The Borg Conspiracy

According to George Soros? Obama and Romney are the same

2012-01-30T15:44:00.001-05:00

If this doesn't tell you what the deal is with Mitt Romney? I don't know what does. When the biggest anti American anti capitalist on the planet tells you that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the American people had better listen.

Obama says a 9 trillion dollar deficit is unpatriotic

2012-01-30T14:15:00.000-05:00

Well, at least it was back when it was only nine trillion and George Bush was responsible for four trillion of that over eight years. Now that the deficit is 16 trillion? Seven trillion of that in the last three years under Obama's tutelage? Mums the word...

"I think any good mother would."

2012-01-30T13:04:00.000-05:00

You have to see and hear this to believe it. From a talk show in the UK, but clearly an example of secular egalitarian progressive thinking in my opinion.

They call him Flipper!

2012-01-30T12:54:00.000-05:00

If you are seriously concerned about Mitt Romney's commitment to conservatism and whether or not he is a conservative republican, or just an interloping liberal/moderate who happens to periodically embrace conservatism? Watch this.

The media remains in Obama's camp

2012-01-30T07:55:00.000-05:00

Compliments of the Gateway Pundit.

That is right, the minions of media, those dweebs that hang on every word of reality television, they have decided that president Obama isn't so bad after all. His polices may have failed, he may have caused more misery than Jimmy Carter ever dreamed of, but all in all he is a likeable guy who deserves another four years.

Never have we seen the vitriol like was the norm against George W. Bush. The in the bag liberal media simply ignores the realities while continuing to hype the liberal line and the lemings of America sop it up like manna from Heaven.

Give this man another four years and he will complete the mission of destroying this nation permanently.

Reelect Failed President Barack Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 30, 2012, 4:50 AM

Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. Obama is the the first president ever to lose 1,000,000 jobs during a recovery. The housing market just experienced its worst year ever in 2011 during the so-called recovery. Today over 46,000,000 million Americans are on food stamps (another Obama record!) more than ever before and the number is still climbing.
(More Obama statistics here)
But facts be damned… And country be damned.
The media is ready to mislead Americans in order to get Barack Obama reelected.

Despite his atrocious record and failed leadership AFP cheerleader Stephen Collinson sees favorable political winds for Obama.
For once, Barack Obama is behaving like a president with the wind at his back, rather than one taking the full force of a political gale in the face.
Rising poll numbers, favorable economic data and a Republican primary race that has torn holes in the electability argument of his most likely Republican foe Mitt Romney, have combined to put a new spring in Obama’s step.
And a daring raid by Navy SEALS to rescue an American aid worker and a Danish colleague from Somali pirates last week further enhanced the commander-in-chief resume on which he will run hard in November.
“Four more years” chanted a supporter at a raucous rally in Michigan on Friday. “Ok,” Obama replied in a brash show of confidence.
Asked last week by an ABC News anchor how much he wanted to win reelection after a crisis-strewn three years in power, the ultra-competitive president replied “badly.”
And showing new disdain for his political foes, Obama publicly ticked off Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer on an airport taxiway last week — in full view of the press.
My word, they’re even praising Obama for threatening Governor Jan Brewer on the Phoenix tarmac.
They aren’t even hiding their bias anymore.

Fred Thompson calls it...

2012-01-29T22:05:00.002-05:00

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"Get The Hell Out Of The USA"

2012-01-29T21:38:00.003-05:00

Actually? Allan West told Obama, Reid and Pelosi to take their trash and get the hell out of America with it. Semper Fi Rep. West

Allen West Tells Liberal Leaders To "Get The Hell Out Of The USA"

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"Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America," Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said at the Palm Beach County Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner. West represents the district in the U.S. Congress.

It's not about winning anymore

2012-01-29T19:35:00.000-05:00

Compliments of The Gateway Pundit Page

Romney Staffer: It’s Not About Winning Anymore, It’s About Destroying Newt Gingrich

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 29, 2012, 3:47 PM

The Romney campaign admits that their latest strategy is not just to win but to destroy Newt Gingrich.
Buzzfeed reported:

Mitt Romney’s goal in Florida is no longer just winning.
After Gingrich Newt scored a surprise blow-out victory in South Carolina last week, the former Massachusetts governor not only unleashed a political broadside of epic proportions.
“It not about winning here anymore,” one Romney staffer told BuzzFeed. “It’s about destroying Gingrich — and it’s working.”
After two standout debate performances that put him up 9 points in recent polls, Romney is keeping the pressure on Gingrich, looking to score a blow-out victory of his own here.
To that end, Romney has rolled out a team of surrogates in the Sunshine State to take the fight to Gingrich in person: from Connie Mack (III) and Connie Mack (IV), to Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Sen. John McCain. Romney has also aired a controversial ad featuring Tom Brokaw announcing that Gingrich had been sanctioned by the House.
Today both Macks took the stage before Romney to attack Gingrich’s character, proclaiming that he has a “checkered past with ethics and honesty.”

The Ice Cometh

2012-01-29T10:01:00.002-05:00

We aren't hearing too much about this report on our side of the Atlantic. Too many research grants hanging in the balance here for our scientists to tell the truth about what their science has told them. They know what is happening and they know that this bunkum about global warming is nothing more than a vehicle for environmental extremists (AKA anti capitalist anarchist) to bring down America and the west.

They are using Saul Alinski's plan to a fault and the people of this country don't have sense enough to see it. With the downfall of the Iron curtain and the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, most would like to believe that the battles were won.

Those battles were won. The problem is that the adversaries of freedom and this democratic republic didn't go away. Their war against freedom rages on. They simply shifted their attack and emphasis from outright communism to the environmental movement and subliminal anarchy . When Hell literally freezes over, these same minions of the grail of Alinski and others will still be selling sun screen and carbon futures and telling us all that we are all doomed to drown in a rising sea of melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

Mean while? I'll be investing in winter coat and glove futures and fire wood and the things that will keep me warm.

According to an article published in today's Daily Mail (UK)

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

A painting, dated 1684, by Abraham Hondius depicts one of many frost fairs on the River Thames during the mini ice age
Meanwhile, leading climate scientists yesterday told The Mail on Sunday that, after emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food.
Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak.
We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.
Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html#ixzz1krKOXswp

Herman Cain Supports Gingrich

2012-01-29T08:19:00.000-05:00

Having trouble figuring out who you want to support as the next president of the United States. If you are reading this blog, then it is assumed that you have already decided that tou won't be supporting Barack Obama come the general election. So who do you like.

Rick Santorum has an evangelical following and he is an articulate and likeable guy, so if your religious faith is solely your determining factor, then Santorum is your guy. If withdrawal from the world stage and isolationism appeals to you, then by all means pull the lever for Ron Paul.Paul wants to see America behind walls. If you don't really want to be bothered by making your own choice and you are content to take to one size fits all party pick candidate, then Mitt Romney is obviously the man for you.

If none of those candidates flip your switch or float your boat, Newt Gingrich is the man left standing. He isn't pretty and he he is the present target of everyone from the media to his own party elite. Therefore, in my mind? There must be some reasoning that he is fighting on all fronts right now while all the others are getting a pass.Herman Cain decided who he is supporting last night. You still have until November. Choose wisely.

Cain backs Gingrich's presidential bid

Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain threw his support behind Newt Gingrich Saturday night, providing the former House speaker with a late boost just days before Florida's primary.

Cain, a tea party favorite, endorsed his fellow Georgian at a GOP fundraiser Saturday calling him "a patriot." "Speaker Gingrich is not afraid of bold ideas," Cain said.
The former pizza executive, who left the race before the first nominating contests after facing accusations of unwanted sexual advances, suggested the two have both undergone intense scrutiny.

"I know that Speaker Gingrich is running for president and going through this sausage grinder," Cain said. "I know what this sausage grinder is all about."
Cain is set to campaign with Gingrich on Monday in an 11th hour push for support. Gingrich is in a fierce fight for Tuesday's Florida's GOP primary with Mitt Romney.
Gingrich on Saturday night said that, like Cain, he is running a campaign based on big ideas and bold solutions.

We are the Debt Generation

2012-01-29T07:41:00.001-05:00

A memorial to those who have been lost

2012-01-29T07:29:00.003-05:00

Don't use my name: Says Tom Brokaw

2012-01-28T18:58:00.001-05:00

This is really pretty funny when you think about it. It's OK for the media elite to slam and dunk and say whatever they like about anyone. Just don't try and use their template to further your own campaign. Priceless......

NBC, Brokaw denounce Romney ad

Reid Epstein, NBC News and Tom Brokaw are loudly objecting to the Mitt Romney campaign's use of footage from the 1990s in an ad blasting Newt Gingrich over his House ethics charges.
Brokaw, whose statement noted he was speaking on his behalf, said, "I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad. I do no want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign."
"The NBC Legal Department has written a letter to the campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads," NBC News said in a statement, which added, "Similar requests have gone out to other campaigns that have inappropriately used Nightly News, Meet the Press, Today and MSNBC material."

2012-01-28T17:59:00.003-05:00

Common sense gone wild again

2012-01-28T08:25:00.002-05:00

Once again, secular egalitarianism trumps common sense and victimizes another child. This time it happened in Hercules California.

Six year old suspended for sexual battery

An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials.
The parent, who asked only to be identified as Oswin, said his son was accused of brushing his best friend’s leg or groin while the two were playing on the playground at Lupine Hills Elementary in Hercules two months ago.
Oswin said his child was kept in the principal’s office for two hours until he confessed. He was suspended, and a sexual battery charge was placed on his permanent school record.
“To me, I think it’s an overreaction,” said Marilyn Cheeks, a Lupine Hills Elementary parent
Legally, there’s no such thing as sexual assault for a six year-old in California.
It wasn’t until Oswin and his wife got a lawyer that the school backed off. District officials declined to discuss specifics. They did confirm that an investigation was conducted, and that the child could not be charged with sexual battery. The claim was removed from the boy’s record.
Oswin’s son is attending another school now. He said he only hopes no one else will have to go through what his family did.
(Copyright 2012 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Sarah Palin's take on the politics of cannibalism

2012-01-27T21:27:00.000-05:00

There are many who don't care for Sarah Palin, but the woman has the right take on what is taking place in the republican party concerning their attacks against Newt Gingrich

From Sarah Palin's Facebook page today.

Cannibals in GOP Establishment Employ Tactics of the Left

by Sarah Palin on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 5:57pm

We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant. Those who claim allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should stop and think about where we are today. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, the fathers of the modern conservative movement, would be ashamed of us in this primary. Let me make clear that I have no problem with the routine rough and tumble of a heated campaign. As I said at the first Tea Party convention two years ago, I am in favor of contested primaries and healthy, pointed debate. They help focus candidates and the electorate. I have fought in tough and heated contested primaries myself. But what we have seen in Florida this week is beyond the pale. It was unprecedented in GOP primaries. I’ve seen it before – heck, I lived it before – but not in a GOP primary race.

I am sadly too familiar with these tactics because they were used against the GOP ticket in 2008. The left seeks to single someone out and destroy his or her record and reputation and family using the media as a channel to dump handpicked and half-baked campaign opposition research on the public. The difference in 2008 was that I was largely unknown to the American public, so they had no way of differentiating between the lies and the truth. All of it came at them at once as “facts” about me. But Newt Gingrich is known to us – both the good and the bad.

We know that Newt fought in the trenches during the Reagan Revolution. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, Newt was among a handful of Republican Congressman who would regularly take to the House floor to defend Reagan at a time when conservatives didn’t have Fox News or talk radio or conservative blogs to give any balance to the liberal mainstream media. Newt actually came at Reagan’s administration “from the right” to remind Americans that freer markets and tougher national defense would win our future. But this week a few handpicked and selectively edited comments which Newt made during his 40-year career were used to claim that Newt was somehow anti-Reagan and isn’t conservative enough to go against the accepted moderate in the primary race. (I know, it makes no sense, and the GOP establishment hopes you won’t stop and think about this nonsense. Mark Levin and others have shown the ridiculousness of this.) To add insult to injury, this “anti-Reagan” claim was made by a candidate who admitted to not even supporting or voting for Reagan. He actually was against the Reagan movement, donated to liberal candidates, and said he didn’t want to go back to the Reagan days. You can’t change history. We know that Newt Gingrich brought the Reagan Revolution into the 1990s. We know it because none other than Nancy Reagan herself announced this when she presented Newt with an award, telling us, “The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and in turn Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.” As Rush and others pointed out, if Nancy Reagan had ever thought that Newt was in any way an opponent of her beloved husband, she would never have even appeared on a stage with him, let alone presented him with an award and said such kind things about him. Nor would Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan, have chosen to endorse Newt in this primary race. There are no two greater keepers of the Reagan legacy than Nancy and Michael Reagan. What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst.

But this whole thing isn’t really about Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney. It is about the GOP establishment vs. the Tea Party grassroots and independent Americans who are sick of the politics of personal destruction used now by both parties’ operatives with a complicit media egging it on. In fact, the establishment has been just as dismissive of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all.

I spoke up before the South Carolina primary to urge voters there to keep this primary going because I have great concern about the GOP establishment trying to anoint a candidate without the blessing of the grassroots and all the needed energy and resources we as commonsense constitutional conservatives could bring to the general election in order to defeat President Obama. Now, I respect Governor Romney and his success. But there are serious concerns about his record and whether as a politician he consistently applied conservative principles and how this impacts the agenda moving forward. The questions need answers now. That is why this primary should not be rushed to an end. We need to vet this. Pundits in the Beltway are gleefully proclaiming that this primary race is over after Florida, despite 46 states still not having chimed in. Well, perhaps it’s possible that it will come to a speedy end in just four days; but with these questions left unanswered, it will not have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Without this necessary vetting process, the unanswered question of Governor Romney’s conservative bona fides and the unanswered and false attacks on Newt Gingrich will hang in the air to demoralize many in the electorate. The Tea Party grassroots will certainly feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with the perceived orchestrated outcome from self-proclaimed movers and shakers trying to sew this all up. And, trust me, during the general election, Governor Romney’s statements and record in the private sector will be relentlessly parsed over by the opposition in excruciating detail to frighten off swing voters. This is why we need a fair primary that is not prematurely cut short by the GOP establishment using Alinsky tactics to kneecap Governor Romney’s chief rival.

As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?

- Sarah Palin

A Geat Story: Welcome Home

2012-01-27T19:46:00.002-05:00

1/11/2012 - NEW YORK -- LaGuardia Airport personnel received an unexpected
arrival Dec. 27, 2011, when the 4th Special Operations Squadron aircrew
radioed the airport requesting permission to land.

Deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn since 2003, the
AC-130U Spooky Gunship was on its final leg home. The unexpected arrival
became an opportunity for everyone at LaGuardia Airport to honor the crew in
true New York fashion.

"Robert McAdams, the station manager for SheltAir Aviation, LaGuardia
Airport's fixed base operator, notified my office of the AC-130U's scheduled
arrival time and that the aircraft was en route from Iraq to Hurlburt
Field," said Thomas Bosco, general manager for LaGuardia Airport.

With timing of the essence, the staff responded with the singular goal of
honoring returning service members who are travel weary and itching to set
foot on U.S. soil.

"The Port Authority (of New York and New Jersey) earn their living by
thinking, organizing, and acting quickly and decisively," said Bosco. "So,
it wasn't difficult at all for them to organize personnel and equipment for
the event. As the word spread of the AC-130's arrival, airport workers, who
could safely break away from their duties for a few minutes, did so in order
to render a heartfelt "thank you" to our brave men and women in uniform."

The aircrew was bringing one of its finest and most battle-tested assets
home. The final AC-130U Spooky Gunship from the 4th SOS was closing in on
U.S. soil - something the plane had not touched down on since 2003.

Taxiing into the designated parking spot, the crew was overcome with
emotion. For many, this was their first glimpse of the United States in
months. Off the nose of the aircraft, emergency vehicles lined the taxiway
with their flashing lights beckoning them forward into the parking spot.
Personnel from every section at the airport stood cheering and waving
American flags as well as fire trucks symbolically saluting the aircraft and
her crew with water cannons.

"It is indescribable the feelings our crew had as we taxied up to the
amazing reception," said Capt. Justin Harvey, AC-130U Spooky Gunship pilot
of 4th Special Operation Squadron. "For me this was a top 5 moment of my Air
Force career at this point. I could hardly taxi the aircraft my hands were
shaking as we pulled into parking."

Choosing to land at LaGuardia Airport became a symbolic nod to Americans
whose lives were irrevocably changed by 9/11. While the aircrew was coming
home from Iraq instead of Afghanistan, the homecoming had a reassuring
effect on those who attended.

"Port Authority police and civilian airport workers felt compelled to
organize a warm and appropriate welcome to our returning heroes," Bosco
said.

Given the horrific 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and informed the
aircrew's intent to put "boots on the ground" in New York City, Bosco said
it was a fitting conclusion to their combat mission.

While the homecoming was deeply appreciated by the aircrew, it left an even
more lasting impression on the LaGuardia staff.

"Welcoming the AC-130 crew was one of the most striking and heartwarming
moments of my career," remarked Port Authority Police Officer Dan Francis.

Kevin Dauwalter, Chief Operations supervisor at LaGuardia Airport, said he
was deeply moved by the home coming and grateful for the opportunity to say
thank you to those who risk their lives to defend our freedoms at home.

The aircraft's return represented the end of Hurlburt Field's commitment to
the OND mission but underscores Hurlburt Field's commitment to protect
America and her allies.

"Although this aircraft's arrival signifies the end of one chapter, we
remain engaged in operations around the globe and vigilant in the defense of
our country's freedom," said Col. Jim Slife, commander of 1st Special
Operations Wing.

As one of the final four planes to come back to the 4th and 9th Special
Operation Squadrons here, the impromptu welcome home salute cemented what
service members already knew: America is a "grateful and patriotic nation."

"We want the crew members to know that New Yorkers, and indeed all
Americans, are grateful for their service to the nation in defense of our
liberty," Bosco said.

Linmbaugh sees through the haze recognises the tactics

2012-01-27T10:22:00.002-05:00

Watching what has transpired over the past month and as recently as yesterday concerning Newt Gingrich, should clearly demonstrate to anyone observing, just what is actually taking place in this nomination process. Gingrich is the target and the fair haired boy of choice of media and the party elite remains Mitt Romney.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: How long's it gonna be, folks, before we start seeing billboards all over, Florida, other upcoming primary states with Rick Perry on 'em saying, "Miss me yet?" How long's that gonna be? You remember when they had the George Bush billboards, "Miss me yet?" a couple months into the regime?

Anyway, great to have you here, folks, already Thursday, fastest week in the media. Goes even faster when one of the days you spend 12 hours, 10 hours, whatever it was, in an airplane, like I did? Great to have you here, as always, it really is a thrill and a delight. Telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Boy, this Newt stuff. Did you know any of this Newt stuff, Snerdley? Let's go through the list. By the way, you should know, there's a blog in the Washington Post. It's called The Plum Line and it's written by a guy named Greg Sargent, and I think he used to be at Editor and Publisher back when it was in business. He was one of the guys there when it went out of business. Very, very left-leaning. He's got a post that includes this. "The New York Times reports today -- based on unclear sourcing -- that Mitt Romney has endorsed a strategy of raising doubts about Newt Gingrich’s 'emotional stability.'" And then there are others that are raising questions here about Newt and his mendacity, his forthrightness.
It is incredible. Yeah, yeah. Well, during the CNN debate with John King, he said that he had all kinds of friends that could vouch for the fact that he had never told his wife he wanted an open marriage. And so yesterday Newt in the campaign said, (paraphrasing) "Nope, nope, there aren't any friends. It's just my two daughters. What I said in the debate, that wasn't true." But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's the front page of Drudge. Let's give you the headlines.
Newt flashback, 1983: "Reagan Responsible for National Decay." This is Newt saying these things.

SHOCK & MAUL – Mittwits & Republican Elites BOMB Newt

2012-01-26T17:24:00.000-05:00

I am glad that I am not alone in recognizing this when I first saw the headlines of this campaign unfolding on Drudge this morning.

Compliments of the GATEWAY PUNDIT Blog

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 26, 2012, 3:40 PM

In case you haven’t noticed – the Republican establishment and east coast Mittwits have declared war on torchbearer Newt Gingrich.
Dammit Republicans… Do what you’re told! Get in line and back the RINO!

Ann Coulter loses her conservative street cred by pushing Reagan-basher Mitt Romney, of Romneycare fame, as the true conservative in the GOP race while bombing Newt.
Really Ann?… Really?
The Politico is tracking the war on Newt.

Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the “elite media” and liberals don’t read the Drudge Report this morning.
Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72000.html#ixzz1kbOpaqZv
If they do, Gingrich comes off looking like a dangerous, anti-Reagan, Clintonian fraud.
It’s as if the conservative media over the past 24 hours decided Gingrich is for real, and they need to come clean about the man they really know before it’s too late. This is just a sampling of what’s hitting Newt:
• The overnight Drudge Report banner: “Insider: Gingrich repeatedly Insulted Reagan.” The headline linked to a devastating takedown by Elliott Abrams in the National Review, who wrote, among other things, that Gingrich had a long record of criticizing and undermining Reagan’s most transformative policies.
• Drudge also linked prominently to the American Spectator’s R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s similarly harsh takedown of Gingrich over character: “William Jefferson Gingrich.” In it, Tyrrell writes: “Newt and Bill are 1960s generation narcissists, and they share the same problems: waywardness and deviancy. Newt, like Bill, has a proclivity for girl hopping… His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out.”
Drudge runs hundreds of links to stories of all stripes about candidates, but has been seen by Republicans as favorable to Romney in the past.
• Bob Dole issued a scathing statement Thursday that the Romney campaign provided to the National Review in which he said “it is now time” to rally to stop Gingrich, blamed the former Speaker for losing House Republican seats in 1996, and warned that it could happen again, at all levels of government.

Fortunately Rush Limbaugh has not lost his mind.
The conservative stalwart led off with this segment today.
“Coordinated Avalanche Against Newt Doesn’t Match My Memory of Reagan Years”
This is getting really ugly. It’s unfortunate that our Republican brethren have to wage a shoddy smear campaign on Newt in order to slow his surge.

Dole cuts Gingrich down for CNN

2012-01-26T16:41:00.002-05:00

I respect Bob Dole for his service to this country during WWII, but I have never liked his politics. I didn't like him in 1996 when the GOP closed ranks much as they are doing presently and decided that Dole was the guy to run against Bill Clinton.

The same thinking that orchestrated Bob Dole's loss to Clinton in 1996 is now steering the Romney bus to the same conclusion. And if you listen closely at the end of the interview, you will hear Doles say. "It's Romney's time."

That is the way the party machine thinks. Damn the realities, it's this guy's time. That was their thinking in 1996. It was Dole's time. Well we see how that worked out didn't we.

U.S. - US Pennsylvania man, 65, fatally shoots teen who pushed him off bicycle Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/26/pennsylvania-man-65-fatally-shoots-teen-who-pushed-him-off-bicycle/?test=latestnews#ixzz1kaJXKkWo

2012-01-26T12:03:00.002-05:00

There is obviously more to this story, as evidenced by the District Attorney's decision to not charge the man. Self defense is not a criminal offense and when rogues and thugs meet up with the wrong victim, I have no pity for them regardless of their age.

A 65-year-old man shot one teenager dead and wounded another after they pushed him off his bicycle and tried to rob him in Pennsylvania, police said.
The man was cycling on a trail in Reading, Pa., shortly before 11:00 am local time Wednesday morning, when a group of teens pushed him off the bicycle and two of them assaulted him, investigators said.
The 65 year old then took out a handgun and shot them both, the Reading Eagle reported.
One of the teens -- a 16 year old from Reading -- was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:17 p.m. local time.
The second teenager was taken to the hospital but his condition was unknown, according to the newspaper.
Cops arrested a third boy at the scene and took him in for questioning. The 15 year old was later taken to a county youth center in nearby Bern Township where he was held on unspecified charges.
Police decided to release the 65 year old and charge the juvenile after consulting with District
Attorney John Adams, who attended the scene with forensic detectives, the Reading Eagle reported.
Authorities did not release his name or the names of the teenagers.

And in Today's News

2012-01-26T09:38:00.002-05:00

The morning headlines on the Drudge Report.

Yep, these were just the headlines on Drudge this morning. The mainstream media is literally going into their ' Sink the Bismark' mode concerning Newt Gingrich.

No different than when the infamous German battleship Bismark sank the Hood, (the pride of the British Royal Navy). Once Newt Gingrich torpedoed the pride of the GOP and mainstream media's pride of the fleet candidate (Mitt Romney), they all collectively sounded the klaxons to summon all out battle stations against the mutually hated Juggernaut Gingrich. Stay tuned, it's going to get worse.

The Mornings Drudge headlines

Gingrich admits ABC claim was false: CNN John King

Gingrich Asked About Marital Past, Role In Clinton Impeachment: ABC News

Gingrich Claims of Veracity in Divorces Don’t Hold Up: The Daily Beast

Gingrich Orchestrated GOP Ads Recalling Clinton-Lewinsky Affair: Washington Post

Drudge, conservative media criticize Newt Gingrich: Politico

William Jefferson Gingrich

Florida Poll: Romney Stronger than Gingrich in General Election vs. Obama: Suffolk University Poll

`NEWT FLASHBACK 1983: REAGAN RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL 'DECAY'...Creators.Com`

`NEWT 1986: 'The Reagan administration has failed, is failing...National Review Online`

Newt In 1988: Bush Won't Win If He Runs To Continue Reaganism: Buzz Feed

`And last but not least......`

RE-ELECT OBAMA: VOTE NEWT! Ann Coulter

UPDATE Gringrich responds to Pelosi

2012-01-25T10:06:00.001-05:00

Well....I for one can't wait to see this.

UPDATE!

Newt Responds to Pelosi Listen HERE

Monica Crowley: Alinsky Dedicated Book to Lucifer and Obama Taught Alinsky

2012-01-25T09:21:00.003-05:00

And for those who might question...

This is the dedication page of Rules for Radicals, excerpted from the online view available through Amazon.com on line.

Barack Obama taught the principles of Saul Alinsky in Chicago. Notice the flow chart indicating the flow of money and power out of productive businesses (“CORP”) and into the political class (“MAYOR”). The heading at the top reads “POWER ANALYSIS”. The sub-heading reads “RELATIONSHIPS BUILD ON SELF INTEREST”. The symbol on the arrow between “CORP” and “MAYOR” is the “$” sign.
Saul Alinsky came up with the idea of power analysis, which looks at relationships built on self-interest between corporations, banks and utilities. Barack Obama was teaching students in Chicago the Alinsky Principles.

LINK

Newt as president? That is not going to happen! (UPDATED)

2012-01-24T22:02:00.002-05:00

Well....I for one can't wait to see this.

UPDATE!

Newt Responds Listen

The best part of The State of The Union address?

2012-01-24T21:53:00.000-05:00

You don't have to watch it or listen to it. The media will spend the next week telling you what he said. And if that ain't enough to make you want to puke, I don't know what is.

Is there a Saul Alinsky portrait in the White House?

2012-01-24T14:15:00.000-05:00

When is a question not a question.....apparently when it is aked to Jay Carney and he decides he doesn't want to answer it. A simple question, something that could easily be handled with a simple denial if there is no truth to the rumor. But rather than deny, Carney obfuscates and smiles and never answers the question.

More examples of hope and change

2012-01-24T13:19:00.004-05:00

Under Obama

So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.gasDuring the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up 22 percent.When Obama entered the White House in January 2009, the city average price for one gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $1.79, according to the BLS. (The figures are in nominal dollars: not adjusted for inflation.) Five months later in June, unleaded gasoline was $2.26 per gallon, an increase of 26 percent. By December 2011, the price of regular unleaded gas per gallon was $3.28, an 83 percent increase from January 2009.

Hope and Change Obama style

2012-01-24T11:01:00.000-05:00

1000 Days Later

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Alan Dlugash 2

What is so special about April 29, 2009?
It’s the last time Congress passed a budget. 1000 days later, we are still operating without any plan. I can’t wait to hear about it during the State of the Union tonight. Just like last year’s State of the Union. The budget Obama tried to pass shortly thereafter, modeled on the ideas espoused during his speech, failed 97-0. It was so outrageous, not one Senator of either party would put his name to it.
I’ve read some recent articles about the last 1000 days. Human Events had some worthwhile observations:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said it would be “foolish” to have a budget.
“There’s no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion,” Reid said in a May interview with the Los Angeles Times. “It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage.”
The breakdown in the Senate came after Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), chairman of the Budget Committee, failed to get a consensus among panel Democrats last year on any plan that was proposed to the caucus.

Meanwhile, U.S. Rep Sandy Adams penned a short piece about Congressional budget activity, (or lack thereof)

The previous Democrat-led Congress had ample time to do so. With President Obama in theWhite House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the power to implement any budget they chose. Unfortunately, they punted on their responsibilities, choosing to pass legislation creating a national energy tax and an unpopular health-care law instead.

And finally, the Heritage Foundation put forth their list of facts about our nation’s budget and America’s money:

The last time the Senate passed a budget was on April 29, 2009.
Since that date, the federal government has spent $9.4 trillion, adding $4.1 trillion in debt.
As of January 20, the outstanding public debt stands at $15,240,174,635,409.
Interest payments on the debt are now more than $200 billion per year.
President Obama proposed a FY2012 budget last year, and the Senate voted it down 97–0. (And that budget was no prize—according to the Congressional Budget Office, that proposal never had an annual deficit of less than $748 billion, would double the national debt in 10 years and would see annual interest payments approach $1 trillion per year.)
The Senate rejected House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget by 57–40 in May 2011, with no Democrats voting for it.
In FY2011, Washington spent $3.6 trillion. Compare that to the last time the budget was balanced in 2001, when Washington spent $1.8 trillion ($2.1 trillion when you adjust for inflation).
Entitlement spending will more than double by 2050. That includes spending on Medicare, Medicaid and the Obamacare subsidy program, and Social Security. Total spending on federal health care programs will triple.
By 2050, the national debt is set to hit 344 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
Taxes paid per household have risen dramatically, hitting $18,400 in 2010 (compared with $11,295 in 1965). If the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire and more middle-class Americans are required to pay the alternative minimum tax (AMT), taxes will reach unprecedented levels.
Federal spending per household is skyrocketing. Since 1965, spending per household has grown by nearly 162 percent, from $11,431 in 1965 to $29,401 in 2010. From 2010 to 2021, it is projected to rise to $35,773, a 22 percent increase.

So there you have it. The last time Congress passed a budget was with a Democrat in the White house, with a Democrat-controlled Senate, and with a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. 1000 days ago. So how come no one else is talking about it?

Team Romney Says Obama Would Beat Gingrich

2012-01-23T20:22:00.002-05:00

And of course Mitt Romney hands down is the only candidate who can beat Barack Obama. If Romney gets the nomination, I want the American people to hunt down these people like Pawlenty and get their follow up comments after Romney loses to Obama.

My money in on the bet that you won't be able to find them and once you do, they will lie like dogs to try and deny that they ever supported Romney. The only good news in this entire election cycle is that it is finally coming down to it.

So let's see if the collective efforts of Americans can either keep an unfit interloper in office, or will they replace him with an equally ineffectual moderate who has no intentions of pursuing anything remotely conservative if elected.

Go ahead America, trade a witch for the devil.

According to Tim Pawlenty

Despite South Carolina exit polling that suggested voters felt Newt Gingrich stood the best chance to beat President Obama in the fall general election, challenger Mitt Romney's team today said a Gingrich nomination would guarantee an Obama second term.

"The possibility of Newt Gingrich being our nominee against Barack Obama, I think, is essentially handing the election over to Obama if it got to that point. And I think that's shared by a lot of folks in the Republican Party," said Romney cheerleader Tim Pawlenty.

Joe Biden on character

2012-01-23T20:16:00.004-05:00

I love this. Joe Biden begins answering Seacrest's question concerning Newt Gingrich's ex-wife by saying that he has no comment. "This is quicksand." Then he states that candidate's character has to be examined and then closes by saying that 'this' is not an endeavor for the faint hearted. You tell em Joe.....

Is there a 'dimes worth of difference'?

2012-01-23T10:09:00.000-05:00

Is there a dimes worth of difference in media today? I seriously don't believe so. Watching the morning news shows once again this morning confirms that reality to me. It goes without saying that if you want to see liberal bias in the media, most network and cable news sources can easily accommodate your taste.

Some are more obvious than others. for instance MSNBC and CNN lead the cable networks in open bias in favor of Barack Obama and all liberal causes. Nothing new there, they equally supported Bill Clinton and every liberal cause and perspective before the current election cycle. The other networks, what most refer to now as free TV have long since been in the bag for democrats and liberal egalitarianism.

The most glaring example of liberal media bias in recent history being the Dan Rather CBS debacle. Rather was caught in a bold faced attempt to manufacture lies against then President George W Bush concerning his military record during the 2004 elections. That fiasco and the truth cost Dan Rather his job and CBS continues to push the broom and barrel behind the collective media circus as a result of their intense desire to manufacture news as opposed to reporting it.

Our current election cycle is no different in my observation. You can surf the channels daily and see that all remains well in the liberal media mindset as it concerns this election cycle. They all are regularly shilling for Obama and the liberal agenda and they are regularly foisting the egalitarian mantra, but there remains a problem. Where is the balance? Where is the opposing viewpoint. Is there anyone out there willing to sell the truth as news?

I would submit that there are those who might immediately offer up Fox News as that shining island of fairness and balance in media. Most Americans have seen and heard these representations of Fox News: "We report, you decide." "Fox News, fair and balanced." I know I have and every time I hear those representations on a Fox promo, I am forced to shake my head in disbelief. How can Americans be so consistently blind and stupid.

Fox News may begin their broadcasts each day representing themselves as fair and balanced, but they are as far removed from that representation as a news entity can possibly be in my observation. Watching Fox & Friends this morning, the entire program was once again clearly centered on attacking New Gingrich.

Mainstream media has been engaged in a non stop re-evaluation of Newt Gingrich's performance in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, ever since he won that primary. Gingrich bucked the polls and the best efforts of media spun projections and won. All the best efforts of ABC news and their tawdry interview with his ex-wife the night before the primary obviously had no effect on the voters of South Carolina. Once again, something is terribly wrong in media manufactured election cycles. The people simply aren't following the script and the predetermined outcome wasn't attained.

And true to form, Fox News was leading the way this morning with their ongoing attacks against Gingrich. This morning, there sat Gretchen and Doocey on the curvy couch and they were interviewing one of their favorite paid pundits of late, Ms. Dana Perino. And as expected, Ms. Perino was offering up every reasoning that she could muster as to why Newt Gingrich is un-electable, regardless of what his performance in south Carolina may have clearly shown.

I could re-hash and go back over the weeks of attacks that has been mustered by mainstream media at large against Gingrich, but the point of my argument here is to point directly to Fox News and the litany of supposed conservative punditry who continue to line up to attack Gingrich on that network. Even Ann Coulter, right wing attack dog extraordinaire has gone all but rabid in her attacks of Gingrich in her interviews on Fox over the past month.

These supposed conservative hired guns of punditry regularly appear on Fox News. They have absolutely no hope of ever being hired as commentators on any the rest of mainstream media, therefore, their collective rabidness toward Gingrich is not only palpable, but it is also concentrated into one news outlet.

For months the media at large have attacked and discounted the candidacy of Ron Paul, but the level of media spun vitriol against Paul pales in comparison to the attacks mounted against Gingrich. The media realizes that barring divine intervention, Ron Paul doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting the nomination. But they have had to sit up and recognize that Newt Gingrich is the Everready bunny of candidates and he is resonating with the mainstream of America.

That realization is distressing on a number of levels in media boardrooms across America, regardless of how they choose to parse their reactions publicly. The media recognizes that this country is in trouble and has been ever since Barack Obama set foot in the White house. They see the numbers, they read the unemployment rates and the numbers on the national deficit. They see the loss of jobs and the out of control spending. They all know and realize that the shining city on a hill of Reagan's vision is now dark and desolate, but none the less they continue to trudge forward with their egalitarian socialist mantras. In the face of common sense and the dire consequences of failed social Utopian lies by Obama, the media collectively continues to ignore Obama and attack the right. Simply stated, it's what they do.

But the question that must be asked is why is Fox News right in the thick of it? Why are all of the "Fox News Contributors" (save none) in unison in their open disdain if not hatred (like Ann Counter) against Newt Gingrich? I for one see this collective anger, dislike and hatred hinging on one point and that point is, Newt Gingrich has attacked them. Newt Gingrich has attacked the media. He didn't attack Fox News directly, but he has attacked the media et al and he continues to attack mainstream media. And just like the family that comes together to defend the crazy uncle, Fox News has taken Newt's attacks on media at large as an offense that cannot be excused. They must respond and defend their industry.

Fox News and their producers realize that they have obtained the ratings that they have through the years by countering the offerings of mainstream leftist media, but none the less they cannot stand for anyone attacking the business of media at large. Therefore, in the face of all reason, Fox and their stable of paid contributors (hired guns) have collectively brought their angst to bear against Newt Gingrich as the anti Christ attacking media.

The truly interesting part of this media inspired operatic attack, is that Newt Gingrich revels in their attacks. It gives him all the more opportunities to demonstrate his most valuable and practiced asset. The man can simply and calmly look into a camera and systematically dismantle and destroy the manufactured lies and misrepresentations of media. He has demonstrably done that in every debate that he has participated in to date and the people love it.

If there are those who are still curious as to why Newt Gingrich is resonating and surging with the American people, then look no further than the reality that Newt Gingrich sees and recognizes American media as the cancer that it is and he is pointing that out to the American people.

The American people are tired of business as usual in Washington and they are tired of media trying to control their opinions and their lives. The American people recognize and appreciate what Newt Gingrich has had to say concerning the tawdry and idiotic issues that mainstream media continues to focus on while continually muddying the water. The American people recognize that mainstream media is purposely ignoring their suffering and the reasons behind it. They are also acutely aware that Newt Gingrich is speaking to those issue and that the media is writhing like vampires in the light of day every time he addresses those issue. The people like that and they see that as something that as something that is bother sorely needed and desirable in a candidate.

So, when asking yourself questions concerning the alleged fairness and balance of media, or the lack there of in everyday reporting, then look no further than what is being hustled everyday in this country everyday by all media. No, there isn't a dimes worth of difference when it comes to the way media perceives or reports news or politics, regardless of what Fox News would like us to believe. They all have an agenda and they all close ranks to protect each other, regardless of their representations to the contrary.

Newt Gingrich will continue to strike a chord with mainstream Americans. Americans in the flyover country and in America's cities who have suffered and continue to suffer recognize reality And as long as Newt Gingrich continues to speak to their misery, his numbers will continue to soar and he will continue to win primaries. And in the interim, the media in America will continue to attack him and they will continue to ignore the realities of American suffering, the same way they continue to ignore the person responsible for causing and continuing that misery.

Just be aware of what is going on the next time you turn on a TV or visit a web page. The mainstream media and the republican party machine has come together to put the fix in for Romney and that simply ain't working. And each of those entities are doing everything they can to turn back the rise in public discontent with Romney and the support for Gingrich.

The media and the republican party elites want Romney to garner the nomination. The media knows that Romney cannot prevail against Barack Obama and the republican party elites are oblivious to the realities of what is happening and the desires of the people. The republican party machine is in gear and hell bent to garner the nomination for Romney. And if Fox News and the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times and others have to throw Newt under the bus to maintain their political blood lines? Then welcome to the real world of freedom of the press and media at large in contemporary modern America.

I think back to four years ago when the movement in the polls and primaries was coalescing behind Barack Obama. The party elites of the democrat party were hell bent to see Hillary as their candidate, but even with the best efforts to derail his candidacy, Barack Obama prevailed. the democrats finally got it in 2008. I seriously doubt that the republicans will this year..

What color is the sky in Dick Morris' world?

2012-01-22T19:22:00.002-05:00

I mean really... what debate did Dick Morris watch Friday night? Must have been something playing in an alternative universe.

Joe Pa Dead at 85

2012-01-22T11:14:00.000-05:00

Was Joe Paterno murdered? Some may tend to think so.

Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press

Paterno was a larger-than-life figure on the Penn State campus. More Photos »

The revelations of Jerry Sandusky's illicit pedophilia most certainly led to Joe Paterno's dismissal from Penn State University. Therefore, there is a connection to Joe's death in my opinion.I said when this scandal first broke and the regents and others at PSU fired Joe, that it was only a matter of time before Joe would die. this would kill him. I said the firing and the disgrace of the scandal would kill him and it has.Rest in peace Joe Pa, you had an illustrious career, but in the end, your career ended by your own hand. Sandusky isn't to blame for Joe's death. He was just the causation that Joe should have handled and dealt with when it was originally brought to his attention.

Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other major-college football coach, and who became the face of Penn State University and a symbol of integrity in collegiate athletics only to be fired during the 2011 season amid a child sexual-abuse scandal that reverberated throughout the nation, died Sunday. He was 85.

We will get none of the jobs, none of the energy and none of the opportunity.

2012-01-22T09:00:00.005-05:00

Why is Newt Gingrich surging and resonating with the American people?

President Newt not likely....according to those who know..

2012-01-22T08:43:00.002-05:00

And the hits just keep on coming. I saw a cartoon this morning of a little boy telling his father: "When I grow up, I think I am going to join organized crime." The father responds: "Government or corporate? I would recommend government. They never go to jail."

And neither do journalists.

The hits just keep on coming. As evidenced by this hit piece below,

"Can either of these jokers beat President Obama?"

The question should be, "can our joke of a media, ever cover a story about politics, where their seething hatred for all things religious or conservative isn't glaringly apparent."

Can American media find any flaw with their chosen messiah Barack Obama? Apparently not.....

President Newt? Not Likely But Scary to GOP

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich finished an astonishing comeback Saturday night to defeat front-runner Mitt Romney in South Carolina, plunging the Republican Party into a wrenching and potentially lengthy period of soul-searching: Can either of these jokers beat President Obama?
Humiliated and humbled, Romney remains the front-runner for the GOP nomination and, by all conventional measures, is best equipped to push Obama from office. But he has now lost two of three races and leaves South Carolina as a tarnished brand: Equivocations over his tax filings and tone-deaf comments about his wealth and status played into Democratic plans to portray Romney as a cold-hearted, flip-flopping, fat cat who would say or do anything to get elected.

Gingrich is an unabashed egoist ("I think grandiose thoughts") who likes to compare himself to historic figures including Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, the Duke of Wellington, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. He might soon add Jesus Christ to that list because Gingrich has had more political resurrections this past year than the son of God.

Gingrich snubs ABC

2012-01-22T08:32:00.000-05:00

After ABC chose to air their intentionally explosive interview with Newt's ex-wife on the eve of the South Carolina primary, it seems only fitting that he has decided to not appear on the ABC version of the Sunday shows.I can't blame him. I believe if I were him, I would include CNN in that club of news agencies that need to be passed over.

ABC aired the interview, but it was John King with CNN who was the ass opening the debate Friday night.

The Sunday Shows
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's "This Week" - 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
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NBC's "Meet the Press" - 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" - Gingrich; former Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
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CNN's "State of the Union" - Gingrich; Santorum; Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.
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"Fox News Sunday" -Mitt Romney; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

America's junk food addiction

2012-01-21T09:34:00.003-05:00

The bottom line, when hungry people walk away from food? there is a systemic problem. That problem is not simply that they are not that hungry. It deals more with what the body craves and what is perceived as satisfaction for that craving than anything else.

I believe this report exemplifies the reality of our food supply. Additives such as MSG and high fructose corn syrup are doing more than flavoring and enhancing. They are establishing food dependencies on a cellular level in our bodies. The craving for sugar loaded carbohydrates, crammed with salt and preservatives combine to set up the perfect storm in our bodies.

Not only are these foods making us fat, but they are also establishing an addiction that cannot easily be broken.

LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu

Rejecting healthful alternatives like vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles, students are throwing them in the trash by the thousands, bringing junk food from home and buying instant noodles and other decidedly unhealthy fare from the “black markets” that have begun to thrive at campuses across the district, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The wholesale rejection to its healthy menu comes about a year after a very public food fight with TV chef Jamie Oliver. Oliver filmed a few weeks of his ABC series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” at one LAUSD campus, but the permit was terminated abruptly.

The series’ first season featured Oliver trying to revolutionize the eating habits and food policies of Huntington, W. Va.

The district said they welcomed Oliver, but not his cameras, in an effort to avoid gimmicks, like filling a school bus with 57 tons of white sand to represent the amount of sugar LAUSD students consume weekly in flavored milk.

The kerfluffle led to LAUSD’s decision to change the menu in favor of healthier options. The district decided to do away with chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk.

Now, the Times reports cartons of plain milk are being thrown away en masse, unopened, along with uneaten entrees. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students, who are ditching lunch and are suffering from hunger-related ailments.

The complaints have been heard and LAUSD is planning changes to the menu, the Times reports. Burgers and (healthy) pizza are coming back, and dishes like quinoa salads and brown rice cutlets are out.

L.A. Unified serves 650,000 meals daily.

Gingrich Slams CNN's John King at last night's debate

2012-01-20T13:42:00.002-05:00

Nobody does it better.

Newt Gingrich responded immediately to the baited setting and the attempts by CNN moderator John King to resurrect old news of Gingrich's ex wife, in an attempt to taint his recent rise in popularity in the polls.

I personally believe there will come a time and soon, when these mediocre pundits and those others in leftist media masquerading as journalist, learn not to bait this dragon with their less than savvy attacks, or else be prepared to be eviscerated and humiliated by a man who regularly demonstrates his ability to do so.

We're from the government and we are here to help!

2012-01-20T13:29:00.000-05:00

Ever heard those sentiments before?

Well here is the latest installment of the government looking out for your rights and your religious freedoms. So just remember, your individual right to choose? Trumps my right to religious rights. It's in the constitution! Right?

Look it up and let me know, I am still looking for it.

Health plans ordered to cover birth control without co-pays

The final regulation retains the approach federal health officials proposed last summer, despite the deluge of complaints from religious groups and congressional Republicans that has poured in since then. Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are exempt from the requirement, but religious-affiliated hospitals and universities only get a one-year delay and must comply by Aug. 1, 2013.

“This decision was made after very careful consideration, including the important concerns some have raised about religious liberty,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. “I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.”

The left gets giddy once again over Newt ex allegations

2012-01-19T18:35:00.001-05:00

I have no intention of defending Newt Gingrich's marital indiscretions or the circumstances of his divorces. The bottom line, Newt has already done all that. This is old news, but the media is relishing raking the mud on the eve of the South Carolina primary.

I am curious though, what is the difference between Newt's indiscretions and those of infamous president Bill Clinton?

Jeff Foxworthy defines a redneck, as someone with a glorious absence of sophistication. Based upon that observation? I wonder what we can call a complicit media who gloriously ignores the obvious when it reflects poorly on their chosen candidates. Yet they want to drive a stake through the heart of anyone else who appears to have a similar background.

Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s ex-

wife, says he wanted ‘open marriage’

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in 1999 asked his second wife for an “open marriage” or a divorce at the same time he was giving speeches around the country on family and religious values, his former wife, Marianne, told The Washington Post on Thursday.

Marianne Gingrich said she first heard from the former speaker about the divorce request as she was waiting in the home of her mother on May 11, 1999, her mother’s 84th birthday. Over the phone, as she was having dinner with her mother, Newt Gingrich said, “I want a divorce.”

Shocked, Marianne Gingrich replied: “Is there anybody else?” she recalled. “He was quiet. Within two seconds, when he didn’t immediately answer, I knew.”

The next day, Newt Gingrich gave a speech titled “The Demise of American Culture” to the Republican Women Leaders Forum in Erie, Pa., extolling the virtues of the founding fathers and criticizing liberal politicians for supporting tax increases, saying they hurt families and children.

You'll never hear him complain

2012-01-18T09:00:00.003-05:00

One helluva testament to this young man and his spirit. Semper Fi!

Newt Gingrich absolutely slams Juan Williams racist accusations

2012-01-17T16:54:00.000-05:00

Just watch.....

Mitt can't win according to Pelosi

2012-01-17T16:11:00.002-05:00

The republican party has to know its in trouble, when Nancy Pelosi is laughing at them and telling them why they have lost before the contest is even settled. Have pigs started flying? I don't know but it damn sure is looking that way to me.

The day Nancy Pelosi sets up on her hind legs and tells American what all true conservatives have known for the past five years about Mitt Romney, then I for one believe that her message is a noteworthy occurrence. Unfortunately, Nancy is spot on correct in her assessment of the politics and the opinions of conservatism across America.

I for one cannot vote for Romney and if the party continues forward with their blind leading the blind push for his nomination? Then I will be one of many who will simply sit this one out. Having Romney in the white house is no different than having Obama there in my opinion. And I for one am not into trading a witch for the devil.

Mitt Can't Win

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November.
The House’s top Democrat repeatedly jabbed at the former Massachusetts governor during an hour-long interview hosted by POLITICO and taunted the GOP for a slate of presidential contenders that she said was “not exactly what you would call the first string of the Republican Party.”

You might be a racist if?

2012-01-16T17:34:00.000-05:00

Were you one of the many racist in America today? Those racist who failed to observe the King holiday by working? Or did you stay at home and pay proper homage to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

If you worked today? Then Shame! Shame! Shame on you! You racist!

Bank called racist for being open today

After a Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Burlington’s City Hall Contois Auditorium Monday, about a dozen demonstrators marched on the TD Bank branch just down the street to protest the bank’s opening on the holiday.
The marchers briefly gathered in front of the bank, then tried to enter. Moments after the group arrived, Patrick Brown, director of the Burlington Multicultural Resource Center, said he would hand leaflets to bank tellers protesting the bank’s hours Monday. The leaflet read: “Dear TD Bank, you are defying the King holiday. Shame, Shame, Shame. This is a racist act. Shame, Shame, Shame.

Interviewing an idiot

2012-01-15T11:45:00.000-05:00

The best part of a Daily Show satirical interview, is the real truth that always emerges.

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Brother can you spare a Trillion?

2012-01-15T10:46:00.000-05:00

A little light thinking for your Sunday morning entertainment.

Another example of what is wrong with America

2012-01-14T10:10:00.000-05:00

Police officers don't search prisoners to this extent until they are incarcerated and being booked into a jail.Yet here we are witnessing a TSA agent searching a US soldier in uniform as if he is a common thug.

You decide

2012-01-13T20:57:00.003-05:00

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video, and has given us permission to publish it.

“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

"They just don't know" (you just don't know)

2012-01-12T11:14:00.000-05:00

Sarah Palin hits the nail on the head with her commentary in my opinion.

Michelle Obama needs to write a sequel to Barack's book 'The Audacity of Hope." She needs to call her book 'The Audacity of Arrogance."

The unmitigated gall of the woman and her arrogance toward the American people is unbelieveable.

Where are Obama's girlfriends?

2012-01-12T10:41:00.001-05:00

I received this in email this morning and I have to admit that these questions piqued my interest. Have a look at them then ask yourself if there is any validity to what is being asked in your mind.

Every wonder why you've never heard anything??????.....Hmmmmm makes mewonder, what about you???

Very strange and scary.......

WHERE ARE THE GIRLFRIENDS?

I hadn't thought about this - but where are Obama's past girlfriends -surely he had at least one? No past girl friends popping up anywhere?Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!

OK, this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially Americancitizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace, or Truman played the piano.

We are Americans! Our media vets these things out! We are known for ourhumanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but noneof us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing... but it's bugged me for years thatno one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which causedthe women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks likesome lady would not have missed the opportunity.

We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtshipand even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are nosecret. Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems.How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or "Whata great dancer!"Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even therecorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Check for groomsmen.Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.

Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is braggingthat they knew him or taught him or lived with him.

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every presidentprovides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What hashe released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography! Andexperts who study writing styles etc. claim it was not O's own words ortypical of his speech patterns, etc.

Does this make any of you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying theyknew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc?Not one person has ever come forward from his past.

This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movietitled, The Manchurian Candidate?

Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went toschool with remembers our name or face... someone remembers we were theclown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or somethingabout us.

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008campaign.Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was intheir classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches oncampus. Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984.He says he never had a single class with him.Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's collegeclass remember him?And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?Do you like millions of others, simply assume all this is explainable -even though no one can?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 ColumbiaUniversity students from the period when Obama claims to have been there,but not one remembers him. For example, Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) apolitical science major at Columbia , who graduated in 1983. In 2008, Rootsays of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, andthey all know me. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obamaat Columbia ... EVER!

Nobody recalls him.

Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says,"You don't get more exact or closer than that.. Never met him in my life,don't know anyone who ever met him."

At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speakerof the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobodyeven knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind ofthe, as we say in New York , 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to finda person, a human who ever met him."

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obamaconsistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia , provideschool records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friendswhile at Columbia .

How can this be?

NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated valedictorianfrom his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from ColumbiaUniversity in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class inwhich Barack Hussein Obama states he was.

Some other interesting questions.

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?

According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases..

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where heis never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had toknow him in school... before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon thescene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm,poise, and speaking pizzazz.

One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away withit. This is scary on many levels!

More Democrats for Paul than Republicans

2012-01-11T10:22:00.001-05:00

Compliments of the Gateway Pundit site.

I know that this surprises no one who really knows what is going on behind the scenes of the Paul campaign. The democrats do the same thing with Ron Paul on line polls.

More Democrats Than Republicans Voted for Ron Paul in New Hampshire
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 5:28 AM

Here’s an important statistic you won’t hear much about today…
Ron Paul, the only Republican candidate who blames the US for the 9-11 attacks, attracted more Democrats than Republicans in New Hampshire last night.
FOX News released their exit polling results after the voting yesterday in New Hampshire.

More Ron Paul voters said they were moderately liberal than any other category.

Ron Paul also attracted more Democrat than Republican voters last night in New Hampshire.
Then he went out and told the conservative candidates to quit the race.

What color is the sky in their world

2012-01-11T09:14:00.000-05:00

You have to give them an A for effort. The Paulistas never quit. If there is an on line poll to be slammed? Count on them to be there to slam it and here they are now attempting to declare the race for the GOP nomination over for everyone else.

Sure! Everyone else needs to drop out and throw their support to Ron Paul! Yeah! That's the ticket!

I am pretty sure that if Ron Paul were to get the GOP nomination? There will be more than a few million republicans who will stay away from the polls in droves come November. Want Obama for another four years? Give Paul the nomination. JMO....

Ron Paul To Everyone But Mitt: Drop Out

Rep. Ron Paul's campaign called on the rest of the Republican field to drop out of the race and unite behind him in order to defeat Mitt Romney.

“We urge Ron Paul’s opponents who have been unsuccessfully trying to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney to unite by getting out of the race and uniting behind Paul’s candidacy,” campaign chair Jesse Benton said in a statement.

So....What time is it?

2012-01-10T18:40:00.000-05:00

According to this AL Jazira report, it's getting pretty dang close to midnight. Of course there is nothing that our illustrious president has done or could have done to change any of this. all the same, it is a bit amusing if also terrifying to witness the academics pissing themselves over the realities that we may soon find ourselves in a real one on one with the Russians or the Chinese.

Hope and change! Works every time!

Alan West says Washington needs to get Tebow'ed

2012-01-10T09:01:00.001-05:00

Congressman Alan West recognizes leadership and character when he sees it. There is a reason for that. Those are qualities that he possesses, therefore, he recognizes them in others.While others have been making fun of Tim Tebow's faith and commitment, Alan West has recognized and acknowledged the source of Tim Tebow's success. And 'God' provided the exclamation point this past week with the Bronco's success and Tebow's personal 316 stats.

Obama defines and qualifies 'change'

2012-01-10T08:38:00.003-05:00

I am tempted to once again ask the question: "How's that hope and change working out for you?" I am reasonably sure that most Americans are appreciative of the fact that Osama Bin Ladin is dead. I am also reasonably certain that the majority of Americans continue to suffer through a stagnant economy a bleak economic future.

Barack Obama promised many things four years ago, but somehow I can't quite put my finger on his promise to kill Bin Ladin as one of his examples of change. I guess when you have performed as poorly as this man has, you have to grab at straws. and that is certainly what he is doing in my opinion.

And the band plays on and the complicit media allows this type of weak minded assertion to go unchallenged once again.

At a campaign event this evening at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., President Obama indicated that he had successfully brought about "change"--an ambiguous 2008 campaign promise--by killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. From the official White House transcript:
And change is keeping one of the first promises I made in 2008 -- ending the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home. (Applause.) The war is over and our troops are home. And instead, we refocused our efforts on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. And thanks to our brave men and women in uniform, al Qaeda is weaker than it’s ever been, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth. That’s what change is. (Applause.)
The president also listed Obamacare as a change he was responsible for, though he failed to mention the unpopularity of his signature legislation.

Michelle was "distressed" by them "white Irish Catholic" families

2012-01-09T16:09:00.000-05:00

The new book, The Obama';s, apparently has a lot more to say about the president and his wife than they want the public to know about. they have already set the machine in motion to quash and discredit the book and the author, but apparently there are revelations that will persist well into the election cycle this year. And apparently rightfully so.

Michelle Obama: "Distressed" about Daley, Madigan, Hynes clout

When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley's City Hall in the early 1990s, she was "distressed" by how a small group of "white Irish Catholic" families -- the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans -- "locked up" power in Illinois.
And as she prepared to become first lady, Mrs. Obama naively wanted to delay a move into the White House for six months, so her daughters could finish the school year. Her initial thought was to "commute" to the White House from her South Side home.
And Marty Nesbitt, one of President Obama's best friends, had been recruited to run for Chicago mayor by African-American leaders -- but never ended up challenging Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama's chief of staff who went on to win City Hall.
Details about Mrs. Obama's initial reluctance to embrace her new life, her time in City Hall, the influence she has in the White House, tensions between Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Emanuel and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs -- are in a new book about the first couple by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor.
The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained a copy of The Obamas, to be published Tuesday. Kantor hits Chicago for an East Lake Shore Drive book party on Jan. 16; the next day, Jan. 17, she headlines a 6 p.m. event at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State.
Mrs. Obama worked in the Daley administration between Sept. 16, 1991, and April 30, 1993, according to City of Chicago personnel records. She was hired by Jarrett, then Daley's deputy chief of staff.

Another revolutionary moment at the White House

2012-01-08T21:16:00.000-05:00

If it is possible for a president and first lady to be more flippant and arrogant toward the American people, I am unfamiliar with the historical comparison. An Alice in Wonderland bash in the midst of the worst recession in seventy five years? You betcha......

White House threw secret 'Alice in Wonderland' bash during recession

It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist.
A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all.
“The Obamas,” by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests.
The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished down the rabbit hole.
“White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.
However, the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were well reported by the press corps.

Romeny attacked by Stepanopolos

2012-01-08T09:26:00.001-05:00

There is a certain irony in the fact that liberal media, try as they best, cannot conceal their liberal loathing of all things not in alignment with their thinking. Last night's debate was yet another example of the truth rising through the veil of supposed fair journalism.

Romney hounded by Stephanopolos
When questioning former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Stephanopoulos, a former senior advisor in the administration of Democratic President Bill Clinton, premised some inquiries on the assertion — offered without supporting facts — that Romney’s job-creation statistics were inaccurate.

“Now, there have been questions about that calculation of 100,000 jobs. So if you could explain it a little more,” Stephanopoulos asked Romney of the former governor’s claims about jobs created by companies he has helmed. “I’ve read some analysts who look at it and say that you’re counting the jobs that were created but not counting the jobs that were taken away. Is that accurate?”

“No, it’s not accurate,” Romney bluntly responded. “It includes the net of both. I’m a good enough numbers guy to make sure I got both sides of that.”
Stephanopoulos did not cite any analysts by name.

In another line of questioning, Stephanopoulos asked Romney if he believes “that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?”

Romney responded by questioning Stephanopoulos’ logic and his choice to raise a hypothetical situation that would never happen.

“You’re asking — given the fact that there’s no state that wants to do so, and I don’t know of any candidate that wants to do so — you’re asking could it constitutionally be done?” Romney asked, with a hint of incredulity.

Stephanopoulos, undeterred, pressed Romney again: “I’m asking you, do you believe that states have that right or not?”

Amid a chorus of “boos” from the audience, Romney again parried the impossible hypothetical.

“George, I don’t know whether a state has a right to ban contraception,” Romney responded. “No state wants to. I mean, the idea of you putting forward things that states might want to do that no state wants to do, and asking me whether they could do it or not, is kind of a silly thing, I think.”

American journalism? Most certainly a silly thing.......

God puts you where he wants you be at that moment

2012-01-07T18:52:00.002-05:00

God puts you where he wants you, whether you realize it or not.

Have you ever started to go somewhere? You were walking out the door.....or getting ready to leave work and something changed. something pulled you back. Something detained you. Maybe it was a last minute phone call, or you forgot where you put your keys, or you saw something that suddenly you realized had to be done right then.

The decision made you late you thought. You missed something you thought, but did you really. Or did you just fail to pay attention to the moment. Was there something there that was overlooked? Something that might not have happened but for your last minute change of plans? I call those moments serendipitous. I also recognize them as God's little conversations with me.

That moment when the power higher than us all calls upon us individually to take notice and pay attention to something. Many people go through their lives missing those moments. I must admit, I must have missed a million of them before I finally began to realize that most things don't happen by chance. Things happen for a reason. There is purpose to life and purpose to moments and more often that we stop to realize, there is an invisible hand guiding us.

Today was such a day. My wife and I were on the way home from an afternoon meeting and late lunch with a friend. We needed to stop for cat food on the way home and I reminded her that our local pet store was about 300 yards away from where we were leaving lunch. We had already decided to go there on the way home. The wife said no, let's just go by the grocery on the way home. I wanted the brand we always buy at the pet store, but the wife was persistent, she wanted to go to the grocery and didn't want to bother with the pet store today, "we can do that tomorrow.". So it was decided at the last minute, to the grocery we would go.

Once there, we were shopping the isles for a few things and the cat food, when I suddenly looked up and saw this smiling man about my age approaching. He wore a ball cap with a familiar insignia and as he approached, I stuck out my hand and said "Semper Fi Marine!" He responded in kind and asked if I had been in the Corps. I indicated most certainly that I had and we exchanged a few brief pleasantries about old times and the Corps and then he asked me: "You ever see the youtube video of the Marine that sung the National Anthem A cappella ?" I said as a matter of fact I have seen that. The video went viral didn't it? Yes it had......

This old Marine smiled and said it sure did. I'm that guy he said. He then introduced himself to me and he and my wife and I spent the next twenty minutes standing in a grocery store isle just listening as he shared his experiences with the Lord and Matthew 24 and how he came to learn the anthem by heart and the lost verse that so many had discovered when his version hit youtube.

What a wonderful man. His name is Louis Shaffer and I invited him to come join us tomorrow for a Patriot Guard mission that is for a local veteran. A mission honoring a Vietnam veteran who was killed on new years eve night when a drunk driver struck his motorcycle and killed him. Louis said that he will be there and he called me when he got home just now to confirm the directions and the specifics of the time.

I made a new friend today. A Christian man and a fellow Marine and someone of deep commitment to his faith and his country. We share a lot of similarities and tomorrow we will share a brotherhood of carrying one of our own to his final rest.

Tell me things don't happen for a reason. Tell me there is no purpose to life. Tell me that we are all here by some chance encounter and the aftermath os a universal explosion. Go ahead tell me. In the mean time I will tell you.....Semper Fidelis!

The real influence in the white house

2012-01-07T09:55:00.001-05:00

Say what you want, but this is a revealing article with very revealing information about this president. never before in my life have I ever heard revelations concerning a first lady that were so bothersome.

Even Nancy Reagan was never reported or quoted as having openly influenced presidential decisions and interactions with the chief of staff and cabinet members. Something tells me there is far more that remains unknown about this iron maiden and her cavalier Marie Antoinette manifestations of power and influence.

Stay tuned, it will all eventually come out.
A whole new insight

Michelle Obama was privately fuming, not only at the president’s team, but also at her husband.

In the days after the Democrats lost Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in January 2010, Barack Obama was even-keeled as usual in meetings, refusing to dwell on the failure or lash out at his staff. The first lady, however, could not fathom how the White House had allowed the crucial seat, needed to help pass the president’s health care legislation and the rest of his agenda, to slip away, several current and former aides said.
To her, the loss was more evidence of what she had been saying for a long time: Mr. Obama’s advisers were too insular and not strategic enough. She cherished the idea of her husband as a transformational figure, but thanks in part to the health care deals the administration had cut, many voters were beginning to view him as an ordinary politician.
The first lady never confronted the advisers directly — that was not her way — but they found out about her displeasure from the president. “She feels as if our rudder isn’t set right,” Mr. Obama confided, according to aides.
Rahm Emanuel, then chief of staff, repeated the first lady’s criticisms to colleagues with indignation, according to three of them. Mr. Emanuel, in a brief interview, denied that he had grown frustrated with Mrs. Obama, but other advisers described a grim situation: a president whose agenda had hit the rocks, a first lady who disapproved of the turn the White House had taken, and a chief of staff who chafed against her influence.

Rubio's open letter to Obama

2012-01-06T11:15:00.000-05:00

Marco Rubio lays it out for this president. Too bad this man isn't running for president this year.

Read it all here

At what price paid

2012-01-06T08:22:00.004-05:00

I awoke Thursday morning like many Americans, to a report of a terrible shootout with police in Utah overnight. One officer dead, five seriously wounded. What possibly could have happened.

Now that the facts are beginning to trickle out, it is looking to me as if a tragedy has occurred, A tragedy of overreaction and a tragedy of police charging in like gang busters on a simple violation of personal marijuana use. I am hoping I am wrong.

Other facts will trickle out over time on this incident. I certainly hope that my gut feelings are wrong on this. I certainly hope that a geared up paramilitary drug unit hell bent on proving themselves, didn't assault a man's home over something no more sinister than the fact that he uses marijuana in his own home to help chase away the demons in his head. Because if that is in fact, what the Ogden police drug task force did was very wrong and we must ask ourselves one question. A war on drugs at what price paid? .

Suspect in Deadly Utah Shootout Had PTSD

Search warrant in hand, a team of bulletproof vest-wearing officers rapped on the door of a small, red-brick Utah house, identifying themselves as police. When no one responded, authorities say, the officers burst inside.

That's when the gunfire erupted.

When it was over Wednesday night, a 7-year veteran officer was dead and five of his colleagues were wounded, some critically. The suspect, an Army veteran whose estranged father said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have been self-medicating with marijuana, was injured.

My Christmas Eve

2012-01-05T17:55:00.002-05:00

Something that needs to be shared. Please take the time to watch and listen to the entire presentation.

Pelosi thinks violating the constitution is a bold move

2012-01-05T16:45:00.000-05:00

Pelosi's bold and fresh
Brushing aside criticism of President Obama’s recess appointments made while Congress was in session, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told The Daily Caller that his decision was “bold” and said Democrats are “glad” the president “took the lead” on the appointments.
“Let that be the public debate with the Senate but fortunately, or unfortunately for us we do not have a role in the confirmation process but we’re glad that the president took the lead, went out there, it was bold and made the appointments,” Pelosi said on Thursday when asked by TheDC about criticism of the president’s actions.
House Speaker John Boehner called the President’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau an “unprecedented power grab,” noting that Congress was still in session.
“This action goes beyond the President’s authority, and I expect the courts will find the appointment to be illegitimate,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.

Al Sharpton's Extreme "White Wing"

2012-01-05T15:36:00.000-05:00

And now Al Sharpton is calling out Rick Santorum as the beneficiary of racist republican politics. Amazing what a true racist can get away with, not the least of which being that he gets to brand others as racist. Particularly republicans, and yet no one can ever find the courage to call Sharpton precisely what he is.

His entire career has been built upon racial politics and lies and the hustle of racism for political goals, yet he is a paid pundit by several media outlets. Sharpton regularly appears for commentary anytime the media wants to whip the racist horse a bit more and this is yet another example of that desire to demonize the republicans via their pet racist brander.

Meet the SEAL who busted Jesse Ventura in the nose.

2012-01-05T13:16:00.001-05:00

Yes, that is precisely what he said....(MAYBE NOT)

2012-01-04T18:57:00.003-05:00

Apparently, the Washington Times changed their original report. Specifically, they modified the quotation originally attributed to the preesident (below). I have subsequently located a video of the remarks, and this is not what he said. Therefore, this report is corrected and amended to reflect that he never said what was reported by the Washington Times.

Obama makes recess appointments
The White House, though, argues Republican senators have been stonewalling his nominees for so long that Mr. Obama had no choice but to circumvent them.
The president introduced Mr. Cordray during a trip to Ohio Wednesday, telling a supportive crowd that the Senate Republicans’ ongoing blockade of his nomination “inexcusable.”

“I refuse to take ‘No’ for an answer. I’ve said before that I will continue to look for every opportunity to work with Congress to move this country forward. But when Congress refuses to act in a way that hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them,” Mr. Obama said.

Bachman shows class and common sense

2012-01-04T13:11:00.000-05:00

Michelle Bachman bowed out of the presidential race this morning, after a pitiful showing in Iowa. Now if only Huntsman would do the same.

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Lord Vader says: They're coming for your daughters!

2012-01-04T12:56:00.002-05:00

No Really! The latest from the Obama death star. Well, maybe not your daughters, but definitely your homosexual sons and your lesbian daughters! Those mean, malicious, nasty, radical extremist, racist, homophobic, NAZI, evangelical Christian conservatives!

So says the Obama campaign after last nights Iowa caucus.

Obama campaign warns of 'extremist' Republicans

In keeping with its previous line of attack, the Obama campaign's manager Jim Messina said in a statement that the "extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory" shortly after the results were announced early Wednesday.

"No matter who the Republicans nominate, we'll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win -- vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman's right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations."

Romney Wins!

2012-01-04T07:53:00.000-05:00

Mitt Romney barely won the Iowa caucus by eight votes last night and the media went wild. The coverage was wall to wall all night and a casual onlooker not from this country, might have thought that it was the general election based upon the intensity of the media coverage and the frenzy to declare a winner.

As predicted, the media scrambled all day for headlines and exit polls and the hope that one media outlet would be able to call it the winner by themselves, particularly if they could call an upset. So the media and those interested stayed up late into the night burning the midnight oil, to see who would prevail in what should be at this point, an indicator that this small sampling of America, is not really a fair indicator of American political perspective at all. But none the less they all came and they all cooed and they awed all day and all night and the entire week before and last night they finally got their climax.

At least those in the state of Iowa saw a temporary boost to their economy. but now let's brace for the next prize. On to New Hampshire and then to South Carolina and everyone don't miss John McCain's official endorsement of Mitt Romney later today.

If this were an episode of the Andy Griffith show, this McCain endorsement be the point in the episode where Gomer would shout "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!"

Romney wins Iowa! (barely)

The Republican presidential candidates propelled out of the Iowa caucuses Wednesday with the race looking dramatically different than it did just one week ago.
Mitt Romney won the night, but only by one of the slimmest margins in Iowa election history.
Rick Santorum landed a second-place finish just eight votes behind Romney, turning a stunning performance out of his long-shot bid for the nomination and ending up toe-to-toe with the presumed frontrunner of the national campaign.

Say it ain't so Joe!

2012-01-02T19:33:00.000-05:00

Yep, uncle Joe just recently promised us that the Taliban were really our friends and he told us that we should stop worrying about them. Remember?

Uncle Joe's remarks

“We are in a position where if Afghanistan ceased and desisted from being a haven for people who do damage and have as a target the United States of America and their allies, that’s good enough,” said Biden. “There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests.” Here is how these remarks have been interpreted: “Taliban is Not U.S. Enemy, Says Biden,” declared the “most-read” story on the popular TV network Tolo’s

And then there is this.....

Al Qaeda, Taliban Call on Pakistani Militants to join battle against America

Prominent Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday.

The meetings were held in Pakistan's tribal region in November and December at the request of the Afghan Taliban's leadership council. They could indicate the militants are struggling in Afghanistan, or conversely, that they want to make sure they hit U.S. forces hard as the Americans accelerate their withdrawal this year. That could give the Taliban additional leverage in any peace negotiations.

Cupid don't play

2012-01-02T19:04:00.001-05:00

Looks like this disillusioned beau got a pointed surprise when he came to confront the husband. This Cupid don't play those games and the law supported him.

no charges in bow-and-arrow killing

Somerset County District Attorney Jerry Spangler will not charge a man who fatally shot another man with a bow and arrow, saying today that changes in the state's Castle Doctrine factored into his decision.

Mr. Spangler said the unidentified 38-year-old Center City man who confessed to shooting Tony L. Bittinger on Oct. 10 claimed he did so in self-defense.

Mr. Bittinger was found shot through the chest with an arrow near the front steps to the man's house.

The Castle Doctrine was amended this summer to expand a homeowner's right to use deadly force against intruders, Mr. Spangler said.

The new Castle Doctrine expands a homeowner's "castle" to include porches and eliminates the owner's duty to retreat before attacking an intruder.

Mr. Spangler said the man might not have been charged under the old statute, but the new law "makes it much clearer" that the shooting was justified.

Trooper Joseph Drzal said Mr. Bittinger, who had been romantically involved with the man's wife, made several threatening phone calls to the man before driving up to his home to confront him. There, he threatened the man with a heavy wooden club.

The man told him to leave repeatedly. When Mr. Bittinger attempted to come up the stairs, the man shot him in the chest with an arrow. He died before first responders arrived.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11361/1199563-100.stm#ixzz1iLfwSoVL

Newt doesn't think he will win

2012-01-02T17:02:00.000-05:00

According to Newt, the volume of negativity will prevent him from winning in Iowa. Really? Ya think? Full stop! Do you think that the negativity that he is speaking of has anything to do with his own negativity?

Newt has been his own worst enemy in this election, I will not be surprised at all for him to completely drop off the radar after his most recent idiot comments.

OWS for Ivy League Credits

2012-01-02T16:49:00.002-05:00

Want to get that Ivy League education without really trying? Looks like Columbia has some class credits for you.

Attend Occupy Wall Street for credit.

Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.
The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.
The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department.
Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, ““it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”

A quick update on Newt

2012-01-02T08:44:00.003-05:00

Newt's candidacy is sinking faster than the Titanic. Was it something he said? Count on it. From his arrogance of saying that he was the nominee three weeks ago, to his recent remarks about Pearl Harbor, to this pearl of wisdom about being 'boated.'

The man is his own worse enemy and it looks like the American people are seeing that. With ample help from the media of course.

Read all about it
Struggling to reverse a slide in hisstanding, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich saidSunday he'd been "Romney-boated" in Iowa and suggested his GOPrival would buy the presidency if he could.
The sharp words against Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire manytimes over who is in strong contention to win Iowa, come two daysbefore voters here weigh in on the Republican field. It was part ofa stepped-up effort by Gingrich to contrast himself with Romney,and the candidate said he would adopt an even more aggressivestrategy when the race moves to New Hampshire, the formerMassachusetts governor's backyard.
Gingrich's nautical attack was a reference to a 2004 TV adcampaign by a group called the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" thatbloodied Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. This year,Gingrich has faced an onslaught of negative TV advertisements by agroup aligned with Romney.
Asked Sunday whether he felt that he had been "swiftboated,"Gingrich replied, "I feel Romney-boated."
It was his second swipe of the day at the Republicanfrontrunner.

The British are envious again

2012-01-02T08:04:00.000-05:00

So, once again the Brits are envious. This piece running in the Telegraph today tells a story of their own worries and envy in my opinion. Back here at home, it's pretty simple math if you ask me. The American people are watching the aftermath of Fast & Furious and they can plainly see what this president's agenda was and is.

Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas

According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas.It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.On Dec 23 alone there were 102,222 background checks, making it the second busiest single day for buying guns in history.The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.Explanations for America's surge in gun buying include that it is a response to the stalled economy with people fearing crime waves. Another theory is that buyers are rushing to gun shops because they believe tighter firearms laws will be introduced in the future.

Wilding the new year in LA

2012-01-01T08:47:00.003-05:00

For those unfamiliar with the term, for years there have been pockets in the north east where "wilding" was the annual pass time. Specifically, the setting of buildings on fire on Halloween night. Now it looks like the trend is spreading to the new years eve. At least in LA.

Police brace for more L.A. arson fires on New Year's Eve

Authorities across Southern California were beefing up patrols Saturday night, hoping to catch the person or persons responsible for more than 35 fires over the last two days.
Los Angeles police and fire officials were trying to determine whether the fires were the work of one arsonist or several. Some officials believe it would be difficult for one person to have set all the fires but have not definitively ruled out a lone arsonist, law enforcement sources told The Times.
On Friday morning, 21 fires were started in a relatively small area around Hollywood and West Hollywood. On Friday night and Saturday morning, 16 more fires were reported. They were similar to the ones in Hollywood but were spread out over a much larger area.

Here's Iowa's Guy two years ago

2011-12-29T20:47:00.001-05:00

As we move toward the Iowa caucuses next week, Americans need to know who they are supporting in droves in Iowa. I wonder how many Iowans know the true side of Ron Paul and all that he really represents.

He doesn't like Israel and he obliquely and directly is supporting Hamas.

Your bulb is about to be phased out

2011-12-29T16:31:00.002-05:00

Regardless of some last minute assurances a couple of weeks back that republicans had interceded to stop the lunacy of completely outlawing and eliminating incandescent light bulbs forever, the forces behind the push to force all of us to use those squiggly fluorescent bulbs have prevailed.

So if you want to forestall the inevitable perhaps it isn't too late for you to go out this last few days of the year and scarf up several dozen incandescent bulbs for your own private use. Or else in another month or so? You may be looking at the last of your bulbs as some once did the carrier pigeon. AS of January 1st. they are illegal to sell. That's all folks!
Say goodbye bulb

New light bulb efficiency standards will begin phasing in on Jan. 1 despite intense opposition from conservatives, who have blasted the rules as a textbook unnecessary federal regulation.

While Republicans secured inclusion of a measure blocking funding for enforcement of the standards in a year-end spending bill, energy efficiency groups say the provision will have little practical impact. The Energy Department rules will nonetheless go into effect at the start of 2012.

"The [spending bill] cut funding for enforcement, however the law is still in effect," said Jack Gillis, spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America. "It is our expectation that companies will still comply with the law."

Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, said companies have been preparing for the new light bulb efficiency standards since Congress passed the 2007 energy law requiring traditional incandescent light bulbs to be 30 percent more efficient starting in 2012.

North Korea holds funeral for Kim Jong-il

2011-12-28T20:10:00.001-05:00

So....you are the little tindick dictator of a small Asian country. You are rich and powerful and all knowing and all that any little tindick dictator can be. Except for one thing. Death catches up with you. So when they hold your grandiose send off in the snow? How do they dress you out?

They put you on the roof of a 1972 Lincoln Continental limousine so that you look like some pimp daddy from a seventies superfly movie. Meanwhile, the lead car carries your enlarged photo like a billboard.

Priceless...........

Killer Santa was a Muslim

2011-12-28T19:51:00.002-05:00

Some may have seen or read of the seven people who were killed by a man in a Santa suit. All appeared to be family members adn those visiting the family on Christmas morning. The part that the media has failed to update on the story, is that the shooter was a Muslim.

Not a factor you say? you are probably right. A Muslim man dressed in a Santa suit kills his family and several others on Christmas morning, because his daughter wants to date men other than Muslims.

You're right. Probably not a story.....

The details here....
A conflicted picture emerged Tuesday of a Colleyville man believed to have fatally shot six people, including his estranged wife and two children, and then himself on Christmas morning.One woman who was part of a happy hour group that included Aziz "Bob" Yazdanpanah described him as a sweet joker who adored his family. But another said she received a puzzling text message from him on Dec. 4, a few months after his wife and two children moved out of their Colleyville home and into a Grapevine apartment complex. The shootings occurred inside the apartment amid opened Christmas gifts, police said.The message, the friend said, went like this: “What do u call a guy who’s born in Austin and grows up in Dallas and then dies in Grapevine? ......... DEAD.""He was always telling a joke," said the friend, who asked that her name not be used because she doesn't want to get involved in the tragedy. "But when he sent me this, I thought it was weird. I didn't even respond."Yazdanpanah had attended several happy hours at a Colleyville restaurant with the two women and others in the past six months."He was just a sweet man," said Colleen Gedrose of Bedford. "He was outgoing, kind and adored his children."Gedrose said Tuesday that Yazdanpanah didn't talk about problems with his family."I never saw him angry," she said.On Christmas morning, police said, a middle-aged man dressed as Santa Claus fatally shot two men and four women and then himself inside a unit at the Lincoln Vineyard Apartments. Police said the attack was planned.Police have yet to identify any of the victims, but various friends and neighbors said Yazdanpanah was believed to be the gunman.Police recovered two handguns in the apartment, a 9 mm and a 40-caliber, at least one of which Yazdanpanah had owned for years. One of the weapons was found next to the shooter, and the other next to a victim.The 40-caliber can hold 10 rounds and the other 15, police said. There was one round in each weapon and police said both weapons were used in the shooting. But police declined to say how many rounds were fired.

Ron Paul leading in Iowa

2011-12-28T10:24:00.000-05:00

All I can say is this. If the people of Iowa actually believe that Ron Paul is the answer, then I am quite positive that they don't have a clue what the question is or ever was in the first place.

Personally, I am long since tired of the mad rush by media every four years to see what they think in Iowa. I don't care what they think in Iowa. I want to know what people are thinking in states that really matter. States like New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio and Illinois and Florida and Texas and yes, even California. Because that is where the majority of the population exists. Hells bells! We have more people in Georgia than they do in Iowa by half again. So maybe let's have a look at what ewe think about all this.

Iowa is for Ron Paul? Well slap my dog and call me a hound! And by the way, someone check real quick and see just what the hell it is they are feeding those people up there. There must be a negative cognitive reasoning saturation point for corn intake.

Newt Gingrich’s new Iowa tour has officially started but with greatly slimmed expectations.
Gingrich's press bus (Jason Clayworth/The Register)
The “Iowa Jobs and Prosperity Bus Tour” will make 22 stops between now and the Jan. 3 caucuses. That’s exactly half of the 44 he said he would make last week when announcing the tour during a stop in Davenport.
Spokesman R.C. Hammond said last week that the downsizing was to make sure the former U.S. House Speaker and 2012 presidential candidate can make all of his stops and have time to meet with Iowans rather than to jam an unruly number of stops into a whirlwind tour.
Hammond on Nov. 14^th told The Register that Gingrich planned to spend about 30 days in Iowa between then and Jan. 3. He has spent 11 so far. He will spend eight more between today and Jan. 3 for a total of 19.
Gingrich’s campaign over the weekend did not meet a deadline to collect enough signatures to be on Virginia’s primary ballot, which the campaign compared to Pearl Harbor. In recent weeks he has also fought attacks from special interest groups and other GOP candidates who have contributed to a dip in some recent polls.
It all points to the perception of organizational shortcomings in the Gingrich campaign, said Christopher Larimer, an associate professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.
“To this point, the problems have been somewhat difficult to measure beyond the number of offices in the state,” Larimer said. “Now, with Virginia ballot situation and now scaling back in Iowa at just the moment when the campaign needs to make a real push is a cause for serious concern,” Larimer said.
Gingrich’s first public stop today is in Dubuque at 1 p.m. A press bus with 14 media employees left Des Moines at around 8:45 a.m.

Man loses service dog to codified idiocy

2011-12-28T10:04:00.000-05:00

Man loses service dog

More egalitarian motivated and politically correct inspired idiocy. When are Americans going to stand up and start acting like Americans again? Replacing personal responsibility and accountability with government regulation has never worked and it will never work.

We make criminals out of little children who have plastic knives in their lunch boxes to eat with and we criminalize little girls who have Motrin in the pocket given to them by their mothers for menstrual cramps. We penalize and attempt to criminalize veterans for flying American flags and here we are demonizing a man for having the audacity to have a mixed breed service dog.

Everything in our secularized God forsaken egalitarian society must be first run through censors and the thought police before we are allowed to do anything. And we have the temerity to actually believe that we are living in a free country?

I don't think so.

The White House: No Christmas card

2011-12-27T21:44:00.001-05:00

The White House

Sarah Palin has no holiday cheer for the latest holiday greeting card to come from the White House.
The former Alaska governor focused her ire on the fact that the card does not mention the word "Christmas" and focuses on Bo, the First Dog, sitting by a fireplace.
The inside of the card reads, "From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season." It also features the presidential seal.
The front has Bo lying next to a fireplace. There is holiday greenery over the fireplace mantle and presents underneath a poinsettia on a table, but no Christmas tree.
"It's odd," Palin told FOX News Radio , asking why the card focuses on the dog instead of traditions like "family, faith and freedom."

Mean while in other news, Kwanzaa seemed to fair pretty well.....

Statement by the President and First Lady on Kwanzaa

Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today marks the beginning of the week-long celebration honoring African American heritage and culture through the seven principles of Kwanzaa -- unity, self determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.We celebrate Kwanzaa at a time when many African Americans and all Americans reflect on our many blessings and memories over the past year and our aspirations for the year to come. And even as there is much to be thankful for, we know that there are still too many Americans going through enormous challenges and trying to make ends meet. But we also know that in the spirit of unity, or, we can overcome those challenges together.As families across America and around the world light the red, black, and green candles of the Kinara this week, our family sends our well wishes and blessings for a happy and healthy new year.

After three years under Obama

2011-12-26T17:58:00.000-05:00

Wanna talk about governent regulations?

2011-12-25T21:08:00.002-05:00

Anyone want to talk about absurd government regulations? What about the mental giants of bureaucracy who enforce this type of idiocy. I am sorry, but headlines like this absolutely infuriate me. What level of idiocy is involved in a decision like this? What level of training and screening are these people given and what the hell kind of regulations are they arbitrarily enforcing.

It would seem to me, that this little boy had to fly down there in the first place, so how in the hell did that happen. Someone needs to be fired in my opinion, to hell with refunding these people their air fair, the airline should be forced to repay that and more if you ask me.

8 Year old forced to give up his chair to idiocy.

Eight-year-old Nicholas Dainiak, who suffers from Batten disease and cannot hold his body upright, was removed from his protective travel seat by a Southwest Airlines staff member, forcing his parents to hold their son for the flight.

He and his parents were heading home from Walt Disney World in Florida on Friday when the incident occurred.

When his parents strapped him into his protective seat, an airline staff member approached the family and expressed concern that the chair may not be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be on the plane.

Rather than miss the flight, the Dainiaks relented and handed over the chair. Nicholas' parents held their son in an upright position for the entire three-hour flight.

Southwest Airlines said they were looking into the incident.

"We are working directly with the family after sincerely apologizing and issuing a full refund for their less than positive travel experience," the company said in a statement to myFOXboston.com.

2011-12-25T12:25:00.001-05:00

Black Friday for Air Jordans

2011-12-24T10:46:00.000-05:00

Absolutely amazing........

Of Loons and Money

2011-12-23T23:26:00.001-05:00

A man without a party? How about a man without a brain.... The man is a first rate loon. the only thing that separates him from Gomer Pyle is his bank account. It amazes me that people like this can amass that amount of money and media attention.

Donald Trump Bolts Republican Party, Eyeing Other 2012 Options

Donald Trump is officially a man without a party.

The real estate mogul whose flirtation with the 2012 presidential race has never really ended despite announcing seven months ago he would not seek the Republican nomination has been signaling he wants to find other ways onto a presidential ticket.

Trump took another step in that direction on Thursday, switching his party affiliation from Republican to “unaffiliated,” according to a source close to the reality television star.

According to the source, he did so because he is “disgusted” with the way Republicans are handling matters in Washington, including the recent payroll tax cut deal. But the move also sets Trump up for a potential third-party run for president — a possibility he began talking about almost as soon as he told his fans in May he wasn’t running.

Trump has sought to reach out to the group, Americans Elect, an online, independent presidential nominating organization that has already made it on the ballot in several states, including California.

That sounds selfish?" Michelle Obama: "No, no, it's practical

2011-12-23T11:00:00.001-05:00

The arrogance of this presidency is palpable. I may be in the minority of those observing this travesty of an administration through clear eyes, but in my opinion, if there is one person who is possibly more arrogant and disrespectful to this nation than Michelle Obama, then I have yet to see them.

This woman is the epitome of a modern day incarnation of Marie Antoinette and she is unashamed of her conduct.

First ladies first

First lady Michelle Obama tells Barbara Walters in a 20/20 special that it is "practical" for her to put her self highest on her priority list.

Obama says she found her self slipping "pretty low" on her own priority list because she was "so busy caring for everyone else."

Michelle Obama says she spends time with girlfriends and going out in her attempt to put herself higher on her priority list. Transcript below.

Barbara Walters, ABC News: "Mrs. Obama, you've recently said something that I thought was very interesting for other women to hear. You said 'you put your own self highest on your priority list.' That sounds selfish?"

Michelle Obama: "No, no, it's practical. It's something that I found I needed to do for quite some time, even before the presidency. And I found it other women, in similar situated balancing career family, trying to do it all and a lot of times we just slip pretty low on our own priority list because we're so busy caring for everyone else. And one of the things that I want to model for my girls is investing in themselves as much as they invest in others."

Great News Today! Two days left to share!

2011-12-23T08:39:00.000-05:00

It's two days before Christmas and my wife and I are completing a week spent at our local animal shelter volunteering and trying to find homes for abandoned and surrendered animals. Tomorrow is Christmas eve and there is a lot more to do there, including a short visit the shelter one last time before Christmas.

I have no way of knowing how many followers I have on this blog other than those who have joined or how many people regularly stop by this little piece of cyberspace to read my commentaries each day, but I am wishing each of you a blessed and Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year. And I am asking that each of you try and identify something that you can do or contribute to this holiday season or in the coming year to the betterment of our fellow man or animal.

Something to benefit your fellow man or those in the animal world that have no way of reaching out or asking for help. Shelter animals are not there by there own doing, they are there because of people. People have abused them, people have abandoned them and irresponsible people have been the cause of their birth and misery. And if we as people do not intervene, we are all responsible for their deaths in one way or another.

So take the time to contemplate what you can do as an individual to make this life better for people and animals. We certainly can't wait on our supposed leaders to do it. So maybe if we began to make a difference on an individual level? Who knows...we might actually one day make a difference that people would notice. We certainly couldn't make things any worse by helping those in need in either our world or the animal world.

Semper Fidelis! And have a wonderful and blessed Christmas.......

Iraq's budding democracy

2011-12-22T08:45:00.000-05:00

It hasn't been a week since the last American troops exited Iraq and already the signs are becoming clear how this is going to work out and where it is headed.

Wave of Bombings Across Iraqi Capital Kills At Least 57

A wave of violence ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring nearly 200 in a coordinated attack designed to wreak havoc in the Iraqi capital just days after American forces left the country.The blasts were the worst violence since a political crisis between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite factions erupted this weekend. The political spat, which pits Iraq's Shiite prime minister against the highest-ranking Sunni political leader, has raised fears that Iraq's sectarian wounds will be reopened during a fragile time when Iraq is finally navigating its own political future without U.S. military support.

So, let's review. America invests nine years of blood and treasure into routing a sadistic dictator reducing the ability of terrorists to operate from the country. All the while, fighting tooth and nail with our own dissidents both politically and in the media. And now that this president has pulled our personnel out and walked away, the militants are moving in quickly to fill the void.I have said give it six months and see what happens. I don't think we are going to have to wait that long from the looks of it.

Help you make it to your flight

2011-12-21T22:53:00.001-05:00

America's New Navy

2011-12-21T20:25:00.001-05:00

"America's Navy, a global force for good" according to their recruiting messsage. I wonder if that motto changes now.

Revelations on Ron Paul

2011-12-21T12:50:00.000-05:00

Troubling information surfacing now on Ron Paul. It would seem from reports that Paul has had quite a lengthy association with the Neo Nazi left. They (The National Alliance) supported him four years ago and contributed to his campaign. no word on the money being returned.

Ron Paul's support from the Neo Nazi Extreme

Originally, when I began reporting on the Neo-Nazis and conspiracy theory driven right wing extremists and their associations with Ron Paul, I assumed they were a fringe group who jumped on to the Ron Paul bandwagon. Then after doing extensive research, I realized that not only did the Neo-Nazis and the John Birch/Timothy McVeigh based conspiracy theorists support Ron Paul, but Ron Paul supports the views of the Neo-Nazis and the conspiracy theorists.

There are several pieces of evidence tying Paul to both white supremacists and right wing conspiracy theorists. One connection that ties Paul to both Neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists, is his close connection to the John Birch society. The John Birch Society is a group that has been called, paranoid, radical, racist, and extremist, and believes in a Jewish/Freemason conspiracy to transform the world into a communist “New World Order.”

And there is more archived information at The American Thinker

White Supremacists rallying around Ron Paul's Presidential campaign

And there is much more on google

The bottom line, there apparently is a plethora of information dating back over twenty years on Paul's associations with fringe groups and conspiracy theorists as it concerns his belief in a looming race war twenty years ago and his most recent alignment with the 9/11 truthers.

And as I heard one local radio host state today, if Ron Paul wins the Iowa Caucus? then that should forever more relegate the Iowa Caucus to the looney tune fringe of irrelevancy in America politics.

Jon Corzine, a millstone around Obama's neck

2011-12-20T20:50:00.001-05:00

Of course the media doesn't see it that way. Yes, for those who remember, three years ago, Jon Corzine was the 'go to guy' for the Obama administration. Lauded by the village idiot Biden, 'as the first person I called.' But then again, so did president Obama. Watch the video... and remember.

Newt under attack

2011-12-20T18:58:00.001-05:00

The last several days, Newt Gingrich has been under attack with a vengeance it seems. His numbers have dropped and the media and those in his own party have sought to bleed the ox as much as they can while they feel he is wounded.

We shall see how this plays out wit the public as we approach Iowa in two weeks.

Newt takes a drumming

Slipping in polls under an onslaught of attacks, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich promises to wage a sharper and more aggressive campaign in the final two weeks before Iowa kicks off the party's nominating race.

Gingrich says he will be quicker to respond to attacks and more agile in getting his message across to voters who may have lost faith in him after rivals launched a withering barrage of criticism of his past as a Washington insider.
A 44-stop bus tour in the run-up to the January 3 Iowa caucus, daily calls with supporters to respond to new criticisms and another round of television ads will be cornerstones of the response by Gingrich, who will focus most of his efforts in Iowa for the next two weeks.

"I think a certain amount of drop in polls was to be expected given the amount of negative campaigning that has been going on," said Linda Upmeyer, the Iowa House Republican leader and the state chairwoman of Gingrich's campaign.

2011-12-19T23:15:00.001-05:00

It's always helpful in politics to have a useful idiot on staff. Someone who can make the boss look good. Someone who can always be depended on to step up and take one for the team. Even if the idiot involved doesn't have sense enough to know that he is an idiot.

Enter one Joe Biden, vice president of the United States. Obama picked a winner with this guy. And to think, the left and their friends in media, actually had the audacity to criticize Bush as incompetent. Obviously they must keep Biden sequestered somewhere away from the media until it is time for him to perform. What an idiot yes, but what a dangerous idiot. Joe Biden make Neville Chamberlain look like a genius.

White House Stands by Biden Statement That Taliban Isn't U.S. Enemy

The White House on Monday defended Vice President Joe Biden for saying that the Taliban isn't an enemy of the United States despite the years spent fighting the militant Islamic group that gave a home to Al Qaeda and its leader Usama bin Laden while he plotted the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

"It's only regrettable when taken out of context," White House spokesman Jay Carney said of the vice president's remarks in an interview published Monday.

"It is a simple fact that we went into Afghanistan because of the attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. We are there now to ultimately defeat Al Qaeda, to stabilize Afghanistan and stabilize it in part so that Al Qaeda or other terrorists who have as their aim attacks on the United States cannot establish a foothold again in that country," Carney continued.

During Biden's interview with Newsweek last week, the vice president said it's "good enough" for the U.S. if Afghanistan stops being a "haven for people who do damage and have as a target the United States of America" and its allies. He added that the U.S. is supportive of a reconciliation process between the Afghan government and the Taliban even if it's questionable whether a reconciliation is possible.

"Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That's critical," Biden said. "There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy, because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us."

Holder plays the race card.

2011-12-19T11:48:00.002-05:00

Nothing is ever their fault. Everyone is against them simply because they are black. the fact that they are fabian socialist and adherents to Saul Alinsky's desires to see this nation destroyed never enters into it.

So let's review.

If you disagree with the president, you are a racist.
If you disagree with any of his cabinet, you are a racist.
If you disagree with any of his policies, you are a racist.
If you dare to question his inability to adress unemployment or the economy, you are a racist.
If his attorney general engages in verifiable illegal actions, you must be a racist.

Stand by, the list will certainly grow.......

"This is a way to get at the president"
Attorney General Eric Holder accused his growing chorus of critics of racist motivations in a Sunday interview published in the New York Times. When reached by The Daily Caller Monday morning, the Department of Justice provided no evidence to support the attorney general’s claims.

Holder said some unspecified faction — what he refers to as the “more extreme segment” — is driven to criticize both him and President Barack Obama due to the color of their skin. Holder did not appear to elaborate on who he considered to make up the “more extreme segment.”

“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” Holder said, according to the Times. “Both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”

The White House hasn’t returned requests for comment on whether President Barack Obama agrees with his top law enforcement officer’s allegations of racial motivations.