NBA IN DIRE STRAITS

Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Living On The Edge Of Desperation – And The Economy Is About To Get A Whole Lot Worse

Back during the early 1930s, the flow of credit was greatly restricted and that was one of the primary causes of the Great Depression. Back in 2008, another massive credit crunch just about brought the financial world to its knees.

Well, now it is starting to happen again. . .

But instead of doing something to prepare for the coming economic crisis, members of the U.S. Congress are focused on stripping even more of our liberties and freedoms away from us.

As I wrote about yesterday, a new law (S. 1867) is being pushed through the U.S. Senate that is extremely frightening.

If this bill becomes a law, the United States of America would officially become part of the "battlefield" in the war on terror, and any American citizen could easily be flagged as a "potential terrorist".

Once identified as a "potential terrorist", the U.S. military would be able to arrest you, take you to a foreign prison and detain you for the rest of your life without ever having to charge you with anything.

What in the world is happening to America?

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The Obama administration gives the impression that it increasingly regards democracy as an inconvenience...

PowerLine:

Is paranoia a bad quality in an Attorney General?

One would think so, and I speculate that Eric Holder’s tenure may be drawing to a close.

27 worst nativity sets: the annual, growing list!

From Mark Oestreicher:

A few years back i posted a long series of bad nativity sets. last year i grouped them all into one post — 20 of them at that point — and it became my highest trafficked post of all time. but people sent me more and a stumbled onto a few myself. so… this year, the list has 27! merry christmas all, and enjoy or be horrified by this weird collection of nativity oddness.

SEE 'EM ALL HERE!
Thanks to
THE ANCHORESS

Counter-Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism update

The Counterintelligence Imperative

The depressing truth is that CIA counterintelligence disasters have become almost routine in recent years, and accountability seems to be minimal.

Obama Orders Sharia-Compliant Scrub of Counterterrorism Materials

But at least one member of Congress is worried that all of these reviews will undermine counterterrorism efforts in the name of political correctness.

In a forthcoming letter to Holder and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) writes that “political nature of these reviews might inadvertently weaken our law enforcement and military counter-terrorism training programs by censoring certain language that is used to objectively identify the asymmetrical threats that are present in today’s world.”

How Obama completely f*cked up our relations with Mexico

Key question in scandal: Why?

But why stop at Mexico: can you think of ANY country where our relationship has improved since Obama took office???

PayPal, the Bible, and Homosexuality...

READ ALL ABOUT IT:
Government’s back door censorship

Although PayPal did apologize to Pamela Geller...

"We are in DEFCON 3, two stages from a financial collapse so huge it's hard to get your mind around.”

FOX NATION 11/29:

VIDEOS - 11/28

Jim Cramer is host of CNBC's Mad Money.

Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's

President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

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The real 'star search'

We have all seen reality programs where hopeful contestants announce that they are “the next big recording star” and then proceed to torture our ears and frighten our pets with dreadful caterwauling. When rejected they often seem dazed, arguing that they must be great singers, because “everyone” tells them they are.

Fulfilling God’s Longings for Us

Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, works to remove Obama from NH ballot

BARACK OBAMA HAS NEVER BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR THE PRESIDENCY

Joining campaigns in Iowa, Georgia and South Carolina to challenge Barack Obama’s being on the 2012 ballot, COL(R) Lawrence Sellin, columnist for The Post & Email and earlier for Canada Free Press, has commenced a campaign to contact members of the New Hampshire Legislature to deny Obama’s name being added to the ballot because he is not a “Natural Born Citizen” as required by the Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution (U.S. citizen, born to two U.S. citizen parents).

Sellin has enlisted a group of hundreds of American patriots and military veterans who are sending emails to the N.H. Legislature. This group, in turn, is contacting friends and family in their address books to also send emails to protest the recent Ballot Law Commission hearing which arrived at the decision to add Obama’s name to the 2012 ballot based only on the fact that he completed the application and paid the $1000 filing fee.

War Veteran Begins Email Campaign to Remove Obama from the New Hampshire Ballot

Nukes in the air?

Foreign Confidential ™: IS IRAN PREPARING TO NUKE ISRAEL?

Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab

Read the actual news story here.

I just started watching Stephen King's The Stand last night.

The product review starts out: "After a government-spawned "superflu" wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population..."

If you watch The Stand and then read the actual news story below, you'll be even more freaked out:

NEWS STORY.

So synch your watches and then take bets on how long it'll be before all this falls into "the wrong hands"...

30 Signs That The United States Of America Is Being Turned Into A Giant Prison

If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do. Nothing is private anymore. Everything that you do on the Internet is being monitored. All of your phone calls are being monitored. In fact, if law enforcement authorities suspect that you have done something wrong, they will use your cell phone microphone to listen to you even when you think your cell phone is turned off. In many areas of the country, when you get into your car automated license plate readers track you wherever you go, and in many major cities when you are walking on the streets a vast network of security cameras and "smart street lights" are constantly watching you and listening to whatever you say. The TSA is setting up "internal checkpoints" all over the nation, Homeland Security is encouraging all of us to report any "suspicious activity" that our neighbors are involved in and the federal government is rapidly developing "pre-crime" technology that will flag us as "potential terrorists" if we display any signs of nervousness. If you are flagged as a "potential terrorist", the U.S. military can arrest you and detain you for the rest of your life without ever having to charge you with anything. Yes, the United States of America is rapidly being turned into a "Big Brother" prison grid, and most Americans are happily going along with it.

The sad thing is that this used to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

So what in the world happened?

A fundamental shift in our culture has taken place. The American people have eagerly given up huge chunks of liberty and freedom in exchange for vague promises of increased security.

Our country is now run by total control freaks and paranoia has become standard operating procedure.

We were told that the terrorists hate our liberties and our freedoms, and that we needed to fight the terrorists so that we could keep our liberties and our freedoms.

But instead, the government keeps taking away all of our liberties and our freedoms.

How in the world does that make any sense?

Have the terrorists won?

As a country, we have moved so far in the direction of communist China, the USSR and Nazi Germany that it is almost impossible to believe.

Yes, turning the United States of America into a giant prison may make us all slightly safer, but what kind of life is this?

Do we want to be dead while we are still alive?

Is this the price that we want to pay in order to feel slightly safer?

Where are the millions of Americans that still yearn to breathe free air?

America is supposed to be a land teeming with people thirsting for independence. For example, "Live Free or Die" is supposedly the official motto of the state of New Hampshire.

But instead, the motto of most Americans seems to be "live scared and die cowering".

We don't have to live like this.

Yes, bad things are always going to happen. No amount of security is ever going to be able to keep us 100% safe.

We need to remember that a very high price was paid for our liberty and we should not give it up so easily.

As one very famous American once said, when we give up liberty for security we deserve neither.

The following are 30 signs that the United States of America is being turned into a giant prison....

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Global warming much less serious than thought - new science - UPDATED

We're looking at just a couple of degrees with double CO2

Scientists Behaving Badly

Climategate 2.0

Why climategate is a catastrophe for science

UPDATE:

More On Climategate II

UPDATE #2:

Scientists in Revolt against Global Warming

Bret Stephens: The Great Global Warming Fizzle

Russian Backing for Iran and Syria: For What and for How Long

The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) (11/27/11):

In recent years, Russia has in practice served as the gatekeeper of international pressures on Iran and Syria. These nations, along with Hizbollah and Hamas, constitute the Middle East's anti-Western (and of course anti-Israel) “axis of evil,” dedicated to a global struggle to promote its members' radical agenda. However, it is necessary to distinguish between two current issues: international pressure on Syria in the wake of its brutal suppression of the popular uprising, and developments stemming from the publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on Iran’s nuclear program.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY ON WHY U.S. (STILL) NEEDS TAX CUTS

Forty-nine years ago, with the economy still recovering from a 10-month recession that ended in 1961, President Kennedy sketched out a bold plan to get the economy moving again. It focused on deep, across-the-board cuts in taxes. Those cuts, made after Kennedy's tragic death in November 1963, created a boom that lasted through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Contrast his tax-cutting rhetoric of nearly 50 years ago with today's tax-hiking rhetoric of President Obama and his Democratic colleagues. Following is an abridged version of Kennedy's remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Dec. 15, 1962.

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22 Shocking Facts About The Scandal That Could Bring Down The Obama Administration

FAST & FURIOUS

Obama on Gay Rights: “It was something I experimented with in college”

...but he didn't swallow.

Or did he?

The Resume of Jesus Christ

Address:  Ephesians 1:20
Phone:     Romans 10:13
Website:  The Bible . Keywords: Christ, Lord, Savior and Jesus
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Objective

My name is Jesus -The Christ. Many call me Lord! I've sent you my resume because I'm seeking the top management position in your heart. Please consider my accomplishments as set forth in my resume.
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Qualifications

I founded the earth and established the heavens, (See Proverbs 3:19)
I formed man from the dust of the ground, (See Genesis 2:7)
I breathed into man the breath of life, (See Genesis 2:7)
I redeemed man from the curse of the law, (See Galatians 3:13)

The blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant comes upon your life through me, (See Galatians 3:14)
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Occupational Background

I've only had one employer, (See Luke 2:49 ).

I've never been tardy, absent, disobedient, slothful or disrespectful.
My employer has nothing but rave reviews for me, (See Matthew 3:15 -17)

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Skills Work Experiences

Some of my skills and work experiences include: empowering the poor to be poor no more, healing the brokenhearted, setting the captives free, healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind and setting at liberty them that are bruised, (See Luke 4:18).

I am a Wonderful Counselor, (See Isaiah 9:6). People who listen to me shall dwell safely and shall not fear evil, (See Proverbs 1:33 ).

Most importantly, I have the authority, ability and power to cleanse you of your sins, (See I John 1:7-9)

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Educational Background

I encompass the entire breadth and length of knowledge, wisdom and understanding, (See Proverbs 2:6).

In me are hid all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, (See Colossians 2:3).

My Word is so powerful; it has been described as being a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path, (See Psalms 119:105).
I can even tell you all of the secrets of your heart, (See Psalms 44:21).
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Major Accomplishments

I was an active participant in the greatest Summit Meeting of all times, (See Genesis 1:26 ).

I laid down my life so that you may live, (See II Corinthians 5:15 ).
I defeated the arch enemy of God and mankind and made a show of them openly, (See Colossians 2:15 ).

I've miraculously fed the poor, healed the sick and raised the dead!
There are many more major accomplishments, too many to mention here. You can read them on my website, which is located at: www dot - the BIBLE. You don't need an Internet connection or computer to access my website.
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References

Believers and followers worldwide will testify to my divine healing, salvation, deliverance, miracles, restoration and supernatural guidance.
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In Summation

Now that you've read my resume, I'm confident that I'm the only candidate uniquely qualified to fill this vital position in your heart. In summation, I will properly direct your paths, (See Proverbs 3:5-6), and lead you into everlasting life, (See John 6:47 ). When can I start? Time is of the essence, (See Hebrews 3:15 ).

Send this resume to everyone you know, you never know who may have an opening!

Thanks for your help.

MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS IN THE U.S.

NPR:

The presence of Mexican drug cartels in U.S. cities is expanding. Mexican cartels have long had links to marijuana-growing farms in California, and are widening their reach into the Pacific Northwest and the Eastern United States. They also are involved in producing methamphetamines in the United States. The FBI has reported that the Mexican cartels deal only in wholesale distribution in the U.S. -- and farm out street sales to various U.S. gangs. This map shows locations of cartel activity in the United States.

MAP

THE THREE JOBS

The article Newsweek gutted--more proof of FBI corruption

"And now we know what a cabal of New York editors under pressure from a frightened FBI and nervous White House can do to the story of the greatest crime ever perpetrated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation..."

When citizen investigative journalist Mike Vanderboegh reported earlier this week that an article that appeared in Newsweek Magazine this week was supposed to contain explosive information damaging to the current Administration and that of Bill Clinton, he had a good idea of what was cut by editor Tina Brown due to his numerous contacts in the government. Today, however, Vanderboegh has an unedited copy of the original version of the article, complete with credible evidence of corruption that exposes Eric Holder, Janet Reno, the FBI, and two Administrations as threats not only to the truth but to the very lives of American citizens.

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The body of Baylee Almon is carried from the wreckage of the Murrah Federal Building.

Palin might still run!

We Now Have The Resources To Run The Palin Reconsider Television Ad In The Sioux City, Iowa Market Next Week

A Sign - Not Photoshopped: Beam of Light Shines on Fallen Soldier’s Miracle Dog

Reported by ABC News’ Kimberly Launier:

It was an overcast day in Newport, N.H., when a simple “20/20″ shoot turned into something that made me wonder about life after death.

2012: The "Comalcalco Brick"

Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012

HEH....THEY MUST'VE KNOW ABOUT OBAMA...

The spirit of OCCUPY right at home

My husband and I stumbled upon "live" coverage on NBC last night at 11pm about an hour after it started.

We watched it for awhile--seemed like a huge, big deal with all the fire trucks and a permanent video looking down and at the front of the Wal-Mart about 6 miles from us in Porter Ranch on Rinaldi Street (San Fernando Valley).

I was too tired to post about it last night, plus I didn't realize it would turn into such a huge story.

Both links are on Drudge Report:

CBS NEWS

Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers

L.A. TIMES

Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos

Have you noticed that ever since Obama became the head of the country, people are getting more and more out of control? Flash mobs, OCCUPY, crime rates...from what I'm hearing, we ain't seen nothin' yet. It's going to get a LOT worse.

Thanksgiving Photos From The Front

VIA PAT DOLLARD

To the families who have an empty seat at their Thanksgiving table... Our hearts are with you.

Giving Thanks

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2011
VIA GatewayPundit

1 Chronicles 29:11-13
“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.

Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.

Now, our God, we give you thanks,
and praise your glorious name.”

The Doors: "the act of passing through a doorway serves as a way the mind files away memories"

We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.

New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.

“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.
Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows.

Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows

The Crystal Ship / The Doors

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

Oh tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line


From the album The Doors (1967)

What these emails confirm is that the great man-made global warming scare is not about science but about political activism...

Uh oh, global warming loons: here comes Climategate II!

CBO: Stimulus hurts economy in the long run

The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday downgraded its estimate of the benefits of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, saying it may have sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak last year and that over the long run it will actually be a net drag on the economy.

CBO said that while the Recovery Act boosted the economy in the short run, the extra debt that the stimulus piled up “crowds out” private investment and “will reduce output slightly in the long run — by between 0 and 0.2 percent after 2016.”

The analysis confirms what CBO predicted before the stimulus passed in February 2009, though the top-end decline of two tenths of a percent is actually deeper than the agency predicted back then.

All told, the stimulus did boost jobs and the economy in the short run, according to CBO’s models. At the peak of spending from July through September 2010 it sustained anywhere from 700,000 to 3.6 million, which lowered the unemployment rate by between four-tenths of a percent to 2 percent.

The Obama administration had promised 3.5 million jobs would be produced at the peak of spending.

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Turkey: If it's Butterball, it's Halal

Did you know that the turkey you're going to enjoy on Thanksgiving Day this Thursday is probably halal? If it's a Butterball turkey, then it certainly is -- whether you like it or not...

...much of the meat in Europe and the United States is being processed as halal without the knowledge of the non-Muslim consumers who buy it...

Where are the PETA clowns and the ridiculous celebs who pose naked on giant billboards for PETA and "animal rights"? They would rather see people die of cancer or AIDS than see animals used in drug testing, but torturous and painful Islamic slaughter is OK...

The same Islamic law that mandates that animals be cruelly slaughtered according to halal requirements also teaches hatred of and warfare against unbelievers, the oppression of women, the extinguishing of free speech, and much more that is inimical to our freedom. Don't support it on this celebration of freedom. Join our Facebook group, 'Boycott Butterball'

Happy Halal Thanksgiving

UPDATE

Wow--just what you've always wanted: A way to see the news in your eyeball all day long!

Redneck paradise!

Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts

Oh wait: it's probably LIBERAL news. Scratch that.

It's not just people...

An animal's face (and eyes) can also tell you a lot about what they've been through.

80 cats seized at San Diego home in possible animal cruelty case

Health Care Article Repository

I was really fired up to post all the best articles in the fight leading up to the disastrous vote in March, 2010 that is the beginning of the end of America if fully implemented in 2014.

So I collected them all and put them at the bottom of this blog in a sort of permanent place rather than delete all that great reporting.

Just wanted to let anyone out there who is into research or needs this info for any reason: I've just now pruned the list. It's amazing how few links went bad! I updated two of the links because Legal Insurrection and Gateway Pundit moved their blogs since these articles were first posted.

The last link led to a sex site (removed, of course)! That article is still on other blogs: The REAL Health Care Reform "Reality Check".

Weird.

Anyway, check it out. It will make your blood curdle when you realize just how many serious people reported serious reasons why the country should not impelement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

PS: Click on the "Better Wholefood Farmacy" banner at the bottom to see the famous "Cake of Dreams" - Holiday Special Price now only $19.95!

Orly Taitz knocks it out of the park

Full one hour video of testimony before New Hampshire Election Committee

Please note that the election committee of New Hampshire's position is that Obama filled out the paperwork and gave them the check. End of story.

Paperwork.

Check.

Sell the country out, no problemo.

But what you WON'T hear about is this.

So WHY was there a change in Obama's wording on the Declaration of intent? And WHY doesn't the election committee in New Hampshire give a shit?

Now do you understand that you and you're descendants are being sold into slavery???

Do you care or are you just glad that the New Hampshire election committee got their $1,000.00?

PS: Committee member Martha van Oot has ties to Obama...

Grand Turk sunset

Sent from an old friend from Ohio whom I met when he lived in Hawaii who now lives in the Grand Turk Islands!

EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”

It's time to dump Grover Norquist...

...and here's why!

To the shrill left, he's a pariah because his famous anti-tax pledge prevents new revenues from flooding into the U.S. Treasury.

To most on the right, he's a hero for fighting for smaller government.

The truth about Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, is that he is neither of these things.

Norquist’s Network & Iran: Another Heads-Up for the GOP?

If a tree falls...

Ninja Koans: Some Koans take the form of questions, like the one that asks, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?" There is no "right" answer to this question. It can be argued for years from either perspective, yes or no. BUT, to the Ninja there is at least one other answer. It matters not at all whether the tree makes a sound or not. What is important is that it has fallen.

Some of the fallen are rescued from the forest and they pass surrounded by love.

Some of them simply disappear into that same, legendary forest.

Immigration enforcement state-by-state

CURRENT STATE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS

POLITICO IS RACIST!!!

Obama's dark vision of America

(Sorry. Guess this is just my version of darkie dark humour.)

Oh, oops again!

Just can't get too radical in explaining the absurdities of the left wing.

(HINT: The word "disagreement" = "racism").

(DOUBLE HINT: Think "Janeane Garofalo")

Sarah Palin weighs in

How Congress Occupied Wall Street

Politicians who arrive in Washington as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires. Why?

By SARAH PALIN

Mark Twain famously wrote, "There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Peter Schweizer's new book, "Throw Them All Out," reveals this permanent political class in all its arrogant glory. (Full disclosure: Mr. Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign-policy adviser.)

Mr. Schweizer answers the questions so many of us have asked. I addressed this in a speech in Iowa last Labor Day weekend. How do politicians who arrive in Washington, D.C. as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires? How do they miraculously accumulate wealth at a rate faster than the rest of us? How do politicians' stock portfolios outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'? I answered the question in that speech: Politicians derive power from the authority of their office and their access to our tax dollars, and they use that power to enrich and shield themselves.

The money-making opportunities for politicians are myriad, and Mr. Schweizer details the most lucrative methods: accepting sweetheart gifts of IPO stock from companies seeking to influence legislation, practicing insider trading with nonpublic government information, earmarking projects that benefit personal real estate holdings, and even subtly extorting campaign donations through the threat of legislation unfavorable to an industry. The list goes on and on, and it's sickening.

Astonishingly, none of this is technically illegal, at least not for Congress. Members of Congress exempt themselves from the laws they apply to the rest of us. That includes laws that protect whistleblowers (nothing prevents members of Congress from retaliating against staffers who shine light on corruption) and Freedom of Information Act requests (it's easier to get classified documents from the CIA than from a congressional office).

The corruption isn't confined to one political party or just a few bad apples. It's an endemic problem encompassing leadership on both sides of the aisle. It's an entire system of public servants feathering their own nests.

None of this surprises me. I've been fighting this type of corruption and cronyism my entire political career. For years Alaskans suspected that our lawmakers and state administrators were in the pockets of the big oil companies to the detriment of ordinary Alaskans. We knew we were being taken for a ride, but it took FBI wiretaps to finally capture lawmakers in the act of selling their votes. In the wake of politicos being carted off to prison, my administration enacted reforms based on transparency and accountability to prevent this from happening again.

We were successful because we had the righteous indignation of Alaskan citizens on our side. Our good ol' boy political class in Juneau was definitely not with us. Business was good for them, so why would they want to end "business as usual"?

The moment you threaten to strip politicians of their legal graft, they'll moan that they can't govern effectively without it. Perhaps they'll gravitate toward reform, but often their idea of reform is to limit the right of "We the people" to exercise our freedom of speech in the political process.

I've learned from local, state and national political experience that the only solution to entrenched corruption is sudden and relentless reform. Sudden because our permanent political class is adept at changing the subject to divert the public's attention—and we can no longer afford to be indifferent to this system of graft when our country is going bankrupt. Reform must be relentless because fighting corruption is like a game of whack-a-mole. You knock it down in one area only to see it pop up in another.

What are the solutions? We need reform that provides real transparency. Congress should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act like everyone else. We need more detailed financial disclosure reports, and members should submit reports much more often than once a year. All stock transactions above $5,000 should be disclosed within five days.

We need equality under the law. From now on, laws that apply to the private sector must apply to Congress, including whistleblower, conflict-of-interest and insider-trading laws. Trading on nonpublic government information should be illegal both for those who pass on the information and those who trade on it. (This should close the loophole of the blind trusts that aren't really blind because they're managed by family members or friends.)

No more sweetheart land deals with campaign contributors. No gifts of IPO shares. No trading of stocks related to committee assignments. No earmarks where the congressman receives a direct benefit. No accepting campaign contributions while Congress is in session. No lobbyists as family members, and no transitioning into a lobbying career after leaving office. No more revolving door, ever.

This call for real reform must transcend political parties. The grass-roots movements of the right and the left should embrace this. The tea party's mission has always been opposition to waste and crony capitalism, and the Occupy protesters must realize that Washington politicians have been "Occupying Wall Street" long before anyone pitched a tent in Zuccotti Park.

Ms. Palin, a former governor of Alaska, was the Republican nominee for vice president in 2008.

Just a thought...

Grey the Cat: a beautiful true story

Zilla of the Resistance
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Grey the Cat

From the wooded area off the side of the road near the Canadian border in New Hampshire, I heard a cat meowing, it sounded scared. So I called it, the way I would any cat, and out of the woods ran a tiny gray kitten - straight into my arms. She had a a big gash across the top of her head and what looked like 'road burn' abrasions on her nose and above her mouth on one side. She was very small, quite young, and looked like she hadn't eaten in a while.

She was very sweet and totally adorable. I tended her wounds, named her Grey and brought her home. I had another kitten, about 6 months old, named Kylie, and the two kitties immediately became best friends. Kylie cleaned Grey's wounds every day and they healed quickly without even leaving a scar. The two cats played together and slept cuddled together in a little ball on my bed every night. My dog Maggie had treated Kylie as her own when I first got her, and she also did the same with Grey, carrying her in her mouth as if she were Maggie's pup and letting the kittens curl up on her front paws under Maggie's chin for naps. Everybody loved Grey, and Grey loved everybody. The year was 1998.

The kindness that Grey learned from the other pets became the strongest characteristic of her personality. In 2000, when my husband brought home Tippy, a little stray tuxedo kitten he'd found, Grey (and Kylie) immediately adopted her and the three kitties would sleep together all cuddled up in a huggy furry pile of cuteness. Over the years, every stray that my husband brought home, whether cat or dog, young or old, docile or feral and crazy, Grey welcomed with love and affection. She never growled, hissed, or scratched at anybody, and even my most ill tempered pets who appeared to hate almost everybody, loved Grey.

Over the years, as other pets crossed the Rainbow Bridge, Grey would be there, holding vigil over them, and kissing their heads to comfort them. When Tippy passed away this past June, it really hit Grey hard, she had always appeared kitten-like, but suddenly she aged very quickly. Grey was a happy fat cat, always purring, and her plumpness earned her the nickname "Blimpy". Grey started to lose weight after Tippy died, and it accelerated over the past 2 weeks. She became very thin and a few days ago, very tired. Yesterday I found her resting in the exact spot where she watched Tippy pass. Grey likes boxes, so I gave her a little box to curl up in. I carried her downstairs to eat with the other cats last night & then after supper, she sat on my chest in my bed for about an hour, purring happily, while the kids pet her. When it was time to put the kids to bed, I helped Grey into the little box she wanted to rest in. The other pets took turns going into the bathroom to check on her & kiss her as she rested. As I said, Grey was well loved by everybody.

At 5:30 this morning, my husband woke me and told me that Grey had passed. She was still in her little box and appears to have gone peacefully in her sleep. She was a very good cat, a truly special little soul, and she will be sorely missed.

Rest In Peace, Grey, Mommy will always love you.

I am not looking forward to telling the kids.

The battle cry of our Age

On Christ, Communists and Sentimentalists
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 15, AD 2011 1:24 PM MST

This isn't me. This is Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in his 1958 masterwork, "Life of Christ". Let's call this the battle cry of our Age. I am hard pressed to remember another passage that was so explicitly relevant and piercing as this one is. Read every single word, then read it again. Then print it off and hang it on your refrigerator, mirror and monitor. As far as I'm concerned, this says it all:

It may very well be that the Communists, who are so anti-Christ, are closer to Him than those who see Him as a sentimentalist and vague moral reformer. The Communists have at least decided that if He wins, they lose; the others are afraid to consider Him either as winning or losing, because they are not prepared to meet the moral demands which this victory would make on their souls.

If He is what He claimed to be, a Savior, a Redeemer, then we have a virile Christ and a leader worth following in these terrible times; One Who will step into the breach of death, crushing sin, gloom and despair; a leader to Whom we can make totalitarian sacrifice without losing, but gaining freedom, and Whom we can love even unto death. We need a Christ today Who will make cords and drive the buyers and sellers from our new temples; Who will blast the unfruitful fig-trees; Who will talk of crosses and sacrifices and Whose voice will be like the voice of the raging sea. But He will not allow us to pick and choose among His words, discarding the hard ones, and accepting the ones that please our fancy. We need a Christ Who will restore moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.

-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Life of Christ", AD 1958

Friday at 2 p.m, Room 307

Wow! New Hampshire wakes up to Obama's alleged Social Security fraud ...

Hearing Friday as state lawmakers also probe president's eligibility

It's happening.

Boomers: what you need to know

That the greatest and most effective political leader the Baby Boom produced was William Jefferson Clinton tells you all you need to know.

Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun

Election Law Complaint Filed in New Hampshire

ASSERTS THAT OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ARE FRAUDULENT

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Just in time for Christmas, lads!

Everyone needs to accept the fact that Congress has been acting outside its Constitutional scope of authority since 1942

Liberty Legal Foundation: Supreme Court Takes Up Obamacare

Subsidies of the Rich and Famous

The Daily Caller:

Coburn report: Bon Jovi, Springsteen, Quincy Jones, Ted Turner received federal funds

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Looks like we might actually get ourselves a REAL smart guy this time around instead of a con man!
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We just got some big news! Public Policy Polling released the results of their latest survey, and it shows Newt Gingrich in sole possession of first place in the race to Newt 2012 become the Republican nominee for President! This is the fourth consecutive poll showing Speaker Gingrich at least statistically tied for first place.

BAD NEWS ABOUT HERMAN CAIN

22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization That We All Take For Granted Is Starting To Disappear

In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust. Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting and violence are not going to erupt in the streets. Whether we realize it or not, we depend on the fact that the vast majority of the people around us are going to act in a civilized manner. Unfortunately, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is starting to disappear. When I was growing up, I was taught that challenging times reveal our true character. There are many that believe that the declining economy is causing a lot of the chaos that we are now witnessing, but perhaps what is going on is that these challenging economic times are simply revealing the character that has been there all along. For decades, a "false prosperity" that was fueled by unprecedented amounts of debt has masked a lot of the internal rot that has taken hold in America. But now that our prosperity is crumbling, our lack of values is becoming startlingly clear.

Greed, corruption and extreme self-centeredness have deeply infected our society. We see this on Wall Street and in Congress, and we see this among those that are trying to survive on the mean streets of our largest cities.

Our nation is breaking down on every level. If by some miracle we were able to fix our economy, that would mask our problems for a while, but it would not solve them.

Unfortunately, as I write about nearly every day, there are a whole host of indications that our economy is about to get even worse. When it does, millions of Americans will become even more desperate, and as we are now seeing all over this country, desperate people do desperate things.

The following are 22 signs that the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted is starting to disappear...

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Why they leave

"Business leaving the City of Los Angeles for a nearby county can save up to 20% in costs while moving to another state can save up to 40% in costs."

Companies Continue to Leave Anti-Business California in Record Numbers to Save 40% in Costs

This is my home state. I've watched liberals ruin it. I continue to watch idiots vote for them.

UPDATE:

“You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, have a reputation for being anti-business -- and have a rosy economic future.”

-- Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 17, explaining why he intends to keep his campaign vow and oppose new taxes for New York, including the “millionaires tax”

Some key points on Homeschooling vs. Public Education

• Homeschoolers, on the average, out-performed their counterparts in the public schools by 30 to 37 percentile points in all subjects.

• There was no significant difference between minority and white homeschooled students.

• These findings show that when parents, regardless of race, commit themselves to make the necessary sacrifices and tutor their children at home, almost all obstacles present in other school systems disappear.

• Dr. Ray found the average cost per homeschool student is $546 while the average cost per public school student is $5,325.

• The 1998 study by Dr. Rudner of 20,760 students, found that eighth grade students whose parents spend $199 or less on their home education score, on the average, in the 80th percentile.

• Whether a state had a high degree of regulation (i.e., curriculum approval, teacher qualifications, testing, home visits) or a state had no regulation of homeschoolers, the homeschooled students in both categories of states performed the same. The students all scored on the average in the 86th percentile regardless of state regulation.

HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION

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Challenge: New Hampshire is an early primary state and it allows anyone to challenge a candidate on the ballot.

11/13/11 - From Orly Taitz:

This is extremely important. New Hampshire is an early primary state and it allows anyone to challenge a candidate on the ballot. You do not have to be a resident of NH. We have to capitalise on this opportunity.

I put a lot of work and a lot of sleepless nights in gathering all the information and exhibits.

In the post below you will find a total of 87 pages in PDF files and a docx version of the complaint.

You will find a complaint, challenging Obama’s legitimacy on the ballot, 66 pages of exhibits, containing sworn affidavits and documents, showing Obama using a forged birth certificate and a fraudulently obtained CT Social Security number 042-68-4425, which was not assigned to him according to E-Verify and SSNVS. You will find a certified mail tracing number and a blank form for you to fill out. On the form you can state, that you want to join the challenge filed by Attorney Dr. Orly Taitz.

As you know, I will have to travel to HI for the third time. It is extremely expensive. I might need to travel to NH. All of this work takes a lot of time and effort. I hope you will support this effort to remove Obama from the ballot early on in this primary by donating to either “Defend Our Freedoms foundation” or to “Orly Taitz for US Senate 2012″ .

We need at least one person with a backbone in the Senate. While I got donations for the foundation, so far I collected only about $1,400 for the campaign. Registration is $3,420. I will need to spend $6,500 for the full candidate statement on the ballot. I need to start printing brochures, fliers and bumper stickers.

If you have means and can donate $10,000 needed to jump start the effort, it will be greatly appreciated. If you can donate $1,000 or $500 or $250 or whatever amount you can, it will be appreciated. As you know, nobody does anywhere near the amount of work, that I am doing to remove Obama from office. I am putting in time, sweat and tears. I will appreciate your support.

Extremely important, join me and support me in challenging Obama in the early primary state of NH

Election Challenge to Obama Candidacy in NH

THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO

Members of the U.S. Military are calling it the “Doomsday Scenario” and that is a completely accurate assessment of what is about to occur on November 23rd of this year. Unless something changes in the next two weeks that day will mark the beginning of the end of the United States military as the most powerful fighting force in the world. The end result will be putting our nation and our people in a position where we will be unable to effectively defend ourselves against those who would destroy us.

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According to President Obama's own Treasury Department, 2.3 million illegal immigrants who paid no income taxes in 2010 nevertheless received $4.2 billion in tax refunds

That's four times the tax refunds that were paid to illegal immigrants who paid no taxes in 2005, and is increasing exponentially as more illegal immigrants find out about the program.

At a time when the federal government is considering program cuts for American citizens, giving away billions in taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants is unconscionable.

Gallegly: U.S. magnet: Illegal immigrants paid $4.2 billion

The secret history of Blacks and Democrats

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 1

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 2

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 3

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 4

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 5

Emancipation Revelation Revolution Part 6

Now you know why they've taken over the school system and re-written the history books.

Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party Nation

A black website published one of my articles. The black publisher asked his readers to forgive me for being a black member of the GOP and review my article with an open mind.

In response, a subscriber wrote, "You can ask us to look past him being a GOP, but you can't ask us to look past his claim to be a tea party Christian."

Grateful for an opportunity to enlighten indoctrinated blacks, I asked the website publisher to publicly post my reply to the ill-informed subscriber's comment.

Please do not think me rude or mean by stating the following truth. The subscriber's comment reflects an ignorance of the facts and history prevalent in the black community.

Many blacks erroneously believe the GOP consists of rich racist white people. In reality, the GOP was founded to free blacks. Only five years after slavery, there were black congressmen, all Republicans. The KKK, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and denying blacks the right to vote where all birthed by Democrats.

Even today, Democrats are still "keeping blacks in their place" -- telling them they need lowered standards, affirmative action, special programs, and freebies to succeed. Democrats constantly send blacks the message they are not as smart was whites. For example, Democrats say having to show ID when voting disenfranchises blacks. This is merely a tactic by which the Democrats implement voter fraud. However, in the process, they are saying blacks are too stupid to find their way to the DMV or other places to acquire proper ID. This is just one example of numerous ways Democrats tell blacks they are inferior and need Democrats' help to succeed.

Republicans deal with blacks respectfully, as equals. Democrats thrive on blacks believing themselves to be victims, despite being blessed to be born in the greatest land of opportunity on the planet. Foreigners are trying to get to America in cardboard boats held together with duct tape. Democrats punish and hate blacks who compete with whites and succeed without Democrat lowered standards and involvement.

While sold as compassion and "fairness," Democrat programs are always about making as many people as possible dependent on government to secure/buy votes. In the long run, all Democrat policies and programs hurt people!

There are black idiot knucklehead racists who want to believe a lie rather than the truth. Yes, I said black racists. I reject and resent the satanic notion that because of slavery, blacks have a right to be racist. Racism is evil, period, whether it comes from blacks or whites. It you disagree, it is fruitless to continue reading this article. I will keep you in my prayers.

In reality, history confirms that the black community has been sleeping with the enemy for years by monolithically voting Democrat. News flash, black voters: the Democrats "ain't" your friends.

Every program which demeans and stifles blacks has come and continues to come from the Democrats. Republicans continue to be the party extremely supportive of black individuality, the party full of nurturers of black entrepreneurial success.

Democrats still want to keep blacks on their plantation of needing government handouts -- thus keeping blacks dependent on government, thus keeping blacks voting for Democrats, who promise to give them stuff via programs. To make their scam work, Democrats also tell blacks that Republicans are burning the midnight oil planning ways to "keep them down." Thus, you blacks need us Democrats to keep evil rich white Republicans off your backs.

In a nutshell, blacks are being played by the Democrats. So you can imagine my frustration and impatience with ignorant knuckleheads who trash me for being a Republican. I am working to liberate my people -- to ensure that they be treated with dignity and respect, and not as needy, inferior supplicants.

When I became supervisor of my mostly white department at a TV station, rather than celebrating me and my achievement, my liberal and Democrat friends demeaned my achievement by saying I got the job due to affirmative action. Wrong. I got the job because I proved myself most qualified. "That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!"

Now, let's talk about the Tea Party.

Again, all you folks who think the Tea Party is racist are ignorant of the facts and just plainwrong! I am sorry, but that is the gospel truth. You are being "played" by the Democrats and their liberal media buddies, who also "secretly" think we blacks are inferior and need their help to succeed.

As a singer and speaker, I have attended over three hundred Tea Parties nationwide, on five Tea Party Express national bus tours. I have been warmly embraced by the mostly white audiences because we share a love for America and are opposed to socialism. These Tea Party folks are not opposing Obama's skin color. They are opposing his agenda.

A Congressional Black Caucus member actually said the white folks at the Tea Parties want to "see blacks hanging from trees." Knowing what I know from my personal experience, the Caucus member's statement is irresponsible, absurd, shameful, and divisively evil -- all about ginning up racial hate and securing votes for Obama. Despicable!

Now, I know some blacks who are stuck on stupid and hate who want to believe otherwise. So be it. All I ask is that before you write me off as an Uncle Tom traitor, check you facts. And quite frankly, I do not care what anyone thinks of me, because I know I am on the Lord's side. God bless.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Where did green-energy money go? Straight to Obama's campaign donors!

It would take an entire book to analyze every single grant and government-backed loan doled out since Barack Obama became president. But an examination of grants and guaranteed loans offered by just one stimulus program run by the Department of Energy, for alternative-energy projects, is stunning.

Obama Campaign Backers and Bundlers Rewarded With Green Grants and Loans

Montford Point Marines: Congress honors first black Marines with medal

The Montford Point Marines — the long overlooked first black Marine unit, that served in the Pacific in World War II — are finally getting their due.

The U.S. Senate late Wednesday unanimously awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The House passed the measure 422-0 on Oct. 25.

“The Montford Point Marines are finally receiving the recognition they deserve,” Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., who pushed the measure in the Senate, said after it was approved.

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Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt targeted by radical Muslims who seek to replace it with a mosque

Radical Islamic groups claim that the library's art programs, which include music and ballet dancing, spread "depravity" in Egyptian society.

A new breed

Obama's boyfriend in college

HillBuzz:

I have no idea who’ll replace Reggie Love as Obama’s next “bodyman”. Based on his past dating history, Barack Obama seems to favor Pakistani guys like Penn, who was similar to Obama’s boyfriend in college (pictured below), who possessed that exotic look our president loves.

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You did wonder, of course (didn't you?), why no one ever talks about Obama's past girlfriends...

(...not that there's anything wrong with that...)

No more Love for Obama

Reggie Love, Obama ‘body man,’ to leave White House by year’s end

Calling Larry Sinclair!

On Sandusky and This Nation of Cowards

From Ann Barnhardt
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 8, AD 2011 8:09 PM MST

I read the grand jury report on Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky and couldn't believe what I was reading. I'm not going to link to it because it is awful. If you want to read it you can find it yourself. It wasn't the fact that Sandusky was a pedophile that was so shocking. We all know about the horror of pedophilia and that it exists in the world. No, what really shook me were the actions of the people around Sandusky - and two of those people in particular.

One was a 28 year old (at the time) graduate assistant in the Penn State football program. He testified before the grand jury, and the grand jury found him to be "extremely credible". This grad assistant testified that he literally walked in on Sandusky anally raping a ten year old boy in the Penn State football locker room showers. Right in the middle of the act itself. He even testified that both Sandusky and the child turned and looked at him - in the middle of the rape act.

What did this grad assistant do? He ran away. He ran away from a child in the midst of being raped. The next day he went to Joe Paterno's house and told Joe Paterno what he saw. In this we have the proof that Joe Paterno KNEW what Sandusky was, and he basically let it slide. For this, Joe Paterno deserves not only to lose his job, but he also deserves to spend some time in prison. Aw, but he's a kind old man. That may be. But that "kind old man" let a man whom he KNEW to be a child rapist have the run of his football facility until JUST LAST WEEK.

What should Joe Paterno have done, you may ask? Well, let's look to history. Have you ever noticed, or thought it strange, that there is no significant mention of child rapists in the courts or prisons in Western Civilization up until about 100 years ago? Why do you think this is? Is it because sex crimes against children are a recent invention? No. The difference is that up until recently, society was healthy enough that it was able to police itself when necessary. When men were caught, and I mean CAUGHT IN THE ACT, like Sandusky, of raping a child, justice was carried out almost instantaneously. There was no need to involve the courts and humiliate and further traumatize the poor child. The crime was eyewitnessed, and the penalty was an absolute given. And so, the men of the community would discreetly either shoot or hang the pedophile. And it was over. The child could move on, and the men in the community moved on secure in the knowledge that the pedophile would never harm another child, with most of the community remaining unscandalized having known nothing about it, and the pedophile, knowing that he was about to die, was also afforded the mercy of the knowledge and understanding of the urgent need for his repentance and to earnestly beg God's forgiveness before he died. This was, by far, the best possible outcome for all concerned.

But what do we do today? Apparently, most people do nothing. They are too narcissistic, too greedy, and too cowardly to act, even if it means to save a child who is being raped. Joe Paterno was more concerned with his reputation and Penn State's reputation, and so he watered down Sandusky's crime to mere "horseplay" and let it slide. Joe Paterno spent YEARS sitting in meetings, palling around, back-slapping, glad-handing and socializing with a man he KNEW to be a child rapist. He didn't even call the police. The mind reels. And I'll say it again: Paterno should spend some time in prison, as should anyone who aids and abets a pedophile.

Now back to the grad assistant. He wasn't alone. There was another instance in exactly the same showers when a janitor walked in on Sandusky orally raping another young boy of about 11 years of age. This janitor was so shaken by the grotesquery of what he had seen, even remarking to his co-workers that it was far worse than the intense combat carnage he saw in Vietnam, that his co-workers thought the man was going to have a heart attack. But again, what did the janitor do upon catching Sandusky? He RAN AWAY. He didn't try to stop any of it. He just ran.

And this is a microcosm of the problem with our culture and why it is collapsing. There is evil in the world, and up until recently, we Christians had the strength and moral authority to not just confront evil, but to literally run at it in a full battle charge when we came across it. That is what we are supposed to do. Those men should have each rushed Sandusky and then either beat him into unconsciousness or broken his arms and legs, thus immobilizing him. They should have then covered and secured the child, and then called 911. But these men were so cowed by their own self-absorption, with both admitting to have feared for their respective positions at the time, that they literally ran away from a child in the midst of being brutally raped.

This is a sick and yet pristine allegory for what is happening to this culture on a macro scale today. We SEE what those "in power", like Sandusky, are doing. We keep catching them in flagrante dilecto and are so overcome with fear, so far removed from Christ and His strength, that we do NOTHING. We slink away into the shadows of self-preservation. And more children are slaughtered. And more Mexican civilians are killed. And more money is stolen. And more mosques are built.

And so, to finish out the allegory, I am the janitor who came around that corner and saw the child being raped, and instead of running away and keeping my job, I bayonet-charged the rapist like a mercenary honey badger. There is no guarantee that I will be successful. My enemies are now simultaneously the Obama regime and the entire muslim death cult.

BUT, can you IMAGINE how those two boys felt when they saw a man there who could save them, and then seeing that man run away? The wound from that might have been worse than the wound from Sandusky himself. Those boys knew Sandusky was a pervert. What must have been hell for them was trying to figure out why the men who COULD have saved them, didn't. Being abandoned is far, far worse than being violently attacked. You can get your head around being violently attacked - the violent attacker wants something from you. Abandonment simply says, "You're not worth it." Even if those men had just stood there and screamed at Sandusky, at least those boys would have known that someone gave a crap about them.

I guess you could say that what I'm doing between my private war against islam and my tax strike is trying to leave a record that someone actually gave a crap.

Sorry to have conceitedly worked myself into the allegory, but the "put yourself in those shoes" lesson about cowardice jumped out at me as being very instructive. Pray for Sandusky's victims, which as of this writing are now numbered at over twenty boys. There will likely be more, as Sandusky was a stone-cold predator who had plenty of people "throwing blocks" for him.

JustiaGate

AMERICAN THINKER: Another Orwellian phenomenon surrounding the "birther" controversy was recently discovered

Why Was the Criminal Record of Bari Shabazz Altered 21 Years After His Alleged Death…

AND JUST BEFORE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA RAN FOR U.S. SENATE?

The end of days

Why would Iran authorize a major terrorist operation on American soil? Skeptics say the much-discussed “foiled” Iranian plot makes no sense. We will know soon enough if the Feds have sufficient evidence related to this specific plot. But Iranian leaders may, in fact, have a motive to accelerate direct attacks on the U.S.: Shia Islamic eschatology, or "End Times" theology.

Why Iran's Top Leaders Believe That the End of Days Has Come

Clint Eastwood likes Herman Cain...

Eastwood — who has never voted Democrat, besides a 1998 gubernatorial vote for iconic milquetoast Gray Davis — is a big fan of pizza tycoon Herman Cain.

...and so does Dick McDonald:

In Support of Herman Cain

I just listened to Herman Cain’s press conference where he answered questions from the main stream media after categorically denying all accusations of sexual harassment by all known accusers as well as ones he expects to surface in the future. I can appreciate his dilemma as I personally observed a similar situation with a very wealthy client I had early in life. In fact I can say my client’s dilemma and his response was a life altering experience for me. After watching the pain it caused him for ten years I dedicated my life to essentially taking a vacation while I was young enough to enjoy it. It taught me never to be involved in public corporations, the stock or the real estate market.

The client was J. Paul Getty and at the time reputed to be the richest man in the world. Now his problem wasn’t sexual harassment his problem was minority shareholder suits. As the owner of over 80% of the stock and president of major public corporations he was repeatedly sued by professional scum suckers who accused him of malfeasance in office. Like so many who are sued he settled rather than fighting it out in court. His banker confided in me the “standard” $50,000 checks the man regularly wrote to settle were legion. That was a lot of money at the time.

Herman Cain has led hundreds of thousands of employees over his lifetime. His run for high office has brought out the scum suckers just like they did for Mr. Getty. The latest accused him of sexual assault – groping her private parts and slamming her head into his. Now one would think that a man so possessed as that would have had hundreds of women he raped and groped show up to ring the celebrity bell. I doubt that will happen as these accusations don’t pass the smell test. The major corporations he ran and those who elected him to be the President of the Restaurant Association and Board Member of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank vet their people and would never have given him those jobs if he was a sexual predator.

I still hold that his 9-9-9 plan is not the plan to transition to a small government that could be supported by a consumption tax. Of course I would oppose it as I designed The Ownership Society’s Rise Up America plan which I believe should go first.

Obama's new Christmas tree tax

Read all about it.

He's such a master at selling "shit" that I would take care that he doesn't start taxing your dirty toilet paper (and I'm only half joking).

2012: Get ready for Basel III

Hugh Hewitt: Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Did the Administration Drive Another Nail Into Its Reelection Coffin This Past Week?

At the G20 meeting on the French Riviera last week, the president agreed to begin implementing a set of international banking rules that could well send the United States in a renewed downward spiral between May and August 2012.

The rules are called Basel III. They require that banks increase their ratio of capital to loans. In effect this means that banks must do less lending.

Did the Administration Drive Another Nail Into Its Reelection Coffin This Past Week?" by Clark Judge

If Romney is afraid of Charles Krauthammer, how will he hold up against Obama?

From Prof. Jacobson:
“Not exactly a profile in courage” Tweet of the Day

Obama: Governing By Slogan

By Gary Starr for The Neville Awards

November 6, 2011

It started out with 'Hope and Change' and 'Yes we can.' Add a dollop of 'We are the ones we've been waiting for' and you had the recipe to cloud the judgment of normally seasoned and cynical liberal reporters, and even some conservative ones too.

After the disastrous 2008 election the slogans and catchphrases kept coming. Unemployment continued to increase, despite $800 billion in stimulus and Obamacare. To hide continued job losses Team Obama invented the phrase 'Jobs Saved or Created'. They don't use that one anymore, so universally reviled and ridiculed as it has now become.

There were also non-existent "shovel-ready" jobs just waiting to be filled. There were thousands of roads, bridges and schools (all union jobs, of course) that needed fixing or building. Eventually Obama and his minions had to admit that shovel-ready "wasn't as shovel-ready as we had hoped." So where did the money go? It still went to the unions, just not to union jobs.

As the recession increased its grip on the United States, our Fraudinator-in-Chief took to assigning blame.

The phrases "the economy my administration inherited," "ethics of greed," "reckless fat-cat bankers," and "selfish millionaires and billionaires", began to make it into the dialogue.

When that didn't magically stimulate anything Obama looked outwardly for something to fix blame on. He found it in the Japanese earthquake/tsunami and the economic turmoil in Europe. Our economy was beset with "headwinds" and "bumps in the road."

With no one left to blame but himself, Obama blamed the American people.

In October, Obama complained that "we used to have the best stuff. Think about it: The world used to say 'Let's travel to America. Let's see the Golden Gate Bridge. Let's see the Hoover Dam. Let's see the amazing things that America built.'"

And in September, he said the country "had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track."

This predictably echoes Jimmy Carter in his infamous "malaise" speech: "the erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America."

Obama assigning blame to everyone but himself recalls the Soviet propaganda of avoiding blame for all of the failed 5-year plans. Worse than that it recalls Hitler in the last days of the Third Reich, blaming the defeat of Germany on the Germans:

On March 19, 1945 Hitler told his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, "If the war is lost the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation. Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed."

This is what comes of self-appointed demi-gods and narcissists.

Most recently we have been witness to Obama's latest faux-stimulus plan, his non-existent jobs bill. With great fanfare he called a joint session of Congress to announce the bill with repeated exhortations of "Pass this bill NOW!!" It did not have the desired effect.

That was followed by the "We can't wait" campaign that had Obama running around the country implying he was going to go around Congress to get a jobs bill. Isn't he doing that already on just about everything else?

The halcyon days of cramming bills through a one-party Congress are over. Even the Democrats in the Senate are voting against stripped down versions of the Obama jobs package.

Maybe the slogan du jour should be "Resign Now!"
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