Broken Promises Stolen Honor

The following is a video of shame. Shame for the city of Atlanta and a disgrace that those who have served so honorably are cast aside and forgotten by those who are supposed to take care of them.

Watch the video and you decide. I already have. I know each of the individuals featured. I spent days at the hospital when JJ was shot. I escorted the ambulance that carried Detective Williams to the hospital to save his life. I was at the retirement ceremony for Sgt. Phinney as the zone representative of his precinct.



Write a letter, make a call. These people deserve better. The city of Atlanta has broken promises to these men and women, don't let them steal their honor.

Pelosi's Critical Whip Cracking Rewarded

You have to see and hear this to appreciate the irony that is at play in the president's announcements today. Obviously Speaker Pelosi has by her own deeds of late, become embattled and taking fire from all corners. Including from the president's pick to head the CIA Leon Panneta. And much speculation has centered around Panneta's defense of the CIA, to the point of calling Nancy Pelosi a liar and openly stating that he can prove it.

What has remained to be seen, at least until today, was how the president took all this and whether he intended to stand by his speaker and question his CIA director. Those questions were somewhat laid to rest today during his announcement of new CAFE standards for the auto industry. Before getting into his speech, he had a few seeming impromptu remarks concerning the speaker. And Nancy can be seen briefly lapping up the president's acknowledgements like a camel in the desert without water for days.

Obama's remarks were nothing more than a tacit attempt to throw some praise toward Pelosi. Reminiscent to me of a neighbor while watering his flower bed, happening to see your house afire and training his water hose momentary on the blaze, while he summons his wife to call the fire department.

And with about the same effect I would imagine, as Obama's lame attempt at a life line to Pelosi this morning on the White House lawn. The speaker has gotten herself into this mess on her own and she cannot squirm or worm her way out of it. And Obama's actions today were reminiscent of President Bush's "Brownie you are doing a heck of a job!" IMO. Right before Mike Brown of FEMA bit the dust for his own incompetence during hurricane Katrina.

You would think that these people would learn but they never so. The political back slapping and butt covering and pay backs run far deeper than common sense and always have.

Obama's Cafe Plans For Recovery (Failure)

In the news this morning is more evidence of Obama's socialist cafeteria plan for America. The collective mentality of social Nirvana at any and all costs, scores another goal with the release and expansion of new and more extensive CAFE standards for American auto makers by the Obama administration.

At the very moment when two of America's big three auto makers are literally on life support? Obama and his minions of "socialust" are practicing more of the 17th century methodology of bleeding the patient until death finally occurs. (Isn't this what happened to George Washington?)

Someone please tell me that the people leading this country aren't that stupid. How can anyone in their right mind not realize and recognize, that raising the bar for a dying industry, is not the way to bring that industry back from the brink of destruction. I would say someone please tell me that the people of this country aren't so stupid as to believe and buy into this tripe, but apparently they are. Or else they wouldn't be the dumb masses.

And once again, the socialist ideology and methodology supersedes reality and common sense and literally laughs in the face of those who would question the illogic of it all. It is one thing to set goals but quite another to set unrealistic goals. Especially in the midst of an economic crash not seen since the last big crash of 1929.

Yet that is precisely what this administration is engaged in. And every day that passes, the messianic one is in the news speaking to the people and consoling them and telling them that all is about to be better. Provided only they continue to allow themselves to be bled for the sake and benefit of Nirvana.

With physicians like these? Is it any wonder that America is literally on her death bed and barely hanging on to the life and heritage that we once knew?

And these are the exact same principles that the president intends to deploy 'by the end of the year' to supposedly revamp the flagging health care system in America. And the only part of that that is amazing to me? Is that those in positions to know in these insurance companies and health corporations, know precisely what the end outcome will be.

Which leads me to believe, that they are simply going along to get along. And they are doing it for just long enough to feather their own nests before the final collapse that they have to know and recognize is inevitable under socialized medicine.

35 mpg cars will be a wonderful thing. Right after we find the liquid propellant to fuel them.....a fuel other than petroleum! The inescapable reality remains, that in the absence of some miracle of energy development that we are completely unaware of at the moment, we as a nation and as a people of this planet, have little or no means to sustain ourselves outside of the use of fossil fuels. Everyone else seems to get that, but somehow the socialist environMENTALIST have missed the plot.

And all the Utopian wishing and hoping and science fiction in creation isn't going to change that reality one iota. Wind, solar and geothermal do precisely what to power an 18 wheeler down the highway? Or a locomotive or a containerized ship for that matter?

And it will take millions of additional watts to charge and power all these proposed electric alternative vehicles dreamed of as the means to a better world. Not to include the millions of tons of batteries that will be required to power the widget cars and store the electricity that we currently don't have to charge them with.

But no one seems to care or to be paying attention to the facts for that matter. The media continues to traipse along behind the Pied Piper Obama, while wearing their rose colored glasses and singing the anthem of "Kumbaya" as if Nirvana was right around the corner.

John Lennon had it right. Imagine.

Now, imagine...... then wish in one hand and do something else in the other? And see which gets full first. This country is witnessing the largest gathering of golden goose killers ever assembled and given power and control over the people. and it won't take long for the fruits of their labor to be visited upon us all.

Netanyahu And The Iranian Problem Visit The Oval Office

Obama hosts Netanyahu as Mideast strains ties

US President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their first meeting on Monday as discord over Mideast peace and Iran's nuclear bid clouds ties between the close allies.

There has been a lot of background chatter over the past week and over the weekend, concerning today's meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Most of the speculation naturally concerns the middle east peace process and both leaders proposals of peace and or a potential two state solution for Israel and Palestine to be proposed by president Obama.

There has also been the 800 pound gorilla in the room (Iran). An issue that neither of these leaders seems to want to confront each other with. Although I suspicion that Netanyahu is far more comfortable with his position and intentions concerning Iran and its nuclear ambitions than Obama is with his position.

Meanwhile, Obama's trip to Notre Dame as the commencement speaker on Sunday, literally sucked all the air out of the Netanyahu visit until today. But for those who have read past the last week of headlines concerning the Notre Dame debacle and looked deeper into the more obscured musings by reporters and pundits in the know, concerning Israel and the Iranian problem, there has been a separate story emerging on the heels of this Israeli state visit.

The bottom line IMO, is that it appears to be more a concern of Obama's that Netanyahu give him a heads up (and early warning) on any potential Israeli attack on Iran, than there are concerns ny Obama for any two state solution in Palestine that he may broker with Netanyahu and Hamas.

Personally, I don't believe that Netanyahu trusts Obama enough to provide him with Israeli confidence reports or inside intelligence Israeli information to the American president concernin Israeli intentions. Netanyahu was studying this presisdent before he won his own election six weeks ago. As he knew then what he was up against as it concerned America's new middle east policy under a socialist minded relativist president. I also believe that if anything, Netanyahu (while here)will let Obama know that the clock is running and that if Iran doesn't back down quickly, then Israel will go ahead and address the problem that they know the Americans are afraid to address.

And I believe that Barack Obama knows that too.

Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)

Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)? Was a book authored by Al Franken as being a 'fair and balanced look at the hard right."

Really? And how does that same principle play when looking at the hard left of late?

You decide.





Al Gore Hypocritically Attacks Cheney for Criticizing Sitting President

TWS contributor Adam White emails:

I saw in Politico that Al Gore is attacking Cheney, and asserting that "I waited two years after I left office to make statements that were critical."

That struck me as completely untrue, and it took me about two minuets to confirm my recollection. Here are just a few samples:

Contra Costa Times, 1/10/02: "While praising President Bush for his leadership in the war effort, he went on to say that the economy was another matter. 'I'm not here to make a political speech, but I am concerned,' Gore said."

Boston Globe, 4/14/2002: "'They are wrong to vilify honorable men and women who oppose their right-wing domestic agenda and oppose a blatantly dishonest budget,' Gore said. 'They are wrong to imply that those who stand up to them are somehow unpatriotic.'" (Headline -- "Combative Gore Lashes Out At Administration Policies In Fla. Speech, He Hits Bush For 'Radical Agenda'") [Note: So much for his assertion today that his early criticsm of the Bush Administration focused on policy.]

USA Today, 4/15/2002: "Gore's speech was the emotional peak of the convention. With practiced skill, humor and a passion some delegates said they did not see during the campaign, Gore denounced virtually every element of Bush's domestic policy." (Headline -- "Gore's fiery speech raises questions of plans")

NY Times, 4/23/2002: "Sounding very much like the candidate he was and may become again, Al Gore said today that the environment was a moral issue and the Bush administration was giving 'policy payoffs to polluters.' 'Our environment is under siege,' Mr. Gore , the former vice president, said in an Earth Day speech here to 400 students at Vanderbilt University. 'The Bush administration has chosen to serve the special interests instead of the public interests and subsidize the obsolete failed approaches of the past instead of the exciting new solutions of the future. Instead of ensuring that our water is clean to drink, they thought that maybe there wasn't enough arsenic in the drinking water.'"

LA Times, 6/30/2002: "In a speech Saturday night to local Democrats, Gore attacked Bush's economic policies as "a total catastrophe." He also noted that in the war on terrorism, the U.S. has yet to catch Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and he denounced the White House for "trying to use the war for political purposes.'" [I guess that's just more pure criticsm of policy ... .]

In other words, Gore didn't wait "two years." He waited less than one year, and within little more than a year he was a fire-breathing, raving critic.

Of course, the only reason why Gore even waited that long was to let post-9/11 national unity subside. The USA Today article I quoted above noted the obvious fact that "Gore was poised to take a more aggressive stance against Bush last fall, but Sept. 11 intervened."

The truly ironic part is that my research was made easy by ... the Internet. I've turned Al Gore's own creation against him.

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Fighting The Irish At Notre Dame

Today is the big day for Barack Obama. Today is the day that he makes his grand appearance as the commencement speaker at Notre Dame University.

Much has been said and written over the past week concerning the president's invitation to speak and his obvious intent to do so. Therefore, there is little left for someone such as I to add or expound upon.

However, I do see today as a true turning point in American society and political discourse. And a further separation if you will, between the elitism of academia and the grass roots ideals and traditions that have made this country great.

Many who occupy the halls of academia, have spent the better parts of their entire lives deriding and driving down the very principles of Christian faith and morality that established this nation over 200 years ago.

And today's assault on those Christian values, by no less than the presence of an amoral president of the United States, only signals and verifies to me how deeply the socialist cancer has now run throughout the fabric of this nation.

Later on today, President of the United States, Barack Obama will have his say and read his words from his beloved teleprompter, but little will change in the minds of either Christians or the secular after his words have faded.

Those who love and embrace the degradation of individual conscience and morality under law, will be once again renewed and assured that their long toiled effort to damage and destroy the moral fabric of this nation has been significantly rewarded by the presence of their chosen leader.

While those who love and embrace life and their Christian faith will be renewed by the news that for the first time since records have been kept, a majority of Americans now consider themselves to be pro life.

The war is not over. There remain many battles to be fought, but one thing is becoming clearer by the day. Today Barack Obama and his well wishers will rejoice in his ability to stand at the podium of a Catholic university and challenge the moral heart and integrity of those students who will graduate today.

While at the same time, his very presence and demonstrated positions on issues of moral character and faith, cast a long and dark shadow on any Christian university that would choose to invite him to speak at their commencement.

The university of Notre Dame has always been known by their moniker the "fighting Irish." But as of today, their ranks will not be swelled by those who truly take those words to heart. Only the few will take the fight to the public arena of dissent today on behalf of faith and the unborn. Only a few will stand and be counted, as the usurper of their faith and of the principles of this nation stands and delivers his parsed words, to the young and malleable minds of our next generation.

But I have to take heart and realize that not all will be dazzled by his charisma or his choreographed words today. There remain those who know the truth and their ranks are growing by the day.

Thank God for that.

Obama's Broken Promises To The Left

There are an increasing number of those who are lamenting the recently broken promises of the newly elected president who promised them change. Having helped the junior senator from Illinois assume the highest pedestal and office of American government, they are now disenchanted by what they have been instrumental in creating.

And leading the pack are those like the ACLU and Amnesty International. They must have truly felt that they had elected a kindred spirit last November. Only now to learn that they are lying next to a strange fellow in their collective political bed.

As is evidenced by recent reports and reactions, they must feel particularly raw and mistreated by the Obama administration, as they truly believed that they had finally seen the arrival of the socialist driven president that they have so earnestly sought for and stumped for for decades.

Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise Says Amnesty International

"President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military commissions that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move, Obama both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the rule of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.

"Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions do not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate standard of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely mock the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human rights standards.

Make no mistake, politics has always made for strange bedfellows, but never so much as of the past 10-15 years IMO. And that disparity of allegiances grows wider and more apparent and visible by the passing of each day.

And as is evidenced above by the most recently published relativist rhetoric and propagandized socialist philosophical tripe, those of the committed left bend of Marxist philosophy, are very uncomfortable with a constitution applied in any manner that they can't control or define for themselves.

As an example, let's have a look at the musings of the now deceased, yet instrumental creator of the angst politics of socialist American revolution in the latter days of the twentieth century. A true Marx protege if there ever was one.

Saul Alinsky 12 step program.



RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

And there you probably were........ believing that the twelve step program had something to do with AA and kicking the habit/disease of alcoholism.

The bottom line......?

Pay particular attention to rules 4 & 5 and 8 & 9 of the Alinsky model. For therein lies the reality of application, as applied by the likes of the ACLU, Amnesty International and a myriad of other Marxist activist organizations in America today.

We have seen the enemy and it is us?

You are damn skippy it is us! And we allow ourselves to be lynched with the silk ropes of our own laws and constitution every day by virtue of our complacency.

The true enemies of freedom and democracy are always found immersed in the books and laws designed to preserve freedom. But these interlopers are not looking to preserve freedom, they are looking to destroy it. And all the better if they can accomplish that with the very tools and devices of law and social intercourse, created by those who's original intent and desire was to preserve freedom.