He lives.

Al Gore lives. We weren’t sure for awhile where he had hidden himself, but now we know. Old Al was busy hiring a writer, a very good writer, to pen a retort to the current global warming skeptics who have come forward since the temperature fraud has been revealed.

It seems he needed a formal “explanation” of his unwavering premise- that our world is warming because of evil man-before he could show his face.

So what did he write?

Al told us that “it is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.”

“But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.”

Yes, that’s right. Al says that the Himalayan glaciers might not be melting and that some scientists were so stressed from climate skeptics that they didn’t give the correct information , but those are just a couple of silly mistakes. We can’t expect perfection, can we?

Nothing else has changed. Really. The consensus of scientists remains the same.

He also told us that although many of us believed January to be a very, very cold month with record amounts of snow, it was actually the warmest January on record. Honestly. We were only imagining the cold. The snow we saw in places like Dallas and Houston was a mere figment of our imagination. You see, when Al adds up the temperature data from his strategically placed thermometers- most of which are located on the equator or on a blacktop surface- the numbers seem to show that the overall globe is warming just like Al thought it was….!!

In Al’s warped world, the extra condensation caused from the warming has put more moisture in the air, causing enormous amounts of rainfall and snowfall in areas.

One problem, Al: It wasn’t RAINING in Dallas, it was SNOWING. In order for it to snow, it must be below 32 degrees. That’s cold-not hot.

Al also mentions that the sea levels are continuing to rise, a claim that is now disputed by his own experts at the IPCC. In fact, Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, a sea-level expert, was shocked when he was asked to review the documentation of sea levels at the IPCC. He said that the IPCC report had 22 authors, but none of them—none—were sea-level specialists. “They were given this mission, because they promised to answer the right thing.”

All information was obtained, not by trained scientists, but by computer simulations, which have been repeatedly proven unreliable.

Dr. Morner claims that whether you look at Venice or at the Tuvalu Islands, two areas which would immediately show signs if sea levels were rising, you can readily see that this isn’t happening. Yet global warming alarmists, like Al Gore, need sea levels to rise because if there is no rise, there is no death threat.

Al didn’t mention Venice in his latest writing.

How about the “hockey stick” graph, Al? You know, the one that was proven defunct when it was revealed that you took the Medieval Period out of the graph?

Gosh, he didn’t mention that either.

How about the rainforests, Al? Are the rainforests- which thrive on CO2- going to die because of the increase of CO2 like you promised?

Al forgot that, too.

Those, according to Al’s theory, are simply “little” matters, none of which have a bearing on the big issue, our warming planet.

There’s one problem: Al sold everyone on his theory PRECISELY BECAUSE of these arguments- including the Himalayan glaciers, the rainforests, the sea levels rising, the polar bear decrease, and the melting of ice caps on the Alps.

How inconvenient that none of those are true.

It’s also a bit strange that Al Gore, a man who stands to make millions of dollars of profit off of his little scam, refuses to debate global warming skeptics like Lord Christopher Monckton, a man who has never wavered in his theory. Long before the emails were discovered at East Anglia University, long before their lead scientist stepped down and admitted that there has been NO warming since 1995, Monckton asked to have a conversation with Al, which was quickly denied.

Most experts love nothing more than a good, healthy debate- especially when they think they are right. Why doesn’t Al?

News Flash: Later this week, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman are expected to present for consideration cap-and-trade legislation.

No lie.

They don’t give up, do they?

These politicians still insist the increase in rain means global warming. Snow-or no snow- means global warming. Hurricanes or lack of hurricanes both mean global warming. Earthquakes mean global warming- as do floods or no floods. More polar bears, less polar bears- it doesn’t matter…the planet is warming.

They claim that carbon dioxide, the gas we exhale with every breath, is a “known pollutant” and they plan on taxing it.

Why?

For power. For control. For money.

Don’t kid yourselves- many people, including Al Gore- are getting very rich off of this little scam.

Like taking candy from our babies…..literally.

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If you were to debate an American liberal about the benefits of socialism, the argument would eventually include a debate about a little country we hear little about.

Sweden.

The liberal/socialist would tell you this country is utopic. Sweden, the country where big government and social programs are the norm, is considered the “gold standard” of socialist countries.

Hmm…..let’s take a look.

In Sweden, the top personal income tax rate is about 57 percent- payroll taxes are at 40 percent of income. Wealth is taxed, as are capital gains. And then there’s the the value-added tax which stands at 25 percent, the maximum rate allowed for European Union nations.

So much for discretionary income. No wonder everyone rides around on bikes.

The real unemployment rate is between 15-20%. Worse yet, the number of folks who are applying for unemployment and entitlement programs is beginning to climb dramatically, proving the old theory, “Why work when you can get paid not to?”.

Sweden is the country considered ultra-liberal on social issues. In 2004-2005, there was a campaign in Sweden to abolish marriage and replace it with a gender-neutral partnership system that allows for multi-partner relationships. Many felt that even homosexual marriage was too restrictive. According to this campaign, “marriage is not the key to homosexual, bisexual, and transgender liberation. What’s essential is the battle for norm-free, sex-neutral legislation, and a society without heterosexual norms.”

Anyone who thinks that gay marriage doesn’t eventually lead to “multi-person partnerships” should look toward Sweden for some enlightenment.

In 2005, the push for these polygamist partnerships was dropped, but only because of a concession on other matters. Suffice it to say that this issue will reemerge in time.

How about family values in Sweden? They care about families, don’t they?

According to Stanley Kurtz of NRO: “In 2005, lesbian couples were given the benefit of government-supported insemination regardless of whether they were registered partners or simply cohabiting. The government was treating registered partnership on a par with mere cohabitation as a setting for parenthood. The government also agreed that both members of the lesbian couple would be recognized as a child’s mother, thereby creating potential claims of triple parenthood and contributing to the notion that fathers are dispensable.”

Fathers are dispensable? Hey, isn’t that what the “woman’s movement” has been saying here in the U.S. since the 60’s?

In fact, feminists in Sweden released a documentary called “The Gender Wars” which claimed that “men are animals”. The documentary stated that half of all women in Sweden are victims of male violence. They proposed a “man tax”, a tax on males which would pay for the cost of battered women’s shelters. These women began to adopt a philosophy from the 60’s group called SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) which said that we needed to “destroy the male sex” by using science to insure that only females were born. They bashed marriage, claiming they needed to “free the family from heterosexual norms.” One of their leaders, Tiina Rosenberg was quoted as saying, “The history of marriage is not about love and living together, it’s about ownership.”

Luckily, the feminists reached too far, became too outrageous, and lost their strong base, setting them back temporarily. In 2007, gay marriage was legalized in Sweden. This is NOT what the ultra liberals wanted- they want to abolish marriage completely and allow gender-neutral, multi-partner relationships. It is only a matter of time before this agenda is pushed again.

There’s more. Parental rights are denounced in favor of the “nanny-state’s” rights to raise your child.

I guess the government knows better.

A 7 year old Swedish boy, Dominic Johansson, was recently abducted by the government because his parents were homeschooling him.

No kidding.

The family was preparing to move to India last year when the government came onto the plane and confiscated Dominic. Currently, the parents are only allowed to see their son for 60 minutes every 5th week. They have a myriad of organizations trying to help them get their son back, one of which is the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).

According to World Net Daily: HSLDA is fighting the behavior of the Swedish government in this and other cases- children have also been taken from their families when parents refuse to give them state-required immunizations. “At times referred to as a ’social utopia,’ Sweden is completely antagonistic toward homeschoolers and, in reality, anyone who deviates from what the Swedish government defines as ‘normal.‘ The government’s quest for conformity produces troubling side effects: the criminalization of actions – such as a parent’s decision regarding the best form of education for his child – that ought to be the hallmarks of a free, democratic society.”

Swedish authorities have cited the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child to explain and defend their actions, the same treaty that many U.S. liberals would willingly sign onto if given the opportunity.

Sweden is not alone. The German government has also abducted homeschooled children from their parents. Some German parents have been thrown into jail and others have had to undergo extensive psychological evaluations.

Socialism, folks. Not quite the cozy picture we’ve been drawn, is it? Can you see how easily it happens? Can you see how a government can slowly, over time, gain more and more control of us and our families? Can you see the eventual harm of a man-bashing feminist movement and a tolerant gay marriage movement?

Think it’s not happening here?

Think again.

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Out of sight, out of mind.

We haven’t heard much lately from some of our old czar friends, have we? Are they still collecting a paycheck from the American taxpayer? You’d think that we’d hear more about them- after all, they were hand-picked by our president because of their expertise, and they are each pulling in a salary of somewhere between $150,000 and $190,000 per year.

Gosh, what have they been up to?

Well, Kevin Jennings, our Safe School Czar, has managed to stay under the radar for quite some time. He seemed to fade into the back round when that petition was circulating, the one that called for his resignation because of a filthy, pornographic, gay agenda that he was helping to push in Massachusetts schools. He also seemed to dodge a few bullets when we found out that gay, sex books were on his list of “best reading material” for kids who were in 2nd grade, or when we found out that the organization he founded was giving out lists of gay bars to underage teenagers. He wrote the forward to another book, “The Queering of Elementary Education”, the title of which, pretty much tells us all we need to know about this man.

I guess Obama really must like this guy.

Either that, or he’s simply letting Mr. Jennings get his ‘gay tolerance’ framework in place so that someone else can come in and take over where Mr. Jennings left off.

A few red flags have been raised recently, regarding this gay agenda and our public schools. Have these initiatives come directly from Mr. Jennings? We don’t know, however, we must assume that he’s been doing something with his time in the past year.

Activists, including gay activists, tend to be active.

According to World Net Daily, a homosexual congressman from Colorado, Democrat Rep. Jared Polis, has proposed a law critics say would give controversial federal school safety czar Kevin Jennings “almost unlimited authority to mandate indoctrination in public schools at taxpayer expense.”

Under the legislation Jennings “can create pro-homosexual programs and policies to their hearts’ delight.”

You see, Polis’ legislation (HR 4530) would provide special protections “for students who claim they are discriminated against because of their ‘perceived sexual orientation.’ ” This bill would protect these kids by classifying “actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity” alongside other discriminatory classifications such as race, sex, disability, etc.

This is all being done under the guise of “tolerance” and presented to schools as a way to protect gay students from any type of discrimination.

The truth of the matter is that this bill will simply give Jennings an open door to set up whatever pro-homosexual programs he would choose. Let’s review what happened the last time Jennings was given an “open door.” Remember Fistgate, the controversy that ensued when Jenning’s organization, GLSTEN, promoted graphic, gay, sex techniques to teenagers at a school seminar? Remember his membership in ACT UP, a sometimes radical gay activist group? Remember his advice to a 15-16 year old boy who came to him for advice on a relationship he was having with a much older man?….Remember Jennings telling the boy to “use a condom”? ….

Here’s the worst part of this bill: If a school currently receives federal funds from a government agency, it will be subject to the new rules of that agency , rules which will be changed to conform to this bill. If the school refuses to adopt this agenda, then the government agency will stop funding to that school.

Better yet, individual states will be held liable for violations, so states will put pressure on individual schools to adopt these policies.

Got it? Basically, our kids are screwed. If schools don’t adopt Kevin Jenning’s radical, pornographic gay agenda- implemented under the guise of ‘gay tolerance’- then they will lose federal funding.

Hmmmm…..how many public schools do you know that want to lose their federal funding?

Rep. Polis claims, “Every student has the right to an education free from harassment and violence. This bill will protect the individual freedoms of our students and enshrine the values of equality and opportunity in our classrooms.” Unfortunately, his bill doesn’t accomplish this. It simply is a ‘foot in the door’ approach to more radical sexual education for our kids.

A good example? Maine. In 2005, a state law was written to add sexual orientation as a protected class, giving people the right to public accommodation. It was never meant for schools. 5 years later, the Maine Human Rights Commission is meeting to determine whether or not transgendered students have the right to enter not only the restroom of their choice, but also the right to dress and undress in the locker room of their choice.

The privacy of non-transgendered students is obviously not a big deal.

A foot in the door. That’s all it takes.

And it’s all that Kevin Jennings needs.

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By STEPHEN SPRUIELL

‘We have some strong disagreements on the numbers,” President Obama said after Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) concluded his devastating critique of the Democrats’ budget claims, “but I don’t want to get too bogged down.” In the ensuing debate, what became clear is that the Democrats just don’t have an answer to Ryan’s arguments. They ducked, dodged, and changed the subject repeatedly, because Ryan’s numbers themselves are unimpeachable.

The Democrats are touting an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that their health-care bill would reduce the deficit by around $130 billion over the next ten years. What Ryan pointed out — and what no Democrat even attempted to counter — is that this is because the legislation front-loads tax hikes and Medicare cuts and defers costs, forcing the CBO to score ten years of offsets with only six years of spending. Looked at on a level playing field, the true ten-year cost of the bill is $2.3 trillion rather than $950 billion, Ryan said.

Then he brought up another gimmick: The bill is full of double-counting. “Savings” are counted as offsets for new health-care spending and at the same time set aside to pay for future entitlements. For instance, the Democrats claim $52 billion in offsets as a result of increasing Social Security payroll-tax revenues. But these dollars are already claimed for future Social Security beneficiaries. They can’t pay for both. The Democrats take another $72 billion in premiums intended to fund a new long-term-care program and count them as offsets for other spending. Ryan pointed out that Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad has called this “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.”

Perhaps most important, Ryan confronted the Democrats with the issue of the “Doc Fix” — a separate bill that would have added $371 billion to the Democrats’ legislation if it hadn’t been stripped out. The Doc Fix would have prevented Medicare reimbursements to doctors from plummeting by 21 percent, a drop that Congress put into the bill to improve its CBO score but never planned to allow, most political observers agree.

Obama responded to Ryan by saying he didn’t want to get “bogged down” in a debate over the numbers; instead, he dared Republicans to defend Medicare Advantage, the program Democrats are planning to cut in order to generate some legitimate savings to pay for their new programs. But the merits of Medicare Advantage are irrelevant to Ryan’s critique, which, put simply, is:

1. Obama said he wouldn’t sign a bill that adds to the deficit;
2. The bill he supports clearly would; even though
3. Democrats have rigged the legislation to produce a deficit-neutral CBO score.

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D., Calif.) was the only Democrat who really attempted to address Ryan’s critique. First, he implied that Ryan was trying to question the integrity of the CBO. But Ryan’s critique calls into question the Democrats’ integrity, not the CBO’s, by pointing out that the CBO’s analysts must by law score what is set in front of them, and that what the Democrats have set in front of them is full of gimmicks designed to hide the cost of the bill.

Second, Becerra attempted to address the argument that by delaying certain spending provisions, the Democrats have hidden the bill’s true cost. He pointed out that the CBO has estimated that the Democrats’ bill would reduce the deficit by 0.5 percent of GDP in the second ten years, when all the spending would be included. But he failed to mention that the CBO’s estimate included the following caveat: “A detailed year-by-year projection for years beyond 2019 . . . would not be meaningful because the uncertainties involved are simply too great.”

Neither Obama nor Becerra — nor any other Democrat — addressed the issue of double-counting. And the only response to Ryan’s point about the Doc Fix was a rather oblique statement by Obama that “if what you’re saying is that we can’t make hard decisions on entitlements, then we’re in big trouble.” In fact, that’s exactly what conservatives have been saying: Not only can’t the political class make hard decisions on entitlements, the Democrats are trying to create a new entitlement and hide its cost. And if they succeed, we are in very big trouble.
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In September, 2008, The New York Times was recommending that NY Congressman Charlie Rangel should resign from his position as chairman of the Ways and Means Committe while his “ethical problems” were investigated.

That was 2008.

What was his latest indiscretion? Well, it seems that Charlie, the head of Congress’s tax-writing committee, was “irresponsible” in failing to disclose $75,000 in rental income and pay federal and state taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic.

You mean that a guy who writes the tax law forgot to pay his taxes?

Yup, that’s right.

Oh, but there’s more. You see there were earlier controversies involving Charlie that had already caught the eye of the Ethics Committee in the Senate. One was Mr. Rangel’s favored treatment in occupying four rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan, and another was his improper use of official letterheads to solicit support from charities and corporations for an academic center to memorialize his career in public service. It was also disclosed that Rep. Rangel filed a grossly misleading financial-disclosure report for 2007 — failing to report at least $500,000 in assets.

You see, Rep. Rangel had a credit-union account worth at least $250,000 and maybe as much as $500,000 — and didn’t report it. He had investment accounts worth about the same, which he also didn’t report. He also forgot to report three pieces of property in New Jersey.

The NY Times was pretty hard on Charlie, stating that a quick resignation was in order: “The tax issues are significant enough, in toto, to require federal and state investigations into whether this was not merely negligence, but willful fraud. We’re talking about a pattern of tax avoidance that has gone on for more than a decade.”

Anyone that knows The NY Times, knows that they usually err on the side of the liberals, so this was a scathing review.

Ironically enough, in 2006, when Nancy Pelosi proudly took on the prized position of “Madame Speaker”, she promised us that she was going to rid Washington of this type of corruption. She was going to be “ethical.”

It didn’t last long. She actually supported Charlie when the first indiscretions were brought to light.

And Nancy couldn’t be bothered when she heard about the latest 2008 problem with Charlie forgetting to pay taxes on those villas, Nancy was busy trying to get Barack Obama elected, but she did promise the public that she would take care of the “Rangel issue” by January 3, 2009, once Obama was securely in place and Congress could breathe.

It never happened.

Hmmm…..

Over the past year, Rangel’s name has come up for ethical debate, and every time it seems to get swept under the proverbial rug. Meanwhile, Rangel has been allowed to remain as the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, writing tax law for the rest of us. He’s been able to vote on bills, like the TARP Bill, the Health Care Bill, the Stimulus Bill, and others- all which influence the American public. He’s been allowed to spend OUR TAX DOLLARS, while not paying his fair share.

Well, it seems that some of Charlie’s indiscretions caught up with him when an ethics panel recently accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules. This might finally force old Charlie to give up the Chairmanship of his Tax Committee.

So how did Charlie take the news? According to Yahoo News, Ranel said, “I don’t want to be critical of the [ethics] committee but common sense dictates that members of Congress should not be held responsible for what could be the wrongdoing or mistakes or errors of staff unless there’s reason to believe that member knew or should have known, and there is nothing in the record to indicate the latter.”

The mistakes of staff? He’s blaming this on his staff?

What an upstanding guy.

Here’s the good news- I guess that additional ethics investigations of Rangel’s finances and fundraising are still under way.

Whew. Glad to know they haven’t forgotten about them.

The guy is 79 years old. What in the heck are they waiting for?

Charlie Rangel has been in the middle of corruption for years, yet he hasn’t only retained his seat in Congress, he has been promoted and been considered a valuable democrat in the House.

He won’t admit to wrong-doing, won’t admit that he’s at fault.

And he retains his write to vote.

No wonder the democrats want to rid Judeo-Christian values from our public buildings.

It’s hard for them to carry on their immoral dealings when facing a stone tablet which states: Thou Shalt Not Steal.

They’d much rather look at a stone tablet which professes the philosophy of someone like Lenin: ” If you must lie, then you lie. The end justifies the means.”

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Hey, here’s an idea. Today, with TV cameras rolling, the Republicans need to arrive at Obama’s health care forum and politely ask for a few minutes before the debate begins. They need to pull down a very large screen from the ceiling of the room, darken the lights, and sit back and enjoy watching the democrats eat their delicious words on reconciliation, a legislative tool used to pass a bill with only 51 votes.

It seems that Republicans tried to use reconciliation in 2005 when they were in the majority- and the democrats weren’t what you’d call “happy” about it….

In fact, they called it “unconstitutional.”

Huh. Since when have the democrats read the constitution?

Reconciliation is only supposed to be used to pass budgetary items- not general legislation like health care, but that hasn’t stopped the democrats from threatening to use this ‘nuclear option’ to pass health care.

After the viewing, the republicans should turn on the lights, stand up, and collectively exit the room, informing the democrats, who continue to act as though Americans are begging to get health care passed, that the American people have spoken, making it crystal clear that they don’t want this bill.

If democrats want to shove it down Americans throats, they’ll have to do it alone- by reconciliation.

On the way out the door, one of the Republicans needs to address Joe Biden, giving him a taste of his own medicine with these words: “You’d better keep praying, Joe, because the Democrats are back in control and they are making a naked power grab, the likes of which this nation has never seen before.”

This, folks, would be ‘transparency.’

It would also be hilarious.

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In the past year, I’ve been told to forget everything that I knew to be true. I’ve been told to look beyond my “gut”, my moral code, because the things I’ve been taught for years no longer hold water. I’ve been told that up is down and down is up and that’s all OK because we have a Savior now running our country.

I know better.

You know what they say, you can fool some of the people some of the time…….

I’m not easily fooled.

I began to look deeper for answers into the urgent necessity for another stimulus bill and health care reform. I tried to understand the auto buyouts and the push to control the banks. I couldn’t grasp why we’d be taking terrorists, who had pleaded guilty, and bring them to NYC for a trial that will cost the state and the country millions of dollars. I’m perplexed over the push to stop global warming, the insistence on “green” energy, and the desire to sign a treaty in Copenhagen.

The deeper I looked, the darker the answers.

I pulled up Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, his socialist “bible” of sorts, which gave those who share his ideology a list of ways to “con” their subjects into subversion, which is the goal of a socialist. Socialism and Communism are all about control. They are also more easily implemented with those who are easily manipulated.

Here’s what I found: Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Keep the pressure on.

On whom? On the Republicans? On Americans? Do you think that Obama is applying pressure by throwing so many bills, laws, and treaties at us that we can’t even keep them straight in our minds? Each one of these initiatives came with its own set of outrageous numbers, it’s own set of rules which we can’t sort out completely because they all blend together. The sheer number of pages in each of these bills makes it impossible for the average person to comprehend them.

You see, when you’re being fired upon with the equivalent of a machine gun, it is difficult to see clearly….it’s also hard to fire back.

Last year, Congress quietly passed the Hate Crimes Bill, a bill which under normal circumstances would have received some debate. Most Americans don’t even know it was passed- Why? Because there was so much chaos, so much attention to health care that other issues seemed small in comparison. What’s worse is that the Hate Crimes Bill didn’t stand alone when it was passed- it was attached to a Defense Bill, making republicans who voted against it look as though they didn’t care about the military.

The Hate Crimes Bill could potentially be one of biggest destroyers of free speech that our country has ever witnessed.

We had no idea. It was slipped right through without fanfare.

Saul Alinsky.

There’s more…..

Over the past year, Obama’s advisers have raised red flag after red flag. Petitions have gone out asking for the removal of the “safe school” czar and his radical gay agenda. Rep. Boehner has asked for the removal of one of Obama’s faith advisers, a man who seems to hate the Catholic Church. Obama’s ‘right hand woman’, Valerie Jarrett has come under crossfires for her support of Van Jones ( the communist green jobs czar), along with her shady dealings in real estate back in Illinois. John Holdren, the science czar, has had radical writings on forced abortion and population control. No one can understand Eric Holder, our Attorney General and the man who keeps pushing an agenda that seems to favor terrorists over Americans time and time again.

Yet, these people all stay in power. Even the communist, Van Jones, who stepped down from his position when his past was exposed, simply moved over to another government agency, the Center for American Progress, a place where he can still have influence on the president.

Huh.

The two-faced rhetoric coming out of this White House is also perplexing. Obama tells us that “the spending in Washington must stop.” The next week, we hear of a new US embassy being built in the UK for $1 Billion. He tells us that he doesn’t know anything about a little organization called ACORN, yet we see old footage of him embracing his former employer, calling them an intricate part of his rise to power. We hear Obama claim he knows nothing about mirandizing a panty-bomber in Detroit, yet that is simply not believable.

It’s all insane.

It’s Saul Alinsky’s Rule #8. Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose.

Keep everybody thinking- keep everybody rattled.

Keep the headlines full of things that distract the public from the real agenda- government control.

Did I mention that when Barack Obama was a college professor, he taught the philosophy of Saul Alinsky to his students?…..

Need I say more?

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As Obama continues to shove health care down our throats, Americans are having flashbacks.

You see, anyone who’s raised a baby has seen this before.

Put a baby in a highchair and try to get him to eat peas or some other unpalatable food. Watch him purse his lips together; watch him squirm. Try to get the spoon into his mouth- and more importantly, try to get him to swallow.

Good luck.

The Health Care Bill has become the metaphorical “peas” in this story. It is being sugar-coated and artificially colored to appear palatable, but the American public cannot be fooled. We are NOT opening our lips, and if this disastrous bill is passed, Americans will refuse to swallow it.

WE DON’T WANT IT.

What doesn’t Obama understand? Does he see his current approval ratings which have plummeted from 70% only one year ago to 45% today? Does he read the polls which state that 58% of the people do not want this Health Care Bill? Does he hear our voices, see our faces, or acknowledge our feelings?

Obviously not.

Obama’s “new” health care addendum to the Bill is basically a joke. It can’t be scored by the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, because the information in it is not sufficient for them to give an adequate cost assessment.

So we don’t know how much it will cost.

Obama and his minions claim that it will cost a mere $200 Billion, which, if added to the $850 Billion Senate Bill, will be around $1 Trillion over the next 10 years.

That is their estimate- remember that the taxes will go into effect immediately while the updated health care won’t actually be allocated until 2014.

It’s smoke and mirrors, folks.

Obama offers nothing about tort reform in his bill. One thing the democrats have learned very well- don’t upset the trial lawyers. If they do, then upstanding guys like John Edwards will get very, very mad at them. They might even pull their funding for the next election.

Did I mention that trial lawyers were Obama’s largest private contributors in his 2008 campaign?…..

Oh, and there’s nothing in the bill about nationalizing the insurance market across state lines, making premiums less expensive by increasing competition.

That’s such an old-school, capitalist way of thinking, isn’t it?

Obama’s plan doesn’t include Ben Nelson’s Nebraska kick-back- you know, the plan that allowed Nebraska to get their state Medicaid to be paid for by the national government. This is the “deal” that Ben struck with the democrats in exchange for his vote, and the “deal” that will probably get him voted out of office in 2012.

The good news is that Obama has decided to give EVERY state the “Nebraska kick-back.” Gosh, isn’t that terrific?

Not to rain on Obama’s parade, but where are we going to get the money for this?…

Here’s the best part of Obama’s Bill: He wants to put regulations on insurance companies. Yes, Obama likes us so much that he wants to be sure we don’t get overcharged for our insurance. Those big, bad insurance companies, the ones who made a profit of about 3.5% last year, those guys need to be stopped.

One problem- The insurance companies are already government regulated. Why do you think that they can’t sell across state lines? The reason some premiums are going up is because healthy people are losing their jobs and leaving the pool of the insured, forcing the rest of us to pay for those who aren’t so healthy.

Suffice it to say, this new round of regulations has NOTHING to do with helping us and EVERYTHING to do with driving these companies out of business.

When the insurance companies are gone, then we’ll all be forced to run to the government for our care…..because our government is always there to “help” us.

Just like in Russia. Just like in England. Just like in Canada- the country who had such good health care that the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador came to the United States for his heart surgery.

Did I mention that Obama’s plan still contains provisions to pay for abortions?

Did I mention that Congress is going to push this through with a legislative feature called “Reconciliation”, which needs only 51 Senate votes and is a tactic that is only to be used for budgetary items?

These “peas” are tasting worse than ever, aren’t they? The more they try to cram them down our throats, the more suspicious I am of them containing some form of poison.

Even a child knows when a parent is exerting too much control- teenagers, especially have to push their parent away to establish their autonomy. As adults, we’ve learned to do things ourselves, to be responsible for ourselves and our loved ones. We know that freedom comes at a price, but we also understand that it’s the most important component in living. We are human-we are not zoo animals.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
– Thomas Paine

Don’t give up, folks. Keep fighting the good fight. Don’t eat the “peas” that this government is shoving down our throats.

Sometimes, in fact, most of the time, WE know best.

lsm

Eric Holder, the top lawyer in our country and the man who sets the standards for upholding the law in America, does not necessarily believe that “justice is blind.”

In fact, Eric believes that we need to use our justice system for his own, personal agenda.

In the past year, our Attorney General has left us scratching our heads countless times. In the world of Eric Holder, what’s up is down and down is up and sideways is the norm. He wants to prosecute good, decent people who serve our country, yet dismiss those who have clearly broken the law.

In essence, Eric wants to rewrite the law- and in some cases, he has succeeded.

Let’s start with the Black Panther ruling- or should I say “non-ruling.” Three members of this radical organization thought they’d have some fun at a polling place in Philadelphia in the 2008 elections. They were clearly intimidating the voters who were there simply to cast their vote, wearing revolutionary garb, wielding night sticks, pacing in front of the doors, and yelling racial slurs like, “You’re going to soon be ruled by a black man, Cracker.” This is not just a small indiscretion- it is a federal offense which should be prosecuted in federal court.

That’s Eric Holder’s territory.

A suit was filed and the 3 Black Panthers didn’t show up in court.

According to the WSJ: “When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that’s already illegal under existing law.”

Why?

Could it be that Khalidi Al Mansour, the Muslim man thought responsible for paying Barack Obama’s way through Harvard Law School, was one of the original founders of the Black Panther party back in the 1960’s?

Was this a pay-back? We don’t know. Does Eric Holder have some prior associations with the Black Panthers? We don’t know.

We do know one thing: If this incident had included members of the KKK, this case would have been prosecuted long ago.

There’s more questions about Eric Holder. This is the man who is adamant about prosecuting the Gitmo terrorists in civilian courts, specifically, in New York City. He claims that this is his decision, not that of our president, a ridiculous statement. There is no possible way that anything this big and this controversial has been made without the input of our president.

The people of this country are outraged. These terrorists have already pleaded guilty and could easily and cost-effectively be tried in military tribunals- away from the hoopla of the media (where they have a forum to spew their hate).

It’s a no-brainer.

The 9/11 victims’ survivors have protested repeatedly, asking our justice department to reconsider. The city of New York has stated that the cost of a civilian trial will be approximately $200 Million per year, a price that they can’t afford. There are concerns about the safety of our citizens if these men are brought into our country, and of course, there is controversy over giving these men American rights.

Strangely enough, both he and Obama have promised the American people that these men will be found guilty and be “put away for life.”

What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”? Wouldn’t statements like that be considered “jury tampering”? Wouldn’t the Attorney General and the President- both lawyers- understand this?

You have to wonder.

Answers are starting to slowly be revealed…

It seems that nine members of Holder’s Department of Justice team have formerly worked for the release of the terrorist detainees.

Nine.

In fact, Eric Holder, himself, used to work for a firm that represented some of the terrorists.

Hey, would that be considered a conflict of interest?

Obviously not in Eric’s eyes. While he and Obama hired these 9 lawyers, they won’t give us their names. I guess we don’t have the right to know- although we are paying the salaries of these men.

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley is trying to get some answers. We DO know that Obama appointee, Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, formerly represented Osama bin Laden’s driver, and another appointee, Jennifer Daskal, previously advocated for detainees at Human Rights Watch. When Grassley asked for more names, Holder refused. All he would say is that nine Obama political appointees have advocated on behalf of detainees, but did not identify any of the nine other than the two.

Holder’s response: “To the best of our knowledge only five of the lawyers who serve as political appointees in those components represented detainees, and four others either contributed to amicus briefs in detainee-related cases or were otherwise involved in advocacy on behalf of detainees.”

He claims that some have recused themselves from certain cases but would give no specifics.

Huh.

Meanwhile, Eric is busy trying to prosecute CIA agents who waterboarded these terrorists in an attempt to keep our country safe.

No wonder this country is lawless. Our Attorney General, the chief lawyer of the land, is not applying the law to these cases, he’s simply enacting his own, personal agenda and pretending it’s the law.

What’s down IS up in this administration. And our president is trying to get us to believe that this is “normal.”

We’re not that stupid, Barack.

Powerless, yes. Stupid, no.

lsm
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Liz Cheney sounds a little like her father as she talks to CPAC.

Liz Cheney’s Speech To CPAC 2010 from Keep America Safe on Vimeo.

Will she run for the Senate in 2012? Stay tuned…..

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