Pot = Kettle = Black

Voting is a Right of Citizenship

Hi y'all. I'm baaaack. After a brief hiatus. I had a houseguest for 8 days; a liberal, which goes to show that liberals and conservatives can survive under the same roof.  Since tomorrow is election day, I'm going to write about all the rampant voter fraud being perpetrated by the Democrats; which comes as no surprise to anybody. However, first I want to mention a couple of things in recent news that is voter related, just not necessarily fraud related; but if left unaddressed, could lead to more voter fraud. On the Democratic side, of course. Arizona has had a law on the books for several years requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Last week, Sandra Day O'Connor took it upon herself to open the door to widespread voter fraud in Arizona. I know, she retired from the Supreme Court. But she is a "roving judge", filling in for judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Recently she struck down the Arizona law, which has been in effect since 2004, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Now, anybody that wants to, can register to vote in Arizona, regardless of their citizenship or residence status. Also in the news lately, some cities are trying to pass local ordinances allowing anybody to vote in local elections, whether they are citizens or not. That would be Portland ME, New York City, and San Francisco. The feeling is, that anybody that lives there should be able to vote in matters that affect them. Just another crack in the door for illegal immigrants. Or as the Western Journalism article calls them, "undocumented Democrats". VOTING IS A RIGHT OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. If you're not a citizen, whether you are here legally or not, you haven't earned the right to vote in our elections. Period.

Now on to the voter fraud issue. Everybody knows about the voter fraud that was widespread in the 2008 election. ACORN was rampant in perpetrating it, such as registering all the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Denver CO and registering Mickey Mouse to vote in FL, giving cigarettes and money to people when they registered, etc. And everybody has seen the video of the New Black Panthers Party physically intimidating voters; and knows that they were charged with voter intimidation, which charges were dropped by Eric Holder and the Obama Dept. of Injustice. After the case was won by default because the defendents didn't bother to appear in court. Some of the employees of the Obama/Holder Justice Dept. who have defied Holders orders to ignore the Congressional subpoenas and actually testified before Congress have stated that they are told that the Civil Rights Act didn't apply to white people and that they were not to respond to complaints where the victims were white,or where the accused are black. Ergo, Dept of Injustice. Actually, the intimidation and fraud in the 2008 election started during the primary voting. There was a case here in Texas where people showing up at the polls to vote in the Democratic primary were told "If you're not voting for Obama, you're not voting today".

This year, the voter fraud is even more widespread and transparent. It's like the Democrats are going to win, whatever measures it takes to win; and they don't care how openly they do it, because it's so widespread that it won't all be caught or corrected. The most publicized cases are in Nevada and North Carolina, where the voting machines are popping up with the Democrat candidates names checked off when the voters are pushing the buttons for Republicans. Also, some people showing up at the polls and giving their names to be checked off on the register list are finding that their ballots have already been cast, BEFORE THEY EVEN ARRIVED AT THE VOTING PLACE. The state of Illinois failed to mail out the absentee ballots to it's military service members, yet they hand-carried absentee ballots to the prisons. (Convicted felons can't vote, but misdemeanor convicts and those in jail awaiting trial can. An interesting point from 2008, in the Minnesota Congressional race: Al Franken won his seat by the same number of votes as those of the prison absentee ballots.) In Cincinnati OH, high school students old enough to vote were taken out of class during school hours, given only the Democrat ballot, bussed to early voting places, then taken out for ice cream after they voted for the Democrats. Last month, the entire city council of Troy NY, all Democrats, were required to give DNA samples (cheek swabs) because all it's members are being investigated for absentee ballot fraud. In Pennsylvania, nursing homes are being investigated because the staffs are mailing in ballots for patients in comas or suffering from alzheimers. In Dallas, the ballots at several precincts only had the name of the Democrat candidate, Eddie Bernice Johnson, on them and not the name of her Republican opponent, Pastor Stephen Broden. Eddie, by the way, is being investigated for funneling federal scholarship money to family members and staff family members. In Daytona Beach, FL a Democratic official and his campaign manager were arrested for absentee ballot fraud. I don't remember their names, but I saw the television report where they were led away in handcuffs.

Now closer to home, Houston TX. I wrote previously about the election fraud charges against the organization Houston Votes, which was run by an SEIU employee who turned in 25,000 voter registrations alone, of which over 23,000 were fraudulent. That's not to mention those turned in by other Houston Votes people. A group of volunteer poll watchers witnessed such obvious voter fraud in 2008, that they formed an organization named True the Vote and investigated Houston Votes. They went thru proper channels and turned their findings over to the Harris County Registrar of Voters, who verified the evidence and then turned the case over to the Harris County District Attorneys Office. Within days of the Harris County District Attorneys office filing charges against Houston Votes, a warehouse holding 40,000 voting machines was burned to the ground. Now enter Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Let me digress a moment and take this opportunity to address some misinformation that has been fed to, and swallowed by, the blacks in America. Back in July, Jackson-Lee spoke at an NAACP meeting in Kansas City where she vilified the Tea Party movement as being the KKK without the sheets; those who wore the sheets are now wearing clothes and calling themselves the Tea Party. If Jackson-Lee knew her American history, then she would know that the KKK was started as an arm of the Democrat Party, which itself was started to oppose the Republicans led by Abraham Lincoln in freeing the black slaves. The Democrat Party started the KKK as a means to intimidate freed blacks and the white Republicans who were helping them. One-third of the people killed by the KKK were white people, Republicans who supported the emancipation of blacks.

Now back to Sheila Jackson Lee and voter fraud. She was caught last week on video tape, campaigning at an early voting place, that just also happened to be where her offices are. A poll watcher observed the illegal polling place campaigning and reported it to one of the election clerks. When Jackson-Lee became aware of who had reported her, instead of ceasing and desisting from breaking the federal election laws, she demanded to know the person's name and who they represented. She was asked by the election clerk to leave and wouldn't; she had to be ordered out of the polling place by the election clerk. The article from the Cypress Times didn't give that information about the poll watcher, but from Jackson-Lee's actions, I can surmise that it was somebody from True the Vote, which to my knowledge is not affiliated with the Tea Party. So what did Jackson-Lee do? What all Democrats do, deflect, dissemble, disseminate. (Like Press Secretary Goofy Gibbs did when a reporter asked him about Michelle Obama campaigning at an early voting place when she cast her ballot; he told the press pool that nobody would dare press charges against her because their life would be made miserable) Here's what Sheila Jackson Lee did: she called Eric Holder at Obama's Dept. of Injustice. And what did Holder do? Why, he promptly sent investigators down to Houston to look into the allegations of voter intimidation against the poll watchers of True the Vote who dared to stop Sheila Jackson Lee in her endeavors to break federal election laws by campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place. Hell, she wasn't just within 100 feet, she was INSIDE the lobby of the building. Are the allegations against her going to be investigated? Of course not. For two reasons. First, according to several Justice Dept. employee's testimony before Congress, the Dept. of Justice will not investigate or inforce allegations against blacks for voter fraud; and Sheila Jackson Lee is black. Second, she's a Democrat; and like so many Democrats in the current regime who break the laws (Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, Eddie Bernice Johnson, to name a few), nothing will be done to stop Democrats who break the law, much less bring them to justice.  So a Democrat blatantly defying federal election laws won't be investigated, but the poll watcher she reported for stopping her, will. Now, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

Never Say, Never in America

Time after time over the past 2 years, I've found myself prefacing sentences with "I never thought I would see the day in America that . . . " followed by something the current regime has done or is planning to do, that goes against the very grain of what America is. Let me give you some examples. I never thought I would see the day in America that we would have self-described communists, socialists, marxists and maoists in high positions in the American government; not only that, given wide-ranging powers and massive amounts of our tax-payer dollars to further their communist, socialist, marxist or maoist agendas. I never thought I would see the day in America that "devout muslims" would be in powerful positions in our Department of Homeland Security. One is even an assistant director. I never thought I would see the day in America that the president has a burka wearing muslim woman as a top advisor whose responsibility is to tell the president what it is the muslims want. I never thought I would see the day in America that the flag of Communist China would be flown at our Capitol beside Old Glory. I never thought I would see the day in America that the administration would allow the Empire State Building to light up red for Communist China, but not allow it to light up with a color to honor Mother Theresa. I never thought I would see the day in America that the American president would refuse to attend the National Day of Prayer, yet allow muslims to have an entire day of prayer on the Capitol grounds. There are many more "never in America" moments I have had, but I won't go into all of them. I'm not going to list references for what I've just stated. Those of you who have been on the receiving end of my email "rants" over the last 2 years have already seen the sources. Those of you who haven't, if you doubt anything I say is true, check it out for yourself. America, educate yourself.  America is being "fundamentally transformed" right before our eyes, into something quickly become unrecognizable. Hence, the song in this video "That Ain't My America" (by Lynyrd Skynyrd). The video was done for this blog post by my great Texas Conservative nephew, Bobby Faubus (BF25251001 at YouTube). Thanks, Bobby. I love it.

Actually, the song was mentioned in an article I found on the English language version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda; along with a couple of other "protest" songs. I thought it fit the theme of my thoughts since all the radical things have been done to my America by the current regime; so that I am frequently saying to myself  "That Ain't My America". The article I'm referencing now is American Military Officers Against Obama written by Mark S. McGrew. He asked that a link be furnished if the article is republished. I'm not going to republish, merely summarize it; but here is the link if anybody wants to read anything else by McGrew: http://www.english.pravda.ru/ and his blog is MarkSMcGrew.blogspot.com. For over 2 years, Americans have been hiding their heads in the sand over the most fundamental issue facing us; whether or not Obama is legally qualified to be president of the United States. There is a growing wave of acknowledgement that he is most likely not eliglble to hold the highest office in America. Prior to the election of 2008, there were maybe up to 2% of Americans that had their doubts; that is now up to more than 65%.  One contingent of that 65% is American military officers.

I've been around military for most of my life; since I was 17 and married a G.I. and went to live at Fort Hood TX for a dozen years, then moved to California and lived next to Camp Pendleton for the next 27 years. One thing I didn't know before reading McGrew's article in Pravda, is that there are 2 separate and distinct oaths that our military men and women take upon enlistment; one for the lower ranks or "enlisted"; one for officers.
The oath of enlistment for the lower ranks:
"I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
The oath of enlistment for Officers:
"I, ________, having been appointed an officer in the (appropriate branch) of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of (rank-Major, Colonel, etc) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God."
Note the difference: officers do not swear to obey the orders of the President of the United States. I have to wonder if that is meant to give the officers freedom of allegiance to the President, in the event that the President is the domestic enemy they have to protect the United States from. I have done innumerable hours of research, and try to keep my finger on the pulse of America. I can tell you that since Obama was elected, the cost of firearms has increased almost ten-fold. Whereas 19 moths ago, one could purchase a handgun for personal protection in the range of $40 to $60; now those same pistols would sell for $400 or more. America is arming itself. And since the current regime hasn't been successful in curtailing the ownership of firearms, they have gone after the ammunitions makers. Whereas scrap ammo from our various military branches used to be sold to munitions manufacturers to recycle into bullets for personal weapons, the current regime is now selling it to China at a much lower price. In the state of California, you can't buy bullets for your guns without registering and having your identification put on record. There is a large, and growing orgainization of current and former military members and law enforcement personnel called Oath Keepers. One of the oaths they take is that they will never bear arms against their fellow Americans at the behest of Obama. There is a number of retired military officers, and active duty officers willing to resign their commissions, at the ready to lead the next revolution in the event that martial law is declared and the current regime tries to impose socialism on America by force.

In American Military Officers Against Obama there is a list of 26 retired and active duty officers who have either filed legal actions against Obama regarding his eligibility to be president, or they have publicly supported or testified for those who do have the legal actions pending. The one most recently in the news is Lt Col Terrence Lakin, an Army physician who is at this moment undergoing a court martial rather than obey orders under Obama to deploy to Afghanistan. Lakin has been denied "discovery"'; has been told by a military judge that he can't see or present evidence about Obama because "It may embarrass the President". In another action, Commander Charles Kerchner has filed a lawsuit against Congress for violating the Constitution in certifying the Electoral College votes in Obama's favor.  Of the couple of hundred lawsuits questioning Obama's eligibility, none have been allowed to proceed to the actual presentation of evidence. All the complainants are told they don't have "standing". Since when does any American not have "standing" to know that the person presiding over the country is actually a citizen of the country? We, each and every one of us, all have that "standing". But the courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court, are treating the matter like a hot potato. There are some cases that have made it as far as the Supreme Court and have stalled. When Justice Clarence Thomas was asked about the issue of Obama's eligibility, he is on record as saying "We're evading that one".  EVADING? The Supreme Court should be leading the charge! Recently Obama made the very conniving move of nominating Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. As Solicitor General, she defended Obama in some of the eligibility suits; now she on the Court that may end up deciding the issue. Sure, she will recuse herself, but what's to keep her from influencing the other Justices by giving them "background" on the issue?

We see military coups and revolutions overthrowing governments all across the globe. I never thought I would see the day in America that that would be what we might be facing. I'm somewhat apprehensive coming up to the elections on November 2; Obama is a power monger. He's wants even more power and may not be willing to give up that which he has already grabbed. Like McGrew points out, Obama and his supporters have absolutely no concept of what 100 million (or more) angry Americans are capable of inflicting on them. While he is not advocating physically overthrowing the current regime, since we do have a system in place for "peaceful revolution" (voting), he does point out that it is one option and may be the final option. America is wounded and suffering, what he calls the Obama Flu Virus; when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. I've been concerned for a while about a new revolution, of more of an uprising than just organized peaceful protests; given the evidence that America has, and still is, arming itself and that there is a somewhat structured group of military leaders in place. I hope it doesn't come to that. I really do. Because that ain't my America. But if it has to, it's comforting to know that it won't be a ragtag bunch of patriots like George Washington won the first revolution with. Patriots, just the same, but they won't be unstructured, undisciplined, untrained and unprepared this time. They will be the best of America's finest.

While I'm always hopeful and optimistic that the coming election will put in place the people who will be able to stop and reverse the cancer of Obama's socialism that is spreading thru every aspect of American life, it's still comforting to know that our American military men and women are not just blindly following his lead. They are using good judgement and discernment. They are putting their training in observation and analyzing situations to good use. One thing we will never see in America is our military turning against us and obeying the orders of a puppet goverment (I believe Soros is Obama's puppet-master). And we can be sure that if Obama were to use his "civilian police force" (SEIU purple people beaters and black panthers?), they wouldn't get very far in the face of the greatest military force in the history of the world. So rest assured, America, that if the line is ever drawn in the sand, our marvelous military men and women will still be on the side of America. Against a domestic enemy that is becoming more and more apparent and obvious. Just be aware that the period following the upcoming election might be a crucial time. It might be the time when the current regime makes a move to protect it's power base and grab even more power. Have eyes to see and ears to hear. America, be vigilant, be prepared, be safe.

"It's The Economy, Stupid!"

"When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them."  Bill Clinton in a 1991 interview with Joe Klein of the Sunday Times, speaking of Republicans.

"Part of the reason . . . . facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard wired not to always think clearly when we're scared."  Barack Hussein Obama speaking at a North Carolina fundraiser 10-18-10

"It's the economy, stupid!"  James Carville, while campaigning for Bill Clinton in 1992

WE CAN'T AFFORD TO WAIT ANOTHER SECOND

Yesterday was a momentous day. Did anybody feel the ground shake? It should have been quaking to beat the band. Yesterday, America's national debt went over $13 trillion. In fact, it hit an all time record high of $13.665 trillion. Please, don't anybody tell Obama what comes after a trillion, he may aim for that next. Obama like to "blame Bush" and claims he "inherited" all this national debt. Not so. During President Bush's 2 terms, 8 years, he increased the national debt by $4.9 trillion. In just 19 months in office, Obama has increased the national debt by $2.526 trillion, and is projected to double that to $5.9 trillion by the end of his term. In his 4 years in office, he will have more than doubled the amount of national debt President Bush accrued in his entire 8 years in office. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the national debt projections for Obama's agenda will reach nearly $16.5 trillion by 2012.  CNS News reported on 9/8/10 that in the previous 3 months, May thru August of this year, Obama accumulated $464 billion in deficits, more than President Bush had for the entire fiscal year 2008 of $458 billion. We've accrued about a $2 trillion increase in deficit in the past 19 months, and there's no end in sight. We can't keep spending so much more than we have.

Here's a comparison of spending habits between the 2 parties, from Hotair yesterday:
Republican majority 12 years prior to Bush added $4.034 trillion or $336.17 billion a year
Republican majority 1st part Bush's 2 terms added $3.201 trillion or $533.56 billion a year
Democrat majority spanning Bush & Obama added $4.603 trillion or $1.48 trillion a year

I discovered something very interesting from Bloomberg Businessweek 2/1/10; Obama's budgets for fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2011 exclude the $6.3 trillion in liabilities for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, although they have been taken over by the administration and their debts are the governments debts. So his national debt is realistically larger than what we're being told. Also, along those same lines; the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Peter Orzag, would not let President Bush exclude those debts from his budget when the government rescued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008. At that time, Orzag said that the federal control over them is so strong "we are incorporating them into the federal budget". So, therefore, President Bush's final fiscal year budget realistically would have shown a lower national debt had he been allowed by the CBO to exclude the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debts, the way it has the Obama regime. Kind of duplicitous, but that's what we've come to expect from our government, especially under the Democrats.

When I was looking for Obama's quote from a couple of days ago, about how American's don't let facts get in their way when they are scared, I saw article after article from the last 2 years where he has described Americans over and over as being scared. It actually started before the election. While it's true that sometiimes when people are suddenly scared, some might panic. However, America has had to deal with Obama long enough that any initial panic has worn off and while we might be scared, we are thinking in a scientific, factual manner. And one thing I think is a fact is that we are sick and tired of his arrogance and condescension toward us, as if we can't quite think as reasonably as he does. Give me a break. Most Americans are quite able to think things thru, weigh the facts, use sound reasoning and come to a scientifically logical conclusion. That's what Obama's scared of. If anybody's running scared, it's gotta be him. And if there is anybody still left out there who doesn't think Obama is deliberately taking America down the road to national bankruptcy, here's a fact for them: in the 1st 19 months of his term, between 1/20/09 and 8/20/10, Obama increased America's national debt by MORE THAN the cumulative total of all the presidents from George Washington thru Ronald Reagan. At the end of fiscal year 1989, President Reagan's last year in office (but 8 months after he left the White House) the entire national debt from Day One until then was $2.1907 trillion. Compare that to the $2.526 trillion Obama has piled on top of us since his inauguration.

Tell me we were worse off before Obama took power. Tell me that Obama has turned things around and made things all better. YOU CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE!  He just admitted lying to the entire country for 2 years, starting in December 2008, that there were "shovel ready" jobs: and he used that lie to ram down our throats a trillion dollar "stimulus" bill. Now he's admitted, without qualms, there's no such thing as "shovel ready" jobs. It was a ruse. The "stimulus" bill did nothing to help, because it wasn't designed to help. It did what it was designed to do; pay back and pay off his cronies and supporters while throwing America into deeper debt and deficit, so Obama could increase taxes to pay for it (tax the rich) and put more people into government entitlements.
"Spread the wealth around" and "level the playing field".  America, wake up!

The Audacity of Illegality

I get frequent newsletter updates on the illegal immigration fight from NumbersUSA, a pro-legal anti-illegal immigration organization. In their latest newsletter, they report that in addition to trying to get a shamnesty bill passed thru Congress, the open-border advocates are now turning their attention to local communities and state law enforcement agencies to try to get them to look the other way when they encounter somebody that's in America illegally.

The latest state to have a lawsuit filed against it by illegal immigrant proponents is Georgia. What exactly did the state of Georgia do, you might ask?  The Georgia Board of Regents passed a measure requiring state colleges and universities to deny admission to illegal aliens, as long as the particular campus has denied admission within the last 2 years to U.S. citizens or legal residents. It's pretty much a cinch, since not every one that applies to a college gets accepted. I mean, how dare the American citizens in the state of Georgia want to insure they are providing college educations for American citizens and legal residents first? Also, the Georgia State House of Representatives has asked for the entire state to be included in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Secure Communities program. In 2006, Cobb County became the 1st county in Georgia involved in the 287(g) program and since then 3 more counties and the Georgia Department of Public Safety have signed 287(g) agreements. This program automatically checks fingerprints taken during jail bookings with the federal database. When the fingerprints match known illegal immigrants, ICE is automatically notified and can take deportation action. Since 2006, this method has identified more than 180,000 illegal immigrants for deportation across America; and 14,692 illegal immigrants in Georgia have been deported. And how dare the state of Georgia want to have the entire state participate in a federal program, that's already a law, which has shown to be successful in identifying and deporting people who are in this country illegally? Really, how dare they?

So now, attorneys are representing 3 illegal immigrants in suing Georgia; trying to stop it from utilizing a federal immigration enforcement tool. Sound familiar, Arizona? These attorneys, and those in the Arizona case, should be disbarred and they should have their American citizenship stripped. If they want to live in a Mexican country so badly, let them go to Mexico and see how they would fare there. The Georgia "three" are trying to make it a class action lawsuit by defining as co-complainants "all hispanic persons who have been or will be restrained and interrogated withing the State of Georgia" by local authorities enforcing federal immigration law under an agreement with ICE. One of the attorney's laments that the law tears families apart. Like I've said before, I don't want families torn apart; they can take their families with them when they go back to Mexico or wherever. The attorney also said that while these people are in the U.S. illegally, they aren't criminals. What part of illegal can't the attorneys understand? Most children in elementary school can tell them "illegal" means against the law, therefore, a crime. Let's look at the stellar background of the 3 main complainants: one is a Mexican citizen who didn't leave when her visa expired and was arrested after causing a car wreck while driving without a license (last I heard that was a crime); one is in the country illegally and in jail for shoplifting (last I heard that was a crime, too); and one alledgedly had a work permit but was arrested for forgery when he used fake immigration documents to get a driver's license (also, last I heard that was a crime, too). But, according to their attorneys, they are not criminals. Is there any other country on the face of the planet that would allow people who are there illegally to have access to it's court system to sue it? What a bunch of chumps we are for allowing this to happen. There's an election coming up. You can tell who the pro-amnesty candidates are - they are the candidates not talking about it. Vote them out.

Meanwhile, on the Arizona front, things are getting worse and Obama is out campaigning instead of protecting the American citizens he's sworn to protect. Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona was on the Greta Van Susteren show on Fox News last week and stated that there are now 21 countries on the lawsuit against Arizona; the U.S., Mexico, and 19 other foreign countries. She didn't list them. It was also confirmed in a short article in the Phoenix Examiner, but again the additional countries weren't mentioned. I listed 10 of the foreign countries when I wrote about this before. I haven't been able to find a listing of the new ones. I guess somebody doesn't like what I'm writing, because for several days now when I try to search for information, my searches get "redirected" to websites that have no resemblence to what I type in. I've done scans, and don't have a virus, so it must be a hacker. I hope they get tired soon, because I'm not giving up. Two days ago, Fox News ran an article warning that Mexican assassins were headed into Arizona to locate and kill bandits who were stealing their drug loads. The rival drug cartels got together in Mexico and decided to send a group of hired assassins called the Sicario's into Arizona to protect their smuggling routes and kill anybody attempting to steal the drugs. There are 15 members to this band of killers, and the area they are headed to is the Vekol Valley, on Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, and north toward Phoenix. What did our illustrous Department of Homeland Security under Obama's stooge Janet Nappy do? They put up more warning signs. Just like they did a few months ago when Mexican gangs had taken over part of a desert wildlife preserve on the border that is a "highway" for smugglers of drugs, guns, and humans, warning people to stay out of the area. This is just outrageous. Why should America cede any part of it's land to some lawless Mexicans? I guess that last word answers that question. They, thugs that they are, are Mexicans; and our current regime wants an open border for migration - not immigration - no matter who crosses it and no matter how many Americans are killed in the meanwhile. I commented to somebody yesterday that it was his way or no way, any way he has to do it. What chumps we are for putting up with this disrespect to America!

Let me repeat some statistics from Los Angeles County, CA from the Liberty Pundits blog, citing an Antigang Task Force review of 124 arrests: of the 124, 106 were illegals, 85 had a current or prior gang affiliation, 103 of the 124 already had a criminal record and of those 85 had at least 1 prior felony conviction and 49 had multiple felony convictions. In the social services / entitlements realm, 2/3 of all babies born in Los Angeles County are born to illegal immigrants, paid for by our tax dollars thru Medicaid; 29% of illegal immigrants living there are on welfare, and almost 60% of people living in HUD subsidized housing are illegal immigrants. Why do I mention all this again when I've written about it before? Simple: Los Angeles County, CA Board of Supervisors voted to extend countywide it's 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Amid protests from illegal immigrants and their advocates, I might add. Look for Los Angeles County to be soon hit with a lawsuit from illegal immigrants and their shyster lawyers. I still say those lawyers should be disbarred and stripped of their American citizenship. Nobody that is not an American should have access to our courts.

Shoveling Scheisse

On December 7, 2008 president-elect Obama sat for an interview with Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press". He made the assertation that when he had met with the (state) governors, all of them have projects that are "shovel ready".   And so, a talking point was created, and Obama referred to "shovel ready" jobs every time he could.  USA Today, in an article about that interview, said that Obama's plan included spending on what he called "shovel ready" projects. In December 2008 as Obama announced who would make up his energy and environment teams, he said they had "shovel ready" projects all across the country and the MINUTE he could get the funds to the state level, jobs were going to be created. Also that month, when he announced his Secretary of Education, he said his economic team was shaping a bold agenda to create 2.5 million new jobs with "shovel ready" projects.

In January, 2009 Steny Hoyer, the Senate Majority Leader took up the mantle of "shovel ready" jobs by saying that projects that are felt to be "shovel ready" . . . is the objective of the administration and ourselves.

On January 25, 2009 The Economic Populist reported  "now Congress is trying to ascertain which jobs would be ready to go, "shovel ready".

In February, 2009 Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior proclaimed that with wise investments in "shovel ready" conservation projects people could be put back to work IMMEDIATELY.

On February 9, 2009 National Public Radio said that as Obama urged Congress to pass the $800-billion-plus stimulus package, one of his favorite selling points is the thousands of projects nationwide that he calls "shovel ready"; but there is no fornal definition for "shovel ready" and the Federal Highway Administration doesn't use the phrase.

In March, 2009 at the Progressive Governance Conference in Chile, Joe Biden announced that the Recovery Act provided a jolt to the economy by implementing "shovel ready" projects.

On March 3, 2009 United Press International (UPI), in an article declaring "shovel ready" jobs already on the move, quoted Obama as saying that the stimulus provided money that every state could start using IMMEDIATELY to put people back to work. Obama asserted that just 14 days after signing the stimulus bill, shovels were already hitting the ground.

In June, 2009 Joe Biden, speaking in California, said the administration wants to get "shovel ready" projects out the door as quickly as it could.

On September 9, 2009 Florida Today ran an article asking Where Are the "Shovel Ready" Jobs?

On October 14, 2009 The Journal of Commerce has Obama saying "shovel ready" may not provide the quick boost for jobs . . . The term "shovel ready" doesn't always live up to it's billing. (The first shadowy form of the handwriting on the wall.)

On October 27, 2009 the website American.com reported that many "shovel ready" jobs are still tied up in administrative red tape.

By July 9, 2010 with job loses multiplying and the unemployment rate skyrocketing, Politifi quoted Obama as saying he learned one of the biggest lies in government is the idea of "shovel ready" projects. (The handwriting on the wall is becoming clearer, and it's a lie Obama put into motion.)

On August 19, 2010 The Daily Caller told us most of our money has gone to unions and government employees (no scheisse!) instead of to "shovel ready" jobs.

On September 9, 2010 The Washington Examiner reported that Obama has asked Congress for another $50,000,000 for an Infrastructure Stimulus to overhaul America's transportation networks, with "shovel ready" projects.

On September 23, 2010 the Los Angeles Daily News surmised that "shovel ready" apparently meant that work starts up to a year after the money is approved. About that time, the story hit the news that Los Angeles City and County had spent their $111,000,000 in stimulus funds to create 55 jobs.

On October 11, 2010 Congress.org tells Obama we are still waiting on the "shovel ready" jobs from your first stimulus. (Background: wikipedia breakdown of the original stimulus bill shows $105.3 billion was designated for infrastructure "shovel ready" projects)

On October 13, 2010 the New York Times was told by Obama there's no such thing as "shovel ready" projects, in effect saying the stimulus failed and there are no jobs waiting to be filled. (Now we can clearly see the handwriting on the wall, and it's not a pretty sight.)

America has been led down the path to the manure pile at the end of the garden. I heard somebody the other night use the nickname "Obamable Snowman" explaining he used that term because Obama is so good at snowing people (America, in this case). Apparently, Obama started one big snow job when he first used the term "shovel ready" and, while alluding to it a couple of times in the ensuing months, he finally admitted to the country yesterday that there is NO SUCH THING AS "SHOVEL READY" PROJECTS. Which is a fact that a lot of us who have watched from afar, the tragedy that is transforming America into a caricature of what it used to be, have already recognized. We've been had by a first rate con artist. By the way, "scheisse" is not another word for "snow". This mess is the worst the American economy has ever been in. But I can see November from my house and there's an avalance coming. America, use your vote and start digging.

One shovel, One vote

Crony Terrorism

We all know what "crony capitalism" is; a kind of  "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" way of doing business. Awarding loans, contracts and jobs to family and friends who do you favors, or give you discounts or kickbacks. We all know Obama practices "crony politics"; awarding his supporters and "friends of Barack" with positions within his administration whether or not they are qualified or ethical, giving federal funded "kickbacks" to those who were major contributors to his campaign. The most recent and the largest I can think of is the $2 billion he gave George Soros's Brazilian oil producing company Petrobras to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Soros being probably the largest contributor to Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign. Now I see a form of "crony terrorism" evolving. I consider anybody who funds terrorism, either directly into the coffers of a terror organization or thru funds to a secondary organization who then transfers those funds to a terror organization, to be a terrorist. I consider anybody who aides and abets terrorism thru any action or by any means such as association with, writing in support of, or giving moral support, to be a terrorist. Therefore, "crony terrorism".

Recently I wrote about the F.B.I. raids on the homes of Hatem Abudayyeh, the executive director of the Arab American Action Network (By The Company We Keep), suspected of filtering funds to FARC (the military wing of the Colombia Communist Party) and Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. Obama, as director of the Woods Fund, gave AAAN a total of $75,000 in 2002/2003. AAAN has also received almost $500,000 in federal grants thru the years.  By chance, I discovered that the targets of the F.B.I. raids that day were more widespread than just Abudayyeh or AAAN. Somebody emailed me photos of people protesting in Chicago during a recent visit by Obama. I wanted to verify that those picture were actually connected to Obama's trip and not from some earlier protest march and re-labeled. There was a website name imprinted on the pictures, Foundingbloggers, so I went to it to look for the pictures. My attention was immediately caught by some current posts regarding the F.B.I. raids in Chicago looking for links to terrorist organizations. I'll have to go back later to look for the Chicago - Obama protest pictures; I still want to verify them before I forward them. However, here's the gist of the full scope of the F.B.I. terrorism raids, plus some information I found at a couple of other websites, New Zeal (short for Zealand) Blog and World Net Daily.. The old media (mainstream media) pretty much ignored this, but the new media (bloggers) is all over it. In fact, most of the mainstream media coverage is on the 2 days of protests following the raids, along with socialist, marxist, and terrorist websites such as CAIR and Intifada-Palestine.

Among the approximately half dozen or so people, (who are all associated with one or more of the Colombia Action Network, Students for a Democratic Society communist group or Freedom Road Socialist Organization),  targeted by the F.B.I. raids on 9/27/10 in Chicago, was a man by the name of Thomas Burke. The search warrant subpoena showed that the F.B.I. was looking for records of any payments from Burke to Hatem Abudayyeh of the AAAN, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO),  the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) or Hezbollah, a muslim terrorist group based in Lebanon.. Burke is a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, whose website was originally registered in his name. He is a member of the Colombia Action Network, is a Colombia solidarity activist, and has traveled in Colombia. He is also a member of the executive board of SEIU local 73 in Chicago. After the raid, Burke claimed that the government was trying to intimidate the movement against U.S. occupations and those who oppose support for repressive regimes, and to pave the way for more U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and Latin America. Somehow, I can't see Obama approving an F.B.I. action against people merely wanting to halt our "occupation" of the Middle East and Latin America. Those are Obama's goals also. So, therefore, I believe there probably is covert financial aid to the above mentioned terrorist organizations. What's interesting is the SEIU component.

Also raided by the F.B.I. in Chicago was the home of husband and wife, Joseph Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. They, too, are suspected of providing financial aid to Hatem Abudayyeh, AAAN, FARC, and Hezbollah. It's not clear if they are members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, but since that group was the focus of the F.B.I. investigation, and every other person who had their home raided that day is a member, it's a good hunch that they are. Iosbaker and Weiner are both members of SEIU, and Iosbaker is Chief Steward and a member of the executive board of SEIU local 73 in Chicago. The day after the F.B.I. raids, APNews reported that former SEIU president and friend of Barack, Andy Stern was under F.B.I. investigation for paying a "consultant" $75,000 a year out of union funds for doing nothing, in violation of federal labor laws; and when he wrote a book in 2006, union funds paid for all the fact-checking for it and promoting it and required union members to buy it, but Stern pocketed all the proceeds. Also being investigated is the $44 million that Stern and SEIU put into the 2008 election. Stern is the most frequent visitor to the White House since Obama was inaugurated, and is now on Obama's financial reform commission. After George Soros, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) was the largest contributor to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign chest. Wouldn't it be something if SEIU funds went not only to helping buy the presidency for Obama, but also went to supporting terrorism?

There's another thing, other than SEIU, that Obama has in common with terror-funding suspects Joseph Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. Back in the 90's, Iosbaker and Weiner were leaders in the socialist New Party in Chicago; Iosbaker was a Precinct Captain and Weiner was a Precinct Worker. The New Party was founded by leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America and members of Committees of Correspondence, an arm of the Communist Party USA. The aim of the New Party was to move the Democratic Party toward a socialist agenda,. Among their goals were a universal "social wage" to include health care and "the democratization (nationalization?) of the banking and financial system", and community controlled financial institutions (whatever that means). The New Party was heavily involved with SEIU; SEIU organizors (and ACORN activists) were given a monthly recruitment quota to bring in new members for the New Party. When he ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, Obama asked for and got the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America and attended several of their events and meetings. At the time, but later outlawed by the Supreme Court, was a concept know as "electoral fusion", whereby a candidate could run under more than one party banner. So while he ran for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat, Obama also joined the New Party and ran as their candidate. The New Party, in conjunction with SEIU and ACORN, worked to get Obama elected as State Senator. The spring 1996 edition of the New Party newsletter lauded it's member Barack Obama for winning the State Senate primary race. And the summer 1996 edition of New Ground, the newsletter of the Democratic Socialists of America reported that Obama attended a New Party membership meeting where he thanked the group for it's support and encouraged other New Party members to join his task forces on voter education and registration. 

After the recent F.B.I. raid, Ms. Weiner/Iosbaker said the investigation is an attempt to intimidate her and her husband from doing their labor cause and anti-war activism. Somehow, I can't see Obama approving the "harrassment" of labor and anti-war activists. After all, those are his causes, also. The New Party is now defunct, but Obama ran his first campaign for political office as a member of that socialist organization, which used SEIU to help get him elected as Illinois State Senator.; and was endorsed by another socialist organization. SEIU was later instrumental in pushing Obama into the White House. Now, two officials of both the New Party and SEIU are under investigation, and suspected of transferring funds to terrorist organizations. I don't know how long or how deeply the F.B.I. has been investigating these possible terror funding activities, or how "transparent" is the money trail, but what comes to mind is "where there's smoke, there's fire". It's looking highly possible, if not probable, that members of the group SEIU that greatly funded Obama's presidential run and got him elected, have also been covertly providing material support for terrorist organizations.. Crony politics may be in bed with crony terrorism. America, wake up and smell the SEIU burning.




New Party Spring 1996 Newsletter



The Selling of America, 1 - 2 - 3

The weekend has come and gone. I've sat here most of the day, mired in apathy. Scanning the news items on Free Republic. The news hasn't been very encouraging the past couple of days. Typical stuff you expect to hear from the Obama administration: he said if Republicans were elected in any great number next month, it will be hand to hand combat in DC. He seems to think he's only the president of the Democrats or his special interest cronies. He found a loophole today to send some more aid to the Palestinian Authority, which will probably de-rail the peace talks; isn't that what he wants anyway? His aide Axelrod says they don't need to pass any more legislation, they are just going to concentrate on implementing what they already have. Which means stricter EPA regulations to make up for not getting cap and tax passed. One Democrat candidate, Adler, admitted to planting a fake Tea Party candidate, trying to siphon votes away from his Republican opponent. Obama went on television and re-stated his case for the $50,000,000 ($50 million) he asked Congress for last month for "infrastructure stimulus", when according to wikipedia the original Stimulus Act has $105.3 billion designated for "infrastructure" and most of that hasn't been spent yet. You know, the kind of crap you expect from the administration and the Democrats these days.

A couple of articles did, though, catch my eye; and when combined with something else I read last month in Bloomberg, it made something click. It made me go, hmmmmm. Last month Bloomberg reported that the administration had applied for an I.P.O. (initial public offering) to convert their 61% share in Government Motors into stock, in order to sell it off. The one and only buyer so far seems to be the Chinese government owned auto maker, S.A.I.C. I looked around on line to refresh my memory and see if there was anything new on that front. Nope, Obama is still looking to sell Government Motors to China; expecting to close the deal immediately after the November 2 elections. Today I saw 2 other articles about sales of American enterprises and property to foreign countries. This seems to be a pattern of Obama's that's gaining momentum, and not making very much news. However, being a bleeding-heart red-white-and-blue American patriot, it causes me some concern.

The 1st article I saw today is about the sale of a Wyoming uranium mine to Russia. Of all countries in the world, why Russia? And again, like in the case of China's government-owned S.A.I.C. auto maker; the company looking to buy Uranium One USA located in Powder River Basin, WY is a Russian government subsidiary. We are getting a little too cozy with Russia for my comfort. Obama has scrapped our space shuttle program; now our astronauts have to fly on Russian space shuttles to get to the "international" space station that is mostly an American-built gift to the world. Big Mistake, Obama. My stomach was in knots the other day when our guys took the first trip to the space shuttle under Obama's new plan. I just pray to God they all get home safely from this trip and future ones. Then from Voice of America on 8/20/10 comes the news that Russia is going to supply Iran with nuclear fuel. Followed by the 1st story about the uranium mine sale to Russia in The Trib, which calls itself Wyoming's online news service, on 9/25/10, seeking to assure people that no Wyoming uranium will go to Russia and Iran. Then on 9/28/10 Alaribiya reported that Russia condemned the U.S. sanction against Iran. Given that attitude on Russia's part, how can anybody say they won't be taking the uranium from America and transporting it to Iran; for use in nuclear fuel to attack Israel and us? The deal is put together by Obama and Hillary Clinton. Have they lost their respective minds? This is not a small investment; Russia will have 51%, controlling interest in Uranium One USA. Thank God for the Republicans. Four of them are asking Treasury Secretary Geithner to block the sale. I know there's little chance of that, since Geithner is one of Obama's long time cronies. However, things will change if the Republicans win a House majority next month. Those 4 Republicans are Rep. Ros-Lehtinen of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Bachus of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. King of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. McKeon of the House Armed Services Committee. Right now they are the ranking minority members of those committees, but with a Republican majority in the House, they will become Chairmen of those committees and will have oversight of the sale. Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center points out that Russia has plenty of it's own uranium, asks why it would want to buy more, and says this could be Russia's opening move to get into the U.S. nuclear power market. This is something we need to keep our eyes on after the election.

The other article that caught my eye today concerns the American production of the other 2 forms of energy; oil and gas. To be precise, natural gas; but to me this news falls in line with some things Obama has done in the oil industry area lately. Y'all know that after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama stopped all oil drilling in America. It's a move to further de-stabilize the American economy and put us into a third world status to, in his words, "level the playing field". He's not against oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; he's just against America drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. After bring American oil production to a stand-still, Obama then, according to the Cypress Times on 8/8/10, gave George Soros's Brazilian oil company Petrobras $2 billion American tax payers money to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. So much for concern about the environment; Petrobras will be drilling even deeper that America ever did. Some of you might not know who George Soros is; he's one of the top 2 or 3 richest men on earth. He doesn't need our money. He's a long-time crony of Obama and one of his deep-pocket financial supporters. He also is an American-hating socialist who wants global governance and a one world currency. A very evil man, who turned his own friends and family in to Hitler, in exchange for favors and wealth. And then on 10/7/10, the Cypress Times reported that Obama gave Mexico another $1 billion of our money to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. That's in addition to the $500,000,000 ($500 million) that Obama has already given Mexico to build a Government Motors plant down there. Taking auto industry and oil industry jobs away from Americans and giving them to Mexico. What's the matter, Obama? Isn't it enough that we have up to 20 million illegal alien Mexicans up here taking jobs in this country away from Americans? Today's Washington Times (which is also where I got the article about the sale of the Wyoming uranium mine to Russia) reports that the China National Offshore Oil Corp. is going to pay $2.2 billion for interest in a South Texas oil and natural gas shale project, plus billions more over the next few years. It's the Chesapeake Energy / Eagle Ford shale play that covers 600,000 acres right here in Texas. China aims to secure sources of energy for it's growing economy; but Chesapeake Energy says almost certainly the resources will be sold here in the U.S. and proceeds sent to China. Is that any better; either the oil and natural gas will go to China, or the money from it will? And that stands to be a goodly amount since CNOOC plans to eventually have 5,000 or more wells, all told. Something else the Obama administration is doing, or has a hand in, either by instigation or by approval; that we need to keep an eye on. Is it any wonder that a person can get mired down in apathy? Our wealth, our land, our sovereignty, our very country, is being sold out from under us. America, open your eyes!