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.