Monday, August 31, 2009
The Obama administration is using its brass knuckles to support Latin American thugs
This is beyond shameful: Obama vs. Honduran Democracy
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Behind the Facade of Tolerance
Tolerance is the talk of the West today. You can hardly go a minute without hearing a government congratulate itself on its "tradition of tolerance" or without hearing an agency lecturing others on the importance of tolerance. In the late 20th century and early 21st centuries, tolerance has eclipsed every other moral and social virtue. A child of the first world is far more likely to be taught tolerance, than the value of manners, decency, charity or chastity. And to grow up with very little moral values, except the firm belief that intolerance is a terrible thing.Read more
Yet what is tolerance all about and what's wrong with tolerance? For one thing, tolerance is not equality. It is condescension. George Washington understood that over 200 years when he wrote in his "Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport" that, "All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent national gifts."
What Washington was saying back in 1790 was a truth that modern liberals have worked hard to blot out, namely that tolerance is a statement of inequality. You tolerate people who you do not believe can participate equally in their own affairs or yours, for your own motives. The people you tolerate are second class citizens.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.Read more
This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
Barack Obama doesn't care what you think
Don't believe me? Just pay attention to the next two weeks. The organization Barack Obama developed to get elected and still leads, Organizing for America, is attempting to hold pro-healthcare rallies throughout the country right before Congress reconvenes. Said another way, the president who swore to represent you is sending his promoters to tell you to support his agenda. Americans, Obama neither listens to you nor cares what you think.Read more
Glenn Beck's 5-day television special: The New Republic - America's Future
Glenn Beck – The Monday Show – The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckmonday.html
Glenn Beck – The Tuesday Show – The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/becktuesday.html
Glenn Beck – The Wednesday Show – The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckwednesday.html
Glenn Beck - The Thursday Show - The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckthursday.html
Glenn Beck - The Friday Show - The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckfriday.html
Links courtesy of PESKY EMOTIONAL REPUBLICAN
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Glenn Beck – The Tuesday Show – The New Republic, America's Future
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Glenn Beck – The Wednesday Show – The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckwednesday.html
Glenn Beck - The Thursday Show - The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckthursday.html
Glenn Beck - The Friday Show - The New Republic, America's Future
http://usaguns.net/patriots/beckfriday.html
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I find it ironic that Obama gave a eulogy for Ted Kennedy when Obama's friend, Bill Ayers, dedicated his book to Sirhan Sirhan, the murderer of Bobby Kennedy!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Who Is Behind Quashing the Birth Certificate Issue?
Joan Swirsky, writing for Canada Free Press, has written an amazing article--do not miss this one!!!
A COUP D’´ETAT?
A COUP D’´ETAT?
Obama Administration Sued Over Healthcare Enemies List
A doctors' group and an organization that advocates for the interest of the inner-city poor have joined forced to sue the Obama administration, charging that its abortive effort to collect criticisms made by those opposed to President Obama's plan to change the U.S. health care system infringed on their First Amendment rights.Read more
Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.Read the whole thing
"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."
Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign."
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers...
Transparency: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passes Health Care Amendment written in invisible ink!
President Obama has promised a "new era of transparency" in Washington, so perhaps he should talk to the Senate about getting with his program. On July 15, six weeks ago, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed an amended $1 trillion health-care bill, with acting Chairman Chris Dodd calling it a "historic achievement." Too bad the committee won't reveal this history even to other Senators, much less to the public.Health-Care Secrets
Three weeks ago Republicans on the committee wrote Mr. Dodd "to reiterate our request for a full copy of the bill as amended, in the four-week mark-up." Mr. Dodd has refused to comply. The Senate bill that is available on the committee Web site is 790 pages long. While that is some 300 pages shorter than the House health bill, that's in part because it doesn't include nearly 200 amendments that passed when the committee redrafted the bill. Amended sections of the bill might as well be written in invisible ink.
Is the mainstream media coming around?
The Washington Post leads today with an extraordinary story cutting against the conclusions of a series of recent government and media reports to cast as straight news -- with a few hedges and qualifications -- that waterboarding and sleep deprivation worked like a charm to turn Kalid Sheik Mohammed from an enemy into an "asset."Post story bolsters Cheney
Reducing missile defense is both dangerous and irresponsible
Missile Defense: The U.S. has abandoned plans to install a missile defense system in Europe, according to a report. If true, this is a major strategic error that will have serious consequences for our allies in Europe and for us.Kissing Off Eastern Europe ...
Quoting a U.S. source, the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza says the Obama administration has decided against building a missile shield to protect Poland and the Czech Republic. The reason? Russian opposition.
Now, if we want to build a defense system for friends in Europe, we'll have to place it in the Balkans, Israel or somewhere else. That is, if Russia approves.
This is a stark reversal of past policy and reneges on promises made by the current administration. Worse, it shows weakness. We got into a staredown with the Russian bear and we blinked.
Obama's Carrousel of Incompetence
My belief, based on reports in the news and from my private network of seasoned agents and provocateurs, is that this White House is a carrousel of incompetence. How else do we explain the ravening push on all fronts, healthcare, the environment, fiscal reform, intelligence reform, and a foreign policy of humility and apology? Unsurprisingly, on every front the President is in trouble. Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's, callous enjoiner, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"? This White House is a serious crisis.Read the whole thing
Friday, August 28, 2009
Remember this?
Thanks to Mark Levin for reminding all of us:
How can limited government and fiscal restraint be equated with lack of compassion for the poor? How can a tax break that puts a little more money in the weekly paychecks of working people be seen as an attack on the needy? Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes--one rich, one poor--both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?--Ronad Reagan
We may be witnessing the most politically unstable Executive Branch since Nixon...
...their gutlessness now exhibited by the humiliation of a long time Washington Democrat that actually dared to defend the nation's security interests.Panetta Goes Under The Bus
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.Read more
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Is the United States a Corporation?
Comment by "Jimmy The C" on August 27, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Back in February I came accross this article about the US being a corporation. I didn’t have time to read it then. But after looking at it again it reveals the murky pit we are living in called the US government under a corporate constitution, put in place by the “Act of 1871″. I know you don’t have a lot of time, but this may explain why the courts, congress, SCOTUS and the White House are all thumbing their nosses at us.Response from Leo Donofrio:
www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
[Ed. The US incorporated thing is very interesting
US Code Title 28 defines United States as
15) “United States” means—
(A) a Federal corporation;
I show this to other lawyers - non tin foil hat wearing folk unlike myself - and they have no explanation but they really dont want to discuss it. It's like uncomfortable for them. Deep down they know something is wrong, but you know - soccer practice, movie night, the game is on, let's have a beer, damn look at the rack on that chick... anything but talk about WTF is going on in our country.]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill has done more to help convicted criminals than it has to actually boost our economy and create jobs
One day after the Herald reported some surprised Bay State inmates - including murderers and rapists - were cashing in $250 stimulus checks, federal officials revealed the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.Read the whole thing
A federal watchdog is now probing how the cons were cut the checks. The same cash also may have been sent to fugitive felons, people kicked out of the country and even individuals now deceased.
It’s all part of the massive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - and what is becoming an accounting nightmare for red-faced feds.
Let's get this straight
Obama's health care plan will:
What could possibly go wrong?
- Be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it.
- Be passed by a Congress that hasn't read it (but exempts themselves from it).
- Be signed by a president who smokes (and also hasn't read it).
- Have funding administered by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes.
- Be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese.
- Be financed by a country that is nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong?
A friend discusses the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy
While the Left is busying trying to immediately use their friend's death to shove a terrible bill they won't read down the throats of regular citizens (one that they voted not to be subjected to themselves, of course) I wanted to give voice to my friend's concerns because he speaks for so very many of the real citizens in this country.
Today, there are many words of praise for the late Senator Edward Kennedy. He is referred to as the "Lion of the Senate," a gifted politician," and by many other laudatory appellations. Much of this is political puffery; and some of the praise is from those who were opposed to much of what Kennedy stood for.
Behind the facade of "public service" was a man of bulk, intemperate appetites, a drunken philandering, irresponsible and dishonest son of wealth, whose lack of courage allowed him to ignore a woman drowning in a car he drunkenly drove off a bridge, and instead seek a fall guy to report that they had done the deed, instead of Kennedy. His failure to induce anyone to take the rap used up time that experts contended could have been used to rescue the young woman passenger from the car, before her pocket of trapped air was used up. Indeed, he did not even report the situation until many hours later, when she was surely dead. Most people would have served prison time for homicide, if convicted; but, daddy's money enabled him to escape real punishment with a wrist slap, and a monetary award to the grieving parents of Mary Jo Kopechne.
This was no aberration in his lack of character. He hired a person to take exams in his place at Harvard. The discovery led to his expulsion. His record in the senate was one of always pushing to make wage earners in America pay for transfers of funds to others, ever expanding the role of the federal government in contravention of the fundamental law of the land, the Constitution. He repayed attempts to reach across the aisle by president Bush, by denouncing him in the most ungentlemanly terms, even after the president allowed Kennedy to write his No Child Left Behind bill. His vitriol was almost unmatched, even by a congress increasingly given to intemperate attacks on those whose consciences are of different values.
Kennedy had been a senator for almost half a century, and was a representative of the class of politicians who have no idea what the world outside of government consists of. In contradistinction to the vision of our founders, who proposed that people of all backgrounds would have a period of service, he created a lifelong career of elected office. He made senator as the inheritor of the Kennedy mystique, and parleyed his father's riches into political success. He was thus one of many high elected officials who have essentially "bought" their positions, at least initially, and used it as a career for the mediocre and manipulative to assert their power. Their one talent is to smile fake, lingering smiles, to promise what they could not deliver, and to lie with the greatest sincerity. Even their victims have resisted seeing through their phony pasted on smiles.
His passing is not a sad day for me. He is only one of many in congress who have attained their positions through family riches, not real ability and public service. Their only accomplishments in life were to take from the productive, and waste the fruits of their toil, building an ever larger and more intrusive government that today is bent on controlling every moment of our lives, including the most private and intimate.
There must be special ring in Hell for dishonest politicians. If so, it must be the most crowded ring.
Robert A. Gismondi
Los Angeles, California
A warning from attorney Leo C. Donofrio
Eventually, I see the internet being taken down and reborn in a much more censored format. What is happening before our very eyes is nothing short of a coup de tat. And it didn't start with Obama, but it just might end with him. He may be the last President of the US because I don't believe we are going to survive as a sovereign nation for more than 8 years.« CRAIG V. US – 10th Circuit Court of Appeals – HELD (08.05.2009): 14th Amendment native born citizens have no Constitutional right to natural born citizen status.The Holy Grail of POTUS Eligibility Law Review Articles: Mr. Obama and Mr. Arthur… Meet Attorney George Collins
SATAN IS A DEMOCRAT
My good friend, philosophy professor Kelley L. Ross, has just added a new page to his incredible collection of essays and historical documents...here is an excerpt:
What has happened to the Democrats is that they have become the Party of Government, where all of their purposes are to promote the interests of Government, as opposed to the interests of citizens. You can spot this when Democrats say "We are the government," meaning that the interests of government and citizens cannot possibly diverge. But then we see the divergence in action when Democrat policy protects and expands the power and privileges of politicians, in the first place (hence their opposition to term limits, usually quite popular with voters), of public employees (hence the support of Public Employee and Teachers Unions for the Democrats), and of people dependent on the government (hence support for welfare, protectionism, and corporate welfare, recently seen in the corporate bailouts of 2009 -- though the Democrats want us to think that only Republicans promote corporate welfare). The logical goal of Democrat politics would be to put all business under the control of the government, a goal now achieved with General Motors, and to render all citizens into helpless peons who receive all goods and favors from politicians. Political enemies thus can be immediately deprived of jobs, housing, medical care, etc., as in the Soviet Union.Click here to read the whole thing!
In UK, babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets
Obama, are you listening?
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.Read more
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Swine Flu Could Infect Half of U.S.
I'm sure that Rahm Emanuel will look upon this, too, as the kind of crisis the Obama administration won't want to waste...
While the seasonal flu is associated with 30,000 to 40,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year, the lack of immunity to the swine flu virus probably will lead to many more people becoming infected, sick -- and possibly to 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, the council said. And while most deaths during a typical flu season occur in the elderly, swine flu is more likely to kill children and young adults, the panel said.OR: Lipsitch stressed that the outbreak could turn out to be milder, too.
The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to buy into it for long.
Mr. Fouad Ajami teaches at the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. He is also an adjunct fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
We were led to this summer of discontent by the very nature of the coalition that brought Mr. Obama, and the political class around him, to power, and by the circumstances of his victory. The man was elected amid economic distress. Faith in the country's institutions, perhaps in the free-enterprise system itself, had given way. Mr. Obama had ridden that distress. His politics of charisma was reminiscent of the Third World. A leader steps forth, better yet someone with no discernible trail, someone hard to pin down to a specific political program, and the crowd could read into him what it wished, what it needed.People wanted desperately to believe that Obama was Abraham Lincoln...Franklin Delano Roosevelt...John F. Kennedy. But they were wrong, and he isn't.
American democracy has never been democracy by plebiscite, a process by which a leader is anointed, then the populace steps out of the way, and the anointed one puts his political program in place. In the American tradition, the "mandate of heaven" is gained and lost every day and people talk back to their leaders. They are not held in thrall by them. The leaders are not infallible or a breed apart. That way is the Third World way, the way it plays out in Arab and Latin American politics.Obama's Summer of Discontent
Those protesters in those town-hall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama's charismatic moment has passed. Once again, the belief in that American exception that set this nation apart from other lands is re-emerging. Health care is the tip of the iceberg. Beneath it is an unease with the way the verdict of the 2008 election was read by those who prevailed. It shall be seen whether the man swept into office in the moment of national panic will adjust to the nation's recovery of its self-confidence.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Boycotting the Boycotters
Mrs. Pelosi and the Whole Foods boycotters are on the wrong side of history.Read more...and then support WHOLE FOODS!
The way to stand up to them is to go to "tea parties," raise a ruckus at health care debates and - buy organic garlic, herb fresh goat cheese and three-bean salad with quinoa at your local Whole Foods store.
This time, you really could be saving the planet.
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Yeah...stimulus money funds study of "ins and outs" of sex patterns in humans AND animals!
WASHINGTON - The stimulus package is living up to its provocative name by funding a bacchanalia of behavioral sex research, a Post analysis reveals.Find out where your tax money is really going
The next fiscal year is set to be one of the friskiest ever in the nation's science labs, as researchers probe the ins and outs of sex patterns among humans and even some of our four-legged friends.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
The dark past of Barack Hussein Obama
-The truth is Obama is a far left liberal with Marxist leanings
Wall Street Journal: "The Obama We Don't Know" June 4, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121254834844844045.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "The Obama Triangle" Posted Friday, February 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287969471192801
Wall Street Journal: "Obama's Tax Plan is Really a Welfare Plan" August 19, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html
-Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a left-wing radical
Chicago Tribune: "Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas" published March 27, 2007
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story
Seattle Times: "Obama's mother known here as 'uncommon'" April 8, 2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html
-Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. was a Harvard Trained Economist in the Kenyan government who had Marxist beliefs
"His father's critique of Kenya's economic policy was published in the East Africa Journal under the title 'Problems Facing Our Socialism.' One discovers after reading just a few pages into his eight-page tract, where he waxes quixotic about 'communal ownership of major means of production' that he wasn't criticizing the government for being too socialistic, but not socialistic enough.
Obama Sr. described his own economic plan, his counterproposal, as it were, as 'scientific socialism inter alia communism.' Yes, Obama's father was a communist who wanted to put socialist theory into action by 'force.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Like Father, Like Son" Posted August 18, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303952499910291
-Obama's "cousin" (probably not an actual cousin), is the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged, is a Marxist who has made deals with Islamic Extremists
-Obama's brother, Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim
"In the bloody conflict there, which already has claimed some 700 lives, Obama appears to have sided with opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged.
Obama's older brother still lives there. Abongo 'Roy' Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must 'liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.' He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.
Beyond family politics, these ties have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications.
Odinga is a Marxist who reportedly has made a pact with a hard-line Islamic group in Kenya to establish Sharia courts throughout the country. He has also vowed to ban booze and pork and impose Muslim dress codes on women moves favored by Obama's brother.
With Al-Qaida strengthening its beachheads in Africa from Algeria to Sudan to Somalia the last thing the West needs is for pro-Western Kenya to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
Yet Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaigning to speak by phone with Odinga, who claims to be his cousin. He did not speak with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Church" posted January 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289784519414202
-Obama's friend "Frank" to whom in refers to in "Dreams From My Father" is the late communist Frank Marshal Davis
"A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 a man he refers to only as 'Frank' was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his 'subversive,' 'un-American activities.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Young Obama's Red Mentor" Posted August 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302827467707515
Political Affairs: “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party” March 28, 2007 (See last paragraph)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/
-Obama attended a church for 20 years which is based on the teachings of Dr. James Cohen and Black Liberation Theology which mixes black Christianity with Marxism
Wall Street Journal: “Obama and the Minister” March 14, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120545277093135111.html
RenewAmerica: “Obamination” February 21, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/rush/070221
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “No End Of Bile From Obama's Bully Pulpits” May 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297039683804574
-Reverend Jeremiah Wright was the minister of this church and claims Dr. James Cohen as his mentor
AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama's Mentor's Mentor" February 22, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_mentors_mentor.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Not So Fast, Barack" Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297384729501947
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama: Stealth Socialist?" Posted Friday, May 16, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295831088444972
AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx" June 05, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html
Commentary Magazine: “Obama's Pastor Rejects ‘Middleclassness,’ All Right” April 04, 2008
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/3266
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150
"The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto)."
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150
"Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man's depravity. God cannot be white, even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers."
-Use of the term "Principalities and Powers" in the New Testament refer to evil
-Barack Obama frequently uses the term "Principalities and Powers" to refer to those who are resistant to "change".
Does his change refer to the sort of change which is referred to in Black Liberation Theology teachings?
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 152
"The real questions are: Where is your identity? Where is your being? Does it lie with the oppressed blacks or with the white oppressors? Let us hope there are enough to answer this question correctly so that America will not be compelled to acknowledge a common humanity only by seeing that blood is always one color."
-Reverend Wright made the false statement that there are "more black men in prison than in college", which Obama has parroted in numerous speeches until he was told it was not true
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Sermon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs
Most Revealing Fibs: Barack Obama: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/most_revealing_fibs_barack_oba.html
-Obama was trained to be a community organizer by an organization which stems from Saul Alinsky
-Saul Alinsky started "community organizing" which is otherwise known as agitating for revolution
-Saul Alinsky "motivated" the "poor" to rise up by getting them to believe they were victims of government and society
-Saul Alinsky wrote a book called "Rules for Radicals", which discusses the need for "change"
-Obama has connections to William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the Weathermen, a radical left-wing organization
-Bernardine Dohrn also became a Saul Alinsky "Community Organizer"
FrontPageMagazine.com: "Democrats' Platform for Revolution" 5/5/2008
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30778
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obamastan" Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295659438660017
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Marxist Axis Of Friends" Posted Monday, May 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294880428846293
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Academia Nuts" Posted Friday, April 25, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294017418782123
AMERICAN THINKER: "Barack Obama and Israel" January 16, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama Finds An ACORN" Posted August 06, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302914868143810
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Radical Roots And Rules" Posted August 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142
The New Republic Online: “The Agitator - Barack Obama's unlikely political education” March 09, 2007 / March 19, 2007
http://www.pickensdemocrats.org/info/TheAgitator_070319.htm
-L. David Alinsky, Saul Alinsky's son, commended Barack Obama on his use of Alinsky methods at the Democratic National Committee
The Boston Globe: "Son sees father's handiwork in convention" August 31, 2008
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/
-Obama has close ties to ACORN, a left-wing organization which promotes "Affordable Housing" and actively promotes voter registration of people who are likely supporters of left-wing candidates
A number of ACORN members in multiple states have been found guilty of voter registration fraud.
"Obama, who once represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, was hired by the group to train its community organizers and staff in the methods and tactics of the late Saul Alinsky. ACORN would stage in-your-face protests in bank lobbies, drive-through lanes and even at bank managers' homes to get them to issue risky loans in the inner city or face charges of racism.
In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago's ACORN to run training sessions in "direct action." That's the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "Ninja" loans - no income, no job, no assets - to people who couldn't afford them."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723
-Obama sat on two foundation boards with William Ayers, The Woods Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation
The New York Times: "Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths" October 4, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html
"Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists."
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"The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them."
Wall Street Journal: "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools" September 23, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
"When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723
-Obama was endorsed by Alice Palmer, a Socialist politician, for the Illinois State Senate
"In 1995, Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well-known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the terrorist Weather Underground."
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"Who Alice Palmer is and what she believed is the real story here.
Ten years earlier she was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which the FBI identified as a communist front group, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group.
Palmer participated in the World Peace Council's 1983 Prague Assembly, part of the Soviet launch of the nuclear-freeze movement. The only thing it would have frozen was the Soviet Union's military superiority.
In June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, she wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World. It detailed her experience attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet system.
Palmer gushed at the 'Soviet plan to provide people with higher wages and better education' and spoke of the efficiency of the Soviets' most recent five-year plan, attributing its success to 'central planning.' She praised their 'comprehensive affirmative action program, which they have stuck to religiously - if I can use the word - since 1917.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Alice In Obamaland" Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304210671922915
-Obama won his first election in 1996 by having all four of his opponents disqualified on technicalities, including the incumbent
“In the end, Mr. Obama disqualified all four opponents -- including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, and three minor candidates. Ms. Palmer, a former ally of Mr. Obama, had gathered 1,580 signatures, more than twice the 757 required to appear on the ballot. A minor, perennial candidate had gathered 1,899 signatures, suggesting the Obama team invested much time working even against him.
The act of throwing an incumbent off the ballot in such a fashion does not fit neatly into the narrative of a public-spirited reformer who seeks to make people less cynical about politics.”
Wall Street Journal: "Obama Played by Chicago Rules" August 20, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121918996082755013.html
-Obama’s connections to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Chicago Tribune: “Daley reins in radicals — the Chicago Way” October 11, 2008
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/11/news/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12
Wall Street Journal: “Grapes of Rathke” November 8, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009214
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “ACORN's Bad Seed” October 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308875644500971
Mr. Rathke was also a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical left-wing organization from the 1960's, and from which the Weathermen / Weather Underground was an offshoot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)
Mr. Rathke is also the publisher of “Social Policy” magazine which printed the following story on ACORN and Barack Obama.
"He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Social Policy, a magazine that explores issues, campaigns, and challenges in labor and community organizing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
Social Policy: “Case Study: Chicago – The Barack obama Campaign” Winter 2003, Vol 34, No 2 & Spring 2004, Vol 34, No. 3
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chicago-the-barack-obama-campaign.pdf
Marilyn Katz who is a friend of Obama and Ayers and who also was the security chief for the Students for a Democratic Society, is now an Obama fundraiser and contribution bundler.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12,0,5393672.column
http://townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/31/obamas_radical_delegate
It is also interesting that Mr. Rathke is on Tides Foundation Board of Directors. The Tides Foundation is a non-profit organization which receives money from George Soros' Open Society Institute as well as partnering with the OSI to funnel money to Media Matters and left-wing fringe groups engaged in eco-terrorism, e.g., Sea Shepherds, Earth First! and the Ruckus Society.
http://waderathke.com/index.php?id=76 (Info removed, see Google cashe link below)
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:mlLfoBZokI4J:www.waderathke.com/index.php%3Fid%3D112+tides+foundation+site:waderathke.com&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “The Soros Threat To Democracy” September 24, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275526219598836
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn” September 20, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275181103776079
-Obama’s connections to Nation of Islam Supporters & Louis Farrakhan
Debbie Schlussel: “EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals the Real Barack”
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/01/obamas_nation_o.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “Obama's Jeremiad” March 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=290386994770291
WorldNetDaily: “Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll” June 03, 2008
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=66167
-Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996
Politically Drunk On Power: "Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996" Wednesday, October 8, 2008
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html
The Progressive Populist" "Editorial: The next campaign" November, 1996
"New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago."
http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html
New Party: "Running to Win : The Key Races" October, 1996
"New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races:
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)."
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306031216/www.newparty.org/up9610.html
Human Events: "Obama and the New Party" June 10, 2008
"Barack Obama, not needing to, chose to affiliate himself with this band of quasi-communists. As the nation moves closer to the election, it is clear that Obama chose to affiliate with assorted anti-American radicals. Machiavelli once noted that we can know a leader by the people he surrounds himself with. What does that say about Barack Obama, who chose to surround himself with people committed to overthrowing the United States and capitalism?"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913
Redstate.com "Barack Obama sought the New Party's endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization: There's no other conclusion when you see what the New Party was and who put it together" Posted in 2008 archives
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/barack_obama_sought_the_new_partys_endorsement_knowing_it_was_a_radical_left_organization
http://redstatenetwork.com/stories/elections/2008/i_have_another_question_about_obama_and_the_new_party
WorldNetDaily: Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party: Democrat's campaign denied allegations, but new evidence indicates membership October 24, 2008
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945
WorldNetDaily: Obama participated in socialist party: Activist recalls president's time with radical Chicago political group August 23, 2009
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731
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Research kindly provided to lgstarr by Kurt Vangsness
Wall Street Journal: "The Obama We Don't Know" June 4, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121254834844844045.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "The Obama Triangle" Posted Friday, February 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287969471192801
Wall Street Journal: "Obama's Tax Plan is Really a Welfare Plan" August 19, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html
-Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a left-wing radical
Chicago Tribune: "Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas" published March 27, 2007
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story
Seattle Times: "Obama's mother known here as 'uncommon'" April 8, 2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html
-Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. was a Harvard Trained Economist in the Kenyan government who had Marxist beliefs
"His father's critique of Kenya's economic policy was published in the East Africa Journal under the title 'Problems Facing Our Socialism.' One discovers after reading just a few pages into his eight-page tract, where he waxes quixotic about 'communal ownership of major means of production' that he wasn't criticizing the government for being too socialistic, but not socialistic enough.
Obama Sr. described his own economic plan, his counterproposal, as it were, as 'scientific socialism inter alia communism.' Yes, Obama's father was a communist who wanted to put socialist theory into action by 'force.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Like Father, Like Son" Posted August 18, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303952499910291
-Obama's "cousin" (probably not an actual cousin), is the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged, is a Marxist who has made deals with Islamic Extremists
-Obama's brother, Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim
"In the bloody conflict there, which already has claimed some 700 lives, Obama appears to have sided with opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged.
Obama's older brother still lives there. Abongo 'Roy' Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must 'liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.' He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.
Beyond family politics, these ties have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications.
Odinga is a Marxist who reportedly has made a pact with a hard-line Islamic group in Kenya to establish Sharia courts throughout the country. He has also vowed to ban booze and pork and impose Muslim dress codes on women moves favored by Obama's brother.
With Al-Qaida strengthening its beachheads in Africa from Algeria to Sudan to Somalia the last thing the West needs is for pro-Western Kenya to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
Yet Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaigning to speak by phone with Odinga, who claims to be his cousin. He did not speak with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Church" posted January 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289784519414202
-Obama's friend "Frank" to whom in refers to in "Dreams From My Father" is the late communist Frank Marshal Davis
"A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 a man he refers to only as 'Frank' was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his 'subversive,' 'un-American activities.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Young Obama's Red Mentor" Posted August 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302827467707515
Political Affairs: “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party” March 28, 2007 (See last paragraph)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/
-Obama attended a church for 20 years which is based on the teachings of Dr. James Cohen and Black Liberation Theology which mixes black Christianity with Marxism
Wall Street Journal: “Obama and the Minister” March 14, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120545277093135111.html
RenewAmerica: “Obamination” February 21, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/rush/070221
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “No End Of Bile From Obama's Bully Pulpits” May 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297039683804574
-Reverend Jeremiah Wright was the minister of this church and claims Dr. James Cohen as his mentor
AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama's Mentor's Mentor" February 22, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_mentors_mentor.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Not So Fast, Barack" Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297384729501947
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama: Stealth Socialist?" Posted Friday, May 16, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295831088444972
AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx" June 05, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html
Commentary Magazine: “Obama's Pastor Rejects ‘Middleclassness,’ All Right” April 04, 2008
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/3266
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150
"The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto)."
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150
"Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man's depravity. God cannot be white, even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers."
-Use of the term "Principalities and Powers" in the New Testament refer to evil
-Barack Obama frequently uses the term "Principalities and Powers" to refer to those who are resistant to "change".
Does his change refer to the sort of change which is referred to in Black Liberation Theology teachings?
-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 152
"The real questions are: Where is your identity? Where is your being? Does it lie with the oppressed blacks or with the white oppressors? Let us hope there are enough to answer this question correctly so that America will not be compelled to acknowledge a common humanity only by seeing that blood is always one color."
-Reverend Wright made the false statement that there are "more black men in prison than in college", which Obama has parroted in numerous speeches until he was told it was not true
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Sermon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs
Most Revealing Fibs: Barack Obama: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/most_revealing_fibs_barack_oba.html
-Obama was trained to be a community organizer by an organization which stems from Saul Alinsky
-Saul Alinsky started "community organizing" which is otherwise known as agitating for revolution
-Saul Alinsky "motivated" the "poor" to rise up by getting them to believe they were victims of government and society
-Saul Alinsky wrote a book called "Rules for Radicals", which discusses the need for "change"
-Obama has connections to William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the Weathermen, a radical left-wing organization
-Bernardine Dohrn also became a Saul Alinsky "Community Organizer"
FrontPageMagazine.com: "Democrats' Platform for Revolution" 5/5/2008
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30778
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obamastan" Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295659438660017
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Marxist Axis Of Friends" Posted Monday, May 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294880428846293
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Academia Nuts" Posted Friday, April 25, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294017418782123
AMERICAN THINKER: "Barack Obama and Israel" January 16, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama Finds An ACORN" Posted August 06, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302914868143810
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Radical Roots And Rules" Posted August 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142
The New Republic Online: “The Agitator - Barack Obama's unlikely political education” March 09, 2007 / March 19, 2007
http://www.pickensdemocrats.org/info/TheAgitator_070319.htm
-L. David Alinsky, Saul Alinsky's son, commended Barack Obama on his use of Alinsky methods at the Democratic National Committee
The Boston Globe: "Son sees father's handiwork in convention" August 31, 2008
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/
-Obama has close ties to ACORN, a left-wing organization which promotes "Affordable Housing" and actively promotes voter registration of people who are likely supporters of left-wing candidates
A number of ACORN members in multiple states have been found guilty of voter registration fraud.
"Obama, who once represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, was hired by the group to train its community organizers and staff in the methods and tactics of the late Saul Alinsky. ACORN would stage in-your-face protests in bank lobbies, drive-through lanes and even at bank managers' homes to get them to issue risky loans in the inner city or face charges of racism.
In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago's ACORN to run training sessions in "direct action." That's the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "Ninja" loans - no income, no job, no assets - to people who couldn't afford them."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723
-Obama sat on two foundation boards with William Ayers, The Woods Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation
The New York Times: "Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths" October 4, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html
"Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists."
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"The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them."
Wall Street Journal: "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools" September 23, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
"When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723
-Obama was endorsed by Alice Palmer, a Socialist politician, for the Illinois State Senate
"In 1995, Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well-known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the terrorist Weather Underground."
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"Who Alice Palmer is and what she believed is the real story here.
Ten years earlier she was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which the FBI identified as a communist front group, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group.
Palmer participated in the World Peace Council's 1983 Prague Assembly, part of the Soviet launch of the nuclear-freeze movement. The only thing it would have frozen was the Soviet Union's military superiority.
In June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, she wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World. It detailed her experience attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet system.
Palmer gushed at the 'Soviet plan to provide people with higher wages and better education' and spoke of the efficiency of the Soviets' most recent five-year plan, attributing its success to 'central planning.' She praised their 'comprehensive affirmative action program, which they have stuck to religiously - if I can use the word - since 1917.'"
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Alice In Obamaland" Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304210671922915
-Obama won his first election in 1996 by having all four of his opponents disqualified on technicalities, including the incumbent
“In the end, Mr. Obama disqualified all four opponents -- including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, and three minor candidates. Ms. Palmer, a former ally of Mr. Obama, had gathered 1,580 signatures, more than twice the 757 required to appear on the ballot. A minor, perennial candidate had gathered 1,899 signatures, suggesting the Obama team invested much time working even against him.
The act of throwing an incumbent off the ballot in such a fashion does not fit neatly into the narrative of a public-spirited reformer who seeks to make people less cynical about politics.”
Wall Street Journal: "Obama Played by Chicago Rules" August 20, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121918996082755013.html
-Obama’s connections to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Chicago Tribune: “Daley reins in radicals — the Chicago Way” October 11, 2008
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/11/news/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12
Wall Street Journal: “Grapes of Rathke” November 8, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009214
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “ACORN's Bad Seed” October 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308875644500971
Mr. Rathke was also a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical left-wing organization from the 1960's, and from which the Weathermen / Weather Underground was an offshoot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)
Mr. Rathke is also the publisher of “Social Policy” magazine which printed the following story on ACORN and Barack Obama.
"He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Social Policy, a magazine that explores issues, campaigns, and challenges in labor and community organizing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
Social Policy: “Case Study: Chicago – The Barack obama Campaign” Winter 2003, Vol 34, No 2 & Spring 2004, Vol 34, No. 3
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chicago-the-barack-obama-campaign.pdf
Marilyn Katz who is a friend of Obama and Ayers and who also was the security chief for the Students for a Democratic Society, is now an Obama fundraiser and contribution bundler.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12,0,5393672.column
http://townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/31/obamas_radical_delegate
It is also interesting that Mr. Rathke is on Tides Foundation Board of Directors. The Tides Foundation is a non-profit organization which receives money from George Soros' Open Society Institute as well as partnering with the OSI to funnel money to Media Matters and left-wing fringe groups engaged in eco-terrorism, e.g., Sea Shepherds, Earth First! and the Ruckus Society.
http://waderathke.com/index.php?id=76 (Info removed, see Google cashe link below)
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:mlLfoBZokI4J:www.waderathke.com/index.php%3Fid%3D112+tides+foundation+site:waderathke.com&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “The Soros Threat To Democracy” September 24, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275526219598836
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn” September 20, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275181103776079
-Obama’s connections to Nation of Islam Supporters & Louis Farrakhan
Debbie Schlussel: “EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals the Real Barack”
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/01/obamas_nation_o.html
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “Obama's Jeremiad” March 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=290386994770291
WorldNetDaily: “Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll” June 03, 2008
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=66167
-Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996
Politically Drunk On Power: "Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996" Wednesday, October 8, 2008
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html
The Progressive Populist" "Editorial: The next campaign" November, 1996
"New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago."
http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html
New Party: "Running to Win : The Key Races" October, 1996
"New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races:
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)."
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306031216/www.newparty.org/up9610.html
Human Events: "Obama and the New Party" June 10, 2008
"Barack Obama, not needing to, chose to affiliate himself with this band of quasi-communists. As the nation moves closer to the election, it is clear that Obama chose to affiliate with assorted anti-American radicals. Machiavelli once noted that we can know a leader by the people he surrounds himself with. What does that say about Barack Obama, who chose to surround himself with people committed to overthrowing the United States and capitalism?"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913
Redstate.com "Barack Obama sought the New Party's endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization: There's no other conclusion when you see what the New Party was and who put it together" Posted in 2008 archives
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/barack_obama_sought_the_new_partys_endorsement_knowing_it_was_a_radical_left_organization
http://redstatenetwork.com/stories/elections/2008/i_have_another_question_about_obama_and_the_new_party
WorldNetDaily: Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party: Democrat's campaign denied allegations, but new evidence indicates membership October 24, 2008
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945
WorldNetDaily: Obama participated in socialist party: Activist recalls president's time with radical Chicago political group August 23, 2009
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731
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Research kindly provided to lgstarr by Kurt Vangsness
The Mark of the Beast is here
When the Democrats vote in national health care, the government will be in charge. In the interest of the general welfare and national security, we will all be forced to receive this microchip!
Company developing under-the-skin devices to detect 'bio-threats'Next step in H1N1 scare: Microchip implants
A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's bloodstream the presence of swine flu or other viruses deemed a "bio-threat."
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Cash for Clunkers: Dumbest Program Ever?
From http://www.cato-at-liberty.org with a hat tip to Carpe Diem:
As the Cash for Clunkers program begins to wind down, I nominate it as the dumbest government program ever. Here is what the program will have accomplished:
As the Cash for Clunkers program begins to wind down, I nominate it as the dumbest government program ever. Here is what the program will have accomplished:
Americans Need Patient-Centered Reform, Not Democrats’ Costly Government Takeover of Health Care
Excerpt from the weekly 8/22/09 address of Congressman Tom Price, Physician:
“The status quo in American health care is clearly unacceptable. Rising costs, shrinking access, and third-party decision making are driving patients away from their doctors and the desired care that they seek. The challenge, however, is providing Americans more accessible and affordable care without impairing the quality, innovation, and choices that define American medicine. And this is simply impossible with the one-size-fits-all approach taken by the President and Democrats in charge of Congress.Read or watch the rest
“Experience tells me that as a doctor, no two patients are exactly alike. While the same diagnosis can be reached for two people, the proper treatment for each may be completely different, based on a countless number of factors that only a patient, their family, and a caring and compassionate physician truly understand. Having navigated federal health care programs for two decades, I can tell you that Washington is incapable of processing the personal and unique circumstances that patients and doctors face each and every day. That is why a positive solution will put power in the hands of patients, not insurance companies or the government.
“Unfortunately, the plan being promoted by the White House would give Washington the power to make highly personal medical decisions on behalf of patients – on behalf of you. Now whether it’s the government choosing what should be in your family’s health care plan, or a bureaucratic board deciding what treatments are appropriate and who should receive them, the President’s plan is a 1,000-page expression supporting the notion that Washington knows best when it comes to your family’s health care. And that’s simply not true.
“As opposition to the Democrats’ government-run health plan is mounting, the President has said he’d like to stamp out some of the disinformation floating around out there. The problem is the President, himself, plays fast and loose with the facts. So as someone who’s taken care of patients, I’d like to take a moment to clear up a couple of the President’s worst offenses.
“On the stump, the President regularly tells Americans that ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.’ But if you read the bill, that just isn’t so. For starters, within five years, every health care plan will have to meet a new federal definition for coverage – one that your current plan might not match, even if you like it.
“What’s more, experts agree that under the House bill, millions of Americans will be forced off their personal, private coverage and shuffled onto the government plan.
“Now the President has also said that he thinks the government should compete with your current health care plan. But we all know that when the government is setting the rules and is backed by tax dollars, it will destroy – not compete – with the private sector. The reality is, whether or not you get to keep your plan, or your doctor, is very much in question under the President’s proposal.
“But perhaps the most striking misinformation the President has put forth is that there are only two options out there for America – that it’s his way or the highway. That it’s either the government running the show – or insurance companies. The truth is there is a third way – a better way, a patient-centered way to reform health care. Rather than allowing insurance companies or the government to call the shots, Republicans want to put patients in charge of their family’s health care. We have plans to increase coverage and lower costs without putting a bureaucrat between you and your doctor. We believe that what’s good for patients is good for American health care.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Our first Chief Justice speaks about the Biblical view of War
John Jay (1745–1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795,
the first Chief Justice of the United States.
the first Chief Justice of the United States.
Excerpt from “John Jay on the Biblical View of War”
If the United States should unanimously resolve never more to use the sword, would a certified copy of it prove to be an effectual Mediterranean passport? Would it reform the predatory rulers of Africa, or persuade the successive potentates of Europe to observe towards us the conduct of real Christians? On the contrary, would it not present new facilities, and consequently produce new excitements, to the gratification of avarice and ambition?Read the whole thing
It is true that even just war is attended with evils, and so likewise is the administration of government and of justice; but is that a good reason for abolishing either of them? They are means by which greater evils are averted. Among the various means necessary to obviate or remove, or repress, or to mitigate the various calamities, dangers, and exigencies, to which in this life we are exposed, how few are to be found which do not subject us to troubles, privations, and inconveniences of one kind or other. To prevent the incursion or continuance of evils, we must submit to the use of those means, whether agreeable or otherwise, which reason and experience prescribe.
It is also true, and to be lamented, that war, however just and necessary, sends many persons out of this world who are ill prepared for a better. And so also does the law in all countries. So also does navigation, and other occupations. Are they therefore all sinful and forbidden?
However desirable the abolition of all wars may be, yet until the morals and manners of mankind are greatly changed, it will be found impracticable. We are taught that national sins will be punished, and war is one of the punishments. The prophets predict wars at so late a period as the restoration of the Israelites. Who or what can hinder the occurrence of those wars?
I nevertheless believe, and have perfect faith in the prophecy, that the time will come when “the nations will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” But does not this prophecy clearly imply, and give us plainly to understand, that in the meanwhile, and until the arrival of that blessed period, the nations will not beat their swords into plowshares, nor their spears into pruning-hooks; that nation will not forbear to lift up sword against nation, nor cease to learn war?
It may be asked, Are we to do nothing to hasten the arrival of that happy period? Literally, no created being can either accelerate or retard its arrival. It will not arrive sooner nor later than the appointed time.
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To all the 9/11 truthers out there
UPDATED HERE
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Aside from the fact that real planes actually flew into the Twin Towers:
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html
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Aside from the fact that real planes actually flew into the Twin Towers:
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Media Blackout
"Equal and exact justice to all men..." --Thomas Jefferson
Editor's Note: PG suggested -- this essay contains graphic descriptions of a brutal crime.
In 1775, John Adams wrote, "There is in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong, a love of truth and a veneration of virtue ... if the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice..."
Adams understood that a shared penchant for justice and virtue is essential to liberty, and depends upon the ability of people to discern between right and wrong.
Today, it is evident to every astute social scientist (and most anyone with common sense) that among definable American subcultures the capacity for distinguishing between right and wrong is severely diminished.
The origin of these deteriorating standards for justice and virtue is rooted in the dissolution of the family, and the failure of our places of worship and our schools to instill those values necessary for self-government -- self-government being the foundation of family-government and that being the foundation of social responsibility.
U.S. urban centers, and to a lesser extent suburban and rural areas, are now home to generations of sociopaths who do not value your life, simply because they do not value their own.
Making matters worse, the MSM perpetuates a virtual blackout of news regarding select sociopaths, while trumpeting allegations and speculations of others. This results in a distorted popular understanding of the extent of the social degradation around us.
Three years ago (March 2006), the Leftmedia spent a year relentlessly convicting in the court of public opinion three white Duke University lacrosse players for a "hate crime" -- the alleged gang rape of a black woman named Crystal Gail Mangum. Millions of dollars in defense-lawyer fees later, it turns out that there was no evidence and that Mangum was a liar. The real victims were, in fact, the accused men: David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Colin Finnerty. (All charges were dropped, but there has been no apology yet from 88 Duke professors who jumped on the bandwagon, condemning Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty in an open letter before the first day of their trial.)
Four weeks ago, Barack Hussein Obama interrupted a live media propaganda confab promoting his administration's most critical national initiative (nationalizing health care) in order to accuse a white Cambridge, MA, police officer, James Crowley, of "acting stupidly" for arresting Obama's black friend, Henry Gates. That accusation was followed by similar knee-jerk pronouncements of racism by the black governor of Massachusetts and the black mayor of Cambridge. Under such heavy-handed political and media pressure, all charges against Gates were dropped.
The Gates' story dominated the national media headlines for a couple weeks, until it was determined that the officer's actions were, in fact, justified. Obama attempted to make amends by tossing back a few beers with the Gates and Crowley in the Rose Garden, but BO offered no public apology. (Narcissists do not apologize, they just reinterpret the facts.)
This week, there is a trial underway which is racially charged, but, unless you were reading The Patriot back in 2007, chances are you have not heard of this one since it involves a savage black-on-white crime, rather than MSM feeding frenzy accusations of white-on-black crimes.
I am referring to the brutal torture, mutilation and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom by four black men in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In the event you were not a reader in '07, allow me to recount this horrendous incident ... because you won't see or hear it from any MSM news outlets.
On 6 January 2007, Channon (age 21) and Christopher (age 23) were out for a Saturday dinner date, after which Channon called her mom to report that they were on the way to visit friends. But Channon and Christopher never arrived at their friends' house -- nor returned home.
The next day, the mutilated and burned remains of Chris Newsom were found along a railroad track. Two days later, Channon's mutilated body was recovered from a trash bin.
Channon and Chris were in Channon's Toyota 4-Runner when they were carjacked. They were taken to a nearby house, brutally gang-raped, mutilated and then murdered. They were subjected to lengthy torture in each other's presence.
Newsom was raped, his genitals were cut off, and then taken to the railroad tracks where he was shot execution-style. The perpetrators soaked his body with an accelerant and burned his body.
Christian was kept alive for a while longer, repeatedly raped, mutilated, had cleaning solution poured down her throat in an attempt to destroy DNA evidence, and then stuffed inside a trash can where she suffocated to death.
This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil. It is a case study about which stories the MSM headlines and which they do not. Yes, there are some 17,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly far more barbaric, far more monstrous, than most.
Regrettably, there is nothing new about the racial aspect of this story, which may explain why it was not national news. Although blacks represent just 12 percent of the U.S. population, black perpetrators are convicted by a jury of their peers in more than half of all murder and manslaughter cases. Additionally, per-capita black-on-white crime is far more prevalent than the inverse.
The underlying social factors contributing to such racially unbalanced crime statistics have been delineated by many conservative black leaders and academicians. However, their solutions -- most notably promoting family unity, faith-based programs, better schools and individual responsibility and accountability, contradict leftist political objectives, which seek to maintain black folks' status as wards of the state. (The modern Democrat implementation of a plantation system.)
In April 2008, Boyd was convicted in federal court of being an accessory after the fact, but the MSM was too busy fawning over the candidacy of Barack Obama to report that conviction. (Boyd's case is on appeal.)
"One down. Four to go," said Channon's father, Gary Christian.
He and Channon's mother, Deena have been present at all the proceedings. "We do this for Channon," said Deena. "We've been through the worst. We and the Newsoms have lost our children. We can endure anything."
This week, the trial of a second defendant, Letalvis Cobbins, is underway, but it's safe to say that the prosecution of this defendant will pass without a satellite news-link truck anywhere in sight.
I draw your attention to this case not only to mourn the murder of this young couple, but also to call attention to a despicable political double standard which includes the MSM's complicity in advancing that standard.
In 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, beat a black man, James Byrd, then chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him three miles to his death. Not surprisingly, Byrd's murder received national media attention -- as it should.
Clearly, hate was a motivating factor in the Jasper case, but it was also a motivating factor in Knoxville, though not a "hate crime" as defined by federal law. So, why do white-on-black hate crimes invariably result in a media feeding frenzy, while black-on-white hate crimes receive nary a mention?
What about the double standard when it comes to race-hustling poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (who fabricated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax)? The only difference in racists such as Jackson and Sharpton and those in the KKK is that the latter are not Leftmedia celebs.
To that end, my colleague Walter Williams posited this query: "What have we heard from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites in the cases of the 'Jena 6' and Don Imus when he referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as 'nappy-headed ho's'? Where were the national news media and public officials? You can bet the rent money that, were the victims black and the perpetrators white, Knoxville would have been inundated with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all on George Bush..."
As for the defendants in this case, Knox County has already paid in excess of $350 thousand to prosecute and defend these monsters. Based on the eyewitness account of defendant Vanessa Coleman, the question before Cobbins' jury, and those yet to be empanelled for the other defendants, is not one of guilt or innocence, but guilty of what charges.
Those found guilty will be treated to either life imprisonment, with all entitlements, or life on death row for maybe a couple decades -- all at a cost to taxpayers of more than $100 thousand per year per convict.
Martin Luther King, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail, proclaimed, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
The MSM blackout of this crime is a grave injustice.
To the families and friends of Channon and Christopher, we share your grief and will continue this vigil with you until justice is served.
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Alexander's Essay – August 20, 2009
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.us
Editor's Note: PG suggested -- this essay contains graphic descriptions of a brutal crime.
In 1775, John Adams wrote, "There is in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong, a love of truth and a veneration of virtue ... if the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice..."
Adams understood that a shared penchant for justice and virtue is essential to liberty, and depends upon the ability of people to discern between right and wrong.
Today, it is evident to every astute social scientist (and most anyone with common sense) that among definable American subcultures the capacity for distinguishing between right and wrong is severely diminished.
The origin of these deteriorating standards for justice and virtue is rooted in the dissolution of the family, and the failure of our places of worship and our schools to instill those values necessary for self-government -- self-government being the foundation of family-government and that being the foundation of social responsibility.
U.S. urban centers, and to a lesser extent suburban and rural areas, are now home to generations of sociopaths who do not value your life, simply because they do not value their own.
Making matters worse, the MSM perpetuates a virtual blackout of news regarding select sociopaths, while trumpeting allegations and speculations of others. This results in a distorted popular understanding of the extent of the social degradation around us.
Three years ago (March 2006), the Leftmedia spent a year relentlessly convicting in the court of public opinion three white Duke University lacrosse players for a "hate crime" -- the alleged gang rape of a black woman named Crystal Gail Mangum. Millions of dollars in defense-lawyer fees later, it turns out that there was no evidence and that Mangum was a liar. The real victims were, in fact, the accused men: David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Colin Finnerty. (All charges were dropped, but there has been no apology yet from 88 Duke professors who jumped on the bandwagon, condemning Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty in an open letter before the first day of their trial.)
Four weeks ago, Barack Hussein Obama interrupted a live media propaganda confab promoting his administration's most critical national initiative (nationalizing health care) in order to accuse a white Cambridge, MA, police officer, James Crowley, of "acting stupidly" for arresting Obama's black friend, Henry Gates. That accusation was followed by similar knee-jerk pronouncements of racism by the black governor of Massachusetts and the black mayor of Cambridge. Under such heavy-handed political and media pressure, all charges against Gates were dropped.
The Gates' story dominated the national media headlines for a couple weeks, until it was determined that the officer's actions were, in fact, justified. Obama attempted to make amends by tossing back a few beers with the Gates and Crowley in the Rose Garden, but BO offered no public apology. (Narcissists do not apologize, they just reinterpret the facts.)
This week, there is a trial underway which is racially charged, but, unless you were reading The Patriot back in 2007, chances are you have not heard of this one since it involves a savage black-on-white crime, rather than MSM feeding frenzy accusations of white-on-black crimes.
I am referring to the brutal torture, mutilation and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom by four black men in Knoxville, Tennessee.
In the event you were not a reader in '07, allow me to recount this horrendous incident ... because you won't see or hear it from any MSM news outlets.
On 6 January 2007, Channon (age 21) and Christopher (age 23) were out for a Saturday dinner date, after which Channon called her mom to report that they were on the way to visit friends. But Channon and Christopher never arrived at their friends' house -- nor returned home.
The next day, the mutilated and burned remains of Chris Newsom were found along a railroad track. Two days later, Channon's mutilated body was recovered from a trash bin.
Channon and Chris were in Channon's Toyota 4-Runner when they were carjacked. They were taken to a nearby house, brutally gang-raped, mutilated and then murdered. They were subjected to lengthy torture in each other's presence.
Newsom was raped, his genitals were cut off, and then taken to the railroad tracks where he was shot execution-style. The perpetrators soaked his body with an accelerant and burned his body.
Christian was kept alive for a while longer, repeatedly raped, mutilated, had cleaning solution poured down her throat in an attempt to destroy DNA evidence, and then stuffed inside a trash can where she suffocated to death.
This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil. It is a case study about which stories the MSM headlines and which they do not. Yes, there are some 17,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly far more barbaric, far more monstrous, than most.
Regrettably, there is nothing new about the racial aspect of this story, which may explain why it was not national news. Although blacks represent just 12 percent of the U.S. population, black perpetrators are convicted by a jury of their peers in more than half of all murder and manslaughter cases. Additionally, per-capita black-on-white crime is far more prevalent than the inverse.
The underlying social factors contributing to such racially unbalanced crime statistics have been delineated by many conservative black leaders and academicians. However, their solutions -- most notably promoting family unity, faith-based programs, better schools and individual responsibility and accountability, contradict leftist political objectives, which seek to maintain black folks' status as wards of the state. (The modern Democrat implementation of a plantation system.)
The Accused
Charged in the torture/murder of Chanon and Christopher were Eric Boyd, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman.
Charged in the torture/murder of Chanon and Christopher were Eric Boyd, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman.
In April 2008, Boyd was convicted in federal court of being an accessory after the fact, but the MSM was too busy fawning over the candidacy of Barack Obama to report that conviction. (Boyd's case is on appeal.)
"One down. Four to go," said Channon's father, Gary Christian.
He and Channon's mother, Deena have been present at all the proceedings. "We do this for Channon," said Deena. "We've been through the worst. We and the Newsoms have lost our children. We can endure anything."
This week, the trial of a second defendant, Letalvis Cobbins, is underway, but it's safe to say that the prosecution of this defendant will pass without a satellite news-link truck anywhere in sight.
I draw your attention to this case not only to mourn the murder of this young couple, but also to call attention to a despicable political double standard which includes the MSM's complicity in advancing that standard.
In 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, beat a black man, James Byrd, then chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him three miles to his death. Not surprisingly, Byrd's murder received national media attention -- as it should.
Clearly, hate was a motivating factor in the Jasper case, but it was also a motivating factor in Knoxville, though not a "hate crime" as defined by federal law. So, why do white-on-black hate crimes invariably result in a media feeding frenzy, while black-on-white hate crimes receive nary a mention?
What about the double standard when it comes to race-hustling poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (who fabricated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax)? The only difference in racists such as Jackson and Sharpton and those in the KKK is that the latter are not Leftmedia celebs.
To that end, my colleague Walter Williams posited this query: "What have we heard from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites in the cases of the 'Jena 6' and Don Imus when he referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as 'nappy-headed ho's'? Where were the national news media and public officials? You can bet the rent money that, were the victims black and the perpetrators white, Knoxville would have been inundated with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all on George Bush..."
As for the defendants in this case, Knox County has already paid in excess of $350 thousand to prosecute and defend these monsters. Based on the eyewitness account of defendant Vanessa Coleman, the question before Cobbins' jury, and those yet to be empanelled for the other defendants, is not one of guilt or innocence, but guilty of what charges.
Those found guilty will be treated to either life imprisonment, with all entitlements, or life on death row for maybe a couple decades -- all at a cost to taxpayers of more than $100 thousand per year per convict.
Martin Luther King, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail, proclaimed, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
The MSM blackout of this crime is a grave injustice.
To the families and friends of Channon and Christopher, we share your grief and will continue this vigil with you until justice is served.
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Alexander's Essay – August 20, 2009
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.us
Obama's public pleas: "It's close to Peter Pan telling the children that thinking lovely thoughts will make them fly!"
President Obama in his public pleas for the plan appears to be truly upset that his benign view of it isn't obvious to all. In his op-ed Sunday for the New York Times he said, "We'll cut hundreds of billions in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid." Hundreds of billions? Just like that? This is nothing but an assertion by one man. It's close to Peter Pan telling the children that thinking lovely thoughts will make them fly.In Government We Trust?
Most people are aware that the big three entitlements we've got are underfunded. Medicaid is wrecking state budgets, Medicare goes broke in eight years, followed by the flatlining of Social Security.
King Canute ordered the tides to recede to prove to his courtiers that his powers were limited. President Obama appears to believe he can reverse the tides of entitlement. What evidence has government given to allow anyone to believe this?
Obama Reinstates "Death Book" For US Veterans of War
Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.President Bush suspended the veteran's "death books" last year. Unfortunately, Barack Obama reinstated the practice for veterans.
Denied food, water, medicine: patients left screaming in agony, drinking from flowerpots, lying helpless in their own waste
It's already happening in Europe
In Europe, governments already ration health care, just as Obama plans to do here. The older and sicker people are, the less care they get.
In England, for example, bureaucrats determine a patient's eligibility for health care using the QALY system (quality-adjusted life years). They divide the cost of treatment by the number of "quality" years the patient is expected to live. Older, sicker patients are expected to live fewer "quality" years, so why bother treating them at all? On this basis, British elders are routinely denied treatment for cancer, heart disease and other deadly illnesses.
Many die in filthy, overcrowded hospitals or nursing homes, rife with pestilence, including the deadly, antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" Clostridium difficile and MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Each year in the U.K., nearly three times more people die from hospital infections than from traffic accidents.
In the nation where Florence Nightingale invented modern nursing 150 years ago, cleanliness has become a lost art. British newspapers reported in 2007 that patients in government hospitals were told to "go in their beds" when they had diarrhea.
In March 2009, British health inspectors reported that poor treatment at one hospital may have killed up to 1,200 people in three years. That's 1,200 people at just one hospital.
Denied food, water and medicine, patients at Stafford Hospital in Staffordshire were left screaming in agony, drinking from flowerpots and lying helpless in their own waste. Many waited for operations which were repeatedly postponed.
British officials were quick to label the Stafford horror an "isolated incident." But many health care professionals in England say it is typical. Unfortunately, dissenters have little voice in Britain's National Health Service. The system is notoriously hostile to whistleblowers.
Read the whole thing: it's your future with ObamaCare
In Europe, governments already ration health care, just as Obama plans to do here. The older and sicker people are, the less care they get.
In England, for example, bureaucrats determine a patient's eligibility for health care using the QALY system (quality-adjusted life years). They divide the cost of treatment by the number of "quality" years the patient is expected to live. Older, sicker patients are expected to live fewer "quality" years, so why bother treating them at all? On this basis, British elders are routinely denied treatment for cancer, heart disease and other deadly illnesses.
Many die in filthy, overcrowded hospitals or nursing homes, rife with pestilence, including the deadly, antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" Clostridium difficile and MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Each year in the U.K., nearly three times more people die from hospital infections than from traffic accidents.
In the nation where Florence Nightingale invented modern nursing 150 years ago, cleanliness has become a lost art. British newspapers reported in 2007 that patients in government hospitals were told to "go in their beds" when they had diarrhea.
In March 2009, British health inspectors reported that poor treatment at one hospital may have killed up to 1,200 people in three years. That's 1,200 people at just one hospital.
Denied food, water and medicine, patients at Stafford Hospital in Staffordshire were left screaming in agony, drinking from flowerpots and lying helpless in their own waste. Many waited for operations which were repeatedly postponed.
British officials were quick to label the Stafford horror an "isolated incident." But many health care professionals in England say it is typical. Unfortunately, dissenters have little voice in Britain's National Health Service. The system is notoriously hostile to whistleblowers.
Read the whole thing: it's your future with ObamaCare
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
there are too many conservative bloggers and pundits who have rushed in not simply to bury Novak, but to honor him as a role model and a guiding light
There would ordinarily be no reason to pen a condemnation of a dead pundit. But there are too many conservative bloggers and pundits who have rushed in not simply to bury Novak, but to honor him as a role model and a guiding light. And the only place Novak was a guide to, was to a Dhimmi's den of appeasement.Robert Novak, Islamic Apologist, Terrorist Supporter, Was No Role Model for Conservatives
It would be entirely legitimate had they remembered Novak's memory, while admitting that there were basic political differences, especially later in life. Instead they've chosen to present Novak as an ideal, while ignoring the man who embraced everyone from Farrakhan to Hamas, who championed Shamnesty and slimed numerous Republican politicians when they departed from his agenda.
Novak played the same cynical game played by numerous Washington Post and New York Times columnists, of putting his own ideas into someone else's cherry picked quote, of hiding behind rationalizations and statements attributed to private sources. But behind all that was a man who chose to defend Islam and Islamic terrorism. And post 9/11, it is impossible to place such a man on a pedestal as a role model for conservatives...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
2:01 PM Eastern on Wednesday August 19th: a moment of silence
Please join us at 2:01 PM Eastern time on Wednesday August 19, 2009 for one moment of silence as we bow our heads across the nation from the eastern most shores of Maine, to the western most island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to Nature’s God as we again ask for the protection of Divine Providence.THE UNSEEN HAND
August 19th is an important date in American history it is the day we fought the final battle of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Blue Licks, and it is the day that the grande dame of our Navy, the USS Constitution (how much more fitting can that be for those of us that swore allegiance to her namesake) scored our first victory of the second war of independence, the War of 1812, against the British ship the HMS Guerriere and earned her immortal nickname “old ironsides” as the British cannon balls bounced off her hull. The dark side of this day occurred 75 years ago in Germany when the position of the Führer was created by the simple majority of a democratic vote.
At the appointed hour on the August 19, 2009 let us take courage from the deeds of our history and resolve never to allow the dark passions of a desperate world to stain our national soul by believing that any one man or group of men are above the Constitution that empowers them. Let us move forward in our sworn duty, “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,” to guard our Constitution and our Republic from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
Hat Tip: TheRightSideOfLife.com
$100,000 Reward for Proof of Obama's "natural born citizen" status
(Born in USA still might not qualify)Read more
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by Jason Hommel, July 28th, 2009
Copies or links to the previously released, Hawaiian "Certification of Live Birth", which is NOT a valid Birth Certificate, does not constitute valid proof to claim the reward.
I, Jason Hommel, promise that I will give $100,000 to the first person who can prove to my satisfaction that Barack Obama, acting as president of the United States, is a "natural born" citizen of the USA, which is a qualification to hold the office as indicated in the U.S. Constitution.
Please prove that Obama is a "natural born" US citizen, and put to rest the claims in lawsuits, as wnd.com reports, "that include contentions Obama was born in Kenya, wasn't a "natural born" citizen because of his father's Kenyan citizenship, was a dual citizen and that his mother wasn't old enough to transmit citizenship at birth. In addition, his citizenship is clouded by his move as a child to Indonesia and apparent adoption by an Indonesian citizen who married his mother."
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Dems say screw you, we're going ahead with health care "reform" no matter what you say!
The Drudge Report has one of its ominous headlines -- "developing" -- where there is no article to read yet but you know you are going to get screwed: NYT: DEMS PLAN TO GO IT ALONE ON HEATHCARE... DEVELOPING...
So, just to remind you what's in store for us...here's just a tip of that healthcare iceberg:
The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it...
UK: Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance'
Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding
So, just to remind you what's in store for us...here's just a tip of that healthcare iceberg:
The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it...
UK: Woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance'
Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding
Obama's energy plan: Higher energy costs kick in as soon as the bill's provisions take effect in 2012
Are you prepared to live without gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and heating oil? Can you afford electricity, coal, natural gas at a cost more than 100% increase per household, over what you are paying now? That is exactly what we will do if the Waxman-Markey Bill (Cap and Trade) if written in its present form is passed. This is not an exaggeration or a pessimistic opinion, but the honest truth. Obama admits it in his campaign to wean the U.S. off of Crude Oil Petroleum products. The intent is to go "Cold Turkey" by making Crude Oil Products beyond affordability by every American homeowner. The Tax Cost on the Oil Refineries and Chemical Plants ability to produce the products would be more than consumers to afford to purchase the product. Remember just last year when gasoline prices were $4.00 plus. That will be nothing compared to the effects of this bill.Obama's Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Important warning for conservatives about health care
It still is very possible that the House will pass a bill that has the public option in it, the Senate will pass a bill that is just a shell, and the bad stuff will return once it gets to conference committee. It is entirely conceivable that the Democrats will try to sneak the final version through in the middle of the night on the day after it leaves committee, not letting the members read what's in the final version.Let's Not Pop The Champagne Quite Yet
Don't fall for the trickery. Tell your Congressmen and Senators no public option will be acceptable, and that the current legislation needs to be scrapped and started over with measures in it that actually will address the rising costs, like tort reform.
Arrogant politician says he doesn't care what voters in his district want!
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) addressed an intimate group of Netroots activists during their annual Netroots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this weekend. Mr. Massa reiterated his support for a single-payer health care bill. He discussed the risks he takes for wanting to support such a measure in his "right-wing Republican district."Excerpt:
MASSA: I will vote for the single payer bill.I will vote against the interests of my district.
PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?
MASSA: I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.
(inaudible participants' comments regarding the "interests" of the district statement from Mr. Massa)
Massa: I will vote against their opinion if I actually believe it will help them.
So, folks...it seems that Democrats think they're your parents and must make your decisions for you so you won't hurt yourselves...
Obama Town Hall meeting in Montana completely staged to misrepresent feelings of local citizens
I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous. Joe and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country.Please read this acocunt and find out what happened to the missing 900 tickets:
From a commenter on this blog who was at the Town Hall meeting orchestrated by the Obama camp on August 14, 2009:God help the United States of America.
“NEWS FROM MONTANA
“Things are not always what they seem”...
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How the Battle of ObamaCare Was Won
So how did it happen?Read the whole thing
We can turn for starters to the man whose shadow Obama has occasionally sought to fill (when he isn't filling the shadows of FDR, JFK, Ronald Reagan and the Messiah of all Mankind), Abraham Lincoln. It was Honest Abe who said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." With Obamacare, Barry Hussein discovered that he couldn't fool all of the people, all of the time after all.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
No public option? Two warnings...
First from Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit: A “Parthian retreat” is a feigned retreat, luring the enemy into a prepared counterattack. See, e.g., Crassus.
Blue Crab Boulevard issues this warning "To my fellow bloggers on the right" and explains: ...at best we have won a skirmish...
Blue Crab Boulevard issues this warning "To my fellow bloggers on the right" and explains: ...at best we have won a skirmish...
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Complete Information about the Healthcare Plan
You will find a complete copy of the 1,018 page Bill by clicking here.
A line by line summary of the key points of the Bill can be found here.
Another line by line summary pointing out how the Bill extends the intrusive role of government into many non-medical areas (as if the government in medical areas isn't bad enough) can be found here.
Obamacare's effect on seniors (Heritage Foundation) is here.
For a list of statements Obama has made about his healthcare plan, and the factual refutation of each statement, go here.
Article by John Stossel explaining in detail that Obama's statements that his healthcare plan will cut costs and increase patient choice is impossible can be found here.
The Acorn plan for thwarting healthcare plan protesters is here.
Information that the healthcare plan has substantial provisions for a payoff to Acorn is here.
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jane @ lagop.org
Please consider helping the Republican Party of Los Angeles County by sending a donation.
A line by line summary of the key points of the Bill can be found here.
Another line by line summary pointing out how the Bill extends the intrusive role of government into many non-medical areas (as if the government in medical areas isn't bad enough) can be found here.
Obamacare's effect on seniors (Heritage Foundation) is here.
For a list of statements Obama has made about his healthcare plan, and the factual refutation of each statement, go here.
Article by John Stossel explaining in detail that Obama's statements that his healthcare plan will cut costs and increase patient choice is impossible can be found here.
The Acorn plan for thwarting healthcare plan protesters is here.
Information that the healthcare plan has substantial provisions for a payoff to Acorn is here.
Example:Information on racial preference set-asides in the healthcare bill can be found here.
PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community orgs (ACORN).
Pg 95 Lines 8-18 The Govt will hire groups such as ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for the HC plan.
Example:Article in Bloomberg News: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Healthcare Plan can be found here.
"In awarding grants and contracts . . . the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of training . . . individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds . . . ."
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY:
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jane @ lagop.org
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When Obama was born, under 1948 British Nationality Act, both he and father were British subjects/citizens. In 1963 they both became Kenyan citizens.
When President Obama was born in 1961, under the British Nationality Act 1948, both his father and he were British subjects/citizens. In 1963, they both became Kenyan citizens. In fact, Mr. Obama’s father was never even a legal resident or immigrant of America. Hence, regardless of where Mr. Obama was born or that he may be a United States citizen under the 14th Amendment, he is not an Article II “natural born Citizen” and not eligible to be President. This ineligibility has absolutely nothing to do with his race or class but all to do with his being born with multiple citizenships and allegiances and not satisfying the strict eligibility requirements of Article II. If someone believes that today the “natural born Citizen” clause no longer serves any useful purpose, then the proper way to change or abandon it is by way of constitutional amendment under Article V of the Constitution, not by usurpation.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.”
Read more about the lawsuit here:
Read the whole article at Citizen Wells
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.”
Read more about the lawsuit here:
Read the whole article at Citizen Wells
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