President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.” Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
The Video in REAL TIME… REMEMBER What they did to Bush when He was at that School watching children in the calss room?
WHERE IS MICHAEL MOORE WHEN YOU NEED HIM?!
Lets not forget how he marked 9-11 this year… by going and visiting buildings. This man is a pure narcissistic pig.
Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That’s the least that should occur.
Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.
Did the president’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on — and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.
It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before. The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that the president and his political team couldn’t produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where the president won by 15 points one year ago). And now this? Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.
If the president’s communications apparatus can’t inform — and protect — their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president’s party and supporters.
All the president’s men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots. Follow him on Twitter.
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This man was Obamas Pastor for 20 years… And Obama swears he knew nothing of these types of beliefs. Do you believe that?
Rev Jeremiah Wright (introduced by Robert McChesney) speaking at the 60th anniversary celebration of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review. The event was held on September 17th, 2009, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.
Hey all… I know there are only a couple of you that check in from time to time… but, like Nicholson said in the Stephen King movie The Shining… HERE’S PYRO! Back and Ready for the attack… I have been out of the loop, but have been keeping tabs on Marion.
As I look at the Polanski situation one glaring question needs to be answered. Why now?
Searching through the information I have found on the internet concerning the details of Polanski, a few glaring truths hit you in the face. He (Polanski) did it, he plead out, the judge was not going to honor the plea, so Polanski fled and no one has cared up til now.
35 years, and several US presidents later, Washington DC’s ilk finally has a sex scandal that calls for the ‘Polanski’ solution.
Like the proverbial ace in the whole, Obama pulls Polanski from his sleeve… and in one fell swoop clears the way for a non tolerance stance against sexual solicitation, that is backed by a ‘where no other president would go before‘ claim. It is the perfect means to validate his stance and gives Obama and crew the ‘If we would have known‘ out, for the ACORN scandal.
He (Obama) is the perfect political mad scientist, building a political Frankenstein. GOD HELP US ALL!
>>> What next… The ‘Ruby’? Could this be Polanski’s fate. I was going to use the ‘Roth’ but could not find a Godfather Part 2 video clip of Herman Roth getting shot when getting off the plane from Israel.
Many years from now, after we all here are very much dead and gone from this physical living we do, history will judge our resolve to be Americans during these trying times.
Our forefather who laid the foundations of this great nation with the moorings that have connected a people to its government are now the same moorings in jeopardy of collapse.
That which has stood for over 225 years on the humblest of spiritual concepts…. of Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness are the basic guarantees of a government to a people, and those basic necessities are to be said God given… these guarantees provide a nation with a path that demands that personal freedoms not servitude will build ideals of higher standards.
Yet, when we are tested and asked too find these moorings, we rely on the need for our excesses, wanting to further feed our gluttony… and looking more and more as an ungrateful people that rather ask for more rather than do with a bit less.
It is the foundation, the moorings that we as Americans have built the most envied, powerful, prosperous, and giving nation on the face of the earth that we have responded time after time, giving precious lives in the defense of freedom throughout the world and far less valuable riches to a struggling world in need.
And now, now in a moment in history where American determination and resolve can once again be the guiding force that a weary world looks too for inspiration, we turn our backs on our forefathers and embrace a flawed form of governance that our founders clearly would have never envisioned as the end results of their revolutionary stance.
There have been many times in our past that our resolve to be a free nation have been tested and in each of these moments it was not America and her lack of ability to seek and demand a resolution that was rooted in American ideals and values.
In America, we have come to know phases like; a stitch in time saves nine… a penny saved is a penny earned, but these time old axioms are no longer seen for the common sense words of fore fathers like Benjamin Franklin, that would suggest that prudence and forethought be used when casting ones net to the waters. We would rather make ourselves believe that the feast is never ending and better yet, never to be paid for.
There will never be a chance like this for us as Americans to lead the way we know how to and validate to the world that those that would attempt to hurt us are the same ones that have made us stronger and too the weak that need a helping hand we are there to lend one. This is not the time to turn our backs on our proud history.
Perusing the news today I came upon this piece of steamy excrement from across the pond.
Groups Ban Words That Might Offend
By STEVE PENDLEBURY, AOL News
(Aug. 25) — There’s a gentleman’s agreement among language masterminds at some public agencies in Britain that writing this sentence would put a black mark on your record.
Dozens of taxpayer-funded organizations have ordered workers not to use certain common terms because they might offend some people, according to London newspapers. The National Gallery warned that “gentleman’s agreement” is sexist. The same goes for “right-hand man.” (Could that be seen as a slap at southpaws, too?)
Britain’s South West Regional Development Agency is among those trying to rub out “black mark,” “black sheep” and other phrases that cast black in a negative light. Skills should be “perfected,” not “mastered,” according to the Learning and Skills Council. Newcastle University even has a problem with “master bedroom,” The Sunday Times of London reported.
Author Anthony Horowitz thinks the push for politically correct language has gone too far.
“A great deal of our modern language is based on traditions which have now gone but it would be silly — and extremely inconvenient — to replace them all,” Horowitz told the Times. “We know what these phrases mean and we can find out from where they were derived. Banning them is just unnecessary.”
But language constantly changes and author Rosalie Maggio sees nothing wrong with finding alternatives to these troublesome phrases.
“Almost all of them are cliches,” Maggio told AOL News. “They’re outdated. They have no more meaning.
“For me, language that is inclusive or unbiased is actually fresher,” said Maggio, whose books include ‘The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage’ and ‘The Nonsexist Word Finder.’ “A ‘fireman’ could be a guy on a train. ‘Firefighter’ tells you — it’s an action verb. … It tells you what they do. A mail carrier carries mail. A firefighter fights fires.”
It’s not just the Brits. Americans argued over words such as “snowperson” and “personhole” decades ago, Maggio recalled, with talk radio whipping up the debate over political correctness.
“It brings back the ’80s to me,” writer/composer/satirist Christopher Cerf agreed. “I always thought this was a movement that became comical. And though it was well-intended at first, it probably did more harm than good in some ways because it made people make fun of sensitive speech instead of actually trying to be sensitive.
“There is insensitive speech, but I’m not sure that the example of a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ is really doing a whole lot of harm to the women’s movement,” Cerf said in an AOL News interview.
Cerf, who wrote ‘The Official Politically Correct Dictionary’ with Henry Beard, recalled the story of a Long Island feminist in the 1970s who tried to change her name from Ellen Donna Cooperman to Ellen Donna Cooperperson.
“And she’s a better person for it,” Cerf laughed. “Except that she forgot that ‘person’ has the word ’son’ in it.”
People can use whatever words they choose, said Maggio, but there’s no reason to fall back on ones that carry “unintended baggage.”
“As a writer, I don’t want stupid words like ’spokesperson.’ I think it’s awkward and lumpy,” she said. “How can you have really elegant English and have it be accurate and clear? You have to work a little bit.
It is such a tragedy to see what has happened
to our country’s wildlife!
Montana Bear Photo
The photo below captures a disturbing trend
that is beginning to affect US wildlife
Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party since they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and
provide for their care and sustenance.
This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed…
‘Bearack Obearama’
On another Note… The condition know as ‘Hell’ has one more patron as Ted Kennedy slip on too the great bye and bye….
INCREMENTAL ISM! Socialized Medicine will NEVER be good for America. As much as I have railed against any form or kind of Health Care reform, I have secretly said too myself… This is exactly what we need to reject this false prophet of HOPE and petal to the metal socailist, known as Barack Hussein Obama Jr, or in other circles… The Long Legged Mack Daddy or Barry Soreto.
Please watch this video, listen to the words…
Heres The Story…
Lieberman: ‘There’s No Reason’ To Deal With The Uninsured Until After The Recession
Last week, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), the most conservative member of the so-called bipartisan “Gang of Six” working on the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill, stated that he preferred that Congress deal with reform incrementally. “I think the only way it will happen is we need to break it down into smaller parts than we have now and put it through one at a time,” he said.
Today on CNN, Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT), an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats, embraced Enzi’s idea. “Great changes in our country often have come in steps. The Civil Rights movement occurred, changes occurred in steps,” he argued. Lieberman added that Congress should address the nearly 50 million uninsured at some point down the road:
LIEBERMAN:
Morally, everyone of us would like to cover every American with health insurance but that’s where you spend most of the trillion dollars plus, or a little less that is estimated, the estimate said this health care plan will cost. And I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy is out of recession. There’s no reason we have to do it all now.
Later, host John King asked Lieberman if he would vote with the Democrats if the reconciliation process is used to pass health care. “I think it’s a real mistake to try to jam through the total health insurance reform,” Lieberman said, adding, “It’s just not good for the system. Frankly, it won’t be good for the Obama presidency.”
My View on This… WHY NOT GOOD FOR OBAMA? Thats what I want to hear from Lieberman. But he wont tell you that and the media wont ask him either. WHY? The answer is clear… The class envy war has not been won yet, and it wont be. Blacks are growing more and more aware of this snake oil sales man, and if they can see threw this user of the PEOPLE, so will many others.
Just as he did in Chicago, he did to an entire segment of Americans. He (Obama) cozied up when he needed something, and then after receiving the goods acted like he had never done anything to sway their vote. Just look at the way he dealt with the Rev. Wright story.
Back to the story…
Noting that the insured currently pay for the uninsured through rising premiums, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) challenged Lieberman’s approach. “We’ve got to bring down the cost of health care,” he argued. “It’s difficult to do that by ignoring those who don’t have health insurance today.” A New York Times editorial today agreed:
If nothing is done to slow current trends, the number of people in this country without insurance or with inadequate coverage will continue to spiral upward. That would be a personal tragedy for many and a moral disgrace for the nation. It is also by no means cost-free. Any nation as rich as ours ought to guarantee health coverage for all of its residents.
I’m sorry, but is not this what Medicaid was for?
Yet, Lieberman still sides with the Republicans on health care reform. “Joe Lieberman is not some right-wing nutcase,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said last November defending Lieberman against anger over his support for John McCain’s candidacy for president. “Joe Lieberman is one of the most progressive people ever to come from the state of Connecticut.”
At the prompting of one of our readers, I have been taking a hard look at what the real ramifications will be from Health Care reform… The Obama way. I have looked at numbers, seen data sets, watched videos and even talked to folks on the streets.
What I believe it all boils down too is this. Anytime, anywhere, where liberties are given away to government, those liberties are never returned fully or easily. An example of this would be the ‘Draft’ and ‘9-11′ in America.
If you look at the history of the ‘Draft‘, you can clearly see that when any government is faced with a crisis, the lives of a few are expendable for the greater good of the many. And though the ‘Draft’ is not in effect today in America, there still is a mandatory compliance that requires registration of all persons 18~25 with the ‘Selective Service’…. Just in case the draft is needed once again.
We also can look at the after effects of 9-11. Since September 11, Congress and the Justice Department have implemented laws and rules to protect America. But some of these new steps threaten civil liberties. One example is the Patriot Act. This 131-page law, which few legislators read, abandons procedural norms and expands the power of the executive branch, which is already too powerful.
Both examples above are reasons we have deemed fit for taking or giving away our liberty, and those that could be said to protect Americans and Americas interests both home and abroad and are more about National Security than Social Security. And this is where the metal meets the meat.
Americas ‘Social Security’ net is fueled by Capitalism, more specifically… employees taxable wages. Now you could say… hey Terry, wait a minute. All government is fueled by our taxed money. True, but it is our freedoms and liberties as Americans in a Capitalist society that allows our government to legislate the needs of a few for the greater good of the many and do it in a way that allows us to think that we have representation while doing it.
Capitalism is built on the ideal of competition, take out the component of competition by way of government control and Capitalism says ‘Have a Nice Day’. No competition, no ability to make money, no ability to make money, no reason for private investment.
Therefore, not only are we going to pay for Health Care, but we also will be paying for all of the other, such as… Research and development, which is now mainly financed by private citizens for one reason… wanting to make a buck. Every buck invested by John Q. will be converted by our government take over of Health Care too a taxed dollar… not a some dude with an ass load of cash, that needs a tax write off or a building named after him… Its going to be us. We will bear the burden of the entire Health Care apparatus, which is not Billions of dollars, its TRILLIONS of them. Do we really trust government to do all this? Can we trust government?
After being treated to such things as, ‘The House Post Office Scandal’over and over again, you would think that we would finally learn. But no, we rather abandoned our right for accountability and our want for the best and give in to the inertia of a more Socialized society that cares for the needs of a few by way of government control.
It has been a slow and carefully calculated process that would see us lending or giving away pieces of liberty in an effort to serve the great good of the whole… and now the concepts of an America society have become a tater contradiction, slowly becoming a taxed nation with very little to no representation with no real accountability.
YES… We were once a nation of great wealth and abundance that was only realized by the wealthy elite. Over time legislation has transfered this wealth through minimum wage, FICA, Medicare tax, Sales tax, and our latest folly T.A.R.P. … and the camels hump (the difference between the have and have nots) has become more like a pimple on a flees ass.
Where has the American concept of expecting the best in return for our hard money? Will the Obama Health Care solution deliver the best? I think it will with one respect… the best way too guarantee a brief look in the rear view mirror while waving good bye to American Capitalism and the liberty and freedoms of choice.
Health Care will be our final mark on history as a Capitalist Nation and a truly ‘American’ society.
Take a listen to this… From Ronald Reagan:
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
Reagan ends this video with his famous quotation:
” If we don’t fight this, one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Now that I have called upon the power of Ronald Reagan… I ask, do we really want to be like other nations? Do we not enjoy or elevated status as Americans? And… Have we not paid for it with the souls of our soldiers and the way we give and give throughout the world. Have we not EARNED our status and have we not used it for the greater good of not just a nation, but for an entire WORLD!
Today I found this article… that BEGS the question… When did we ever want to be like any other Nation?
Health Care in the U.S. costs $7,290 per person. In Denmark it is $3,362 per person. 95% of Danes are satisfied with their health care – the highest in Europe
And this from Lou Dobbs… FASCINATING!
The report points out that health care in the U.S. costs $7,290 per person (16% of GDP). In Denmark it is $3,362 per person (9.8% of GDP). 95% of Danes are satisfied with their health care – the highest satisfaction level in Europe. An 8% tax on income pays for health care in Denmark – far less than employers are paying in the United States (and because employers are not paying for health care, it dramatically lowers the cost of running a business).
There are more doctors in Denmark: 3.6 per 1,000 people in Denmark compared to 2.6 per 1,000 in the United States.
There is no such thing as “defensive medicine” in Denmark according to the report, and that lowers costs significantly.
In addition, the Denmark system provides universal care for everyone.
With a universal single-payer system, the whole layer known as “insurance” in the United States disappears.
As state above… “the whole layer known as “insurance” in the United States disappears” = GOOD BYE COMPETITION.
Thats my thoughts… What are yours?
OH… and yes I do Have a solution for this Health Care dilemma. If you want it, comment and I will let ya know.
While sitting on the commentary sidelines and waiting for the bilge too spill forth from our corrupt and debt ridden government, I could not help to think… When is the King going to declare that if his Health Care legislation approved we will cure all cancers and to boot… the common cold.
Do these people have no honor? Do they not have a soul?
Thanks to Mike T. I have been able to find a web site that has been covering this issue very well.
Isn’t it amazing that the world knows and acknowledges more than our own elected officials? Do the “stooges” appointed by Obama also know they are cheating the American people? When will it end?
WHEN OUR RIVALS KNOW US BETTER THAN WE DO
Here’s a copy of the recent Pravda article about the disappearance of American capitalism. This is a Russian newspaper writing about what seems obvious to most of the world; yet, this country seems to be blindsided to it. The irony of this article appearing in the English edition of Pravda ( Russian State Newspaper) defies description. Bob Akins
American capitalism gone with a whimper
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America .
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America ’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK ’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
The more and more I get the details of the Obama Heath Care Plan, the more I think of the movie from the 70’s… Soylent Green.
If your not familiar with the movie… Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a future in which overpopulation (Government run Health Care) leads to depleted resources, which in turn leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit (Care), vegetables (Doctors) and meat (Choice) are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including “soylent green” wafers. I took the liberty of adding what is in ( ).
Just a small Cilp…
All you need to do is substitute the words Soylent Green with Health Care and you get the idea. Gosh I Miss Heston!
If you don’t have the time to read the whole health care bill, it’s not a problem. The work has already been done for you. WAKE UP!
If you haven’t seen any of this stuff, be prepared to be shocked. If this becomes widely known, there will be rioting in the streets a la Iranafter the recent election.
It is frightening to think what the next 500 pages will say. I know you will find this worse than anything ever foreseen.
Contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel about this. We, as a country, cannot afford another 1000 page bill to go through congress without being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have highlighted a few of the items that are down right unconstitutional.
A few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare bill in congress:
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange..
• Page 84: All private healt hcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare
Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private health care industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in health care companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals can not expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Ho me Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
“Are They Running Scared?”
By Ron Ewart, President
August 7, 2009 National Association of Rural Landowners
and nationally recognized author on freedom
and property rights issues
When propaganda, hype, distortions and lies don’t work, there is always desperation and desperation is flowing out of the White House and Capitol Hill like raw sewage gushing out of a broken sewer main. Are they running scared? You bet they are because their unconstitutional, in-your-face antics have awakened a “sleeping giant” and the “giant” grows increasing restless by the day. A cattle stampede has more direction than these idiots in Washington DC.
Many have said that Obama is an intellectual genius, but his foreign and domestic decisions in the last six months tell a much different story. What sane person in their right mind, would try to shove a Century’s worth of socialist crap down the throats of a slowly awakening American electorate, in six months mind you ….. an electorate that is being jerked awake by the jerk in the White House and by the in-bred, dim bulb traitors that occupy the Capitol building? The word bright or intellectual genius, doesn’t come to mind with any of them. However, sophomoric, inexperienced, infantile, hypocritical, lunatics and fascism are more fitting metaphors for this cabal of out-of-touch, arrogant, non-representatives of the people ….. with a few exceptions of course.
But now they have gone and done it. The genie is out of the bottle and those who thought everything was under their control, are having a cat fit. How dare Americans get angry about nationalizing health care, banks and businesses, irrational cap and trade legislation, the non-sense that is man-caused global warming, amnesty for illegal aliens, edging towards the one-world-order and the unprecedented take over by the federal government of the public education system and the food, land, water and energy production in the United States. How ungrateful are these Americans who would complain about how their hard-earned tax money was and is being spent. These unruly upstarts must be quelled and crushed at all costs and by any means, says the liberals in power.
Americans weren’t supposed to be that smart. After all, hasn’t government been dumbing down the American people for a hundred years? But talk about mis-reading the tea leaves. Obama, Pelosi and Reid have stirred up a hornets nest and in desperation they are resorting to name calling and tattle tailing to stem the tide. It isn’t going to work. Americans are slow to rile, but when they do, nothing will stop them until their appetite for their perception of justice has been satisfied. What a glorious sight it is to behold. Americans have a spine after all. Too bad they are about a half a century too late in their disgust of rising government tyranny.
This whole sanctimonious belly aching by those in power and the government-owned media who aid and abet them, reeks of hypocrisy. How short our memories are to what the liberal-sponsored community action groups did during the Vietnam war, or their continuous caterwauling against Bush and the Iraq war. They are now vilifying the real grass-roots tactics being used by all political stripes in this rising American tide of opposition to national health care and other socialist and global, anti-American garbage Obama and his minions are attempting to foist upon us. The difference is, the current movement is real grass-roots outrage, not the manufactured protests by Code Pink, Unions and socialists groups that have been going on since the time of Teddy Roosevelt.
So now, what do the tellers of lies and the twisters of truth, do? They resort to calling the riled up American people a mob who have lost their civility and bring Nazi swastikas (Pelosi) and venomous vitriol to town-hall meetings ….. you know, those same pesky Americans who cling to their guns and their bibles. But these Harvard-trained educated idiots open up a White House website to get neighbor to snitch on neighbor, if one neighbor has the gall to utter an opinion in opposition to the government’s position on their unconstitutional, socialist agenda. That folks is pure desperation. That folks is pure fascism, if not bordering on Nazism.
Are these nuts in Washington DC running scared? Of course they are and for good reason. Finally, government is beginning to “fear” the people, as it should be. The natives are restless and all Hell is about to break loose. We say, “….. rise up Americans and give these enemies of freedom a taste of their own medicine, but a taste based on the foundation of liberty, not the whining of socialist losers.”
LOOK! I am not one whom likes to stand and howl at the moon… and this ‘birther’ question did catch my attention early on… but after a few looks I knew that the point was moot as Obama made sure early on that this issue would not see the light of day. Nonetheless….
Pastor Manning would first like to make his entry…
America is Under Attack
Now… to the legal stuff.
US Law establishes that while there are several ways one can become a US citizen, there are actually only three different types of US Citizens with three very different sets of qualifications and citizen rights.
* A US Citizen
* A Native Born Citizen
* A Natural Born Citizen
To become President you can only be a natual born citzen:
Exactly What is a Natural Born Citizen?
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
“No person except a Natural Born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
The Founding Fathers had to grandfathered themselves to become President. Thet did not allowed dual citizenship because of divided loyalties.
A “natural born citizen” is born on U.S. soil to TWO parents who are BOTH U.S. citizens.
Obama’s father was not a citizen. He was a student on Visa from Kenya who was a colony of Britain at the time. His mother was 4 months short of age to be able to give him citizenship. So Obama was a British citizen at his birth. He is not eligble to be President, no matter if where he was born.
But if he is indeed born in Kenya, he is not even a U.S. citizen since he was never naturalized. That means that he didn’t even had the right to be a Senator.
A CITIZEN and a Natural Born Citizen is very different. Amendment 14 talks about citizenship… but not Natural citizen ship.
But because of Obama’s adoption, pass port travel (back in the eighty’s), Indonesian Collage records, and that every document pertains to his birth has been sealed along with many others… suspicion abounds.
SO… Lets just list the facts, so that you may weigh the evidence and its usefulness then let your own judgment be your guide.
For the record, the following Obama records remain under lock and key, more than two years into public demands for Obama “transparency”… and Obama has spent a reported $1 Million in legal fees to keep them SEALED!ll
* Obama’s official birth records -SEALED
* His Occidental College records -SEALED
* His Columbia College records -SEALED
* His Harvard College records -SEALED
* His College Thesis -SEALED
* His Harvard Law Review articles -SEALED
* His Indonesia Adoption records -SEALED
* His Passport file -SEALED
* His connection to countless foreign and domestic thugs -SEALED.
* His Kenyan Birth Records -Sealed And More on Kenyan -
Obama’s adoption by Indonesian citizen Lolo Soetoro is also of consequence, as Obama could only be a US citizen by way of “naturalization.” There is no record of Obama naturalizing as a U.S. citizen upon returning from Indonesia.
Since ALL Obama records remain SEALED, what files have others used in their investigations in order to draw their absolute conclusion that Obama is legitimate?
Historically, all presidents have sealed potions of their personal information for security reasons… and this is understandable. But the amount and type of documentation currently under seal for president Obama is unprecedented.
All of this wound up into a loose frame of gray matter and a bunch of dislike for a socialists styled, no count, do nothin… user of the people… and you got a very good conspiracy theory.
I am not one who thinks that this issue makes believers look like they are just filled with hate and want their pound of flesh wherever they can get it… I think that Pastor Manning said it best…”When I get pulled over by a police officer… I don’t go into a whole long thing about where I learned to drive, or how my daddy taught me this or that, I just produce the god darn drivers license… Barack, just produce the gosh darn birth certificate!”
Now… the Pyro weighed in on this issue. Here is his take.
Media Blackout on Obama eligibility dates back to November
Do you remember Watergate? Thirty-five years ago this Sunday, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon submitted his letter of resignation for his role in the scandal. There was the crime – the break-in, and then there was the cover-up by the Nixon administration. There were threats, media manipulation and disinformation. It was the cover-up more than the crime itself in the aftermath of the Watergate break-in that led to the downfall of the Nixon administration. It was a politically critical time for our country, but we survived because of the strength of the U.S. constitution.
Now, we potentially face a new constitutional crisis stemming from the refusal of Barack Hussein Obama to produce a one-page document that would confirm his eligibility to hold the highest office in the land. Eligibility to hold office is not a “fringe” matter, but a core constitutional issue that lies at the very heart of a growing controversy.
Although we do not have the birth certificate or proof of ineligibility, the Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press have documentation of a cover-up relating to the issue of Obama’s eligibility to hold office. The proof we possess not only exposes a well orchestrated cover-up, but also provides critical insight into why the topic of Obama’s eligibility has failed to gain traction in the corporate media.
The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press are in possession of extremely sensitive investigative documents, including a stunning written admission by a nationally known talk show host stating that he was threatened with his career – or worse - should he talk about the issue of Barack Hussein Obama’s birth records to a national audience. This document was obtained on December 10, 2008, and provides explicit detail of a “gag order” imposed on this host before and immediately following the national election last November.
After receiving and authenticating the document, US based veteran private investigator Douglas J. Hagmann opened a full scale investigation into the media blackout, with specific emphasis on tracing the blackout origins to those issuing them. This investigation was conducted in conjunction with Judi McLeod, founding editor of Canada Free Press and Brian Thompson, CFP Information Technology chief following a meeting near Toronto, Ontario last December. At that meeting, it was decided to keep the existence of the document secret until additional evidence could be obtained.
Today, after an extensive eight month investigation, the Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press are breaking their silence and revealing explosive information about a widespread cover-up that began at the earliest stages of the Obama presidential campaign. The cover-up traces back to some of the most powerful and influential people in the U.S. and continues today.
Summary of the Evidence~
As noted above, we are in possession of a written account by a well known national talk show host who details how he was prohibited to discuss the controversy of Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility as president of the United States. This signed document cites exact dates and times when he was forbidden to discuss any aspect of the birth certificate controversy, and includes direct references to the individuals responsible for such prohibitions. Further, his statement identifies the individuals who originated the orders and their positions, and confirms that failure to adhere to the order would likely end his career in that industry. He also confirms that other, less specific but more menacing threats were implied during conversations with those making the subject off limits.
Although we possess the original document containing the name and contact information of the talk show host, we have decided not to publish his name or network affiliation at this time. Based on the correspondence from this individual and respecting the nature of the threats to him personally and professionally, it is our decision to allow him to enjoy anonymity until such time as he decides to reveal the facts himself at a time of his choosing.
From multiple interviews conducted within the last eight months, we have obtained information from other sources, independent of the above, who have also been instructed to avoid any discussion of the birth certificate issue at all costs, to wit:
The account of an administrative assistant employed in New York City by a cable network news station who provided significant, detailed information of a 2008 meeting between the top network executive and four-(4) well-known news anchors. This source confirmed that she drafted the memo to the various hosts to notify them of the date, time and location of this high-level meeting at the request of the network’s top executive.
Present at this meeting, she verified that the network official issued “warnings” to the personalities “to avoid any on-air discussion of the birth place, eligibility, and news accounts of litigation compelling [Barack Hussein] Obama to produce a legitimate copy of his birth certificate.” She stated that the network executive had her arrange the conference immediately following a meeting “between [the network executive] and an attorney closely associated with candidate Obama who was acting on his behalf.”
The statement of a corporate secretary for a major news network confirming the existence of a one-page inter-office memo, bearing the markings “confidential” and “not for dissemination,” addressed and distributed to news anchors and on-air talent” that specifically instructed the recipients to avoid any discussion pertaining to the Obama birth certificate controversy. The memo was written and distributed in October 2008, and specifically instructed on-air talent to “advise guests, as necessary, to refrain from citing any news story, legal proceedings, Internet ‘blogs’ or other sources that pertain to the ongoing eligibility controversy of future President Barack Obama.”
As outlined above, our Investigation has uncovered both direct and indirect evidence of threats being made against some of the nation’s top radio and television personalities, which would explain some giving this topic mere lip service. As one source interviewed during the course of this investigation stated, “I’ve got a career and family to think about.”
Although no one should be surprised over the manipulation of the news, the nature of this manipulation, and the extent of the threats against journalists, should shock even the most well grounded.
Any reasonable person must question the motivation of the media moguls. The individuals who have – and continue to threaten talk show hosts, news anchors, and others are the top people. We are not talking about mid or upper level management – this is from the very top in all cases. If there is nothing to the birth certificate issue and the question of eligibility, why the secrecy?
1:39 ~ Well what we’ve seen is this zaa constant daa demand for attention… and daa (thinking about Bill) Well maybe it the mother in me or ahh the experience I’ve had with small children (thinking about Bill, again) and unruly teenagers or people who are demanding attention (Bill standing in his underwear, asking what IS ~ IS) Ahhm, don’t give it to them. They don’t deserve it. They arerrr… acting out in a way to send a message (Thinking about Bill and his use of Cigars) that is not a message that we are interested in receiving.
And now we have this from todays news…
August 4, 2009, 9:03 am Bill Clinton Leaves North Korea With Two Freed American Journalists
A photograph released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il posing with former President Bill Clinton and his
delegation in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
If attention and star power are indeed what North Korea is after, these images ought to do the trick. This report from The Associated Press shows photographs and video provided by North Korean state television of former President Bill Clinton stepping off a plane in Pyongyang on Tuesday and later meeting the country’s leader, Kim Jong-il:
According to this video report by the BBC, the video of Mr. Clinton’s arrival in Pyongyang was featured in a news bulletin on North Korean state television on Tuesday evening, just after a report on the improving quality of biscuits at a local factory. The report on Mr. Clinton’s arrival on the North Korean television news program is posted on The Guardian’s Web site. For a better look at the greeting, readers can also study more raw video of the arrival, captured by North Korean cameras and posted on the BBC’s Web site.
They also quoted a statement from Mr. Gibbs, President Obama’s spokesman, who said: “While this solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans is on the ground, we will have no comment.” Mr. Gibbs added: “We do not want to jeopardize the success of former President Clinton’s mission.”
Wrap Up>>>
Now… One of two things happened here. Hillary read my post and a light bulb went off in her head or Bill really went to N.Korea to beg them to give back the nuclear technologies he gave them back on his watch. Which ever the case may be it still begs the question… What in the hell is Bill Clinton really doing in N.Korea?
After listing to the lady that had made the 911 call in Beer-Gate… I have this thought.
One thing that Rush Limbaugh has said that has never been in doubt is follow the money. In these racially charged political times (only because Barry is said to be black) that can lead to an economic windfall for organizations like the NAACP, The Rainbow Coalition, KKK and all the other rot… We have “stupidity” ringing thought the lands from our Boy King, whom sits in the worlds highest governmental office.
We as an American society have lost our global identity as a people… as our struggle with our racist past is no longer that of a color blind society that judges one on the content of their character. It has now come down to a dependent, multi-cultural society that is divided, searching for a path for just plain survival. Divided for the use of our government to pit one another against any common goals… all because assimilation has been taken out of play and replaced with a empty temptation for all of us to feel good…. or what I call the Kum Bah Yah effect.
Obama and his crew with their narcissistic pretzel logic have turned back the clock 50 years (with regards to race) with their exploitation of Barry’s mixed color. This is exactly what Barry needed to further his socialist agenda. But it has not worked.
It was thought that the racial glass ceiling would come crashing down once Barry was elevated too Caesar, but no. Barry has erased those carefully drawn made up ties to his black roots and redrawn them to a more divisive socialist path that does not include his black brothers.
Barry’s plans depend upon fat cat corporations getting billions of taxpayer dollars. Thus leaving the HOPE crowd wishing with one hand and shitting in the other and finding out that the shit hand fills way quicker… and those needing him the most, (blacks) who believed in him the most, see Obama going from the puppet master, to just plain ole masser.
Add this too his twisted minions of race baiting and carnival barkers of political white apathy which said we needed to expel the cancer (G.W.Bush and Republicans as a whole) to make the body politic healthy…. and folks are finding out that though the Pipe Piper was playing their tune, it was not so they may be lead to a safe harbor to be set free, but more along a path of more and more government control.
Americans rather pay something other than government for control over the choices they make in their lives… and many are starting to see that health care and choice is not what the Obama health plan is about.
This is why I believe that now, more than ever that the Independent movement within the political arena is ripe for some real notice among the voting public.
And now some thoughts from Dr. Manning a white man and thoughts on Gates
Terry LanciottiNovember 6, 2009 5:42 pm
