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These posts will reflect my personal opinions, and views, of the world in which we live from, of course, the viewpoint of a conservative "Southern American".Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comBlogger3803125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-46134361738835876192014-01-01T17:16:00.003-05:002014-01-01T17:43:33.499-05:00J. D. Longstreet's Latest Commentary<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Please go to: <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;">"OMEGA OPTION"</span></span> at: </span><a href="http://www.omegaoption.blogspot.com/">http://www.omegaoption.blogspot.com/</a> f<span style="color: red;">or J. D. Longstreet's latest commentary.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">J. D. Longstreet</span></b>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-39826668236777614222014-01-01T01:19:00.002-05:002014-01-01T01:19:52.710-05:00Democratic Party Panic ... Alan Caruba<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On
December 28th, the Democratic National Committee sent an email to “Obama for
America” supporters. The subject line was “Impeachment.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“What do
these people have in common?” asked the text as it quoted Republican James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, Rep. Michele Bachman of Minnesota, Rep. Kerry Bentivivolio
of Michigan, and Rep. Blake Farenhold of Texas, all of whom discussed the
possibility of impeaching Obama, citing instances of official misconduct. The
DNC said, “Republicans are actually excited about the idea.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ten days
earlier, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, had sent an email
to supporters updating them on the party’s strategy to win elections in 2014.
“What you need is good strategy, smart people, and ideas you’re proud to stand
behind…” The one thing missing from the email was the mention of a single idea.
No mention of Obamacare, amnesty, or any other Democratic policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When I
visited <a href="http://democrats.org/">Democrats.org</a> on December 29, the website was telling members that
“The economy could face a credit downgrade if Republicans continue to threaten
to default on our loans.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No mention of
the first such downgrade in the history of the nation which occurred during
Obama’s first term and was a response to the nearly six trillion dollars he had
added to the nation’s debt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Under the
headline “Dirtier”, the DNC claimed that “All the gains we’ve made for our
environment, like two million acres of preserved land and rivers will be on the
line.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right, Republicans want
dirtier air and water, and the way to protect the nation is to ensure that
millions of acres cannot be used by Americans, especially if there is lots of
coal or oil is under those acres. According to Wikipedia, “</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As of
March 2012, out of the 2.27 billion acres in the country, about 28% of the
total was owned by American citizens represented by the National Federal
government according to the Interior Department.<u><sup><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">” </span></span></sup></u></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That’s
right, more than a quarter of all the landmass of the nation is owned by the
federal government. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
headline “Less Fair” was followed by “Our voter protection efforts and
workplace equality work will be undone” but it is Democrats who oppose any
state effort to pass laws that require proof of citizenship or even residency.
And, under “Less Healthy” it accused all who want to “’Repeal Obamacare’. Need
we say more?” Apparently a law that deprives you of your personal physician and
imposes higher costs on government-approved healthcare insurance plans is a
good thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not only
are we witnessing a full scale panic in the Democratic National Committee, we
can read just how devoid of any truth and any sense any of their policies are.
If a few Republicans in Congress had a passing comment on impeaching President
Obama, it comes as no surprise whatever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In late
December, Forbes magazine published an article by Ira Shapiro, a senior fellow
in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato
Supreme Court Review. The title was “President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional
Violations of 2013.” Shapiro didn’t even have to go back any further to include
others during his first term.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Among
those cited was Obama’s delay of out-of-pocket caps, a change that requires
actual legislation. Similarly, the delay of Obamacare’s employer mandate was
cited because, if Obamacare is the “law of the land”, such changes require
action by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Congress</i>. Several other
changes to Obamacare by the President were cited for the same reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Political
profiling by the IRS was cited such as an internal BOLO, “Be on the lookout”.
for organizations engaged in political activities, citing “Tea Party”,
“Patriots” and “Israel” as words to identify them. The targeting continued
through May 2013 until it was exposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can
read Shapiro’s article <u><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/12/23/president-obamas-top-10-constitutional-violations-of-2013/">here</a>.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
Republicans and independents know and Democrats do not want to acknowledge is
that Obamacare is, to use its most frequent description, “a disaster.” Many
suspect that Obama was and is ineligible to be President. The birth certificate
put forward by the White House has been declared a forgery. His Social Security
number is suspect. It is common knowledge that his college records are all
sealed even though he may have applied for admission as a “foreign student.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So, yes,
the Democratic National Committee has a lot to hide about the President and its
support for legislation and regulations based on “climate change” and other
liberal notions that lack the knowledge of science and warp its practice. It
continues to advocate spending billions, if not trillions, the U.S. does not
have. And, finally, the President’s foreign policies—not mentioned in its
emails or on its website—have been a dismal failure, making the world more
dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Democratic Party has one thing going for it---the mainstream media. In the
Sunday before the New Year, the New York Times published a 7,000-word article
claiming that the attack on the Benghazi consulate where our ambassador and
three others were killed was not related to al Qaeda. In the words of former
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, “What difference does it make?” Answer: A
lot. This “newspaper” is the U.S. equivalent of Pravda during the days of
Stalin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
November, Americans have the opportunity to remove Democratic Senators and
Representatives who voted for Obamacare and replace them with candidates who
believe the Constitution means what it says. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">© Alan
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Predictions for 2014 = 2013²</b></span><br /><b>A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XNOOTp9BDrU/UsNg7ib8xUI/AAAAAAAAh-Q/zoe_A_QO9QA/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+facing+left+smiling.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XNOOTp9BDrU/UsNg7ib8xUI/AAAAAAAAh-Q/zoe_A_QO9QA/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+facing+left+smiling.jpg" width="139" /></a>Pundits, so I am told, on or about, December 31st, are expected to make predictions for the coming year. <br />
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Normally, I don't do this, preferring to make all sort of wild
predictions throughout the year, most of which turn out to totally
wrong. The good thing about being a pundit is the reader's very bad and
extremely short memory! It has saved my derriere any number of times. <br />
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Howsoever, never let it be said I did not do my part to muddy the future waters of the new year 2014.<br />
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So -- here goes:<br />
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<b>If you liked 2013 you're gonna LOVE 2014! </b><br />
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This <b><i>IS </i></b>an election year. <i>(I'm so old I can remember when we actually had some space between elections! These days the pols just campaign non-stop!)</i> We have the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Conservatives <i>(Yeah,
I deliberately carved conservatives out of the GOP. Wishful thinking
on my part. See, I'd like to see conservatives with their own political
party. As I said -- wishful thinking.)</i> all vying for leadership positions that, for the most part, <b><i>NONE of them is equipped to handle. </i></b><br />
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In 2014, I see the Obama Administration doing a pretty good imitation of the Hindenburg, (<i>Oh! The humanity ... ! Remember? <b>OK, so Google it!</b>)</i>
as it continues to crash and burn. Ratlines are already being
established for "antsy" members of the administration ready to beat a
hasty retreat out of Foggy Bottom and lose themselves amongst the
proletariat, at least for a few years -- til the furor blows over.<br />
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<b>Obamacare has turned out to be the suicide pact for the democrats we warned it would be. </b> T<b><i>he
pay-off for those of us who fought Obamacare tooth and nail will come
in November with the pending purge of the Congress of the current brood
of vipers now in residence, hopefully ending the polymorphous perversity
of that particular band of brigands. </i></b> <b><u>I hope!</u></b><br />
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Obama will tell more lies. <b><i>(I don't think that needs any elucidation... do you?) </i></b><br />
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US troops will continue to leave Afghanistan leaving only a token force
to secure Mr. Karzai's head in it's current position atop his
shoulders. <b><i>However, the Taliban has laid claim to the other end of his anatomy and may yet collect their prize!</i></b><br />
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There will be no peace between the Israeli's and the so-called Palestinians.<b><i> (Actually, I cheated on this one. I read the Bible.) </i></b><br />
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Iran will continue to manufacture the ingredients for a nuclear bomb,
some call the Islam Bomb. They will continue to smile -- and lie
through their teeth -- and string Obama along like the simpleton they
believe him to-be.<br />
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Resistance to Syria's Assad will slowly diminish as Assad runs out of fellow Syrians to kill. <br />
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The US will become entangled in a militaristic adventure in Africa, which we will not win. <b><i> It would be <u>politically incorrect</u> for America to win a war with a black opponent.</i></b><br />
Back here at the asylum, er, at home, Obama will pull out all the stops
to get amnesty through Congress and into law to grab as many Latino
voters as possible in an effort to save the collective rear ends of his
Democratic Party cohorts and set the stage for Hillary's run for the
Presidency in 2016. <br />
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Hillary will deny she's running, of course. But then: <b><i>"What difference does it make now"</i></b> <i>(Sorry 'bout that ... couldn't resist.)</i> <br />
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America's paternalistic elite ruling class will continue to lead the
nation into a virtual police state form of society and government. The
constitution will be proclaimed null and void.<br />
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The <b>Marxocrats</b> in the West Wing will continue their endeavor to
fundamentally transform America into that socialist/communist dung heap
we have warned of for so long, while those of us in the conservative
commentariat continue to call them on it at every opportunity. <br />
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Congress will vote to give California to China as partial payment of all
the loans we owe them. Expect China to refuse -- unless we agree to
keep Governor "Moonbeam." <br />
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I could go one, but, frankly, it's too depressing. <br />
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It is already shaping up to be another lousy year in the land of the formerly free.<br />
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<b><i>Happy New Year!</i></b><br />
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J. D. Longstreet<br />
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Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-61328627354888454882013-12-31T01:14:00.001-05:002013-12-31T01:14:41.516-05:00Obama: The Law Giver ... J. D. Longstreet<b>Obama: The Law Giver<br />Obama Giveth -- and -- Obama Taketh Away<br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet<br />*****************<br /> </b><br />
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All
this time I have been laboring under the false impression that the
Congress was constitutionally assigned the duty of making and changing
(amending) law(s) for the country. <br />
<br />
Silly me! I am SO embarrassed! Just shows how dumb a poor ole swamp rat like yours truly can actually be, I suppose.<br />
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Anyway,
Mr. Obama has set me straight on that. He has shown me that HE has the
power to make law, and change law, and enforce law or -- choose NOT to
enforce law -- as HE chooses. <br />
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Why, Mr. Obama has changed the
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) some 19 or 20 times now (For more on
Obama's changes to Obamacare visit politifact.com at: <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/25/tom-graves/rep-graves-says-obama-has-changed-aca-19-times/">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/25/tom-graves/rep-graves-says-obama-has-changed-aca-19-times/</a> ) all without any aid from the national legislature -- the Congress. <br />
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All
things considered, one must ask WHY we even have a Congress? Couldn't
we save major bucks by just dissolving the Congress and have done with
it? I mean, heck, <i><b>we've got Obama -- The Law Giver as our President! What need have we of a Congress? </b></i><br />
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With Obama it is all give and take. <b><i>He gives -- AND -- he takes.</i></b>
The man refuses to acknowledge his limitations under the constitution.
He just ignores it in part or in whole -- as the notion strikes him. <br />
<br />
This is not just wrong, gentle reader, this is<b><i> ILLEGAL.</i></b><br />
<br />
Playing
fast and loose with the US Constitution, under normal circumstances,
would get one placed UNDER the jailhouse! No longer.<br />
<br />
But these are not normal times. We live now in a <b><i>"post constitution era"</i></b>
in America. We find ourselves in the short-lived period between freedom
and slavery. Once a nation begins a slide into slavery the pace
quickens and doesn't take very long to find an entire people clasped in
the bonds of involuntary servitude. <br />
<br />
I find it ironic that Obama,
a black man, is so intent on leading his people, white and black, into
tyranny induced slavery in America. <b><i>There's something just plain vulgar about that.</i></b><br />
<br />
The
Obama administration is proving to be more corrupt that the Grant, the
Harding, or the Nixon administrations. I was not around for the first
two, but I lived every minute of the Nixon administration and I can
tell you <b><i>the American people never sensed a threat to their freedom from Nixon as they do from Obama.</i></b><br />
<br />
When
Nixon's party, the Republican Party, realized the enormity of his
misdeeds, they quickly formed a committee and paid Nixon a visit and
read him the riot act. They told him, flat out, that he was going to be
impeached and the Congress WOULD find him guilty and he WOULD be
removed from office in disgrace, unless, he resigned -- and resigned
immediately. Nixon resigned and managed by doing so to save SOME face
and enough dignity to gracefully exit the White House while staff and a
few members of his administration stood clustered near the helicopter LZ
looking on in tears.<br />
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It was a trying time for the republic, but
we survived and the constitution proved, once again, its value and worth
as a foundation document and the protector of freedom. <br />
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On December 31st, 2012, the non-partisan Judicial Watch released its annual<b> "Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington List."</b> <b>On
that list were: President Obama and key members of his Democrat
cabinet like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, disgraced Attorney
General Eric Holder, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen
Sebelius, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
They were among the top ten names on the list.</b> That was last year. <b><i>We can hardly wait for this years list to be released. </i></b>Judicial
Watch is a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption. You may see the entire list at:<a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2012/">
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-list-of-washingtons-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2012/</a><br />
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Let's
see. Right now, Americans are attempting to deal with a host of Obama
administration scandals: The NSA scandal, the IRS Scandal, the Navy
Seal scandal, the Benghazi scandal, and the Fast and Furious Scandal. <br />
<br />
<b>Then there is Obamacare. </b><br />
<br />
Obama
and his minions have trashed the constitution. Mr. Obama claims to be a
constitutional scholar, indeed, taught constitutional law in college. <b><i>Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years!</i></b> Seems to me that with that sort of background <b><u><i>he should know better!</i></u></b><br />
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In an article at Front Page Magazine, Arnold Ahlert says the following: <b><i>"Perhaps
the most contemptible effort in that regard is President Obama’s
transparently unconstitutional effort to suspend various parts of the
Affordable Healthcare Act. How Americans feel about that piece of
legislation is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that Congress passed the
law, including the part that calls for its implementation beginning on
Jan. 1, 2014, and the president signed it. There is no Constitutional
way the president can simply choose to ignore sections of a law he
doesn’t like, or go around Congress completely when they won’t kowtow to
his agenda.<br /><br />Yet that’s precisely what Obama and other
administration officials have done. In 2012, the president unilaterally
decreed that the same DREAM Act rejected by Congress 18 months earlier
would be implemented for the children of illegal aliens. He also gutted
part of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, in clear violation of the
statute. Obama is still ignoring a ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of
Appeals and federal appeals courts in D.C. and Philadelphia, all of whom
ruled his “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) were unconstitutional.</i></b>" -- <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/just-how-corrupt-is-the-obama-administration/%20%20%20%28We%20strongly%20recommend%20you%20read%20this%20article%20in%20its%20entirety.%29">
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/just-how-corrupt-is-the-obama-administration/
(We strongly recommend you read this article in its entirety.) </a><br />
<br />
Let's cut to the chase. There is a serious shortage of intestinal fortitude in Congress today. There is a palpable lack of <b><i>guts </i></b>within the ranks of the GOP in the House of Representatives. <b><i>A Bill of Impeachment ought to be introduced, voted on, and passed in the House ASAP. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Having
said that, please understand that I am not so foolish as to believe
that the US Senate, controlled by the President's own party The
Democratic Party) , therefore by Obama, himself, will find him guilty.</i></b> <b>But
this administration's corruption needs to be documented, publicly, and
made a part of the historical record of the country for future
generations. With the phalanx of protection the Mainstream Media has
thrown up around their president, the ONLY way that will happen is --
through impeachment.</b><br />
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In the meantime, things in America are only going to get worse. <br />
<br />
Every
time Obama gets away with a violation of the constitution, it emboldens
him, it becomes easier for him to so it again and again. I am
concerned Congress has already waited too long. I suspect many in
Congress fear an uprising of civil unrest (riots) among the black
population of the country should they impeach Obama. Then so be it. <b>NOTHING should get in the way of doing the RIGHT thing. </b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Impeaching Obama IS the right thing to do. </i><i><u>The rape of the constitution must be ended.</u></i></b><br />
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Step back. Take a look at the world today. <b><i>It's an unmitigated MESS! </i></b><br />
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China
and Japan, Russia and Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Iran, Afghanistan,
Iraq, Egypt, Israel and the so-called Palestinians, South Sudan, the
Central African Republic, Mali, and the Pacific Rim countries, North
Korea, the Philippines, and sundry other places that escape my memory at
the moment. <br />
<br />
<b>THIS is what</b> <b><i>"leading from behind"</i></b> <b>has wrought. </b> <b><i>THIS </i></b>is Obama's foreign policy -- <b><i>no foreign policy. </i></b> <br />
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Oh,
there's more to come. As soon as US troops leave Afghanistan, the
Taliban will move right back in with great shedding of blood. Iran will
soon have a nuclear bomb, (unless Israel intervenes) as will several
other Middle Eastern countries. <br />
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South of us, well, South America
is keeping a low profile -- and that worries me. Look for Argentina to
take another shot at snatching the Falkland Islands from Great Britain
-- again.<br />
<br />
Brazil is on its best behavior these days
getting all gussied-up up for the Football World Cup coming up in June.
Venezuela has its own internal problems (so far) trying to imitate Cuba
or the old Soviet Union and managing to provide the hemisphere with
some tragic humor. <br />
<br />
There's not much coming out of our neighbors
to the south these days mainly because the Obama administration seems to
have simply written them off, which means the Mainstream Media in the
US has no interest in anything happening below Brownsville, Texas, or
Key West, Florida. <br />
<br />
Oh. About Obama's "pivot" to the Pacific
Rim? Well, it now appears he has abandoned it. Could it be that has
emboldened China to stretch out across the South China Sea and confront
Japan over the Senkaku Islands? I hope SOMEONE has made our President
aware that we have a binding treaty with Japan to protect them should
they be attacked. <b><i>No ifs, ands, or buts about it. </i></b><br />
<br />
According to the<b><i> "Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security"</i></b>
between the United States and Japan, the US is committed to protecting
Japan against an enemy's attack. Judging from the Japanese
government's recent consideration toward reevaluating their "no nukes"
stance, something tells me the Japanese are worried about Obama's
steadfastness in so far as his standing by America's treaty obligations
with them. <br />
<br />
I've been around since the tail end of the Great
Depression and, frankly, I don't remember the US being this disengaged
globally, well, EVER! <br />
<br />
<b><i>One of the consequences of voluntary
isolation for a country is that that country loses any influence it
might have on world events. </i></b><br />
<br />
Nature abhors a vacuum. Something will fill it. <b><i>Russia
and China have stepped up and are aggressively filling the void left
when Obama took the US into full retreat from the world.</i></b> The US
has less and less influence around the globe as each day passes. We
are seeing the results of that lack of influence all over the world
today. It is likely to get much worse.<br />
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Our President is a joke to foreign governments. Obama is not what the remainder of the world considers <b><i>"reliable."</i></b> See, they're ahead of America's own citizens in arriving at that precisely correct conclusion. <br />
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Consider this from Max Boot at commentarymagazine.com: <b><i>"Moreover,
Americans aren’t happy with Obama’s foreign policy in general:
“Forty-nine percent disapproved of Mr. Obama’s foreign policy efforts,
up 10 points since early June, and 40 percent approved. The president’s
negative rating on foreign policy has grown among Americans of all
political stripes, with disapproval up 8 points among Democrats, 10
points among Republicans and 13 points among independents.” </i></b> <br />
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Mr. Boot goes on to say: <b><i>"What
the public perceives–the same thing that much of the world perceives–is
that Obama is weak and vacillating, deliberative but indecisive."</i></b> -- <b>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/09/25/obamas-confused-foreign-policy/">http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/09/25/obamas-confused-foreign-policy/ </a><br />
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Consider this from the May/June 2012 issue of <b>Foreign Affairs.</b> (<a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/">http://www.foreignaffairs.com/</a>): <b><i>"When
Obama was sworn into office in January 2009, he had already developed
an activist vision of his foreign policy destiny. He would refurbish the
United States' image abroad, especially in the Muslim world; end the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; offer an outstretched hand to Iran;
"reset" relations with Russia as a step toward ridding the world of
nuclear weapons; elicit Chinese cooperation on regional and global
issues; and make peace in the Middle East. By his own account, Obama
sought nothing less than to bend history's arc in the direction of
justice and a more peaceful, stable world." </i></b> -- <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137516/martin-indyk-kenneth-lieberthal-and-michael-e-ohanlon/scoring-obamas-foreign-policy">http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137516/martin-indyk-kenneth-lieberthal-and-michael-e-ohanlon/scoring-obamas-foreign-policy</a><br />
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Those of us who live in the <b><i>real world </i></b>had serious misgivings about his grasp of real world politics as soon as we learned of his <i>pie-in-the-sky</i> attitude toward the world situation. <b><i>In fact, it frightened old hands at foreign affairs and shocked even more. </i></b> It seemed his naivete knew no bounds. It has turned out that<b><i> that assessment was nearer to the mark than even we knew at the time. </i></b><br />
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The recent Obama imbroglio in Syria leads many, yours truly included, into believing <b><i>Obama has no definitive foreign policy.</i></b> <b><i>He just makes it up as he goes! </i></b> <br />
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<b><i>One
has to wonder how our traditional allies feel about this seeming
lackadaisical attitude toward American leadership in the world. One
such ally, Israel, now knows, with a high degree of certainty, they
cannot depend upon America as long as Obama is in the Oval Office. How
must Great Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, et al, feel
about any dependence upon America these days? </i></b><br />
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All one is required to do to see the justification in our query is simply observe the mess the world is in today. <br />
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of having some skin in the game. It wasn't nice. It wasn't
comfortable, and often it has cost us in blood, sweat, tears and
treasure --<b><i> but it was -- and remains -- tactically and strategically a necessity even if Obama can't (or won't) see it.</i></b><br />
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As the title to this piece says: <b><i>"When the cat's away, the mice will play." </i></b> <i>Silly me!</i> I just assumed everyone would understand that the <b>RATS</b> would also slink from the shadows and contribute to the madness and mayhem, as well. <br />
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<b><i>It's past time for the big cat to come home!</i></b><br />
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socialism wraps it’s cold, icy, fingers around freedom’s throat in
America, many Americans have slowly come to the realization that <b><i>the
socialist takeover of America did not happen overnight.</i></b> There were
plenty of warning signs over the past few decades. As I think back, the
most obvious of the “warning signs” was/is the so-called “Green
Movement.”<br /><br />Those who follow the Green Movement, the acolytes of
the Global Warming “religion,” are easily identified by their unbridled
compulsion to bow down to the false idols of science, to socialist
politics, and, let us not forget… <b>M O N E Y</b>! You find them everywhere
these days. Turn on a TV and there they are straining to burden you with
a guilt trip about the damage YOU have done to the planet and how YOU
must atone for your wickedness in order to be redeemed from your sins
against the <b><i>“Earth Mother.”</i></b><br /><br />Go to church, and there they are,
often in the pulpits, railing about YOUR sins NOT against God, but your
sins against the Earth, the climate, the Polar bears, etc, etc.<br /><br /><b><i>In
America’s schools YOUR children are being indoctrinated in the world’s
newest religion and they are instructed to act as missionaries taking
the message of the new salvation back home to their parents and family
and friends and neighbors.</i></b> They are made to sit through propaganda
movies by Nobel Prize winners which scare the living daylights out of
them and help mold those malleable mental crucibles into warriors of the
LEFT armed with lies, deceit, and more propaganda.<br /><br />Spreading the
Green Gospel ain’t easy. If the Greenies get them at birth, and all the
way through 16 to 20 years in our public education system, they are
lost. The Green cult has got them… unless there is an “Intervention.”</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R98BeIcApMo/Ur9mgISnHSI/AAAAAAAAh8U/KSAh_N4BLVg/s1600/obama-pagans.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R98BeIcApMo/Ur9mgISnHSI/AAAAAAAAh8U/KSAh_N4BLVg/s400/obama-pagans.jpg" width="400" /></a>Our
politicians sold out, longs ago, to the greenies. They preach energy
independence and then refuse to allow America to become energy
independent by using the oil and coal we have right here beneath
American soil or under American waters or in the rocks that litter some
of America’s landscape. <b><i>And now we have a President absolutely committed
to the green religion.</i></b> The man can be forgiven some of his folly for if
you dig a little past his carefully crafted veneer you will find him
not as intelligent as you have been led to believe.<br /><br />Back to the
new OLD religion. (That was not a mis-print, or an editorial screw-up.)
See, that’s what this new Green religion is… O L D! It is out and out
paganism. The first time I heard a minister preaching on the merits of
environmentalism from the pulpit, I nearly burst out laughing! The man
was obviously educated beyond his abilities! There was a man, supposedly
a man of God, speaking from a sacred spot in a building set aside for
the worship of God, endorsing paganism which, itself, is the world’s
OLDEST religion! I ask you, how is it possible for any reasonably
educated individual NOT to recognize the Green Movement for what it is…
pure Paganism, the worship of Gaia, the “earth mother, or “Mother
Earth”.<br /><br />Many believe that paganism died after Constantine in the
third century. Not so! It DID recede but the practice of paganism
continued in the jungles of Africa and right here in what we now call
America, and even in Europe where the practice went, for all intents and
purposes, underground.<b> Paganism has survived into the 21st century. Not
much about it has changed except the name by which it is known today….
environmentalism. It is the worship of the earth. It is the deification
of the planet and raising it up above that which Christians and Jews
refer to as God, Jehovah, and Yahweh. It is, for Christians and Jews, a
violation of the First Commandment: <i><u>“Thou shalt have no other gods
before me.”</u></i></b><br /><br />Today, as I scribble this little rant onto the
electronic paper in front of me, it is “Earth Day.” It is a day set
aside for the pagan worship of the earth, or Gaia. I sincerely hope you
did not take part in any of the ridiculous ceremonies planned for Earth
Day.<br /><br />Even now, as I write this, I envision modern day Americans
bowing down to trees and rocks and rivers and oceans paying homage to
Gaia the “earth mother”. How utterly disgusting it is to see grown men
and women make complete fools of themselves in pagan worship services on
this day. What makes it truly disturbing is that these same men and
women who, on this Wednesday, bow down to the idols of a false god, a
pagan god, Gaia, will rush to church or temple or synagogue on Saturday,
or Sunday, and keep a straight face while they go through the motions
of worshiping the creator of all that is: seen and unseen!<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QafTUndJ2ew/Ur9kdJfLrXI/AAAAAAAAh8I/FmJu6HSVq7Y/s1600/Stonehinge.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QafTUndJ2ew/Ur9kdJfLrXI/AAAAAAAAh8I/FmJu6HSVq7Y/s400/Stonehinge.jpg" width="400" /></a></span>Yes,
the pagans are back from the fringes of society and the shadows</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> of
civilization to take advantage of mankind’s deep yearning for something
to worship that he, or she, can see and hold and touch and pay tribute
to in order to, somehow, redeem himself/herself from whatever his/her,
darkest fears happen to be. <b><i>They call it environmentalism, but those of
us who recognize it for what it is call it by its real name…</i><i><u> paganism.</u></i></b><br /><br />In America today, it
is important to understand the link between paganism and socialism.
Here in America we now have a socialist government, as does much of the
rest of the world. Here’s the link…<b><i>socialism is the incubator and the
nursery for paganism.</i></b><br /><br />You see, <b>America is now in it’s
<u>“Post-Christian Era.”</u></b> We are no longer a Christian nation. America,
today, is, at best, a Socialist/Pagan nation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">There is a price America
must pay for her failure to live into her promise, to live up to her
role as the leader of the world. Make no mistake, <b><i>America forsook her
leadership role and joined the mob</i></b>. If you have been surprised at the
rapidity with which America has crumbled, then you have not been paying
attention. Stand-by, for the worst is yet to come. <b><i>We are only at the
cusp of the troubles and tribulations this nation must yet suffer.</i></b><br /><br />Already,
<i>today</i>, I chafe under the yoke of socialism. The knowledge that the
burden is only going to grow heavier makes the chafing even worse.
Watching America desperately seeking redemption through the pagan
worship of the earth, this oldest of old religions, it occurred to me
that, at least <b><i>here in America, we have finally succeeded in creating
God in our own image… </i><i><u>and it is an abomination!</u></i><i><br /></i></b><br />J. D. Longstreet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Crooked labs, agencies and prosecutors </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b><i>EPA <span class="SpellE">Nifongs</span> and <span class="SpellE">Beales</span> prosecute US hydrocarbons, jobs, living standards and health</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Paul Driessen </span></b></div>
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Former Durham, NC district attorney <a href="http://crime.about.com/od/current/a/duke_lacrosse.htm" target="_blank">Mike <span class="SpellE">Nifong</span></a>
was disbarred for withholding evidence from the defense and lying to
the court in the trumped-up Duke lacrosse team rape case. Ex-Boston
crime lab technician <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/crime_labs_under_the_microscope_after_a_string_of_shoddy_suspect_and_fraudu/" target="_blank">Annie <span class="SpellE">Dookhan</span></a>
was prosecuted for faking test results and contaminating drug samples,
to get accused dealers convicted. In both cases, charges against their
victims were dismissed or are under review. </div>
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So how should we handle federal officials who’ve become unethical researchers and <span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">prosecutors
– determined to get convictions, basing their cases on esoteric
circumstantial evidence, allowing tainted and fraudulent evidence,
hiding exculpatory information, rewriting the law, and denying defense
counsel the right to cross-examine adverse witnesses or present their
case? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow explains in its <a href="http://wm57.inbox.com/Lib/130517/at%20http:/www.cfact.org/2013/12/23/release-cfact-challenges-constitutionality-of-epa-emissions-rules-in-supreme-court/" target="_blank">amicus curiae brief</a>
to the US Supreme Court, that’s what Environmental Protection Agency
regulators have been doing with global warming. They’re pulling every
dirty prosecutorial trick in the book, to convict fossil fuels, carbon
dioxide, and America’s economy and living standards of “endangering” the
public welfare. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since
2009, EPA regulators have shown a single-minded determination to slash
hydrocarbon use, drive up the price of energy, and impose huge costs on
companies, industries and an economy struggling to stay afloat and
retain jobs. They want to control CO2 emissions from vehicles,
electrical generating plants, and eventually the sources of nearly
everything we make, grow, ship, eat and do. The damage to our
livelihoods, liberties, living standards, legal system, health, welfare
and life spans will be enormous. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
devious dealings have continued under new EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy, who has pronounced that there is “no more urgent threat to
public health than climate change.” Now it appears the mendacious
malfeasance is even worse than previously thought. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Newly released emails </span>reveal that Ms. McCarthy was “very excited” in 2010 to “finally get the opportunity to work with” <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303773704579266022892025230" target="_blank">Mr. John Beale</a>,
who for several years was the senior EPA policy advisor helping Ms.
McCarthy and her Office of Air and Radiation develop and implement tough
air quality and climate regulations. When he wasn’t off on one of his
Walter <span class="SpellE">Mitty</span> undercover CIA capers, that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Beale
was just convicted of defrauding taxpayers out of $1 million in
salaries and expenses for extended vacations that he took while claiming
to be a high level intelligence operative. His attorney says he had a
“dysfunctional need to engage in excessively reckless, risky behavior”
and “manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose
narratives.”</div>
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It defies belief to
suppose his dysfunctions and fabrications did not extend to his official
EPA roles of devising agency air pollution and climate policies, then
cherry picking reports and manipulating research to justify them. The
criminal fraud for which Beale will serve 32 months in prison and repay
$1.4 million is outrageous. The fraud on our economy, democracy and
people’s lives is far more costly and despicable. Even worse, their
regulatory fraud is a pervasive problem throughout EPA. </div>
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The
Constitution specifies that the Executive Branch has no authority to
engage in lawmaking, but must faithfully execute the laws as written –
and not as regulators might wish the laws had been written, to advance
their preferred policy agendas. EPA has violated these most fundamental
rules, ignoring inconvenient statutory language, and devising and
enforcing other provisions out of whole cloth.</div>
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Between 1989 and 2010, Congress considered and rejected some <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/2013/12/03/epa-permitting-of-greenhouse-gases-what-does-legislative-history-reveal-about-congressional-intent/" target="_blank">692 bills</a>
addressing various aspects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate
change. So President Obama’s EPA simply imposed carbon dioxide controls
by executive fiat, using “prevention of significant deterioration” and
“new source performance standards” to create new authority over
coal-fired electrical generating plants. It then unilaterally changed
precise statutory emission standards from 250 tons per year to 100,000 <span class="SpellE">tpy</span>
– to avoid the public backlash that would come if it began regulating
and shutting down all the natural gas generators, refineries, cement
kilns, factories, paper mills, shopping malls, apartment and office
buildings, hospitals, schools and even large homes that emit more than
250 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Those job-killing rules can come
later, when radical environmentalists sue radical regulators, to enforce
the statutory requirement. </div>
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In
circumventing Congress, rewriting laws and ignoring the “separation of
powers” doctrine, EPA accomplished an unprecedented power grab over the
energy that fuels our economy and makes our jobs, living standards and
civil rights progress possible. It also flouted clear NEPA, Clean Air
Act and other statutory mandates that EPA protect the health, welfare
and environmental quality of all Americans.<br />
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The
agency remains fixated on the speculative impacts of sea levels,
storms, droughts and other manifestations of allegedly “dangerous
manmade climate change.” As CFACT’s amicus brief explains, it completely
ignores the increasingly adverse effects that its boiler MACT, carbon
dioxide<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">and 1,900 other</span></span> Obama-era EPA regulations are having on <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/24/shapiro-what-the-jobs-numbers-dont-say/" target="_blank">companies, jobs, families</a>, entire industries and communities – and thus people’s physical, mental and emotional well-being.</div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
breadwinners are laid off or reduced to part-time status, families are
unable to heat and cool their homes properly, pay bills, rent or
mortgage, buy clothing and medicines, or take vacations. Increasing
numbers of families deplete their savings and are made homeless. Being
unable to find or keep a job erodes self-worth, self-confidence and
psychological well-being. The stress of being unemployed, or
involuntarily holding multiple lower-paying part-time jobs, means
reduced nutrition, sleep deprivation, increased risk of heart attacks
and strokes, higher incidences of depression and alcohol, drug, spousal
and child abuse, more suicides and generally lower life expectancies. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
means the regulations are far worse than the harms they supposedly
redress. For EPA to ignore this simple reality is illegal and
unconscionable. For it to do so based on fraudulent science is
outrageous. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
agency’s position hardly reflected genuine climate science in 2009,
when EPA decreed that carbon dioxide endangers human health and welfare.
Since then, <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2013/03/Whitehouse-GT_Standstill.pdf" target="_blank">Earth’s temperature</a> and <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/delaware_future_weather.pdf" target="_blank">weather events</a>
have refused to cooperate with EPA’s dire predictions. But the agency’s
views and decisions remain etched in stone, leaving the agency on the
extreme <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/09/19/real-climate-science-the-ipcc-doesnt-want-you-to-see-n1704053/page/full" target="_blank">fringe of alarmist opinion</a>, insisting that its views are supported by IPCC predictions that are increasingly discredited by <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/10/01/climate-depot-round-up-a-new-climategate-un-ipcc-stands-accused-of-misleading-world-leaders-the-public/" target="_blank"><span class="SpellE">Climategate</span> revelations</a>, investigations into <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/19/laframboise-on-the-ipcc/" target="_blank">IPCC practices</a>, the Beale scandal and even an exhaustive report by one of EPA’s own analysts. </span></div>
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When presented 37-year EPA veteran Alan Carlin’s analysis, his <span style="color: #202020; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">supervisor
tried to suppress the paper and refused to forward it to the EPA group
preparing the final report that would guide the endangerment decision.
The supervisor told him: “The administrator and administration has [sic]
decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help
the legal or policy case for this decision.” </span></div>
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Finally,
even full compliance with EPA’s destructive regulations would achieve
zero benefits, because emissions from China, India and other rapidly
developing countries will continue increasing total atmospheric GHG
levels – and because climate change is driven primarily by natural
forces, not CO2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For
all these reasons, EPA’s carbon dioxide “endangerment” decision must be
reversed; its stationary source regulations must be scrapped; and the
agency must be required to fully evaluate the consistently adverse
effects of its regulatory edicts on human health, welfare and
environmental quality. If the Supreme Court fails to do so, the House
and Senate must reassert their Constitutional roles. </div>
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Otherwise
the United States will steadily fall behind its international
competitors. The health and well-being of Americans will increasingly
suffer. And the Legislative and Judicial Branches will become mere
bystanders to an unelected, unaccountable, agenda-driven Executive
Branch. </div>
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<b><i>Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and author of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death</span>. </i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Obama’s
promise to lead an open and transparent administration has become an
“albatross” according to a Dec 24 <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/barack-obama-white-house-transparency-101494.html?hp=f2">Politico.com analysis</a> by Josh Gerstein. As
Obama’s fifth year in office wraps up, much of the Washington and nation’s
press corps is very unhappy. </span></div>
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exception of those who depend on Fox, ABC radio, the Wall Street Journal, and
other conservative outlets, too many of the consumers of news are blissfully
unaware of the liberal, rubber stamp product they are receiving. It is the
complete betrayal of those whom the press is supposed to serve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They did
not report the truth about Obamacare. They have not reported the truth about
Obama’s failed foreign affairs policies, including the attack on Benghazi. They
have largely ignored other scandals. Obama’s new economic “inequality” lies are
right out of the Communist Manifesto. The result, however, was his reelection
in 2012 and millions of cancelled health plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All
administrations have sought to control the information—the message—that reaches
the public, but the Obama administration has gone to greater lengths than
previous ones. In particular, its public affairs offices (PAOs) have become
obstacles to press access. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing in
the Dec 17 edition of <a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Columns/Article/Shoptalk--Journalism-Did-It-To-Itself">Editor & Publisher</a> the newspaper trade magazine, Jim
Dickinson said, “Over two hours at the National Press Club a few months ago,
the truth finally hit me. Journalism has done it to itself, the ‘it’ being the
surrender of our First Amendment-protected responsibility to tell the people
what their government is really, actually doing—as opposed to what the
government tells us it wants the people to know.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The panel
to which Dickerson was referring was entitled “Government Public Affairs
Offices: More Hindrance Than Help?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
wrote that “Public affairs offices increasingly require that reporters conduct
all interviews through the press office. U.S. Departments and agencies often
mandate that their employees only talk to reporters through official channels
and with communications staff present.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not only
do government employees know that this means their job can be on the line, but
as I noted in October, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act signed into
law in November 2012 in reality puts whistleblowers at risk of going to jail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Reporters
find that the leaks from whistleblowers and routine information from government
employees are drying up. Ironically, the actions of former NSA employee Edward
Snowden and U.S. Army corporal Bradley Manning exposed more information than
the administration wanted anyone to know. Manning went to jail and Snowden has
found asylum in Russia. Both said they acted in the public interest; a public
being told that the NSA’s acquisition of data on every phone call is being done
to protect them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
problem is manifest in efforts under the Freedom of Information Act to
secure feedback from government agencies. Politico’s Gerstein pointed out the
availability of government records under FOIA often results in requests
routinely lingering for years “and often end up producing a ream of blacked-out
text.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>News is expected to be timely and
delaying access to public records negates that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>What has
been and is reported these days are the lies for which the Obama administration
has become famous.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
administration has called the scandals of the first term “phony” and a recent
Sixty Minutes interview with Susan Rice, now the national security advisor to
Obama, dismissed the Benghazi cover-up as “false.” It was Rice who went on five
Sunday news shows to spread the lies about the attack—on the anniversary of
9/11—having <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been caused by a video no
one had ever seen. That earned her a promotion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The daily
White House press briefing has become increasingly heated and, when the
President gave a press conference before leaving on a Christmas vacation, he
was asked if 2013 had been the worst year to date for him. He obliquely
acknowledged what everyone knows, but denied he pays any attention to polls,
something every President of the modern era has always done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
mainstream press has learned that, in return for having published the White
House “party line” throughout its first term, that it would tap their
phones and accuse a Fox News reporter of being an “accomplice” for releasing
information it wanted to keep secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Its use of
public information offices to thwart or control what news is released, its
increased use of “official” White House photos, its widespread failure to
respond to Freedom of Information requests, and its use of social media and
organizations allied with the White House to advertise and spread its message
all add up to a highly manipulative effort to influence the public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The good
news is that the Internet has become a major source of news and analysis
available to everyone. As traditional print newspapers suffer decline due to
the loss of advertising revenue and the younger generation’s preference for
electronic access to the news, the scope of news has expanded to sources beyond
government control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A
secretive and deceptive Obama administration is suffering from an abundance and
availability of the TRUTH. Too bad that too many journalists have not been
active contributors.</span></div>
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<b><i>"Though
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I
am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."</i></b> (St. Paul in a letter to the Christian church at Corinth)<br />
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The
crowd was roaring. The lone man in his impeccable tan colored uniform
would step forward toward the lectern, then pause and let his eyes
wander over the thousands of up turned faces -- all staring at him,
waiting for him to speak. And they waited -- and they waited. <br />
<br />
The man at the lectern made no effort to speak. He just stood there, almost motionless, and didn't say a word. <br />
<br />
A
wave of anxiety, nervousness, began to sweep through the crowd of
expectant listeners. The noise level began to recede. Soon the roar of
the crowd was gone completely. The crowd became quiet and motionless, a
reflection of the man they had come expecting to hear speak.<br />
<br />
A full sixty seconds would expire before that man would take the one remaining step to the lectern, and begin speaking. <br />
<br />
At
first he spoke softly forcing his audience to strain to hear his words.
Quickly they were leaning forward, heads cocked, hands cupped behind
ears in rapt attention, desperately seeking to hear every word, every
syllable, every breath, and lay claim to the wisdom his words would
impart.<br />
<br />
Then little by little he would increase the
volume of his voice until finally he was shouting and gesticulating in a
near maniacal manner. His audience was worked up to a fever pitch
ready and willing to do his bidding, no matter the consequences. <br />
<br />
Those
of you reading this now, if you are near my age, know exactly of whom I
speak -- Adolf Hitler. He was a master at oratory. He was a master
actor. He was a master at manipulating his fellowman. He was a master
at dealing death and destruction. He was a master at destroying nations
-- and -- <b><i>nearly destroyed the world.</i></b> <br />
<br />
Watching a
film clip of one of his speeches today sends chills racing up and down
my spine. It is as though just the sound of his voice invokes evil. <br />
<br />
He was, quite likely, the greatest orator of the 20th century.<br />
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Here
in the 21st century, we have another great orator. He, too has to
power to move his listeners to act while disregarding consequences. He,
too, has worshipers -- some who even refer to him as "<b>Lord and Master."</b><br />
<br />
His Name is Barack Hussein Obama. And he is President of the United States of America. <b><i>And he scares the hell out of me! </i></b> <br />
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If
you look at the faces in one of Hitler's crowds and compare them to the
faces in Obama's crowds, you will see the same worship of their
speaker. But look closely. Look at the eyes. Do you see it? Do you
see the vacant, <b><i>"the lights are on, but nobody's home"</i></b>
look reflected in those eyes? It's the look that makes those tiny
little hairs on the back of your neck tingle and stand up. That's
primal fear, honed to perfection by our ancestors while they still lived
in caves. <br />
<br />
Trust it. It is telling you: <b><i>"Something is dreadfully wrong."</i></b><br />
<br />
If
you could look BEHIND those blank stares, I feel certain you would see
something else, too. Raw fear. It's the sane part of the human mind
fighting to regain control. Worshipers always fear -- <i>and eventually begin to question.</i><br />
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Given
a choice, I will not listen to an Obama speech. I get the same
feeling I would get if told the Battle of Armageddon had begun. Bells
and whistles begin going off in the Amygdala of my brain, the part of
the brain that controls one's "flight or fight" reaction. That's our
caveman ancestors banging on our door in the middle of the night yelling
<b>"FIRE!" </b><br />
<br />
Be afraid. Be very afraid. No mere mortal
should have that kind of power over his fellow human beings. It is too
easily misused. <b><i> It is raw power -- and it is corruptible.</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Obama's
speeches are chilling to me ... almost malevolent. It's as though he
is using his voice, his tsunami of words, to misdirect the gaze of his
worshipers away from all that is not right with America toward a utopian
facade of an America that, in reality, does not exist -- and never
will. </i></b><br />
<br />
Encouraging worshipers is never a good idea for
mere mortals. As we said above, worshipers will eventually begin to ask
questions. Sooner or later they will ask the <b><i>RIGHT</i></b>
question and receive the true answer. At which point the "worshipee" is
in deep trouble. That mindless crowd can turn on a dime and produce
pitchforks and torches that light the night in hate and violence --<i> all directed at the one who deceived them.</i>
History is replete with records of just such behavior played out time
and again. The fate of Benito Mussolini springs instantly to mind.<br />
<br />
Often
less is, indeed, more. My father was a man of few words. As a result,
when he spoke, the family listened. We knew that even though he did not
speak often, when he did -- it was important -- and usually well
thought out. When he had finished, he had <b><i>finished.</i></b> No force on earth could change his mind. I admired that, growing up as a lad, and I still do.<br />
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As
I have grown older I have noticed that my world has been slowing down
while the world around me has shifted into hyper drive. The voices I
hear from the hyper drive world now are loud, reverberating,
penetrating, harsh, crude, insistent, and aggravating. And I am
continuing to learn how to shut them out and listen for that <b><i>"still, small, voice" </i></b>of authority <i>(1 Kings 19:11-13 -- The Old Testament)</i> asking: <b><i> "What are YOU doing here, J. D.?"</i></b><br />
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It
would seem that we have not yet learned that the answer is not carried
upon the waves of loud flowery oratory regaling us, and misdirecting
us, with all the right "answers" to all our problems. Instead, <b><i>it
is within moments of quiet introspection when the still small voice is
heard -- just above a whisper -- but with the gravitas of endless
universes. </i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The reasons to <i><b>repeal Obamacare</b></i> continuing to
pile up as more and more facts are revealed by those willing to spend the time
necessary to dig through the over 2000 page law. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Now we learn that Obama lied to America
about the Public Option (government-run health Insurance companies) being
dropped from ObamaCare.</i> <b><i>It was NOT
dropped.</i></b><b><i> </i></b> It is STILL<b><i> in the law</i></b> -- only<b><i>
hidden.</i></b> Look for yourself. <b><i>Look in Section 1334, pages 97-100, of the
new health care law.</i></b> If you feel as if
you have been screwed –<b><i>that’s because you have!</i></b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do yourself a favor and read the Washington Examiner
editorial entitled: </span>“Public option is alive and well, but hidden.”<span style="font-weight: normal;"> You will find it at: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Examiner-Editorial-Public-option-is-alive-and-well-but-hidden-93930519.html">http://washingtonexaminer.com/public-option-is-alive-and-well-but-hidden/article/43006</a></span></span>
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want ObamaCare <b><u><i>repealed</i></u></b>. As more and more of the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cVaSGvJ7o68/UrtojY82yHI/AAAAAAAAh6k/UGQjOrxt8uQ/s1600/No+Government+Healthcare.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cVaSGvJ7o68/UrtojY82yHI/AAAAAAAAh6k/UGQjOrxt8uQ/s320/No+Government+Healthcare.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span> duplicity in the law, and
surrounding the law, and the continuous flow of lies from the White House and
the Democrat/socialists in Congress concerning this law raise the ire of
Americans there is good reason to hope for a </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">REAL</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> change in
November of 2014 at the polls. </span></span></span>
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Obama Regime and his <i>courtesans</i> in the Congress. It never seems to stop. There is a constant
stream of lies from the left -- especially concerning the ObamaCare Law. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What is the Obama Administration trying so desperately to
cover up? What else is going on behind
the closed doors in the White House and the West Wing and yes, in the
Congress? Like children caught with
their hands in the cookie jar, they are lying to try to save face. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">We have news for them.
It is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">TOO</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> LATE. The carefully woven
curtain behind which the truth has been hidden is being shredded daily. Their pains-takingly molded façade is
cracking and crumbling and falling away revealing the bones amid the corruption
within what has been exposed as nothing more than a whited sepulcher. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i>The taint of socialism is everywhere in our government
today.</i></b> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is dying a slow agonizing death from the killer of nations -- the
political cancer we know as socialism. It is eating away the core of our
country. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The worst is yet to come.</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I know it is not popular to say that, at
least in public, but a few of us are convinced that </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> has not yet seen the worst of this financial crisis. In fact, a handful of us actually believe we
are at the threshold of a global economic collapse, which will lead to the
collapse of entire national governments around the globe. There is absolutely no way </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> can dodge this bullet. The American economic system is so interwoven
with the economic systems of the other nations of the world that when one
nation’s system fails -- </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> takes a hit. How many hits can American withstand before our system
collapses as well? In her weakened
condition, the answer I’d say is -- <i>not many.</i> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The European economy is only treading water today and will
be circling the drain tomorrow. The
impact on </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">’s economy when </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Europe</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> fails will be incalculable. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I cannot shake the feeling that </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is being set up – <i>set up to fail.</i> ObamaCare is only one part of the plan to
weaken </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">America</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and make her citizens so dependent upon government that when the
American collapse comes, we will flock to whatever those in power offer as a
means of survival. That which I expect them to offer, finally, is – <b><i>Global
Governance. </i></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> With an extremely important election just 11
months away, <b><i>the democrat/socialists are pulling out all the stops to buy time
and to create a mirage of “Recovery.”</i></b><b><i> </i></b>
They know they face a political massacre at the polls in November of 2014 and
they are trying, with all their might, to salvage as much of their power as
they can. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Don’t believe them.
Consider all the lies from the Obama Administration over the year just ending. If they will lie to Americans about the Public Option being taken out of
the ObamaCare Law, then what else have they been lying to us about <i>all
along? Maybe the answer would be shorter if the question was: <b>What have they NOT been lying about! </b></i> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><u>REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!</u></b> <b><i>Take your rage to the polls and throw
the bums out next November.</i></b></span></span></span>
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Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-52020209205515404092013-12-23T00:26:00.000-05:002013-12-23T00:26:30.049-05:00America Survives Another Year ... J. D. Longstreet<b>America Survives Another Year <br /><i>Annus Horribilis</i><br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2AJBUBrkHHg/UrdpUho5G_I/AAAAAAAAh5U/LQjSBvwOxAE/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2AJBUBrkHHg/UrdpUho5G_I/AAAAAAAAh5U/LQjSBvwOxAE/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>Well,
we have made another year without a complete meltdown. Nevertheless,
we are growing closer. As every day passes we draw nearer that
apocalyptic terminus. <br />
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We
have reached the final few days of the year and it is customary, sort
of, for folks to look back over all the bad and unusual things that
occurred in the twelve months just ending. But, honestly, <b><i>I don't want to drag them up again.</i></b> They were difficult enough to handle the first time through, so why punish ourselves, right? <br />
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If
anything, 2013 established, beyond doubt, that Mr. Obama is intent upon
presiding over a nation in decline -- and he insists on increasing the
rate of acceleration of said declination. <br />
<i><br />But that
doesn't touch the lies, the deceit, the scandals, the abuse of power by
the Executive Office, nor the assumption of dictatorial powers by the
Chief Executive and on, and on, and on. And I haven't even mentioned <b>OBAMACARE</b> ... <u>yet</u>! </i><br />
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In
fact, I'd like to look ahead. I'm the sort who anticipates darn near
everything. I'm just wired that way. No apologies for it. I rather
like to act in advance of an anticipated problem and to deal with it
ahead of time and/or before it becomes a menace in one fashion or
another. <br />
<br />
Peeling back the layers of the future is most
certainly a job for the clairvoyants, the fortune tellers and such. I
am neither. No. I'm more of what you might call -- a <i>worrier. </i> So believe me when I tell you <b><i>I am mightily worried about next year, about 2014. </i></b><br />
<br />
The
US is currently reeling from the onslaught of socialism/communism led
by our socialist-in-chief, B. H. Obama. Mr. Obama is, at this writing,
in the lovely state of Hawaii where, frankly, I wish he'd stay, <b><i>sending us his resignation as a Christmas gift to the nation. </i></b><br />
<br />
Two
things: One -- Mr. Obama does not share our low opinion of himself.
And second -- Vice President Joe Biden is waiting in the wings to become
President should Mr Obama step down. <b><i>(Yeah, it's sorta like a double feature horror movie special at the local cinema, right? Egads!) </i></b><br />
<br />
<i>Moving right along ...</i><br />
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That socialism/communism thing, <b><i>in the guise of health insurance for everyone,</i></b>
will still be with us next year. Like an infection deep inside it will
continue to destroy the tissue of America and will, over time, murder
the country. <br />
<br />
The problems with the roll out of Obamacare were just petty "stuff" compared to that which is coming in the close <i>and</i> distant future. <b><i>Those of you who have not turned your hand to insuring yourself under our new law are in for a bone rattling shock.</i></b> If you have an attorney on retainer, I suggest assigning him/her the job of signing you up to Obamacare -- <b><i>and paying him a bonus if he succeeds</i></b>. <br />
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Small
business owners who, up to now, have provided health insurance for
their employees are going to learn they simply cannot afford it any
longer and <b><i>the millions of employees of small businesses in
America are going to find themselves without insurance and then they,
too,will be dealing with Obamacare. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b>It's going to get downright ugly. </b><br />
<br />
<b><i><u>Repeal of Obamacare will not happen in 2014.</u></i></b> We'll have to have another election before there is even a possibility of a repeal of Obamacare. <b><i><u>That election is coming up next November. </u></i></b><br />
<br />
The President must take another shot at immigration reform or, as I like to call it -- <b><u>amnesty for illegal aliens.</u></b> <b><i>The
democrats understand that with passage of immigration reform, they will
secure, for themselves, the reins of government in the US for
generations to come. </i></b><br />
<br />
Oh, there is much, much, more but it's just too depressing to touch on it. <br />
<br />
One
thing, however. I can't shake the feeling that the US will find itself
engulfed in another Vietnam type quagmire, this time on the African
continent, sometime in 2014. We have troops fighting little brush fire
wars in various places in Africa now. It is not outside the realm of
possibility that one of those brush fires will flare up into a huge
conflagration without the American public even
being aware that American warriors are bleeding and dying in the
jungles of that mysterious land. Too, I would be less than honest if I
did not tell you that I have no idea why we are spending our blood and
treasure on such a hopeless cause as saving Africa. <b><i><u>Only Africa can
save Africa.</u></i></b> Our efforts on the dark continent are almost as hopeless
as bringing peace between the Israelis and the so-called Palestinians.
Oh. by the way, <b><i>that, too, will fail in 2014. </i></b><br />
<br />
One
is drawn to ask if America is in Africa fighting indigenous
insurrectionists, or, are we actually establishing forward bases from
which to attack Al-Qaeda in Africa? <b><i>If the latter, I must wonder what happened to the Al-Qaeda Mr. Obama suggested to the nation was through, kaput? </i></b><br />
<br />
As we chart our course for 2014, I suggest we would be wise to take a back-azimuth off 2013. For, <b><i>if my suspicions are anywhere near correct, we are in for a replay of 2013 -- </i><i><u>at least until November. </u></i><i> </i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A December
17 Reuters article was titled, “Obama’s Current Approval Rating Is The Ugliest
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“President
Barack Obama is ending his fifth year in office with the lowest approval
ratings at this point in the presidency since President Richard Nixon,
according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nixon was forced to resign on April 22, 1974 after two long years that followed
the revelations about Watergate, a break-in of the Democratic Party offices in
Washington, DC. The backlash against the horrors of Obamacare, concerns about
the “deal” with Iran, and a succession of scandals from Fast and Furious to
Benghazi, have raised fear and anger over his judgment, competence, and behavior
in office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Having
lived through the years that led to Nixon’s resignation, I am seeing the same
national resistance that Obama’s five years in office have led to. Nixon was
never a “popular” President, widely seen as “Tricky Dick”, but like Obama, he was
twice elected to the office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, who assumed the presidency was defeated by
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and, four years later, an unhappy electorate defeated
Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who would serve two terms. Even the popular
Bill Clinton faced impeachment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not since
the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s have Americans endured an economy
that has failed to overcome slow growth despite Obama’s full first term in
office and another year in his second term.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ignoring
the central role of a free market prolongs bad economic conditions and high
taxation to maintain an ever-expanding central government led to big problems
for European nations and promises the same—or worse—for the U.S. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When you add
in the increased debt imposed in Obama’s first term you are looking at the
road to ruin. Blaming “millionaires and billionaires” or “income inequality” is
the very essence of communism. It is a rejection of our capitalistic economic system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Financial
ruin for America is embedded in its huge debt, its deficits, and its
multi-trillions of dollars in unfunded debt that already insolvent Social Security
and Medicare programs represent. And Medicare was looted to fund Obamacare!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
destruction of our healthcare system, one sixth of the nation’s economy, is
widely regarded as a disaster and it bears the President’s name. Passed late at
night prior to Christmas in 2009 and signed into law by Barack Obama, Obamacare
is distinguished by the lies the President told all Americans about their right
to keep their healthcare insurance plans, retain their personal physicians, and
see their costs reduced. It has done the opposite and it is impossible to
believe the President did not know this would occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>The nation
has reached a point when the President must be told to resign.</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Whether a
Congress, also held in extraordinary low esteem, can or will do this is
unknown. While I have said in the past that Obama cannot be removed by
impeachment, I now believe that if the House would initiate impeachment
proceedings that in itself would focus public attention, for example, on the President’s excessive use of
executive orders to by-pass Congress and his unconstitutional altering--tweaking--of the Obamacare law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His first term was filled
with scandals that included using the IRS for political gain. His role in
dragging down the nation’s international position as an exemplar and protector of
freedom has made the world less safe. These and other issues need a review and
discussion that would not occur in the mainstream press in any other way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This isn’t
about a President who authorized a break-in. This is about a President who is a
current and future threat to the Constitution, the nation’s military strength,
and the restoration of its economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>This is about a President who can use
existing laws to declare martial law based on a manufactured crisis. Existing
law would permit him to seize control of all aspects of life in America</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
nation’s mainstream print and broadcast media is showing signs of
disillusionment, but not enough to abandon a President they have supported with
deliberately biased reporting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Complicating
a demand for his resignation is a divided Republican Party whose elites have
rejected the Tea Party movement that has already elected a number of members to
Congress. Many find little to differentiate the GOP from the Democratic Party,
but there are differences and the House of Representatives is proof of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Many
Americans sense that the nation is at a very dangerous point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dramatic
action is needed. A demand for Obama’s resignation via petitions and other
measures is needed to save America from the worst President ever elected to
that office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Editor's
note: In the Daily Caller.com, an interview with Rep. Amash (R-MI)
reveals his comparable concern about the powers Obama is asserting for
the executive office. It's worth viewing the video.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/21/amash-obama-is-setting-the-stage-for-something-very-dangerous-in-the-future-video/">http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/21/amash-obama-is-setting-the-stage-for-something-very-dangerous-in-the-future-video/</a></span><br />
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I
read the other day that overwhelming majorities of Americans support
federal fuel economy mandates: 77 percent of Republicans and 92 percent
of Democrats, according to a recent poll (see <a href="http://www.consumerfed.org/news/663" target="_blank">here</a>).
That means they also support the $1,300 line item on the window sticker
of the new Cadillac CTS-V GM dropped off for me to evaluate this week.
It’s not a wheel/tire package. Not an upgrade audio system. Not special
paint.<br />
It’s a “gas guzzler” tax.<br />
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You buy the CTS-V, you pay $1,300 <i>extra</i> – on top of the
sales tax; on top of the title taxes – with the money you’ve got left
after paying federal, state, local, Social Security and Medicare taxes.
And why? Because your fellow (and frequently flag-waving)<br />
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Americans are <i>anti-freedom</i>. They resent you – the buyer of a car like the CTS-V, which uses more fuel than they think it <i>ought</i> to use – and have put in place mechanisms designed to <i>punish</i> you for having the effrontery to buy such a car.<br />
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They will cry, “but the CTS-V is a gas hog!”<br />
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And <i>they</i> are liberty hogs – because they cannot comprehend
that whatever gas the CTS-V uses - whether it’s a lot or a little –
every last drop of it was paid for in <i>toto</i> by the owner of the
car. These people have no more right to bitch about the gas that goes
into the tank of a CTS-V than they do about the gas that goes into the
tank of a Prius hybrid. In both cases, the owners of the cars bought the
gas. It is <i>their</i> gas. Whatever stake that amorphous entity
that goes by the name of “society” might have had in the disposition of
that fuel prior to the sale of that fuel is vitiated by the fact of its
purchase – at which point the fuel becomes the <i>property</i> of the
person who bought it. Who paid for it in full – including the regressive
and confiscatory motor fuels taxes that are part and parcel of every
gallon purchased.<br />
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The buyer of a car such as the 556 horsepower supercharged CTS-V,
which does indeed use a great deal of gas, also pays a great deal more
in motor fuels taxes than the Prius driver. That means, he pays <i>more</i>
to maintain “our” roads than the Prius driver. A great deal more, in
fact. It says so – in bold face type, right there on the MSRP window
sticker: “You <b>SPEND</b> $6,150 more in fuel costs over five years, compared to the average new vehicle.”<br />
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The Prius driver should <i>applaud</i> the CTS-V driver, who is <i>subsidizing</i>
his hybrid. At the least, he ought to have the decency to leave him in
peace. After all, he’s paying the lion’s share of the tab for “our”
roads – <i>not</i> the Prius driver.<br />
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Instead, the Prius driver, the freedom-hating American, wants to <i>punish</i> the driver of the CTS-V.<br />
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<i>Again</i>. (Don’t forget all those <i>other</i> taxes, already
paid – and in greater proportion, since “the rich” who buy cars like
this also pay disproportionately higher taxes).<br />
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It’s despicable.<br />
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But also indicative of the envy-addled, control-freak cancer that’s
metastasizing across the country. The sickness of mind – and heart –
that begrudges others their liberty, their free choice. And which is
determined to impose its values and views on others by force. <br />
It’s not enough for such people to choose a fuel efficient car for <i>themselves</i> – and leave others free to choose whatever type of car meets <i>their</i> needs (and wants). No. They <i>insist</i> others buy the type of car they believe they <i>ought</i>
to buy. Hence CAFE – the acronym that stands for the federal
government’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy edicts – and the broad
spectrum public support for such measures.<br />
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CAFE is responsible for sea-change distortions of the car market by infusing government “incentives” – that is, <i>artificial</i>
incentives – which displace natural free market incentives (free people
exercising free choice). The sole reason for the existence of legions
of bulbous SUVs – the <i>bete noirs</i> of the people who venerate
CAFE – is because of the existence of CAFE. The “loophole” (a lower CAFE
standard for so-called “light trucks”) that incentivized their mass
production has been closed – but new distortions have been effected.<br />
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Cars are becoming much more complex – and costly – just for openers.<br />
Cars like the CTS-V – a very high-performance car – are black
swans; cars that manage – despite all the obstacles – to get built, if
only in very small numbers and sold at very high prices Very few people
can afford one, given a base price of $63,215. Even accepting the
control freak’s premise, the effect of such a car’s consumption on “our”
resources is not even measurable, given the minuscule production of
such cars. (And if you did wish to measure it, how about measuring the
consumption of every CTS-V made against the consumption of oh, I dunno, a
division of M1 Abrams battle tanks? Or Dear Leader’s armored – and 4
MPG – limousines? But then, “gas guzzling” only applies to the
conveyances of Mundanes.)<br />
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And so – out of pure spite – a $1,300 “gas guzzler” penalty is affixed belligerently to the CTS-V’s window sticker, as if to <i>shame</i> the buyer as well as financially penalize him.<br />
Cars like the CTS-V (powerful V-8 engine, rear-wheel-drive) have
become all-but-impossible to make as mass-market cars, because of CAFE.
But it’s not enough that nine out of ten people will never get the
chance to drive such a car. The one out of 10 (more like one out 10,000)
who manages to somehow retain a sufficiency of funds – after being
fleeced at multiple levels by federal, state and local taxes – to be in a
position to afford a car like the CTS-V (and to afford to put gas into a
car like the CTS-V, to afford being able to pay 2-3 times the motor
fuels taxes that the average driver pays) must be punished <i>one more time</i>. <br />
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How long before wealth-and-freedom-hating Americans decide that “we”
need a luxury tax on cars more opulent than a Hyundai Accent or Toyota
Yaris? Before it is decided that “we” don’t really “need” privately
owned cars at all?<br />
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I have no doubt such is in the works. It’s the logical terminus of a
society – and people – that not only no longer understands freedom but
which actively despises it.<br />
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Eric Peters <br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Eric Peters is a longtime
car/bikes/Libertarian-minded journalist. His book, “Road Hogs,” came out June
2011.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Peters has been writing a weekly column about cars for
almost 20 years now. He is the author of “Automotive Atrocities” and “Road
Hogs” (</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">MBI</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">). He lives in rural </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">SW Virginia</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> with his wife and a polyglot crew of animals</span>.</i></b><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G8qcFOOtr8w/UrRqMhJVcZI/AAAAAAAAh34/aUy0h8WzFiA/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G8qcFOOtr8w/UrRqMhJVcZI/AAAAAAAAh34/aUy0h8WzFiA/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>Back in 2012, the government took our 100 watt light bulbs and left us with these <b><i>awful, pathetic, sickly, fluorescent bulbs. </i></b>(The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act) These ugly, squiggly, things are called <b>"Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs."</b> <b><i>In my opinion, the "light bulb" portion of the name is a fraud. </i></b><br />
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Now that they have taken our 100 watt and 75 watt bulbs, <b>they will relieve us of our 60 watt and 40 watt bulbs effective in 2014.</b> (<i>Stores will be allowed to sell their inventory of the 60 and 40 watt bulbs but after that -- there will be no more.</i>)<br />
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Why does this upset me? <b><i>WHY, indeed?!</i></b><br />
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I’ll
point you in the direction of some evidence that the fluorescent bulbs
may not be as helpful and energy efficient as claimed and might even
damage American’s health and contribute to pollution of the earth. You
decide, for yourself, if you really want to put them in your home, where
you and your children will be exposed to them, or if you want to raise
hell with the Congress until they repeal this ridiculous law and give us
back our tried and true incandescent light bulbs. <br />
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Did you know
it required a special exemption from the Environmental Protection
Agency of the US government to allow fluorescent lamp bulbs to be sold
to the pubic in the US in the first place? Why? <b><i>Mercury, that’s why!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>“Fluorescent lights are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor and<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iw-wehTyNrU/UrRtAu_VuKI/AAAAAAAAh4E/5AzkIIOYVVg/s1600/no-bulb.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iw-wehTyNrU/UrRtAu_VuKI/AAAAAAAAh4E/5AzkIIOYVVg/s1600/no-bulb.jpg" /></a>
argon, or sometimes even krypton. The inner surface of the bulb is
coated with a fluorescent coating made of varying blends of metallic and
rare earth phosphor salts. Fluorescent light bulbs are more energy
efficient than incandescent light bulbs of an equivalent brightness, and
the efficiency of fluorescent lighting owes much to low-pressure
mercury photon discharges. But fluorescents don't produce a steady
light, and they burn out more quickly when cycled frequently; they also
contain items such as fluorine, neon, and lead powder as well as
mercury.” </i></b>(From: “Compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate the environment with 30,000 pounds of mercury each year” at: <a href="http://www.newstarget.com/021907.html">http://www.newstarget.com/021907.html</a> . (<i>This
article was written by Mike Adams a natural health researcher and
author with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and
the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored and published
thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics
like health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of
readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits
from reading his articles. Adams is an independent journalist with
strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product
or company.</i>)<br />
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Also from the same article we learn this:<br />
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<b><i>“According to<a href="http://www.lightbulbrecycling.com/"> www.lightbulbrecycling.com</a>,
each year an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed of in
U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste.
Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the
atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year. It only takes 4mg of
mercury to contaminate up to 7,000 gallons of freshwater, meaning that
the 30,000 pounds of mercury thrown away in compact fluorescent light
bulbs each year is enough to pollute nearly every lake, pond, river and
stream in North America (not to mention the oceans.")<br /> </i></b><br />
Then, there is this. The CFL bulb <b><i>“….
can cause people with epilepsy to experience symptoms similar to the
early stages of a fit. There have also been complaints of discomfort
from people with lupus”\."</i></b> Read more about this in <b>The Daily Mail</b> at:<br />
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/heal/healthmain.html?in_article_id=463911&in_page_id=1774">www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=463911&in_page_id=1774</a><br />
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Now…
what if you accidentally drop and break one of the CFL’s? Well, you
could be looking at a $2000.00 plus “professional clean-up job”. I mean…
<b><i>they do contain Mercury, remember?</i></b> Don’t believe me?
Check this story out: The CFL mercury nightmare [break a compact
fluorescent, face $2000 in cleanup costs] at:<br />
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825609/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825609/posts</a><br />
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Add to this the fact, and I do mean fact… that <b><i>there certainly appears to be less light output (lumens) from the CFL than from an incandescent bulb. </i></b><br />
<br />
Now… all the research I have done tells me that the CFL’s produce the same lumens as a comparable incandescent bulb. <b><i>But,
in practice, I have found that replacing a 60 watt incandescent with a
60 watt CFL will not produce the same amount of lighting.</i></b> The
area I am trying to light is dimmer, not lighted nearly as well, with
the CFL as it was with the incandescent. I have found the same true with
75-watt bulbs and 100-watt bulbs. I have even swapped the 60’s out for
75’s and the 75’s out for 100 watt CFL's and I STILL don’t see the crisp
brightness I get from the old incandescent bulb.<br />
<br />
These
days, I am using 150 watt CFL.s to replace the old 100 watt incandescent
bulbs around my home. And I am STILL not satisfied with the light from
the CFL. <b><i>In fact, I have taken to carrying a penlight flashlight
in my pocket, all the time now, in order to see into many of the dark
spaces that were not dark before the CFL's. </i></b> (I suffer from "nearsightedness" and those of us with that curse require LIGHT to be able to see clearly.) <br />
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Now,
I am not an engineer. I’m just an old country boy, who has been around
the block a few times, and experience tells me there HAS to be something
different about the lumens emitted by an incandescent and the lumens
emitted by a CFL. Is it a different <b>KIND</b> of light -- a different <b>COLOR</b> of light? Is that what the matter is?<br />
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OK... so I did a bit more research and this is what I found:<br />
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A
100-watt incandescent light bulb will produce about 1200 lumens. I read
that a 20 t0 25 watt CFL will produce the same amount of lumens... but…
<b><i>if the light fixture you are using isn’t DESIGNED for CFL's you will get a "dingy looking" light.</i></b> <b><i>Not nearly as bright as the old incandescent bulb!</i></b> It seems someone forgot to inform us that <b><i>CFL's radiate their light differently.</i></b> What that means is... that <b><i>even
though the CFL is producing the same amount of lumens, it may not be
producing the same amount of light to the lighted area!</i></b> <b><i>AHA!</i></b> I knew it! Read more on this at:<br />
<a href="http://lighterfootstep.com/how-to-live-with-cfls.html">http://lighterfootstep.com/how-to-live-with-cfls.html</a><br />
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So
besides the fact that CFL's don’t work well in cold climates… or just
plain old cold weather, they don’t work well, at all, in overhead
fixtures, they don’t work, at all, with dimmers, they contain poison,
they do not produce the same amount of light as the incandescent light
bulbs… in today's light fixtures, and ...they must be treated as
hazardous waste material when you get ready to toss one out, … why… <b><i>they’re just GREAT!</i></b><br />
<b><br />Why do I get the feeling I’ve been scammed… <i>yet again</i>?</b><br />
<br />
As
I write, I am in my office, and I have five different light fixtures on
right now. I have CFL's in all five of them and, frankly, it is as
through I am sitting here, in front of this computer, working by the
light of a number of oil lamps situated around the room! The light is
that bad! If I drop something on the floor, I have to get up and turn on
the overhead lights, which have four four-foot long fluorescent bulbs
in them, so I can find the dropped item on the floor. If the dropped
item happens to have rolled beneath my desk, <b><i>out comes the trusty penlight pocket flashlight in order to find it in the shadows. </i></b><br />
<b><i>This is madness! I’m at the point, with the CFL bulbs, that I would happily see the oceans boil and keep my incandescent bulbs!</i></b><br />
<br />
I
have nearly depleted my horde of 100 watt incandescent bulbs. In fact,
my last inventory I had only two bulbs left. I've been supplementing
them with 90 watt bulbs I was able to find at one of the big box
stores. They, too, will be gone soon. <br />
<br />
<b><i>I was thinking
recently how the CFL bulb so accurately represents an America in
decline. We've lost our "brightness", and have become the "dim lights"
of the world as a result of our public eduction system that often ranks
beneath that of third world countries. "Smart" people, "bright" people,
would not have allowed their government to do this to them.</i></b> <b><i><u> <span style="background-color: yellow;">But WE did. </span></u></i></b><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span><br />
<br />
I also wonder if a <b><i>contributing factor</i> </b>to the lost luster of the once <i><b>"Shining City On A Hill"</b></i> is the possibility that <b><i>we have changed all the light bulbs in the city to Compact Fluorescent Bulbs! </i></b><br />
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J. D. Longstreet<br />
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America, A Christian Nation
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is a
great regret that arrogant atheists attack Christmas at this time of year and
that too many institutions from schools to stores feel intimidated enough to
remove mention of it. It is one thing to deny the existence of God, but the
attacks are intended to undermine the faith of millions of Americans. The
atheists forget or neglect the fact that the pilgrims came here to freely
practice their interpretation of Christianity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is a
habit of mine to revisit the classic literature of the past and, with the
advent of Christmas, I picked up an excerpt from Edward Gibbon’s famed “The
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” that addressed in part the
role of Christianity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gibbon’s
vast knowledge of the Empire eventually filled six volumes. The first three
volumes were published in 1776 and became a bestseller. The final three volumes
cemented his reputation as a historian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gibbon
(1737-1794) not only possessed a vast body of knowledge, but also a felicity of
prose that enhances the pleasure of reading him. His history of Rome also
contained open criticism of organized religion which no doubt evoked a great
deal of discussion at the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
religion of Rome, however, being polytheistic with many gods could only be
called organized insofar as temples to those gods were built wherever it
exercised its power. Suffice to say, the then-new religion of Christianity was
declared illegal and Christians were widely persecuted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Initially,
the adherents to Christianity were Jews. Gibbon notes that “The first fifteen
bishops of Jerusalem were all circumcised Jews; and the congregations over
which they presided, united the law of Moses with the doctrine of Christ.”
Judaism had been around for a thousand years by that time, but there were a
variety of factors that kept it isolated and limited in numbers. It did not
actively proselytize and the requirement for circumcision was a deterrent. Judaism
also had many restrictions such as dietary laws and requirements that further
reduced its attraction for the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All that
changed with the advent of Saul of Tarsus, now known as St. Paul, a Jew who
experienced an epiphany that threw open the doors to the philosophical and
theological basis of Judaism. “Christianity offered itself to the world, armed
with the strength of the Mosaic Law and delivered from its fetters,” wrote
Gibbon. “The divine authority of Moses and the prophets was admitted, and even
established, as the firmest basis of Christianity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The
promise of divine favor, instead of being partially confirmed to the posterity
of Abraham, was universally proposed to the freeman and the slave, to the Greek
and the barbarian, to the Jew and to the Gentile.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“When the
promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind, on condition of adopting
the faith, and of observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so
advantageous an offer should have been accepted by great numbers of every
religion, of every rank, and of every province in the Roman Empire.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Roman
Empire had reigned supreme for almost 300 years when Christianity came on the
scene and would last another 200 until, in the view of historians; it became
too tired to maintain itself. It stretched across the known world from the
British Isles to India, exacting taxes and offering protection. By the third
century it could not be effectively governed from Rome and split into two
factions, East and West, seen today in the Eastern and Western churches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Christianity
offered something that Judaism did not; the promise of life after death, of
Heaven, and, conversely, a vision of Hell. Neither the prophets, nor the sages
of Judaism devoted much attention to what occurred after death because there is
no way to determine what occurs in its wake. Instead, Judaism has always placed
an emphasis on how one can pursue a life of proper behavior based on the
interpretation of the Torah or Old Testament whose heart is found in the Ten
Commandments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gibbon
wrote “It was by the aid of these causes, exclusive zeal, the immediate
expectation of another world, the claim of miracles, the practice of rigid
virtue, and the constitution of the primitive church, that Christianity spread
itself with so much success in the Roman Empire.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
gospels were composed in the Greek language “at a considerable distance from
Jerusalem” and after gentile converts had grown in numbers. “As soon as those
histories were translated into the Latin tongue, there were perfectly
intelligible to all the subjects of Rome” with some exceptions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
conversion of Constantine in the fourth century made Christianity the official
religion of Rome. It is estimated that, by then, almost a third of the
population had previously embraced Christianity and the Empire had already
begun to decline. In the early 400s, Rome was conquered by the barbaric tribes
of northern Europe, the Gaul’s, Visigoths, and others. Europe was plunged into
the Dark Ages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In time
Christianity would spread to much of the world though it would compete with the
more ancient faiths of Hinduism and Buddhism, and the tribal faiths of Africa
and the New World. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 632
A.D. Islam, the invention of Mohammed, would spread as much by the sword as by
its doctrine. It is the enemy of all other religions and its persecution of
Christians is a warning to the world. Mohammed told his followers, “The sword
is the key to heaven and hell.” These days, the Middle East is being “cleansed”
of Christians. No accommodation can be made with Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
demographics of Christianity have shifted significantly in the last century,
largely due to the enmity of Communism. As noted in a recent article, “In Latin
America alone, there are 517 million Christians. In Africa, 411 million. Asia
tallies 251 million. Once a global powerhouse of Christianity, Europe is home
to an ever-shrinking 553 million (expected to drop to 480 million by 2050)
while North America has 275 million.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Whatever
we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation,” said President Barack Obama
on June 28, 2006. A true Christian would never have uttered those words. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">America
was and is a Christian nation. Obama either misspoke or deliberately lied. His
words barely acknowledge the role of Christianity in the founding and history
of our nation. His words betray its role today.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gibbon’s
great work about the fall of Rome is a warning to all present empires and great
powers. It fell because it lacked a doctrine of virtue as much as from the
attacks by the barbarians who finished it off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Today Communism
is the faith of the new barbarians and Islam is the faith of its enemies. The
defense of civilization falls heavily on the worldwide Christian community.</span></div>
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Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-15360989826851798592013-12-20T03:09:00.000-05:002013-12-20T03:09:48.783-05:00Another Southern TV Star Taken Down ... J. D. Longstreet<b>Another Southern TV Star Taken Down<br />A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet</b><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zBmvm6DJnAY/UrNr_654VEI/AAAAAAAAh3Q/HLXGyzGYOmE/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zBmvm6DJnAY/UrNr_654VEI/AAAAAAAAh3Q/HLXGyzGYOmE/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>So now one can no longer express one's religious belief, huh?<br />
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By
now we have all heard of the latest Southern TV star's fall from the
public's grace as a result of his honesty. He made the mistake of
honestly expressing his opinion -- reference homosexuality -- to the
press, and now he is being publicly pilloried. <br />
<br />
"Phil Robertson,
patriarch of the “Duck Dynasty” clan, is being slammed for
controversial comments he made about homosexuality in an interview in
the January issue of GQ.<br />
<br />
When the reporter asked Robertson what he found sinful, he said <b><i>“Start
with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality,
sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those
men." </i>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/18/duck-dynasty-member-slammed-for-comments-on-homosexuality/">http://nypost.com/2013/12/18/duck-dynasty-member-slammed-for-comments-on-homosexuality/</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q4hqZhWDVps/UrNxVrkB1wI/AAAAAAAAh3o/YNxH5yJYgkU/s200/DUCK.png" width="200" /></a><br />
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As
a southerner myself, I have no problem understanding where Mr.
Robertson is coming from. That is to say, we both hail from the same
culture -- southern culture, which is a way of life centered around the
Holy Scriptures. Yeah, it's a "southern thing." <i>(It's not solely a southern thing, but it sometimes seems such.)</i><br />
<br />
And yes, we in the south are less tolerant of homosexuality than most any other region of the US. <br />
<br />
<b><i>"A
report from November 2012 suggested that there had been a new, and
rapid shift in support of equal marriage in the US, except in some
southern states, such as Texas and several other nearby southern states
which had remained opposed to the idea of same-sex marriage.<br /><br /><br />In
terms of regions opposed to equal marriage, the south leads in that
respect. South Atlantic and South Central states showed a majority of
voters as opposed to equal marriage, where in the latter, which includes
Texas, 56% of voters opposed it, versus 35% for."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/09/new-york-times-study-names-mississippi-as-state-least-tolerant-of-gay-people/">http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/09/new-york-times-study-names-mississippi-as-state-least-tolerant-of-gay-people/</a><br />
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Generally speaking the more conservative religious denominations of the South teach the following: <b><i>"Love the sinner. Hate the sin."</i></b><br />
<br />
As
a subscriber to the Christian faith, I believe homosexuality is a sin
forbidden by God. In the scriptures we are told that God, himself, said
to His people Israel, <b><i>"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination"</i></b> (Leviticus 18:22). <b><i>"If
a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them"</i></b> (Leviticus 20:13). In these passages
homosexuality is condemned as a sexual perversion. It is considered a
“Prime Sin.” As a Christian I cannot change how God views homosexuality
and I cannot turn my back on it and say that, well, times have changed,
and God must change, too. <b><i>THAT is, in my opinion, blasphemy.</i></b><br />
<br />
Now, before some of you point out the obvious, that this scripture is from the <b>OLD</b> <b>Testament</b>; I give you Saint Paul’s view of Homosexuality from the <b>NEW Testament</b>. <i>(Paul is the Apostle credited with bringing the Christian faith to the Gentiles of the world.)</i> Paul wrote a letter to the people of the Christian church in Corinth. In that letter Paul said the following: <b><i>“Or
do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10- nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the
kingdom of God.”</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <b><i>1 Corinthians, Chapter 6.</i></b><br />
<br />
It
could not be any clearer. Homosexuality is condemned in the scriptures
just as murder, adultery, premarital sex, kidnaping, lying, and idolatry
are condemned.<br />
<br />
For a bible-believing-southerner, those words are
written in stone -- especially for those of us who share the same
generation, a generation now approaching, or exceeding, our allotted
three score and ten years of life. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Seems to me that Mr.
Robertson is being persecuted for practicing his constitutional rights
of free expression of religion -- and -- free speech. However, here in
post-constitution America, it has become the norm to deny practitioners
of the Christian faith the same rights guaranteed all Americans. </i></b><br />
<br />
I
was not surprised, in the least, at the suddenness and the ferocity of
the attack upon Mr. Robertson. In fact, I was expecting it. <br />
<br />
We Americans have allowed political correctness to infect our land to the point that we are awash in vileness.<br />
<br />
In an article dated April 8th, 2011, ABC News reported: <b><i>"An
estimated 9 million Americans -- or nearly 4 percent of the total
population -- say they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or
transgender, according to a new report released this week from the
Williams Institute, a think-tank devoted to LGBT research at UCLA."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/williams-institute-report-reveals-million-gay-bisexual-transgender/story?id=13320565">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/williams-institute-report-reveals-million-gay-bisexual-transgender/story?id=13320565 </a><br />
<br />
Four percent of the US population. Only four percent -- <b><i>and yet they wield so much power. </i></b><br />
<br />
The <b><i>"arbiter of all things"</i></b>
will eventually settle this matter as He always does. Judging from His
earlier pronouncements about the issue, I have no doubt what His ruling
will be.<br />
<br />
As I consider my country today, I often think that the
people of ancient Sodom and Gomorah would be embarrassed by the hedonist
behavior of our nation.<br />
<br />
And we wonder <b><i>WHY</i></b> our nation is in such terrible straits??<br />
<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E04DwO6935k/UrI0TbnPr2I/AAAAAAAAh2o/L-UAC-45KAU/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E04DwO6935k/UrI0TbnPr2I/AAAAAAAAh2o/L-UAC-45KAU/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>You know, <i>the truth is a peculiar thing.</i>
It does not demand that you believe its veracity. It does not change
just because we choose not to believe it or even choose to force changes
upon it. It remains unchangeable, solid, forever in a state of
"being." As they say: <b><i>It is what it is.</i></b> <b>TRUTH. </b><br />
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We
have watched the world's efforts, led by the United States, to force
Israel to to give up its ancient homeland to a band of homeless rabble
-- not even claimed by their blood brothers -- in the Middle East. <br />
<br />
John Kerry, US Secretary of State, is on a fool's errand, one he assigned to himself, <i>ahem</i>, to force Israel to agree to as yet undisclosed terms of abandonment of the Jewish homeland to the so-called Palestinians.<br />
<br />
For almost seven decades Israel has withstood an onslaught from her surrounding enemies and from, sad to say, diplomats, <b><i>most from the US</i></b>,
in an attempt to transfer ownership of that sanctified land to those
not entitled, either by birthright or previous ownership. <br />
<br />
That tiny little piece of real estate on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, a seemingly insignificant sliver of land <b><i>is anything but insignificant</i></b>.
Modern Israel rests on the site of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and
Judah. Of the twelve tribes of Israel, Judah is the tribe from which the
Jewish people emanate. Approximately 40% of the world's Jews live in
Israel today. <br />
<br />
It lies at the crossroads of history. <b><i>In
the Carmel mountain range at el-Tabun, and Es Skhul, Neanderthal and
early modern human remains were found, including the skeleton of a
Neanderthal female, named Tabun I, which is regarded as one of the most
important human fossils ever found. The excavation at el-Tabun produced
the longest stratigraphic record in the region, spanning 600,000 or more
years of human activity, from the Lower Paleolithic to the present day,
representing roughly a million years of human evolution. </i>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel</a><br />
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<b>I
have often thought that the single reason the people of Israel, and the
state of Israel, elicit such animosity from the other people of this
planet is the constant reminder their very existence presents of ... <i>God. </i></b><br />
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In
my religious faith it is understood that the Jews are people chosen for
special attention by God. It is also understood that God, Himself,
chose that piece of real estate for his "chosen people" to make their
home ... <b><i>in perpetuity.</i></b> <b><i>That land was bequeathed, by God, to that nation forever. </i></b> But understand -- <b><i><u>the
original deed from Yahweh was for land stretching from the Nile River
eastward to the Euphrates River. We're describing an area that
encompasses land from Egypt to Iraq.</u></i></b> <b><i>And yet, today,
Israel is satisfied to remain on that teensie little sliver of land
hugging the coast of the Med when she is, in fact, entitled to more --
much more. </i></b><br />
<br />
And her enemies most fervent desire is to steal that little piece of land from Israel <b><i>while the world community supports the would be thieves. </i></b><br />
<br />
But Israel will not be moved. <i>There she stands, all alone -- <b>save for God.</b> </i><br />
<b><i>My own country's government refuses to accept that Israel holds a land grant from Providence. It is sacred, inviolate.</i></b> <br />
<br />
This
is one of those I "truths" I spoke about above. You don't have to like
it and it doesn't matter one whit if you disagree. <b><i>It just IS!</i></b><br />
<br />
Secretary Kerry may huff and puff and threaten Israel with all nature of vile things. But in the end -- <b><i>he will accomplish exactly nothing.</i></b><br />
<br />
It is reported that Kerry intends to press his own deal on Israel in January. In an article by Caroline Glick, entitled: <b>Kerry Forces Israel's Moment of Decision</b>,
Ms. Glick presents us with some of what she believes Kerry will demand
from Israel for a "peace accord" between Israel and the so-called
Palestinians. In her piece, she points out the following: <b><i>" ...
the Kerry parameters will involve Israeli surrender of Jerusalem and the
Temple Mount to the PLO , which rejects the historical fact that two
Jewish temples were built at the site that was and remains the cradle of
Jewish civilization and history and holiest site to Judaism. <br /><br />"They will involve the mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria... ." <br /><br />"Kerry’s
framework deal will involve the mass immigration of hundreds of
thousands of foreign-born Arabs, who have been living in al-Qaida-,
Hamas- and PLO -controlled UN-run “refugee camps,” for the past four
generations to the new state of “Palestine."<br /><br />"Kerry’s plan will
require Israeli society to destroy its cohesion through the
dismemberment and destruction of hundreds of Jewish communities."<br /><br />"Kerry’s
parameters will require Israel to surrender its ability to defend
itself against foreign aggression and Palestinian attacks."<br /><br />"As
for the US forces that Kerry proposes deploying to the Jew-free PLO
state, they will be targeted by the Palestinians, just as the
Palestinians and the Syrians attacked US Marines in Beirut 30 years ago.
And like the Marines in Beirut, they will be withdrawn in humiliation
and defeat, but the lesson – that the Arabs perceive the Americans and
Jews as enemies of equal weight – will not be learned."</i></b><br />
<b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013121833616/editorial/world-opinion-and-editorial/kerry-forces-israel-s-moment-of-decision.html">http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013121833616/editorial/world-opinion-and-editorial/kerry-forces-israel-s-moment-of-decision.html </a><br />
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I ask you, now -- <b><u><i>is THIS anyway to treat a FRIEND??</i></u></b><br />
<br />
Secretary
Kerry should take note. If Ms. Glick is near correct, then Kerry's
contempt for Israel will be on worldwide display next month. <b><i>As any student of the Scriptures can tell you -- contempt for Israel brings a curse on the contemptuous nation. </i></b><br />
<br />
Kerry should take warning. He is, as the old expression has it: <b><i>"treading on holy ground."</i></b>
We suggest it would assist Mr. Kerry's understanding of the situation
in Israel, if he consulted the scriptures. Especially Genesis 12:3.
The English Standard Version says it as clearly as it can be said: <b><i>"I
will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with
contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you." </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>And all this time you wondered why America has crumbled and fallen from her high perch above all the nations of the earth.</i></b> <b>Clearly, it results from the American government's contempt for Israel. </b><br />
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a year and a half go, I wrote of my concern that the Obama
Administration would soon seek a guaranteed minimum income for every
American. As we have watched the the unemployment benefits extended and
extended and extended again and again, one must wonder if, in the end,
that isn't exactly where we are headed. My concern has not slacked one
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the Obama Administration and his fellow Socialist/Marxist/Progressives
(who camouflage themselves as democrats) in the US government aren't
sent packing in November, I fully expect the next step in securing a
socialist state in America is a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for
every American.<br /><br />Think about it. It is one of the few steps
remaining that would solidify the hold government has on every man,
woman, and child in America.<br /><br />We know from the records that the
welfare rolls have increased exponentially under Obama. Recently,
changes were made by Presidential Executive Order to redefine "work"
allowing even more applicants for welfare to be added to the welfare
rolls. Why? Could it be the Obama Administration is deliberately
attempting to "crash" the US welfare system? If so -- why?<br /><br />I contend -- that is exactly what is happening.<br /><br />If
I an correct, then we are actually seeing the "Cloward-Piven Strategy"
at work. We are observing the foundation, the groundwork -- if you will
-- for establishing a guaranteed annual (minimum) income for American
citizens. It is very, very, worrisome. But -- it is only the latest move
by our socialist leaders to break America so they can re-mold her in
the image of their choosing, which is, unarguably a socialist/Marxist
state.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ECZQyCkLhco/UrDd1oNGjrI/AAAAAAAAh2Q/ejkZuWEGwxs/s1600/Welfare+recipenients+for+Obama.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ECZQyCkLhco/UrDd1oNGjrI/AAAAAAAAh2Q/ejkZuWEGwxs/s320/Welfare+recipenients+for+Obama.jpg" width="320" /></a>America
is in a death spiral, dear reader. If the American electorate doesn't
shake itself out of this stupor in which it is currently wallowing and
come out swinging like the people we like to think we are, we are going
to lose our liberty, our individual freedom, and our country.<br /><br />What we are talking about here is <b><i>"a government-ensured guarantee that all citizens unconditionally receive an income sufficient to meet their basic needs."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.usbig.net/index.php">http://www.usbig.net/index.php</a><br /><br />Look
around you. Consider the extremely high percentage of Americans already
on what we call "Welfare" and consider, too, that nearly half of all
Americans currently receive some form of government monetary assistance
every month and then -- <b><i>ask yourself what will happen to America's
economy if Americans are guaranteed an annual income whether they work
and contribute to our society or not.</i></b><br /><br />Let's look a bit closer: What is a <b>BIG</b>? It is a <b>Basic Income Guarantee</b>.<b><i>
"The basic income guarantee (BIG) is a government insured guarantee
that no citizen's income will fall below some minimal level for any
reason. All citizens would receive a BIG without means test or work
requirement. BIG is an efficient and effective solution to poverty that
preserves individual autonomy and work incentives while simplifying
government social policy. Some researchers estimate that a small BIG,
sufficient to cut the poverty rate in half could be financed without an
increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax
deductions aimed at maintaining incomes."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.usbig.net/index.php">http://www.usbig.net/index.php</a><br /><br />Here's more: <b><i>"The
Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is a government ensured guarantee that no
one's income will fall below the level necessary to meet their most
basic needs for any reason. As Bertrand Russell put it in 1918, "A
certain small income, sufficient for necessities, should be secured for
all, whether they work or not, and that a larger income should be given
to those who are willing to engage in some work which the community
recognizes as useful. On this basis we may build further." Thus, with
BIG no one is destitute but everyone has the positive incentive to work.
BIG is an efficient, effective, and equitable solution to poverty that
promotes individual freedom and leaves the beneficial aspects of a
market economy in place."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.phphttp://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php">http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.phphttp://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php</a><br /><br />OK. <b>So, how would we pay for it?</b> Those who advocate the BIG say (above): <b><i>"
... could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds
from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining
incomes."</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>HUH?</i></b><br /><br />That's strange because just a bit lower on the page we find this: <b><i>"The
most commonly cited source of revenue for BIG is the income tax. Most
proposals combine a basic income guarantee with a flat tax on income.
Charles Clark estimates that a flat income tax rate of less than 40%
would be enough to finance all current government spending and a BIG
large enough to eliminate poverty." </i>SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php">http://www.usbig.net/whatisbig.php</a><br /><br /><b><i>I have to wonder if "less than 40%" means 39.99%?</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>It's coming.</i></b>
How can I be so sure? Because the next attempt at a BIG for the US will
be only the latest iteration. The movement for a guaranteed income has
been around for a long time. A quick check for advocates of a guaranteed
income at Wikipedia brought some surprises. For Instance: American
revolutionary <b>Thomas Paine advocated a basic income guarantee</b> to all US citizens as compensation for <b><i>"loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property"</i></b> (Agrarian Justice, 1795).<br /><br />French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte echoed Paine's sentiments and commented that <b><i>'man is entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence'</i></b> (Herold, 1955).<br /><br />In
1962, economist Milton Friedman proposed a Negative Income Tax coupled
with a flat tax in support of a guaranteed minimum income.<br /><br />In
1963, Robert Theobald published the book Free Men and Free Markets, in
which he advocated a guaranteed minimum income (the origin of the modern
version of the phrase).<br /><br /><b><i>In 1966 the Cloward–Piven strategy
advocated "overloading" the US welfare system to force its collapse in
the hopes that it would be replaced by "a guaranteed annual income and
thus an end to poverty".</i></b><br /><br />In his final book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: <b><i>"I
am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most
effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now
widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."</i></b><br />—from the chapter titled<b> "Where We Are Going".</b><br /><br />In
1968, James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another
1,200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to
introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.<br /><br />In
1973, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote The Politics of a Guaranteed Income
in which he advocated the Guaranteed Minimum Income and discussed
Richard Nixon's GAI proposal.<br /><br />We encourage you to read the article at Wikipedia at:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income</a><br /><br />There
are references to other advocates of a national guaranteed income in
the article at Wikipedia, but I think you get the idea.<br /><br />Oh, and
while you are on the Wikipedia page, scroll down and check out the list
of suggested means of funding for a national guaranteed income. But -- <b><i>be sure you are sitting down before you do.</i></b><br /><br /><b><i>A guaranteed income for all Americans is the worst idea for America since, well, Obamacare!</i></b><br /><br />Item number two in the The Black Panther Party: Platform and Program includes the following statement: <b><i>"We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6445/">http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6445/</a><br /><b><i><br />As
I mentioned above -- I have to wonder if the massive increase in the
number of Americans on Welfare under the Obama Administration is in
keeping with the Cloward–Piven strategy which suggests overloading the
US welfare system forcing it to collapse and setting the stage for a
guaranteed income for all Americans. You can read more on the
Cloward-Piven strategy at:</i></b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward–Piven_strategy</a><br /><br />I cannot even begin to tell you how deeply, <b><i>deeply</i></b>,
opposed to the entire idea of a guaranteed annual income for all
Americans I am. The American republic would be crushed and wiped out by
internal rot!<br /><br />J. D. Longstreet</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNihGvprXjs/Uq8cjO4AeeI/AAAAAAAAh0o/C4y5Oh4Orvw/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNihGvprXjs/Uq8cjO4AeeI/AAAAAAAAh0o/C4y5Oh4Orvw/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>As
much as I would like to stop talking about, writing about, and/or
hearing about OBAMACARE, I just can't escape it. I suspect you have
found yourself as exasperated as I am. If not, certainly, you soon shall
be. <br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DJrHExibtu4/Uq8j-orl71I/AAAAAAAAh1M/0Yrg73ebzsk/s1600/T.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DJrHExibtu4/Uq8j-orl71I/AAAAAAAAh1M/0Yrg73ebzsk/s320/T.jpg" width="219" /></a><br />
<b><i>See -- it's going to get worse. </i></b><br />
<br />
The hellish scheme that is Obamacare is set to destroy America's economy as well as the finest healthcare system in the world. <br />
<br />
Just think. We have only just begun the chain reaction of one blunder after another. <b><i>But Wait! What if these are not blunders? Well, </i><i><u>not ALL of them.</u></i><i> Stay with me and I'll try to explain. </i></b><br />
<br />
Next
year, when Americans learn they have no insurance when the get sick and
have to visit a doctor or hospital, there are going to be even more
Americans disillusioned with this massive takeover of the American
economy and even more troubling -- <b><i>the realization that their very
lives are in the hands of a bunch of people in Washington who, after
spending millions of taxpayer dollars, can't even make a website on the
Internet work. </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>We're in trouble, folks ... serious trouble.</i></b><br />
<br />
Conservatives absolutely must keep the spotlight on the catastrophe of Obamacare for the next eleven months. <b><i>It is the Achilles Heel of Obama and the Democratic Party.</i></b>
They wrote it, they voted it into a bill, and Obama signed it into
law. The republicans had nothing to do with it... save to fight it
every step of the way and continue to wage warfare against it to this
very day. <br />
<br />
<b><i>Obama and the democrats OWN Obamacare. </i></b> (Yes, I know t<b><i>he
MsM, the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, is currently in the
midst of a throttle-to-the-wall all out drive to indoctrinate the
America public in such a manner as to successfully remove Obama's name
from the healthcare law so as to absolve Obama from any responsibility
for it. That's why you now hear, read, and see it referred to as the
"Affordable Care Act." </i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>I spent several decades
in the advertising business and it is clear to me that this is pure R
& R "run and repeat." It was borrowed from the Nazi's propaganda
machine: "Tell a lie loud enough -- and long enough -- and folks will
eventually believe it.")</i></b><br />
<br />
Conservatives must match the
passion of the Mainstream Media and fight back with an equally
passionate campaign to see that Americans never forget that Obamacare is
the brainchild of Obama -- <i>and</i> -- that the Democratic Party gave birth to the spawn from hell. <br />
<br />
Democrats must have their noses publicly <b><i>"rubbed in it"</i></b> at every opportunity. <br />
<br />
Americans must be reminded, <i>and often</i>, that <b><i>Obamacare is socialized medicine</i></b>. No less than Vladimir Lenin said : <b><i>"Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State." </i></b>Some have taken to referring to it as <b><i>"semi-socialism."</i></b> There is no such thing. Its akin to being <b><i>"a little pregnant,"</i></b> or <b><i>"slightly dead." </i></b><br />
<br />
In
earlier commentaries we have told you that Obamacare was designed to
fail. I still believe that. The idea, as I see it, was to establish
Obamacare, and have it fail, but fail with millions "hooked" on it so
there would be a clamor from the public for a national healthcare system
to replace the failed Obamacare system. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RZs_qjk85bg/Uq8hntMkjGI/AAAAAAAAh04/OyC3PLWq6ZU/s1600/Wait+til+its+free.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RZs_qjk85bg/Uq8hntMkjGI/AAAAAAAAh04/OyC3PLWq6ZU/s320/Wait+til+its+free.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<br />
<b>Enter single payer healthcare. </b><br />
<b><i><br />"A
single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the
government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all
of the bills for the health care system."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php">http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php </a> <br />
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(Understand when we say <b><i>"the government pays,"</i></b> we mean YOU and I pay, as taxpayers, through higher taxes.)<br />
<br />
Many on the political left insist that with single-payer healthcare everyone has healthcare. <b><i>The truth is that everyone WILL have insurance, but</i></b> -- <b>NOT EVERYONE WILL HAVE HEALTHCARE! </b><br />
<br />
Single
payer systems limit your access to healthcare. Obamacare will also, but
not to the degree that a single payer system will.<br />
<br />
If you think
the threat of healthcare rationing with Obamacare was/is frightening,
take a look at what single payer healthcare systems inevitably bring.
Consider this: <br />
<br />
<b><i>"While the government in a single-payer
system will pay for everyone's health care, it limits the access to
health care. In a single-payer system, citizens often believe that "the
government" is paying for their health care. When people perceive that
someone else is paying for something, they tend to over-use it. In a
single-payer health care system, people over-use health care. This puts
strain on government health care budgets, and to contain costs
governments must ration care.<br /><br />Governments in a single-payer
system ration care using waiting lists for surgery and diagnostic
procedures and by canceling surgeries. As the Canadian Supreme Court
said upon ruling unconstitutional a Quebec law that banned private
health care, "access to a waiting list is not access to health care."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php">http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php</a><br />
<br />
If Obamacare is not successfully repealed <b><i>THIS</i></b> is what America has to look forward to. <br />
<br />
Already,
the socialists in our government are pushing their plans for a single
payer system for America along. Notable sponsors, as well, <b><u><i>purportedly</i></u></b> from the political right, such as<b><i> former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, are already publicly calling for a single payer system for America. </i></b><br />
<br />
Speaking at a prostate cancer survivors breakfast just days ago, Gen Powell said: <b><i>
"I don’t see why we can’t do what Europe is doing, what Canada is
doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing,”
Powell said at the Dec. 5 event. “I am not an expert in health care, or
Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe
it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal
health care in my 55 years of public life.”</i></b><br />
<br />
<b><i>Every
country I’ve visited, every developed country, they have universal
health care … I think universal health care is one of the things we
should really be focused on,” Powell said. “Whether it’s Obamacare, or
son of Obamacare, I don’t care. As long as we get it done."</i></b> <b> SOURCE: </b> <a href="http://americanlibertypac.com/2013/12/colin-powell-wants-u-s-to-work-toward-single-payer-health-care/#sthash.YfsVpf9M.dpuf">http://americanlibertypac.com/2013/12/colin-powell-wants-u-s-to-work-toward-single-payer-health-care/#sthash.YfsVpf9M.dpuf</a><br />
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<b><i>Its coming, gentle reader.</i></b><br />
<br />
Like
a small pebble dislodged from a towering mountain side begins its roll
to the valley floor below, it will inevitably shake other rocks and
debris loose to tumble with it until it becomes an avalanche. That's
what the political left, the American socialists, are counting on.<br />
<br />
We
knew this would happen, indeed, we knew it was/is the game plan for a
universal healthcare system in America even before Obamacare became a
twinkle in Obama's eye. It is incrementalism on the part of the <b><u><i>"socialcrats."</i></u></b> They achieve their goals a tiny bit at a time -- in small increments. It is slow, but guess what? In the end -- they win. <br />
<br />
Still don't take me seriously? Well, consider this: <b><i>"Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the American Health Security Act of
2013 on Monday (December 9th, 2013), which would require states to
create their own single-payer insurance systems. A House version was
introduced in March by Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash."</i></b> <b>SOURCE: </b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/10/colin-powell-endorses-single-payer-health-care"> http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/10/colin-powell-endorses-single-payer-health-care </a><br />
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It pains me to report to you, dear reader, that <b><i>Obamacare is just the first step.</i></b> As I said above: <b><i>It WILL get worse.</i></b><br />
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have been telling you for several years now that there is an
undercurrent of rage coursing through America just below the always
restive surface. Conservative leaders have done nothing to call the
Obama Administration to account for the abuse of power so obvious to
anyone politically aware n America today. <br />
<br />
The Republican Party, the home of conservatives in our two party system, is split in twain -- as is the country itself. <br />
<br />
The
US House of Representatives, controlled by the GOP, is torn by a near
rebellion in it's ranks -- the so-called "establishment" republicans
versus the "conservative" republicans. <br />
<br />
Even a general appraisal
of our national condition, politically, would give rise to a jolt of
shock to any of our Forefathers should they be able to pierce the veil
of the grave and assess America's state today.<br />
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Many
on America's political right are openly and passionately calling for A
Bill of Impeachment to be passed in the US House against our President,
B. H. Obama.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, there are powerful figures, also
conservative as well, and some from the establishment republicans who
argue impeaching Obama is a waste of time and effort. It is the latter
who currently hold the positions of power in the GOP. <br />
<br />
Me? I
tend to agree with BOTH sides. I think Obama SHOULD be impeached. At
the same time, I understand that there is not a chance of a snowball in
Hades of ever getting the Democratic Party controlled Senate to convict
Obama.<br />
<br />
However, some have suggested, and I agree, impeachment
proceeding, (the trial, if you will) of Obama would serve to make public
all the abuses of power by Obama, and so much more the average America
voter is not aware of. It would be a real eye-opener for the
electorate. <br />
<br />
There has been the suggestion that once the America
voter learned of all the abuses of our president, they would be so
angry, it would render the President impotent and force the Senate off
the dime and into action. Of that, I am not so sure. <br />
<br />
I'm
not convinced the Senate, as now composed, (mainly of democrats) can be
moved to convict Obama of anything, certainly not as the result of an
impeachment in the House of Representatives. <br />
<br />
It is possible
that the outcome of the election next November could change the Senate
to republican control but that is nearly a year away and much can happen
in politics in a year. <br />
<br />
However, it is becoming more and more
obvious to Americans on both sides of the political divide that America
cannot continue her current course. The animus has reached a level only
seen between Americans in the years preceding the American Civil War. <br />
<br />
The
legislative branch of our government seems oblivious to the threat to
domestic peace. On the other hand the executive branch is well aware of
it and has been quietly preparing for civil unrest that could break out
at any moment. Remember all the massive purchases of ammunition made
by the various department of the government, over the past few months
and years? Included in those munitions purchases were things like
armored cars and tank-like war fighting vehicles. The government has
been busy militarizing our local law enforcement agencies, too. <br />
<br />
Add
to all the government's preparations for an American uprising Obama's
purge of the general's and admirals in our military who are not
dedicated to him more so than the constitution and you begin to get a
glimpse of the physical readiness of the Obama Administration for
domestic unrest.<br />
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Then,
too, there are those who suggest that a successful impeachment of Obama
would spark a race war in America between blacks and whites. <br />
<br />
The
impeachment process is not an easy one and there have been only four
serious discussions of impeachment by the Congress in the history of the
United States and not a single president has been removed from office
as a result of impeachment. <br />
<br />
Consider this: <br />
<br />
<b><i>Andrew
Johnson was actually impeached when Congress became unhappy with the way
he was dealing with some post-Civil War matters, but Johnson was
acquitted in the Senate by one vote and remained in office.<br /><br />Congress introduced a resolution to impeach John Tyler over state's rights issues, but the resolution failed.<br /><br />Congress was debating his impeachment over the Watergate break-in when President Richard Nixon resigned.<br /><br />William
J. Clinton was impeached by the House on charges of perjury and
obstruction of justice in relationship to his affair with White House
intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was eventually acquitted by the Senate.</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/impeachment.htm">http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/impeachment.htm</a><br />
<br />
Consider this from the Impeach Obama Campaign website: <b><i>
"A charge against Obama that is an easy one to make is perjury. He
said he would support and defend the Constitution. But he has caused a
less perfect union, established injustice, has destroyed domestic
tranquility, removed money and support for the common defense of this
nation, made the general welfare of the nation worse, and made our
liberty less secure now and into the future. He also violated Article
I, Section 1, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution, which states that all
legislative powers are granted only to Congress. Only Congress can
change a law once it is adopted. Obama has done so often with the
Affordable Care Act. He has also tried to work around Congress whenever
possible."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/">http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/</a><br />
<br />
Then
there are those who say we're better of with Obama serving in the Oval
Office than with his successor, Vice President Joe Biden. If that hits
you with the force of a blow to the solar plexus, just remember -- Biden
IS the constitutional successor to Obama should Obama be impeached and
found guilty and removed from office. (Talk about raining on your
parade, what!?)<br />
<br />
Look. Impeachment is serious business and ought
not be bandied about as some sort of Damocles sword hanging always over
the head of our leader(s). Nevertheless, our wise Forefathers wrote it
into the constitution: Article II, Section 4:<b><i> "The President,
Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be
removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. "</i></b><br />
<br />
In the book <b>"A History of the American Constitution"</b>
(1990), authored by Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry, they tell us of
the debate and discussions that ultimately gave us the final words we
find in our constitution today as they regard impeachment: <br />
<br />
<b><i>
"Finally, there were many debates about the exact procedures that
should be followed in cases of impeachment. Some delegates mistrusted
the Senate, and some the House. Many were worried that neither branch
would have enough firmness of purpose to oppose the president. A few
were concerned that providing for impeachment would subordinate the
president to the legislature. The Convention in fact could not reach
agreement on most of the issues arising out of impeachment procedures.
The Committee on Detail thus forged its own compromise<br />provisions that appear in the Constitution. Although there was some grumbling, the Committee's basic ideas were accepted."</i></b> <b>SOURCE:</b> <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/constitution.html">http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/constitution.html</a><br />
<br />
So. Do I think Obama should be impeached. <br />
<br />
Yes. <br />
<br />
Do I think Obama <i>will be</i> impeached? <br />
<br />
No, I don't.<br />
<br />
Why?
For several reasons: The GOP doesn't have the cahones for it, and the
democratic controlled Senate would never convict, AND -- over shadowing
it all is -- Joe Biden, Obama's constitutional successor. <br />
<br />
Seems
to me the best we can hope for now is a crushing defeat of the democrats
in next November's election. The GOP must control both houses of
Congress to have a chance at a successful impeachment. To repeal
Obamacare, they'd need -- not just control of both houses -- but a veto
proof majority of the Congress to override Obama's certain veto. <br />
<br />
The next eleven months are pivotal to the future of America. <br />
<br />
J. D. Longstreet<br />
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<br />Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-36661894399739902142013-12-15T02:21:00.000-05:002013-12-15T02:21:09.591-05:00A Climate Of Fear, Cash And Correctitude ... Paul Drieseen and Dennis Mitchell<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 115%;">A Climate Of Fear, Cash And Correctitude </span></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Trashing
real science to protect grants, prestige, and desire to control energy,
economy, lives </span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Paul
Driessen and Dennis Mitchell </span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Paul Driessen</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earth’s geological, archaeological and
written histories are replete with climate changes: big and small, short and
long, benign, beneficial, catastrophic and everything in between. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Great-Warming-Climate-Change-Civilizations/dp/1596913924/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384889304&sr=1-2&keywords=brian+fagan+the+little+ice+age">Medieval
Warm Period</a> (950-1300 AD or CE) was a boon for agriculture, civilization
and Viking settlers in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greenland</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Ice-Age-Climate-1300-1850/dp/0465022723/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384889304&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+fagan+the+little+ice+age">Little
Ice Age</a> that followed (1300-1850) was calamitous, as were the Dust Bowl and
the extended droughts that vanquished the Anasazi and Mayan cultures; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Global-Warming-Updated-Expanded/dp/0742551245/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384889438&sr=1-2&keywords=dennis+avery">cyclical
droughts and floods</a> in Africa, Asia and Australia; and periods of vicious
hurricanes and tornadoes. Repeated Pleistocene Epoch ice ages covered much of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">North America</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Europe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Asia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> under mile-thick ice sheets that denuded
continents, stunted plant growth, and dropped ocean levels 400 feet for
thousands of years. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dennis Mitchell</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Modern environmentalism, coupled with
fears first of global cooling and then of global </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></b>warming, persuaded politicians
to launch the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Its original goal was
to assess possible human influences on global warming and potential risks of
human-induced warming. However, it wasn’t long before the Panel minimized,
ignored and dismissed non-human factors to such a degree that its posture
became the mantra that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> humans are
now affecting climate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Over the last three decades, five IPCC “assessment
reports,” dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of
papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse
gas emissions, as being responsible for “dangerous” global warming, climate
change, climate “disruption,” and almost every “extreme” weather or climate
event. Tens of billions of dollars have supported these efforts, while only a
few million have been devoted to <a href="http://www.nipccreport.org/reports/reports.html">analyses of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> factors</a> – natural and human –
that affect and drive planetary climate change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You would think researchers would welcome
opportunities to balance that vast library of one-sided research with an
analysis of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural</i> causes of
climate change – so that they can evaluate the relative impact of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human</i> activities, more accurately
predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can
plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts. Unfortunately, that’s rarely the
case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In autumn 2013, <a href="http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1685#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists">Nebraska
lawmakers</a> budgeted $44,000 for a study of climate cycles and natural causes
– avoiding additional speculation about man made effects. Several </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nebraska</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> researchers rejected the idea, saying
the budget was insufficient and they would not be interested unless human
influences were made part of the study. They would not compromise their
integrity or let politics dictate their research, they said. Ultimately, the
project was <a href="http://www.nebraska.tv/story/24133597/gov-heineman-cancels-duplicitive-study-on-climate-change">cancelled
in favor of yet another</a> study of human influences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Integrity is an important concern,
especially when so many scientists have accepted far larger sums for research
that emphasizes human causes, including some at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Penn State</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Virginia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, George Mason and other institutions
associated with the IPCC and EPA. Such grants have brought us “studies”
connecting “dangerous manmade global warming” to dwindling frog populations,
shrinking Italian pasta supplies, clownfish getting lost, cockroaches
migrating, and <a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm">scores of
other</a> remote to <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2011/08/23/climate_prostitutes,_charlatans_and_comedians/page/full">ridiculous
assertions</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is essential that some studies now
begin to assess, understand and calibrate the powerful, complex, interrelated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural</i> forces that drive climate
fluctuations, cycles and changes. Only then will we be able to discern and
separate significant human influences – and begin to predict why, when, how and
where Earth’s climate is likely to change in the future. Even $44,000 would have
enabled these accomplished </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nebraska</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> researchers to <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/11/04/nebraska-moves-forward-study-natural-climate-change">examine
existing scientific papers</a> and prepare a valuable report on natural factors
that would help to put human influences in context. Only such comprehensive
knowledge will enable us to predict, prepare for, mitigate and adapt to future climate
variations with sufficient accuracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">American taxpayers alone are providing
billions of dollars annually for research focused on human factors, through the
EPA and other government agencies. The universities and other institutions
routinely take 40% or more off the top for “project management” and “overhead.”
None of them wants to derail that gravy train, and all fear that accepting
grants to study natural factors or climate cycles would imperil <a href="http://www.cfact.org/2013/10/28/do-the-math-count-the-cash/">funding from
sources</a> that have ideological, political or crony corporatist reasons for
making grants tied to manmade warming, renewable energy and related topics. Peer
pressure, Eco-activist harassment, politically correct posturing, and shared
ideologies about fossil fuels, forced economic transformations and wealth
redistribution via energy policies also play a major role, especially on
campuses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Racial and sexual diversity is applauded,
encouraged, even required, on campuses, as is political diversity across the “entire”
spectrum from communist to “progressive.” But diversity of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opinion</i> is restricted to 20x20-foot “free speech zones,” and
would-be free speech practitioners are vilified, exiled to academic </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Siberia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, dismissed or penalized – as “climate
skeptics” from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Delaware</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oregon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Virginia</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and other institutions can testify. Robust
debate about energy and climate issues is denounced and obstructed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As <a href="http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/SummaryPrelimReport.html">The Right
Climate Stuff</a> team points out, we cannot possibly model or distinguish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human</i> influences on climate change,
without first understanding and modeling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural</i>
factors. But solar, cosmic ray, oceanic and other natural forces are dismissed
in the corridors of alarmism. Even the adverse effects of climate change and
renewable energy policies on jobs, economic growth, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/28/driessen-the-heavy-price-of-regulations/?page=all">human
health and welfare</a>, and <a href="http://www.masterresource.org/2013/03/avian-mortality-wind-i/">bird and
bat populations</a> receive little attention. Sadly, science has been subjected
to such tyranny before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo found
that science and observations did not support Ptolemy’s clever and complex model
of the solar system, the totalitarian establishment of their day advised such
heretics to recant – or be battered, banished or even burned at the stake.
Today’s climate models are even more clever and complex, dependent on questionable
assumptions and massaged data, unable to predict temperatures or climate
events, and employed to justify costly energy and economic policies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The modelers nevertheless continue to
enjoy fame, fortune, power and academic glory – while those who question the
garbage in-garbage out models are denounced and ostracized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A particularly ugly example of junk
science occurred in Stalin’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soviet
Union</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, where Trofim
Lysenko rejected plant genetics and promoted the idea that traits were acquired
by exposure to environmental influences. His delusions fit the regime’s utopian
fantasies so well that a generation of scientists accepted them as fact, or at
least said they did, so as to stay employed, and alive. Meanwhile, Lysenko’s
crackpot ideas led to agricultural decline, crop failures, starvation, and
finally the demise of the centrally planned Soviet economic system that perpetrated
and perpetuated suffering for millions of people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Skepticism and debate would have saved
resources and lives. However, the Stalinist political machine would not
tolerate dissent. Today’s scientific disease is less pernicious. However, politically
driven science still frames critical public policies, because ideologically
driven government has become the dominant financier of science. The disease has
already crippled </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Europe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s industry and economy. It now threatens
the vitality of the once powerful and innovative American system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’re all familiar with the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Third World</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “democratic” process, where voters are
“persuaded” by fear, fraud, deception, free meals and sham theatrics to give
tin-pot dictators 97% of the “freely” cast votes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today we’re told 97% of climate
scientists agree that the science is “settled” on climate change. This sham “consensus”
is based on <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/about-that-overwhelming-98-number-of-scientists-consensus/">75
of 77 scientists</a> who were </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">selected from a 2010 survey that
went to 10,257 scientists. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
ignores the <a href="http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/_files/USSenateEPWMinorityReport.pdf">700
climate scientists</a>, <a href="http://www.oism.org/pproject/">31,000 American
scientists</a> and <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2013/11/10/the-52-consensus/">48%
of US meteorologists</a> who say there is no evidence that humans are causing
dangerous climate change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">More important, science is not a
popularity contest or a matter of votes. As Galileo and Einstein demonstrated,
one scientist who is right, and can prove it with evidence, trumps hundreds who
have nothing but models, old paradigms, scary headlines and government cash to
support their hypotheses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Few scientists would say the Dust Bowl
was caused by humans, even though poor farming practices clearly exacerbated
it. Few would say cancer research should be limited to manmade chemicals, even
though they may be responsible for some cancers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nebraskan and other researchers should
end their focus on human causes – and start working to understand <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> the complex, interrelated factors
behind global climate changes and cycles. Government financiers and policy
makers must do likewise. Our future well-being depends on it. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; line-height: 115%;">Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (<a href="http://www.cfact.org/">www.CFACT.org</a>)
and author of <i>Eco-Imperialism: Green
power - Black death</i>. Dennis Mitchell, CPA/QEP, has been professionally
involved in environmental and tax compliance, monitoring and education for 40
years and is an avid student of climate change. </span></span></b>Longstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-54420948798301914322013-12-14T01:32:00.000-05:002013-12-14T01:32:38.653-05:00Politically Correct is Political Ignorance ... Alan Caruba<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Americans
are inclined to believe that, with the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the
Cold War from 1945 to 1991 was over. In fact, that war of ideologies, communism
versus capitalism, began in the 1920s after the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir
Lenin, initiated a covert program to undermine America. Today we call it
“political correctness” and its impact on our society is sapping it of its true
history and values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Willing
Accomplices: How KGB Covert Intelligence Agents Created Political Correctness,
Obama’s Hate-America-First Political Platform, and Destroyed America” by Kent
Clizbe, a former CIA espionage officer, reveals how active and covert agents of
the KGB, the Soviet security and intelligence agency, has led inevitably to the
election of a President who hates America and is seeking to undermine it in
every way possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If that
sounds implausible, keep in mind that Obama is the first President to shake the
hand of Raul Castro, the brother and current president of Communist Cuba, at
the recent Mandela memorial. He is the same President who told Dimity Medvev,
the third president of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012, that he would
have more “flexibility” in his second term to carry out its ideological war on
America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Clizbe’s
book deserves far more notice, but in a nation in which its mainstream print
and broadcast outlets are filled with Leftists, that is not going to happen. He
details and documents how the messengers of the attacks “denigrated American
patriotism, capitalism and individualism, and called into question American
foreign policy.” He calls those messengers Russia’s “willing accomplices.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“By the
1980s, full-blown politically correctness (had) infected academia, education,
the media, Hollywood, and American society in general. Americans were
constantly bombarded with reminders of their hatefulness, bigotry, racism,
sexism, and imperialism. Confused by the message of hate and disgust, while
their daily lives were filled with positive energy, normal Americans became
wracked with guilt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“They were
reminded daily that they were guilty of slavery, bigotry, killing babies in
Vietnam, oppressing minorities and women around the globe, stealing the
continent from the Indians, being arrogant in dealing with foreigners, killing
the Earth with their hairspray, and various other sins.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It took
the imposition of Obamacare to awaken many Americans to the danger of a
government intent on taking over one sixth of the nation’s economy, the
movement called the Tea Party, and it is awakening millions more to the threat
to their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is
why, during his first campaign, Obama accused Midwesteners of getting “bitter,
they cling to their guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like
them, or anti-immigrant sentiment…” This is why, during his first term, he
launched a major effort to attack the Second Amendment and why American
opposition to illegal aliens is characterized as wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
explains why the Obama administration bailout of General Motors which should
have been allowed to file for bankruptcy and reorganization has cost Americans
ten billion dollars. It explains why billions were wasted on “investments” in
solar and wind turbine manufacturers that went bankrupt shortly afterward, and
why some six trillion dollars was added to our national debt in Obama’s first
term. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
explains why Obamacare, a full-fledged disaster, was passed by Democratic Party
votes by Senators who never read the bill. No Republican voted for this bill.
And hundreds of thousands of Americans will die because they can no longer
afford their medications, no longer have access to their personal physicians,
and can no longer gain admittance to hospitals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Political
correctness has been advanced by a fundamental formula: Admit nothing. Deny
everything. Make counter-accusations.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Little
wonder why conservative politicians and the Tea Party movement are constantly
attacked as bigoted and evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Political
correctness infuses all aspects of our culture today, but is most evident in
our school systems and our institutions of higher learning. Glizbe warns that
“Children exposed to this insidious self-hate are programed to hate themselves,
their ancestors and predecessors, their country’s founders and leaders, past
and present.” It explains why a massive effort was launched to ensure that
neither the salute to the American flag, the pledge of allegiance, and prayer
are no longer a part of the daily regime in our schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is evident in Hollywood where one of its
famed purveyors, film director Oliver Stone said “Nationalism and patriotism
are the two most evil forces that I know of…” It explains why films like “Wall
Street” denigrate capitalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
explains why so much of American culture, particularly what passes for
entertainment, has fallen victim to the massive covert effort that was launched
after the end of the Russian civil war to imposed communism. “The goal was to
destroy the core moral fabric of American society.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
explains why Christmas and the whole of Christianity is under attack in
America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It will
take an equally massive effort by Americans, patriots, to fight against and
reverse the harm that has been done to our society and our governance--check
out the numbers and names of the Progressive Caucus in Congress—but it must be
done in the face of President Obama’s campaign to reduce the influence of
America on global affairs, to create class warfare against America’s
“millionaires and billionaires”, and the vast expansion of the “social
programs” that have millions of Americans on some form of government dole while
we struggle to overcome the longest recession since World War Two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is the
naked face of communism. Political correctness is political ignorance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A vast
re-education of generations of Americans will be needed to reverse its effect
on our lives and the future of the nation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">© Alan
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7pGzaK9LEt4/Uqox6sv1wLI/AAAAAAAAhx8/EmfvUjm68Hs/s1600/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7pGzaK9LEt4/Uqox6sv1wLI/AAAAAAAAhx8/EmfvUjm68Hs/s200/J.+D.+Longstreet+--+5-28-2013+-%23+1+NARROW.jpg" width="155" /></a>What is it with democrats and dictators? They (democrats) just seem to love them (dictators) so! <br />
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It
was often said of Jimmy Carter that he never met a dictator he didn't
like. You may recall it was President Carter who provided
sanctuary/asylum (<i>whichever!</i>) for the Shah of Iran. We are
still, to this day, paying for that blunder! Obama seems to be
following in Carter's footsteps on many things and having a penchant for
dictators is one of them. Although,<b><i> Obama seems to prefer Marxist dictators. </i></b><br />
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America's
democratic presidents just seem to gravitate toward the world's
dictators. Ever notice that? Even FDR had the Soviet Union's Joe
Stalin. <br />
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I think we often forget that liberalism is an authoritarian philosophy. Liberals understand that <b><i>THEY</i></b> are smarter than everyone else and it is <b><i>THEY</i></b> who have a <b><i>Providential right</i></b> to govern, to rule over, to "dictate" to the remainder of the human race. (<i>Not unlike the "divine right of kings"</i>)
In their mind, the world would be a much better place if those of us
who demand our freedom would just relent , relax, recant, and retire and
allow <b><i>THEM</i></b> to do the job for which they were born into this world. <br />
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I
have come to believe that liberal/Progressive democrats yearn to be
like dictators, therefore they tend to hover around them much as moths
do a flame.<br />
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<b><i>“If there is ever a fascist takeover
in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down
doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the
government and I'm here to help.” </i></b> (Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning) <br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kfJFRbfXLcA/Uqo4QFR6WmI/AAAAAAAAhyU/-TO-va5jfgk/s1600/dictator-obama.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kfJFRbfXLcA/Uqo4QFR6WmI/AAAAAAAAhyU/-TO-va5jfgk/s400/dictator-obama.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Maybe
that explains all the "secret" talks, the sub-Rosa negotiations between
Obama and the Castro brothers, and Obama and the Iranians. It may also
explain Mr. Obama's obvious liking for the former late Marxist
President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. <br />
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Then there is the Russian, Putin, or as some are referring to him (<b><i>Ras</i></b>)Putin. Obama insisted on rebooting America's relationship with Russia. <i>Why? </i> I thought the mutual distrust was serving us well. Actually, it served us far better than the NEW relationship in which <b><i>Obama trusts</i></b> and <b><i>Putin distrusts -- and disrespects -- America. </i></b><br />
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If this piece seems to be cutting uncomfortably close to the truth here, ask yourself <b><i>what
else don't we know about our obviously Marxist President -- and --
with whom is he talking -- AND -- negotiating in secret?</i></b><br />
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If you had any doubt about the democrat's penchant for dictatorships consider this: <br />
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In a piece by Joe Newby, published on December 6th, 2013 by The Examiner and entitled: <b>"Liberal Democrats to Obama: Rule like dictator on minimum wage, deportations,"</b> The writer says the following: <b><i>"It
seems liberal Democrats are ready to throw the Constitution out the
window and grant Obama dictatorial powers to advance his agenda,
according to two stories reported in the last two days. On Wednesday,
Salon said 49 House Democrats demanded Obama use executive orders to
raise the minimum wage of some workers. On Thursday, CNN said Democrats
also want Obama to suspend all deportation of illegal immigrants using
executive orders.<br /><br />It's not the first time liberal Democrats have demanded Obama bypass Congress and essentially rule like a dictator.<br /><br />Last
December, for example, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested
giving Obama dictatorial power to raise the debt ceiling to infinity,
and others -- like Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Il.,-- have repeatedly begged
for Obama to unilaterally act on illegal immigration.<br /><br />Rep. Sheila
Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and others have said Obama should unilaterally
act on the debt ceiling, bypassing Congress and assuming the mantle of a
tyrant.<br /><br />Now, liberals in Congress want Obama to assume even more power.</i>"</b> <b>SOURCE: </b> <b><i><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-democrats-to-obama-rule-like-dictator-on-minimum-wage-deportations">http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-democrats-to-obama-rule-like-dictator-on-minimum-wage-deportations </a></i></b><br />
Now. Consider this from the Washington Times: <b><i>"Ever
since Barack Obama was nominated in 2008 as the Democratic candidate
for the president of the United States, his staunchest critics have
implied that he had the makings of a dictator.<br /><br />Those admonitions
were not taken at all seriously, however, and the liberal media
ridiculed anyone if they dared suggest the new president was anything
but the messiah.</i></b><b><i>Those of us who saw then what the press is finally seeing now were dismissed and ridiculed as racist</i></b>.<br />
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<b><i>After
several years of being told we were wrong about President Obama’s
authoritarian streak, the liberal media are finally starting to consider
that this president may be the very megalomaniac we said he was." </i>SOURCE:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/transforming-democrats-to-dictators-940613292/#ixzz2nIZDrsa8">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/transforming-democrats-</a><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/transforming-democrats-to-dictators-940613292/#ixzz2nIZDrsa8">to-dictators-940613292/#ixzz2nIZDrsa8</a><br />
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OK, so -- if you think, maybe, <b><i>megalomaniac </i></b>is a bit harsh, <i>maybe a little strong, </i>how <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u1h0I2YxDZc/Uqo2d1POIDI/AAAAAAAAhyI/uSonwhmtcCM/s1600/Dictator+Unfriendly.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u1h0I2YxDZc/Uqo2d1POIDI/AAAAAAAAhyI/uSonwhmtcCM/s400/Dictator+Unfriendly.jpeg" width="400" /></a>about this: <b><i>A pathological egotist?</i></b> And tell me again. What trait do dictators share ... <b><i>megalomania ... or pathological egotism?</i></b> <br />
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<b><i>Uh-huh ....</i></b><br />
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