Dem vs Rep Silliness On Gun Range

27 10 2009

24276C’mon people, initials on a target board? I don’t care what side of the political aisle you may be on, nor do I care what side of the ideological aisle you are on, someones initials on a target board does NOT call for anyone to get fired, quit their job, step down from a volunteer position, or even issue an apology. 

The Democrats, being prodded along by the White House are getting closer and closer to dumping Obamacare on the country, and this is supposed to be the GOP’s idea of taking a stand?! What a spineless bunch. No wonder the GOP is in such dire straits!

Gio- 

Congresswoman’s initials on target at gun range prompts Republican activist’s resignation

Republican activist Ed Napolitano has apologized to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and resigned from all his Republican Party positions, over the actions of a Wasserman Schultz political opponent at an event sponsored by the club Napolitano used to lead.

Napolitano’s resignation and apology were prompted by what happened at the Southeast Republican Club on Oct. 6. Instead of the usual community center meeting room, the Napolitano-led club met at a gun range.

Among the approximately 40 people at the event was Robert Lowry, a Republican seeking his party’s nomination to run against Wasserman Schultz next year.

Lowry shot at a target bearing the letters “DWS” next to the silhouette head.

Lowry said he didn’t know who wrote Wasserman Schultz’ initials on his target, but said he knew they were there before he started shooting. He initially described it as a “joke,” but after answering several questions he said it “was a mistake” to use a target labeled “DWS.”

After the event was reported on in the Oct. 9 Sun Sentinel, it was picked up, reported, and commented on by national news outlets, generated a fury in the blogosphere, and drew critical reactions from Democrats.
Napolitano said he wasn’t aware of the target with Wasserman Schultz’ initials on the night of the event.

But in a letter to the congresswoman dated Oct. 12, he apologized.

“I would like to sincerely apologize to you and your family for an incident that occurred at a function we sponsored recently…. Let me say that this action was wrong and should never have happened. It was stupid and irresponsible to do such a thing.”

Read the letter here.

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/10/download_file.html





Democrat City Auction Priced

26 10 2009

Hope and Change. You people happy yet?Wanna buy a City? Ok, maybe not the entire city, but the total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area almost the size of Boston. It’s a shame watching cities across the country simply empty of people and investment money. Hope and Change is killing us!

Gio-

By Kevin Krolicki

DETROIT (Reuters) – In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.

After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of “no bid” for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of the county auctioneer began to flag.

“OK,” he said. “We only have 300 more pages to go.”

There was tired laughter from investors ready to roll the dice on a city that has become a symbol of the collapse of the U.S. auto industry, pressures on the industrial middle-class and intractable problems for the urban poor.

On the auction block in Detroit: almost 9,000 homes and lots in various states of abandonment and decay from the tidy owner-occupied to the burned-out shell claimed by squatters.

Taken together, the properties seized by tax collectors for arrears and put up for sale last week represented an area the size of New York’s Central Park. Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area almost the size of Boston, according to a Detroit Free Press estimate.

The tax foreclosure auction by Wayne County authorities also stood as one of the most ambitious one-stop attempts to sell off urban property since the real-estate market collapse.

Despite a minimum bid of $500, less than a fifth of the Detroit land was sold after four days.

The county had no estimate of how much was raised by the auction, a second attempt to sell property that had failed to find buyers for the full amount of back taxes in September.

The unsold parcels add to an expanding ghost town within the once-vibrant town known worldwide as the Motor City.

Critics say the poor showing at the auction underscores the limits of using a market-based system to clean up property tax problems. They say the system has enriched a few but failed to deliver a way for Detroit to staunch its dwindling population and could worsen the vacancy crisis.

One proposed alternative would have officials take control of the tax foreclosure process through a land bank program of the kind being used to revitalize the nearby city of Flint.

The stakes in the debate are rising.

The number of Detroit properties in tax foreclosure has more than tripled since 2007 and seems certain to rise further. The lots for sale last week represented arrears from only 2006, well before the worst of the downturn for U.S. automakers.

“We have to keep in mind that GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy this year,” said Terrance Keith, chief deputy treasurer of Wayne County. “Some people are going to be totally tapped out next year.” 

Detroit, already stuck with a $300 million budget deficit, is responsible in the meantime for cutting the weeds and responding to fire calls for thousands more abandoned lots.

‘WHY AM I COMPETING AGAINST A BANK?’

Many potential homeowners that Detroit desperately needs said they felt penalized by the auction process.

They mostly found themselves outbid by deeper-pocketed investors from California and New York who were in a race to claim the auction book’s relatively few livable properties.

Dozens of potential bidders, mostly local residents, were turned away on the first day of the auction by deputies after they failed to meet the morning deadline for registration.

Ross Wallace, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, turned in his check for $500 and waited on the auction floor in full dress uniform for a chance to buy a Detroit house on the cheap.

Wallace, 27, said he did not want to leave his fiancee and two children with a mortgage before shipping out to Iraq later this year.

“I still have student loans and I’m trying to be responsible. I don’t want to leave debt,” he said.

Wallace waited for the auction to roll around to Detroit’s Boston-Edison district, a once stately area that was home to boxing legend Joe Louis and Motown founder Berry Gordy.

But he was quickly outbid. An unidentified investor at the front of the room who had scooped up several dozen properties took the home Wallace wanted for about $15,000.

“Why am I competing against a bank?” he said later. “It would be common sense to have a separate process for people who want to move back to the city or it’s going to stay empty.”

Nearby, a Dutch-born local woman, Riet Schumack, 54, knitted patiently through the auction for a chance to bid on a lot in Brightmoor, one of the most blighted neighborhoods.

Schumack, who runs a community garden near her home that employs 14 neighborhood children, said she had been battling through a maze of bureaucracy for years to try to buy an abandoned lot nearby to expand and plant fruit trees.

She learned the lot had been taken back from its previous owner — an absentee investor with more than 100 abandoned lots in Brightmoor — only because of her constant calls to city and county officials, she said.

When officials told her she would have to wait for a fourth day to bid on the property, Schumack broke down into tears.

“Anybody with a job is not able to sit here for days. So you are left with the sharks,” she said.

Opinions were divided on whether the investors buying lots and homes by the dozen were a sign of better times ahead.

“They weren’t here two years ago. So why are they here now? Unless, as speculators, they believe this is the bottom,” said Keith of the Wayne County treasurer’s office.

Bill Frank, a Detroit realtor trying to buy a small house for a just-married friend, found himself repeatedly outbid.

“Speculators are often not good for a city and, from my experience, they are going to lose a fortune,” he said. “But there are no easy answers. It’s a declining city.”

(Editing by Peter Bohan and John O’Callaghan.)





Go Tim Go!

26 10 2009
13113Honesty may be coming back in vogue. You will love this article as it rightfully skewers Obama and his policies.

Gio-

Gov. Pawlenty: Obama Corrosive to Freedom, Liberty

Monday, October 26, 2009 7:50 AM

By: Ronald Kessler

 
President Obama has used bait-and-switch tactics first to get elected and now to push his healthcare proposal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty tells Newsmax.

During the campaign, Obama portrayed himself as a centrist but has governed as a “movement liberal,” says Pawlenty, who is widely seen as preparing for a presidential bid and has started Freedom First PAC to raise funds for Republican candidates in next year’s elections.

“His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy that government knows best, a nanny-state mentality on domestic issues that will ultimately be corrosive to the other pillars of our country — to markets, private enterprise, individual responsibility, freedom and liberty.”

On the national security front, “History proves that it is weakness, not strength, that tempts our enemies,” observes Pawlenty. “And he is projecting potential weakness, and enemies may see that and their respect may be reduced as a result of that, or worse.”

Obama sold his healthcare proposal as a way to reduce costs and help the economy. But, Pawlenty says, “I think it’s going to go down as one of the biggest bait-and-switch acts in history, in the sense that the diagnosis of the problem for the healthcare delivery system in the country was supposed to be cost-containment. In other words, we need to make it more affordable for individuals and families, businesses, and governmental entities. But instead they are now focused substantially on expanding access.”

While that is an admirable goal, “They have lost sight of the need first and foremost to contain costs and reduce the price of the overall system,” Pawlenty says. ”It’s going to cost more, not less.”

As a way to reduce healthcare costs, Pawlenty notes that he has proposed allowing residents of Minnesota to buy health insurance from companies based in other states, encouraging competition.

“We’re also beginning the effort to try to organize other states to join us in a compact that would allow states who voluntarily join the compact to be able to purchase insurance from other compact member states,” Pawlenty says. “This is a model that’s worked real well for life insurance. But even without a compact, individual states like Minnesota can authorize their citizens to buy insurance in other states.

“I propose to be the first state in the union to allow that and am asking my legislature to change the law in Minnesota to allow it.”

Pawlenty sees Obama’s war on Fox News as an example of his partisanship.

“You have Republicans who are willing to go on MSNBC and other outlets,” Pawlenty says. “I don’t think it’s helpful for either side to just talk to their own.

“If you’re going to be trying to grow market share, grow the party, reach out to others, it’s important to talk not just to people who already agree with you, but it’s important to get the message out to others who maybe haven’t heard it yet, or that you need to appeal to.”

In fact, Pawlenty says, “He’s turned out to be extremely partisan in his approaches, and this healthcare bill is going to be another example of jamming something through that is almost completely lacking in Republican support.

“President Obama has governed in an extremely liberal way, and he hasn’t accomplished many major initiatives, but the few that he has have been almost exclusively partisan. That defies what he said during the campaign and doesn’t live up to that promise.”

Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via
e-mail. Go here now.





Action Alert

26 10 2009

Thanks goes out to Dee over at Patriotic Resistance for this alert!

Need all to vote at the NPR poll:  White House vs FOX News…then pass it on to your friends so they can vote too!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html





Conservatism Makes A Comeback

26 10 2009

ff_su_small_tparty_avatar_editedEowyn has just posted on the very same subject here (GOP is Suicidal), and a darn good post if you ask me. We normally try not to do this to each other, or our readers, but I’m making an exception on this particular subject because I have been thinking about it all day and want to put my thoughts down for prosperity.

My first thought has to do with Newt Gingrich. I have finally reached a point where I no longer want Newt as an un-elected leader/spokesperson for Conservatism. He can go on and on all he wants for the Republican Party, but I do not want him confusing the Republican Party with Conservatism in any way. Newt may be smart, and he may be a nice guy, but his constant push for the “Big Tent” has turned me away from whatever he’s selling.

For me, it started a two or three years ago when he was taking part in a debate about Global Warming at some University in the South. I forget all the details, but he spent a good deal of time agreeing with Albert Gore. That debate opened my eyes to the real Mr. Gingrich. Although I have heard him explain, over and over about how the GOP needs to be more flexible, yada-yada-yada-big tent-yada-yada-yada, I never took him serious. Knowing he’s a smart guy, I figured he knew what he was doing. Geeez, was I wrong or what?!

So here’s my message to Newt…

   Dear Newt,

There is a direct correlation between the “Big Tent” push in the GOP and the horrible mess that the party is in. However, as each day goes by, it seems to me that Conservatism is slowly being pushed out of the tent. Big mistake!

Conservatism is making a comeback. More accurately, it’s making a roaring comeback. If you don’t believe me just check out how many people showed-up in D.C. on 9/12. That huge crowd had Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and a little bit of everything representing those fired-up citizens. What drove those people to D.C. was an anger and frustration at our countries leaders that are digging a grave for the USA, and to top it off, the politicians want the citizens to pay for the shovels. Most of the 1.5 million people at that protest were there to support Conservative values, NOT a party! But for some odd reason you want to ignore this political oddity. The GOP no longer wants or even tries to promote Conservative values.

To me, it seems as if the Republican Party simply plays defense on every issue, never wanting to make waves or make anyone ‘uncomfortable’ by being in the forefront of a battle. If the “Big Tent” is so inclusive, then why are Conservatives Like Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin endorsing the Independent guy Doug Hoffman (who is now a member of the “Conservative Party”)? Let me answer this for you… because he’s a real Conservative. The competition, a woman calling herself a Republican is a Liberal and does NOT belong in the GOP. If she was a Conservative Republican she could have easily gotten the nod from some Conservative GOP leaders, but she’s not even close. 

A final thought… There is a paradigm shift happening in the political landscape of America and it seems to be scaring the crap out of the Country Club Republicans. Because we are losing this country so fast, we have no choice but to take a stand. And every day that goes by see’s more and more people wanting to preserve the values and the respect this great nation deserves. These people are waking up and willing to take a stand to help save this country. The people are wanting to save and protect Conservative values and principles, so if the politicians in the Republican Party can’t get behind the movement, then please… move to the end of the line, we will take it from here!

Gio-

Star Tribune Online

Pawlenty endorses Conservative Party candidate in NY election

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty waded into the politics of a New York special election for the U.S. House Monday by endorsing a Conservative Party candidate over the Republican candidate.

In a statement endorsing Conservatives’ Doug Hoffman over GOP Assemblywoman DeDe Scozzafava, Pawlenty said, “We cannot send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail, but then vote like Democrats in Congress.”

The New York race has caused schisms within the party, with high profile Republican forces aligning on both sides.

Pawlenty’s involvement in the election far from Minnesota’s borders comes as the governor, who is not running for a third term, has been traveling the country and appearing to lay the groundwork for a 2012 presidential bid.

RACHEL E. STASSEN-BERGER





GOP Is Suicidal

26 10 2009
Go, going, gone! The soon-to-be extinct GOP Dodo bird

Go, going, gone! The soon-to-be-extinct GOP Dodo bird

I’m dumbfounded.

If the Republican Party still does not see that conservatives are as disgusted with the GOP as they are with the Democrats, then the GOP deserves to go the way of the Dodo bird.

~Eowyn

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GOP OFFICIALS: WE WON’T ABANDON DEDE

By Alex Isenstadt – Oct 25, 2009 – http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28699.html

The National Republican Congressional Committee remains committed to embattled GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava in the upstate New York House special election, even as many of the party’s top names throw their support to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.

Two party officials tell POLITICO that the NRCC will continue to air TV ads propping up Scozzafava in the days leading up to the Nov. 3 contest and plans to keep up a near relentless barrage of press releases slamming Hoffman.

Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and has a close relationship with leading labor officials in her region, has been the target of sustained criticism from conservatives who claim she is too liberal for them to support her candidacy.

Hoffman, an accounting executive, is attracting an ever-growing group of conservative backers, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) have also endorsed the third-party candidate.

Public and private polls have shown Hoffman gaining on Scozzafava but both trail the Democratic nominee, attorney Bill Owens.

For the NRCC, the decision to remain steadfast in support of the GOP nominee is premised on the belief that, despite Hoffman’s apparent momentum in the contest, Scozzafava remains the party’s best hope of holding the seat, which has been vacated by Republican Rep. John McHugh.

The NRCC plans to spend between $200,000 and $300,000 on TV ads in the final week-and-a-half of the campaign. The ads will focus on Owens and Scozzafava and will not mention Hoffman.

One GOP official, granted anonymity in order to discuss party strategy candidly, said that while a Republican victory remained far from certain, Scozzafava’s following in the North Country-based district made her a better bet to win the remaining batch of undecided voters than Hoffman, who despite his personal ties to the district is nevertheless a resident of Lake Placid in New York’s neighboring 20th District and cannot vote in the race.

“It’s all a geographic play,” the GOP official explained. “There is a path to victory.”

The official also noted that, as a Republican, Scozzafava would have a far larger base of support to tap into. As of April 1, voter registration in the district was 43 percent Republican, 31 percent Democrat and just 1 percent Conservative Party.





Pelosi Thinks We’re Stupid

26 10 2009
Like this pile of sh*t, "public option" by whatever name smells just as foul!

Like this pile of sh*t, "public option" by whatever name smells just as foul!

Pelosi, who once declared that 500 million Americans [note: the total US population is 308 million] lose their jobs each month, must think we are as stupid as she is.

Just call “public option” by a different name! — and voila, problem is solved!

~Eowyn

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PELOSI: HEALTH CARE ‘PUBLIC OPTION’ NEEDS NEW NAME

By Matt Sedensky – Oct 26, 2009 – http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BIUUF02&show_article=1

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.

In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”

Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors.

“You’ll hear everyone say, ‘There’s got to be a better name for this,’” Pelosi said. “When people think of the public option, public is being misrepresented, that this is being paid for with their public dollars.”

Pelosi said that was a misconception and that any taxpayer money used to start up the public option would be repaid. She also said such an option would ultimately drive down government health care costs.

The speaker said the “competitive option” idea emerged during her closed-door roundtable at the Sunrise Senior Center with advocates of seniors and others who work with older populations. Wasserman Schultz suggested the term might be here to stay.

“I think she’s going to go up and test-drive it when she goes back to Washington,” Wasserman Schultz said. “It might stick.”

As for having the votes to pass such a measure, both women said a public option would survive. They wouldn’t get into numbers of congressional supporters, but said it was simply a matter of picking which type of public option to pursue





CIA: Debt Threatens National Security

26 10 2009

destroys America

Isn’t it interesting that none other than CIA Director Leon Panetta is sounding the alarm about the gigantic and ballooning federal debt, but Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al, simply barge on?

Wonder how along Panetta will keep his job before Obama gives him the Chicago-mob-Foxnews treatment? LOL

~Eowyn

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PANETTA: DEBT THREATENS SECURITY, HEALTH CARE

Carla Marinucci – Oct 24, 2009 – http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/24/MNA51A9V3O.DTL

CIA Director Leon Panetta speaks at a gathering of the Co...

CIA Director Leon Panetta warned Friday that the nation’s ballooning federal debt threatens resources available for national security as well as education and health care, and that Americans should not expect “that we can remain a powerful nation” if the trend continues.

“This country cannot continue to run trillion-dollar deficits,” Panetta, the former head of the nation’s Office of Management and Budget, said at a gathering of the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, where he addressed a wide range of national security and intelligence issues.

With the national debt heading toward $2 trillion, he warned, borrowing from other nations makes the United States more dependent on those countries and increases interest in U.S. debt.

Continued spending and borrowing, Panetta said, will ultimately hurt future generations, which will have to pay the interest on that debt.

Panetta’s tough words came as the CIA director underscored the connection between the nation’s security needs and its financial troubles. As a former OMB director, he said he is deeply concerned about patterns he has seen on national spending.

“There’s always a tendency that when you borrow money, it becomes a bad habit,” he said, adding that Democrats and Republicans alike must confront the issue.

Panetta’s remarks came in a question-and-answer session during which one member of the audience demanded that he comment on reports that the CIA’s remote-controlled Predator drones, which are used to kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan, have killed 750 to 1,000 civilians since 2006.

The CIA director – resisting efforts of security to eject the woman, saying he wanted to answer her question – denied the accuracy of the reports, saying, “All I can tell you is that is not true.”

“The use (of drones) is very precise and limits collateral damage,” he added. “We do not use it in the way that involves the numbers that you just described.

“We have targeted those who are enemies of the United States, and we have deliberately made sure that only those kinds of targets are the ones that we’re going to go after.”





Double-Dip Recession?

26 10 2009

will-work-for-food

I came across this fascinating bit of info this morning.

Despite all the talk about America coming out of the worst recession since WWII, here’s an indicator that says it’s far from over.

~Eowyn

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KEY CHINA BOX INDEX DROPS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE JUNE

25 October 2009 – http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70885&Itemid=79

Alarm bells are ringing for liner firms as one of the most accurate gauges of the container index fell for the first time in more than four months Friday. The China Containerised Freight Index, operated by the Shanghai Shipping Index, dropped for the first time since early June today. Despite lines reporting increased volumes and some being successful with rate increases this news will be a hammer blow for the industry. The CCFI takes data from the leading 20 lines operating out of China. Its numbers have been consistently in line with the fortunes of the container sector over the years, especially since China accounts for one in two boxes moved.  With container shipping often a precursor of the world economy, the drop in the CCFI has some analysts suggesting the global economy could be in for a nasty double dip recession.

Source: SeatradeAsia Online






The Great Uniter Is A Joke

26 10 2009

48456045Those of you that know me, know that I don’t post much from the CSM Christian Science Monitor. In fact, this may be a first for me, but I’m willing to post almost anyone that nails Obama right between the eyeballs.

And always wanting to bring a smile to people’s faces, just wait until you get to the comment by Chamber President Tom Donohue. Enjoy!

Gio-

From the Christian Science Monitor

By Mark Sappenfield | 10.25.09

On Sunday, Fox News hosted leaders from America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and the US Chamber of Commerce.

For those of you not keeping score at home, the Obama administration has:

1. Declared repeatedly that Fox News is not a news organization.

2. Made AHIP its long-sought-for enemy in the healthcare-reform battle.

3. Tried its best to undermine the authority of the US Chamber of Commerce.

Not surprisingly, the tone of the panel was a bitter, decrying the Obama administration’s “name-calling.”

A vast left-wing conspiracy?

Yet it appears there is more than just the ordinary partisan frustration at work. Since August, the Obama administration has undertaken a clear strategy of seeking to discredit and marginalize some of the most influential conservative voices in Washington, according to a report in Politico.

The result is a Washington turned even more antagonistic. It took President Bush – the self-styled compassionate conservative – hardly more than a year to lose that moniker, and President Obama – elected as a great uniter – is now reportedly embarking on a strategy to emasculate the political right.

But that’s how the city works, says political scientist Sidney Milkis. “Partisanship is at least part of the solution to the political challenges he and the country face,” he said at a recent roundtable about partisanship at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.

His argument is that the current partisanship is neither unprecedented nor unusual but rather “unvarnished,” and that all the most consequential presidents in history were also “extraordinary party leaders.”

Obama as provacateur

Indeed, Obama’s actions of recent weeks have the appearance of “rallying the troops.”

Fox News – whose war with the Obama administration has been very open – is only the most obvious target. As the White House has been casting aspersions on Fox News, it has also been meeting directly with executives at some of America’s most powerful firms.

To the Chamber of Commerce, the effort amounts to an end run – bypassing one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying groups in an attempt to undermine its authority.

The White House feels this is necessary because of the Chamber of Commerce’s opposition to some of Obama’s flagship reforms, most importantly cap-and-trade and financial regulation.

Evidence suggests that the White House can have some success in peeling away certain businesses from the Chamber of Commerce. Nike and Apple quit, for example, in protest over the organizations’ opposition to energy reform.

But this campaign has come at the expense of cordial relations between the White House and the Chamber.

At the beginning of Obama’s term, the Chamber of Commerce backed him on the stimulus and the bank bailouts. Now, speaking of the apparent war the White House has started, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said: “Tell ’em to put their damn helmets on.”

AHIP check

The same situation applies to AHIP. In May, administration officials were praising AHIP and other insurers for wanting “to be a part of the solution” after they agreed to voluntary cost-cutting reforms that would result in $2 billion in savings over 10 years.

Earlier this month, however, AHIP released a report that angered the White House and many Democrats. It suggested that healthcare costs for a typical American family would go up significantly – by $20,700 between 2010 and 2019 – if the Senate Finance Committee’s version of healthcare reform passed.

The president responded in his weekly radio address, saying insurers were “ breaking out their massive war chest … for one last fight to save the status quo. They’re … funding studies designed to mislead the American people.”

Professor Milkis suggested that Obama has used the presidential bully pulpit to its fullest extent, trying to maximize the influence of the presidency, which he argued is more powerful than at any point since Richard Nixon.

Others have drawn different comparisons with Nixon, saying Obama has an “enemies list” as Nixon did.

It appears, however, the White House has not yet completely cast off its “enemies.” Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will speak to the Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4.





Freedom Never Gets Old

25 10 2009

Major h/t goes out to FSTUCKEY for turning me on to this 1948 cartoon. Because this is in cartoon format, this would be an excellent cartoon to watch with your children. And better yet… for those of you that homeschool, having your kids watch this video, then have them wrtite something about it, would be a great way to start the conversation of why our system of government is so important to support and protect. There will never be a time when teaching Patriotism will go out of fashion in my house, how about yours?

Gio-





Obama Banned Fox News!!

25 10 2009

Obama

I’ve been trained as an academic and scholar to be very chary. Even when pressed about a subject within my scholarly expertise, I am loathe to make predictions.

Last Monday, Oct. 19, however, I stuck my neck out when I ended a post “We Control the News!” with this prediction:

Before long, Fox reporters will be barred from White House news briefings.

Two days later, on Oct. 22, it did happen! The White House banned Fox News from the press pool, which no administration had ever attempted in U.S. history.

Fortunately, the other networks objected and told the White House that if Fox was banned, they would no longer participate. And so, the Obama administration backed off.

Friends! Obama really is as dangerous as the most paranoic among us fear.

~Eowyn

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UNPRECEDENTED: WHITE HOUSE TRIES TO BAN FOX FROM PRESS POOL

Oct 22, 2009 – http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-administration-tries-to-ban-fox.html

Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.

Before an interview with “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg, the administration announced that Fox News would be banned from the press pool. This marks the first time in history that an administration had attempted to ban an entire network from the press pool.

To their credit, the other networks objected. They told the White House that if Fox were banned, none of the other networks would participate. The White House relented, but in an apparent act of petulant retaliation, it restricted each network to a two-minute interview instead of the standard five.

Interestingly, this behavior completely contradicts an opinion rendered Tuesday by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs when questioned by ABC’s Jake Tapper.

Gibbs: We render opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage.

Tapper: That’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they’re not a news organization. How are they different from, say another, say ABC, MSNBC, Univision?

Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight or five this afternoon.

Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programs. Or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying that thousands of individuals who work for a media organization do not work for a news organization. Why is that appropriate for the White House to say?

Gibbs: That is our opinion.

Carol E. Lee, Politico: Does that mean the White House doesn’t believe they should be part of the press pool?

Gibbs: The press pool is decide by the White House Correspondents Association.

Lee: So you have no opinion on whether they should be …

Gibbs: I’m not going to delineate for the White House Correspondents Association how the pool is conducted. That’s not my job.

So the administration contradicted itself within 48 hours. That’s about twice as long as normal.

Perhaps the White House will next try to pull Fox News’ press pass.

That would be entirely consistent with the Hugo Chavez-style of government that President Axelrod and his advisers are trying to install.

I’m patiently waiting for the ACLU to stand up for freedom of the press and complain to President Obama about quashing Fox’s First Amendment rights.





What Does Obama Know?

25 10 2009

swine flu

Fox News reports that Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is “not available to them based on their risk.”

The  Centers for Disease Control recommend that children ages 6 months through 18 years of age receive a vaccination against the H1N1 flu virus.  At this time only children with chronic medical conditions are receiving the vaccination because their immune system is not strong enough to fight off the strain.  The CDC also says a regular seasonal flu shot does not protect against the virus.

Didn’t Obama declare a NATIONAL “swine” flu EMERGENCY???

So, do you buy Gibbs’ story?

Or does Obama know more about the H1N1 vaccine but ain’t tellin’?

(For a detailed look at H1N1, go HERE.)

~Eowyn





Green Madness

25 10 2009

treehugger

H/t beloved GiovanniWorld member LittleMissMuffin!

Those crazy lovable Scandinavians are at it again!

First, the Norwegian Scandinavians chose Obama for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, when he had been president for only two weeks.

Last week, the Norwegian government released the annual income and overall wealth of every taxpaying citizen.

Now, the Swede Scandinavians are putting carbon footprints on their food — all the better to make every Swede feel guilty every time they open their mouth to eat a morsel of food.

How long will it be before this, like a nuclear fallout, waft across the Atlantic onto our shores?

I’m all in favor of stamping carbon footprints on the foreheads of politicians, beginning with Al Gore. All in favor, say “Aye”!

~Eowyn

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SWEDISH FOODS NOW SHOW CARBON FOOTPRINTS

Elisabeth Rosenthal – New York Times – October 23, 2009

(10-23) 04:00 PDT Stockholm -

Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO{-2} per kg of product.”

“Right now, I don’t know what this means,” said Bergstrom, a pharmaceutical company employee.

But if a new experiment here succeeds, she and millions of other Swedes will soon find out. New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods, from whole wheat pasta to fast food burgers, are appearing on some grocery items and restaurant menus around the country.

People who live to eat might dismiss this as silly. But changing one’s diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as changing the car one drives or doing away with the clothes dryer, scientific experts say.

“We’re the first to do it, and it’s a new way of thinking for us,” said Ulf Bohman, head of the Nutrition Department at the Swedish National Food Administration, which was given the task last year of creating new food guidelines giving equal weight to climate and health. “We’re used to thinking about safety and nutrition as one thing and environmental as another.”

Some of the proposed new dietary guidelines, released over the summer, may seem startling to the uninitiated. They recommend that Swedes favor carrots over cucumbers and tomatoes, for example. (Unlike carrots, the latter two must be grown in heated greenhouses here, consuming energy.)

They are not counseled to eat more fish, despite the health benefits, because Europe’s stocks are depleted.

And somewhat less surprisingly, they are advised to substitute beans or chicken for red meat, in view of the heavy greenhouse gas emissions associated with raising cattle.

“For consumers, it’s hard,” Bohman acknowledged. “You are getting environmental advice that you have to coordinate with, ‘How can I eat healthier?’ “

Many Swedish diners say it is just too much to ask. “I wish I could say that the information has made me change what I eat, but it hasn’t,” said Richard Lalander, 27, who was eating a Max hamburger (1.7 kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions) in the shadow of a menu board revealing that a chicken sandwich (0.4 kilograms) would have been better for the planet.

Yet if the new food guidelines were religiously heeded, some experts say, Sweden could cut its emissions from food production by 20 to 50 percent.

An estimated 25 percent of the emissions produced by people in industrialized nations can be traced to the food they eat, according to recent research here. And foods vary enormously in the emissions released in their production.

While today’s American or European shoppers may be well versed in checking for nutrients, calories or fat content, they often have little idea of whether eating tomatoes, chicken or rice is good or bad for the climate.

Complicating matters, the emissions impact of, say, a carrot, can vary by a factor of 10, depending how and where it is grown.

Earlier studies of food emissions focused on the high environmental costs of transporting food and raising cattle. But more nuanced research shows that the emissions depend on many factors, including the type of soil used to grow the food and whether a dairy farmer uses local rapeseed or imported soy for cattle feed.

“This is trial and error; we’re still trying to see what works,” Bohman said.





Throw the Bums Out!

25 10 2009

mad-as-hell

Americans are disgusted with politics as usual, with both parties, and increasingly skeptical of Obama. More and more, the popular mood is “throw all the ba*tards out”!

Good!

Anyone ready for the Second American Revolution?

~Eowyn

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Polling Polls: Americans Independent and Irate
Salena Zito – October 25, 2009 – http://townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/25/polling_polls_americans_independent_and_irate

A poll of opinion polls shows that Americans are undergoing rapidly changing attitudes.

RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the direction of the country and with the job Congress is doing. Support has been peeling off steadily, says RealClearPolitics executive editor Tom Bevan.

The danger for the Obama administration and the Democrat Party is the independent voters’ shift away from Democrat policies. “Independents have flipped negative,” warns Bevan, who mans the polls for a living. “That’s not a good thing for any party.”

You need to look no further than the data coming out of the first gubernatorial races since the Democrats took control of Washington to identify voter angst and ire. Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia appear to be heading in different directions but are, in fact, two sides of the same coin.

In Virginia, a state that swung first in 2006 to Democrat Jim Webb in his Senate race then further to Obama in 2008, Republican Bob McDonnell is leading Democrat Creigh Deeds by wider margins with each new poll.

In New Jersey — a state that has been Democratic for years (the last time the state went for the GOP presidential candidate was in 1988) – the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Jon Corzine, continues to average about 40 percent of the vote, while his Republican challenger Chris Christie has fallen more than six points in the past two weeks. The beneficiary of Christie’s descent has been Chris Daggett, an independent who is winning support in the double digits.

“What do these phenomena have in common?” says Villanova political science professor Lara Brown. “In two words: disillusionment and disgust.”

Americans, particularly registered and likely voters are disillusioned and disgusted with both political parties and their candidates, who seem to be over-promising, under-delivering, asking for too much, and taking advantage of their positions, explains Brown.

Americans are simply worn out by inflated rhetoric and the “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” existence of the Washington insiders who just a few months ago said they were outsiders.

Voters are left wondering what happened to the candidates they voted for? The voters thought their candidates were avengers — people who were going to clean-up Washington’s corrupt culture, stop partisan bickering and remove those bad Wall Street titans who retained their fat bonuses only because taxpayers bailed out their companies.

Recent polls show Americans are simply fed up:

• A CNN poll last week suggests that most people no longer agree with Obama “on the issues that matter most to them.”

• Rasmussen’s numbers show that 31 percent “think Congress has a poor understanding of the health care proposal,” down four points from August (which, if you recall the summer town hall meetings, was not a high point for congressional approval). Worse, according the poll, only 18 percent “think the (health care) plan will be a bipartisan effort.”

• Another Rasmussen poll shows only 49 percent “think that the economy will be stronger in five years than it is today.”

• Most Americans are “very concerned” about the economy and 60 percent “think the economic conditions are getting worse,” a new Gallup poll shows.

Adding to these fears is Iran and its apparent move toward developing nuclear arms (or at least, according to CNN, “9 in 10 Americans” think they are) and we don’t seem able to either stop or even (as was promised) talk to them.

Add to that Afghanistan, which people think is spiraling out of control.

And few Americans seem to understand the President’s unwillingness to sit down, focus on the issue and make a decision. It is as though they are wondering, “Why is he in motion all the time, and does he ever actually sit at the Oval Office desk to work – like the rest of us?

Add to this, the embarrassing scandals and all-too “typical” allegations of corruption and partisan politics: Tax problems for Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY; questionable loans for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn; and adulterous liaisons for Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev, and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina.

Further, only 39 percent of GOPers have a favorable impression of their party chair, Michael Steele, with other polls suggesting that Americans feel like the Republicans are merely “obstructionists.”

The White House simply added insult to injury with is fight with Fox News. What happened to the days when presidential administrations stayed above the media fray? Most people are wondering how the White House can even bother to think about this “issue” when it has so many other important matters at hand.

“When you look at all of these things, it is no great surprise that the thousands of Tea Party activists haven’t embraced any one political party and that Glenn Beck’s anti-administration, small-government, pro-individual freedom tirade continues to draw some of the highest ratings of all three cable news networks,” observes Brown.

What does all of this portend?

Very possibly, a Ross Perot-moment, or the emergence of someone who is going to come forward with serious charts and serious language that angry Americans will see as authentic, rather than the glitz and glamour of the sales pitch of “hope and change.”





Kill All The Lawyers

24 10 2009

At the moment I forget who made “Kill all the lawyers” a famous quote, but I tend to agree with it. The headline below happened to pop-up as the headline from my one and only MSM Newspaper here in the mountains of western N.C.

Take this headline very serious! Third World countries are lining up getting ready to sue countries like the United States for what they have been told is Climate Change damage to their country that is directly our fault. There are two problems with this… One, they can’t prove it. Two, it’s complete bullshit! But, when has the truth ever stopped a Lawyer? The bottom line is this… get used to seeing headlines like the one below, especially the ones that claim Climate “Damage”! That’s codeword for “we are going to do our best to screw with the USA!!! 

Activists call for action against climate damage

 

Gio-





Two Worlds One Country

24 10 2009

signworSeeming to be the norm for me, I was looking for something else when I accidently found a blog of interest (accidents seem to happen that way). The only reason I even stopped at the blog was because of the name… “Mills River Progressive”. Mills River is an area here in the Blue Ridge Mountains that I know quite well. Not only do I know people who live there, it also happens to be where my Attorney hangs out his shingle. Brief historical note: There was once a small Gold mine in Mills River (very small).

Ok, now that you know why it caught my attention, let me make a few comments about the headline I used… We Conservatives tend to use a healthy mix of common sense, facts, and wisdom, to decide which side of an argument we come down on. Liberals however, tend to lean heavily on ‘emotions’ and erratic logic, or what I like to call “Opp-Logic” (opposite of logic). They also have a funny way of supporting their arguments with anything that bolsters the case in their favor, and it never seems to matter if the info is a complete fabrication and proven to be the biggest lie in the history of mankind.

Knowing that Liberals and Conservatives are nothing like each other, it makes one wonder what our future will look like if we don’t come to some sort of understanding. Speaking for myself… I can get along with Liberals just fine, under one condition. Do NOT mock my way of life or religion, or try to change my way of life or religion. It really is just that easy, at least for me. As an example… My general attitude about Gays or Lesbians is this… What you do as consenting adults behind locked doors is your business and I will NOT try to interfere. However, once you start to push what you do as normal and want homosexuality to be treated as moral activity, I no longer respect your privacy.

One more glaring example is posted in all its glory from the above mentioned blog. I watched a short video that was posted on the blog by the blog owner and then commented. First read my comment. Then read the blog owners response to me. It’s obvious from the comments we both posted, that we are from two completely different worlds. Here’s the problem… Not only do we live in the same country, we live in the same state. In fact, we live in neighboring towns.

If most Conservatives are generally like me, and most Liberals are generally like this woman, how in the hell can we share a productive life of freedom? Should we honestly think of some sort of division of the country so we can stay focused on the future and quit the stupid bickering? I know this sounds a little crazy, but I am dead serious!

Gio-

 

giovanniworld said…

That video about the public option is terrible in so many ways.If the administration was serious about competition they could write a bill only 5 pages long and involve only one subject… competition.There are over 1,300 health insurance companies in the USA. If the government made sure they could all compete in all states the debate would end and everyone would get what they want, except the administration, they would not get the power they seek!

10:51 PM 

 Anna Van Z said…
OMG. Honey, please – get some treatment for that cognitive collapse disorder – it’s amazing what they can do for folks now.
Oh wait – sorry! None of those 1300 companies you referred to will pay for the treatment! Sorry, guess you’re fucked. Too bad.
But you just go ahead and keep being a brainwashed tool of corporate America, like a good little robo-consumer. Keep reciting those nonsensical Faux News talking points, darlin’! Probably the millions of American idiots out there will think you sound smart.2:44 AM 




Thought Crime Possible In USA?

24 10 2009

Obamacare_Flag_Poster_HushBelow is a MUST READ!

Gio-

By Linda Kimball

Thought crime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.  You might dodge successfully  for awhile…but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”  George Orwell, 1984

The fact is we are witnessing an all-out drive to impose thought control that seeks to ban the  ability—the right—to think or speak for one’s self.  Thinking is becoming a crime.”    (Globally  Acceptable Truth and the Crime of Thinking, Tom DeWeese,  Address to the 10th Annual  Freedom 21 Conference, 10/16/09)

In an article entitled “Dems Undermine Free Speech in Hate Crimes Ploy,” the Washington Examiner exposes the insidious machinations of House statists in their determination to impose totalitarian hate crime laws upon the American people. Hate crime laws do much more than undermine free speech however, for in that what one says is the result of what first takes place in the mind,  hate crime laws are mind-control devices. 
( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361178/posts)

Hate crime laws are not just alien to America’s traditional Christian-based worldview, but in violent opposition to it.  They are part of a program of psycho political terrorism utilized by Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and the Bolsheviks after they seized control of Orthodox Christian Russia and put into practice long-term plans to abolish on a vast cultural scale every vestige of belief in the Biblical God, family, morality, private property, and other signs of “the capitalist petite Bourgeoisie.”  By way of various sadistically brutal forms of behavior modification, torture, psychotropic drug experimentation, re-education, and psychological terror tactics, Russians were terrorized into submission while Bolsheviks systematically stole their property, confiscated and perverted their children,  desecrated and blasphemed churches, crucified thousands of nuns and priests, and in general, committed monstrous crimes against humanity which took the lives of sixty-million men, women, and children. For example:

About 200,000 clergy, many crucified, scalped and otherwise tortured, were killed     during the approximately 60 years of communist rule in the former Soviet Union, a   Russian commission reported this week. In addition, another 500,000 religious figures   were persecuted and 40,000 churches destroyed in the period from 1922 to 1980, the report said. Half the country’s mosques and more than half the synagogues were also   destroyed. “Clergymen were crucified on churches’ holy gates, shot, scalped [and]   strangled,” said Alexander Yakovlev, head of the Commission for the Rehabilitation of          the Victims of Political Repression. The commission prepared the report for Russian President Boris Yeltsin. “I was especially shocked by accounts of priests turned into       columns of ice in winter,” Yakovlev said. “It was total cruelty.”             (http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left.html)

 Former red-diaper baby David Horowitz observes that it is,

 ”not for nothing that George Orwell had to invent terms like ‘double-think’ and ‘double- speak’ to describe the universe totalitarians created.”  

Though publicly they describe themselves as scientific, forward-thinking, enlightened, and progressive, they are in reality, notes Horowitz,

 ”…religious fanatics who regard their opponents as sinners and miscreants and agents  of civil darkness…when they engage an opponent it is rarely to examine and refute his argument but rather to destroy the bearer of the argument and remove him from the  plan of battle.”  (The Surreal World of the Progressive Left, David Horowitz,             FrontPageMagazine.com, 1/25/2008)

Over the course of the twentieth century, progressive religious fanatics—or in Dostoevsky’s words, devilish Gnostic irreligionists—murdered anywhere between 100,000,000-200,000,000  “sinners and miscreants and agents of civil darkness.” 

Totalitarian Bolshevism can be understood as an umbrella under which shelters Marxist-socialism, Darwinian scientism, progressivism, positivist materialism, sex-positivism, rationalism, idealism, feminism, atheism, occultism, empiricism, relativism, and nihilism.  These cancerous ideological ‘isms’ emerged mainly out of Enlightenment France and Germany, spawning both Marxist-socialism and Hitler’s National Socialism and today, continue to spread and secrete yet more toxic cells:  heterosexism, normativism, sexism, and ageism, among others.   

Whereas twentieth century’s Big Brother touted himself as positivist, materialist, atheist, and  ‘red,’  today’s Big Brother is decidedly ‘green,’ says Steve Milloy in his book, “Green Hell.”  Yesterdays’  ‘isms’  have reshaped themselves into yet another apocalyptic, messianic, utopian- globalism, one that is blatantly spiritual and occult, pantheistic, politically correct, and in exclusive globalist salons, brazenly Luciferian.

 ”Without a doubt, President Obama is a true believer in the green cause.  Viewing our       current living standards as excessive and immoral, he’s determined to downsize our lifestyles—for the good of the planet…If the greens succeed, we will see their vision for our future implemented with staggering speed.   By the time you finish this book you may well be appalled by that vision, but you may also find yourself in awe of the sheer totality  of the green’s agenda and their single-minded determination to achieve it.“  (Green Hell, Steve Milloy, pp. 6-7)

As Fyodor Dostoevsky astutely observed, Progressive religious fanaticism is at bottom, the creature in rebellion against the Creator, His creation, immutable truths, and moral absolutes. Hence it is rebellion against the very idea of normal, says David Horowitz: 

  ”the enemy is no longer a ruling class, a hegemonic race or even a dominant gender.    Instead it is the sexual order of nature itself. Oppression lies in the very idea of the   “normal,” the order that divides humanity into two sexes. Instead of a classless society  as the redemptive future, ’gay’ theorists envisage a gender free world.”  (quote from  ”Are Evangelical Churches Drifting Left?” Barbara Sowell,   http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/)

In sum, it is little ‘g’ godmen, their pride swollen to satanic proportions, usurping the throne of the Creator in order to correct His ‘mistakes.’

From Karl Marx, who declared that he would “walk triumphantly like a god” through the ruins of the old Christian-based order to today’s ‘elite’ insider transnational Progressive green-spiritual globalists, all have or are proclaiming their godhood, like Barbara Marx Hubbard for example:

 “We are immortal…We can create new life forms and new worlds. We are gods!” a             revelation channeled from her spirit guide ‘Christ’ to Barbara Marx Hubbard, influential   transnational green Progressive, one of the directors of the World Future Society along with Robert McNamara and scholars from Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland.  (False Dawn, Lee Penn, pp. 316, 326)

Fueled by satanic pride, Bakunin—one of Karl Marx’s partners in the First International—described the emancipation of man and destruction of the old order in these words:

 “The Evil One is the satanic revolt against divine authority, revolt in which we see the       fecund germ of all human emancipations, the revolution. Socialists recognize each other  by the words, “In the name of the one to whom a great wrong has been done.” Satan (is)        the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds (he) emancipates         (and) stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty…in urging (man) to disobey and eat of the   fruit of knowledge. In this revolution we will have to awaken the Devil in the people, to   stir up the basest passions. Our mission is to destroy, not to edify. The passion of         destruction is a creative passion.”

Considered by many to be the 19th century’s greatest apocalyptic prophet, Fyodor Dostoevsky defined the conjoined ‘isms’ and their ultimate program of the “destruction of everything” as the politics of apocalypse—in other words, the politics of catastrophic death and destruction. This is made clear by Karl Marx in his poem, Human Pride:

 “With disdain I will throw my gauntlet/ Full in the face of the world/ And see the collapse   of this pygmy giant/ Whose fall will not stifle my ardour/ Then will I wander godlike and    victorious/ Through the ruins of the world/ And, giving my words an active voice/ I will   feel equal to the Creator.”

In another piece Marx made his demonically-fueled hatred of the world and his death-wishing toward its’ people even more clear:

 “A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution that cares as  little about the human lives it destroys as an earthquake cares about the houses it    ravages. Classes and races that are too weak to dominate the new conditions of existence   will be defeated.” (Marx and Satan, Richard Wurmbrand, p. 42)

During his commencement address at Harvard in the 1970s, Alexander Solzhenitsyn raised the alarm when  he warned that America was already tilting towards evil. Americans—specifically the ruling class and intelligentsia— have forgotten God said Solzhenitsyn, and embraced instead, scientistic-socialism….the politics of destruction.   America is on the same highway to hell taken previously by the Russians, warned Solzhenitsyn.

Also raising the alarm is Natan Sharansky, a dissident in the former Marxist-socialist Soviet Union. Sharansky describes the Soviet Union as a tyranny where,

 “there were no dissidents (because) they were simply killed immediately.” Under the           terrorist-tactics of hate crime laws, speech codes, and other mind-control tactics,         everyone became double thinkers. To outside observers notes Sharansky, double thinkers   appear as true believers: “everybody says the same thing, everybody votes the same way,     everybody speaks with passion.” But it is an illusion caused by fear of speaking the truth.    These people, he noted, “live with self-censorship throughout their lives. Since the regime   demands loyalty right from childhood, many don’t even notice. They just automatically  control how they express themselves.” But when a “fear society disappears or becomes weak, people suddenly start saying what they feel,” Sharansky commented, and “It’s such  a big relief.”

To determine if a society is fear-based, Sharansky applies what he defines as the “town square test.” In this test, if you,

 “can go to the center of town and publicly express your views without being punished,     you have a free society” even though that society may not be just. However, if you are      “punished for your views you live in a fear society,” said Sharansky. “In such societies    there are always three types of population: True believers, who accept the  ideology…dissidents, who take risks to speak publicly; and double thinkers, who have doubts or disagreements about the official ideology but are afraid to express them   publicly.” In conclusion, Sharansky comments that the level “of dissidence is always a  function of how tough the regime is.” (The Power of Freedom, published in The American Enterprise, Apr/May 2005, pp. 38-39)

Measured by Sharanskys’ town-square test we can see that America is quickly descending into a fear-based society. As her freedom-producing Christian-based worldview fades while simultaneously replaced by  green-progressive totalitarianism, the three types of population described by Sharansky come into focus.  In general, Progressive Liberals are the true believers. Rabid zealots, brazen liars, rebels against all authority, they freely destroy, transgress, scoff, demean, blaspheme, demonize, and otherwise psychologically terrorize the large body of fearful double thinkers.  

More than fifty years ago, Conservative poet and journalist Anthony Harrigan foresaw the rise of this generations’ destructive true believers.  Observing that a ‘process of decay’ was being fostered by a modernist orthodoxy fueled by immorality, Harrigan presciently noted that:

Modernists are determined to force acceptance of pornography as medical science, filth as artistic realism, and abnormality as a mere difference of opinion…Though the life of the country is basically decent, Americans are in the hands of a cultural ruling class, having led to destruction the humane elements in our civilization, is conducting us to   ruin.”  For what cause?  To raise up a revolutionary army of “liberal-bred” barbarians  “motivated by a destructive impulse” and unchecked by “traditional values and  restraints.”  (The Conservative Intellectual Movement of America, George H. Nash, p. 40)

 

With the ‘cultural ruling class’ seen as The Ministry of Truth, Orwell  describes the diabolical ‘process of decay’ fostered by them:

  ”There was a whole chain of…departments dealing with proletarian literature….Here was produced rubbishy newspapers, containing almost nothing except sport, crime, astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, and films oozing with sex.  The rubbishy  entertainment and spurious news…was referred to as prolefeed.” (1984)

Protecting and fomenting the destruction of America is a vast matrix of interconnected front groups, activist organizations, and phony civil rights defenders such as the ACLU, the most infamous terroristic enforcer of politically correct ‘true belief.’  (See matrix here: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/)

All around the outside edges are the dissidents, for example, the Conservative blog-o-sphere, Tea Partiers, Minutemen, political leaders like Jim DeMint and Randy Forbes, and a variety of Conservative organizations and civil rights defenders such as the Alliance Defense Fund.

Supremely immoral, reeking of perversity, a  double-speaking transnational green-progressive  leviathan is moving with crushing force across our nation, fostering obscenity and blasphemy, instilling fear and confusion into the hearts of Americans and stifling individual liberty while it perverts Americas’ youth, imposes mind-control and relentlessly destroys the spiritual foundations of America’s traditional Christian-based order.  Its’ devilish tactics come into focus in the following examples:

1. Cultural Marxism: the politics of rebellion, perversity, and nihilism fueled by satanic  pride.

 2. Multiculturalism: the insidious destruction of America’s traditional culture by way of    elevating all other cultures in the name of politically correct tolerance.

 3. Political correctness, speech codes, and hate crime laws: a psychic-cage for the soul/mind of traditional-values Americans.

 4. ‘Gay rights/’gay’ marriage: rebellion against the idea of normal.

 5. Sex education: called ’sex pol’ by Marxist-socialists, it’s purpose is the subversion and perversion of our youth, the awakening of the Devil, as Bakunin said. (Read: The Gay-         Straight Alliance and the Quiet Revolution,     http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/The%20Gay%20Straight%20Alliance%20a nd%20the.html)

 6. Social justice: the hammering down of everything good, everything excellent,    everything normal, everything true into the perversely foul mud of demonic nothingness.

 7. Critical theory: the mindless vomiting out of the acid of destructive criticism upon         everything good, true, excellent, normal, and traditional.

 8. Redistributive Justice: the evisceration of our standard of living and individual liberties in order to ‘save the planet’—in other words, death and slavery on behalf of Gaia.

9. Sustainability: Extreme population control and theft of private property to achieve the   ‘new’ communism–communitarianism.

 10. Religious Pluralism: the erasure of America’s founding Christian-based worldview by way of elevating Wicca, animism, Islam, New Age occult spirituality, Buddhism,      shamanism, and atheism in the name of politically correct tolerance and diversity.

Death of Freedom

In an article entitled, “American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper,” author Stanislav Mishin notes that, “on and off for the past century,” Americans have been stealthily prepared to accept totalitarianism, and with the election of Barack Obama,

 ”It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into   Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the backdrop of a passive,         hapless sheeple…”

 ”The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia,” notes Mishin, “and a  bloody test it was.“ 

Who financed the bloody test?  “Wall Street,” says Mishin.

In his book “The Naked Capitalist,” W. Cleon Skousen exposes the unholy alliance of bankers and capitalists collectively defined as “Wall Street” by Mishin.  Skousen verifies his findings through the writings of Dr. Carroll Quigley, both a professor of history at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University and mentor to Bill Clinton. In his opus, “Tragedy and Hope,” Quigley deliberately reveals one of the worlds’ best kept secrets: the existence of a gigantic leviathan of political and economic power poised to seize control of the planet.

The gargantuan power complex says Quigley, has been–right from the start—controlling Marxist-Communist-Socialist groups,

 ”…the power that…Left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but…the power of the international financial coterie.”  (p. 954, Tragedy and Hope)

Why did Quigley expose the existence of the global financial coterie?  Because he says, it is now too late for the little people to turn the tide.  He urges them to not fight the noose which is already around their necks, for they will only hang themselves. 

 ”On the other hand, those who go along with the immense pressure which is beginning to   be felt by all humanity will eventually find themselves in a man-made millennium of         peace and prosperity.”  (The Naked Capitalist, Skousen, pp. 4-6)  See funders here:         http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?type=funder

‘Elite’ transnational progressive Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and former Chancellor of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica speaks of the fate that will befall the politically incorrect:

 ”…all those who hold contrary beliefs” to politically correct thought favored for the “next   phase of evolution” will “disappear.“  A hellish fate awaits all who resist political and    spiritual globalization, “..those who criticize the UN are anti-evolutionary, blind, self-  serving people.  Their souls will be parked in a special corral of the universe for having been retarding forces, true aberrations in the evolution and ascent of humanity.”  (False Dawn, Lee Penn, p. 133)

 

In other words, the ‘chosen ones’ are evolving into gods and hell awaits all ‘selfish‘ ones who stand in the way!   ”….and you will be like God…” (Genesis 31-7)

 The lessons learned from the Russian experiment says Mishin,

 ”were taken and used properly to prepare the American populace for the surrender of         their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.”

Among the lessons applied by The Ministry of Truth to Americans,

 ”First the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard        education…”  then, said Mishin, “their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches,         all tens of thousands of (them) were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the ‘winning’ side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.”

In conclusion Mishin writes,

 ”The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest and  proclaiming to the world, how free he really is.  The world will only snicker.”  (American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper, Stanislav Mishin, Pravda.Ru)

Warnings from the Wise and the Valiant….

“… when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”  –Samuel Adams,      Founding Father

 
“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” – Patrick Henry, Founding Father

 ”Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with         them.”  Samuel F.B. Morse, the son of educator Jedediah Morse, known as “Father  of American Geography.”

 ”…the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century…What emerges here is a process of universal significance.  And if I were called  upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century…I would be  unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have  forgotten God.”  (Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Amerika: Godlessness, the First Step to the Gulag, from Russia with Love, Joe Clarke, Jul. 8, 2009)

 

 …the Self-Sacrificially Courageous

Death is more eligible than slavery.  A free-born people are not required by the religion    of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given   them to recover and support their liberties…”  The men of Marlborough, Massachusetts who took part in the Boston Tea Party

….and regarding the imposition of hate crime laws, the Prophetic

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to   the slaughter.”  —George Washingto





Surprise!

24 10 2009

surprise

Who is surprised by this? 

~Eowyn

………….

HOUSE HEALTH CARE BILL OVER $1 TRILLION FOR DECADE

By David Espo – Oct 23, 2009

Washington (AP) – Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggle to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.

Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent days, a total that numerous officials acknowledge understates the bill’s true cost by $150 billion or more. That figure excludes several items designed to improve benefits for Medicare and Medicaid recipients and providers, as well as public health programs and more, they added.

The officials who disclosed the details did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.

Some moderate Democrats have expressed reluctance to support a bill as high as $1 trillion. Last month, Obama said in a nationally televised address before a joint session of Congress that he preferred a package with a price tag of around $900 billion.

To read the rest of the article, go HERE.





National Emergency Announcement

24 10 2009

At 11:45 am EST, Obama declared a state of National Emergency due to the Swine Flu Virus (H1N1).

Many across the country have warned that the Obama administration would try to use the Swine Flu epidemic to pull-off some sort of bogus move. For those of you that follow that line of thinking, this is your day. For the rest of us, we need to PAY ATTENTION. Please keep your eyes and ears open and report anything out of the norm. Vigilance, is a common sense move in this day and age.

Gio-








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