The Egg Farmer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moral of the story?

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

Obama: America's first affirmative action president

Now THAT's historical.

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

Obama: The Affirmative Action President

So now we have high unemployment and high inflation

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

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

These must be Obamatists:

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists

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

Obama buys hisself the Hispanic vote!

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

New DHS rules cancel deportations

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

Obama eats the Democratic Party

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

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

White House, Senate Democrats clash over campaign cash

The Visitor

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

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

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

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

"Sure, why not?"

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

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

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

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

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

Bud replies

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

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

Then Bud says to the young man

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

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

"Okay, why not?"

Bud says

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

The yuppie replies

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

The cowboy answers

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

Now give me back my dog!

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

Challenging the Death Panel

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

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

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

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

Obamacare Is Going Down

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

Special Report: Foreign Policy:

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

HAT TIP: CARPE DIEM

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

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

Do you agree?

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

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

SOVEREIGN CITIZENS UNITED

HAT TIP: Orly Taitz

Impending U.S. Bond Market Armageddon

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

Ben's promises are empty

HAT TIP: Real Clear Markets

Hard 2 Kill

Indeed.

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

The options are just endless, aren't they?

Tax fraud suspected in Obama land deal

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

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

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

Excerpts:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#8 Desperate people do desperate things.

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

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

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

UK Mayhem Leaves Disarmed Citizens at the Mercy of Criminals

Friday, August 12, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Why Sarah Palin Needs To Run For President In 2012

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

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I AGREE!

Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?

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

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Temporary tattoo today...permanent implant tomorrow

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

How computers will soon get under our skin

Mark of the Beast?

The Catastrophe of Public Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Establishment Elite Still in Control

The Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Secretary of Interior
Bruce E. Babbitt C,T

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

Secretaries of Labor
Elaine L. Chao C
Lynn Martin C

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

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

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

Cabinet Officials

Military Officers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Will Hillary go for sloppy seconds?

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Palin knocks it out of the park

Hot Air: Green Room

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

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Federal deficit tops $1T for 3rd straight year

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

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Commandos criticize call for SEALs

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Pastor Hagee receives a bomb threat

Glenn Beck:

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

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

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

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

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SEAL TEAM 6 - INVESTIGATE THE WHITE HOUSE

The United West
DEMAND A SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!

Sound begins about 00:15

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

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

Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph:

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ALAN GREENSPAN: No chance of default...

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

Quick: Someone tell the President!

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

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

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

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

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

Read up.

Money quotes:

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

(snip)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello? Journalists? Anyone out there?

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

UPDATE 2 (From a reader):

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

UPDATE 3 (From a reader):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Link Here.

From the article:

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

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

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

My God.

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

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

Golfer-in-Chief

Where is the Leader of the Free World?

After 2012, he'll probably have to go Miniature Golfing...

There was no dialysis equipment found in the compound the SEALS raided on May 2...

Of course there wasn't. Bin Laden wasn't in that compound because Bin Laden has been dead for years.

The Execution of SEAL Team Six (Part 1)

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 4:08 PM MST

You're damn right I said it.

On May 5th I had an email conversation with a retired military man with spook contacts. All were in total agreement that the Bin Laden episode was pure theater. The SEALS were sent into a compound as evidenced by the lost chopper on site. But Osama Bin Laden wasn't in that compound. Osama Bin Laden has been dead for years. Bin Laden had a genetic condition that caused renal failure (this genetic condition is common among deeply inbred Saudi arab muslims). Bin Laden had been on dialysis BEFORE 9/11. Dialysis is difficult enough for people in first world countries who can have it done in outstanding facilities. Bin Laden was having it done either in caves or in homes post 9/11. People in renal failure having dialysis done in fricking caves do NOT live for ten more years. Period. There was no dialysis equipment found in the compound the SEALS raided on May 2. Of course there wasn't. Bin Laden wasn't in that compound because Bin Laden has been dead for years.

This is why the "body" was declared "positively identified" faster than any known DNA testing process in existence - and this DNA testing was carried out not in a lab mind you, but inside Chinook and/or V-22 Osprey helos en route to the USS Carl Vinson. The body was then dumped into the Indian Ocean in a mad dash to ensure that "burial" took place within 24 hours of death in order to "honor" musloid burial traditions. Not a single picture of the so-called "Bin Laden corpse" has ever been released - and never will.

The entire Bin Laden episode was stagecraft. It was pure theater that was designed to give Obama a boost in the polls and give distraction and cover. Distract from what? Cover from what?

April 20, 2011: The release date of Dr. Jerome Corsi's book, "Where's the Birth Certificate" is announced as May 17, and pre-sales begin on Amazon.com. Corsi's work is known to be extremely thorough and meticulous. Within hours, Corsi's book is #1 on Amazon.com - fully 28 days before its release. The Obama regime is panicked.

April 27, 2011: In order to diffuse and undercut the Corsi book, the Obama regime releases a PDF image purported to be a scan of his original long-form Hawaiian birth certificate. Within hours, thousands of graphic designers, many of whom are self-professed Obama voters and supporters, isolate and demonstrate with dozens of objective proof sets that the PDF released by the Obama regime is not just a forgery, but an astoundingly incompetent and obvious forgery.

April 27 through May 2: The Obama regime is now in a blind panic. Deeming it too risky, instead of commissioning the forged birth certificate from document and photo illustration experts within the CIA or NSA, the Obama regime instead farmed the project off on someone inside the White House with a functional but middling knowledge of photo illustration programs. To the thoroughly inexpert eyes of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett, the forged certificate file appeared extremely convincing, and was thus released with fanfare. Within hours, they knew that they had not only made a mistake, but a massive mistake that could land them all in prison. The forger was so incompetent that he/she didn’t even flatten the image thus compressing and masking the component layers before posting it. And that was just the tip of the iceberg of glaring flaws and errors. The mainstream press was, so far, completely complicit in the cover-up of the forgery, but Rathergate proved that if the forgery debunking generated any mainstream traction whatsoever, the end could come swiftly. The Obama regime needed a big distraction and they needed it fast. They had been planning on holding the staged Bin Laden capture and killing until 2012 – for the thick of the campaign, and perhaps as an “October Surprise”, but it would have to be moved up to now.

May 2, 2011: The Bin Laden operation occurs. In all likelihood, a low-to-mid level Taliban or insurgent leader is killed.

May 3, 2011: Within hours, Vice President Joe Biden destroys any notions of OPSEC and bellows to the entire world in public remarks at a dinner at the Ritz Carlton that the Bin Laden raid was carried out by “the SEALS”. Within hours Obama regime had gleefully leaked that the raid was carried out by “SEAL Team 6”, also known as DEVGRU. Up until this point in history, all DEVGRU activities and information had been highly classified. Now the term “SEAL Team 6” was blasted across every newspaper in the world, with Disney even moving to trademark the name. The Obama regime wanted the ENTIRE WORLD to know the name “SEAL Team 6”.

May 5, 2011: As I said earlier, I conversed with retired military contact with spook contacts regarding the obvious theatrics of the Bin Laden episode and the need for a cover-up by the Obama regime. The conversation ended with the following exchange:

Ann: I’m on the US Military casualty email list. It would be NO PROBLEM to “hide” casualties. It’s a steady stream out of Afghanistan.

Contact: look for training accidents in the eastern mountains.

May 6, 2011: Obama travels to Ft. Campbell, KY to openly “meet and congratulate” SEAL Team 6 members. This receives huge press coverage, and the press declares the incident “a huge boost [for Obama] going into 2012.”

The Execution of SEAL Team Six (Part 2),

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 4:07 PM MST

August 6, 2011: A Chinook helo is shot down in Tangi, Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Within hours, before family notifications could possibly have been completed, global press accounts positively confirm that 22 of the 30 Americans killed were not just SEALS, but members of SEAL Team 6. Again, DEVGRU operations have been, up until now, highly classified. Today, the Obama regime made a point of immediately revealing the unit identities of the SPECOPS forces among the dead.

In the past, DEVGRU men and other SPECOPS men have been killed in action, but their missions were so secret and so crucial to OPSEC that their deaths were covered-up by the government and attributed to such things as “training accidents” and the like – and I have no problem with that. These men understand going in to intense units such as DEVGRU that OPSEC is paramount, that they will never be publicly acknowledged for their heroism, and that if they are killed or captured in action, the government will lie about that in order to protect OPSEC and to prevent the enemy from gaining a propaganda and morale coup. Compare that reality with what happened today. The Obama regime distributed this information, and the Obama regime’s lapdog press instantly splashed headlines declaring this as the Taliban’s “REVENGE” for the “death of Bin Laden.” As I write this now, the Drudge Report headline in bright red reads, “REVENGE: SEALS WHO GOT OSAMA KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN.”

I’ll say what everyone else is thinking but is too scared to say. The Obama regime is almost certainly directly complicit in these deaths. The time, location and most especially, the PASSENGERS in the Chinook were passed to the Taliban. Additionally, you can’t take out a Chinook with small arms fire or even standard RPGs such as the Taliban use. The Taliban needed serious weaponry to take this helo down, and that serious weaponry needed to be in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time, ready to fire.

Why would the Obama regime kill Americans? I think the question is, why WOULDN’T the Obama regime kill Americans? The Obama regime is composed of Marxist-Leninist psychopaths. A glancing, superficial survey of 20th century history shows one glaring fact above all others: MARXISTS MURDER PEOPLE WITHOUT COMPUNCTION. Marxists also hate Americans, by definition. Three tacks:

1. The men on board the Chinook may have been the same men who participated or had direct knowledge of the staged Bin Laden raid and were killed to permanently silence them. See my email exchange of May 5 above.

2. These DEVGRU men were killed to send a signal to the surviving DEVGRU men who carried out the Bin Laden raid to keep their mouths shut.

3. Certainly, the release of the unit identity of the dead within hours – before even family notification could have been made (which requires an IN PERSON visit to the family, remember) was an obvious bow to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the entire muslim world. This event was INSTANTLY propagandized by the Obama media as “revenge” exacted for Bin Laden’s death. And remember, Bin Laden has been dead for many years. The raid of May 2 was pure stagecraft to distract the world from the release of the forged Obama birth certificate.

I am not a conspiracy theorist. I can’t stand Alex Jones or any 9/11 truther. I have turned down dozens of interviews with such types. In fact, I am a huge believer in the Lex Parsimoniae, which is sometimes called “Occam’s Razor”, which states that the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. I teach this as part of my job, namely that the cattle markets are neither manipulated nor impossible to operate within at a profit. The reality is that the cattle industry participants do not make money because they are functionally incompetent. It is very, very simple. True conspiracies are very rare.

This entire Obama situation is a conspiracy, and I say that without the slightest hesitation. Obama is not a citizen of the United States, he is a puppet front for a cabal of Marxist-Leninsts including Soros, Ayers, Dohrn, Strong, Jarrett and many, many others. These people are enemies of the United States. These people are deeply psychologically damaged, and are capable of ordering people murdered in order to protect themselves and increase their own power. The three dead homosexual black men from Trinity United Church of Christ, Young, Bland and Spencer, all of whom were sexually linked to Barack Obama, were probably the first people specifically murdered by the Obama regime. The hundreds of Mexicans and the two American agents Terry and Zapata were murdered by Operation Fast and Furious in order to advance and increase the power of the Obama regime. These SEALS and the others on board that Chinook today were almost certainly betrayed and murdered by the Obama regime.

Why did the Obama regime immediately reveal the unit identity of the SPECOPS forces involved in the first place, despite the fact that DEVGRU was highly classified? Why was the personnel composition of the Chinook released IMMEDIATELY today after the helo went down – before even family notifications could be made? WHY? Why would you hand your enemy, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a massive propaganda coup? WHY?

I’ll tell you why. Because the Obama regime IS THE ENEMY. They are Marxist tyrants who hold the lives of Americans not just cheap, but in scathing contempt. They will say anything, they will do anything, and they will murder ANYONE in order to protect themselves and consolidate and increase their power. Please, I beg you, for the love of God and all that is good in this world, read the history of the Soviet Union. Read about Lenin and Stalin and how they murdered people without any hesitation. Read about how Hitler was constantly ordering the murder of his own officers. Read about Communist China. Read about Mao and the millions upon tens of millions of murders he ordered. Read about the killing fields of the Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia led by Pol Pot. PLEASE. Marxists MURDER PEOPLE. That is what they do. The Obama regime is MARXIST to the bone. If the Obama regime is not stopped, the 30 Americans murdered today in Afghanistan will be just the beginning. I promise you that.

Here, again, is the clip of Larry Grathwohl, who infiltrated the Weather Underground Marxist terrorist organization in the 1970s. The Weather Underground was founded by Obama’s political godfather, communist mentor (along with Frank Marshall Davis), murderer, and ghostwriter of “Dreams From My Father”, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn. In this interview, taped in 1980 while Obama was still just an unknown undergrad foreign scholarship student at Occidental College, Grathwohl describes the leadership of the Weather Underground (which is Ayers and Dohrn) discussing what will be done with the “unreformable, diehard capitalists” once they have overthrown the government of the United States. The answer is extermination in camps in the Southwest. The estimated total that would need to be killed? 25 million, which was 10% of the population at the time. Ayers & Dohrn already have overthrown the government of the United States via their puppet protégé, Barack Obama. They have guaranteed that the economy will collapse. The only thing left for them to do is suspend the Constitution and open the camps. I’ll see you there.

Our crushing national debt comes primarily from costs associated with doing things that the Federal government shouldn’t be doing in the first place!

Liberty Legal Foundation:

The Debt Debate and Why our Obamacare Lawsuit is Critical

A Sinaloa drug cartel member is claiming that the federal government allowed the cartel to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. in exchange for intelligence information about rival cartels...

Hey, why stop at guns when you can also have drugs!

They always say Obama is just s-o-o-o smart...(wonder if he still does coke?)

Former Obama advisor: "We're pretty darn f*cked!"

...and then she laughed.

These 18 countries have a better credit rating than the United States!

Australia...Austria...Canada...Denmark...Finland...France...Germany...

We're at the bottom.

Thanks, Bama!

HUGH HEWITT: "We are stuck with Chauncey Gardener for another year-and-a-half."

The best use of the time of Tea Party activists and grassroots Republicans is on the Senate campaigns listed in this column at Townhall.com. If Mandel/Hasner/Cruz et al sweep into office along with a new president and an expanded House majority, imagine the overhaul that could follow within 100 days. (By contrast, imagine the market crash if Obama managed a re-elect through a third party bit of mischief etc).

The real recovery is two years away, but it can get here, and it can be big.

To make it easy for you, here are the big nine at this time. . .

Obamanomics: 9.1% Unemployment a Relief

Obama loses it

First time in history: U.S. credit rating downgraded

I have a lot of friends to whom I could say "I told you so," but what good would that do? The only thing that matters, now, is 2012...

DRUDGE REPORT: Hundreds of young black people beating white people.

WEST ALLIS - Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY'S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene.

Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.

Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night.

Authorities have not given official estimates of the number of people involved in the attacks.

"It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people," said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the corner of South 84th Street and West Schlinger Avenue in West Allis.

"They were attacking everybody for no reason whatsoever."

"It was 100% racial," claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.

State Fair/Raw video: Witnesses describe mobs, some people claim racially-charged attacks

Do you think we'll ever have another black president?

Families living in the power grids affected will either have to find another more costly source of energy or they'll have to simply live with blackouts

I reported recently on EPA rules that ran the risk of causing shut downs of plants in Texas and elsewhere. But that was before the massive heatwave began putting the real strain on them. So much so that they are almost at full capacity. And unfortunately, the EPA is only tightening it’s grip. . .

Lisa Jackson is Using the EPA to Destroy the Coal Industry

Part human/part animal hybrid monsters are being created by scientists all over the planet and it is all perfectly legal.

Most Americans have heard about genetic modification, but most of them don't know a whole lot about it.

Today, the vast majority of the corn and the vast majority of the soy that you eat have been genetically-modified.

In fact, there are thousands upon thousands of food products on store shelves today that contain genetically-modified material.

But modifying plants is one thing. What is even more frightening is when scientists use genetic modification to mix humans with animals.

Read the whole thing

Can you imagine the depth of cruelty necessary to fund and maintain these activities...and to legalize them?

A lousy debt deal, rising fears of a recession, the danger of longer-term stagnation: America’s outlook is grim

The Economist: Time for a double dip?

HHS has knowingly set an impossible standard: life-saving treatment must be provided at no cost

Of course, that standard cannot be met. Even in countries that have “universal care,” life-saving treatments are rationed. People who cannot afford them are put on waiting lists, where some die, because there simply isn’t enough money to provide everyone with “free” care.

Obamacare freebies: Family planning first, then more

Worth re-posting...

...don't you think?

Freedom Fighters

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Confessions of a Black Republican

Excerpts from Testimonial of a Black Republican

HELP FROM A FRIEND

My dear conservative friend introduced me to some historical facts about the Democratic Party that helped push me to research for myself whether or not the claims he made were true. What I learned crushed my beliefs that the Republican Party was full of racists who were trying to hold the black man down. What I learned left me with no affinity for my inherited party; I was left, finally, with NO good reason to vote Democrat.

What I found out in my quest for political clarity was that the Republican party passed EVERY civil rights legislation in regard to black Americans, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was signed by a Democrat president but only passed because of a Republican congress’ overwhelming support. Most Democrats in congress opposed it. Republicans passed the 13th amendment, freeing black slaves; the 14th amendment, giving blacks their citizenship; the 15th amendment, granting blacks the right to vote. Even still, whenever Democrats would take back control of the white house and congress, they would prevent blacks from buying land, they denied them fair wages for their work, and they undid many of the civil rights advancements of the Republicans.

Republicans were largely responsible for promoting and defending the civil rights of blacks while Democrats fought to lynch us, enslave us, and keep us as second-class citizens. I discovered that even civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was Republican and so was abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Other abolitionists, both black and white, were Republican. In fact, I learned that the Republican Party (initially comprised of disgruntled Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil party members) was established in 1854 as the anti-slavery party; they opposed the spreading of slavery into free states.

I had always been told that white people were the ones who upheld slavery and fought to keep black people down. I had never heard the political aspect of the civil rights controversy. White people who identified themselves as Republican (most also identified themselves as Protestant Christians or Evangelicals) fought to free black slaves. They clearly identified their enemy as Democrat, or Southern Democrat, the ones who wanted to maintain and spread slavery. John Mark Reynolds once said of the Republican Party, “When it came time to confront the original sin of the nation—slavery—the Republican Party was on the Lord’s side.” Once they were granted the right to vote, blacks voted Republican and worked alongside white Republicans to advance our freedom in this country.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S SHAMEFUL PAST

To my great surprise, I found out that it was the Southern Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery. As Francis Rice has said, “They were the ones who passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. They started the Ku Klux Klan (the terrorist wing of the Democrat party) to lynch and terrorize blacks.” They fought against the passage of every single civil rights law from the 1800’s through the 1960’s.

They must think we're idiots

Budget Deal Doesn't Cut Spending

Obama judge's ruling says defamation claim lurks for those criticizing ballot candidates Read more: Blast a politician? It could mean jail

Blast a politician? It could mean jail

And what about bloggers?

Before Mexican workers supported American agriculture, it was the Chinese who filled the labor hole...

PBS: Mexican Immigrant Labor History

Obama appoints professor who thinks Islamic law is better than Western codes to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Obama's Bridge to Islam

The "stench of cover-up" grows stronger even as the mainstream media put a clothespin on their collective nostrils...

Investor's Business Daily: ATF: The White House Knew

Dalia Mogahed, Obama’s faith adviser, helped craft ‘Imagine a Perfect Islamic State’ project for implementing a Muslim caliphate…HERE!

Obama advisor loves Sharia...

Further, Jasser Auda, a Qatari professor who is one of the personalities behind the Shariah Index Project with Rauf, described Mogahed’s involvement in providing key data that helped formulate the Shariah Index plan to map out an Islamic state, even referring to Obama’s faith adviser as “sister Mogahed.”

Crimes committed by the Federal Reserve banks against the United States and its people include; conflict of interest, securities fraud, embezzlement, fraud, money laundering, hoarding, profiteering, larceny, racketeering . . .

Federal Reserve audit exposes major securities fraud and the embezzlement of $16 trillion.

Here's how we got screwed

Excerpt from RedState (the most widely read right of center blog on Capitol Hill, the most often cited right of center blog in the media, and is widely considered one of the most influential voices of the grassroots on the right):

What we know about the pending deal is that the Democrats and Republicans are agreeing to a Deficit Commission. Despite the media spin — and the spin of some Republican sycophants — the deficit commission, which will be a super committee of the Congress, will have the power to come up with new tax revenue.

And if the Congress rejects the Commission’s demands for new tax revenue, there will be a trigger that cuts both medicare funding and defense funding.

Except, the defense funding cuts will be much more massive than the medicare cuts. And the GOP, in addition to seeing defense cut, would be hacking off seniors right before an election.

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The Debt Ceiling and Obama's Totalitarian Temptation

Before saying anything else about the debt ceiling crisis, let's confirm one thing: Obama does not like you, the demcratic process or Congress. Democracy is just too cumbersome for a man so lofty as the president of the world.

He wants, more than anything else, to be our Dear Leader, Uncle Ho (or Uncle Joe, or Uncle B.O.), Il Duce, Der Führer, El Presidente (all crackpot socialists and Communists, by the way). And he has been leaving us breadcrumbs for the last two years.

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Why Marco Rubio is guaranteed to be a future President of the United States

Sen. Rubio Beat a Dead Horse in the Senate Today. His Name Is John Kerry...

Washington's fiscal fantasy

Paul Ryan: "Let's cover the moon with yogurt..."

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On Dec. 31, 2012, three weeks before the end of President Barack Obama’s current term in office, the Bush tax cuts expire. Income tax rates will return to their Clinton-era levels...

That amounts to a $3.6 trillion tax increase over 10 years, three or four times the $800 billion to $1.2 trillion in revenue increases that Obama and Speaker John Boehner were kicking around. And all Democrats need to do to secure that deal is -- nothing.

Democrats Can Lose Debt Fight, Win on Bush Tax Cuts: Ezra Klein

So, of course, everyone (who is not a news junkie) will think that it's the Republicans--if we win the Senate and the presidency in 2012--who suddenly raised all their taxes!

Obama is vindictive, aside from being a socialist, and will gladly let this happen if he is voted out of office.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 10-year forecast: National health spending will grow at a rate faster than it would have if Obamacare had not passed!

New numbers, no surprise: Affordable Care Act anything but affordable

The federal government has grown so large that it’s actually studying how to spend money to make electricity more expensive...

Mr. Obama will announce his CAFE decision on Friday: More regulations on industry will hurt the flickering economy

Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker before he shot Kennedy?

In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the U.S. with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year.

Yet those who write history found these facts inconvenient. They created a different history in which the "atmosphere of hate" in the southern city of Dallas, Texas, led to the terrible political violence. In other words, it was political conservatism that led to John F. Kennedy's assassination.

How the Democrats Nearly Destroyed the Economy

The ceiling that never was

The One Thing the National Debt-Ceiling Has Never Done? Put a Ceiling on the Rising National Debt

Gov't policies promoted systematic loosening of underwriting standards to promote affordable housing, which then contributed to housing bubble, mortgage meltdown and financial crisis

Conclusion: The major cause of the financial crisis in the United States was the collapse of housing and mortgage markets resulting from an accumulation of an unprecedented number of weak and risky Non-Traditional Mortgages (NTMs). These NTMs began to default en masse beginning in 2006, triggering the collapse of the worldwide market for mortgage-backed securities and in turn triggering the instability and insolvency of financial institutions that we call the financial crisis. Government policies forced a systematic industry-wide loosening of underwriting standards in an effort to promote affordable housing, compounded by moral hazard spread by Fannie and Freddie."

Here are six facts about the government's role in the crisis...

Such a deal...

The New Deal's bargain was that Americans would trade higher taxes and less economic freedom for a social safety net. That was until the left decided that the social safety net was actually a wealth redistribution platform. The social safety net slid into the welfare state, a program of subsidies for reliable Democratic voters at the expense of the general public.

Now the Social Security Trust Fund has been looted and FDR II is threatening that benefits won't be paid if congress doesn't commit to another extended deficit spending binge. Not on behalf of the social safety net, but the nanny and the welfare state.

The Democratic party loves taking credit for the social safety net, but they have proven to be completely irresponsible trustees, squandering the trust by borrowing against the sum, and then borrowing against the debt to fund an entirely separate agenda. What began as security for workers mutated into a bureaucracy that existed for its own sake expanding benefits and spending to bulk up its power and influence. . .

A New Deal for America

Thank You Soldiers

Yes, I know Veteran's Day is over...but this is too beautiful not to share!

PATRIOT POST
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UPDATE:
The National Christian Choir sings "Thank You Soldiers"