the video is not divulged. The report states that the removal requests pertaining to “police brutality” were done on the grounds of “defamation” and are included in that separate category, meaning the takedown order on the grounds of “government criticism” was made by the “executive,” ie the federal government.

The report does not indicate whether or not You Tube complied with the removal request, but it did comply with 63 per cent of the total requests made.

The number of “Items requested to be removed” by US authorities was almost seven-fold the number requested to be removed by Chinese authorities, a country much maligned for its Internet censorship policies.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

As we have previously documented, Google-owned You Tube has complied with thousands of requests worldwide to remove political protest videos that are clearly not in violation of any copyright or national security interests and do not constitute defamation.

One such example was You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.

When viewers in the UK attempted to watch videos of the protest, they were met with the message, “This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request.”

Indeed, the latest figures show that takedown requests on behalf of British authorities have also skyrocketed by 71 per cent, including 44 removal orders in the first half of this year which came directly from the UK government, one of which was the Birkenhead protest footage.

In Britain, a total of 135 videos were removed from You Tube on the grounds of “national security” and 43 web search results were also blacklisted by government decree.

These figures illustrate how governments, particularly the United States and Britain, are getting more aggressive in pushing for web censorship as the state increasingly tries to strangle the last bastion of true free speech, the Internet, as authorities simultaneously try to advance draconian cybersecurity measures that would hand them complete control over the world wide web.

*********************

via Prison Planet.com » Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing “Government Criticism”.

Like Obama, Karl Rove Seems Willing to Subvert the Constitution to Win in 2012 ~ by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011| The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 1 comment

WHY ROVE IS MISLEADING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011

Karl Rove was born on Christmas Day, 1950 and served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Pres. George W. Bush

(Oct. 26, 2011) — First of all, no one should take Karl Rove too seriously. He acts purely out of self-interest.

Rove cares little about the Constitution, the rule of law or the country. He is only interested in winning elections because each election he wins increases his power, prestige and the size of his financial portfolio.

Rove is part of the Republican establishment, who long ago decided that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will be their Presidential candidate in 2012 and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) will be chosen for the Vice Presidency.

Romney has the mega-money backers and a national campaign organization, key factors in winning any presidential race.

Rubio brings considerable benefits to the ticket because of his strength in the critical state of Florida, by his perceived conservatism and by his ability to swing Hispanic votes to the Republican Party…..

EXCERPT

via Like Obama, Karl Rove Seems Willing to Subvert the Constitution to Win in 2012| The Post & Email.

November 9th, 2011 – An Obama Coup d’etat!| The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

PUTATIVE PRESIDENT CONTINUES HIS “CHANGE” OF AMERICA

by Ron Ewart, ©2011

(Oct. 26, 2011) — “Those in possession of absolute power cannot only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.” — Philosopher Eric Hoffer

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is your President, Barack Hussein Obama, speaking to you on a very serious matter. I am coming to you on the newly established Emergency Alert System (ESA) that pre-empts all of radio, TV, cable and satellite networks and Internet communications so that your President can speak directly to all Americans at one time, on issues of national importance. I and I alone have the authority to determine what is a national emergency and I and I alone can shut down all forms of communication and speak to you from my thr….I mean the Oval Office.”

“It has come to my attention that the Tea Party movement and those who belong to Tea Party groups, along with rural landowners, are working against my policies and my rule and…..

EXCERPT

via November 9th, 2011 – An Obama Coup d’etat!| The Post & Email.

A public apology to Jim Robinson

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

A public apology to Jim Robinson

one man’s opinion…

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:12:25 AM by ken5050

Well, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong, and it’s time to admit it. Now it’s my time to step up and say “I WAS WRONG.” So please allow me this public “mea maxima culpa.” I am no fan of Mitt Romney, and have written so here many times, but for the last year I have been PRIVATELY (please note “PRIVATELY”) somewhat dismayed with JimRob’s vehement opposition to Romney’s candidacy, and more likely, his occasional harsh treatment of those who expressed any degree of support for Romney……..

via A public apology to Jim Robinson.

Time for the Conservative Movement to Wake Up

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

In 2008 Conservatism, and our nation, took a thorough beating. The reigns of power were passed on to a revolutionary cause inspired by Marx. Some may chastise me for such inflammatory rhetoric, but I don’t really feel like mincing words in this post. The current administration is filled with Marxists, this is simple fact. Proof of this was seen mere moments after President Obama finished reciting the oath of office, and more proof has flowed forth ever since.

Our cause sprang back to life in 2010, and, despite still being a tad punch drunk from 2008, we managed to wrest back control of the House of Representatives. Now, with President Obama stuck polling in the low 40′s, we have set before us an opportunity to retain our edge in the House, take the Senate, and replace the Marxist who currently occupies the White House as his useful idiots occupy various streets in our beloved land.

My fear is that this opportunity will be wasted. My worry is that our movement still doesn’t quite have it’s legs beneath it or its weight properly centered. We have not only the opportunity to have a 1980 style rebirth of Conservatism, but also a chance at putting up the wrong candidate and replaying 1976 instead.

The root of this is not an irrational emotion or a desire to down play our opportunity and ability to overcome. No, the root is that, as Burke once said, “It is sometimes as hard to persuade slaves to be free, as it is to compel freemen to be slaves.” Right now, this very moment, we have a candidate for the GOP nomination who is, by far, the biggest alpha male conservative in a generation.

He has proposed unleashing the American entrepreneurial spirit, freed from burdensome regulations, on our energy sector. He has proposed neutering the agencies that have prevented us from competing in the world market. He has proposed reforming the system of entitlements which serve to encourage sloth in the current generation and enslave future ones. He has proposed reforming our tax code which punishes success and perpetuates warfare among the classes. He has proposed binding the mischievous hands of Congress with an amendment limiting their ability to spend more than they can possibly take in, no matter what rate they try to put upon us. He has proposed ending the subversive chicane of baseline budgeting which allows a rise in the budget to be called a cut simply because it wasn’t raised as much as it was in the last budget.

Frankly, he has proposed the last 30 years of conservative policy initiatives and he has been roundly berated for it.

I understand that people were disappointed with Gov. Perry’s debut in the debates. I can also understand people having a difference of opinion on issues like In-State tuition rates and, to a degree, mandatory vaccinations for cancer causing STD’s.

What I can’t understand is the desire of some to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, maybe even the great. I doubt anyone could honestly make a case for any other candidate having a more conservative record of governance, a greater depth of experience, or a better record of winning elections, than Gov. Perry.

My hope is that the conservative movement will get their collective heads out of their 4th point of contact, stop with the point guard political hoop dreams, and support the best man for the job.

Our movement, our nation, and our future depend on it.

via Time for the Conservative Movement to Wake Up.

THE CREEPY OBAMA FAMILY

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

THE CREEPY OBAMA FAMILY

You Tube ^ | 10/26/11 | RobtKraft/Granny Jan

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:36:51 AM by vrwc54

Just in time for Halloween

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com …

via THE CREEPY OBAMA FAMILY.

Karl Rove and others circle wagons to (try to) save the GOP

October 26, 2011 1 comment

Karl Rove has been rather chatty of late. He’s taken a hammer to Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) over the birther nonsense and to Herman Cain for basic unpreparedness. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell thought Rove was “trying to circle the wagons around Mitt Romney as an inevitable nominee.” While I saw where he was coming from, I had a different take. Rove isn’t circling the wagons around Romney. He’s circling the wagons around the Republican Party as a legitimate political party in the United States.

Rove is not alone in this endeavor.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com …

via Karl Rove and others circle wagons to (try to) save the GOP.

Scott Ritter Asking PA Judge to Overturn Verdict

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Monroe County, Pa., Judge Jennifer Sibum is hearing an appeal Wednesday from former United Nations chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter, according to the Pocono Record.

The Delmar man is appealing to overturn the jury verdict and win a new trial after a midlevel New York state appellate court ruled unanimously last week that prosecutors in Pennsylvania should not have been allowed to use evidence against Ritter about his two prior cases in Colonie. The cases were dismissed in 2001.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com …

via Scott Ritter Asking PA Judge to Overturn Verdict.

Rangel wants wealth redistribution, says rich didn’t sacrifice for war

October 26, 2011 3 comments

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on Wednesday called for the redistribution of America’s riches and hammered the wealthy for benefitting from a war effort fought by the poor and middle class.

Citing statistics that show 1 percent of Americans now own 42 percent of the nation’s wealth, the lawmaker representing Harlem said: “There is something wrong with that formula.”

Rangel offered no specific remedy for adjusting those figures during his comments on the House floor, but argued further that the wealthiest one percent have the added benefit of not needing to get involved in military service.

“Why is it that we know, or that we can suspect, that in this war where we lost so many lives, that so many people have been wounded, that our brave men and women coming home will subject themselves with a lack of funds to deal with their physical or mental problems?” he asked. “Any yet we somehow know that that 1 percent was not involved in defending our great nation.”

“We can almost know without any investigation that the wealthiest of Americans never found themselves protecting our flag,” he added.

Rangel said the economy would be helped by getting more money in the hands of the other 99 percent. “If we have the other 99 percent of the people who are not wealthy, and if it was possible for them to get a fair shake and have more expendable income, you wouldn’t have to put out ads for them to buy,” he said.

Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke after Rangel and argued and the U.S. as a nation is not broke, even though the federal government is broke. the U.S. is effectively keeping the federal government broke by not taxing the wealthy, he said.

“Despite what you hear on TV, despite what you hear on Fox News today, taxes as a percentage of GDP today are at a 60 year low,” Murphy said.

Murphy said taxing the top 1 percent more is a needed step because the income of the other 99 percent has remained mostly flat over the past several years, while the income of the top tier has increased sharply.

via Rangel wants wealth redistribution, says rich didn’t sacrifice for war.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeb Bush denounces birtherism (Captain Obvious to the rescue)

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Former Florida Republican governor Jeb Bush has said he won’t endorse anyone in the presidential primary. [Snip]… In a rare intervention into electoral politics since his departure from the Florida governorship, he decided that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s venture into birtherism has gone on long enough. In an exclusive statement to Right Turn, he e-mailed me: “Republican candidates should categorically reject the notion that President Obama was not born in the United States. It is a complete distraction from the failed economic policies of the President.” And that was it.

[Snip]

At this point, few responsible Republican office-holders dare defend Perry, and even fewer will want to appear with or endorse him. The challenge that Jeb Bush and Govs. Terry Branstad (Iowa) and Bob McDonnell (Va.) have laid out is clear: Are you with the sane Republicans or not? GOP voters need to decide.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com …

via EXCLUSIVE: Jeb Bush denounces birtherism (Captain Obvious to the rescue).

NewsMax news or Internet fraud ?

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

NewsMax news or Internet fraud ?

NewsMax.com ^ | Oct 25, 2011 | uri’el-2012

Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:21:30 PM by Uri’el-2012

I will never use nor recommend NewsMax

via NewsMax news or Internet fraud ?.

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in ‘Occupy’ Movement

October 26, 2011 4 comments

EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in ‘Occupy’ Movement

By Jana Winter

Published October 26, 2011 | FoxNews.com

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.

The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.

NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.

Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day – to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com …

via EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in ‘Occupy’ Movement.

Booker T. Washington on Black Victimhood

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Black racists are coming out of the woodwork. It’s hard to imagine how vile and bigoted they are in their attacks on Herman Cain. Such treatment has a long history. Today, it’s an industry.

A number of black “leaders” (e.g., Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) have made their living by promoting black victimhood and white guilt. Jesse Jackson has been shaking down corporations with the scam for decades. Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education. He described them as “problem profiteers”:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” (p. 118)

Washington could have had in view, although writing nearly a hundred years ago, black people who are railing against Herman Cain and other blacks who have not succumbed to plantation living. Cain doesn’t present himself as a victim, and this disturbs people like Al Sharpton. Cain lived at a time when there were “colored” water fountains, segregated schools and neighborhoods, and racial discrimination that few people today can imagine. If anyone has a right to play the victim card, it’s Cain. He didn’t feel sorry for himself. He stayed out of trouble, worked hard, and made something of himself without the help of a cadre of “poverty pimps.” Cain is the antithesis of the Democrat Party and 90 percent of…

(Excerpt) Read more at americanvision.org …

via Booker T. Washington on Black Victimhood.

Ryan: Obama ‘sowing social unrest’

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will take direct aim at President Barack Obama in a speech Wednesday morning, accusing him of “preying on the emotions of fear, envy and resentment” as he travels the country to sell his jobs plan.

In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Ryan plans to say that Obama’s method of rallying public support for his $447 billion jobs package was “sowing social unrest and class resentment” and could be “just as damaging as his misguided policies,” according to excerpts obtained by POLITICO.

“Instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past,” Ryan will say, according to speech excerpts. “He is going from town to town, impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats, and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments, as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators.”

“Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country – corporate welfare that enriches the powerful, and empty promises that betray the powerless,” Ryan also plans to say.

In his prepared remarks, Ryan accuses Obama of using “class-based rhetoric” in his re-election campaign. Obama’s tactics, he will say, make “America weaker, not stronger.”

“Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were hallmarks of his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy, and resentment,” Ryan says, according to his prepared remarks.

“This has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger. Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country – corporate welfare that enriches the powerful, and empty promises that betray the powerless.”

The speech at the Heritage Foundation marks another high-profile moment for the rising GOP star who many conservatives publicly longed for as their party’s nominee to challenge Obama in 2012. Ryan also gave a health-care heavy speech at Stanford University last month, calling for a comprehensive “replacement” to the health care law – not just a repeal of Obama’s signature domestic policy feat.

In Wednesday’s speech, Ryan also plans to defend his budget proposal – which passed the House earlier this year and has been much maligned by Democrats – as a sensible one that gets rid of “corporate welfare and crony capitalism” and “modestly income-adjust[s]” Social Security and Medicare.

Ryan, in his prepared remarks, says the class warfare that threatens the U.S. is “[a] class of bureaucrats and connected crony capitalists trying to rise above the rest of us, call the shots, rig the rules, and preserve their place atop society. And their gains will come at the expense of working Americans, entrepreneurs, and that small businesswoman who has the gall to take on the corporate chieftain.”

“It’s disappointing that this President’s actions have exacerbated this form of class warfare in so many ways,” he also plans to say.

Obama has called on the wealthy to pay a larger share of their income in taxes, and Senate Democrats have proposed surtaxes on millionaires to pay for various chunks of the president’s jobs package – efforts that so far failed to garner the 60 votes needed to start debate in the upper chamber.

Mackenzie Weinger contributed to this story.

via Ryan: Obama ‘sowing social unrest’.

All patents are theft

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

If necessity is the mother of invention, patents are its delinquent offspring, providing stumbling blocks to innovation and progress, inhibiting the free exchange of ideas, and restricting our knowledge of how things work, says Richard Hillesley…

Pablo Picasso is supposed to have said that “all art is theft”. The assertion may be controversial, but the intention is clear – the creative process, which relies on the evolution of techniques, observation and criticism, is an assimilation of that which has gone before, and all creativity, whether artistic, technological or scientific, walks a thin line between innovation and originality, plagiarism and parody. Even the idea that art is theft is a common place among artistic communities. Andy Warhol took this concept a few stages further. During a 1966 interview he told his interviewer; “Why don’t you ask my assistant Gerard Malanga some questions? He did a lot of my paintings.”

Linus Torvalds himself noted in another context, when rebutting arguments against open source by Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s senior vice president in May 2001, “I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? [Newton] is not only famous for having basically set the foundations for classical mechanics (and the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how he acknowledged the achievement: ‘If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.’”

Newton’s remark was intended as a derogatory comment in the margins of a letter to his diminutive contemporary, the scientist Robert Hooke, and was not an original observation, but tells a wider truth, that the creative process and the discovery of ideas is very seldom the product of one man’s work in isolation, but an accumulation of what has gone before.

Much of modern intellectual thought has defined itself by questioning the rites of authorship, authenticity and identity. This paradox lies at the heart of the debate about ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ and the ‘ownership’ of ideas – a debate in which the Linux and free software movement has found itself embroiled, directly through the patents crisis and the convolutions of copyright law, and less directly through its relationship with the Net.

Free software has been successful way beyond the expectations of its proponents and its detractors, appealing to a far wider audience than might have been predicted, but as Richard Stallman is quick to remind us, there is still some way to go: “The only reason we have a wholly free operating system,” he has said, “is because of the movement that said ‘we want an operating system that is wholly free, not 90 per cent free.’ If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.”

By its very nature free software challenges modern conventions of ownership, and its continuing existence and the blossoming of ideas that free software represents, is directly threatened by the extension and proliferation of trivial and contestable patents over the last two or three decades.

Software uses language as a means of interacting with the millions of on and off switches that comprise a computer. The sets of instructions that are contained in a computer language, or any other computer program, rely on basic structures that are common to all computer languages, and have evolved over half a century of shared development.

The most famous expression of this truth was provided by Bill Gates in a Microsoft internal ‘Challenges and Strategy’ memo, dated May 16,1991. “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents”, he wrote, “the industry would be at a complete stand-still today.”

Rather more revealingly, Gates concluded that the “solution” to the problem of patents was “patenting as much as we can… A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”

Just one of the many compelling arguments against patents for software, as in other parts of our lives, is that invention and innovation in software is cumulative, and depends entirely on the efforts of others who have gone before – and that this will continue to be the case with every small development in the field of programming. Good programmers invent new processes every day, and other good programmers use these processes to make further inventions. That is, and always has been, the nature of the job. To assign patents to these small inventions, which are effectively expressions of speech, is to stop innovation in its tracks. This matters because code runs our lives. As Lawrence Lessig puts it: “These machines run us. Code runs these machines. What control should we have over this code?”

If necessity is the mother of invention, patents are its delinquent offspring, providing stumbling blocks to innovation and progress, inhibiting the free exchange of ideas, and restricting our knowledge of how things work.

via All patents are theft.

ANONYMOUS (Hacker Group) SAYS IT WILL TAKE DOWN THE FOX NEWS WEBSITE

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

The collective activist hacker group Anonymous has released a statement saying it will “destroy” the FOX News website for what it claims are “propaganda” attacks on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

In a video (see below) Anonymous points out the talking points Fox repeatedly uses to denounce the movement’s protesters in generalizations such as, “filthy, disgusting and dirty.”

The statement of intent against FOX news says:

We are Anonymous. Fox News is now the target of Anonymous because of their continued propaganda against the Occupations. Those such as Sean Hannity are attacking the credentials as well as the character of the Occupiers at Wall Street, and this can no longer be allowed.

Anonymous introduces Operation Fox Hunt. Anonymous intends on destroying the Fox News website because their continued right-wing conservative propaganda can no longer be tolerated.

They use words such as filthy, disgusting and dirty to describe the protesters. Since they will not stop belittling the Occupiers, we will shut them down.

On November 5th, we ask those who are able, to commence attacks on Fox News. Anonymous will not only shut down Fox News, we will also engage in a propaganda campaign of our own to show them how it feels to be chastised. Fox News, your time has come. Operation Fox Hunt: November 5th, may the hunt begin.

Anonymous.

We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”

via ANONYMOUS (Hacker Group) SAYS IT WILL TAKE DOWN THE FOX NEWS WEBSITE.

Jack the Cat Found at JFK Airport

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Jack the cat, who has been missing for over seven weeks after getting lost in the American Airlines baggage check area at New York’s JFK airport, has been found. “American Airlines is happy to announce that Jack the Cat has been found safe and well at JFK airport. American’s team of airport employees have been focused on the search effort since Jack escaped on August 25, 2011. Jack was found in the customs room and was immediately taken by team members to a local veterinarian.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com …

via Jack the Cat Found at JFK Airport.

Perry says it was a ‘mistake’ for him to participate in 2012 debates

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Many political observers agree that Rick Perry’s dismal debate performances have helped spark his dramatic collapse in recent polls. Now, not surprisingly, the Republican presidential hopeful insists his biggest mistake in the campaign so far was agreeing to participate in the forums at all.

“These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com …

via Perry says it was a ‘mistake’ for him to participate in 2012 debates.

Nobel Peace Prize Given to the Son of Satan | ATLAH Media Network

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Hon. James David Manning, PhD speaks about Barack Hussein (The Long Legged Mack Daddy) Obama murdering Moammar Gadhafi after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Recorded on 21 October 2011.

via Nobel Peace Prize Given to the Son of Satan | ATLAH Media Network.

Well, We Know Who The Felons Are – They Wear Badges [Denninger]

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Well, We Know Who The Felons Are – They Wear Badges

After four years of reporting on the various immoral, unethical and in many cases criminal acts perpetrated by people in our financial system and Congress, we now have our evidence at the bar.

This man was gassed for waving a flag. He was not alone.

Last night “OccupyOakland” was literally laid siege by the police. Firing rubber bullets and tear gas into a peaceful gathering, they committed hundreds of cases of felonious assault upon peaceful individuals. I’ll lay odds that not one of the felons-in-blue will be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes.

I remind everyone that our Constitution guarantees you the right of free speech including the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

This does not, of course, include the right to riot, destroy property and commit assaults and batteries.

Well, unless you’re the cops. Then it appears that you have the right to do all of those things, irrespective of the fact that the people were exercising their lawful First Amendment rights – and nothing more.

The police didn’t stop with tear gas. They also detonated explosives within the crowd – an act that, taken by an ordinary person, would constitute the use of a bomb and be considered terrorism.

Yeah, I know, they call them “flash-bangs”; intended to stun and surprise. Let’s call them what they are: They’re explosives, otherwise known as a bomb, and legally known to the BATFE as a “Destructive Device” as they contain more than the lawful limit of powder for a common firecracker. They can (and do) cause personal injury when fired into a crowd. That injury is reasonably foreseeable when the device is delivered. This makes the act an intentional deployment of a destructive device with the intent to harm a person – a serious felony.

Of course such felonies are not prosecuted when the police commit them. Just like the apparent felony murder committed in Chicago by a Gang-Banger in Blue who fatally shot an unarmed man in the back after he had already been shot four other times and was lying prone on the grass.

This man, it appears, was executed in a scene reminiscent of the various murderous thugdoms that have been all-to-common throughout history. Now we have summary justice-by-gang here, and the gang is wearing blue uniforms and badges!

Police have a tough job, but that’s not an excuse for felonious behavior. The job of the police is to Protect and Serve. Lately, it appears they serve themselves, including smuggling guns, slot machines and stolen cigarettes, shooting anyone who might happen to be a nuisance to their “right” to tromp on the people’s necks whenever they so choose.

I’ve long asked the following question: What happens when the people determine that law enforcement agencies – or the government in general – are felons?

This is no longer a rhetorical question, and the answer should give all law-abiding citizens pause.

I don’t care if you hail from the left or right, or what your particular view of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement is. The fact of the matter is that we no longer have the foundational principle of this nation underlying our nation: The Rule of Law.

That’s the difference between a Constitutional Republic and tyranny.

In a Constitutional Republic you do not have the rule of 100 jackbooted thugs wearing badges, discharging firearms (albeit – thus far – with rubber bullets) at people, tossing bombs into their midst and gassing them. You also don’t have jackbooted thugs in blue shooting unarmed people in the back. Any rogue individual who attempts such a stunt goes straight to prison to rot along with the common mugger or murderer, because he or she is one and should an entire agency show up to commit these acts the immediate response is that the National Guard rises and arrests the entire agency, tossing all of them into the clink where they belong.

Today, however, this sort of abusive crap is exactly what we have in this nation and The Guard, who has sworn an oath to protect this land against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is nowhere to be found.

Those in California (along with those in both New York and Chicago) are discovering the hazards of their failure to demand that entire Constitution be strictly enforced in favor of the rights of the people.

Now you see the consequences of that failure America. You thought you were trading “a bit” of freedom for alleged security. What you were really doing is ceding your rights to a band of gang-banging felons-in-blue who have now demonstrated their clear intent to gas, bomb and even murder you.

Have you discerned the error of your ways yet?

We shall see.

via Well, We Know Who The Felons Are – They Wear Badges [Denninger].

The Insurgent Incumbent

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

…Class warfare transforms Obama into the candidate of change all over again– a position he is much more comfortable with because it comes with lots of expectations and no record. As the candidate of change, he is “born again” to be the blank slate that everyone can project their hopes and wishes on.

From “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For” to “Greater Together”, the slogans once again try to fool younger voters into feeling as if they are part of his story. Back on the talk show circuit, the magazine cover, the smirk is flashed and everyone cheers at the right moment. The change is coming.

The problem with the incumbent as the insurgent is that the public blames the incumbent for the things that happened on his watch. For the incumbent to run as an insurgent, he needs an enemy to blame for everything that came before. The Republican congress fits part of the bill, with constant warnings that electing members of another party has so badly gridlocked the government that the bills he won’t submit aren’t being voted on.

The whole bill though demands an enemy. A bigger enemy than a bunch of congressmen that most people couldn’t name if they were being waterboarded. Capitalism.

Stick to what you know is a belated lesson, but a copy of Rules for Radicals is back on the desk and the red meat is being tossed out to voters. But the meat isn’t red because it came from a cow, but because it was taken secondhand from a back alley McMarx joint off the Red Square…

EXCERPT

via The Insurgent Incumbent.

Are Bloomberg’s cops the ‘only ones’ who can be trusted with guns in NYC?

October 26, 2011 1 comment

“A spike in crime over the past few weeks while New York City policemen and women have been diverted to deal with the on-going Occupy Wall Street protest prove that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun policies are working against law-abiding citizens who cannot protect themselves from crimes of opportunity,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms claimed in a press statement yesterday.

The New York Post reported over the weekend that the number of people shot went up 154 percent for a one week period, which is more than double the number of people shot during the same week last year, and overall jumped 28 percent during the past month.

So much for the Big Apple’s draconian “gun control” edicts protecting citizens from this sort of thing.

Bloomberg, of course, is notorious as a leading gungrabber, and while his flagship mayor’s organization hides behind the word “illegal,” their words and deeds prove they would just as soon most guns and carrying be just that—illegal—with the exception of an anointed few, including a handful of well-heeled luminaries and celebrities, Bloomberg’s taxpayer-funded bodyguard detail, and of course, the police.

“Only Ones” all, deemed more trustworthy by hizzoner and his cadre of a disproportionate number of criminal elites than we commoners to keep and bear arms.

Speaking of bodyguards, aside from the ones the mayor took with him to Bermuda where they were armed when even most police there are not, there’s been no resolution yet on Bloomberg protector Leopold McLean, charged with attempted murder and accused of a cover-up/lying to investigators as to the circumstances surrounding his shooting a fleeing unarmed man in the buttocks—a decision on motions is scheduled for tomorrow.

And speaking of Bloomberg’s finest, let’s see how they’ve been earning their exclusive trust of late.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com …

via Are Bloomberg’s cops the ‘only ones’ who can be trusted with guns in NYC?.

“Stage Two” of the BP Gulf of Mexico Environmental Disaster

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Since BP’s catastrophic Macondo Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico last year, the Obama Administration has granted nearly 300 new drilling permits [1] and shirked plans to plug 3,600 of more than 28,000 abandoned wells, which pose significant threats to the severely damaged sea. Among those granted new permits for drilling in the Gulf, on Friday Obama granted BP permission to explore for oil in the Gulf, allowing it to bid on new leases that will be sold at auction in December.

Reports Dow Jones: “The upcoming lease sale, scheduled for Dec. 14 in New Orleans, involves leases in the western Gulf of Mexico. The leases cover about 21 million acres, in water depths of up to 11,000 feet. It will be the first lease auction since the Deepwater Horizon spill.” [2]

Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey objected to BP’s participation in the upcoming lease sale, pointing out that: “Comprehensive safety legislation hasn’t passed Congress, and BP hasn’t paid the fines they owe for their spill, yet BP is being given back the keys to drill in the Gulf.”

Environmental watchdog, Oceana, added its objection to the new permits, saying that none of the new rules implemented since April 2010 would have prevented the BP disaster. “Our analysis shows that while the new rules may increase safety to some degree, they likely would not have prevented the last major oil spill, and similarly do not adequately protect against future ones.” [3]

Detailing the failure of the Dept. of Interior’s safety management systems, Oceana summarizes:

EXCERPT

via “Stage Two” of the BP Gulf of Mexico Environmental Disaster.

Projection: It Isn’t Just For Movies Anymore « Coach is Right

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

By Emma K. Emmett, staff writer

Projection (noun pro•jec•tion [pruh-jek-shuh n] ) is a psychological defense mechanism whereby a person ascribes or accuses individuals or groups of motives, emotions or behavior which have originated in their own subconscious.

This allows the sufferer to deny any responsibility and to feel victimized by others. Taken to extreme, projection is a main component of paranoia. Paradoxically, it is the paranoid person who poses danger, because he is able to justify outrageous actions while feeling that he is at the mercy of others.

On the current political landscape, the list of examples of liberal projection bias is mighty long and getting longer. Some however, are so striking that they deserve special mention. If you’d like a glimpse into the future of what Liberals will do next, simply pay attention to the next thing of which they accuse Conservatives.

Remember when Hillary shrieked at the top of her lungs that she and the Democrat minority had a right to disagree with any administration? Had anyone whatsoever taken steps to silence her or her asinine opinions? Ahhh, but if you say her opinions are asinine? You ought to be silenced. Nancy Pelosi and other liberal loons called the Tea Party nothing more than “astroturf.” It took a while to make any sense of what she meant.

Then, we got a load of…..

EXCERPT

via Projection: It Isn’t Just For Movies Anymore « Coach is Right.

WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE! ~ GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!! Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

GUNNY G: HEY, REAL AMERICANS! YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU BLOGGING RIGHT NOW !!!!!

Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!!

NOW (Right Now!) is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of our country, while we still can!

Real Americans: Get your own blog, free and quickly, online and Blog (Vote?) Daily–the only way left for your voice to be heard at all !!!!!

Writing, phoning, and voting are all well and good…but Bloggers are what they HEAR!

You’ve heard the expression, “vote with your feet,” well, I say, VOTE WITH YOUR OWN OUTSPOKEN BLOG DAILY!

Guess why “they” are now putting so much energy into getting rid of bloggers, and even the internet itself!!!!!

IMAGINE ALL REAL AMERICANS BLOGGING!!!!!

Myself, I have used Blogger.com ~ WordPress.com ~ Netwok54.com ~ Some have many formats of forums, and also a Blog format! Call it a blog, forum, website, whatever–they all work.

DidJa Know: Many think Thomas Paine (patriot author: Common Sense, etc.) may have been the first blogger (pamphleteer)!

*****

R U A (Potential) “KEY BLOGGER“?

“ONLY XXXXX MAY SERVE”

*****

via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G ~WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE!.

Why Republicans Will Never Address Obama’s Crimes(Col Sellin) ~ The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

…Republicans are fully intimidated by the Obama campaign and its supporters in the mainstream media with the certainty of being labeled and dismissed as “racists,” “birthers” and right-wingconspiracy theorists” if they confront Obama regarding his violation of the Constitution and his felonies.

Republicans have also been intimidated by the threat of civil unrest instigated by the Obama campaign and executed by union thugs, left-wing radicals and Black Nationalist extremists.

In both cases, the Republicans have succumbed to political blackmail.

What goes unmentioned in the Republicans’ explanation is that, because of their complicity in the cover-up of Obama’s ineligibility and crimes, they are also vulnerable to political criticism and criminal prosecution.

The Republican strategy, therefore, is to challenge Obama on policy, educate the public and defeat him in the 2012 election.

Good luck with that approach, with the already anointed RINO candidate Mitt Romney and with a party platform of warmed-over platitudes and promises with post-election expiration dates.

In my opinion, regardless of who wins the Presidency in 2012, Obama’s ineligibility and his crimes will never be addressed. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have too much to lose.

Exposure of the Obama fraud and criminal activity would reveal the depth of corruption in the two-party system…

EXCERPT

via Why Republicans Will Never Address Obama’s Crimes| The Post & Email.

Why Republicans Will Never Address Obama’s Crimes| The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 1 comment

THE EXTENT OF THE DECEPTION PERPETRATED BY OBAMA SUPPORTERS IS MINDBOGGLING

by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 on an anti-slavery platform and came to dominate the northern region of the country by 1858

(Oct. 22, 2011) — I have received information from multiple sources that Congressional Republicans are fully aware that Barack Hussein Obama is a Constitutionally illegal President and has committed felonies both before and after occupying the Oval Office.

Specifically, Obama is not a natural born citizen and, therefore, has never been eligible for the office of President. In addition, Obama has forged his birth documents and Selective Service registration and uses a Social Security number not issued to him.

The Republican establishment has decided that challenging Obama on those issues will be ineffective and will cause complete havoc in the country.

It is clear to me that Obama and the mainstream media have been thoroughly successful using Saul Alinsky’s Rules 5 and 9 of “Rules for Radicals”:

Rule 5 – “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

Rule 9 –…..

EXCERPT

via Why Republicans Will Never Address Obama’s Crimes| The Post & Email.

Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad

Frontpagemagazine ^ | Oct 24th, 2011 | Robert Spencer

via Obama Administration Bans the Truth About Islam and Jihad.

Word of the Day, and America’s Problem Explained

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

READER RESPONSE: Gunny G…

Have wondered for years when people/sheeple would notice…

it is almost w/o exception that the least qualified/deserving are elevated to positions of power and authority where they tend to just clog the system at the very least, or even worse…

“Dr” Peter also shot his yap off about a similar “theory”…on and on…

Semper Watching!

*****

via Word of the Day, and America’s Problem Explained.

GyG: The Flim-Flam Stooges…Pick Yer Take…

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment


News Link  •  Economy – Economics USA
Republican candidates offer a diverse set of economic plans
10-25-2011  •  Washington Post 
At a moment when the fragility of the economy ranks at the top of American concerns, sharp differences have begun to emerge in how the leading GOP presidential contenders would solve the problem — illuminating not only a diversity in approach, but a  
Read Comments •  Make a Comment •  Email this News Link •  Send Letter to Editor

AP Exclusive: NASA sting terrifies woman, 74

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

NASA SWAT Team terrifies 74 year old woman

News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers

NASA SWAT Team terrifies 74 year old woman

10-26-2011 • AP

The elaborate mission to recover a moon rock led NASA agents to one of the most down-to-earth places: a Denny’s restaurant in Riverside County.

But at the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 74-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.

Read Full Story

via AP Exclusive: NASA sting terrifies woman, 74.

Veteran shot in the face by rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland protests

October 26, 2011 1 comment

YouTube

October 26, 2011

Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen was wounded by a less-lethal round fired by either San Francisco Sheriffs deputies or Palo Alto Police on October 25, 2011 at 14th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland.

#OccupyOakland – Flashbangs USED on protesters OPD LIES

MORE…

via Prison Planet.com » Veteran shot in the face by rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland protests.

The President Who Told The Truth « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

The President Who Told The Truth

(Video +Text)

The inspiration for these quotes came from a documentary entitled Evidence of Revision. It’s a series of five videos, each about an hour and a half long that you can find on Google Video. I would highly recommend finding the time to watch it. Once you do – you’ll be left with some strong doubt as to who killed this man. More significant to the here and now – you’ll realize that the completion of a Presidential Commission of inquiry does not mean that the public is in possession of the truth – I’m no 9/11 conspiracy theorist – but that doesn’t mean I have to consider the commissions report to be anything more than toilet paper.

Ref

Here are some JFK quotes that you’ve likely never heard. I would ask the question – when will we ever hear a President utter such words again?

http://theantipress.blogspot.com/2007/09/jfk-quotes-you-probably-havent-heard.html

EXCERPT…..

via The President Who Told The Truth « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL).

UPDATED: President Obama Holds Secret Meet-and-Greet With Hollywood Execs and Influencers

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

UPDATED: Among those attending the morning gathering at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel were studio head Harvey Weinstein, UTA’s Rob Prinz, CAA managing partner and music head Rob Light, and ICM’s Chris Silbermann.

Before he left Los Angeles for San Francisco on Tuesday, President Barack Obama stopped for an undisclosed meeting with some of the entertainment industry’s high-level executives, as well as talent representatives with access to the industry’s top stars and musical acts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Among the small group of industry insiders who were invited to attended the early-morning meeting with the president at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel were: Weinstein Co. studio head Harvey Weinstein, CAA managing partner and music head Rob Light, ICM president Chris Silbermann, Modern Family creator Steve Levitan, Atlantic Records chairman Craig Kallman, producer/songwriter Bruce Roberts, talent manger and producer Jason Weinberg, UTA music agent Rob Prinz, talent manager and producer Eric Ortner, Island Def Jam senior vice president Karen Kwak, Warner Bros. Records president Livia Tortella, talent manager Greg Mertz, ID PR publicists Kelly Bush and Mara Buxbaum, talent managers Bruce Flohr, Michael Green, Steve Moir and Bill Silva, Universial Music Publishing Group executive vice president and head of creative Tom Sturges, entertainment attorney Chuck Ortner and actor/activist Kal Penn.

The event was not a fundraiser, and attendees were not asked to donate to the Obama reelection campaign. But those invited have been ardent supporters of the president and were identified as “influencers” with the ability to help Obama shape the national political conversation heading into a tough race in 2012.

Full article here

via Prison Planet.com » President Obama Holds Secret Meet-and-Greet With Hollywood Execs and Influencers.

Kelleigh Nelson — Occupy Wall Street and the Constitutional Convention

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787

“Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” –John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814

The group often credited with sparking Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is Adbusters, the Canadian anti-capitalist magazine founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. This July, Lasn and Schmalz issued a call to flood lower Manhattan with 90,000 protesters. Lasn has been accused of anti-Semitism regarding some of the articles in Adbusters. [Link]

Kalle Lasn previously called for a protest at the upcoming G20 while demanding a one-percent tax on financial transactions. You can read The Daily Call article on this here: “Occupy Wall Street Demands Global UN Tax and Worldwide G20 Protest.”

They don’t even try to hide their affinity to the UN, they’re taking the UN’s call for the tax to the streets and screaming for its implementation. As one of the founders of Occupy Wall Street, Lasn is also in bed with the power elite Soros crowd, which helps fund his magazine, as reported by Lew Rockwell…..

EXCERPT

via Kelleigh Nelson — Occupy Wall Street and the Constitutional Convention.

Profits Are for People

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are demanding “people before profits” — as if profit motivation were the source of mankind’s troubles — when it’s often the absence of profit motivation that’s the true villain.

First, let’s get both the definition and magnitude of profits out of the way. Profits represent the residual claim earned by entrepreneurs. They’re what are left after other production costs — such as wages, rent and interest — have been paid. Profits are the payment for risk taking, innovation and decision-making. As such, they are a cost of business just as are wages, rent and interest. If those payments are not made, labor, land and capital will not offer their services. Similarly, if profit is not paid, entrepreneurs won’t offer theirs. Historically, corporate profits range between 5 and 8 cents of each dollar, and wages range between 50 and 60 cents of each dollar.

Far more important than simple statistics about the magnitude of profits is the role played by profits, namely that of forcing producers to cater to the wants and desires of the common man. When’s the last time we’ve heard widespread complaints about our clothing stores, supermarkets, computer stores or appliance stores? We are far likelier to hear people complaining about services they receive from the post office, motor vehicle and police departments, boards of education and other government agencies. The fundamental difference between the areas of general satisfaction and dissatisfaction is the pursuit of profits is present in one and not the other.

The pursuit of profits forces producers to be attentive to the will of their customers, simply because the customer of, say, a supermarket can fire it on the spot by taking his business elsewhere. If a state motor vehicle department or post office provides unsatisfactory services, it’s not so easy for dissatisfied customers to take action against it. If a private business had as many dissatisfied customers as our government schools have, it would have long ago been out of business.

Free market capitalism is unforgiving. Producers please customers, in a cost-minimizing fashion, and make a profit, or they face losses or go bankrupt. It’s this market discipline that some businesses seek to avoid. That’s why they descend upon Washington calling for crony capitalism — government bailouts, subsidies and special privileges. They wish to reduce the power of consumers and stockholders, who hold little sympathy for blunders and will give them the ax on a moment’s notice.

Having Congress on their side means business can be less attentive to the will of consumers. Congress can keep them afloat with bailouts, as it did in the cases of General Motors and Chrysler, with the justification that such companies are “too big to fail.” Nonsense! If General Motors and Chrysler had been allowed to go bankrupt, it wouldn’t have meant that their productive assets, such as assembly lines and tools, would have gone poof and disappeared into thin air. Bankruptcy would have led to a change in ownership of those assets by someone who might have managed them better. The bailout enabled them to avoid the full consequences of their blunders.

By the way, we often hear people say, with a tone of saintliness, “We’re a nonprofit organization,” as if that alone translates into decency, objectivity and selflessness. They want us to think they’re in it for the good of society and not for those “evil” profits. If we gave it just a little thought and asked what kind of organization throughout mankind’s history has accounted for his greatest grief, the answer wouldn’t be a free market, private, profit-making enterprise; it would be government, the largest nonprofit organization.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters are following the path predicted by the great philosopher-economist Frederic Bastiat, who said in “The Law” that “instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general.” In other words, the protesters don’t want to end crony capitalism, with its handouts and government favoritism; they want to participate in it.

via Profits Are for People.

You Be The Judge & Jury| The Post & Email

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

ARE WE OPPOSED AROUND THE WORLD BY A MONOLITHIC AND RUTHLESS CONSPIRACY? PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY BELIEVED WE ARE!

by Steven Pattison, ©2011, blogging at Citizens for a Constitutional Republic

(Oct. 25, 2011) — Excerpts from President John F. Kennedy address before ‘The American Newspaper Publishers Association’ at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961:

“Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”

“Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.”

“It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”

EXCERPT

via You Be The Judge & Jury| The Post & Email.

Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected to soon wash up on Hawaii beaches, western US coastline

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores much sooner than their original two-years-from-now estimate.

Russian researcher Nikolai Maximenko and his team recently identified household appliances, furniture, plastic material, and even boats floating in Pacific waters during a recent trek home from Honolulu to Russia aboard the STS Pallada. Their discovery represents the first documented case of Fukushima rubble being identified in waters, and heading towards US land.

“We have a rough estimate of five to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan,” said University of Hawaii (UH) computer programming researcher Jan Hafner to KITV 4 News in Honolulu. “[The Russian team] saw some pieces of furniture, some appliances, anything that can float, and they picked up a fishing boat. That’s actually our first confirmed report of tsunami debris.”

The Fukushima earthquake and tsunami sent a lot more than just small objects out to sea, though. Early reports showed entire buildings, including homes and warehouses, being sent into ocean waters. And while much of this larger debris ended up sinking, masses of it are still floating en route to shorelines in Hawaii and other places…..

EXCERPT

via Prison Planet.com » Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected to soon wash up on Hawaii beaches, western US coastline.

Why Are Millions Of Preppers Preparing Feverishly For The End Of The World As We Know It?

October 26, 2011 3 comments

In America today, there are millions of “preppers” that are working feverishly to get prepared for what they fear is going to happen to America. There is a very good chance that some of your neighbors or co-workers may be preppers. You may even have noticed that some of your relatives and friends have been storing up food and have been trying to convince you that we are on the verge of “the end of the world as we know it”. A lot of preppers like to keep their preparations quiet, but everyone agrees that the prepper movement is growing. Some estimate that there are four million preppers in the United States today. Others claim that there are a lot more than that. In any event, there are certainly a lot of preppers out there. So exactly what are all these preppers so busy preparing for?

EXCERPT

via Prison Planet.com » Why Are Millions Of Preppers Preparing Feverishly For The End Of The World As We Know It?.

Children May Be Given Death-Linked Anthrax Shots Under Bioterrorism Scare Trials

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Obama administration officials are debating whether or not a study should be launched which would lead to injecting healthy children with the anthrax vaccine in an experiment to “see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.” Of course the safety of the anthrax vaccine has been questioned in the past by health professionals and the former Senate Majority Leader — also a physician. That is why the Obama administration is using the threat of bioterrorism as a method of getting the public to submit to the study through fear.

The administration had mainstream health officials touting the vaccine as a way to ‘protect’ the children from the threat of bioterrorism.

“At the end of the day, do we want to wait for an attack and give it to millions and millions of children and collect data at that time?” said Daniel B. Fagbuyi of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, who chaired the group. “Or do we want to say: ‘How do we best protect our children?’ We can take care of Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle and Auntie. But right now, we have nothing for the children.”

Evidence shows the anthrax vaccine is dangerous

Daniel B. Fagbuyi portrays the study as a necessary means of protecting the children, but evidence shows the anthrax vaccine is actually quite dangerous — not ‘protective’ as the Obama administration officials make it out to be. In 2001 when letters containing anthrax were mailed to several congressional leaders, former Senate Majority Leader and physician Bill Frist spoke out against the shot. He told CNN:

“There are very real and potentially serious side effects from the vaccine and anyone who elects to receive the vaccine needs to be made aware of that. I do not recommend widespread inoculation. There are too many side effects and if there is limited chance of exposure- the side effects would far outweigh any potential advantage.”

In a 2007 report by the CDC in conjunction with theVaccine Healthcare Centers of the Department of Defense and the watchdog group Government Accountability found that ”between 1 and 2 percent” of vaccinated military personnel experienced ”severe adverse events, which could result in disability or death.”

Between 2001 and 2004, the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received 4,136 spontaneous adverse event reports: 347 (8.4%) were reported as serious.

Serious adverse events include: death, hospitalization, permanent disability, or are life-threatening. There were 16 deaths…..

EXCERPT

via Prison Planet.com » Children May Be Given Death-Linked Anthrax Shots Under Bioterrorism Scare Trials.

New Street Lights To Have “Homeland Security” Applications

October 26, 2011 1 comment

New street lights that include “Homeland Security” applications including speaker systems, motion sensors and video surveillance are now being rolled out with the aid of government funding.

The Intellistreets system comprises of a wireless digital infrastructure that allows street lights to be controlled remotely by means of a ubiquitous wi-fi link and a miniature computer housed inside each street light, allowing for “security, energy management, data harvesting and digital media,” according to the Illuminating Concepts website.

According to the company’s You Tube video of the concept, the primary capabilities of the devices include “energy conservation, homeland security, public safety, traffic control, advertising, video surveillance.”

In terms of Homeland Security applications, each of the light poles contains a speaker system that can be used to broadcast emergency alerts, as well as a display that transmits “security levels” (presumably a similar system to the DHS’ much maligned color-coded terror alert designation), in addition to showing instructions by way of its LED video screen.

The lights also include proximity sensors that can record both pedestrian and road traffic. The video display and speaker system will also be used to transmit Minority Report-style advertising, as well as Amber Alerts and other “civic announcements”.

With the aid of grant money from the federal government, the company is about to launch the first concept installation of the system in the city of Farmington Hills, Michigan.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Using street lights as surveillance tools has already been advanced by several European countries. In 2007, leaked documents out of the UK Home Office revealed that British authorities were working on proposals to fit lamp posts with CCTV cameras that would X-ray scan passers-by and “undress them” in order to “trap terror suspects”.

Dutch police also announced last year that they are developing a mobile scanner that will “see through people’s clothing and look for concealed weapons”.

So-called ‘talking surveillance cameras’ that use a speaker system similar to the Intellistreets model are already being used in UK cities like Middlesborough to bark orders and reprimand people for dropping litter and other minor offenses. According to reports, one of the most common phrases used to shame people into obeying instructions is to broadcast the message, “We are watching you.”

The transformation of street lights into surveillance tools for Homeland Security purposes will only serve to heighten concerns that the United States is fast on the way to becoming a high-tech police state, with TSA agents being empowered to oversee that control grid, most recently with the announcement that TSA screeners would be manning highway checkpoints, a further indication that security measures we currently see in airports are rapidly spilling out onto the streets.

*********************

via Prison Planet.com » New Street Lights To Have “Homeland Security” Applications.

EXONERATE LAST HADITHA MARINE-DEFEND OUR MARINES EXCLUSIVE!

October 26, 2011 1 comment

Defend Our Marines main page

DEFEND OUR MARINES EXCLUSIVE!

______________________________________________________

EXONERATE LAST HADITHA MARINE

An editorial by William T. Russell

October 26, 2011 – Last week, President Obama announced his decision to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by year’s end. Some hail it as the end of a war that should never have occurred. Others see it as a great strategic blunder, committed for political expediency, which will lead to yet another war.

While the decision to withdraw from Iraq is clearly a political one, it is just one of the many political decisions which affect wars and their outcomes. One unfortunate reality is that it is the troops who get caught in the political crossfire. While the President’s decision will bring one chapter of the war to a close, there is another chapter which remains unfinished.

While the last of his brother and sisters-in-arms will leave Iraq before December 31st, one Marine will be held a political hostage to the Iraq War until after the New Year. His name is Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich. SSgt Wuterich is the remaining hostage of a great wrong which occurred at the height of the war in Iraq and the political arguments over it. And it is long past the time for this wrong to be made right and this chapter ended.

In early 2006, a very obvious enemy propaganda ploy hit the press, falsely accusing US Marines of the murder of 24 Iraqi civilians at a town called Haditha in November 2005. The story was seized upon by the press, anti-war groups, and some of the most powerful members of Congress, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the late John Murtha. Six months before the investigation into the incident was completed and any charges were filed, John Murtha took to the airwaves and publicly accused the Marines of “cold-blooded murder.” In doing so, he effectively put the United States Congress “Stamp of Approval” on enemy propaganda, inspired the anti-war advocates, undermined support for the troops at home, and solidified the “truth” of the enemy’s side of the story on the Arab street.

It was politically impossible for the Department of Defense to dismiss the charges created by the heavily doctored video tapes (which the insurgents produced after moving the bodies and removing all evidence of insurgent activities) and the contradictory testimonies of the “eye witnesses” given to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service six months after the incident, especially after Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House and Murtha the Chairman of the House Appropriations Sub Committee for Defense.

However, the truth has a habit of coming out. As 2007 progressed into to 2008, seven of the eight Marines who were charged were not only found to be “not guilty” but they were fully exonerated. In the case of Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt, who happens to be from Murtha’s own district, he was found to have conducted himself to highest standards of the Marine Corps for a Marine in combat.

For some reason, however, SSgt Wuterich did not go to trial before the 2008 election, even though it was nearly two years after he was charged. In fact, he is not scheduled to go to trial until January 4, 2012, more than five years after the initial charges were levied against him and more than six years after the combat action for which all of his squad mates have now been commended.

As the old saying goes: justice delayed is justice denied. In SSgt Wuterich’s case, he has been denied the privilege of leading other Marines and eligibility for promotion for over five years because of the pending charges. He has spent the last five years of his life and career in a legal purgatory, largely because of the political vulnerability his exoneration would have caused for his most vocal accuser, Congressman John Murtha. But Murtha is gone now, and his former Chief of Staff, John Hugya has admitted that the continued prosecution of SSgt Wuterich is wrong, telling the Somerset, Pennsylvania Daily American on October 20th that SSgt Wuterich “should be exonerated and pardoned if convicted.”

It is time for the President to order the Secretary of Defense to drop the charges against SSgt Wuterich and restore him to his rightful place as a combat leader with any back-dated promotions and pay raises he would have had, if not for the pending charges. It is time for Congressman Mark Critz to introduce a Congressional Resolution honoring the Haditha Marines for their bravery in combat and right the wrong inflicted on them by his predecessor.

via EXONERATE LAST HADITHA MARINE-DEFEND OUR MARINES EXCLUSIVE!.

NBC orders White House sitcom pilot from former Obama speechwriter

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

NBC has ordered a pilot for a sitcom about a dysfunctional First Family in the White House, which will be exec produced by, among others, former Obama speech-writer Jon Lovett.

Lovett left his Washington gig in September to write for television out west because he told The Post’s Jason Horowitz, “I would like to be able to write in my own voice.”

It’s important to note that ordering a pilot does not mean we will ever see an actual series called “1600 Penn” from 20th Century Fox on the NBC lineup.

But the head of NBC programming, Jennifer Salke was, until July, an exec vp at 20th Century Fox TV where she developed new series (including comedies “Glee” and “Modern Family”), so it’s a near cert she’ll champion “1600 Penn” getting on NBC’s schedule in a big way.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com …

via NBC orders White House sitcom pilot from former Obama speechwriter.

Holds Secret Meet-and-Greet With Hollywood Execs and Influencers (Exclusive)

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

UPDATED: Among those attending the morning gathering at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel were studio head Harvey Weinstein, UTA’s Rob Prinz, CAA managing partner and music head Rob Light, and ICM’s Chris Silbermann.

Before he left Los Angeles for San Francisco on Tuesday, President Barack Obama stopped for an undisclosed meeting with some of the entertainment industry’s high-level executives, as well as talent representatives with access to the industry’s top stars and musical acts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com …

via Holds Secret Meet-and-Greet With Hollywood Execs and Influencers (Exclusive).

State Department Reportedly Spends $70,000 to Buy Copies of Obama’s 1995 Memoir

October 26, 2011 2 comments

State Department Reportedly Spends $70,000 to Buy Copies of Obama’s 1995 Memoir

October 25, 2011

President Obama just soared to the top of the U.S. embassy bestseller list. The U.S. Department of State forked over $70,000 to buy Obama’s best-selling book “Dreams From My Father,” The Washington Times reported Tuesday, noting that if Obama earned 10 percent of the purchase, he pocketed several thousand dollars.

Although the 1995 book is a bestseller that sold briskly when Obama’s popularity grew during his run for president, the department’s decision to buy copies is catching the eye of government spending watchdogs. “It’s inappropriate for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent on this,” Leslie Paige, the spokesman for Citizens Agaisnt Governtment Waste, told the paper. “This sounds like propaganda.”

The report points out that there’s no indication that the White House was alerted about the purchase, and a spokesman from the State Department said book purchases are common and often used “to engage key audiences in discussions of foreign policy.”

“We also provide key library collections with books about the United States,” Noel Clay, the spokesman, told The Times. (The newspaper said a White House spokesman didn’t respond to its messages.)

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com …

via State Department Reportedly Spends $70,000 to Buy Copies of Obama’s 1995 Memoir.

Today’s Toons 10/26/11

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Today’s Toons 10/26/11

The Right Reasons ^ | 10/26/11 | pookie18

Posted on 10/26/2011 1:42:56 AM PDT by pookie18

Click on link.

via Today’s Toons 10/26/11.

Rick Perry Releases First Round of Ads in Iowa [Opening American Oil and Gas Fields]

October 26, 2011 1 comment

(WASHINGTON) — Rick Perry’s first ad campaign of the election cycle carries a positive tone, focusing on the Texas governor’s job creation record while promising to produce at least two and a half million jobs.

“As President, I’ll create at least two and a half million new jobs — and I know something about that,” Perry says in the ad, which will run in Iowa starting Wednesday.

The ad touts Perry’s Texas job creation record and reiterates some of the themes in the energy plan he unveiled two weeks ago, which aims to expand drilling oil and gas fields, eliminate regulations which impede the production of domestic energy and make American energy independent.

The details of the ad, which mixes graphics of energy projects with video of Perry speaking with workers, were first reported by the Daily Caller.

“In Texas, we’ve created over one million new jobs while the rest of the nation lost over two million. I’ll start by opening American oil and gas fields. I’ll eliminate President Obama’s regulations that hurt other sources of domestic energy like coal and natural gas. That will create jobs and reduce our reliance on oil from countries that hate America,” Perry says in the ad.

“Governor Perry’s new TV ad signals two priorities, American job creation and the families of Iowa,” Ray Sullivan, communications director for the Perry campaign said. “The ad, which will be widely seen on Iowa TV and cable stations, underscores Rick Perry’s commitment to sparking millions of new jobs and his record as America’s jobs governor.”

Sources with knowledge of the ad buy said the Perry campaign will pour approximately $175,000 in an ad buy in Iowa between Oct. 25 and Oct. 31 with the bulk of the ads airing in Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Sioux City.

Perry has released a series of web videos since he announced his run for the presidency, but this ad run marks his first advertisement of his presidential run.

via Rick Perry Releases First Round of Ads in Iowa [Opening American Oil and Gas Fields].

Growing Angry Backlash Against Occupy Wall Street Movement

October 26, 2011 Leave a comment

Could it be at last that Americans have it with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and now are saying in their own way, “enough is enough?”

With reports from a number of locations where Occupy Wall Street in a number of American cities, according to a number of news reports in the last few days:

From CBS Boston:”BOSTON (CBS) – A man and woman were arrested in Dewey Square for allegedly selling heroin to an undercover police officer.Thirty-four-year-old Isaac Bell and 31-year-old Charlene Dumont both face drug charges. The two were living in a tent with Occupy Boston protesters on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.Boston Police officers had been aware of drug activity in the park, and went in to investigate.”

From CBS Washington:”NORFOLK, Va. (CBS Washington) — “Occupy Norfolk” is struggling to find an identity as some protesters laugh about what the goal of the movement is.

While the movement has taken the steps to set up a campsite and base of operations in Commercial Plaza– symbolically close in proximity to Bank of America and BB&T locations — they reportedly haven’t worked out the specifics of what they want to do.”

From KRLD1080/CBS DFW:”DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – Dallas Police continue to investigate whether a teenage runaway was sexually assaulted by an adult male at the Occupy Dallas encampment behind City Hall.”

From what I have been reading in the comments, they read more coming from people who are simply are getting fed-up with all this Occupy Wall Street protests. These folks have what I call “a life,” working, or looking for work, attending college, running small businesses, added with these responsibilities, bringing up children, helping out with aging parents, or dealing with personal health issues. They are TOO BUSY to be camping out and protesting.

These are the same folks who after over a month of these protests, their patience is NOW starting to run out in regards to the OWS protesters. Look for what I call the new “silent majority” that the leadership in these and the other cities where the protests are going on to press for a calling for an end to what I now call this new form of protests by camping out, “the new Hooverville or now Obamaville” protests camps.

While I am no fan of winter and of the snow, I look forward to when the first snowflakes begin to fall and will see these protests campers begin to melt away.

via Growing Angry Backlash Against Occupy Wall Street Movement.

Glenn Beck ‘hates GOP,’ but here’s his ticket prediction

October 26, 2011 2 comments

WND Exclusive ELECTION 2012

Glenn Beck ‘hates GOP,’ but here’s his ticket prediction

Tells television audience: ‘That’s the way the machine works’

Posted: October 25, 2011

9:11 pm Eastern

© 2011 WND

Glenn Beck

Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann … you can all go home now. The Republican “machine” has settled on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the 2012 GOP nominee and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as the vice-presidential candidate, according to popular commentator Glenn Beck.

Beck yesterday told his GBTV audience that while he’s not crazy about the prospect, that’s what it is.

“I hate the Republicans just as much as I hate the Democrats,” he said on yesterday’s program. “I haven’t found anybody I can vote for yet. … It’s going to be Mitt Romney and Rubio. You watch. It will be. That’s the way the machine works.”

The comments came in the middle of a program about the nationwide “Occupy” protests and how they’re being pushed, promoted and programmed by leftists.

(Story continues below)

via Glenn Beck ‘hates GOP,’ but here’s his ticket prediction.

Islam makes inroads through U.S. courts

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Islamic law, or Shariah, already is being applied in the U.S. court system, according to an extensive new report..

A recent Center for Security Policy study called “Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases outlines dozens of cases in which the Islamic system of law has been applied.

Center spokesman David Reaboi said the Islamic strictures are being carried out mostly in cases in which foreigners are the principals.

Get your autographed copy of Pamela Geller’s “Stop the Islamization of America” directly from WND.

“Shariah enters U.S. courts through the practice of comity to foreign law,” Reaboi explained. “This happens, for example, when a judge decides to allow the use of say, Pakistani or Saudi family law (Shariah) in a dispute between Pakistanis or Saudis.”

He said the study only scratches the surface of Shariah’s presence in the nation.

(Story continues below)

via Islam makes inroads through U.S. courts.

State Department has spent $70,000 buying copies of Barack Obama’s book

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The State Department has spent $70,000 in taxpayer money to buy copies of Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father. One embassy in Indonesia spent more than $3,800 buying copies of Obama’s other book The Audacity of Hope. Again, all with taxpayer money — all while Obama profits from the purchases.

But hey, it most be common place to buy books written by presidents to hand out as gifts and put in libraries, right? Nope. A search by the Washington Times of the federal database found no examples of the State Department purchasing books by President Clinton or President Bush. And most copies of Obama’s books were purchased in the months following his inauguration.

(Excerpt) Read more at amerpundit.com …

via State Department has spent $70,000 buying copies of Barack Obama’s book.

Obama: Gaddafi Death Is Warning To Dictators

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Obama: Gaddafi Death Is Warning To Dictators

12:13am UK, Wednesday October 26, 2011 US President Barack Obama has described Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death as a strong message to dictators around the world.

Speaking on NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ Mr Obama said the Libyan leader had missed his chance to bring democracy to his country.

“This is somebody who, for 40 years, has terrorised his country and supported terrorism,” he said.

“He had an opportunity during the Arab Spring to finally let loose of his grip on power and to peacefully transition into democracy.

“We gave him ample opportunity, and he wouldn’t do it,

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com …

via Obama: Gaddafi Death Is Warning To Dictators.

Why Marriage Preserves More Perfect Union

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Most Americans are unaware that about $700 billion a year of federal taxpayers’ money is handed out to nontaxpayers who are allegedly below the poverty line (in addition to $250 billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became president, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during his campaign, he wants to “spread the wealth,” knowing that increasing welfare spending promotes dependence on government and votes for the Democrats.

This federal welfare apparatus consists of 69 means-tested programs: 12 programs providing food, 10 for housing assistance, 10 for social services, nine for educational assistance, eight programs giving cash, eight for vocational training, seven for medical assistance, three for energy and utility assistance and two for child care and child development.

What is now called the hidden welfare state (because so few Americans know about its enormity) is the fastest-growing component of government spending, and this does not include Social Security or Medicare payments. The total of these means-tested handouts is greater than what we are paying for our entire public school system and greater than what we spend on national defense.

We have just learned, for example, that 2.3 million illegal aliens who worked U.S. jobs in 2010 paid no federal income taxes but collected $4 billion from the U.S. Treasury in tax-credit money.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com …

via Why Marriage Preserves More Perfect Union.

Steve Jobs Called Fox News a ‘Destructive Force in Our Society’

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Rupert Murdoch must have imagined Steve Jobs would be a feisty dinner guest. Even still, the News Corp. chairman couldn’t have foreseen that, in one night at the mogul’s Carmel, California ranch, Jobs would call his tech people incompetent, get a guy fired, and say that Fox News was literally destroying the world.

Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Apple co-founder says Jobs railed against the conservative news channel and tried to convince Murdoch to shut it down. His comments came at the 2010 iteration of News Corp.’s annual management retreat. Isaacson writes:

In return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News, which he believed was destructive, harmful to the nation, and a blot on Murdoch’s reputation. “You’re blowing it with Fox News,” Jobs told him over dinner. “The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is conservative-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become a destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you’re not careful.” Jobs said he thought Murdoch did not really like how far Fox has gone. “Rupert’s a builder, not a tearer-downer,” he said…

Murdoch later said he was used to people like Jobs complaining about Fox. “He’s got sort of a left wing view on this,” he said. Jobs asked him to have his folks make a reel of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck shows – he thought they were more destructive than Bill O’Reilly – and Murdoch agreed to do so. saacson’s book also confirms our 2010 item about how the Wall Street Journal’s Gordon McLeod got fired for crossing Jobs at the same Carmel retreat.

(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com …

via Steve Jobs Called Fox News a ‘Destructive Force in Our Society’.

Rick Perry presses Birther issue, calls Romney “fat cat”

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Texas governor Rick Perry, who is embarking on a hard push to recapture the buzz that surrounded him when he first entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination, is doubling down on the “birther” issue and also deeming his rival Mitt Romney a “fat cat.”

In an interview with John Harwood of CNBC and the New York Times on Tuesday, Perry was asked why he was keeping the “birther” issue alive. During an interview with Parade Magazine published Sunday, Perry suggested he doesn’t “have a definitive answer” to whether President Obama was born in the United States. Mr. Obama released his long-form birth certificate in April and there is no evidence to suggest he was not born in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped some prominent Republicans, including Donald Trump, from making the charge anyway.

Perry responded, “‘It’s a good issue to keep alive.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com …

via Rick Perry presses Birther issue, calls Romney “fat cat”.

Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988

October 25, 2011 1 comment

Free Republic

Browse · Search Pings · Mail News/Activism

Topics · Post Article

This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies.

Locked on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:51:12 PM by Admin Moderator, reason:

Check Breaking News ———>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2797882/posts

Skip to comments.

Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988

BigGovernment.com ^ | 10/28/2011 | by Joel B. Pollak

Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:44:20 PM by Carbonsteel

Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests.

He would have organized them.

From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:

In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com …

TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions; Click to Add Topic

KEYWORDS: Click to Add Keyword

[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ]

I usually pride myself in that I knew, for the most part, who Obama was before he was President and that’s why I didn’t vote for him.

This however, I did not know.

via Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988.

Study: Gays can change sexual orientation

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) — A major seven-year study published in a mainstream journal is challenging the secular notion that gays and lesbians cannot change their sexual orientation.

The longitudinal study followed 61 subjects for between six and seven years and found that 23 percent of them reported successful conversion to heterosexual orientation and function and another 30 percent reported stable behavioral chastity with a significant dis-identification with gay orientation. Twenty percent of the subjects had given up and embraced a gay identity.

It is believed to be the first study of its kind — that is, one that followed people over a series of years and monitored success or failure. The study followed subjects who voluntarily were taking part in Christian ministries affiliated with Exodus International, the nation’s largest ministry devoted exclusively to reaching out to homosexuals.

Partial results of the study were released in 2007 and 2009 but now are being published in a peer-reviewed journal, which its authors hope gives it more credibility to those who had criticized it. The study is published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Volume 37.

“The results that we report in our study suggest that change is definitely not impossible, and it’s probably not uncommon, either,” coauthor Stanton L. Jones, a psychologist at Wheaton College, told Baptist Press. “That doesn’t mean that change is easy. We think that these results need to be taken into account as a way of respecting the religious freedom of individuals.”

Baptist Press reported on the earlier findings in ’07 and ’09. Having the study published in a peer-reviewed journal, Jones said, is significant.

“It signifies that the methodology meets the basic requirements for being taken seriously as a piece of scientific literature,” Jones said. “Critics still dismiss the study. They say, ‘Well, it’s only one study,’ or they say it’s not a large enough sample. But I think the study stands as a significant challenge to the reigning views on this matter, especially given that the major mental health organizations say in alternate voices that change of sexual orientation is impossible or that change in sexual orientation is highly unlikely.”

A statement on the American Psychological Association’s website says that promotion of change therapy “contributes to a negative climate for lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons.”

“All major national mental health organizations have officially expressed concerns about therapies promoted to modify sexual orientation,” the APA statement says. “To date, there has been no scientifically adequate research to show that therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation … is safe or effective.”

Changing attitudes on the subject isn’t easy, Jones said. Stories about gay people who tried but didn’t change tend to get more media attention, he said. Also, he noted, the issue has become political. When Attorney General Eric Holder announced in February that the Justice Department would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, part of Holder’s reasoning was that there’s “a growing scientific consensus … that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable.” The study by Jones and coauthor Mark A. Yarhouse of Regent University directly challenges that argument.

“To admit that the study has any validity is to draw into question … the change in [public] policies,” Jones said.

The study does not examine why some people are more successful in changing their orientation than others.

“We can’t answer that,” Jones said.

Some critics say the study was deficient because it did not record the physical responses of subjects to sexual stimulus. In some mainstream circles, that is done by placing pornography in front of the subjects and either monitoring the physical response or monitoring the brain for a response. But such a test, Jones said, would have gone against what Exodus strives to obtain — sexual purity in both thought and practice.

“Christians and others who are pursuing a moral framework for change don’t look at that as a benign interaction,” Jones said. ” … People who are undergoing change don’t want to submit themselves to exposure to gay porn as a measurement method as to whether they have changed.”

Jones and Yarhouse caution against projecting success ratios based on their study. For instance, they say, it would be wrong to say that 23 percent of people can change their orientation, just because 23 percent of the people in their study did so. Nevertheless, they say, the study shows that change is possible.

“I know individuals who have been married for 20 and 30 years after coming out of the gay community,” Jones said. “The claim that nobody has ever changed is not substantiated either by our study or by any number of powerful anecdotes that are out there.” –30– Michael Foust is associate editor of Baptist Press. Learn more about the study at ExGayStudy.org.

via Study: Gays can change sexual orientation.

Sarah Palin: Kingmaker?

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Brian in Saratoga Springs in New York, great to have you on the program, Brian, hello.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Rush, do you think Sarah Palin will release her supporters so we could have a true conservative presidential nominee?

RUSH: Uh, by release do you mean endorse somebody and ask her supporters to vote for that person?

CALLER: Good question. I think that would be the natural occurrence. I think there’s four to choose from. I don’t know what she would do, but if she releases them initially at least they can choose from those four. What do you think?

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Which four are you talking about?

CALLER: Well, in my humble opinion I believe it’s going to be Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and probably Newt. Okay? So if she releases those –

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Wait a second. One of those people is gonna be who Palin’s gonna endorse?

CALLER: In my humble opinion I think those are the true core conservatives, you know, Bachmann, Santorum, maybe Perry. But if she does release those supporters, Rush, that person will get the nomination in my humble opinion.

RUSH: If she asks her supporters to support a particular candidate in unison, perhaps. I don’t want to be misunderstood here. I’m not sure she’s got supporters to release.

CALLER: Oh, I have a lot of friends that follow her.

RUSH: Yeah, but you generally say that about somebody that’s in the race that has people voting for them, working for them. Then they lose and they decide to ask their supporters to support somebody else. She never got in the race, and to the extent –

RUSH: You’re right, Rush, but I’m a little confused with Sarah Palin and…..

EXCERPT

via Sarah Palin: Kingmaker?.

Police State Fascism Is Now Rampant: Martial Law Is Next!

October 25, 2011 1 comment

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume…that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him. ~ H.L. Mencken

“If You See Something, Say Something” is the detestable slogan of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is nothing more than a campaign by this monstrous government bureaucracy to pit citizen against citizen due to false fears instilled in the people by that same bureaucracy. The government is spying on everything we do, and it is now fooling the fools into spying on themselves. This is the ultimate in serf-like behavior.

Currently, the state of Tennessee is acting as a testing ground for the federal government’s assault on the citizen’s right to privacy. TSA goons dressed in state sanctioned garb, and heavily armed “law enforcement” cretins with drug sniffing dogs, are harassing the people of Tennessee on interstate highways and bus stations. They are doing this of course all in the name of stopping terrorism. It is interesting how these state simpletons can at the same time terrorize the general populace while protecting them from terrorism.

The object of this charade of course is not to stop terrorism, but to intimidate (terrorize) the people, and to habituate them, so that they will come to expect and accept this kind of treatment in order to be “safe.” This indoctrination training by the state is meant only to beat down the individual into submission, so that state thugs can gain more control. This is not a new concept, but in the U.S. today, police state abuses are not only greatly increasing in numbers, but also are becoming more invasive as every day passes.

The mainstream media claims that Tennessee is the first state to fight terrorism statewide, but illegal checkpoints are now being set up all across the country. The DHS now claims the right to stop and harass anyone, ask for their “papers,” and search them within 100 miles of any U.S. border. This invasive and illegitimate nonsense affects over 190 million citizens, or about two thirds of the entire population. The very abusive conduct by these agents of the state is not restricted to Tennessee, it is evident nationwide. Checkpoints are everywhere it seems, and the numbers are increasing.

Read Full Story

via Police State Fascism Is Now Rampant: Martial Law Is Next!.

Soldiers burn O’Reilly books

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

It gets awfully cold in the Afghan desert at night, and American troops need to sometimes take desperate measures to stay warm. One smart soldier in Afghanistan has stumbled on a trick, however: Bill O’Reilly’s book makes some damn good kindling.

An US soldier stationed oversees took to his Tumblr blog to tell the Web that donations of Bill O’Reilly’s book “Pinheads and Patriots,” which servicemen received an entire box of, might not be the best gift for the guys and gals involved in American military operations in Afghanistan. I suppose it does make a thoughtful 10-year anniversary gift, though.

“Some jerk sent us two boxes of this awful book (SPOILER ALERT: George Washington — Patriot; George Soros — Pinhead) instead of anything soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan might need, like, say, food or soap,” blogs the soldier.

He adds that the decision to set the box of books ablaze came from his commander.

As blogged photos of the O’Reilly effigy went viral, the soldier returned days later to respond to the meaning behind the fire.

MORE….

Read Full Story

via Soldiers burn O’Reilly books.

Bunkered Barack Obama Awaits World War | Veterans Today

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

As The Denver Post reported Sunday, today marks the second time in less than a month that Barack Obama has come to the mile-high city, headquarters of the nation’s state-of-emergency command apparatus, where he will remain through tomorrow.

The last time he came was four weeks ago, when he arrived on Sept 27 to command massive terror exercises occurring during the window of opportunity for an Israeli attack against Iran, as reported by Haaretz in Netanyahu must be stopped from attacking Iran. The timing of the “continuity of government” training seemed so suspicious that I posted America Awakens to Denver False Flag Danger. Just five days before, Big Oil shenanigans had raised false flag fears in Ron Paul’s toxic home turf of Texas City, which I described in my article the following morning, Texas City Terror Scare.

via Bunkered Barack Obama Awaits World War | Veterans Today.

State Department buys $70,000 worth of Obama memoir (Huh??)

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The U.S. Department of State has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams from My Father” more than a decade after its release.

The U.S. embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent $28,636 in August 2009 for copies of Mr. Obama’s bestselling 1995 memoir. Six weeks earlier, the embassy had placed another order with the same book seller, Kalemat Arabia, for more than $9,000 for copies of the same book, federal purchasing records show.

Around the same time, halfway around the world, the U.S. embassy in South Korea had the same idea, spending more than $6,000 for copies of “Dreams from My Father”.

One month later, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, spent more than $3,800 for hardcover copies of the Indonesian version of Mr. Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope,” records show.

A review of the expenditures in a federal purchasing database did not reveal any examples of past purchases by the State Department of books by President Bush or President Clinton. The purchases of Mr. Obama’s literary work mostly, but not always, took place in the months after Mr. Obama captured the White House.

Leslie Paige, spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group, said if the federal government is looking to cut costs, eliminating purchases of Mr. Obama’s books is a good place to start.

“It’s inappropriate for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent on this,” she said. “This sounds like propaganda.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com …

via State Department buys $70,000 worth of Obama memoir (Huh??).

Obama Bans Mention of Islam in Terror Training

October 25, 2011 1 comment

I’m shaking my head.

Never did I ever think we’d see the day when our own government, our own president, would be in collusion with our enemies. I can almost tolerate ignorance and naivety, a la Jimmy Carter. But not when leaders we trust are working on behalf of the other side. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter

rsn_betrayal_175The president has overseen a new executive order, via the Justice Department, to prohibit the mention of “Islam” in the training federal law enforcement training manuals. That’s right folks. Law enforcement training can no longer refer to Islamic terror as…well… “Islamic terror.”

Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole has confirmed that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam because some Muslim groups have claimed it is offensive. That’s like taking Racists out of the KKK. Or Italians out of the Mafia.

The terrorists must be slapping high fives behind closed doors. Thanks Allah. Thanks Obama. Score one major victory for CAIR. One major defeat for United States national security.

Interesting. The president has no qualms about shooting foreign terrorists on foreign soil, yet he caves to Islamic pressure inside the borders of his own country.

So now, how are the FBI, CIA, DEA, ICE, U.S. Marshal, U.S. Customs, Border Patrol, Secret Service, Military intelligence…and more, supposed to teach new agents and employees? The very essence of investigations of major criminal activity is to follow patterns and associations and to correlate motives, backgrounds and anything else that brings criminals into a single purpose. In international terror, (like it or not) that’s radical Islam. Everyone who has a brain, knows that. Are our law enforcement agents not supposed to be informed that there is a Common Denominator for the thousands of acts of terror around the world every year?

Organized Crime and the Drug Cartels should take a lesson from this. All you need to do is intimidate the government and complain that accusing Mexicans and Colombian drug lords and other foreign nationals as being drug smugglers is OFFENSIVE. Being factual, is unimportant. More importantly, we must not offend. We must capitulate to the people who hate us the most.

Here are a few facts taken from various sources (see below):

More people are killed by Islamist terrorists in one any one year, than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition, combined. (Note, that’s ISLAMIC terror, not Timothy McVeigh or radical right wing Christians) More civilians were killed in two hours on September 11, 2001, than in the previous 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (That’s by ISLAMIC terrorists) Islamic terrorists murder more people each day than the KKK has in the last 50 years. (Note: That’s ISLAMIC terrorists) Islamic terrorists have carried out nearly 18,000 terror attacks worldwide since September 11, 2001. Read it again. That’s Eighteen Thousand attacks worldwide by ISLAMIC terrorists. In the last ten years, more than 96,000 human beings have been slaughtered b y Islamic terror attacks, most of them Muslims. (Note: ISLAMIC terror) In the U.S., there have been twenty-one citizens killed in Islamic terror attacks since 9/11 by seven perpetrators. Another four were foiled before anyone was killed. (Note: ISLAMIC terror)

If you want to keep a track on the body count of Islamic terror, check this site:

Click here: Islam: Making a True Difference in the World – One Body at a Time

This is the same administration that was illegally selling assault rifles to Mexican drug lords which has resulted in the killing of innocent people, including an American Border Patrol agent.

Where’s the outcry?

This is the same president who has employed people connected to the notorious Muslim Brotherhood — our enemy — as trusted advisors in the White House.

Where’s the outcry?

This same administration has a woman traveling with the Secretary of State who was raised in Wahabbi Saudi Arabia, whose mother is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, and whose brother is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in Oxford, and who has access to every highly sensitive national security issues in the State Department, and we say nothing? This woman could not pass scrutiny to be hired by any law enforcement agency in the country, yet she is privy to the inner workings and national security of our government.

Where’s the outrage?

This is the same president who is aiding and abetting illegal immigration by providing comfort, jobs, and other benefits to illegal immigrants, while Americans are in dire need of those jobs.

Where is the outrage?

He dropped all charges against the New Black Panthers for intimidating voters, causing a respected U.S. Attorney to quit and do everything he could to expose this travesty of a Justice Department.

Where is the outrage?

America goes about life, ho-hum, that’s politics, as though there is no danger, no disloyalty, no collusion with our enemy forces, when it is all around us. Sure, the economy is a vital issue, but folks, there’s other issues just as vital. We better start paying attention to matters that protect our nation.

There is no other word. This president is despicable. He’s the best friend radical Islamists could possibly have hoped for in the Oval Office. Yet, our media and our people, turn a blind eye.

Sadly, he can do a lot of damage before November of 2012.

via Obama Bans Mention of Islam in Terror Training.

WH shutting down TV and radio for 3.5 minutes on 11/9

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Does anyone know anything about the announcement that the White House (our Dear Leader) will shut down TV and radio for 3.5 minutes on the 9th? The emergency broadcasts last only 60 seconds…why does Obama want three and a half minutes? That’s an eternity in broadcasting. Did he get possession of “the button” to turn off all communication?

via WH shutting down TV and radio for 3.5 minutes on 11/9.

Obama Pulls Terror Training Manuals Referencing Islam

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The US has pulled terrorism manuals referencing Islam following complaints from terror-linked advocacy groups.

eputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday the Obama administration was recalling all training materials used by the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam.

“I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.

The move comes after complaints from Muslim advocacy organizations, including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front group in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror fundraising trial.

CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad were originally officers of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), described by former FBI analyst and US Treasury Department intelligence official Mathew Lewitt as, “intimately tied to the most senior Hamas leadership.”

Both Ahmad and Awad participated in a meeting held in Philadelphia on…

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com …

via Obama Pulls Terror Training Manuals Referencing Islam.

Consumer Reports Names Most Reliable Cars of 2011

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

>

• As Ford’s star has fallen, Chrysler’s has risen. Jeep has moved up seven spots to become the most reliable domestic brand, and all its models for which we have sufficient data scored average in predicted reliability. Chrysler and Dodge moved up 12 and three spots in ranking, respectively.

• Japanese brands dominate our survey’s upper echelons and took the top nine spots. They were led by Scion, Lexus, Acura, Mazda, Honda, and Toyota.

• Jaguar, Porsche, and Audi are at the bottom among brands for which we have sufficient data.

• Many hybrids are proving extremely reliable. The top two models in our survey are the Lexus CT 200h and Honda CR-Z. The Toyota Prius was among the top models, rebounding from brake problems that plagued the current design.

• Family sedans hold up well overall and are led by the Ford Fusion Hybrid. All of the models for which we have data have at least average reliability. In contrast, only one minivan makes that cut: The front-wheel-drive Toyota Sienna is average.

• Heavy-duty, three-quarter-ton pickups are among the most problematic vehicles. With the exception of the turbodiesel Ford F-250, they all scored below average.

>

(Excerpt) Read more at autos.yahoo.com …

via Consumer Reports Names Most Reliable Cars of 2011.

GOP mocks (dictator) Obama’s new ‘can’t wait’ slogan, tells Senate to act

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

GOP mocks Obama’s new ‘can’t wait’ slogan, tells Senate to act

By Pete Kasperowicz – 10/24/11 07:29 PM ET

House Republicans on Monday night mocked President Obama’s new “we can’t wait” slogan that he introduced in a Las Vegas speech earlier in the day.

Obama used the slogan to stress his plans to introduce an administrative effort to help people refinance their mortgages. The plan, to be run through the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is aimed at making an existing refinancing program available to more borrowers.

The plan — and the “we can’t wait” slogan — is meant to show an administration attempt to help struggling borrowers without waiting for Congress to act. But Republicans turned it around to ask why Democrats are ignoring more than a dozen House-passed bills that would ease federal regulations on companies.

“In my opinion, this slogan is an odd choice, especially coming from the president and his party,” Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) said. “Right now, 15 different House-passed jobs bills, each reducing the red tape that is hindering small business, each removing obstacles to domestic energy production, are stuck in the Senate awaiting action from Democratic leadership.

“Mr. Speaker, the president is right: We can’t wait,” he said in response to the Senate’s inaction.

Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) mirrored Thompson’s remarks. “It’s not that the Senate has voted these jobs bills down, the Senate just won’t vote,” Poe said. “To my friends down the hallway in the Senate, how about voting on these bills?”

Poe also came up with his own slogan for the Senate, which has struggled to pass much of its own legislation this year: “It’s time for the Senate to pick a horse and ride it.”

via GOP mocks (dictator) Obama’s new ‘can’t wait’ slogan, tells Senate to act.

Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988 [Surprise,

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment
Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988 [Surprise, surprise...]
Big Government ^ | OCTOBER 25, 2011 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:58:48 PM by RobinMasters

Obama at anti-war protest, 2002 (Source: Verum Serum)
Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests.

He would have organized them.
From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:

In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal. 

We know of Obama’s involvement in this demonstration only because his supporters in 2008 felt it necessary to rebut charges that, contrary to his claims of inter-racial healing, he had organized exclusively with blacks. Only then did Obama’s former colleagues from UNO [United Neighborhood Organization, a largely Mexican group] of Chicago reveal that he had helped to plan and lead this multi-ethnic demonstration against landfill expansion on Chicago’s South Side

…Shouting “No deals!” somewhere between eighty and a hundred UNO-DCP [Developing Communities Project, a black group organized by Obama] marched to a local bank. There they broke into a meeting being conducted by the bank president and local community leaders. 

The group was exploring the possibility of a deal with Waste Management
The protestors, presumably including Obama, surrounded the meeting table while [Mary-Ellen] Montes [of UNO] told the negotiators, “We will fight you every step of the way.”

(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com

Posted by Gunny G

Former 7-Up spokesman and actor Orlando Jones claims liberals should kill Palin [ Sheriff Dupnik? ]

October 25, 2011 1 comment

A comedian and actor went to Twitter to suggest that the death of Muammar Gaddafi should inspire American liberals to kill Sarah Palin, sparking a virtual fire-storm.

That’s just what actor and former soda spokesman Orlando Jones did when he turned the death of the Libyan dictator into a call to arms for American liberals to kill the poster woman for the Tea Party movement.

‘Libyan Rebels kill Gaddafi, if American liberals want respect the better stop listening to Aretha & kill Sarah Palin(:’ Mr Jones tweeted on Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk …

via Former 7-Up spokesman and actor Orlando Jones claims liberals should kill Palin [ Sheriff Dupnik? ].

Confessions of an Actual Man, Very Sincere Too ~ Fred On Everything…

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Of the various books I have inflicted on the world, my favorite is Au Phuc Dup and Nowhere to Go, the print version of which is a mess. The Kindle version is fine. Should anyone be interested, a sample chapter, clickable, is available under the cover on the right-hand side of your screen.

Like a wolverine digging at a rabbit’s hole, this column seeks truth, wherever it lies. (Of course, if truth lies, how can you trust it? These are deep waters.) To this end, I have been reading feminists about what slugs men are, and bandits, and slaves of vanity, and cause loose fillings and sunspots and roach infestations. In the past I dismissed these tiresome viragos as mere creatures of bile and ill-breeding. This time, I thought, maybe I should listen to them. After all, ugly short-haired unmarried women are people too. Pretty close anyway.

AsI pondered, I was overcome by the consciousness of sin. Yes, I thought, it is true. We men are the slaves of vanity. I wanted to deny it, but I could not. The facts cannot be evaded: We, sorry male malfeasors all, are hopelessly vain.

Confess it, fellows: Men spend millions on boob jobs, on moisteurining lipstick that gives us the freshness of the roses of morn, on perky push-up bras that divide and lift at the same time. Yes, we do…..

EXCERPT

via Fred On Everything.

Racist David Duke Joins The Unions, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, & Anti-Semites at OWS

October 25, 2011 1 comment

The 99% have a another new voice.

Former Louisiana Congressman, former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and unabashed anti-Semite David Duke has joined the fight.

Mr. Duke dreams of a very different country than most of us desire. Among his twisted desires, he wants segregation brought back to America:

“Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include the freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com …

via Racist David Duke Joins The Unions, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, & Anti-Semites at OWS.

Rick Perry’s “File Your Taxes On a Postcard” Scheme

October 25, 2011 3 comments

Establishment Republican presidential contender Rick Perry has recycled Steve Forbes and proposed modifying the current tax scheme and instituting a flat tax. Perry is set to officially announce his plan today in South Carolina.

Rick Perry’s “File Your Taxes On a Postcard” Scheme rick perry

“The plan starts with giving Americans a choice between a new, flat tax rate of 20% or their current income tax rate,” Perry wrote in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal yesterday.

Rick Perry – like most Republicans – is not opposed to income taxes and wealth confiscation. Instead, he claims to be opposed to the “mind-boggling complexity of the current tax code”…..

EXCERPT

via Prison Planet.com » Rick Perry’s “File Your Taxes On a Postcard” Scheme.

Congressman: Secret Report On TSA Pat Downs, Body Scanner Failures Will “Knock Your Socks Off”

October 25, 2011 1 comment

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the TSA, has asserted that the release of a classified report on TSA security failures will renew calls for the replacement of the agency with private airport security personnel.

“The failure rate (for body scanning equipment) is classified but it would absolutely knock your socks off,” Florida Republican, Rep. John L. Mica told reporters during a briefing Monday.

Mica also asserted that recorded instances of pat downs failing to detect contraband are “off the charts.” This information is also currently still classified, but is due to be released within weeks as part of an upcoming committee report on the TSA’s first decade…..

EXCERPT

via Prison Planet.com » Congressman: Secret Report On TSA Pat Downs, Body Scanner Failures Will “Knock Your Socks Off”.

Your Choice: Thomas Jefferson or the Status Quo by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

October 25, 2011 1 comment

If the states do not function as the sentinels of the people’s liberty, the results are all too predictable. We live with those results every day. What we need is to establish a new modus vivendi between the federal government and the states, along the lines Thomas Jefferson envisioned. That is what those of us who support the Jeffersonian remedy of nullification are seeking to establish.

The time has come to make a decision. Are we happy with the progress we’ve made against the expansion of federal power over the past several generations? If so, we shouldn’t change a thing. But if we’re tired of the betrayals, the failures, and the sloganeering automatons we’re told to choose from, we’ll need the courage and the common sense to try something new. Or, in this case, something old and venerable, from the mind of Thomas Jefferson himself.

Nathan Tucker has made his choice. I have made mine. But what happens next is up to you.

EXCERPT

via Your Choice: Thomas Jefferson or the Status Quo by Thomas E. Woods, Jr..

Some Guy: Ron Paul Doesn’t Know the Constitution by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

A guy named Paul O’Rourke wrote a nasty blog post today claiming that Ron Paul doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to the Constitution.

I always find it funny when conventional left-liberals like O’Rourke single out Ron Paul of all people for criticism, when (here as elsewhere) he knows more about the subject than the rest of the Republican contenders put together. (Really, Paul, you think you’d have a useful constitutional discussion with Tim Pawlenty?)

They can’t stand an anti-establishment candidate, so they focus their anger on him. As I never tire of saying, these people want us to shut our mouths and be content with the Biden/Romney spectrum.

Here are the key points to bear in mind:…..

EXCERPT

*****

via Some Guy: Ron Paul Doesn’t Know the Constitution by Thomas E. Woods, Jr..

‘Idolatry of the Market’? by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The document released yesterday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace calling for a world economic authority and condemning the “idolatry of the market” could have been written by any number of secular think-tanks in the United States.

It is also deeply confused. On the one hand, it speaks of excessive money growth as a problem that can lead to “speculative bubbles” whose bursting can do significant damage to economies around the world. On the other, it calls for a world economic authority that will…what? Be exempt from the errors and hubris of government officials and national central banks?

We were assured that the best and the brightest were running the Fed. These were people who told us the rise in housing prices was attributable to strong fundamentals. There was no housing bubble. Alan Greenspan told people to take out adjustable-rate mortgages. Ben Bernanke said in 2006 that lending standards were sound. And so on.

Whenever rising interest rates might have discouraged crazed speculation in real estate, the Fed kept the mania going by maintaining low rates. When the market was trying to send us red lights, in other words, the Fed was turning them all green.

Had we really been engaged in “idolatry of the market,” as the Vatican document suggests, we might have listened to the market. Instead, the central authorities drowned out what the market was trying to tell us.

It’s been idolatry not of the market but of central banks, institutionalized sources of moral hazard and financial instability around the world, that has yielded us the boom-bust cycle. (The aura of infallibility and the cult of personality surrounding Fed chairmen make the language of idolatry more than mere poetic license.)

EXCERPT

via ‘Idolatry of the Market’? by Thomas E. Woods, Jr..

Alternative Fuels and Electric Cars are Liberalism’s Trap for Conservatism

October 25, 2011 1 comment

We all know that the Chevy Volt is a bad idea. It simply is no way near worth the cost. And it doesn’t make any sense for the federal government to subsidize Fisker to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, when every penny invested in Fisker and the Chevy Volt is going to be extracted from the hide of Tesla, whose car competes in the only market niche that is winnable for a current electric car: the extremely high-end, high-performance luxury car. The irony is that the Fisker and the Volt will delay the development of a profitable electric car.

But we all knew that. So why did the Obama administration sink so many tax dollars into a project that will fail, even at Obama’s red-green economic goals? Because he knew that conservatives would (correctly) howl in protest at the waste, and then at some future point be stereotyped as anti-progress.

See, eventually electric cars will be profitable. They won’t run on the Lithium batteries that Tesla pioneered, but they will still be electric… just like today’s video players don’t use laser disks or tape cartridges, but they still use digital video. So forget about Lithium shortages and mining conflicts in Afghanistan; the electrical car will someday run on something more like capacitators. But they will be built, and they will run. And they might just be built by Tesla.

Likewise, solar power will be inevitable. Like the electric car, the biggest limitation is in storage and distribution. There will never profitably be the kind of megawatt facility Solyndra foresaw. Solar power will be forever a distributed power system, producing energy on rooftops, storing it in people’s basements, and releasing it into the larger network on those really hot days when air conditioning strains a power grid otherwise relying mostly on nuclear power, after having been converted from clean carbon systems. But there will be solar power.

What Obama is paying for is the creation of the myths in 2030, when people will look back and say, “if it weren’t for President Obama and the liberals, we’d still be burning that horribly expensive oil from Islamia,” the same way that people today believe that if it weren’t for FDR’s socialism, old people would be starving in the streets. Just parse your words carefully, fellow conservatives: attack wasteful and counterproductive government expenditures into alternative fuels, not the alternative fuels themselves.

via Alternative Fuels and Electric Cars are Liberalism’s Trap for Conservatism.

Obama Cedes Victory to Radical Islam

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The failure of Barack Obama to negotiate an acceptable agreement to leave enough troops in Iraq to secure the peace and prevent an Iranian takeover is a diplomatic and strategic failure of major proportion. Now led by the Department of Justice, the Administration is compounding the diplomatic disaster by pretending radical Islam is no longer a threat worth mentioning.

Yes, mistakes have been made in Iraq over the last 8 ½ years. But, after the enormous sacrifice of blood and treasure, it is indefensible to cede victory to Iran, and that we fear, is exactly what the President has done. The sectarian, anti-democratic elements within and outside of Iraq committed to perpetuating terror, violence and instability have succeeded in forcing a premature withdrawal of American forces by an all too willing American Commander-in-Chief.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s fragile, immature, undependable government was cobbled together by a deal brokered by Tehran and Iranian proxy Moqtada al-Sadr, who has buckets of American blood on his hands. The radical Shiite Cleric who fomented the bloodiest days of the war was chased into exile in Iran for four years, returning last January after his “party” won a number of seats in the new Parliament.

Maliki, who once moved to crush Sadr’s Mahdi Army, struggled for months to piece together a coalition government and cling to his leadership position for another term. But, demonstrating that political power trumps principal, Maliki cut a deal with the devil. “It was Sadr’s recent decision to support Maliki for a second term (as Prime Minister), in a deal brokered by Iran, that ended eight months of political deadlock and allowed Maliki, also a Shiite, to cobble together his new government,” as the Washington Post reported last January. Having secured Maliki’s re-election, Sadr emerged as the defacto power broker. The marching orders in Baghdad started coming from Tehran, not Washington, and the end was in sight.

Turkey’s once steady alliance with the U.S. and the West is gone. Egypt is rapidly sliding in the direction of the radical Islamists. In Tunisia’s recent elections Islamists appear to have won a significant number of positions. What eventually comes of post-Gaddafi Libya is anyone’s guess. And, seizing on the opportunities created by a weak, impotent American Administration, the Iranians are establishing not just a regional power base, but a global one as we have documented on these pages over the last three months. If Iraq becomes a puppet of Tehran and once again a safe-haven for terror rather than a flicker of hope and freedom in the region, the consequences will be catastrophic.

The decision to pull all troops out of Iraq came, of course, from the civilian Commander-in-Chief. True to their oath, the active duty military takes orders, salutes, and keeps their mouth shut. But, retired Four-Star Army General Jack Keane, who served as an adviser to Gen. David Petraeus when he was top commander in Iraq, isn’t required to hold his tongue.

“I think it’s an absolute disaster,” said Gen. Keane. “We won the war in Iraq, and we’re now losing the peace.”

Having proven completely inept at dealing with the threat of radical Islam, the Obama Administration has decided to just not talk about it anymore. Only hours before the President announced the withdrawal of all troops from Iraq, the Justice Department declared that the Administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities in order to eliminate all references to Islam according to The Daily Caller.

The White House is obviously sympathetic to objections raised by CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and other Muslim Brotherhood “front groups.” The move to scrub all reference to Islam by the Administration was strongly supported by the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Dwight Holton, who said he had spoken directly with Attorney General Eric Holder. “I want to be perfectly clear about this; training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for,” Holton said.

Holton is the prosecutor who announced the 2010 arrest of the so-called Christmas Tree Bomber, Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Holton’s arresting documents and public announcement made no mention of Mohamud’s well established involvement with violent Islamic Jihad that had been the focus of the FBI well before his arrest.

Obama’s decision to withdraw all the troops from Iraq fulfills a campaign promise to a constituency that elected him, but it doesn’t make America or the world more safe. Nor does declaring radical Islam to be an unmentionable make it any less of a threat. But then, being involved in an “overseas contingency operation” didn’t make it any less of a war on terror, either.

For all the mistakes and the enormous cost of the Iraq war, it was from the beginning a classic case of America being willing to fight against evil with the hope of allowing good to one day prevail. Tragically, we have a President and an Administration that is either unwilling or unable to even distinguish between good and evil, much less muster the courage to stand up for righteousness.

via Obama Cedes Victory to Radical Islam.

Ron Paul is Not “Ending” Student Loans

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

There are many headlines out there now stemming from his Meet the Press interview yesterday claiming that Ron Paul wants to end student loans. Well no, in fact, though he abolishes the Department of Education along with four other federal departments, the student loan part is taken out and handled elsewhere.

Everyone recognizes we have major problems with Social Security and Medicare, and yet when anyone attempts to address these problems, they are immediately accused of “ending,” “slashing” or “getting rid of” such programs. Ron Paul is not suggesting this for anyone currently reliant on these programs or for those who will be in the near future. In fact, Paul’s opt-out for Social Security in his budget plan is age 25—not exactly imminent doom for the program or those on it.

The same is true of student loans. To recognize that we are bankrupt and we must have drastic change in this country is not to say that certain programs Americans have come to rely on will be gotten rid of overnight. Paul is certainly saying no such thing.

But the costs must be addressed—and not simply what the government spends, but the massive debt incurred by those in this country who just want a college education. To be sure, the countless Americans who are now slaves to education-related debt can tell you there are substantial problems with our current system.

Ron Paul simply wants to fix them.

via Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul is Not “Ending” Student Loans.

Biden complains after dust-up with reporter

October 25, 2011 1 comment

Joe Biden’s office has complained to the Senate press gallery about a confrontation the vice president had with a conservative journalist last week on Capitol Hill.

Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken in the wake of the contentious exchange between the vice president and the reporter.

Jason Mattera, who works for Human Events, a conservative magazine, used a pretext to catch Biden off guard in a Senate hallway and grill him on claims the vice president has made about jobs legislation.

Biden’s office has also contacted the standing committee of correspondents, which oversees the gallery, regarding whether Mattera broke the rules by ambushing him.

Heather Rothman, the chairwoman of the gallery’s standing committee, said the matter is under review.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com …

via Biden complains after dust-up with reporter.

Beck: EAS Test Allows Feds to ‘Seize Control’ of Communications

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

Radio host Glenn Beck has spoken of his fear that the upcoming Emergency Alert System test being conducted by Homeland Security and FEMA on November 9 gives the government the pretext to “seize control” of communications in America, because for the first time broadcasters will have no choice on whether to partake.

Beck explained that in every previous instance where the EAS system was tested, broadcasters were in control of whether or not to flip the switch, although they did face losing their broadcast license if they failed to partake. However, for the very first time, the federal government will have complete control over the broadcast frequency and will be able to override all radio and television stations.

Next month’s test also marks the first time that the alert has been conducted nationwide.

“The nationwide test may last up to three and a half minutes. The public will hear a message indicating that “This is a test.” The audio message will be the same for radio, television and cable,” states a FEMA press release.

Beck warned that the first of its kind test gave the government the pretext to take over all civilian communication outlets under the guise of a national emergency.

“If the state wants to take control…they can just take it and there is nothing I can do about it,” Beck stated, adding that the process “seizes control of the broadcast frequency.”

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Beck questioned the timing of the test, asking why it was being conducted in the middle of a work day at 2pm and not at midnight on a Saturday.

“Why are we testing this thing at 2pm on a Wednesday when we don’t even know if this damn thing will work – who does that?” asked Beck, drawing attention to the fact that FEMA has indicated it isn’t even sure whether television broadcasts will display a message or not during the test.

“Who takes the nation’s communications and shuts it down in the middle of a work day on a Wednesday when the whole world is in revolution? That doesn’t help calm things, Mr. President,” said Beck.

The fact that the government has also chosen a date which is the reverse of 9/11 (the 9th of November being 11/9), is also unlikely to reduce anxiety surrounding the test.

*********************

via Prison Planet.com » Beck: EAS Test Allows Feds to ‘Seize Control’ of Communications.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 140 other followers