“Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens
enjoy real democratic rights. Now, I want you to stop for a second and think about that.
Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one-half of 1 percent are truly free and they’re all
citizens of Israel. This startling fact reveals a basic truth: Israel is not what is wrong with
about the Middle East; Israel is what is right about the Middle East.”
~ Benjamin Netanyahu to joint session of the United States Congress, May 23, 2011
Category Archives: elections
D.C. Police Abuse Man in Wheelchair
D.C. Police Abuse Man in Wheelchair by throwing him to the ground and then they leave him there. Where they afraid he’d run? Talk about out of control. Again these are not police officers, but pigs and should be fired.
The D.C. police issued a statement that included stating that “the patron resisted arrest which resulted in him falling out of his wheelchair.” Now if you watch the video, you will clearly see the police are lying, they guy did not “fall out” of his wheelchair, he was thrown out of the wheelchair.
Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism. Winston Churchill
Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism. … As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism sprang from Fascism.
Winston Churchill. The Gathering Storm
Both are totalitarian systems where the government controls everyone and everything “for the common good” – and the good of the masters.
“our belief that those who benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more” – Obama
It’s a basic reflection of our belief that those who benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more. Moreover, this belief hasn’t hindered the success of those at the top of the income scale, they continue to do better and better with each passing year,” President Obama said at an address about the budget at George Washington University. April 2011
Mr. President, “give” means voluntary. “Gifts” do not occur at the point of a gun.
Where’s the Birth Certificate? What does “natural born citizen” mean?
The question is what does “natural born citizen” mean? Since Reconstruction, it has usually meant one parent was a United States citizen. Plainly President Obama meets the requirements if those are the criteria. There have been arguments as to whether that is the definition for President or what the Constitution means, but ignoring that for now, the real question is if the President has nothing to hide, why has he spent so much money and effort to hide his birth certificate?
It is amazing that so many people are ignorant an uninformed and they work in the media, starting with The New York Times. The press has decided to ignore important questions, and carry water for the White House. Let’s be clear:
1. A certification of live birth is not a birth certificate, contrary to what George Stephanopoulos seems to think.
2. If there is nothing to hide, release the birth certificate.
3. Write a letter to the Governor of Hawaii and ask them to release it.
4. Stop spending millions of dollars to stop its release.
Where is the media asking WHY is the President hiding the information?
One wonders what this book will show:
http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Birth-Certificate-Eligible-President/dp/1936488299
I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. Obama
We cannot, and will not, sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration, or the next generation.
We are paying the price for these deficits right now. In 2008 alone, we paid $250 billion in interest on our debt — one in every 10 taxpayer dollars. That is more than three times what we spent on education that year; more than seven times what we spent on VA health care.
So if we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road as our interest payments rise, our obligations come due, confidence in our economy erodes, and our children and our grandchildren are unable to pursue their dreams because they’re saddled with our debts.
And that’s why today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control. President Obama, February 23, 2009
The sad part is that he is right, but instead of doing what he said, the deficits have continued, become much worse, and will have tripled the national DEBT according to projections. In short, it is the exact opposite of “A New Era of Responsibility.” Unfortunately the actions have not followed the words.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJvkkNmR_8 and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_New_Era_of_Responsibility
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure….Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.
Worth reprinting:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” Senator Obama, March 20, 2006
Then Senator Obama was right then, debt is not the answer and has never been the answer.
If the Democrats don’t act responsibly, they are to blame for the shutdown
The meme is that if the Republicans don’t do what the Democrats want, they are to blame for the shutdown. Why is that? Why isn’t it that if the Democrats don’t do what the Republicans want, they are to blame for the shutdown? I guess that just doesn’t play as well in the press.
When the entire basis of your electoral success is promoting living at the expense of someone else and your voters expect you to vote them money from someone else’s income, responsibility is pretty much out the window.
Extreme Spending in Washington
Deficits as far as the eye can see are the results of extreme spending in Washington. Even reverting to 2008 spending levels would remedy the situation. However, the extremists in Washington are interested in extreme spending in order to maintain their own power.
Bloggers blame Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords shooting
After seeing bloggers trying to blame Sarah Palin for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting today, a few facts should be stated:
1. Jared Lee Loughner lists among his favorite books Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10). None of those would be listed by any Republican or Tea Partier as favorite books. Both favor a large, central, all-powerful government controlling the citizens.
2. Jared Lee Loughner’s High School friend on twitter (http://twitter.com/caitieparker) says he was a “left wing” pot head.
3. Jared Lee Loughner writes using the terms “B.C.E”. Loughner hated “In God We Trust.” Both of which show he is not a Christian.
4. Loughner is reportedly a registered “independent”.
5. Loughner shot and killed a Republican Federal Judge. Does that make him a Democrat?
6. CNN used the name “Crossfire” for a show for nearly 25 years (1982-2005). That is 23 years of indoctrinating people to think of political debate as “Crossfire”.
[Update] 7. Loughner had sent Representative Giffords a letter in 2007. More than a year prior to Sarah Palin being a household name.
[Update 1/12/2010] 8. “He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio” according to a friend.
Update 1/17/2010] 9. The New York Times reports that Loughner was a Present Bush hater – “His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush”.
Saying Sarah Palin is to blame, the Tea Party, the Republican party – or for that matter the Democratic party – is nuts. It sounds like something that this nut job would say! The blame belongs with an insane killer. No one else. But don’t let any facts get in the way of a good smear.
Concentrate on the victims, not trying to pin it on someone else.
Regarding the Communist Manifesto, Conservatives generally want small government with power widely distributed and closer to the voter with most decisions left to the individual. (The left wing wants larger, more centralized government. Once the differences are stated it becomes clear that one side wants power in government, the other freedom to the people. Groups that want large government are the fascists, socialists, and communists – in other words statists and dictators like the Nazi Socialists, the USSR, Mao’s Socialists. All of whom were willing to kill millions of people in order to establish their social order. All of whom wanted a strong, central, powerful government in order to impose their will on everyone else “for their own good.”
The choice is easy: freedom or government. Life and liberty vs power and control.