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SITREP America: Obama File on the Eve of America’s Birthday
Another lie from the Obama circle:
Just last Friday, the House of Representatives came together to pass an extraordinary piece of legislation that will finally open the door to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, preventing the worst consequences of climate change, and making clean energy the profitable kind of energy. Thanks to members of Congress who were willing to place America’s progress before the usual Washington politics, this bill will create new businesses, new industries, and millions of new jobs, all without imposing untenable new burdens on the American people or America’s businesses.
President Barack Obama concerning the cap-and-tax bill.
Govt Watch: Supreme Court Decision – Ricci v. DeStephano
The city of New Haven, Connecticut should be commended for their written examination that tests firefighters who seek promotions to captain and lieutenant. It was a test designed for the purpose of providing the most knowledgably and qualified candidates an opportunity for promotion. But the test results did not conform to the ideology of Affirmative Action – where race matters more than qualifications. It is another example of how Congress passes something designed to be temporary and it becomes a standard instead. Affirmative Action was designed during the days of civil rights movements to force those in society with prejudices to do the right thing. Affirmative Action not only no longer serves a purpose, but has created an atmosphere that race is more important qualifications. However, the city of New Haven threw out that fair testing in an act of clear discrimination.
Govt Watch: Wisconsin State Budget of 2009
Governor Doyle signed the Wisconsin budget on June 29th. When elections come around in 2010 – remember what Doyle and associates have done (or not done).
No Republican supported this budget and two Democratic state representatives and one Democratic state senator joined the Republicans against it.
Govt Watch: Fight Against Waxman-Markey Bill Continues
The continuing saga of the legislation from Hell – Waxman-Markey Bill …
First, examine the transcript of Rush Limbaugh on the Waxman-Markey-Cap-and-Trade Bill, and the Boehner filibuster attempt to prevent passing by vote in House. If you would like to read the full text of what is in the bill – click here.
Govt Watch: Waxman-Markey Bill – Green Power
Something that may surprise you – I disagree (partly) with Steve Milloy’s article Waxman-Markey abolishes neighborhood solar panel limits. Here is what he wrote:
The Waxman-Markey bill abolishes neighborhood restrictions on solar panels. This provision was part of the “manager’s amendment” that was added to the bill at 3am the morning of the vote. The bill directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development to issue rules prohibiting private covenants that restrict or prohibit the installation of solar energy systems. So if your neighborhood has existing rules that prohibit residents from turning their manicured front yards into solar farms, Waxman-Markey abolishes them. That such “restrictive covenants” are typically a matter of private contract apparently matters little in the coming green world.
Iran: The Iranian’s Plight
Mona Eltahawy, Washington Post provided an interesting overview and observations concerning the current events in Iran. [June 25th] …
Do you hear the silence from the Arab world over events in Iran? Let’s start with Arab leaders, who are experts at vote rigging — if they hold elections at all. What could they possibly say about the Iranian election, or the allegations of vote fraud, without sounding hypocritical? Nor would they rush to congratulate longtime nemesis Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the leader of a regional rival with nuclear ambitions. The Arabs are quiet, but their silence is surely tempered with discomfort. The demographics of most Arab nations mirror those of Iran: The majority of Arabs are young. It’s likely that many young Arabs watching thousands of Iranians demanding to be heard, Arabs who are suffocating under dictators of their own, thought, “That’s me.”
Waxman-Markey Legislation – Economic Disaster with No Foreseen Positive Impact
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a vote on the environment bill (H.R. 2454) before the July 4th congressional recess – pushing bad legislation (as before) through as fast as possible. This bill has the cap-and-trade scheme in it.
Please call your representative and tell him/her to vote NO.
The following as of end of this week are undecided in their voting stance:
Buchanan (Vern), Florida
Kirk (Mark), Illinois
Lobiondo (Frank), New Jersey
Petri (Thomas), Wisconsin
Smith (Chris), New Jersey
Acuri (Michael), New York
Bishop (Sanford), Georgia
Boccieri (John), Ohio
Boyd (Allen), Florida
Brown (Corrine), Florida
Carney (Chris), Pennsylvania
David (Lincoln), Tennessee
Dicks (Norm), Washington
Donnelly (Joe), Indiana
Foster (Bill), Illinois
Green (AL), Texas
Jackson Lee (Sheila), Texas
Johnson (Eddie), Texas
Kind (Ronald), Wisconsin
Kirkpatrick (Ann), Arizona
McIntyre (Mike), North Carolina
Ortiz (Solomon), Texas
Space (Zach), New York
Teague (Harry), New Mexico
Tonko (Paul), New York
Govt Watch: Obama File – Not The Kind of ‘Change’ America Needs
I would like to take the time to let folks know that the Patriot Post is running its 2009 Annual Fund campaign, and while the economy is not doing well, if you can stop by and donate something, it would help continue a great publisher and citizen journalist’s endeavor: Mark Alexander. Patriot Post, formerly The Federalist (named after the historical publication) began around the same time that Lighthouse Patriot Journal began (as Keifer’s Korner), and while expansion is evident here at LPJ, Mr. Alexander’s Patriot Post has leaped in huge strides and has support of many who are concerned about America’s future and our nation’s government constitutional adherence, as well as liberties and freedom of ALL Americans. Take a moment to visit the site and you will see it is worth supporting. They are a non-profit organization and you can get their newsletters free just be submitting your email address. And now this government watch segment …
Mexican Invasion: The Fox is in the Henhouse and the Watchdog is Ignoring It
Before I begin the discussion concerning illegal immigration and the Mexican invasion, I would like to point out that something new has been added to LPJ. On the right column, as you have noticed is an advertisment for Sprint, which donates funds to the Children’s Miracle Network each time someone clicks on the Help button. Sprint does not make profit from this and neither do I – but it helps children. It is free for anyone clicking on the box as well, it just takes a few moments of your time. With the economy the way it is, it is difficult for many of us to make donations to worthy causes, but this is a donation that takes nothing from our budgets – just a bit of time. Of course, if you are in the market for Sprint services, you can get information about that by visiting the site when clicked. Please help support the children in need. There are “0″ balloons (clicks) – please make that number grow. As I said, I benefit personally from none of this, but children do. Thank you in advance. And now for the article …
La Raza is a Hispanic organization operating in the United States. You have heard or read mention of this Hispanic racist group, and also have been informed that President Obama has appointed an American judge who is an affiliate of this organization. It is not a social club or an American pride in heritage club – because it is against America, its society, and anyone who is not Hispanic. And, guess what folks – our government is financing it with YOUR tax dollars.
Constitution Party Analysis – Part 5
The analysis of the Constitution Party platform continues in this fifth and last segment and begins with Page 11 of the political platform:
Pornography
Pornography, at best, is a distortion of the true nature of sex created by God for the procreative union between one man and one woman in the holy bonds of matrimony. …With the advent of the Internet and the benevolent neglect of the previous administrations, the pornography industry enjoyed uninhibited growth and expansion until the point today that we live in a sex-saturated society where almost nothing remains untainted by its perversion. …
First, government should never be allowed to have the power of censorship, mainly because the people operating that government becomes the decision maker as to what is censored and problems can occur to the point (drastic level) where books are burned. As far as the Internet, it is the last bastion of individual freedom and affords people across the globe (in those countries that do not have government-controlled Internet access) vast access to sources of knowledge and information. In the course of this freedom, there are always those who cross the line, pornography being one of them. Family computers can now have safety measures in the form of software to prevent impressionable and youthful minds having access to adult-related web sites. For those who cross the line and use unorthodox and underhanded methods in reaching out with their pornography for the sole reason of profit – there are laws against this, and should be. For example, spamming a website with pornography or advertisement for such web sites, as well as attempts to enter commentary of a blog with spamming advertisements and offensive language and descriptions of their promoted pornographic web pages. Society makes the best form of censorship. Pornographers, for the most part, are out to make money – if they cannot get customers, they fail to remain in the business.
North Korea Continues Dangerous Game – Two American Political Prisoners Sentenced to 12 Year Hard Labor
Two American journalists have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea, a barbaric nation that probably has the record of having the largest concentration-work camps in human history. The two journalists are women and were arrested on March 17th, 2009 – Euna Lee, 36 (left image) and Laura Ling, 32. Their arrest as well as trial has been secretive. Their “grave” crime, according to North Korea barbarians is that they crossed into North Korea illegally. They were based out of San Francisco, working for Current TV. Their trial lasted two days, held in Pyongyang, North Korea. Officially, the United States demanded their release; however, no one pays attention to President Obama and his administration because he has, from the beginning, proved himself in the eyes of foreign leadership – a weak and apologetic leader, who apparently believes that foreign diplomacy and affairs are to be handled like community organizations.
The North Korean labor camps are not a place for anyone, especially women. Their chance of staying alive for 12 years and still come out sane is doubtful. The two were arrested near the Tumen River, reporting from the city of Yanji, China. No appeal is allowed because the trial was officiated by the North Korean high court. The families of the two women have repeatedly appealed for their release to the US and North Korean governments.
Good News to Freedom Lovers Everywhere – Iranian People Are Fed Up
Iran, headed by President Ahmadinejad, leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who has an official propaganda blog, began his reign in 2005 utilizing a fixed election system because there isn’t any democracy in Iran – just theocracy, tyranny and oppression. Candidates for “elections” in Iran are pre-selected, not unlike the practices of the American media and powers of the election process.
In the last election, not many citizens bothered to vote – what would be the point? The mullahs are in charge and Islamic fascism is their ideology.
Govt Watch: Wisconsin Legislation and the Plan of Obama the Great
Rep. Gary Bies has informed me via email that the Wisconsin State Senate has made a provision to the budget bill passed by the assembly.
Improvements are: removal of the provisions that provides in-state tuition for illegal aliens and driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Wisconsin is a safe haven for illegal immigrants thanks to Governor Doyle and his cronies. The Wisconsin Senate also eliminated the gas tax – a good thing with fuel prices at the pump near $3 per gallon.
The bad news is that the State Senate didn’t delete the part of the bill concerning capital gains tax, which means that every asset you have (including your house), when you sell that asset 100% of the increased value is taxed instead of 40%. Homes are the biggest investment for most families and this change will be costly.
The debate over the spending plan for the state budget continues, which then the budget bill will go to the governor for signature. Will the bill satisfy the governor’s lust for draining the pockets of the people in Wisconsin, discouraging economic recovery and chasing away job opportunities?
Constitution Party – Analysis, Part 4
The analysis of the political platform of the Constitution Party continues in this fourth part of the series …
Foreign Aid
Since World War II, these United States has engaged in the greatest international giveaway program ever conceived by man, and is now spending billions of dollars each year to aid foreign nations. There is no constitutional basis for foreign aid. These expenditures have won us no friends, and constitute a major drain on the resources of our taxpayers. Therefore, we demand that:
- no further funds be appropriated for any kind of foreign aid program;
- United States participation in international lending institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, be ended.
- the Export-Import Bank be abolished;
- all government subsidies, tax preferences, and investment guarantees to encourage U.S. businesses to invest in foreign lands be immediately terminated; and
- all debts owed to the United States by foreign countries, or foreign entities, be collected.
Govt Watch: Obama File – Obamanomics
Of course, the main issue of the day in America and other places in the world is the economy. Our president and his assistant in vice had some interesting statements in response to the American people’s various take on that issue and the fact that our government is growing in bureaucracy, probing further into private entities, and still urinating down our backs and telling us it is only rain … (more…)
Constitutional Party Analysis – Part 3
As you may know, in disgust with the presentation of the Democratic and Republican political parties, in terms of candidates, and their past and present actions, policies and non-adherence to constitutional law or even the principles of political platform – I voted for Constitution Party candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. However, as a political party, I do not agree all that is within their political platform, thus for dissemination of information and analysis, I present to you a five-part examination of the third party known as the Constitution Party, the following is Part 3 …
The analysis of the political platform of the Constitution Party of the United States continues beginning with:
DEFENSE
Majority of Americans Do Not Want Illegal Immigrants to Be Part of the Obama Health Care Plan
Americans, the majority, according to Rasmussen Reports, (report link was provided by Joan B. of Illinois) 80%, feel the need to have national health care of some sort – but not if it covers illegal immigrants.
But this is the wrong administration if they are going to expect that. President Obama is for providing over 12 million lawbreakers of US immigration laws amnesty, which then will make the controversy over illegal immigrants getting benefits earmarked for legitimate citizens moot. But then, the act will only increase the influx of illegal immigrants and their desire to hold out until the next administration or the one after than provides yet another amnesty. It failed in 1986, and amnesty will fail again. It all boils down to something parents already know – you do not provide reward for bad behavior. The law is the law, and a nation that is ruled not by law, but by the mob – is not a democratic republic and nothing close to what or how it was created by the Founders to be. (more…)
A Tale of Political Motivation
People should be wary of the global warming/climate change consensus based on facts and scientific data; however, here is another red flag – an act that is common with leftist advocacy of anything – if you don’t agree or submit facts that are not in tune with their ideology or advocacy, you are ostracized …
Enter, stage right, Mr. Richard Lindzen, who lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area, an MIT physicist, recipient of the American Meteorological Service Meisinger, and Charney Awards; the American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is also a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate and the Council of the AMS. He is against the consensus of global warming.
Impressive background.
Wisconsin Legislature Alert and Update, June 17th 2009
This article is for those Wisconsin voters who insisted that Governor Jim Doyle remain in office, despite his tax-and-spend budget (helped by the majority of the state government being Democrats), his lies, and his affiliation with corruption concerning Indian Nation casino concerns and other special interest groups, as well as his campaign against the 2nd Amendment and freedom of choice of American citizens.
The Wisconsin state budget has passed, and Rep. Bies voted against it, along with Democrats in disagreement with Doyle and companions’ failure to pass the following amendments to the budget:
- Offer more money to Tech Colleges for job training, which is in league with the solution to the unemployment problem in Wisconsin, increasingly getting worse, in tune with the economy.
- Lower Levy Limits to keep property taxes from increasing.
- Save the School Choice Program, designated to be dismantled.
- Delete earmarks (pork spending).
- Require a binding referendum for Regional Transit Authorities, an important amendment in our poor economy situation.
- Remove the cell phone tax.
- Remove the gas tax.
- Eliminate auto insurance mandates that will raise premiums. Once again government involves itself in the private sector and thus screws things up – the cost and woes going to the citizens.
- Eliminate felons with violent records from early prison release.
If you enjoy high taxes and runaway government spending, then this state budget is for you. And, as usual, Governor Doyle and his cronies lie to the public, as the Finance Chair, Rep. Mark Pocan remarked about the budget passed:
This budget makes tough spending cuts, protects working families from tax increases …
The Wisconsin Assembly will now send the Wisconsin state budget to the State Senate, who claims that changes are intended in the bill. Will those changes include any of the listed amendments requested by state assembly members – or will the State Senate make things even worse? Movements to remove (recall) Governor Doyle are pending, but unlikely.
Keep tuned in on this and write to your state government officials and let them know that you are tired of the way the Doyle government works – whether you voted for him or not. One would think that after one term filled with lies and unresponsiveness by the Doyle Democrats, that people would not have reelected him. I guess voters were so rapped up in Bush hating and “getting even” with Republicans because of Bush, they made that major mistake in 2006 – a time when voters could have easily cleaned house on both sides of the political aisle. See the following for further reading:
Taxpayer Funded Corruption
Doyle Plagued by Corruption
Governor Doyle Pushes Massive Gun Control
Recall Doyle – The Liberty Tree Lantern
Radio National – Doyle Recall - YouTube
Governor Doyle Begins Second Term - Wisconsin Radio
Dirty Tricks Exposed in Doyle Election Campaign
Governor Doyle’s State Budget is Killing Wisconsin Economy
Governor Doyle Signs Smoking Ban into Law
Governor Doyle – Part of Culture of Corruption
Doyle and Green Money
Recall Doyle - website
If you are in Rep. Gary Bies’ district, visit his website (even if you aren’t) and get up-to-date event/news sources as to what is going on within the government of Wisconsin. Rep. Bies attitude is that it is his responsibility to keep citizenry informed and encouraged to participate whenever possible.
From My Desk: An Essay of America’s Transition – A Questionable Path
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and candidate for Vice President of the United States has been the brunt of cruel insinuations and jokes, along with her teenage daughter who got pregnant out of wedlock. Pheisty, fellow citizen journalist, writes her perspective in an out-of-the-box aspect pointing out the Democrat and leftist media’s hypocrisy. She wrote:
I think most reasonable people agree that the Palin jokes on Letterman’s show the other night were disgusting, sexist, and mean-spirited. However, a lot of people–including the hags on ABC’s ‘The View’–have made the point that because Palin is an abstinence advocate, and because her teenage daughter got pregnant, she’s somehow due jokes about her daughter getting ‘knocked up’ in Yankee Stadium. …
How can someone who believes in moral relativity (whatever you think is right) even begin to criticize someone else who holds moral truths, and then tell them that they have no right to advocate those moral truths because the person who has traditional morals isn’t ‘perfect’? Is the moral relativist perfect? Of course not. They don’t have to be. If everything is ‘relative’ to the moral relativist, they can call out others as hypocritical because the moral relativist has no firm beliefs to speak of. They don’t hold themselves to any sort of standard, because that standard could change whenever it happens to benefit them. But here’s the real kicker… If the moral relativist believes that everyone should have their own definition of what’s right and what’s wrong, why do they give a rat’s behind what Christians or others with traditional moral beliefs say or think? Why would the relativist feel the need to attack a person of traditional morals if they truly believe in the idea of ‘whatever floats your boat’? Is it possible that they are concerned that people like Palin–if elected into a position of great power–will suddenly insist that sex outside of marriage become a punishable crime? Please.
I have never, ever seen Palin as someone who would threaten the freedom of Americans by telling them what they can and cannot do in their bedrooms. The whole idea is completely laughable. So if the Palin-haters aren’t worried about her coming into power and making premarital sex illegal (which would threaten their freedom to have as much premarital sex as they want),why are they so quick to use her moral beliefs and subsequent ‘fall from grace’ as a justification for disgusting and reprehensible treatment of her and her family? If they truly believe in tolerance, and that we should all embrace each other’s cultural and religious differences, and if their freedom isn’t being threatened, why are they so quick to be so hateful?
Sarah Palin and her daughter didn’t deserve what Letterman did to them, and they especially didn’t deserve it simply because they happen to be self-professed imperfect people (just as you and I are) who are doing their best to live up to a high moral standard.
I must admit, however, that I do understand the whole hypocrisy thing…Let’s look at Al Gore. Gore preaches his green religion everywhere his big, gas-guzzling jet will take him, and then returns to his multi-million dollar mansion that must require an amazing amount of fossil fuels just to keep it running.
The difference between Gore and Palin is that Palin isn’t attempting to legislate her religion on people by making them wear chastity belts until marriage, but Gore is attempting to legislate his morals by forcing the entire country (and world) to live by a standard that he preaches to us about but doesn’t find necessary to live out himself. Yet he isn’t called out by the washed-up biddies on ‘The View’ for not practicing what he preaches.
Palin isn’t going around pointing out unwed, single mothers and telling them that they must repent, become chaste, or burn in hell. Gore, on the other hand, is wagging his self-righteous finger at the rest of humanity and essentially telling them that if they don’t repent from their evil, polluting ways, they will be shunned from the enlightened portion of society, and will ultimately be burned alive for their sins…all while he lives a far more ‘polluting’ lifestyle than you or I ever could. So when your relativist friends tell you that Palin and her family deserve what they’re getting because she’s a ‘hypocrite’, bring up Al Gore and see how quickly they shut their own self-righteous yaps. Also remind them that they themselves have professed to be the tolerant ones, while they point c0nservatives and call us bigoted hatemongers. Please tell me all about hypocrisy, women of ‘The View’. I’d love to hear it.
Govt Watch: Obama File – June 10th 2009
Newt Gingrich wrote in his article, Once, We Would Have Called It a Scandal …
In 1921, oil tycoon Harry Sinclair gave several prize head of cattle and around $269,000 to President Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall. In return, Sinclair got the exclusive rights to drill in an oil field in Wyoming. Sinclair’s no-bid contract became the Teapot Dome scandal, the most notorious example of political corruption in America prior to Watergate.
Between 2000 and 2008, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union gave $23,675,562 to the Democratic Party and its candidates. In 2008 alone, the UAW gave $4,161,567 to the Democratic Party, including Barack Obama. In return, the UAW received 55 percent of Chrysler and 17.5 percent of GM, plus billions of dollars. But nobody’s calling this a scandal. It’s time we start.
The almost $24,000,000 the UAW has given to Democrats since 2000 compares with the $193,540 the union has given to Republicans. …
In a rigged proceeding in which the federal government disregarded bankruptcy law in favor of the political outcome it desired, the Chrysler bankruptcy laid the predicate for the much larger General Motors bankruptcy to come. Against law and precedent, the unions were moved to the front of the line when it came to who would benefit from the bankruptcy. The Obama Treasury Department strong-armed Chrysler’s creditors into a deal in which the UAW was given 55 percent ownership of the company while Chrysler’s secured creditors – investors who would have received priority in a non-political bankruptcy proceeding – were left with just 29 cents on the dollar. Some of these secured creditors, led by a group of Indiana retirement funds, are fighting back. They’ve charged in court that the Chrysler bankruptcy violated the bankruptcy laws and violated their rights as senior lenders. On Monday, the Supreme Court put a hold on the Chrysler bankruptcy to hear their case. … But the Chrysler bankruptcy was just prelude to the Obama-Administration-brokered General Motors bankruptcy deal announced last week. …
Once again, the big losers are GM’s bondholders, who include substitute teachers in Florida and retired tool and dye supervisors in Michigan. They hold $27 billion in GM debt but are receiving a 10 percent stake in the new company. In contrast, the UAW, which is owed about $20 billion from GM, is walking away with 17.5 percent of the company and a cool $9 billion in cash. According to one analysis, while the bondholders will be lucky if they recover 15 cents on the dollar, the UAW can expect to recover up to 60 to 70 cents on the dollar – four to five times what the bondholders will receive. As Barron’s Magazine wrote, “Never has an American union done so well at the expense of shareholders and creditors”. … But as no less than the Washington Post put it, the “union concessions were ‘painful’ only by the peculiar standards of Big Three labor relations: At a time when some American workers are facing stiff pay cuts, UAW workers gave up their customary paid holiday on Easter Monday and their right to overtime pay after less than 40 hours per week. They still get health benefits that are far better than those received by many American families upon whose tax money GM jobs now depend.” Union members also preserved their right to have six unexcused absences from work before they can even be considered to be fired. …
It is a sign of the degree to which raw politics has dominated its handling of Chrysler and General Motors that the Obama Administration has a 31-year-old who has not yet graduated from law school determining the fate of two multi-billion dollar companies. … Having spent $50 billion to “save” GM and the UAW, does anyone really believe that the Obama Administration will now allow economics and not politics to dictate its future decisions? … It is using the taxpayers’ money to pay back a political group for its political contributions. There was a time when we would have called that a scandal.
Letters To The Editor: Open Letter to President Barack H. Obama
Donald E. Farr sent this open letter to President Obama sent to him by anonymous author [edited for grammar and my comments are endnotes]:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle, and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally, you are not an American. [i]
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it and its core. [ii]
You scare me because you lack humility, and “class”, always blaming others. [iii]
You scare me because for over half of your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. [iv]
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad. [v]
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. [vi]
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. [vii]
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale resources. [viii]
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations. [ix]
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. [x]
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. [xi]
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. [xii]
[i] This in itself is not damning. A person could have a parent who is an ambassador or some such career that requires extensive time abroad. If the person was born an American citizen and has traveled and/or lived extensively abroad, this might be a plus when it comes to understanding other cultures and knowledge in the affairs of foreign policy. The real issue here is the controversy over Barack Obama’s birth records, which was never resolved and Mr. Obama never addressed in so far as providing proof of citizenship. However, if an American parent has a child overseas (children do not arrive when expected sometimes), that child can still be considered an American – but the proper paperwork must be done. The issue was never resolved before he was swore in as president and nothing came of it because it may appear racist to do so.
[ii] Military or service in the armed forces should not be a prerequisite for requirements to be an eligible candidate for the President of the United States; however, the President, under constitutional law, is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. Every president has chiefs of each branch of the armed forces as advisors, whether or not the president served in the military or not. And as far as protocol, every president has advisors (coaches) for that as well, whether dealing with events honoring the military, attending international social functions, or dealing with foreign leadership. That is what the Cabinet and administration chiefs are for – supposed to be experts in the field of which they hold office and advisors to the President of the United States and servants on behalf of the American people.
[iii] See Obama Diagnosed as Narcissist.
[iv] The author refers to Mr. Obama’s past and present associations, such as William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, et cetera.
[v] Reference: See Link Listing at end of article.
[vi] Obama Proposes a European United States.
[vii] The idea of reforming or changing the health care system in America, in itself, is not wrong. It is the method, the Hillary Plan, which is the problem. Canadians pay to their government for a family of four about $188 per month with full 100% coverage unless a private hospital room, telephone or other extra features are used. See Mythbusting Canadian Health Care and Wikipedia entry Canadian and American Health Care Systems Compared. And as an alternative look at the system: The Ugly Truth about Canadian Health Care.
[viii] Here the author portrays an ignorance of a wind turbine and its use. In Turkey, there is a tourist town that is completely supplied with electricity and hot water via one large wind turbine and solar cells on most buildings. While there, I never experienced a problem with electrical connection, but hot water quickly turned cold during evening hours. In regards to US natural resources, most who read articles here frequently know that I am an advocate for being energy self sufficient and not relying upon any other nation.
[ix] In Obama’s earliest days, one of his associations was Jesse Jackson, understandable if he was in the community organizing business, while also being a lawyer. Je$$e Jackson is well known for his racketeering behavior using the race card as his instrument of blackmail – threatening, for example, corporations with demonstrations and boycotting unless those entities see things his way. Jackson is a social predator/parasite, who never wants racism or an environment of civil right equality because he would be out of business. Many African Americans have awaken to Jackson’s agenda and ideology, as well as Mr. Obama’s, just as many African Americans have worked their way out of the ghetto world and its mentality and now are middle- and upper-class citizens that are educated and productive citizens – the key words being that education and hard work brought them to that social-economic standing. That is what America has needed since 1863 when slavery was abolished.
[x] This is not exactly true. Even media who enthusiastically were behind Senator Obama to be the 44th President of the United States, like the Huffington Post, clearly a leftist media entity, have complained about the programs of Obama, especially his economic policy, as well as one Democrat who was against the economic legislation as it was written. However, for the most part, President Obama will enjoy a carte’ blanche relationship with a cooperative Congress – which few presidents are lucky enough to have such a relationship; too bad that, in this case, it is not a good thing.
[xi] In being fair, I would like to mention that President Obama has been more communicative to the people than the last president, who made a bad impression upon himself and didn’t utilize the Internet like President Obama has and is doing.
[xii] This also refers to his narcissism and other peculiarities developed from a dysfunctional family life as a child, as can be seen in his autobiography, a book written not to reflect upon his life or prior accomplishments, but a political tool when he was running for president; providing a false impression of who he actually is and what he is about to the American voters – especially tailored to impressionable youth who fall upon emotion instead of logic, political propaganda instead of researched truths, popularity instead of political ideology, and candidate rhetoric instead of examining the person’s previous political record. Does the talk match the walk?
Govt Watch: Obama File – Hugo Chavez Considers President Obama a Comrade
Foreign Policy for Dummies
If you don’t think that the Obama administration is nationalizing American private industry, check out this comment from Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan dictator:
Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right!
The federal government now owns 60% of General Motors and the United Auto Workers own 17.5% – and organized crime controls the Unions, sponsored by the Democratic Party of American Socialists.
And let us not forget the words of President Obama concerning this takeover:
I want to disabuse people of this notion in that somehow we enjoy, you know, meddling in the private sector.
Myth Blaster: Female Sniper Makes 750-Meter Shot
Joan B., Illinois, Friend of LPJ, sent me an email entitled On a More Serious Note being passed around in cyberspace concerning an alleged poster picture of a female US Air Force service member and the following chain-email story:
This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him). Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers. The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her. Folks, that’s a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!
Myth Blaster Verdict: Photo is a real female military member (US Air Force), the story is conflicting, to say the least. There are various email versions spreading around and Snopes has alternate version than that sent to me.
Govt Watch: Obama File – Foreign Policy, World Leadership
Victor Davis Hanson writes in his article entitled President of the World, published in National Review …
Given Obama’s performance on his recent trip, three developments were quite astounding. First, despite this fresh climate of atonement, there was a complete absence of a single apology from any other foreign leader — odd for the new shared spirit of multi-polarity and reciprocity. Not a word came from Britain about colonialism. Nothing from Germany on the Holocaust, or its trade with Iran. [*] Not a peep from France about Algeria or Vietnam. Turkey was mum on the Armenian killings and its own tough anti-Kurdish policies. [†] Russia said nothing about the 30 million murdered by Stalin — or its present assassinations abroad, much less it’s leveling of Grozny or its destruction of Afghanistan. Nothing came from China about the 70 million who perished under Mao or its present role in subsidizing North Korean nukes — or its violation of global copyright laws. We won’t hear anything in the “New Asian Hemisphere” about Muslim Uighurs or Tibet.
Second, there was no other example of “He did it!” about supposedly inept predecessors. Mr. Medvedev said nothing about Putin’s brutish rule. Sarkozy and Merkel did not trash the shady Chirac or Gazprom’s bought lobbyist Schroeder and their role in harming the Atlantic alliance. Gordon Brown was quiet about Tony Blair and Iraq. China did not mention a reset button. The new Berlusconi did not trash the old Berlusconi.
Third, we saw no concrete evidence of any help — or hope and change — from any foreign leader. Zilch. There were expectations of American concessions, but nothing new or helpful from anyone else. … Obama will apologize for almost anything one can imagine. First comes the generic lamentation about Bush, the need for a reset button, and America’s characteristic “arrogance.” Then there are the “we are at fault” lines on spec, tailor-made mea culpas for the country in question. …
Foreign leaders already sense that Obama’s success hinges on his “hope and change” ecstasy back home — which cannot for long sustain stories of difficult diplomacy and public manifestations of international trouble and acrimony, of anything really that suggests he is not mesmerizing the world in the manner he did the American electorate.
Europe? Take your pick. No more combat troops to Afghanistan; an international financial “czar”; no additional financial deficit stimuli; no Guantanamo prisoners on European shores; American acknowledgment of culpability for the financial crisis; no mention of Europe’s own reckless lending, protectionism, or pre-September 2008 declining GDP. …
China? It gets praise when it ridicules the dollar, but offers no help on North Korea. Nothing new about trade violations. Hope is expressed that they will still buy our growing debt.
Russia? Let us count the ways. No more missile defense for Eastern Europe; no mention of Russia’s human-rights violations or its policy of serial assassination abroad; de facto abandonment of advocacy for former Soviet republics’ autonomy; Russia’s energy blackmail is Russia’s business; no help with de-nuclearizing Iran.
Turkey? Yes, Europe must let you in the EU. The new Danish NATO supreme commander must apologize for defending free speech — and, as relish, hire some of your generals; continued American assurance that we are not a Christian nation. The Islamic World is not to be inconvenienced by any mention of radical Islam, or 9/11, or of the endemic pathologies that nourished al-Qaedism in the first place — such as gender apartheid, religious intolerance, autocracy, statism, and tribalism. Instead there is plenty of Bush-bashing, courting of Iran and Syria, caricatures of the “war on terror,” and talk of Iraq as a “mistake.”
That the veteran Colin Powell and Russian-speaking Condoleezza Rice ran American foreign policy the last eight years, in a way unthinkable in Europe, is never voiced. Suggesting that China would have an Uighur foreign minister, that Saudi Arabia would have a Christian foreign minister, that France would have an Algerian foreign minister, that Germany would have a Turkish foreign minister, or that Russia would have a Chechen foreign minister is as absurd as suggesting that a Powell or Rice was never a big deal. …
We hear nothing about our Gettysburg, or our entry into World War I. Iwo Jima and the Bulge are never alluded to. Drawing the line in Korea and forcing the end of the Soviet monstrosity are taboo subjects. That we pledged the life of New York for Berlin in the Cold War is unknown. Liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the diabolical Taliban and Saddam Hussein is left unsaid. The Civil Rights movement, the Great Society, affirmative action, and present billion-dollar foreign-aid programs apparently never existed. Millions of Africans have been saved by George Bush’s efforts at extending life-saving medicines to AIDS patients — but again, this is never referenced.
Those abroad are also reassured that the American media, so heavily invested in hope and change, will do almost anything to transmogrify American embarrassments into Obama successes. Meanwhile, the contours of the new world order are clear. Iraq’s democrats are snubbed; Iran’s cutthroats are courted. A Saudi royal receives a bow; the British queen, a presumptuous squeeze — while her prime minister receives unplayable DVDs. Pakistan released Dr. Khan and wants us to idle our Predators. Iran is adding to its centrifuges. North Korea will ready ever-more missiles. Syria lectures on the putative peace it is begged to participate in. The former Soviet republics will fall back into line, closing American supply bases or bracing for the next Putin push. Israel gets a Charles Freeman nomination; Gaza a billion U.S. dollars in aid.
The odious governments of Cuba, Libya, and Syria quite logically have now expressed warmth of some sort for Obama and expect similar treatment in return. Russia fears little challenge to the reestablishment of its 19th-century influence. Pirates in Somalia, though slightly fewer in number today, likely have little to fear going forward. Europe had better prepare for its own defense. So should Japan. They may get more expressions of outrage when crises loom, more calls for U.N. action, but not much more than that. Expect a world of more nukes, not fewer — in direct proportion to Obama’s calls for their entire elimination. In short, we have a return of Jimmy Carter’s post-national idealism, but this time with the charismatic face of a Ronald Reagan. For 40 years we have had well-meaning moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multiculturalism taught in our schools, and we are now learning that all that was not just therapy, but has insidiously become our national gospel. The world is hearing a deeply pessimistic view of what America was and is — now offered in mellifluous cadences by a messianic president who not so long ago in more unguarded moments called for more oppression studies and reparations. …
What a president we have.
[*] The latter reference refers to Germany’s under-the-table trading with Saddam Hussein during UN sanctions approved by that nation’s leadership and that nation’s leadership trying to stop the necessary action for the toppling of Hussein’s murderous and treacherous regime.
[†] Editor’s Note: So many misconstrue this historical event. First, the Republic of Turkey (Türkeye), founded in 1923, had nothing to do with the Armenian massacre, the former Ottoman Empire, formerly the Seljuk Empire, committed those atrocities, and it was not just Armenians that were murdered – Turkish nationals and Kurds were involved as well. It was this event and many other problems with leadership of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the imperialistic attitude of European nations, that caused the Turks to follow Mustafa Kemal (Atatûrk), a former military officer of the Ottoman Empire’s army, to a Turkish War of Independence. Mustafa Kemal would later become the first president of the Turkish Republic and the Turkish citizens honor him as America honors George Washington. Mr. Kemal was instrumental in creating a republic that separated religion from state matters, got rid of the customary wearing of the Fez by men and outlawed forcing women to wear veils.
Book Review: “Evil Genes – Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend”
Barbara Oakley, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is the author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend.Needless to say, the title alone is an eye catcher, as well as her discussion entitled The Successfully Sinister in the Introduction starting at page 27.
Chapter 1, In Search of Machiavelli:
One might easily argue that the modern study of sinister people began in 1954 – nine years after my sister Carolyn’s birth. …the structure of DNA had only just been determined, and sophisticated gene sequencing methods lay decades in the future. In the social sciences, researchers not only didn’t have the tools they needed to climb to a new level in penetrating the human psyche, they often didn’t know they needed them. The successfully sinister, if thought of at all, were felt to be people who consciously chose, or were conditioned by their early environment, to be nasty.
For those unfamiliar with the philosophical term Machiavellian or Machiavellism or the personae Machiavelli is based upon a real person – Niccoló di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, born on May 3rd, 1469 and died on June 21st, 1527, who was an Italian philosopher, writer, and politician and was one of the main founders of the modern study of politics as a science – political science. He was a Renaissance man, like Leonardo da Vinci, whose more known work was a political treatise entitled The Prince and Discourses on Livy. While the term Machiavelli was originally denoted to mean someone of extreme views of politics, Machiavellism, in the world of psychology denotes a type of personality described as someone who deceives and manipulates. It is the latter that, Dr. Barbara Oakley uses in her discussions in Evil Genes.
Govt Watch: Pelosi, Carbon Footprints, and Political Hypocrisy
Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker recently spoke to the Chinese about the green movement and carbon foot printing, stating:
Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory … of how we are taking responsibility.
Of course, as a true socialist, this does not apply to those in government who make public policy. Her speech to the Chinese was part of the climate change alarmist movement that has become political consensus rather than scientific fact, as well as demonstrating left political hypocrisy. Ms. Pelosi has come under fire for using the US Air Force as her personal airline, as well as her socialist agenda where the personal life of people other than the government-elite must be inventoried and whose political machine was against the Iraq war claiming that over 4,000 US military members died because GW Bush lied continues to back government policy that has killed 8,030,770 American infants since the start of the Iraq War that toppled the evil regime of Saddam Hussein. The Iraq situation, as well as the Afghanistan War continues in the Obama administration.
Government Watch: Obama File – Appointment-Confirmation of Judge Sotomayor
Good news for those advocating traditional marriage: The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8 that the public vote declared the state marriage-protection amendment by approved last November. Meanwhile, Governor Schwarzenegger, RINO professed to be conservative, says he hasn’t given up his support for homosexual marriage in California.
The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
Thomas Jefferson [letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6th, 1819]
Post Memorial Day – Citizens Turned Away from Arlington National Cemetary on Memorial Day
As a post-Memorial-Day story written by Mark Alexander and whose entire essay can be found at Patriot Post, I wanted to relay to you parts of it concerning an email message sent to Mr. Alexander concerning Mike McGinn, a 20-year retired Marine Corps Officers who was turned away from the Arlington National Cemetery in his annual visit to his father’s grave – a Marine Colonel, Marine Colonel James Arthur McGinn, whom he and like other family and friends each Memorial Day visit graveyards all over America. As Mark Alexander wrote:
Like his father before him, Mike McGinn is a retired Marine aviator. He flew F/A-18 Hornets from 1988 to 2004, including combat tours over Bosnia and during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He writes, “Each Memorial Day, we go to visit Dad and pay our respects, driving up from Southern Maryland. This is the first time I’ve been turned away from the Cemetery grounds.” Mike and his wife left their home early Monday morning, expecting to encounter the usual entry delay into the Cemetery grounds for Memorial Day. …Mike and his wife made it to second in line at the entrance checkpoint, with an Arlington National Cemetery access pass and a DoD military officer vehicle sticker clearly displayed on his windshield, when they were abruptly waved off and directed to leave the area immediately. Apparently, Barack Hussein Obama’s motorcade was en route for the ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns and the area was being locked down for security. The McGinns were not turned away on previous Memorial Days when President George Bush arrived to place a wreath at the Tomb, but a lot has changed in the last year.
For the record, while James Arthur McGinn was serving his country and flying Crusaders for the Marine Corps, Ann Dunham was giving birth to her son, BHO, Jr., somewhere between Nyanza Province, Kenya, and Honolulu, Hawaii. As Capt. McGinn was preparing for combat in Vietnam, young Barry O was on his way to Indonesia with his mother and her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. As Maj. McGinn was earning his DFC, BO was converting to Islam, even though his mother was an avowed atheist. As Maj. McGinn was returning from Vietnam, BO was returning from Indonesia for an elite private school education in Honolulu, where he was mentored by Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis. As Col. McGinn was completing his Marine billets, BO was attending Occidental College and then Columbia University; a period of Obama’s life that to this day remains shrouded in mystery and devoid of college transcripts.
In 1994, as Mike McGinn was launching in his F/A-18 for combat tours over Bosnia, Obama was in Chicago, being mentored by Jeremiah Wright, and Marxist Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were, in turn, launching BO’s political career. In 2003, when Mike was flying missions over Iraq, the “community organizer” was on a mission to be elected to the U.S. Senate with the help of John Kerry and other treasonous Leftists. The rest is, as they say, history…
