OBAMACARE: "DEAD IN ITS TRACKS"

The country just had a very close call and Obamacare has to stop right here, right now: Florida Ruling Requires Government to Stop Implementing Obamacare

Here are the top 7 factors we believe MUST lead to the end of the global U.S. dollar standard – what we call THE END OF AMERICA

Stansberry Research published this in January (a section of their paid monthly newsletter) and said to forward this to anyone who might be interested:

1) The price of gold has gone up for 10 years in a row.

We can’t think of another market that’s ever risen for 10 consecutive years. This is a historical anomaly, and it means something has gone badly wrong with the world’s reserve currency (the U.S. dollar). Markets, if left to find their own equilibrium, will naturally fluctuate. Gold isn’t fluctuating. Its steady move up proves something strange is happening to our money.

2) Our government’s deficits are out of control.

The government’s annual deficits now routinely surpass $1 trillion. The first $1 trillion deficit came in 2008 – and the government explained it away as the consequence of the financial crisis. But we racked up another $1 trillion deficit in 2009 and yet another in 2010. We’ll have another in 2011 and so on. Our national debt has doubled since 2005. We’ve borrowed more money in the last five years than we had in the entire history of our government until then. This isn’t sustainable.

3) The government cannot increase tax revenues enough to cover our spending or repay our debts – ever.

Our annual deficits have become completely unlinked to taxes. Total federal income taxes and corporate taxes generate $1.1 trillion a year in revenue, and we still ran a $1.3 trillion federal deficit last year. So even if we increased tax revenues by 100%, we would still have fallen $200 million short. This is totally unsustainable.

4) Special interest groups – particularly government unions – are looting our Treasury.

Self-serving special interest groups have completely hijacked government spending. We now spend $200 billion a year on federal pensions. We’re spending another $450 billion on welfare. This spending, combined with our defense spending ($700 billion), exceeds total federal tax revenue and leaves nothing to pay the $200 billion in interest on our debt, nothing to pay for actual government services (like roads), and nothing to pay towards the inevitable Social Security/Medicare shortfall. Remember…most voters do not pay taxes. It’s politically impossible to reform this interest group-based spending. These people are robbing the Treasury. They will cause our currency and eventually our government itself to collapse.

5) We’re printing money just like the banana republics we used to mock.

To support the government’s runaway spending, the Federal Reserve is now continuously buying government debt. This process was commonly called “monetizing the debt” or, more simply, “printing money.” The Fed creates new money to buy government bonds. This kind of Ponzi financing destroyed every previous experiment with paper money. If printing money were truly good for an economy, Zimbabwe would be the world’s wealthiest country. Perhaps even more worrisome than the practice itself is the leadership of the Fed, which has alternately defended this practice and then denied using it. If the Fed continues this practice, it will eventually cause a global run on the dollar that will destroy the value of our currency overnight.

6) We can’t repay our debts. Total debt outstanding in the U.S. currently exceeds $55 trillion.

That’s $681,165 in debt per U.S. family. There is simply no way to repay (or even maintain) debt of this magnitude using the income of the average American family, which is slightly less than $50,000 per family. Interest alone on these debts (based on a 5% rate) would total $34,000 per family every year. Total debt in the U.S. economy is unsustainable and can’t be financed without printing vast new sums of money.

7) Shockingly, new debt issuance in the U.S. is soaring, with the lowest-quality debtors borrowing record amounts.

Despite all the evidence that the U.S. economy carries far too much debt, both public and private debt issuance soared to new record levels in 2010. Overall, more than $3 trillion in new corporate debt was issued last year – the second record year in a row. And junk-bond issuance set a new, vastly higher record. In 2010, 509 speculative-grade corporate borrowers sold $287 billion worth of new debt. That compares to the previous record (2009) of $167 billion. Our economy has become so warped by its debt load, it cannot function without ever-larger amounts of debt. Anyone looking at these numbers must realize this is not safe and will not last long.

Why No One Else Is Issuing These Warnings

You may read these facts and ask, “Where are the ratings agencies? Why does a small newsletter based in Baltimore, Maryland seem to have the jump on everyone in Washington and most of the people in New York? Why aren’t these facts in the newspaper? On the news at night? In magazines?”

The answer: Government spending now makes up more than 40% of our economy. No big business can afford to offend its best customer. And most also depend on the government for protection from competition, in the form of licenses or permits.

Stansberry Research

VIDEO: THE END OF AMERICA

UFO sighting in Los Angeles

1/27/11: UFO seen over Eastern end of the San Fernando Valley:

Nestor studied astronomy in college and was not to be fooled by stars, planet alignments or other cosmic characteristics. She knows what she saw, by God, and while it may have been a secret military vessel it was certainly neither Venus nor the North Star.

She saw it on a Tuesday at 6 a.m. as she rose to go to work, pausing to close her bedroom window, looking toward a church steeple she used as a point of reference.

"It was big, triangular and had the brightest light I have ever seen," she said.

"Three smaller lights were separated from the main triangle, which was pointed in the direction of Calabasas."

While it was shaped like a stealth bomber, she observed, it was 10 times larger. At one point over the next few days it was brightened by a brilliant red light under its belly and by two small lights that circled it as though it were a mother ship. "I'm not crazy," she said unnecessarily. "I saw it."

Others reported seeing something similar in the vicinity of LAX and caught it on a camera image for YouTube. A newspaper represenatation is dark and obscure, but an anonymous witness also insists that the object he saw was huge and resembled either a triangle or a boomerang. Others describe it as a giant cigar.

Online websites report a number of sightings throughout the world this month, which fortifies Nestor's belief that there is something up there...

Al Martinez: Beam me up, Scotty, I'm ready

Are you better off or worse off than you were two years ago?

AMERICAN THINKER: Report Card on Obama's First Two Years

A leading light of the Democratic Socialists of America claims she is not a socialist and, after urging the unemployed to emulate the Greek rioters, claims she is not inciting violence...

Stanley Kurtz: Frances Fox Piven’s Violent Agenda

Egypt: A Conservative Perspective

Here is a selection from several sources (I've met all but one) that can solve a need for perspective from a conservative point of view:

SULTAN KNISH: The Fall of the Strongmen

STRATFOR: The Egyptian Unrest: A Special Report

THE NEVILLE AWARDS: State of the Union - Obama Fiddles While the Middle East Burns

GATEWAY PUNDIT/Ari David: Egypt Is The New Iran

Cliffhanger

This movie is the only one I've ever seen where I thought I was literally going to have a heart attack and die! (I saw it at a free screening when I worked for Universal Studios.) I really don't know how a director pulls off this sort of thing.

This story - Medicaid panel off to rocky start - somehow reminds me of the film!

A little ways after I started reading, I got the feeling that we're all in a slow motion fall off of a cliff. Don't forget: this is only just one of many big government programs.

The difference between liberals and conservatives? Conservatives are afraid of heights.

The leader of Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States...

GatewayPundit

But Obama was supposed to make everybody like us!

Does this mean he's not a Muslim...or just not one of the brothers?

Experts now believe that Obamacare will actually leave more Americans without insurance than before the law was passed!

GatewayPundit: Michelle Malkin adds that the growing numbers of ObamaCare waivers alone prove it is unconstitutional: it violates the Equal Protection clause.

Right now the late '70s are back in reruns with Egypt playing the role of Iran...

...and Barack Obama playing the role of Jimmy Carter?

Sarah Palin Schools the Washington Post on History

Steve Stromberg's response indicates that he knows as little about the Soviet Union and Sputnik as President Obama’s speechwriters...

Big Smile :-)

ANGRY FRIDAY: EGYPT ON FIRE

From John Bolton via Michelle Malkin

Let me be clear here, this is not just the Mubarak-family government. The military has ruled Egypt since Gamal Nasser and they over through King Farook.

It’s the military that is the real government and they are not going to go peacefully.

I think the question is whether and to what extent the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists have infiltrated the leadership. If the military holds firm it’s entirely possible, although bloody, that the government can hold onto power. That doesn’t necessarily mean Mubarak will be in power, but the military will be, and I think that is why this contrast makes it so important for people to understand, this is not a choice between the Mubarak government on one hand, and sweetness and light, Jeffersonian democracy on the other.

I don’t think we have evidence yet that these demonstrations are necessarily about democracy. You know the old saying, “one person, one vote, one time.” The Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t care about democracy, if they get into power you’re not going to have free and fair elections either.

And I think there is substantial reason, for example, to worry the minority Coptic Christian population, about 10% of the population will be very worried if the Muslim Brotherhood came to power.

Let’s be clear what the stakes are for the United States. We have an authoritarian regime in power that has been our ally. We don’t know at this point what the real alternatives are.

10 states will demand proof: Are you eligible to be a candidate on our ballots in 2012?

Obama's toast--it only takes one state!

Arizona may have the most advanced plan, but 10 of the United States – controlling 107 Electoral College votes – are now considering some type of legislation that would plug the hole in federal election procedures that in 2008 allowed Barack Obama to be nominated, elected and inaugurated without providing proof of his qualifications under the U.S. Constitution.

10 states now developing eligibility proof-demands

Richard Foster, chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, delivers devastating blow to Obamacare

Washington Post:

James Capretta, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, also testified and observed the full hearing. In response to my inquiry as to the main take-away, he e-mailed, "The most important thing said [by Foster] today: in so many words, moving toward defined contribution health care has more potential than price controls to bring about real efficiency gains and higher productivity in the health sector, and slow the pace of rising costs. That's a very big deal." And a very big blow to the credibility of ObamaCare cheerleaders.

Rep. Paul Ryan 1, ObamaCare 0

'Birthers' have become respectable

WorldNetDaily:

I want to tip my hat to my friends Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge for helping immensely in raising the visibility of a story WND has been championing for more than two years.

That story, of course, is one the entire country – in fact, the entire world – now knows about.

It is the question of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the presidency. . .

Rest assured, WND has some more big news coming on this front in coming days, weeks and months. . .

I still don't know for sure what he's hiding. I've never drawn a conclusion about that, despite fantastic assertions to the contrary by Obama's collaborators in the Big Media and the left side of the blogosphere.

But one thing is clear: Obama is still accountable to the Constitution. He still has an obligation to prove he is eligible, whether he likes it or not. Future presidents do, too. And I'm going to see this story through to its finish.

It's time for every American to decide where he or she stands: Is Obama above the Constitution, or is the Constitution above Obama? Do you accept the word of politicians at face value, or do you require them to prove what they claim about themselves? Can Obama continue to be entrusted with the highest office in the land when he so clearly is hiding some deep, dark secrets about himself?

Read the whole thing

Our Progressive Future (A Story)

The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come
UPDATE: Just found the origin of this story.

"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband. "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered. Actually, Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world," Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.

Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of Veggie Meat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey. In addition, ever since the government officially changed the name of "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020 to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.

Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats--which were monitored and controlled by the electric company--be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.

Still, it was good getting together with family. At least most of the family. Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of live-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort. "The RHC's resources are limited," explained the government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss."

Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines-for everyone but government officials. The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.

Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in. Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids. Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists." Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost.

The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact. "A living Constitution is extremely flexible," said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example," she added.

Winston's thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it.

His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism or any of a number of other calamities were "just around the corner," but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility. It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being. Winston paid the $5000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13. The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth. This time they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.

Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement. At least he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential. Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them.

He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2012, when all the real nonsense began. "Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the chance," he thought.
Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.

Third Hawaiian Official Denies Existence of Birth Certificate: 'Obama Not Born In Hawaii'

THE DAILY PEN:

Contradicting State of Hawaii, Former Hawaiian Senior Elections Clerk, Tim Adams, Signs Sworn Affidavit Indicating Obama was Not Born In Hawaii - And Joins Hawaiian Governor and Former Democrat Party of Hawaii Chairman, Brian Schatz, As Eyewitnesses To Shocking Roster of Mounting Evidence Against Obama

Read more

UPDATE:
WND - Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate:

Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams has now signed an affidavit swearing he was told by his supervisors in Hawaii that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in Hawaii and that neither Queens Medical Center nor Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu had any record of Obama having been born in their medical facilities.

"Ain't no new guy, it's Charlie, from just around."

Neville Awards: Obama and the New Regulation -- Same Old Sh-t, Just a Different Day

Hollywood Insider reveals: Obama has no U.S. birth certificate!

Hmmm...wonder what it was that Bill O'Reilly said he saw then???

UPDATE: Jack Cashill, American Thinker, January 25: Friend says Abercrombie told him, 'There is no birth certificate!' (updated)

Now THIS is a hate site

niggermania.net and
niggermania.com

These are NOT Tea Party members.

These are people who are so lame that they can't even discuss actual issues and policies, but have to relate everything in life to melanin, instead, in order to feel superior.

They have no place in civilized society, and they have no place in God's plan for the world.

They are no better than Germans who believed in The Final Solution or radical Islam who are hell-bent on purging the world of Infidels (including these sorry-ass excuses for human beings) and instituting Sharia Law in every country in the world.

Glenn Beck talked about free speech this week and one aspect of that discussion pertains to these people: If they weren't free to speak out, we wouldn't know who they are. You can't spray the bugs unless they come streaming out onto the floor.

PS: You have to register for the forum to find out what they're all busy discussing (which I'm definitely not into doing). Aside from the poison they obviously spew, I can't imagine hanging out with people who are of such limited (to say the least) resources both mentally and spiritually. Just like the cops join pedophile forums, they might want to keep an eye this one.

Strunk v Paterson (Obama): First time in the USA since 1824; Judge has opined on what Natural Born citizen is; Concludes OBAMA IS NOT NBC!

Via Chris Strunk:

The first time anywhere in the USA since 1824, that any Judge has opined on what Natural Born citizen is and concluding that BHO Jr. is not NBC.

This affidavit will be notarized tomorrow and duly served by two days mail upon Justice Schmidt and the State in regards to the appearance on a personal and confidential basis with the intent that Plaintiffs understanding of the record of the hearing be entered into the court record enabling further action by Plaintiff when the Order shown as Exhibit C is entered and forwarded by the State to Plaintiff.

That I am producing a duplicate for Dr. Orly Taitz Esq. so that she may forward it to the SCOTUS in her action presently there...

BACKGROUND: What does Strunk know, and when did he know it?

Finally: the truth about Obama's real identity?

HillBuzz: Not even five minutes after filing this story, Lucianne.com cross-published it on their site, too...

Story about seven-year-olds who are licking each other’s private parts in school...

Oh, the irony. While Americans are busy chastising ‘Tiger mom’ Amy Chua for her observations about the state of parenting in the United States, at Markham Elementary School in Oakland, CA, second grade students got naked in their classroom. And engaged in oral sex. And the teacher was there. In the classroom. While it was going on.

How Was School Today, Honey? Great! I Practiced Fellatio.

The teacher has been placed on administrative leave...

Government schools...gotta love 'em.

Assassination attempt you never heard about...

...because it was a Marxist revolutionary who was attempting to murder a Democratic Governor last September and it didn't fit the MSM propaganda profile about Tea Party crazies.

Glenn Beck’s Warning More Prescient Than Previously Realized, But Let’s Shut Him Up Anyway

Heartburn...or UTI?

Why does it feel like a UTI?

Whether you've thought you've had a lot of bladder infections that didn't get better, or whether you've just had to give up coffee or wine because of heartburn...Prelief could be the thing that saves you from unnecessarily restricting your diet.

What a relief!

I'd never have known about it, except my doctor recommended it in one of his many, informative publications that are available in his office in Tarzana, California.

It could be this or just some heartburn...

Check it out!

Naturally, you'll want to run anything like this by your own doctor, even though it's OTC!

Rush Limbaugh wonders why Dr. Chiyome Fukino (HDOH) claimed she'd seen Obama's birth certificate but now new Gov. Neil Abercrombie can't find it!

A great observation that I haven't seen repeated in the coverage below of Rush's first half hour show today!

Limbaugh Demands Obama Release Birth Certificate

Add Rush Limbaugh to big list of 'birthers'

REMINDER TO EVERYONE (INCLUDING RUSH LIMBAUGH): IT'S NOT JUST A GIANT "HEAD-FAKE" TO TERRY LAKIN!!!

Dr. Chiyome Fukino resigned recently. Wonder why? Here's some previous barely-reported information that makes you wonder just who the hell is sitting in defiling our sacred Oval Office:

HI AG denies having information supporting Department of Health claim: ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK BENNETT’S OFFICE SAYS THEY HAVE “NO GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE PREPARATION OF THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE BY DR. FUKINO”

Did Hawaii have any records on Obama before 2006?

Muslims are raising an army

If you do nothing else, read Observations from an Informant at the Muslim Student Association Western Conference. Below is the cover for their weekend program.

"If I had to synopsize the MSA conference, I would say that the leaders, both students and older Muslims, are raising an army"

Malcolm X disowned Islam

Malcolm X, in a letter from Mecca to a friend, NYT, 4 Oct 1964, p.59:

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow minded confines of the "straightjacket world" created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches. . . . I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

MALCOLM X ONLINE

4 month old baby beheaded in front of her parents...

...and then they threw the baby's head at the baby's mother.

Take a look at what the Muslims are doing to Christians in Iraq everyday: over 80 people were beheaded in a single day during a Sunday mass.

Another baby in the church:

...and they cried out Allahu Akbar 'Allah is greater' each time they shot Christians.

WAKE UP WHOOPI AND JOY!!!

WARNING TO AMERICANS: The Rise of Radical Islam in Mexico. The role of Islam in Europe and the role of Mexican Immigration in the US....UPDATE: LIST OF MEXICAN SALAFI ISLAM CONTACTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Conservatives: Dick Morris reminds us what we need to do now

Republicans need to remind America that the huge increases they are now paying in their health insurance are concrete evidence of the impact of the mandates in Obamacare. They need to point out that the $500 billion in Medicare cuts are coming and that, already, reductions in physician fees are driving thousands of doctors to close their doors to Medicare patients. The Republicans need to explain how Obamacare creates an entirely new entitlement and will swell the deficit.

Awake Ye Conservatives!

Our Father, who art in a box

Remember when a symbol representing the name of Jesus Christ had to be covered so that Comrade Obama could speak at Catholic Georgetown? Something similar happened yesterday during the MLK festivities...

FLASHBACK: Let's all play "Hide the Cross!

200 Top Economists Urge Congress to Repeal Job Destroying Obamacare Bill

GatewayPundit:

200 top economists, including two former directors of the CBO, sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to repeal Obamacare. The said the democrat’s bill is a job killer destroyer...

The letter includes the signatures of Douglas Holtz-Eakin and June O’Neil, both former directors of the Congressional Budget Office; Arthur Laffer, the first chief economist for the Office of Management and Budget, Brian Wesbury, former chief economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress; and William Niskanan, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and chairman emeritus of the libertarian CATO Institute.

Read the whole thing

Transcripts of CNN programs in the month leading up to the shootings shows that the network was filled with references to "crosshairs" -- and once even used the term to suggest the targeting of Palin herself

Washington Examiner: Before banning 'crosshairs,' CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. doctors surveyed fear healthcare reform could worsen care for patients

"When asked about the quality of healthcare in the U.S. over the next five years, 65 percent of the doctors believed it would deteriorate with only 18 percent predicting it would improve," Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, said in a statement.

Survey: US Doctors Fear Healthcare Reform

Regulations: That phrase is uttered like an incantation, the magical answer...

...there is nothing simplistic about proposing the market as a solution to an economic problem. It’s short way of saying: let the multitude of knowledgeable people seeking profit, risking their own money, and responding to incentives find a solution based on persuasion not force. Translated that way, it sounds like a promising approach.

Ironically, those who don’t appreciate markets are in fact the ones who offer a simplistic, even empty alleged solution to economic problems: government regulation. That phrase is uttered like an incantation, the magical answer to all doubts about how, in the absence of fully free markets, problems would be solved. The irony is that while “let the market handle it” can be unpacked and made specific, “regulation” cannot. It can only be interpreted this way: Appoint a czar or a committee to somehow watch over things, and all will be well.

We’re hearing this idea a lot these days...

The Pretense of Regulatory Knowledge

Hmmm...Hawaii guv can't find Obama birth certificate!

(Gee, what a surprise.)

After much ado (about nothing apparently), new Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie comes up empty!

Suggests controversy could hurt president's re-election chances

Good!

Pakistanis Stone Child to Death at Mosque on Orders of Imam

GatewayPundit: Infanticide is on the rise in Pakistan

Austerity In America: 22 Signs That It Is Already Here And That It Is Going To Be Very Painful

Glenn Beck has been warning about this for quite awhile now: Most Americans tend to think of "government debt" as only a problem of the federal government. But that is simply not accurate. The truth is that there are thousands of "government debt problems" from coast to coast...

HAT TIP: CA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS

Democrats hate Sarah Palin because "she is living proof that everything about the Democrat Party narrative is a lie"

Yes, of course not ALL Democrats hate her. In fact, former mayor of New York City Ed Koch just penned this nice tribute to Sarah Palin.

But friend and comedian Evan Sayet explains just Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin!

I can totally relate to his opening, can you?

It just happened again.

I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate political conversations with the people who pass by — my hope always being to begin to enlighten them as to what conservative really believe (and not just what the leftist media tells them.)

Today the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my new acquaintance blurted out: “Oh I hate her.” Since she did not yet know my politics, and since we were in Los Angeles, it is clear that she expected to hear back what you usually hear back in this city: “Yeah, I hate her, too.” Instead, I asked her why.

At this point I could have predicted her response because it’s the same response you get from Liberals no matter who on the Right you’re talking about, “Because she’s stupid.” I replied: “Being stupid is no reason to hate someone, but tell me, which one of her policies do you disagree with?” It wasn’t hard to predict her response: “All of them!”

I continued to push. “Well, then, if it’s all of them, it should be easy for you to name one.” Her reply? “They’re too many to list.”

“So don’t list them, just give me one,” I said.

This went on for awhile until my new acquaintance finally admitted that she didn’t know any of Ms. Palin’s policies. Before she ran off – Democrats always run off when asked to provide facts behind their hatred for Republicans – I looked her in the eye and said, “If you don’t know any of her policies perhaps you should look into them.” She promised she would. She won’t. If there are two things you can count on with Democrats, they are filled with hate and empty of facts.

I was getting my hair done last month and asked the British lady who does it (she's lived in the states for many years) to name JUST ONE of the many oh-so-wonderful things she was raving about that Obama has done for this country. She said she didn't follow politics (!@!). I said: I know, but just give me ONE thing, not the whole thing...

Needless to say, I didn't even get that "one thing" but I did hear how Obama is doing "the very best he can" for America. Good thing I saw a brief clip of Andy Rooney the next night saying exactly the same thing: "Obama's doing the very best he can..." from the 60-Minute show that my friend so loves because I realized that she does nothing but parrot things like that without having any personal knowledge or basis for saying the things she believes.

This is truly frightening if you add up just how many people there are who can vote and who vote for liberals based on mythical mental viruses that are passed from one to the other without any real personal knowledge of what they are saying.

God help us all.

Obamacare's authors admit that "reform" could be something of a time bomb that will cause exploding health care costs down the line.

Washington Examiner: David Bowen, former health staff director of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is one of the Obamacare authors to admit the bill could be a time-bomb...

The truth about the Arizona gunman

Like Drudge says, AZ SHOOTER: BUSH HATER (New York Times)

Date, state, and Dad's identity...any one of these revelations could unravel the yarn that Obama has been spinning

The long form birth certificate could pose a number of problems other than country of origin, including the date of Obama's birth, the state of his birth, and the identity of his father. Any one of these revelations could unravel the yarn that Obama has been spinning.

These problems derive from the fact that Ann Dunham enrolled at university on August 19, 1961 and returned to Hawaii only after Obama Sr. had left Hawaii for good. Both of these facts are more firmly established than President Obama's Honolulu birth on August 4, 1961. In my forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama, I review these possibilities in some detail.

The failure of the mainstream media to even address the inconsistencies in Obama's story is downright shameful. That failure has created a windstorm of curiosity that is becoming increasingly difficult for the media to ignore.

Jack Cashill's new book, Deconstructing Obama, can be pre-ordered here with a special offer for American Thinker readers.

Does one man have the answer for America?

I emailed Al Martinez (The Daily News) twice about my friend Dick McDonald...and look what finally happened today!

Al Martinez: "Does one man have The Answer for America?"

PS: Dick has a free e-book on his website called "Make The Poor Rich and America Wealthier" that is over a hundred pages of specific details that show why his plan will save our country. (Please forward to your lists and spread the word!)

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A Rabbi and a cartoon prove how dumb liberals are

WSJ: Rabbi Boteach: Sarah Palin Is Right About 'Blood Libel'

This is brilliant!

Plus, a cartoon proves how just how dumb the liberals really are:

The Sarah Palin, The Glenn Beck and The Rush Limbaugh

I do not want civil discourse

by Don Surber

For a decade, from the election of Bush 43 forward, the Left has lied and cheated as it tried to return to power. Al Gore made a mockery out of the American electoral system by being a spoilsport over Florida, which Bush indeed won by 537 votes. Dan Rather forged a document to try to derail Bush’s re-election. Twice Democrats stole U.S. senators from the Republicans. After voting to support the war to get by the 2002 election, many Democrats quickly soured on the war. The profane protests were cheered by liberals who misattributed “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”to Thomas Jefferson; the words belong to the late historian Howard Zinn.

Once in power, liberals were the opposite of gracious.

For two years now, I have been called ignorant, racist, angry and violent by the left. The very foul-mouthed protesters of Bush dare to now label my words as “hate speech.”

Last week, the left quickly blamed the right for the national tragedy of a shooting spree by a madman who never watched Fox News, never listened to Rush Limbaugh and likely did not know who Sarah Palin is.

Fortunately, the American public rejected out of hand that idiotic notion that the right was responsible.

Rather than apologize, the left wants to change the tone of the political debate.

The left suddenly wants civil discourse.

Bite me.

The left wants to play games of semantics.

Bite me.

The left wants us to be civil — after being so uncivil for a decade.

Bite me.

There is grown-up work to do now. Liberals ran up the federal credit card, destroyed the American medical system and undermined the rule of law — which is the foundation of capitalism — with a bunch of unconstitutional fiats from the president and his bureaucracy.

The economy is a mess. The president “inherited” a 7.6% unemployment rate. It’s now 9.4% — after we spent a record $787 billion on a stimulus.

I was not consulted on that stimulus. I had a very good argument against it. I said the money supply was too large and printing more money would fail. I said let the economic downturn run its course.

Lefties were too busy celebrating the 2008 election to listen.

When people protested lefties made vulgar remarks about tea-bagging and giggled.

So screw you and your civil discourse.

I don’t want to hear it.

I have been screamed at for 10 years.

It’s my turn now. I am not going to scream back. But I refuse to allow anyone to dictate what I say or how I say it. I refuse to allow the same foul-mouthed, foul-spirited foul people who dumped on me to now try to tell me what I may or may not say.

My free speech matters more than the feelings of anyone on the left. You don’t like what I say? Tough.

I will not allow people to label my words Hate Speech or try to lecture me on civility. I saw the lefty signs. The left’s definition of civil discourse is surreal.

We have a terribly unfit president who has expanded government control beyond not only what is constitutional but what is healthy for our freedom.

Indeed, this call for civil discourse is itself a direct threat to my free speech.

So screw you.

You don’t like my words? You don’t like my tone? You feel threatened?

Too bad.

No.

Actually, that is what I want. I want the lefties to feel bad. I want them to feel hurt. I want them to cry to their mommies.

That way the field will be cleared so we grown-ups can fix the nation and the economy. If you can’t put up with a little excrement, get the hell out of the barn.

UPDATE: Linked by Ann Althouse. Thanks.

Sarah Palin's ratings rise!

Americans View Sarah Palin as more Sincere and Believable after Watching Speech

JFK's "break-in" preceded the Watergate "break-in" scandal

The Washington Post:

A half-century of political dirty tricks

By Mark Feldstein
Friday, January 14, 2011

Fifty years ago next week, Richard Nixon stood uncomfortably on the Capitol's inaugural platform and watched his rival John F. Kennedy being sworn in as president. "We won" the election, Nixon fumed, "but they stole it from us."

Indeed, the dirty tricks that helped defeat Nixon were more devious than merely the ballot-stuffing of political lore. In one of the least-known chapters of 20th-century political history, Kennedy operatives secretly paid off an informant and set in motion a Watergate-like burglary that sabotaged Nixon's campaign on the eve of the election...

A half-century afterward, Washington still lives with the residue of the Kennedys' little-known dirty trick, which helped unleash our modern scandal culture and continues to influence politics and media today.

Mark Feldstein, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, is the author of "Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture."

Read the whole thing...

Evergreen Solar, a leading maker of panels in the United States, is laying off 800 people and shifting production to China.

Thanks, Bama!

Even though Evergreen opened its Devens plant, with all new equipment, only in 2008, it began talks with Chinese companies in early 2009. In September 2010, the company opened its factory in Wuhan, China, and will now rely on that operation.

NEW YORK TIMES

Eric Fuller, who blamed Palin for shootings, is charged with making threats to Tea Party

From CUBACHI:

During a Town Hall meeting this morning, Fuller took exception to comments by Rep. Terri Proud and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries....According to sheriff’s deputies at the scene, Fuller took a photo of Humphries and said, “You’re Dead.” Deputies immediately escorted Fuller from the room.

HAT TIP: RiehlWorldView

Good news: Obama eligibility challenge in the state of Illinois is progressing!

Renowned election attorney Steve Boulton finds the issues in this case to present “intriguing Constitutional questions” and will take up the appeals for Meroni V ISBE

APPEAL FILED AGAINST ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS

Organizing for America 2/11/08: "What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution...Together We Thrive!"

Remember the T-Shirts at the eulogy pep rally?

Check it out... before they scrub it!

THIS WAS A CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR OBAMA STRAIGHT UP.

SAVING OUR ECONOMY

LACA (Los Angeles Conservatives Alliance) interviews Richard McDonald

Reseda, CA 1-11-11

Over the next eleven months, LACA will be featuring a series of articles by the Ownership Society Institute. They will outline a plan the Institute calls Rise Up America (RUA). This plan has been designed to change the way the United States government works in a manner that will substantially increase the material wealth of the nation and each individual as well as their social well-being.

LACA: Our series is authored by Dick McDonald (DM). Dick believes conservatives should adopt RUA to solve many of the economic and social problems the country faces. Please tell us something about yourself and your RUA plan.

DM: I am retired now but I spent my working life as a tax man helping rich people avoid taxes. As a young CPA working for an international accounting firm I did the personal and corporate income taxes for very rich clients like Jimmy Stewart and J. Paul Getty. After ten years there I spent the next 30 years designing and operating tax shelters.

For the last six years I have been perfecting the RUA plan that does for the poor and middle class what Ronald Reagan’s so-called “trickle down” economic theory did for the rich. In other words it creates wealth for the little guy. If adopted it would create enormous wealth for the country as well.

LACA: Dick your background sounds impressive but just how does doing tax work for billionaires equate with creating wealth for poor people?

DM: That is simple. It is so simple that it escapes most people’s radar. I use the same tax shelter for the poor and middle-class people as a tax man uses for the ultra rich – the non-taxability of appreciation in the value of stock. Think about it. Bill Gates is worth $54 Billion in the latest Forbes survey. He didn’t pay income taxes to create after-tax wealth of $54 billion. His wealth is in the stock of Microsoft. He didn’t pay tax on the appreciation in that stock.

LACA: I see where you're going – most people don't think of appreciation as a tax shelter. I see how rich people use it but how can your plan generate wealth for the poor. They don't have the money to invest in stock.

DM: You're right – they don't – and that is where my plan begins. Today the country needs a kick in the economic pants. We need jobs and a better growth rate. But no one is hiring and few are investing in new products and services. So my plan calls for an annual investment (from the private sector) of over a trillion dollars in the stock market. In the first year it should create millions of jobs and jump the country's growth rate towards 10%.

LACA: Dick that's a great idea but where are the poor and middle class going to get new investment capital of a trillion dollars each year.

DM: Here again that is relatively simple – we privatize the Social Security, Disability and Medicare programs, place the 15.3% of payroll taxes in each taxpayer's personal investment account and have it immediately invested at their direction and for their sole benefit into secure index funds for their 40-year working life.

LACA: Wow – that brings up so many questions we don't have time to cover all of them today. But let's take some obvious ones. First there is a great fear of investing in the stock market. How do you overcome that fear.

DM: First of all the average American household makes over $50,000 a year and pays slightly over $7,500 in Federal payroll taxes. Over a 40-year working life they would have invested $300,000 with the government. However such taxes invested weekly in the stock market grow into a $4 million nest egg through accumulation and compounding. The rate of return we use is the same 10% average rate of return the S&P 500 has returned in long-term 40-year investments since 1871.

Now when the recent stock market crashed and the $4 million dropped to $2 million, the taxpayer only had invested $300,000. He was still way ahead of the game. As the stock market has gone from 12,000 on the Dow to 6,000 and returned to 11,500 the taxpayer's account has come almost back to $4 million. The citizens understand simple arithmetic – they just have to be informed.

A $4 million stock account should throw off a $33,000 a month Social Security check which will make a mockery of the $1,300 the government presently pays. On top of that the taxpayer is worth $4 million whereas under our present system they get no nest egg.

LACA: I'm sorry we only have space for one more question. Presently the payroll taxes collected by government are used to pay current retirees. By abandoning these entitlements what happens to current retirees and where will the money come from to pay them.

DM: Our plan will immediately reduce the over $100 trillion unfunded entitlement debt to a manageable $6 to $8 trillion as the growth in each account will eventually eliminate the need to fund retirees. In the meantime we can fund the benefits by privatizing unneeded departments of the government, selling and leasing back government properties such as lands, buildings and rights (oil, airtime) and a myriad of cost cutting steps. We also can borrow a little as we have made such a massive dent in the overall debt of the country.

The increase in economic activity will swell to the point that the private sector will open jobs up to absorb the government workers displaced by privatization. It can be done.

LACA: I'm sorry we'll have to continue next month. Where can the readers presently get more information about RUA.

DM: They can go to www.ownershipsocietyinstitute.com. Your readers should be aware that many benefits emanate from such a plan including cutting the size of the government by 40%.

Who is actually getting death threats?

Isn't this clever?

Now a Tea Party leader is told to stay away from public events for his safety. Didn't the Left get Obama's message about the rhetoric???

After blaming the tea party for the mass slaughter on Saturday one tea party leader is receiving death threats. The sheriff’s office told Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries to stay home.

When I was growing up in the 1950's, this lady was like my Mom's neighbors. Now she's suddenly like Satan. It's beyond riculous! Didn't these people get Obama's message about toning down that violent rhetoric?

Palin aide: She’s getting death threats at unprecedented levels

Where were the protests from the left about all THIS violence and hate (oh wait, it was the Left who was actually doing and saying all this stuff):

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

And don't forget: Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years

On July 11, 2007, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams gave the keynote speech to the International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas, Texas, and said (to laughter and applause from the audience):

I mean right now, I could kill George Bush, no problem. No, I don’t mean that. I mean — how could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.”

You can hear the audiotape of her threat on BREITBART.TV

Despite the fact that threatening to kill the president is a crime, the Secret Service refused to question her or detain her...

Here's a collection of photos and here's a sample:

Meanwhile, in campaign mode (as usual), our opportunistic president seeks to kill (oops) two birds with one stone: They Couldn’t Help It… Team Obama Hands Out T-Shirts at Pep Rally Memorial

And still, now, it appears that the president's peeps aren't listening to him: Anti-Palin Posters Appear in SF

Isn't all of this strange? They're madly in love with a guy they won't listen to...or maybe they all really know he doesn't mean what he says about "healing" and "tone" and "rhetoric"...

What do you think?

Putting a Bullseye on the Constitution

Daniel Greenfield: There is hardly a better way to degrade the entire idea of political speech than by classing everyone who is in any way critical of the government as "anti-government".

The ferocious, relentless attacks on Sarah Palin are a testament to her greatness, proof of how deathly afraid of her they are, like Dracula to the silver cross.

Pamela Geller: A Conspiracy Against the Mind, Against Life, Against Man and
the Virtue of Sarah

William Jacobson: ...as Jim Geraghty of National Review Online documents, the use of the term "blood libel" in political discourse is common both on the left and the right to describe incendiary false accusations which tend to blame a person for inciting violence and making the person a target of violence.

Kids on marriage

1. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHOM TO MARRY?

You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
-- Alan, age 10

No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with.
-- Kristen, age 10


2. WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.
-- Camille, age 10


3. HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids.
-- Derrick, age 8


4. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?

Both don't want any more kids.
-- Lori, age 8


5. WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough.
-- Lynnette, age 8 (isn't she a treasure)

On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
-- Martin, age 10


6. WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

When they're rich.
-- Pam, age 7

The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that.
-- Curt, age 7

The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do.
-- Howard, age 8


7. IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.
-- Anita, age 9 (bless you child)


8. HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?

There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?
-- Kelvin, age 8

And the #1 Favorite is.......


9. HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?

Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a dump truck.
-- Ricky, age 10

News for Dummies

McCarthyism of the left

HAT TIP: HUGH HEWITT

George Will: The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy

5 YEARS FROM ARMAGEDDON

China Confidential: US DEFENSE CHIEF SAYS NK BECOMING 'DIRECT THREAT'

Appearing on TV in November, former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser and current public relations executive, Mark Penn, suggested that Obama needs a moment “similar” to the tragic terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, in order to “reconnect” with voters.

GatewayPundit: Ex-Clinton Strategist Mark Penn: Obama Needs Event ‘Similar’ to OKC to ‘Reconnect’ With Voters (Video)

Silent Killer: Alternative sources of power during emergencies can cause carbon monoxide to build up in a home. Prevent CO poisoning.

CDC: Every winter when the temperature drops, your furnace can become a silent killer...

Guns don’t kill people. Adjectives do.

Michelle Malkin explains the new liberal mantra: Idiocracy: Conservatives who say “job-killing” are spreading hate

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

From MICHELLE MALKIN:

The progressive climate of hate: A comprehensive illustrated primer in 8 parts:

I. PALIN HATE
II. BUSH HATE
III. MISC. TEA PARTY/GOP/ANTI-TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE HATE
IV. ANTI-CONSERVATIVE FEMALE HATE
V. LEFT-WING MOB HATE — campus, anti-war radicals, ACORN, eco-extremists, & unions
VI. OPEN-BORDERS HATE
VII. ANTI-MILITARY HATE
VIII. HATE: CRIMES — the ever-growing Unhinged Mugshot Collection

The Left—which has been unable to discover any common feature uniting acts of Islamist violence worldwide—nonetheless instantly noticed a bridge between the Tucson shooting and its own political opponents...

...the Left’s sudden talk about incendiary political rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona shooting isn’t really about political rhetoric at all. It’s about the real-world failure of leftist policies everywhere—the bankrupting of nations and states by greedy unions and unfundable social programs, the destruction of inner cities by identity politics, and the appeasement of Muslim extremists in the face of worldwide jihad, not to mention the frequently fatal effects of delirious environmentalism. Europe is in debt and on fire. American citizens are in political revolt. Even the most left-wing president ever is making desperate overtures to his right.

But all that might be tolerable to leftists if they weren’t starting to lose control of the one weapon in which they have the most faith: the narrative. The narrative is what leftists believe in instead of the truth. If they can blame George W. Bush for the economic crisis, if they can make Sarah Palin out to be an idiot, if they can call the Tea Party racist until you think it must be true, they might yet retain power in spite of the international disgrace of their ideas. And though they still mostly dominate the narrative on the three broadcast networks, most cable stations, most newspapers, and much of Hollywood, nonetheless Fox News, talk radio, the Internet, and the Wall Street Journal have begun to respond in ways they can’t ignore.

That’s the hateful rhetoric they’re talking about: conservatives interrupting the stream of leftist invective in order to dismantle their arguments with the facts.

The Hateful Left

Evidence shows that agents, working within the jurisdiction of state law, opened shadowy legal channels enabling Obama an opportunity usurp presidential power and assault the Constitutional sovereignty of the American people...

OCON Docs: Hawaii Ballot Chief...And Grandma...Called Obama To Hawaii In 2008

REVIEWING THE FACTS

1. Electors from each state rely on each party’s state authority in that state to certify the nomination of their candidates and verify their legal qualifications to serve under the provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

2. Hawaiian election law specifically requires each state’s party authority to file a sworn application (Official Certification of Nomination) with Hawaii’s Chief Elections Officer certifying the eligibility of each candidate to serve as President and Vice President of the United States.

3. Hawaii Revised Statute 11-113 (c) specifically requires that this sworn application from each state party authority contains explicit language stating that all candidates are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution in order for the Chief Elections Officer to approve the candidate for placement on the state’s presidential ballot.

4. On August 27th, 2008, by notary attestment, authorities of the Democrat Party of Hawaii (DPH) signed a sworn Official Certification of Nomination and was required to submit the document to Hawaii's Chief Election Officer, Kevin Cronin before 4:30 p.m. on September 5, 2008.

5. The DPH, chaired by Brian Schatz, refused to include legally required language, per HRS 11-113 (c)(1)(B), within the state party’s Official Certification of Nomination stating that Obama was Constitutionally eligible to serve as President.

6. The Democrat Party of Hawaii included this legally required language for other Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates in past elections dating to, at least, 2000 and 2004. Therefore, the omission of this language within the DPH’s 2008 OCON of Obama’s candidacy is not a mistake or an oversight. It was done intentionally and with full understanding of Brian Schatz that the Hawaiian CEO, Kevin Cronin, would not be legally permitted to approve Barack Obama as a candidate on the Hawaiian presidential ballot, unless the Democratic National Committee (the national party authority) included this language in its OCON.

7. The Republican Party of Hawaii included the legally required language in its sworn 2008 Official Certification of Nomination for John McCain and Sarah Palin, per HRS 11-113, without reservation or exceptions.

8. The Democrat Party of Hawaii refused to acknowledge that Barack Obama was legally qualified to serve as president under the provisions of U.S. Constitution and, therefore, the DPH refused to provide legal certification allowing the Hawaiian Chief Elections Officer to approve the placement of Barack Obama on the Hawaiian presidential ballot.

9. Since the DPH did not provide legal certification of Barack Obama's constitutional candidacy, Kevin Cronin, was required to send a written notice to Barack Obama informing him that the DPH refused to provide legal certification of his candidacy for approval of his inclusion on the State of Hawaii’s 2008 presidential ballot. Cronin was legally required to send this notification within 10 business days from the time Cronin received the OCON from the DPH. Cronin also had the option, under HRS 11-113, to extend the notification deadline five more business days for a total of 15 days from the day the DPH filed the OCON.

10. The DPH's OCON is dated August 27th, 2008. However, HRS 11-113 provides that OCONs may be filed by 4:30 p.m. on no less than the 60th day prior to the day of the election. In this case, based on the alleged date appearing the DPH's OCON, the DPH still had eight more days to file the OCON and perhaps request verification documentation from Obama. Therefore, Obama received his notification of the Hawaiian CEO's findings no later than September 20, 2008.

11. However, documents provided by the Hawaiian Election Commission show that the Democratic National Committee, chaired by Nancy Pelosi, signed its 2008 Official Certification of Nomination with a date of August 28, 2008. However, documented evidence shows that the DNC also authored a separate version of its OCON at a later time. One version was sent only to Hawaii containing specific wording which directly contradicted that state party’s Constitutional authority to declare that Barack Obama was not constitutionally eligible to serve as President and was, therefore, not approved for inclusion on the Hawaiian presidential ballot.

12. Article IV-Section 4, Article IV-Section 1 and Article II-Section 1 of the Constitution grants sovereignty for certifying a candidate’s nomination and approving a candidate’s inclusion on each state’s presidential ballot to each state. The Democratic National Committee does not have the legal authority to supersede the sovereignty of Hawaii’s appointed authority to conduct election, approve ballot content and certify the nomination of candidates.

13. By intentionally contradicting the findings of Hawaii’s party authority for the purpose of forcing the state of Hawaii to include Obama’s candidacy on its ballot, the Democratic National Committee, headed by Nancy Pelosi, committed election fraud and violated the Constitutional right of the people of the state of Hawaii to an election process in which supreme power is held by the citizens and their entitlement to vote for Constitutionally eligible candidates.

14. The Official Certification of Nomination sent to Hawaii’s Chief Elections Officer by the DNC was not sent to any other state’s CEO.

15. Based on the authority given them by the Constitution, some states’ election laws do not require an explicit statement indicating a candidate’s legal qualifications to serve under the provisions of the Constitution, like Hawaii, but rather a general statement citing documentation that the candidate is qualified under federal law to serve as President and Vice President.

16. The DNC sent a different OCON to every other state omitting the reference to Constitutional eligibility.

17. Cronin sent written notification to Obama stating that Obama was found legally qualified to serve as President under the provisions of the U.S. Constitution based on the DNC’s OCON.

18. The Democratic Party of Hawaii and the Democratic National Committee do not agree with one another about the Constitutional qualifications of Barack Obama.

19. Cronin’s notifications have never been revealed to the public.

20. If the notification from Cronin to Obama stated that Obama was found not qualified to be on the Hawaiian ballot, Obama had five business days after the finding to send a written request for a hearing to contest the finding and reconcile his lack of eligibility with the DPH.

21. Upon receiving a request for a hearing from Obama, Cronin was obligated to schedule the hearing within 10 business days of receiving the request.

22. Hearings to contest candidate eligibility findings are conducted under Administrative Procedures governed by HRS AR 91.

23. AR 91 allows a petitioner for a hearing to request reasonable scheduling accommodations in order to attend the hearing based on travel, personal matters and/or financial issues.

24. The hearing would have been conducted around mid to late October, 2008.

25. Barack Obama’s grandmother was reported to have become gravely ill in early to mid October, 2008.

26. Barack Obama was in Hawaii in mid October, 2008. The American public was told that his only business there was to visit with his ill grandmother.

27. Obama went to Hawaii, suddenly, without his wife and children, even though Dunham's condition was reported to have been expectedly declining for several weeks, during which, at any time, Obama could have otherwise scheduled a planned visit. The exclusion of Dunham's great-grandchildren and Michelle Obama during this visit is odd. Madelyn Dunham did not pass away for two more weeks after Obama's visit having never been visited by Obama's family in her final months.

27. HRS 11-113 (b) states: If there is no national party or the national and state parties…do not agree on the presidential and vice presidential candidates, the chief election officer may determine which candidates' names shall be placed on the ballot or may leave the candidates' names off the ballot completely.

28. Barack Obama was included on the 2008 Hawaiian Presidential ballot.

David F. LaRocque
CDR USNR (ret)
THE POST & EMAIL

Top US Federal Judge Assassinated After Threat To Obama Agenda

From THE EUROPEAN UNION TIMES

A Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the top US Federal Judge for the State of Arizona was assassinated barely 72-hours after he made a critical ruling against the Obama administrations plan to begin the confiscation of their citizen’s private retirement and banking accounts in order to stave off their nations imminent economic collapse, and after having the US Marshals protecting him removed...

Scary stuff...

VETERAN DEM OPERATIVE INSTRUCTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: "They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers...”

...“Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”

And that's what Clinton did in spite of court records of evidence and witnesses stating that:

1) A Republican Guard member from Iraq accompanied Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing

2) Terry Nichols went to the Philippines multiple times and met with terrorists connected to Osama bin Laden

3) The conspiracy was funded by Osama bin Laden

Loughner TARGETED Giffords in 2007...BEFORE Palin and BEFORE Tea Party

And more:

On her youtube page the Congresswoman subscribes to two channels - the first one is her would-be assassin Jared Loughner and the other Rep. Ike Skelton...

From Pamela Geller: Read the whole thing

Giffords Jewish; shooter read Mein Kampf & Communist Manifesto

Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

Shooter Loughner is currently being held by police and has been described as "unstable." He reportedly listed "Mein Kampf" and the "Communist Manifesto" as two of his favorite books on his MySpace page. Several hours before the shooting he reportedly left a "Goodbye friends" message, which also said "Please don't be mad at me."

Giffords was elected to Congress in the Democratic sweep in 2006. The first Jewish woman elected to Congress from the state, she made her Jewish identity part of her campaign.

“If you want something done, your best bet is to ask a Jewish woman to do it,” said Giffords, a former state senator, said at the time. “Jewish women — by our tradition and by the way we were raised — have an ability to cut through all the reasons why something should, shouldn’t or can’t be done and pull people together to be successful.”

Giffords, 40, was raised "mixed" by a Christian Scientist mother and Jewish father, but said that after a visit to Israel in 2001, she had decided she was Jewish only. She attended services at a local Reform synagogue.

In one of her last photos, she posed with the new U.S. House of Representatives speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) at her swearing in; her hand is on the "Five Books of Moses."

Also: Giffords staffer Gabe Zimmerman killed in Arizona shooting...

Read the whole thing

The unseemly rush to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and Republicans for murder in Arizona

UK TELEGRAPH:

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, by all accounts an outstanding public servant and person, is battling for her life in hospital after being shot by a 22-year-old man at close range at a “Congress On Your Corner” event in her home district. Six people are dead, including a judge and a girl of nine, and a dozen others are being treated for their wounds.

It is, as President Barack Obama said, an “unspeakable tragedy”. It is also, as he added, “a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society”. That much we know and the President wisely did not seek to make political capital out of the carnage or jump to conclusions about the motivations of the gunman, named as Jared Loughner.

That, of course, hasn’t stopped some on the Left clamouring to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party or Republicans in general for what happened.

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Lest you be fooled by fools (like Paul Krugman):

GatewayPundit sets everyone straight: Jared Loughner was definitely NOT a tea partier!

UPDATE: From THE NEVILLE AWARDS

KFC Muslim Employee Screams at Customer Asking for Bacon (video)

Be afraid, be very afraid...

The least surprising event of 2010 was that, in the wake of new federal limits on how credit-card issuers can price risk and adjust interest rates, more Americans had to go to payday lenders, pawn shops and local loan sharks in order to get credit.

WSJ: It's simply the latest installment in the old story of regulators thinking they can wish away the unintended consequences of consumer credit regulation...

They mysterious death of Obama's adopted sister "Lia"

Hours prior to her unexpected demise, she was talking to several journalists about Barry’s anticipated arrival to Jakarta, Indonesia. She was sending messages to her husband’s cell phone about those conversations.

Unfortunately for her, Lia didn’t live to see Barack Obama, her “adopted, foster” brother, again. Lia died on Friday, February 26, 2010.

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SHOCK: What really happened when Nancy Pelosi handed over the gavel to John Boehner!

Imagine being attacked by a gang of these

Mount Vernon Man Hospitalized After Brutal Dog Attack

But then, imagine being attacked by a very large gang of these:

Islamists are planning a suicide attack to kill the Christian mother who is “accused” of blasphemy in Pakistan.

I think Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg should move to Pakistan...

The Cure For Procrastination

I really meant to post this sooner...

...but, it does fit in with everyone's New Year's Resolutions!

THE LAST SIX SECONDS

On Nov 13, 2010 Lt General John Kelly, USMC gave a speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis, MO. This was 4 days after his son, Lt Robert Kelly, USMC was killed by an IED while on his 3rd Combat tour. During his speech, General Kelly spoke about the dedication and valor of the young men and women who step forward each and every day to protect us. During the speech, he never mentioned the loss of his own son. He closed the speech with the moving account of the last 6 seconds in the lives of 2 young Marines who died with rifles blazing to protect their brother Marines.

"I will leave you with a story about the kind of people they are...about the quality of the steel in their backs...about the kind of dedication they bring to our country while they serve in uniform and forever after as veterans. Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 "The Walking Dead," and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour.

Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines. The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda.

Yale was a dirt poor mixed-race kid from Virginia with a wife and daughter, and a mother and sister who lived with him and he supported as well. He did this on a yearly salary of less than $23,000. Haerter, on the other hand, was a middle class white kid from Long Island. They were from two completely different worlds. Had they not joined the Marines they would never have met each other, or understood that multiple America's exist simultaneously depending on one's race, education level, economic status, and where you might have been born. But they were Marines, combat Marines, forged in the same crucible of Marine training, and, because of this bond, they were brothers as close, or closer, than if they were born of the same woman.

The mission orders they received from the sergeant squad leader I am sure went something like: "Okay you two clowns, stand this post and let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass." "You clear?" I am also sure Yale and Haerter then rolled their eyes and said in unison something like: "Yes Sergeant," with just enough attitude that made the point without saying the words, "No kidding sweetheart, we know what we're doing." They then relieved two other Marines on watch and took up their post at the entry control point of Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia section of Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq.

A few minutes later a large blue truck turned down the alley way--perhaps 60-70 yards in length--and sped its way through the serpentine of concrete jersey walls. The truck stopped just short of where the two were posted and detonated, killing them both catastrophically.

Twenty-four brick masonry houses were damaged or destroyed. A mosque 100 yards away collapsed. The truck's engine came to rest two hundred yards away knocking most of a house down before it stopped. Our explosive experts reckoned the blast was made of 2,000 pounds of explosives. Two died, and because these two young infantrymen didn't have it in their DNA to run from danger, they saved 150 of their Iraqi and American brothers-in-arms.

When I read the situation report about the incident a few hours after it happened I called the regimental commander for details as something about this struck me as different. Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat. We expect Marines regardless of rank or MOS to stand their ground and do their duty, and even die in the process, if that is what the mission takes. But this just seemed different.

The regimental commander had just returned from the site and he agreed, but reported that there were no American witnesses to the event--just Iraqi police. I figured if there was any chance of finding out what actually happened and then to decorate the two Marines to acknowledge their bravery, I'd have to do it as a combat award that requires two eye-witnesses and we figured the bureaucrats back in Washington would never buy Iraqi statements. If it had any chance at all, it had to come under the signature of a general officer.

I traveled to Ramadi the next day and spoke individually to a half-dozen Iraqi police all of whom told the same story. The blue truck turned down into the alley and immediately sped up as it made its way through the serpentine. They all said, "We knew immediately what was going on as soon as the two Marines began firing." The Iraqi police then related that some of them also fired, and then to a man, ran for safety just prior to the explosion. All survived. Many were injured...some seriously.

One of the Iraqis elaborated and with tears welling up said they'd run like any normal man would to save his life. What he didn't know until then, he said, and what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal. Choking past the emotion he said, "Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did. No sane man. They saved us all."

What we didn't know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses, was that one of our security cameras, damaged initially in the blast, recorded some of the suicide attack. It happened exactly as the Iraqis had described it. It took exactly six seconds from when the truck entered the alley until it detonated.

You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting myself in their heads I supposed it took about a second for the two Marines to separately come to the same conclusion about what was going on once the truck came into their view at the far end of the alley. Exactly no time to talk it over, or call the sergeant to ask what they should do. Only enough time to take half an instant and think about what the sergeant told them to do only a few minutes before: "...let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass." The two Marines had about five seconds left to live.

It took maybe another two seconds for them to present their weapons, take aim, and open up. By this time the truck was half-way through the barriers and gaining speed the whole time. Here, the recording shows a number of Iraqi police, some of whom had fired their AKs, now scattering like the normal and rational men they were--some running right past the Marines. They had three seconds left to live.

For about two seconds more, the recording shows the Marines' weapons firing non-stop...the truck's windshield exploding into shards of glass as their rounds take it apart and tore in to the body of the son-of-a-bitch who is trying to get past them to kill their brothers--American and Iraqi--bedded down in the barracks totally unaware of the fact that their lives at that moment depended entirely on two Marines standing their ground. If they had been aware, they would have known they were safe...because two Marines stood between them and a crazed suicide bomber.

The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.

The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God. Six seconds. Not enough time to think about their families, their country, their flag, or about their lives or their deaths, but more than enough time for two very brave young men to do their duty...into eternity. That is the kind of people who are on watch all over the world tonight--for you.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift he could bestow to man while he lived on this earth--freedom. We also believe he gave us another gift nearly as precious--our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines--to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

It has been my distinct honor to have been with you here today. Rest assured our America, this experiment in democracy started over two centuries ago, will forever remain the "land of the free and home of the brave" so long as we never run out of tough young Americans who are willing to look beyond their own self-interest and comfortable lives, and go into the darkest and most dangerous places on earth to hunt down, and kill, those who would do us harm.

God Bless America, and....SEMPER FIDELIS!"