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Deus Caritas Est!
Dicit ei Iesus ego sum via et veritas et vita nemo venit ad Patrem nisi per me.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
-1 Corinthians 13:4-8
One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be in danger in a hundred battles.
-Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War
The greatest conflict in the world today is the dichotomy of the individual and the egotistical androtheist. I define androtheism as the belief in man as god. I am not talking merely of the struggle between capitalists and Statists. It is not merely Left versus Right. But it also includes the cultural battle with radical Islam. Shari’a is the part of Islam that restricts the liberties of the individual for a perceived greater good. Meanwhile, the Bill of Rights restricts the liberties of the government. This is a political dichotomy, either restrict the individual or restrict the government. Ultimately this dichotomy is based upon either the adherence to God or the adherence to Man as a god.
When the United States became independent of Great Britain, there was a reversal in the power structure. In Great Britain, power came from the Creator to the monarch (who was the government) and the individual was at the bottom of the power totem pole. Our Founding Fathers established and fully intended the opposite. The individual was granted power from his Creator over the government. Government is supposed to be subservient to the individual. They fully intended the Bill of Rights to limit the power of Government by those who would use it to abridge the individual’s rights; those usurpers I come to realize are egotistical androtheists.
By changing law and political sentiment, Progressives in the United States are successfully reversing the power structure that our Founders put in place. It won’t be long before we are controlled by the same tyranny as the American colonists were. Androtheists believe that the common individual is not educated enough to make decisions; they deny the existence of the power given to the individual by his Creator.
The androtheist denies the existence of the Creator and in His place the androtheist institutes beliefs in technology, multiculturalism and his perception of the common good; all of these are man-made. The androtheist believes that only those who have discovered (or have been enlightened to) the fact that their belief in man as god are truly worthy of being in power. Along with this belief is the idea that man-made things (such as described at the beginning of the paragraph) that come from “enlightened” ones are intrinsically good and enduring and the truth.
Through egotistical androtheism Man can come to realize his own divinity and in doing so have power over those who are not in the same way “educated” or “enlightened”. If you put the human characteristic of egotism in this mix, you have few who have power and money and the idea that they are the ones to progress mankind into the future. In this light, they consider themselves Progressive.
It is almost impossible to distinguish between the egotistical androtheist and his subject (slave). Both outwardly espouse the ideals of socialism, but one is an activist for the man-made farces and the other uses the first as a tool. A perfect example is the egotistical androtheist Fidel Castro and his tool, the Socialist Che Guevara.
The Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama offers some insight into the master-slave relationship. President Obama has bowed before both Arab and Japanese aristocracy. No United States President should bow to a Crown. This was a precedent set by President George Washington. This may be a sign of servitude (the President as a tool) or acknowledgment of a colleague (androtheist to androtheist) where both acknowledge a mutual deity.
Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama has lamented “…that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you. It says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.” The “you” in his comments are those who he believes cannot think for themselves; the unenlightened, the ones who do not believe that man can be a god, those who believe in the Creator. In the President’s statement I infer he believes that the government through its authority granted by those man-gods in power must have the liberty to make decisions and take care of the common people. Progressive belief is truly elitism and it leads to the establishment of the American Crown.
By limiting Government, the Bill of Rights limits the authority of the American Crown and its tyranny; the Crown’s ability to subdue the limits of government must be stopped.
The American Crown, unlike the British Crown, is not a monarchial institution. It is not a conspiratorial institution or small group that meets in secret to rule the world. To think secret organizations are the only ones pulling the strings is short-sighted and dangerous. The American Crown is a body of like Progressive minds resident in the American political system.
The egotistical androtheists are not a part of a secret group of rich white men who sit around a marble table in a castle somewhere in Europe and plot and scheme and pull the strings of the governments of the world. They are not necessarily only the freemasons; they are not limited to Skull and Bones members; this is not about secret organizations. They may be all adherents to androtheism.
Like the British Crown, the American Crown must be defeated and the yoke of their burdens upon us must be thrown off. The American Crown is comprised of both Democrat and Republican. Political parties have no constructive role in an individualist and free nation. We must vote for the individual. But most importantly we must VOTE and expose fraudulent organizations bent on stealing elections!
The most effective way the American Crown can be weakened is to vote them out of office. The new individualist politician must weed out the Socialist once in government. Government agencies must be wiped clean; clearing house is needed when it’s infected. But an individualist can be poisoned by the office and its perks. Therefore, term limits must be in place; there is no reason that Congressmen should be in office for decades. It is impossible for a human being to be “in power” for that long and still be in touch with his constituents and not drink from the Kool-Aid of the American Crown.
The British Crown used taxation, deprivation of due process and coercion to subdue the common people of the colonies. The American Crown is considerably more cunning and as Progressives they create Cults and Crises to abuse the common individual such as Death, Environment, Social Justice, Unionization, Globalization, Nationalization, Outlaw Community Organizations and Political Illusion. And it could be said taxation is a common thread between the two Crowns. The only Crown with true power is the one made of thorns; all others are usurpations. The American Crown will try to distract the individual’s belief in a Creator with Cults that will supplant God with the Socialist’s creations.
One might say: “I am an atheist. There is no God.” Atheists have fallen for the lies of the Socialist. For if there is no Creator, the individual has no authority over the Progressive and his government. It is clear; without the Creator, independence is futile.
Without the strong and vibrant American individual and his freedom, the world may be doomed to be overrun by the Socialist and Tyrant. Socialism in its many incarnations such as communism, despotism, Marxism and Shari’a will doom humanity to subservience to the man-god.
Governance
The Socialist utilizes all types of governance to carry out their struggle against individualism and to “save” the unenlightened against their own ignorance.
Despotism is the simplest form of Socialist utopia. Despotism is a form of governance in which a Socialist with an enormous ego, with the belief that he is the only man who is enlightened to the androtheism. This belief does not preclude the lack of other gods; in fact, most early despots include themselves as a part of the pantheon.
Monarchy is a form of governance similar to despotism. One could say that a monarchy is a despotic state in which the ruler is restricted by laws or precedent. The egotistical Socialist (ruler) is limited in his authority by a parliament. The problem with this is that power still descends from the monarch. Ultimately, the monarch allows the individual to have a say.
Democracy is a process of ruling in which the citizenry have the power to make decisions. This allows for the individual to have a say…but a democracy alone is not enough. Unchecked democracy is prone to manipulation by the Progressive.
Republic is a form of governance that together with democracy encapsulates the American form of government. The United States is a republic with the ideology of individualism. Not all republics are the same. The Soviet Union was a republic of a communistic ideology.
Anthropologic Field Book Entry for Socialist:
Characteristics: Hubristic, wealthy or having access to someone else’s wealth.
Beliefs: Androtheism: man as a god; those who are not “enlightened” are either subjects to their will or the enemy.
Natural Enemy: Individualist, freedom, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence.
Habitat: Politics, big business, any place of power and money.
Population: One is too many.
Founder: Possibly the Egyptian Pharaoh, but handed down through the ages by the idea of a monarchy or oligarchy.
Aliases: American or British Crown, The Man, Dictator, Czar.
The Cult of Death
Remember that Socialists adhere to the whims of the androtheist. These egotistical androtheists believe that a way to lessen the perceived negative effects of the unenlightened is to utilize negative eugenics in a way to keep their population in check. The key component in this is abortion.
The most infamous name in this category is Margaret Higgins Sanger who wrote:
“It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.”
-From “What Every Boy and Girl Should Know”, 1915, p. 140
While Margaret Sanger may not have been a racist, she was definitely against the poor and feeble as evidenced by her statement in 1915. “Poverty” are the poor and “these things” are poor people. She explains this idea more specifically in the next sentence. Progressives use abortion as a tool to suppress the common folk in numbers.
You might ask yourself, why would an androtheist advocate the lessening of a population? Wouldn’t that be deicide? You must understand that an egotistical androtheist (Socialist) believes that only those who are enlightened are gods; androtheism does not believe itself to be inherent.
Margaret Sanger later on helped to start what would become Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood’s sole purpose is to make every person wanted. All the others must die.
“Mission Statement: A Reason for Being
Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence. We believe that respect and value for diversity in all aspects of our organization are essential to our well-being. We believe that reproductive self-determination must be voluntary and preserve the individual's right to privacy. We further believe that such self-determination will contribute to an enhancement of the quality of life and strong family relationships.”
-http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/vision-4837.htm
Now, when they speak of the “individual” they really mean only those who have fully and entirely passed through the birth canal. The Progressive has used the faulty logic of abortion to dupe millions in America to believe that abortion is okay. Abortion advocates have hijacked the vocabulary in the abortion debate and have made abortion very sanitized and commonplace.
When the abortion advocate speaks of protecting a woman’s right to choose, a woman’s right to privacy, a woman’s reproductive rights or termination of a pregnancy, they really mean feticide. Just as in homicide, it is the killing of an individual.
When the abortion advocate speaks of making sure that every person being born is wanted. It is only logical to conclude from this thinking that unwanted individuals will be terminated through an abortion. This word-play by abortion advocates plays on everyone’s need to be wanted. Let’s ask the millions of American couples who spend tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours trying to conceive a child through unnatural means such as in-vitro fertilization or medication. Ask the American couples spending tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of their time trying to adopt children in China, they make every child conceived in the United State wanted. Abortion makes these couples’ dreams even that more difficult to achieve; and it decimates abortion advocates’ claim of an “unwanted pregnancy”, especially in today’s world of instant connectedness.
When the abortion advocate speaks of the viability of the fetus, their logic is flawed. At ten weeks of pregnancy, the human has all of his organs and his heart is pumping. In all practical purposes, the ten week human is similar to that of an adult human who, while in a coma, is hooked up to machines who feed and nourish him. The initial “cluster of cells”—as many abortion advocates like to call him—is a distinct human individual with unique DNA. From the moment of conception until the chord is cut, the human inside the mother is an individual hooked up to a life support system known as a placenta and amniotic sac.
I suppose the abortion advocate believes an individual only an individual until the chord is cut; just like an egotistical androtheist believing one as god only until they realize it and they cut the cord to the Creator.
When the abortion advocate speaks, he reveals himself as a tool of the Progressive. When an abortionist (abortion doctor is an oxymoron considering all they do is kill humans) performs an abortion they are essentially ripping a human off of life-support in a violent and macabre manner.
When the abortion advocate speaks of reproductive rights of women, they really mean the mother, which illogically disregards the right of the individual to live. In this logic these advocates should applaud Indian women for aborting their daughters because of the tradition of India and the economics of having a female; but they’ll approve of the elective abortion but say their not for gender-based abortion.
Each individual from the moment of conception is “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “ Without a respect for Life, civilization is impossible and if already existent can only degrade.
The Progressive and his tool will deny an individual’s right to life or conveniently use fuzzy logic to tolerate abortion and uses fancy word-play only to cheapen the life of the chorded helpless human and their own. A person cannot put a value on himself, only someone else can and ultimately we are all priceless and invaluable because the Creator made us all; the Founding Fathers had this in mind.
We must shed light on abortion and show people what it truly is. We must lead people through the fuzzy logic and engage them in common sense. Abortion advocates are blind to the science of human embryology and its ethical ramifications.
The recent debate (or lack thereof) over the Affordable Health Care for America Act (the health care bill), has stirred up a big stink. The bill’s sponsors are all Democrat and come from the likes of California, New Jersey and New York. There are provisions in what will be the final bill that will provide elective abortions through taxpayer money. Our tax dollars will go to fund abortions. I cringe to think that many life-loving, Christian, individuals would vote for a President that will sign this into law. Every voter who voted for the Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama has caused my money to fund the killing of innocence and the blood of millions of individuals is on their hands.
The most notable proponent of negative eugenics today is Jack Kevorkian whose medical license was revoked in 1991 (he is not a doctor). Kevorkian’s approach is through the euthanasia (misnomer) of the elderly and terminally ill. I find the fuzzy logic funny because technically every human on earth is going to be elderly or terminal, eventually.
The Progressive will use negative eugenics to keep those individuals that use more resources than they are capable of producing from being more of a burden. The Progressive believes the elderly and terminally ill are drains on resources.
If the individual had no rights or value from the Creator then the elderly or terminally ill individual would be destroyed for the “good of everyone else”. There are two problems with this logic: 1) every individual is endowed by his Creator with rights and value; 2) this logic assumes that resources are limited, yet through capitalism and science we have expanded our access to resources.
The Progressive will champion the euthanasia of the elderly and terminally ill because those are usually the individuals who are more inclined to believe in a Creator and could be their enemies.
The Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama in a recent “townhall” meeting was essentially asked by Jane Sturm whether her mother (99 years old at the time) would have gotten a life-saving pacemaker under his proposed health care plan.
Jane: Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, quality of life, or is it just a medical cut-off at a certain age?
Obama: We’re not going to solve every difficult problem in terms of end of life care. A lot of that is going to have to be we as a culture and society starting to make better decisions within our own families and, and for ourselves. But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that’s not making anybody’s mom better. Uh, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care. That at least we can let doctors know, and your mom know, that, you know what, that maybe this isn’t gonna help. Maybe you’re better off not, uh, having the surgery, but taking, uh, the painkiller.
-Transcribed from a YouTube.com video entitled
“Obama to Jane Sturm: Hey, take a pill”
Uuuhhhh, let’s deconstruct his words. First, “end of life care”. He does not refer to it as care of the elderly. He uses “end of life” which in other words is death.
The word master plays around and his methodical pauses and emphases disguise his next statement. “…we as a culture and society starting to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves.” He is stating that society needs to make “better” decisions within our families (what decisions would these be?) and for ourselves. He is simply and covertly advocating society (ie. Government) making decision for your family and you. Furthermore, these are decisions that mean an end to life. Read it again and again, just take out the rhetoric and really listen to what he says. This Progressive believes that he and other like-minded androtheists and socialists should be making the decisions because you are not an androtheist like him.
Lastly, without much medical knowledge, he states: “…at least we (him and his administration) can let doctors know…that [their decision] isn’t gonna help.” Letting a “doctor know” is basically telling them what to do. This statement takes away a doctor’s ability to practice his cause and cheapens his oath. Instead of informing doctors of options, it lets them know what they can and cannot do.
President Barack Hussein Obama’s last statement is self-explanatory. He is a Progressive. And he never answers her specific question, but he does answer her underlying question…yes, your mom would have been hopped up on painkillers until she died.
We need to preserve the elderly and terminally ill for as long as medically possible. Where would the world be without Stephen Hawking (ALS first diagnosed in the 1960s and lost his speech in 1985), or Michael J. Fox (diagnosed in 1991) who has established a research foundation for the possibly terminal Parkinson’s Disease?
On March 18, 2005 Theresa Marie Schiavo was taken off of life-support and 13 days later on March 31, 2005, she died of malnutrition and dehydration. Please note that “schiavo” is Italian for “slave”. In 1990 Terri unexplainably collapsed due to apparent respiratory and cardiac arrest. Her autopsy would much later show that she did not suffer bulimia or a heart attack. In 1992, Michael Schiavo settled for $300,000 in her case, while Terri was awarded $700,000 for medical expenses, from a malpractice lawsuit against her obstetrician. Her obstetrician was accused of not testing her for an eating disorder which was believed to have caused her collapse (but she didn’t have bulimia).
Her “husband” began living with his girlfriend in 1993, yet never filed for divorce. He had two children with his girlfriend before Terri died. So much for marital loyalty. Michael may have blogged on the Socialist website Daily Kos.
Michael always said that it was never about the money. Why not? He already got his. Michael Schiavo is a tool of the Progressive. Terri had every right as an individual to life regardless of her mental capacity.
The Progressive will continue to use the Cult of Death to subdue the individual.
The Cult of Environment
The egotistical androtheist has created the issue of the environment to limit the liberty of the individual for the sake of the perceived common good. In order to keep the common folk in their ignorance, the egotistical androtheist created the religious Cult of Environment. The Cult of Environment puts everything above the individual human. The Cult’s main proponent, Al Gore, may be a Progressive or just a socialist tool but more likely the former.
The argument of Climate Change and the Environment as a religious cult can be easily made. The key point here is that Al Gore refuses to debate a growing mound of evidence that he was wrong in his predictions in “An Inconvenient Truth”. Furthermore, his claim of Truth is not science. Faith and philosophy deal with Truths.
When asked by the Danish environmentalist and political scientist (contemporary colleague), Bjorn Lomborg, Ph.D., to debate his stance on Climate Change Al Gore (B.A. in Government) arranged the following:
The interview had been scheduled for months. The day before the interview Mr. Gore's agent thought Gore-meets-Lomborg would be great. Yet an hour later, he came back to tell us that Bjorn Lomborg should be excluded from the interview because he's been very critical of Mr. Gore's message about global warming and has questioned Mr. Gore's evenhandedness. According to the agent, Mr. Gore only wanted to have questions about his book and documentary, and only asked by a reporter. These conditions were immediately accepted by Jyllands-Posten. Yet an hour later we received an email from the agent saying that the interview was now cancelled. What happened?
-http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009552
Apparently, Al Gore is a very inconvenient interviewee. Al Gore will not debate anyone if they have facts that contradict his “truth”. He consistently tells everyone that the issue has gone beyond theory and if you question his “truth” then you are an infidel and want everyone to be covered in pollution and die. If a journalist asks Al Gore to debate he would say: “No more scoop for you!”
Al Gore should have gotten his degree in a science instead of “government” if this was truly his calling. I think he could have learned a lot if he would only understand what science strives to do and what the scientific method is.
The saying “Science Marches On” is quite apt. Science is not a singular belief in a Truth. Science is the continual exploration of Truth through the use of the scientific method.
Christian scientists (not Christian Science) believe that through their work in exploring the world around them they pursue the ultimate Truth, God. In this way, science is not religion but the independent human pursuit of God. Back to the egotistical androtheist and his tool….
The Progressive will pervert science. By making science—at least the science approved by socialism—the truth instead of the pursuit of truth, they make science a religious cult. It makes science a belief structure that cannot be disputed or questioned for fear of being labeled immoral or unethical. The Progressive loves to label the common folk; this makes it much easier to divide by labels and conquer.
The very nature of science is as a pursuit and should take nothing for granted. The scientific method comprises of four steps: Observation, Hypothesis, Prediction and Performance. Science is imperfect, but ever improving through the honest use of the scientific method.
Al Gore’s climate scientists made their observations and formulated a hypothesis that fit his ultimate Socialist goals by making the prediction that anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide would make the average temperature of the world increase and therefore wreak havoc upon our climate.
When Al Gore speaks of climate change he is admitting that global warming might not be in the future. Why have they changed the vocabulary from global warming to climate change? Climates change…big deal. The current climate situation of earth has changed in the past, sometimes violently and catastrophically. The reason for the change in the label is because the earth’s temperature since his “Convenient Theory” came out in “An Inconvenient Truth” has actually dropped.
Al Gore and his scientists seem to dismiss this drop as a temporary lull. They also love the Arctic and the Antarctic and consider them the “canary in a coalmine”. Al Gore conveniently looks at the coastal regions of the poles, but disregards the interiors. He looks at large amounts of ice shelf fracturing away and says “lookie, lookie, the earth is warming, the earth is warming…it’s melting the ice in Antarctica!”
According to Thomas, E. R., G. J. Marshall, and J. R. McConnell, 2008: A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850, there is obviously more snow on the continent than before. The ice shelves of Antarctica are fed by huge glaciers of ice and snow. These ice shelves do not accumulate mass from the oceans they are pushed out by the glaciers. If these glaciers get a boost of snow and ice at the origin and gravity pushes their flow outward to the ocean. When Al Gore laments of a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island or Delaware breaking off the ice shelf he dismisses all other explanations other than global warming. He fails to see what might be happening on the rest of the continent.
So why should we care about the ice shelves melting? According to Al Gore this will cause the sea level to rise and decimate coastal regions around the world. In his movie he stated that the earth’s sea level could rise up to 20 feet. Let’s do a little calculation here: Total oceanic surface area: 139,000,000 square miles. Antarctica has 595,000 square miles of ice shelves at a median depth of 0.4 mile. Glacial ice has approximately 85% the density of its melted counterpart freshwater. Multiply them all up and you get 202,000 cubic miles of extra volume or an increase of 8 feet world wide. If Greenland (climate change-ologists’ new canary in a coalmine most conveniently) were to lose all of its ice cap (680,000 cubic miles) then the sea level would rise to 20 feet. But that’s ALL of the ice. The recent increase in frozen precipitation would offset the loss of ice. The oceans volume will decrease with an increase in evaporation.
In the end, since Al Gore’s movie came out average global surface temperatures have dropped which is contrary to what climate change-ologists’ models said would happen. I’d say that the scientific method has prevailed. They observed, formulated a hypothesis and made predictions…and now their performance has failed. But they won’t go back to the drawing board; they will fight for their hypothesis at the expense of the predictions and our wallets.
You might be asking yourself…in the end why does the individual care? It’s all about Cap’n Trade…I mean Cap and Trade. Congress calls it “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009”. There’s nothing American about it. It restricts the individual in what he can do to his property. The law would set up a system of caps and trading of the emissions of carbon dioxide by individuals and business. Al Gore’s premise leads him and other Progressives to push the cause of decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted to the detriment of our liberties.
Al Gore is the head of Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM), a London-based firm that Al Gore co-founded in 2004. GIM is the world leader in carbon credits (the trade part of Cap and Trade). Can we say CHA-CHING? Al Gore is poised to make a lot of money with this new law.
“Cap and Trade” is a system already used in Spain (which has seen an increase in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990). Environmental organizations and businesses would be given an allotment of carbon credits every year relating to how much carbon dioxide they pull out of the air according to government calculations. A manufacturer who emits carbons would then buy carbon credits from the environmental company or suffer a harsh penalty. So Company A is an environmental company, they plant trees and the government deems that they pull 1,000,000 cubic meters of carbon dioxide out of the air. Company B is a car manufacturer and has carbon emissions of 1,000,000 cubic meters. Company B pays Company A $10,000,000 to buy carbon credits to offset their emissions. If Company B doesn’t do this they will be fined $20,000,000 by the federal government. The idea is to be “carbon neutral” and his entirely based on the belief that carbon dioxide is increasing the earth’s temperature.
The largest amounts of carbon dioxide produced are through energy production. This bill will increase the cost of energy. The Socialist tool will say that we need to decrease our energy use to decrease our carbon footprint. Two ways of doing this are 1) forcing the increase in energy costs 2) forcing the individual to buy new things that use less energy.
Here’s something funny. The cover (and the zoom-in) of Al Gore’s new children’s book (as shown on Amazon.com) “Our Choice” shows a hurricane off the coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean spinning clockwise. It is basic earth science that hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere spin counter-clockwise. I know it might sound petty, but the cover of the book was designed as a textbook. A book of science…if they can’t get basic earth science right on the cover how can we believe the science in the book. I believe the adult book has the same badly photoshopped satellite shot as the children’s version. Don’t waste your money.
President George W. Bush (conservative?) signed into law that all incandescent light bulbs be banned for sale in the United States in 2012. Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are the new heralded light source for America. They claim to be more efficient than regular light bulbs. CFL efficiency is only in its continual use. Turning on a CFL takes more energy than a regular light bulb, only after time does the energy-efficiency come about. CFLs are manufactured in China. The mercury present in CFLs does not allow it to be made in the United States. The EPA has steps to mitigate the environmental impact of breaking one:
Before Clean-up: Air Out the Room
* Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
* Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
* Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
Clean-Up Steps for Hard Surfaces
* Carefully scoop up glass pieces and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
* Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
* Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
* Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
Clean-up Steps for Carpeting or Rug
* Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
* Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
* If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
* Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.
Clean-up Steps for Clothing, Bedding and Other Soft Materials
* If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
* You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
* If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
Disposal of Clean-up Materials
* Immediately place all clean-up materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
* Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials.
* Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.
Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
* The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
* Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
This is ridiculous. The Cult of Environment will tell you that you must freeze in the winter, burn up in the summer to “save the environment”. You must drive a hybrid car. You must drive less. You must “go green”. Nobody wants polluted drinking water regardless of what the Socialist may say, but they will use this argument to the extreme to take away your liberty.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon (evil Republican?) called for Congress to write a law that would enforce the protection of certain animals and plants and their perceived habitat regardless of the impact on the human individual. The listing of a species on the endangered species list is dependent on government studies. Establishing the population of a species is near impossible if you consider that new specie are discovered every day. President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as well as the National Environmental Policy Act in 1970.
In the United States it is legal and free of fee or penalty by the government to kill a pre-born human individual. In the United States it is a fine of tens of thousands of dollars and possible jail time to touch the egg of a sea turtle. Pre-born sea turtles have more rights in the United States than pre-born human individuals. This is all to further limit the individual’s power and increase the government’s power by being proxy and guardian of the animal that may reside near you.
The Cult of Social Justice
The egotistical androtheist has created Universality to replace the ideal of the “land of opportunity”. The Progressive believes in the equality of outcome not of opportunity, and then only for the common individual. This ensures the common individual as a slave and tool. With the Progressive in power you do not have the same opportunity to be your potential; your only option is to be what the Crown has predetermined you to be…the same as everyone else. You become a ward of the state.
When the Progressive speaks of “Social Justice”, he really is speaking of justice for some. He speaks of an empathetic justice (oxymoron) that more closely resembles an overactive vengeance. The oath that a United States Supreme Court justice takes is as follows:
I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Justice is supposed to be blind. Just reading the oath of office for a Justice (it is a combined Constitutional Oath and Judicial Oath) you can take away that justice cannot be swayed by the economic status of a person or by the person’s characteristics such as race or heritage.
Nobody alive today in the United States has ever owned a slave, yet many Socialist tools will call for slave reparations still. These reparations are in the form of Affirmative Action (I am not talking about Equal Opportunity employment) or direct calls for financial reparations.
The Socialist tool also subscribes to another aspect of “Social Justice” called the redistribution of wealth. The Progressive has lied to his tool by saying the wealthy have gained their finances through the coercion and “fooling” of the poor. Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama during his presidential campaign told the now famous Joe the Plumber that the redistribution of his wealth was necessary to help the poorer people behind him. Fortunately, Joe the Plumber refused to become a tool and believe the lie.
The Progressive will never fully adhere to the very “Social Justice” laws they propose. In order to suppress the liberties of the individual for the “common good” they propose these laws of the redistribution of wealth to make everyone equally poor and equally subservient to the egotistical androtheist.
The United Nations has been molded by the Progressive into an institution that champions the ideal of “Social Justice” and its subsequent inequality in enforcement when it comes to the Progressive and Socialist tool themselves. One must only look at the infamous programs the United Nations has produced.
The Progressive Clinton Administration introduced the Oil for Food Programme to the United Nations. This infamous program funneled billions of dollars to Saddam Hussein and padded the pockets of many United Nations officials and eventually then U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s son was implicated in the scandal. The idea was to give Iraq much needed food and supplies (food and supplies Saddam Hussein was denying his own people) in exchange for Iraqi oil.
The United Nations claims “to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, …[in order] to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”. The last part of the statement is the most interesting; rephrased it says “the U.N., in larger freedom, to impose Socialist progress”.
The egotistical androtheist will attempt to strip the Government of its safeguards against internal tyranny (Bill of Rights) and utilize the rest of the Constitution to suppress our freedoms. This is not a strictly American phenomenon. The United Nations has no safeguards and can be freely used by those who would abridge our freedoms.
The Vatican’s newest encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” or Charity (Love) in Truth has many great points and describes utopian ideals. There are very disturbing ideas coming out of the Vatican.
(37)… Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift.
(42)…The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale; if badly directed, however, they can lead to an increase in poverty and inequality, and could even trigger a global crisis.
“Redistribution governed by politics” means taxing the haves to give to the have-nots. It is obvious that some at the Vatican believe that redistributing wealth is in the “spirit of gift”. Everyone should give to charity, both time and money. Giving to charity extends God’s love to those who need it. Essentially you become the face of God to those in need. A gift is given freely and without penalty or coercion. When someone says redistribution [of wealth] they mean by way of taxes. Taxes are compulsory in nature and are not gifts. If the redistribution of wealth becomes the norm, then the only face the poor will see is that of the Government. But even further than that, the poor will see the face of the egotistical androtheist; for it is the androtheist who believes himself to be a god.
An example of this is “community organization” touted by Progressive President Barack Hussein Obama. Large amounts of our tax dollars are going to organizations like ACORN and Volunteers of America. If it were up to the President these organizations and those like them would be the only ones giving comfort to the poor and food to the hungry. Instead of allowing Americans to keep their money and give it to charities, the Government would take your money and get all the praise. The poor and hungry will see the Government and these community organizations as their savior, not God through the individual.
Even though the Vatican admits that a badly managed redistribution of wealth could create a global crisis, it still believes that a global redistribution of wealth is a good thing. The United Nations does not have as its Charter the belief that power comes from God to the individual and the individual grants Government limited powers. The Vatican claims that all it would take is greater international power and good people. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Whatever the intentions of the United Nations, if it were given more power over its member nations, it would still not based upon the fundamental tenant that we are all endowed by the Creator our rights and the political power. Would it be worth giving up our sovereignty to the United Nations if every single person involved were righteous, incorruptible and ethical and rights were endowed by our Creator? Maybe. But this is NOT a perfect world and the United Nations will never be that way. The last criterion would be the most important part. There are too many enemies of freedom in this world (the Vatican should be very aware of this) that a United Nations with “teeth” would only help to snuff this beacon of freedom we call home.
I find it very disheartening that some in the Vatican would take the side of the egotistical androtheist and succumb to his lies.
Shari’a
Shari’a restricts the liberties of women for their “common good”. More specifically, certain extreme Muslim leadership and its blatantly anti-woman ideology restricts the liberties of Muslim women. Women in these societies do not have access to education; they do not have equal rights to men; are ‘legally’ beaten and abused for not obeying their male authorities or husband; do not have equal treatment under the law; they have no say whether their husband gets another wife or not; their husbands can divorce for any reason by simply saying so.
Pharaoh of Ancient Egyptian
The Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt was believed by the people of Egypt to have been an Egyptian god incarnate. Artisans, as well as, common folk worked on the Pyramids. The Pharaoh, as an egotistical Socialist, employed many to do his bidding and erect monuments. While this kept the people employed, it did not produce anything of economic use. This was the original and most simplest variation of the egotistical androtheist.
American Slave Owner
The American slave owner is perhaps the most blatant example of the egotistical androtheist. Albeit with a largely racial overtone, the American slave owner used extremely distorted views of religion to suppress millions of fellow Americans by way of slavery.
Marx-Alinksy
Many may say that Karl Marx was the father of Socialism. He was most probably an androtheist, he may have been a tool, but I believe he was not an egotistical one. Karl Marx led a very troubled life. He might have been the first to write down the “ideals” of Socialism, but he was not the first to think of them.
The same goes for Saul Alinsky, the mentor for Socialist President Barack Hussein Obama. He wrote down the machination of modern American politics toward a Socialist end.
When asked about joining the Communist Party in an interview, Alinsky said, “Not at any time. I’ve never joined any organization -- not even the ones I’ve organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it’s Christianity or Marxism. One of the most important things in life is what judge Learned Hand described as ‘that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you’re right.’ If you don’t have that, if you think you’ve got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.”
Saul Alinsky never joined any organization because he is an androtheist. These “organizations” that androtheists create are only institutional tools that turn ignorant people into the tools of the androtheist.
Nazism
The most notorious Socialist Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Hitler’s National Socialist Labor Party (Nazi Party) was established with a racial and militant flavor. But make no mistake, Adolf Hilter was a socialist first and foremost; he used race and the concept of “völkisch” along with an economic situation to thrust Germany into a socialist authoritarianism. Unlike the Socialism of Alinsky and Obama, the socialism of Hitler did not include happy faces of hope, his was one at the barrel of a gun.
American Progressives
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you could not do before. I think America as a whole in 1973 [and] 1974 … missed the opportunity to deal with the energy crisis that was before us. For a long time our energy policy came down to cheap oil. This is an opportunity what used to be long-term problems be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area. Things that we have postponed for too long.” Socialist President Barack Hussein Obama’s Chief-of-Staff, Rahm Emanuel.
The American Progressive is one who subverts our Bill of Rights in order to gain power within the structure of the Government. This will allow the egotistical androtheist to use the Government to suppress the common folk. They wish to progressively put the tentacles of Government into every aspect of your life. They do this through government-run health care, welfare (the new slave plantation) and taxes.
The first step to running every aspect of your life is the instituting of “czars”. “Czars” have no accountability except to one man (the President), no oversight (by Congress or the people), no confirmation (by Congress) and no requirement of transparency (to the media or Congress). Just as any two-bit dictator, the Socialist President Barack Hussein Obama has appointed mini dictators over parts of our economy and way of life; who are not confirmed by the legislature and do not have to report to them either.
This is exactly what the Founding Fathers did not want to happen and that is why they developed the three branches of government. We have three separate branches with equal footing and “checks and balances” to assure that not one person or group of people could amass the entire power of the government. This is Government 101. But when czars are appointed it subverts the checks and balances and equality of our three branch system. It allows the President himself to rule without restraint.
Essentially, the President is trying to run the entire government with his buddies and tools. In the process, by-passing the will of the people through their elected representative.
Conclusion
In 1748 Englishman John Newton was aboard the sailing ship Greyhound where he had a conversion while the sea was stormy. He had been a slave trader. Years later he became an Anglican priest and around 1772 he wrote a poem aimed at helping him in a sermon about his horrible past and divine grace. Here’s his poem:
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares...
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.
When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
Take a note from John Newton. For both the androtheist and his tool (slave master and slave) it is never too late to break the bonds that keep you away from your birthright as a human being. Let this be a warning to all.
Regards,
Sam Gallucci III
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Double Standards in Obamaland
Ex-GM CEO gets retirement package worth over $10M
By TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON, AP Auto Writers
DETROIT – Former General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will retire Aug. 1 with a pension and benefit package the automaker valued at more than $10 million.
Wagoner, 56, who was ousted by the Obama administration on March 30, will get $1.64 million in benefits annually for each of the next five years, plus an annual pension of $74,030 for the rest of his life, according to company documents filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Let me get this straight. AIG gets billions in taxpayer dollars, gives millions in bonuses, ACORN and the Obama Administration get their feathers ruffled and basically ruin the lives of AIG execs (class warfare and envy).
GM gets billions in taxpayer dollars. Obama basically orders its CEO to step down. GM asks for billions more and gets it. GM files for bankruptcy. Obama takes over GM for all intents and purposes. GM has a fire-sale and emerges as a "new GM". Then the failed ex-CEO of GM gets over $10 million in bonuses.
Where's the outrage toward the CEO, toward GM and toward Obama. President Obama is the one calling the shots along with his Car Czar... and then we see this headline:
Steve Rattner Resigning As "Car Czar" To Spend More Time With His Money
By Ray Wert
Treasury Secretary Geithner announced today Steve Rattner, former Wall Street financier worth more than $188 million, is stepping down after five months in Washington as the President's "car czar." He does know the U.S. automakers ain't fixed yet, right?
Although there's no firm date set yet for Rattner's departure from leading President Obama's auto task force, we're told he's "decided to transition back to private life and his family in New York City."
It's all about the money with this Administration.
By TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON, AP Auto Writers
DETROIT – Former General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will retire Aug. 1 with a pension and benefit package the automaker valued at more than $10 million.
Wagoner, 56, who was ousted by the Obama administration on March 30, will get $1.64 million in benefits annually for each of the next five years, plus an annual pension of $74,030 for the rest of his life, according to company documents filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Let me get this straight. AIG gets billions in taxpayer dollars, gives millions in bonuses, ACORN and the Obama Administration get their feathers ruffled and basically ruin the lives of AIG execs (class warfare and envy).
GM gets billions in taxpayer dollars. Obama basically orders its CEO to step down. GM asks for billions more and gets it. GM files for bankruptcy. Obama takes over GM for all intents and purposes. GM has a fire-sale and emerges as a "new GM". Then the failed ex-CEO of GM gets over $10 million in bonuses.
Where's the outrage toward the CEO, toward GM and toward Obama. President Obama is the one calling the shots along with his Car Czar... and then we see this headline:
Steve Rattner Resigning As "Car Czar" To Spend More Time With His Money
By Ray Wert
Treasury Secretary Geithner announced today Steve Rattner, former Wall Street financier worth more than $188 million, is stepping down after five months in Washington as the President's "car czar." He does know the U.S. automakers ain't fixed yet, right?
Although there's no firm date set yet for Rattner's departure from leading President Obama's auto task force, we're told he's "decided to transition back to private life and his family in New York City."
It's all about the money with this Administration.
Unemployment and Public Use
Obama: Unemployment likely to keep ticking up
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery.
"How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a particularly battered economy. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months."
I know...I harp on this a lot. The fact that the Recovery Act was needed NOW and that it was an emergrency. We couldn't wait and actually read the bill.
Are we supposed to be soothed by Obama's statement? A couple million jobs have been lost since the Recovery Act was enacted. Obama touted it as a jobs saver. If it really is saving jobs...let us not forget that more jobs are being lost and vastly overshadows any "saved" job. When President Obama says that he has saved 150,000 jobs, he tells you this but wants you to forget the half million jobs lost every month. So instead of 2,150,000 jobs lost ONLY 2,000,000 jobs were lost....
SIDEBAR:
Watching the Sotomayor hearings. They're talking about eminent domain and the difference between public use and public purpose. Under public purpose, the State can take your land and give it to a private developer because it would increase tax revenues. Public Use (that's the one in the Constitution) I believe is taking land for use by the public, ie roads, highways, schools, libraries, municipal buildings, parks...NOT shopping malls for the profit of private developers.
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery.
"How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a particularly battered economy. "My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months."
I know...I harp on this a lot. The fact that the Recovery Act was needed NOW and that it was an emergrency. We couldn't wait and actually read the bill.
Are we supposed to be soothed by Obama's statement? A couple million jobs have been lost since the Recovery Act was enacted. Obama touted it as a jobs saver. If it really is saving jobs...let us not forget that more jobs are being lost and vastly overshadows any "saved" job. When President Obama says that he has saved 150,000 jobs, he tells you this but wants you to forget the half million jobs lost every month. So instead of 2,150,000 jobs lost ONLY 2,000,000 jobs were lost....
SIDEBAR:
Watching the Sotomayor hearings. They're talking about eminent domain and the difference between public use and public purpose. Under public purpose, the State can take your land and give it to a private developer because it would increase tax revenues. Public Use (that's the one in the Constitution) I believe is taking land for use by the public, ie roads, highways, schools, libraries, municipal buildings, parks...NOT shopping malls for the profit of private developers.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Show Your Support
Show your support for your hard earned money! Also show everyone your disdain for the out-of-control spending Congress has done to enslave our children and grand-children for generations to come.
I was reading Rush Limbaugh's The Limbaugh Letter from August 1993, Page 6, today and found a small item that is more relevant now than in 1993. "Fold Your own". I will reiterate this today.
We need to call it the "Deficit and Unemployment Recovery Spending Act Awareness Ribbon" (DURSPAAR). It will be a ribbon that will help promote the awareness that Obama's Recovery Act will only recover the deficit and unemployment that was ushered in the Great Depression. It will also promote awareness of the hard-earned money that you are giving to the government without getting ANYTHING in return... except maybe unemployment or bankruptcy.
You fold the dollar lengthwise so that it is as thin as the words "IN GOD WE TRUST". Then fold it in the form of a ribbon with "IN GOD WE TRUST" shown on the top.
Busy this weekend...see you on Monday.
Palin Should Leave Party
No where in the US Constitution does it say anything about political parties. George Washington once said: "The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection." (Wikiquote)
I would suggest that Palin get out; either way, I would vote for her if today was Election Day. As an Individualist, I believe that parties should be abolished. It seems that the Two parties are practically the same. Speaking in majorities of parties, the only thing different seems to be abortion. We don't need no stinkin' parties. We need to start voting on person, not party.
Unfortunately, our Congress has the cancer of party within its infrastructure to the detriment of its original purpose. Right now, party has too much power. With a two-party system, the US government is just a parliamentary system with only two options instead of ten. We waste too much time and money on Party. We need to start supporting people not Party.
I would suggest that Palin get out; either way, I would vote for her if today was Election Day. As an Individualist, I believe that parties should be abolished. It seems that the Two parties are practically the same. Speaking in majorities of parties, the only thing different seems to be abortion. We don't need no stinkin' parties. We need to start voting on person, not party.
Unfortunately, our Congress has the cancer of party within its infrastructure to the detriment of its original purpose. Right now, party has too much power. With a two-party system, the US government is just a parliamentary system with only two options instead of ten. We waste too much time and money on Party. We need to start supporting people not Party.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Audacity of National Security
Supermax prison: Obama's books objectionable
AP
FLORENCE, COLO. —The federal government's most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."
But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.
A prison spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI.
There you go...Obama's own FBI considers certain things Obama has written to be "potentially detrimental to national security" and in the light of this the SuperMax facility in Florence has stopped an al-Qaida member from reading it. How do the 60+ million people who voted for Obama feel about their candidate and his writings? Most never read him, most probably don't care because he is a celebrity "rock star". Sad.
AP
FLORENCE, COLO. —The federal government's most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."
But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.
A prison spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI.
There you go...Obama's own FBI considers certain things Obama has written to be "potentially detrimental to national security" and in the light of this the SuperMax facility in Florence has stopped an al-Qaida member from reading it. How do the 60+ million people who voted for Obama feel about their candidate and his writings? Most never read him, most probably don't care because he is a celebrity "rock star". Sad.
tidbit-Obama's Government (AIG)
Just watching the news. Social Security Administration officials buy out a luxury hotel in Arizona for a "conference". Are they stupid? Why would Obama's SSA do exactly what AIG did? AIG's claim was that the luxury hotel was needed to help ice deals with clients and offer conferencing. Obama's SSA (a government program that is bleeding money in the Billions and is broke) says that it needs their people to go to this luxury hotel for conferencing. The journalist asked the spokeshead "Why is this needed? Can't you use your teleconferencing?". No this was apparently needed. The journalist said this was costing US just under $1 million. Even though this is a small amount compared to the $77 million they pay to dead recipients, it should not be happening. I can't find anything on the internet about it yet.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
tidbit-It's EGO not ECO
G-8 leaders agree on climate target
By CHARLES BABINGTON and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writers
L'AQUILA, Italy – The Obama administration and other world leaders on Wednesday backed new targets for battling global warming, a move the Bush White House had resisted.
White House officials confirmed that President Barack Obama agreed to language supporting a goal a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
This is comical. Did these guys consult God? Are they serious? Did they take into account the fact that Earth's average temperature has dropped in the last decade (an inconvenient fact for Algore)? They probably heard about the spotless Sun getting some spots lately. And considering sunspot activity has been linked to global temperature shifts...what kind of ego do these leaders have?
When "global warming" was touted by Algore in the 1990s he didn't see the global cooling that would ensue in the next decade, so now it's called "climate change". Just changing the name to what ends up being control over carbon emissions either way, it ultimately ends up in control of our lives.
By CHARLES BABINGTON and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writers
L'AQUILA, Italy – The Obama administration and other world leaders on Wednesday backed new targets for battling global warming, a move the Bush White House had resisted.
White House officials confirmed that President Barack Obama agreed to language supporting a goal a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
This is comical. Did these guys consult God? Are they serious? Did they take into account the fact that Earth's average temperature has dropped in the last decade (an inconvenient fact for Algore)? They probably heard about the spotless Sun getting some spots lately. And considering sunspot activity has been linked to global temperature shifts...what kind of ego do these leaders have?
When "global warming" was touted by Algore in the 1990s he didn't see the global cooling that would ensue in the next decade, so now it's called "climate change". Just changing the name to what ends up being control over carbon emissions either way, it ultimately ends up in control of our lives.
tidbit-Evil Korea's first volley?
Government Web sites attacked; NKorea suspected
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. agencies, and South Korean government sites also came under assault.
South Korean intelligence officials believe the attacks were carried out by North Korean or pro-Pyongyang forces. U.S. officials so far have refused to publicly discuss details of the attack or where it might have originated.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that its own Web site was among several commercial sites also hit.
The U.S. government sites, which included those of the Federal Trade Commission and the Transportation Department, were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week. South Korean Internet sites began experiencing problems Tuesday.
Where's the Cyber Czar? Where's the Administration on these attacks...come on, the US and Good Korea websites are attacked. Mmmmm, who could it be? Did anybody really believe the appointment of a cyber czar would actually make us more secure?
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. agencies, and South Korean government sites also came under assault.
South Korean intelligence officials believe the attacks were carried out by North Korean or pro-Pyongyang forces. U.S. officials so far have refused to publicly discuss details of the attack or where it might have originated.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that its own Web site was among several commercial sites also hit.
The U.S. government sites, which included those of the Federal Trade Commission and the Transportation Department, were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week. South Korean Internet sites began experiencing problems Tuesday.
Where's the Cyber Czar? Where's the Administration on these attacks...come on, the US and Good Korea websites are attacked. Mmmmm, who could it be? Did anybody really believe the appointment of a cyber czar would actually make us more secure?
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
tidbit-Michael Jackson
Watching the coverage on TV of the procession of Michael Jackson to Staples Center while listening to Glenn Beck's radio show and also looking for a job online. I've noticed with the Jackson family motorcade that masses of people are lined up along the route and across the overpasses to look at the motorcade. Then I realize that California's unemployment rate is above 10%. Well, it seems Michael Jackson's death has given the unemployed masses something to do. Man, this reminds me of the OJ-Bronco thing.
Rome is burning and the people want a show.
Rome is burning and the people want a show.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Obama's Nero Complex
Biden Says Israel Has ‘Sovereign Right’ to Hit Iran
bloomberg.com
Biden Says Obama Administration ‘Misread’ Economy
bloomberg.com
VP Biden is a goofball. Are these more gaffes? Either way, this still feeds the fire of Obama criticism. This administration has pushed forward sweeping policies and laws that Congress has blindly (literally since nobody actually read any of these bills) supported that re based upon faulty logic and false premises.
Here's where we're at:
Obama makes deals with Russia, while Iran is in turmoil and Evil Korea is flexing its nuclear muscles and has outwardly threatened the United States. Also, millions of Americans have now lost their jobs since Obama's "Recovery" Act has been enacted and implemented. Why hasn't this "emergency" spending worked? It was never about jobs...it was about funding Progressive pet-projects that will create some jobs at the cost of everyone else's jobs. Nero!
America is burning and Obama is fiddling with Medvedev. Nero rebuilt Rome has he envisioned it. So will Obama. When Nero came back (after Rome had burned) he opened his house to the homeless and paid under his (government) funds...then rebuilt Rome in his image. To deflect the blame, he began persecuting Christians. Who will our government persecute? CEOs, conservatives and individualists, small business owners named Joe, the unborn human child.
We need to see through the Progressive cloud. We (Americans) didn't start the fire, it was sparked by government (Bush, Congress and Obama) and now it's a raging fire that is gutting us out. We cannot allow Obama to continue remaking America in his Progressive image. If I was President and had a Congress for the people and common sense, I would support and sign a very simple law: "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is hereby repealed." Simple wouldn't it be?
bloomberg.com
Biden Says Obama Administration ‘Misread’ Economy
bloomberg.com
VP Biden is a goofball. Are these more gaffes? Either way, this still feeds the fire of Obama criticism. This administration has pushed forward sweeping policies and laws that Congress has blindly (literally since nobody actually read any of these bills) supported that re based upon faulty logic and false premises.
Here's where we're at:
Obama makes deals with Russia, while Iran is in turmoil and Evil Korea is flexing its nuclear muscles and has outwardly threatened the United States. Also, millions of Americans have now lost their jobs since Obama's "Recovery" Act has been enacted and implemented. Why hasn't this "emergency" spending worked? It was never about jobs...it was about funding Progressive pet-projects that will create some jobs at the cost of everyone else's jobs. Nero!
America is burning and Obama is fiddling with Medvedev. Nero rebuilt Rome has he envisioned it. So will Obama. When Nero came back (after Rome had burned) he opened his house to the homeless and paid under his (government) funds...then rebuilt Rome in his image. To deflect the blame, he began persecuting Christians. Who will our government persecute? CEOs, conservatives and individualists, small business owners named Joe, the unborn human child.
We need to see through the Progressive cloud. We (Americans) didn't start the fire, it was sparked by government (Bush, Congress and Obama) and now it's a raging fire that is gutting us out. We cannot allow Obama to continue remaking America in his Progressive image. If I was President and had a Congress for the people and common sense, I would support and sign a very simple law: "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is hereby repealed." Simple wouldn't it be?
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
I just finished reading Glenn Beck's Common Sense. Great book. An eye-opener and mind-opener. It truly is common sense. (I'm going to read Thomas Paine's Common Sense next.)
Here's some of the most poignant parts of the book. When you read it recall what has happened in Congress and the Presidency (the current and last one) and what will happen if nothing is done to stop Progressivism.
"You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense." Glenn Beck's Common Sense, page 17
Remember these:
1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them; they answer to me.
www.the912project.com
Here's some of the most poignant parts of the book. When you read it recall what has happened in Congress and the Presidency (the current and last one) and what will happen if nothing is done to stop Progressivism.
"You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense." Glenn Beck's Common Sense, page 17
Remember these:
1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them; they answer to me.
www.the912project.com
Friday, July 3, 2009
Washington Post = Dept of Health Marketing
WaPo cancels lobbyist event
Politico.com
Mike Allen, Michael Calderone Mike Allen, Michael Calderone – Thu Jul 2
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do."
Is anyone surprised? This only confirms the belief of many of you out there that many a newspaper are practically in bed with the Obama Administration and lobbyists. The surprise here is that it took an (dare I say it) honest lobbyist to recognize this as a breach of ethics.
Would the Obama Administration be "transparent" if this went through? I'm not going out on a limb to say this would have been brushed under the rug.
Regardless of whether or not they would have gone through with the get together, the Washington Post has become yellow journalism and a guard dog for the President. Who's next?
Politico.com
Mike Allen, Michael Calderone Mike Allen, Michael Calderone – Thu Jul 2
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do."
Is anyone surprised? This only confirms the belief of many of you out there that many a newspaper are practically in bed with the Obama Administration and lobbyists. The surprise here is that it took an (dare I say it) honest lobbyist to recognize this as a breach of ethics.
Would the Obama Administration be "transparent" if this went through? I'm not going out on a limb to say this would have been brushed under the rug.
Regardless of whether or not they would have gone through with the get together, the Washington Post has become yellow journalism and a guard dog for the President. Who's next?
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Electronic Cigarettes
http://minicigarette.net/
A smoke-less cigarette that atomizes flavor and nicotine, is rechargeable and in the long run is way cheaper than regular, highly taxed, tobacco products. Just wait...if these become extremely popular with smokers (they can be puffed any where because there's no smoke...the government will eventually find an excuse to over-tax this too. Especially because the tobacco tax revenues would drop like a rock.
A smoke-less cigarette that atomizes flavor and nicotine, is rechargeable and in the long run is way cheaper than regular, highly taxed, tobacco products. Just wait...if these become extremely popular with smokers (they can be puffed any where because there's no smoke...the government will eventually find an excuse to over-tax this too. Especially because the tobacco tax revenues would drop like a rock.
Transparency and charity
White House Pushes To Keep Visitor Logs Private
by Don Gonyea (NPR)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign — a call for openness: "Transparency and accountability, getting the American people involved, that's how we're gonna bring about change," candidate Obama said.
And the theme continued on Obama's first day as president: "Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."
But for advocates of open government, the new era of openness has yet to dawn.
"Once all the pretty speeches were over in the first couple of days, the record now isn't quite so great," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
As for "transparency", he is very transparent when it comes to spending. Not so much when it comes to his birth eligibility, and apparently who comes to visit him, or even which specific projects are getting funded. What is he hiding? The same goes with his czars, they are beholden to none but President Obama. Where is the transparency? There are as many American Czars and there were in the Romanov dynasty.
Obama salutes non-profit programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama on Tuesday promised that the White House will do its part to support grass-roots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.
"Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts," Obama told representatives of non-profit programs during a White House gathering.
The president said he was asking Domestic Policy Council director Melody Barnes and the White House innovation team to travel across the country to discover and evaluate the best programs making strides in such areas as education, training and health care.
Obama noted that the community service act he signed into law contained a $50 million innovation fund that he wanted to use to provide aid to the most promising nonprofits in the country. "We'll invest in those with the best results, that are most likely to provide a good return on our taxpayer dollars," he said.
Obama also called on foundations, businesses and philanthropists to take an active role, saying they would require matching investments from the private sector.
How is the President going to "require matching investments from the private sector"? Oh yes, taxes. As I see it, Obama wants to decrease the amount tax payers can deduct for charities, because he believes the government should give our money to charities and "community organizations" that only he approves. All this because the masser hisself knows better'n us slaves.
In the end, immoral and PC organizations such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, PETA and the NPA, will get the money and Christian-based groups will get less.
by Don Gonyea (NPR)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign — a call for openness: "Transparency and accountability, getting the American people involved, that's how we're gonna bring about change," candidate Obama said.
And the theme continued on Obama's first day as president: "Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."
But for advocates of open government, the new era of openness has yet to dawn.
"Once all the pretty speeches were over in the first couple of days, the record now isn't quite so great," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
As for "transparency", he is very transparent when it comes to spending. Not so much when it comes to his birth eligibility, and apparently who comes to visit him, or even which specific projects are getting funded. What is he hiding? The same goes with his czars, they are beholden to none but President Obama. Where is the transparency? There are as many American Czars and there were in the Romanov dynasty.
Obama salutes non-profit programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama on Tuesday promised that the White House will do its part to support grass-roots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.
"Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts," Obama told representatives of non-profit programs during a White House gathering.
The president said he was asking Domestic Policy Council director Melody Barnes and the White House innovation team to travel across the country to discover and evaluate the best programs making strides in such areas as education, training and health care.
Obama noted that the community service act he signed into law contained a $50 million innovation fund that he wanted to use to provide aid to the most promising nonprofits in the country. "We'll invest in those with the best results, that are most likely to provide a good return on our taxpayer dollars," he said.
Obama also called on foundations, businesses and philanthropists to take an active role, saying they would require matching investments from the private sector.
How is the President going to "require matching investments from the private sector"? Oh yes, taxes. As I see it, Obama wants to decrease the amount tax payers can deduct for charities, because he believes the government should give our money to charities and "community organizations" that only he approves. All this because the masser hisself knows better'n us slaves.
In the end, immoral and PC organizations such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, PETA and the NPA, will get the money and Christian-based groups will get less.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
tidbit-American Crown & 22nd Amendment
H. J. Res. 5:
111th Congress
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5
This is a joint resolutions (H.J.Res. or S.J.Res.) in the U.S. Congress. Joint resolutions serve two purposes. First, they are used exactly as bills to enact law, generally for limited matters. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and must be signed by the President before becoming law. Joint resolutions are also used to propose amendments to the Constitution. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and be ratified by three-quarters of the states, but do not require the signature of the President, to become a part of the Constitution.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Not much to say here...just that the American Crown is trying to establish their rule for a long time.
111th Congress
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5
This is a joint resolutions (H.J.Res. or S.J.Res.) in the U.S. Congress. Joint resolutions serve two purposes. First, they are used exactly as bills to enact law, generally for limited matters. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and must be signed by the President before becoming law. Joint resolutions are also used to propose amendments to the Constitution. Used this way, they must be passed by both the House and Senate and be ratified by three-quarters of the states, but do not require the signature of the President, to become a part of the Constitution.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Not much to say here...just that the American Crown is trying to establish their rule for a long time.
California here THEY come!
Legal Requirements to Keep State Parks Open for All
Posted: June 30th, 2009
...
Closing State Park facilities that have received assistance from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State Grant Program could jeopardize future reimbursements and funding under this program. Similarly, closures affecting properties conveyed to the State under the Federal Lands to Parks Program (FLP) could result in reversion of the property to federal ownership for re-disposal.
Hey, California listen up!
Even if the federal government doesn't bail out California's state budget...they still want your public lands. In short, the federal government will take state owned park lands because many of California State Parks have taken money from the federal government...the federal government will call on that debt. Once this is done...California WILL lose those parks f-o-r-e-v-e-r.
We have a federal government out of control...they are taking control of the states (against the Constitution).
Posted: June 30th, 2009
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Closing State Park facilities that have received assistance from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State Grant Program could jeopardize future reimbursements and funding under this program. Similarly, closures affecting properties conveyed to the State under the Federal Lands to Parks Program (FLP) could result in reversion of the property to federal ownership for re-disposal.
Hey, California listen up!
Even if the federal government doesn't bail out California's state budget...they still want your public lands. In short, the federal government will take state owned park lands because many of California State Parks have taken money from the federal government...the federal government will call on that debt. Once this is done...California WILL lose those parks f-o-r-e-v-e-r.
We have a federal government out of control...they are taking control of the states (against the Constitution).
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
tidbit-California Don't Tread on Me
A Blog from Yahoo! News:
California on the brink
Armageddon. Apocalypse. Disaster: These are the words being used to describe California's staggering $24 billion budget deficit. With a midnight deadline to balance the budget, state lawmakers are facing a daunting task: Find a way to bridge the gap or start issuing $3 billion in IOUs this week to cover the bills. [How do IOUs cover bills? Why not start selling off the state to cover?]
Almost every state is suffering from the effects of the recession, but not every state accounts for 12 percent of the national gross domestic product. According to AP, if California goes down, so goes the nation: [Wait a minute. Are we talking about the economy or the state budget here?] California's annual $1.7 trillion economy is the world's eighth-largest economy and provides a significant chunk of tax revenue for the government; California alone funds many social programs for the entire nation. [Let's look at the logic. State budget is short money. The US can't let California state government "fail" because the economy will fail and bring the other states down? Maybe the state should spend less. If the state is not bailed out maybe it will stop...that might not be a bad thing.]
Like the Big Three automakers, California may be "too big to fail." If the state implodes, the ripple effect could slow the entire nation's recovery from the recession. Burt P. Flickinger, a retail consultant, tells AP:
"California is the key catalyst for U.S. retail sales, and if California falls further you will see the U.S. economy suffer significantly." [Again, are we talking the state budget failing or the entire economy of California?]
How did California dig itself such a huge hole? The recession certainly didn't help, but Time's Kevin O'Leary writes that California's financial troubles can be traced back to the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. [So homeowners in California would have given the state even more of their money which means less money circulating in the real-world.] An antitax measure, Prop 13 makes it extremely difficult to raise taxes or pass a budget unless a 2/3 majority in both state houses agree — a virtually impossible task. California Rep. Zoe Lofgren tells Politico:
"If we [in Congress] had to do what the California legislature does, we would never send a bill to the president of the United States,” she said. [Again, this is a bad thing?]
If the political wrangling over the budget isn't resolved by midnight tonight, Californians will be feeling the pain on every level, big and small. Just a few of the proposed spending cuts:
— State employees will be forced to take another day of unpaid leave a month, in addition to the two days leave they were forced to take starting in December. (NYT)
— Funding for the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement will be slashed by $20 million. The "little-known unit" has played a key role in several of the state's high-profile cases: The bureau's agents helped arrest Scott Petersen for the murder of his wife and unborn child, and their investigation led to charges in Anna Nicole Smith's overdose death. (AP)
— 80 percent of state parks would be closed, 25 in the Bay Area alone, including several beaches along the peninsula. Park visitors spend an estimated $2.6 billion a year in and near state parks, but closing the parks would save only .26 percent of the $24 billion deficit. (SF Chronicle) [So if it doesn't save THAT much why do it?]
— Education funding would be reduced by $5.3 billion. School districts have already laid off 30,000 employees. Class sizes are expected to surge from 20 to 30 students and many after school programs, arts and music classes will be cut. A national education survey conducted this year ranked California 47th in per-student spending. (AP) [I can't believe that. I would believe that California's education quality is 47th.]
— Gov. Schwarzenegger is proposing to eliminate the state's $1.3 billion welfare program. Frank Mecca, the head of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, tells Time, "California could become the only state in the First World without subsistence benefits for poor children." ["It's for the children." Please, welfare (the way it's set up) is one of the first to get cut. What about entitlements? What about the millions of outlaw immigrants running from the law yet taking from our taxes?]
So far, the government is using a "wait and see" approach to California, or as a recent Politico headline stated more bluntly — "Washington to California: Drop dead." Earlier this month, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the administration would "monitor" the situation, but that California's "budgetary problem unfortunately is one that they're going to have to solve." [If the federal government ever bails out the State of California...tea parties will sprout throughout this country and I will be at one. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! I refuse to pay into the budget of a state other than Colorado!]
- Lili Ladaga
California on the brink
Armageddon. Apocalypse. Disaster: These are the words being used to describe California's staggering $24 billion budget deficit. With a midnight deadline to balance the budget, state lawmakers are facing a daunting task: Find a way to bridge the gap or start issuing $3 billion in IOUs this week to cover the bills. [How do IOUs cover bills? Why not start selling off the state to cover?]
Almost every state is suffering from the effects of the recession, but not every state accounts for 12 percent of the national gross domestic product. According to AP, if California goes down, so goes the nation: [Wait a minute. Are we talking about the economy or the state budget here?] California's annual $1.7 trillion economy is the world's eighth-largest economy and provides a significant chunk of tax revenue for the government; California alone funds many social programs for the entire nation. [Let's look at the logic. State budget is short money. The US can't let California state government "fail" because the economy will fail and bring the other states down? Maybe the state should spend less. If the state is not bailed out maybe it will stop...that might not be a bad thing.]
Like the Big Three automakers, California may be "too big to fail." If the state implodes, the ripple effect could slow the entire nation's recovery from the recession. Burt P. Flickinger, a retail consultant, tells AP:
"California is the key catalyst for U.S. retail sales, and if California falls further you will see the U.S. economy suffer significantly." [Again, are we talking the state budget failing or the entire economy of California?]
How did California dig itself such a huge hole? The recession certainly didn't help, but Time's Kevin O'Leary writes that California's financial troubles can be traced back to the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. [So homeowners in California would have given the state even more of their money which means less money circulating in the real-world.] An antitax measure, Prop 13 makes it extremely difficult to raise taxes or pass a budget unless a 2/3 majority in both state houses agree — a virtually impossible task. California Rep. Zoe Lofgren tells Politico:
"If we [in Congress] had to do what the California legislature does, we would never send a bill to the president of the United States,” she said. [Again, this is a bad thing?]
If the political wrangling over the budget isn't resolved by midnight tonight, Californians will be feeling the pain on every level, big and small. Just a few of the proposed spending cuts:
— State employees will be forced to take another day of unpaid leave a month, in addition to the two days leave they were forced to take starting in December. (NYT)
— Funding for the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement will be slashed by $20 million. The "little-known unit" has played a key role in several of the state's high-profile cases: The bureau's agents helped arrest Scott Petersen for the murder of his wife and unborn child, and their investigation led to charges in Anna Nicole Smith's overdose death. (AP)
— 80 percent of state parks would be closed, 25 in the Bay Area alone, including several beaches along the peninsula. Park visitors spend an estimated $2.6 billion a year in and near state parks, but closing the parks would save only .26 percent of the $24 billion deficit. (SF Chronicle) [So if it doesn't save THAT much why do it?]
— Education funding would be reduced by $5.3 billion. School districts have already laid off 30,000 employees. Class sizes are expected to surge from 20 to 30 students and many after school programs, arts and music classes will be cut. A national education survey conducted this year ranked California 47th in per-student spending. (AP) [I can't believe that. I would believe that California's education quality is 47th.]
— Gov. Schwarzenegger is proposing to eliminate the state's $1.3 billion welfare program. Frank Mecca, the head of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, tells Time, "California could become the only state in the First World without subsistence benefits for poor children." ["It's for the children." Please, welfare (the way it's set up) is one of the first to get cut. What about entitlements? What about the millions of outlaw immigrants running from the law yet taking from our taxes?]
So far, the government is using a "wait and see" approach to California, or as a recent Politico headline stated more bluntly — "Washington to California: Drop dead." Earlier this month, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the administration would "monitor" the situation, but that California's "budgetary problem unfortunately is one that they're going to have to solve." [If the federal government ever bails out the State of California...tea parties will sprout throughout this country and I will be at one. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! I refuse to pay into the budget of a state other than Colorado!]
- Lili Ladaga
American Crown again
Senators want hearing on Obama's firing of IG
(AP)WASHINGTON – Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month.
Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Orrin Hatch of Utah said they were concerned about "significant questions raised regarding the propriety of the decision to remove the IG."
Obama fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other programs that are part of the Corporation for National Community Service, saying he had lost confidence in him. The firing followed an investigation by Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former professional basketball star.
Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agreed to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps. Walpin was criticized by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento for the way he handled the investigation of Johnson and St. HOPE Academy.
Walpin has told The Associated Press that he reported facts and conclusions "in an honest and full way" while serving as IG.
Enzi and Hatch asked Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, to hold a hearing.
"We have asked for information from the White House counsel and CNCS, but they have not been forthcoming to date nor willing to commit to a timeframe," the senators said in a letter to Kennedy.
A Kennedy spokeswoman, Melissa Wagoner, said the senator's office was reviewing the request.
KJ say it aint so. Say it aint so. (Sorry I'm a Phoenix Suns fan)
What happened to transparency? The whole point to an inspector general is to make sure people within the government are doing their jobs and not cheating the system. Then you have the President and his community organization. We have an inspector general doing his job by investigating into Americorp and its partner community organizations; finding something wrong; the community organization ultimately pays back some funds it shouldn't have gotten. I'd say the guy made his money, did his job.
So why does President Obama fire him? Let me venture to say the inspector general was probably dangerous enough to nail bigger corrupt community organizations...such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) who helped Obama get elected. Obama's links to ACORN are extensive and Obama didn't like the inspector general getting too close to their ties to illegal activities.
This sounds more like Cuba or any other dictatorship. The dictator doesn't like the public to find the truth about their squandering of national resources to personal use...so they fire (or hang or stone) the whistleblower.
No doubt Obama will be appointing a community organizer to be the new inspector general.
Then we hear about this:
ABCNews
Vice President Biden announced today that Lynn Rosenthal will be the White House adviser on Violence Against Women, a new position created to work with the president and vice president on domestic violence and sexual assault issues...Rosenthal most recently served as the executive director of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and has focused on domestic violence issues like housing, state and local coordinated community response, federal policy, and survivor-centered advocacy.
Another new position...I mean czar! Does the President really need someone to overlook violence against women? Do we really need someone to establish that violence against women is wrong? Will Rosenthal establish which violence is wrong? This is ridiculous and just another example of the American Crown appointing their princesses/czars. Hey, it's Biden so it might be a joke.
(AP)WASHINGTON – Two Republican senators asked Monday for a congressional hearing to look at whether President Barack Obama acted appropriately when he fired the national service agency's inspector general earlier this month.
Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Orrin Hatch of Utah said they were concerned about "significant questions raised regarding the propriety of the decision to remove the IG."
Obama fired Gerald Walpin, the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other programs that are part of the Corporation for National Community Service, saying he had lost confidence in him. The firing followed an investigation by Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former professional basketball star.
Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agreed to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps. Walpin was criticized by the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento for the way he handled the investigation of Johnson and St. HOPE Academy.
Walpin has told The Associated Press that he reported facts and conclusions "in an honest and full way" while serving as IG.
Enzi and Hatch asked Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, to hold a hearing.
"We have asked for information from the White House counsel and CNCS, but they have not been forthcoming to date nor willing to commit to a timeframe," the senators said in a letter to Kennedy.
A Kennedy spokeswoman, Melissa Wagoner, said the senator's office was reviewing the request.
KJ say it aint so. Say it aint so. (Sorry I'm a Phoenix Suns fan)
What happened to transparency? The whole point to an inspector general is to make sure people within the government are doing their jobs and not cheating the system. Then you have the President and his community organization. We have an inspector general doing his job by investigating into Americorp and its partner community organizations; finding something wrong; the community organization ultimately pays back some funds it shouldn't have gotten. I'd say the guy made his money, did his job.
So why does President Obama fire him? Let me venture to say the inspector general was probably dangerous enough to nail bigger corrupt community organizations...such as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) who helped Obama get elected. Obama's links to ACORN are extensive and Obama didn't like the inspector general getting too close to their ties to illegal activities.
This sounds more like Cuba or any other dictatorship. The dictator doesn't like the public to find the truth about their squandering of national resources to personal use...so they fire (or hang or stone) the whistleblower.
No doubt Obama will be appointing a community organizer to be the new inspector general.
Then we hear about this:
ABCNews
Vice President Biden announced today that Lynn Rosenthal will be the White House adviser on Violence Against Women, a new position created to work with the president and vice president on domestic violence and sexual assault issues...Rosenthal most recently served as the executive director of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence and has focused on domestic violence issues like housing, state and local coordinated community response, federal policy, and survivor-centered advocacy.
Another new position...I mean czar! Does the President really need someone to overlook violence against women? Do we really need someone to establish that violence against women is wrong? Will Rosenthal establish which violence is wrong? This is ridiculous and just another example of the American Crown appointing their princesses/czars. Hey, it's Biden so it might be a joke.
Monday, June 29, 2009
tidbit-Why does he even go?
Evergreen Chapel: Obama Chooses Church At Camp David, Same As Bush
For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new and uncontroversial church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the weekend before his inauguration and celebrating Easter at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.
Let me get this straight: Bush = right-wing/religious right whack job who wears his beliefs on his shoulder.
So Obama is going to a church that he had other people pick for himself. A church that is considered uncontroversial (that's right for 20 years he went to a church headed by Rev. Wright and never knew he was racist.)
So if the preacher at this church helped Bush in his life who's to say Obama won't be influenced the same? This might not be too good for the President. He might become some religious right nut job. Where's the change? :)
But the biggest point this illustrates is this: It seems he hasn't gone to church since he was inaugurated...5 months...I guess he's been too busy..
For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new and uncontroversial church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the weekend before his inauguration and celebrating Easter at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.
Let me get this straight: Bush = right-wing/religious right whack job who wears his beliefs on his shoulder.
So Obama is going to a church that he had other people pick for himself. A church that is considered uncontroversial (that's right for 20 years he went to a church headed by Rev. Wright and never knew he was racist.)
So if the preacher at this church helped Bush in his life who's to say Obama won't be influenced the same? This might not be too good for the President. He might become some religious right nut job. Where's the change? :)
But the biggest point this illustrates is this: It seems he hasn't gone to church since he was inaugurated...5 months...I guess he's been too busy..
Foreign Policy Obamination
Iran's president lashes out at Obama
The Associated Press
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's post-election crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations.
Obama officials: talks with Iran still possible
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Despite questions about the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election and his belligerent anti-American rhetoric, the White House remains open to discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
Obama: 'Better Judgment' on Foreign Policy
ABCNews
By JAKE TAPPER
July 25, 2007
...
"One thing I'm very confident about is my judgment in foreign policy is, I believe, better than any other candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat," Obama said.
Others in the race have spent decades in the foreign policy world, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who visited 82 countries as first lady, Vietnam veteran Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and former Vietnam prisoner of war Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
But Obama said, "The notion that somehow from Washington you get this vast foreign policy experience is illusory."
The Clinton campaign begged off commenting, but campaigning in New Hampshire and told of Obama's remark, Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., offered a sarcastic reply.
"Well, I also think I'm the most qualified to run the decathlon because I watch sports on television all the time," McCain said, according to the Associated Press.
President Obama must be out of breath right now. I love that quote from McCain.
Ah yes, the Progressive Pundits said if he was elected President the world would love us again; he's a citizen of the world; correcting the "bad feelings" Bush had created in the Muslim world. Were they serious?
President Obama thought with his immaculate inauguration into office that through his "messiah" power issues around the world would right themselves. He is failing.
He is failing on the Korean issue. He is failing with Iran. It is obvious that Iran's leadership doesn't trust Obama. So why is Obama still harping on meeting with them when he knows they don't trust him? Delusional.
Instead of actively standing strong against the tyranny of Iran, he gives them rhetoric. Iran (and the Muslim world) sees rhetoric as weakness. Why were so many hesitant with Obama's speech in Cairo instead of jubilant. His speech in Cairo outlined how the US wouldn't get involved with "nation building" and internal affairs. His speech should have been at Waterloo. This is going to haunt him.
His speech in Cairo will be his Achilles heel. Everything that happens in Iran or Israel or AfPak will be weighed against his speech. Brilliant foreign policy move! He started with a sprint and now he's getting tired and Iran is running away from him.
We need to support the protestors in Iran. They really need a revolution, but we (individualists) cannot allow Progressivism to prevail. Unfortunately, our President is a Progressive and if he ever does see a toppling of the theocracy of Iran, I can guarantee he will support a progressive regime of secular totalitarianism.
The Associated Press
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's post-election crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations.
Obama officials: talks with Iran still possible
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Despite questions about the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election and his belligerent anti-American rhetoric, the White House remains open to discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
Obama: 'Better Judgment' on Foreign Policy
ABCNews
By JAKE TAPPER
July 25, 2007
...
"One thing I'm very confident about is my judgment in foreign policy is, I believe, better than any other candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat," Obama said.
Others in the race have spent decades in the foreign policy world, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who visited 82 countries as first lady, Vietnam veteran Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and former Vietnam prisoner of war Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
But Obama said, "The notion that somehow from Washington you get this vast foreign policy experience is illusory."
The Clinton campaign begged off commenting, but campaigning in New Hampshire and told of Obama's remark, Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., offered a sarcastic reply.
"Well, I also think I'm the most qualified to run the decathlon because I watch sports on television all the time," McCain said, according to the Associated Press.
President Obama must be out of breath right now. I love that quote from McCain.
Ah yes, the Progressive Pundits said if he was elected President the world would love us again; he's a citizen of the world; correcting the "bad feelings" Bush had created in the Muslim world. Were they serious?
President Obama thought with his immaculate inauguration into office that through his "messiah" power issues around the world would right themselves. He is failing.
He is failing on the Korean issue. He is failing with Iran. It is obvious that Iran's leadership doesn't trust Obama. So why is Obama still harping on meeting with them when he knows they don't trust him? Delusional.
Instead of actively standing strong against the tyranny of Iran, he gives them rhetoric. Iran (and the Muslim world) sees rhetoric as weakness. Why were so many hesitant with Obama's speech in Cairo instead of jubilant. His speech in Cairo outlined how the US wouldn't get involved with "nation building" and internal affairs. His speech should have been at Waterloo. This is going to haunt him.
His speech in Cairo will be his Achilles heel. Everything that happens in Iran or Israel or AfPak will be weighed against his speech. Brilliant foreign policy move! He started with a sprint and now he's getting tired and Iran is running away from him.
We need to support the protestors in Iran. They really need a revolution, but we (individualists) cannot allow Progressivism to prevail. Unfortunately, our President is a Progressive and if he ever does see a toppling of the theocracy of Iran, I can guarantee he will support a progressive regime of secular totalitarianism.
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