Allison Weir and truth are Strangers

Allison Weir, reports that the networks and NY Times report more about Israeli children than on Palestinian children’s deaths.  What this propagandist does not mention is that these cowardly terrorists intentionally put the Palestinian children in harms way – even using them as shields.

Marijuana and cardiovascular complications

 

Text in this blue, is from the authors of the Marijuana Medical Review:

“Over the past eight years several scientific articles have suggested a link between increased risk of heart attack immediately after smoking marijuana, particularly for middle-age smokers. One European study noted numerous cases of cardiovascular related deaths in young adults where only THC and no other drugs were found on postmortem examination. In recent years marijuana has become a leading cause of drug-related medical emergency room episodes.

This is not new. In 1993 an individual who signed himself “Doper Professor” lamented to the editor of High Times Magazine that after ingesting marijuana-laced pastry with his wife, “Our pulse rates were very high,. . . This was accompanied by a lot of vomiting, which, combined with passing in and out of consciousness, seemed to me a potentially life-threatening condition. We called for medical help from our hotel room. We were so stoned that it required careful planning and discussion to figure out how to use the telephone and call the hotel desk. The proprietor of the hotel (who was not pleased) got a doctor by phone, who later showed up and gave us some Valium for a hefty fee. Needless to say, this quite spoiled our visit and indicated that as far as drugs were concerned, I didn’t know as much as I thought I did.”

A new article from the February 2008 International Journal of Clinical Practice, 62, 308-313, links atrial fibrillation (AF) to marijuana smoking and advises clinicians that “Marijuana smoking may be associated with atrial fibrillation. Thus, cannabis use could be a cause of atrial fibrillation especially in young individuals without any known predisposing factor.” The authors noted that “Compelling evidence is accumulating that cannabis has significant haemodynamic [change in blood pressure] and electrophysiological [tachycardia, atrial fibrillation] effects on the cardiovascular system,” but that only healthy young male smokers had been involved in most of the experimental protocols. ”

 Onstage, just as he took a hit on the marijuana, Author Jack Herer, “The Emperor Wore No clothes”, is said to have had a stroke at Bill Conde’s “Hempfest” a few years back.   Somehow, Jack knows his stroke was not from a spike in blood pressure although (down the road, while I was protesting the hempfest), I was told he was smoking pot at the time.

 

(Bill Conde – mike in hand.)   Bill left the country and now lives in Belize. 

The authors concluded that Atrial Fibrillation (AF) “should be included in the cardiovascular complications of marijuana smoking. Physicians should be aware of this particular association and carefully investigate patients with marijuana related palpitations, dizziness or syncope. On the other hand, whenever a young patient without predisposing factors develops AF the possibility of marijuana smoking should be examined as a potential cause. Although the exact clinical impact of this association is not clear, yet its incidence in the general population is probably underestimated.”

MORE OBAMA CORRUPTION

 

UPDATE:  Why is the mainstream media ignoring it?   Fear or Fans?   One news commentator stated that Obama and the Media should just get a room.   That pretty much says it, except for this time, it could be fear as well!

An AmeriCorp Inspector (the overseers of how our tax money is spent) employee Gerald Walpin was fired – and it was against the law.  

Last year, a law was passed to prohibit the firing of an AmeriCorp ”whistleblower” w/o an explanation and w/o a 30-day notice.    The ironic part?   It was (p)Resident Obama who co-sponsored the bill, then he violates it!     The White House came out and issued a “why”, now – saying he was incompetent, but the sequence of events proves that bucket doesn’t hold water and there’s still the violation of the 1-hour notice of firing instead of the now-required 30 days!

(p)Resident Obama’s friend, Sacramento’s mayor, former NBA star and basketball-court-buddy, Kevin Johnson, was caught red-handed, using taxpayer money where and how he shouldn’t have been.   Though he made a deal and settled, when he wanted more … stimulus money Mr. Walpin said “no”.

Obama fired him!

And the media?   (Other than the Washington Examiner  // See Byron York’s article of 6/14/09 /  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Gerald-Walpin-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-AmeriCorps-firing-48030697.html) . . . . AS USUAL, THEY’RE (by-in-large) LOOKING THE OTHER WAY!

Read about other Obama family blatant corruption:  http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/obamas-corruption-ignored/

Electronic Medical Records

 

Before anything else is said, I have a question!   If health care reform was so important, . . . . why was all that money spent on PORK and EARMARKS?   Now, we don’t have the money!

Health care reform is needed, but what kind?   Electronic records . . . .    Sounds good, right?  

It does UNTIL one considers hackers.  

Or until one considers that any confidential statement to a doctor that one has had trouble with any symptom considered as mental illness will be in that file forever!  

Until businesses hire “investigator” – hackers to look into medical records . . . .

And don’t even consider what government can do with access!

Simplistic answers leave loopholes and unintended consequences the size of Canada to drive through!

LAS VEGAS vs. CHICAGO

 

It’s not an NBA game, nor softball . . . . what it is, is competition for tourist dollars!

(p)Resident Obama is headed toward the AMA convention - in Chicago?   After, he suggested people should NOT be going to Vegas?   Vegas – the city with more housing foreclosures than any other city!   Vegas resident’s jobs are not as important, evidently.

I’m not a sin-city fan; just don’t like the former Senator, and Kenyan playing one U.S. city against another!

STIMULUS $50 MILLION FOR FISH FOOD

 

Do you eat “planters”?   Living in Oregon, trout, are the fisherman’s focus.   State hatcheries feed the smolt and produce billions – most don’t make it in the wild – just part of the food chain.

Fish farms are having a hard time purchasing food and evidently need subsidizing …

Although I catch and release in inland waters, I don’t bother with trout; I quit eating them 25 years ago – they taste like mush; the meat is not white and flaky . . . . and they’re not much fun to catch.   One can tell the difference when they’re on the line!

The point of this?   $50 million of stimulus money is going for fish food - the couch potato food for fish and your stimulus money is fattening them up for your dinner table.

Just how many jobs this $50 million will produce is not revealed.   Fish farm foods are known to color their meat to disguise the fact that they’re not native.   What other additives?   Why this junk food?

Do you trust farm-raised and last minute fattened food?   Most of us don’t have a choice; we eat what the grocery store shelves.   It’s the last minute additives, to fatten the cattle (and catfish, trout, and salmon) for market that contains the questionable additives.   More profit for the farmer = more fat and steroids for the consumer?   Thanks Mr (p)Resident.

New Nuclear Terrorism Base For Central America?

 

In the 60’s it was Russia’s putting a missle base in Cuba.   The resulting naval blockade by the U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy, had the whole world teetering on the brink of nuclear war.

Now, the rumor is, that it’s Iran that is about to put a missile base in Ecuador.   With the recently revealed elaborate tunnel systems for smuggling people and drugs into the U.S. could not nuclear bombs and other WMD’s have been smuggled into the U.S. already?   Are Hamas and Hezbullah part of this?

Is this rumor true?   Why would Iran need a base here in the western hemisphere?   Is this a Deja Vu or will . . . .    and if it is true, will (p)Resident Obama stop it?

FORESHADOWING FOR AMERICA?

 

CNN is reporting currently, that the cell phones are shut down all over Iran.   Just after the election, with many believing that the election was manipulated, conjecture is that the government doesn’t want problems so they’ve shut every means of communications down.

Early on, in my blog, I pointed to a site that was studying how the totalitarian societies are successful in this effort.   It’s a study by the Open Society – one of George Soros’ many undertakings ….

See: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/fellowship/events/media_20081121

Dictator Obama

 

Our dictator (p)Resident spent our tax money this week, …. without asking ….. $200,000,000,000 of it.   He paid Palau to take the former Gitmo residents.   Let’s see; there are 20,000 Palauns  (sp?) ….. just how much of our tax money did everyone get?   That’d be about $100,000 for each person?   Anything wrong with this picture America?   Yea!   Do the former terrorists get any of it?

What the hell was wrong with Gitmo?

Tobacco regulation – a joke

 

What could have been done, … and what would have made sense, was to end the subsidizing of tobacco farmers.   If the (p)Resident was worried about children, and knows it’s unhealthy, why not quit?   Being a role-model . . . er, a good role model . . . . would that be too out of character?

The (p)Resident cannot claim he was worried about hurting the economy, not with what he’s done to the auto industry!

GAZA WAR – PALESTINIAN CHILDREN

Jan 11th, 2009 – 0646 pst, Eugene, Or.

 

Over 3,000 rockets fired at non-combatants from Gaza last year.  

Across the border, Israeli children have 14.5 seconds to run for the bomb shelters in Sderot, just under 30 seconds in Ashkelon, Ashdod, etc.   There are 1,000,000 Israelis in range of the rockets.

Like children, both Israel and Hamas yell: “you started it!”  /  ”I did not; you did!”

This time though, as the world watches, the picture begins to become much clearer.

       Hamas chose their name because in Arabic, it means “violence”!   We don’t have to go back to the ovens; nor to the Grand Mufti meeting with Hitler; let’s look back, to just over 35 years ago - at Sept 5th, 1972.   Olympic athletes (non-combatants Jews) were killed in Munich, as the whole world watched.

       Look back at the buses of non-combatants, especially buses filled with children on their way to school when a suicide bomber enters and works his way back to the middle before detonating it.   And don’t forget, . . . . Saddam paid each family $10,000.00

  Israel retaliates against terrorists.   Hamas targets non-combatants, especially women and children!

  Terrorists live with their multiple wives and children, training their children to hate, then whine and cry “foul” when children are killed along with them.

Palestinians elected Hamas and then complain to YouTube when they show videos of the truth.

They pressure YouTube to take down the videos, but they’re still on the net, and can easily be found.    Try Live Leak if they’re no longer on YouTube; I heard they may have put them back up.

Recent videos show terrorists exiting the U.N. school, firing 3 rockets from outside school, then running back inside like the cowards they are.

They miscalculated; they assumed the Israelis would not shoot.   Israeli officials admitted they did not know all those children were there; they’d dropped leaflets, they’d made the phone calls, to warn Palestinian residents, as they do . . . .    Israel is not the culprit here!   Israel is not the evil one!

That’s what Hamas does – lives and hides among the Palestinians.   Hoping that if they draw fire, knowing they’ve know they’ve been safer that way, that if they’re wrong, and Palestinians or their own children are hurt, they use it against Israel.   Knowing, that if there is return fire, they can show injured children, hoping the world will condemn Israel’s violence and not theirs.   They don’t love their children like normal people.

They pressure diplomats ,the world over, to call for a cease fire (while they re-arm); they intimidate European cities where Muslims have become the majority. 

Why did they up the ante a few weeks ago?  - – - daily begin firing more rockets into Israel?

Timing!  

They knew the chance of their nuclear preparations were increasingly more likely to be destroyed if they did not distract the powers of the world.

It’s that simple. 

These terrorists would rather sacrifice Palestinians . . . .   These terrorists would rather sacrifice children . . . .   It’s just the kind of cowards they are!  

They continue raising their children to hate.   As above, when things get tough, they can always protest in the streets of the world and train their children to kill!

They bide their time, waiting until they have the power . . . .   Do you doubt they will use it?

As long as Palestinians keep raising their children to hate, there are always more gullible children to strap bombs onto, to hide behind.

  

 

To anger those I oppose, I post this next link; this is not a funny situation and needs our outrage to be in place, but as people begin making fun of these mentally ill, evil ones, maybe it will make an impact.   Besides, we all need to smile – it is offensive in ways and I ask you to overlook that and . . Don’t miss Achmed the terrorist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

Videos Palestinian Supporters won’t watch

Jan 13, 2009

No side is 100% correct!

One side, . . . . is . . . 100% wrong!

The Children of Hamas:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5D5_m93A0

Palestinians and Israelis – Know the difference:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjze1UCAgc&NR=1

In this video, made by an Arab reporter, you will see Hamas attacking Palestinians at a wedding celebration as well as rounding up former Fatah members which many Palestians have reported were killed:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-mIpWsnCYI

In this video, Earl Cox, an American reporter in Israel is knocked down (by a 2nd rocket’s concussuon) when exiting a bomb shelter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDqX_VBJKkI

Imagine it were your town:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j68nFQ20o0s

In this video, you will see who Hamas is, what they preach to their own:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gg0ZM149ss&watch_response

In this video, you will see Hamas attacking Fatah (Palestinians) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVBYMNRFdbM&NR=1

Brutality – Hamas rounding up Palestinians – suspected Fatah members:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzJGBo7RNjI&NR=1

Here’s another website – another perspective, from another land . . . . very well written and an impressive insight, one you won’t find in the media! :   http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/if-hamas-is-the-victim-why-is-ramallah-so-quiet/

BLOGGERS DEMAND PROMISED TRANSPARENCY

Bloggers (the replacement media / commentators) are joining together calling for an online copy of the stimulus and other bills in Congress.

“We’ve been alerting the public to the fact that it’s not and wasn’t the presidents.   President Obama is right – it IS time the public demands transparency!  It’s congress that’s been the root of the problems!   It’s time for the government to post all bills in process on the net!”

If they’re not guilty of using PORK to get re-elected, to do favors for supporters, let them prove it!

PUT UP . . . . OR SHUT UP!

This time the economic assault is on our children and we’re mad as Hell!

NEW (obscure) ELECTION REVELATIONS! OBAMA & DEMOCRATS LOST!

Facts of the Presidential election 2008 - by Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Number of states won by: 

Democrats 19   ///   Republicans 29

• Square miles won by :         

Democrats 580,000   ///   Republicans 2,427,000

• Counties’ Population won by :        

Democrats 127 million ///   Republicans 143 million

• Murder rate per 1,000 residents in counties won by:

Democrats 13.2  /// Republicans 2.1

In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won by was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Democrat territory mostly encompassed by those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.

Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some 40% of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase!

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called “illegals”, and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA as we know it!

How long is the only question!   Originally, it was only land owners that could vote – not such a bad idea in retrospect.

The media ignore(d)(s) crucial constitutional information; face it folks – it’s not only that we’re bankrupt; 1984 is upon us.

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Please send this link to others, copy it and email it, or, if you insist, . . . . just sit back and watch the entertainment . . . . and be part of the problem!

josiah

AMERICA’S ECONOMY – Occom’s Razor

Consider this a fictitious “story” if you must.   It’s not, but that way, maybe you’ll keep reading as your frustration begins . . .

The economy of the greatest nation in history, is failing.   Its’ people’s wealth, their retirement savings, have been stolen, . . . almost overnight! 

To profit Corporate CEO’s, (stockholders too, for a while, but that was temporarily – few stockholders profited; mostly, it was only on paper) America’s jobs have been stolen, . . . . sent to cheaper, foreign labor markets!

We underestimated them, . . . . this new, breed of greed – - – this cabal, made up of elected official and CEO-entrepreneurs.

Telling stockholders they were making us money, behind closed doors, they were expressing a contempt and corruption beyond what has been known . . . .  

Those filled with greed and hate, have won.

And our new President Obama?

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, . . . . he mistakenly, thought we could borrow our way out of this.

He calls for transparency, but business is still being done behind closed doors.

On top of that, ignoring the protests of the people, Congress quickly confirms an exposed income tax cheater to head the IRS (America’s own Domestic Terrorists)!

And as usual, hoping the people won’t notice, Congress votes quickly, that with our tax money, they will put new sod on the grounds of D.C.’s government buildings.

What is this?   They want D.C. to look nice?   . . . for when the new owners . . . er, . . . rulers arrive?

You think I’m kidding?   You’re wrong; follow me here.

America:

1. Lost it’s jobs – its’ ability to pay its’ bills.
2. CEO’s sold it’s jobs overseas (transfered our jobs to cheaper, foreign labor markets; they gained / we lost.)
3. Americans, having lost its’ jobs – their manufacturing base, . . . it’s people continued in their lifestyle, as the deficit increased causing:
4. Foreign manufactures to accept I.O.U.’s for the purchased products (gasoline, oil and Wal*Mart goods included)
5. But now, they want to collect.
6. At the recent G-20 Conference in D.C., they gave the U.S., 100 days after the inauguration to comply.
7. We owe our China creditors more than the value of every share of stock on the NYSE!
8. What happens when our creditors won’t take plastic or IOU’s; we pay with cash
9. So we print more cash . . . . won’t cash become worth less?
10. Will creditors keep supplying when our cash devalues?
11. And when we can’t get what we need?   What then?
12. When it’s oil we can’t get . . . . then what?   That’s what is coming at us from over the horizon!

Given the U.S. by the other nations of the world, the 100 day deadline, is expiring.   And the suppliers close us down, then what?  

And what are our nation’s leaders doing?   Getting us back on track by bring our jobs home?

Oh; having us paint bridges (and other non-productive endeavors, things that do not produce goods to sell.)    Well what they ARE doing, is printing money, like it is an endless supply!   Look at this.

Our spike there, …. that straight line, ….. the one going UP ….. we cannot survive that!   If you can’t see it here, go to Glenn Beck’s site.  It’s the Weimer Republic all over again!  When Mark Twain said “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes”, he didn’t mean that it doesn’t mean that history does not repeat!   What it means is there’s always a little twist!

We need to face that the nations of the world are going to shut down the stores that deliver goods to America!

Printing more money!   What’s wrong with that?

For those who don’t know, and while google still works, go there and type in the words “Weimer Republic”.   You’ll need to be able to explain this to others.   Our money will then, not be accepted at the other nations “stores” either because it will be worthless, just like the plastic and the IOU’s!

How quickly the moral degradations of all our elected orators’ have shown themselves!   This has all taken place in less than a half of one generation.   While Americans were distracted by TV and sports’ gladiators . . . . this cabal, these elected officials & CEO’s became traitors – America’s new traitors, the Benedict Arnolds of the Economy!

We thought America’s children were becoming lazy and soft, but in the future, . . . . as our children slave under Socialism, they’ll look back and hate this stupid, self-centered generation!  

In effect, for our own comfort, (telling ourselves it was for them . . .), we’ve sold our children into slavery!   How?   By not being willing to study, to watch and figure out what was coming.   We opted for entertainment instead of doing what was required of us.   Just like a marriage, democracy requires work!

Now the bad news!   This was not just an unforeseen chain of events.   This is being done intentionally!

“By whom”, you ask?

If you don’t know by now, I’m wondering if I should go into this . . . .   America rejects conspiracy theories . . .  

This is where the hate and anger begins to rise.   And the thing is, every group will be pointing fingers!   Many will be pointing at each other, but the scapegoat throughout time . . . . who has that been?   Think about it.   What group of people have, throughout the history of the world, been the people who have been hated where ever they were?

Oh, it’s not them.   They’re just the scapegoats, AGAIN.

About two months ago, the people in the know, in Israel, began warning their people make Aliyah, to come home before they began to encounter the hate and lost everything again . . . .

You say you didn’t hear that said anywhere?   You’ve not been listening to the right sources, that’s all.   ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, even Fox, etc. are “owned” . . . .

One last thing though . . . . it’s not President Obama.   Don’t lynch him.   He was just the one the puppetmasters thought could distract us from what was happening, right in front of our eyes – - - they chose him, for his speaking abilities.

I guess I can’t close like this; there’re a couple more questions . . . .

What is it then, . . . that our creditors want?

It’s not our wealth, . . . . or to have slaves, well, that’s part of it but not the important part.  

It’s our power?!?!   It’s our ability to defend ourselves, then?    No; it’s our ability to defend others!

Think about all this; we’ll meet again.

HAMAS VIOLATES CEASE FIRE!

1/ 29/09

Israeli troops having called a cease fire and pulled out of Gaza, . . . the shooting seems to barely have stopped.   Hamas having formerly rejected the cease fire, withheld shooting until Tuesday. 

United States’ middle east envoy, George Mitchell, still in transit, has not even reached Israel or Gaza.   Yet, Hamas has once again begun sending rockets into Sderot.

Be aware, . . . . except for the first incident on Tuesday, which targeted an IDF patrol, these Hamas COWARDS have since been firing rockets at civilian non-combatants!

6:00 am, Thursday, Sderot’s sleepy residents had the normal 15 seconds to scramble from their homes into bomb shelters before another Kassam rocket slammed into their community.  

Also, citizens in Eshkol had an alarm go off in their city there but the rocket never hit; no one knows if it was a false alarm or if it fell in an unpopulated area.

Wednesday, 9:40 pm, a rocket exploded in an unpopulated area – this after 3 false alarms, each alarm hving sent Sderot residents into the bomb shelters.   Afterwards, around midnight, Israel air force jets responded accurately hitting a weapons depot in Rafiah, in Gaza.

The Israeli government, obligated to protect its’ people, has vowed to respond with military action to every attack, despite calls by U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell this week for “Israel and Hamas to extend the “ceasefire.”

Tuesday, a cross-border bombing by Hamas terrorists started the hostilities all over again, and was followed up by a volley of mortors; one IDF soldier was killed and three injured, including one officer who remains in serious condition.   Israel has vowed to not leave residents feeling they are unprotected, but some residents acknowledge this may be another pre-election promise – the election is thirteen days away.

Although the U.S. media is focused on America’s financial problems, and seem to be ignoring the resumed hostilities, today, IDF air force jets began targeting the network of tunnels used to smuggle the rockets and other weapons into Gaza, but have not sent troops back into Gaza.

Al-Jezera “news n’ lies”

1/29/09

During the war in Gaza, videos on YouTube clearly showed a Hamas terrorist firing several rockets into Israel from the front door of the U.N. school, then running along the front of the building and then turned left and again, ran alongside it, as rockets from Israeli jets retaliated almost immediately.  

As usual, the attack was intentionally made from in front of a school where civilians were gathered and Hamas knew that!   It was done purposefully to put children and non-combatants in harm’s way. 

It’s the way Hamas tries to make Israel look bad – nothing new – it’s standard operational procedure for the Hamas cowards!   Still, Palestinians seem to somehow put the blame on Israelis rather than the terrorists - – - as if their soldiers had no right to attempt to protect Israeli civilians, proving, once again that those who support the Palestinians and Hamas cannot think objectively; their hate overwhelms them!

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The following report is from the always-slanted, pro-Arab, Al-Jezera news. 

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“Over the past several weeks, unacceptable and terrible situations have taken place against the civilian people and against particularly the United Nations compounds, where many civilians were sheltered,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Ban said there would be an “independent investigation to look into the case of this Unrwa compound bombing”.

The bombing set fire to warehouses, destroying badly-needed food and medical aid.

UN officials say they have evidence that white phosphorous was used in the attack on the UN relief agency’s main building in Gaza that left three people injured.

The UN secretary-general has announced an investigation into the attack on the main UN compound in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s 22-day assault on the Palestinian territory.

Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that he was angered by the “unacceptable” Israeli attacks on civilians and UN compounds.

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It continues, just as disgusting . . . . if you want to find it, you can, but it’s a typical biased Al-Jerka “news” report – seeing through Arab and United Nations glasses.

REVEALED: PRES. OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST POLICY

“The Al Arabiya interview leaves one wondering if Obama’s foreign policy isn’t influenced by a view that it is somehow he and Muslims against the United States.”

Who is Paul Edwards and why did it take him to make this comment before I began to remove my gloves?   I knew what the writing on the wall was!   . . . .   As should be, with the media, I’m done with the NICE/NICE where President Obama is concerned!   It’s over!

Why hadn’t I heard of Paul Edwards before?   I’ve followed the middle east situation (forever, it seems), yet I’d never heard of him . . . nor of his radio program – The Center For The Study of God and Culture.

No wonder Congress is talking about clamping down on America’s media.   It’s not Limbaugh!   It’s not Hannity!   It’s those who tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth – the Paul Edwards of the nation.   No wonder Hannity and Limbaugh focus on the “Fairness Doctrine”; they see what’s coming!   Read President Obama’s mentor’s book – Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”, paying particular attention to Rule 13, you’ll see it too.   Are the words written on the wall, “Freedom of Speech”?

Consider his column yesterday, http://www.townhall.com

He pulled no punches; if it were baseball, it would’ve been a Grand Slam, not just a home run, it was an out of the park hit, with bases loaded, in the bottom of the 9th!

Consider Edward’s closing line yesterday, . . . then, we’ll back up and talk of the rest . . . . Edwards was referring to the first time in history a sitting United States President spoke directly to the Muslim world in an inaugural address . . .

Yesterday, Edwards commented: “The Al Arabiya interview leaves one wondering if Obama’s foreign policy isn’t influenced by a view that it is somehow he and Muslims against the United States.”

Although during the campaign, President Obama mouthed the words implying he supports Israel, (ignoring the rockets, the suicide bombers, the kidnapping of Israel’s soldiers, . . . etc.), . . . . here, he  (President Obama) attributes the motivation of the Muslim world to just wanting protect their children and make a better life for them . . . .

Get this!    The President is speaking in our name!   Edwards comments:  “The interview with the Arab interviewer wasn’t into its first two minutes before Obama states, when it comes to the on-going Arab-Israeli conflict in Gaza, the United States has acted more like an ignorant dictator:   …what I told (Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell) is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating-in the past on some of these issues-and we don’t always know all the factors that are involved“

The entire article follows. Read it, but read it as if you’re an Israeli . . . . and ask yourself, does Israel have reason to know they now stand alone now?   What must they think?

One final point before Paul’s column . . . . America’s special envoy . . . George Mitchell?

To get preference, when he attended Stanford,  George identified himself as an Arab-American!

Why does the media not tell you this?   Yet, we must thank him for his honesty . . . back then, anyway.

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Paul Edwards
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Consider these facts: Barack Obama is the first president in history to directly address the Muslim world in an inaugural address. His first phone call to a foreign head of state was to the Palestinian Authority’s Ahmoud Abbas. And then came the word that the honor of his first sit-down interview as president had gone to Al Arabiya-self-described as “the leading news channel in the Arab world.”

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With all of the issues vying for action by the president, both foreign and domestic, why has President Obama made a priority of communicating with the Muslim world this early and this often in his first week in office?

Certainly the Middle East conflict requires the attention of the United States, but why has this president chosen to enter that process by speaking first with the party the United States has historically viewed as the instigator of the conflict?

The media would answer the question by suggesting that the “cowboy diplomacy” of George W. Bush has tarnished America’s image in the Arab world, therefore Obama can waste no time reaching out to them in an effort to restore our credibility. Never mind that the Bush Doctrine actually liberated 50 million people in the Muslim world. Pay no attention to the fact that young girls and women are now being educated in Afghanistan because President Bush took decisive action to root out the oppressive Taliban regime there.

Rather than use his interview with Arab television to point the Arab world to the positive results America has achieved for them, President Obama used this opportunity to throw America under the bus. If you actually heard his interview with Al Arabiya, it would be difficult to conclude that President Obama did anything other than point to America as the source of the problem in the Arab world rather than a collaborator with them in finding a solution.

The interview wasn’t into its first two minutes before Obama tells the Arab interviewer that, when it comes to the on-going Arab-Israeli conflict in Gaza, the United States has acted more like an ignorant dictator:

 

It’s all downhill from there, with President Obama later implying that the United States hasn’t been respectful in its treatment of the Muslim world: “Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect.”

He also implied that the American people have a prejudiced view of Muslims, owing to the attacks of September 11, and therefore do not understand the Muslim world: “My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives.”

But what should be of utmost concern to Americans is the way Obama redefined the priorities of the president:

 

Obama believes that equal to the interests of the United States, the president must also promote the interests of “ordinary people” in the Muslim world. This is a radical departure from the president’s oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The president isn’t the president of the world, or even limited constituencies within the world. He is President of the United States-and nothing is equal to his constitutional responsibilities to the people of this country.

President Obama seems to think himself uniquely qualified to address the Muslim world because he has lived among them: “I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries … the largest one, Indonesia.”

Some have even questioned whether or not he is-or at least was-one of them. When his Muslim father enrolled him in school in Indonesia he recorded Barack’s religion as “Islam.” In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos during the campaign Obama referred to “my Muslim faith.” The media wrote it off as “a slip of the tongue.”

Throughout his campaign for president Obama insisted that he was a Christian, and the American people took him at his word. But so what if President Obama really is a Muslim? America is a pluralistic society that guarantees the freedom of religion as a fundamental right. The “so what” may have just been answered in this interview.

After hearing the American president speak in negative tones about his country to the largest Arab television audience in the world, it is fair to ask whether or not this president really sees protecting the interests of his country as his first priority.

Is it possible that Obama’s haste to speak with the Muslim world has more to do with his affinity with them than it does America’s supposed marred image among them? The Al Arabiya interview leaves one wondering if Obama’s foreign policy isn’t influenced by a view that it is somehow he and Muslims against the United States.

 

And I think that what you will see over the next several years is that I’m not going to agree with everything that some Muslim leader may say, or what’s on a television station in the Arab world-but I think that what you’ll see is somebody who is listening, who is respectful, and who is trying to promote the interests not just of the United States, but also ordinary people who right now are suffering from poverty and a lack of opportunity. I want to make sure that I’m speaking to them, as well.

 

…what I told (Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell) is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating-in the past on some of these issues-and we don’t always know all the factors that are involved.

 

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DAMN RIGHT I’M ANGRY!

The Socialist President, Obama, he ranted about the bonuses which Corporate Executive Officers received and handed out!   Something that pisses us all of, but . . .

That’s the old – DIVIDE AND CONQUER tactic!

 . . . come on folks!   If you continue to watch TV and ignore what these people are doing to America, with our money, they’ll have your children as slaves!   Is that what you want?

Recognize what he’s doing and why!   After all, these CEO’s were his largest donors!  

You think he’s not in league with them?

$355,000,000 for distribution of condoms?   Explain that!   Explain any of it!   This is NOT a “STIMULIS BILL”!   This is business as usual in D.C. – pork personified!

And the bonuses are grievous but they don’t compare to the fact that these are the same people that sold our jobs – sent them (as Ross Perot described, that huge sucking sound) out of the country!

To look like they were making lots of profit, for stockholders, (it was on paper only, except for those who knew what was coming and sold their shares) these CEO’s took American’s jobs overseas to cheaper labor markets!   Although I believe in what unions use to be, the concept of protecting our jobs, they too are out of control!

This was done at the behest of the mega-wealthy, those puppeteers who pull the strings!   You’re correct; I’m saying this is a massive corporate conspiracy!

America’s deficit is exploding exponentially, and it’s because we now buy goods made out of the country and our dollars are leaving the U.S. instead of flowing in!

The 60% that receive $ from the government now control the ballot box and do not want to looks their entitlements; they have given up on the American dream; they’ve found an easier way – - – to live off those who still believe!   The Democrat party has bought their votes by putting more people on the dole and I’m changing from the Democrat to the . . .  to the . . .  well, I’m not going to be a Democrat come February 1st!

CONSIDER THE RAMIFICATIONS

First, look at the spike on the graph below.   Most people who read both sides have seen this and realize what is happening, but if you don’t . . . . this graph is telling!   It’s more than telling!   It’s a red neon WARNING sign going on and off, on and off.

What will happen when we cannot pay our bills?  Oil and other goods will be denied us!

What will happen when our dollar becomes worthless?  Google “Weimer Republic”.

Is that going to happen?   Of course it is!   Again, just look at the spike in the graph below; that’s deflation – the government is just printing more money; the same amount of worth is there – just divided more!

  You can view it larger here.   http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/fredgraph?chart_type=line&width=1000&height=600&preserve_ratio=true&s%5b1%5d%5bid%5d=AMBNS

The spike?   That’s NOW!   Usually, it’s not so immediately obvious what is happening to America!

Bonuses are a small part of the picture!  If those who are trying to anger us at free market capitalism are successful, we’ll hate businesses and all want to work for the government – voila, instant Socialism, where we can never dig out of the debt!

Our only hope is to bring America’s jobs back.

America has one hope.   That may take a while; there may be several steps.

We need our jobs back.   Manufacturing and sale of goods are what creates wealth.

1. We need to repeal GATT & NAFTA.   They’re what allowed our jobs to leave and they were even illegal for Congress to have passed!
2. We need to impeach those who passed GATT & NAFTA.   You can tell me that they didn’t see the unintended consequences . . . they may be that dumb; I don’t think so.   I think that most of those that had the morals to not go along with the plan, retired.
3. We need to understand that those who put together and executed this plan, are traitors and need to be in prison!   Their goal was not only to break America, to take away the hope of the world, it was to get the greatest super-power out of the way, so Israel could be destroyed.   There.   It’s said.   America is only the secondary enemy of these people.   America and Israel are the only two nations in the world that threaten these people – and Israel?   They’re not so much a threat to them right now; we are!   People look at us and want: the good life, freedom, the hope and vision of a better future for their children.   Destroy the vision and you take away the hope of the world.   Take away the hope of the world and you have slaves that work only for the weekend.   Those who work only for the weekend, have nothing to live for but that . . . . drugs will help . . . . so will someone to tell your children what to do and when to do it.   They’ll love that, won’t they?   They can thank us for it!   George Orwell, missed the date by less than three decades, but he was a pretty good prophet …… oooops …… clairvoyant.

GAZA: A New Cease Fire?

Thursday, it was reported by the Palestinian Authority paper Al-Jareeda, that Hamas has agreed the Egyptian proposed 18-month ceasefire in Gaza, not to begin officially until Feb. 5th, right before the elections in Israel.   This information came from an anonymous Egyptian official.

My question is, how long will it last?   If the tunnels are closed (not likely) it would be because Egypt would open its’ borders to allow legal transfer of goods.   According to Israeli understanding, the previous cease fires have been only to allow replenishing of weapons for the next attack against Israel.   With international monitors, will weapons be kept out of Gaza?   Not likely!   If they’re not smuggled in through the border, there’s the incident that happened this week.

Qatar, officials informed the United States Navy, partoling the area, that there was information they’d garnered that an Iranian ship in the Red Sea was about to offload weapons meant to be smuggled to Hamas, in the Gaza strip.   The Iranian ship changed it’s course but was caught, detained and borded in Cyprus and large numbers of rockets, artilery shells, and other weapons.   Information often surfaces about these smuggling attempts, but not often do they come from officials from another Arab nation.

Currently Hamas has reduced, but not quit, the frequency of its attacks.   Hamas is still officially in a state of open war with Israel. 

The Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency also reported that Hamas had accepted the truce.   Though said to be set and Hamas leaders will officially accept the ceasefire deal next week, it is somewhat tenuous because Islamic Jihad has not yet agreed.

Hamas has stipulated that Israel must open the crossings between Gaza and Israel on the day that the ceasefire begins,

but this hinges on the approval of all three parties agreement to the presence of international monitors at Gaza crossings.   Sources quoted in Ma’an said the opening of Gaza crossings would “greatly reduce” the need for smuggling tunnels, the closure of which is one of Israel’s conditions for a ceasefire.

Hamas continues to reject most of the conditions demanded by Israel.   Israel had requested a 500-meter security zone in Gaza but most important was a favorable change in Hamas’s conditions regarding the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held for almost three years without Red Cross visits.

Palestinians: Help end the violence

Palestinians:

Help Israel rout out these Hamas cowards who sacrifice their own and others’ children!  

Inform Israelis, confidentially about where these terrorist hide.   Or, tell me; I’ll pass the information on!

Palestinians who support Hamas, are driven by hate, a mental illness!

Israel only retaliated at terrorists that hide among you, to do their evil.   Should Israel have done nothing and let the terrorists continue to kill non-combatants, women and children?

Palestinians:

Why continue the violence?  Rout out those who cause the violence!

If you love your children,it’s time to protect them.   If you don’t want to fight the terrorists, inform Israelis of the corwardly Hamas terrorists’ hiding places.

Or tell me; I’ll forward the information to those who need to know.  

It’s time to rout out the ones who hate; Israelis only want to live in peace! 

See: http://www.josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/956/

OLYMPIAN’S DRUG USE

Partying in front of University students he doesn’t know, all with camera phones, Michael Phelps picture, reveals 1) a blatant use of pot and 2) the ineptitude of the University of South Carolina toward drug use and complying with the applicable law – The Higher Education Act.

Recent word is – So. Carolina law enforcements wants to talk with Phelps!

As a former user, who has seen the damage done, I can attest to the fact that there are and there should be - consequenses.

Phelps representatives, it is reported, tried to buy off the paper who published the photo.   When that failed, they had their pros helping Michael writing an apology!

My comment?   Those who use pot will often . . . usually use other drugs!   In light of this, if the tests taken during the Olympics exist, they ought to be redone with the latest technology . . . or, his medals ought to be pulled!  

Likely, that won’t happen; so what about his wealth – what about his endorsements???   Otherwise, and it looks as if everyone is sweeping this out of view as quickly as possible, just what message does this all send, to our youth?   What message does it send to aspiring Olympians?   Evidently; it’s “first get the medals; then you can misbehave!”

There’s another message here – no media is mentioning!

Overlooking the role of being a ”Substitute Parent” (not just for Michael) when children are away from home, though most universities fail in this aspect, now the University of South Carolina parents can be asurred, their university also ignores The Higher Education Act which requires oversight!  It’s the “how” Universities qualify to receive federal money – pretty much ignored!

The loss of medals and the resulting scandal are inconsequential . . . . compare that to the parents who have lost their children to drugs!   Then, consider how many children would be backed away from considering ever using, because of what happened in 2009 after Michael lost what he worked so hard for!   His channelling his inherent problems into a drive that brought him to the pinnacle of his sport, is laudable, but this needs to be – - – “The Rest Of The Story”.

He can recover; those who follow in his footsteps, may not be able to!

As yet, none of his endorsements (said to rival Tiger Woods’) now at $5,000,000 / per year endorsements have cancelled, among which are Kellogs, VISA, Speedo.   So much for wholesome images . . . .   It may as well be Citi-Bank!

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU CALL IT BUT CORRUPTION?

This last week, the House of Representatives gave themselves a raise!

No; it’s true!   Not just a small raise!   It’s $93,000.00 ….. get this ….. It’s labled - PETTY CASH!

This at a time when . . . .  out of one side of their mouth comes the word “transparency” . . . they think no one is watching . . . and most are not.

Forget it!   All these people need to be recalled!!!!!

PALESTINIAN: MY FRIEND, IT WAS ME THAT WAS IN YOUR HOME

Hello,

While the world watches the ruins in Gaza, you return to your home which remains standing.   However, I am sure that it is clear to you that someone was in your home while you were away.

I am that someone.

I spent long hours imagining how you would react when you walked into your home.   How you would feel when you understood that IDF soldiers had slept on your mattresses and used your blankets to keep warm.

I knew that it would make you angry and sad and that you would feel this violation of the most intimate areas of your life by those defined as your enemies, with stinging humiliation.   I am convinced that you hate me with unbridled hatred, and you do not have even the tiniest desire to hear what I have to say.   At the same time, it is important for me to say the following in the hope that there is even the minutest chance that you will hear me.

I spent many days in your home.   You and your family’s presence was felt in every corner.   I saw your family portraits on the wall, and I thought of my family.   I saw your wife’s perfume bottles on the bureau, and I thought of my wife.   I saw your children’s toys and their English language schoolbooks.   I saw your personal computer and how you set up the modem and wireless phone next to the screen, just as I do.

I wanted you to know that despite the immense disorder you found in your house that was created during a search for explosives and tunnels (which were indeed found in other homes), we did our best to treat your possessions with respect.   When I moved the computer table, I disconnected the cables and lay them down neatly on the floor, as I would do with my own computer.   I even covered the computer from dust with a piece of cloth.   I tried to put back the clothes that fell when we moved the closet although not the same as you would have done, but at least in such a way that nothing would get lost.

I know that the devastation, the bullet holes in your walls and the destruction of those homes near you place my descriptions in a ridiculous light.   Still, I need you to understand me, us, and hope that you will channel your anger and criticism to the right places.

I decided to write you this letter specifically because I stayed in your home.

I can surmise that you are intelligent and educated and there are those in your household that are university students.   Your children learn English, and you are connected to the Internet.   You are not ignorant; you know what is going on around you.

Therefore, I am sure you know that Qassam rockets were launched from your neighborhood into Israeli towns and cities.

How could you see these weekly launches and not think that one day we would say “enough”?!   Did you ever consider that it is perhaps wrong to launch rockets at innocent civilians trying to lead a normal life, much like you?

How long did you think we would sit back without reacting?

I can hear you saying “it’s not me, it’s Hamas”.   My intuition tells me you are not their most avid supporter.   If you look closely at the sad reality in which your people live, and you do not try to deceive yourself or make excuses about “occupation”, you must certainly reach the conclusion that the Hamas is your real enemy.

The reality is so simple, even a seven year old can understand: Israel withdrew from the Gaza strip, removing military bases and its citizens from Gush Katif.   Nonetheless, we continued to provide you with electricity, water, and goods (and this I know very well as during my reserve duty I guarded the border crossings more than once, and witnessed hundreds of trucks full of goods entering a blockade-free Gaza every day).

Despite all this, for reasons that cannot be understood and with a lack of any rational logic, Hamas launched missiles on Israeli towns.   For three years we clenched our teeth and restrained ourselves.   In the end, we could not take it anymore and entered the Gaza strip, into your neighborhood, in order to remove those who want to kill us.   A reality that is painful but very easy to explain.

As soon as you agree with me that Hamas is your enemy and because of them, your people are miserable, you will also understand that the change must come from within.   I am acutely aware of the fact that what I say is easier to write than to do, but I do not see any other way.   You, who are connected to the world and concerned about your children’s education, must lead, together with your friends, a civil uprising against Hamas.

I swear to you, that if the citizens of Gaza were busy paving roads, building schools, opening factories and cultural institutions instead of dwelling in self pity, arms smuggling and nurturing a hatred to your Israeli neighbors, your homes would not be in ruins right now.   If your leaders were not corrupt and motivated by hatred, your home would not have been harmed.   If someone would have stood up and shouted that there is no point in launching missiles on innocent civilians, I would not have to stand in your kitchen as a soldier.

You don’t have money, you tell me?   You have more than you can imagine.

Even before Hamas took control of Gaza, during the time of Yasser Arafat, millions if not billions of dollars donated by the world community to the Palestinians was used for purchasing arms or taken directly to your leaders bank accounts.   Gulf States, the emirates – your brothers, your flesh and blood, are some of the richest nations in the world.

If there was even a small feeling of solidarity between Arab nations, if these nations had but the smallest interest in reconstructing the Palestinian people – your situation would be very different.

You must be familiar with Singapore.   The land mass there is not much larger than the Gaza strip and it is considered to be the second most populated country in the world.   Yet, Singapore is a successful, prospering, and well managed country.   Why not the same for you?

My friend, I would like to call you by name, but I will not do so publicly.   I want you to know that I am 100% at peace with what my country did, what my army did, and what I did.   However, I feel your pain.   I am sorry for the destruction you are finding in your neighborhood at this moment.   On a personal level, I did what I could to minimize the damage to your home as much as possible.

In my opinion, we have a lot more in common than you might imagine.   I am a civilian, not a soldier, and in my private life I have nothing to do with the military.   However, I have an obligation to leave my home, put on a uniform, and protect my family every time we are attacked.   I have no desire to be in your home wearing a uniform again and I would be more than happy to sit with you as a guest on your beautiful balcony, drinking sweet tea seasoned with the sage growing in your garden.

The only person who could make that dream a reality is you.   Take responsibility for yourself, your family, your people, and start to take control of your destiny.   How?   I do not know. Maybe there is something to be learned from the Jewish people who rose up from the most destructive human tragedy of the 20th century, and instead of sinking into self-pity, built a flourishing and prospering country. It is possible, and it is in your hands.

I am ready to be there to provide a shoulder of support and help to you.

But only you can move the wheels of history.

Regards,
Yishai, (Reserve Soldier)

 

The above was a letter that was originally published in the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Ma’ariv, and translated into English by the

MR. DASCHLE: A “REMINDER”

Now that the people are speaking, and the nation’s newspapers are calling for Mr. Daschle to step aside, . . . .   here is an open letter / reminder!

MR. DASCHLE: DON’T FORGET NOW!

ON NEXT YEAR’S TAX FORMS, THE “GIFT” YOU JUST GOT FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES . . . . FROM THE INSURANCE COMPANIES . . . .

DON’T FORGET!

THAT $146,000.00?  IT WAS INCOME!   YOU’LL NEED TO REPORT IT AS SUCH!

(My comment would be . . . .   I wonder how pissed those who gave him the money – with no connections to the ‘payoff’, of course – will be!?!?)

Bet no one is feeling as good about that, as I am!   For once, those attempting to influence . . . . got screwed!   Think they’ll help him with the taxes on this ? ? ?

NOW, MR PRESIDENT . . . . ABOUT GEITHNER . . . . AND THE “PROMISED” TRANSPARENCY? . . . .

HAMAS LIES EXPOSED – AGAIN!

This just in:

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In war, the saying goes, “the first victim is the truth.” But an in-depth investigative report by the Canadian Globe and Mail’s Middle East correspondent, Patrick Martin proved to be the exception to the rule.

Martin’s front-page report investigated the Israeli shelling of Hamas terrorists near a UN school that led to the tragic deaths of 43 civilians. His conclusion: the facts don’t support the accepted story that the school itself was shelled.

According to Martin:

Physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses, including a teacher who was in the schoolyard at the time of the shelling, make it clear: While a few people were injured from shrapnel landing inside the white-and-blue-walled UNRWA compound, no one in the compound was killed. The 43 people who died in the incident were all outside, on the street, where all three mortar shells landed.

Stories of one or more shells landing inside the schoolyard were inaccurate.

While the killing of 43 civilians on the street may itself be grounds for investigation, it falls short of the act of shooting into a schoolyard crowded with refuge-seekers.

Martin’s report confirms the underreported Israeli accounts that the IDF accurately returned fire to the location from which it was being shelled by Hamas terrorists.

 

Some of Martin’s key findings include:

• There were no dead in the UN school, only some injured according to physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses
• Three Israeli mortar shells landed outside the school’s compound, not inside
• Incorrect public pronouncements by the UN helped allow “the misconception to linger”

The fact that people were milling around the area where Hamas was firing rockets is not Israel’s fault, but rather points out that Hamas fired from an area frequented by civilians, engaging in what former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a double war crime: “Attacking [Israeli] civilians and hiding behind [Palestinian] civilians.”

At the time, however, John Ging, UNRWA’s operations director in Gaza, condemned the attack as “horrific” and suggested Israel knew it was targeting a UN facility.

“We have provided the GPS co-ordinates of every single one of our locations,” he told the BBC. “They are clearly marked with UN insignia, flags flying, lights shining on the flags at night. It’s very clear that these are United Nations installations.”

Later, in the Globe and Mail investigation, Ging:

acknowledged in an interview this week that all three Israeli mortar shells landed outside the school and that “no one was killed in the school.”

“I told the Israelis that none of the shells landed in the school,” he said.

Political impact

We are often asked if media reports such as the Globe & Mail’s or even our own can have an impact. The answer is an unequivocal yes. Already, one European Member of Parliament, Paul van Buitenen has submitted a parliamentary question based on the Globe & Mail’s investigation. The MEP points out that UNRWA’s John Ging admits in the article that Israel didn’t attack the school but blames the confusion on the Israelis.

Van Buitenen goes on to say that considering the fact that the EU is UNRWA’s single largest donor and that it wrongly condemned Israel for attacking the UN school:

• Is the EU prepared to apologize to Israel for wrongly condemning it without checking the facts on the ground?
• Is the EU prepared to investigate how it was possible that Mr. Ging apparently spread misleading information concerning the supposed attack on this UNRWA school and whether this was politically motivated?

We commend the Globe and Mail for its investigative report and Mr. van Buitenen for his follow-up in the European Parliament. Please commend reporter Martin and the Globe and Mail for helping let the truth emerge about the shelling near the UN school. Please send letters to the Globe and Mail at: letters@globeandmail.com

Also write to your local media outlet if it was responsible for publishing the original allegations.

This communique was adapted from HonestReporting Canada. Click on the image below to find out more and subscribe.

 

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“Hamas cal be trusted!”, declared (friend of terrorists) Former President Jimmy (peanut) Carter in an interview with NBC.

Right Peanut!

Now if we could only trust you!

 Actually Peanut, . . . Jeff’s peanut is more trustworthy!  If you want to hear Peanut speak:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7mfz9RXaZw&feature=related

or here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLE07Yt6hpc&NR=1

1,000 for 1: Israel again, considers releasing 1,000 terrorists for Gilad

The troops barely home after having gone into Gaza, the election barely a week away, the government plays both ends against the center.

. . . . they’re entreating Hamas to kidnap again!  

Instead of going after Hamas until kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit, was found, and brought home safe . . . . Israel pulled back, insuring once again, history is to repeat itself, and IDF soldiers will have to go into Gaza, once again.

Over the years Israel, attempting to bring peace, over and over again, in hopes that terrorists understand that Israel wants peace, the government has released terrorists from the prisons where they’ve been held, many for murder!  

Now, once again, Israel is talking again about releasing terrorists again – this time though, they’re planning to release 1,000 terrorists . . . . if it works, for Gilad Shalit.   It makes one wonder if negotiations were ongoing before and even during the incursion into Gaza . . . . does it not?

Trade one captured (rather) kidnapped Jewish soldier for 1,000 terrorists?  

If Israel is willing to trade 1 for 1,000, is there any wonder just why Hamas broke the treaty by digging a tunnel under the Israel-Gaza border in an attempt to kidnap another soldier? 

Do you remember?   Of course, Hamas / Palestinians ignored the news that all 3 terrorists, rather kidnappers were not just intruding into Israel . . .   They were on a mission, hoping to set up freeing another 1,000 terrorists!

Had previous releases, led to peace . . . . had it worked, Israel would have rejoiced!   The releases would have been supported by most all of Israel, for the Jewish heart is a loving and compassionate heart and they would prefer peace.  Needless-to-say, whether attacks on shoppers with knives or bulldozers, whether with suicide bombs, or guns, releasing terrorists just does not work.

Note the picture!   Each of these Israeli citizens pictured, was killed by a terrorist that had been captured, after committing violence.   Once held,  a terrorist was  subsequently  released to kill again – one of these people, was someone’s loved one!

It’s been verified that each of these people pictured, was killed after a peace was promised by the opposition, whatever the terrorist organization: Hamas, Palestine Authority, PLO, Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, etc. – - – and after the individual, as well, promised peace.

Enough said!

GEITHNER GO! JOIN DASCHLE

 

Obama’s ship of state and the IRS, sail on . . . . toward the abyss!

President Obama’s new “fix”, the cap on executive salaries, is sure to drive a number of good businessmen, to other companies – even to other countries!

The lag time, required to get someone functional – - – effective in a new job, will impact every firm, every corporation involved! Good job, Mr. President! Just what we needed in this econlmy – - - a brain drain!

GEITHNER should go too!

Geithner’s relationship to the IMF is no less dangerous to America (and President Obama) than was Daschle’s relationship to his former employer, the pharmaceutical companies, and the insurance companies!

President Obama admitted his mistake and Daschle is no longer there; that’s a good thing.

President Obama, admitting his mistake, said that the government needed to be seen as not having one rule for common people and another for Obama’s cabinet.

???   WHAT???   WHAT ABOUT GEITHNER?   He’s ignoring that the head of the IRS, he just appointed.   And he’s also a tax cheat!   He’s maybe not another lobbyist, but he’s to head the IRS?

Give us a break!  Geithner paid the back taxes he owed, ONLY when the IRS notified him he had to.

Well, Geithner paid half of them – 2 years worth.   The other 2 years were beyond the statute of limitations, proving he knew the law – he just ignored it . . . . or at least he ignored it until he was caught and then chose to ignore what he morally owed.

Besides, his employer – the IMF told him to pay the taxes, gave him the money to pay them and he still didn’t!

Did you get that? His employer was the IMF bank . . . .

This tax cheat was the head of the people loaning the government money to get out of the fix we’re in . . . and the bailout he was part of already failed!

Not only did it fail, but we borrowed money to help people who were in debt!   Borrowing one’s way out of debt?   Really smart!

Geithner!   This guy is to head the bunch to help us get out of this mess?!?!

I don’t want this guy there either!   Neither does anyone else!

The President admitted his mistake . . . . THEN CORRECT IT, MR PRESIDENT! ASK FOR GEITHNER’S RESIGNATION TOO!

MichelleMalkin.com/2009/02/03/Does-anyone-know-how-to-pay-taxes-in-the-Obama-white-house?

 

 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: MORE BULLY THAN PULPIT

Mr. President:

Please understand!   We, Americans, do NOT want Socialism.

As horrible as the oil industry is, as banks are, we do NOT want them nationalized!

We DO want our country protected!

We want an end to appointing IRS tax cheats!  

In fact, how about a flat tax instead of the IRS?

We do not need threats!

We do not want business-as-usual, PORK!  

We are tired of this culture of corruption in D.C.

PALESTINIANS: WANT PEACE?

I have a new solution for you!

Israel wants Gilad Shalit back!

These last hostilities began because Hamas Palestinians dug under your common border with Israel with the purpose of kidnapping another soldier!

How many peaceful Palestinians got killed because of the retaliation?   Whose fault was it – you cannot continue to blame Israel!

It’s time to take a chance and trust your opposition!   If thousands of you do, rise up and protest in the streets, and force Hamas to return Galid, this can all end.   Oh, I know, Hamas doesn’t want it to end, but who controls you?   Do you want to continue to live in a state of war, in poverty?

You cannot deny that Arafat became wealthy and it did not pass on to you . . .    You cannot say that the Palestinians who want war, those who belong to Hamas, or those from Iran, care about you and your children.   It’s time to take control!

Iraq is free!   Did you see the pride in the Iraqis faces when they showed their purple inked fingers?

You too can be free of this!

Rise up and grab hold of freedom!   It’s within your grasp!

NATIONALIZE THEM? Step 1 to FASCISM!

As bad as the oil companies are, the banks are, corporations, other large businesses are, what Americans do NOT want is for our government to nationalize them.

But that’s the plan!

Government is too corrupt to run our country and our businesses!

Maxine Waters pulled a “biden” (a gaffe) that was shown on the Glenn Beck show yesterday.  

She stopped herself mid-sentence, stuttered and gave up trying to find the right words to create a smoke screen and just went ahead and said it!  

Obama told us.   Waters told us.   They’re taking over!

They want socialism!  

The wealthy have theirs and they want the people to think this is best for us!   Socialist nations don’t take 35% taxes!   Socialist countries take a much larger chunk!

That’s what they’re after!!!!

They want more of our hard-earned money!  

1. They searched for a way to get the people to believe it was best;
2. the wealthy agreed to get the people angry and abuse the system . . . . 
3. It was part of the scam!  
4. Once Socialism is firmly in place, the classes are set in place - the American Dream is over!  

Now, the chance to start your own business by struggling, investing, working hard, . . . that sill exists.

But Socialism?   That enables FASCISM!   It’s upon us; it’s knocking on the door!   They’ve just not got all their ducks in a row . . . not yet, but almost.

Though the media is not broadcasting what the plan is, think about it!   You think D.C. would not jump at a chance to take 65% of your earnings and give you . . . give you what?   A poor health care system like Europe has?

The PEOPLE, Mr. President DO NOT WANT SOCIALISM!

You try this and the people will rise up!

We’ll get even with these greedy sobs in our own way; we’ll play them against each other; we’ll find another power source; we’ll boycott; we’ll buy motorcycles.   We don’t need the auto industry, the oil and gasoline providers run by the same people that run the welfare system and the Post Office!

OBAMA OBSESSED

I’ll admit’ I’m not a psychiatrist nor a psychologist but I’m marveled that no one in those professions has written an analysis regarding President Obama’s obsession - his need for public acclaim, attempting to grab the glory of being President . . . or savior!

Has he missed a day . . . has he missed one chance to be on TV?

He writes editorials to the major papers and is seen at every opportunity.

Pure and simple, . . . .  instead of the public claim, or their claims that he’s a messiah; the way I see it, he’s precipitating  the entire mania and I suspect at the very least, it’s a neurosis on his part as much as the adoring public.

OBAMA AND CONGRESS’ BUYING MONKEYS

Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy

monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys

became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy

on his behalf.  In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.”

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for  920 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the Stimulus PLAN  WILL WORK !!!!

It doesn’t get

much clearer than this….

BREAKING NEWS:

 

From the NYT:

He was a pious Muslim convert who went to the Al-Azhar mosque daily, living in Cairo, Egypt, until his death in 1992. 

And he was also one of the most monstrous Nazi war criminals still at large, who performed medical experiments on imprisoned Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp:

 

Fate of Dr. Aribert Heim, the Most-Wanted Nazi War Criminal, Is Uncovered

   CAIRO — Even in old age the imposingly tall, athletic German known to locals as Tarek Hussein Farid maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital. He walked to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque here, where he converted to Islam, and to the ornate J. Groppi Cafe downtown, where he ordered the chocolate cakes he sent to friends and bought the bonbons he gave to their children, who called him Uncle Tarek. 

Friends and acquaintances here in Egypt also remember him as an avid amateur photographer who almost always wore a camera around his neck, but never allowed himself to be photographed. And with good reason: Uncle Tarek was born Aribert Ferdinand Heim, a member of Hitler’s elite Waffen-SS and a medical doctor at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

It was behind the gray stone walls of Mauthausen, in his native Austria, that Dr. Heim committed the atrocities against hundreds of Jews and others that earned him the nickname Dr. Death and his status as the most wanted Nazi war criminal still believed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to be at large.

Dr. Heim was accused of performing operations on prisoners without anesthesia; removing organs from healthy inmates, then leaving them to die on the operating table; injecting poison, including gasoline, into the hearts of others; and taking the skull of at least one victim as a souvenir. After living below the radar of Nazi hunters for more than a decade after World War II — much of it in the German spa town of Baden-Baden where he had a wife, two sons and a medical practice as a gynecologist — he escaped capture just as investigators closed in on him in 1962.

He died with a significant estate which the son (who continued to lie about knowing where his father was) wants to claim – saying he wants to give it to charity.

Google the site – there’s an interesting video on him the NYT site.

This, his home in Cairo . . . . where he died . . . . had this man been my father, I would have turned him in; there are consequences for our actions; still, I’m sure he is finding that out.   It is appropriate that he lived, died and left his heritage among the Islamic people!

 

 

 

 

 

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Partially from Yahoo News, comes proof that Hamas does not deserve to be the elected officials of Gaza!

Rather than meant for relief for those who suffered in the war, money was bound for purchase of more rockets!

CAIRO – Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday — but not before some members of the militant group’s delegation were stopped at the Gaza border carrying millions in cash.

The delegation walked away from the cease-fire talks because of disagreements over the blockage on Gaza and border security. Talks will continue at a later date.

An Egyptian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the group initially refused to be searched by Egyptian authorities at the Rafah border crossing. When the group relented, authorities found $7 million and 2 million euros ($2.5 million) in cash in their suitcases. Another security official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said $9 million and 2 million euros were found. The discrepancy could not be immediately explained.

12 ITEMS: President Obama’s Failures

1/6/09

For the outrageous specifics on what is proposed . . . . a link is at the bottom, but first, read each of these items carefully / considering each one could be a legitimate complaint, that they’re not just those of someone opposed to President Obama and these people I’m talking of are the same people that have looted our SOCIAL SECURITY!

Know also, that the reason for the congress’ intense focus on getting Republicans on board with the proposed bill is so that when it does pass, yet fails to stimulate creation of jobs, it can then be said it is NOT the Democrat’s fault!

1. Keep his word – he said “no lobbyists” – then Daschle, Panetta, etc
2. Keep his word – he said “no Pork” – this is nothing but hundreds of billions of $’s of pork! And, that’s even after so much has been caught and deleted!
3. Keep his word – he said “Transparency” – the Stimulus Bill is NOT on the net – if people saw the pork . . .
4. Keep his word – he said “Integrity” – then nominated – tax cheats – Geithner, Daschle, Kellner (sp?), Plus, why did the tax cheats not get prosecuted? If they couldn’t pay their taxes, who did? (and all at the last moment)!
5. Keep his word – he said “Integrity” – then nominated those with “conflict of interests” – Daschle – health industry, Geithner – IMF, Panetta – worked closely with and received $700Million LAST YEAR, from firms related to Defence and Intelligence firms!
6. Keep his word – stop the corruption out of the hands of and gone after the Senate and House members who look guilty – Barney Frank’s deal w/ Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the local bank he AGAIN got into the Bailout $ deal …. Chris Dodd’s sweatheart deal on his home,
7. Keep the abuse out of the “Bailout” – the way the Bailout $ was spent – spa trips, golden parachutes, corruption to friends, etc
8. Track the “Bailout” money spent!
9. Keep it civil – he’s been threatening the people with disaster if he doesn’t get his way!
10. Let PORK specialists (Reid & Pelosi) run away with this proposed Stimulus Bill $.92 TRILLION – 750 pages of PORK – putting our children indo permanent debt – 18,750 local projects presented by the mayors of America!
11. Been honest about the Demands and Threats of other nations – especially the G-20 group that (Biden and Krauthammer admitted) were giving the U.S. 100 days to accept the European Economic Plan – what many are calling (rightfully so) the NEW GLOBAL ORDER!
12. Should not have our children headed for being this far in debt!

 

Above are President Obama’s, Harry Reid’s, and Nancy Pelosi’s ”SHOULD NOT HAVE” // following are the 2 “SHOULD HAVE DONE”

 

1. CONTROL THE DEBT – - – BALANCE THE BUDGET!
2. He should have overseen the writing of the bill, insuring that what was in there ONLY things that would stimulate jobs – historically, that means $ going to private industry who provides jobs.

Now, for the specifics . . . . YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS!

 

 

 

 

 

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjcyODIyZGM2MGU1ZDdkNDgxZDc3OTNjYjM4ZDY1ODI

THE FUTURE: MORE BILL AYERS . . . . MILLIONS OF ‘EM

When will it be that the American people ask the only important questions?

What are they, you ask?

1. Who is it that looted American’s retirement system – Social Security!
2. Who just gave themselves a $93,000.00 a year raise?   With YOUR money and in these times!

With those two questions answered ….. you answered them, right?

Their immediate goal is to make themselves permanently electable, that’s obvious, . . . . but what about the unintended consequences – the ramifications of what happens when the dollar fails and we become like the Weimer Republic - you know, . . . . when the dollar has become worthless?   In the Weimer (pre-Hitler, pre-Socialist Germany), when people had to take a wheelbarrow of money to the store to get a loaf of stale rye bread . . . .

Is it that they’ll have theirs and they expect to be left alone while we scramble to get ours?

Won’t the people be angry then?

Won’t the former middle class, those that once had “the good life” and their children could look forward to college, good paying jobs, owning their own businesses, having all the toys . . . .

Won’t all those people become the angry Bill Ayers of the past, shouting what Ayers did?   “Kill your parents?”  

Or will they just be shouting . . . . ”Kill the legislators?”

One has to think, these legislators really must be STUPID!

Maybe, . . . . just maybe they’ll be nice and shout “throw them in prison”!

OBAMA – ANTOINETTE

 

02/07/09

 

Exposing indulgences and conspiracy – I dare you to consider this link.

 

http://factreal.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/obama-antoinette/

Some are saying that President Obama’s goal is to enslave America’s future children . . . .

If that were true, that would have to be the act of a really angry, (re)vengeful man wouldn’t it?

I mean – a man like that would have to be someone who could spend 20 years in a church where hate is preached!

Even if enslaving future children were not his long term goal, . . . an act of revenge for what their forefathers had done to his, and so many other’s ancestors, . . . .

That couldn’t be, could it?

Even if scuttling the American Dream, was unintended, wouldn’t that have to be the act of an evil man?

 

 

CARRYING A GUN

The rationale of carrying my concealed weapon:

I carry a gun because I love people who make life meaningful to me and realize, I will protect them, whatever the cost.

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 wishing I’d been prepared.

I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep loved ones from being killed.  To do that, I must also protect myself. 

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 feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

“Police Protection” is sometimes an oxymoron; the average response time to a 911 call is over 4 minutes.

Free citizens must protect themselves.  Usually, police, do not protect you from crime; normally they investigate, afterwards, 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’. . . . nor do I want one.

I live within the law, but know, the average response time of a 357 magnum is 1400 feet per second….. you plan to harm my loved ones?  You’d best be quicker than that.

WISDOM

If you have not discovered what, in life, is worth dying for, you have not begun living!  

Paraphrased from Rabbi Weinberg.

http://www.aish.com/movieArticles/movieArticlesDefault/Tribute_Rabbi_Weinberg.asp

CONGRESS: EUROPEAN WANNABEES

Any doubt why Congress are European wannabees?  

In Socialist Europe, taxes reach an average of 48% of the GNP; here it’s only 34%.   Just look at how much more money they’d have to work with and spend to make themselves look good so they’d be re-elected!

AMERICAN JIHAD

Celebrating quietly, sources in Yemin say the terrorist leader and his followers will be released and home in 60 – 90 days. You need to hear the mom of one of the U.S.S. Cole’s slain sailors, Diane McDaniels!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNaakPox5s

President Obama stopped the prosecution of the terrorists that attacked the U.S.S Cole on Friday.   Why?   Today, he appears in Elkhart, Indiana tomorrow to sell his boondoggle to the people.

Cannot the media put these two news items together?   Is not the tail, wagging the dog again – diverting attention of what’s important by creating controversy?

First and foremost, President obama has chosen Political Suicide; he’s not just disregarding the security of the U.S., . . . . he has put our servicemen overseas, even more in harm’s way!  

Sure, the Stimulus needs to be stopped, but right now, it’s the diversion to keep our attention off the important issue.

The captain of the U.S.S. Cole and parents were scheduled to meet with Glenn Beck after meeting with President Obama. . . . . somehow, the meeting was scuttled; Obama’s people insured it did not happen.

Where is the outrage?   17 honorable servicemen died for this?   . . . . one million four hundred thousand servicemen put their lives on the line for this?

Our forefathers, fought and died for freedom! The desire, the compassionate emotions for justice and equality came from these intelligent men and women and back then, it was the local FREE PRESS which ignited and fueled the fire in their hearts.

Now, our new president has usurped that emotion, that fire that still calls for freedom, justice and equality but behind the scene is extinguishing it, or attempting to.

Now, the free press has grown to corporate status and has died.

Blogging has replaced it.   Rightfully so!

Bloggers though, are lost in a sea of egotistical, self-centered voices, each clamoring to be heard!

It’s time to back off from the trees for a moment and see the forest!

There are things worth dying for!

Putting your life on the line is exhibited by some of our youngest idealists – they’ve signed up, and are putting their lives, our future on the line!

Question is, how do we proffer GOOD change, here at home, while honoring them and their sacrifices!   We shouldn’t even need to ask this but we’ve become a fat, self-centered people.

Our chore now, is no different from theirs, . . . our forefathers’.   Putting our lives on the line in these polarized times is . . . . not uncommon, if one looks around.   I work with hundreds of people who do that – daily.   They give of themselves, they put their lives on the line and their resources at risk, they work tirelessly, they sacrifice and inspire me and others!

Because of working with them, insight has gifted me an almost miraculous understanding of theirs and our forefather’s dedication . . . .

• Like them, I am not alone; I am the profile of a citizen, governments of the world, fear.
• In the Eric Hoffer sense, I am a true-believer.
• I have found what is worth living for, therefore I have discovered it is also worth dying for.
• I live in a country where it is legal for me to carry a gun.
• I believe peace is possible.
• I believe justice and equality are possible.
• I know evil exists.
• I realize those statements contradict, and I have chosen which side to stand on.
• During Viet Nam, I was wrong; I didn’t stand there, but now, I’m proud to stand with our servicemen.
• I believe that government is a collection of us, and we reside with a purpose to do what is right, but . . .
• I have also learned that “Power Corrupts”.

The way it looks to me is President Obama offers us the Asian Psyllid of hope . . . . an unseen insect that destroys an entire economy.

It’s the partisan disease of massive pork spending, . . . . enslaving future generations!

It’s even worse; all this while insuring a lack of protection for the homeland exists, exactly what President Obama swore on Lincoln’s bible, NOT to do.

America wanted a change; what we got was a Queen!

Is it that King Obama has allowed the Harry Reids, the Nancy Pelosis, the Barney Franks and Chris Dodds, to run away with this, or was it his plan to later be able to blame them?   Many experts say it will sink America!   Osama doesn’t need to do it; our president is!

Is this to be President Obama’s legacy – the man who reigned over America when ? ? ?

What he is creating, is an escalation of hate that far exceeds what the Bush Administration experienced!

Only one month into the presidency, and this, what our eyes were to be diverted from, could be the death knell for our new President – a self-inflicted, Political Suicide.   One can take a lot of positions in America and find the clash or cultures will split us right down the middle, but you mess with our children, our servicemen who sacrifice for us, . . . . you put them in even more danger, . . . . you may as well reserve a place on the trash-heap of history, right there alongside former President Carter.

If you cannot hear the outrage building Mr. President, you’ve got the football game turned up too loud!

AN OVERVIEW: STIMULUS AND OTHER CONVERGING PROBLEMS

This too will pass.   It will fail and the only success here is that the Republicans have found their backbone enough to make the Democrats own this failure!

Have you looked for the specifics of the Stimulus online?   Good luck.   Maybe you’re better at it than I am at finding it; maybe there’s a new update . . . .   I’ve looked, but not found any specifics, just generalities - if there are, I’ll pull this down; but for now, suffice it to say that what the President is asking of us is to trust him AGAIN – that he’s still going to fix everything.

But why are they again, so hysterical to pass this so fast?   After the “Bailout”, shouldn’t we have learned?  And if it is going to save us, how is he going to do this?   His cabinet appointees, are the same-ol, same-ol.   Tax cheats, lobbiests, spouses of lobbiests, and old cronies firmly entrenched in the Way of the Beltway – that old tried and corrupt method of D.C. control.   (Has anyone ever considered the framing of that station of life as D.C. being the DIRECT CURRENT – where power only flows one way?)

Therefore, it’s going to be the same old cronies which ran the programs that didn’t work - handing out a lot more money . . . .   In fact, the lady to oversee the Bailout just informed us, that Paulsen’s deals with the banks, lost the government an additional $78 Billion – that the worth of what America received was = to .66 on the dollar!

But throwing money at things, doesn’t fix them, so why worry?     

(“It’s Only Money” is the name of a friend’s boat.   He quit fishing from it, when fuel got above $3.00 / gal.   Tuna are usually far out – as good a fisherman and as willing to take massive hauls, it was just not worth it.)

Money does one thing though, it makes programs and people more dependant on the money!   Anyone think there won’t be unfinished programs demanding more cash on down the line?

While you’re at looking, take a glance (real quick, so you don’t get too angry) . . . over at what’s going on behind closed doors!   Rob Emanuel, the man with the self-described “sharp-elbows” has taken over the Census . . . .

The Census Bureau, if you’re not aware of it, is the power that redesigns America’s districts into decade long, power bases for those who want to retain power.

As Fox News commented, ‘can you imagine if Karl Rove had done this?’   President Obama’s slick move of getting a tenured Republican out of a key position in the Senate almost backfired – no problem – Rob made sure it didn’t.  

These Chicago politicians don’t play for; they leave nothing to chance – never have!

And it wasn’t, that a Republican (especially one with integrity) under Prez Obama would have done anything wrong, so what was the need for Rob to step in?  

Something darker planned here?   That’s obvious, just watch; you’ll see.

That said, why don’t you take a guess just who will the new Census workers be?  

The people that have and weild power, want to keep it . . . don’t forget the promises . . . the ones made to A.C.O.R.N. workers . . . .   You think these “community organizers” just might be the new Census takers?   Have you noticed the media is afraid to even suggest such a thing!

The Dems are playing for all the marbles here and they’ve just redrawn the circle and are using a steelie!

There’s a biblical phrase that’s appropriate here – for those who can read it: The writing’s on the wall. 

Some say we’re in for revenge or retribution – and it may as well be – a conclusive attempt to establish a permanent ruling class!

ACTIVISM – LOCAL ANTI-DRUG USE

Rather than preach, when our children’s hero makes a mistake, it’s best to let them see you act.

Please, next time you’re out and about, and need something quick to eat, find a Quiznos or some other good deli, then stop by your local Subway, sandwich in hand, and tell them:
 
“This is where I use to pick up a sandwich . . . .   I oppose Subway’s siding with a poor role model; wish they’d have decided differently, but actually, Quiznos or xxxxxxx, is quite good!”  

Then, with a smile on your face, just turn and go; nothing else need be said, . . . . that is, unless you want to ask them to pass that comment on to the manager – having customers IS job security.
 
You need not pick up a sign and stand out front during the lunch hour . . . although that might make a quicker impression.

Like it or not, the pot legalization fanatics are targeting your children . . .   They’re well funded and single focused!   Look at the George Soros’ funded book for children and the other pictures – promoting hemp, candy, etc.

Most people, when they think of pot are not up to date on the science!  

The old pot – of the 70’s and before, had a THC content of 2-3%.   Now, it’s THC content has surged into the mid 30%.   It is severely impacting youth.   You’d do well to look at both sides of the issue . . . .  

The Gateway effect is much stronger; the mental damage is much more severe and long-lasting. 

          

OBAMA’S HYSTERIA

Why the hysteria?   Why the rush?

The people that he’s asking to fix this are the same people that caused the problem – the legislature!   Why the blame on the Bush Administration?  It was four things in concert:

1. loss of our manufacturing base catching up with us – meaning fewer work than not
2. fraud – the wall street’ and bankers’ crew
3. lack of oversight (from the Clinton era) that brought the economy to this place
4. too long of supply lines – two wars to support.

Obama should have been here in May and June of 1980!   My ex and I counted 3 moving vans per block.   It was the end of the school year and everyone was leaving town (Eugene / Springfield, Oregon) looking for work in L.A. and Colorado.   That night, on the news, reporters interviewed men in the 600-people-line for 2 jobs, as linemen, for the local electric company – EWEB!   That beats Elkhart!   In the line were people with multiple Ph.D’s, and masters degrees, etc.

The Prez went to Elkhart today; they’ve made the same mistake we had.   We’d had all our eggs in the “Timber” basket – it’s western Oregon and the saying from Seattle became an acronym-saying here; everyone know what TOTL meant.   “(Will the last person leaving) turn out the lights!”  

Elkhart is like us in more than one way; we’ve diversified somewhat . . . . we’re now the West Coast of their industry – the Recreational Vehicle Industry, where they’ve stored their “eggs”.   One could link the RV industry to the Auto Industry without much of a stretch . . . . .

These things are cyclical for the most part, but some serious mistakes ….. er, mis-steps have been made; they need to be corrected. 

The thing America has to do is realize that we’ve outsourced our entire manufacturing industry and re-training won’t pick up the slack – something more needs to be done!   Borrowing it, is NOT the answer.   The Beltway group have no right to put us and future generations that far in debt – ESPECIALLY when it’s much easier to fix!

Obama did not inherit the problem, as he claims.   A significant part of this was created by those he organized, A.C.O.R.N. - community organizers, pushing the legislature to make unsafe loans and forcing banks to comply.

Though re-Training and Bailouts are only part of the Obama BS, there are answers!  

• We need our jobs back
• We need tariffs;
• We need rewards for companies that bring manufacturing jobs back and
• We need penalties for those who don’t!
• We need to repeal GATT and NAFTA

There’s more, but borrowing to get out of debt is hysterical, partisan, knee-jerk reaction!

The Republicans should let the Democrats fail, just as they are - make them own this failure when they pass this gargantuan spending boondoggle of pork!   Senator Kennedy is to fly in for the vote – it’ll pass and it’ll be on the President to make this look successful.

Though I’ll fight to my dying breath against socialism, I hate to see America fail . . . . .   We don’t have a choice; Americans have abdicated their responsibility.

There are people behind those we see out front – I refer to them as the puppeteers and they want America to:

1. loose it’s position as the world power, as world cop . . .
2. have its’ military subjugated to the U.N. (that’s already in place by executive order)
3. become socialist (the ducks are almost all in a row)
4. be unable to protect Israel – that, is their ultimate goal; when that happens, better be looking heavenward – actually, that’ll probably be late.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: CLINTONESQUE

Everyone knows what “is” is.

Now, Prez Obama, is lying, or possibly, he does not understand what Pork is!   18,750 particular insertions of programs of special spending that benefits certain people or businesses, certainly defines pork!

Have you seen the bill?   Neither have I, but legislators have admitted there are that many instances of special programs!   The catch-22?   These were requested by the Mayors, not necessarily the legislators; still, they’re the ones others will be beholdin’ to!

President Obama is changing the definition of “is”; he said there are no “earmarks”, but he also used the word “pork”, and that is pure deception (another way of saying “lie”); I’m not President; I don’t have to parse words!

What that means is – WE CAN NOT BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT!

• You promised transparency.
• You promised integrity – no conflict of interests.
• You promised no corruption.

WE’RE ONLY THREE WEEKS IN . . . WE DON’T NEED FOUR YEARS OF LIES!   

Let’s take a time-out, . . . . like in basketball.   How about we admit borrowing is unwise, call it even, and start over . . .

 

THE CENSORED TRUTH: HERE

02/1009

UPDATE: UNPRECEDENTED WEB OF CORRUPTION BEING EXPOSED AS LAYOFFS INCREASE – stay tuned.   AIG has gotten how much more, since the scandal?   This is totally out of control!

Though they tried to hide it, here’s the proof that President Obama blaming Bush for the financial crisis, is not only a LIE!   This also exposes the warnings given by Bush seeking correction for an impending crisis, turned back by . . . , and therefore the complicit corruption of elected officials!

As stated in earlier posts, I blame was Barney Frank, Charles Schumer, and Chris Dodd, and the people who forced the banks to make loans to people who could not afford to pay them back.   Just what was President Obama’s involvement with A.C.O.R.N.?   What’s President Clinton’s connection to all this?   What a tangled web!

(You Remember B(l)arney Frank, right?   The now acknowledged homosexual [not then, though] Congressman’s tolerance for Steven Gobie, a gay, felon, prostitute, who ’serviced’ Blarney, and his running a prostitution business operating out of Frank’s house in 1989, uncovered by the Wash. Post)

President Bush and Alan Greenspan warned America and it’s legislature, but it was not only ignored, . . . . you decide where the blame lies after watching the video.

This video was taken off youtube once; this copy was accessed through Canada, I’m told – given to me so people would have access to the truth which those in power have tried to hide!  

While watching the video, remember: it’s been said, A.C.O.R.N. was the political activist group that pressured the legislature to force the banks, Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae to make these loans to people who could not afford them.    Also they’re (Acorn) not a Political Action Committee, so it’s illegal for them to have done so, but you think they’ll be prosecuted?   Instead, how much money of the Stimulus do you think they’ll receive?

UPDATE:  Today, 2/10/09, Acorn is holding a ralley in D.C., on the mall, to support the passage of the Stimulus bill.

Then, remember who Franklin Raines went on to support Barack . . . . you don’t remember who Raines is?   He’s the former CEO of Freddie Mac – you know, the one who took the $90 million golden parachute President Obama was supposedly so angry about?

Oh; and just so you understand, Franklin Raines ( From Wikipedia: Raines the former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. His role leading Fannie Mae has come in for scrutiny) was deeply involved in supporting the Obama Campaign.   I guess with his golden parachute, he doesn’t need an appointment from Barack????   Or maybe the in-the-pocket-media just hasn’t mentioned it.

So; while it lasts, here is the video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1  no telling how long it will be there; it was taken down before, because of a law suit; forward this to friends; it’s time people understand that President Obama’s connections were at the bottom of this financial failure in the first place!

Then, watch the youtube of Bill O’Reilly when he went off at Barney Frank.   You’ll understand why!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bijtBkKQwY8    When all the shouting is done, and the video ends, go back and listen to just the first part of BLarney’s statement . . . . Then, it’s easy to decide!

What a tangled web!    It took me a while, but I finally get it . . . . .   All these guys spin the web – they’re the spiders and we’re the flies!

The vote on the Stimulus bill is close – too close to let these people who got us into this fix in the first place to have their way; it’s time for the people to demand resignations!   Time to get out the RAID!

BLOWBACK: Obama’s Ineptitude and Other Messes

America will never again be the same.   The economy aside, it’s blowback from Afghanistan, [aka Charlie Wilson's War] it’s only begun to come home to roost; President Obama has been tested and has already failed – Americans don’t even know . . . . not yet.

Russia has not just thumbed it’s nose at us, when President Obama stated he wanted to negotiate a new nuclear disarmament agreement, Russia threw down the gauntlet.

President Obama, not having a clue, again, reached out with his hand . . . . we can imagine the looks between the Russian leaders realizing he had no clue as to the state of the world – the thoughts going through their minds – ‘this guy, because he’s a black and a socialist, thinks he understands us and has something in common with us . . . . hahahaha’  

Ok; that part is my own conjecture, but let me back it up.  

Iraq is pretty well under control, for the time being anyway, now everyone is focusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan and, and, and . . . . the other area’s …..stans.   What happened is, Russia loaned Kyrgyzstan $2,000,000,000 – that’s 2 illion, with a “B”!   . . . and they, in turn, told the U.S. to get out!  

Huh?   Get out of where?   Oh; I’m sorry . . . . don’t feel bad, I didn’t know this either.   That’s where the U.S. air bases are, the ones that supply Afghanistan!

President Obama: better go back and read Sun Tzu’s infamous book – the one studied by every West Point graduate – “The Art of War“!   The only part I know, what I’m referring to, is the section on supply lines and the costs to the homefront!  

Russia almost capitulated . . . almost . . . .    Make no mistake about this; Russia doesn’t do anything without a reason.   They allow non-lethal military shipments, . . . for now.   I’d bet a dollar-to-a-dime, that’ll end when there’s a crisis.   Russia likes to be able to watch from close range.   

Relations with Pakistan haven’t helped either – nor have our President’s statements and strikes inside their country; they’ve inflamed the situation!

And don’t forget, the war in Afghanistan is what brought Russia down, and the majority of the people of both Pakistan and Afghanistan are . . . . well, they’re not what we call “friendlies”.   They didn’t oppose the Taliban nor Al-Qaida.

Condi, in her great wisdom, [yes; that's sarcasm; I know the public wants to like her but if you've paid attention, she's made some fatal mistakes over there] . . . Condi compelled Musharraf to resign as head of the military and be elected democratically as President.   Good move, Condi!   He lost!  

The nation’s close to being considered a powder keg!   President Obama’s rhetoric has only worsened things!

Next, just this last week, it proceeded to thumb its’ nose at us by releasing  A.Q. Kahn; he’d been under house arrest for years – since Libya revealed his help in nuclear proliferation.   This may not register with most folks, but this man was the one who helped both Pakistan and N. Korea become nuclear powers.  

President Obama thought he could waltz them all into place and now, with Iran almost nuclear, he’s facilitated another potential – not just Pakistan’s offering more help to other Muslim nations but . . . . but . . . . but . . . oh crap!  . . . he could help and Pakistan disavow any knowledge of . . . . help to – even a non-nation terrorist group perhaps?

Nice job Prez!   You’re not just adept at bringing down the United States financially, but you’ve opened the door to bolstering, and emboldening, the world’s most violent terrorists!

This week, the (Taliban?), took out a bridge on the Khyber Pass – crucial to our supply lines to our forces in Afghanistan!   Notice a pattern here?   It’s ratcheting up, cutting us off – what’s next”   A west-Berlin type airdrop?

On the other front, confusing the issues, the attack in Mumbai, has the nation of India and Pakistan each poised with their left hand clutching the other’s throat and an atom bomb at the ready, in the other!    And what’ll you do here, Mr. President?   Any solutions?

America’s left wing, those suffering from ”Bush Derangement Syndrome” were upset . . . . er, irate over Iraq?   That’s nothing to what’s in store in Afwanistan!   (phonetic spelling)

Our President’s waving an olive brance at these people, is a cultural thing – misunderstood by us.  

What it means is, . . . .    [Picture Richard Pryor saying this] . . . “hold on a minute; OK?  I’m in trouble here, don’t hit me, okay?”

Our President’s new at this, we understand, but this’s crucial; he needs to learn more than just protocol!

As old as McCain was, maybe he would’ve been a better choice . . . . think maybe?   Nobody woulda jerked old ironsides around like this!

CALL FOR REVOLUTION: CONGRESS – PRISON AWAITS!

This slavery congress signed our children into, without a Lincoln and half a nation dying, is forever!

Send congress to prison; they should be thankful it’s not the guillotine!

UPDATE BELOW:

This said, recessions and depressions hurt us all, but they’re cyclical.

President Obama and all the democratic congress belong in Prison for what they’ve done to America.

America’s citizens have just signed their children and grandchildren into slavery and the Senators laugh about it and make these snide comments!   They don’t care! Why should they?   They’ve got theirs!

Laughing at the Senate’s being able to pass the bill, in spite of the numerous complaints, Senator Schumer said:

‘All these ‘porky amendments’ . . . . the American public really don’t care . . . . .’

Unfortunately, he tells it like it is!

1. President Obama said there wasn’t any pork nor earmarks - that’s a Clinton type LIE!
2. Those who believe him, deserve the slavery coming!

I have a Stimulus plan I seriously think will work.

Those who vote for the revised Stimulus plan are financially involved.   So are their families.   This goes for every citizen!   Of course, after Congress is in prison, we’ll need a new vote.   Instead of trusting politicians, people would have to know what they’re voting for – kind of a lottery, if you like.

If it works, they make money.

If it fails, and it will, they owe – the dept is owed until it’s paid, no matter how many generations!

I’ll bet that no democrat will vote for it if their own money and their children’s money is in jeopardy!   Those who support this stimulus bill, I think they know it’s going to fail, but think they’ll have a good ride for a while.

This debt, needs to be put on the backs of those responsible!   And . . . . for the pork and the earmarks, Congress does deserve prison!

UPDATE:  On Fox News, they just interviewed a lady who exposed that in Tom Daschle’s book, on page 196, it was him that suggested the game plan – how to slip this (specifically – the Stimulus’ rationing health care) by the American people!

POLARAZATION: the cause of it all

Media has polarized us; w/o considering both sides America is doomed!

Better act quick Congress is putting us and our children into permanent slavery!

Look at the Stimulus; you’ll find President Obama lied.   There’s both pork and earmarks – they’ve just hidden most of it – how?    They’ve given it to different people to dole it out, but it’s there!

People who lie, people you cannot trust do not deserve your support!   What you have now is Obama, Tom Daschle, and congress slipping things in on you – telling you what health procedures you can have – - – TOTALITARIANISM!

DON’T READ ONLY WHAT AND WHOM YOU ALREADY AGREE WITH!

It’s been divide and conquer – and the American people have been the target!

HISTORICAL REPETITION?

“THE SPARK!

King Prohibits Exportation of arms and ammunition to America.  Whitehall, Oct. 19, 1774

The Earl of Dartmouth to the Governours of the Colonies:

Sir: His Majesty having thought fit by his Order in Council this day to prohibit the exportation from Great Britain of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, I herewith enclose to you a copy of the Order; and it is his Majesty’s command that you do take the most effectual measures for arresting, detaining, and securing any Gunpowder , or any sort of Arms or Ammunition which may be attempted to be imported into the Province under your Government, unless the master of the ship having such Military Stores on board shall produce a license from his Majesty . . . .”

Quoted from: The Christian History of the American Revolution – Consider & Ponder // page 322 // by Verna M. Hall

Page 508: June 12th, 1775 – Governor Gage declared Martial Law

My take on what Mark Twain said ‘history doesn’t repeat itself, . . . but it rhymes’ – meaning of course that there is always a little twist, but it does seem as if it repeats, so look for it repeating itself – only this time, it’d be repealing the 2nd . . . . or maybe they’d come to the door first?

CENSORSHIP

best ad was censored: https://secure.helpairthead.org/?id=fidelis&mailcode=FIM7NJAA  – rejected, from the Superbowl – wonder why?

ANOTHER TAX CHEATER & CONFLICT OF INTEREST AMONG OBAMA’S NOMINEES

02/11/09

Socialist?   It just doesn’t end!   Tired of what seems nothing but tax cheats, conflicts of interests and lobbiests?   This seems like nothing but pure corruption!   Of course, socialist connections and fanaticism regarding unions shouldn’t prohibit one from being involved . . . . should it?

Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis of California seemed headed for confirmation as labor secretary, but a Senate committee put off a vote when it was revealed that her husband had unresolved tax issues with his business. Republican lawmakers also say they worry about her association with a pro-union organization.

BANKER-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Congress thinks we don’t care, that they won’t get us angry . . . . that we won’t bother to remember.  However, they’re dead wrong!   It’s the enemies within, which former President Eisenhower warned us about – those, that would be our greatest danger!

We now see how right he was!   He just had the wrong group – it was not the military industrial complex; instead, the group that’s taking the United States into permanent serfdom / slavery - the Congress/Banker/lobbiests complex.

 

See page 196 of Tom Daschle’s contempt for us, exhibited in his book for the directions on how to deceive the American Public!   

He instructs, just call it ‘urgent, and push whatever you want, through the congress buried inside a critical bill’.   The method of passing all the pork and earmarks they want are hidden inside the Stimulus bill –  it’s exactly how he recommended it be done, but they took it a bit farther; they didn’t even put it in for us to read!   Though it’s full of pork and bound to take the entire nation down with it . . . . the public had not even seen it!

It is these enemies within, which control America; they have looted our Social Security, lived outside of their means, earmarked Billion$ to insure they looked good and got re-elected, made sweetheart deals with the powerful and wealthy, when they left office began to weild the power of “how-to-in-the-beltway”!  

I call Tom Daschle as the biggest violator of the American spirit!  

Senator Dirksen once said, “A million here, a million there, . . . pretty soon, you’re talking about real money!”   Any wonder why they named the Senate Office Building after him?

I call for every member of Congress to RESIGN!  

America needs to elect honest people instead of the crooks we have!

RECALL FIRST! SULLY FOR PRESIDENT!

What America needs, in politics, . . . in office, . . . is a non politician!  

I think that just about says it all.   I’m sick of hearing of tax cheats, corruption, CEO thieves, those with conflicts of interests,  cronies, and lobbiests!    Tar and feathers is too good for some of these people!

We already know Sully’s cool, calm demeanor under fire.   We know he’s humble, honest, a man of integrity, he’s former military.   Anyone else think we made a big mistake and willing to begin a movement to recall all those in D.C. and run Sully for President?

I’ll be the first to say it; if you agree, let’s start it!

RECALL!   CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION?   WHAT’S NEEDED?   FIRST STEP, . . . . IS A RECALL!

NO MORE LAWYERS!   NO MORE BANKERS! 

WHAT WE NEED ARE PROFESSIONALS & BUSINESSMEN WITH INTEGRITY (an uncommon trait, right now, in the beltway)!

TRAITOROUS CORPORATIONS?

These American corporationss listed below, are doing business with Iran, which supports terrorism!   Also, listed below, are foreign corporations that do a huge business in America.

Simple logic:  

• Iran supports HAMAS!  
• HAMAS IS A TERRORIST STATE!  
• These Corporations deal with a nation that supports terrorists!
• We are at war with terrorism!

Please change who you find you’re doing business with.   If you have a 401k, a mutual fund, you may find you actually hold shares of stock in these internation corporations that you were not aware of.  

According to a poll by leading strategy firm Luntz, Mazlansky, more than 85% of all Americans would choose Terror-Free options, if available.    It’s time to rethink portfolios!   Americans can make a difference!

In these days of financial crisis, a troubled economy, so many thieves and incompetent CEO’s, the bailout, the stimulus, it’s morally offensive to do business with these firms; it’s even more imperative we choose sides!

U.S. corporations are listed here:

• Atlas Copco 
• Baker Hughes
• Bridgestone Corporation
• Calypte Biomedical
• Chrysler
• Coca-Cola
• Conoco Phillips
• Exxon Mobil
• General Electric
• Halliburton
• Hewlett-Packard
• Iridex Corp.
• Lloyds TSB
• MasterCard
• Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.
• Pepsi
• Secure Computing
• Speaking Roses International Inc.
• Tyson Foods
• Vast Solutions
• Visa
• Wells Fargo 

If you hold stock in these companies, (directly or indirectly) please, divest your portfolios of these stocks!

Also, please publish the list on your blog as you may have different readers; corporate CEO’s are obligated to care about their bottom line; they don’t worry about the ramifications of their actions,  including their investors / stockholders.

• Barclays PLC
• BASF
• Benetton Group S.p.A.
• Bosch
• BP
• Canon
• Daewoo
• Ericsson
• Honda Motor Co.
• HSBC
• Komatsu NYKLine
• Mercedes
• Nokia
• Nestle
• Peugeot
• Reuters
• Samsung
• Siemens
• Sony
• Texco
• Toshiba
• UBS
• Volkswagen
• Volvo

As the light of day begins to expose those in the shadows, what can we do?  

• We can refuse to do business with them, and with those who do business with them . . .  
• We can divest ourselves of our stocks and mutual funds which hold this stock in our name.  
• We can speak out against them – as people ask me about my Honda Gold Wing – I’ll tell them I’ll never own another!
• We can find out who sits on their boards – expose them, and bring shame upon them.
• I believe the time will come when the people demand these CEO’s be jailed.   It’s time to take a stand.

It’s been known that General Electric has been one of these companies that trades with Iran.   Their stock value had the bottom drop out.   Now they’ve begun partnering with President Obama to produce Green Industries – as if they cared about the welfare of America(ns).

My letter to Canon:

I had decided to purchase a digital camera but didn’t want just any camera.  I’d decided on a Canon and because I was extremely satisfied with my Canon IP 3300 and especially your customer service, and was impressed with the G10’s pictures, I decided, at the last minute, I should still look around.

Finding a great deal, I almost purchased it, but with the economy the way it was, decided to wait until I had cash rather than use plastic.

This week, ready to make my purchase, I discovered that Canon does business with Iran which supports Hamas.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am!  I now have to restudy which brand to purchase as I will not do business with a company that does business with a country that supports suicide bombers, sending rockets against non-combatants . . . . etc.

Making the decision to not purchase anything Canon, I’ve placed the list of Corporations that do business with Iran on my blog and implore others to make a moral business decision.  Sincerely,

My letter to Cricket:

I’ve enjoyed my Samsung phone and dealing with Cricket; I’ve just today found that Samsung deals with Iran which does business in Iran which supports Hamas.   I am very upset; I must now find another phone service because I cannot do business with a company that does business with those who do business in Iran, a nation that supports suicide bombing, sending rockets non-combatants, . . . .   I will be changing service as soon as I find a different service provider.   Sincerely,

Samsung will receive a similar letter.   I cannot change vehicles at this time, but guarantee I will never purchase another Dodge nor Honda Gold Wing motorcycle!

The Iranian people have the 3rd most bloggers in the world.   As the people of Iran begin to see their jobs, their nation impacted, I’m hopeful they will oust their leaders.

OBAMA THE LIAR!

Obama promised:

• 5 days to consider the Stimulus bill
• No lobbiests
• Open and transparet and honest administration
• No Pork nor Earmarks

What we got:

• Not one Representative has read the almost 1100 page bill
• Intentional deception – read page 196 of Tom Daschle’s book
• Bill was presented to the H. R. @ 11:00 pm the night before the vote
• Lobbiests – Tom Daschle and his wife – and others
• The stimulus bill has (newly named – hidden but agreed upon) ”phantom” pork and earmarks!
• Tax Cheats
• Conflict of interests
• Union promoters
• Socialists

You should have known:

• Radical Community Organizer
• Came out of Chicago’s Corrupt Politics
• Terrorist
• Terrorist supporters
• Member of church that preached Hate
• Communist mentor
• Socialists appointees and mentors
• Trained A.C.O.R.N.

Prediction: Next, will come the “Fairness Doctrine” to silence the opposition (attacks have begun already) ; when, they try to come after the guns . . . . beware of when the net goes down or censorship begins.

IMPEACH OBAMA!   EISENHOWER WAS RIGHT – THE ENEMY . . . . . . IS WITHIN!

RECALL EVERY DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED FOR THE STIMULUS!

DWI: MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATES ARE COMPLICIT IN VEHICULAR INJURIES AND DEATHS!

 

. . . will the state tell you the other driver is a “medical marijuana” user?

PROBABLY NOT!   Not even if the officer arrests the driver for being under the influence at the hospital.

Marijuana users, driving under the influence, often get away with being involved in vehicle collisions and are not prosecuted, in fact have no consequences whatsoever.

The question is, “why”?   The facts are state is facilitating this by issuing a “medical marijuana” card giving the right to use an illegal drug while allowing them to retain their driver’s licences and therefore, of course, allowing them to drive legally.   There is no reason the state ought to be issuing driver’s licenses to drug users!   Just the opposite; they should be prohibited from doing so! Marijuana users often do not come down from their high long enough to drive without being under the influence!

The states are endangering the citizenry by doing so!

DWI accidents occur every day and often, the state doesn’t reveal to the injured parties, that the other driver is a medical marijua user! Why not?

In Oregon, a state of 3.7 million population, there are near 20,850 “medical marijuana” pseudo-legal users in the state of Oregon and probably 99% still drive even though they get high every day – usually several times a day, if not constantly!

The point is, here, . . . . state employees know these people are probably driving, and I believe, they intentionally do not make that information available – to insurance companies, to police (unless for some reason, they suspect and check)!   The state counts on the police officer investigating the collision to uncover any drug use, even if there is nothing to indicate it, but because of the situation, it’s often unreasonable to expect an officer to do so.

If the state decides to issue driver’s licenses to drug users (and I believe they should not), but if they do, each license should be flagged for a police officer to easily recognize it!   This goes for any reason a driver is stopped, even if not because there’s been a vehicular collision; it would alert the officer to examine the driver for other signs that the user is possibly Druving Under the Influence / DWI!

I believe, public officials have designed these programs to purposefully, obscure the truth; of course they wouldn’t want bad publicity for what has now become their job! . . . especially not in these times!

In a number of states, driver’s use of marijuana, is often either ignored or it is not apparent to the officer at the scene.

If the user (who considers himself a patient) has used, before the collision, that does not mean he is not driving under the influence!   The use of visine, often effectively hides the use.

Also, if multiple parties are injured, the police are more focused on working the accident scene, assuring everyone is safe, and that those with injuries are transported to where they need to go.

If you live in a state where it is allowed to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, (not only has the public been scammed into believing marijuana is medicinal), and drives, your safety, the safety of your loved one, . . . . the safety of every other passenger on the road, is endangered.

If you’ve been in an accident, and an injury has occurred, and the police did not detect whether there was a DWI, I believe, it does not mean, there was no prior drug use.

Therefore it may NOT necessarily be too late, to pursue investigating this.   If the driver of the other vehicle is a “medical marijuana user” it can probably be determined by investigation how often he gets high, whether he told anyone after the fact that he was stoned, etc.

First, if you suspect the other driver is a user, the place to start is you need to have a lawyer subpoena state records to see if the other driver is a “medical marijuana” cardholder. It may take the freedom of information to force the state to reveal it, but . . . . . if the other driver is a user, you may have legal recourse against:

-   the driver

-   the auto insurance company (especially since they did not attempt to find out if their insured was driving DWI)

-   the user’s doctor’s

-   the medical malpractice insurance company (most doctors who have signed prescriptions or recommendations for marijuana users are no longer covered by malpractice insurance any longer so his entire wealth is at risk.), but it may be that when the doctor signed, he was covered, so the malpractice company may also be liable.

-   the state which issued the drivers’ license knowing he was using marijuana could also be found liable or at least complicit.

-   the legislators which directed the establishment of the program.

-   the administrators of the program (especially if it looks as if it was set it up to hide the fact that the drivers are using medication which makes them dangerous drivers.)

 

First, if you suspect the other driver is a user, the place to start is, to have a lawyer subpoena state records to see if the other driver is a “medical marijuana” cardholder.   It may take the freedom of information act to force the state to reveal it, but . . . . . if the other driver is a user, you may have legal recourse against:

 

 

• the driver
• the auto insurance company (especially since they did not attempt to find out if their insured was driving DWI)
• the driver’s doctor
• or the user’s doctor’s medical malpractice insurance company (most doctors who have signed prescriptions or recommendations for marijuana users are no longer covered by malpractice insurance any longer so his entire wealth is at risk.) It may be though that when the doctor signed, he was covered, so the malpractice company may also be liable.
• the state which issued the drivers’ license knowing he was using marijuana could also be found liable or at least complicit.
• the administrators of the program who set it up to hide the fact that the drivers are using medication which makes them dangerous drivers.
• the police for not checking ( ? ) if the driver was a medical marijuana user [or if they did, for not informing you

Good luck, and if you would please, keep us informed as to the progress of the case – post a reply on this blog and we’ll talk.  

The laws allowing drug users to drive, need to be changed as well!

Marijuana may be legal to use in some states, for supposed medicinal purposes, but that’s a scam that “legalizers” have run successfully on the public! 

MORE PORK!

Understand, there is an often used way of writing bids so that no one qualifies except who is wanted to get the bid – that’s not competitive.

• I would be remiss if I didn’t remind everybody that next week we are going to hear from the Obama administration wanting another $500 billion. Outside of this ["stimulus" bill], they are going to want another $500 billion to handle the banking system.
• The biggest earmark in history is in this bill. There is $2 billion in this bill to build a coal plant with zero emissions. That would be great, maybe, if we had the technology, but the greatest brains in the world sitting at MIT say we don’t have the technology yet to do that.
• Why would we build a $2 billion powerplant we don’t have the technology for that we know will come back and ask for another $2 billion and another $2 
  billion and another $2 billion when we could build a demonstration project that might cost $150 million or $200 million? There is nothing wrong with having coal-fired plants that don’t produce pollution; I am not against that. Even the Washington Post said the technology isn’t there. It is a boondoggle. Why would we do that?
• $88 million to study whether we ought to buy a new ice breaker for the Coast Guard. Why do we need to spend $88 million? They have two ice breakers now that they could retrofit and fix and come up with equivalent to what they needed to and not spend the $1 billion
• $448 million to build the Department of Homeland Security a new building.
• another $248 million for new furniture for that building; a quarter of a billion dollars for new furniture. What about the furniture the  Department of Homelad Security has now?
• $600 million worth of hybrid vehicles?  Dumping $600 million worth of used vehicles on the used vehicle market right now is one of the worst things we could do.
• $400 million to prevent STDs.
• $150 million for a Smithsonian museum?
• $1 billion for the 2010 census?
• $75 million for smoking cessation
• $200 million for public computer center at community colleges?  Will we actually buy on a true competitive bid?    there is no competitive bidding in this bill at all.
• $10 million to inspect canals
• $6 billion to turn Federal buildings into green buildings.
• $500 million for State and local fire stations?
• $1.2 billion for youth activities.
• $88 million for renovating the public health service building?
• $412 million for CDC [Centers for disease Control] buildings and property.
• $850 million for Amtrak 
•  $75 million to construct a new “security training” facility for State Department security officers.  We alreay have four other facilities already available to train them – a new training facility that duplicates four others that we already have
• $200 million in funding for a lease – not buying, but a lease – of alternative energy vehicles on military installations? 
•  $524 million for information technology upgrades that the Appropriations Committee claims will create 388 jobs. If you do the math on that, that is $1.5 million a job. Don’t you love the efficiency of Washington thinking
• $79 billion in additional money for the States, a “slush fund,” to bail out States and provide millions of dollars for education costs.
• $47 billion for a variety of energy prorams that are primarily focused on renewable energy

ADORATION ADDICTION

The president, addicted to the adoration of the campaign, leaves his carbon footprints across the skies of America, to traipse around the nation, visiting those who put him over the top.   Why stay w/in the beltway when there’re are so many fanatic worshipers out there? 

Out of one of the other sides of his mouth, he promotes the “green du-jour” and awaits a new terrorist attack to blame the stimulus failure on . . . .  

Aren’t we just too blessed to have such a great leader, . . . and with so many golden parachutist friends?   Let’s all name our children “Barack”!

UPDATED – Haleigh’s Home had hundreds of keys out that would open it!

UPDATE”   On Bill O’Reilly’s “The Factor” tonight, Geraldo Rivera is to expose something about Haleigh’s father.   It’s the typical ”tease” they put on the air to get people to watch, but who knows?   It might be worth watching – it’s on FoxNews channel if you don’t watch it normally.   Can’t say I like Geraldo though.   Sometimes he has an agenda and he’s extremely almost always opinionated – won’t believe there are two sides to a story; a good reporter always looks at both sides!

I guess it’s natural to follow stories like this.

Still, it bothers me that America’s follows this so intently, and at the same time ignores the fact that America’s financial future, is sealing the fate of all of America’s children – America’s potential of reaching for and grabbing the brass ring is disappearing, our own children are being escorted into slavery and people are not up in arms!   Why?

The old saying, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention!”, holds here.   That’s my only explanation – they’re not paying attention because they don’t get what’s happening; Americans have to be risk-takers to achieve the American dream – willing to work untold hours, sacrifice beyond measure, to have a shot at it . . . .   Most, heads in the sand, posteriors exposed, exhibit the ostrich mentality. 

Most cases like this, it turns out to be a family member that is the guilty one.   And with Casey Anthony’s obvious insanity, who knows what others will do – it seems to have worked for a time; at least she was released for a while.

Haleigh’s case is . . . .    It’s a warning to us all.   Learn how to live with the guidelines given us.   Set your priorities correctly . . . .   Ok; some things are beyond our control . . . .   What’s that prayer?   God, grand me the ability to know the difference?

You may want to look at some of the other postings here.   If so, click on this:  http://www.josiahe.wordpress.com

The police repeatedly say there was no “forced entry”.   So does the news media.   I’ve called the police department and informed the dispatcher of this possibility, but there’s no telling if it got passed on, and it irritates me that the media keep focusing on the same irrelevant statement about the door that had been locked was found open, ‘yet there was no forced entry’.

 

Haleigh Cummings is still missing. No telling how this will turn out, no telling where little Haleigh is, but one thing is sure . . . .

Unless the lock was installed after purchase, there didn’t need to be forced entry, for it’s likely that hundreds of people could have had access to the mobile home where the little Haleigh is missing from!

Most every mobile home manufacturer, masterkeys the locks before installation.   It’s rare that owners change those locks, therefore, there are hundreds of keys floating around that fit that brand’s mobile homes!   Employees that sell the homes on every lot across the country would have had access to the keys – not just the keys, but the masterkeys; so would the drivers that deliver them to their set-up location, and the factory workers who have to have access in case the locks get locked by accident.

That is, there are most likely hundreds of people have had access to those masterkeys – so, unless the owner has had the locks changed, each of those keys will open every lock on every one of those thousands of mobile homes made by that company!

Criminals, whether they’re after illicit drugs, pot / marijuana - guns, or a child to kidnap, can go to work for any of these businesses and eventually, they’ll have access to the keys; then all they have to do, is copy them.

In my opinion, it’s irresponsible for any manufacturer, any salesman, to not recommend changing the locks – to drop out all the master pins which make the locks vulnerable.   Law suits may occur from the publishing of this; that’s not a bad thing.

The homeowner should have been informed that it’s imperative to change the locks!

If you live in a manufactured home / mobile home, there’s one other aspect of this information you need to be aware of!   It’s not just that there are master keys out to people that will open your home. It’s even worse than that.   Every master pin that is added, increases, exponentially, the number of “shadow” or unintended keys that will open your locks.

What that means is also that if there is a likelihood that a random key will also open your home – especially one made by the same manufacturer!   Changing the locks on a manufactured / mobile home, ought to be considered part of the cost of purchase – it’s the security of your family!

You can verify this by asking any local professional locksmith.

UBS

UPDATE:  52,000 Americans’ bank accounts are with UBS and the Swiss banks are talking . . . .

What’s the leverage we’ve used to get them to talk?   I’m not sure; no telling if we’ll ever know, but for decades, Americans have been hiding their money in Swiss banks, to keep it from being taxed, . . . these people have to be in a pure panic mode about now . . . . possibly even making quick, unscheduled trips to Europe!   Hey; didn’t Pelosi just . . . . what was her urgency?

The word is that those about to be exposed are not the insiders though.  

Just imagine, (’cause it won’t actually happen), that those who’ve moved their accounts to another bank were included in the list of cheats . . . . . wouldn’t that be interesting!   That’s one list I’d sure like to see!   The 52,000 are about to be made scapegoats and some will probably go to jail.   The ones who belong in jail even more, are the ones who’ve been warned to move their accounts!   You agree?   Thought so.

Also, have you noticed, recently, UBS has been advertising on American TV?   Think maybe they need extra investors due to many pulling their money out?

All the investors that have been scamming people – the Ponzi schemes or ripping others off in one fashion or another, and have been secreting money away, waiting for the day of their abscounding with the money to live on the French Riviera, . . . . it’s all up in the air now.  

With a wink and a nod, wealthy people were allowed to get away with hiding their money - put their untaxed money into off-shore banks – it’s been common, for decades.   Now, the writing is on the wall; the feds are talking to the Swiss banks and some are looking like they’re going to be revealing who has money hidden away.

Right now, it’s the only up-side I can see from my vatage point, to having a Socialist president.

The Income Tax is an illegal tax, I’m told, . . . by some of these people . . . . that’s how they justified what they were doing, it’s what they told me as they encouraged me to do the same.   Though it may be true that it’s an illegal tax, I didn’t buy into it - – - that we didn’t owe the government that builds the roads, schools, delivers the mail, etc.    It didn’t make sense to me   To me, it was a matter of integrity.   My God told me to “render unto Caesar . . . “   Like most people I’ve had my run-in with these domestic terrorists – the IRS and wished I could do as some were doing; I couldn’t.   When I finally lost everything at the hands of the IRS, as my tax attorney walked me to the door, he told me: “Josiah, I’ve not known anyone with more integrity.”   My reply, as we shook hands was: “Didn’t do me a whole lot of good though, did it?”

Still, I’ve got to admit though, it’s not bothering me one iota that these guys may be about to get theirs . . . . or as my mother use to say, . . . . their “comeupance”!  

I wonder; how many congressmen will be among the tax cheats?   Anyone willing to make a guess?   I’d be willing to bet a couple dollars on the chance there’s not one!   I’d bet they’re among the group who’ve recently moved their money!  How about you?   Think there just may be a group who had warning?

And Madoff and his wife?   Please don’t forget these guys and why are they not already behind bars?   Both of them?!   In fact, I suggest a paid-one-way-trip over to the Hamas area of Gaza . . . . jail just might be too easy on ‘em.

These people are not the real problems in the world; oh, they’re unethical people, cheats and liars, but they’re not the manipulators . . . . they’re not even the manipulated (meaning members of congress) . . . .   It’s time to gather our wits and look at the whole picture . . . .   As people who’ve cheated are being exposed, and identity theft becomes rampant, and our personal records are all put online for any hacker to see, facilitating more identity theft, can the long predicted global world order be far off?

STOP LOSS

Stop-loss, in the United States military, is the involuntary extension of a service member’s active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service

Unjust?   Yes, but tt’s been challenged and upheld in court.  

Supposedly, Stop-Loss is because our country needs them, but there is a draft or other alternatives to bring new recruits in to replace them.   Yet our leaders – Bush & Obama allow this to stand!

It’s worse than just this though!   Did you know that these men are not being paid for their service?   It’s been authorized to pay them up to $500.00/ month, and yet they’ve not been paid for 5 months!   Why?

There are 13,000 men held in the service under “Stop-Loss”!

That could be as much as $32.5 million!

To stop “Stop-Loss”, I propose requiring a $10,000.00 bonus for every soldier this applies to.   Knowing that inflation will impact that amount, it needs to be equal to the amount that would have been $10,000.00 at the time of their enlistment.    For those not paid already, the amount needs to be doubled, if not paid immediately!

What is going on; where is the outcry?   It isn’t heard ONLY because of our patriotic servicemen, refuse to complain . . . yet, it’s our obligation to straighten this mess out.  

Once again, where is the media?   Inept still . . . . not to mention corrupt!

OCTO-MOM

Forget that she’s very likely mentally ill; if you’ve heard the last revelations about her – the 911 calls where she continually said she’s going to commit suicide, it doesn’t leave much doubt.

She’s also an exceedlingly bad role model for our children!   This example, (after all the Octomom is, or should be, an anomaly) but her example of a lifestyle is nothing but theft being glorified to America’s children!    I’ve kept my mouth shut until now, but her thievery needs to be stopped before others follow her lead!  

Following, should be her CONSEQUENCES:

1. all 14 of her children should be removed from her home and placed in foster homes
2. law suits should be filed for the hospital charges of all 14 children
3. also for the fees for Child Services and upkeep for the children as well
4. sterilization
5. she should be forbidden from receiving other entitlements

Those who think they can live off other,s by becoming pregnant and therefore unable to work, must be made to see that they’re wrong.   This woman is a classic case and will find other methods of having the working public support her!  

Girls who want to become pregnant, and think this may be a wonderful life, need to see what happens to her.   

Rather than just allow her to receive welfare, encouraging others go on welfare, need to be supported by their parents or live in group homes where the cost can be minimized.   After they’re on their own, after a get-out-on-their-own-period, they should have to repay the costs.

Seeing the end consequences of friends, might even cause pregnancy and abortion rates to drop.

1974, I had a severe accident, subsequently I had to go through operations for 5 years to get back to where I could walk.   Point is, . . . .   for 8 months, before my disability came through, I was on welfare.   When I received the money from the malpractice law suit against the HMO that did the damage, I had to pay back the welfare – I’d received a settlement; that was only fair!

So should the Octomom!

She is exactly the kind of person our government wants us to support.   I SAY NO!

Pro-Choice?

2/27/09

Pro-Choice?

   Which choice?

• Drowning her in a burning saline solution?   Or,
• Ripping her limbs off, crushing her head?

The SCREAMS are SILENT . . . . the PAIN is REAL!

Nice job, Mr. president!

You and your followers have insured God will have removed His hand of blessing and protection from all of America!   I pray you hear the screams in your nightmares!   I pray your daughters also hear them . . . . and you have to explain what you’ve done in our name!

Mr. President: I pray you hear the screams of the aborted in your nightmares!   I pray your daughters also hear them . . . . and they are so real, you have to explain what you’ve done in our name!

I pray Lord, that you bring President Obama to realize what he has done regarding the abortion issues and bring him to change.  I pray Lord, that you draw him unto You, bring him to know You, desire You, and seek Your will!

Marijuana and Cancer in Offspring of Users

How will mothers deal with the guilt?   Not easily!   How will users deal with this?   Though proof is below, they’ll be in denial, as usual!  

Users are in denial; they do not even read what they don’t already believe.   They are not in search of the truth!   They are in search only, of anything that justifies their addiction!   Though over 13,000 scientific studies offer proof of damage done, they tell others it’s a medicine.   They do not care about those who believe them and become injured, blind, or dead; their goal is to get high legally!

For years, when I would speak on the radio, or be interviewed on TV news, before I could return home, my wife would call telling me of the threats on her and our children’s lives . . . . so much for mellow potheads!   In reality, they’re a myopic, hedonistic dangerous group; they target your children.

Today, having stated that the federal government does not plan to pursue busts against a substance that is used for “medication”, Attorney General Holder, should re-think his statement . . . . he will not.   His statement was in support of his president - neither of which, is after truth or the well being of America’s children – - -  ANY children – - – legitimate studies proving mental illness in children who use pot / marijuana.

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Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:663-669
DOI 10.1007/s10552-005-0580-3

ORIGINAL PAPER
Maternal use of recreational drugs and neuroblastoma in offspring: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group

(United States)

Elizabeth C. Bluhm Æ
Julie Daniels Æ
Brad H. Pollock Æ
Andrew F. Olshan

Received: 27 September 2005 / Accepted: 20 December 2005

Springer 2006
Abstract

Objective To evaluate whether maternal use of recreational drugs around conception and pregnancy influencesthe risk of childhood neuroblastoma.   Methods Self-reported use of recreational drugs from onemonth prior to pregnancy until diagnosis was assessed among mothers of 538 children with neuroblastoma (diagnosed 1992-1994 and identified through the Children’s Cancer Group and Pediatric Oncology Group) and 504 age-matched controls (identified by random-digit dialing). Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using unconditional logistic regression, adjusting for age at diagnosis and household income.

Results Maternal use of any illicit or recreational drug around pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of neuroblastoma in offspring (OR = 1.82, 95% CI: 1.13, 3.00), particularly use of marijuana in the first trimester of pregnancy (OR = 4.75, 95% CI: 1.55, 16.48). Marijuana E. C. Bluhm Æ, J. Daniels Æ, A. F. Olshan Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA   E. C. Bluhm Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard MSC 7238, Rockville, MD 20892-7238, USA  B. H. Pollock

Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA  E. C. Bluhm (&) Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, 6120 Executive Boulevard MSC, 7238, Rockville, MD 20892-7238, USA  E-mail: bluhme@mail.nih.gov use in the month before pregnancy did not increase risk.

The effect of gestational marijuana exposure was strongest in subjects diagnosed before age one. Evaluation of recreational drugs other than marijuana was limited by infrequent use, and analyses of drug use by fathers were not carried out due to missing data.

Conclusions Maternal recreational drug use and marijuana use during pregnancy were associated with increased risk of neuroblastoma in offspring. Further examination of these drugs and the risk of childhood cancer is warranted.

Keywords Neuroblastoma Æ, Marijuana smoking Æ Case-control studies Æ, Prenatal exposure delayed effects Æ
Maternal exposure

Introduction

A number of epidemiological studies have examined health effects of recreational or illicit drugs. These substances include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, and stimulants. In a 2002 nationwide in-person survey of American adults aged 18-25 years, 53.8% reported any lifetime use of marijuana, 24.2% reported hallucinogens, 15.4% reported cocaine, and 1.6% reported heroin use [1].

Parental marijuana use has been associated with several childhood malignancies including leukemia [2, 3], brain tumors [4] and rhabdomyosarcoma [5]. Studies have identified modest associations with both maternal [2, 4, 5] and paternal [3] use of marijuana during pregnancy and during the period 1-3 months before conception. Analyses 123  Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:663-669 of other prenatal illicit drugs including cocaine [5] and amphetamines [3] have suggested increased risk of childhood cancer.

Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor of childhood, with a poorly understood environmental and genetic etiology. The diagnosis is most frequent in infants and very young children, with a mean age at diagnosis of 17.3 months [6]. The early age at diagnosis has prompted investigations of environmental exposures around the time of conception and during pregnancy [7].

Drugs inconsistently found to be associated with neuroblastoma when used by pregnant women include diuretics [8], alcohol [8], analgesics and pain relievers [9], opioid agonists [10], and other medications [8]. No study has examined the role of illicit drugs in the etiology of neuroblastoma.

The current analysis, based on a large case-control study of neuroblastoma, evaluated the timing and intensity of maternal prenatal marijuana and four other classes of recreational drugs: cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, and stimulants.

Subjects and methods

Cases were identified at 139 North American treating hospitals in the Children’s Cancer Group and Pediatric Oncology Group, now merged into the Children’s Oncology Group. To be eligible, case children must have received a new diagnosis of neuroblastoma from May 1992 to April 1994 between birth and age 19 years. Additional requirements for eligibility included physician consent, parental consent, a household telephone, and biological mother’s availability for interview and English-or Spanish-language proficiency. Additional study details have
been described previously [11]. The study was approved by the institutional review board regulating human subject research at each participating institution. Of 741 eligible cases identified, 538 mothers (73%) were interviewed.

Controls were selected by random-digit dialing, matched by age within 6 months for cases aged 3 years or younger and within 1 year for cases older than 3 years. Of 703 eligible control mothers, 504 (72%) were interviewed.  The maternal interview was conducted by trained interviewers using a standardized questionnaire and lasted approximately 1 h. In addition to demographics, information was requested on the child’s environmental exposures up to the case age at diagnosis (the reference date for cases and controls), and on antenatal parental exposures including occupational exposures.

Parents were questioned about tobacco smoking and alcohol use and about use of any recreational substances. In a separate interview section, mothers of cases and controls were asked about any use of marijuana between the month prior to pregnancy and the child’s date of diagnosis or reference date. Mothers were specifically asked to quantify the amount and frequency of their use in terms of the usual number of reefers or pipefuls smoked in 1 day during each of the following time segments: the month before pregnancy, each of three trimesters, and between birth and the reference date. If applicable, use was also assessed from the time while breastfeeding up until the reference date. Mothers were also asked about any use of cocaine or crack; heroin; hallucinogens ‘‘such as LSD, PCP, and angel dust”; or stimulants ‘‘such as uppers, amphetamines, and speed.”

For each drug category, detailed questions were asked to establish the frequency and duration of use during each of the following time segments: 2-12 months before pregnancy, the month before pregnancy, each trimester, and, if applicable, from the time during breastfeeding up until diagnosis or reference date.

The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were estimated using unconditional logistic regression. We evaluated maternal use of each of five classes of illicit drugs by ever/never use during a 10-month interval of interest extending from the month prior to conception until childbirth. We also evaluated use of each class of drugs during pregnancy, excluding the month before conception. We evaluated maternal use of marijuana by specific time segment, including the month before conception and each trimester of pregnancy. We assessed infrequent ( < 1/day) versus regular (‡1/day) intensity of marijuana use and total number of uses around pregnancy. There were insufficient reports of other drugs to further characterize their effects at different time segments or by intensity. The referent category for each class of drug was mothers who did not use that drug at any time reported in the interview. Subjects were excluded from specific analyses if data on use of that drug were missing. Because of the focus on likely critical exposure windows around conception and during pregnancy, we did not analyze recreational drug use between the end of breastfeeding and the date of diagnosis or reference date.

Potentially confounding factors included: child’s gender, maternal age at birth of index child, maternal attained education, household income, maternal race, vitamin use, breastfeeding, maternal smoking, and maternal alcohol use.  Both maternal prenatal multivitamin use and breastfeeding were associated with a reduced risk of neuroblastoma, as we have previously reported [12, 13]. Maternal cigarette smoking and alcohol use during pregnancy were not found to be associated with the risk of neuroblastoma, as has been previously published [14].  Only household income in the year of child’s birth exceeded a 10% change in value estimate using a backward elimination modeling approach and was therefore adjusted for in the analysis. All odds ratio estimates were adjusted for household income and for child’s reference age (the matching factor) in three 123

Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:663-669 categories ( < 1 year, 1-3 years, >3 years). We assessed the heterogeneity of the maternal marijuana use effect by child’s sex; age at diagnosis or reference; maternal attained education; household income in the birth year; maternal age at birth of the index child; maternal tobacco smoking around pregnancy; maternal alcohol consumption; and by MYCN oncogene amplification status. MYCN oncogene amplification, a marker of aggressive disease and indicator of poor prognosis, was assessed by Southern blot or fluorescent in situ hybridization. Statistical analyses were performed using SAS (version 8.0, Cary, NC). P-values are two-sided.

Results

Table 1 presents the demographic characteristics of the 538 cases and 504 controls. Cases and controls were similar with respect to race. Age at diagnosis ranged from 1 day to 17 years, with a mean age of 2.2 ( 2.4) years. Cases were 56% male. Case households were significantly more likely to have an annual income below $10,000 or above $50,000. Maternal mean age at birth was 27.5 ( 5.5) years and did not differ significantly between cases and controls (p = 0.15).

Overall, 88 mothers (8.5%) reported use of any drug during the 10 month period between 1 month prior to pregnancy and childbirth. Of these, 75 (85.2%) used marijuana and 61 (69.3%) used only marijuana and no other drugs. Cocaine was reported by 15 mothers (19.3%), and seven mothers used both marijuana and cocaine. Only one mother reported heroin use. Drug use data were missing for only four cases and two controls. A total of 11.2% of case mothers and 5.6% of control mothers reported use of any drug from 1 month before pregnancy through childbirth (adjusted OR = 1.82, 95% CI: 1.13, 3.00).

Marijuana was used by mothers of 50 cases (9.3%) and 25 controls (5.0%) in the 10 month window from 1 month prior to conception until the child’s birth (adjusted OR = 1.67, 95% CI: 1.00, 2.82). Marijuana use did not differ by race or maternal education. When use of each class of drug was simultaneously adjusted to account for the effect of the other drugs, the risk estimates were attenuated (Table 2). When excluding the month before conception, marijuana use during pregnancy was reported by 34 cases (6.4%) and nine controls (1.8%); (OR = 2.51, 95% CI: 1.18, 5.83, adjusted for use of other drugs during pregnancy). Assigning mothers who never used any drugs to the referent group did not meaningfully change any effect estimate.

Table 3 displays the odds ratios for maternal marijuana use in each time segment around pregnancy and after childbirth, adjusted for use in every other segment. The time period with the strongest association with neuroblastoma was the first trimester (adjusted OR = 4.75, 95% CI: 1.55, 16.48). By contrast, neither use in the month before conception nor use after birth was associated with an increased risk (adjusted OR = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.42, 1.86;

Table 1 Characteristics of children with neuroblastoma diagnosed between birth and age 19 and age-matched controls

Cases Controls Total Crude OR (95% CI) No. % No. % No.
Race
White non-Hispanic 429 79.7 396 78.6 825 1.00
Black 42 7.8 39 7.7 81 0.99 (0.63, 1.57)
Hispanic 49 9.1 54 10.7 193 0.84 (0.56, 1.26)
Other 18 3.4 15 3.0 33 1.11 (0.55, 2.23)
Maternal education
Less than high school 60 11.2 51 10.1 111 1.42 (0.90, 2.22)
High school graduate 366 68.0 318 63.1 684 1.39 (1.04, 1.86)
College graduate or beyond 112 20.8 135 26.8 247 1.00
Maternal age at birth of child
< 20 years 48 8.9 35 6.9 83 1.33 (0.83, 2.14)
20-24 years 119 22.1 110 21.8 229 1.05 (0.76, 1.45)
25-30 years 212 39.4 206 40.9 418 1.00
31-39 years 148 27.5 146 29.0 294 0.99 (0.73, 1.33)
40-44 years 11 2.0 7 1.4 18 1.53 (0.58, 4.02
Household income, birth yeara
< $10,000 89 17.5 54 11.1 143 2.16 (1.39, 3.35)
$10,000-20,000 92 18.1 91 18.7 183 1.32 (0.89, 1.98)
$21,000-30,000 87 17.1 114 23.5 201 1.00
$31,000-40,000 79 15.6 86 17.7 165 1.20 (0.80, 1.82)
$41,000-50,000 54 10.6 52 10.7 106 1.36 (0.85, 2.18)
>$50,000 107 21.1 89 18.3 196 1.58 (1.06, 2.34)
a Forty-eight missing (30 cases, 18 controls) 123

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Table 2 Number of cases and controls, odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) by maternal use of recreational drugs between one month before pregnancy and childbirth in mothers of children with neuroblastoma and controls Cases Controls OR (95% CI)a OR (95% CI)b adjusted for other drugs used
No. % No. %
Any drug
Neverc 456 88.4 450 94.1 1.00
Ever 60 11.6 28 5.9 1.82 (1.13, 3.00)
Marijuana
Noned 484 90.6 477 95.0 1.00 1.00
Any 50 9.4 25 5.0 1.67 (1.00, 2.82) 1.37 (0.77, 2.49)
Cocaine or crack
Noned 512 97.9 488 99.2 1.00 1.00
Any 11 2.1 4 0.8 2.59 (0.86, 9.54) 2.09 (0.65, 7.99)
Heroin
Noned 534 99.8 502 100 1.00 1.00
Any 1 0.2 0 0 e e
Hallucinogens
Noned 525 98.9 498 99.8 1.00 1.00
Any 6 1.1 1 0.2 3.39 (0.53, 65.82) 1.48 (0.17, 31.24)
Stimulants
Noned 524 98.9 493 99.6 1.00 1.00
Any 6 1.1 2 0.4 2.31 (0.51, 16.10) 1.46 (0.26, 11.01)

a Adjusted for household income in the year of birth and age at diagnosis in three categories

b Adjusted for use of other drugs during the 10 month time interval and for household income in the year of birth and age at diagnosis in three categories
c The referent category includes mothers who never reported any drug in any time interval
d The referent category includes mother who never used this drug in any time interval
e Unable to calculate adjusted OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.36,1.37, respectively). As evidenced by the wide confidence intervals for these results, the odds ratios for use at any specific time segment around pregnancy were imprecise. Most marijuana use was limited to the month prior to conception and/or first trimester only. Of the 68 case and control mothers who used marijuana in the month before conception, 50 quit before the third trimester. However, 10 regular users smoked marijuana in the month prior to conception and all three trimesters, two of whom reported an average of two pipefuls per day in every time interval. Most mothers were infrequent ( < 1/day) users: 57 of 75 women who used marijuana during the 10 month interval of interest always used less than one pipeful per day in each time segment.

Intensity of marijuana use was assessed by assigning the number of pipefuls smoked daily in the first trimester. The offspring of women who smoked less than one pipeful per day had a similar risk to those who used marijuana one or more times per day (adjusted OR = 4.16, 95% CI: 1.52, 14.61; adjusted OR = 4.42, 95% CI: 1.09, 29.58, respectively).  Subgroup analyses of cases by MYCN oncogene amplification status did not reveal a differential effect of marijuana. Analysis by age at diagnosis revealed a stronger but very imprecise association of maternal marijuana use during pregnancy among children with a diagnosis reference age of less than 1 year of age (OR = 15.61, 95% CI: 3.07, 285.89). The estimate is based on 20 exposed cases and one exposed control and is adjusted for use of other
drugs during pregnancy. Effects of maternal marijuana were similar among boys and girls and did not differ by maternal smoking or alcohol use.

Many fewer mothers acknowledged use of other recreational drugs. A total of 11 case mothers and four control mothers reported use of cocaine in the 10 months around pregnancy. The minimum cocaine use was one time only and the maximum was twice a day for 4 months. The mean total number of uses across the 10 month window was 50 ( 82). Use in this time window was associated with a suggestion of increased risk (adjusted OR = 2.09, 95% CI: 0.65, 7.9, adjusted for use of other drugs). Use of both marijuana and cocaine did not convey an excess risk beyond the effect of each exposure separately. Heroin, hallucinogens and stimulants were reported by very few mothers, and risk could not be estimated by time segment around pregnancy.

Discussion

Our results suggest that maternal use of marijuana around the time of pregnancy, particularly in the first trimester, is associated with increased risk of neuroblastoma in 123

Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:663-669 offspring. These results differ from a recent Children’s Cancer Group study of childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which suggested a decreased risk from maternal marijuana use and no association with paternal marijuana use prior to or during pregnancy [15]. However, our findings further expand previous investigations of parental
marijuana use in the prenatal period as a potential risk factor for other childhood cancers. Robison et al. [2] found an increased, but imprecise, risk of acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL) among children whose mothers used marijuana and other mind-altering substances prior to or during pregnancy (RR = 11.0, 95% CI: 1.4, 85.2). Kuitjen et al. [4] identified an elevated risk of astrocytoma with maternal use of marijuana between 1 month prior to conception and childbirth (OR = 2.8, approximate 95% CI: 0.9, 9.9). There was an increased risk of rhabdomyosarcoma with maternal use of marijuana (OR = 3.0, 95% CI: 1.4, 6.5) or cocaine (OR = 5.1, 95% CI: 1.0, 25.0) in the 12 months before birth [5]. A large study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) revealed increased risks associated with maternal (OR = 1.5, 99% CI: 1.0, 2.1), paternal (OR = 1.3, 99% CI: 1.0, 1.8), or both parents’ (OR = 1.8, 99% CI: 1.1, 3.0) use of mind-altering drugs, of which marijuana was predominant [3]. Most studies of marijuana and childhood cancer were not designed to identify a specific time segment of greatest risk.

Weeks 3 through 8 after conception, during the first trimester of pregnancy, are a critical period for organ development and vulnerability to teratogens [16]. However, animal experiments suggest that the nervous system may be more sensitive to chemical carcinogens near the end of gestation [17, 18]. Studies of marijuana toxicology

Table 3 Maternal use of marijuana by time interval around pregnancy, mothers of children with neuroblastoma and controls

Cases Controls Crude OR (95% CI)a
No. % No. %
Month before pregnancy
No use 490 91.8 478 95.2 1.00
Any use 44 8.2 24 4.8 0.89 (0.42, 1.86)
First trimester
No use 505 94.4 496 98.8 1.00
Any use 30 5.6 6 1.2 4.75 (1.55, 16.48)
Second trimester
No use 522 97.8 498 99.2 1.00
Any use 12 2.3 4 0.8 1.38 (0.22, 9.65)
Third trimester
No use 521 97.6 498 99.4 1.00
Any use 13 2.4 3 0.6 1.45 (0.23, 10.16)
Birth until diagnosis or reference date
No use 489 91.7 473 94.2 1.00
Any use 44 8.3 29 5.8 0.70 (0.36, 1.37)

a Adjusted for marijuana use at each other time interval around pregnancy, and for household income in birth year and age at diagnosis in three categories have explored the plausibility of a carcinogenic process in drug users or their offspring. Smoke generated by a smoking machine system contained 50% higher levels of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons naphthalene, benz[a]anthracene, and benzo[a]pyrene in marijuana cigarettes than standard tobacco cigarettes [19]. Animal and human data have indicated chromosome damage, as measured by more frequent hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene mutations in cord blood of infants
born to mothers who smoked marijuana than non-smokers [20].

The active ingredient of marijuana, D-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and its metabolites cross the placenta
and accumulate in the developing embryo [21, 22], with the highest concentrations detected in the fetal central nervous system [23]. Oral D-9-THC or inhaled marijuana cigarettes were associated with reduced litter size in mice and rats [22, 24, 25], however, animal pups have not been followed to adulthood to assess tumor development as juveniles or adults, and route and dosage of drug has varied between studies [26].

Our study results indicate a risk of neuroblastoma associated with marijuana smoking around conception and during pregnancy. The 1.8% of control mothers who used marijuana during pregnancy was concordant with estimates from a prevalence study using the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which found a 1.8% current use rate in pregnant women [27]. However, measurement error may have been introduced in our study by the use of self-reported substance use without biomarker validation. The primary methodological concern in using self-reported estimates of past exposures is bias due to differential misclassification (recall bias). Parents of cases may recall and report exposures more fully than parents of controls, seeking explanations for a child’s illness, or may underreport socially stigmatized behaviors. Parents of controls are thought to have comparatively less motivation to report stigmatized behaviors, according to the social desirability hypothesis [28]. They may also fail to identify truly unexposed time intervals, lacking an incentive to carefully remember exposure dates around pregnancy.

Studies of illicit substance reporting accuracy have noted better results in low than high prevalence settings, using a bioassay as the gold standard, and have noted that self-report of marijuana was more accurate than more highly stigmatized drugs [28]. Whether mothers of cases and controls exhibit a differential sensitivity and specificity in self-reporting prenatal drug use has not been established [15]. A sensitivity analysis was performed to assess the likely effect of misclassification of self-reported drug use in a recent study evaluating parental marijuana use and childhood AML etiology. Estimates of self-reporting sensitivity and specificity were derived from published studies comparing self-reported drug use in pregnancy with

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Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:663-669 biologic sampling. Application of these estimates and assumptions about case and control recall bias increased the odds ratios for parental marijuana use and AML [15]. Among those who reported use, there is also concern about underreporting the frequency of use. Fewer than 10% of women who used marijuana during the 10 month window
around pregnancy reported using more than one pipeful per day within any time segment. Because of a lack of variability in exposure level per day, we were unable to evaluate a dose response.

Although this is the largest study of risk factors for neuroblastoma yet conducted, some of our results are imprecise due to the small number of mothers reporting drug use around pregnancy. In addition, because of the lower response for fathers of cases and controls we did not have sufficiently thorough self-reported data on paternal drug use. Nonetheless, using the available data on marijuana use by both parents, use by fathers was correlated with use by mothers. The odds ratio for paternal marijuana use around pregnancy was 1.97 (95% CI: 1.24, 3.20), adjusted for age at diagnosis and income. Adding paternal use to multivariate models did not alter the effect of maternal marijuana use.

Correlations between marijuana and tobacco, alcohol, and ‘‘hard” drugs are of frequent concern in studies of cancer etiology [29]. However, the lack of association between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of neuroblastoma in our study population suggests an absence of confounding by these exposures. Our study results may also be limited by residual confounding if maternal marijuana use serves as a surrogate for another unmeasured exposure or behavioral factor in neuroblastoma etiology. In addition, the chemical formulation of drugs used by each mother may differ widely, adding to exposure misclassification and rendering comparison of doses.

This is the first study to investigate the association between specific recreational drugs and neuroblastoma within distinct time segments around pregnancy. Our findings indicate that the strongest effect of maternal marijuana use is seen with exposure in the first trimester and among children diagnosed before age one. Given the unfolding understanding of the divergent molecular and clinical patterns of neuroblastoma, there will be great potential for further evaluation of marijuana exposure in association with molecular markers. While previous studies of childhood cancer have suggested an association with marijuana and illicit drugs, additional confirmation is needed.

Acknowledgments This study was supported in part by Grant CA57004 from the National Cancer Institute, a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P30ES10126), and
the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. The authors thank Joanna Smith for programming help.

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FREE – PRINT THIS OUT

Impact the opposition.   Print this out and leave a small note on the windshield of a car displaying a “Pro-Choice” bumper sticker.  

8 of these fit nicely on normal size paper if you use ‘Word’ – print it out; email it to like-minded friends, keep ‘em in your glove box.  

Let your children see you take a stand!   It’s good role-modeling.   Save the innocents!

PRO-CHOICE?

     WHICH CHOICE?

Drowning her in a burning Saline solution?

Or, . . . ripping her limbs off, crushing her head?

(The screams are silent, . . . but the pain is real!)

 

 

 

YOU’VE BEEN DEFRAUDED!

Massive amounts of money were transferred from the coffers of Lehman prior to filing for bankruptcy. Where did the money go? A similar procedure was used in the The Bear Stearns bankruptcy.

Note the date this was published!

Why has the media not picked up on this?

They’re part of the problem.

There are multiple regulations requiring paperwork to be authorized for this transfer to happen.   It cannot be done legally!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11101

Lehman Unit Shrank $400 Billion Before Bankruptcy
By Linda Sandler

Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s brokerage unit lost more than $400 billion in assets in the months before its parent filed for bankruptcy protection, according to the trustee overseeing customer accounts.

Lehman’s holding company filed for bankruptcy Sept. 15 claiming $639 billion in assets, using four-month-old data. The wholly owned brokerage unit shrank to less than $100 billion in assets from $500 billion “a few months ago,” according to a Sept. 19 court statement by James Giddens, the trustee overseeing the settling of Lehman brokerage customer accounts by the Securities Investor Protection Corp.

The loss in value was caused by “changes in the market,” according to Giddens, a partner at law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, who spoke at a bankruptcy court hearing in Manhattan. The runoff may indicate Lehman’s customers, including many hedge funds, canceled and closed out trades as they began to doubt the firm’s ability to navigate the credit crunch, bankruptcy analysts and lawyers said.

“There was the proverbial run on the bank” at Lehman, said Martin Bienenstock of the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, who is advising clients including Walt Disney Co. on recovering their money from Lehman. There was a similar capital flight from Bear Stearns earlier this year, he said.

Most of Lehman’s pre-bankruptcy assets were securities, according to its balance sheets. Lehman said on Sept. 10 that the consolidated gross assets of the firm stood at $600 billion and net assets at $311 billion. The difference between net and gross is the so-called matched book, which is overnight lending or securities pledged for overnight borrowing.

 

Bear Stearns

Bear Stearns, once the fifth-biggest U.S.

securities firm, sold itself to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in March after customers and lenders fled because of speculation the company faced a cash shortage. Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank before its bankruptcy.

Giddens didn’t return calls requesting comment on his statement. SIPC President Stephen Harbeck said he’d seen the brokerage’s latest asset totals and couldn’t remember the numbers, which “we don’t need to know to do our job” of settling the 630,000 customer accounts.

Mark Lane

, a Lehman spokesman, didn’t return a call and an e-mail seeking comment.

Customer accounts at the Lehman Brothers Inc. brokerage that aren’t on the balance sheet total about $138 billion, Lehman’s bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller said in court on Sept 19. The trustee’s figure of about $500 billion for brokerage assets before the runoff corresponds to a balance sheet published in 2007, which calculated assets at $478 billion.

The case is In re Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., 08-13555, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan

).

To contact the reporters on this story: Linda Sandler in New York at lsandler@bloomberg.netYalman Onaran in New York at yonaran@bloomberg.net <mailto:yonaran@bloomberg.net>*

 

PERPETUAL WAR!

Canadian Prime Minister Harper thinks victory for the allies in Afghanistan is simply not going to happen.

It needed to be said!   Though we didn’t want to hear it, at least not from ‘a head of state’, but it’s about time it were said!

Though it was fascinating and surprisingly said on national TV in a candid interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on “GPS,” not many could have predicted that he’d be that candid; the U.S. could only wish for someone that honest and forthright! 

Here’s what the leader of the United States’ closest military ally Canadian Prime Minister Harper, talking of Afghanistan, said: “In fact, my own judgment, Fareed, is, quite frankly, we are not going to ever defeat the insurgency.”

Coming just days after Obama ordered 17,000 additional U.S. combat troops into that forever-fighting land as a mere holding action, pending further study and possible additional deployments, that has to have stunned the new White House team.   Our closest ally?   Well one of . . . . but Barach most likely, didn’t expect that comment; if it were said very often, it would make him look too much like President Bush, the last thing on earth he wanted!

It’s in one of Jackson Browne’s songs . . . . from his albumn “The Naked Ride Home” . . . . over a full minute into the song before a word is said, . . . . still, it says it like it is!  

I’ve been listening to it (and agreeing, since it came out) – like it or not, what we’re in for here, is . . . . . exactly what Jackson Browne said in “Casino Nation”.   It’s near the end of the song where he hits the listener with it:  “Everywhere the good prepare for, . . . . Perpetual War!  . . . .    Entertainment shapes the land, the way the hammer shapes the hand; the way the hammer shapes the hand; the way the hammer shapes the hand; the way the hammer . . . .”  

TIGHTLY!    Very Tightly!   As if it’s around the neck of the American people!

I suspect for the Obamas’, this is a bit too much reality; they’ll keep their entertainment to Stevie . . . . “the liberal, feel-goo-entertainment” – the music that liberals like – music that makes them feel good and allows them to listen, even with their heads in the sand! 

IT MAY BE TEMPTING – BUT LOOK AT THE REALITY

Issue is Legalization of marijuana.   Published as guest editorial, page A-13, in SFO Chronicle article.   Once again, it’s another’s words, Kevin Sabat, (credentials: last line) because it is put much better than I could have!  //  josiah

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It’s a tempting idea: Legalize and tax a commodity that a lot of people like, collect the revenues, and reap the budgetary benefits. In economic times like these, that might be just the formula we need to pull us out of the red. In this case, the truth does not live up to the hype.

Legalizing marijuana will not solve our budget woes, nor will it be good for public health. Introducing marijuana into the open market is very likely to do some other things, however: increase the drug’s consumption, and with it, the enormous social costs associated with marijuana-related accidents, illness and productivity loss.

The example of legal alcohol and tobacco reveal an unsettling pattern. Legal drugs are by definition easy to obtain, and commercialization glamorizes their use and furthers their social acceptance. Their price is low, and high profits make promotion worthwhile for sellers. Addiction is simply the price of doing business. Any revenue gained from taxing these drugs is quickly offset by the heavy costs associated with their increased prevalence. Because today’s high-potency marijuana is much more harmful than once thought, a spike in use from legalization would result in a financial burden California cannot afford to bear.

It is almost universally accepted in the medical community that marijuana use is linked with mental illness. Since the appearance of the British Medical Journal’s famous 2002 headline, “Marijuana and psychiatric illness: the link grows stronger,” the research showing marijuana’s link with illnesses like psychosis and schizophrenia has become frighteningly commonplace. In fact, researchers from Kings College in London have shown that eliminating marijuana use would decrease the incidence of schizophrenia in the American population by more than 8 percent. That means that marijuana use is responsible for the schizophrenia suffered by more than 19,000 Americans. Other research has shown the drug’s connection to lung damage, as well as to head, neck and testicular cancers.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s justification for AB390 relies on the myth that marijuana laws are costing taxpayers millions of dollars and wrecking the lives of otherwise law-abiding citizens. But a closer examination of the facts reveals a very different reality. Although there are thousands of arrests for marijuana possession every year in our state, most of these arrests result in little or no consequences. Most of those who are charged with possession plead down from more serious charges, such as trafficking. Researchers from Rand report that many marijuana arrests result from drinking and driving violations at alcohol checkpoints. “The police also find joints, and then (the offender) is in jail for both offenses. People’s images of the casual (marijuana) user getting hauled off to jail are not true,” a Rand researcher recently commented.

Rand-sponsored research reveals that in the Netherlands, where the drug is sold openly at “coffee shops,” marijuana use among young adults increased almost 300 percent after a wave of commercialization. The country has also become a haven for producers of high-potency marijuana, and other drugs like ecstasy and methamphetamine. These unintended consequences have led many Dutch officials to advocate for rolling back the status quo.

To be sure, restricting marijuana use by law – especially because some people find it extremely pleasurable – is not without its costs. But legalizing this addictive substance would only exacerbate our problems by increasing the harm that greater levels of use will cause. Given the heavy costs associated with our two legal substances, and the relatively minor costs associated with our current restrictive marijuana policy, the case for a commercial market for marijuana remains weak and unconvincing – even in this uncomfortable economic environment.

Kevin Sabet, a senior drug policy adviser in the Clinton and Bush administrations, is a native of Anaheim.

CHANGE HAS COME – by Caroline Glick

Published originally in http://www.jewishworldreview.com

(My commentaries, due to – statements disagreed with, inside, are in red and italics and also, in parenthesis.)   Emphasized, agreed with statements, are purple, in color.

(After Saturday’s incident of a rocket hitting a school in Ashkelon [see http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/?act=one&id=3213 & reference below]) and provoked by the Palestinians’ escalating missile campaign, on Sunday evening the Ashkelon Parents Association voted not to send their children to school on Monday.

Ever since the outgoing Kadima government ended Operation Cast Lead in Gaza on January 20, the Palestinians have steadily stepped-up their missile war against Israel. Over the weekend the IDF acknowledged that six weeks later, daily Palestinian missile barrages against Israel have returned to pre-Operation Cast Lead levels.

Moreover, the IDF warned that over the past six weeks, Hamas and its sister terror groups have rebuilt their missile arsenals both through imports of Iranian arms from Egypt and through local production lines.

They have also brought in fairly advanced anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down IAF helicopters.

The proximate cause for the decision to close down schools was the weekend missile strike against a high school in Ashkelon. The direct hit caused massive damage both to the school and to surrounding apartments. IDF inspectors assessed that the Grad missile the Palestinians used in the attack had been locally upgraded. Its warhead was two and a half times bigger than usual.

As Ashkelon’s children settled into their living rooms instead of their classrooms on Monday morning, a few hundred kilometers to the south representatives from 80 countries and international organizations convened in Sharm el-Sheikh to pledge billions of dollars in aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza. The US, represented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pledged $900 million in assistance.   (Up until now, all monies having gone to Gaza, have been usurped by Hamas and used for weaponry rather than to aid the Palestinians – in spite of this, the majority of Palestinians continue to support Hamas and suicide bombers.)

Also on Monday, The Jerusalem Post reported that the US is curtailing its military aid to Israel. Under new Pentagon guidelines, the Ministry of Defense must give a detailed accounting of how it uses every item it purchases with US aid money.   (I assume this promise” will be held to, just as the promise for 5 days to read the Stimulus bill, transparency of the Obama Administration, no lobbiests, no pork, no conflicts of interests, etc.)   As a consequence, the Defense Ministry issued new instructions to the IDF that from now Israel’s purchases from the US will be limited to defensive armaments and systems aimed at preserving its “qualitative edge” against its enemies. 

TO UNDERSTAND HOW it came to pass that six weeks after Operation Cast Lead, the US has joined the nations of the world in funding Hamas and is curtailing its military assistance to Israel, it is necessary to understand Israel’s domestic politics. Specifically, since as Israel’s leaders during Operation Cast Lead Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are responsible for Israel’s current predicament, it is necessary to understand their Kadima party’s operating rationale.

The main rule of politics that has guided Kadima since its founding in November 2005 is never be perceived as failing. For the past three years, with the active collusion of the local media, Kadima has managed to control the flow of information to the public and so successfully covered up the abject failures of its strategic policies. Its success in last month’s elections is testament to its extraordinary capacity to spin and obfuscate information.

THIS KADIMA PRACTICE was first implemented in the lead-up to the 2006 elections. At the time, the media worked with Kadima to suppress information about the strategic significance of Hamas’s electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian Authority elections. They also blocked reportage and public discussion of the massive build-up of Iranian-supplied arms in Gaza following Israel’s withdrawal from the area in September 2005, and the transformation of Gaza’s disparate terror cells into Hizbullah-trained and styled paramilitary brigades.

The need for the cover-up was obvious: An open discussion of post-withdrawal developments in Gaza would have demonstrated to the public that Kadima’s signature policy of unconditionally surrendering land to the Palestinians was, to put it mildly, insane.

Both the Palestinian cross-border operation in June 2006 that led to the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Schalit to Gaza, and Hizbullah’s similar raid in July 2006 that (according to the government line, yet disputed by commentators who say it was motivated as an attempt to maintain control of the nation, just before the election) fomented the summer war in Lebanon demonstrated the dire consequences of Israeli land giveaways. Neither the onslaught from Gaza nor the war from Lebanon would have happened if Israel hadn’t left Gaza in 2005 and Lebanon in 2000.

For Kadima it was clear that to survive the events of the summer of 2006, it needed to develop a story line to hide the truth. In Lebanon, hiding the truth meant choosing defeat over victory.

For anyone with even a vague notion about strategy, it was clear at the time that the only way to protect northern Israel from Hizbullah was to deny Hizbullah the use of southern Lebanon as a base of operations. To do that, Israel needed to conquer and maintain control over southern Lebanon. Nothing else could end the Iranian proxy’s ability to rain its missiles down on Israel. And given the jihadist nature and foreign command of Hizbullah, Israel has no capacity to deter the paramilitary force.

For Kadima’s leaders however, a re-conquest of south Lebanon would involve recognizing that their land surrender strategy was wrong. Their governing rationale would be discredited.

So instead they opted for defeat. Rather than fight Hizbullah to victory, they attacked their domestic political opponents by claiming that only warmongers would support a re-conquest of south Lebanon. In so doing, they discredited the only viable strategy for victory while sending IDF forces to Lebanon to fight battles whose sole purpose was to run down the clock until the US stepped in and negotiated a truce with the terror army.

The US-mediated cease-fire, which legitimized Hizbullah as a political force and paved the way for its rearmament and takeover of the Lebanese government, was a disaster for Israel. But for Kadima it was a great success. Livni spun the cease-fire as a massive diplomatic accomplishment for herself and Kadima. The willing media went along with the fiction.

Although all the spinning in the world couldn’t convince the public to support Kadima’s planned unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, Kadima was able to salvage the gist of its defeatist strategy. By pretending that Israel hadn’t failed in Lebanon, and defending the view that victory isn’t an option, Kadima deftly replaced its unilateral surrender strategy with as strategy of surrendering land in the framework of a “peace process” with the pro-terror, corrupt, unpopular, and anti-Israel Fatah-led PA in Ramallah. That “peace process” in turn kept the land surrender policy on the table by asserting that the main obstacle to peace is Israel’s unwillingness to give its land to the Palestinians (as scripture dictates – still, there’s Gush Katif and other areas of Gaza and also, the land slated to have Israelis evicted according to the 2-state plan pushed by the Clintons and Ohlmert’s agreement to give up the Golan – w/o Israel commanding the Golan Heights, Israel cannot be defended!). 

A SIMILAR PATTERN unfolded with Kadima’s handling of Operation Cast Lead. Here too it was clear to any semi-sentient observer that the only way to defend southern Israel is to re-conquer Gaza. For as long as Hamas controls territory it will use it to fight Israel. And given Hamas’s subservience to Iran, its jihadist ideology and its Syrian-based leadership’s distance from the front, it is obvious that Israel has no capacity to deter Hamas.

But for Kadima, which owes its existence to its leaders’ execution of Israel’s 2005 pullout from Gaza, acknowledging that Israel has no option other than reasserting control over Gaza was not an option. Then too, a re-conquest of Gaza would discredit Kadima’s new-old signature issue of giving away Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

And so, rather than fight to win, Kadima again fought for US intervention. Livni and Olmert claimed again that only warmongering extremists supported re-conquering Gaza, and announced that Israel’s goal was to deter Hamas. For its part, the media blocked all discussion of whether or not it is possible for Israel to deter Hamas and cooperated in demonizing anyone with the temerity to note that the only way to secure southern Israel is to control Gaza.

Then, as elections approached, Kadima declared that deterrence had been achieved and pulled IDF forces from Gaza. They told us that the continued Palestinian missile offensive against the south was nothing more than the last gasps of a defeated foe. And the media went along with them.

In the lead-up to the elections, the international diplomatic backlash against Israel was underplayed and the strategic meaning of Hamas’s continued missile war was widely ignored by both Kadima and the media. 

NOW, AS THE LIKUD-LED rightist bloc is forming the next government, information about Israel’s actual situation is finally being reported. Not only did Israel not deter Hamas, the inconclusive end of the campaign has paved the way for a massive diplomatic onslaught against Israel and a diplomatic campaign to legitimize Hamas.

Today Israel is being blamed for Hamas’s war against it.

Kadima’s favorite Palestinian “peace” partners in Fatah are leading an international campaign to indict IDF commanders as war criminals.

While last weekend’s bombing of yet another Israeli school was met with international indifference, international leaders lined up to have their photographs taken outside the UNRWA school in Gaza that the IDF attacked in January after Hamas combatants used the building as a missile launching pad against Israeli civilians.

Then there is the US-backed international campaign to force Israel to surrender control over its borders with Gaza to Hamas. Last week Clinton joined her European counterparts in demanding that Israel permit cement, aluminum tubes and other missile components to enter Gaza in order to alleviate the “humanitarian suffering” of the poor Gazans. Furthermore, like Europe, the Obama administration supports the establishment of a Hamas-Fatah government. 

IN THE MEANTIME, Kadima pretends that there is nothing to worry about. As The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday, both Livni and Olmert refuse to actively oppose the international campaign to criminalize IDF commanders because doing so would involve criticizing Fatah leaders with whom they claim to have such wonderful ties. Similarly, the Obama administration cannot be criticized because that would mean that Kadima has failed to maintain US support for Israel.

And that’s the point. With its policy of never acknowledging failure, Kadima’s strategy for dealing with the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead has been on the one hand to ignore what has happened, and on the other hand, to blame Likud for what is transpiring.

Rather than attack Hamas and Fatah in international forums and so defend Ashkelon’s schoolchildren at least diplomatically, Livni devotes herself to attacking Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu for refusing to back Palestinian statehood.

Netanyahu’s view is clear. Surrendering control over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem to the Palestinians will endanger Israel. For as long as that remains the case, it is impossible to support Palestinian statehood.

Likud’s position is indisputable. But it is also a denunciation of Kadima’s governing strategy. So Livni denies the truth to advance her party’s interests and condemns Likud for recognizing reality.

In so doing, she has paved the way for an international boycott of the Likud-led government. The Palestinians and their allies throughout the world are already arguing that there is no difference between Likud and Hamas since both of them reject the so-called “two-state solution.” Clinton is expected to demand that Netanyahu publicly endorse Palestinian statehood during her visit here.

As we absorb the spectacle of world leaders lining up to give their money to Gaza while Israeli schoolchildren are forced to stay home from school, we must understand how we got here. We are here because Kadima has placed its political success above Israel’s security.

(That last line, doesn’t sound much different that here in the U.S., does it?)

IMPEACHMENT!

The more I watch, the nomination of more tax cheats (there’re 4 now), those supporting abortion, those lying about Pork and Earmarks, . . . . 8,000!   And ignore the promised 5 days to read proposed legislation . . . . passing it w/o even reading it, . . . . . spending so much our children will be in slavery, . . . .the more I see the actions of those who represent us, the more I consider them pure evil!

An attorney general that recommended release of terrorists?   And who signed the assault on Elian’s family and sending a little 6 year old, whose mother died reaching for freedom – and Holder sent him back to a prison camp island – Cuba?

A Secretary of Health and Human Services that was “joined at the hip” with the abortion movement – supporting and taking money from an abortionist now under indictment . . . . one whose specialty was killing a late term fetus – one who could survive outside the womb . . .

If they do things like this to us, if they lie to us, they don’t belong there!   If they cannot be trusted, they don’t belong there!

Congress cannot be trusted; neither can the atty. general, the secy of health, nor the president!

It’s time for IMPEACHMENT!

OBAMA’S USE OF ATTACK DOGS TO BACKLASH

The vitriol, the hate is back; the divide and conquer attack on the Republican party is showing the lack of character of the democrats!    With President Bush gone, . . . .

The broken promises, eventually be seen for what they are – Jan. 6th, he promised to ban pork and earmarks, yet in this new bill there are 9,000 examples of waste now – mostly by the Democrats, led by Pelosi – some by Republicans as well, but the smoke cover is fading.    The president will sign it; it’s your money, not his.   His wealth is already taken care of!

I couldn’t take it yesterday and changed my registration from the Democrat party to Republican.   Tired of the tax cheats and liars, I will not associate myself with people like this – and on top of it, so pathetically filled with hate.

Obama needed to take the focus off of his partying, his broken promises, and his failure to be able to pull the economy out of the tank, so he’s decided to divide and conquer – which is why he’s called in the attack dogs – - – Carville and company – an appropriate description!

With the ongoing party in the White House – the Obama’s $100/pound steak dinners and private concerts, how long will the worshipers follow him?   It can’t go on much longer w/o leaving an impression on his supporters in the ghetto, or at least it will surely end when the cost of gasoline and the electricity rates skyrocket.

Though the American people feel they need a leader, it’s mainly they don’t want to have to be bothered; that will end when he begins to steal from their wallets!

OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE

Socialized medicine – I’m not a fan!   There’s a legitimate reason!

I had an HMO – very similar to what President Obama wants to do “for”  America - I consider it “doing to us“ rather than “for us“!

In the 1970’s I had a traumatic accident.   I was taken by ambulance to (my HMO’s) (name deleted) hospital – they’d dictated that the distance was not too far although it could have complicated the problems, instead of being appropriate care at a closer facility.

Evidently, in E.R. someone decided I wasn’t going to live through it, so they did inappropriate surgery procedures on me.   The ambulance drivers, with a sick smirk on their faces, told me that the Fontana hospital was their “teaching” facility.

Later, it became apparent malpractice had been done.   They’d made several “mistakes”.   When I saw a lawyer, it was only after they’d sent me home from the E.R. again; I should have been hospitalized on the spot, but they wanted to conference with the doctor who was on vacation and sent me back to survive at home although I again had a broken leg (with a broken rod inside the bone) and osteoporosis in the other leg (both had been broken).   To eat or go to the washroom, I had to lower myself to the floor and pull myself along, sliding on my rear, legs dragging behind . . . .

When they called, their solution was to ask me to come in to have both legs amputated!

About now, I suspect you’re beginning to see how inappropriate their “care” was, how desperate I was and why I’d then called a lawyer friend.   They took my case and got my legs fixed.   Although 35 years later, I still carry a lot of pain, I still have my legs.   It wasn’t rocket science to save my legs – it just took a competent orthopedic surgeon and someone who would pay for the procedures – the doctors and/or lawyer took it on contingency; they expected a good settlement.

I was told to look weak, not to build myself back up and they’d take my case . . . . and when all was said and done, I’d walk away with a lot of money!   It didn’t work like that, but I wanted my legs fixed so I agreed although it seemed deceptive . . . .   I just couldn’t see pushing myself around on a wheeled platform the rest of my life.   I had children to support and a major clinical depression had also set in by then.

The new doctor put me under the knife 5 times to get me back to where I could walk and eventually work again; he was good at what he does – and though there are a lot of side-stories that go along with all this, I’ll not post them here.

All in all, this was a nightmare I went through, all because of the HMO I had chosen to be my health care . . . . a critical mistake, to say the least!

Now, I watch our president promoting the same low-ball type of health care and I cannot sit back and keep silent!   We owe our loved ones more!

I’ve found through my life that I’m several steps ahead of the game when I learn from another’s mistakes rather than go through problems myself!

That’s why I put this here – hoping the American people can see they’re better off getting to a place where they make better choices than I did.   Although I was working and supporting myself and family, there’s something to be said for looking at things with a more critical eye.   The HMO (name deleted) failed me!   Though my lawyer also failed me, he did get me a good doctor and I’ve done well and lived a full life and appreciate having the ability to go where I want, and do what I want.   God has blessed me in many ways and because of that, I owe you, my brothers and sisters, a warning . . . . things are not always what they seem; working and supporting oneself is worth while – finding a job or profession that provides a good health insurance is so much better than being on an entitlement program of some sort!   And avoid (name deleted)  and other uncaring, low-ball, “health care” systems!

FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON OR END OF THE WORLD?

The Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world in the year 2012.

The Christian bible predicts Armageddon (the end for most people) w/in the generation of the rebirth of Israel – May 15th, 1948.   So what’s a generation?   We’re 70 years into that time, so 2012 could even be correct . . . .

Now, look at the fact that Iran, along with Osama, the world’s support base for terrorism, is within a year of producing it’s first nuclear weapon and it has enough fissile material to produce 50 nuclear bombs!  

Couple that with the fact that Iran is threatening to kill everyone in Israel, . . . . to wipe them off the face of the earth, . . . . similar to Hitler’s final solution, . . . just how is it the people of the world are not ready to stop Iran?  

In WWII, the world sat back and watched the Nazis kill 6,000,000 Jews and did nothing, when they could have opened their doors to refugees – even our nation refused entrance . . . . .

Now, we elect a weak leader, one who appoints, George Mitchell, a self-described ”Arab” as the emissary to Israel and the Middle East.   

Then, we give $900,000,000.00 to Gaza who was daily shooting rockets into Israel.  

(By the way, if you’ve not been watching, they’ve ramped up the rockets into Israel even higher than before the recent “Cast Lead” incursion into Gaza, plus they’ve already re-armed / replaced all the rockets!)  

And on Feb. 28th, a rocket hit a school in Ashkelon.   It was the sabbath so no school children were there, but now parents in Ashkelon are refusing to send their children to school (a common target of Iran-supported Hamas). 

Israel’s response to the U.N.?   ” . . . In response to these ongoing attacks, Israel has the inherent duty to exercise it’s right to self-defense enshrined in article 51 of the United Nations Charter . . . Israel will not tolerate, and will respond accordingly to attacks against its citizens.” 

America was once, Israel’s ally – that will end if people do not express their outrage to our president!   I’d prefer my country side with Israel!   Like it or not, you’re responsible for your own acts, . . . . or your inaction!

America’s financial crisis?   It’s very simple!   America has to be out of the way or unable to defend Israel before the attack . . . .

. . . . . as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord : Joshua 24:15

UNION AND AUTO MANUFACTURERS

Most people will agree that unions are about as out of line as international corporations and big banks.   Upwards of $150+ / hour for an unskilled laborer (when including benefits) is certainly going to bankrupt most businesses.

About now, the public should be asking themselves if the Democrats are funnelling money to the major auto manufacturers only to keep the union members working as long as possible!   It is a major base of support for the elected officials ( Obama included ) !  

Therefore, should these “payoffs” not be considered corruption?

Wall Street has consitently sent the message; this out-of-control spending cannot continue.  

Though Obama denies it, the taxing will soon start!   Either that, or we’ll be bankrupt – - – many now think that’s been the (Hate-America-First Crowd’s) plan all along!

Congress needs to bite the bullet!

Should the businesses that fail be allowed to go under and reorganize?   That would mean adjustment of salaries and renegotiating the contracts – what sense does it make for a company to pay a laborer that is not working at speed?

I’m not for letting them go under, but they definitely need reorganization!   And people who have no special skills need to understand 1) they’re paid over the average rate ONLY because they belong to a union and 2) they may need to lower their standard of living!   Better than no job at all!

PELOSI’S PECCADILLO

Maybe “peccadillo” is the wrong term here!   This is NOT petty, nor is it slight; it is an offence!

I’ve not got the where-with-all to verify this story; I’m sending it to the media; I’ll leave it to them to verify and publish.

First though, lets set aside the Conflict-of-Interest charges, for a moment.   Why haven’t we heard any news commentaries on this . . . . about the Speaker of the House’s conniption fit?   Recently, she had a “snit” about having to ride home in the small, private economy jet – the epitome of a spoiled brat!   We need to know what she is like!   She is, 2nd in line for the presidency, after all!

You heard about this right?   Am I wrong?

If I’m wrong and you’ve not, read the rest of this; you won’t believe it!   Especially not in light of California’s financial plight.   If you have heard about this . . . and still done nothing, maybe the Attorney General Eric Holder is correct – maybe we are a nation of cowards!

“Madam Peelo” was so aggravated that this little jet had to refuel and waste her precious time while transporting her to California every week, she insisted on a luxurious 200 seat jet to fly her to California – nonstop instead!

Washington legislators who observed the Madam’s big fat jet grinned with glee as “big-mouth-Joe” informed everyone that Nancy’s jet will require hard-working American taxpayers to buy thousands of gallons of expensive jet fuel every week.   Of course she only works 3 days a week, but her gas guzzler luxury jet flights home, to California, costs us $60,000.00 each way!   Joe then noted, . . . . “of course we have to bring her back on Monday, so there goes another $60,000.00!

Assuming she and her associates only go home every other week . . . . that’d still be over $50 million a year!

Work-a-day Americans . . . . even more so, military families are to do without while this goes on?   This woman who spends our money as if it were going out of style?   This woman who heads up the worthless, corrupt House of Representatives?   This congress knows they’re out of control!   This “Pro-Choice”, “Queen of Earmarks” is America’s cancer!

If this is true, and I suspect because of the origin, it is, . . . all this just flat-out-burns me!   How about you?

I’ll say this again . . . .   It’s time to recall every Senator, every Representative!   But, let’s start with Madam Peelosi; that just might, put the fear of the electorate in the rest of ‘em!

OBAMA VOTERS

In a Seattle Washington college classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty simple – - – - the candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age.

However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.

The class was taking it in and letting her rant, but everyone’s jaw hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating,

‘What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?’

Yep, these are the 18 year olds that just voted for the President of the United States.   What we have here is NOT a failure to communicate . . . . a line from “Cool Hand Luke”!  

What we have here is a nation of undereducated Quislings.

You don’t know what that is?

I didn’t either, . . . . but it fits!

INSANITY in the WHITE HOUSE?

(A warning to us all; again I post someone else’s words!)   If you want to see my ’sarcasm’ post on this, scroll down to: “Adoration Addiction.”

It seems history does repeat itself.   The similarities between this administration and past regimes is rather chilling.

The predictions at the end could easily happen given the state of the economy and the “government should provide for me” mentality that is so prevalent.

Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new president.   Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin States “I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him.   At first I was excited to see a black candidate.

He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package.   I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling.   His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.

Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history.   Never a politician in this land had such quasi “religious” impact on so many people.   The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming.    Obama is not an ordinary man.   He is not a genius.   In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects.”

Barack Obama is a narcissist.

Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”   Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism.   He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like
no other person.   When he talks about narcissism everyone listens.   Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves.   Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist.

David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few (other) examples of narcissists of our time.   All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers.   They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life.   They gave them hope!   They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.

When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late.   One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.

“Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,” says Vaknin.   “Mixed-race marriages were even less common then.   His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old).   Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident.   Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father.   At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents.   He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979….   She died of cancer in 1995″.

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists.   They project such an imposing personal that it overwhelms those around them.   Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands.   They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service.   The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image.   He creates a cult of personality.

His admirers become his co-dependents.   Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective.   They are focused on one thing alone and that is power.   All other issues are meaningless
to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities.

Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.   If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it.   The “present” vote is a safe vote.   No one can criticize him if things go wrong.   Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him, & Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.

The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what?   His own autobiography!

Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self.   He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody.   So did Stalin.   For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self.   Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself?   Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless.

As the norm, they lack conscience.   This is evident from Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.

A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother.

Why?   Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.   A narcissist cares for no one but himself.   This election is like no other in the history of America.   The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake.   What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his
fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world?   I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed.   Many politicians are narcissists.

They pose no threat to others…   They are simply self serving and selfish.

Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example.   To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.   This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw.   Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent.

It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.   Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party.

The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama.   Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple.

The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.   The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.   Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting.   They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism.   This will cause a backlash among the whites.   The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support.   I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960’s. Obama will set the clock back decades…   America is the bastion of freedom.   The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House.   America is on the verge of destruction.   There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

OBAMA – NEW SCANDAL!

Meet the New Boss!   Same as the Old Boss!  . . . we’ve been fooled again!

See Update:  http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/another-obama-nominee-bites-the-dust/

What would you say if . . . . .

There’s just no way you’re gonna believe this!

Nominated for Chief of National Intelligence Council, . . . the top ranking U.S. post as far as security of our nation goes is being given to a man who . . . . I don’t know how to say this without being sued . . . . . .

This man, Charles Freeman,

the former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in this new post he is nominated for, he will be writing the briefs which determine all of America’s foreign policy!

His job is to be coordinating / compiling all the information between the numerous intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, FBI, the Pentagon, etc.) and daily briefing President Obama.

The problem with this, you ask?

This man sits on the advisory board of a government-owned Chinese oil company!   That oil company is doing business with Iran – has been since 2006!   This same oil company attempted to buy the largest American oil company and the U.S. Congress stopped the deal!

That begs the question: why then, ’did Congress stop it?’

The deal was stopped because the Congress felt it was AGAINST AMERICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS!

…..  OK; IF THAT’S TRUE, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!?!

This should have already been reported in the media!   Oh it’s been spoken of a bit and it’s slowly leaking its’ way down to the inept media – they’ll pick it up ….. eventually.  

Ten U.S. Congressmen (both parties) are currently calling for an investigation!

Still, the following question should be ringing every bell in America – - -  “WHY WOULD OUR PRESIDENT NOMINATE SUCH A MAN?   Is this the man you want putting together the briefings for our president - briefings that will impact or possibly determine what America’s foreign policy is?

I’m not going to go into the non-profit money Freeman receives . . . . from Saudi Arabia; I’m not going to go into the way he distorts his presenting how Israel is “occupying Jerusalem”, in the textbooks he sells to American schools . . . .   Kinda points out how anti-semetic he is though, doesn’t it?

I’ve put it out there for the media to pick up on . . . . inept as they are, let them at least, do a little work!

Obama & Bush compared

Condemn President Bush all you want, but take a look at this video; it says volumes and it’s those who are putting their lives on the line for you and I.   Tell me why the difference, but if you don’t love America and our freedom as much as these people, . . . . . don’t even bother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZfizmubUE

LET’S TELL D.C. “NO”!

There’s a storm brewin’. Washington’s forgotten they work for us. Let’s remind them!

• I’m tired of the corruption!
• I’m sick of the pork & earmarks!
• I’m sick of the broken promises!   – - - line by line elimination of Pork and Earmarks, no lobbiests, no tax cheats, 5 days to read all bills, no conflict of interests, etc.
• I am sick of the midnight, closed door sessions to come up with a plan!
• I am sick of Congress getting special deals from banks they give money to!
• I’m sick of their looting Social Security!
• I’m tired of them voting themselves pay raises ($93,000.00 increase in expenses, this year)!
• I’m tired of taxes being re-named!
• I’m tired of the ridiculous amounts of their spending our tax money irresponsibly!
• I’m sick of their passing a bill w/o even reading it!
• I am sick of the bailed out banks and companies having lavish vacations and retreats on our dollars!
• I am sick of being told it’s my responsibility to rescue people that, knowingly, bought more house or car than they could afford.
• I am sick of being made to feel it is my patriotic duty to pay MORE taxes!

I don’t ask someone else to carry the burden for poor decisions I may make.

I have emailed congressmen and senators; they ignored us and voted for it, pork and all.

Before we do something rash like begin a recall . . . . or impeachment, don’t think you are just one voice and what you say, won’t make a difference.   WE CAN!!

So, here’s the plan.

This was not my idea. I visited the sites of the “New American Tea Party” and an online survey showed over 90% of thousands said they would send the teabag on April 1. Why, April 1?? We want them to reach Washington by April 15. Will you do it? I will. http://newamericanteaparty.com/contact-us/

Send it to; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington , D.C. 20500.

Send the other to: Nancy Pelosi, 235 Cannon HOB – Washington, DC 20515

Paraphrased: Once the people (Congress) realize they can vote themselves entitlements, (pay raises) it’s all over . . . . speak up now or America’s dream of justice and equality is over!

Twice, let’s each one of us send a TEABAG to Washington , D.C. – one to the President and one to the Queen of Pork, Nancy Pelosi! Once, when you read this . . . and again on April 1^st, 2009! They’ll trickle in, at first and they’ll laugh at us . . . . until they get the mass mailings of tea bags on April 15^th!

You do not have to enclose a note! You don’t have to even sign your name or any other information unless you so desire. Just send them a TEABAG.

If you’re a blogger, put this on your blog and encourage others to forward it to their email list. Let’s tell D.C. what we think! 

Many cities are organizing protests. If you simply search, “New American Tea Party”, several sites will come up. If you aren’t the ‘protester’ type, simply make your one voice heard with a TEABAG. Your one voice will become a roar when joined with millions of others that feel the same way. Yes, something needs to be done but the lack of confidence as shown by the steady decline in the stock market speaks volumes.

If you agree and are disgusted and angry with Washington,

We need to become ONE, LOUD VOICE THAT CAN BE HEARD FROM EVERY CITY, TOWN, SUBURB AND HOME IN AMERICA.

There is a growing protest to demand that Congress, the President and his cabinet LISTEN to us, the American Citizens.   What is being done in Washington is NOT the way to handle this economic free fall.

“Medical Marijuana” and DWI.

Drivers, self medicating with marijuana are a hazard to everyone!   Often, these people work and some, will “self-medicate” before going to work, rather than while at work, but what about those who are employed driving others for a living?  

Tonight, march 10th, 2009, an LTD bus . . . . specifically a “Ride Source” bus had an accident on Fox Hollow Dr. in Eugene, Oregon.

“Ride Source” buses are to drive people who cannot drive themselves, yet need transportation to and from critical resources – doctors offices, etc.

I have mentioned to a number of people in law enforcement and other officials, that I know of ….. er ….. knew of (stated that way only because I don’t know that he still is employed by LTD) a man who “self-medicates” with medical marijuana and who drives one of these buses.

Knowing that marijuana causes people which drive to have and cause accidents, I was concerned, especially that this man not only uses, but self-medicates with marijuana.   Marijuana does not leave the bloodstream very fast and is cumulative.   Over time, its metabolytes store in fat cells and are released back into the blood stream as fat cells are burned.    National Drug Control Policy stated that ”Marijuana impairs many of the skills required for safe driving, such as concentration, coordination, perception and reaction time, and these effects can last up to 24 hours after smoking the drug.

There is currently no level of THC in the bloodstream to determine whether one is driving “intoxicated”, or DWI, but as this man drives / transports people who are elderly and dependant upon others, I always felt concerned that this was his job, . . . . yet no one seemed to care when I mentioned it to them!

Knowing that there are many commercial products sold on the market to hide the results of what would normally be discovered during an incoming employment drug-testing screen, periodic random drug tests ought to be required for people who drive public transportation!   This goes double for people who drive seniors.

It seems to me, that it ought to be a law, requiring any driver after an “accident” of this sort where someone is injured, ought to be drug tested, but especially for those who drive others as part of their employment and that there ought to be regular but random drug testing.  

In 2005, House Bill 2695 Sponsored by Representative NELSON was presented to the Oregon Legislature; I’m not sure how it turned out.    I’ll add to this later.

More than 2.9 million driving-age teens reported lifetime use of marijuana, and last year more than 750,000 16- and 17-year-olds reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs

Related stories:

• http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/it-may-be-tempting-but-look-at-the-reality/ 
• http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/dwi-medical-marijuana-states-are-complicit-in-vehicular-injuries-and-deaths/ 
• http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/marijuana-and-cancer-in-offspring-of-users/

TRUTH ABOUT SEBELIUS – OBAMA’S DEATH CZAR

Behind the scene horror re: Obama’s Death Czar – confirm Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s Health & Human Services nominee and here’s your future . . . . .  health “care”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUcuEjbzE-E

International Insanity – FROM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN D.C. TO PUBLIC VENUES IN SFO

In San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi’s spirit was about ….. somewhere.  

Reports are, the day before, the stress level, having reached a fever pitch insanity, had brought her and Harry Reid, to kick all the aids out of the office while they continued swearing and ranting; it echoed throughout the halls of America’s legislature!

Having reached such a decibel level, with just too much to deal with, Nancy’s colorful vibrato was sure to stimulate another stress level vote, while in her home base, on the left side of the nation, the home of schizophrenic actions, insanity manifests itself in another way.  

Flash Mobs appear out of nowhere.   Valentine’s day, it had been a pillow fight - part of an international fad, partly anarchistic, partly absurdist, in which a mob of participants suddenly materializes at a public place, engages, and acts out what they think of D.C. antics, then disappear.

Instead of mimicing spoiled brat Pelosi, they found a childhood activity of throwing shaving cream pies at one another helped deal with the absurdity of the D.C. psychosis, as they sent the economy into another spiral!

Wait a minute ….. is that Nancy under all that ….. cream?   Or is it James Carville, ….. in drag?

$1,000,000 here ……

“A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money!”

    Oh for the days of Senator Everett Dirksen, again.    Rep. Illinois

Or, that our president could learn from him; we might then, name a senate office building after President Obama too.

ARE YOU FREEMEN OR SLAVES?

Sunday, March 8, 2009  //  This, from a website listed below, published, to assist information getting to the troops.

Oath Keepers: Orders We Will Not Obey

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army” – Gen. George Washington, to his troops before the battle of Long Island.

Such a time is near at hand again. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this Army – and this Marine Corps, This Air Force, This Navy and the National Guard units of these sovereign states. 

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic … and meant it.

Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the President, and that oath will be kept. We won’t “just follow orders.”

Below is our declaration of orders we will NOT obey because we will consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral violations of the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be acts of war against the American people by their own government, and thus acts of treason. We will not make war against our own people. We will not commit treason. We will defend the Republic. 
 
Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey

Recognizing that we each swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and affirming that we are guardians of the Republic, of the principles in our Declaration of Independence, and of the rights of our people, we affirm and declare the following:

1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.

The attempt to disarm the people on April 19, 1775 was the spark of open conflict in the American Revolution. That vile attempt was an act of war, and the American people fought back in justified, righteous self-defense of their natural rights. Any such order today would also be an act of war against the American people, and thus an act of treason. We will not make war on our own people, and we will not commit treason by obeying any such treasonous order.

Nor will we assist, or support any such attempt to disarm the people by other government entities, either state or federal.

In addition, we affirm that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to preserve the military power of the people so that they will, in the last resort, have effective final recourse to arms and to the God of Hosts in the face of tyranny. Accordingly, we oppose any and all further infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. In particular we oppose a renewal of the misnamed “assault-weapons” ban or the enactment of H.R. 45 (which would register and track gun owners like convicted pedophiles).

2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects – such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons.

One of the causes of the American Revolution was the use of warrantless searches known as “writs of assistance” and the first fiery embers of American resistance were born in opposition to those infamous writs. The Founders considered all warrantless searches to be unreasonable and egregious. It was to prevent a repeat of such violations of the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects that the Fourth Amendment was written.

We expect that warrantless searches of homes and vehicles, under some pretext, will be the means used to attempt to disarm the people.

3. We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.

One of the causes of the American Revolution was the denial of the right to jury trial, the use of admiralty courts (military tribunals) instead, and the application of the laws of war to the colonists. After that experience, and being well aware of the infamous Star Chamber in English history, the Founders ensured that the international laws of war would apply only to foreign enemies, not to the American people. Thus, the Article III Treason Clause establishes the only constitutional form of trial for an American, not serving in the military, who is accused of making war on his own nation. Such a trial for treason must be before a civilian jury, not a tribunal.

The international laws of war do not trump our Bill of Rights. We reject as illegitimate any such claimed power, as did the Supreme Court in Ex Parte Milligan (1865). Any attempt to apply the laws of war to American civilians, under any pretext, such as against domestic “militia” groups the government brands “domestic terrorists,” is an act of war and an act of treason.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express consent and invitation of that state’s legislature and governor.

One of the causes of the American Revolution was the attempt “to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power” by disbanding the Massachusetts legislature and appointing General Gage as “military governor.”  The attempt to disarm the people of Massachusetts during that martial law sparked our Revolution. Accordingly, the power to impose martial law – the absolute rule over the people by a military officer with his will alone being law – is nowhere enumerated in our Constitution.

Further, it is the militia of a state and of the several states that the Constitution contemplates being used in any context, during any emergency within a state, not the standing army.

The imposition of martial law by the national government over a state and its people, treating them as an occupied enemy nation, is an act of war. Such an attempted suspension of the Constitution and Bill of Rights voids the compact with the states and with the people.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union.
In response to the obscene growth of federal power and to the absurdly totalitarian claimed powers of the Executive, upwards of 20 states are considering, have considered, or have passed courageous resolutions affirming states rights and sovereignty.

Those resolutions follow in the honored and revered footsteps of Jefferson and Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and likewise seek to enforce the Constitution by affirming the very same principles of our Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights that we Oath Keepers recognize and affirm.

Chief among those principles is that ours is a dual sovereignty system, with the people of each state retaining all powers not granted to the national government they created, and thus the people of each state reserved to themselves the right to judge when the national government they created has voided the compact between the states by asserting powers never granted.

Upon the declaration by a state that such a breach has occurred, we will not obey orders to force that state to submit to the national government.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
One of the causes of the American Revolution was the blockade of Boston, and the occupying of that city by the British military, under martial law. Once hostilities began, the people of Boston were tricked into turning in their arms in exchange for safe passage, but were then forbidden to leave. That confinement of the residents of an entire city was an act of war.

Such tactics were repeated by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, and by the Imperial Japanese in Nanking, turning entire cities into death camps. Any such order to disarm and confine the people of an American city will be an act of war and thus an act of treason.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

Mass, forced internment into concentration camps was a hallmark of every fascist and communist dictatorship in the 20th Century. Whenever a government makes war on its own people, it treats them like an occupied enemy population and uses the internment of women and children to break the will of the men fighting for their liberty – as was done to the Boars, to the Jewish resisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, to the Cossacks, and to the Chechens, for example. 

Such a vile order to forcibly intern Americans without charges or trial would be an act of war against the American people, and thus an act of treason, regardless of the pretext used. We will not commit treason, nor will we facilitate or support it.”NOT on Our Watch!”

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control” during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an invasion and an act of war.

During the American Revolution, the British government enlisted the aid of Hessian mercenaries in an attempt to subjugate the rebellious American people. Throughout history, repressive regimes have enlisted the aid of foreign troops and mercenaries who have no bonds with the people.

Accordingly, as the militia of the several states are the only military force contemplated by the Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, for domestic keeping of the peace, and as the use of even our own standing army for such purposes is without such constitutional support, the use of foreign troops and mercenaries against the people is wildly unconstitutional, egregious, and an act of war.
We will oppose such troops as enemies of the people and we will treat all who request, invite, and aid those foreign troops as the traitors they are.

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency pretext whatsoever.

One of the causes of the American Revolution was the seizure and forfeiture of American ships, goods, and supplies, along with the seizure of American timber for the Royal Navy, all in violation of the people’s natural right to their property and to the fruits of their labor.

The final spark of the Revolution was the attempt by the government to seize powder and cannon stores at Concord.
Deprivation of food has long been a weapon of war and oppression, with millions intentionally starved to death by fascist and communist governments in the 20th Century alone.

Accordingly, we will not obey or facilitate orders to confiscate food and other essential supplies from the people, and we will consider all those who issue or carry out such orders to be the enemies of the people.

10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

There would have been no American Revolution without fiery speakers and writers such as James Otis, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Sam Adams “setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

Patrick Henry: “Give me Liberty, or Give me DEATH!”

Tyrants know that the pen of a man such as Thomas Paine can cause them more damage than entire armies, and thus they always seek to suppress the natural rights of speech, association, and assembly. Without freedom of speech, the people will have no recourse but to arms. Without freedom of speech and conscience, there is no freedom.

Therefore, we will not obey or support any orders to suppress or violate the right of the people to speak, associate, assemble, communicate, or petition government for the redress of grievances.

- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually affirm our oath and pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. Oath Keepers
The above list is not exhaustive but we do consider them to be clear tripwires – they form our “line in the sand,” and if we receive such orders, we will not obey them. Further, we will know that the time for another American Revolution is nigh. If such a revolution comes, at that time, not only will we NOT fire upon our fellow Americans who righteously resist such egregious violations of their God given rights, we will join them in fighting against those who dare attempt to enslave them.
NOTE: please also read our Principles of Our Republic We Are Sworn to Defend

Oath Keepers is a non partisan association of currently serving military, veterans, and peace officers who will fulfill our oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.

Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the President, not to Congress, and not to any political party. In the long-standing tradition of the U.S. military, we are apolitical. We don’t care if unlawful orders come from a Democrat or a Republican, or if the violation is bi-partisan. We will not obey unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral orders, such as orders to disarm the American people or to place them under martial law. We won’t “just follow orders.” Our motto: “Not on Our Watch!”

There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But many others do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution and to the people, and understand what that means.

The mission of Oath Keepers is to vastly increase their numbers.

We are in a battle for the hearts and minds of our own troops.

Help us win it.

www.oath-keepers.blogspot.com

DEMOCRATS PURPOSEFULLY TO BRING AMERICA TO BREAKING POINT!

The Democratic party’s attempt to bring the U.S. government to a breaking point . . . .

You can call it paranoia, but it’s all a power grab - the intent is to take permanent control of government – a typical Socialist tactic!  

The Democrats want:

1. the influx of illegal aliens, (a solid voter base)
2. an unresponsive legislature
3. out of control corruption and fraud
4. disparaging of the public
5. appointment of judges who will “legislate from the bench”
6. control of the media, therefore influencing of the apathetic and ignorant
7. existing Executive Orders – easily authorizing martial law under United Nations’ troops
8. confiscation of guns
9. the military tied down in Afghanistan
10. the gerrymandering after the 2010 census
11. a permanent welfare class
12. a financially marginalized economy
13. printing an endless supply of money w/o anything to back in – insuring a crippling inflation
14. the omnibus bill’s not even signed yet and Queen Pelosi today -3/11/09 is already talking about another “stimulus” is needed
15. an entertained, and drugged populace
16. domestic and foreign terrorist – another reason for martial law bill
17. and the marginalization of the leaders of the opposition, Republican party

….. all this and more, will permanently give the Democrats control of our government, of taxpayers purse-strings, though foreign, a standing army, control of the banks, etc. . . . . that is, IF America doesn’t wake up.

Freedom lost, is a lot harder to re-establish, than standing up to the totalitarian soul of the amoral Democrats in the first place – WAKE UP AMERICA!

As a knowledgeable and insightful friend said, . . . “this (below), smacks of Atty. Gen. Holder and President Obama!”   The Sheriff is a thorn in the side of their plans!

PHOENIX — Federal authorities have told a high-profile Arizona sheriff that they will investigate his department over allegations of discriminatory practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures.

The U.S. Justice Department said in a letter delivered Tuesday to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that the investigation will focus on alleged patterns of discrimination based on a person’s national origin.

Arpaio told The Associated Press that he will cooperate with the Justice Department.

Arpaio, who describes himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and is best known for feeding jail inmates green bologna sandwiches, clothing them in pink underwear, and making them work on chain gangs, received praise for his anti-immigration efforts from many who believe the federal government isn’t doing enough to remove people in the U.S. illegally.

But his raids and sweeps of illegal immigrants in Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe have drawn protests from community leaders and civil liberties advocates. Arpaio, a Republican, has also been criticized for letting thousands of felony warrants go unserved while he chased illegal immigrants.

According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, there are about 59,000 outstanding, unserved felony warrants in the state. The majority are in Maricopa County, the state’s most populated county.

THE MOST IMPORTANT POST!

What if …..   I know what the idiots say, those angry at Him, but what if, … there actually is a God, ….. and more importantly, that He left proof for you, that He exists – - - proof you could not deny?

He did but you’ve rejected it.  

Look again.   Now, there’s relatively new information – and it’s information that specifically could not be found until now!

It took the development of a computer to find it . . . . oh, not all of it; some (very little of it) was known for centuries, but now, with the advent of the computer, and detailed encryption programs, the number of codes appearing and the placement of them within scripture – - – scripture that is known to be thousands of years old!   It leaves no doubt!   And, even more compelling is that the statistical probablities that these hidden codes are anything but intentionally put there, is way beyond coincidence!

Those who have denied this, have told others this is false, fall into 3 catagories:

1. evil liars (there are even people who have written books, written intentionally to discredit these codes)
2. the deceived, followers of evil liars – people who do not investigate for themselves
3. people who do not accept the importance of this – in other words – - – “fools”

If you’ve rejected this, which are you?   Or, are you willing to keep an open mind and consider it?

In scripture, when one goes back to the original Hebrew script, there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of codes hidden there.   Once encountered, they cannot be rejected, for they are placed where they are with an obvious pre-planned positioning and the potentiallity of it being coincidence is beyond the possibility that (for instance) the earth is round, spinning in space and will turn toward the sun and shade in one 24 hour period!

Remember, as I stated above, there are intentional “rabbit-trail-books” to lead people off the track, but look for yourself, ….. but before you do, accept that there may be a God and ask Him:

1. If He is real, …. to reveal Himself to you.   (He will, and in such a way that it cannot be rejected)
2. To lead you to, provide you, the truth
3. To protect you from the lies and deceptions

I will recommend three more things to you, then give you one small example of a hidden code.

Understand:

1. that “the church” was warped …… taken over, and the power usurped by those who would hide the truth and has “evolved” to what it is today – many good people belong to today’s churches, but many only ’pretend’ or ‘hope without knowing’ for sure.
2. though the codes are real and obviously beyond coincidence, they are there for one purpose ONLY; they’re there to be the confirmation that scripture is really from Him – that leaves no doubt, but ….. they are NOT there to be caught up in, obsessed over; do not loose focus – they’re ONLY there to be a “watermark” on scripture.
3. the truth is out there, but there are more deceptions than truth; the truth is singular and precise; I recommend you look at what I recommend; the time is short!

Read “Cracking the Bible Code”

by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.; begin with the exciting prologue.

Regard the first sentence in the first chapter – I’ve copied it here,  but regard it as a humble understatement!

“This book is the story of what may turn out to be the most important scientific research ever undertaken.”

I believe this is so …….   There is nothing as important.

INEPT OR CORRUPT NEWS MEDIA?

It only took 4 months for Fox news (the first one to really cover this – the others I classify closer to corrupt than inept), to cover the fact that the American banks which received TARP money were investing the free money in overseas banks and companies!

I published it last November – easily accessible on the net – actually Greta Van Sustren heard it about then, from Donald Trump – that’s when I went to look it up and found out that not only were our banks buying shares in Chinese banks but Chinese banks were buying shares in European Banks – the “OLD MONEY”, Rothchilds Banks!

And the Carlisle Group – recogniza that name?   They’re …..

Just click on the “economy” and “bailout” tags to the right.

PALESTINIAN BARBARISM

Today, in Israel, the talk is of releasing … rather, trading 500 Palestinian terrorists for 1 kidnapped Israeli soldier - kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.

It’s reported the terrorists commandered an “unwatched?” or as some intel states, ”loaned”, U.N. vehicle to facilitate the kidnapping / approaching in safety - two other Israeli soldiers were killed, but Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and held now for near 3 years …..   The holdup in the trade for now, is that Israel wants the extremely violent terrorists, 50 of them, deported out of Gaza.

The trade is close to a reality from what the news says, but this article is to show the typical, consistent barbarism of the P.A.!

The Palestinian Authority (PA) celebrated the single most murderous attack against Israeli civilians by broadcasting an hour-long special Wednesday on its official television station.Palestinian Media Watch reported that the program opened with the narrator glorifying the attack as: “…one of the most important and most prominent special actions, executed by the Palestinian revolution by sea, on the coast between Haifa and Tel Aviv. This action, which was carried out by a group of heroes and led by the heroic fighter Dalal Mughrabi, had a great impact on continuing events of the Arab-Israeli conflict.” Passengers burned alive The bus continued driving south on the Coastal Road (Highway 2) while the terrorists fired and threw grenades at passing cars, shot passengers and dumped at least one body out of the bus. At one point, they hijacked another bus and forced the passengers from the first bus to board it. An explosion caused either by an exploding fuel tank or a grenade set the bus on fire, killing 38 civilians, 13 of them children. 71 Israelis were wounded.

Arabs who penetrated into Israel by rubber dinghies from Lebanon carried out the attack, known in Israel as the Coastal Road Terror Attack, on March 11, 1978. They hijacked a tourist bus and killed 38 civilians, 13 of them children.

PA TV celebrated the attack on the anniversary of the hijacking with an hour-long special. The program included interviews with terrorists who described the planning and implementation of the murder spree.

 

Mughrabi and 11 other terrorists landed by Zodiac boats on a beach near Ma’agan Michael, north of Tel Aviv. They fatally shot American photographer Gail Rubin who was taking nature photographs nearby, reached the Coastal Highway and commandeered a bus that was carrying Egged bus drivers and their families on a day outing.

 

 

An article published in the July 10, 2008 edition of the PA’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda daily newspaper called Al-Mughrabi “a living legend and a wonderful example for all women.”

Al Jazeera TV also aired a program in 2008 focusing on Al-Mughrabi and extolling her exploits. The focus on the terrorist came on the heels of the transfer of her body to the Hizbullah as part of the ransom for the bodies of IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

BEWARE INVESTORS! BEAR TRAPS AHEAD!

Mafia in the NYSE?

Though I wrote of this here, http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/wall-street-and-the-mafia/ this is not the most common snare meant to cut you and your family off at the knees …..

And NO!   The most common trap, is not the Madoff Ponzi type schemes.   The most common bear traps out there for investors is deception of investors.   Corporations investing in their own stock, driving up the selling price, manipulating the bottom lines, moving assetts from one corporate entity to another, hedge funds buying into one stock to suck other investors in ……

All these, and many more I’m not aware of, are meant to suck the unwary investor into putting up his savings.

You’ve seen what’s happened and I’m not saying this is not a good time for some short-term investments, but you won’t find me investing!   But then I learned long ago ……

1. there’s nothing wrong with hard work!
2. there’s nothing wrong with investing in oneself!
3. there’s nothing crazy about knowing who my provider is!
4. there’s nothing wrong with investing – IF – it’s done wisely, and with only what one and one’s loved ones can afford to loose.

ANNA NICHOLE

UPDATE: See below – in blue …. scroll down.

Admittedly, not your normal post …..

• One can blame the doctors – Khristine Eroshevich and / or Sandeep Kapoor . . . . for writing the prescriptions; that’s what Jerry Brown says.
• One can blame the death of her son, but then …..
• One must though, blame the drugs, from pot to methadone – narcotics and euphorics just don’t come to any good – now people want to legalize them?   People who don’t care about children, maybe!
• One can blame her boyfriend / lawyer, Howard Stern for bring her the drugs, especially when she was pregnant
• One can even blame her parents for not being able to keep it together and providing a good homelife
• For me, …… all that’s true, but I take it a step farther.   I blame Hugh Hefner for puttin her up there as a trollop, on the front page and centerfold of his magazine.  Hugh promoted anything hedonistic!

That’s why I don’t eat at Carl’s Junior any more!   I realize they don’t care, but their ad with Hugh, promoting “variety” ….. or was it “spice”,  either way, even though I liked a couple of their sandwiches, it put me off just enough to where I found somewhere else to eat!

You don’t see the connections?   That’s ok.   I’ve lived it enough to where it makes sense to me.   But then, I’m old enough to have made the mistakes and changed my life …..   I’ve watched the connections between – sex, drugs, nudity, titillation, porn …… and those who find ways to achieve the fulfillment of their greedy ways and I guess I took Timothy Leary’s advice.   I dropped out …… that is I dropped out of the being a consumer!

So I’ll close with ….. hope you burn in hell, Hugh!   You certainly helped her ….. and all your readers!

 

   Can  you believe it?  Amazing!! This guy wins 181  million in the lottery on a Wednesday,  and then  finds the love of his life just 2 days!  later.  

Talk   about LUCK!!!!   And she’s priettier than Anna Nichole!

 

WATCH GLENN BECK!

See: http://www.the912Project.com

SAT. 3/14 – 9:pm est, 6:pm pst

It’s time to take out nation back.   The culture of corruption in D.C. must be stopped!   There are plans . . . . our steps need to be prioritized and in order, but first, it needs to be done on principles; otherwise we’re fragmented.

A PEOPLE’S COURT

This is only to begin a dialogue …… let’s begin to present and compare ideas regarding the limitations and ramifications of the actions of those who’ve been elected to represent us:

It ought to be illegal; it’s time to consider and establish what kind of liability the people have, for the debts established by their representatives’ obscene, out-of-control spending …… especially when it’s Pork – taxpayer money spent to insure the representative’s re-election.

Their use of borrowed money, on which interest will be due, ought to be required to be paid ONLY by representatives, if the purpose was for their re-election.

Term limits are a must to do away with the culture of corruption!

Your turn ……

JACK CRITCHFIELD – A MIRACLE!

Ya know how what’s going on in the real world, can interfere with your dream and become an integral part of it?

Well, this is really weird but in this dream, the phone was ringing, and as I answered it in my dream, I proceeded to begin an imaginary ‘dream’ conversation . . .

Finally, as the phone kept ringing I reached out. Not thinking, still dreaming yet starting to come out of my sleep, I picked up my in-law’s phone.

“(H)ello?”, I mumbled, ….. barely.

It was the voices on the other end that startled me back into being awake.

As I became aware of where I was, that I knew these two and they were talking specifically to me; I knew these guys all too well. Both, were talking at the same time, they were each threatening my life! 

I knew each of these guys were capable of incredible violence – if only from the stories I’d heard. Supposedly, even murder was not beyond them; besides, I’d always known, they’d never liked nor trusted me! Jack had told me they didn’t.

Knowing how violent they were immediately woke me the rest of the way! I was now paying attention, and now they were telling me, people would be finding body parts – in dumpsters all over L. A. My body parts!

‘How did these guys know where to call me? I must have given Jack my phone number; that’s where they got it …..,’I thought.

I didn’t remember giving it to him, but how else would they have been able to call me at my in-laws? No one in Jack’s crowd knew who the Britts were. I’d moved north, to Oregon almost a year ago and only Linda and Jan’s parents knew where we lived! 

These two kept talking; if they weren’t both talking at the same time, when one would slow, the other would jump in! They were pissed, to say the least! At first, I had no clue why. 

The reason? I’d sorted out in my head later. All they knew was that whenever I went to one of Jack’s parties, (normally, the only time I’d see them), …. sometime that evening, Jack and I would end up over in a corner, deep in discussion, talking about God. All they could figure was that Jack was depressed and there I was again, ….. therefore it must be me that caused it; they didn’t know when he got depressed, he called on me for perspective.  Several times they’d said, “you bring up God, …. you bring him down, they’ll find parts of you, in dumpsters all over L.A.!

Looking back, now I can realize why they thought it must be me, bringing him down. That wasn’t the case though. Whenever Jack was down, he’d call a party; like most of us, Jack had been through a personal ‘hell’ of his own – we were best friends though they didn’t understand why, and periodically he’d get really down and his ‘method of operation’, was to call on me. I was privileged that way! 

Evidently, he didn’t talk about this stuff to them; they would have rejected all of it anyway! Jack was one of their “heroes”; Jack was everyone’s hero! When Jack was really depressed, he’d call me, even though I didn’t fit with a lot of his crowd. When Jack called a party, everyone came – Jack threw great parties! 

Jack had friends from all walks of life – the full spectrum – CEO’s and foremen from the corporation where he worked would come, at least for a while ….. everyone liked and respected him. His married, Yuppie friends too, with their kids, as well as the dopers, and others; most of his friends were partiers; many, if not most, lived in the fast lane, always ready for a party. The families that came, would swim and enjoy the Bar-b-q and they’d leave when or before the hard stuff came out. Jack was into both drugs and alcohol. Back then, people kind of looked the other way as long as one had it somewhat under control. 

I’d helped Jack move from Chicago but that’s another story. When Jack’s friends realized he was going to stay in So. Ca., ….. that he wasn’t coming back to Chicago, over 30 people moved out to L.A. – the Long Beach area. Jack, was loved by everyone who knew him! He took care of people. Whatever people needed, Jack was there for them, encouragement, moral support or if they needed another type of help. 

If someone was in trouble financially, he’d bail them out; or if they were in jail, Jack would bail them out or if he couldn’t, he’d bring food to the family. If their car broke down, Jack would loan them his, while he fixed theirs. If they’d begun drinking too much Jack and a few friends would do an intervention. He was a good friend to everyone who knew him – looking back, I’ve realized, Jack was the ‘father figure’ for a large extended family. Jack inspired others and helped them live up to their potential. 

What surprised me about this conversation I’d awakened to, was my response to their threats! 

Once I figured out what they were uptight with, even knowing their potential for violence, I found myself telling them, “Look; if Jack doesn’t bring up God, before I leave, I will. You do what you have to do; so do I . . . it’ll be OK. Don’t worry about it.” 

They continued swearing at me, and slammed the phone down. I hung up wondering, ‘what in the world did I say that to these two for?”; I’d heard it coming out of my mouth, as if someone else had said it, “and why in the world, did I say that?’ 

That was not something I would say . . . like I said, I knew these two . . .Yet, somehow, unexplainably, I had a peace about what I’d said; somehow, inside, I knew it would be OK. No rational explanation for that – not in this world, anyway! 

Somehow, I turned back over and went right back to sleep without worry. Not like me at all!  

First contact

I’d called Jack after I gave up and came in, before I went to sleep. 

The day before, I’d been in Oregon and my old girlfriend, Linda, as her visit with my new wife and was ending. She’d informed me (and my new wife) that Jack was dying of cancer – that he didn’t have much time left. 

In Oregon, the day before, still in shock as Linda drove away, I turned and told my wife, “I have to go see Jack.” 

She replied, “I know, but how can we afford it?” 

We’d moved into Springfield, Oregon, without realizing masses of people were moving out – no jobs. Not only didn’t I have a job yet, (deleted), the lawyer that owed me $15,000.00 had mismanaged the money he held in trust for his clients and we’d just found that out. There was no way I could go …… I was shaking my head, agreeing with here but then, …. the option that popped into my head; I asked Jan asked the question – ‘wait; what about the ride board?’ 

We went over to the U of O and found their ride board – sure enough there was posted an offer for a ride south, to San Diego, but, it would go right through Orange County. All it would cost was help ($20.00) with gas money. I called and arranged to meet them in Eugene’s North West Christian College parking lot. By one o’clock, I was on the road. By 5am, the next morning, I was sitting in Denny’s restaurant on So. Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton and had called my mother-in-law. In an hour, she picked me up and dropped me off back at her home where I proceeded to dig my bike out of storage in their garage as she continued on to work. 

After doing my best to get my bike running, I gave up and called the shop. They came and hoisted my 850 pound, 1000cc Honda Gold Wing touring bike onto their truck, and drove away with it. 

It had been then that I called Jack. “Hey bud, how you doin? It’s …….”

He interrupted, “John? Where are you? You here?”  

“Yea; I came down to get my bike and heard you’re sick – I’ll be by to see you after my mother-in-law gets home; I won’t have wheels ‘till then.”

“What’s with your bike?”

“Guess it’s been stored too long.”

“You didn’t run the gas out did you?”

His tone was condemning.  He laughs. “Really, I didn’t expect to leave it so long ……” I told him how tired I was, that I’d not slept but 2 hours for going on 3 days now, and that I’d be over, soon as I could ……  

He seemed excited to hear my voice; didn’t sound sick at all, on the phone. I wasn’t sure how long he had; Linda and I hadn’t talked much; she had told me at the end of her visit. She’d told me then, only because my new wife was so uptight with her being there I realized I couldn’t talk alone with her. That’d just make my new wife more insecure than she already was; I wasn’t going to do that! 

I never asked her how Linda found out about Jack; ever since, I’ve always wondered. During her visit, I’d realized I couldn’t be alone in the same room with Linda – didn’t want my wife to have cause to think anything was being said she wasn’t privy to, so I’m still in the dark as to how Linda found out! All I knew was that Jack was not just sick; he was dying. 

I’d have married Linda in a New York minute if she’d have hinted or asked me …… if she had, I’d never picked up on it. 

I was deeply in love with her; Jack had asked me what I saw in Linda …… 

At the time, if Jack didn’t see it, that was a good thing – women loved Jack, and …. Vise versa! I didn’t want Jack to steal her; Linda was a knock-out, pure beauty, body AND especially in spirit! I had been deeply in love with her and my new wife knew it. It was what had broken me and caused me to seek the Lord again. The whole visit with Linda there was like walking barefoot, on pins and needles.  It took years for me to figure out that they’d had an affair I didn’t know about – maybe it’d been Jack that had caused her to break up with me …..

My wife told me, sometime way back when, that Linda had been trying to get me to ask her to get married by breaking up with me …… They’d been close friends but that just hadn’t made sense to me. I was someone who wouldn’t play games and wouldn’t put up with them, but over the 4 years (was it really that long?) we went together, she broke up with me – - - 4 times! 

Each time, it had torn me apart! Not long afterwards, she’d come back around, apologize and she was so sweet, I couldn’t stay hurt, nor angry at her – besides, as I said, I loved her. Eventually, even though we tried to stay friends (for a while), (before I was a Christian) we’d fall back into bed together. We were really free together in bed and looking back, I can say I really did love her plus, we were best friends! 

Bottom line, it was my love for Linda – the anguish I went through, it was that, that had me crying out to G-d which is what brought me back to putting G-d first in my life. It had really hurt. 

Now that Jan’s moved on – after 29 years of marriage, she got her inheritance and a month later, she was gone, I grieve over our marriage falling apart. 

The visit with Jack

I got to the hospital in Long Beach late. My mother-in-law had insisted I eat with them, as putrid as it was, (she fancied herself a gourmet cook), I did my best to be polite and eat it – tried to make her feel better and ‘explained’, “I’m not feeling very well after that long trip.” 

When I got to the hospital, the nurse explained to me that they’d put Jack at the end of the wing, (only because they couldn’t control the people that visited Jack, they’d isolated him best they could so other patients wouldn’t be bothered.) 

When I walked in, there were close to 20 people in Jack’s room. I saw what the nurses meant – there was pizza and even the cooler with ice and a 6-pack of beer was being slipped behind a chair as I walked in until they saw it was me and pulled it back out. People re-lit their cigarettes they’d snuffed out when they’d heard my steps in the hall. This Catholic hospital was much more tolerant that I’d ever experienced and I’ve been in a few over the years. The two “Outlaws Motorcycle Gang” members that’d called, threatening me, towered above everyone so I was fully aware they were also there. 

I said “hello” to everyone, recognized them all. I turned back to Jack and told him, “you’ve got plenty of company right now; I’ve not eaten enough and I’m starved; I’ll be back shortly; there’s an In & Out Burger across the street; I’ll be back in a few.” 

Jack, upset, verging on getting irritated and started to tell me that visiting hours were almost up. 

I explained, “I talked with the nurses; as I’m family, they OK’d my staying all night – seeing as how I’m in, from out of state.” 

He mellowed out as I explained and I reassured him “I just don’t want to interrupt everyone else’s visiting – we’ll have all night.”

The tension in the room eased – with everyone, knowing I’m sure, about the phone call from the two Outlaws, …. (except for Jack, I’m sure). 

I waited at the nurse’s station and finished the cafeteria food I’d opted for instead; it was as bland as my mother-in-law’s was spicy, still, slightly better. I waited as I watched everyone leave. When I went down the hall, what I didn’t expect, the two “Outlaws” were still there, waiting for me to return. 

They said goodnight to Jack and as they passed me on the way to the door, they made sure their “adios hit” on the shoulder was solid onto the bone of my shoulder, with their knuckles! As they exited, and as they got outside of Jack’s view, they looked back and making sure I saw, one slowly drew his finger across his throat; they’d left the door open to air the room out. 

Not reacting to them, I turned to Jack and said, “How you doin’? 

He replied, “Fine; but you’re a liar!” 

Upset, immediately, I sent my mind to reeling – into a search of my past to figure out what he meant. There was only one thing I’d hidden from him and I was paralyzed. “Oh God . . . not now!”, I thought. “Please! Not now!” I’d remembered the one thing I couldn’t face . . . 

About 5 years after he and Barb had divorced; (Jack’s 2^nd marriage) a couple years later, Barb and I’d slept together. It shouldn’t have happened! Never should have happened! I couldn’t face this! Worried sick, (now, my stomach really was churning!) I prayed more and as it did, I looked back at him, ready to try and find a way to explain it, ….. at least, the best I could. 

He interrupted and said, “Yea; you told me you came down to get my bike and heard I was sick. It was the other way around!” 

He saw the relief on my face, and said, “Gotcha!”  He smiled and let go with his familiar laugh. 

(It was only years later, looking back, that I’ve begun to realize that he had to have known all along what had happened between Barb and I, and that I couldn’t face it. And although he let me know that he knew, he also kidded about it. That was Jack’s way, always forgiving! Another of the reasons everyone loved Jack, but there was something else – he didn’t necessarily consider anyone else’s woman off limits – one of Jack’s failings.) 

The next words out of his mouth were, …. immediately, as if to take the stress off, his voice got soft and tender, and though quietly, his voice was a full octave above his normal voice, . . . “You wanna talk about God? Let’s talk about God!” 

Blessed and relieved at the same time, I turned to grab one of the chairs to pull up to his bed, and saw the two ‘Outlaws’. I hadn’t expected to see them – didn’t know they’d still be in the hall still watching and listening. At the same time, he’d said that, they’d heard, and when I turned to get a chair they both gave me the ‘thumbs-up’ sign and left. It was then, they realized ….. 

I never saw nor heard from them ever again. So much for the threats …..  

The Blessing

Over the next 3 nights, Jack and I talked. I’d arrive about 8:30 in the evening after his friends had left and visit until around 5 am, in time to get my mother-in-law’s car back to her. 

When I finally got my bike back, I rode it to the hospital to say goodbye. I’d stayed that night, and all day, until his other friends began to show up. Most nights we’d talked all night until I had to leave; that night, we’d talked at least until midnight, then again when he woke. 

That night, I’d not packed my bike, so I had to go back to Placentia, to my in-law’s and I called my wife from there to tell her that I was leaving and when I’d be home. 

She wanted to know what had happened; I explained how each of the 5 nights, we’d talked of God – that over and over, he would asked me questions (as if I knew enough to answer . . . ) yet, somehow, I answered anyway. 

As a new Christian a real one this time, (again – having never learned scripture), I must have thought I understood everything. Looking back, I’m sure my wife wondered about my ability to talk about G-d, but I had developed an incredible love for this G-d who’d put my new wife and I together and was truly attempting to “walk the walk” and God honors that. 

Explaining how things had gone, I told her that after I’d answered his question, I’d turn to scripture and read it to him. 

He’d then follow that with another question – usually what it naturally led to. I’d answer it, and turn to that scripture and read it to him as well. It went that way over and over, all night, ….. night after night, …. every night. 

I told her also, “look, I know it wasn’t me, that brought Jack to the Lord; there were pastors chaplains, and nurses witnessing to him daily, but it was INCREDIBLE that God allowed me to be the one!”

What a gift! Though it was my honor to be the one, still I’m compelled to acknowledge, it was not my doing! 

I’d rubbed the soreness from his back the best I could, when he asked. Other than that, we did talk some, of ‘old times’, of some of the trips we’d taken together, to Yosemite and to Big Sur on our bikes. We talked a little of people we both knew, but almost all the time, it was talking of God, a pure blessing – a gift, that would, and has, impacted me for the rest of my life! I’m in awe every time I tell this story to someone! Tears never fail to appear as I get overwhelmed as I tell this! 

That last night, my bike all packed, and secured in my in-law’s garage once again, I laid on the sofa as I talked with my wife to give her my ETA getting home, I explained to her, “I hate going through L.A., much less, in rush hour!” 

I told her “I miss you guys! I am excited to get on the road too. I’ve planned to leave at 3am; that way I’ll be over the grapevine by 6am, well past the rush hour problems! You know how I hate rush hour here!” 

Silence. I knew she didn’t want to hang up; neither did I, but ….. I was extremely tired and beginning to worry about 17 hours on a bike again. 

“I’m really tired, hun! I can’t talk any longer, I’ve got to get some sleep if I’m going to be out of here by 3; I promised Jack I’d come by; the nurses agreed to wake him and have moved his bed by the window so he can see me and wave goodbye .”

There was silence on the other end again; I waited a few seconds, then reiterated, “Hun, I really have to get to sleep if I’m going to get on the road at 3a.m. I’ll be home by 8pm unless I have a problem; my bike’s running like brand new; I’m sure I won’t have any problems; don’t worry.”  

Still, there was silence on the other end. Again I waited. Nothing . . . Again, I began to tell her I had to get to bed . . . 

She interrupted me, “John? . . .” Then silence. 

Not having a clue as to what she was trying to say, I replied, “yea?” 

Silence again. 

“Hun, I don’t want to hang up either; I love talking to you, but I’m already exhausted and I’ve got a 17 hour ride before me …… I’ve not been on my bike at all ‘cept for a few hours the last 2 days and I want to be alert. Right now, to get out of here by 3, I’ll be lucky to get 4 hours sleep.”

“John? You don’t get it.” 

“Don’t get what?” 

“Think about it.” 

“Think about what?”, I asked.

 “John, you’re not getting it …..” 

Guess you’re right; what don’t I get?

Now she was telling me I was lame. I was swiftly moving from exhausted frustration into being nearly pissed. 

Again, her voice came, “John? You don’t get it! Think about it.” 

“OK, what don’t I get? I lived this! What don’t I get?”, I snapped.

“You can’t find scripture.”

Until that instant, it hadn’t hit me. 

But, “she’s right,” I thought back …… even though night after night the same thing had occurred and never once did I realize that, what I was doing’ those nights, after answering his questions, turned directly to the scripture I’d quoted, ….. I still cannot do, to this day! 

Understand! I had turned to scripture! I’d not, turned to the concordance and looked up the word I happened to remember, and searched until I found the correct context that I was trying to refer to or quote! 

That’s what I still have to do to this day, but those 5 nights with Jack, I turned directly to it, over and over, and over! No searching – I just turned to it, night after night, after night! 

My loving wife made me see what I myself had not seen – that a miracle had happened there with Jack! 

Bottom line? I could not do what I had done . . . yet it had happened. It had to have been that the Holy Spirit led my hand to open to the exact page and place to read from, every time, each night, over and over! 

And me? I had never even questioned why I felt I had the right to answer his questions …… I was still a new Christian!, but this?, ….. turning to the exact page??? 

My wife, (who’s moved out now – we’re separated) always told me – I had a know-it-all attitude. Assuming she’s right – as she was about most things, and I admit that, …. that could explain the arrogance of thinking I had the right to answer Jack . . . . but this – the turning to scripture, so many times, there was, ….. there still is, no way I could explain that – - – other than it was a miracle! Once or twice could have been a coincidence, or knowing subconsciously, where the particular scripture was but not more than a couple times – Not that many times! It had to be the Holy Spirit doing it! There’s just no other option! 

To this day, I wonder why God gave me such an incredible gift. “Why me? What was it that made me that special?” This question still echoes in my mind, even now. 

Now, whenever I’m doing something – anything that causes me to have the first inkling of doubt begin to creep in, it’s immediately vanquished by the remembrance of those nights I spent with my best friend and how the Holy Spirit led me, …. doing what I cannot. 

Jack Critchfield died in 1981.  He’d gone back to Chicago – Barbara cared for him until his death.  I look forward to seeing him again, on the other side. 

Conclusion 

I’ve told this story over and over – to hundreds of people. I’ve even allowed myself to not memorize scripture, (which I consider a sin). I keep promising myself to memorize scripture, but so far, somehow, I continue to justify it. Why? By realizing He can use me to say or do anything; He’s done it more than once, but those are other stories ….. 

Plus, I still rationalize that all I have to do is pray for His leading, and make myself available. Even, …. rather, more importantly, I believe that I’ve not memorized scripture because I’m terrified that I may someday tell this to someone and not have that sense of awe that fills me every time I have the opportunity to tell this, …. for every time I tell it, I again realize what G-d did for me then ….. and what he did for Jack. 

When that sense of awe fills me, I know people can see it in my eyes – the tears of joy are all to evident! I cannot tell this to anyone without crying! Just can’t do it; it changed my life forever! 

It’s the rock upon which I stand, – - – always will be! 

 

 

( ã copyright 1994 / by josiah — all rights reserved)

YET ANOTHER OBAMA NOMINEE – BITES THE DUST!

(Former Post: Freeman – Secretly a Jew?, included below).

Former ambassador Charles Freeman is NOT the man we want writing the daily security briefings for our president!  

That would have been his job, had the Senate confirmed the nomination – putting together security briefings on terrorists, like Hamas, Osama, etc., even domestic security problems with Mexico, FBI, NSA, and the Pentagon. 

Whoever thought President Obama could pull this one off?   What happened?  Charles Freeman mimic(k)ed Daschle and pulled his nomination ….. so fast I missed it!   We hardly got to complain!  

I tried to get Pajama Media to report on this blatant scandalous, ridiculous, nomination but they either didn’t understand the importance of it or didn’t care; they didn’t bother to respond to my contact.  I’m not the only one who dug this out; there were others, but the nomination of a man like this, was so far out of line, not even President Obama could have expected to slip this one by – maybe if it’d been done with a mass of other inept nominees - people that are more disliked, maybe?   Naw; not unless it’d been done on day one of his presidency!

Charles Freeman sits on the board of a Chinese (government owned) Oil company ….. and that fact had been called a concern about National Security Issues by fellow Senators; that he is closely tied to Saudi Oil interests didn’t seem to bother them ….. neither did his statement that the slaughter at Tiananmen Square was justified.

New York Senator Schumer, stated “….. his (Freeman’s) statements against Israel were way over the top and severely out of step with the administration.”  

Either Senator Schumer has his head where the sun doesn’t shine or he’s much more naive than I thought!   Meanwhile, Freeman blamed “The Israel Lobby.”   No surprise there!

From a previous post – now, deleted.

 

Obama’s gutter politics was unleashed again today - his anti-Israeli attack DOG, the emissary to the Middle East, Charles Freeman made headlines!  

I wonder if the public was aware that Obama had done this - none of this was unexpected, for those who know Freeman.    His appointment of Mitchell is just as bad!

Of course, just like buchanan, and other anti-semites, he blames the Israeli lobby: 

“The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth.”   See today’s article in the Wall Street Journal for the radically vile and agressive full text.  

Why now?, …. you ask.

It’s Purim – one of the holidays Israel / Jews celebrate …… another of those holidays where Jews realize that once again, someone in power, tried to kill the whole race of Jews ……  

The way they make light of it (with the truth visible inside, they have learned to approach their holidays this way) ……..

“Heyman tried to kill us; we won; let’s eat! 

I’d say that ‘ya gotta love people like that, but, …. that’d be biased, for both my brother and I suspect we’re a member of one of the lost tribes …… and proud of it!   And Freeman?   I suspect, like Hitler, he’s secreting the fact that he’s a Jew.

911 – THE UNSEEN AND MYSTICAL

The way the world is today; ….. there’s something we’re to learn, from all this?

Yea.   Actually, it’s simple.

Yea?

Yea; it’s two things – they’re not inconsequential, mind you.

First, that the world is spinning out of control, is no metaphor!

There’s no stopping it.

No man, no group, no race, no nation, no group of nations, can control or stop what is going on.

That’s very unsettling to some – - - to have no control!   To have peace within, man needs control.

That there is none, in itself …., feeds upon itself – depression and irrational acts are intensifying; they’re driving it now.

One cannot really make sense of it, other than knowing it’s out of control, can one?

Anything one does, only contributes to the chaos, to the intensity of the spin!

Second, since the world began, the world’s filled with two philosophies, at war with one another.

It’s said, we shall not know the day nor the hour, but we will know the times.

Though it’s been said many times before, …. now it’s obvious; these are the times.

One’s demanding control; it’s driven by envy, anger and hate.

The other is love, tolerance and acceptance.

They cannot survive together; one must dominate.

One can now, finally, even name them – Islam and Freedom.

The conflict:

Freedom, gives; control takes.

It’s over; those that desire freedom have lost.

There is no “right” to control.

It is, and must be, taken by force. Control cannot be taken peacefully; not again; freedom’s a threat to control.

The lesson’s been lost.  Those who take control of others will find resistance and the control will be wrested away from those who love, who are tolerant and it will be, it must be, done by force ……

The conundrum?

In our beginning, our nation, representing freedom, took freedom from force.

Now, we’ve lost it by loving – or by allowing freedom, the one thing that could have won, and brought happiness, or at least the pursuit of it …… because of the same willingness to be violent, to control, … is for the wrong reasons.

Originally, our goal, was for the right reasons ….. then, we got control (power) and control corrupts.

Ghandi, was an anomaly.   So were we.

Other than in the spiritual realm, violence against peace always wins.

Ghandi won only, due to the mirror he held up to a nation – a nation, that considered itself righteous.

In the spiritual realm, Love wins,

But we’re not there yet; though with love as a motivation, we’re still like England, ….. still violent, thinking we’re righteous …. we’re no longer seen that way - from within and without.

Just look at the bottom line – what we call the numbers:

911 stood for, ….. still stands for, “emergency”.  

Even those numbers were out of desire to care for others.

That date, ….. 911, … at least in the spiritual realm, was no accident!

It was chosen, by a spiritual hate!

But one can look at it in another way.

Considering single digit numbers, in the Greek, the 9 and the 1 are the Omega and the Alpha, respectively ……   Numbers have a mysticalness about them – just like the original language – the Hebrew, the tongue of God!

Now, is the time for the end, the 9 – even in the age of Aquarius, represents the collision of cultures – the result is violence, and revolution.

Our nation’s put an emphasis on the Alpha – on the beginning ……, the 1, …. it’s there, twice and the 1, was for the beginning – from the creator, who is love.

The 9?   It’s the end; it’s war.

911 – it’s the number we dial ….. we even scream it, when it’s an emergency.

911:  It’s the beginning and the end!

The forces of darkness are at the door!

Call 911!

HEDGE FUNDS

Hedge funds - the out-of-control-entity behind the world finance system!  

Hallelujah!   Finally!   The G 20 gets it!

Reported on today’s NPR:  

“Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to do “whatever is necessary” to fix the global economy, including supervision of freewheeling hedge funds and restoring bank lending by dealing with the shaky securities burdening their finances.”

The power to manipulate unregulated, belongs to few in the world; those in charge of the Hedge funds, specifically George Soros, have been able to create trends and drive up their investors’ net worth, at least until the current financial crisis.  

(Admittedly, it’s my own skeptical nature, but I doubt that he (Soros) lost any money in this decline in spite of the diving value of 401K - Hedge Funds.)

Whether those who write regulations are spineless or not, corrupt or not, this remains to be seen.   Yet certainly, the U.S. president, Obama, and most of Congress were bought and paid for by Soros.

From Soros’ involvement in his attempt to control, collapsing the currencies around the globe, his promotion of the legalization of drugs, and looking all the way back, to his involvement as a youth in Nazi’s programs - as ‘a Jew in hiding’, pretending to be a Christian, his job was to help cofiscate the wealth of Jews sent to the camps ….. his history, leaves no doubt of his ethics ….. or lack thereof, at least not for many of us.

Yet, Soros is only one of the puppeteers behind the curtain …… some say there’s a consumer confidence creeping back into the markets but these puppeteers, they’re not through …… there’s more to come; we’re not their slaves ….. not yet.

IT’S BARNEY FRANK AND FRIENDS AGAIN …. AND THIS TIME, THEY’RE TARGETING YOUR CHILDREN!

It’s B(l)arney Frank!  He’s at it again …. 

This time, he’s attempting to scam the people ….. again!   You remember him, right?   The U.S. Representative with the gay prostitute business operating out of his house ….. promoting investment in Fannie May and Freddie Mac, while all the time the sub-prime problem was growing?  

Now, he and (yes) Ron Paul, the waco Texan, are asking other representatives to sign onto and co-sponsor their ”Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009″.   It is a scam and it’ll be introduced soon, but it doesn’t yet have a bill number.

The pro-legalization-of-drugs-groups are asking members to lobby their representatives and Senators; please, do the same for our side!  

We who care about children must speak up; they’re pushing their agendas all over the world and they’re backed by the Deep-Pockets-Cabal, of George Soros, Paul Lewis of Progressive Insurance, and ….. John Sperling of Phoenix University.

The legislation, identical to HR 1009, was introduced twice before; it failed both times.   It’s intended to allow America’s farmers to grow hemp.   The bill would repeal a provision of a federal law, making it legal to grow hemp, ….. just as Canada already does!

What they don’t mention ….. is that the Canadian crop of hemp already failed!   Canadian farmers are bailing on the legalizer’s agenda.   They were told hemp is a viable crop with a world-wide market.   Pure B.S!   As if Canadian and Americans could or would want to compete with 3rd world farmers who work for a few dollars a year!

These groups care less about the fact that Canadian farmers sucked into the scam went bankrupt and tons of hemp sat and rotted in warehouses!

The pro-legalization lobbies are targeting farmers (as if they’re not the sharpest tacks in the box) – farmers in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia, and Wisconsin.   If you live in one of these states, you’re targeted.   When one person fails financially, it impacts everyone!

The group, “Vote Hemp”, one of the offshoots of the legalization movement, is organized to convince the public that hemp is not a problem (another lie).   It’s a non-profit organization that needs to die a quiet death; they survive mostly on donations from legalizers – that’s if they’ve not been included in some Pork or Earmark scam by B(l)arney and friends!

Following are other ways the druggie networks are targeting your children.   From global warming to the economy, and tax releif, they present pot as the ’silver bullet’ that will cure every ill!    In all truth, recent links to mental illness and bi-polar disease are confirmed stastically!

Most of the pictures are from a children’s book, “It’s Just A Plant”  published to make pot seem more acceptable and mainstream.   Pot is a major reason for the violence along the southern U.S. border!   These people may look mainstream, but their support of promoting pot is linked to NARCO-TERRORIST STATES!

 

WATCHMAN ON THE WALL: “EARTHQUAKE AHEAD”

Indian legends say when little sister calls the 2nd time, grandfather will answer.  

Little Sister, is Mt. St. Helens; Grandfather is Mt. Ranier.   Mt. Ranier is east of Seattle.

Will these impact you?   They will if you live nearby, or downwind!   (Or if you happen to be flying in the Pacific Northwest, that day.)

The entire Ring of Fire has been increasing in activity.   286 miles off our coast, west of Newport, Oregon, Saturday, 3/14/09, we had the most recent seismic activity.   Under thousands of  feet of Ocean, 6 miles deep in the crust of the earth it occurred.   That means it is part of the tectonic plate action; it’s the Ring of Fire – why I mentioned that.

Something’s happening, beneath us, ….. way down deep.   In the 80’s there were 2 significant quakes, and 2 in the 90’s; since 2000, there have been 14.   We’re waiting for an 8 point to a 9.5!   Not much built befor ‘56, will stand in an 8; a 9.5?  Who knows!

Convection currents increase when things get active ….. when a part of the cooling crust is pushed forward and down into the magma, and begins to melt again, and sinks as the hotter magma rises.   This is the precursor of volcanic activity – why I mentioned that.

Two and three years ago, my friend and I took the twistiest road in the Pacific Northwest on our motorcycles.  

A campsite beside the stream, on the way up Mt Hood, another volcano.

The ride two years ago, there was a plume rising from the open northwestern part of the crater – the part that was blown away in the May 1980 eruption.   There’d been no significant activity and we didn’t worry about it then.   Now, I’d be more cautious.   The power that leveled hundreds of square miles of trees is NOT insignificant – one only need see it once to know and respect what could and will happen again.   When, is the question.

 

 October ‘84 Mt. St. Helen’s re-awakened, w/ a plume as it did for us in Aug. 2006. 

Bleached trees, blown down 26 years before still float in Spirit Lake.

The Pacific Northwest is the most geologically locked up place in the world!   Historically, we have a major earthquake every 300 to 500 years.   Jan. 1st, 2000, was the 300th anniversary of the last major subduction quake, so we’re 9 years into the window – it could happen any day – it could be 200 years off.  

I wouldn’t be writing this if I thought it were 200 years off; it’s not.

Why do I say that?   Because of the visions ….. not just mine but others’ visions.   They’re part of the book I’m writing.  Besides, if you agree, that God has removed His blessing and protection from America (one of the only two nations in history, to ever covenant with Him), then you must understand that He allows things to happen but doesn’t cause them …..   There’re enemies for that!

Why am I posting this here then?   Because those of us who love others and are responsible need to take steps to provide for and protect them the best we can.   Contingency plans – “what if” scenarios need to be established; food and water need to be stored; do you live below a dam?   There are many subsequent problems, should you and your family survive a major quake – fires, catastrophic dam failure(s), chemical spills, polluted water, impassable roads, therefore no emergency services, no electricity …..   The list goes on and on; it’s something a responsible head of household considers and plans for!

My book will not go deep into the plans needed for preparation; that’s not the focus, besides that’s done for us already.

Here’s one link:  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/   Yes, the FEMA camps exist and maybe they’ll care for masses of people ….. best they can, but they’re not places you’ll want to be locked up in.   For those you love, prepare!

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Watchman  

 “Watchman, watchman, on the wall, tell me what do you see?”

“Armageddon on the horizon, sir. Very plain to see.”

“How long? How far away; how much time do we have ….

Speak man! How much time, what-would you say?”

“We’ll not know sir, ….. until the break of day.”

The stage’s is set; predictions complete;

Pull a chair, turn on the tube.

Relax and have a seat.

                                josiah

A great story:  http://davews.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/and-the-mountain-walked/#comment-7

The remnamt:  Bleached trees - floating on Spirit Lake, 26 years after they were blown down …..

END TIMES …..

Three weeks ago, our air force shot down an Iranian UAV (drone); it was about 60 miles from Baghdad, 80 miles inside Iraq; Iraqi leaders have to be rethinking their deadlines about now!

Our concern over Iran’s support of Hamas and Hezbollah, though extending one of Bush’s sanctions, this all occurred while President Obama is attempting to thaw relations with Iran, regarding their nuclear program, one has to wonder if this a type of “sharp-stick-in-the-eye” answer!

With the phrase ringing in our ears, “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”, we have to admit, fter an 8 year war between Iran and Iraq, where a million were killed, in the ’80’s it’s even possible the Shiite led governments, could align.

Iraq claims the drone’s intrusion into their airspace (tracked for 70 minutes) had to be an “accident”.  

As President Obama attempts to engage Iran diplomatically over the violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to do “everything necessary” to stop the progress of Tehran’s nuclear program, once and for all!

Meanwhile, Iran TV is showing it’s own video of a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, stacked with fighter planes on deck; it’s not known how they got the pictures as there is a “protective bubble” around the U.S. warships and if one comes within range, one dies, yet they flaunt the video.

As for me, I cannot forget other videos – - – shown just before the 2nd Iraq war, the massive, miles-long caravan of 18-wheelers leaving Iraq headed into the Bekka Valley in Syria …   They were said to be carrying WMD’s!   No explanation has ever said differently.

This is not the time to have a naive president who thinks diplomacy with minimal sanctions will work, and at the same time, an ally we’re in the process of rejecting, who will not wait – he’s promised his people!

OBAMA DESTROYING MILITARY! Deja Vu of Clinton admin …..

It’s not that the government doesn’t want to pay for non-service connected medical problems …….   Veterans often are denied their claims, that their injuries are service-connected in the first place!   That’s history, over the last few decades.   Just talk to any veteran; they’ll all tell you!

What will happen to recruiting when young men discover this move?   If they know others who’ve come out of the service, they’ll see right through it, but will they join?  Remains to be seen.   Historically, when the economy offered nothing in the way of jobs, . . . . the military has always been the job of last resort.   The executive branch thinks it can get away with this – that the public’s cynacism has grown to the point th where they’re not watching.   Still, this newest move seems to be the move of a hate-America-first mentality!

Again, compare the relationship the military with the former president and this president.   He received a polite applause his last trip in front of the military and that was probably under threat – that’s how the military is . . . . respectful – there, respect doesn’t have to be earned, but will this be done by the legislature?   Not a chance!   Democrats won’t touch it – even the spineless, spend-it-all, Republicans.

Then again, there’s the circumvention of the checks and balances set up – the EXECUTIVE ORDERS!   Mr. President, you’d better not do this …… the nation will turn on you quicker than a NASCAR out of control spin!

Treachery in High Places! — Obama – FIRE GEITHNER! THEN FIRE YOURSELF!

GET THIS!   Tax cheat, Timothy Geithner, according to Senator Chris Dodd, (who received over $250,000 in donations from AIG) required him to insert clause that bonuses had to be paid!  

Dodd had denied it, said he’d had nothing to do with the whole scandal; now, he admits he admits having inserted the clause, but blames it on the head of Treasury, Timothy Geithner.  

Now, was it Senator Dodd telling us that President Obama was the one instructing this to be done?   ….. because of the fear that law suits would come due to the contractural agreements (designed by Geithner)?!?

And the media is only NOW pointing all this out!

But it gets worse!!!!!

Remember the Stimulus bill? ….. the one that not one Senator did not have time to read?   The one President Obama broke his promise to the American people on by not allowing the promised 5 days to read it ? ? ?  

That’s where the clause was, hidden inside the bill!   The bill President Obama insisted had to be signed by …… what day was it – Oh yea, it was the Friday that House Speaker had to get everything done by in order to take her junket to Europe!    And the day the President had to fly to Denver to sign the bill ….. (it couldn’t be done in D.C. of course).

And if one remembers, inside former Senator Tom Daschle’s book, it instructs Lobbiests how to slip things over on the American people – to stick something like this inside a large bill and rush it through.

Tom Daschle – President Obama’s nominee for the head of Health & Human Services …… the man (rather lobbiest – another way of saying for “traitor” in my book) is the designer ….. Dodd did it, but the buck stops at the President’s desk!

DEMOCRATS!  –  –  –  HOW’S THE “CHANGE” WORKING FOR YOU SO FAR?

And yesterday the fake outrage accusing the new CEO of AIG – Mr. Liddy?   The guy who was not there when the problem developed …… the man who stepped in to try and save AIG, and is working for $1.00 / year?   Who do these representatives think they’re fooling?

EVERY SENATOR / REPRESENTATIVE THAT VOTED FOR THE STIMULUS BILL OUGHT TO BE RECALLED!

Now, they feign outrage, and demand the bonuses be given back but the bottom line is they passed a bill (with this clause inserted inside, just like Daschle said to) but the bottom line is, they didn’t bother to insist on reading it first before voting on it – - – oh yea, …… just as President Obama insisted …….   Remember the President, had the representative from Ohio fly back to be the deciding vote – he’d gone home to Ohio for a parent’s funeral ……  

I’LL SAY IT AGAIN!   THIS WHOLE SCENARIO IS DESIGNED TO FUNNEL THE UNITED STATES INTO BANKRUPTCY AND THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS OUGHT TO BE IMPEACHED, RECALLED, AND THEN IMPRISONED!

It’s expected that the people will riot and martial law will have to be instituted …… this must be done peacefully to be done right!

But now, the rumors are circulating that in a number of states, government officials are making an emergency move to recall AMMUNITION!   That all ammunition will have to be destroyed and new ammunition purchased.   They’ve all promised not to outlaw guns, so they’re going after the ammunition?

If this is true, just what are they afraid of????   Exactly the reason the 2nd Ammendment was put there for!

EARTHQUAKE ? NO; IT’S A VOLCANO!

My post “Earthquake Ahead”, written Sunday, and posted on Monday, 03/17/09, the quakes may have been going on at the time …… that could been reported and what drew me to again notice the massive numbers of tremors and quakes going on.   Something drew my attention back to the Ring of Fire!  

Read the other post: either scroll down – it’s the 4th post down, or click here: http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/watchman-on-the-wall-earthquake-ahead/

Now, three days later, it’s known to be an undersea volcano.   It’s happening where I mentioned, the archipelago in the South Pacific about 1200 miles east-north east of Australia ….. or north, north east of New Zealand. 

It IS part of the Ring Of Fire - the edge of an incredibly large chunk (tectonic plate) of crust of the earth that “wobbles”, allowing the constant ’seeping’ of magma to escape.   That, in turn, is causing a cluster of volcanos and a spreading of the ocean floor.

…… and it’s coming at us, - building pressure on the Pacific Continental plate ….. and eventually breaks loose and pushes under us, into the magma, which is why I stick with my information. 

The more the pressure on our plate builds, the closer we are to our giant quake here in Oregon and Washington – predicted to be an 8 point to a 9.5!   It’ll have ramifications and related quakes in the Alaskan Aleution Islands and California as well ……   California has long said the giant quake will be there, but it’ll be centered here, under the states of Oregon, Washington, even British Columbia as well.

How long after that quake occurs, the volcanos inland from us on the coast will go off is not determinable ….. not for now, ….. but the convection current will then begin, big-time ….. and then comes Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Ranier, possibly others too.   I’m only predicting these two because of the recent activity and Indian legends ……

You believe what you want – the history and science confirms what’s predicted – I only point to these two because I see former “seers” as credible ….. they’d predited Mt. St. Helen’s to begin with.

All across the Pacific NW, the damage will be untenable – loss of life and property ….. thing is, we live here and don’t leave; we love the Pacific NW!   Who knows how far off this is?   As stated in the other post, it could be any time in the next 200 years.   Here in Eugene / Springfield Oregon, our elected officials were “stupid enough” to build their state of the art River Bend Hospital on top of an active earthquake fault – alongside the McKenzie River!   So when the plates move, and impact the existing active faults, our hospital will probably sustain near-total damage …… but it looks nice!   (Forgive my sarcasm) – I tried to tell them it was an incredibly stupid location to put a needed hospital – right where it’ll be destroyed, when it’s needed most!

…… greed and money drives a lot of issues …… Bill Morrissette, an Oregon Senator mentioned to me one evening, when we ran into each other in a coffee-house that he’d researched my testimony and found that I’d been right ……

Nice job!   After the fact!   

I’d expected better of him, …. at least until he’d “conveniently lost” my request to pass an anti-marijuana piece of legislation …… (The Drug Dealer Liability Act) later, I discovered he was one of the co-sponsors of the other side’s bill.   No accident – not in my opinion …….

How this ties in is kind of obtuse but it fits ….. for me, anyway.   A post the other day said “water loosing its wetness”.   I laughed at that – the only point I could conceive of was, for him, the blogger, the whole world was beginning to come apart …… makes sense to me!   Earthquakes in diverse places, …… and all.

CONGRESS MAKES BIG SHOW – KNOWING THEY’LL BE FOUND TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Don’t let the head-spinning with all this blatant corruption; pay attention; inform others; this is too important!

The focus of the Congress now, attempting to get back the bonus money paid to executives of these companies, ……   It’ll be found unconstitutional according to Former Judge Andrew Napolitano, now Fox News Commentator.   Basically, it’s similar to what England did to the U.S., he smiled …… but since, the same type of legislation – attempting to target groups of individuals, to tax them have been found to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

So once again folks, this whole thing is a “dog & pony show”!  - – - only there to impress us, entertain us, but just how stupid are we????

Quit blaming the executives!   It’s not just Geithner, it’s not the executives ….  Sure, they’re inept and should be fired, but it’s the Congress that should be the target of our anger!   These people had time to read the bills; they didn’t …… President Obama pushed it!

The Obama-maniacs are just as vocal in their worship but his support base is falling apart at the speed of LIVE!

DUTY SUMMOMS!

Our duty, our quest, as men and women in a free society, having covenanted with Him, established ourselves as His, and blessed so by Him, God, our creator, we are therefore summoned, . . . . not to rest content with the evils of society or with their own personal shortcomings, but to set about to correct them.

    Paraphrased adaption from:  Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver’s writings.

DOLLAR “SHAKY” SAYS U.N.

As the deficit grows exponentially, more confirmation that the perception of the dollar is growing shakier daily, comes from a U.N. panel in Luxembourg.   Next week, they’re expected to recommend dumping the dollar as the reserve currency in favor of a shared group of currencies – what seems to me to shout the word “diversification”.

Again, my perspective is that this lends credibility to the fact that this is a global crisis and draws us closer to an Amero, as some of the conspirity fanatics have been warning of for a decade now.

Among the suspected currencies to be the standard are, of course, the Euro, and the Chinese yuan, also, possibly the deutschemark, and drachma.  

Do they know what they’re doing?   I suspect they’re flailing in the dark, just like Geithner.   I guess we should attempt to thank Presidents Bush and Obama?   Especially, Obama – it doesn’t really seem like a time to spend!   This could just as easily be an act of war on the dollar ….. almost as if someone hit our economic twin towers …… again.

Political Hacks and Socialists – like oil and water – like Tehran and Tel Aviv!

The politically astute will know almost all the names of President Obama’s Cabinet appointments.    With these people in tow, our president’s “reaching out” to Tehran will be seen as what?  

A Carter type of weakness?   Or …..   ”Look at me!   I’m different” ….. can we talk?   A a naive, live smolt’s utterance when approaching an angry, hungry steelhead type of mis-statement?

Even we who’d learned to distrust Candidate Obama, had come to expect fresh new faces – people from across academia …… not these old political hacks from former administrations!  

Oh, there’s a Socialist thrown in here or there, but most of these people are the same group.   Peanut Jimmy tried to tell us he was an outsider, he wasn’t, but then he was one of those who did incredible, irreversable damage ……  

Will this president do the same?

In the terms of an old navigator, his heading’s dead on!   Mr. President: smolts are NOT able to be friends with Steelhead!   The clothes, the confidence, the office, don’t change how they look at you!   Nor those you surround yourself with.

The YouTube message to Tehran:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_utC-hrjI

The man below, Brent Snowcroft, is replacing the anti-Semite Charles Freeman . . . .   but something inside, tells me not to rejoice – not just yet, ….. and I’m not sure why ….., gotta be some reason – - – must be my total distrust of our president?   Yea; that’s gotta be it!

Brent Snowcroft – formerly in the cabinets of: Bush, Ford, even Nixon’s – he’s a member of the Trilaterial Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations …… was part of the Tower Commission (investigating the Iran Contra Affair) …..

Pictured above, Deputy Assistant For National Security Affairs Brent Scowcroft discusses the situation in Vietnam with Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby during a break in a meeting of the National Security Council., 04/24/1975.

So just what is it that President Obama wants to talk with Tehran about? ? ?   Is it their quest to be a nuclear power?   Is it their human rights where women are concerned?    Or is it their support of Hamas and Hezbollah?   I suspect it’s more, just to tell them – “hey you guys; I’m not the old guys …… I’m ok …… look at who I tried to appoint to deal with Israel!”

Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post states that President Obama is about to “recognize” Hamas!   This ought to speak loud and clear to those who doubt Obama’s anti-Sematism!

What’s critical here (and Americans still have their heads in the sand, regarding this) …. is that Hamas eagerly awaits the open door at Camp David, while at home, the sprint for the Nuclear Power race is in the last stretch!   It’s shades of the pre-WWII meeting in D.C. with Japan’s diplomats, all over again!   They talk, while preparing for the final assaults prepare to distribute the Nukes …. and to whom!   

If I were to put a name to the current cabinet … trying to be creative, I might conceive of - “the Carter/Rove/Madoff/Cheney Cabinet”, but that wouldn’t be fair – as biased as I am, I do try to maintain objectivity; that name, would only be admitting my distrust and anger.    More appropriately though, I should just call them, as I stated in one of my other postings . . . .  “Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss ……”

 

Can’t put my finger on it but something’s really out of sync!   Hear that?   There’s a high pitched whrrrrr in the machine, …… like the presses are about to come apart …… everyone back off a bit ……

NAKED/NUDE SARCASM!

A.P. Reporter Ed Tucker must have been hard up for news!   Or maybe he wrote his piece over googling ….. not the net type of googling ….. the old type!

Evidently he decided to call the Foxy Lady’s Strip Club owner’s “job fair”, news-worthy.   All that was needed was pretty women – hardbodies ……   Using poor puns like, “The naked truth is that Rhode Island’s economy is among the worst in the nation, with an unemployment rate of 10.3 percent in January”, he tried to relate it to news – not at all beneath today’s attempt to make fluff seem to be “news”, he tries to relate it to the economy.   “It’s taken a hit,” he said. “It’s not as bad as restaurants and stuff like that. In times like this, they (customers) seem to drink their sorrows away.”

Now that I think of it, ….. it was reported that the 911 terrorists spent their last night in a strip bar …… (so much for their religous fervour!)

Anyway, nice try, Ed …… just what today’s media seems to want; you played right into this strip club’s need for free advertising!   Just the kind of “fluff” they love; I’ll expect to see it on the tube tonight.  

(In case you don’t recognize sarcasm, thought I’d spell it out for you!) 

S-a-r-c-a-s-m!

PIRATES! BETTER CYA!

If nothing else, this unintendended contact between a Nuclear Sub and another Navy ship (destroyer?) in the Straights of Hormuz, better be a heads up to these creeps …… wish it hadn’t been!  

 I’d love to have seen a clip of these pirates being blown out of the water!   No reason these scumbags shouldn’t get their 72 virgins as well!

Again, I’ll recommend this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

MICHELLE OBAMA – back to basics?

Didn’t see this one coming!   Michelle Obama’s lead, …. “her thing” in the White House is not the normal, but unexpectedly, I have to admit, I think it’s more than cool!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_garden

Today, she’s planting a garden on the white house grounds – promoting people growing their own food – especially roof-top gardens for those in the inner city.   Just when I think I have them all figured out, she throws me a slider!    I find this issue much more intriguing than a dog for the girls …. somehow her hands in the soil just doesn’t fit.   I’ll have to develop a new respect for her …

Maybe it the aesthetics, or practicality of a garden?   Will she hire a designer for the garden?

Maybe it’s that the $100/pound steak dinners aren’t spicy enough?

AUTO INSURANCE – IGNORING DWI’s

Auto Insurance companies know full well that people using, so-called ”medical marijuana” are

1. driving vehicles – some even have CDL (commercial drivers’ licenses)
2. marijuana users have more accidents (it distorts time and space, plus, it distracts and impacts reaction time).
3. that they’re insured – some by your insurance company (there’s a way to remedy that!  See ** below)
4. that their rates should be higher than (y)ours!

Why should (y)our rates pay for the increase?   They shouldn’t!   But, … the insurance companies don’t have to care; they just pass the costs along to us!

Why should your state allow drivers from states that allow this to drive in your state?   They shouldn’t!

Why is nothing being done?

1. You (the public) are not complaining
2. The state programs don’t tell who is driving DWI “legally”(?)
3. Police don’t tell you if the driver of the ‘other vehicle’ is a “medical marijuana” user – it depends upon how the program is designed as to whether officers can even find out – - –  in Oregon, it’s designed to hide the fact.

Now that the feds (thanks President Obama and Attorney General Holder!) have issued their policy – that they’re not going to pursue shutting down distributors who pseudo-legally “sell” pot, there will be a rapid increase of users driving!

Until now, people who use, have been paranoid (a common symptom manifesting is potheads) about signing onto a state-authorized program; this will open the door to massive numbers of new users and therefore more drivers on the road while “high”! 

Exposed in recent studies, another common symptom manifesting in potusers is mental illness, especially the younger the users; bi-polar, among users is almost at an epidemic state!

In fact, it’s likely periodic pot users (ppu’s) will become increase their pot usage and become addicted.

**  Progressive Auto Insurance ought to be required to insure ALL “medical marijuana users” allowed to drive!   The CEO of Progressive Auto Insurance, is one of the deep pockets promoters of legalization of marijuana!

Please lobby your state representatives regarding this issue.

A SHAMEFUL DERISIVE COMMENT!

What if a Republican had made a comment putting down the children of ”Special Olympics”?   What would the Democrats be saying … er, rather, what would they be screaming?

Some people think it’s funny.   I don’t!  

Having lived with, and loved a “Special” child, one who died in my arms, I could have a right to comment …, but there’s a better person for that, although I sincerely doubt she would.   She has more class, and a more Godly spirit than the one who uttered this derisive comment!

In light of her son Trig, can you imagine what Sarah Palin feels about this president …  I feel the resentment which, because of her grace and class.  I cannot express how disgusting it was to me!

There are those who joke about these children; and there are those who love and care for them! 

I couldn’t smile, I couldn’t grin, much less understand how someone of authority could say something like this!   I’ve heard jokes like that in a sportsbar, …. from drunks, …

Isn’t it odd how a comment in passing, when trying hard to be liked, one can reveal one’s inner character - a true glimpse of the soul!

SHAME ON ALL WHO DON’T GIVE EVERY PERSON RESPECT, BUT ESPECIALLY SHAME ON YOU MR. PRESIDENT!  

A REAL LEADER, WOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT!   I’VE KNOWN REAL LEADERS; WITH A COMMENT LIKE THAT, YOU’RE NO LEADER!

BEHIND THE CURTAIN – A NEW TAX

3/21/09

Hidden!    Hundreds of billions - secreted out of the country.   My friend Chuck was right; where the money went, is the key to understanding all this.

Obama expected Geithner to find the explanation and tell us; for some reason, he couldn’t find how to explain it, other than to reveal he’d been part of secreting the money out of the country!

Who got it?   Where’d it go?  

To banks and financiers who bought the high-risk / high profit gambles on what had happened here in the U.S. – AIG had insured that these entities would not fail and therein is the problem, (it’s something they shouldn’t have done); they’re the reason the (comparitively miniscule bonuses) were hidden, …

The reason, the bonuses were allowed?

As Geithner’s resignation is called for, by politicians who allowed the whole scenario, they’re still trying to hide the fact that the money has gone out to places all over the world!   Fridays, is when the truth is revealed . . . . usually.   Monday, it’ll be the talk of the bobbing heads, but it’s here for you now:

It’s a cabal – what we’d have called a “mafia” of bankers!  

The problem is, nobody knows how to cut the thread w/o the whole world going into the toilet …….   It’s the economic Super Collider!

“What to do?   What to do?”, echoes out of the White House and the Halls of Congress, but . . . . .

Now, the feds just printed massive amounts of cash – that’ll lead to inflation (which HAS no other explanation than the same ol’ Democratic ’silver bullet’ - another BACK-DOOR TAX).

Is there any excuse for the Congress to have passed a bill w/o reading it?  

The purpose of that, was the same thing – to try and hide what was happening.   The deregulation (attempted to be exposed by Bush back in early 2001) allowed all this and Congress had ended the regulations under Clinton’s watch!

What to do?   What to do?   Who to guillotine?

Shut up already!   The papers are dying though, and the TV news is nothing but FLUFF!  

The net ….. it takes time and paying attention – years of paying astute attention - finding reputible resources is required for the net to work and that takes experienced people who’ve been at it for years.

How are we going to get our news?   Fix the problem now; fixing the blame comes later!   But you’re right; it IS the Deja Vu of the current Aristocracy saying “let them eat cake!” 

The whole world is watching!   Forget the D^#$ brackets, forget the Leno show and Letterman, and the bowling in the basement!   Focus Mr. President!   FOCUS!

Mr. President we’re out of MONEY, NOT BREAD!   (or will be soon) . . .   At least money that’s worth something!

Soon, the Weimier Republic is to play itself out on America’s streets!

And as for me, I don’t want a 1-world currency!!!!!

Got a couple final questions for ya … how’s it feel to be a Pinocchio puppet?   Your nose feel ok? 

ENTIRE CRISIS CONTRIVED!

Don’t forget Biden’s gaffe!   He warned us.

His words were something like – ‘in the first 100 days President Obama will be tested.   It’ll seem as if he’s failed, but hang on ……’

Unless there’s even more lurking in the near future for us, they knew what was going to happen.  

It’s (the manipulation of the economy) all contrived ……  

• This week is the G20 conference.  
• The whole AIG picture is explained – who knew what and when, etc.
• As Iran is in the last sprint for their bid to become a world nuclear power, and they’re laughing at us for our naive comments – thinking we can have a ‘do-over’, and be friends, while they’re plotting with their proxy fighters to strike us harder than 9/11.
• Israel waits, ready to be forced to act – the words “NEVER AGAIN” echo throughout history; they’ll not wait when the time comes.
• The auto industry has their hands out again - this time the unions are standing, arms folded …… saying don’t sell us down the river …… don’t you dare cut us out of our jobs!   D.C. won’t …… not until after the election.
• Even Congress is grandstanding – pretending to be outraged.
• And they’ve got another “huge bill” looming for us – yes even after the pork and earmarks, and not bothering to read the bills!   This though they’re calling for Geithner’s head on a platter.
• The Fed is printing cash as if it’s going out of style – as if it’s a viable answer.   It’s not and inflation (another type of TAX) is on the horizon.
• To confuse the issue, before another potential major problem occurs the White House announces that next Aug., Sept., and Jan., Stop-Loss will come to an end.   They don’t want the military involved in anything other than a war overseas!
• Meanwhile, Mr. & Mrs. middle class are hoarding their dollars expecting the worst!

Yea; it all looks bleak but don’t forget Biden’s words!

It’s not time to pull the rug out from under America as yet.   That’ll be after the 2010 election, after the census, after the Democrats think they cannot be defeated no matter what happens!

Somehow, the U.S. had to be out of the picture (unable or unwilling to defend them) when the rest of the world marches on Israel!

FOX NEWS – LIES BY OMISSION!

3/1409  -  04:40 pst

Again, Fox news tells only part of the story.   Their on-scene-reporter reported about the 100 right-winger Israelis (as they put it) that marched in a town in Israel and the resulting riots.   The hate of Jews in a Palestinian town is nothing unusual; the court had finally ruled that Jews had the right to march in any town in Israel and yet there are those who compare that to Nazis marching in Skokie.

What the Fox News reporter didn’t tell you, is that Palestinians have been posting signs saying “NO JEWS ALLOWED” ….. all over Israel, especially in East Jerusalem!

Meanwhile, former President Carter, is still calling Israel “Apartheid”; problem is, in his convoluted reasoning, he means it is Israel, …. not the Palestinians!

2 STATE SOLUTION – FLAWED!

What is wrong with the 2 State Solution:

• Israel was established to be a Jewish State – though many Arabs had lived in Israel, many also chose to leave.   To establish a Jewish state, why should Arabs even live there?   Does that not negate the intent of establishing a state for Jews?
• There are 22 Arab States and only 1 Jewish State; Arabs should have left!
• As in the United States, in Israel in order to become a citizen, one ought to have to swear loyalty to the Jewish state; of the Arabs who wish to remain in Israel, they ought to swear loyalty … or leave.

The 2 state solution was as wrong as Clinton could have been!   The 23 State solution is the correct solution! 1 for Jews and 22 for Arabs!   It’s that simple!

CORRUPTION CONNECTION

The wife (Jackie Clegg Dodd) of Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) served as a director of IPC Holdings, Ltd. – a Bermuda-based company controlled by (bonus scandal ridden) insurance giant, AIG.

Senator Dodd was a favorite recipient of campaign donations from AIG companies.

AIG had held 20% of stock in IPC until it sold it’s over 13 million shares in Aug. 2006 … about the time AIG …

Did Senator Dodd refrain from voting on conflict of interest bills?

This reported by: Kevin Rennie, former Rebpulican State Senator, and now columnist for the Hartford Courant; he is available via email – kfrennie@yahoo.com

DRUG USERS SUPPORT / CREATE – NARCO-STATES

Read my blog and you’ll know I never agree with Hillary . . . . not until now, that is.   What she said yesterday, in Mexico, was right on!  

“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade.   Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.   I feel very strongly, we have a co-responsibility.”

Drug expert Rachael Ehrenfeld and most all the entire anti-drug community have been saying all along, that without users the cartels and now Narco States would not exist!

It’s time to admit drug users are the reason for the violence along the border and throughout the U.S.!   6,000 murders in Mexico in ’08 and on track for 8,000 murders in ‘09.  

Many of these murders are of police officials attempting to enforce the law – that in spite of Mexico’s 45,000 military troops in the area attempting to stop the violence and arrest cartel members!   It’s verging on an all out war and it’s well known that cartels have moved into the U.S. to grow pot and manufacture some drugs.

Kidnappings, all sorts of crime is skyrocketing in border states . . . on our side of the border.  

Not only are users the reason for much of the crime in America, they support Narco-Terrorist states!    Without users, there would be no need for the smuggling, and the slave labor of the Narco-Terrorist states!

Hearing irresponsible journalists, like Geraldo Rivera, and John Stossel tout legalization is getting really old for those of us who’ve worked against drugs!   Legalizing drugs is NOT an answer!  

• Using, is not only irresponsible, . . . it’s criminal and deserves to be treated as such!
• Anyone knowing users, understands they are not only criminals because they use; users make multiple bad decisions (breaking other laws) when they get high!
• We do not need more drugs legal.   No social good comes from using drugs. 
• Many social ills are correctly blamed on the drugs – crimes, such as child and spousal abuse, to murder!
• Using drugs is an anti-social act.
• Societies which allow acts which destroy people, do not survive!   Drugs destroy entire families, not just the users!
• Societies which allow acts which destroy societies, . . . obviously, . . . do not survive.
• Those who use, need to spend time in jail!   Jail / prison is one of the few leverages used to get them out of their irresponsible behavior.

Everything is interconnected; it all impacts our welfare – our economy!

Turn in users; use the tip lines.   Get the drugs out of your neighborhoods!

OBAMA’S TORPEDO IS IN THE WATER – WE’RE THE TARGET!

The United States’ worth, our gross national product, does not change – - - no matter how much money they print.  

It’s the value of the dollar that changes!

As more money is printed, the more the value of each dollar is decreased; that demands and results in inflation!

Intentional inflation is nothing but an additional tax!  

If it took a wheelbarrow of dollars to buy a loaf of bread, everyone with a job would be paid more and could pay off their homes!   Banks and creditors want inflation, NOT deflation!

Spending is out of control; that and inflation, as fiscal conservatives have been warning, will bankrupt and enslave future generations!

Congress doesn’t read their bills?   Then it’s taxation without representation!

As things get worse (maybe not immediately, but surely, they will after the 2010 election), insurrection and revolution is what some expect; (FEMA camps and Executive Orders exist, and can be used for any number of scenarios) those must not happen!   A peaceful means is how things need to change!   Too many patriots already shed their blood for our freedom!

IMPEACHMENT NOW - BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

PUBLISH POT USERS’ NAMES

UPDATE:  OK; we’re in the process of verifying information on local (Eugene, Oregon) pot users; stay tuned!   Evidently, some people are fed up with the amount of traffic in and out of a “caretaker’s residence”; IF . . . it were a “pseudo-legal grow” would there be more traffic?

A consensus is to turn the information over to the police, but those investigations take so long; it may already be well underway – shaming them - forcing the issue, would seem the right way to go.   The whole system’s questionable anyway.

Do you know a “medical marijuana” user?   Does that person drive?

Neighbors, and people encountering them driving, need to know.   It’s likely that people who’ve had auto “accidents” with these people, have not been informed that they’re probably driving impaired - and are, er, . . . should be therefore, liable for the costs of damage and injuries!

The names and addresses of these ”users” needs to be published on the net!  

Do states have a right to conceal this information from those involved in a collision with a user?   Does it have the right to conceal it from insurance companies?  

Why are insurance companies not pursuing this information – - – is it that they don’t care?   That they just pass the costs along to all their customers?    Is that fair?

Employers also have a right to know their employees may be driving or operating dangerous equipment endangering others and their bottom line.

Health insurance costs go up for those who employ users because of their ill health and irresponsible lifestyles.

Users who grow their own draw other criminals with guns into your neighborhoods.

Users spend hard-earned money on drugs rather than meet their families’ needs.   That burden lands upon us all.

Recent studies have shown the statistical proof that pot causes mental-illnesses as well as cancers and other diseases.

The number of Emergency Room visits by pot users is out of control – THC content has increased exponentially since the 60’s & 70’s!

The media ought to publish the names; they could use the Freedom-Of-Information Act to obtain the information.

If you work for the state and have access to the list of users, this information should be published!   If you won’t do it, let’s talk . . . .   If the names on the list can be verified, I can get it to people who will publish it!

DRUG TESTS TO BE REQUIRED?

Who’d have expected wefare recipients to be required to pass a drug test?  

And required by a liberal?   Not me!   It makes too much sense for a liberal to support it; that’s what’s confusing!

For years, even decades, it’s seemed as if it was the government’s goal to get everyone possible, onto some sort of entitlement program NOT off of – from the physically and mentally disabiled to those receiving welfare.   Those addicted had government officials offer them legal drugs – called “medication” but they got one high just as well.  

For some reason, I don’t think unemployment checks will require a clean drug test, though it should!

People who hold jobs often have to qualify, passing a drug test; why would the recipients of taxpayer money get away without a qualifying drug test?

To require a clean result from a drug test, is what the rumor is . . . .  

Could this be part of Soros’ plan?    In his book, “Soros on Soros”, he admitted he wanted to control the drug use in the world – to drive the cartels out of business and hand out free drugs (at least to begin with).   As he bankrolled the Obama and leftist campaigns, one has to wonder.   Research Soros – see what he’s really like; I consider him amoral; obviously, Democrats don’t care who they’re in bed with!

If users loose their welfare and disability checks, are they going to get responsible all of a sudden, or are they going to turn to crime to support themselves?

It just makes too much sense – for Obama and Soros to favor this, . . . one must be a skeptic . . . . what’s the ulterior motive?   Guess this accentuates my conspiratorial mindset, but in my perspective, I’ve just learned too much to accept this at face value . . . .   Let’s both keep our minds open; OK?

AMERICA TODAY – FANATICAL HEDONISM – TOMORROW – SLAVERY FOR OUR CHILDREN!

When it all comes down, and the dollar is devalued, it won’t be equitable nor fair!  

One look at Europe, will confirm that.

The rapidity with which this collapsing / cascading of different facits of America’s economy is happening, . . . it’s no coincidence.

Those who wish to send us into a Global government, know that the individualism of Americans is a danger to their plans - – - they know that it must be done quickly, before we rise up and stop it.  

They know Americans are focused now, on their 6-pack and their entertainment and yet the American spirit is feared; the distractions continue at a phenomonal rate; the distractions will increase as the clamor for us to stop this financial-suicide-of-spending increases.   Next year’s budged is to be $3,600,000,000,000.00 – 34% above last years’!   Read that figure again – it’s 3.6 TRILLION!

They’re not insane; they know we cannot borrow our way out of debt!   Their goal is not to be fair and equitable!   Just listen to Daniel Hannan, speaking to the European Parliment!   http://americannonsense.com/?p=22913

Shouts of “Our freedom is at stake!”, “All is lost!”, “The end of America is at hand!”, echo throughout the country, people plan their innocous tea parties, unwilling to put their lives on the line as our forefathers did, but these people are still in the minority . . . .   If this can be done peaceably, and I believe it can, it must be done soon, for martial law and Fema Camps await those who are over the line . . . . maybe for all who protest.   World history not withstanding, great nations have fallen and will continue to fall.   Muslim radicals say they will control the world and Christians warn of “Principalities and Powers”, but what’s ahead?  

The longer you stay in your mode of gimme my “NFL”, my, “March Madness”, my “Dancing With The Stars”, my dinner out, it’s guaranteed to lead to your children’s slavery.  

Generations of Americans sacrificed for their children; our generation exhibits the self-centered-ness of fanatical hedonists!   Shame on us all!

THE BRILLIANCE OF GLENN BECK! – ON THE GRASSY KNOLL – BE CAREFUL GLENN!

2 Points:   I challenge you to read this and I hope you’re watching Glenn Beck.

Leaving Rush Limbaugh in the dust, he has a way of:

1. presenting information so no one will forget
2. convincing people, . . . like no other has!

At a time when Americans have grown tired of allowing patriots to lay down their lives for others, . . . . now comes the man who can turn all this around!

Take, for example Glenn’s presentation: Bob, the dead fish.  

1. He kept it (Bob) in a bucket, on the floor . . . . next to him during the program.  
2. Guests commented, how disgusting it was, and how it smelled.
3. He put on ridiculously colored - blue / purple almost-iridescent gloves to handle Bob.
4. He brought out a Sunday edition of the NYT, (representing? – the dying media?) opened it, then placed Bob, in the middle and began to wrap Bob up.
5. As he wrapped Bob, he folded over the corners of the paper – which showed the photos of Obama’s distractions,
6. As he turned all 4 corners in, what showed were 4 “distractions” of what had gone on that week – what the news had covered, he told of the outrage over the offensive joke on Leno, the president’s focus on the “March Madness” brackets, then, the union organizers, pushing for cardcheck, the ones that as another guest pointed out had supported Obama, just happened to be the ones who were creating this one of the distractions, . . . . .  

It went on.   You get the idea …..   Of course when all was “wrapped”, the amount of, the thickness of, the paper, Bob was wrapped in, . . . . when Glenn took his hands off it, the whole wrap, popped open and there was Bob, the smelly fish, still at the center of it all – again, representing what was intended to be distractions from . . .

Over a quarter of a million people have already signed up for his 9-12 Project - - – -  representing 9 / 12 – Principals and Values . . . . what can bring America back from the hedonism, apathy, and self-centered lifestyle!

This will continue to grow.   As things get worse – corruption and the economy for example, . . . . because of G/B’s presentation, others will be able to explain it to their co-workers.

There’s no stopping this – other than, that is, . . . other than killing Glenn Beck! 

Oh; I almost forgot; G/B has me reading an incredible book – 3 years old, yet an overnight best seller – “The 5,000 Year Leap”; it’s incredible!   A simple, easy read, extremely convincing, revelatory, inspirational presentation of the accurate perspective – history of the founding fathers is only a small part of it . . .   see for yourself!

The attempt a few weeks back, to marginalize Rush by speaking of the Fairness Act again, . . . . it was not coincidental, all the flap about sicking the dogs (James Carville, John Ponetta, and company) onto him; . . . .    What stopped it was they didn’t see Glenn rising up leaving Rush in an unexpected shadow. 

After watching Glenn for the first time, I wrote a post on him, saying “Be Careful, Glenn”, but ended up leaving it as a “draft”; wish I hadn’t left it that way!    That’s why I’m posting this . . . . it has to do with the final attempt at the survival of the United States; whether you think the threat’s from Narco-States, from within, from terrorists, or from a cyber attack by an ominous enemy, believe it or not now, you will know we are under attack.

With this, I’ve corrected that, but now . . . .    Now that they’ve begun to recognize the Glenn Beck 9/12 Project’s potential, . . . . what oh what will they do?

Mart Twain said ‘history doesn’t repeat; it rhymes’.   He meant it comes close – almost exactly repeating itself but with a slight twist.  

It’s all a bit surreal!   I feel as if I’m standing at Daley Plaza in Dallas, across from the fence on the grassy knoll, and my name is Zapruder, and it’s Nov. 22, 1963 and I’m waiting . . . . for another shoe to drop!  

Anyone else feel that way?

FREEDOM TOWERS

UPDATED:  The WTC towers, leveled on 9/11 – their replacements to be called “Freedom Towers” have now been renamed.   Why?

And they’ve been renamed exactly what they were named both times they were attacked before – in ‘93 and ‘01!   On top of that, they were never a viable business – never full, always subsidized by the state, now, the new name is offensive to whom?   They’re saying the name “FREEDOM” is offensive to China – the one loaning the U.S. money!

Is it . . . . related to changing the politically UNcorrect name of “War On Terror” to “Overseas Contingency Operation”?   Of course it is!  

But why is FREEDOM politically incorrect?

With China, . . . . you’re kidding, . . . right?   You don’t get it?

The towers were to be 1776 feet high – a symbol of our freedom, of our founding fathers; now even the height is being changed!  

Like a fetus in the womb, being drowned in a saline solution, or ripped apart, limb by limb, the silence is deafening!   Governments’ fear of FREEDOM is silently overwhelming . . . . or it should be!

Are those who make these decisions . . . . . are they paranoid?   Or have the something to fear?   Something they cannot face?

Let me lay it out for you . . . . clear and simple.

Those of us who understand the number and sacrifices made by those who’ve given us our freedom, . . . . those of us who are fanatical about it, value it, love our country, are willing to die to defend it, (though a large number of them are away in the military) . . . . we, are considered to be the threat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5P8iY0Mho

THE BOTTOM LINE:

If the whole world is to march on Israel, as scripture states, . . . . then first, somehow, the United States must be – out of the way, sold out, neutralized, subjugated, or repressed in some fashion.

Now, you can accuse us of paranoia, but as the quote states – - – you know the one, . . .

 

You can take the latter part of this as a bit of a light hearted spoof, or as real, if you like, but . . . when they come for us, at least you’ve been warned!

And, if they decide to change the emergency call number from 911, to 111, you too had better run!

There ought to be no new tower!   It ought to be a park which would draw visitors from all over the world!

THROWING THE BUM(S) OUT, . . . . IS NOT ENOUGH!

 

His whole campaign was a lie!

This is NOT hope!   Joe was right on!  

McCain was not what the people wanted, but neither is this move!   

(A typical dirty election, in Chicago, included hand-picking the opponent, who was guaranteed to loose.)

This is NOT what the American people wanted nor expected!

Our hope-promising, formerly ‘yes-we-can’, now ‘no-we-can’t', arrogant president is now intent upon destroying our most  iconic business, Detroit, the symbol to the whole world, of America’s success!

. . . now ruined by Congress and other creep thieves, GM is now being managed by a conglomerate of Post Office mentality civil servants and a Community Organizer who is partying in the White House between making changes on his Final Eight brackets!

Bailout dollars await, once again, those union members who make much more than they should; their leverage to get those wages, and has been promised them by those they voted for and resulted in part of the corruption that has led to Democrat control of Congress – - - it’s all just one more piece of the puzzle . . . .

If you’re angry . . . . . if you’ve had enough, what are you going to do about it?   Better speak up – before your freedom of speech is gone – - – before your FREEDOM is gone!

How many broken promises?

Sending my tea bags, just doesn’t do it for me!

We must recall any Senator and Representative who supports any more spending!   We’re nearing what everyone dismissed as paranoia – a global currency.   Inflation is closing in our dollar is being devalued at the speed of light . . . (or dark – depends on just how evil you see it).  Behind closed doors, not out front for you and I to see, this will take place at the G-20 conference – our President is bought and paid for; it’s a done deal!

But first, . . . . before we react . . . especially before we over-react, incorrectly, you need to read “THE 5,000 YEAR LEAP”!   Politics is NOT where we need to be; we do need to (as Glenn repeats at us) . . . . we need to be focused on Principles!

It’s more than just a great book; it’s required reading!

HAVE YOU BEEN CALLED A NAZI?

I have.  

Until now, it’s been by Pro-Palestinians.   Now though, look at this!   Israelis calling Christians Nazis?   The whole world is spinning out of control into insanity!   watch this video: http://pjmiller.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/who_would_have_believed/

Christians are a sect of Judaism!   See: http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/catholicism-believers-vs-sheeple/  

Scroll down to the line that begins: “Jesus was NOT teaching a new religion”, and read from there (the first part is about the furor over the invitation to President Obama, being asked to speak at Notre Dame’s graduation.)

GRAVEYARD OK, BUT NOT MY BACKYARD!

 

As the feds get ready to move prisoners from Gitmo and place them in jails, possibly before release into America, people people seem to be outraged and saying “not in my backyard!”

They do NOT belong free in America!  

If the government decides they do, they must support themselves!   Let them work as drivers for the officials that made the decision, or maybe in Congress . . . . as aides . . . . oh wait; how about as a personal servant to George Soros?!

It does make sense to release them into prisons though – where they can recruit more Muslims; that’d be smart, huh?

HAVE YOU NOTICED?

 

Nations of Europe are clamoring for the U.S. to NOT  become Socialists; realize, these are Socialist nations pleading with us to not go down this road.

Have you noticed?

Want to know why?

Who else will bail them out during the next war, natural disaster, famine, disease, . . . . you get the idea.   They don’t want us to quit being the world’s main philanthropist – yet the G 20 conference back room deals will do exactly that – end America as we know it.

AMMO OUTLAWED SOON?

 

Have you tried to purchase any ammo lately?   It’s not “GUN CONTROL” – duh!

I’m told, the Ammo Destruction Box industry is going 24/7 and can’t keep up with the demand.

This, while the “crazies” are all shouting “we told you so” and as our President is making deals leading to a Global Currency and Global Government . . . .   What does this Kenyan have against the nation that enslaved his ancestors?

Our soverignty, our Constitution, our economy are dying as the public watches March Madness, secure in their 6-pack and cable shows.

Detroit: and all 3 Auto giants - to be FORD – - – Found On Road Dead!

It’s madness on both ends!

HERE’S WHAT’S WRONG!

 

UPDATE:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html  / follow this link – to the Wall Street Journal article by Stuart Varney (another of the straight-shooters) . . . .   All the pieces of the puzzle are beginning to make sense now!  

Like GM has been taken over, it’s plain to see why some banks were told they would have to take the TARP money or face the consequences – now, the government doesn’t want the money back – they want control!

[ (a side-note)   I'm convinced as the government caps salaries, the best and brightest people will leave the country for better paying  jobs overseas.]

an excerpt from below: [He's not an American . . . .he's a Kenyan!]

Took me a while to figure the bottom line (I apologize for that) but here it is:

I believe that thanks to Congress, corruption, and lobbyists, the problems already existed, but they were a relatively easy fix; and in light of that, the reason for all the broken promises, intentional malfeasance, inept appointments, old political hacks, the  unpatriotic, irrational, financially irresponsible, suicidal moves made by our President is that he is (as a few have previously stated) NOT a loyal, patriotic American – that he is an entrenched and loyal member of the Hate-America-First crowd!  

Wasn’t that quote during the campaign, by Michelle, indicative of that?

(Understand, I’m not dismissing the conspiracy theories by this . . . )

All that makes sense , to me, in that he has stonewalled proving that he is not an American, but rather, I believe he’s a Kenyan!

His refusal to prove that he was born in America proves to me, that he is NOT entitled to be president and . . . because I have no power to enforce this, I ask my Senators Wyden and Merkley to do so. 

I believe there are more than sufficient grounds for IMPEACHMENT!

CAP ‘N TRADE – THE MOST REPRESSIVE TAX EVER!

Cap and trade will hit the poor the hardest!

Basic needs, what the poor cannot do without, will be the hardest hit.

It’ll be interesting to follow the money trail here – see who is getting rich off this!

I get so angry when I consider the ramifications of this, and why the public is not in the streets already, I just cannot pull this together yet – as the etrade ad with the infant in the highchair says . . . . “Hey girl, can ya hit me back, . . . later?”

OBAMA INSURES ARMAGEDDON!

As Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu said, upon taking office, that if we don’t take care of Iran, they will!  

Can’t get much more clear a message than that!

Both the messages are clear – Iran’s and ours!

There’s a mad man at the helm of Iran and he will bring us to the brink.   He won’t listen.   There’s now, no way out!   The naive’te’ of this inept and deceitful president has now left no option! 

Iran supports Hamas, Hezbullah, and multiple other terrorist organizations who will (in proxy) strike at us, as well as continue to attack Israel.

. . . . and yet our president appoints people known to be enemies of Israel as our envoys to the middle east.

Israel understands – though Americans would disagree, their focus is upon themselves and their recovery while our president has clearly abandoned Israel!

Even more importantly, Iran understands that as well!

Understandably, after the holocaust, Israel’s mindset is “NEVER AGAIN!”

1. If you’re a non-believer, accept, for a moment, that scripture has never been wrong.
2. According to scholars, scripture predicts a one world monitary system and a one world government.   You can see that happening now, can’t you?
3. Bible scolars also state that scripture says this, and the end, will happen w/in the generation in which Israel is reborn (understand this prediction came from from about 2000 years ago).   Israel was reborn May 14, 1948!
4. What then, is a generation?   65 – 70 years? 
5. Scripture is very clear – the whole world will march against Israel!   That includes us?   The United States – Israel’s friend and ally?
6. Either we’re part of the hoard that marches on Israel or we’re out of the way, unable to … help defend her.
7. The question is: Why would the whole world march on Israel?
8. The answer: (the only one that makes sense to me) is that Israel has Nuked Iran!

Understand, other civilizations (even the Mayan) have predicted 2012 as the end . . . .  

Pre-conditions have all been met.   We’ve now entered the time of:

• earthquakes in diverse places
• famines
• diseases

But as scripture again predicts in Luke 17, many believe the end will come when things seem to be going well – when people are partying, or to be a bit more specific - eating, drinking, and marrying.   Because of this, either people will be oblivious to what is truly going on, or things will seem to have gotten better.   Some state this example is only to show the quickness of which the end comes.

Either way, people search for signs, people scoff and hate Christians - when they should be drawing near to God – praying and fasting; like it or not, the time IS short!

OBAMA and GM!

Thanks!, Mr. President.

You’ve fired the CEO of the most world-envied corporation the backboke of America’s economy (until congressional regulations) and put in his place those who’ve looted Social Security and . . . . . have “GREED” as their middle name!   Good move!

And the others – how about linking them up with Yugo?   Oh; Fiat?   Even better! 

I thought they said this guy was smart!   If he is, there’s something else going on here, . . . but then, I’ve said that before.

OBAMA AND ISRAEL

The myopic anti-Israeli perspective is sometimes worthwhile watching.   Amjad Atallah in the propaganda rag, ”Foreign Policy” states that the new Israeli administration isn’t trying to be subtle . . . . ?

What?   Are they serious?   Have they not been listening?   Do they not understand the response from Israel has been to a very clear message from Obama and company?

Obama’s appointment of Freeman and Mitchell has been an obvious message to Israel – disregarding the obvious love of Israel by the American people, the U.S. has not put enemies of Israel as its’ emissaries to the Middle East!

Since and during Clinton’s psychotic need for a legacy, manifested at Camp David, pushing the 2-state solution, Israelis have had to defend themselves from attacks of all sorts – from Kassam rockets to suicide bombers and bulldozers … and yet we tell them they must find a way to live with a people that teaches it’s children to hate!   See: http://josiahe.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/956/

After WWII, Israel was meant for Jews, but some Arab Palestinians that are not Jews, stayed.   Some have no problem with Jews and Israel . . . . some do . . . .   Palestinians should have gone to Jordan, like many did!

That’s a 2 State Solution we can all believe in!

Amjad however accuses Netanyahu of “adopting a domestic and foreign policy almost entirely opposed to that of the United States.”   Well, DUH!   He’s only responding to Obama’s message!   Maybe Amjad thinks Jews are stupid . . . . .   Naw; that can’t be it; he’s just issuing the typical anti-Semitic propaganda!

The Lie behind Obama’s ECON 101

President Obama talks of fiscal responsibility and at the same time, back home, congress is firing up the machine to put forth another massive spending bill – this time, it’s a budget of $3,600,000,000,000 just as filled with pork and earmarks as the stimulus and bailouts.  

All the while, behind the closed doors, they’re still printing more and more money, as if that helped.

Printing money does not increase wealth; the pie is still the same size!   Printing money devalues what wealth exists!

Those on fixed incomes, those retired and on cost-of-living raises (an oxy-moron if there ever was one) are the ones to be hurt the most, but as in the Weimer Republic, where people had to take wheelbarrows of money to purchase a loaf of bread, . . . . everyone will suffer.

ECON 101:  Money is made by:

1. Production and/or sale of goods.
2. Service to those who have made money by production of, sale of, or employment by manufacturing goods.

A couple questions . . . . for you to ask our President, at the next Town Hall: 

• Did you ever know of anyone who was poor who hired others?
• If everyone works for the government, who produces goods which pay for our overseas deficit?   Or for health costs?   Or electricity after the Cap ‘n Trade raises the rates?
• Even the wealthy slaveowners, . . . . did they pay in script that could be spent somewhere other than the company store?

GOLD! CLUES TO FIND GOLD!

There’s a new Gold Rush.

The following link shows the result of gold having gone to around $1000/oz.   As people buy prospecting tools and leave the cities, what can one expect?   Maybe some of the lawlessness that filled the mining camps of the 1890’s?   Or rather just bodies left in the rivers?

http://www.breitbart.com/voxant.php?id=3587138

But, . . . . there’s another place to search . . . .   And the gold is still there, and plentiful!  

Here’s my first clue to you.  

In the rivers leading from the San Gabriels, and old mining camps, there are surely placer deposits and nuggets waiting still to be found, but there’re better clues, better and more reliable places to look.  

• It’s said that sage and other plants change color when their roots reach into the veins of gold or even into the gullies where the former streams use to wash down but have since changed paths – there, the gold content can be high.
• This next clue though, I would expect recompense for – there are many honest men and surely some would pay me for this next information . . . . if you’re successful, . . . won’t you?    As obvious as this is, it’s still untouched!   I’ll share this before I tell you the best place.
• Long ago, my geology professor showed me a map of gold mines from the 1890’s.   He asked me what I thought -  the line seemed to go straight up the California coast, except for there were several breaks where there were no old mines shown.   I didn’t pick up on it.   He pointed it out, then explained that there was gold there as well; the problem was, finding it; in those particular areas, it had not washed down the streams, leaving clues for the miners of old to follow it back.   Why?   Because all the land had been covered by a lava flow.   It was there as well; it had just been covered.
• Here, I’m going to suggest it – my best lead for finding gold - though it’s more likely to be granules of gold, I believe it’s possible to find it from the air.   It won’t take a geologist to find it.  
• Kelp has a high gold content, whether it’s growing in lakes or the ocean.   For instance, in Big Bear lake, near L.A., I’m told they have to periodically kill the kelp, as it tends to overrun the lake – above the lake, there were gold mines.
• In the ocean, where there are large, wide kelp beds, I suspect that if it’s down-current of a river that once produced gold, it has washed down the river, but where it grows in long, deliniated lines, and it is not near the rivers, where it would have washed into the ocean, is it not more likely that the roots are reaching down into the gold veins? 

How to get core samples, by diving, I’m not sure.   Large companies will move in on the first published finds, to become successful, so don’t delay . . . . and be careful . . . .   There are several types of sharks to be aware of (and not just lawyers).   And don’t forget my recompense; I’m too old to dive any longer; you take this; try it and good luck!

Alfred E. NewBama and Korea

 

UPDATED:  Our President naively said “I think we did OK”.

Guess again, Mr. President!

He was told, . . . in no uncertain terms . . . America’s claim to be ‘the leader of the world’s most powerful nation’ is over!  It’s like the rest of the world is whispering behind our backs . . . and everyone knows, but us.

President NewBama has been said to be intelligent; so were most of the great appeasers; they just had no common sense nor understanding of “EVIL” – commonly called “street smarts”!

You wonder why the puppet Communist state is readying to send a nuclear weapon . . . oooooops . . . I mean, a rocket capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, . . . into space and why war ships are gathered off-shore and we’re told they’re ready to shoot it down?

Wonder why our DOD’s cyber system has been “pinged” and penetrated?

Wonder why Israel has said, . . . . Never Mind, U.S.; we’ll protect ourselves!

It’s 2/3rds of a century past, but all over again, it seems like pre-Pearl Harbor.

An exercept from the Washington Times:

“An electromagnetic pulse attack on the American homeland, said one of the distinguished scientists who testified at the hearing, is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies – - terrorist or otherwise.”

An EMP attack would do what to the U.S.?   We’d be much like any 3rd world nation, unable to transport troops to protect our borders, our population . . . . even keep our food refrigerated!   Take a look at the links below.

Would a national leader have to be crazy to attack the U.S.?   Or one which is suicidal?

The North Korean rocket would weigh about 80 tons and could place a payload of 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds, into orbit at about 250 miles, David Wright, co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program, wrote recently , citing some inconclusive assumptions. When used as a missile, the same rocket could carry a 500-kilogram, or 1,100-pound, payload about 5,600 miles, far enough to reach San Francisco.

Though we do not expect this to happen now, it’s very possible in the near future.   Still, N. Korea has significant dealings with Pakistan, Russia, and China, all of which are among the nuclear powers.   It’s not inconceivable that one of many world powers (or those who wish to be) would have procured a nuclear weapon for N. Korea to use.   N. Korea’s own nuclear program is progressing but as for having a nuclear weapon, Iran is thought to be closer – purchasing one missing from Russia is not out of the realm of possibilities.

We’ve not come to grips with the intent of the Muslim world – with their proxy fighters, Hamas and hundreds of other terrorist groups willing to die to kill us . . . . to wipe us off the face of the earth, all to enable them to kill their arch-enemy, Israel.

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
• http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jdw/jdw040726_1_n.shtml
• http://www.secretsofsurvival.com/survival/emp_attack.html

My understanding is that the consensus is that N. Korea is developing this rocket system to sell.   Obviously, with the stockpile of fissionable material stockpiled, the concern is about whether Iran would be the buyer, but the real threat comes from terrorists . . . .

Meanwhile, Alfred E. NewBama and his wife Michelle cavort, in the company of royals and accept an invitation to Moscow ….

The G 20

As they (puppeteers) move us toward a Global Government and Global Currency, one of the stratagies devised at the G20 meeting in London, was to pool as much money as they could from all the attendees, in case of emergencies – say for example, with the world’s banking system . . . . .

Does it register with the American people that all they could pull together was $1.1 trillion?   Let’s see that’s less than one third of the current budget being voted on in Congress (including the pork and earmarks) - passed in the late hours and being pushed through just like the other out-of-control spending!

Meanwhile, President Alfred E. NewBama mouths phrases like fiscal responsibility and responsible spending . . . .

If, we re-write the Constitution, maybe we should begin with “WE THE FOOLS . . . .”

CONNECTING THE DOTS!

When I grew up, the media was relatively dependable and investigative journalism was evident; the people depended on it!    Oh, there were people like Randolph Herst, who was building his media empire, but by-in-large, the media had not sold out, like they have now.   Now; fluff TV news is replacing even the dying newspapers.

Take for instance, the conspiracy mindset . . . .   Evident in the Kennedy assassination flap, notable, and supposedly respectable and reliable people were appointed to Commissions set up to dispel the rumors, as the public began to doubt the ‘truth’ which was coming out of the media. 

Then came people, we sometimes label as ‘whistle-blowers’, pointing out things the public would not likely know . . . . also, there were politically astute people who were knowledgeable and just could not put up with the lies, misrepresentations and misinformation any longer.   They too began to point out the corruption and connect the dots for us – for instance the non-coincidence of groups like the Council on Foreigh Relations (CFR), and Skull & Bones, and many other groups.   Or, recently, Senator Dodd’s wife being part of AIG.

The numbers of people that belonged to these groups who became presidents, was way beyond the potential of it being coincidental . . . .    Still skeptical of the “Birchers diatribe”, I began to listen; I’d learned full well back in college in the late 60’s that to find and discern the truth, one absolutely had to read both sides!   I kept it in the back of my mind; now, I expect, what they predicted, rather than doubt.   A Global currency, a Global Government is all but here!

Back in the 60’s both (perceived) sides of the political spectrum had developed lying to an art; ’spinning’ . . . . ‘attack dogs’, are new but related phenomena.

Then America began looking for “outsiders” . . . .   Fooled once, by Jimmy Carter, the most inept president ever, he was, in ways, still, an insider.  

Now, we have Alfred E. NewBama and one can look at his administration and judge that if he was at one time, an outsider, he is no longer!   That’s evident by his appointments – and not just their failures to obey the law, it’s actions like appointing people who are enemies of Israel to be America’s envoys to the Middle East and all the friends of Bill and Hillary.

There’re lots of dots to connect ane w/o the computer we’d have no chance to keep up.    When the net fails, we need to know something is going on and that you cannot count on the media!

Following the money trail was one first learned of, by the public.   Those dots are what has made the American people to become skeptics and cynics.

My next post will be a cynical expose’ from the other side – one I have personal experience with – - – the one set in place during the 70’s; it’s long term goal was to change America.   In case you haven’t read about it, check back; the writing’s in progress!

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Is President NewBama Really a CHRISTIAN?

I’ve not read it, but I was told, in his book, one of the presidents daughters asked him, ‘Daddy, what happens when we die; do we go to heaven?’

His answer was – “I don’t know.”

Pastor Warren accepted his claim to be a Christian, but does that sound lika a Christian to you?   Christians know.  

Granted, he knows all the right things to say, and we have no right to say we know, but is he?   We are to judge (scripture tells us that). 

Though many shallow Christians believe that we are not to judge, people that pretend to be Christians also, but I’ve met very few long-term Christians that don’t understand we are to judge (“You shall know them by their fruits.”)   I don’t know of one denomination that preaches we are not to judge.

It’s just that we are to be judged by a higher standard . . . . we know we’re to be judged!

• Add to this scenario the fact that President NewBama sat with his family in a church that preached anger and hate . . . . and that was not, just “for a time” . . . . IT WAS FOR 20 YEARS!
• That, certainly does not say CHRISTIAN, to me!
• Would you allow your children to sit under a man like Jeremiah Wright?
• Not one real Christian I know would!   NOT ONE!
• Do you know one real Christian who is Pro-Choice?
• Would a real Christian appoint people who are tax cheats?
• Would a real Christian appoint people who suggested how to deceive the American public as former Senator Tom Daschle did in his new book?
• Would a real Christian appoint an enemy of Israel as envoy to the Middle East?

Therefore, we have a right . . . rather a duty to question / doubt, this man, for he leads us into dangerous waters!   A 1-World Government, and Global monitary system (both things predicted in scripture) are very near.

DRUGS OF SEX SLAVES!

Why have the feds not cracked down on this human trafficking?  

You guess.

It’s not just in the Narco-States.   It’s rampant, in most every large city in the United States, but what I’m referring to here, specifically, … is the Las Vegas connection.

When high-end prostitutes run from Vegas, trying to get out of ‘the business’, they soon find they’re in need of the drug they’ve become addicted to!  

Their addiction, . . . was not by coincidence!

Anywhere in the country, when a dealer has a request for a certain drug he’s never heard of, and asks his distributor where he can get some,  (I can’t name the drug here; I forgot what my brother told me it was called), . . . . soon, the word gets back to the organized crime outfit in Vegas and (3 very large men) show up at the dealer’s door, with an ample supply of the drug, but what they’re there for . . . . is the girls.

They pay the dealer, a finders fee and ‘convince him’ they’ll deliver the drug personally.   

When they show up, they “escort the girls” back to Vegas, . . . where they “work”, in brothels, . . . . again.  

That’s how it worked with the gals my brother had staying with him in his North Beach apartment . . . the two he’d picked up; Bob did that . . . he was no stranger to women, nor drugs.   He’d made a call to his regular dealer and asked him to procure the drugs for his ‘guests’ and then they enjoyed each other’s ‘company’ for an evening . . . until a knock on the door, early the next morning.  

When Bob told me of this, . . . . he drifted away for a few moments, . . . . remembering, . . . as if it were one of those memories permanently etched on his brain forever.    The next time I visited him in San Francisco, he’d married Carol, from Quebec; it didn’t last; I didn’t expect it would.   They seemed to be happy, most of the time, but you could just tell, he thought of those two and that night, often.

You see, the gals needing this drug were sex slaves and they were (according to Bob) good at what they did.   And the guys from the outfit?   They’d flown in on a private plane to pick them up and take them back.   My brother didn’t intimidate easily – at least not on the street.   He’d been his fleet’s boxing champion, but the mob was a different thing.

The drugs . . . . they’d been designed to keep them happy, and high . . . . and they do, . . . most of the time, at least that’s what Bob had said the girls claimed . . . it’s why they had to have it – why no other drug would do; they’d tried but the desire only got worse as other drugs hadn’t done it for them.

The drugs though, are just as much a mechanism for finding them, anywhere in the world, as they are to keep them high, happy, and submissive!   Once they’re on this ‘concoction’, they don’t get off.   And once this mix of very specific illegal drugs, is asked for (the girls know it only by its’ street name), . . . . no other drug would do; it’s a dead giveaway as to where they are!

Addiction is like that!

A beautiful prostitute makes too much money for them to just let her walk away!   These guys were not just regular ’pimps’, … they made it apparent to Bob somehow, they were organized crime . . . .

Besides, look at the spin-offs of the “business”!   It wasn’t just the lucrative, un-taxed, cash-up-front business.  

The real money, comes from those who end up blackmailed for their indiscretions in Vegas?   You don’t believe that lie - – - “what happens in Vegas . . . stays in Vegas”, do you?

When that “john”, … turned out to be someone of import, then you can make book on it – the mob owned them as well!

Drugs – MAKING A DIFFERENCE . . . .

Type the word “pothead” into the search if you want to see America’s future.   Be prepared though; it’s pretty depressing.

A blog search like this, will reveal . . . can help us see into the decayed world of those who think pot is ok . . . . the lack of education, the constant and required offensive words, the lack of direction and drive . . . .

Pot is one of the most insiduous drugs there is – the user cannot see what is happening to them!

Most users also learn to “see” no value to education – of those that continue to pursue their schooling, most are fooling themselves – they’ve just learned how to play the games.   In the long run, one way or another, their values and lifestyle will result in devestation.    Some grow out of it; most don’t.

A pothead’s entire existance becomes seeking the high; they cannot see the depression that comes from using!   They are actually attempting to get back to normal.   You can dismiss this, but I’ve seen it from both sides – as a user of 11+ years and as an anti-drug activist for 25+ years.

A few years ago, when my son was about to go away to college, and he was riding with me one day, I realized he was a captive audience.   I told him I wanted to tell him one thing about pot use.   He ‘cringed’ inside and told me he knew, and that he didn’t need a lecture …  

I asked him to put up with it – that it wouldn’t take but a minute.   He shrugged; I began.

I told him, “I know you’ve seen my anti-drug work and you know why; what I want you to know is that at some point, you’ll have a friend who tells you something that’ll make you aware he’s considering using pot”.   I realized he’d looked over at me and though I didn’t have to return his glance, I realized he was really listening.

I continued, “When one does, I’d ask you to say this to him … or her …”  

“You know users or you wouldn’t be thinking of this, but do me a favor; they try to make others think they’re having a good time but they’re just trying to make themselves feel like what they’re doing is ok because their friends become like them …   Please, . . . before you even consider trying pot, do these two things for me:

1. watch them for 6 months and you’ll see their lives begin to fall apart – you’ll realize they will not see it, but you will; it’ll be real clear – it’s a constant!
2. also, if you know their former friends – their close friends, people who they’re no longer friends with, … contact them and ask them what happened – how your common friend changed.   You do that and you’ll never try it!”

The conversation over, my son, at this point was silent; we’d pulled into the driveway, yet he didn’t immediately jump out, to end the conversation . . . .   That surprised me and when I looked over at him, I saw that his eyes had welled up with tears.   He said to me “I wish dad, you’d told me that a few years back.”

“Now, I do too; wish I’d have thought of it . . . .   I knew you were ok, but . . .”   I went silent – choked up.  

I’d caught the emotion in his voice and as we continued, I told him I’d chased our neighbor, his old friend Rick, off, from where the dealers gather, downtown.   I was to be more upset though; we both knew about Rick; it was someone else he had walked away from; he couldn’t watch them destroy their life anymore – I was encouraged that he’d told her why . . . . and I wished even more I’d had the impetus, … the smarts, to say what I had, a lot sooner!

Although I tried to go back in my head, I could never pinpoint who it was that my son had been referring to; if he’d wanted me to know, he’d have told me; it was apparent he didn’t want me to know and I didn’t pry . . . .   He has long impressed me with his wisdom and good decisions; I’m truly blessed!   I just made a commitment . . . to myself, to talk more – to the people I meet, to the people I love – with anyone who will listen!   What more can one do?

I’m just real tired of seeing marijuana’s obvious connection to bi-polar, (users who suffer from bi-polar rarely admit they used pot before diagnosis), schizophrenia, to lung diseases – cancer / emphysema, etc. (if you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember that before the link between all these symptoms was proved, the tobacco industry had hired doctors to say smoking was even healthy), . . . to one’s unhinging from reality, lost lives, addiction, gatewat to other drugs, cancer of users’ children, . . . . the problems just go on and on!

Just like an alcoholic in denial, they’ve convinced themselves they’re right, that it’s safe, but absolutely no social good comes from marijuana!    And the social ills are unending!   With pot as expensive as gold now, people even neglect their children for want of pot!

With your children though, don’t wait.   Talk to them soon; talk to your friends about drugs in front of your children often!   You cannot know who it may help.

WORLD BEWARE!

 

When everyone seems to be enthralled with some new leader in power, . . . . when this new leader says he’s for change yet appoints the same old political hacks, and his appointees seem to be of questionable character and it doesn’t change the people’s opinion, when he indulges himself and his guests with $100/pound steaks and yet says he cares for the poor, when he appoints known enemies of our allies, as envoys to their region, when most everyone seems to be thinking alike, . . . . when the definition of his name even means “blessing”, . . . .    It’s time to BEWARE!  

A quote  of Wisdom here, from an unimpeachable source!

“People who don’t Think probably don’t have Brains; rather, they have gray fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.”                   

Winnie the Pooh

VIET NAM and the WALKING WOUNDED

“Come on all you big strong men; Uncle Sam needs your help again; got himself in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Viet Nam . . . and it’s one, two, three, what’re we fighting for?   Don’t ask me; I don’t give a damn . . . .  Next stop is Viet Nam.”

Above, Arlo’s “protest song”, right out of the 60’s.

I was a protester then, . . . and a leftist – I’d gone back to school and was hanging around with young people.

After being challenged to study the history of Nam by a radical Professor at the University of Chicago (Yes; Marla, even back then, it was just the same.), I did.  

Due in part to issues in my own life, when I found he was right about the history, I too became one of the alienated ones.

After growing up, I saw the big picture and have sense spoken to a Memorial Day gathering . . . .

I told them I realized that though my motivations may have been right, my actions had elicited / accomplished just the opposite of what I’d intended.   I’d helped prolong the war which resulted in more people dead and injured.

• I told them what I’d done. 
• I told them I understood what I’d done was wrong, and asked their forgiveness.
• I told them “thank you – you responded to your country’s call and served and protected us all!
• I told them, something they’d not heard very often . . . .   If you’re a Nam vet, this is for you too.
• WELCOME HOME!  

Back then, they needed to hear it; some may still.

Since then, it’s been almost acceptable to be one of the Hate-America crowd; no nation is perfect, but if you’re a member of that group, I’ll tell you what I was told . . . . if you find a better nation, go there!   Please.

Department of “JUSTICE”? or Dept. of Conspiracy?

If not for the conviction of Senator Stevens of Alaska, who still was barely defeated, in spite of his convictions on 7 felonies, what would have happened in D.C.?   If not for the prosecutorial malfeasance, . . . .

Would President Alfred E. NewBama have had the ease of passing all the spending?   Probably, as long as Senator Stevens got “his”; he was known for procuring pork and earmarks meant for Alaska . . . . but will we ever know?

Governor Sarah Palin is calling for newly elected Senator Begich to resign and obviously, she would appoint former Ted Stevens to his previous position!

Keeping information from the jury, not calling witnesses that should have been heard from . . . . what else went wrong and why?   The sitting judge says he plans to see that the prosecutors are prosecuted!   Is this to turn out to be “PROSECUTOR-GATE”?   Who will John Dean – ’spill the beans’, first?

“Today, with our country in a severe recession, it’s more important than ever that we have a senator focused on fixing our economy so Alaskans have the jobs they need to support their families,” Senator Begich said.  

By that, he meant “NO!”, of course.   Like all the others, he’s looking forward to his retirement perks from being a U.S. Senator! 

Actually, “WHY?” is the question!   Who was behind this?   Was it to insure and allow the unquestioned majority in the Senate to break the already spineless Republicans?   The American people no longer trust either party . . . . . Congress, and now the Dept. of Justice????

The American people are so polarized; we’ve not learned to ferret out the truth by reading both sides yet.   Over 400,000 people have signed up for Glenn Beck’s 912 Project . . . . but is it too late?   It’s certainly a radical move, to as Glenn says . . . . to trust the founding fathers and the Constitution, rejecting the legislation from the bench, returning to the principals and values they set forth, etc. . . . . isn’t it?

What’s is sure is that Obama is in firm control and not likely going to give that up until he’s brought about his agenda, which in my opinion is to bring down the economy of the U.S.!  

Many say that . . . . because we’ve abdicated our responsibilities, it’s what we deserve, anyway. 

Like it or not, . . . . call us paranoid if you like; we’ve been telling you for decades, but now, you ought to be able to see it yourself!   

A Global Currency and Global Government is just around the corner!

SNL – THE FUNNIEST EVER!

Saturday Night Live – the funniest ever – the link is below, but read my suggestion first.

When Madonna tells Angelina, she got her “baby” in space, she should have named Octomom’s doctor as the “freaky-deaky” place.   Just a twist I can’t quite get out of my head …  

In fact, Octomom could’ve played Angelina!   Certainly, she craves the spotlights!   And America needs SNL’s display of insanity; it helps to know there are others worse off …

See the clip at:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/snl-madonna-and-angelina_n_183237.html

PIRATES and our INEPT INACTION!

On Arianna Huffington’s post, the lady, . . . er, woman . . . who likes to portray herself as an American, but in my opinion, is instead, a Progressive-Fascist, makes fun of General Petraeus – see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-scahill/gen-petraeus-implements-m_b_185581.html

Not often, will I criticize the military; I greatly respect them, especially General Petraeus who has NOW, taken over control of the incident.  

Not having been there, all I can go on at this point is the media, (whom I do NOT trust), but still, there are questions.

If, as stated, the hostage Rich Phillips, of the U.S. Maersk Line’s “Alabama” made a break for it and dove overboard, why was the ’lifeboat’, full of pirates not immediately blown to smithereens?   The Bainbridge should have had every gun on board trained on the lifeboat, just waiting for something like this – a standoff, waiting for the others to flinch.

This is no isolated incident and it’s about time the U.S. dealt with these criminals who are actually terrorists – remember the movie “Blackhawk Down”?   These are the same people – that incident was also an attempt to deliver aid to a poor people; these terrorists exploit the problem demanding millions of dollars.   They should be given the money – either with a tracking divice, so small it cannot be found or laced with Anthrax!   These pirates deserve to die – NOW!

And, if another ship which is holding hostages, is (as the media states) . . . is on its way to interfere, with this situation, or assist / help the pirates, one of our military ships, a helicopter, a jet, … should disable its’ rudder and insure they cannot get to the location and interfere.

Why the inaction?????

I know President Obama is most often compared with spineless former president Carter, but until now, I’d held my hopes out for his standing up to this outrage . . . .   So far, he’s met this challenge with what can only be called - inept inaction.

Internationally, Somalia needs to either take care of this problem or be blockaded!

PROGRESSIVE AUTO INSURANCE

UPDATE:

Their ads may be cute and their actress / performer too, but they’re the last insurance company on earth I’d deal with!

There’re two reasons!

1. Their CEO, Peter B. Lewis, along with George Soros, is funding the legalization of medical marijuana (a misnomer, if there ever was one).    Most states are allowing their pot users to continue to drive; is this not an irresponsible act?   And for the CEO of an insurance company?   Should he not be aware of the problem he is at the root of?   Potheads driving endangers everyone on the road!   Do they care about the safety of those on the road?   Are they pushing for the states to reveal the information of what drivers are using?   Probably not . . . . , but they should be!
2. Their conduct was offensive and I believe it “legally” bordered on harrassment – with me.   I’d parked behind a car that had parked in front of my home.   There were 2 parking places in front of my home and the driver of the other vehicle had parked in the middle of both.   Being considerate of my wife and daughter, both due home – different cars, I parked close to him but was still partly into my drive way, so I got out looked to see how much room I had and pulled my work van close.   I got out and looked again and pulled even closer and repeated it again so that I was w/in a quarter inch or less of his car.  I’d left enough room for my wife to barely get into our driveway.   She did, and thanked me as she came in.   Just afterwards, she announced there was some guy she’d seen looking at the front of my van, coming up the drive; there was a knock on the door and at the same time the doorbell rang several times.   The guy at my door was irritated, to say the least.   I listened to him as he claimed I’d hit his car.   I’d not, but out of courtesy, I explained what I’d done, because of his rudeness in taking up both spaces.    He insisted I look at the damage he claimed I’d done – he showed me how the slight bend on my license plate lined up with the quarter inch (barely visible) scratch on his plastic bumper.   I agreed it (almost) did, but I asked him if he saw it was a bit above where the vehicles lined up; I therefore asked him if he’d gotten into his vehicle.   He verified he had.   I explained again, that I’d been very careful in pulling up as far as I could and that his car had contacted mine, (it’d been done when he got into his car – evidently, it’d rolled back enough) not the other way around, but that as I had no damage, I wasn’t concerned.   I wasn’t sure the young man wasn’t going to get violent, when I said that, but I went back inside.   Subsequently, I got call after call, after call from Progressive, his insurance company.   I explained to them what had happened and that because of the young man’s obstinance, I’d sent a letter to my insurance company and explained it to them and suggested they not pay for painting his car as he wanted.   The claims adjuster admitted he’d not seen the scratch (I explained to him that it was not visible to the naked eye w/o getting up close and personal) but he continued to call back and threaten me, . . . . offensively, and at the most inconvenient of times.   I had to tell them if they continued to call, I’d file a complaint with the FCC.    No one should have to deal with an insurance company that acts like that!

THE NANNY STATE

Ignoring the fact that corporations and businesses move from one state to another because of taxes, and that people   are beginning to do the same, some states still are raising taxes!  

Many state that the goal of the federal government, the Democrat party has been to create a need for a welfare state – more and more people are ending up on the dole rather than working for a living and people believe it was intentional.

Because of masses of people leaving, New York, Mass. California are all loosing capital, therefore the state’s revenue is plummeting.

Nancy Pelosi’s state, her city, lost Starkist Tuna because they moved their corporate headquarters to Pennsylvania from San Francisco, where they’d been for only a few years.

Now, Rush Limbaugh is adding his name to the long list of people leaving New York!

As President Obama puts caps on people’s salaries, what will happen is – his actions will drive businesses overseas and talented, knowledgeable employees will leave American Corporations who do not protect their salaries.   You could check out this site – except for it’s been removed – wonder why?   www.empirecenter.org/news_releases/2007/01/new_york_exodus.cfm – 45k –

Google: New York Exodus.

Halliburton recently moved to Dubai . . . .

Is this not an intended consequence?   Is not President Obama’s intent to destroy the American economy?   Is he a patriotic American or, . . . . is he part of the “Blame-America-First crowd”

Some still are saying that President Obama is not angry; it’s that he’s a Kenyan and not even an American!   (Certainly, the supposed proof he offered that he IS a citizen, is bogus and his lawyers have been fighting in court . . . . for what?   For something he could have easily proved – - - if it were the truth!)

“THE COMPANY STORE” – (aka) SLAVERY

“You load 16 tons and whaddya get?   Another day older and deeper in debt!   Saint Peter don’t you call me, ’cause I can’t go.   I owe my soul to the company store!”   So goes the Tennessee Ernie Ford song of the 1950’s . . . .   Or there’s the song about John Henry.   Like it or not, slavery is a part of our history and we can learn from it . . . . we need to learn from it!

Before we owe our soul to the company store, there’s a clear sign, leaving no doubt that the dollar is in trouble - cities have begun printing their own money!

Desperate moves to keep money circulating locally – calling it ‘coupons’ worth 100% . . . . or calling it script, . . . . it doesn’t make it any different than other failed scams.

To me, it reminds me of my step-father’s relatives – his uncle Matt, gave me a poster of his family’s plantation . . . . when I visited Magnolia.   The plantation, the 2nd largest in the U.S. at the time, sat on the Cane River in central Louisiana; along with that, I was given coin script which I still have today – interesting, but nothing more than a keepsake now.

Magnolia’s script, just like the other plantation’s ‘money’, could be spent, nowhere but “THE COMPANY STORE”!   The prices helped keep the plantation’s  slaves poor!

 

One of the nicer slave quarters . . . still standing today; the whole plantation is an historical site.

There are other indications the dollar is in trouble – besides the call from the recent G 20 conference.  

Identity theft is up 22% over last year.   That too, is another reason to move to a global currency?

The dollar has had to take intricate and costly steps to end / prevent counterfeiting, but I suggest that it’s about to take these cities by storm, causing overnight bankruptcies of more businesses and banks.   All this, preceeds and feeds the coming inflation. 

THANK YOU! U.S.S. BAINBRIDGE – CELEBRATE!

 Thank you U.S.S. Bainbridge; thank you Navy Seals; thank you, for the 350 Crew members; thank you, F.B.I. and any others involved!   Thank you General Petraeus!   And yes, . . . . Thank you President Obama!

As the Maersk is unloading its humanitarian aid, Captain Rich Phillips is free; the “pirates / terrorists” are dead – 3 of 4 are, and the 4th is wounded and in custody.

Hopefully, the living terrorist will be “interrogated” to find the weak links to attack the community of pirates residing openly in Somalia . . . . before he is hanged!   Lest we forget, this land is the home of terrorists – remember “Blackhawk Down”!   (And oh yes; thank you Hollywood for making the public aware.)

THE GOLIATH SYNDROME

 UPDATE:

Any sane neutral observer, would think us mad!   Our enemy is not only suicidal; they look forward to dying in their attempt to kill us!   This is not rational!  Neither side is!

We, . . . America, suffer from The Goliath Syndrome – we’ve seen ourselves as un-defeatable.

We were, maybe, . . . at one time.   Are we still?   No!

They, . . . . they are insane.   They’ve bought into the biggest lie ever perpetrated on mankind!

Like days of old, when a Philistine giant stood before his army and challenged the Israelis to send forth a warrior to fight, just like David’s warriors and brothers, America should be shaking in our boots as well.

It’s time to end our continuing to stumbling forward into/reacting to each circumstance, as we did, before both WTC attacks, . . . . as we’ve done with most attacks on us; we must re-evaluate where we stand.

We now face what President Bush called the “Axis of Evil”, but they’re growing in number and commitment – the Somalian pirates are not new, but they’re just growing exponentially as well; they’re out of control.

Because of our inaction, they too, see themselves as un-defeatable!   Not to focus on the pirates alone, only a solid costly strike against them and a naval blockade will stem the tide.

We and our declared enemies are both infected with “The Goliath Syndrome”?

A prescription for tragedy:

• When an enemy says he is going to destroy us, it’s best, at the very least, to pay attention.
• When a people are willing, even wanting to die to kill us, it’s best to pay attention.
• When this enemy is dealing with and allying themselves to our other enemies, it’s best to pay attention.
• When they are on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons, . . . . .

All 4 of these scenarios present themselves to us now.   What to do, is the question!  With inaction, it only grows worse.   All this, at a time when many claim we approach the long-predicted Armageddon!

It would be more than foolish, to plod ahead w/o re-evaluating.

One may dismiss Christianity and Judaism, yet not one prediction has failed.

On top of that, the consensus of biblical scholars regarding the timing is that Armageddon will occur w/in the generation of the “rebirth” of Israel – which was May 14th, 1948.   If 70 years is a generation, from 1948, would leave the world less than a decade.

History has shown us what happens when an appeaser leads a nation.

All that aside, there are also the pre-Armageddon predictions, earthquakes increasing in intensity and frequency and in diverse places, famines, diseases, etc, . . . . .

Either way,

WHEN ONE SLINGS ROCKS AT GOLIATH,

     . . . . . ONE HAD BEST HAVE, DAVID’S CONNECTIONS!

ASK YOURSELF WHY!

The government doesn’t want the money back . . . .

The same people that allowed deregulation (Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac / AIG / etc.) to cause this crisis, the same people that looted our social security, the same people that spend tax-money to get themselves re-elected (called pork and earmarks) – in other words, thieves, scumbags, corrupt legislators, . . . they don’t want the banks to pay the money back because . . . .

A famous bank robber was asked why he robbed banks . . . .   His answer to that question should be the same as the answer to the above question!

That’s where they keep the money and they want control!

Capitalism is the engine that drove the machine called FREEDOM.

THESE SCUMBAGS PLAN TO TAKE THAT AWAY!

The problem is, most of the people just don’t get it – mainly because they don’t take the time to.

President Obama eats $100/pound steak, flies in a chef from St. Louis for pizza, . . . . 

McCAIN and the MEDIA – both failures!

Senator McCain is an American hero but not unlike many Americans, somehow he’s gone through life w/o ever learning who it is he could have called on.

He resents Christians.   Though the press has done such a successful hatchet job on Sarah Palin, . . . . Sarah was the only reason McCain came close to winning.  

I was distrustful of the media before; now, I’m actually glad some of these unethical and socialist writers will be in the unemployment lines!  

Time to re-train boys!   :  )  

President Obama’s non-Hippocratic administration

“First, do no harm.”

It’s the precept taught in medical school . . . .   The origin of the phrase is uncertain, but it’s part of the Hippocratic Oath and it includes the promise “to abstain from doing harm”

He, President Obama, would force a doctor, or nurse to participate in an abortion . . . . are we in NAZI Germany?

President Obama doesn’t get it, or does he want to drive doctors and nurses out of America, out of the profession; whatever the motivation, it is amoral!

There is no excuse for this one!

Pardon my language, but screw President Obama and every legislator who votes for or supports this . . . .

MY COMMENT TO THE LEFTISTS

Require  Lesbians to wear Burkas!

POT AND (congressman) RON PAUL

 

UPDATE: 

When Canadians legalized growing hemp, they’d been convinced there was a market for it.   Pot legalizers had told them so.  

The truth is though, that tons and tons of it laid rotting in warehouses and Canadian farmers lost their shirts.   The farmers had been lied to about the market.   Legalizers didn’t care.   Their goal, after all, is only to get pot accepted in all possible aspects.

Now, idiot congressman, Ron Paul, from Texas (who’da thought!), has sponsored a bill allowing the same thing here in America – H.R. 1866.

I guess he thinks American farmers now need jobs competing with 3rd world nations’ pay scale?   What is it now?   All of $0.12/day?   

Well, that way, Ron, . . . . Mr. all-knowing congressman, . . . at least they won’t owe any income tax!   Then you and your other corrupt politicians can bail them out too!

Oh; also, . . . the biggest and only hemp processor in the U.K. – HEMCORE – is in bankrupcy as well.   (So much for the lucrative Hemp Industry!)   Thanks again, congressman, . . . . for nuthin!!!!! 

What creative ideas you have Mr. Paul . . . . . and such big teeth . . . . . but why are you wearing that red cape and hood?  

Maybe siding with those who would destroy America, are you?   Been using your own Doctor-issued pharmaceuticals?

A SOMALIAN CHALLENGE? (right back atcha)

UPDATE:  scroll down

So what did those pirates expect?

A sailor, any man at all, . . . or how about a corporation, or a nation to not  resist?

I guess they think we’re to roll over and give them anything they want?   Our wealth . . . . our homes, our cars, our women?   You sure these guys aren’t A.C.O.R.N. employees?   Sounds like it to me!

Where does this mindset come from?   These cowards won’t stand toe-to-toe with a Navy Seal . . . .  

They will hide behind a hostage though . . . .   Too bad they couldn’t have captured a woman; they’d have felt so much safer.

Would it work the way they want, if we had been the robbers?   Would they fork over all their belongs and feel good about it if the tables were turned?

Obviously, their myopic perspective comes from their inept diet – it’s either something in the water or they’re mistaking camel dung for char-broilled vegetables . . . . or their prized camel testicals.

And now these warlords dare to threaten the United States?   Personally, I want to say “have at it guys” . . . . but with President Obama, why is it I don’t expect retaliation? 

Come on guys, you can even come over to my house and see what you can get.   You see, here in the United States, we’re used to dealing with irrational thugs!   We settled all that back in the 1800’s  – - – kinda where you’re at right now, isn’t it?  

Keep it up; you’ll end up with a cell-mate called Bubba who thinks you’re lookin’ mighty fine!

All you criminals are doing, is forcing us to up the ante – - -   Sure; we’ll put guns and electric fences, even Blackwater, or Navy Seals on our ships and welcome you to approach with malevolent intent . . .

We’re tired of those who don’t want freedom!   You like living under these warlords?   It’s them you should be challenging. 

Don’t look now, but we have domestic terrorists; we’re use to them here!     . . . . like the mafia, like Janet Reno and Eric Holder (re: Waco and Elian) . . . or try being a student with a Catholic nun as your teacher . . . . better yet, try living with the IRS! 

We have a couple of real solutions for you though . . . . first, become civilized; then, learn to live with, respect, and love your fellow man, next, go get a job and go to work every day for years and support your family . . . or start your own business and find out what work really is!

If that doesn’t work for you, why don’t you and your thugs begin wearing Burkas?    That just might get you feeling the part of living in an 8 x8 cell w/ a 350 pound muscular guy named Bubba!

Update:  a philanthropist, in Las Vegas, has offered to fly the crew of the Maersk Alabama to Vegas and one of the strip motels has offered them places to stay . . . .   Another man wants the Navy to put up the lifeboat to bid on – for display?  Isn’t America great?   I love it!

THE DRUG WAR // A NEW AND SURPRISING OVERVIEW

UPDATE:

Have you noticed?   Druggies are pushing even harder for an end to the Drug War than previously.   You’ll be hearing this more and more of this in the next few weeks.   Wonder why?

George Soros’ funding of the legalization of drugs (along with John Sperling and Peter Lewis) as well as the President’s campaign, and Soros’ wanting to control illegal drug market (he stated so in his book “Soros on Soros“), all the legalizers, . . . . they’re busy scrambling, behind the scenes.  

Not known for their honesty, they continue to claim the U. S. is loosing the War on Drugs; exactly, while exactly the opposite is the case.   One wouldn’t know it from the majority of the media, though.

Fifteen years ago, the criminal Medellin Cartel had mushroomed, soaring to incredible heights – impacting, almost destroying Columbia’s society – the government, the people were under full attack!

• Half the judges were murdered;
• airliners were under intense security as one was blown out of the sky;
• skyscrapers were bombed,
• media reporters, personalities, and editors were kidnapped and executed,
• the Supreme Court was torched
• intelligence agencies were bombed,
• presidential candidates disappeared in the night, most later found executed!
• 6,000,000 people fled the country; the nation was crumbling . . . . that is, until the United States came to their aid.  
• The drug lords were so powerful, they thought they were untouchable.  

I understand . . . you didn’t hear this in the mainstream media, but . . .

Many say it’s similar to what Mexico is going through now.

Now, Columbia has one of the most  free and vibrant economies, in the western hemisphere!

And as a result, . . . . now that the new supply-side network has moved - they had to.  

Now, they’re under attack in (Mexico and Peru).

. . . and the legalizers see that their sources of drugs . . . . now that they’ve had to move to a newer territory, could be in jeopardy, eventually drying up, at least until they ‘relocate’ again..

So, they’re out hitting their media lackeys up again - the intent is to push the old stories of how the Drug War is being lost.  

Though drug use is actually down, in the U.S., even with a larger population, they are scrambling.

Lies said often enough are often believed; that’s what they’re working for.

Columbia’s drug lords, each once with armies of nearly 2,000 men, are not only in hiding, on the run, and paying fortunes for plastic surgery, they’re being arrested and extradited to serve time in the U.S.   One, was even on the Forbes billionaire’s list of richest people in the world!

When Mexican President Calderon unleashed the Mexican army against the cartels beginning inl 2007, the death toll has climbed to more than 10,000, shocking Mexican society.   While he proposed legislation that would offer pot smokers treatment instead of jail, they’ve stopped short of calling for legalization or decriminalization as the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party did – actually, they have now called for the decriminalization of ALL drugs – the same as legalizers here in the U.S.  (they just don’t publicize it – except to each other in their pro-drug  comminuques.

With military and financial assistance to Mexico, from our new president increasing, the threat problems with NAFTA or re-instituting tariffs, . . . . the public being concerned about the violence spilling over the borders, and shutting the borders down – to make the U.S. more secure, they saw the need to act.

All this, therefore, has the legalizers calling in all their markers and pleading for the media to again tell the public how this war is failing and needs to end!

Oh; the drug war will never be won, but the threats of incarceration . . . . the fewer hiding places . . . .   Those who see the writing on the wall, are getting out - investing in legitimate businesses, just like the mafia did in the U.S.; they’re making way for those who’re willing to take gun-in-hand to make their fortunes.

Interesting times in which we live!   President Obama, under pressure to allow more people to flood into the U.S., from Mexico, (guaranteed Democratic voters), and meanwhile terrorist attempting to slip in w/o detection; . . . . they will have to make a decision soon . . . . which way to go . . . . which way to go?  

What a problem these politicians have!

I often wonder who writes Representative Ron Paul’s press releases or puts this crap in his head; surely he cannot be that stupid!   I mean . . . he’s a doctor for XXX’s sake.   Ron’s other ideas aren’t, but . . . . here on the drug war front, he leaves no doubt!  

 

Rep. Ron Paul declares that the federal war on drugs is a failure and legalizing marijuana would reduce the prison population and in effect the crime rate.

“I think we should look at the federal drug war, and I would say the federal drug war has failed so we should reject it,” the Texas Republican, who ran for president last year, told CNN.

“When I talk about changing the law, I want to go back to a constitutional approach to a problem like this, and that is through the states.

“Up until 1937 there wasn’t even a law against marijuana, and at that time they just passed a law to tax it. So we’ve had an experience in this country where we didn’t have all these laws, but it was regulated by the states.

“Alcohol is legalized by the federal government but it’s regulated by state laws.”

Paul said he is particularly disturbed by the federal government’s efforts to override state laws allowing some people to legally obtain medicinal marijuana, as has happened in California.

“They’ll pass a law that says that sick people can use it. So people who are dying with AIDS or cancer are getting benefit from marijuana. Then the federal government comes in and says we don’t care about the state law, and they just override it and put people into prison for this.

“We have over 500,000 people that never committed a violent crime in prison for drug use, and there are mandatory jail sentences under these conditions.

“This makes no sense. It’s so expensive, and it hasn’t achieved anything.”

Paul included other drugs in the discussion when he said: “We’re creating a monstrous legal problem costing hundreds of billions of dollars and putting people in prison who should be treated as sick people. They shouldn’t be treated as criminals.

“The problems we have is because the price for these drugs is about a thousand times greater than it would be” if they were legal and regulated.

“We’ve created most of the problems for ourselves,” he added, “and these drug wars are a consequence of our policies.”

 

BANKS PROFITING NOW? DON’T BE FOOLED!

Watch out for new scams – it’s the era of Madoff and the Democratic congress – beware; the dollar is still in decline.

Due to a rule change, two years ago (which would have been under President Bush),  banks (with bailout monies are now allowed to buy their debt back – at a discount), yet the ‘rules’ allow them to (somehow) write it off as a profit.

At this stage, the above is a rumor; I’ve heard it discussed but not been able to verify it . . . . as yet.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S GUN AGENDA REVEALED!

 

The Obama administration is “fudging” . . . . or so, the Washington Times, April 14th editorial put it.

What ”fudging” is, really, . . . . it’s an acceptable (politically correct) way of saying “lying”.

I call it . . . . “attempting to subvert the United States’ Constitution”!   In light of the recent DHS statement warning about returning veterans, it all begins to come clear, what the agenda is – seems to be . . . just as those who warned about it, said, months ago.

Therefore, . . . . whatever you want to call it, I consider it treasonous!

What though is the motivation?   All along, gun nuts have said that Obama’s agenda is to do away with guns.   This seems to confirm that; if you have another explanation, offer it up quickly!

I’ve added only formatting – underlining, colored text, substituting symbols and acronyms for space concerns, as well as italics.   Here, below, are the Wash. Times’ actual words:

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Obama’s bogus gun statistics

Mexican crime is not America’s fault

By | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Washington Times

“The Obama administration is fudging when it claims 90 percent of guns used in crimes in Mexico come ftom the United States.  

The bogus statistics are being used as an excust to push gun control.

The Obama White House and the Mexican government are in agreement that Americans’ rights to purchase firearms should be curtailed.  Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, ahead of President Obama’s trip this week to Mexico, Mexican Ambassador, Arturo Sarukhan stated that “Reinstuting the [assault weapons ban] could have a profound impact on the number and the caliber of the weapons going down to Mexico.”

The ambassador used the 90 % number to justify new gun bans in the United States.   Mr. Obama, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have all made policy recommendations based on this claim.

The gun controllers have to use phony statistics because the truth does not support their agenda.  According to William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott of Fox News, “only 17 % of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.”

On Friday, National Public Radio asked the attorney general about the Fox News analysis.   Mr. Holder sidestepped the facts with more misleading data.   “It almost doesn’t matter if it’s 60 %, 70%, or 90%,” Mr. Holder claimed.   “The reality is that too many guns are flowing fron the United States into Mexico.”

Like all good yarns, this one has a thread of truth that is being overspun.   According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 90% of “traced” guns come from the United States.   The two governments cooperate on gun-tracing, and when Mexico seizes guns from criminals, it sends home those it ascertains to be from the U.S.   It is easy to identify U.S. guns because they carry serial numbers and “Made in USA” stamps.

The reality is that most guns that turn up in Mexico are not from the United States, do not have U.S. markings, and therefore, are not sent across the border to U.S. officials.

The 90% figure reflects the number Mexico sends to the United States for tracing that turn out to be from the United States – not a percentage of the total number of all weapons seized in Mexico.   Matt Allen, special agent of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told Fox News that “the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market.”   The vast number of seized weapons from other places is not counted.

 Numerous sources of weapons supply Mexican crime syndicates.   Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar filled with AK-47s from China, shoulder-fired rockets from Soviet-bloc manufacturers and fragmentation grenades from South Korea.   In the past six years, more than 150,000 Mexican soldiers have deserted from the army, with many taking their standard-issue Belgian-made M-16s with them.   Drug runners, who by trade are adept at smuggling, have the ability to sneak weapons across borders from anywhere they want.

The Obama administration has proposed spending $400 million to stop U.S. guns from going to Mexico.   A major part of this plan would be to clamp down on gun shops in America.   As with all gun control, new laws will not stop the criminals from getting guns but will curtail the rights of law-abiding individuals and businesses.”

IRAN TO USE LATIN AMERICA TO ATTACK US and ISRAEL‏

Just two days after US President Barack Hussein Obama shared 3 controversial and landmark handshakes with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has released a study analyzing the flowering alliance between the increasingly anti-Western Latin America and the virulently anti-Israel Iran.

The study was conducted at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), a non-governmental organization dedicated to Israeli intelligence and terrorism issues.

According to the study, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using anti-Western Hugo Chavez as a springboard into several Latin American countries, such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, where he intends to establish a religious, terrorist, political and economic foothold in South America.  Iran has already made major inroads in its relationship with Venezuela and Bolivia, largely based on shared anti-American sentiments.

Last time Chavez attended the U.S. he called President Bush the devil and stated how the podium still smelled of sulpher, as he made the Catholic sign of the cross and listed offences of the United States; this year, with evidently a change of heart toward the U.S.

Could the change be due to their bond of Socialism . . . . the distancing of American policy towards Israel, or their common hate of America?   Chavez’ hate of America is well known for blaming 9/11 on the U.S. Imperialist Foreign Policy.

Iran will utilize this developing relationship to challenge the United States, parts of Asia, and Africa, said the study.

The Islamic Republic will also leverage petrodollars and Muslim operatives positioned throughout key Latin American countries to implement a radical anti-Western agenda, fight America’s anti-nuclear policy, and to slash international economic sanctions according to the IICC. 

In addition, the report warns that Iran may launch anti-American and anti-Israel terror attacks through intelligence and terror networks in South American countries.

Ahmadinejad, who hosted a “World Without Zionism” conference in 2005, promoting his goal to “wipe Israel off the map”, has already succeeded in wounding Israeli diplomatic relations in the region, with Israel’s diplomatic core being forced out of Chavez’s Venezuela and Bolivia during the anti-terror Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. 

Khomeini-inspired Shi’ite Islamic and Iranian revolutionary propaganda is being exported by Iran into non-Muslim and Muslim communities in Latin America, in large part through its terror proxy, Hizbullah, which is raising funds for operation by uniting with South American drug and crime cartels.

The IICC report cites several U.S. intelligence and military officials expressing concern over rising Iranian activity in Latin America, and increasing numbers of converts in the region to Islam.

Chavez and Obama exchanged a warm greeting on Friday, and again on Saturday, at which time Chavez presented Obama with a book on American and European imperialism in South America – Eduardo Galeano’s “Open Veins of Latin America”; of course, the leftist / progressive / Huffington Post, celebrated all this.

Chavez, who said being in Iran’s capital city of Tehran made him feel “like arriving at one’s own home”, told reporters he shared a good moment with Obama, who he called “intelligent.”  The Venezuelan dictator once referred to former US President George W. Bush as “the devil” at a meeting of the United Nations.

Venezuela and Israel enjoyed a strong relationship in the past, with Venezuela voting in favor of Jewish statehood at the United Nations on November 27, 1947.

DEAD ZONES – NEW STUDIES REVEAL LIES . . . again!

Depending upon who funded them or the politics of those who wrote the studies, you can find the truth, but you will often find the truth after the bogus politics of the studies, buried, sitting way down at the end . . . .   

(Why they’re even there is probably to protect the scientists reputation after the truth becomes more acceptable; the Global Warming lobby is powerful!)  

Of course totally discounting any effects of weather change playing into this phenomonen might be an over-reaction, there are changes in the global systems that may contribute.

Noticing that the dead zones often occur near where rivers enter the ocean, . . . . where they’re carrying nutrient-rich runoffs – fertilizers, and pesticides (not to mention a number of other pharmaceuticals) onto the floors of the bays and ocean, ought to have been a dead-giveway to any observer that the profit motive is impacting other industries and life itself.   

Local conditions and the relevance of the rivers and seasonal currents has lead many a fisherman to doubt the science and the blaming all upon the concept of Global Warming.

Also revealing is, there have been unintentionally successful recoveries of some dead zones around the world (as in the Black Sea), (especially in areas where these chemicals had become too costly for locals to use) – the formerly nitrogen-rich having dropped 37%, local fisheries are again producing fish and crab.

These fertilizers and pesticides have not only been found to cause death, the sea life’s reproduction, of those who’ve  survived has been found to have been impacted negatively, as well; obviously, it’s not an easy task to find a simple solution, which is what the media seeks.

My comments:  I’m not totally discounting Global Warming; what I am saying, is that often the truth will be buried near the end of the studies and it’s worthwhile to read the last sections first!   I’m not putting the studies here but encourage you to search them out yourselves – especially reading the ends of these studies first.

Once again mankind, especially the scientific mindset, assumes too much and understands the interconnectedness of all global systems, too little!

MISS AMERICA vs GAYS?

 

UPDATE:  Classy lady vs the angry, bigoted Drama Queen.

Mr. Keith Lewis is the responsible party!   He should be replaced!   He chose the Drama Queen, Perez,  to be one of the 12  judges.   Perez says Carrie should have left his politics out of it?    Oh; like he did?   What a crass jerk!

Answer a question for me . . . .   Who is this Bozo and why would Perez Hilton, this vile-mouthed, openly gay gossip queen, be judging the Miss America Pagent?

Have you seen his offensive, name-calling rant?   Who made him a judge?   Obviously, his agenda was the ONLY reason for him to be there!   His so-called “blog” is a one-issue, celebrity filled worthless rant!   http://perezhilton.com/page/2/

He needs to go back into the closet and do whatever he does while he’s in there!  

And the Miss America contest . . . . who bothers to watch things like this?   It’s still (as from the beginning) exploiting women; it’s in the dumpster now, and should stay there!   Admittedly, Carrie is pretty, but . . . . did she grow up as most of these beautiful little girls do – pushed along by their neurotic mothers – like Jon Benet Ramsey’s?   Did she only winn ‘runner-up’  because of her honest and traditional beliefs?    Years ago, that would have been a plus; now it’s . . . . well; you judge – look at:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517281,00.html

Understood, it’s . . . . a tool of the liberal agenda to promote every radical cause, but is there any worthyness to it?   Was there ever anything worthwhile?    What it does do is gives an opportunity to get a high-profile job – a pretty face and body to attract viewers if she’s a reporter, or anchor, or a stalker if she becomes a movie star.

It promotes beauty; a God-given trait.   It’s not like they worked to get “beauty; these girls entered this, received their beauty, because of their parents genes and learned what?   How to walk and talk and show off their bodies?   It’s all been exposed as bogus by the Bozo with his foul mouth – nothing new from the angry Fa@s!   

I’m actually very aware of how sick these perverts can be.   Locally, they attempted to ruin the lives and threatened to kill the family (children included) of a friend of mine when he took a stand against a bad law with horrible unintended consequences, they were promoting.   A few months later, I exposed one of their leaders attempt to make one of their own followers a martyr.    . . . . nice folks?   Take another guess!

BK – The PEDOPHILE King

Offensive ads?    There’s more than one problem with this one!

Where kids rule the house and demand which fast food they want (because of the toys offered), subserviant parents just don’t get it.   You know, . . . . the homes where the words propriety or decorum are not in their vocabularies?

Burger King – the fast food place with the wierd, plastic-fantastic-”king”, the one that, to me, looks like an ever-smiling pedophile . . . . or the boy-scout leader you don’t quite feel good about leaving your boys with?

There’s something that’s  just not right about this guy!   His hair is a little too curly . . . . it doesn’t go with the beard!  

So this wierdo gets his hair permed?   Plus, he’s pointing at someone else, as if to say ‘I didn’t do it!”   And, what’s that he’s wearing?   Fur?   It looks like feathers!   I don’t think I want to know!

It’s the “clown syndrome” – the . . . you don’t know who it is behind that mask but there’s some obscure reason that person cannot present himself as who he really is – kind of like the ad for “etrade” – the little kid in the high chair has it right when he says there’s a “creepy factor” to “Bobo the clown” – same goes for “the King”.

They have an ad now, where the prevalent, repeated words in the rap song are butts and booty!   And in the ad, they’re “MEASURING” women’s posteriors!

This is an ad suppose to attract kids?  

Just the words and non-music we want to hear little kids parroting, right?   NOT in my trailer park!  

Where’s the outrage from the anti-misogyny crowd?   No where in sight when it has to do with corrupting youth.

Previously, I actually chose to eat at Burger King when I had to eat on the run, or rather “did” . . . . ; from now on, it’ll be somewhere else!   Maybe Wendys . . . . there are no In-and-Out-Burgers in Oregon . . . . and their name?   . . . . at least,  it’s not meant to attract kids.