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Jan LaRue is Senior Legal Analyst with the American Civil Rights Union
If saner minds rule the day, the “Flying Dutchman” will replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Jasper Schuring, a vigilant passenger on Northwest Flight 253, is the only part of our airline security “system” that “worked,” contrary to Napolitano.
Schuringa saw the glow of fire in row 19, and assumed someone was trying to blow up the plane. “I just jumped over all of the seats” and “jumped to the suspect,” he told CNN. According to The Washington Post:
Jasper Schuringa, an Amsterdam resident, lunged toward the fire in Row 19, jumping from one side of the plane to the other and over several other passengers. He burned his fingers as he grabbed a piece of melting plastic held by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused Saturday of trying to bring down the passenger jet with a homemade explosive device.
It’s highly doubtful that Napolitano or the President would have jumped as quickly to Schuringa’s conclusion about Abdulmutallab since he’s not a returning war vet, a cop, or employed by Fox News.
Napolitano wrongly profiled our returning military veterans as potential right-wing “terrorists,” but she and Obama are opposed to profiling actual terrorists. She was wrong again when she told us “the system worked.” But as before, she claims she was “taken out of context.” The President expressed his confidence in her after admitting that the system failed.
Obama is right—“human and systemic failures” allowed the massacre of our military at Ft. Hood and the latest terror attack inside the United States.
It was the election of 2008.
A naïve electorate fell for Obama’s fraudulent promises of “hope and change” facilitated by his media sycophants: Obama was the most brilliant politician of the century.
The fundamental question ignored was: In what way was this “brilliant politician” committed to “fundamentally transforming the United States of America”?
How can brilliance be reconciled with so many senseless “mistakes”? To name a few:
A schizophrenic policy that prosecutes “an act of war” as a common crime
Pursuing a military court martial of Navy Seals for allegedly roughing up a captured terrorist but dismissing a victorious case of voter intimidation against the “New Black Panthers.”
Extending an open hand to our sworn enemies while backhanding our closest allies, Great Britain and Israel.
Appointing numerous tax cheats who’ve had to withdraw.
Appointing a self-professed communist, Van Jones, the “Green Czar.”
Appointing White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who resigned after disclosing that one of her two favorite philosophers is Mao Tse-Tung.
Appointing a “Science Czar,” John Holdren, who thinks the Constitution permits forced abortion.
Appointing a “Regulation Czar, Cass Sunstein, who wants to apply the “Fairness Doctrine” to the Internet, ban hunting, and give animals standing to sue.
Appointing a “Safe-Schools” Czar, homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, who
promoted sexually explicit and inappropriate books to 7th graders, and is a fan of a notorious pedophile.
Obama’s relationships with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and with his own America-damning preacher, Jeremiah Wright.
Closing Guantanamo Bay detention center, sending suspected terrorists back to the battlefield or into the United States civil justice system.
Nominating a director of the Transportation Safety Administration, Erroll Southers, who looks forward to “joining” the TSA with a major union.
Is it incompetence, or are these the calculated decisions of a “brilliant” politician who wants to fundamentally transform the United States into his socialist image with the help of “brilliant” political appointees who share his beliefs? Is merely well-intentioned bumbling behind the increasing government control of our lives, destruction of our economy, emasculation of our national security, and redistribution of our wealth?
Each time Obama or one of his political appointees commits a colossal blunder, Obama’s political spinomatics drag out their George W. Bush punching bags, while puzzled critics dismiss the formerly “brilliant” blunderers as being in over their heads. Are they inept or conniving? Either is intolerable.
After allowing another Muslim terrorist to breach airline security, the administration is imposing new “security” regulations that treat innocent travelers like terrorists instead of treating terrorists as unlawful enemy combatants.
Obama should have instructed the FBI to take Abdulmutallab to Guantanamo Bay for questioning and confinement instead of a federal lock-up in Detroit where he’s enjoying his “right to remain silent.”
Presidents from Washington to Roosevelt knew the difference between common criminals and war criminals. Presidents dealt with them accordingly, either by lock-up in a military brigade until the war ended, or execution upon conviction by a military tribunal.
If Napolitano and Obama are serious about finding and fixing “the vulnerabilities in our systems that allowed this breach to happen,” they should repent of their policies that are fundamentally changing the United States to our detriment. Better yet, lead the way by resigning.
It’s the best way to correct fraud in the inducement of a presidential election.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
WE CANNOT FAIL AGAIN
If we as a nation fail, we fail the whole world to suffering and enslavement.
It is going to take more than just voting. Where we can, we need to run for office, when we cannot do that, we need to convince others to do so. We need to choose who we want to run and then choose between two or more candidates, we need to insist on term limits. We cannot continue to blindly support who ever the parties throw up there or the incumbents. Over time anyone can lose site of their ideals. Regular change clears the air. We need to provide sunset laws for entitlement programs that are not fair to healthy men and women, because they do not encourage people to do better. We need to give control of certain law enforcement back to the county level. We need to rescind the IRS and the confusion of tax laws. We need to make the Federal reserve bank open its books every year. Congress should be required to say the pledge of allegiance every day at open and close of their meetings. The President or the Vice President should lead them unless called away on a national emergency. Schools should be required to say the pledge everyday and students should have the responsibility to raise and lower The Flag each day. And Gods name should be used anywhere anytime for every need.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”-Ben Franklin
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" Abraham Lincoln February 27, 1860 - Cooper Union Address
These were men of vision, these are the ideals our country was founded on. Yes there has always been problems, but never have so few lied to and tied to control this country, with more hatred and dishonesty then the administration in power at this time. This includes both houses of congress and the White House. It must end, and only we the people can end it. It starts by word of mouth, it grows to the polls. Vote for new leadership, personal responsibility, and a future for our children that does not enslave them to taxation with out representation.
It is going to take more than just voting. Where we can, we need to run for office, when we cannot do that, we need to convince others to do so. We need to choose who we want to run and then choose between two or more candidates, we need to insist on term limits. We cannot continue to blindly support who ever the parties throw up there or the incumbents. Over time anyone can lose site of their ideals. Regular change clears the air. We need to provide sunset laws for entitlement programs that are not fair to healthy men and women, because they do not encourage people to do better. We need to give control of certain law enforcement back to the county level. We need to rescind the IRS and the confusion of tax laws. We need to make the Federal reserve bank open its books every year. Congress should be required to say the pledge of allegiance every day at open and close of their meetings. The President or the Vice President should lead them unless called away on a national emergency. Schools should be required to say the pledge everyday and students should have the responsibility to raise and lower The Flag each day. And Gods name should be used anywhere anytime for every need.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”-Ben Franklin
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" Abraham Lincoln February 27, 1860 - Cooper Union Address
These were men of vision, these are the ideals our country was founded on. Yes there has always been problems, but never have so few lied to and tied to control this country, with more hatred and dishonesty then the administration in power at this time. This includes both houses of congress and the White House. It must end, and only we the people can end it. It starts by word of mouth, it grows to the polls. Vote for new leadership, personal responsibility, and a future for our children that does not enslave them to taxation with out representation.
MAYBE OUR LAST CHANCE FOR REAL CHANGE
As you may or may not know, in 1974 I ran for state assembly in the 68th. district in Wisconsin. I was extremely uninformed when I started. Fortunately my father had become active politically prior to my entry into politics and was able to guide me to some books and information sources that high school classes never covered. College courses will not go near the truth either. It was then that my financial positions and political knowledge was developed. I learned for the first time that there was nothing Federal about the Federal Reserve Bank. It was and is a private owned company, it has never been audited, and it decides prime interest rates for the whole nation, it prints our money and distributes it to "Federal Banks" around the country. It also charges us, The United States of America for the printing, distribution and for the use of these "moneys". It was at that time I first learned of organizations like CFR, (Council of Foreign Relations) ONO, (One World Order) WCB, (World Council of Bankers). The WCB is owned and run by the Rothschild empire, it is the principle owner of the Federal Reserve Bank. Rothschild was, a "pawnshop" owner, for lack of a better word during the Napolianic war. He held vast sums of Hapsburg Dynasty money in his vault when they ran off to escape the war. He used that money without their permission to finance the war, first one side then the other. He was of course re-paid and able to give the money back to its rightful owner after the war had ended. But he made a fortune, which ever since has been used the same way, he has financed wars between countries, playing one side against the other, charging both side exorbitant interest. Now of course it is his heirs that do this....Rockefellers, Morganthals, Rosenthals, Morgans, Kissinger, Geithner, Summers, Volker, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Albright, Christopher and Rubin.
There are some other ties to this group of men and women, They all are members of the CFR, AND THEY ALL HAVE OR DO ATTEND MEETINGS OF THE GROUP KNOWN AS 'BILDERBERG' the Bilderbergers are a group of elitists who would control the world. JFK spoke of them and was killed for doing so, Barry Goldwater spoke of them in his book "WITH NO APOLOGIES", Wylie C. Sampson wrote about them in his book, 'PATRIOTS PRIMER" They are still out there and they still have the same goal, enslave everyone else and force us to do their bidding.
In 1915 JP Morgan purchased the editorial polices of 25 of the nations top newspapers, that way they could control the general policy of the whole media. The Rockefellers eventually took over the Morgan empire, they gained control of the ASSOCIATED PRESS. They also own the magazines, Time, Life, Fortune and Newsweek. The elite also own and control ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ETC....If memory serves me right, that was just before the thirteenth amendment was passed that JP MORGAN bought up the news media, then, after most of congress had went home for Christmas break, the thirteenth amendment was passed by less then a quorum. It is the amendment that led to income tax. Convenient to own the papers that might have reported that little error of parlamentury procedure.
This is why we must remove all national political leaders, we do not know who is in the pocket of these groups, this why we need to be involved and choose people to run for office, and not choose between two or three people who choose to run for office. We do not know their motives. We must insist on term limits, no matter how we feel about the job they have been doing. Everyone can be "got to"
If you doubt what I am saying could happen, remember Wounded Knee, Waco, Gresham, Tigerton, Ruby Ridge. Our Government has shown us, it will turn on us, any place any time. By the way Obama is member of CFR so is Biden, HIL AN BIL Clinton, Robert Gates, and all of those named in the first paragraph. Change? Don't look any different to me, Dad always said, "Names change, but the faces stay the same".
Transparent? Only if your on right side of the one way mirror.
Pass this along please, include a note if you like. Just say' hey, this guy is normal on everything else, I don't know why to doubt him on this. Check it out, verify the events, know what we are up against.
There are some other ties to this group of men and women, They all are members of the CFR, AND THEY ALL HAVE OR DO ATTEND MEETINGS OF THE GROUP KNOWN AS 'BILDERBERG' the Bilderbergers are a group of elitists who would control the world. JFK spoke of them and was killed for doing so, Barry Goldwater spoke of them in his book "WITH NO APOLOGIES", Wylie C. Sampson wrote about them in his book, 'PATRIOTS PRIMER" They are still out there and they still have the same goal, enslave everyone else and force us to do their bidding.
In 1915 JP Morgan purchased the editorial polices of 25 of the nations top newspapers, that way they could control the general policy of the whole media. The Rockefellers eventually took over the Morgan empire, they gained control of the ASSOCIATED PRESS. They also own the magazines, Time, Life, Fortune and Newsweek. The elite also own and control ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ETC....If memory serves me right, that was just before the thirteenth amendment was passed that JP MORGAN bought up the news media, then, after most of congress had went home for Christmas break, the thirteenth amendment was passed by less then a quorum. It is the amendment that led to income tax. Convenient to own the papers that might have reported that little error of parlamentury procedure.
This is why we must remove all national political leaders, we do not know who is in the pocket of these groups, this why we need to be involved and choose people to run for office, and not choose between two or three people who choose to run for office. We do not know their motives. We must insist on term limits, no matter how we feel about the job they have been doing. Everyone can be "got to"
If you doubt what I am saying could happen, remember Wounded Knee, Waco, Gresham, Tigerton, Ruby Ridge. Our Government has shown us, it will turn on us, any place any time. By the way Obama is member of CFR so is Biden, HIL AN BIL Clinton, Robert Gates, and all of those named in the first paragraph. Change? Don't look any different to me, Dad always said, "Names change, but the faces stay the same".
Transparent? Only if your on right side of the one way mirror.
Pass this along please, include a note if you like. Just say' hey, this guy is normal on everything else, I don't know why to doubt him on this. Check it out, verify the events, know what we are up against.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
IS THERE ANYONE LEFT OUT THERE WHO WILL SEE THIS MAN IS ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR TREASON WHILE IT STILL MATTERS?
HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW THIS MAN TO DESTROY AMERICA?With the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named Interpol. A one-paragraph executive order may seem inconsequential to many, but this action has far-reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty of America.
Obama's secretive executive order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it privileges and immunities commonly extended to foreign diplomats. Reagan opened the door to allow Interpol to operate in partnership with the U.S. but with significant constitutional safeguards. Specifically, Interpol's property and assets remained subject to search and seizure by American law enforcement, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Interpol had to answer to the FBI and U.S. courts under Reagan's order. These safeguards were stripped away by Obama's action the week before Christmas without debate or explanation. Obama picked the holiday season to make this radical change, to minimize media coverage.
This order marks a significant change in federal policy and usurps the constitutional power of our government by yielding it to an international organization. Michael van Der Galien writes, "This foreign law-enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse. Property and assets, including the organization's records, cannot now be searched or seized. Their physical operational locations are now immune from U.S. legal and investigative authorities."
Obama has given an international organization unsupervised freedom to investigate Americans on our own soil without recourse or the supervision of our own government.
Andy McCarthy writing for the National Review asks some very significant questions: "Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media and the American people to scrutinize?"
Interpol is the enforcement arm of the International Criminal Court, or ICC. The United States never signed onto the Rome Treaty, which created the ICC, because of the potential for abuse by foreign interests. Obama has signaled he may sign the treaty over these objections and subject Americans to prosecution overseas in the ICC. This is harmful for two reasons. First, the U.S. Constitution clearly states that it is the supreme law of our land, and allowing the ICC to supersede the U.S. Constitution violates America's sovereignty. Second, the War on Terror is unpopular with Europeans, and the ICC may attempt to prosecute heroic American soldiers with trumped-up war crimes. Obama is putting brave American men and women at grave risk.
An added wrinkle to this executive order is that Interpol's operations center for the United States is housed within our own Justice Department. Many of the agents are Americans who work under the aegis of Interpol. This order has potentially created the new civilian security force that Obama proposed during his campaign. This group of law-enforcement officials is no longer subject to the restraints enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
The order guarantees that Interpol officers have immunity from prosecution for crimes they may commit in the United States. Ironically, some Interpol nations are attempting to try American intelligence agents for their work abroad in the War on Terror.
This order shows blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution. While Obama is extending due process rights to terrorists he is weakening those same rights for American citizens. If a citizen were to be prosecuted by Interpol, their newly granted immunity would interfere with the discovery process. Since Interpol files are immune to disclosure, a citizen could be denied his right to see the information used to prosecute him or her.
Obama's executive order has done more to weaken civil liberties than the much-maligned Patriot Act. The silence in the mainstream media on this issue should scare all freedom-loving Americans. Obama just signed away parts of our precious legal protections.
Warm regards,
Floyd Brown
ImpeachObamaCampaign.com is a project of the Policy Issues Institute.
Contributions are not deductible for tax purposes.
30011 Ivy Glenn Dr., Suite 223
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Obama's secretive executive order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it privileges and immunities commonly extended to foreign diplomats. Reagan opened the door to allow Interpol to operate in partnership with the U.S. but with significant constitutional safeguards. Specifically, Interpol's property and assets remained subject to search and seizure by American law enforcement, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Interpol had to answer to the FBI and U.S. courts under Reagan's order. These safeguards were stripped away by Obama's action the week before Christmas without debate or explanation. Obama picked the holiday season to make this radical change, to minimize media coverage.
This order marks a significant change in federal policy and usurps the constitutional power of our government by yielding it to an international organization. Michael van Der Galien writes, "This foreign law-enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse. Property and assets, including the organization's records, cannot now be searched or seized. Their physical operational locations are now immune from U.S. legal and investigative authorities."
Obama has given an international organization unsupervised freedom to investigate Americans on our own soil without recourse or the supervision of our own government.
Andy McCarthy writing for the National Review asks some very significant questions: "Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media and the American people to scrutinize?"
Interpol is the enforcement arm of the International Criminal Court, or ICC. The United States never signed onto the Rome Treaty, which created the ICC, because of the potential for abuse by foreign interests. Obama has signaled he may sign the treaty over these objections and subject Americans to prosecution overseas in the ICC. This is harmful for two reasons. First, the U.S. Constitution clearly states that it is the supreme law of our land, and allowing the ICC to supersede the U.S. Constitution violates America's sovereignty. Second, the War on Terror is unpopular with Europeans, and the ICC may attempt to prosecute heroic American soldiers with trumped-up war crimes. Obama is putting brave American men and women at grave risk.
An added wrinkle to this executive order is that Interpol's operations center for the United States is housed within our own Justice Department. Many of the agents are Americans who work under the aegis of Interpol. This order has potentially created the new civilian security force that Obama proposed during his campaign. This group of law-enforcement officials is no longer subject to the restraints enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
The order guarantees that Interpol officers have immunity from prosecution for crimes they may commit in the United States. Ironically, some Interpol nations are attempting to try American intelligence agents for their work abroad in the War on Terror.
This order shows blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution. While Obama is extending due process rights to terrorists he is weakening those same rights for American citizens. If a citizen were to be prosecuted by Interpol, their newly granted immunity would interfere with the discovery process. Since Interpol files are immune to disclosure, a citizen could be denied his right to see the information used to prosecute him or her.
Obama's executive order has done more to weaken civil liberties than the much-maligned Patriot Act. The silence in the mainstream media on this issue should scare all freedom-loving Americans. Obama just signed away parts of our precious legal protections.
Warm regards,
Floyd Brown
ImpeachObamaCampaign.com is a project of the Policy Issues Institute.
Contributions are not deductible for tax purposes.
30011 Ivy Glenn Dr., Suite 223
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
WHEN OBAMA IS GONE, GOD WILL COME BACK
A FEW WORDS FROM THE MARTIAL ARTS MASTER HIMSELF, CHUCK NORRIS.
As I wrote last week, I knew that President Barack Obama's Christian message in his Christmas address was going to be the weakest in presidential history. But never did I expect to hear him dodge children on the main message of Christmas and then teach them a revised version.
Here's the actual transcript from the president's visit last week to the Boys & Girls Club in Washington, D.C. (with a little of my own parenthetical Christmas commentary, to boot -- identified by "CN" in parentheses):
THE PRESIDENT: I think one thing that's important to remember is that, you know, even though there's a lot of fun at Christmas ... especially when it's snowy like this, so it's pretty outside. You got the Christmas tree; you got the Christmas cookies; you've got presents. You know, I think that the most important thing is just to remember why we celebrate Christmas.
(CN: So far so good, Mr. President, but there's a child with his hand up right in front of you!)
CHILD: I know!
THE PRESIDENT: Do you know?
CHILD: The birth of baby Jesus.
(CN: Not exactly the response the president was looking for. If you can't see him in your mind's eye getting a little hot around the collar, check out the video version here.)
THE PRESIDENT: The birth of baby Jesus and what he symbolizes for people all around the world is the possibility of peace and people treating each other with respect. And so I just hope that spirit of giving that's so important at Christmas -- I hope all of you guys remember that, as well. ...
CN: Where is Rep. Joe Wilson when you need him? Wrong, Mr. President! You didn't speak for the majority of Americans when you declared in Turkey last April that "we are not a Christian nation," and you don't speak for "people all around the world" about the birth of the baby Jesus, especially when you define him merely as a community coordinator and social reconciler. His main mission and message was as the Redeemer of mankind -- the savior with a self-confessed mission to "give his life as a ransom for many" to forgive all our sins and reconcile God and humans' relationship.)
THE PRESIDENT: ... You know, it's not just about getting gifts but it's also doing something for other people. So being nice to your mom and dad, grandma, aunties, showing respect to people -- that's really important, too; that's part of the Christmas spirit, don't you think? Do you agree with me?
(CN: Nothing like a little presidential social pressure to prompt an affirmative answer from children.)
CHILDREN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: You do?
(CN: Then another child raises his hand, so the president leans over and asks him a question.)
Do you have an interesting observation?
CHILD: I know why we give gifts to other people.
THE PRESIDENT: Why is that?
CHILD: Because the three wise men gave gifts to baby Jesus.
(CN: Could this get any better? Out of the mouths of babes! But you know there's some presidential spin coming, don't you?)
THE PRESIDENT: That's exactly right. But the three wise men -- the reason
(CN: A sign literally falls off the wall. Sign from God? What timing!)
-- uh-oh, I thought that was the cookies going down. We couldn't have that. You know, the three wise men -- if you think about it, here are these guys. They have all this money; they've got all this wealth and power, and yet they took a long trip to a manger just to see a little baby. And it just shows you that just because you're powerful or you're wealthy, that's not what's important. What's important is what's -- the kind of spirit you have.
(CN: The wise men traveled across the desert "just to see a little baby"? Let me quote from the Gospel according to Matthew 2:11: "And they bowed down and worshipped him" as the savior of the world. Why is it -- any chance Obama has to dive deeper into Christianity's creed? -- he rises to the surface and neuters the subject?)
THE PRESIDENT: So I hope everybody has a spirit of kindness and thoughtfulness and everybody is really thinking about how can they do for other people -- treating them well, because that's really the spirit of Christmas. Does everybody agree with that?
CHILDREN: Yes!
THE PRESIDENT: I agree with that. Well, you guys all seem like really sharp, sharp young people. And I'm very proud of you. And let me just ask you one last question. Is everybody here working pretty hard in school?
CHILDREN: Yes!
THE PRESIDENT: OK, because the thing that I want everybody to remember, the most important message I can leave is, is that you guys have so much potential; one of you could end up being president someday. But it's only going to happen if you stay focused and you work hard in school. And, you guys, there's nothing wrong with having fun and fooling around and playing sports and listening to rap music and all that stuff. But I want you guys to read and hit the books and do your math, because that's really what's going to determine how you do in the future. All right? That's the most important thing you can do.
(CN: "Most important message"? "Most important thing you can do"?)
So let me see whether I have this straight. Obama's Christmas theology and mission is thus: Jesus is Gandhi. The wise men were non-greedy corporate executives on a baby tour. The "most important message" at Christmas is personal potential. And the "most important thing" children can do for their futures is read and do math.
God help us.
(If you want to help children understand the role religion had in our early republic, I encourage you to support the efforts of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, which, to date, has had its Bible curriculum voted into 515 school districts -- 2,026 schools -- in 38 states, and more than 360,000 students have taken the course).A
As I wrote last week, I knew that President Barack Obama's Christian message in his Christmas address was going to be the weakest in presidential history. But never did I expect to hear him dodge children on the main message of Christmas and then teach them a revised version.
Here's the actual transcript from the president's visit last week to the Boys & Girls Club in Washington, D.C. (with a little of my own parenthetical Christmas commentary, to boot -- identified by "CN" in parentheses):
THE PRESIDENT: I think one thing that's important to remember is that, you know, even though there's a lot of fun at Christmas ... especially when it's snowy like this, so it's pretty outside. You got the Christmas tree; you got the Christmas cookies; you've got presents. You know, I think that the most important thing is just to remember why we celebrate Christmas.
(CN: So far so good, Mr. President, but there's a child with his hand up right in front of you!)
CHILD: I know!
THE PRESIDENT: Do you know?
CHILD: The birth of baby Jesus.
(CN: Not exactly the response the president was looking for. If you can't see him in your mind's eye getting a little hot around the collar, check out the video version here.)
THE PRESIDENT: The birth of baby Jesus and what he symbolizes for people all around the world is the possibility of peace and people treating each other with respect. And so I just hope that spirit of giving that's so important at Christmas -- I hope all of you guys remember that, as well. ...
CN: Where is Rep. Joe Wilson when you need him? Wrong, Mr. President! You didn't speak for the majority of Americans when you declared in Turkey last April that "we are not a Christian nation," and you don't speak for "people all around the world" about the birth of the baby Jesus, especially when you define him merely as a community coordinator and social reconciler. His main mission and message was as the Redeemer of mankind -- the savior with a self-confessed mission to "give his life as a ransom for many" to forgive all our sins and reconcile God and humans' relationship.)
THE PRESIDENT: ... You know, it's not just about getting gifts but it's also doing something for other people. So being nice to your mom and dad, grandma, aunties, showing respect to people -- that's really important, too; that's part of the Christmas spirit, don't you think? Do you agree with me?
(CN: Nothing like a little presidential social pressure to prompt an affirmative answer from children.)
CHILDREN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: You do?
(CN: Then another child raises his hand, so the president leans over and asks him a question.)
Do you have an interesting observation?
CHILD: I know why we give gifts to other people.
THE PRESIDENT: Why is that?
CHILD: Because the three wise men gave gifts to baby Jesus.
(CN: Could this get any better? Out of the mouths of babes! But you know there's some presidential spin coming, don't you?)
THE PRESIDENT: That's exactly right. But the three wise men -- the reason
(CN: A sign literally falls off the wall. Sign from God? What timing!)
-- uh-oh, I thought that was the cookies going down. We couldn't have that. You know, the three wise men -- if you think about it, here are these guys. They have all this money; they've got all this wealth and power, and yet they took a long trip to a manger just to see a little baby. And it just shows you that just because you're powerful or you're wealthy, that's not what's important. What's important is what's -- the kind of spirit you have.
(CN: The wise men traveled across the desert "just to see a little baby"? Let me quote from the Gospel according to Matthew 2:11: "And they bowed down and worshipped him" as the savior of the world. Why is it -- any chance Obama has to dive deeper into Christianity's creed? -- he rises to the surface and neuters the subject?)
THE PRESIDENT: So I hope everybody has a spirit of kindness and thoughtfulness and everybody is really thinking about how can they do for other people -- treating them well, because that's really the spirit of Christmas. Does everybody agree with that?
CHILDREN: Yes!
THE PRESIDENT: I agree with that. Well, you guys all seem like really sharp, sharp young people. And I'm very proud of you. And let me just ask you one last question. Is everybody here working pretty hard in school?
CHILDREN: Yes!
THE PRESIDENT: OK, because the thing that I want everybody to remember, the most important message I can leave is, is that you guys have so much potential; one of you could end up being president someday. But it's only going to happen if you stay focused and you work hard in school. And, you guys, there's nothing wrong with having fun and fooling around and playing sports and listening to rap music and all that stuff. But I want you guys to read and hit the books and do your math, because that's really what's going to determine how you do in the future. All right? That's the most important thing you can do.
(CN: "Most important message"? "Most important thing you can do"?)
So let me see whether I have this straight. Obama's Christmas theology and mission is thus: Jesus is Gandhi. The wise men were non-greedy corporate executives on a baby tour. The "most important message" at Christmas is personal potential. And the "most important thing" children can do for their futures is read and do math.
God help us.
(If you want to help children understand the role religion had in our early republic, I encourage you to support the efforts of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, which, to date, has had its Bible curriculum voted into 515 school districts -- 2,026 schools -- in 38 states, and more than 360,000 students have taken the course).A
Saturday, December 26, 2009
LAUGH IT ONLY HURTS A LITTLE WHILE
If you can't take it don't dish it out.
If ObamaCare makes sense to you, it's time to up your medication.
Here's another sign of ObamaCare. Examination rooms have tip jars.
Q: What is the ObamaCare plan to encourage physical fitness?
A: Higher gas taxes to encourage walking.
The new ObamaCare slogan is "Give till it hurts!"
Barack Obama announced that his ObamaCare team will be headed by Joe Biden. Obama admitted that his team has many problems to overcome, the biggest one being that Joe Biden is heading the team.
If Barack Obama had been the Commander in Chief of the Sioux and the Cheyenne, George Armstrong Custer would have died of old age.
The aliens forgot to remove Obama's anal probe.
If Obama had half a brain, his butt would be lopsided.
President Obama is to statesmanship as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Top Twenty Five Features of ObamaCare
"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Surgery"
1. Medical degrees from Devry.
2. Mandatory organ donor cards.
3. Lighters used to sterilize syringes.
4. Stomach stapling done at Office Max.
5. Coin operated morphine dispensers.
6. Tap water is a plasma substitute.
7. Homeless people all have only one kidney.
8. Free cremation with any major operation.
9. Bunkbeds in the Intensive Care Unit.
10. Your first dose of narcotics is free.
11. Special "showers" for the elderly.
12. Tongue depressors taste like Popsicles.
13. None of the nurses speak English.
14. The hospital cafeteria failed its health inspection.
15. Ambulances have meters.
16. Hospital walls are infested with "lab" rats.
17. Do-it-yourself heart bypass kits.
18. Wind up pacemakers.
19. You make up your own hospital bed.
20. Anesthesia comes in a bong.
21. Patients' meals are MREs.
22. Leeches make a comeback!
23. Hospital TVs are all turned to MSNBC.
24. Sears surgical tools.
25. A visit to the hospital will automatically cancel your life insurance policy.
Q. Why did Obama change his name from Barry to Barack?
A. He thought Barry sounded too American.
. What will Barack Obama get for Christmas?
A. Your job, your car and your house.
Q. Why did the Supreme Court block having a Nativity Scene displayed at the White House this year?
A. Plenty of donkeys, but no wise men.
If Obama promises to be good next year, maybe Santa will give him a clue for Christmas.
MANY THANKS TO MY FRIENDS AT http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/
and their fine contributers. Looking Forward to more Jokes, Should be Plenty of Material.
Obama is having such a hard time selling his health care plan that he's thinking about putting it on eBay.
If ObamaCare makes sense to you, it's time to up your medication.
Here's another sign of ObamaCare. Examination rooms have tip jars.
Q: What is the ObamaCare plan to encourage physical fitness?
A: Higher gas taxes to encourage walking.
The new ObamaCare slogan is "Give till it hurts!"
Barack Obama announced that his ObamaCare team will be headed by Joe Biden. Obama admitted that his team has many problems to overcome, the biggest one being that Joe Biden is heading the team.
If Barack Obama had been the Commander in Chief of the Sioux and the Cheyenne, George Armstrong Custer would have died of old age.
The aliens forgot to remove Obama's anal probe.
If Obama had half a brain, his butt would be lopsided.
President Obama is to statesmanship as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Top Twenty Five Features of ObamaCare
"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Surgery"
1. Medical degrees from Devry.
2. Mandatory organ donor cards.
3. Lighters used to sterilize syringes.
4. Stomach stapling done at Office Max.
5. Coin operated morphine dispensers.
6. Tap water is a plasma substitute.
7. Homeless people all have only one kidney.
8. Free cremation with any major operation.
9. Bunkbeds in the Intensive Care Unit.
10. Your first dose of narcotics is free.
11. Special "showers" for the elderly.
12. Tongue depressors taste like Popsicles.
13. None of the nurses speak English.
14. The hospital cafeteria failed its health inspection.
15. Ambulances have meters.
16. Hospital walls are infested with "lab" rats.
17. Do-it-yourself heart bypass kits.
18. Wind up pacemakers.
19. You make up your own hospital bed.
20. Anesthesia comes in a bong.
21. Patients' meals are MREs.
22. Leeches make a comeback!
23. Hospital TVs are all turned to MSNBC.
24. Sears surgical tools.
25. A visit to the hospital will automatically cancel your life insurance policy.
Q. Why did Obama change his name from Barry to Barack?
A. He thought Barry sounded too American.
. What will Barack Obama get for Christmas?
A. Your job, your car and your house.
Q. Why did the Supreme Court block having a Nativity Scene displayed at the White House this year?
A. Plenty of donkeys, but no wise men.
If Obama promises to be good next year, maybe Santa will give him a clue for Christmas.
MANY THANKS TO MY FRIENDS AT http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com/
and their fine contributers. Looking Forward to more Jokes, Should be Plenty of Material.
Obama is having such a hard time selling his health care plan that he's thinking about putting it on eBay.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
THE SOLUTION
IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL DAYS SINCE I ADDED ANY THOUGHTS TO THESE PAGES. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DIGEST A BITTER PILL. THE TRUTH IS, OUR GOVERNMENT LEADERS ARE DILLUSIONAL IDIOTS. AND POWER HUNGRY FOOLS. THEY ARE BENT ON DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY AND ALL I CAN DO IS TRY TO DESTROY THEM. NOT ONE SENATOR WHO VOTED FOR HEALTH REFORM IS GOING TO ESCAPE MY RATH. IT IS MY INTENTION TO PLACE THEM ALL IN JAIL WHERE ALL SCRUFFY WORTHLESS CRIMINALS BELONG. MASS MURDER,(ABORTION) IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH, BUT I WOULD RATHER SEE THEM WASTE AWAY IN A DARK JAIL CELL FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. THEY SHOULD GET THE MEDICAL CARE THEY ARE TRYING TO SHOVE DOWN OUR THROATS. JUST SO THEIR ORDEAL LASTS LONGER. THEY HAVE INCURED MY RATH AND THE SENTENCE WILL REFLECT MY ANGER. THEY SHALL GET THE JUSTICE THEY HAVE GIVEN. MY FIRST TARGET WILL BE SENATOR NELSON FROM NE. HE HAS SOLD AMERICA OUT FOR MONEY AND (HE THINKS FAME) INFAMY IN PRISON WILL BE HIS FATE. THEN IT IS PELOSI, REID, FRANK, DODD, FEINGOLD, SNOW AND THE LIST GOES ON. IN MY RETIREMENT YEARS I NOW HAVE A HOBBY, JAILING THOSE WHO HAVE FAILED AMERICA BY DECEIT AND FRAUD, TREASONISTS ALL....AND WORSE, ABORTIONISTS! IT IS MY INTENTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR ANYONE RUNNING AGAINST THEM AND SPEAKING OUT IN VOICE OF THE PEOPLE NEWSPAPER ADDS AND ON THE INTERNET. THE PIPER MUST BE PAID.
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