This is a horrible example of our Congress. But true.
I can't believe Pelosi............and most others in Congress either.
They are really getting outrageous.
Nancy's Jumbo Jet
Nancy Pelosi wasn't happy with the small private jet that comes with the House Speaker's job, no, Madame Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat 200 seat jet that could get her back to California without stopping!
Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe the Plumber informed everyone what Nancy's Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American tax payers, thousands of gallons of fuel every week.
Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California, cost to the taxpayers of about $60,000, one way!
As Joe put it, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night.' Cost to us another $60,000.
Folks, that is $480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000. No wonder she complains about the cost of this war, it might cramp her style and she is styling, on my back and yours.
I think of the military families in this country doing without, and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of this country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing.
Madame Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires.
And they want to talk about Sarah's rented dresses....
But NOT about the biggest AIRHEAD in Congress! !
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Thomas Jefferson said.
Jefferson's quotes should be read in every public
Institution and our schools every morning...!
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Very Interesting Quote...
In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'
Institution and our schools every morning...!
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Very Interesting Quote...
In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
E-Verify employment verification program
E-Verify employment verification program.
Please call your Senators and urge them to support American worker protections in the economic stimulus package.
Senators are currently preparing to offer amendments to the economic stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009). Votes on these various amendments are likely to occur on Tuesday night and Wednesday. It is very important that your Senators hear from your as soon as possible!
The House version of the stimulus package had two amendments that protected and enhanced the E-Verify employment verification program. The first amendment, offered by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), would reauthorize E-Verify for 5 years (it is currently set to expire on March 31). The second amendment, offered by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), would require all businesses that receive stimulus money to use the E-Verify system to ensure that only Americans and legal residents benefit from the stimulus package. Both of these amendments passed by a voice vote, meaning no Representatives openly opposed the amendments.
The Senate version of the bill does not have these E-Verify provisions. However, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is trying to have this language added. He will soon be proposing three amendments which go even further than the amendments offered by Reps. Kingston and Calvert. Sen. Sessions' amendments will reauthorize E-Verify for 5 years, preclude stimulus funds from going to entities that don't use E-Verify, and authorize ample funding for the Social Security Administration to fully implement E-Verify.
Please call your Senators and urge them to support Sen. Sessions' amendments to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is important that the economic stimulus package have these E-Verify provisions so that American workers have a fair chance of receiving stimulus-funded jobs.
P.S. We can triple our membership quickly if our members email their friends about us and they in turn email theirs. Polls show that most Americans agree with NumbersUSA's positions but, despite our recent rapid growth, most American voters still have never heard of us. You can help change that by forwarding this email widely. (Note: depending on your email provider, you may need to send this as an "attachment.")
Please call your Senators and urge them to support American worker protections in the economic stimulus package.
Senators are currently preparing to offer amendments to the economic stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009). Votes on these various amendments are likely to occur on Tuesday night and Wednesday. It is very important that your Senators hear from your as soon as possible!
The House version of the stimulus package had two amendments that protected and enhanced the E-Verify employment verification program. The first amendment, offered by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), would reauthorize E-Verify for 5 years (it is currently set to expire on March 31). The second amendment, offered by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), would require all businesses that receive stimulus money to use the E-Verify system to ensure that only Americans and legal residents benefit from the stimulus package. Both of these amendments passed by a voice vote, meaning no Representatives openly opposed the amendments.
The Senate version of the bill does not have these E-Verify provisions. However, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is trying to have this language added. He will soon be proposing three amendments which go even further than the amendments offered by Reps. Kingston and Calvert. Sen. Sessions' amendments will reauthorize E-Verify for 5 years, preclude stimulus funds from going to entities that don't use E-Verify, and authorize ample funding for the Social Security Administration to fully implement E-Verify.
Please call your Senators and urge them to support Sen. Sessions' amendments to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is important that the economic stimulus package have these E-Verify provisions so that American workers have a fair chance of receiving stimulus-funded jobs.
P.S. We can triple our membership quickly if our members email their friends about us and they in turn email theirs. Polls show that most Americans agree with NumbersUSA's positions but, despite our recent rapid growth, most American voters still have never heard of us. You can help change that by forwarding this email widely. (Note: depending on your email provider, you may need to send this as an "attachment.")
Man Of Steele
Man Of Steele
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Politics: The Republicans chose as the face of their party a sharp and principled spokesman who vows to engage the Democrats in all 50 states. The death of the Republican Party has been greatly exaggerated.
After two successive clock-cleaning elections, the Republicans needed to say goodbye to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, a man so invisible on the national scene, it was said even the party's national committeemen could not recognize him on sight.
Michael Steele, who succeeded Duncan in a six-ballot contest, is a quite visible sign of change in the Republicans that the demoralized party faithful can believe in.
Steele, an African-American, is a rising star in a party regularly accused of racial insensitivity, if not outright racism.
With Govs. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, he adds to the Grand Old Party's diversified look.
In remarks in front of the RNC, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky noted that the GOP has largely become a regional and therefore minority party.
Indeed, national Republicans have tended to ignore both coasts and are seen in states such as California less often than sightings of Bigfoot.
Steele intends to change all that and take Republicans off the endangered species list.
In his speech accepting the job, he pledged: "To our friends in the Northeast, get ready baby, because it's time to turn it on. We're going to do what we always do well, which is win. We're going to win in the Northeast, and we're going to keep winning in the South. We're going to win with a new storm in the Midwest. In the West, we're gonna lock it down and win there, too."
Steele knows how to win elections. In 2003, Steele, in one of the bluest of blue states, became the first black and first Republican lieutenant governor in Maryland history.
Steele might very well have become a U.S. senator in the same year as Barack Obama did had it not been for the public's unhappiness over a pre-surge Iraq War and a GOP Congress that was spending itself out of power.
Steele, a Catholic who once trained for the priesthood, was inspired by Ronald Reagan's failed 1976 presidential bid to join the Republican Party.
In a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention, he demonstrated that he has charisma, warmth and a keen grasp of public policy.
In his talk, Steele noted the progress made toward achieving Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society, adding that "we have come even further since a majority of Republicans in the United States Senate fought off the segregationist Democrats to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
After that, he stayed visible as chairman of the political action committee GOPAC and as a Fox News contributor and occasional substitute co-host on "Hannity & Colmes."
The party Steele takes over was philosophically rudderless in 2008.
He intends to change the RNC from little more than a political fundraising organ to a loud voice for the loyal opposition.
He criticizes party leaders who have "behaved like Democrats" and calls for a return to the pro-family, fiscal conservative message that was the bedrock of the Reagan Revolution.
"For so long we've allowed the Democrats to define us," Steele said. "We've allowed the media to define us."
Not anymore. Game on.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Politics: The Republicans chose as the face of their party a sharp and principled spokesman who vows to engage the Democrats in all 50 states. The death of the Republican Party has been greatly exaggerated.
After two successive clock-cleaning elections, the Republicans needed to say goodbye to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, a man so invisible on the national scene, it was said even the party's national committeemen could not recognize him on sight.
Michael Steele, who succeeded Duncan in a six-ballot contest, is a quite visible sign of change in the Republicans that the demoralized party faithful can believe in.
Steele, an African-American, is a rising star in a party regularly accused of racial insensitivity, if not outright racism.
With Govs. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, he adds to the Grand Old Party's diversified look.
In remarks in front of the RNC, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky noted that the GOP has largely become a regional and therefore minority party.
Indeed, national Republicans have tended to ignore both coasts and are seen in states such as California less often than sightings of Bigfoot.
Steele intends to change all that and take Republicans off the endangered species list.
In his speech accepting the job, he pledged: "To our friends in the Northeast, get ready baby, because it's time to turn it on. We're going to do what we always do well, which is win. We're going to win in the Northeast, and we're going to keep winning in the South. We're going to win with a new storm in the Midwest. In the West, we're gonna lock it down and win there, too."
Steele knows how to win elections. In 2003, Steele, in one of the bluest of blue states, became the first black and first Republican lieutenant governor in Maryland history.
Steele might very well have become a U.S. senator in the same year as Barack Obama did had it not been for the public's unhappiness over a pre-surge Iraq War and a GOP Congress that was spending itself out of power.
Steele, a Catholic who once trained for the priesthood, was inspired by Ronald Reagan's failed 1976 presidential bid to join the Republican Party.
In a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention, he demonstrated that he has charisma, warmth and a keen grasp of public policy.
In his talk, Steele noted the progress made toward achieving Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society, adding that "we have come even further since a majority of Republicans in the United States Senate fought off the segregationist Democrats to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
After that, he stayed visible as chairman of the political action committee GOPAC and as a Fox News contributor and occasional substitute co-host on "Hannity & Colmes."
The party Steele takes over was philosophically rudderless in 2008.
He intends to change the RNC from little more than a political fundraising organ to a loud voice for the loyal opposition.
He criticizes party leaders who have "behaved like Democrats" and calls for a return to the pro-family, fiscal conservative message that was the bedrock of the Reagan Revolution.
"For so long we've allowed the Democrats to define us," Steele said. "We've allowed the media to define us."
Not anymore. Game on.
NANCY & HER JET
IF YOU THOUGHT THAT EX SENATOR DASCHLE'S PERKS WERE OVER THE TOP WHEN HE BECAME AN EX SENATOR, READ THIS LITTLE EXPOSE AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHERE THESE PEOPLE LEARN TO EXPECT THESE DELIGHTFUL RIGHTS OF PASSAGE.
Subject: NANCY & HER
JET
This is sickening. I hope it goes around the country until it
hits every home.
*NANCY
& HER JET*
And they want to talk about Sarah's dress?
How about those complaints about the private jets for
Auto manufacturers?
MADAME PELOSI
Madame Pelosi wasn't 'happy' with the small private jet
that comes with the Speaker's job. No...Madame Pelosi
was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to
refuel, so
she ordered a Big
Fat 200-seat jet that
could get her
back to California without stopping!
Many, many legislators walked by and
grinned with glee
as Joe informed everyone that's Nancy's Big Fat Jet
costs
us, the 'hard working American tax Payers', thousands
of
gallons of fuel every week.
Since she only works 3 days a week, this
gas guzzling jet
gets fueled and she flies home to California . . . cost to
the taxpayers of about $60,000, ONE WAY!
As Joe put it, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring
her
back on Monday Night.' Cost to us another
$60,000.
Folks, that is $480,000
per month and that is
an annual
Cost to the Taxpayers
of $5,760,000.00 No wonder she
complains about the cost of this War, it might cramp
her
'style' and she is styling, on MY back and YOURS.
I think of the military families in this country doing
without,
and this woman, who heads up the most
'do-nothing'
Congress in the history of this Country, keeps
fueling that
jet while doing nothing.
Madame Pelosi wants YOU
and I to conserve our carbon
Footprint. She wants US to buy smaller cars, and Obama
wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires.
These people are nuts!!!
*CAN YOU
SAY $5,760,000.00 -
A YEAR!!!*
This doesn't even factor in any other trips she might make
with her friends !!!!
Subject: NANCY & HER
JET
This is sickening. I hope it goes around the country until it
hits every home.
*NANCY
& HER JET*
And they want to talk about Sarah's dress?
How about those complaints about the private jets for
Auto manufacturers?
MADAME PELOSI
Madame Pelosi wasn't 'happy' with the small private jet
that comes with the Speaker's job. No...Madame Pelosi
was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to
refuel, so
she ordered a Big
Fat 200-seat jet that
could get her
back to California without stopping!
Many, many legislators walked by and
grinned with glee
as Joe informed everyone that's Nancy's Big Fat Jet
costs
us, the 'hard working American tax Payers', thousands
of
gallons of fuel every week.
Since she only works 3 days a week, this
gas guzzling jet
gets fueled and she flies home to California . . . cost to
the taxpayers of about $60,000, ONE WAY!
As Joe put it, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring
her
back on Monday Night.' Cost to us another
$60,000.
Folks, that is $480,000
per month and that is
an annual
Cost to the Taxpayers
of $5,760,000.00 No wonder she
complains about the cost of this War, it might cramp
her
'style' and she is styling, on MY back and YOURS.
I think of the military families in this country doing
without,
and this woman, who heads up the most
'do-nothing'
Congress in the history of this Country, keeps
fueling that
jet while doing nothing.
Madame Pelosi wants YOU
and I to conserve our carbon
Footprint. She wants US to buy smaller cars, and Obama
wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires.
These people are nuts!!!
*CAN YOU
SAY $5,760,000.00 -
A YEAR!!!*
This doesn't even factor in any other trips she might make
with her friends !!!!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Rush Limbaugh Wants Obama to ‘Fail’
THIS ARTICLE REQUIRES FULL ATTENTION AS IT ILLUSTRATES THE WAY THE LIBERAL
MEDIA MANIPULATES WORDAGE TO CHANGE THE MEANING OF ANY QUOTE.
Rush Limbaugh Wants Obama to ‘Fail’ for Racial Reasons, ABC's Diane Sawyer Suggests
Monday, February 02, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer (Photo from ABC News Web site)(CNSNews.com) – More than two weeks ago, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his radio listeners he hoped President Obama would fail in his attempt to advance liberal, socialist policies.
Since then, liberals -- including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now ABC News -- have taken Limbaugh’s words out of context to suggest that Limbaugh was attacking the president personally.
On Monday morning, ABC’s “Good Morning America” gave Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment a racial slant by editing it in a deliberately misleading way.
In an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday, anchor Diane Sawyer described Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment as “another big issue in the news.”
She then tossed to a sound bite comprised of two separate comments made five days apart, which ABC joined together. The edited comment made it sound like Limbaugh wants Obama to fail because he’s black.
Here’s the ABC version of Limbaugh’s comment:
Limbaugh: “I don’t need 400 words. I need four. I hope he fails.”
[Edit]
“We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we’ve got to accept this.”
“Good Morning America” took the first sentence from Limbaugh’s Jan. 16 radio program. The second sentence comes from Limbaugh’s January 21 appearance on Sean Hannity’s TV show. In the interview with Hannity, Limbaugh stressed that Obama’s race doesn’t matter to him, but his policies do.
Sawyer prods McCain
“So he says he hopes the Obama presidency fails,” Sawyer said at the end of the carefully edited sound bite on Monday. “What do you say to Rush Limbaugh?” she asked McCain, apparently hoping to prompt an internal Republican feud.
McCain, however, would not be drawn. He said he hopes that “all of us as Americans can succeed in getting a package that will get this economy going…”
In response to Sawyer’s second question about Rush Limbaugh (“Were you offended by what he said?”) McCain said only that he “respects” Limbaugh’s opinion on the “issues of the day.”
As CNSNews.com has reported, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week ran an audio clip on its Web site that misrepresented what Limbaugh meant when he said on his Friday, Jan. 16 radio program that he wanted President Obama "to fail." The audio clip, as played by the DCCC, omitted a key sentence.
Here’s what Limbaugh actually said on his Jan. 16 radio program:
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.
Moment later, Limbaugh on that same Jan. 16 radio program, Limbaugh told his listeners that Obama’s “ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me.”
MEDIA MANIPULATES WORDAGE TO CHANGE THE MEANING OF ANY QUOTE.
Rush Limbaugh Wants Obama to ‘Fail’ for Racial Reasons, ABC's Diane Sawyer Suggests
Monday, February 02, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer (Photo from ABC News Web site)(CNSNews.com) – More than two weeks ago, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his radio listeners he hoped President Obama would fail in his attempt to advance liberal, socialist policies.
Since then, liberals -- including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now ABC News -- have taken Limbaugh’s words out of context to suggest that Limbaugh was attacking the president personally.
On Monday morning, ABC’s “Good Morning America” gave Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment a racial slant by editing it in a deliberately misleading way.
In an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday, anchor Diane Sawyer described Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails” comment as “another big issue in the news.”
She then tossed to a sound bite comprised of two separate comments made five days apart, which ABC joined together. The edited comment made it sound like Limbaugh wants Obama to fail because he’s black.
Here’s the ABC version of Limbaugh’s comment:
Limbaugh: “I don’t need 400 words. I need four. I hope he fails.”
[Edit]
“We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we’ve got to accept this.”
“Good Morning America” took the first sentence from Limbaugh’s Jan. 16 radio program. The second sentence comes from Limbaugh’s January 21 appearance on Sean Hannity’s TV show. In the interview with Hannity, Limbaugh stressed that Obama’s race doesn’t matter to him, but his policies do.
Sawyer prods McCain
“So he says he hopes the Obama presidency fails,” Sawyer said at the end of the carefully edited sound bite on Monday. “What do you say to Rush Limbaugh?” she asked McCain, apparently hoping to prompt an internal Republican feud.
McCain, however, would not be drawn. He said he hopes that “all of us as Americans can succeed in getting a package that will get this economy going…”
In response to Sawyer’s second question about Rush Limbaugh (“Were you offended by what he said?”) McCain said only that he “respects” Limbaugh’s opinion on the “issues of the day.”
As CNSNews.com has reported, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week ran an audio clip on its Web site that misrepresented what Limbaugh meant when he said on his Friday, Jan. 16 radio program that he wanted President Obama "to fail." The audio clip, as played by the DCCC, omitted a key sentence.
Here’s what Limbaugh actually said on his Jan. 16 radio program:
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.
Moment later, Limbaugh on that same Jan. 16 radio program, Limbaugh told his listeners that Obama’s “ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me.”
‘Get Through’ to Democrats on Stimulus Package
Republican Leader Hopes Obama Can ‘Get Through’ to Democrats on Stimulus Package
Monday, February 02, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) – Bipartisanship means including Republican ideas in the economic stimulus package, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday.
The Senate Republican leader said President Obama needs to get that message across to the Democratic leadership when they meet with Obama at the White House Monday night.
“I hope he can get through to them that the way to build this package is indeed to do it on a bipartisan basis, which doesn’t mean just talking to us, but including ideas that we think would work. And also we need to make sure that we’re not borrowing money to spend on projects that are not going to stimulate the economy,” McConnell said at a press conference.
McConnell said the president needs to “put the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate in line. He needs to talk with them. He needs to let them know that the measures that they are moving forward don’t meet his own standard.”
The Obama administration has said that the stimulus package must be “timely, temporary and targeted.”
Obama, meanwhile, repeated his call for swift passage of a stimulus package on Monday. He said lawmakers shouldn't allow "very modest differences" to block quick action on stimulating the economy.
McConnell said Republicans want to “fix the main problem first,” and he said that would be housing. “That will be a part of whatever we offer on the floor,” he said.
McConnell also said it’s important to “put money back in people’s hands directly” through lower tax rates for people who are currently in the 15- and 10-percent income tax brackets.
McConnell said most Republicans know the economy needs to be jump started, but they also know it can be done for less than what is currently being proposed. “Most of my members believe that we can pass a very robust stimulus for less than the amount currently before us,” he said.
McConnell noted that one of his colleagues recently tried to put a trillion dollars in context: “If you started spending the day that Jesus was born, and you spent a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion dollars,” McConnell said. “It’s a lot of money.”
Republicans, outnumbered by Democrats in the Senate, won’t win passage of every amendment they propose, McConnell acknowledged. “But I can tell you this, with regard to this measure that’s on the floor this week, there is considerable…Democratic senatorial unrest about this package.
“I think there is a bipartisan feeling that this is not the way to get the economy moving, and hopefully we’ll see that exhibited on various amendments where we may have some bipartisan success in modifying the bill and making it more in line with what I think the president was talking about…”
Monday, February 02, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
(CNSNews.com) – Bipartisanship means including Republican ideas in the economic stimulus package, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday.
The Senate Republican leader said President Obama needs to get that message across to the Democratic leadership when they meet with Obama at the White House Monday night.
“I hope he can get through to them that the way to build this package is indeed to do it on a bipartisan basis, which doesn’t mean just talking to us, but including ideas that we think would work. And also we need to make sure that we’re not borrowing money to spend on projects that are not going to stimulate the economy,” McConnell said at a press conference.
McConnell said the president needs to “put the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate in line. He needs to talk with them. He needs to let them know that the measures that they are moving forward don’t meet his own standard.”
The Obama administration has said that the stimulus package must be “timely, temporary and targeted.”
Obama, meanwhile, repeated his call for swift passage of a stimulus package on Monday. He said lawmakers shouldn't allow "very modest differences" to block quick action on stimulating the economy.
McConnell said Republicans want to “fix the main problem first,” and he said that would be housing. “That will be a part of whatever we offer on the floor,” he said.
McConnell also said it’s important to “put money back in people’s hands directly” through lower tax rates for people who are currently in the 15- and 10-percent income tax brackets.
McConnell said most Republicans know the economy needs to be jump started, but they also know it can be done for less than what is currently being proposed. “Most of my members believe that we can pass a very robust stimulus for less than the amount currently before us,” he said.
McConnell noted that one of his colleagues recently tried to put a trillion dollars in context: “If you started spending the day that Jesus was born, and you spent a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion dollars,” McConnell said. “It’s a lot of money.”
Republicans, outnumbered by Democrats in the Senate, won’t win passage of every amendment they propose, McConnell acknowledged. “But I can tell you this, with regard to this measure that’s on the floor this week, there is considerable…Democratic senatorial unrest about this package.
“I think there is a bipartisan feeling that this is not the way to get the economy moving, and hopefully we’ll see that exhibited on various amendments where we may have some bipartisan success in modifying the bill and making it more in line with what I think the president was talking about…”
Sunday, February 1, 2009
BEGINNING 1-31-09 WAR ON OUR WEAPONS
READ THIS AND PASS ON .. THE WAR ON OUR WEAPONS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN ... AND THE LEADER OF THE WAR WARNED US BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED THAT HE WANTED GUN CONTROL.
BUY YOUR SPARE WEAPON AND SPARE AMMO NOW. PREPARE ;;; DAVE ANDERSON
HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act
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Subject:
HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act
This is provided as information that should alarm most of you. The air has not yet stilled from the peaceful change of power in this country and already the anti-gun forces have marshaled to license and fingerprint you into a National Database of gun owners. Note that there is no National Database of Convicted Felons and those who have lost their citizen's rights to gun ownership, but there will be one that seeks to make you either a dupe or a felon if this law is passed. I request and suggest that you contact your elected representatives to voice your opposition to this bill to abridge your rights. Note that the original author of this bill is Rahm Emanuel.
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**** THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS IS 'A DATABASE OF GUN OPNERS' HONEST CITIZENS NOT
**** WHILE THERE IS 'NO DATABASE ON CONVICTED FELONS INCLUDING THE FORMER
**** MEMBERS OF CONGRESS;;; D ANDERSON
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Are you ready for this?
Are you ready for the House Bill titled 'HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009'. It will make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered with the database in Washington D.C. As a gun owner you will have to be finger printed, you will be required to provide your DL#, SS#, you must maintain a valid address at all times, submit to mental and physical health records being put on file, you will also be required to file any address changes and any ownership changes even if a private sale. Each update will cost $25 and if you fail to comply you will lose your right to own firearms. This bill and its language mirror almost completely one defeated last year in the House of Representatives by soon to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Will we the citizenry be as lucky this time?
Pass this on to everyone who believes in strict Constitutionalism and remember that laws only apply to those who obey them. Criminals by definition and nature do not abide by laws. New laws and restrictions only apply to the law abiding citizen and are not written with the criminal in mind. With guns, it is not about having laws on the books to prosecute individuals, it is about taking guns away from the people so that no one has them in the first place. One last item to note, when assuming power and creating a facist state, Hitler was a proponent of strong gun laws because a disarmed populace was much easier to control than an armed one. The kings of old also outlawed weapons of any kind in any region that they conquered to quell the ability of the citizens to uprise against them.
The Founding Fathers of this nation understood all of the above and because of this they included the second amendment in the constitution. In fact, they knew that at some point in every society's life span that the need for the population to arise came about. To this end they made the right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical state an absolute right that could not be revoked. They did this because the first thing tyrants and despots do is to remove a population's right to defend themselves. When this is done, the tyrants have no problem with the destruction of society as we know it.
Protect your Second Amendment! Forward this to all gun owners! Join the NRA and actively support it!
The following is a summary of the bill as provided by the Congressional Research Service. If you read the whole bill, you'll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of ANY firearms by law-abiding people unless licensed by the Attorney General. How long do you think THAT would take??
Congressional Research Service Summary
The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.
1/6/2009--Introduced.
Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions; (2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act; (3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours; (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.
Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearing house; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.
Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.
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HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act
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Subject:
HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act
This is provided as information that should alarm most of you. The air has not yet stilled from the peaceful change of power in this country and already the anti-gun forces have marshaled to license and fingerprint you into a National Database of gun owners. Note that there is no National Database of Convicted Felons and those who have lost their citizen's rights to gun ownership, but there will be one that seeks to make you either a dupe or a felon if this law is passed. I request and suggest that you contact your elected representatives to voice your opposition to this bill to abridge your rights. Note that the original author of this bill is Rahm Emanuel.
****
**** THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS IS 'A DATABASE OF GUN OPNERS' HONEST CITIZENS NOT
**** WHILE THERE IS 'NO DATABASE ON CONVICTED FELONS INCLUDING THE FORMER
**** MEMBERS OF CONGRESS;;; D ANDERSON
****
Are you ready for this?
Are you ready for the House Bill titled 'HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009'. It will make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered with the database in Washington D.C. As a gun owner you will have to be finger printed, you will be required to provide your DL#, SS#, you must maintain a valid address at all times, submit to mental and physical health records being put on file, you will also be required to file any address changes and any ownership changes even if a private sale. Each update will cost $25 and if you fail to comply you will lose your right to own firearms. This bill and its language mirror almost completely one defeated last year in the House of Representatives by soon to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Will we the citizenry be as lucky this time?
Pass this on to everyone who believes in strict Constitutionalism and remember that laws only apply to those who obey them. Criminals by definition and nature do not abide by laws. New laws and restrictions only apply to the law abiding citizen and are not written with the criminal in mind. With guns, it is not about having laws on the books to prosecute individuals, it is about taking guns away from the people so that no one has them in the first place. One last item to note, when assuming power and creating a facist state, Hitler was a proponent of strong gun laws because a disarmed populace was much easier to control than an armed one. The kings of old also outlawed weapons of any kind in any region that they conquered to quell the ability of the citizens to uprise against them.
The Founding Fathers of this nation understood all of the above and because of this they included the second amendment in the constitution. In fact, they knew that at some point in every society's life span that the need for the population to arise came about. To this end they made the right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical state an absolute right that could not be revoked. They did this because the first thing tyrants and despots do is to remove a population's right to defend themselves. When this is done, the tyrants have no problem with the destruction of society as we know it.
Protect your Second Amendment! Forward this to all gun owners! Join the NRA and actively support it!
The following is a summary of the bill as provided by the Congressional Research Service. If you read the whole bill, you'll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of ANY firearms by law-abiding people unless licensed by the Attorney General. How long do you think THAT would take??
Congressional Research Service Summary
The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.
1/6/2009--Introduced.
Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions; (2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act; (3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours; (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.
Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearing house; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer.
Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.
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Why Grandpa Carries a Gun
Subject: Why Grandpa Carries a Gun
My old grandpa said to me, "Son, there comes a time in every man's life when
he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he
becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'."
I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world
I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself
for failing to be prepared.
I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a
sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowbow
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones
they love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs,
I am inadequate.
I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to
me.
Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime
after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an
ass whoopin'.
My old grandpa said to me, "Son, there comes a time in every man's life when
he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's when he
becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'."
I don't carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don't carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I don't carry a gun because I'm evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world
I don't carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I don't carry a gun because I'm angry.
I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself
for failing to be prepared.
I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a
sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowbow
I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones
they love.
I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs,
I am inadequate.
I don't carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to
me.
Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime
after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an
ass whoopin'.
Obama’s Bill Hands ACORN $5.2 Billion Bailout
Obama’s Bill Hands ACORN $5.2 Billion Bailout
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:06 PM
By: David A. Patten Article Font Size
A rising chorus of GOP leaders are protesting that the blockbuster Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud.
Most of the money is secreted away under an item in the now $836 billion package titled “Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.”
Ordinarily, neighborhood stabilization funds are distributed to local governments. But revised language in the stimulus bill would make the funds available directly to non-profit entities such as ACORN, the low-income housing organization whose pro-Democrat voter-registration activities have been blasted by Republicans. ACORN is cited by some for tipping the scales in the Democrats' favor in November.
According to Fox news, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., could appear to be a “payoff” for community groups’ partisan political activities in the last election cycle.
“It is of great concern to me,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tells Newsmax. “I think our government has stayed strong because we’ve had a two-party system, we have had robust debate, people have felt that it was one man-one vote. They are privileged and grateful that they have that ability to cast that vote. And when something is done to belittle or diminish that, it is of great concern to me.”
Regarding ACORN, Blackburn added, “Additional funds going to these organizations that have tried to skew that system, it causes me great concern and I believe that it causes many of my colleagues great concern.”
The three-term congressman stopped short of suggesting the “neighborhood stabilization” money is a power grab by Democrats seeking partisan political advantage. But radio talk giant Rush Limbaugh did not.
Limbaugh warned his listeners Tuesday: “I’ll tell you what’s going on here: We, ladies & gentlemen, we’re funding Obama and the Democrats’ army on the street. We are funding the forces of the Democrat party’s re-election.”
Blackburn echoed the concerns of Republican leaders who object that the bloated package lacks the short-term stimulus a cut in payroll or sales taxes would provide.
According to Matthew Vadum of the Capitol Research Center, the stimulus package now under consideration includes:
$1 billion stashed away in Community Development Block Grant money that ACORN often vies for successfully.
$10 million to develop or refurbish low-income housing, a specialty of ACORN’s.
$4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Vadum states the current version of the bill would allow nonprofits to compete with cities and states for $3.44 billion of the money. Some $750 million, however, would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN, which is actually an umbrella organization for over 100 progressive organizations.
Regarding the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Vadum writes in American Spectator: “Although ACORN operatives usually get their hands on such funds only after they have first passed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or state and local governments, the new spending bill largely eliminates these dawdling middle men, making it easier to get Uncle Sam's largess directly into the hands of the same people who run ACORN's various vote fraud and extortion rackets. And the legislative package provides these funds without the usual prohibition on using government money for lobbying or political activities.”
The charges of partisan political payback appear to be resonating in part due to Obama’s longstanding association with partisan get-out-the-vote operations. He was endorsed by ACORN, and during the campaign paid an ACORN affiliate $832,600 to get-out-the-vote assistance. Early in his career, he led a voter drive for an ACORN-affiliated group called Project Vote.
It’s not the first time ACORN has been entangled in a bailout controversy. In September, House Republicans objected that the original $700 billion bailout package included $100 million for ACORN – a tiny fraction of the sums for ACORN now being considered in the stimulus package.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:06 PM
By: David A. Patten Article Font Size
A rising chorus of GOP leaders are protesting that the blockbuster Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud.
Most of the money is secreted away under an item in the now $836 billion package titled “Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.”
Ordinarily, neighborhood stabilization funds are distributed to local governments. But revised language in the stimulus bill would make the funds available directly to non-profit entities such as ACORN, the low-income housing organization whose pro-Democrat voter-registration activities have been blasted by Republicans. ACORN is cited by some for tipping the scales in the Democrats' favor in November.
According to Fox news, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., could appear to be a “payoff” for community groups’ partisan political activities in the last election cycle.
“It is of great concern to me,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tells Newsmax. “I think our government has stayed strong because we’ve had a two-party system, we have had robust debate, people have felt that it was one man-one vote. They are privileged and grateful that they have that ability to cast that vote. And when something is done to belittle or diminish that, it is of great concern to me.”
Regarding ACORN, Blackburn added, “Additional funds going to these organizations that have tried to skew that system, it causes me great concern and I believe that it causes many of my colleagues great concern.”
The three-term congressman stopped short of suggesting the “neighborhood stabilization” money is a power grab by Democrats seeking partisan political advantage. But radio talk giant Rush Limbaugh did not.
Limbaugh warned his listeners Tuesday: “I’ll tell you what’s going on here: We, ladies & gentlemen, we’re funding Obama and the Democrats’ army on the street. We are funding the forces of the Democrat party’s re-election.”
Blackburn echoed the concerns of Republican leaders who object that the bloated package lacks the short-term stimulus a cut in payroll or sales taxes would provide.
According to Matthew Vadum of the Capitol Research Center, the stimulus package now under consideration includes:
$1 billion stashed away in Community Development Block Grant money that ACORN often vies for successfully.
$10 million to develop or refurbish low-income housing, a specialty of ACORN’s.
$4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Vadum states the current version of the bill would allow nonprofits to compete with cities and states for $3.44 billion of the money. Some $750 million, however, would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN, which is actually an umbrella organization for over 100 progressive organizations.
Regarding the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Vadum writes in American Spectator: “Although ACORN operatives usually get their hands on such funds only after they have first passed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or state and local governments, the new spending bill largely eliminates these dawdling middle men, making it easier to get Uncle Sam's largess directly into the hands of the same people who run ACORN's various vote fraud and extortion rackets. And the legislative package provides these funds without the usual prohibition on using government money for lobbying or political activities.”
The charges of partisan political payback appear to be resonating in part due to Obama’s longstanding association with partisan get-out-the-vote operations. He was endorsed by ACORN, and during the campaign paid an ACORN affiliate $832,600 to get-out-the-vote assistance. Early in his career, he led a voter drive for an ACORN-affiliated group called Project Vote.
It’s not the first time ACORN has been entangled in a bailout controversy. In September, House Republicans objected that the original $700 billion bailout package included $100 million for ACORN – a tiny fraction of the sums for ACORN now being considered in the stimulus package.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Beware Of CAIR
Beware Of CAIR
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Homeland Security: You'd think the Council on American-Islamic Relations would be savoring the results of an election that favors its agenda. Instead, it's having to do major damage control.
Over the past several months, the Washington-based pressure group has suffered a series of punishing blows to its reputation as a self-proclaimed "moderate" voice for Muslim-Americans. In the latest setback, a "Dear Colleague" letter sent out to every House member warns lawmakers and their staffs to "think twice" about meeting with CAIR officials.
"The FBI has cut ties with them," the letter says. "There are indications" CAIR has links to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group.
The letter, signed by five Republicans, including the head of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, is attached to an article by a homeland-security news service. It reports that the FBI has been canceling outreach events across the country with CAIR, following a recent directive from headquarters to cut ties with the group.
It's a major policy shift at the FBI, which has appeased the notoriously litigious CAIR since 9/11. The group aggressively attacks critics with threats of boycotts and discrimination lawsuits.
The marginalization of CAIR, which has enjoyed astonishing access to official Washington, comes after the successful prosecution of leaders of a U.S. Muslim charity that funneled millions to Hamas terrorists. CAIR and its co-founder Omar Ahmed were named unindicted co-conspirators in that Holy Land Foundation case.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, moreover, was caught on tape participating in a meeting with Hamas leaders to disguise payments as charity. During the trial, the FBI described CAIR as a front group for Islamic extremists.
It just gets worse for CAIR. Former clients of the group are suing it for fraud. The Muslims say CAIR, which claims to be an advocate for Muslim rights, extorted thousands of dollars from them in a scam in which CAIR said it would help them get U.S. citizenship.
According to the federal lawsuit, CAIR directed an unlicensed lawyer to handle their immigration cases. The phony lawyer shook them down for their life savings and bungled their paperwork. When the victims said they would go to the media, the suit charges, CAIR's board threatened to sue them and forced them to sign releases.
Such aggressive tactics are typical of CAIR. The group has threatened CEOs who don't kowtow to its demands to Islamize the workplace and airlines trying to protect passengers from terrorism. It's bullied, as well, scores of critics on TV and talk radio, even getting some hosts fired. Thankfully, the threats are no longer working.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Homeland Security: You'd think the Council on American-Islamic Relations would be savoring the results of an election that favors its agenda. Instead, it's having to do major damage control.
Over the past several months, the Washington-based pressure group has suffered a series of punishing blows to its reputation as a self-proclaimed "moderate" voice for Muslim-Americans. In the latest setback, a "Dear Colleague" letter sent out to every House member warns lawmakers and their staffs to "think twice" about meeting with CAIR officials.
"The FBI has cut ties with them," the letter says. "There are indications" CAIR has links to Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group.
The letter, signed by five Republicans, including the head of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, is attached to an article by a homeland-security news service. It reports that the FBI has been canceling outreach events across the country with CAIR, following a recent directive from headquarters to cut ties with the group.
It's a major policy shift at the FBI, which has appeased the notoriously litigious CAIR since 9/11. The group aggressively attacks critics with threats of boycotts and discrimination lawsuits.
The marginalization of CAIR, which has enjoyed astonishing access to official Washington, comes after the successful prosecution of leaders of a U.S. Muslim charity that funneled millions to Hamas terrorists. CAIR and its co-founder Omar Ahmed were named unindicted co-conspirators in that Holy Land Foundation case.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, moreover, was caught on tape participating in a meeting with Hamas leaders to disguise payments as charity. During the trial, the FBI described CAIR as a front group for Islamic extremists.
It just gets worse for CAIR. Former clients of the group are suing it for fraud. The Muslims say CAIR, which claims to be an advocate for Muslim rights, extorted thousands of dollars from them in a scam in which CAIR said it would help them get U.S. citizenship.
According to the federal lawsuit, CAIR directed an unlicensed lawyer to handle their immigration cases. The phony lawyer shook them down for their life savings and bungled their paperwork. When the victims said they would go to the media, the suit charges, CAIR's board threatened to sue them and forced them to sign releases.
Such aggressive tactics are typical of CAIR. The group has threatened CEOs who don't kowtow to its demands to Islamize the workplace and airlines trying to protect passengers from terrorism. It's bullied, as well, scores of critics on TV and talk radio, even getting some hosts fired. Thankfully, the threats are no longer working.
An Israeli Churchill
An Israeli Churchill
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:20 PM PT
War On Terror: The comparisons between Israeli electoral front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu and Winston Churchill are all too obvious. Too bad statesmen who have learned history's lessons are so rare.
As British historian Graham Stewart notes in his 1999 book "Burying Caesar," chronicling the 1930s political rivalry between Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, "in contrast to many of his colleagues, anticipated the problem of a resurgent Germany even before Hitler's ambitions had become more fully evident." Stewart points out that Churchill made his first House of Commons speech on the subject no later than November 1932.
It was not the first example of the Last Lion's remarkable prescience. As another acclaimed British historian, Paul Johnson, observed in his sweeping history of the 20th century, "Modern Times," regarding the rise of Lenin in Russia, all but one Western politician failed "to grasp the enormous significance of the establishment of this new type of totalitarian dictatorship, or the long-term effect of its implantation."
Johnson said the exception was Churchill, whose strong sense of history caused him to realize "a fatal watershed was being reached." In 1918, he said Lenin and Trotsky should be hanged and the next spring he argued that of all history's tyrannies, "the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading."
As former Israeli prime minister and current Likud Party head Bibi Netanyahu enjoys a comfortable lead in the polls a week and a half before election day, his words of warning regarding Iran should remind the free world of how Churchill's advice went unheeded for so long — at the cost of millions of innocent lives.
Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Netanyahu cautioned that economic woes are distracting the West from a far greater danger. The former finance minister said that while global economic woes are reversible, "the acquisition of nuclear weapons by a fanatic radical regime" is not.
"We have never had, since the dawn of the nuclear age, nuclear weapons in the hands of such a fanatical regime," Netanyahu added. Stopping Tehran "remains the greatest challenge facing the leaders of the 21st century at the beginning of the 21st century."
For years most of the world has dithered in regard to Iran. Deluded governments still believe that an Islamofascist regime awaiting the coming of the 12th imam and an apocalyptic holy war can respond to diplomatic carrots and sticks with rationality.
Fortunately Israel, the nation that has the most to lose from a nuclear Iran, may soon be led by perhaps the sole 21st century statesman who possesses a strong, Churchillian sense of history.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:20 PM PT
War On Terror: The comparisons between Israeli electoral front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu and Winston Churchill are all too obvious. Too bad statesmen who have learned history's lessons are so rare.
As British historian Graham Stewart notes in his 1999 book "Burying Caesar," chronicling the 1930s political rivalry between Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, "in contrast to many of his colleagues, anticipated the problem of a resurgent Germany even before Hitler's ambitions had become more fully evident." Stewart points out that Churchill made his first House of Commons speech on the subject no later than November 1932.
It was not the first example of the Last Lion's remarkable prescience. As another acclaimed British historian, Paul Johnson, observed in his sweeping history of the 20th century, "Modern Times," regarding the rise of Lenin in Russia, all but one Western politician failed "to grasp the enormous significance of the establishment of this new type of totalitarian dictatorship, or the long-term effect of its implantation."
Johnson said the exception was Churchill, whose strong sense of history caused him to realize "a fatal watershed was being reached." In 1918, he said Lenin and Trotsky should be hanged and the next spring he argued that of all history's tyrannies, "the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading."
As former Israeli prime minister and current Likud Party head Bibi Netanyahu enjoys a comfortable lead in the polls a week and a half before election day, his words of warning regarding Iran should remind the free world of how Churchill's advice went unheeded for so long — at the cost of millions of innocent lives.
Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Netanyahu cautioned that economic woes are distracting the West from a far greater danger. The former finance minister said that while global economic woes are reversible, "the acquisition of nuclear weapons by a fanatic radical regime" is not.
"We have never had, since the dawn of the nuclear age, nuclear weapons in the hands of such a fanatical regime," Netanyahu added. Stopping Tehran "remains the greatest challenge facing the leaders of the 21st century at the beginning of the 21st century."
For years most of the world has dithered in regard to Iran. Deluded governments still believe that an Islamofascist regime awaiting the coming of the 12th imam and an apocalyptic holy war can respond to diplomatic carrots and sticks with rationality.
Fortunately Israel, the nation that has the most to lose from a nuclear Iran, may soon be led by perhaps the sole 21st century statesman who possesses a strong, Churchillian sense of history.
RUSH " HOPE HE FAILS" ABOUT OBAMA
updated 9:40 a.m. HT, Fri., Jan. 30, 2009
NEW YORK - For all the talk of new politics and a new start with a new administration, the media person who has emerged as the chief voice of opposition during the first week of Barack Obama's presidency — Rush Limbaugh — has been doing this for 20 years.
The talk-radio titan said, days before Obama was sworn in, that he hoped Obama failed because he didn't believe in the incoming president's policies.
It's kept him in the headlines ever since, to the point where MSNBC TV on Thursday asked: "Is Rush running the GOP?" The day before, every Republican House member voted against Obama's economic stimulus plan, a bill Limbaugh has ridiculed as the "porkulus" plan.
"Obama was trying to marginalize me," Limbaugh said. "His hope was that the House and Senate Republicans would join him in denouncing me. Didn't work."
When Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Georgia Republican, tried to praise his House leadership this week by saying it's easy for talk-show hosts to stand back and throw bricks, the headline on the Politico Web site read: "House GOP member to Rush: Back off." Gingrey was so bothered by the phone calls of complaints that he visited four conservative talk-show hosts, including Limbaugh, the next day to apologize.
Limbaugh, he said, was a conservative giant and one of the "voices of the conservative movement's conscience."
Can it get any better for a personality whose business is built on buzz?
"Rush Limbaugh is first and foremost a radio performer," said Michael Harrison, publisher of the trade journal Talkers magazine, which notes that Limbaugh has been the most listened-to talk-show host since at least the mid-1990s. "He's not a political leader. He doesn't make more money by turning elections. He only exists to gather large audiences and raise more advertising revenue and he does it terrifically."
(Limbaugh is heard on some 600 radio stations across the country, and more than 14 million people listen to him at least once a week.)
Yet count columnist Michael Wolff, writing in the Huffington Post, as one who believes Limbaugh is "being played."
He could prove valuable to the president, who has sought bipartisan support for many of his plans and romanced Republicans in his first week in office. Being able to point to an opponent like Limbaugh could help him with the millions of Americans for whom the message of ending partisan bickering rang true on Election Day.
Obama even cited Limbaugh in seeking support for his economic plans.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he said. "There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats. We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."
A liberal advocacy group, Americans United for Change, said Friday it was using Limbaugh's words in radio ads it was launching against three Republican senators: Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, George Voinovich of Ohio and John Ensign of Nevada. The ads, supporting Obama's economic plan, urge voters in those states to call their senator and "tell him he represents you, not Rush Limbaugh."
Wolff wrote that he believed the dinner Obama had with conservative columnists before his inauguration was a pointed snub to Limbaugh.
"He's tried to make it out to be a political point ever since," he wrote, "but mostly he sounds like a guy who's hurt he didn't get invited to the hot party."
Asked about Wolff's comments, Limbaugh said, "Who?"
Another conservative talk-show host, William Bennett, said on CNN that Limbaugh's statement wasn't a good idea.
"The locution — `I want him to fail' — is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated," he said.
He noted that former President Bill Clinton used to talk about Limbaugh all the time. "It never helped Bill Clinton," Bennett said. "It certainly helped Rush."
It seemed clear that Limbaugh knew exactly what kind of impact he would make when he first said he wanted Obama to fail.
"I would be honored if the drive-by media headlined me all day long: `Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails,'" he said on the air. "Somebody's gotta say it."
Limbaugh, who just marked his 20th year in syndication and signed a contract last year reportedly paying him $38 million a year through 2016, has outraced his competitors to be the voice of opposition.
It could be a valuable role, or it could misread the national mood. He had mixed results last year; launching "Operation Chaos" to urge listeners to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic primaries to hurt Obama. He virulently opposed John McCain in the Republican nomination race, forging an uneasy peace when GOP voters didn't listen.
Limbaugh said the "I hope he fails" statement came after an explanation of his opposition to liberal politics.
"I want the country to succeed and the stated policies of the administration will not achieve that objective," he said. "I support the president but I opposed his policies, just as the left claimed to support the troops but opposed their mission of victory. I thus am confident that all conservatives want the country to succeed."
NEW YORK - For all the talk of new politics and a new start with a new administration, the media person who has emerged as the chief voice of opposition during the first week of Barack Obama's presidency — Rush Limbaugh — has been doing this for 20 years.
The talk-radio titan said, days before Obama was sworn in, that he hoped Obama failed because he didn't believe in the incoming president's policies.
It's kept him in the headlines ever since, to the point where MSNBC TV on Thursday asked: "Is Rush running the GOP?" The day before, every Republican House member voted against Obama's economic stimulus plan, a bill Limbaugh has ridiculed as the "porkulus" plan.
"Obama was trying to marginalize me," Limbaugh said. "His hope was that the House and Senate Republicans would join him in denouncing me. Didn't work."
When Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Georgia Republican, tried to praise his House leadership this week by saying it's easy for talk-show hosts to stand back and throw bricks, the headline on the Politico Web site read: "House GOP member to Rush: Back off." Gingrey was so bothered by the phone calls of complaints that he visited four conservative talk-show hosts, including Limbaugh, the next day to apologize.
Limbaugh, he said, was a conservative giant and one of the "voices of the conservative movement's conscience."
Can it get any better for a personality whose business is built on buzz?
"Rush Limbaugh is first and foremost a radio performer," said Michael Harrison, publisher of the trade journal Talkers magazine, which notes that Limbaugh has been the most listened-to talk-show host since at least the mid-1990s. "He's not a political leader. He doesn't make more money by turning elections. He only exists to gather large audiences and raise more advertising revenue and he does it terrifically."
(Limbaugh is heard on some 600 radio stations across the country, and more than 14 million people listen to him at least once a week.)
Yet count columnist Michael Wolff, writing in the Huffington Post, as one who believes Limbaugh is "being played."
He could prove valuable to the president, who has sought bipartisan support for many of his plans and romanced Republicans in his first week in office. Being able to point to an opponent like Limbaugh could help him with the millions of Americans for whom the message of ending partisan bickering rang true on Election Day.
Obama even cited Limbaugh in seeking support for his economic plans.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he said. "There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats. We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."
A liberal advocacy group, Americans United for Change, said Friday it was using Limbaugh's words in radio ads it was launching against three Republican senators: Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, George Voinovich of Ohio and John Ensign of Nevada. The ads, supporting Obama's economic plan, urge voters in those states to call their senator and "tell him he represents you, not Rush Limbaugh."
Wolff wrote that he believed the dinner Obama had with conservative columnists before his inauguration was a pointed snub to Limbaugh.
"He's tried to make it out to be a political point ever since," he wrote, "but mostly he sounds like a guy who's hurt he didn't get invited to the hot party."
Asked about Wolff's comments, Limbaugh said, "Who?"
Another conservative talk-show host, William Bennett, said on CNN that Limbaugh's statement wasn't a good idea.
"The locution — `I want him to fail' — is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated," he said.
He noted that former President Bill Clinton used to talk about Limbaugh all the time. "It never helped Bill Clinton," Bennett said. "It certainly helped Rush."
It seemed clear that Limbaugh knew exactly what kind of impact he would make when he first said he wanted Obama to fail.
"I would be honored if the drive-by media headlined me all day long: `Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails,'" he said on the air. "Somebody's gotta say it."
Limbaugh, who just marked his 20th year in syndication and signed a contract last year reportedly paying him $38 million a year through 2016, has outraced his competitors to be the voice of opposition.
It could be a valuable role, or it could misread the national mood. He had mixed results last year; launching "Operation Chaos" to urge listeners to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic primaries to hurt Obama. He virulently opposed John McCain in the Republican nomination race, forging an uneasy peace when GOP voters didn't listen.
Limbaugh said the "I hope he fails" statement came after an explanation of his opposition to liberal politics.
"I want the country to succeed and the stated policies of the administration will not achieve that objective," he said. "I support the president but I opposed his policies, just as the left claimed to support the troops but opposed their mission of victory. I thus am confident that all conservatives want the country to succeed."
Thursday, January 29, 2009
IT'S CALLED GUN CONTROL
Shooting in Butte, Montana
Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders:
Butte, Montana November 5, 2007
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home
It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news..........an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself........against two murderous, illegal immigrants.......and she wins, she is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control !
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Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders:
Butte, Montana November 5, 2007
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home
It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news..........an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself........against two murderous, illegal immigrants.......and she wins, she is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control !
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Stimulus:Result is more COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS MORE OBAMAS
Acorn's Seed Money
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Stimulus: The group that pushed banks into the risky loans that brought the economy down is now eligible for a huge chunk of stimulus cash. The stimulus plan does create jobs — for community activists.
As in any agreement, contract or piece of legislation, the devil is in the details. So it is with the stimulus package percolating in Congress.
Analysts are beginning to figure out that only a small percentage of the money will actually trickle down into the economy in the first two years, not enough to do much stimulating.
Yet in this package is a $4 billion pot for community groups like ACORN to draw upon for what are called "neighborhood stabilization activities," which include "redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes."
That is a worthy goal in a troubled economy. But money was already appropriated for that purpose in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act signed into law in 2008.
The problem for activists is the money was limited to state and local governments, where presumably there is greater transparency on how it is spent, and some measure of accountability.
Community groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now felt left out.
So their Democratic patrons in Congress have included language to expand the eligible recipients of up to $4 billion in assistance to include "nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities," which translates into groups such as ACORN.
ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections; is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the irresponsible schemes that caused a financial meltdown that American taxpayers are now paying dearly for.
This is like giving fire-prevention money to arsonists.
It was ACORN, under the cover of the Community Reinvestment Act, that intimidated banks into making risky loans to people who could not afford them in the name of "fairness."
ACORN organized to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "ninja" loans — no income, no job, no assets — to people who could not afford them.
The CRA empowered regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority and distressed neighborhoods."
It gave groups such as ACORN a license and a means to intimidate banks, claiming they were "redlining" poor and minority neighborhoods.
The CRA was designed to increase minority homeownership. Whenever a bank wanted to grow or expand, ACORN would file complaints that the bank was not sufficiently sensitive to the needs of minorities in providing home loans.
The agitators would then be unleashed to seal the deal — for a cut, of course. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac then would buy up these bad loans, creating a market for them, and the rest is history.
A major part of ACORN's sordid history is vote fraud. ACORN has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Missouri, Ohio and at least 12 other states.
Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history, involving nearly 2,000 bogus voter forms. In Ohio in 2004, ACORN submitted forms for the likes of Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and someone named Jive Turkey.
In 2008, ACORN filed more than 43,000 new voter registration forms in Minnesota, where the razor-thin margin of victory for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman over former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken evaporated.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who orchestrated the recount that gave Franken a lead six weeks after Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day, has extensive ties to ACORN.
It's becoming clear that the stimulus package in its current form is less about jump-starting the economy than it is about pursuing a political agenda.
To give access to stimulus money to a group waist deep in the mortgage crisis and vote fraud like ACORN is, well, just plain nuts.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Stimulus: The group that pushed banks into the risky loans that brought the economy down is now eligible for a huge chunk of stimulus cash. The stimulus plan does create jobs — for community activists.
As in any agreement, contract or piece of legislation, the devil is in the details. So it is with the stimulus package percolating in Congress.
Analysts are beginning to figure out that only a small percentage of the money will actually trickle down into the economy in the first two years, not enough to do much stimulating.
Yet in this package is a $4 billion pot for community groups like ACORN to draw upon for what are called "neighborhood stabilization activities," which include "redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes."
That is a worthy goal in a troubled economy. But money was already appropriated for that purpose in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act signed into law in 2008.
The problem for activists is the money was limited to state and local governments, where presumably there is greater transparency on how it is spent, and some measure of accountability.
Community groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now felt left out.
So their Democratic patrons in Congress have included language to expand the eligible recipients of up to $4 billion in assistance to include "nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities," which translates into groups such as ACORN.
ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections; is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the irresponsible schemes that caused a financial meltdown that American taxpayers are now paying dearly for.
This is like giving fire-prevention money to arsonists.
It was ACORN, under the cover of the Community Reinvestment Act, that intimidated banks into making risky loans to people who could not afford them in the name of "fairness."
ACORN organized to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "ninja" loans — no income, no job, no assets — to people who could not afford them.
The CRA empowered regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority and distressed neighborhoods."
It gave groups such as ACORN a license and a means to intimidate banks, claiming they were "redlining" poor and minority neighborhoods.
The CRA was designed to increase minority homeownership. Whenever a bank wanted to grow or expand, ACORN would file complaints that the bank was not sufficiently sensitive to the needs of minorities in providing home loans.
The agitators would then be unleashed to seal the deal — for a cut, of course. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac then would buy up these bad loans, creating a market for them, and the rest is history.
A major part of ACORN's sordid history is vote fraud. ACORN has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Missouri, Ohio and at least 12 other states.
Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history, involving nearly 2,000 bogus voter forms. In Ohio in 2004, ACORN submitted forms for the likes of Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and someone named Jive Turkey.
In 2008, ACORN filed more than 43,000 new voter registration forms in Minnesota, where the razor-thin margin of victory for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman over former "Saturday Night Live" comedian Al Franken evaporated.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who orchestrated the recount that gave Franken a lead six weeks after Coleman appeared to win by 725 votes on Election Day, has extensive ties to ACORN.
It's becoming clear that the stimulus package in its current form is less about jump-starting the economy than it is about pursuing a political agenda.
To give access to stimulus money to a group waist deep in the mortgage crisis and vote fraud like ACORN is, well, just plain nuts.
Hear the ALARM Heed the warning
Answer The Alarm
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Iran: A regime that calls the Nazi genocide of the Jews a "big lie" will have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb later this year. Would you bet your life on "tough diplomacy"?
Why does the fact of six million Jews being massacred by Hitler so threaten Islamists?
Tehran spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a conference on Gaza in the Shiite holy city of Qom on Tuesday that "the Holocaust is a concept coming from a big lie in order to settle a rootless regime in the heart of the Islamic world."
This latest rant from the Islamofascist regime comes in the context of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad having some time ago pronounced the Holocaust a "myth," calling for the Jewish state of Israel to be wiped off the map, and Tehran's hosting of a conference of Holocaust deniers.
World sympathy over what happened to the Jews in World War II certainly helped big in achieving the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine six decades ago, to the outrage of Middle East Muslims.
But embracing the absurdity of denying the Nazis' mass slaughter won't make Israel, or the Israelis, go away.
So why does Tehran persist in doing it?
The likely answer is chilling: because those running Iran are deluded fanatics.
Ahmadinejad himself has provided plenty of proof of that in his statements suggesting the return of the 12th Imam, a Shiite apocalyptic prophecy.
That descendant of Mohammed, also known as the Mahdi, who purportedly vanished in 941 AD, is awaited by some Muslims as the future leader of a holy war against the enemies of Islam.
Ahmadinejad has said, "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi."
Doing so means that "Iran should become a powerful, developed and model Islamic society."
Indeed. Madman Mahmoud, who takes orders from Iran's ruling mullahs, has stated that Iran "should define our economic, cultural and political policies based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return. We should avoid copying the West's policies and systems," he has insisted.
And Ahmadinejad has expressed these sentiments not on isolated occasions but in numerous speeches during his presidency, including remarks made before the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
These are the madmen that London's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) this week warned will soon have produced enough fissionable material to construct an atomic bomb — and they already have acquired the plans for one, thanks to the Pakistan-based A.Q. Khan nuclear network.
They also have in the works an enhanced version of the Shahab 3 missile, with which Iran will be able to strike Israel with a destructive nuclear weapon. As their missile technology gets better, most of Europe will soon be in range.
The Iranians have long been in a state of war with their Jewish neighbors through their terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.
They have been in a de facto state of war with the United States too, helping insurgents kill our troops in Iraq and elsewhere and providing aid, training and comfort to terrorists around the world.
And yet we continue to hear the tired refrain from the West's diplomatic corps that "incentives" and economic sanctions can stop these crazed apocalyptic anti-Semites.
Today, as a new U.S. president considers talking to Iran directly, it's time for a return to the kind of clarity Ronald Reagan applied to the Cold War. As he described it: "We win. They lose."
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Iran: A regime that calls the Nazi genocide of the Jews a "big lie" will have enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb later this year. Would you bet your life on "tough diplomacy"?
Why does the fact of six million Jews being massacred by Hitler so threaten Islamists?
Tehran spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a conference on Gaza in the Shiite holy city of Qom on Tuesday that "the Holocaust is a concept coming from a big lie in order to settle a rootless regime in the heart of the Islamic world."
This latest rant from the Islamofascist regime comes in the context of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad having some time ago pronounced the Holocaust a "myth," calling for the Jewish state of Israel to be wiped off the map, and Tehran's hosting of a conference of Holocaust deniers.
World sympathy over what happened to the Jews in World War II certainly helped big in achieving the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine six decades ago, to the outrage of Middle East Muslims.
But embracing the absurdity of denying the Nazis' mass slaughter won't make Israel, or the Israelis, go away.
So why does Tehran persist in doing it?
The likely answer is chilling: because those running Iran are deluded fanatics.
Ahmadinejad himself has provided plenty of proof of that in his statements suggesting the return of the 12th Imam, a Shiite apocalyptic prophecy.
That descendant of Mohammed, also known as the Mahdi, who purportedly vanished in 941 AD, is awaited by some Muslims as the future leader of a holy war against the enemies of Islam.
Ahmadinejad has said, "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi."
Doing so means that "Iran should become a powerful, developed and model Islamic society."
Indeed. Madman Mahmoud, who takes orders from Iran's ruling mullahs, has stated that Iran "should define our economic, cultural and political policies based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return. We should avoid copying the West's policies and systems," he has insisted.
And Ahmadinejad has expressed these sentiments not on isolated occasions but in numerous speeches during his presidency, including remarks made before the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
These are the madmen that London's International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) this week warned will soon have produced enough fissionable material to construct an atomic bomb — and they already have acquired the plans for one, thanks to the Pakistan-based A.Q. Khan nuclear network.
They also have in the works an enhanced version of the Shahab 3 missile, with which Iran will be able to strike Israel with a destructive nuclear weapon. As their missile technology gets better, most of Europe will soon be in range.
The Iranians have long been in a state of war with their Jewish neighbors through their terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.
They have been in a de facto state of war with the United States too, helping insurgents kill our troops in Iraq and elsewhere and providing aid, training and comfort to terrorists around the world.
And yet we continue to hear the tired refrain from the West's diplomatic corps that "incentives" and economic sanctions can stop these crazed apocalyptic anti-Semites.
Today, as a new U.S. president considers talking to Iran directly, it's time for a return to the kind of clarity Ronald Reagan applied to the Cold War. As he described it: "We win. They lose."
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"It's 1938, and Iran is Germany
In two weeks, Israel will pick a new government. Likud Party leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have a comfortable lead. His main rival, Tzipi Livni, the ruling Kadima party's foreign minister, has been sounding an alarm that hard-liner Bibi won't get along with President Obama.
Netanyahu: No illusions in 1996, and none apparently in 2008.
That actually might not be such a bad thing. As Tehran's Islamofascist regime continues on its path toward becoming a nuclear-armed power, a strong dose of tough realism in the Middle East may be just what the doctor ordered — if not in the U.S., then in Israel.
"Bibi" is the younger brother of Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu, the slain hero of Israel's Operation Entebbe. The raid saved over 100 Israeli and French Jewish hostages after the hijacking by Palestinian and German terrorists of an Air France flight out of Tel Aviv in 1976.
But in spite of his hawkish reputation, Netanyahu's time in power was known for pragmatism, not just a commitment to security.
He negotiated with the late PLO head Yasser Arafat, and gave most of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank and the second-holiest site in Judaism, to Palestine. As he said after meeting with Arafat at the White House in October of 1996:
"The path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence . . . It's our hope for our children and for the children of the Palestinians as well. We know that such a peace is inextricably bound with security and that peace can progress as long as security holds."
In words that could easily have referred to the free world's present threat from Iran, Netanyahu continued: "I don't have any illusions whatsoever about the difficulties ahead. It's a very tense period, fraught with dangers right now."
When it comes to the fanatical mullahs who've ruled Iran since President Carter let the Shah be overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamist revolutionaries, Bibi sees things with clarity.
"It's 1938, and Iran is Germany . . . racing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told the United Jewish Communities General Assembly in 2006. Those words of warning came in the aftermath of the Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly calling on Israel to be wiped off the map.
Netanyahu has contended that Ahmadinejad has been "preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state" and that stopping him "is what we must do. Everything else pales before this."
Moreover, Ahmadinejad's intentions go "way beyond the destruction of Israel." According to Netanyahu, "Israel would certainly be the first stop on Iran's tour of destruction. But at the planned production rate of 25 nuclear bombs a year," Iranian nukes, possibly carried by its long-range Shahab-3 missiles, "will be directed against 'the big Satan,' the U.S., and the 'moderate Satan,' Europe."
The Bush administration apparently assured current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the U.S. is somehow covertly sabotaging Iran's nuclear program with defective components.
But can the world depend on a spy operation that could easily end up botched — like so many CIA covert actions have been over the agency's long history?
Or will it take a unilateral attack by Israel against Iran's nuclear sites?
Some see Netanyahu as a kind of Winston Churchill, a warrior waiting for his moment to answer destiny's call.
Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, no fan of pre-emptive war against Muslim states, takes issue with the widely-held view of Churchill as the 20th century's most laudable historic figure.
In "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War," published last year, Buchanan depicts the cigar-chomping wartime British leader as lusting for, as Churchill once called it, "glorious, delicious war" against Germany. Yet, Buchanan asserts, "At Yalta in February 1945, Churchill gave moral legitimacy to Stalin's control of half of Europe by signing a 'Declaration on Liberated Europe.' "
Buchanan's attitude toward Churchill seems similar to many Israelis' feelings about Bibi Netanyahu. He inexplicably gave away too much to his country's enemies at the negotiating table; but faced with war, who better to have in the driver's seat?
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Netanyahu: No illusions in 1996, and none apparently in 2008.
That actually might not be such a bad thing. As Tehran's Islamofascist regime continues on its path toward becoming a nuclear-armed power, a strong dose of tough realism in the Middle East may be just what the doctor ordered — if not in the U.S., then in Israel.
"Bibi" is the younger brother of Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu, the slain hero of Israel's Operation Entebbe. The raid saved over 100 Israeli and French Jewish hostages after the hijacking by Palestinian and German terrorists of an Air France flight out of Tel Aviv in 1976.
But in spite of his hawkish reputation, Netanyahu's time in power was known for pragmatism, not just a commitment to security.
He negotiated with the late PLO head Yasser Arafat, and gave most of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank and the second-holiest site in Judaism, to Palestine. As he said after meeting with Arafat at the White House in October of 1996:
"The path to peace is through negotiations and not through violence . . . It's our hope for our children and for the children of the Palestinians as well. We know that such a peace is inextricably bound with security and that peace can progress as long as security holds."
In words that could easily have referred to the free world's present threat from Iran, Netanyahu continued: "I don't have any illusions whatsoever about the difficulties ahead. It's a very tense period, fraught with dangers right now."
When it comes to the fanatical mullahs who've ruled Iran since President Carter let the Shah be overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamist revolutionaries, Bibi sees things with clarity.
"It's 1938, and Iran is Germany . . . racing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told the United Jewish Communities General Assembly in 2006. Those words of warning came in the aftermath of the Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly calling on Israel to be wiped off the map.
Netanyahu has contended that Ahmadinejad has been "preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state" and that stopping him "is what we must do. Everything else pales before this."
Moreover, Ahmadinejad's intentions go "way beyond the destruction of Israel." According to Netanyahu, "Israel would certainly be the first stop on Iran's tour of destruction. But at the planned production rate of 25 nuclear bombs a year," Iranian nukes, possibly carried by its long-range Shahab-3 missiles, "will be directed against 'the big Satan,' the U.S., and the 'moderate Satan,' Europe."
The Bush administration apparently assured current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the U.S. is somehow covertly sabotaging Iran's nuclear program with defective components.
But can the world depend on a spy operation that could easily end up botched — like so many CIA covert actions have been over the agency's long history?
Or will it take a unilateral attack by Israel against Iran's nuclear sites?
Some see Netanyahu as a kind of Winston Churchill, a warrior waiting for his moment to answer destiny's call.
Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, no fan of pre-emptive war against Muslim states, takes issue with the widely-held view of Churchill as the 20th century's most laudable historic figure.
In "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War," published last year, Buchanan depicts the cigar-chomping wartime British leader as lusting for, as Churchill once called it, "glorious, delicious war" against Germany. Yet, Buchanan asserts, "At Yalta in February 1945, Churchill gave moral legitimacy to Stalin's control of half of Europe by signing a 'Declaration on Liberated Europe.' "
Buchanan's attitude toward Churchill seems similar to many Israelis' feelings about Bibi Netanyahu. He inexplicably gave away too much to his country's enemies at the negotiating table; but faced with war, who better to have in the driver's seat?
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Gitmo's Ghosts
Gitmo's Ghosts
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:20 PM PT
War on Terror: A Gitmo detainee released at Saudi Arabia's request has re-upped with al-Qaida and is now its chief of operations in Yemen. So, again, why do we want to empty the place?
If we bounce the rest of these terrorists out of Gitmo, as the president wants to do within a year, we risk recycling even more dangerous fanatics back into the jihad against us.
These people like to commit suicide. Why are we so anxious to do the same?
Gitmo terrorist Said Ali al-Shihri was released to Saudi in 2007. Within no time, he was back on the terror circuit. In fact, the FBI now suspects he helped plan last year's deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital.
He's one of at least 30 former Gitmo inmates who have resumed terrorist activities as part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, despite signing pledges to renounce violence. (Yes, we're really that dumb.)
The releases have come amid a steady stream of complaints from the media, the ACLU and the Saudis (who have a disproportionate number locked up there) about the treatment of the detainees, who are tortured daily with a limited menu of halal meals, paperback-only copies of the Quran and hard plastic soccer balls.
The Saudis assured us we could trust these hardened killers in their care, because they had a rehab program to turn them into nonviolent, productive members of society.
But the Saudi "reintegration program" for repatriated Gitmo terrorists conditions their release on an agreement not to attack the Kingdom. It's OK, however, for them to attack the West.
And that's exactly what al-Shihri did — after he went through the Saudi rehab program, which includes monthly stipends, cars, jobs and resortlike housing featuring pools and volleyball courts.
Sounds more like a resort: If we didn't know better, our ally is actually rewarding our enemies, and rehabbing them for future battle.
Many of the remaining 245-plus Gitmo detainees are Saudis and Yemenis. But fear not, Yemen also has a rehab program for terrorists that's similar to the Saudis. And one that's partly funded by the U.S. (as if these rich oil countries swimming in petro dollars can't finance their own anti-terror programs).
Yemen is the same government that secretly released a USS Cole bombing suspect not too long ago. "The lesson here is, whoever receives former Guantanamo detainees needs to keep a close eye on them," a U.S. official was quoted saying.
That clearly is not going to happen. We can't even trust ally Kuwait, which recently freed a Gitmo terrorist we'd released to its custody only to watch him attack innocents in Iraq. Not long after renouncing jihad, Abdullah Salim Ali al-Ajmi turned around and blew up a police station there in a suicide mission.
The real lesson is: Don't release these killers into anyone's care. Keep them locked up in Cuba or they'll just resurface with al-Qaida or the Taliban and attack us again.
Some argue that there's a new commander in chief now, and new rules in the war on terror. So deal with it.
While it is his prerogative to change the rules, the enemy is operating under old rules — 1,400-year-old rules, to be exact — and it's not changing its tactics. And it would like nothing better than to have 245 more of its battle-hardened dogs return to the front line.
If the new commander in chief is not careful, Gitmo's ghosts may come back to haunt us all.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:20 PM PT
War on Terror: A Gitmo detainee released at Saudi Arabia's request has re-upped with al-Qaida and is now its chief of operations in Yemen. So, again, why do we want to empty the place?
If we bounce the rest of these terrorists out of Gitmo, as the president wants to do within a year, we risk recycling even more dangerous fanatics back into the jihad against us.
These people like to commit suicide. Why are we so anxious to do the same?
Gitmo terrorist Said Ali al-Shihri was released to Saudi in 2007. Within no time, he was back on the terror circuit. In fact, the FBI now suspects he helped plan last year's deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital.
He's one of at least 30 former Gitmo inmates who have resumed terrorist activities as part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, despite signing pledges to renounce violence. (Yes, we're really that dumb.)
The releases have come amid a steady stream of complaints from the media, the ACLU and the Saudis (who have a disproportionate number locked up there) about the treatment of the detainees, who are tortured daily with a limited menu of halal meals, paperback-only copies of the Quran and hard plastic soccer balls.
The Saudis assured us we could trust these hardened killers in their care, because they had a rehab program to turn them into nonviolent, productive members of society.
But the Saudi "reintegration program" for repatriated Gitmo terrorists conditions their release on an agreement not to attack the Kingdom. It's OK, however, for them to attack the West.
And that's exactly what al-Shihri did — after he went through the Saudi rehab program, which includes monthly stipends, cars, jobs and resortlike housing featuring pools and volleyball courts.
Sounds more like a resort: If we didn't know better, our ally is actually rewarding our enemies, and rehabbing them for future battle.
Many of the remaining 245-plus Gitmo detainees are Saudis and Yemenis. But fear not, Yemen also has a rehab program for terrorists that's similar to the Saudis. And one that's partly funded by the U.S. (as if these rich oil countries swimming in petro dollars can't finance their own anti-terror programs).
Yemen is the same government that secretly released a USS Cole bombing suspect not too long ago. "The lesson here is, whoever receives former Guantanamo detainees needs to keep a close eye on them," a U.S. official was quoted saying.
That clearly is not going to happen. We can't even trust ally Kuwait, which recently freed a Gitmo terrorist we'd released to its custody only to watch him attack innocents in Iraq. Not long after renouncing jihad, Abdullah Salim Ali al-Ajmi turned around and blew up a police station there in a suicide mission.
The real lesson is: Don't release these killers into anyone's care. Keep them locked up in Cuba or they'll just resurface with al-Qaida or the Taliban and attack us again.
Some argue that there's a new commander in chief now, and new rules in the war on terror. So deal with it.
While it is his prerogative to change the rules, the enemy is operating under old rules — 1,400-year-old rules, to be exact — and it's not changing its tactics. And it would like nothing better than to have 245 more of its battle-hardened dogs return to the front line.
If the new commander in chief is not careful, Gitmo's ghosts may come back to haunt us all.
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Petition Against Rush Limbaugh
Democrats Launch
Petition Against Rush Limbaugh
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
By Melanie Hunter-Omar
(Updates with Limbaugh's response; more from DCCC.)
(CNSNews.com) – The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.
The petition includes a 19-second sound byte of Limbaugh, saying, “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to this guy, say ‘okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.’”
On Tuesday, in a note at the top of his Web site , Limbaugh responded to the Democrats' petition: "I am greatly puzzled. Why would the Democrats petition against me if I am doing such terrible damage to the GOP? "
Last Friday, Obama advised Republicans to stop listening to Limbaugh if they wanted to get along with Democrats and the administration.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” Obama said to Republican leaders who met with the president to talk about the stimulus package. On his radio program, Limbaugh noted that just as he wants Obama to fail, Obama wants Limbaugh to fail.
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff, blogging on the DCCC Web site, said Limbaugh has given Democrats "a preview of the outrageous Republican attacks that are on the way against President Obama and every Democrat working for change."
According to Wolff, "Limbaugh's cheap shot at President Obama might be the first by the Republican attack machine this year but we know that it won't be the last. We need every grassroots Democrat to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they're up against if they start attacking President Obama and Democrats who are working to end the failed GOP policies of the last eight years.
"Tell Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We'll send him your comments," Wolff wrote. “Creating real change requires every American stand strong against Rush Limbaugh's attacks -- and all of the other partisan attacks from desperate Republicans that are on the way. Let's start right here and now.”
As CNSNews.com has reported, some Democrats are talking about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a federal regulation that required equal time for the expression of different political views on the public airwaves.
Critics of the move, including many Republicans, say Democrats want to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine to force an end to conservative talk radio.
See earlier stories:
Vote to End Fairness Doctrine Not in Works, Hoyer Says
Democrat Says Fairness Doctrine Should Extend to Cable, Satellite TV
Fairness Doctrine Vote Not Happening, House Majority Leader Says
Democratic Senator Schumer Defends Fairness Doctrine to Regulate Talk-Radio Speech
Bill Would Undercut Democrats' Push to Regulate Talk Radio
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DancerGirl97006 at 02:04 PM - January 28, 2009
Isn't it cute how every liberal fascist like Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Madonna, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Damon say whatever they want, whenever they want without any dissent? God (NOBODY for you liberals) forbid, ANY dissent come from an opposing viewpoint. Go ahead reinstate your little censorship doctrine, we will hold meetings instead and we will only become stronger. The Nazis used these same tactics, look where it got them. Liberalism IS is socialist fascism just the same as Hitler's Germany. Teacher's unions distort history and tell our children lies, the media is part and parcel to the little "d" party and every newspaper save a few is getting paid off to silence dissent on their pages. Hitler would be so very proud...
enigmaforever at 02:00 PM - January 28, 2009
The Nazi's The Kkk, porn dealers, and any other group or person has freedom of speech in this country. Why are the democrats so afraid of Rush? Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights that made our country great, and set us apart through history from all others. I don't care what the man has to say, whether I agree or disagree, he has a right to say it,and without the massive effort of government to suppress him. The very reason this right was put in place was so people could disagree with government. I think the the democrats need to study their history.
sickntiredofpoliticsasusual at 01:35 PM - January 28, 2009
I heard the show when Rush said he wanted Obama to fail. Dems are out of control…. The Dems have left out the part where Rush said he does not want America to become socialist because those are the policies the Dem leaders are implementing. He basically said if Obama continues to implement a marxist agenda, he wants it to fail. I AGREE. American CITIZENS regardless of party need to let their elected leaders know that it is time to be TRUTHFUL and stop trying to MISLEAD the American people. WAKE UP people. Socialism is coming if you do not stand up and make your voice heard.
trelaina at 01:32 PM - January 28, 2009
Hmmm...ok. So there is no such thing as freedom of speech anymore? You've got to be kidding me with this "Fairness Doctrine" crap. There's a reason why conservative radio programs are dominant.
cdelahou at 01:29 PM - January 28, 2009
We will listen to Rush no matter how anyone tries to silence him. We heard the liberal press gush over Democrats far too long. "with liberty and justice for all........" even Rush Limbaugh.
Petition Against Rush Limbaugh
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
By Melanie Hunter-Omar
(Updates with Limbaugh's response; more from DCCC.)
(CNSNews.com) – The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.
The petition includes a 19-second sound byte of Limbaugh, saying, “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to this guy, say ‘okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.’”
On Tuesday, in a note at the top of his Web site , Limbaugh responded to the Democrats' petition: "I am greatly puzzled. Why would the Democrats petition against me if I am doing such terrible damage to the GOP? "
Last Friday, Obama advised Republicans to stop listening to Limbaugh if they wanted to get along with Democrats and the administration.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” Obama said to Republican leaders who met with the president to talk about the stimulus package. On his radio program, Limbaugh noted that just as he wants Obama to fail, Obama wants Limbaugh to fail.
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff, blogging on the DCCC Web site, said Limbaugh has given Democrats "a preview of the outrageous Republican attacks that are on the way against President Obama and every Democrat working for change."
According to Wolff, "Limbaugh's cheap shot at President Obama might be the first by the Republican attack machine this year but we know that it won't be the last. We need every grassroots Democrat to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they're up against if they start attacking President Obama and Democrats who are working to end the failed GOP policies of the last eight years.
"Tell Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We'll send him your comments," Wolff wrote. “Creating real change requires every American stand strong against Rush Limbaugh's attacks -- and all of the other partisan attacks from desperate Republicans that are on the way. Let's start right here and now.”
As CNSNews.com has reported, some Democrats are talking about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a federal regulation that required equal time for the expression of different political views on the public airwaves.
Critics of the move, including many Republicans, say Democrats want to re-impose the Fairness Doctrine to force an end to conservative talk radio.
See earlier stories:
Vote to End Fairness Doctrine Not in Works, Hoyer Says
Democrat Says Fairness Doctrine Should Extend to Cable, Satellite TV
Fairness Doctrine Vote Not Happening, House Majority Leader Says
Democratic Senator Schumer Defends Fairness Doctrine to Regulate Talk-Radio Speech
Bill Would Undercut Democrats' Push to Regulate Talk Radio
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DancerGirl97006 at 02:04 PM - January 28, 2009
Isn't it cute how every liberal fascist like Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Madonna, Richard Dreyfuss and Matt Damon say whatever they want, whenever they want without any dissent? God (NOBODY for you liberals) forbid, ANY dissent come from an opposing viewpoint. Go ahead reinstate your little censorship doctrine, we will hold meetings instead and we will only become stronger. The Nazis used these same tactics, look where it got them. Liberalism IS is socialist fascism just the same as Hitler's Germany. Teacher's unions distort history and tell our children lies, the media is part and parcel to the little "d" party and every newspaper save a few is getting paid off to silence dissent on their pages. Hitler would be so very proud...
enigmaforever at 02:00 PM - January 28, 2009
The Nazi's The Kkk, porn dealers, and any other group or person has freedom of speech in this country. Why are the democrats so afraid of Rush? Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights that made our country great, and set us apart through history from all others. I don't care what the man has to say, whether I agree or disagree, he has a right to say it,and without the massive effort of government to suppress him. The very reason this right was put in place was so people could disagree with government. I think the the democrats need to study their history.
sickntiredofpoliticsasusual at 01:35 PM - January 28, 2009
I heard the show when Rush said he wanted Obama to fail. Dems are out of control…. The Dems have left out the part where Rush said he does not want America to become socialist because those are the policies the Dem leaders are implementing. He basically said if Obama continues to implement a marxist agenda, he wants it to fail. I AGREE. American CITIZENS regardless of party need to let their elected leaders know that it is time to be TRUTHFUL and stop trying to MISLEAD the American people. WAKE UP people. Socialism is coming if you do not stand up and make your voice heard.
trelaina at 01:32 PM - January 28, 2009
Hmmm...ok. So there is no such thing as freedom of speech anymore? You've got to be kidding me with this "Fairness Doctrine" crap. There's a reason why conservative radio programs are dominant.
cdelahou at 01:29 PM - January 28, 2009
We will listen to Rush no matter how anyone tries to silence him. We heard the liberal press gush over Democrats far too long. "with liberty and justice for all........" even Rush Limbaugh.
'Help Stop Rush' petition.
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Democrats Edit: Take Limbaugh's 'Want Obama to Fail' Comment Out of Context
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launches 'Help Stop Rush' petition. (From DCCC Web site)(CNSNews.com) - The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running an audio clip on its Web site that misrepresents what radio host Rush Limbaugh meant when he said on his Friday, Jan. 16 radio program that he wanted President Obama "to fail."
The audio clip, as played by the DCCC, omits a key sentence, as follows:
DCCC version: “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. [EDIT] I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking about replying to the guy, 'Okay, I”ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.'”
What Limbaugh said: "If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails."
Limbaugh, on his Jan. 16 radio program, also made the point that no liberals hoped President Bush would succeed. Nevertheless, Limbaugh continued, Obama "is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, 'I hope he fails.' And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing."
On subsequent radio programs, Limbaugh has talked about people "misunderstanding" his remark.
On his Friday, Jan. 23 program -- reviewing the week -- Limbaugh explained that he supports Obama -- he just doesn't support Obama's policies. "I don't support the nationalization of the banks, which has happened. I don't support the nationalization of the auto companies. I don't support the nationalization of the mortgage business. I don't like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd running things. And I don't want that to continue," Limbaugh said.
And on his Tuesday, Jan. 27 program at one point, Limbaugh referred to President Obama telling Republicans to ignore Limbaugh: "The president of the United States hopes I fail," Limbaugh said.
Democrats and liberal groups have misrepresented Limbaugh’s words and meaning on previous occasions, most notably bashing him two years ago for using the term "phony soldiers" to describe Jesse Macbeth, who was sentenced to five months in prison for falsifying his military records.
A group that wanted Limbaugh removed from taxpayer-supported Armed Forces Radio claimed that Limbaugh had used the term "phony soldiers" to describe all soldiers who had spoken against the Iraq war.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, wading into the controversy, gave a speech on the Senate floor, condemning Limbaugh and urging his colleagues to send a letter of complaint to the chairman of Clear Channel Communications, which syndicates Limbaugh’s radio show.
Limbaugh turned tables on Reid, however. In October 2007, the radio host auctioned off the letter that Reid sent to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications demanding that Limbaugh be censured and forced to apologize to U.S. servicemen.
The winning bid on eBay was $2.1 million, which Limbaugh matched – raising $4.2 million for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, which serves children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers.
See Related Stories:
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'Obama-Limbaugh Economic Stimulus Plan of 2009' May Now Get A Closer Look
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Democrats Edit: Take Limbaugh's 'Want Obama to Fail' Comment Out of Context
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launches 'Help Stop Rush' petition. (From DCCC Web site)(CNSNews.com) - The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running an audio clip on its Web site that misrepresents what radio host Rush Limbaugh meant when he said on his Friday, Jan. 16 radio program that he wanted President Obama "to fail."
The audio clip, as played by the DCCC, omits a key sentence, as follows:
DCCC version: “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. [EDIT] I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking about replying to the guy, 'Okay, I”ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.'”
What Limbaugh said: "If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails."
Limbaugh, on his Jan. 16 radio program, also made the point that no liberals hoped President Bush would succeed. Nevertheless, Limbaugh continued, Obama "is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, 'I hope he fails.' And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing."
On subsequent radio programs, Limbaugh has talked about people "misunderstanding" his remark.
On his Friday, Jan. 23 program -- reviewing the week -- Limbaugh explained that he supports Obama -- he just doesn't support Obama's policies. "I don't support the nationalization of the banks, which has happened. I don't support the nationalization of the auto companies. I don't support the nationalization of the mortgage business. I don't like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd running things. And I don't want that to continue," Limbaugh said.
And on his Tuesday, Jan. 27 program at one point, Limbaugh referred to President Obama telling Republicans to ignore Limbaugh: "The president of the United States hopes I fail," Limbaugh said.
Democrats and liberal groups have misrepresented Limbaugh’s words and meaning on previous occasions, most notably bashing him two years ago for using the term "phony soldiers" to describe Jesse Macbeth, who was sentenced to five months in prison for falsifying his military records.
A group that wanted Limbaugh removed from taxpayer-supported Armed Forces Radio claimed that Limbaugh had used the term "phony soldiers" to describe all soldiers who had spoken against the Iraq war.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, wading into the controversy, gave a speech on the Senate floor, condemning Limbaugh and urging his colleagues to send a letter of complaint to the chairman of Clear Channel Communications, which syndicates Limbaugh’s radio show.
Limbaugh turned tables on Reid, however. In October 2007, the radio host auctioned off the letter that Reid sent to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications demanding that Limbaugh be censured and forced to apologize to U.S. servicemen.
The winning bid on eBay was $2.1 million, which Limbaugh matched – raising $4.2 million for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, which serves children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers.
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Obama Imposes Stricter Emissions Standards on Nearly Bankrupt, Bailed-Out Auto Companies
White House (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to review a proposed California rule to set tougher auto tailpipe emission limits, while also ordering the Department of Transportation to develop higher fuel efficiency standards for cars. “Car efficiency standards are sinking the auto industry at the same time they’re getting a government bailout,” said Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Now the president’s policy will make that burden heavier.”
Yemen, Which Allowed al Qaeda Suspects to Escape, Now Wants Custody of 101 Gitmo Detainees
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will include the trial or release of the 250 detainees still held there, but the Yemen government has said 101 of those prisoners should be sent home. “We want our detainees back,” Mohammed Albasha, spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., told CNSNews.com, adding that “a plot of land” has already been set aside for a center to rehabilitate the men once they are repatriated.
SCHIP Bill Does Not Require Photo ID or Proof of Citizenship for Socialized Health Care
(CNSNews.com) – A proposed change to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, currently under reauthorization by Congress, could make it possible for people to get health coverage who have only a Social Security number and not a photo ID or proof of legal residency or citizenship, such as a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport. When asked about this proposed revision in the SCHIP enrollment rules, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the legislation “is enforceable and fair, and I don’t think we need to do any better than what we’ve done.”
Andrew Jackson Would 'Roll Over in His Grave' to Hear Pelosi Talk of Nationalizing Banks, Senator Says
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Lamar Alexander (R.-Tenn.) told CNSNews.com that fellow Tennesseean Andrew Jackson would "roll over in his grave" if he could hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talk about the possibility of the federal government nationalizing banks. “He based his whole presidency on getting rid of the national bank,” Alexander said of Jackson.
Gingrich Says Stimulus is 'Big Government' Bill That GOP Should Not Support
(CNSNews.com) - Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the $825-billion stimulus bill being pushed by congressional Democrats is a "big government, big bureaucracy, big politician package" that is not worthy of the support of congressional Republicans.
Backing Away from Pelosi, White House Says Birth Control Funding in Stimulus Bill Was Not Obama's Idea
(CNSNews.com) - The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of contraception in the $825-billion stimulus bill now under consideration by Congress. That was not President Obama’s idea, a White House spokesman told CNSNews.com.
Conservatives Blast Pelosi’s Defense of Contraception Spending in Stimulus Bill
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was criticized on Monday for saying that taxpayer money for contraception would save the states money. "At a time of financial crisis, Nancy Pelosi's solution is to kill future taxpayers," said the American Life League. “It has to rate as one of the weirdest defenses in history,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
Court Decision Boosts Party of Dutch Lawmaker Who Criticized Islam
(CNSNews.com) – Controversial Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has seen his party’s popularity rise following a court ruling that he should stand trial for his statements about Islam. He’s accused of “inciting hatred and discrimination” after releasing a movie linking the Koran to terrorism.
With Mexico City Policy Gone, Australia Alone Restricts Abortion Aid
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s decision to rescind the “Mexico City Policy” – which denies aid funds to non-governmental organizations that promote or perform abortions – is providing new impetus for activists in Australia who want their government to remove similar regulations in place there. The U.S. policy shift reportedly will leave Australia alone among donor nations to implement abortion-related restrictions on overseas development aid.
Tuesday, Jan. 27 , 2009
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Obama Imposes Stricter Emissions Standards on Nearly Bankrupt, Bailed-Out Auto Companies
White House (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to review a proposed California rule to set tougher auto tailpipe emission limits, while also ordering the Department of Transportation to develop higher fuel efficiency standards for cars. “Car efficiency standards are sinking the auto industry at the same time they’re getting a government bailout,” said Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Now the president’s policy will make that burden heavier.”
Yemen, Which Allowed al Qaeda Suspects to Escape, Now Wants Custody of 101 Gitmo Detainees
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will include the trial or release of the 250 detainees still held there, but the Yemen government has said 101 of those prisoners should be sent home. “We want our detainees back,” Mohammed Albasha, spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., told CNSNews.com, adding that “a plot of land” has already been set aside for a center to rehabilitate the men once they are repatriated.
SCHIP Bill Does Not Require Photo ID or Proof of Citizenship for Socialized Health Care
(CNSNews.com) – A proposed change to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, currently under reauthorization by Congress, could make it possible for people to get health coverage who have only a Social Security number and not a photo ID or proof of legal residency or citizenship, such as a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport. When asked about this proposed revision in the SCHIP enrollment rules, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the legislation “is enforceable and fair, and I don’t think we need to do any better than what we’ve done.”
Andrew Jackson Would 'Roll Over in His Grave' to Hear Pelosi Talk of Nationalizing Banks, Senator Says
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Sen. Lamar Alexander (R.-Tenn.) told CNSNews.com that fellow Tennesseean Andrew Jackson would "roll over in his grave" if he could hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talk about the possibility of the federal government nationalizing banks. “He based his whole presidency on getting rid of the national bank,” Alexander said of Jackson.
Gingrich Says Stimulus is 'Big Government' Bill That GOP Should Not Support
(CNSNews.com) - Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the $825-billion stimulus bill being pushed by congressional Democrats is a "big government, big bureaucracy, big politician package" that is not worthy of the support of congressional Republicans.
Backing Away from Pelosi, White House Says Birth Control Funding in Stimulus Bill Was Not Obama's Idea
(CNSNews.com) - The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of contraception in the $825-billion stimulus bill now under consideration by Congress. That was not President Obama’s idea, a White House spokesman told CNSNews.com.
Conservatives Blast Pelosi’s Defense of Contraception Spending in Stimulus Bill
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was criticized on Monday for saying that taxpayer money for contraception would save the states money. "At a time of financial crisis, Nancy Pelosi's solution is to kill future taxpayers," said the American Life League. “It has to rate as one of the weirdest defenses in history,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
Court Decision Boosts Party of Dutch Lawmaker Who Criticized Islam
(CNSNews.com) – Controversial Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has seen his party’s popularity rise following a court ruling that he should stand trial for his statements about Islam. He’s accused of “inciting hatred and discrimination” after releasing a movie linking the Koran to terrorism.
With Mexico City Policy Gone, Australia Alone Restricts Abortion Aid
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s decision to rescind the “Mexico City Policy” – which denies aid funds to non-governmental organizations that promote or perform abortions – is providing new impetus for activists in Australia who want their government to remove similar regulations in place there. The U.S. policy shift reportedly will leave Australia alone among donor nations to implement abortion-related restrictions on overseas development aid.
Monday, January 26, 2009
HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY for Paul Harvey.
HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY for Paul Harvey. I myself have been wondering how a handful of people have been able to take our right to pray in public places away from us. So, agreeing with Paul, I GLADLY will forward this email AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Folks, this is the Month that we RE-TAKE AMERICA
********* Get Ready *********
Keep this going around the globe ... Read it and forward every time you receive it. We can't give up on this issue.
Paul Harvey and Prayer
Paul Harvey says:
This is the United States of America , a country founded on Christian principles.
One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.
The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority rules! It's time we tell them, You don't have to pray; you don't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!
God bless us one and all ... Especially those who worship Him ,
God bless America, despite all her faults. She is still the greatest nation of all.
Let's make 2009 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions .. And our military forces come home from all the wars.
Keep looking up.
If you agree with this, please pass it on.
If not delete it.
Muslim terrorists quick to commit suicide.
Muslim terrorists quick to commit suicide.
A lot of people seem to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Hmm, let's see now:
No Christmas
No cheerleaders
No television
No nude women
No car races
No golf
No football
No tailgate parties
No Wal-mart
No pork BBQ
No hotdogs
No lobster
No shellfish at all..or even frozen fish sticks
No nachos
No beer nuts
No beer!!!!!!!!!
Rags for clothes; towels for hats
Constant wailing from the guy next door because he's ill and there are no doctors
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower
More than one wife
You can't shave
Your wives can't shave
You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times
Your bride is chosen by someone else
She smells like your donkey
But your donkey has a better disposition
Then they tell you it all gets better when you die!
I mean, really...is there a mystery here?
A lot of people seem to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Hmm, let's see now:
No Christmas
No cheerleaders
No television
No nude women
No car races
No golf
No football
No tailgate parties
No Wal-mart
No pork BBQ
No hotdogs
No lobster
No shellfish at all..or even frozen fish sticks
No nachos
No beer nuts
No beer!!!!!!!!!
Rags for clothes; towels for hats
Constant wailing from the guy next door because he's ill and there are no doctors
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower
More than one wife
You can't shave
Your wives can't shave
You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times
Your bride is chosen by someone else
She smells like your donkey
But your donkey has a better disposition
Then they tell you it all gets better when you die!
I mean, really...is there a mystery here?
Friday, January 23, 2009
COWS, THE CONSTITUTION, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
Subject: COWS, THE CONSTITUTION, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country
lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking
people in Florida ..
..... not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a
win-win situation.
Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad
cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada
almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state
of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they
are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our
country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don't
we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it
has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou
Shalt
Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full
of
lawyers, judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work
environment.
Also, think about this ... if you don't want to forward this for fear of
offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
It is time for America to speak up!
Yep, I passed it on!
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country
lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking
people in Florida ..
..... not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a
win-win situation.
Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad
cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada
almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state
of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they
are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our
country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don't
we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it
has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou
Shalt
Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full
of
lawyers, judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work
environment.
Also, think about this ... if you don't want to forward this for fear of
offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
It is time for America to speak up!
Yep, I passed it on!
ATTACK on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,
According to Congressman Mike Pence, and others, the Pelosi-controlled Congress HAS JUST RENEWED ITS ATTACK on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others. They're ONCE AGAIN trying to shut down conservative talk-radio by bringing back the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
“Over the past few months, some of the most powerful Democrats in Congress have made their intentions to restore this Depression-era regulation clear. However, bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control over political views expressed on the public airwaves. It is dangerous to suggest that the government should be in the business of rationing free speech."
Congressman Pence isn't the only one sounding the alarm.
Senator Jim DeMint says the Left's intention and goal is to silence millions of conservative Americans who disagree with the Left's warped vision for America.
“Democrats want to impose an unfair doctrine that destroys talk radio and silences the voices of millions of Americans who disagree with their vision for America. But the First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees the right of free speech, regardless of political affiliation…”
Senator John Thune tells us that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is at risk and calls this draconian attempt by Pelosi and other leftists in Congress to impose their version of so-called "fairness" on the American people a "recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
"For over 200 years, the First Amendment has allowed Americans to voice opinions, thoughts and questions of their choosing without the fear of Government reprisal. This guarantee is now threatened by some liberal ideologues who are frustrated with the free flow of ideas on talk radio. ... I advise every American to be hesitant when government officials offer to regulate the media in the name of ‘fairness.’ ... Simply put, giving power to a few to impose ‘fairness’ in the media is a recipe for an Orwellian disaster.”
And Congressman Greg Walden tells us that some Democrats seem to be INTENT on censoring speech on radio and television!
“The founders would spin in their graves at the thought of the government censoring speech on many of today’s radio and television stations. Yet that’s just what some Democratic leaders seem to be after. Whether as a throwback to the old Fairness Doctrine or under a less controversial guise, any effort to exert government control over speech on the airwaves is an insult to the principles behind the First Amendment.”
To head-off sleazy, squalid schemes by the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration to curtail free speech, conservatives in Congress have introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 (S. 34), legislation designed to crush the poisonous head of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
According to DeMint:
"The bill would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would suppress free speech by requiring the government to monitor political views and decide what constitutes fair political discourse."
Make no mistake, the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration will continue their policy of obstruction and try to KILL the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. They want NOTHING to stand in the way of their attempt to control what you and I see and hear on the radio and on television!
That's why we must go on OFFENSE RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We must bombard our elected officials with Blast Faxes and force them to explain exactly why they view the First Amendment as a threat!
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized 36 Blast Faxes to President Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate!
Demand that they either explain to the American people why they fear and loath the First Amendment, or stop their obstruction and bring the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 to the floor for a fair up-or-down vote.
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Will Obama Or Pelosi Strike First?
The Obama Administration can bring back the Fairness Doctrine WITHOUT a vote ever taking place in Congress.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi:
"You give president-elect Obama a few months or a few years in office, and pretty soon he will have appointed a majority of the Federal Communications Commission. And my fear is that Commission could re-impose the Fairness Doctrine without ever having a vote in the United States House or Senate."
And what happens if the Obama Administration brings back the Fairness Doctrine?
Bill Ruder, a top official in the Kennedy Administration, told us how the Fairness Doctrine worked in the good old' days when it was simply FCC policy:
"Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."
But we're fighting a two-front war because Nancy Pelosi can make "fairness" the law of the land as well... AND LIBERALS IN CONGRESS ARE WORKING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW!
Vincent R. Caravan, writing in the Valley News, said:
“Senators Diane Feinstein of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York are pushing for passage of a new Fairness Doctrine. Their aim, of course, is to end conservative dominance of the American airways and the Internet.”
Either way you slice it, the prognosis is grim.
Brian Anderson editor of the prestigious Manhattan Institute:
“The measure is just a sneaky way of shrinking the hosts like William Bennett and others of his ilk, or even getting them off the air altogether.”
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com paints an even uglier picture:
“This legislation will be crafted with one purpose in mind – control. As far as the Democratic Congress is concerned, they have no worries about control of the Big Media. Big Media dance to their Big Government schemes without being provided choreography.
“The new ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is going to be written in a way that allows the government to mobilize community organizers to do Big Government's dirty work. Groups like Media Matters and ACORN will be named to community oversight boards to police the programming of local radio stations. These groups will not be promoting ‘fairness.’ They will be promoting their own narrow and extreme political agenda. Anything that deviates from it will generate complaints and letters and calls opposing license renewals.”
Edward D. Michalek, of the Baxter Bulletin, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, wrote:
“If you've heard of the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ on radio, you know there's nothing fair about it. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than censorship, pure and simple. ... Americans can make up their own minds about who we want to listen to on the radio and not have censorship of our news.”
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized 36 Blast Faxes to President Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate!
Demand that they either explain to the American people why they fear and loath the First Amendment, or stop their obstruction and bring the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 to the floor for a fair up-or-down vote.
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What Could Be More Fair?
Does the Pelosi Gang really believe in giving both sides of the political debate voice?
Let’s take a look at Exhibit # 1.
For years, the American people have complained about the leftist bias of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) - institutions supported by your tax dollars.
Viewers have been bombarded with attacks on orthodox Christianity; fawning, idealized depictions of Mohammad funded by the government of Saudi Arabia and the shameless nightly skewing of contemporary politics.
When decent Americans protested, the Left responded by thumbing its nose at us.
"Bias? We aren't biased. You're just paranoid. So shut up!"
Jeffrey A. Dvorkin - NPR's Ombudsman - wrote a smug, self-congratulatory column in which he actually said that nobody can legitimately point to a liberal agenda in NPR's broadcasts.
"Some listeners say they know it is there, because they can hear it, even if they can't put a finger on it."
Dvorkin is either delusional or a very bad liar.
Let's look at Exhibit #2.
Smut floods our streets and our airwaves like an open sore. When the people complain, we are told that the First Amendment is pristine and should protect even objectionable speech. (We couldn’t agree more.)
Okay... So why do liberals NOT apply the same standard to conservative political speech?
The hypocrisy is STAGGERING!
But that’s what happens when "fairness" is under left-wing management: Intellectual tyranny... the old double standard... heads we win, tails you lose.
Anything the left agrees with is "fair" by definition. Equal time is NOT required.
Anything decent conservative Americans agree with is "hate-speech" and MUST be countered with opposing views. It's only right.
In some sick way, Pelosi and Obama and leftists will probably tell the American people that they're being "tolerant" by even allowing conservative or religious viewpoints to have ANY airtime at all!
America can’t go there!
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized 36 Blast Faxes to President Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate!
Demand that they either explain to the American people why they fear and loath the First Amendment, or stop their obstruction and bring the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 to the floor for a fair up-or-down vote.
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Suppression Of Speech Is Quickly Becoming The American Way.
If this push for government control of political dialogue were an isolated phenomenon, that would be one thing – no more than an odd perversion of American values in a single industry.
But suppression of free speech is rapidly becoming the American way.
With few exceptions, major newspapers, magazines and the major television networks are monolithically leftist. They steadily lose money, lay-off employees and go out of business, but they stay the course.
In a shocking majority of our colleges and universities, left-wing slogans and Marxist clichés have replaced genuine scholarship in the classroom and on the podium.
Outside speakers with a conservative message are either banned by the administration or else drowned out by shouts, shrieks, and catcalls. Some are physically attacked. Conservative students are savaged by their professors and insulted and bullied by administrators.
Back in the old days, it was the Left that took to the streets, demanding the right to teach radical politics in the classroom and demonstrate in support of revolution.
They had their revolution and, like Stalin and Castro, they turned around and immediately repressed all dissent - EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY IMPOSE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
Are you ready to let the federal government tell you what you can and can’t hear on the radio or read on the Internet?
Neither am I!
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized 36 Blast Faxes to President Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate!
Demand that they either explain to the American people why they fear and loath the First Amendment, or stop their obstruction and bring the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 to the floor for a fair up-or-down vote.
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“Over the past few months, some of the most powerful Democrats in Congress have made their intentions to restore this Depression-era regulation clear. However, bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control over political views expressed on the public airwaves. It is dangerous to suggest that the government should be in the business of rationing free speech."
Congressman Pence isn't the only one sounding the alarm.
Senator Jim DeMint says the Left's intention and goal is to silence millions of conservative Americans who disagree with the Left's warped vision for America.
“Democrats want to impose an unfair doctrine that destroys talk radio and silences the voices of millions of Americans who disagree with their vision for America. But the First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees the right of free speech, regardless of political affiliation…”
Senator John Thune tells us that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is at risk and calls this draconian attempt by Pelosi and other leftists in Congress to impose their version of so-called "fairness" on the American people a "recipe for an Orwellian disaster."
"For over 200 years, the First Amendment has allowed Americans to voice opinions, thoughts and questions of their choosing without the fear of Government reprisal. This guarantee is now threatened by some liberal ideologues who are frustrated with the free flow of ideas on talk radio. ... I advise every American to be hesitant when government officials offer to regulate the media in the name of ‘fairness.’ ... Simply put, giving power to a few to impose ‘fairness’ in the media is a recipe for an Orwellian disaster.”
And Congressman Greg Walden tells us that some Democrats seem to be INTENT on censoring speech on radio and television!
“The founders would spin in their graves at the thought of the government censoring speech on many of today’s radio and television stations. Yet that’s just what some Democratic leaders seem to be after. Whether as a throwback to the old Fairness Doctrine or under a less controversial guise, any effort to exert government control over speech on the airwaves is an insult to the principles behind the First Amendment.”
To head-off sleazy, squalid schemes by the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration to curtail free speech, conservatives in Congress have introduced the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 (S. 34), legislation designed to crush the poisonous head of the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
According to DeMint:
"The bill would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, which would suppress free speech by requiring the government to monitor political views and decide what constitutes fair political discourse."
Make no mistake, the Pelosi Gang and the Obama Administration will continue their policy of obstruction and try to KILL the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009. They want NOTHING to stand in the way of their attempt to control what you and I see and hear on the radio and on television!
That's why we must go on OFFENSE RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We must bombard our elected officials with Blast Faxes and force them to explain exactly why they view the First Amendment as a threat!
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized 36 Blast Faxes to President Obama and each and every Member of the Republican and Democrat Leadership of the House and Senate!
Demand that they either explain to the American people why they fear and loath the First Amendment, or stop their obstruction and bring the Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2009 to the floor for a fair up-or-down vote.
http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/broadcasterfreedomactof2009.html
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Will Obama Or Pelosi Strike First?
The Obama Administration can bring back the Fairness Doctrine WITHOUT a vote ever taking place in Congress.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi:
"You give president-elect Obama a few months or a few years in office, and pretty soon he will have appointed a majority of the Federal Communications Commission. And my fear is that Commission could re-impose the Fairness Doctrine without ever having a vote in the United States House or Senate."
And what happens if the Obama Administration brings back the Fairness Doctrine?
Bill Ruder, a top official in the Kennedy Administration, told us how the Fairness Doctrine worked in the good old' days when it was simply FCC policy:
"Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue."
But we're fighting a two-front war because Nancy Pelosi can make "fairness" the law of the land as well... AND LIBERALS IN CONGRESS ARE WORKING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW!
Vincent R. Caravan, writing in the Valley News, said:
“Senators Diane Feinstein of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York are pushing for passage of a new Fairness Doctrine. Their aim, of course, is to end conservative dominance of the American airways and the Internet.”
Either way you slice it, the prognosis is grim.
Brian Anderson editor of the prestigious Manhattan Institute:
“The measure is just a sneaky way of shrinking the hosts like William Bennett and others of his ilk, or even getting them off the air altogether.”
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com paints an even uglier picture:
“This legislation will be crafted with one purpose in mind – control. As far as the Democratic Congress is concerned, they have no worries about control of the Big Media. Big Media dance to their Big Government schemes without being provided choreography.
“The new ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is going to be written in a way that allows the government to mobilize community organizers to do Big Government's dirty work. Groups like Media Matters and ACORN will be named to community oversight boards to police the programming of local radio stations. These groups will not be promoting ‘fairness.’ They will be promoting their own narrow and extreme political agenda. Anything that deviates from it will generate complaints and letters and calls opposing license renewals.”
Edward D. Michalek, of the Baxter Bulletin, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, wrote:
“If you've heard of the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ on radio, you know there's nothing fair about it. The Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than censorship, pure and simple. ... Americans can make up their own minds about who we want to listen to on the radio and not have censorship of our news.”
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What Could Be More Fair?
Does the Pelosi Gang really believe in giving both sides of the political debate voice?
Let’s take a look at Exhibit # 1.
For years, the American people have complained about the leftist bias of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) - institutions supported by your tax dollars.
Viewers have been bombarded with attacks on orthodox Christianity; fawning, idealized depictions of Mohammad funded by the government of Saudi Arabia and the shameless nightly skewing of contemporary politics.
When decent Americans protested, the Left responded by thumbing its nose at us.
"Bias? We aren't biased. You're just paranoid. So shut up!"
Jeffrey A. Dvorkin - NPR's Ombudsman - wrote a smug, self-congratulatory column in which he actually said that nobody can legitimately point to a liberal agenda in NPR's broadcasts.
"Some listeners say they know it is there, because they can hear it, even if they can't put a finger on it."
Dvorkin is either delusional or a very bad liar.
Let's look at Exhibit #2.
Smut floods our streets and our airwaves like an open sore. When the people complain, we are told that the First Amendment is pristine and should protect even objectionable speech. (We couldn’t agree more.)
Okay... So why do liberals NOT apply the same standard to conservative political speech?
The hypocrisy is STAGGERING!
But that’s what happens when "fairness" is under left-wing management: Intellectual tyranny... the old double standard... heads we win, tails you lose.
Anything the left agrees with is "fair" by definition. Equal time is NOT required.
Anything decent conservative Americans agree with is "hate-speech" and MUST be countered with opposing views. It's only right.
In some sick way, Pelosi and Obama and leftists will probably tell the American people that they're being "tolerant" by even allowing conservative or religious viewpoints to have ANY airtime at all!
America can’t go there!
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Suppression Of Speech Is Quickly Becoming The American Way.
If this push for government control of political dialogue were an isolated phenomenon, that would be one thing – no more than an odd perversion of American values in a single industry.
But suppression of free speech is rapidly becoming the American way.
With few exceptions, major newspapers, magazines and the major television networks are monolithically leftist. They steadily lose money, lay-off employees and go out of business, but they stay the course.
In a shocking majority of our colleges and universities, left-wing slogans and Marxist clichés have replaced genuine scholarship in the classroom and on the podium.
Outside speakers with a conservative message are either banned by the administration or else drowned out by shouts, shrieks, and catcalls. Some are physically attacked. Conservative students are savaged by their professors and insulted and bullied by administrators.
Back in the old days, it was the Left that took to the streets, demanding the right to teach radical politics in the classroom and demonstrate in support of revolution.
They had their revolution and, like Stalin and Castro, they turned around and immediately repressed all dissent - EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THEY IMPOSE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
Are you ready to let the federal government tell you what you can and can’t hear on the radio or read on the Internet?
Neither am I!
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Yours In Freedom,
Jeff Mazzella
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