Hey, Thomas Jefferson didn't have any black kids after all...

Eminent scholars say it’s unlikely that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings‘ children...

Funny, but a lot of people will be very disappointed! Wonder if they're mostly Democrats...hmmm...

It's official: we're already in a recession!

Since 1948, every time the four-quarter change has fallen below 2 percent, the economy has entered a recession. It’s hard to argue against an indicator with such a long history of accuracy.

Leading Economics Blog: US Economy Already In Recession

Obama's race wars: Third World campaign tactics come to America

By threatening race riots, Obama has intimidated the entire US Government from questioning his Constitutional eligibility for the Presidency and investigating his forged birth certificate and Selective Service registration and his stolen Social Security Number. The race riot strategy has worked so well keeping him in office, Obama intends to exploit that threat to get himself re-elected.

Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare to defend America – Obama’s race war begins

EVERYTHING is going to cost twice as much if this happens

1,354 Years in the Making:

The "NEW" War That Could Rocket Oil Past $220 In 2011

You ain't seen nothin' yet!

The Madness of King Gore the Second

Suddenly the stiff man was the prom king of Gaia High School and everyone wanted him to sign their hockey graph...

Chernobyl was a Sunday picnic compared to Fukushima...

Fukushima Is Continually Blasting All Of Us With High Levels Of Cesium, Strontium And Plutonium And Will Slowly Kill Millions For Years To Come

The Big Red Button

Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall. Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008. Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.

25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To Hit The Big Red Panic Button

Pedophilia, Sharia Law, and America

Ann Barnhardt discusses the topic of pedophilia and its relationship to Sharia Law in Islam. See my previous post on this subject: Heart of Islam: Child abuse, pederasty, rape, torture, pedophilia

It's frightening what is happening in our own country--as Ann explains below--and yet it makes a lot of sense when you realize where our president spent his formative years.

S&P Vendetta and Pedophile Normalization
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 18, AD 2011 11:29 AM MST
http://barnhardt.biz/

I tweeted an article earlier this week on the American Psychiatric Association moving to normalize pedophilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Guys, this isn't some fringe outfit. The APA and the DSM is THE benchmark psychiatric text used in legal proceedings and the drafting and contesting of legislation. The APA normalized homosexuality in 1973, and instantaneously our societal and civilizational collapse commenced. But, I think everyone is missing a key point and motivation in all of this pedophilia stuff. Sure, pedophiles like Obama's "Safe-Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings want to be able to rape boys with legal protection.

(Google these terms: "Kevin Jennings Fistgate" and read up on how this guy organized pedophilia seminars for elementary school students teaching them how to cruise public restrooms and engage in the horrific evil of "fisting". BigGovernment.com exposed all of this in 2009 and NOTHING was ever said anywhere in the media, including Fox News. That was all the proof I needed that Fox News was in the tank just as much as all of the other outfits. Obama literally appointed a known pedophile to be "Safe-Schools Czar" and no one said a damn word.)

What this pedophilia legalization really has to do with is SHARIA LAW. In islam, men are allowed to have sex with children and infants. It is fully legally sanctioned not only by imams issuing doctrinal fatwas, but also by the hadiths and the koran itself. Pedophilia is intrinsic to islam. There are multiple citations in the koran ratifying and glorifying sex with children of both sexes. I covered those in my koran-burning YouTube video. The reason the APA is moving to "normalize" pedophilia, or as they call it, "attraction to minors", is so that the deck will be cleared for muslims and Sharia, and there will be no way to prosecute muslims for child rape.

Hillary Clinton is pushing the U.N. law that would make "defamation of religion" a crime. Of course by "religion" they are referring to islam and islam alone - even though islam is NOT a religion. But that mis-categorization is all part of the plan. Arresting and trying muslims for child rape would be in conflict with this U.N. muslim-supremacy act, thus pedophilia must be legalized and sanctioned in the U.S. statutes and in stare decisis (legal precedent). The fact of the matter is this: if my government legally sanctions pedophilia, then that government is not only dead to me, but it is my enemy. That is the ONLY moral response to such an act of evil. Get your heads around this, people. There is no way a moral human being can rationalize or justify allegiance to a government that sanctions the rape of children and infants. Lock and load.

It wouldn’t matter if Al Capone were president of the United States, impeachment and a Senate trial is the only way to remove a sitting president from office.

Of all the things this administration has done, the best option for having Obama removed through impeachment and conviction is Operation Fast and Furious. It is a scandal that has been percolating just beneath the surface for months now and it involves the ATF allowing weapons to ‘walk’ into Mexico; it reaches to the highest levels of the Justice Department at minimum. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, ICE agent Jaime Zapata, and countless Mexican civilians are all alleged to have been murdered as a direct result of those who authorized it.

Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa has already chaired multiple rounds of hearings; he’s way out in front of Lamar Smith in that regard. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich, and ATF Supervisor William Newell have all given testimony that reeks of perjury. As the scandal creeps along, it gets closer to the White House and Issa says there will be even more hearings. If this administration either authorized or knew about Fast and Furious, the scandal instantly becomes Watergate with murder.

If Obama authorized the operation, he could be guilty of criminally negligent manslaughter, which occurs when the death of another human being is the result of serious negligence or recklessness. Authorizing a program that puts guns in the hands of drug cartels who kill our federal agents would necessarily qualify. If, as some have alleged, the intent of the Obama administration was to create a crisis of guns crossing the border – in order to further a gun control agenda – we’re talking constructive manslaughter, which is more severe because it involves malicious intent.

If Holder committed perjury when he told the Senate Judiciary committee on May 4th that he had only learned about Fast and Furious a few weeks earlier, did Obama know his Attorney General committed perjury and do nothing about it? Worse yet, did he instruct Holder to commit perjury? In the former case, it’s called aiding and abetting perjury. In the latter case, it’s called suborning it.

Manslaughter and perjury are both impeachable offenses and Darrell Issa’s committee is getting very close to the truth, which does involve dead Americans and blatant stonewalling.

Issa has quickly become persona non grata in the leftwing media as well, a clear indication that he has become a threat.

Will Congressman Eliot Ness Please Stand Up?

Obama's illegal alien uncle has a valid social security number and driver's license...

Well, that's more than Obama has!

BirtherReport.com

Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?

Sad, but true

Two candidates for the job are mentioned over and over again – two wonderful, charismatic public servants whose only problem is they are not constitutionally eligible to be president.

They are Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.

Don't get me wrong. I like both of these guys. If I were eligible to vote in Florida or Louisiana, I would vote to re-elect them. I would support either one for almost any job in America. But there is one job for which they are, by chance of birth, 100 percent, totally and inarguably ineligible to hold office – and that is the presidency of the United States.

Why?

Because both are sons of parents who were not U.S. citizens when they were born.

Are both parties scrapping Constitution?

The Obama administration is setting the stage for the dismantling of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

According to Hastings, the Obama administration has shown a greater interest in appealing to “far-left environmentalists” than in preserving a pipeline that carries approximately 10 percent of the nation’s daily oil output and is responsible for one-third of Alaska’s economic output.

Northern red tape: Congressman warns Alaska pipeline could be dismantled within 10 years

Obama Justice Department secretly agrees to end investigation into international Islamic financial network with ties to Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Prince

Thank God Republicans have a majority in the House!

The secrecy of the deal has prompted interest in Congress. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department budget and author of legislation that created the National Commission on Terrorism in the 1990s, told Main Justice he planned to ask the department next week to release the documents. . .

Remember Obama bowing to the Saudi King?

While the department is staying mum on the settlement, the company at issue is linked to the royal family in Saudi Arabia, a powerful U.S. ally. It is a subsidiary of Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust, known as DMI Trust, which was founded by Saudi prince Mohammed Al-Faisal Al-Saud.

Everything is screwed up in the Obama administration.

The settlement was negotiated by the Justice Department’s Tax Division, which has been without a confirmed director since the start of the Barack Obama administration.

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FBI: foreign agents have penetrated White House and Homeland Security

Former FBI special agent John Guandolo says Obama's ties to agents for the Muslim Brotherhood are even more extensive.

"The level of penetration in the last three administrations is deep," he said. "For this president, it even goes back to his campaign with Muslim Brotherhood folks working with him then."

Equally alarming, the Brotherhood also has placed several operatives and sympathizers within key positions in Homeland Security and the U.S. military, notes Guandolo, a former Marine Corps officer.

Underpublicized threat deep in White House
FBI: Penetration by radical agents worse than thought

HAT TIP: CITIZEN WELLS

The secret reason the Obama administration is trying to shut down Gibson Guitars

Report: Gibson Competitor is Dem Donor; Uses Same Wood, Experienced No Federal Raids

UPDATE:

From The Neville Awards: Never Fear -- Holder's DOJ is Protecting us from the Dastardly Gibson Guitar Company

The Plopping Jews

Comedian Evan Sayet:

To be called a Jew, all you have to do is plop out of a Jewish womb. Because these Jews – I’ll call them here “The Plopping Jews” – do not believe anything particularly Jewish. Indeed, there’s absolutely no reason to expect them to vote in a way that reflects Jewish values and beliefs.

Why Jews Support the Democratic Party

The biggest (and only?) advantage of getting old...

I'M NOT GETTING OLDER, I'M GETTING DISCOUNTS

Restaurants

Applebee’s: 15% off with Golden Apple Card (60+)
Arby’s: 10% off (55+)
Ben & Jerry’s: 10% off (60+)
Bennigan’s: discount varies by location
Bob’s Big Boy: discount varies by location (60+)
Boston Market: 10% off (65+)
Burger King: 10% off (60+)
Captain D’s Seafood: discount varies on location (62+)
Chick-Fil-A: 10% off or free small drink or coffee (55+)
Chili’s: 10% off (55+)
CiCi’s Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Culver’s: 10% off (60+)
Denny’s: 10% off, 20% off for AARP members (55+)
Dunkin’ Donuts: 10% off or free coffee (55+)
Einstein’s Bagels: 10% off baker’s dozen of bagels (60+)
Fuddrucker’s: 10% off any senior platter (55+)
Gatti’s Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Golden Corral: 10% off (60+)
Hardee’s: $0.33 beverages everyday (65+)
IHOP: 10% off (55+)
Jack in the Box: up to 20% off (55+)
KFC: free small drink with any meal (55+)
Krispy Kreme: 10% off (50+)
Long John Silver’s: various discounts at participating locations (55+)
McDonald’s: discounts on coffee everyday (55+)
Mrs. Fields: 10% off at participating locations (60+)
Shoney’s: 10% off
Sonic: 10% off or free beverage (60+)
Steak ‘n Shake: 10% off every Monday & Tuesday (50+)
Subway: 10% off (60+)
Sweet Tomatoes: 10% off (62+)
Taco Bell: 5% off; free beverages for seniors (65+)
TCBY: 10% off (55+)
Tea Room Cafe: 10% off (50+)
Village Inn: 10% off (60+)
Waffle House: 10% off every Monday (60+)
Wendy’s: 10% off (55+)
White Castle: 10% off (62+)

Retail And Apparel

Banana Republic: 10% off (50+)
Bealls: 20% off first Tuesday of each month (50+)
Belk’s: 15% off first Tuesday of every month (55+)
Big Lots: 10% off
Bon-Ton Department Stores: 15% off on senior discount days (55+)
C.J. Banks: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
Clarks: 10% off (62+)
Dress Barn: 10% off (55+)
Goodwill: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Hallmark: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kmart: 20% off (50+)
Kohl’s: 15% off (60+)
Modell’s Sporting Goods: 10% off
Rite Aid: 10% off on Tuesdays & 10% off prescriptions
Ross Stores: 10% off every Tuesday (55+)
The Salvation Army Thrift Stores: up to 50% off (55+)
Stein Mart: 20% off red dot/clearance items first Monday of every month (55+)

Grocery

Albertson’s: 10% off first Wednesday of each month (55+)
American Discount Stores: 10% off every Monday (50+)
Compare Foods Supermarket: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
DeCicco Family Markets: 5% off every Wednesday (60+)
Food Lion: 6% off every Monday (60+)
Fry’s Supermarket: free Fry’s VIP Club Membership & 10% off every Monday (55+)
Great Valu Food Store: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Gristedes Supermarket: 10% off every Tuesday (60+)
Harris Teeter: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Hy-Vee: 5% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kroger: 10% off (date varies by location)
Morton Williams Supermarket: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
The Plant Shed: 10% off every Tuesday (50+)
Publix: 5% off every Wednesday (55+)
Rogers Marketplace: 5% off every Thursday (60+)
Uncle Guiseppe’s Marketplace: 5% off (62+)

Travel

Alaska Airlines: 10% off (65+)
Alamo: up to 25% off for AARP members
American Airlines: various discounts for 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
Amtrak: 15% off (62+)
Avis: up to 25% off for AARP members
Best Western: 10% off (55+)
Budget Rental Cars: 10% off; up to 20% off for AARP members (50+)
Cambria Suites: 20%-30% off (60+)
Clarion: 20%-30% off (60+)
Comfort Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Comfort Suites: 20%-30% off (60+)
Continental Airlines: no initiation fee for Continental Presidents Club & special fares for select destinations
Dollar Rent-A-Car: 10% off (50+)
Econo Lodge: 20%-30% off (60+)
Enterprise Rent-A-Car: 5% off for AARP members
Greyhound: 5% off (62+)
Hampton Inns & Suites: 10% off when booked 72 hours in advance
Hertz: up to 25% off for AARP members
Holiday Inn: 10%-30% off depending on location (62+)
Hyatt Hotels: 25%-50% off (62+)
InterContinental Hotels Group: various discounts at all hotels (65+)
Mainstay Suites: 10% off with Mature Traveler’s Discount (50+); 20%-30% off (60+)
Marriott Hotels: 15% off (62+)
Motel 6: 10% off (60+)
Myrtle Beach Resort: 10% off (55+)
National Rent-A-Car: up to 30% off for AARP members
Quality Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Rodeway Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Sleep Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Southwest Airlines: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
Trailways Transportation System: various discounts for ages 50 and up
United Airlines: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
U.S. Airways: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)

Activities And Entertainment

AMC Theaters: up to 30% off (55+)
Bally Total Fitness: up to $100 off memberships (62+)
Busch Gardens Tampa: $3 off one-day tickets (50+)
Carmike Cinemas: 35% off (65+)
Cinemark/Century Theaters: up to 35% off
U.S. National Parks: $10 lifetime pass; 50% off additional services including camping (62+)
Regal Cinemas: 30% off
Ripley’s Believe it or Not: @ off one-day ticket (55+)
SeaWorld Orlando: $3 off one-day tickets (50+)

Cell Phone Discounts

AT&T: Special Senior Nation 200 Plan $29.99/month (65+)
Jitterbug: $10/month cell phone service (50+)
Verizon Wireless: Verizon Nationwide 65 Plus Plan $29.99/month (65+).

Miscellaneous

Great Clips: $3 off hair cuts (60+)
Super Cuts: $2 off haircuts (60+)

I have already been told that A&P supermarkets offers 5% off to people over 55 every Tuesday. If you know of any other senior deals that aren't on the list, please add them in the comment section of my blog.

Chronic unemployment is now worse than during the Great Depression!

“Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?”

News about Obama lawsuits

Major article about my case in “News with views”

While the power brokers who made sure a community organizer with no experience, dubious education credentials and a hidden past pulled off the election of Obama, the headaches continue to build. Not only is Obama being pilloried by independents, conservatives and increasingly, columnists and talking heads on the left, there is a major problem date looming: September 14, 2011. Attorney Orly Taitz, known as the 'queen of birthers', has been trying to get the Hawaii Department of Health to comply with a court ordered subpeona to examine Obama's birth original certificate since he released it to the world back on April 27, 2011. Hawaii's DOH has refused citing privacy issues, so there will be a court hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi, for an order to show cause.

In a separate action, Taitz has also filed a Writ of Mandamus to force production of the original 1961 birth certificate of Barack Obama. That action is before Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Nishimura in Hawaii. One federal judge, one state judge. It will be interesting to see the decisions of those two judges since Obama himself released a copy of his 'real' birth certificate to the world, how is it the Hawaii Department of Health refuses to allow anyone to view a document the world world has already seen?

To say those two court proceedings are problematic for Obama's handlers is a major understatement. For those who saw the movie, Braveheart, there is a scene where King Edward I, known as 'Longshanks' is faced with the problem of William Wallace. Slumping down against a wall, Longshanks muses, "What to do, what to do?

RICK PERRY RUN CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED BY GLOBAL ELITES?

34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Middle Class In America Is Rapidly Shrinking

Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking? Well, you are not imagining things. A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.

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Before you decide...

Recommended on Rush Limbaugh's show today by Mark Davis: SelectSmart.com

There's a quiz on every subject imaginable including, of course, politics!

A modern Oracle of sorts perhaps...

Note: Seems to be getting hammered by visitors now (Rush's show has a lot of listerners)!

More earthquakes?

Is The Number Of Earthquakes Increasing? Why The 5.8 Virginia Earthquake Might Just Be A Preview Of Things To Come...

First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

The Obamas' summer break on Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year.

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Ron Paul recommends anti-Semitic author...

Ron Paul and the Neoliberal Reeducation Campaign

In his book The Revolution: A Manifesto, Congressman Paul includes at the end a section called "A Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America." And on that recommended reading list? Here's the entry, in full:

Flynn, John T. As We Go Marching. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944. Flynn, an accomplished journalist, analyzes fascism in Italy and Germany and concludes by considering the state of America in his day.

That's right. Congressman Paul is recommending the writings of a man who, in his day, was seen as a driving force behind the anti-Semitic liberal Republican Senator Nye and the Senate investigation into Jewish influence in Hollywood.

Anti-Semitism isn't the whole problem with Ron Paul and his followers, either:

But anti-Semitism aside, perhaps the real key to understanding the decided left-leaning tendencies of neoliberals is their considerable dislike of… Conservatives

You read that right.

Here are the views of various prominent Paul supporters about some conservatives you may be familiar with. . .

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Obama's downhill slide

Rasmussen Reports

GALLUP: OBAMA HITS NEW LOW

...was blind, but now, I see.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised...
Luke 4:18

Blind mother seeing anew thanks to Hub ‘miracle’

An ecstatic 35-year-old mother of three is back home in Zambia today and no longer blind after miraculous cutting-edge surgery in Boston restored her eyesight, allowing her to see her children for the first time in three years.

Trust me on this: Obamacare will do away with the charity that allowed this miracle to happen on United States soil...

And so Muzmara, accompanied by her friend Charity, left Zambia for the United States last month.

They stayed in the Quincy home of an anonymous benefactor working with Hospitality Homes, a non-profit that connects cash-strapped sick people with Bostonians who have a spare bedroom or two.

“These are people who had never seen a refrigerator,” director Caryl Goodman said about Muzmara and her friend. “How are they supposed to pay for a hotel room for a month?”

The operation and aftercare cost about $50,000, most of which was paid for by a philanthropic fund.

ObamaCare Would Crowd Out Voluntary Charity

Obamacare and Christian Charity

500 Billion New Reasons To Invalidate ObamaCare

HAT TIP: InstaPundit

Hey, good news: looks like Sharia Law is coming to Libya!

No wonder Obama violated our constitution to get involved...remember when he used taxpayer money to campaign for his Kenyan cousin Raila Odinga in 2006 whose election would have instituted Sharia Law?

Much of the document describes political institutions that will sound familiar to citizens of Western liberal democracies, including rule of law, freedom of speech and religious practice, and a multi-party electoral system.

But despite the Lockean tenor of much of the constitution, the inescapable clause lies right in Part 1, Article 1: “Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia).” Under this constitution, in other words, Islam is law. That makes other phrases such as “there shall be no crime or penalty except by virtue of the law” and “Judges shall be independent, subject to no other authority but law and conscience” a bit more ominous.

Libyan Draft Constitution: Sharia is ‘Principal Source of Legislation’

Is this a great country or what?

So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Congressmen.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need! Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered. And, as an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore!

The Bummies

It says something about Congress and politics in America that the only race-based caucus is...

...the Black Caucus

Black America's Gains and Losses

The dawn of "transhumanism"

At the center of the debate is what is known as "transhumanism," a term often used synonymously with "human enhancement."

Basically, it's a sort of regenesis, altering human bodies – genetically, mechanically or both – to make them better than they've been for thousands of years, affording them Superman-style abilities in both brains and brawn.

It's sometimes described by futurists as being "posthuman," what they believe is the next step in the evolutionary process.

Why did Obama make this a priority as soon as he was elected?

"One of the first things that President Obama did at the executive level as soon as he became president," he says in "Trans-Humanism," "[is] he overturned restrictions that had been put in place by President [George W.] Bush which would have prohibited federal dollars, American taxpayer money, flowing in to pay for experiments to be done on human-animal chimeras (combinations) and other forms of science such as stem-cell sciences – which is also important to the transhumanist movement.

"But what most of the public doesn't realize is when we're talking about stem-cell sciences, we're almost always talking about the creation of a human-animal chimera from which those stem cells are being derived. But now, tax dollars in the United States from the federal level are flowing into thousands of laboratories."

How many of you have heard of DARPA?

Commissions advanced research for DoD. It was founded in response to the surprise Sputnik launch in 1958 and fathered the Internet somewhere along the way.

Find out how your tax dollars (thanks to Obama) are going towards creating a "super soldier" made up of human and animal DNA...one that the government says will require a "kill switch" since it will be immortal...

Diabolical experiments fulfill Bible prophecy?

Ayn Rand: Prophet

This is only the beginning:

Atlas Is Sorta Shrugging

Can you remember another President, in the midst of a reelection, suggesting that he doesn’t need another term?

Something Strange Afoot in the Obama Campaign

HAT TIP: CITIZEN WELLS

Obama thrown under bus by Democrats or Daniel Frawley or Tony Rezko or Rod Blagojevich or Stuart Levine or William Cellini, Obama exits 2012 race?

“Why has the mainstream media avoided coverage of the William Cellini trial? Why are Chicago news stories being scrubbed or altered?”

The only way for the government to solve its fiscal issues with revenue would be to confiscate every single dollar from every single American making $200,000 or more per year

CNSNEWS.com - Warren Buffett’s Taxing the Rich Won't Solve Deficit, Says Tax Foundation

Obama: a very good anti-American president; a very bad American president

Full of specific documentation about the things Obama has done since he became president:

The Anti-American President

Democrat Charlie Rangel admits liberal policies have not helped Blacks

The Egg Farmer

Johnny was in the egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens) called 'pullets' and ten roosters to fertilize them. He kept excellent records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

John's favorite rooster, Obama, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed Obama's bell hadn't rung at all! When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To John's amazement, Obama had thought of a way to do it without work, he had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

John was so proud of Obama, he entered him in the Chicago County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result was the judges not only awarded Obama the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pullet Surprise as well.

Clearly, Obama was a politician. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?

Moral of the story?

Vote carefully next fall, the bells are not always audible.

Obama: America's first affirmative action president

Now THAT's historical.

Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard -- because of the color of his skin.

Obama: The Affirmative Action President

So now we have high unemployment and high inflation

Oh goody! All of this stagflation is almost enough to make one nostalgic for the 1970s.

Rising greenhouse emissions may tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for Nasa

These must be Obamatists:

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists

But, wait! Didn't the aliens hear that The head of the Nasa has said Barack Obama told him to make "reaching out to the Muslim world" one of the space agency's top priorities?

Obama buys hisself the Hispanic vote!

The move, announced in letters to Congress, won immediate praise from Hispanic activists and Democrats who had chided President Obama for months for the pace of deportations and had argued he had authority to exempt broad swaths of illegal immigrants from deportation.

New DHS rules cancel deportations

UPDATE: Illegal Deportation Policy Provokes Congressional, Former Border Patrol Agents' Opposition

Obama eats the Democratic Party

You see, Obama is not a real Democrat in the same way that he's not a real American. He was raised in foreign countries and was also taught concepts that are completely foreign to the founding philosophy of the United States. The folksy mid-Western stuff is superficial and fools an amazing number of people as does the superficial veneer of personality and appearance, the hallmark of any gifted grifter.

So, it should not surprise anyone that Obama is now cannabilizing his own party:

White House, Senate Democrats clash over campaign cash

The Visitor

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and a YSL tie leaned out the window and asked the cowboy

"If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers

"Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC-connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says

"You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

Bud replies

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves."

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man

"Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says,

"Okay, why not?"

Bud says

"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government."

The yuppie replies

"Wow! That's correct, but how did you guess that?"

The cowboy answers

"No guessing required. You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are, and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living--or about cows, for that matter...this is a herd of sheep.

Now give me back my dog!

Obamacare challenge: it's not just the individual mandate!

Challenging the Death Panel

Also working its way through the courts is another Obamacare challenge brought by the Goldwater Institute in Arizona that not only challenges the individual mandate, but also challenges the constitutionality of the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) also adopted by Obamacare.

That board will be composed of 15 unelected bureaucrats with the power to cut payments to doctors and hospitals under Medicare to keep the program within specified spending targets. Though its backers deny it, IPAB was designed to be a federal rationing authority analogous to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), which decides who can live or who can die under British socialized medicine. The IPAB merely needs to severely cut, or deny altogether, payments for treatments it decides are not in the public interest, regardless of what you or your doctors think.

That should be unconstitutional on many grounds. But what the Goldwater Institute has focused on is the isolation of the board from democratic, executive or judicial accountability.

The rulings of this board will automatically go into effect unless two-thirds of Congress overrides them with Medicare cuts of its own of equal magnitude. The Obamacare law provides that the decisions of the board cannot be challenged in the courts. And the board is even shielded from executive oversight.

Obamacare Is Going Down

The Americas, Not the Middle East, Will Be the World Capital of Energy

Special Report: Foreign Policy:

For half a century, the global energy supply's center of gravity has been the Middle East. This fact has had self-evidently enormous implications for the world we live in -- and it's about to change. . .

HAT TIP: CARPE DIEM

How would a balanced budget amendment cut the heart out of our Constitution?

It would transform our Constitution from one of Enumerated Spending Powers to one of General (“Unlimited”) Spending Powers.

Do you agree?

YOUR Tax Dollars Funding the Abolition of Private Property in the US

You think that sounds like a conspiracy theory? Well take a look at this new Agenda 21-inspired program...

SOVEREIGN CITIZENS UNITED

HAT TIP: Orly Taitz

Impending U.S. Bond Market Armageddon

The US Treasury market is now in an out-and-out bubble. When it bursts, no amount of promises by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that he will keep rates low will prevent a bond market Armageddon.

Ben's promises are empty

HAT TIP: Real Clear Markets

Hard 2 Kill

Indeed.

Are you envious? Scared? Amused? Incredulous? Perplexed? Inspired?

The options are just endless, aren't they?

Tax fraud suspected in Obama land deal

The "buffer zone" parcel at the Obama family mansion in Chicago's upscale Kenwood neighborhood purchased by the wife of convicted felon Tony Rezko was transferred to Barack and Michelle Obama without ever being assessed or taxed, in apparent violation of Illinois law, according to a debt-collection expert.

"The Cook County Assessor's Office told me that there is no record of any tax assessment having been done on this transfer of the buffer zone property into a Northern Trust Co. Deed in Trust," Albert Hendershot told WND.

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10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest Inside The United States Are Now More Likely Than Ever

Excerpts:

#1 Going to the state fair used to be such a fun thing for American families to do. But now no place is safe.

#2 According to a new Rasmussen survey, 48% of Americans believe that reductions in government spending are "at least somewhat likely" to result in civil unrest inside the United States.

#3 U.S. consumer confidence is now at its lowest level in 30 years.

#4 Joblessness among young Americans is at an epidemic level, and when rioting does break out it is usually young people that are leading the way.

#5 We are starting to see mindless violence in a lot of areas that used to be considered safe.

#6 "Flash mobs" have become such a problem in Philadelphia that the mayor has imposed a strict curfew on young people

#7 All over the United States we are seeing that many struggling Americans will do just about anything for money.

#8 Desperate people do desperate things.

#9 According to CNN, sales of safes and vaults are absolutely soaring right now.

#10 Over the past 100 years, the American population has moved steadily into our big cities and the surrounding suburbs.

A massive economic collapse is coming, and most Americans are going to be totally blindsided by it.

UK Mayhem Leaves Disarmed Citizens at the Mercy of Criminals

Friday, August 12, 2011

By now you have seen the headlines and images of destruction: the rioting, looting, violent assaults, and arson. London and other UK cities look like war zones and their citizens are afraid to venture out, because the danger is very real. It's a view of the temporary breakdown of society. It is gut check time; a time when the concept of being able to defend oneself gives way to the stark reality that few viable options to do so exist.

Gun laws in the UK are among the most restrictive in the world. In March of 1996, a deranged man walked into a school in Dunblane, Scotland and killed 16 children and one teacher. In the aftermath of this tragedy, British politicians sought to reduce violent crime by enacting a ban on all handguns. Handgun owners were given a February 1998 deadline to turn in their firearms--and they did. The UK was supposed to become a much safer place--but dramatic increases in crime following the gun ban proved it didn't.

A July 3, 2009, Daily Mail article reported that "Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European Union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the U.K. also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa."

And the current bedlam has proved it further. Restrictive laws concerning long-guns, combined with the outright ban on handguns, leave the country's citizens largely defenseless (it was reported this week that sales of one type of aluminum baseball bats on Amazon UK rose 6,541 percent). In many places, it was reported that police were unable to stop the mayhem. As a result, panicked, defenseless law-abiding citizens were forced to flee their homes, while others watched as their businesses were destroyed. Compare this to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, when armed citizens were able to protect their lives, families, and property from looters and violent mobs.

An August 11 Herald Sun article reported one resident as saying, "its absolute bedlam on the street. People have been openly looting for an hour, two hours, and the police have been ineffectual. They've done nothing." Another victim, who was trapped in her hair salon in Clapham Junction while a mob smashed its way in and trashed it, said, "They were mocking us, [saying] 'look, look, they look scared'. Where is the police? I want protection. This is what they're here for . . . I'm not secure at my workplace. I'm not secure at my home place. Will they be there to protect us tonight? They weren't here to protect us last night."

The Telegraph.com.au reported on Tuesday that mobs were forcing hapless victims to strip off their clothes while being robbed, and described a shocking video that shows a bleeding, already-pummeled teenager being robbed in broad daylight by lawless thugs who pretend to help him to his feet, and then steal the contents of his backpack while he can barely remain standing, much less defend himself.

This is what a disarmed country looks like. This is how little is left when free men and women surrender their right to own a firearm.

One has to wonder how differently this all would be playing out if the law-abiding were allowed to arm themselves. How different would the reports be if violent, opportunistic, amoral thugs were confronted with armed resistance from their intended victims?

It has been said that, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." In this case, good men and women have been stripped of their ability to do something, and evil has certainly triumphed.

Ironically, the UK is an outspoken proponent of the United Nations' efforts to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty. Presumably the UK's goal in supporting an ATT is to spread the "safety and sanctity" they imagine their country as having to the rest of the world. Perhaps the recent calamities will cause the British to rethink their position; we certainly hope so. It's time for the British government to drop its draconian gun-control laws and restore the right of self-defense to its law-abiding citizens.

It's time to face the facts. When law-abiding citizens are disarmed, is their society a safer one? Do gun bans reduce violent crime? Will the police always be there to protect you? England's current plight is just the latest example to show us, yet again, that the answer to these questions is an emphatic "No."

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Why Sarah Palin Needs To Run For President In 2012

While always open to the idea of one day supporting Sarah Palin for President, since 2008, I've gone back and forth on whether or not I thought it was smart for her to run next year. Re-visiting my thoughts yesterday, what with Palin's appearance in Iowa, not only am I convinced she should run, she needs to run and, regardless of one's preferred candidate, all Conservatives should encourage her to run and welcome her into the race, assuming she does.

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I AGREE!

Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?

President Obama's potentially criminal use of a mysterious, Connecticut-based Social Security Number should become an important issue in his quest for re-election in 2012, says a former presidential candidate and ambassador in Ronald Reagan's administration.

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Temporary tattoo today...permanent implant tomorrow

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. . .

How computers will soon get under our skin

Mark of the Beast?

The Catastrophe of Public Education

What H.G. Wells says in his famous statement above is quite true. History is a race between education and catastrophe. Unfortunately, the manner in which education is delivered in the United States, and in other countries of the Western World, through public institutitions, now is itself the catastrophe. Rather than preventing a larger historical catastrophe, public education is now promoting and contributing to just such a thing.

This is not exactly news. It was already realized early in the 1980's (the federal report, "A Nation at Risk," 1983) that students were graduating from high school, and often from college, without knowing much of anything. Sometimes they were functionally illiterate, especially from inner city schools. Alarms were continually sounded through the 1990's, such as with Thomas Sowell's splendid Inside American Education, The Decline, The Deception, the Dogmas [The Free Press, 1993]. But now, after a good thirty years, and with some marginal improvements in some places, the general problem is just as bad, if not in certain respects worse. With some regularity, polls seem to show that graduates know little about history, government, literature, science, economics, geography, etc.

In the 80's, it was easily recognized that one problem with the schools was just the "dumbing down" of the curriculum. Less and less was expected of students, often deliberately, so as not to damage their self-esteem; and, indeed, international surveys showed that American students felt better about themselves, even when their performance was dismal in international comparisons. Students from say, Korea, felt worse about themselves but accomplished much more. This was a trend that should have been reversed just as easily as it was recognized. But it wasn't. In 1988, E.D. Hirsch published a book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, talking about the essential general knowledge that education should be conveying; but the educational Establishment ignored this.

Nor is this just an American phenomenon. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist practicing at a public hospital and a prison, in his marvelous Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass [Ivan R. Dee, 2003], remarks that he didn't know what disturbed him more, that the young toughs of his experience were tatooing themselves with swastikas, or that they actually didn't know, thanks to British education, who had actually used the swastika (the Nazis) and what they had done (dictatorship, war, mass murder). His regular experience with the young patients he saw was that they knew little about anything.

Why this has all happened is not all that mysterious, nor why it has proven so difficult to reverse the trend. There has just not been the political will, or perhaps even the political means, to accomplish reform -- with a smokescreen of lies and deceptions confusing the matter. Indeed, I believe that the system is simply unreformable, and the only solution is to allow students and parents to escape it.

The root of the problem can be summarized in three terms: (1) teachers' unions, (2) education schools, and (3) the federal government. Each of these has become its own rent-seeking and bureaucratic institution, following a dynamic, well described by Public Choice Economics, that serves themselves as institutions but bears little relation to what most people would think of as the purposes of education, let alone public education. The most disturbing feature of this dynamic is the extent to which ignorance promotes the control and purposes of the educational establishment better than the successful dissemination of knowledge would. . .

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Establishment Elite Still in Control

The Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group

Published by the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate (F.R.E.E.)
P. O. Box 293339.
Kerrville, Texas 78029

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which organized in England . . . (and) . . . believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established." [WITH NO APOLOGIES by Senator Barry Goldwater, Berkley Books, New York, p 126]

The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, Europe (European Union countries), and North America (United States and Canada) to foster closer cooperation among these core democratic industrialized areas of the world with shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system.

"The Trilateral Commission is international . . . (and) . . . is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States." [ WITH NO APOLOGIES, by Senator Barry Goldwater, Berkley Books, New York, p 293]

The Bilderberg is a quasi-secret consortium of international elite who meet annually to plan world economic and political policies. The Bilderberg has no membership per se. Those identified with “B” in this chart have attended at least one Bilderberg meeting.

Council on Foreign Relations
The Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
Tel. (212) 434-9400; FAX (212)434-9800
Washington Office
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

The Trilateral Commission
1156 Fifteenth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20005
Tel. 202-467-5410

This chart shows present and past members and
their positions; B, C, or T indicates affiliation

United States Presidents
Barack Hussien Obama, B
William J. Clinton B,C,T
George Herbert Walker Bush C,T
James Earl Carter C,T
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. B,C
Richard Milhous Nixon C
Dwight D. Eisenhower C
Herbert Clark Hoover C

2008 Presidential Candidates
Hillary Rodham Clinton [D] B
John Edwards [D] B,C
John S. McCain III [R] C
Fred Thompson [R] C

Vice Presidents
Joseph Biden B
Richard B. Cheney C,T
George H. W. Bush C,T
Walter Mondale B,C,T

National Security Council
Richard N. Haass, Sr. Dir. GHWBush Admin C,T
Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Dep. Dir, GWBush admin C,T
William J. Luti, Sr. Dir for DefensePolicy B

Specil Assistants to the President
Dennis B. Ross , Mid East Cord for GHWBush & Clinton B,C,T
Richard Holbrooke Spec. Rep Afghanistan & Pakistan B,C,T

Central Intelligence Agency
Directors
Gen. Michael V. Hayden C
George J. Tenet C
William O. Studeman C
John M. Duetch B,C,T
James Woolsey C
Robert M. Gates C
William H Webster T,C
William J. Casey C
Stansfield Turner C
George H. W. Bush C
William E. Colby C
James Schlesinger C
Richard Helms C
John A. McCone C
Allen W. Dulles C
Walter Bedell Smith C

Secretary of Agriculture
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman B,C

Secretaries of Commerce
Ronald H. Brown C
Juanita M. Kreps C,T
Elliot Lee Richardson C,T
Peter G. Peterson C,T
John Thomas Connor, Jr. C
Barbara Hackman Franklin C

Secretaries of Defense
Robert Gates C,B
Donald Rumsfeld B
Douglas J. Feith, Under Sec. B,C
Richard Norman Perle, Asst. Sec B
John J. Hamre, Deputy C,T
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Asst. Sec B,C,T
William S. Cohen C,T
John M. Deutch. Deputy B,C,T
Graham T. Allison, Asst. C,T
William J. Perry B,T
Les Aspen C
Richard B. Cheney C,T
Frank C. Carlucci, III C,T
Casper W. Weinberger C,T
Harold Brown C,T
Donald H. Rumsfeld C
James R. Schlesinger C
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Melvin R. Laird T
Robert S. McNamara B,C,T
Neil H. McElroy C
Charles E. Wilson C
George C. Marshall C
James V. Forrestal C

Secretaries of Energy
William B. Richardson B,C
James R. Schlesinger C
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. C

Secretaries of Health & Human Services
Tommy G. Thompson C
Donna E. Shalala C,T
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. C
Casper A. Weinberger C,T
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Abraham A. Ribicoff C

Secretaries of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
Henry G. Cisneros C,T
Carla A. HIlls C,T
James T. Lynn C,T

Secretary of Interior
Bruce E. Babbitt C,T

Attornies General
Charles A. James, Asst, GW Bush
admin B
Jamie Gorelick, Deputy, Clinton admin. C
Richard Thornburgh C
William P. Rogers C
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach C

Secretaries of Labor
Elaine L. Chao C
Lynn Martin C

Secretaries of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton B
James B. Steinberg, Deputy Sec. fmr. Dean,
Univ. of Texas LBJ School C,T
Anne-Marie Slaughter,
Dir. Policy Planning C,T
Condoleezza Rice C
Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor
(exec. dir.,9/11Commission) B,C
Colin Powell B,C
Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy B,T,C
Winston Lord, Asst. Sec. C,T
Thomas R. Pickering, Und. Sec C,T
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy T
Madeline Albright C
William B. Richardson C
Warren M. Christopher C,T
Lawrence S. Eagleburger C,T
George P. Schultz C
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. C,T
Edmund S. Muskie C
Cyrus R. Vance C,T
Henry A. Kissinger B,C,T
William P. Rogers C
Dean Rusk B,C
Christian A. Herter Jr. B,C
John Foster Dulles C
Dean G. Acheson C
George C. Marshall C
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. C
Cordell Hull C
Henry L. Stimson C
Frank B. Kellogg C

Secretary of Transportation
William T. Coleman, Jr C, T

Secretaries of Treasury
Timothy F. Geithner B, C, T
Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. C
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers B, C, T
Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy B,C
Robert Edward Rubin C
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. C
Nicholas F. Brady C
James Addison Baker, III C
W. Michael Blumenthal C
William E. Simon C

Cabinet Officials

Military Officers

Chairmen of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Richard B. Myers C
John M. Shalicashvilli C
Colin L. Powell B,C
William J. Crowe, Jr. C,T
John W. Vessey C
David C. Jones C
Maxwell D. Taylor C
Lyman Lemnitzer C

Chiefs of Staff - Air Force
Norton A. Schwartz C
T. Michael Moseley C
Ronald R. Fogleman C
Merrill A. McPeak C
John T. Chain, Jr. C
Lew Allen, Jr. C
Michael J. Dugan C
Charles A. Gabriel C
Larry D. Welch C

Chief of Staff - Army
Eric K. Shinseki C
Dennis J. Reimer C
Gordon R. Sullivan C
John A. Wickham, Jr. C
Edward C. Meyer C

Chief of Naval Operations
Jay L. Johnson C
Thomas B. Hayward C
Elmo R. Zumwalt C

Marine Corps
Commandant
Charles C. Krulak C
Paul X. Kelley C

Coast Guard
Commandant
Thad W. Allen C
Robert E. Kramek C

United Nations Ambassadors
Madeleine Albright C
John R. Bolton C
Jeane Kirkpatrick C
Bill Richardson B, C

President’s Council of Economic Advisors
R. Glenn Hubbard C
Janet Yellen C
Joseph E. Stiglitz C
Laura D'Andrea Tyson B,C
Martin S. Feldstein B,C,T
Murray L. Weidenbaum C
Alan Greenspan B,C,T
Paul W. McCracken C

9/11 Commission
Thomas H. Kean, Chmn.; fmr Gov., New Jersey C
Lee H. Hamilton,Vice Chairman, fmr Congressman (D-IN) C
Jamie Gorelick, fmr Deputy Attorney General, Clinton Admin. C
Bob Kerrey, Pres. New School University, fmr US Senator (D-NE), fmr Gov, NE C
John F. Lehman,fmr Sec. Navy C
Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director/Chair B,C

Federal Judiciary
Stephen G. Breyer Assoc. Jus. S.Ct C
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Assoc. Jus. S.Ct. C
Sandra Day O’Connor Assoc. Jus. S.Ct. C
Felix Frankfurter Fmr. Assoc. Jus. S. Ct C
Charles E. Hughes Fmr. Assoc. Jus S. Ct C
Dudley Baldwin Bonsal Dist. Ct. Judge, NY C
Jose Alberto Cabranes Dist. Ct. Judge, CT C
William W. Schwarzer Dist. Ct. Judge, CA C
Laurence Hirsch Silberman Cir. Ct. App. Judge C
Barrijngton D. Parker Dist. Ct. Judge, NY C
Richard Clark Allison U.S.Clms Trib Judge,
The Hague C
Stephen Myron Schwebel Int. Ct. Judge,Hague C
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Tax Ct. Sr. Judge C

Federal Reserve System
Daniel K. Tarullo Bd of Gov. (designate) B,C
Alan Greenspan Chmn, Bd. Gov.(fmr) B,C,T
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr Vice Chmn (fmr) C,T
Alice Mitchell Rivlin Vice Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C,T
Alan Stuart Blinder Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Paul AdolphVolcker Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) B,C,T
Eugend R. Black Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Arthur F. Burns Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
William McC. Martin Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Thomas B. McCabe Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Eugene Meyer Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
G. William Miller hmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Ellen Victoria Futter Chmn. FR Bank, NY C
E. Geerald Corrigan Pres. FR Bank, NY (fmr) T
Maurice R. Greenberg Dep. Chmn FRB, NY(fmr) B,C,T
William J. McDonough Pres. FR Bank, NY (fmr) B,C
Dorothy Meadow Sobol FR Bank, NY C
Willene A. Johnson Sr. Officer, FRB, NY C
Ernest T. Patrikis Dep. Gen Counsel, FRB, NY C
Harold W. Anderson Pres. FR Bank, KS City (fmr) C
Robert Patrick Forrestal Pres. FR Bank, Atlanta C
Michael H. Moskow Pres. FR Bank, Chicago B,C
Warren Bruce Rudman Dep. Chmn, FR Bank, Boston C
A. William Reynolds Chmn, FR Bank, Cleveland C
Margaret L. Greene Dep. Mgr. FR Bd. Frn Ops. C
Sam Y. Cross Mgr. Fed Open Market Acct C

Export-Import Bank
James H. (Jim) Lambright Chmn,Pres. C
John D. Macomber Pres. & Chmn (fmr) C
Kenneth D. Brody Pres. & Chmn. (fmr) C
Eugene K. Lawson 1st VP, V. Chmn. (fmr) C

International Monetary Fund
Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff
Economic Counsellor and Director C,T
John P. Lipsky First Deputy Managing Director C
William Brown Dale Dep. Mng. Dir, Geneva C
Helen B. Junz Spec. trade Rep. Geneva C
Richard David Erb Dep Mng. Dir., Washington C

The World Bank
Robert B. Zoellick President B,C, T
Jessica P. Einhorn Mng. Dir. (fmr) C,T
James David Wolfensohn Pres. (fmr) B,C
Robert Strange McNamara Pres. (fmr) B,C,T
Raymond Vernon (dec) Visiting Prof. (fmr) B,C
David A. Wirth Econ. Asst.(fmr) C

International Bank of Reconstruction & Development
Lewis Thompson Preston (dec) Pres. (fmr) C
Andrew M. Kamarck Washington office (fmr) C

Bank of America (Bankamerica Corp)
Hugh McColl Chmn & CEO (fmr) T
A. W. Clausen Chmn & CEO (fmr) T
Nicholas Burns Binkley Chmn & CEO (fmr) C
Rudolph A. Peterson (dec) Chmn Exec Comm (fmr) B,C
George William Coombe, Jr. Exec VP (fmr) C
Ignazio E. Lozano, Jr. Dir. C

Bankers Trust Company acqired by Deutsche Bank
Charles Stedman Sanford, Jr. Chmn & CEO C
George J. Vojta Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Donald L. Staheli Dir. (fmr) C

Brown Brothers Harriman
Robert Livingston Ireland, III (dec) Gen. Partner C
Alexander Tonio Ercklentz Partner C
Frank W. Hoch Ltd Partner C

Chase Manhattan Bank
merged w/ J.P.Morgan (2000) to form J.P.Morgan Chase
James "Jamie" L. Dimon,CEO, chmn, JPMorgan Chase & Co.. C
David Rockefeller Chmn Int Adv Comm B,C,T
Walter Vincent Shipley Chmn & CEO (fmr) C,T
Robert Royal Douglas V. Chmn (fmr) C
John Donald Wilson Sr. VP (fmr) C
John P. Lipsky Ch. Economist (fmr) C
Riorden Roett Director (fmr) C
Marina Von N. Whitman Director (fmr) C,T

Citigroup
Richard Dean Parsons Chmn, CEO C
Stanley Fischer Vice Chmn (fmr) C,T
Walter Bigelow Wriston (dec) Chairman (fmr) B
William Reginald Rhodes Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Richard A. Freytag (dec) Pres. & CEO (fmr) C
Leslie Elizabeth Bains Mng Dir. (fmr) C

North Carolina National Bank (NCNB)
renamed NationsBank acquired BankAmerica
Hugh L. McColl Jr. Chmn & CEO (fmr) T

Federal National Mortgage Assoc. (FNMA) (Fannie Mae)
Franklin Delano Raines Chmn & CEO (fmr) B,C,T
Thomas L. Donilon Vice Pres B

Media
Anne Applebaum Writer, Washington Post C
Max Boot Cont. Ed., The Weekly Standard, WSJ; Sr. Fellow, CFR B, C
David G. Bradley Chmn, Atlantic Media Co. T
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Editor, Washington Post C
Richard M. Cohen senior producer for CBS News and CNN C
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric Mng Ed.,CBS Evening News C
Lee Cullum Columnist, Dallas Morning News C,T
David Gergen editor-at-large, U.S. News & World Report C,T
Paul A Gigot Wall Street Journal, Editor B
Donald E. Graham Chmn, CEO, Washington Post Co. B
Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland Asso. Ed, Washington Post B,C
Robert Kagan columnist, Washington Post C
Richard N. Kaplan president of CNN/U.S. of the CNN News Group C
Glenn Kessler Washington Post diplomatic correspondent. C
Joe Klein Columnist, Time Magazine C
Anne Elise Kornblut staff writer, Washington Post C
Charles Krauthammer Columnist, Washngton Post B,C
Charles M. Lane editorial writer, The Washington Post C
Andrea Mitchell Chief Foreign Affairs Corr, NBC News B,C
Rupert Murdoch chmn, managing dir. ,News Corporation (News Corp) C
Richard Dean Parsons former CEO, Time Warner C
Norman Pearlstine Cont. chief, Bloomberg L.P;
fmr Sr. Adv. Time Warner; fmr Ed Time B,C
Steven L. Rattner founder Quadrangle Group B,C
Charles Peete (Charlie) Rose, Jr. PBS, Charlie Rose Show B,C
Vivian L. Schiller senior vice president and general manager, New York Times C
Lesley Stahl Co-Editor, 60 Minutes in New York C
Martha Teichner Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning C
John Vinocur Sr. Corres, International Herald Tribune B
Barbara Walters ABC World News Tonight C
Robin Wright foreign policy reporter, The Washington Post C
Mortimer B. Zuckerman U.S.News & World Report, Chmn, Editor in Chief C,T

Union Leaders
Jay Mazur ILGWU, Pres , AFL-CIO VP C,T
John J. Sweeney AFL-CIO Pres C,T

Religoious Leaders
Rick Warren pastor, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA;
Author, The Purpose Driven Life. C
Richard D. Land president, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC),
the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, U.S. C

Directors of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation
William H. Webster C
William D. Ruckelshaus C,T

Current House of Representatives
Howard L. Berman (D) CA C
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D) GA C
Charles W. Boustany Jr. (R) LA C
Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly (D) VA C
James (Jim) H. S. Cooper (D) TN C
Goeffrey Clark Davis (R) KY C
Norman D. Dicks (D) WA C
David Dreier (D) CA C
Jane Harman (D) CA C
James A. McDermott (D) WA C
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) DC C
Ed Pastor (D) AZ C
Thomas E. Petri (R) WI C
Charles B. Rangel (D) NY T
John M. Spratt , Jr. (D) SC C
Ellen Tauscher (D) CA C
William M. Thornberry (R) TX C

Former House Members
John B. Anderson (R) IL C
Michael D. Barnes (D) MD C
Anthony C. Beilenson (D) CA C
Douglas K. Bereuter (R) NE C
John Brademas (D) NY B,C,T
Thomas J. Campbell (R) CA C
Richard B. Cheney (R) WY C
William F. Clinger, Jr. (R) PA C
Barbara B. Conable (D) NY T
Mervyn M. Dymally (D) CA C
Dante B. Fascell (D) FL C
Geraldine A. Ferraro (D) NY C
Thomas S. Foley (D) WA C,T
Sam Gejdenson (D), CT C
Richard A. Gephardt (D) MO C, T
Newton L. Gingrich (R) GA C
Daniel "Dan" Glickman (D) KS B,C
William H. Gray, III (D)PA T
Lee H. Hamilton (D) IN B,T
Jane Lakes Harmon (D) CA C
Amory Houghton, Jr. (R) NY C
Henry Hyde (R) IL C
Nancy Lee Johnson (R) CT C
James T. Kolbe (R) AZ C
John J. LaFalce (D) NY B
Mel Levine (D) CA C
James A. S. Leach (R) IA T
Dave K. McCurdy (D) OK C
Susan K. Molinari (D) NY C
Jim Moody (D) WI C
Donald M. Payne (D) NJ C
John Edward Porter (R) IL C
Ogden R. Reid (D) NY C
William B. Richardson (D) NM C
Carlos A. Romero-Burcelo (D) PR C
Patricia Scott Schroeder (D) CO C
Charles Schumer (D) NY C
Peter Plympton Smith (R) VT C
Stephen J. Solarz (D) NY C
Louis Stokes (D) OH C
Esteban Edward Torres (D) CA C
Robert G. Torricelli (D), NJ C
Vin Weber (R) MN C
Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (R) OH C
Howard Wolpe (D) MI C

Current U. S. Senate
Evan Bayh (D) IN B,C
Christopher J. Dodd (D) CT B,C
Dianne Feinstein (D) CA C,T
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) TX B
John F. Kerry (D) MA C
Joseph I. Lieberman (D) CT C
John McCain (R) AZ C
Jack Reed (D) RI C
John D. Rockefeller, IV (D) WV C,T
Olympia J. Snowe (R) ME C
Mark R. Warner (D) VA C

Former U. S. Senators
Lloyd Bentsen (D) TX B
David L. Boren (D) OK C
Rudy Boschwitz (R) MN C
Edward Brooke (R) MA B
William L. Bradley (D) NJ C
John H. Chafee (R) RI B,C,T
Hillory Rodham Clinton (D) NY B
William S. Cohen (R) ME C,T
Dick Clark (D) IA C
Jon Stevens Corzine (D) NJ B
Alan Cranston (D) CA T
John C. Culver (D) IA C,T
John C. Danforth (R) MO T
John Edwards (D) NC B
Bob Graham (D) FL C
Chuck Hagel (R) NE B
Fred R. Harris (D) OK B
Gary Hart (D) CO C
J. Bennett Johnston (D) LA B
Charles McC. Mathias (R) MD B,C
George S. McGovern (D)SD C
George J. Mitchell (D) ME C
Daniel Moynihan (D) NY C
Sam Nunn (D), GA B
Claiborne Pell (D), RI C
Charles H. Percy (R) IL C
Larry Pressler (R), SD C
Abraham Ribicoff (D) CT C
Donald W. Riegle (D) MI B
Charles S. Robb (D) VA C,T
Terry Sanford (D) NC C
Paul Sarbanes (D), MD C
Hugh Scott (R) PA B
Adlai E. Stevenson, III (D) IL B,C
William V. Roth, Jr. (R) DE C,T
Robert G. Torricelli (D) NJ C
Timothy Wirth ( D) CO C
Harris L. Wofford (D) PA C

Financial Institutions
Jack Sheinkman, (dec), Chmn., Amalgamated Bank B,C
Richard L. Carrion, Chmn. CEO, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico C
Odeh Felix Aburdene, (dec) Mng. Ptnr.,Capital Trust, Boston C
Mitchell W. Hedstrom, VP, Citibank, NYC (fmr) C
Richard Leslie Huber, Vice Chmn., Continental Bank Corp. merged w/ BankAmerica C
Jackson B. Gilbert, 2nd Chmn., Espirito Santo Bank, FL C
Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chmn, Eton Park Capital Mgmnt C,T
John Robert Petty, Chmn., Marine Midland Bank in New York C
Maynard J. Toll, Jr., Managing Dir., First Boston Corp., NYC C
Richard C. Holbrooke, V. Chmn., CS First Boston B,C
David C. Mulford, fmr Chmn.CEO, CS First Boston, Inc., London C
John M. Hennessy, former Chmn. & CEO, CS First Boston, Inc. C
Alfred R. Abboud, former Chmn. & CEO, First City Bankcorp, Hou. C
Anthony P. Terracciano, Chmn, Sallie Mae; former Pres. Wachovia C
Ferdinando “Nani“ Beccalli-Falco, Pres. CEO, GE International T
Peter Weinberg, fmr CEO, Goldman Sachs International, Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners B
John L. Thornton, co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International B
Jon Stevens Corzine, co-CEO, Goldman Sachs B
Joseph A. Rice, fmr. Chmn & CEO, Irving Bank Corp. C
Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel, Jerusalem C,T
Dennis Weatherstone (dec), fmr. Chmn. & CEO, J. P. Morgan & Co. C
Thomas S. Johnson, Chmn. CEO, Greenpoint Fin. Corp. Dir., Freddie Mac C
Robert G. Wilmers, Chairman, fmr.Pres & CEO, Mfr & Trdrs Trust, Buffalo C
Henry Furlong Baldwin, Chmn., Mercantile Bankshares C
Rimmer de Vries (dec), fmr Sr. VP, Morgan Guarantee Trust C
Frederick L. Deming, Pres., National City Bankcorp. (Ret), former Pres., FRBank Minneapolis B
Richard E. Beeman, Chmn. CEO, The Private Trust Co. C
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Ch., Pres. & CEO, NationsBank Corp. C,T
Morris Wolf Offit, Pres., Offit Bank, NYC C
Arthur F. Ryan, Chmn, CEO, Pres Prudential Financial, Inc. C,T
Leslie Elizabeth Bains, Exec. VP, Republic Bank of NYC C
Joe Lewis Allbritton, Chmn., Riggs Bank of Washington C
George Soros, Chmn. Soros Fund Mgmt. B,C
Roger W. Ferguson , Jr., Pres, CEO, TIAA-CREF C,T
M. Straser Holcomb, Exec. VP, USAA, San Antonio C

Council on Foreign Relations
Richard Haass President C,T
Henry Siegman. Sr. Fellow ,
Dir. Mid East Pproject B,C

Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller. Fonder, Honorary
Chmn, Lifetime member B,C,T
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
North American Chairman B,C,T
Paul A. Volcker
fmr No. American Chmn B,C,T

College & University Presidents (partial list)
Robert Hazard Edwards Bowdoin College (fmr) C
Vartan Gregorian Brown Univ. (fmr); Pres. Carnegie Corp, NY C
Tomas Abel Arciniega Cal. State, Bakersfield (fmr) C
Stephen Richard Lewis, Jr. Carlton College C
William Reckling Cotter Colby College (fmr) C
Michael Ira Sovern Columbia (fmr); Chancellor, Columbia Law School C
Claire Lynn Gaudiani Connecticut College (fmr); Professor: New York University C
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes Cornell Univ. (fmr) C
David J. Skorton Cornell Univ. C
Thomas H. Kean Drew Univ. (fmr) C
Nannerl Overholser Keohane Duke Univ. fmr) ; Wellesley College (fmr);
Prof, Princeton Univ. C,T
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg George Washington Univ., President Emeritus C
Neil Leon Rudenstine Harvard Univ. (fmr) C
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers Harvard Univ. (fmr) B, C, T
Steven Muller J ohns Hopkins Univ. (fmr) C
Robert Irvin Rotberg Lafayette College (fmr) C
Niara Sudarkasa Lincoln Univ. (fmr) C
David Joel Steinberg Long Island Univ. C
Melville Peter McPherson Michigan State Univ. (fmr) C
Elizabeth Topham Kennan Mt. Holyoke College (fmr) C
Lawrence Jay Oliva New York Univ. C
Henry S. Bienen Northwestern Univ. C

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Will Hillary go for sloppy seconds?

A 2012 primary challenge by Mrs Clinton is currently regarded as unlikely, but growing number of party activists and old hands are hoping that she changes her mind.

Democrats doubt Barack Obama's reelection chances

British journalist blames 'liberal dogma' for UK riots

UK DAILY MAIL ONLINE: Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters

'I created Obama's certification of birth'

White House links to deliberate forgery from Snopes.com, thinking it was real

Isn't it comforting to know that these are the people who are in charge of your future?

Palin knocks it out of the park

Hot Air: Green Room

Few people in the public eye have said anything useful about the recent unpleasantness with the national debt and the national credit rating. The president hasn’t. The vice president hasn’t. Surprisingly few of the declared Republican candidates have. The MSM haven’t. They’re busy trying to make the expression “Tea Party downgrade” go viral. . .What is interesting is how few in our national political life have put the case together, as Palin has, without temporizing or bloviating. I haven’t heard anyone else do what she does with this post.

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Federal deficit tops $1T for 3rd straight year

Before 2009, the deficit had never come close to $1 trillion in a single year.

Thank, Bama!

Commandos criticize call for SEALs

Rangers’ danger, single helicopter among questions

Pastor Hagee receives a bomb threat

Glenn Beck:

One of the guest speakers at Glenn’s “Restoring Courage” event and the leader of Christians United for Israel received a note this morning telling him “There’s a bomb set to go off unless you withdraw your backing of Governor Rick Perry. So I’d stay away from all ministry offices.” Glenn was shocked, but it turns out this wasn’t the worst threat he’s had to deal with.

“There was a man who walked into my church during a Bible study. It was on a Wednesday night, and he came in. He was carrying a loaded six‑shooter, and he walked to the front of the church and he roared like a wild animal and said, ‘I’ve come to shoot you to prove that Satan has more power than Jesus Christ.’ And I held up my Bible and said that this book says that no weapon formed against me shall prosper. And he became infuriated and said, ‘I’m going to kill you on the count of three. Get on your knees and beg for your life.’ I said, I will not because the Lord is my protector. And he said, ‘I’m going to shoot you on the count of three.’ He lied. He started shooting on the count of two. And he emptied the gun at me from a distance of eight to ten feet, and by the grace and mercy of God missed every shot. He ran out of the building, he was knocked down, apprehended, sent a few days later to the asylum for the criminally insane. Ninety days later a team of psychiatrists pronounced him ready to take his place in society and he went home and immediately climbed the highest tree in his backyard and hung himself,” Hagee told Glenn.

“And this, this bomb threat is coming because our church went to Houston, Texas Saturday and participated in the prayer service that Governor Perry called for us to pray for a nation in crisis, and that entire service that lasted from 10:00 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon was apolitical. It was nothing more than prayer, repentance, fasting, calling out on God to help America and to help break this drought in Texas. And here someone who’s from out of state sends this threat because I will tell you that prayer infuriates the ungodly,” Hagee added.

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How to avoid becoming a hostage to politicians

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The Patriot Post

Greater freedom for tax payers would be seized from tax consumers, in an act of terrorism against the sacred machinery of redistribution. This mindset flows from the fundamental leftist misunderstanding of freedom. They view the essence of freedom as action. ... In reality, freedom is property. Every form of collectivism, from fascism to socialism, is an offense against property rights. The early philosophers of socialism railed bitterly against the private ownership of property. They hated the notion of a middle class with independence secured through ownership. The perilous financial situation of the United States government illustrates how closely private property rights are connected to all other forms of liberty. The less absolute your rights of ownership over your land, labor, and fortune become, the more easily the other rights can be dismissed at the convenience of the State. ... Now we are told that we have no choice but to allow the State to become larger, spending and borrowing more as it extends its control over our lives. Those who disagree are denounced as 'terrorists.' ... In a nation where the government fully respected private ownership, the notion of citizens becoming 'hostages' to federal budget cuts would be laughable, rather than insulting. Freedom is not something to be granted, rationed, allocated, or redistributed. It is not won or lost in an election. Freedom is something you own.

Freedom Is Something You Own

SEAL TEAM 6 - INVESTIGATE THE WHITE HOUSE

The United West
DEMAND A SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!

Sound begins about 00:15

There is a disturbing let them eat cake mentality projected by the Obama White House...

...and The Obama presidency comes across as bitter, nasty and divisive

Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph:

The stunning decline of Barack Obama 2011 edition: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency continues to melt down

S&P UPGRADES...OHIO!

Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) explains how Ohio turned its greatest fiscal shortfall into a structurally balanced budget, all while cutting taxes for every Ohioan.

Conservative ideas work!

Socialist ideas don't (never have).

ALAN GREENSPAN: No chance of default...

Greenspan on Meet the Press: No Chance of Default. Really?

Quick: Someone tell the President!

Tip from Afghanistan...you will not believe what's really going on

Obama commissions Hollywood pic on OBL Raid
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 9:48 PM MST

Yep. Published this very day, written by uber-leftist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. The Obama regime has commissioned a major motion picture about the fake Bin Laden raid. The film will be released . . . October 12, 2012.

Guys, we're into full-blown Leni Riefenstahl territory now.

Here's the link to the Dowd piece. I am linking to page 2 of 2 because that's where the stuff about the movie is, but do read the whole thing.

Read up.

Money quotes:

The White House clearly blessed the dramatic reconstruction of the mission by Nicholas Schmidle in The New Yorker — so vividly descriptive of the SEALS' looks, quotes and thoughts that Schmidle had to clarify after the piece was published that he had not actually talked to any of them.

(snip)

The White House is also counting on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal big-screen version of the killing of bin Laden to counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual.

The Sony film by the Oscar-winning pair who made "The Hurt Locker" will no doubt reflect the president's cool, gutsy decision against shaky odds. Just as Obamaland was hoping, the movie is scheduled to open on Oct. 12, 2012 — perfectly timed to give a home-stretch boost to a campaign that has grown tougher.

The moviemakers are getting top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration.

It was clear that the White House had outsourced the job of manning up the president's image to Hollywood when Boal got welcomed to the upper echelons of the White House and the Pentagon and showed up recently — to the surprise of some military officers — at a CIA ceremony celebrating the hero SEALs.

Is this why Matt Damon is currently sporting a buzzcut? Hmmmm.

Update: Bin Laden Raid Story Being Debunked
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 8:04 PM MST

Via BigPeace.com, the widely read cover story published in the New Yorker on August 1 by Nicholas Schmidle supposedly detailing the entire Bin Laden raid is being exposed as a fraud. And if you read the debunking piece linked below, you will see that the author C. Christine Fair is no conservative and even calls anti-sharia legislation in the U.S. "ludicrous and shameful." If you aren't familiar with the New Yorker magazine, it is an uber-liberal mouthpiece for the Obama regime.

Read up.

Tip from Afghanistan
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 6:57 AM MST

I received a tip from a soldier stationed with an aviation brigade out of Jalalabad overnight.

"Almost immediately, after news of the crash began to spread, we were placed in an internet and phone blackout. This means communication with family, friends and "others" back home, in real time, is prevented until further notice.

However, there are also chinook pilots, crews and mechanics assigned here who were privy to the details of the crash almost immediately. One of confirmed details they have been discussing is that the chinook shot down belonged to a National Guard unit. Which is causing people to whisper in astonishment, "why were some of the most elite of America's military, in such large numbers, tooling around on a National Guard aircraft?"

Also, those around me are wondering why such a large number(extremely unconventional for Seals, Green Berets, etc) of them riding in a single aircraft instead of being spread out into numerous aircraft.

Without question, I mean no disrespect to the pilots and crew of the National Guard aircraft, but the fact is that it's very "strange" that Seals would be conducting an actual mission, with such large numbers, in such a basic aircraft. Especially, given the fact, that there were special operation chinooks easily available, and sitting idle, when this tragedy took place."

I am not a journalist. I have no means of checking this. But SOMEONE needs to investigate if in fact the SEALS were on a National Guard helo, if there were SPECOPS Chinooks available and idle, and what the difference in armament is between Guard Chinooks and SPECOPS Chinooks. This potential difference in armament is HUGE and could account for the possibility of the Chinook being shot down by an RPG, if that is what happened.

Hello? Journalists? Anyone out there?

UPDATE: The SPECOPS Chinook is a very different beast that is heavily upgraded with enhanced survivability features. It is the Boeing MH-47E/G. Boeing's Homepage for the SPECOPS chinook here. The soldier quoted above contends that the SEALS were NOT in one of these units, but rather in a standard Chinook while these SPECOPS Chinooks were available and sitting idle. Again, a JOURNALIST needs to confirm this.

UPDATE 2 (From a reader):

Ann,
You are on to something here. I was in the 160th 1982- 1985 and I can tell you that the reason the aviation wing was created was so special ops would never again have to fly missions with anyone other than their own pilots and birds.

UPDATE 3 (From a reader):

Ann, I'm sure you're getting a lot of notes on the Chinook debacle. I'm retired USAF familiar with how the system works when it comes to the questions asked by your Jalalabad contact. First, look to the Command Authority. Dispersion protocols are almost never broken except on direct order up the chain high enough that nobody could question or refuse the order without jeopardizing their career. Second, 'who benefits'? Follow the trail of beneficiaries to the incident. Tactically, intell had to be passed to the shooters as to the timetable. I'm willing to bet that there were several RPG's (if not Stinger's - remember, we provided quite a few and never kept a record during the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan) involved. Then, once fired, the shooters had to egress unseen to fight another day. Many people I know, including some recently back from that area say this stinks to high Heaven, as you do.

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On U.S. Stinger Missles in Afghanistan
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 3:49 PM MST

No, the Chinook could not have been shot down with a 1980s-era Stinger supplied by the U.S. when the Soviets were in Afghanistan. It turns out that U.S. Stingers were designed to have an "expiration date" after which they became useless and inert. The seeker head of the U.S. Stinger contained a coolant that degraded over time. All U.S. Stingers in Afghanistan are long since inert. The risk today in Afghanistan are the Russian "Grail" and French "Mistral" MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems).

Following up on the RPG question, we have lost only one (that I can find) SPECOPS Chinook to RPG fire, and that incident saw the RPG shot go inside the cabin of the SPECOPS Chinook through an open hatch. It was a Golden BB shot. That tells us that the SPECOPS Chinooks are extremely resilient and have high combat survivability. The SPECOPS Chinooks are like a heavily armored Brinks truck. A standard National Guard Chinook would be analogous to a FedEx truck by comparison. You never pack 25 SEALs into one helo as a point of dispersion protocol, as stated by a reader below. I have been told that a MINIMUM of three helos would normally be used for a group of that size. And IF they were indeed in a standard National Guard Chinook and not a SPECOPS Chinook, that would be like rolling out in a FedEx truck with your extremely precious cargo.

(Every human being is infinitely precious, but we can all agree that from a battlefield standpoint, SEALs are "tactically precious.")

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Confirmed: It was A National Guard Chinook & Crew
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 6:17 PM MST

From the obituary of Sgt. Patrick Hamburger who served in the Nebraska National Guard as a Chinook Helicopter crewman and crew chief. The family was notified at 5:00pm CDT Saturday afternoon.

Link Here.

From the article:

Sources from the US military say the giant NATO chopper was called into action as backup. A team conducting a night raid on Taliban fighters was in trouble and the chopper went down as it arrived to help. . .

Requiescat in pace, Sgt. Hamburger, and all the fallen dead.

Sgt. Hamburger had JUST ARRIVED in Afghanistan a couple of days ago. Why was a green National Guard unit flying backup for DEVGRU SPECOPs??????? Where was the 160th SOAR backup??????

My God.

UPDATE: Additional confirmation that it was a CH-47 transport helo. Copy and paste this URL: www.1011now.com/home/headlines/Lincoln_Native_Killed_in_Afghanistan_Helicopter_Crash_127089778.html

What in the HELL was a CH-47 TRANSPORT helo doing in a DEVGRU combat theater???? FILLED WITH 25 SEALS??????? If the SEALs' MH-47G SPECOPS Chinook that they rode in on was taken out in the Tangi theater, where is the fallen MH-47G helo itself? Shouldn't there also be dead crew members from the 160th SOAR, which is an Army unit? This ain't right, people. I'm telling you. This is NOT RIGHT.