QUESTION: If this is Obama’s legal social security #, why does E-Verify say “No match” and SSNVS say that this number was never issued to Barack Obama?

Attacks on the truth to schield Social Security fraud by Obama

Rush to Barack: YOU are the problem

12/07/11:

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RUSH: If you were going to give a hate-filled, lie-filled class warfare speech attacking the foundations of the American system -- from which, by the way, if you're Obama, you benefit like few others in history have.

And, by the way, Mr. President, you haven't contributed a damn thing to this country's prosperity! You are sure benefiting from it, but you haven't contributed an iota. It would at least be helpful, Mr. President, if you would get your straw men and your propaganda straight. May I call you "Barack"? You can't have "rugged individualism" and "socialism." Let me see if I can explain this, Mr. President, in a way that you can understand. Something cannot be an apple and a walnut at the same time. The point is, you don't believe in rugged individualism; you believe in massive government! But he said during the speech, "rugged individualism." He said (paraphrased), "I'm all for it, but that it doesn't work."

Look around you, Mr. President. That suit that you're wearing, the tie, those shoes, the pens that you use to sign all these executive orders, your two Boeing 747s (lavishly furnished), all of those helicopters, the limousines that you drive around in -- all of which you use to excess. The fuel that is used by all of these modes of transportation, none of it, sir -- none of it! -- was produced by your precious government. None of it! You played 88 rounds of golf this year. Those golf clubs, golf balls, golf bags, all the other equipment -- the hot dogs you eat at basketball games, the hamburgers when you have your meet-the-common man photo-ops -- none of it was produced by the government, Mr. President. And you, sir, are not capable of helping to produce any of it yourself.

You are a sponge.

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RUSH: Just got a note, an e-mail: "Rush, doesn't the White House have a television? Doesn't Obama follow news? Doesn't he know what's happening in Europe? Maybe instead of living so much in the past he ought to catch up on world events. Europe's fighting a life and death battle with socialism right before our eyes." Yeah, patently obvious. Europe is about five years ahead of where we're going and we're on the same track and we're on that track purposely. What does that tell you?

I long ago gave up caring about Obama's motivation. I know what it is. If you can see disaster straight ahead and you still head for it, you want the disaster. Don't tell me this guy loves the country, folks. Don't tell me that. There's no evidence. Now, Barack, if I may call you that, a free, productive, healthy country is a society of individuals, not a collection of departments or agencies or offices run by know-nothing bureaucrats. A free, productive, healthy country is a society of individuals working in their own self-interest, pursuing dreams, excellence, trying to be the best they can be, using God-given freedom and liberty to pursue happiness as enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. A free, productive, healthy country is not a collection of departments, agencies, offices run by a bunch of bureaucrats, a thousand federal judges, faceless, nameless bureaucrats.

Folks, I don't know if you know this or not, the House of Representatives is attempting -- this is almost indescribable. You're gonna think I'm loopy. The House of Representatives is trying to pass legislation to limit the laws that can be made by bureaucrats and regulators. The only people who are constitutionally permitted to make law, federal law, are members of the United States Congress. The House of Representatives is alarmed at how much law is being written by bureaucrats in various government agencies. They're writing legislation trying to limit it and it will not pass. The Congress of the United States is attempting essentially to protect its constitutional role, and it will not survive. It will not pass this round of efforts because the Democrats in the Senate will never go for this.

Now, Barack, if I may call you that, what is your obsession with big government, massive deficits, huge bureaucracies, endless regulations, confiscatory taxes, what is it about that that turns you on? None of this creates opportunity. None of what you love, sir, creates wealth or jobs. Where has such an economic system ever worked? Where has what you love and adore ever succeeded? You say, sir, you want a more activist government. What does that mean? We're about five steps away from the financial cliff's edge, thanks to you, thanks to the government, the incompetent ideologues who run it like you. What else would you like to spend money on? What else would you like to regulate? What else do you want to demonize? What else do you want to cut down to size? What else do you want to destroy? What else would you like to ban?

What else in America do you want do to smother and obstruct?

Now, Barack, if I may call you that, the problem in this country right now is one individual in particular, not all of the rich individuals. The problem in the United States of America is one individual, and that would be you, sir. You can't decide which president to be on any given day. One thing we can see, Barack, if I may call you that, the president you don't want to be is yourself. The reason you try to project your own image onto Lincoln or Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan, is because you do not want the public to see you for who you are, Barack Obama. I wonder, Barack, if I may call you that, I wonder how many future presidents will want to emulate you. I wonder how many future presidents will try to be you in the future. Probably about as many presidents who have tried to emulate Jimmy Carter.

The speech you gave yesterday, sir, was idiotic, shameful, actionable, incoherent, and alien to American ideals and principles. And above all else, it was pure pathetic. But as my cohort here, Mr. Snerdley says, Barack, if I may call you that, you did the nation a great favor. You told every patriotic American loving citizen that your view of America is not shared by them. You finally told us after three years the cat's out of the bag. After three years everybody now knows why I wanted you to fail. Everybody that heard that speech now knows that you said America as founded has never worked. You have outed yourself, Barack, if I may call you that. You've come out. Maybe you'll be on the cover of the next Advocate, because you just outed yourself, sir. You have nothing but contempt for this country. You told us yesterday you have nothing but contempt for our economic and political system.

You told us yesterday.

So now, as my cohort and subservient employee Mr. Snerdley has observed, even the least attentive citizen knows where you stand, even the Kardashians know. And that's a big achievement, folks. To penetrate the wall of stupidity surrounding that family, even Paris Hilton, even Alec Baldwin is so ticked off he gets thrown off an American Airlines flight, Barack. Thank you. Norman Lear is beside himself. So is Barbra Streisand. You gave it up. There's nowhere for your supporters to hide. They can't say you have a vision as a great American. You're something else. Your vision for this country is not rooted in any, not one, American tradition. Your vision for the future of this country is not rooted in one single aspect of American greatness. That is what you seek to destroy. Even the least attentive citizens, even if they are only half-wits, now know to vote against you. You have hastened my retirement. I'm just kidding, Snerdley.

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Abortion Nearly Triples Breast Cancer Risk, New Study Finds

A new study published by scientists who examined diabetes mellitus type 2, reproductive factors, and breast cancer found a statistically significant association showing a 2.86-fold increased breast cancer risk from one induced abortion.

Black Activists Sue Democrat Party For History of Racism & Abuse

It's about time!

From GatewayPundit:

Kudos to Wayne Perryman and the brave black activists who joined him in this historic pursuit of justice.

CBS exposé: worse than Fast & Furious

Video: US approved large escalation of legal gun sales to Mexico

Unions plan to spend $100 MILLION to re-elect Obama

For those of you who are Constitution-loving Americans, with that much union money going to buy the White House again, you need to become more engaged…now.

Expectedly, AFSCME Endorses Obama, Vows To Spend $100 Million On 2012 Election

'Period, end of story' is something a scientist can say—but it isn't science.

WSJ:

I felt nostalgic for those times when even the greatest scientific minds admitted limits to what they knew. And when they recognized well that the key to the scientific method is that it is a way of knowing in which you can never completely prove that something is absolutely true. Instead, the important idea about the method is that any statement, to be scientific, must be open to disproof, and a way of knowing how to disprove it exists.

Therefore, 'Period, end of story' is something a scientist can say—but it isn't science.

Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific

Is Firefox toast?

So, what's going on with Mozilla--and, thereby, Firefox?

Ed Bott predicted earlier this year that Firefox is toast. Even if Microsoft does step in and save Mozilla for another year or two (or Google renews its own deal and keeps Firefox alive), the writing does seem to be on the wall.

Based on the trends of the past two years, the browser wars will soon be between Microsoft and Google. And then, beyond that, it will be interesting to see whether Facebook, Amazon, or Apple make a truly serious push.

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What you might not know about Harry Potter...

Ending Income Inequality?

Christmas lights

I love Christmas Lights,

they remind me of politicians!

They all hang together,

half the suckers don't work,

and the ones that do aren't that bright!

Hollywood's dirtiest secret

Recent Charges of Sexual Abuse of Children in Hollywood Just Tip of Iceberg, Experts Say

Don't text and drive...

GRAPHIC

The real Tim Tebow...is real

TwinCities.com Pioneer Press: Tim Tebow: From signing baby's head to praying to playing, it's all genuine

UPDATE: Tim Tebow, faith and football? Do the two go together?

[DAVE HOLLENBECK's NOTE: Unlike Obozo, Tebow never claims credit for winning. He always says , "Our guys stepped up and played well"]

This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen...and it just went off.

FORBES (12/02/11):

I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is – in the main – little more than a successful effort to put an end to some of the more egregious health insurer abuses while creating an environment that should bring more Americans into programs that will give them at least some of the health care coverage they need.

There is, however, one notable exception – and it’s one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country.

That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care.

This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry.

Why? Because there is absolutely no way for-profit health insurers are going to be able to learn how to get by and still make a profit while being forced to spend at least 80 percent of their receipts providing their customers with the coverage for which they paid. If they could, we likely would never have seen the extraordinary efforts made by these companies to avoid paying benefits to their customers at the very moment they need it the most.

Today [12/02/11], that bomb goes off.

The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!

UPDATE: To clarify - the author's final words:

Everyone wins-except the for-profit health insurers.

I can live with that.

We'll see.

UPDATE: Great rebuttal to the above Forbes article from Jeffrey H. Anderson at The Weekly Standard - Obamacare ‘Bomb’ Set to Blow Up Private Health Care System?

Who wrote Ron Paul's newsletters???

Ron Paul doesn't seem to know much about his own newsletters...

THE INFRASTRUCTURE DELUSION

Infrastructure does not an economy make. Highways and railroads, airports and seaports, communications towers and fiber optics cables are essential for the flow of commerce, but it is the people, goods, and information moving over and through this infrastructure that are the heart of an economy. Over ininvestment in roads, bridges, and airports means underinvestment in the productive base that is an economy’s life blood. Government spending means more than just an outlay of dollars; it means consuming scarce resources that cannot then be used for other things. Such spending does not increase production, it simply shifts resources into areas where they would not otherwise have gone.

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The Tiahrt Amendment

Mens rea is Latin for “guilty mind.” In legal theory acting to set up a crime before committing it indicates a guilty mind; or guilty intent.
 

In the spring of 2009, just a few months before the Obama Administration instructed the Phoenix ATF office to commence Operation Fast and Furious,  Attorney General Eric Holder introduced and secured a curious change to United States gun legislation.

The tracing of firearm serial numbers provides information about the manufacture of a weapon,  its original retail seller and buyer,  the entire known history of the weapon. For years,  anti-gun rights zealots had procured these trace statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol,  Tobacco and  Firearms  for the purpose of initiating frivolous lawsuits against both gun dealers and manufacturers.

Then,  in 2004,  Kansas Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt successfully added an amendment to the yearly ATF funding bill.  Known since as the Tiahrt Amendment,  the legislation prohibits the sharing of trace information for any but legitimate law enforcement purposes.  That is,  trace information on firearm serial numbers could only be provided to federal,  state and local law enforcement agencies engaged in specific,  criminal investigations.  Those responsible for left-wing fishing expeditions would no longer have access to trace statistics for the purpose of manufacturing lawsuits.

Then,  although Barack Obama and Eric Holder had promised liberal supporters they would fight to overturn the Tiahrt Amendment,  in the spring of 2009 Holder lobbied Congress for a change to the Amendment,  one which would allow ATF acquired trace data to be provided to  “a foreign law enforcement agency solely in connection with or for use in a criminal investigation or prosecution.”

The Regime was just about to launch the corrupt and murderous Operation Fast and Furious.  And it must be remembered that during the year long course of that despicable gunwalking venture,  no agency or official of the United States government informed the Mexican government of the scheme’s existence,  keeping all particulars concerning the deliberate smuggling across the Mexican border of thousands of firearms quite hidden from Mexican officials and law enforcement.

So former Congressman Tiahrt asks the obvious question:  “Why sign into law the Tiahrt Trace Data Amendment with clarification language to share trace data with foreign law enforcement agencies at approximately the same time that “Fast and Furious” program illegally allows firearms to cross the border into a foreign country?” 

Certainly this Holder-inspired change to Tiahrt was no coincidence. So, why did Barack Obama and Eric Holder, hardly known for their attention to details of legality,  suddenly consider this detail so important?  How was the Regime to benefit from the new language?  What possibilities for deceit and abuse of power did it secure for an Administration bent upon terminating the God-given right of the American people to keep and bear arms?

It is often easy to forget that the entirety of the Fast and Furious agenda was not played out, the ultimate goal not realized, as ATF whistleblowers and citizen journalists forced a premature close to the Operation.  What would the giving of trace information to a foreign nation—presumably Mexico–have accomplished and why was it so important to the final outcome of the scheme?  It’s very revealing to note that,  even at the zenith of its power, with clear majorities in both the House and Senate,  the Administration apparently could not afford to lose a fight for the overthrow of Tiahrt. It had to settle for a change.

It’s quite possible that when we discover the reason for Holder’s change to the Tiahrt Amendment,  we’ll finally have the rest of the pieces to the Fast and Furious puzzle.

Use this site to contact your Congressional Representative:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Fast & Furious: "You need to know that Eric Holder, now nominated to become Attorney General, played a key role in covering up the torture-murder of my brother, Kenneth Michael Trentadue"

"This is not just my shocking opinion. It is also the opinion of many Americans. More importantly, it is supported by the Justice Department’s records and actions that came to light as a result of my family’s efforts to obtain a certain measure of justice for my brother’s murder."

While Eric Holder is getting a lot of media attention these days related to his involvement in the controversial ATF gun-running program known as Operation Fast and Furious, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue said he “was way ahead of the curve” when it came to pointing out the attorney general’s many flaws — and skeletons. He points to a scathing 4-page letter (PDF) he sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Dec. 19, 2008, as proof.

‘Fast & Furious’ Not Eric Holder’s First Controversy Involving the Murder of an American Citizen

CONVICTED: According to testimony in the case, one occupant of the car, after the dog was shot, got out and kicked and beat the animal with a bat.

Justice For Marcus Luttrell And DASY: Two Guilty In Death Of War Hero’s Dog

Carl's Jr: why there'll be fewer restaurants and fewer jobs

Washington Post:

CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s), has created 70,000 jobs, 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obamacare. . .


Puzder [CEO] laughs about the liberal theory that businesses are not investing because they want to “punish Obama.” Rising health-care costs are, he says, just one uncertainty inhibiting expansion. Others are government policies raising fuel costs, which infect everything from air conditioning to the cost (including deliveries) of supplies, and the threat that the National Labor Relations Board will use regulations to impose something like “card check” in place of secret-ballot unionization elections. . .

Time was, American businesses could surmount such regulatory officiousness. But government’s metabolic urge to boss people around has grown exponentially and today CKE’s California restaurants are governed by 57 categories of regulations. One compels employees and even managers to take breaks during the busiest hours, lest one of California’s 200,000 lawyers comes trolling for business at the expense of business.

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I always wondered why the statists try to kill their golden geese....but it just now hit me: they know that THEY will always get theirs--the rest of us, not so much. Their genius is the ability to keep on convincing everybody that things will get better if they keep putting them in office, even though things keep getting worse whenever that happens!