Dog flipping often involves people who take dogs from unsuspecting people and flip them for a profit. Dog flippers usually pick up popular breeds or pick up unwanted litters from dog owners for free or at low cost. Dog flippers are also known to claim pets who have been posted online as "found" (so if you ever find a pet, make sure you ask for proof of ownership from anyone who shows up to claim the pet). These scammers are not the true owners of the lost pet, as they will quickly turn around and sell the formerly lost pet for a profit. But dogs in flipping cases are usually ill-treated, as one woman in Nebraska recently discovered...READ MORE
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Dog flipping and animal abuse tied to dogs listed on Craigslist
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Punish the man responsible for the torture of Puppy Doe (aka Kiya): Sign the Petition!
Please join this campaign: http://chn.ge/HeCnhW
We the undersigned respectfully request that if the Polish man currently held in custody is found guilty of the crimes of 11 counts of animal cruelty over the torture of little Kiya - Puppy Doe. That it is recommended to the Judge that the maximum sentence available under the law is carried out. And each count of animal cruelty is taken into consideration.
We will be requesting that the Judge applies the maximum sentence available for this tragic animal cruelty.
We also request that if this man who tortured Puppy Doe is found guilty, the court “prohibit the person from owning or having custody or control of an animal” for the rest of their lifetime.
Kiya - Puppy Doe endured something that no animal should ever have to endure.
A necropsy performed on Puppy Doe revealed the most heartbreaking short life of an innocent puppy who may not have ever had a happy day. She had been starved, repeatedly abused and tortured. There had been multiple broken bones by being pulled apart, stab wounds to her eyes, and a particularly disgusting serpent like split cut into the puppy's tongue.
Sincerely..
Here is what the petition says:
To:
Quincy Police Dept, Judge Cohen and others (names yet to be finalised)
Quincy Police Dept, Judge Cohen and others (names yet to be finalised)
Punish the man responsible for the torture of Puppy Doe - also known as Kiya.
JUSTICE FOR "PUPPY DOE" - also known as Kiya
JUSTICE FOR "PUPPY DOE" - also known as Kiya
We the undersigned respectfully request that if the Polish man currently held in custody is found guilty of the crimes of 11 counts of animal cruelty over the torture of little Kiya - Puppy Doe. That it is recommended to the Judge that the maximum sentence available under the law is carried out. And each count of animal cruelty is taken into consideration.
We will be requesting that the Judge applies the maximum sentence available for this tragic animal cruelty.
We also request that if this man who tortured Puppy Doe is found guilty, the court “prohibit the person from owning or having custody or control of an animal” for the rest of their lifetime.
Kiya - Puppy Doe endured something that no animal should ever have to endure.
A necropsy performed on Puppy Doe revealed the most heartbreaking short life of an innocent puppy who may not have ever had a happy day. She had been starved, repeatedly abused and tortured. There had been multiple broken bones by being pulled apart, stab wounds to her eyes, and a particularly disgusting serpent like split cut into the puppy's tongue.
Sincerely..
NBC PROVES OBAMA LIED REPEATEDLY
...but then they tried to hide it: NBC Buries Own Reporter To Hide Obama Lie
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacts:“Barack Obama lied to the American people – repeatedly and with a straight face – every time he insisted that those who like their current healthcare could keep it under Obamacare. And he’ll keep lying to the American people because the liberal media refuse to hold him accountable.
“NBC News, whose own reporter found the language in Obamacare proving Obama knowingly lied to the people for over three years, gave this bombshell revelation a pathetic 21 seconds of coverage on Nightly News. There was no follow-up on Today. In other words, NBC News buried their own reporter to protect Obama.
“This sends a clear message to the American people. As far as the liberal broadcast networks are concerned, when Barack Obama lies, it’s not news. What would Richard Nixon have given for a press corps this corrupt?”
Monday, October 28, 2013
Remember--the welfare of pets is in ALL of our hands!
The welfare of pets is in ALL of our hands!
Some folks answering the "Free to Good Home" ads really are loving, responsible pet owners. Many--perhaps even most--are not.
There are steps YOU can take to help end
abuse: DON'T advertise Free pets; DO convince others not to. Some people
even take the time to phone owners of pets advertising Free to Good Home
and warn them of the dangers.
DO spay/neuter to keep from creating possible
Free to Good Home situations or condemning your pet to a short,
miserable life in a puppy mill.
DO write letters to the editors of your local newspapers warning of the dangers of Free to Good Home.
DO contact breed rescue organizations (there
is one for every breed of pure-bred dog!) or local animal welfare
organizations for help in placing unwanted pets; if you bought the pet
from a responsible breeder, he/she will help you rehome the pet.
DO charge at least $25 to discourage resale of pets to labs.
(Some sources suggest charging no less than $100 for pure-bred dogs.)
DO take the time to interview every
prospective owner. Ask for vet and personnel references, and check them,
then visit the new home where your pet might be living!
DO write a letter to your congressmen in
support of legislation aimed at doing away with Class B dealers, who
sell animals obtained from "random sources" to research facilities.
Random sources include strays, stolen pets,
seized shelter animals, animals purchased at flea markets--and pets
found through "Free to good home" ads.
DO report any incidence of suspected
dog-fighting to police, Animal Control, and your local Humane Society.
DON'T try to stop these people yourselves; there is a lot of money
involved here, and you could be putting yourself and your pets at risk
if you try to intervene alone.
DO call police, animal welfare workers, even
the health department, if someone in your area seems to be "collecting"
cats or dogs.
DO write to district attorneys, judges, and
prosecutors if you hear of the arrest of any so-called collectors in
your area, and urge them not only to prosecute to the full extent of the
law, but also to mandate psychological counseling for these individuals
in the hopes of avoiding repeat violations.
DO call police or animal welfare workers for any incidences of suspected abuse.
Be willing to testify in court, if necessary.
Note: what constitutes animal abuse is defined by state law. If your
state has inadequate abuse laws, TRY TO CHANGE THEM!
Remember--the welfare of pets is in ALL of our hands!
New anti-IRS website
Just added to "Join The 2nd American Revolution" (scroll down, right panel):
This website is dedicated to exposing government abuse and corruption, but more particularly exposing the corruption, abuse, arrogance and illegal activities of the Internal Revenue Service by providing IRS facts and reporting IRS horror stories. The website will chronicle court cases where taxpayers have beaten the IRS and will provide applicable documents, letters and forms. For those who are at odds with the IRS, this information could prove invaluable.http://www.attackwatchspies.com/
One of our important goals is to work towards a national movement to repeal the IRS and the Tax Code, first by petition and then by legislation.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Seattle is considering banning the words “brown bag” and “citizen” because the words offend black people and illegals...
Daniel Greenfield responds, “When Seattle one day gets around to banning all words, because language is inherently offensive to the illiterate, and everyone is reduced to communicating with grunts and emphatic gestures, an era of true tolerance and nomadic lifestyles will be upon us.” That is hilarious Daniel! Well said.READ MORE
Eligibility attorney Mario Apuzzo explains why Ted Cruz, like Obama, is NOT a "natural born citizen"
Excerpt from The Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the “Natural Born Citizen” Clause: A Response to Artsy Fartsy Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter by eligibility attorney Mario Apuzzo:
Squeeky Fromm also comes to the aid of Ted Cruz in her June 25, 2013 article published at http://birtherthinktank.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/with-2020-foresight-the-once-and-future-apuzzo/ . In this piece, which she passes off as a decision against me rendered by an imaginary judge, she argues, albeit without any historical or legal support, that my definition of a “natural born citizen,” i.e., a child born in the country to parents who were its “citizens” at the time of the child’s birth is wrong. She maintains that Cruz, who was born in Canada to a non-U.S. “citizen” father and a U.S. “citizen” mother is a “natural born citizen.”She attempts to dismiss Minor as being irrelevant to the issue of both Obama and Cruz’s eligibility, arguing that Minordid not define or deal with children born inside the United States to alien parents. This is incorrect. Minor told us that at common law with which the Framers were familiar, such children were “aliens or foreigners.” Here is the quote from the Court: “At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” We can see from what the Court said that at common law if a child was born in the United States to alien parents, the child was an “alien or foreigner.” It also follows from this common law rule that at common law (not to be confounded with statutes), any child who was born out of the United States, regardless of whether born to “citizen” parents or alien parents, was also an alien or foreigner. This common law rule was reflected in Congress’s Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1802, and 1855 which treated children born in the United States to alien parents as alien born and naturalized at birth children born out of the United States to “citizen” parents or naturalized them after birth if born to alien parents.She states that the clause “natural born citizen” “was discussed at length in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.” This is false. Wong Kim Ark discussed at length the English common law and an English “natural born subject.” The English common law defined neither a “citizen” nor a “natural born citizen.” Justice Swayne in United States v. Rhodes, 27 F. Cas. 785 (Cir.Ct. D. Ky. 1866) (No. 16,151), told us that neither a “citizen” nor a “natural born citizen” were defined by the English common law. The court said that “British jurisprudence, whence so much of our own is drawn, throws little light upon the subject. . . . Blackstone and Tomlin contain nothing upon the subject. ” Id. at 788. So, Wong Kim Ark, which spent much time on analyzing the English common law, could not have been analyzing the meaning of a “natural born citizen” which clause was not even found in that law.Squeeky Fromm quotes Wong Kim Ark’s comment that the English common law jus soli rule continued “to prevail under the Constitution as originally established.” This statement does not prove that a “natural born citizen” was defined under English common law and not under the law of nations. What this statement means is that through the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the states, which selectively adopted the English common law until abrogated by state legislatures, decided who their citizens were and that they to some undefined degree used the jus soli English common law rule to make that decision. These state citizens became “citizens of the United States” upon the adoption of the Constitution. But then in 1790, Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790, followed by that of 1795, 1802, and 1855. After that, the states, to whatever degree they still applied the English common law, could no longer naturalize anyone after birth and their state citizens were no longer recognized as national citizens or what the Constitution called “citizens of the United States.” The only common law rule that Congress did not nor could abrogate was that of the law of nations/American national common law which the Founders, Framers, and Ratifiers used to certainly and uniformly define a “natural born citizen.” And that definition was a child born in a country to parents who were its “citizens” at the time of the child’s birth.
Squeeky Fromm repeats that “citizens at birth” are equivalent to “natural born citizens.” But like Jack Maskell, she begs the question that all “citizens at birth” are “natural born citizens.” Other than just assuming, like Jack Maskell, that her statement is true, she fails to provide any evidence that her statement is true. Hence, that the Fourteenth Amendment or a Congressional Act might declare someone born either in the United States or out of it to be a “citizen at birth” does not prove that that person is a “natural born citizen.”
She argues that Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen” under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1401(g). Here, she makes the absurd argument that Cruz is a “natural born citizen” by way of a naturalization act of Congress. Using her logic, the “natural born citizen” clause would have no meaning or limits if Congress could simply naturalize anyone at birth which Squeeky Fromm then considers to be a “natural born citizen.” She looks to the Naturalization Act of 1790 for support. Regarding whether children born out of the United States to U.S. “citizen” parents are “natural-born citizens,” the Naturalization Act of 1790 does not help Squeeky Fromm because the 1795 Act, with the work of James Madison, repealed it and replaced “natural born citizen” with “citizen of the United States.” Despite her statement that Congress never did so, the 1795 Act, with James Madison’s influence, plainly shows from its text that “Congress intended to limit the rights of foreign born citizens at birth to some quanta less than that of a natural born citizen.” Furthermore, Wong Kim Ark informed us that the Fourteenth Amendment “has not touched the acquisition of citizenship by being born abroad of American parents, and has left that subject to be regulated, as it had always been, by Congress in the exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution to establish an uniform rule of naturalization.” So, Wong Kim Ark told us that children born out of the United States to U.S. “citizen” parents become “citizens at birth” under Congress’s naturalization powers. That means they are naturalized at birth. By her own concession, if they are naturalized, they cannot be “natural born citizens,” regardless of when they obtain their citizenship. . .
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Powerline chronicles Obamacare lies - UPDATE #26
LIES OF OBAMACARE
MORE LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE:
UPDATE #1 [update #21 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE, DOCUMENTED
UPDATE #2:
2 videos posted 11/3/13: LIES OF OBAMACARE: CAPRETTA VS. EMANUEL
UPDATE #3:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: I’M SORRY. HOW ABOUT YOU? [title corrected 12/30/14]
UPDATE #3a: [update #22 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE FIVE PERCENT SOLUTION
UPDATE #4:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: 17 AND COUNTING
UPDATE #5:
Obama isn't the only one who lied
UPDATE #6:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: FROM THE ROMER FILE [UPDATED]
UPDATE #6a: [update #23 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE #7:
Lies Of Obamacare (12/1/13)
UPDATE #8:
Lies Of Obamacare (12/2/13)
UPDATE #9:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE NEXT GENERATION
UPDATE #10:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: FALSE CHOICE EDITION
UPDATE #11:
THE LIES OF OBAMACARE — UNIVERSAL COVERAGE
UPDATE #12:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE EMANUEL EXPLICATION
UPDATE #12a: [update #24 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE: LIE OF THE YEAR EDITION
UPDATE #13:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: CARNEY’S JIVE EDITION
UPDATE #14:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: BIGGEST AND BEST
UPDATE #15:
Lies Of Obamacare (1/14/14)
UPDATE #16:
LIES OF OBAMACARE (FULL VIDEO ADDED)
UPDATE #17:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: A DEBATE
UPDATE #17a: [update #25 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE #17b: [update #26 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE SPECIAL EDITION
UPDATE #18:
THE LIES OF OBAMACARE — BENDING THE COST CURVE
UPDATE #19:
LIES OF OBAMACARE (5/16/14)
UPDATE #20:
THE MUTUAL LIES OF OBAMACARE
NOTE ON UPDATES [12/30/14]: I just discovered six more and inserted them in their proper chronological order.
MORE LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE:
And make no mistake, that is what Obamacare is, at root — a massive disruption of our health care system in the name of wealth redistribution.READ MORE
As this reality dawns on Americans, it will likely redound to the disadvantage of Democrats (not that there’s much consolation in this). The winners under Obamacare will be a cohort that already votes overwhelmingly for Democrats. The losers will consist mainly of middle class Americans, whose party allegiance is split.
UPDATE #1 [update #21 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE, DOCUMENTED
UPDATE #2:
2 videos posted 11/3/13: LIES OF OBAMACARE: CAPRETTA VS. EMANUEL
UPDATE #3:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: I’M SORRY. HOW ABOUT YOU? [title corrected 12/30/14]
UPDATE #3a: [update #22 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE FIVE PERCENT SOLUTION
UPDATE #4:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: 17 AND COUNTING
UPDATE #5:
Obama isn't the only one who lied
UPDATE #6:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: FROM THE ROMER FILE [UPDATED]
UPDATE #6a: [update #23 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE #7:
Lies Of Obamacare (12/1/13)
UPDATE #8:
Lies Of Obamacare (12/2/13)
UPDATE #9:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE NEXT GENERATION
UPDATE #10:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: FALSE CHOICE EDITION
UPDATE #11:
THE LIES OF OBAMACARE — UNIVERSAL COVERAGE
UPDATE #12:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: THE EMANUEL EXPLICATION
UPDATE #12a: [update #24 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE: LIE OF THE YEAR EDITION
UPDATE #13:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: CARNEY’S JIVE EDITION
UPDATE #14:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: BIGGEST AND BEST
UPDATE #15:
Lies Of Obamacare (1/14/14)
UPDATE #16:
LIES OF OBAMACARE (FULL VIDEO ADDED)
UPDATE #17:
LIES OF OBAMACARE: A DEBATE
UPDATE #17a: [update #25 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE
UPDATE #17b: [update #26 12/30/14]
LIES OF OBAMACARE SPECIAL EDITION
UPDATE #18:
THE LIES OF OBAMACARE — BENDING THE COST CURVE
UPDATE #19:
LIES OF OBAMACARE (5/16/14)
UPDATE #20:
THE MUTUAL LIES OF OBAMACARE
NOTE ON UPDATES [12/30/14]: I just discovered six more and inserted them in their proper chronological order.
Third world brings pork tapeworm nightmare to U.S.
Some fall into comas. Some are paralyzed down one side of their body. Others can’t walk a straight line. Still others come to [Dr. George] Nash partially blind, or with so much fluid in their brain that they need shunts implanted to relieve the pressure. Some lose the ability to speak; many fall into violent seizures….America’s Health Care System Is “Possessed”—By Mass Third-World Immigration
The closer scientists look at the epidemiology of the disease, the worse it becomes. . .
Neurocysticercosis is only “a very important disease worldwide” thanks to mass, Third-World emigration. . .Some other blessings brought by mass, Third-World immigration to America’s reeling health care system:
Friday, October 25, 2013
Why people hate people who call themselves Christians
If you’ve wondered what a “Christianist” is, this is a pretty fair example. It’s someone who uses Christ Jesus or the teachings of his church as an excuse to justify bigotry, to endorse a thoughtless ideology and to expose a heart full of hate.READ MORE
Obamacare hearings scheduled
From HEALTH ACTION NETWORK
Hearings Scheduled: As part of its growing effort to regain control of the narrative building around the problems that have dogged the rollout of the exchange marketplace, the Administration held a briefing on Wednesday for members of its own caucus. The closed-door session was led by Gary Cohen, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). (Republicans, however, aren't scheduled to receive a similar briefing until next week.) These efforts to mollify an increasingly disenchanted caucus notwithstanding, as anticipated, a slate of congressional hearings surrounding the rollout have already been scheduled for next week. First up, CMS Administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, who is expected to appear before the House Ways & Means Committee on Tuesday. She will be followed the next day by HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, who is scheduled to testify before the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Her appearance comes on the heels of yesterday’s hearing featuring the two top federal contractors involved in the launch of the exchange marketplace website. Finally, for their part, the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee has made known its intent to investigate what role the White House may have played in the decisions leading up to the design and development of that website. Committee Chairman, Darrell Issa, in a letter to two top technology officials at OMB, charged the Administration with making key decisions political, resulting in the “chaotic mess” consumers have had to deal with.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Sebelius screwed up other websites before Obamacare!
Why is it that liberals always fail up?
Obama, for example, quit being a Community Organizer after 3 years because he failed at it!
READ MORE
Obama, for example, quit being a Community Organizer after 3 years because he failed at it!
READ MORE
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
15-Year-old Girl Burned to Death by Her Father for Talking on the Cell Phone
Why does it matter that the practice of honor killing has Islamic sanction? Because if the roots of honor killing are never discussed and always ignored, the practice will never stop. Until the Islamic roots of the practice are discussed openly and human rights groups begin calling for reform, honor killings will continue in the Islamic world -- and in Muslim communities in the West.WARNING: GRAPHIC
TRAVESTY
From the page https://www.facebook.com/BreitbartOneSilencedMillionsAwakened
The Chapman University of Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November
The Obama administration has ordered massive reductions in forces, resulting in many officers who are near retirement being involuntarily separated without retirement or medical benefits
There have been rather a lot, to say the least, of firings, demotions, relievings and disciplinings of hundreds of officers in our military under this present regime. The grounds range from "leaving blast doors on nukes open" to "loss of confidence in command ability" to "mishandling of funds" to "inappropriate relationships" to "gambling with counterfeit chips" to "inappropriate behavior" to "low morale in troops commanded" to you-name-it-you-got-it
We honor them not by handing them a pink slip as they are shipped off to combat
Grand Total: 197 Officers
Year: 2013 (9, so far).
1. Marine Col. Daren Margolin – Quantico – Oct. 18, 2013. Was in charge of Quantico’s Security Battalion.
2. Marine Major General C.M.M. Gurganus – Oct. 12, 2013. Commander Regional Command Southwest and I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in Afghanistan.
3. AF Major Gen. Michael Carey – Oct. 8, 2013. 2-star commander of 20th Air Force. 3 wings of ICBMs. 450 nukes. Covered 3 AF bases across nation.
4. Navy Vice-Admiral Tim Guardina – Oct. 9, 2013. 3-star vice-commander all US nuclear forces (land/air/sea). Relieved of command. Demoted in rank to 2-stars.
5. Marine Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant – September 2013. Director of strategic planning and policy for U.S. Pacific Command and commander of the Aviation Wing At Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
6. Marine Col. James Christmas – July 18, 2013. Commanded 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit. Also, commanded the new Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit.
7. Army Brigadier General Bryan Roberts – May 2013. Commander, Ft. Jackson, SC.
8. Marine Gen. James Mattis – May 2013. Chief of CentCom.
9. Army Major General Ralph Baker – April 2013. Commander of Joint Task Force Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa
Year: 2012 (Overall total – 4 +24 = 28 Final total).
1. Marine General John R. Allen – Nov. 13, 2012. Commander, ISAF - International Security Assistance Force.
2. Army General David Petraeus – Nov. 9, 2012. Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012.
3. Navy Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette - Oct. 27, 2102. Commander, USS John C. Stennis strike group. Relieved within a day or so of Benghazi.
4. Army General Carter F. Ham – Oct. 18, 2012. Commander, AFRICOM. Relieved during Benghazi from direct command of AFRICOM.
Naval Officers (all in 2012): Total - 24
1. Cmdr. Derick Armstrong, Commander, guided missile destroyer USS The Sullivans.
2. Cmdr. Martin Arriola, Commander, USS Porter.
3. Capt. Antonio Cardoso, Commander, of Training Support Center San Diego.
4. Capt. James CoBell, Commander, Oceana Naval Air Station’s Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic.
5. Cmdr. Joseph E. Darlak, Commander, USS Vandegrift.
6. Cmdr. Franklin Fernandez, Commander, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24.
7. Cmdr. Ray Hartman, Commander, amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry.
8. Cmdr. Jon Haydel, Commander, USS San Diego.
9. Cmdr. Diego Hernandez, Commander, ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming.
10. Cmdr. Lee Hoey, Commander, Navy Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego. (HL)
11. Cmdr. Dennis Klein, Commander, submarine USS Columbia.
12. Capt. Marcia “Kim” Lyons, Commander, Naval Health Clinic New England.
13. Capt. Chuck Litchfield, Commander, USS Essex.
14. Capt. Robert Marin, Commander, USS Cowpens.
15. Capt. Sean McDonell, Commander, Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14.
16. Cmdr. Corrine Parker, Commander, Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1.
17. Capt. Lisa Raimondo, Commander, Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, Md.
18. Capt. Jeffrey Riedel, Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program.
19. Cmdr. Sara Santoski, Commander, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15.
20. Cmdr. Sheryl Tannahill, Commander, Navy Operational Support Center Nashville.
21. Cmdr. Michael Ward, Commander, USS Pittsburgh.
22. Capt. Michael Wiegand, Commander, Southwest Regional Maintenance Center.
23. Capt. Ted Williams, Commander, Mount Whitney.
24. Cmdr. Jeffrey Wissel, Commander, of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1.
Year: 2011 Total – 1 + 157 = 158 overall
Army Major Gen. Peter Fuller - May 2011. A top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
157 Air Force majors. Military advocates decry ‘illegal’ early terminations of 157 Air Force majors
Year: 2010 Total – 1 ( total)
1. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal – June 2010. Overall commander Afghanistan. Replaced by Gen. Petraeus.
1. Year: 2009 Total – 1 (total)
Army Gen. David D. McKiernan – 2009. First 4-star relieved since Truman relieved MacArthur. Commanded in Afghanistan.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/25/military-advocates-decry-illegal-early-terminations-of-157-air-force-majors/#ixzz2iYo78Ke7
The Chapman University of Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November
The Obama administration has ordered massive reductions in forces, resulting in many officers who are near retirement being involuntarily separated without retirement or medical benefits
There have been rather a lot, to say the least, of firings, demotions, relievings and disciplinings of hundreds of officers in our military under this present regime. The grounds range from "leaving blast doors on nukes open" to "loss of confidence in command ability" to "mishandling of funds" to "inappropriate relationships" to "gambling with counterfeit chips" to "inappropriate behavior" to "low morale in troops commanded" to you-name-it-you-got-it
We honor them not by handing them a pink slip as they are shipped off to combat
Grand Total: 197 Officers
Year: 2013 (9, so far).
1. Marine Col. Daren Margolin – Quantico – Oct. 18, 2013. Was in charge of Quantico’s Security Battalion.
2. Marine Major General C.M.M. Gurganus – Oct. 12, 2013. Commander Regional Command Southwest and I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in Afghanistan.
3. AF Major Gen. Michael Carey – Oct. 8, 2013. 2-star commander of 20th Air Force. 3 wings of ICBMs. 450 nukes. Covered 3 AF bases across nation.
4. Navy Vice-Admiral Tim Guardina – Oct. 9, 2013. 3-star vice-commander all US nuclear forces (land/air/sea). Relieved of command. Demoted in rank to 2-stars.
5. Marine Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant – September 2013. Director of strategic planning and policy for U.S. Pacific Command and commander of the Aviation Wing At Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
6. Marine Col. James Christmas – July 18, 2013. Commanded 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit. Also, commanded the new Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit.
7. Army Brigadier General Bryan Roberts – May 2013. Commander, Ft. Jackson, SC.
8. Marine Gen. James Mattis – May 2013. Chief of CentCom.
9. Army Major General Ralph Baker – April 2013. Commander of Joint Task Force Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa
Year: 2012 (Overall total – 4 +24 = 28 Final total).
1. Marine General John R. Allen – Nov. 13, 2012. Commander, ISAF - International Security Assistance Force.
2. Army General David Petraeus – Nov. 9, 2012. Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012.
3. Navy Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette - Oct. 27, 2102. Commander, USS John C. Stennis strike group. Relieved within a day or so of Benghazi.
4. Army General Carter F. Ham – Oct. 18, 2012. Commander, AFRICOM. Relieved during Benghazi from direct command of AFRICOM.
Naval Officers (all in 2012): Total - 24
1. Cmdr. Derick Armstrong, Commander, guided missile destroyer USS The Sullivans.
2. Cmdr. Martin Arriola, Commander, USS Porter.
3. Capt. Antonio Cardoso, Commander, of Training Support Center San Diego.
4. Capt. James CoBell, Commander, Oceana Naval Air Station’s Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic.
5. Cmdr. Joseph E. Darlak, Commander, USS Vandegrift.
6. Cmdr. Franklin Fernandez, Commander, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24.
7. Cmdr. Ray Hartman, Commander, amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry.
8. Cmdr. Jon Haydel, Commander, USS San Diego.
9. Cmdr. Diego Hernandez, Commander, ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming.
10. Cmdr. Lee Hoey, Commander, Navy Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego. (HL)
11. Cmdr. Dennis Klein, Commander, submarine USS Columbia.
12. Capt. Marcia “Kim” Lyons, Commander, Naval Health Clinic New England.
13. Capt. Chuck Litchfield, Commander, USS Essex.
14. Capt. Robert Marin, Commander, USS Cowpens.
15. Capt. Sean McDonell, Commander, Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14.
16. Cmdr. Corrine Parker, Commander, Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1.
17. Capt. Lisa Raimondo, Commander, Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, Md.
18. Capt. Jeffrey Riedel, Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program.
19. Cmdr. Sara Santoski, Commander, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15.
20. Cmdr. Sheryl Tannahill, Commander, Navy Operational Support Center Nashville.
21. Cmdr. Michael Ward, Commander, USS Pittsburgh.
22. Capt. Michael Wiegand, Commander, Southwest Regional Maintenance Center.
23. Capt. Ted Williams, Commander, Mount Whitney.
24. Cmdr. Jeffrey Wissel, Commander, of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1.
Year: 2011 Total – 1 + 157 = 158 overall
Army Major Gen. Peter Fuller - May 2011. A top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
157 Air Force majors. Military advocates decry ‘illegal’ early terminations of 157 Air Force majors
Year: 2010 Total – 1 ( total)
1. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal – June 2010. Overall commander Afghanistan. Replaced by Gen. Petraeus.
1. Year: 2009 Total – 1 (total)
Army Gen. David D. McKiernan – 2009. First 4-star relieved since Truman relieved MacArthur. Commanded in Afghanistan.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/25/military-advocates-decry-illegal-early-terminations-of-157-air-force-majors/#ixzz2iYo78Ke7
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Jerky treat mystery: Nearly 600 pets dead; still no source, FDA says
Several years ago, American pets were dying from poisoned Chinese pet food (both cats and dogs)...now here we go again!
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Orly Taitz Back in Court 10-23-13 Santa Ana, CA
For more information and directions, click here.
Orly has requested that supporters please support her by showing up if you can!
Orly has requested that supporters please support her by showing up if you can!
The Redskins don't need to change their name...
...Their liberal critics need to change their tactics and stop picking fights for their own political profit that they pretend are actually being fought for a minority group that never asked for their help.READ MORE
If liberals really care about helping American Indians, they can start with problems like broken families, drug abuse, the adoption of Indian children and corruption within tribal society. But those are big problems with few easy solutions and nothing to them that will make liberalism's white knights feel good about themselves.
But let's not pretend that the Redskins debate is about helping American Indians. It's about the selfish egotism of the white knights whose Camelot was the corrupt Kennedy White House and whose round table is a Twitter hashtag where everyone denounces white privilege in unison while embodying it.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
The core function of the federal government -- national security -- will be sacrificed on the altar of redistributionist, Utopian fantasies
The Chinese are creating a nuclear-capable Navy. The Iranians are practicing launches of EMP nuclear weapons. And Hezbollah is operating in the American southwest, thanks to the Democrats' open borders policies.The Most Terrifying Chart You'll See All Week
All is going according to plan. That is, if you seek the destruction of the American Experiment.
How Obamacare Screws the Working Class…Hard
Obamacare is set to sink into the flesh of the American entitlement system not unlike a bear's claws sink into the flesh of its prey. . .
Here are some of the new taxes you're going to have to pay to pay for Obamacare:
▪ A 3.8% surtax on "investment income"( dividends, interest, rent, capital gains, annuities, house sales, partnerships, etc.) when your adjusted gross income is more than $200,000, $250,000 for joint-filers. What is "investment income?" (WSJ)
▪ A 0.9% surtax on Medicare taxes for those making $200,000 or more, $250,000 joint. (WSJ)
▪ Flexible Spending Account contributions will be capped at $2,500. Currently, there is no tax-related limit on how much you can set aside pre-tax to pay for medical expenses. (ATR.org)
▪ The itemized-deduction hurdle for medical expenses is going up to 10% of adjusted gross income. (ATR.org)
▪ The penalty on non-medical withdrawals from Healthcare Savings Accounts is now 20% instead of 10%. (ATR.org)
▪ A tax of 10% on indoor tanning services. This has been in place for two years, since the summer of 2010. (ATR.org)
▪ A 40% tax on "Cadillac Health Care Plans" starting in 2018.Those whose employers pay for all or most of comprehensive healthcare plans (costing $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for families) will have to pay a 40% tax on the amount their employer pays. (ATR.org)
▪ A "Medicine Cabinet Tax" that eliminates the ability to pay for over-the-counter medicines from a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account. (ATR.org)
▪ A "penalty" tax for those who don't buy health insurance.
▪ A 2.3% excise tax on medical devices costing more than $100. (Breitbart.com)
So those are some of the new taxes you'll be paying that will help pay for Obamacare...
Note that these taxes are both "progressive" (aimed at rich people) and "regressive" (aimed at the middle class and poor people).
Here are some of the new taxes you're going to have to pay to pay for Obamacare:
▪ A 3.8% surtax on "investment income"( dividends, interest, rent, capital gains, annuities, house sales, partnerships, etc.) when your adjusted gross income is more than $200,000, $250,000 for joint-filers. What is "investment income?" (WSJ)
▪ A 0.9% surtax on Medicare taxes for those making $200,000 or more, $250,000 joint. (WSJ)
▪ Flexible Spending Account contributions will be capped at $2,500. Currently, there is no tax-related limit on how much you can set aside pre-tax to pay for medical expenses. (ATR.org)
▪ The itemized-deduction hurdle for medical expenses is going up to 10% of adjusted gross income. (ATR.org)
▪ The penalty on non-medical withdrawals from Healthcare Savings Accounts is now 20% instead of 10%. (ATR.org)
▪ A tax of 10% on indoor tanning services. This has been in place for two years, since the summer of 2010. (ATR.org)
▪ A 40% tax on "Cadillac Health Care Plans" starting in 2018.Those whose employers pay for all or most of comprehensive healthcare plans (costing $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for families) will have to pay a 40% tax on the amount their employer pays. (ATR.org)
▪ A "Medicine Cabinet Tax" that eliminates the ability to pay for over-the-counter medicines from a pre-tax Flexible Spending Account. (ATR.org)
▪ A "penalty" tax for those who don't buy health insurance.
▪ A 2.3% excise tax on medical devices costing more than $100. (Breitbart.com)
So those are some of the new taxes you'll be paying that will help pay for Obamacare...
Note that these taxes are both "progressive" (aimed at rich people) and "regressive" (aimed at the middle class and poor people).
Why Did FDR’s New Deal Harm Blacks?
If FDR’s New Deal policies weren’t conceived with racist intent, they certainly had racist consequences. Hopefully in the future, more people will try to better understand the often startling, unexpected consequences of government interference with the economy.READ MORE
Thursday, October 17, 2013
ANIMAL RESCUER AT RAINBOW BRIDGE
Unlike most days at the Rainbow Bridge, this day dawned cold and gray. All the recent arrivals at the Bridge did not know what to think, as they had never seen such a day. But the animals who had been waiting longer for their beloved people to accompany them across the Bridge knew what was happening, and they began to gather at the pathway leading to the Bridge.A newly created page for special needs animals
Soon an elderly dog came into view, head hung low and tail dragging. He approached slowly, and though he showed no sign of injury or illness, he was in great emotional pain. Unlike the animals gathered along the pathway, he had not been restored to youth and vigor upon arriving at the Bridge. He felt out of place, and wanted only to cross over and find happiness.
But as he approached the Bridge, his way was barred by an angel, who apologized and explained that the tired and broken-spirited old dog could not cross over. Only those animals accompanied by their people were allowed to cross the Bridge. Having nobody, and with nowhere else to turn, the dog trudged into the field in front of the Bridge. There he found others like himself, elderly or infirm, sad and discouraged. Unlike the other animals waiting to cross the Bridge, these animals were not running or playing. They simply were lying in the grass, staring forlornly at the pathway across the Rainbow Bridge. The old dog took his place among them, watching the pathway and waiting, yet not knowing for what he was waiting.
One of the newer dogs at the Bridge asked a cat who had been there longer to explain what was happening. The cat replied, "Those poor animals were abandoned, turned away, or left at rescue places, but never found a home on earth. They all passed on with only the love of a rescuer to comfort them. Because they had no people to love them, they have nobody to escort them across the Rainbow Bridge.” The dog asked the cat, "So what will happen to those animals?” Before the cat could answer, the clouds began to part and the cold turned to bright sunshine. The cat replied, "Watch, and you will see.”
In the distance was a single person, and as he approached the Bridge the old, infirm, and sad animals in the field were bathed in a golden light. They were at once made young and healthy, and stood to see what their fate would be. The animals who had previously gathered at the pathway bowed their heads as the person approached. At each bowed head, the person offered a scratch or hug.
One by one, the now youthful and healthy animals from the field fell into line behind the person. Together, they walked across the Rainbow Bridge to a future of happiness and unquestioned love. The dog asked the cat, "What just happened?” The cat responded, "That was a rescuer. The animals gathered along the pathway bowing in respect were those who had found their forever homes because of rescuers. They will cross over when their people arrive at the Bridge. The arrival here of a rescuer is a great and solemn event, and as a tribute they are permitted to perform one final act of rescue. They are allowed to escort all those poor animals they couldn't place on earth across the Rainbow Bridge.”
The dog thought for a moment, then said, "I like rescuers.” The cat smiled and replied, "So does heaven, my friend. So does heaven."
~Author Unknown.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"Nothing should outrage and offend you more than the knowledge that there has been (and still is) a relentless political movement to normalize sex with minors"
Cultural Marxism and the (Very Real) Movement to Normalize Pedophilia:
We’ve already slouched past Gomorrah and are halfway to Sodom. We are so close to the gates of Hell you can feel the heat, smell the sulfurous stench of burning brimstone, and hear the Devil call your name.READ MORE
Satan roams the Earth, the Evil Rights Movement gains new supporters daily, and it may already be a crime to call evil by its right name.
Senate leaders race to draft debt-limit bill after House effort collapses
First, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made up this arbitrary deadline (he felt the children in the government needed some guidelines) and second, we have PLENTY of money coming into the government to pay ALL of our obligations (including Social Security) but a default (which would be the first time in U.S. history and would be an impeachable offense for the president) would only prevent the spend-mad politicians from borrowing more money.
...it was unclear whether an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could pass the Senate before the Treasury Department exhausts its borrowing power Thursday.
...it was unclear whether an agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could pass the Senate before the Treasury Department exhausts its borrowing power Thursday.
House GOP plans Tuesday night vote on latest debt ceiling plan
Situation is very "fluid" and doesn't look all that great for a solid deal at this point...
News from The Hill
News from The Hill
Monday, October 14, 2013
BREAKING: HOUSE REPUBLICANS SCHEDULE OBAMA IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
Republicans in the House of Representatives have scheduled impeachment proceedings against President Obama, claiming his inability to halt the federal government shutdown makes him unfit for office.READ MORE
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann introduced a resolution to impeach Obama this morning and referred the matter to the House Judiciary Committee. Senior aides close to judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte say hearings will begin Thursday.
Sarah Palin explains what the debt default really means
Obama’s Debt Default is on His Shoulders While We Shoulder His Impeachable Offenses
Apparently the president thinks he can furlough reality when talking about the debt limit. To suggest that raising the debt limit doesn’t incur more debt is laughably absurd. The very reason why you raise the debt limit is so that you can incur more debt. Otherwise what’s the point?- Sarah Palin
It’s also shameful to see him scaremongering the markets with his talk of default. There is no way we can default if we follow the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4, requires that we service our debt first. We currently collect more than enough tax revenue to service our debt if we do that first. However, we don’t have enough money to continue to finance our ever-growing federal government (with our $17 trillion dollar national debt that has increased over 50% since Obama took office). That’s why President Obama wants to increase the debt limit. He doesn’t want to make the tough decisions to rein in government spending. So, he’s scaremongering the markets about default, just as he tries to scaremonger our senior citizens about their Social Security, which, by the way, is funded by the Social Security Trust Fund and is solvent through 2038.
It’s time for the president to be honest with the American people for a change. Defaulting on our national debt is an impeachable offense, and any attempt by President Obama to unilaterally raise the debt limit without Congress is also an impeachable offense. A default would also be a shameful lack of leadership, just as mindlessly increasing our debt without trying to rein in spending is a betrayal of our children and grandchildren who will be stuck with the bill.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
The right thing to do
We are watching the fiscal destruction of this country. How else can one phrase it? When interest rates return to the mean, the federal government's reckless spending policies will instantly quadruple the amount it must pay to service the debt. What happens then? It's anyone's guess, but one thing is certain: all of the outcomes are bad, ranging from another Great Depression to a complete collapse of the civil society.Top 5 Reasons the GOP Will Win the Shutdown (Unless They Fold With the Winning Hand)
Friday, October 11, 2013
Diversification is the key...
...to avoiding all that arsenic in your rice!
Brought to you by the friendly folks at Consumer Reports & the FDA.
Brought to you by the friendly folks at Consumer Reports & the FDA.
One song to rule them all...
Guess which Republican Congressman?
Now, I admire the Congressman’s willingness to search for inspiration in rap music, to try and reach out to young voters, African-Americans, and Canadians. But really, one song is going to guide all of his decision-making?READ MORE
Bombshell: Barack Obama conclusively outed as CIA creation
Far from being the mere ‘son of a goat herder’ (as he deceptively paraded during and even before his candidacy), strong evidence has emerged that President Barack Obama is the product of the intelligence community. Investigative reporter and former NSA employee Wayne Madsen has put together an extensive three-part (and growing) series with conclusive proof and documentation that Barack Obama Sr., Stanley Ann Dunham, Lolo Soetoro and President Barack Obama himself all hold deep ties to the CIA and larger intelligence community. And that’s just the beginning.READ MORE
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Heads up
Just wanted to let you know...today I received my 2013 Social Security Stimulus Package (yes, I'm that old).
It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, two discount coupons to KFC, an 'Obama Hope & Change' bumper sticker, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my ass, and a 'Blame it on Bush' poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish.
Yours should arrive soon.
"Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams
It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, two discount coupons to KFC, an 'Obama Hope & Change' bumper sticker, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my ass, and a 'Blame it on Bush' poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish.
Yours should arrive soon.
"Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams
ALABAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE CASE MOVING FORWARD
Re: Obama's eligibility and citizenship:
I’ve followed most of the eligibility cases, and I’ve noticed a very common occurrence. Even in those cases in which the judge appears to follow the law, there seems always to be a sudden and abrupt change. As in the Georgia case before Judge Michael Malihi, the case was pretty well decided by a default judgment against Obama when Malihi abruptly dismissed the case. This was done even though Obama’s attorneys refused to show up in court. When you read Judge Malihi’s decision and compare it to his earlier denial of motion to dismiss, it’s as if they were written by two different people. Could it be that Judge Malihi got a visit? And from whom? And who wrote the decision? I don’t see this happening to Judge Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court. I don’t think they can be intimidated. There is no timeline for the court to rule on this case, so we wait to see what happens. This could be monumental.READ MORE
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Who really owns the Long Beach Naval Base in California?
...and the REAL reason behind the Obama administration's big push for gun control:
In 2012, a Chinese Officer was arrested for trespassing. When it went to court, although he was a Chinese Citizen and Officer on American Soil, he had to be acquitted, because he was on Chinese property. There have also been sightings of Chinese Warships in 2013, which were calmly explained away as a joint effort with the Chinese Military. They are parking in the Naval Yard they now own and there is nothing Americans can do about it.READ MORE
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
The conscience of a pro-life, vegan conservative
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
October 7, 2013
Pro-Life, Pro-Animal
Matthew Scully has been a speechwriter in each of the last six presidential general-election campaigns and was a special assistant to President George W. Bush. He is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy.
Mr. Scully discusses both the LEFT...
...and the RIGHT:
October 7, 2013
Pro-Life, Pro-Animal
Matthew Scully has been a speechwriter in each of the last six presidential general-election campaigns and was a special assistant to President George W. Bush. He is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy.
"The idea of animal protection as a cause of the Left is wildly overstated, put about by livestock interests and other animal-use industries to scare mainstream America away, just as NARAL et al. want us to think of protecting the rights of the unborn as the crazy obsession of the Right."
Mr. Scully discusses both the LEFT...
Some in the animal-protection movement mistake the cause for a part of the liberal progressive agenda (as if the Obama years have ushered in some golden era of cruelty-free living in America) and can be so wrapped up in that ideology as to ignore the most obvious of connections. In what moral universe does it makes sense to protect a wolf, pig, dog, or any other animal from needless suffering and violence, but not a human baby stirring in her mother’s womb? To their lasting credit, many animal activists post pictures on the Internet from factory farms, slaughterhouses, laboratories, and elsewhere, scenes so nightmarish at times that you have to study them for a moment before the horror of what’s unfolding becomes clear. How many of those same good people have ever brought themselves to look at pictures and films (even the ultrasonic and relatively endurable Silent Scream) showing what happens in an abortion, especially after the second or third month of fetal development, and to whom it happens? Different people are called to serve different causes, and if your vocation is to protect animals then no one is saying you have to sign up right away at National Right to Life. But if the creed is empathy for the weak, shouldn’t your sympathies at least lie in that direction?
...and the RIGHT:
Representative Steve King of Iowa, for example, is a solid pro-life vote every time and, just as dependably, an apologist for animal cruelty. He typifies a certain way of looking at animals that manages to be both lofty in tone and morally obtuse in practice. An influential member of the House Agriculture Committee, the man has opposed any kind of leniency for farm animals, dogs in puppy mills or dog-fight rings, birds used by cockfighters, horses bound for slaughter plants, exotic wildlife slain by big-game trophy hunters, any creature at all. All the while, he uses his pro-life principles as a pretext for doing nothing on behalf of animals, in a version of the abortion–cruelty connection that other conservatives have also traded on. The idea is that since the law does not now grant full protection to the unborn, any attempt to protect animal life is an expression of profoundly misplaced priorities, subversive to the sanctity of human life, an affront to Man in all his glory. The result of this high-minded stance? Glorious man, made in the image of God, can go back to his dog-fighting, cock-fighting, chick-grinding, hog torture, wolf slaughter, and general abuse of the animal world without being held to account.
If it is possible to give pro-life principles a bad name, little tyrants like Steve King are the ones who can do it. They are making excuses, not arguments. They are friends of power, not of life, serving no cause except human arrogance — in the spirit of what Governor Bob Casey used to call the Imperial Self. By showing such contempt for the healthy majority of voters in both parties who care about animals, they aren’t doing the Republican party any favors, either.
"The factory farms — producing almost every animal product we see sold or advertised, in our country and most others — are places of immense and avoidable suffering. And though the moral stakes are not the same as with abortion, the moral habits are, relying in both cases on the averted gaze and a smothering of empathy."
Monday, October 07, 2013
"It takes a lot of money to be left alone."
"...this isn't a free country anymore; this is a country in which you get things for free."
This is not a nation where people are left alone anymore. This is a nation where they are hounded from the moment they are born until the moment they die by a regulatory state where being left alone has become the greatest of luxuries.From Problemtown to Solutionville
It takes a lot of money to be left alone.
"Our forefathers passed on to us a Bill of Rights, and we shall pass on to our descendants a Bill."
Updated list of illogical, unnecessary, and shockingly spiteful moves our government is making in the name of essential and non-essential.
BRIETBART: This list will be regularly updated, and if you have something you feel should be added, please email me...
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Pentagon issues warning about coming "radical change" in the government of the United States
Pentagon Warns To Expect “Radical” Change In US Government Soon
by THETOTALCOLLAPSE.COM on OCTOBER 4, 2013
A highly troubling “urgent bulletin” issued earlier today by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) states that it has received information from the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) warning to expect a “radical change” in the government of the United States, possibly within the next fortnight, based on information they have received from “highly placed” sources within the Pentagon.
According to this MoFA bulletin, GRU intelligence assests were notified by their Pentagon counterparts this past week that President Barack Obama is preparing to invoke the powers given to him under 50 USC Chapter 13 to hold that various American States are now in a “state of insurrection” thus allowing him to invoke the National Emergencies Act under 50 USC § 1621 and invoke the highly controversial “continuity of government” plan for the United States allowing him, in essence, to rule with supreme powers.
Specifically, this bulletin says, Obama will invoke 50 USC § 212 that states: “ the President shall have declared by proclamation that the laws of the United States are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings”
The specific laws being opposed by these “combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,” that Obama will outline in his reasoning’s for declaring a state of emergency, this bulletin continues, are the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
The NDAA is opposed by many US States, this bulletin says, with California joining Alaska and Virginia this past week in passing a law making it illegal to be enforced in their territory, and with many other States, also, preparing to do the same.
The specific portions of the NDAA law being opposed by these US States allows for the indefinite detention without charges or trial of all American citizens and allows for their assassination should Obama order it.
The PPACA (Obamacare) law is, likewise, opposed by over half of the US States and has led to an American “shutdown” this past week that has closed 15% of their government, but has left fully 85% of it still open.
To the specific “combinations too powerful” Obama will cite in his declaration of National Emergency as being needed to be defeated by extraordinary measures, the MoFA says, is a faction of the US House of Representatives popularly known as the Republican Tea Party whom the President and his allies have likened to “hostage takers” and “political terrorists.”
Obama’s greatest fear, and reason(s) for declaring a National State of Emergency, this bulletin continues, was outlined yesterday by his US Treasury Department who released a report yesterday warning of potentially “catastrophic” damage should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the government from defaulting on its debt.
As the current US government shutdown crisis and debt ceiling fight have now merged, the MoFA warns in this bulletin, Obama further warned yesterday that an impasse on the debt ceiling beyond 17 October, when the US government will be essentially out of cash to pay its bills, could start a downward economic plunge worse than the recession of five years ago – with credit markets seizing up, the dollar’s value plummeting and US interest rates soaring and even coming close to the brink of such an unprecedented default that could roil both domestic and foreign financial markets.
Preparing to oppose Obama, should he, in fact, declare a National State of Emergency, the GRU grimly warns, is the US military who themselves are preparing to invoke 50 USC § 842 which allows them to protect America from “The Communist Party of the United States, or any successors of such party regardless of the assumed name, whose object or purpose is to overthrow the Government of the United States, or the government of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof…”
Not known to many Americans is that the Progressive movement Obama belongs to, and whose media acolyte “presstitutes” swept into office, have long been associated with the Communist Party.
And, as the World Net Daily News Service reported this past August, John C. Drew, Ph.D., the award-winning political scientist, met Obama in 1980 and wrote in 2011: “[Obama] believed that the economic stresses of the Carter years meant revolution was still imminent. The election of Reagan was simply a minor set-back in terms of the coming revolution. … Obama was blindly sticking to the simple Marxist theory … ‘there’s going to be a revolution.’ Obama said, ‘we need to be organized and grow the movement.’ In Obama’s view, our role must be to educate others so that we might usher in more quickly this inevitable revolution.”
With Obama’s “revolution” now at hand, the GRU warns in this bulletin, it is critical to note that that United States, unlike other nations, have all of their elected officials and military personal swear allegiance to the US Constitution, and not to their government or its leaders.
The most recent example of this conflict between Obama and the USmilitary, the GRU further states, was in Egypt when the Obama regime supported Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown by the Pentagon backed Egyptian military, and who, like the United States, makes its political and military leaders swear allegiance to their constitution, not to any of its leaders.
As many in America now know that these present times are not the normal activities of a government seeking peace and prosperity, and as dozens of undisclosed Obama Presidential directives that define US national security policy and task government agencies are still unknown either to the public or, as a rule, to the US Congress, this bulletin warns in its summation that with each passing day American can be more likened to a communist dictatorship than a functioning democracy.
So bad, in fact, has the United States become that one of its legendary reporters, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh wrote this past week that the Obama administration lies systematically yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.
Even worse, and in a further Sovietization of American Life by the Obama regime, the US this past week refused to grant entry visas to internationally renowned authors Ilija Trojanov and Ernst Titovets who were invited to speak at conferences, and which Justin Raimondo of the highly respected Antiwar.com blog calls “part of a disturbing pattern of repression that all points to one ineluctable conclusion: the United States is the Soviet Union of the new millennium – an ideological state with global ambitions that holds itself up as the epitome of “freedom” and yet is the single most powerful enemy of liberty worldwide.”
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