Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Amazing Chris Wallace
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Can You Hear Us Now?
This was posted on Smart Girl Politics by Sue from "eye level." 75,000 O'Reilly??? Try close to 2 million!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
TomCatScat1
His ID is TomCatScat1. Watch!
In Memorium - Robert Schindler
I get so tired of uninformed people who assert that Terri needed to be "allowed to die" as she was on life support. Nothing could be further from the truth. Terri was a young woman who was brain damaged by an unknown cause, likely an incident where her husband, who had the habit of grabbing people by the throat when he got angry, did so to her causing her to collapse and suffer oxygen deprivation to the brain. Terri was healthy; she was disabled.
After her husband decided not to continue her care and therapy she deteriorated and required assistance with eating, thus a feeding tube was inserted rather than pay a nurse assistant to help her eat. She was healthy; she was disabled.
Her husband moved on to other women settling down with one whose children he fathered. He stood to inherit a million dollar trust on Terri's death. Thus began the circus of ending her life. Her family merely wanted to care for her, her husband wanted to kill her. And Michael Schiavo got an ignorant man wearing a black robe with a gavel in his hand to agree with him ordering Terri's execution by the State of Florida by way of dehydration and starvation. I watched this horror every night and the images and pain of it have never left me and never will.
In recent years, I have had the singular pleasure of meeting Terri's siblings, Suzanne and Bobby, on more than one occasion, and also Fr. Frank Pavone, of Priests for Life, a true priest, who ministered to Terri to her final breath of life.
The following article was first posted September 4, 2009 by Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer:
The Passing of a Real Hero
Today the pro-life movement mourns the loss of Mr. Robert Schindler, Sr., the father of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, whose fight for life captured the heart of the pro-life community in 2005. Mr. Schindler is being buried in Philadelphia today without the fanfare or accolades that are due a real champion who fought one of the most insidious evils of modern society - the legalized murder of the innocent. His funeral will not be televised on all the cable news networks, no cardinals will attend it, and the President of the United States will not deliver the eulogy - thank God. Mr. Schindler, however, is promised a better send-off than that. God Himself will him speak to him words spoken to all the suffering righteous: "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Master."
It is hard not to notice the contrast between the funerals of Senator Edward Kennedy and Bob Schindler. The secular, brash and privileged "Lion of the Senate" had everything that the world had to offer, including comprehensive political protection from his Waterloo; the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969. He walked away from that one scot-free, and the country ever after that conveniently pretended it didn't happen because no one would want to tarnish the image of a famous political family. Americans find it just too messy to honestly address casual killing. Ted Kennedy went on to continue his murderous rampage in his political career through his contemptible advocacy of legalized killing through abortion and the farcical defense of Roe by vetoing potential Supreme Court judges who might have rectified that terrible injustice in our country. Among the many sins he will have to account for before the Throne of Grace, his criminally buffoonish and cowardly causing of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and its subsequent cover-up were perhaps the least. Ted Kennedy had a lot of innocent blood on his hands as he went to his judgment, as do all people who advocate or stand aside in silence at the destruction of the innocents.
Bob Schindler, in contrast, was not endowed with the privileges of wealth and social status, nor the political machine that could protect his back side in times of trouble. His family was ravaged by aggressive euthanasia activist lawyers who decided that his daughter was just not worthy of life because she was brain-damaged. He had to fight the son-in-law from hell who, despite a father's unconditional offer to care for his own daughter, rammed the euthanasia agenda home viciously, even triumphantly. Bob had to endure the agony of three separate court-ordered starvations of his daughter, the third of which took her life in a brutal act of gloating evil that many compared to the Passion of Christ. Bob was the faithful father standing at the foot of the Cross and his vigils took place without the companionship of any cardinal or bishop there to rally the saints in defense of his daughter. His greatest sorrow was indeed that the very leadership of his Church, like the apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane, should have abandoned his family in their hour of need. Indeed, his local bishop somehow found more pressing needs in Asia and was AWOL in defense of Terri the week she was murdered. But despite the failings of the men who are given earthly powers to guide the Church, God never abandons his children. Bob was always in the company of the very best, sent from Heaven, and it is our firm belief that the angels are welcoming him home today as he meets the glory of God and at long last, is reunited with the daughter he loves so much.
No one deserves the kind of treatment meted out to him and his family, but Bob did not take it sitting down. He stood up and fought long and hard for what was right and showed us how to persevere in all our bitter battles. His heroism was humble and virtuous; despite opposition from all sides, despite being abandoned by churchmen, despite the slander his family endured, he held himself up and never faltered. He never "ran from the scene" as Kennedy did at Chappaquiddick; he stood his ground and faced the battle and then he did not let the story end there. If there was anyone whose suffering gave him a right to bitterly blame others and withdraw from the rest of the world's problems, it was Bob Schindler. But he did not go that route. He was too much of a man of faith for that. Rather, he and his family set up the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to assist all others who have are increasingly thrust into that same fight and need someone who has "been there" to stand against the powerful perpetrators of crimes against humanity who sit in our political culture arrogating to themselves the power of life and death, a power that has not been given to them.
Since Terri's Fight in 2005 I have had the supreme privilege of standing next to Bob and the Schindler family on the front lines in the battle against the culture of death and its champions; but I know a real champion when I see one. Bob Schindler certainly paid a martyr's price for his fidelity to the enduring values of faith and family and was a hero in every sense of the word. I will miss him! Indeed, we all will miss him, but we know that his spirit lives on in all those who patiently suffer injustice and in those who fight for life against the lions who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Sincerely,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
I urge everyone to contribute to the charitable foundation established in Terri's name, The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation at http://www.terrisfight.org/.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
March on DC - A View from the Heartland
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
What I Saw at the Revolution
American Thinker
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
999
Thought this was cute and worth sharing. It comes from Kevin Jackson of St. Louis and blogger at blacksphere.blogspot.com:
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
New Party Radical Agenda
Once you read it, and please note there is a photo, you may see an agenda that is playing itself out today in the U.S.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731
Friday, August 14, 2009
545 People
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason - they have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .. If the Army &Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses, provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so darned true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he's laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me to my doom...
When he's gone, do not relax,
Its time to apply The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable
TaxBuilding Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians? And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Unhinged!
Remember her assertion that tales of Slick Willy's escapades was all a vast right-wing conspiracy? Well, to refresh your memory:
Then we had Hillary on the campaign trail behaving in ways that seemed, well, a bit unstable:
Now, you got to admit this one was a bit creepy:
And here she seems to disagree with Nancy Pelosi on the issue of whether citizen dissent is patriotic or not:
What was even better was seeing her on TV this week in a Q&A session with students in the Congo. This numero uno diplomat representing the United States in her official capacity had this to say:
But maybe Hillary Clinton will be best remembered on the Internet, and definitely not network news, or polite society for that matter, for this (in)famous moment:
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Clunker Carnahan
Here's more from St. Louis:
Russ's latest claim to fame was calling out the union thugs for his townhall meeting on August 6th. There, Kenneth Gladney, a mild-mannered Conservative handing out Gadsden flag buttons was beaten by 4 union purple shirts. In an August 7th interview with Laura Ingraham on the O'Reilly Factor, Ken stated that he was called a racial epithet by one of the union heavies, pushed to the ground, and kicked in the head and other parts of his body. This was witnessed by a number of persons, including a personal friend who is a lawyer now representing Ken. Mr. Gladney was taken to a hospital where he was treated and held and six persons, including one local reporter, were arrested.
Carnahan also denied entry to over 1,000 protestors who attended this meeting forcing them to assemble outside the meeting location. Carnahan allocated at least half of the room to his union "security" force and they were ushered in to the meeting place by a separate entrance. Now, who had organized and "bussed in" a mob for this event?
Fellow Missourians in St. Louis - keep at it till all the vermin are gone. Ya gotta love this guy, he makes our job so much easier.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
AstroTurf Mobster
Lord Almighty, is this what the American voters wanted when they voted for Hope and Change? An outright assault on the citizenry? The same citizenry that goes to work every day (well not so much anymore), starts the small businesses that employ other Americans, and provides the revenue to fuel the economy? The people who bought houses that they could afford and paid their mortgages. The people who attend church on Sunday and contribute to charities. People who believe that compassion is to be nurtured but personal responsibility is to be revered.
I attended Tea Parties this year, on April 15th and July 4th, and I saw the wonder of a real grass roots movement of everyday Americans: elderly folks, families with kids, college kids, middle age couples, all who carried flags and home made signs of protest for a government out of control and spending money that does not exist, taking over private corporations and destroying free markets, ignoring the will of the People. A government that now wants to determine who gets medical care and who does not, and which will mandate counseling the elderly about how to die prematurely just to save Uncle Sam a few bucks. Never mind what they and their family want.
The most recent outrage instituted by the Obama administration is the call to snitch on fellow Americans. From the White House website:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there,
spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors
often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual
conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House,
we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web
about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Bloggers are promoting a mass effort called Operation Go Flag Yourself encouraging readers and other bloggers to turn themselves in to the White House. What fun, let's all do it!
The Politico (August 5, 2009) quotes Democrat strategist and former Clintonista, Lanny Davis as saying:
Let’s have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those
responsible for approving, even organizing these techni[q]ues. And let’s find an
investigative journalist - are there many left - to prove these so-called
grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid.
So now we have an outright governmental assault on the grass roots movement of individuals who found each other and formed alliances thanks to the Internet and alternate media. But more important, we found each other because we are like-minded and we love our country and our freedoms and we want them back.
This assault on tea party and health plan protestors, stating that we are paid pawns of the Republicans or the insurance industry, is absurd. I would love to be paid for my efforts protesting this tyranny because self-employment is no longer providing a living. So if you folks in the government know who is paying tea party protestors please let me know cuz I need a paying job. And I never bought clothes from Brooks Brothers, right now Wal-Mart is all I can afford - that is until your labor union friends and their allies in Congress destroy it too. Then all those folks who would not otherwise be able to get a real job and folks who shop Wal-Mart because it is an affordable option for goods and services will have nowhere to go. But that is what you want isn't it Mr. Obama? Total dependence of "the masses" on government, the basis for a "benign dictatorship" of the (so-called) intelligentsia.
Rush Limbaugh sent a message on his August 5th show to the head honcho, formerly known as the community organizer:
A Community Organizer Can't Bitch When Communities Organize
A government that has forgotten that it is of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from this earth.
This is an example of the typical astroturf mobster
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Radical or Stalking Horse?
We know he is a guy who despite being a nobody in the political world had the audacity to publish two autobiographies about himself: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, 1995, and Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 2006. Now I say publish rather than write as the true authorship of these books is in issue. Jack Cashill, a prominent author and Emmy award winner, lives and works in the Kansas City area and writes extensively on his research and findings into who really wrote these Obama books.
Did Obama publish biographies about himself because he was chosen to be the future Democrat presidential candidate and was being groomed by certain individuals or an unnamed organization to be the so-called first black President of the United States? There are stories that recount the Kennedy's involvement in the choice of Obama as the next JFK and overseer of a 21st century Camelot.
We know from Dr. Jerome Corsi who wrote Obama Nation that there are extensive inaccuracies and vague recitations of fact in Obama's books, especially Dreams. We know that Obama's biological father was a foreign university student from Kenya and his mother a teen-age university student from Hawaii. We do not know if they were married or if Obama's father divorced his African wife before he maybe married Stanley Ann Dunham.
We know little about Obama's half siblings which are numerous and we really only know that from Corsi's book and extensive digging on our own. We know Obama lived in Indonesia as a young boy and was registered in school as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. His name then was Barry Soetero. But we do not know the status of his citizenship, that is, is he a "natural born American" as required by the Constitution to hold the office of the Presidency. The records which would settle this controversy have not been produced by Mr. Obama. In fact, Obama has withheld all of his personal records: birth, elementary school, passport status, naturalization or repatriation to the U.S. when he returned from Indonesia to live with his maternal grandparents, law school papers and grades, health records, and so on. We know that Obama's Kenyan grandmother testified that she attended his birth in Kenya, and we are told, and have heard the audio recording of the Kenyan embassy official who confirmed that Kenyans are proud of Obama and his birthplace in Kenya. Surely these are more than enough facts in dispute to warrant an evidentiary hearing in any one or more of the numerous lawsuits filed on this very issue. But one by one they are dismissed for common cowardly judicial reasons like lack of standing, failure to state a claim, or no reason. The simple fact of the substantial controversy and potential Constitutional crisis would long ago have felled any conservative or Republican seeking to run for the highest office.
What is even more breathtaking is that Obama is simply a man with no reasonably ascertainable experience compatible with the office. Was Obama a great military hero? A corporate executive or entrepreneur? Was he an inventor? Was Obama a governor of a state or mayor of a major metropolitan area? Was Obama a long time U.S. Senator with sweeping reform of wasteful government to his credit? He is a lawyer - did he win some landmark case or argue successfully before the Supreme Court? This writer, with my Master's in management and 30+ years direct experience in business and management, has substantially greater credentials than this man whose claim to fame consisted of being a "community organizer." Come on, the joke is on whom?
If this is a joke, most of America is not laughing. So let's look at what else we know about Obama.
Obama attended and graduated from some pretty pricey schools. Who paid for this? We really do not know that answer. He did not talk about working his way through school or even mention any noteworthy scholarships, like say Clinton and his Rhodes Scholarship. And Obama and his wife, Michelle, are so proud to point out that Obama could have had high paying jobs but instead he chose to move to Chicago's urban core and work for what- subsistence wages? And, in a few short years he is living large in a million dollar plus estate.
We know that Obama was affiliated with the infamous corruption machine, ACORN, known for voter registration fraud, embezzlement, mortgage collapse, and a corporate structure so tangled it would take a team of investigators years to unravel it. This is the same ACORN that is the beneficiary of billions of taxpayer dollars to grow ever larger and complex, and we are told, will be coming to our front doors as census takers to pry into our most private information and record that precious information with as much veracity as they did voter registration forms.
We know that Barack Obama's mentors were radicals such as Malcolm X, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, William Ayers, and some of his associates are notables such as Raila Odinga, Tony Rezko, and Jeremiah Wright.
Obama's presidential campaign amassed a war chest that surpassed all others before him. He was funded heavily by billionaire hedge-fund manager, George Soros, personally, along with his family members, associates and 527 organizations, not the least of which was Soros' MoveOn.org. Soros, a secular Jew, is known as an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, Amerika-hater. Amazingly, in September 2008, a critical time in the presidential campaign, then President, George Bush, with Goldman-Sachs alum and former Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, announced a financial crisis of biblical proportions (to this day not adequately explained) necessitating TARP1. Coupled with Bush's very low poll ratings, this crisis virtually guaranteed Obama's victory. There is a story which has been buried from that time that alleges there was a cash drawdown on the US money markets so severe that if it was not stopped by executive and congressional intervention the economy and banking system would have crashed right then and there. And, George Soros is a currency trader, the man responsible for England's Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992) resulting in the devaluation of the English pound and the term "the man who broke the Bank of England." Soros also was convicted in 2002 by a French court of insider trading. Hmmm...
Obama is "managed" by two prominent Chicago politicos: David Axelrod, whose mother was a liberal writer allied with American communists; and former ballet dancer, Rahm Emmanuel, known for his foul mouth, jingoistic appoach to human relations, and legendary for his dead fish prank.
The sad truth is that millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama because they hated George Bush and because they saw Obama as a personable guy who was a D.C. outsider, and they thought it would be an historical moment when they elected the first black American President. They fell for the lie and never did their homework. It was a perfect storm chanting Hope and Change and Yes We Can elevating their candidate to messianic proportions. Even their bumper stickers and campaign signs displayed an aura or halo around his head.
But more, Obama is not a descendant of the slave history in the U.S. nor a child of the black civil rights movement. He is a bi-racial guy, born to an unstable teen-age mother who dragged him to a very foreign land and culture, and was abandoned by his biological father. He chose to identify with his African heritage and reject his white DNA with a perpetual contempt.
Obama is a kid that did not fit in anywhere so he chose his path as an angry black man allied with a radical ideology of "black liberation theology" that bears a closer connection to Farrakahn's Nation of Islam than the Christianity implied in the name, Trinity United Church of Christ. He is more comfortable embracing the U.N.'s Agenda 21 and globalism while abdicating the United States Constitution for foreign treaties and international law. In a 2001 interview with a Chicago public radio station Obama said the following:
"But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."
Oh my, this once "professor" of Constitutional law does not seem to get the genius of the Founding Fathers and the freedoms they recognized as inalienable. Obama's words and his actions since moving into the White House are clear evidence of a deep-seated drive for tyrannical rule.
Obama is pro-abortion right up to late term and partial birth and including the withholding of medical assistance to babies who survive abortion. His positions are the most radical of any American politician. And now, Obama is trying to force through Congress a government controlled health care plan that would effectively eradicate the last vestiges of our inalienable rights. Obama and the Democrat's health care plan is one that moderates health care for the aging and vulnerable, and opts for mandated "end of life" counseling - a euphemism for euthanasia. Obama's patron, Soros, founded the Open Society Institute which underwrote the Project on Death in America; and, in a 1994 speech, Soros talked about offering to assist his mother, a member of the Hemlock Society, with committing suicide. In that speech, he also talked about his endorsement for the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.
We know that Obama's maternal grandmother died right before the election but the media never covered the real story and all the questions it raised. We know that Obama's grandmother had a broken hip and was in the hospital, nothing unusual here for a post-menopausal elderly woman. But then all of a sudden granny was dying and Obama had to go to Hawaii to see her for one last time. Oddly, no one ever talked about how Granny Dunham became terminal so quickly and if she was really dying why didn't Michelle and the kids go to Hawaii to say good-bye to her as well? But, what we do know is, that trip is when the birth records were removed from any public access. There are some interesting unanswered facts here, like the leap from broken hip to being terminally ill, and why she died right after her euthanasia-loving grandson came to visit. He who wants the elderly to take-their-pain-pills-and-die-rather-than-cost-the state-for-medical-care and oh-by-the-way-I-need-to-hide-my-birth-records came to Hawaii to visit granny.
There are layers upon layers with this guy: radical affiliates; unending encroachment on the separation of powers with czar after czar; government takeovers of the auto, banking and financial markets; elitist parties in the people's house while millions of Americans lose their jobs, their businesses, their homes to an economy ostensibly "stimulated" over and over so much that Russia's Pravda and the Chinese Communists exhort America to return to capitalist prosperity.
So what is Obama's end-game and who is behind him? Look at the Saudis, George Soros, the American Socialists and Communists, the globalists, the black nationalists, the billionaires club, all anti-American and anti-capitalist cabals, the promoters of "sustainable development", the U.N.'s Agenda 21; and look at the lovers of genocide that seek population control. Look at Obama as a radical elitist that wants a two class America: one with him and his cronies who live lavishly and one made up of the serfs that provide for them. Maybe John Edwards was right there is "Two Americas."
So the question is: Is Barack Obama a radical ideologue who was in the right place at the right time and who is carrying out his own agenda? Or is Barack Obama a stalking horse for forces that hate America so much they have waited patiently, plotting and manipulating the economy, members of Congress, Wall Street, the Fed, coiled like a snake in the reeds ready to strike?
Perhaps the more important question now is can we stop them before we lose it all, even our lives?
NYT: Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/us/politics/28kennedy.html?_r=1
AT: Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/soros_obama_and_the_millionair.html
NYT: After 2000 Loss, Obama Built Donor Network From Roots Up
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/us/politics/03obama.html?_r=1&ex=1177905600&en=0f765f7f1422987a&ei=5070
Blog: Organizing for America
America's Economic Collapse George Soros'/Obama's/Democrats' October Surprise?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/miat2/gGxhnW
Accuracy in Media:
Obama’s International Socialist Connections
http://www.aim.org/AIM-COLUMN/OBAMAS-INTERNATIONAL-SOCIALIST-CONNECTIONS
Free Republic:
Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335656/posts
Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Most Trusted Man in America
Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America. How did he acquire that appellation?
Cronkite covered World War II including battles in North Africa and Europe, bombing raids over Germany, the Battle of the Bulge, even the Nuremberg trials. He was a UP reporter in Moscow for two years. In the early days of 1950s television, Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, joined CBS News and was one of the first reporters to be termed an "anchor" which referred to his role covering the 1952 Republican and Democrat conventions. His accomplishments are discussed extensively in many reference sources.
In 1962 he took over as the anchor of CBS Evening News. I remember Walter Cronkite but I do not remember watching him regularly as he reported the news. We watched the Huntley-Brinkley Report in our house; Good night, David, Good night, Chet. There was something soothing about those two guys that left a young kid feeling good about the news in those days of 1960s turmoil and nightly war reports from Southeast Asia, like a daily soap opera to which we eventually grew numb.
When Chet Huntley retired in 1970, Cronkite assisted by the substantial investment of CBS in its news programming, surpassed NBC and dominated the nightly news until his retirement.
Cronkite announced his retirement on February 14, 1980. This is his farewell statement from March 1981:
“This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long have planned, but which, nevertheless, comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman, Doug Edwards, preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists; writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away! I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and, beginning in June, every week, with our science program, Universe. Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is: Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night."
There was something about Walter Cronkite that I did not like or trust. I have no idea what it was or that I understood it then. Now, in retrospect, I think it was my true common-sense, budding conservative self capable of ascertaining truth-tellers from snake charmers - those people who harbor a deep, dark evil secret within their being.
So when Walter left the airwaves I did not shed a tear of sentiment. He was gone, I didn't watch him anyway.
But in later years I learned some truly disturbing facts about Walter Cronkite.
By the time he campaigned in western Missouri for his Democrat "barbie-doll" cousin as she ran for national office - she who nearly devastated the Kansas City economy from her term as mayor, I found myself hissing at the TV screen when he appeared promoting her, full of the realization that he was not just a liberal, but a radical globalist that promoted the dominance of the United Nations and the withering away of the United States. A man who spewed the most vile, treasonous rhetoric to whomever would listen. And they did listen and sop it up.
For example, in a 1999 speech he gave before an audience at the UN when he was awarded the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association, he stated that "the first step toward achieving a one-world government is to strengthen the United Nations." This is said to be his personal dream.
"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order," emphasis added.
Cronkite also reportedly stated the following: "American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law..."
Cronkite is renowned for his negative impact on the Viet Nam conflict when he announced on his news program in February 1968 following a victory for U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and a defeat for the Communist North Vietnamese:
"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."
Shortly after the famous Cronkite "Report from Viet Nam..." then President, Lyndon Johnson, was heard to say "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Within weeks Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.
In more recent years, Walter Cronkite steadfastly supported Bill Clinton during the impeachment proceedings; in 2006 he presented the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award to actor and activist George Clooney as the chairman of the Interfaith Alliance (an organization opposed to conservative Christians and which maintained a radio show on leftist Air America); he wrote a column in which he regularly condemned President George W. Bush and the Iraq war; he appeared in the 2004 film "Outfoxed" which bashed Rupert Murdoch and Fox News; and he was a contributing writer to far left blog, The Huffington Post.
This month of July 2009, the local news shows all carried their obligatory, hushed voice, reverential reports of this great American icon and not one mentioned Walter Cronkite's radical anti-America globalist agenda. Was he an icon of Americanism or an icon of radical anti-American sentiment?
Friday, July 31, 2009
Dynastic Delusions
Russ distinguished himself lately for meeting on July 20th with his constituents in the St. Louis area pushing Obamacare and well, frankly, making a fool of himself earning national coverage and ridicule.
Russ seems to be just one more liberal lawyer/politician who operates from the underlying assumption that all Americans are created stupid. Unfortunately for Russ, the apparent uninformed brain frozen robot spouting drivel looks to be Russ Carnahan himself.
Political dynasties seem to breed defective issue - just ask the millions afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome. Upon close inspection, the Carnahans offer little in American ingenuity and intellect let alone responsive respect for the people they serve. Isn't it time to end one more American dynasty and let the Carnahans figure out how to be productive members of society rather than empty-headed twits trading on the public persona of their predecessors?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Is It Clear Yet Claire?
Here's what happened:
First, staffer Michelle Sherrod asked the audience to express their opinion on Obamacare.
Then a soldier stood up and gave the Dem staffer and her boss, McCaskill, a little lesson in governance.
On July 17th, a handful of middle aged tea party protestors in St. Louis visited Claire's office to talk to her or her staff regarding their concerns about her support of Obamacare. They reported that the staff locked the doors, pulled down the blinds, and a male occupant flashed them the "bird" with both hands, then someone inside called the police and said they were being threatened by these folks. Judge for yourself:
When questioned, Claire blamed the "finger pointing" on her neighbors...
Poor Claire, she is so ambitious for herself, maybe she just hitched herself to a falling star and forgot the constituents she is obligated to serve.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Rush's First Televised Address to the Nation: CPAC
Rush's First Televised Address to the Nation: Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Speech
In February 2009, one of Missouri's favorite sons (Cape Girardeau), Rush Limbaugh gave a memorable speech to CPAC - the Conservative Political Action Conference. Read the transcript here or link to the video.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.guest.html
This is a crash course in conservatism in America and Rush is America's #1 Truth Teller.
Rush is mischaracterized regularly by the (liberal) media, liberals, and even jealous Republicans, on purpose. I always chuckle when I hear someone make a snide or outright vicious comment about Rush and do it in a way that suggests "yea, we all know what you mean... wink, wink." "He's a big fat liar and he goes off on angry rants all the time." Such statements tell the truth about the one making the comment - they don't listen to Rush and have not a clue who he is or what he is about. They scream their own ignorance with these remarks.
Rush does not "rant" nor is he an angry man. He is charming and women adore him. When he loses weight he is downright stunningly handsome! To me, his voice is a welcome friend whose company I seek each day. I miss him terribly on weekends when he is not on the radio. He sees issues so clearly and he uses humor and irony to make his points. He is a tender and loving cat daddy and often talks about his Abyssinian cat, Punkin. Rush is one of those amazing people - a genius level intellect who skipped the formal credentials - he didn't need them. But every day he is on the radio or TV or in print or giving a speech is a mini-course in politics, social thought, history, ethics, humor, philosophy, etc.
Anyone desiring to understand why Rush is a core component of the grass roots conservative movement in this country and why it is growing so rapidly should listen to Rush.
Oh, what I would give to see a debate between Rush and the skinny metrosexual guy claiming to be Pres! While the Obamamessiah would be desperate for his teleprompter Rush would just rely on his talent on loan from God.
(Now if I wasn't married and still lived in Palm Beach County ... hmmm.)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Recommended Reading
I STILL HATE YOU, SARAH PALIN by David Kahane from National Review Online
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=
Then on the subject of the apparent never-ending list of Obama's Czars and the desire of the Left to silence the voices of Freedom:
Read: Andrew Palmer Want the hell scared out of you?
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/if-obama%E2%80%99s-new-czar-has-his-way-this-could-be-my-last-post%E2%80%A6/
Also see the latest Rasmussen poll on ObamaCare and the fact that Americans are finally waking up and coming to their senses.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/healthcare/july_2009/49_oppose_health_care_reform_plan_46_favor_it
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Women In Black
We all have heard of the Men in Black, so how about let’s look at the Women in Black. No, I don’t mean alien invaders who show up after a close encounter of the something kind, or spy types, I mean women lawyers who wear the black robes of a jurist.
Let’s look at the ladies of the Supreme Court.
First, there is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that diminutive creature with the perpetual sneer that poses as a smile, I guess that is what it is supposed to be. In 2006, then 72 year old Justice Ginsburg apparently took her job so seriously that she fell asleep at the bench. According to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank:
"At first, she appeared to be reading something in her lap. But after a while, it became clear: Ginsburg was napping on the bench. By Bloomberg News's reckoning – not denied by a court spokeswoman – Ginsburg's snooze lasted a quarter of an hour.
"It's lucky for Ginsburg that the Supreme Court
has so far refused to allow television in the courtroom, for her visit to the land of nod would have found its way onto late-night shows."
Yeah, not to mention you-tube.
This week in an interview with Emily Bazelon for the New York Times Magazine scheduled to appear on Sunday, July 12th, titled “The Place of Women on the Court” Justice Ginsburg stated the following:
JUSTICE GINSBURG: “Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?pagewanted=4)
She really said that – this Jewish woman! Was it a Freudian slip? A truth telling about the real agenda of the genocide-lovers let slip by a person, a woman, a mother, a jurist who has the power to eradicate classes of human beings by the stroke of her pen? Who comprises those populations that we don't want too many of? Those of us who pay attention know the origins of the abortion and euthanasia agenda, and we know the history of Hitler’s Final Solution and Margaret Sanger’s affinity for eugenics. But we also know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is former general counsel of the ACLU and activist for abortion and knows no compassion for the most innocent and vulnerable of our society. I wonder how she would rule if Josef Mengele stood before her?
Now, we are facing another woman nominated for the highest court of the land – Sonia Sotomayor. A woman and mother, and one more pro-abortion Catholic. Sotomayor served as a governing board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) from 1980 to 1992. This group published briefs in prominent abortion related court cases. In fact, in 1988, they called upon the Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services to read the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the U.S. Constitution protecting abortion as a fundamental right.
Further, Sotomayor has been overturned in 6 out of 7 cases heard by the Supreme Court, the court to which she aspires: Ricci v. DeStefano, Riverkeeper, Inc. vs. EPA, Knight vs. Commissioner, Dabit vs. Merrill Lynch, Malesko v. Correctional Services Corp., Tasini vs. New York Times, et al. An excellent summary of these overturned cases and the one case which was upheld can be found at: http://oneconservativevoice.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-cases-reviewed-by-supreme.html
She has another case pending review before the high court: Maloney v. Cuomo which has strong implications for our 2nd amendment rights. And then there’s those embarrassing statements about the courts being the place for making policy (what about the legislative branch of government?), and the wise “Latina” possessing wisdom superior to a white man simply because of her life experiences (say what?). She still hasn't told us how this allegedly wise Latina compares to a Latino (male), white female, black male or female, Asian, Pacific Islander, mixed race person, etc. Perhaps Judge Sotomayor, who appears to rule based on race and ethnicity, missed that law school class on the concept that Justice is Blind.
If these female jurists are the best legal minds that the Democrats can produce we surely have all the information we need to oppose the appointment of another embarrassing, moral and mental midget to the Supreme Court, whatever the gender, or ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or non-religious affiliation, and all the other meaningless traits that obscure the apparent lack of proper judicial temperament and intellect.
For more information on Sotomayor visit http://www.Sotomayor411.com
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Christians Need Not Apply
These acts and statements of Obama are truly puzzling unless one subscribes to the theory that he is really a closet Muslim and a stalking horse for Islamic terrorists and/or Saudi interests. Compelling, but I submit an alternate theory: Obama hates Christians.
Now, I am sure someone will argue that Obama belonged to the Trinity United Church of Christ of Dr. Jeremiah Wright and was baptized into a Christian faith. Hogwash! This was no conversion. Obama carefully chose his entrĂ©e to the world of politics by aligning himself with an organization that is a core institution in the black community – the church. But not just any church, Obama chose one out of the mainstream, one aligned with a belief system not found in the major Christian denominations. Joining the Nation of Islam and embracing Screwy Lewie Farrakhan as his spiritual advisor might have been a choice that would have little appeal but to those so aligned, and would never attract the mainstream black community or those self-loathing, guilt-ridden, political-correctness-paralyzed liberal whites, the brain-numb “I just want to be a nice person” wet noodles, or even the America-hating far left kooks. Jeremiah Wright tells you himself that his Chicago church is based on "black liberation theology" and the writings of James Cone. There is nothing Christian about it other than their central figure is named Jesus Christ, but that is about where the connection ends. It is a racist belief system that preaches white hate and reparation from white Americans. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_mentors_mentor.html
In fact, I don’t even think that Obama believes in that ideology. I think Obama is an empty vessel, an a-theist, a person who exists in the absence of God. One could plumb the depths of his psyche to opine on the motivation for this mixed race man, abandoned by both parents, reared predominantly by white grandparents and in mostly Asian dominated environments. He looked in the mirror and saw a fellow that fit in where?
We don’t need Obama’s words, his actions speak clearly. After 56 years of public participation by Congress and U.S. Presidents in the National Day of Prayer with prayer breakfast meetings, other prayer meetings and related observances, Obama said no thanks and merely issued a proclamation. Obama gave a policy speech at premier Jesuit institution of higher learning, Georgetown University, on April 14th and required that the symbol of Jesus’ name (IHS) be covered up and regrettably, Georgetown denied its true Messiah and capitulated to the false one. Also in April, Mr. Obama appointed LGBT activist Harry Knox to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Shortly before this appointment in March, the same Mr. Knox launched an attack on Pope Benedict XVI which was published on the website of the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual advocacy group. He publicly attacked the Pope and the Catholic Church previously in 2007. And yet with this not just “bias” but very real hate campaign against the Church, and advocacy of an alternate lifestyle that is not promoted by most religions, Knox was elevated by Obama to a national role concerned with faith-based policy matters!
Mr. Obama takes positions out of the norm and inconsistent with Christian teaching and natural law. He supports the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and stated that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act removing all restrictions on abortion including the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007 (Gonzales v. Carhart). We heard the story of Jill Stanek and the shameful practices of a Chicago hospital killing aborted babies that survived the abortion (by leaving them unattended and denied medical care) and Obama’s efforts as an Illinois state senator to thwart the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/08/barack_obama_pr.html
The most recent slight to Christian America was the Pentagon’s refusal, after 42 years of participation, to conduct a fly-over at the Treasure Valley God and Country Festival held July 1st in Idaho. http://godandcountryfestival.com/ While a Christian event it is also a tribute to our military and Constitutional freedoms.
There are innumerable examples of Obama’s blatant disregard for everything Christian and they are chronicled every day. Only a fool would believe this man is a Christian or that he bears any positive regard for Christian America. Perhaps Mr. Obama, who tends to lack a most basic grounding in fundamental academics like history and geography, would do well to read not insignificant founding documents like the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence, the writings of George Washington (http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Inspire/Washington.html) and John Adams (http://www.faithofourfathers.net/johnadams.html), and so many others.
But then why should he? He is the new Messiah and he has declared that we are not a Christian nation.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Socialist Psalm 23
“I need not work.
“My inefficiency runneth over.
Credits: