http://www.allenwestnation.com/content.php?251-Allen-West-Nation-Presents
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Meet Congressman Allen West of Florida - you will feel proud!
http://www.allenwestnation.com/content.php?251-Allen-West-Nation-Presents
Friday, May 13, 2011
This Blog Site Down All Day - posts deleted :( Here are a few I could recapure....
Approved late Thursday night, the measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person” including through clothing. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/05/13/texas-house-bans-offensive-security-pat-downs/
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The Hill reports: The Transportation Security Administration's request to expand its controversial body scanner program was rebuffed this week by a Republican-led House committee. The $40.6 billion Department of Homeland Security 2012 budget released this week by the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee denies the request from President Obama to provide TSA with $76 million to buy 275 more scanners. http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/tsa/161101-gop-denies-tsa-money-to-buy-more-body-scanners
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Fox News reveals: The residents of the Chiricahua-Peloncillo drug and human smuggling corridor that runs from the Mexican border north through eastern Arizona and western New Mexico are circulating a petition to send to the White House in response to President Obama's recent immigration speech.
"It is with great wonderment and sadness that we listened to your May 10 speech on immigration issues. All of the joking about moats and alligators cut residents of Portal, AZ, to the core as we sheltered with friends or at a Red Cross evacuation site, to survive a terrible fire that still threatens our lives and property, as well as our ecotourism-based economy," the letter reads.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
My Boyne City Gazette Guest Commentary on Freddie, Fannie and Barney;
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| Feeding at the trough |
Greedy bankers and Wall St. traders are blamed for being the cause of the current collapse of America’s real estate market and the resulting recession. An abbreviated, somewhat simplistic, but factual review of the past is helpful. This time it is not presented by a liberal press, Barney Frank, or our President.
President Carter accused mortgage lenders of racism and “redlining” – urban blacks being denied mortgages simply because of their race. Congress consequently passed the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a progressive law wherein regulators could punish banks who failed to give mortgages to those in distressed neighborhoods. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government- chartered mortgage firms, encouraged banks to make loans to those who would never be able to repay them, saying that a “lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor”, encouraging acceptance of welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources. Fannie and Freddie then bought those questionable mortgages, then sold them to Wall St., as Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae declared them to be “no risk”. While Raines was CEO of Fannie he overstated earnings by $10.6 billion, while taking $90 million in salary.
Both President Clinton and President George Bush enabled Freddie and Fannie, and then President Bush asked for their tighter regulation during the time that Senator Barney Frank (D) had jurisdiction over the two entities. Treasury Secretary John Snow proposed placing the companies under Treasury oversight with strict controls over risk and capital reserves, eliminating the power of the President to appoint directors to the companies. Frank repeatedly declared that “the two companies were not facing any financial crisis – that the Bush Administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing”. He added that “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Community organizers forced these subprime mortgages by protesting at banks, by camping at bank owners’ homes, and by filing racism lawsuits. Leftist groups including ACORN intimidated banks to pay them up to $9.5 billion dollars for “services rendered” in the prevention of costly lawsuits. Our great divider and former ACORN organizer and ACORN attorney Barack Obama recently told CEOs of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” In this context “pitchforks” mean the threats, intimidation and coercion of the President, ACORN and union activists such as those deployed to Wisconsin, and the condemnation of an adoring media. An angry mob has forever been the tool for bringing “fundamental change” to any society; a vehicle for manipulating crowds; a method canceling out the rule of law; and a way to bring a society to its knees, making it ripe for more government control.
The price is now being paid by us all. Some, who should never have qualified to have a mortgage in the first place, lost their homes, causing too many homes to be on the market, creating a drop in home values. Government intervention into the real estate market helped cause the financial collapse of our country. In our private lives we know that if and when we outspend our incomes, buy what we cannot afford, and pretend to be something we are not, the day will come when we will suffer the consequences.
So now Barney Frank, who allowed this to happen in an effort to “be fair”, is laying the blame for our financial collapse on President George Bush, who in his view showed a “lack of regulation.” Our government has now taken control of Freddie and Fannie, costing taxpayers many billions. To this day, Frank opposes limits on the amount of money they can risk on mortgage-backed securities, and he blames the Wall St. meltdown on "bad decisions that were made by people in the private sector," adding that the country is in dire straits today "thanks to a conservative philosophy that says the market knows best". A market not manipulated by government generally does know best.
Banks, Fannie and Freddie, and Wall Street were following the mandates of government. The poor, encouraged by government, took out ill-advised home mortgages. Frank’s outrage is itself an outrage.
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Business Week reveals, with amazing timing: Community activists in St. Louis became concerned a couple of years ago that local banks weren't offering credit to the city's poor and African American residents. So they formed a group called the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance and began writing complaint letters to federal regulators. Apparently, someone in Washington took notice. The Federal Reserve has cited one of the group's targets, Midwest BankCentre, a small bank that has been operating in St. Louis's predominantly white, middle-class suburbs for over a century, for failing to issue home mortgages or open branches in disadvantaged areas. Although executives at the bank say they don't discriminate, Midwest BankCentre's latest annual report says it is in the process of negotiating a settlement with the U.S. Justice Dept. over its lending practices.
Lawyers and bank consultants say regulators and the Obama Administration are scrutinizing financial institutions for a practice that last drew attention before the rise of subprime lending: redlining. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_20/b4228031594062.htm
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Viral Email About George Bush; Labor Unions Pulling Back Donations at Federal Level; Phermones and Birth Control Pills; No More Sex Class at Northwestern University; President Bush Struck the Deal with Pakistan; Martin Bashir's Lack of Civility; Lifeguards Making $100,000; ABC News Employs Fact-checking; OSB's Son's View of Obama
USA Today reveals: Feeling under siege in more than a dozen states, some of the nation's largest labor groups are focusing their political activity to challenge state laws that sharply curb union rights or to outs the legislators who crafted them.
That could hurt congressional Democrats who rely heavily on organized labor for campaign money and get-out-the-vote efforts. Democrats received 93% of the money union-affiliated political action committees donated to federal candidates. [$1 million was spent in Ohio to put a measure on the ballot to overturn a new state law curbing collective-bargaining rights. The SEIU is not retreating from federal candidates, saying it will spend $2.2 million to start new outside groups which will tap unlimited donations.]
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Wall Street Journal Online reports: Much of the attraction between the sexes is chemistry. New studies suggest that when women use hormonal contraceptives, such as birth-control pills, it disrupts some of these chemical signals, affecting their attractiveness to men and women's own preferences for romantic partners.
Taking the pill or another type of hormonal contraceptive upends this natural dynamic, making less-masculine men seem more attractive, according to a small but growing body of evidence. The findings have led researchers to wonder about the implications for partner choice, relationship quality and even the health of the children produced by these partnerships. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313243579677316.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_health
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[New Media strikes again!] Northwestern University students will no longer be able to learn about human sexuality from professor Michael Bailey.
The university has ended the popular Human Sexuality course that, for the past, 20 years has entertained and informed students because of a February demonstration that involved a motorized sex toy penetrating a female guest.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Judicial Watch Files For OSB Photos; Michelle Invites Rapper Who Sang About Shooting Police and Burning President Bush to Whitehouse for Poetry Evening; Obamacare Being Weighed by Court of Appeals; TSA Agents Violate More Children; Incident in Plane Approaching San Francisco; Obama Still Prosecuting CIA Agents Who Waterboarded; Effects of Obamacare Shown in Massachusetts - Rationing of Care by Delay
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| Mother Nature leaves her tracks on a beach! |
NewsMax writes: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Defense seeking all photographs and/or video recordings of Osama bin Laden taken during and/or after the U.S. military operation in Pakistan that resulted in bin Laden's death.
The request to the Defense Department was filed May 3. An identical request was filed with the CIA.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Another Obama "I" Speech; Freddie and Fannie Woes; The UK Telegraph on Obama and Osama; Obama's Half-Brother Runs Bogus Charity; Ground Zero Union No-Work Jobs Cost $100 Million at Ground Zero Alone; University of Iowa's Response to Republican Student Group Shows Lack of Acceptance and of Decorum; Muslim Terrorists Across Mexico Border; Pakistani Media Named CIA Chief; AZ Seeking Donations for Border Fence; Right-to-Work in New Hampshire and Missouri Possible; Communists March in Los Angeles;
If one wonders why former President Bush did not attend ceremonies with President Obama this week in New York, it might be because of past rhetoric like this about policies Obama once derided and then codified: “I taught constitutional law for ten years at the University of Chicago, so . . . um . . . your next president will actually believe in the Constitution, which you can’t say about your current president.” George Bush did not believe in the U.S. Constitution?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266580/first-person-presidency-victor-davis-hanson
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News from the AP regarding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: The company said it lost $8.7 billion in the first three months of the year. Those losses led Fannie to request more than three times the federal aid it sought in the previous quarter. The total cost of rescuing the government-controlled mortgage buyer is nearing $100 billion - the most expensive bailout of a single company.
Combined with the bailout of sibling company Freddie Mac, the government expects their rescue to cost taxpayers about $259 billion. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EARNS_FANNIE_MAE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-06-16-58-01
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The UK Telegraph opines: When Leon Panetta, the CIA director, stated candidly in February that Osama bin Laden would be transferred to Guantanamo if he were captured, there was a sharp intake of breath at the White House.Under Mr Obama, drone strikes in Pakistan have increased dramatically, resulting in dead suspects, civilian casualties and fewer prisoners to interrogate.
Terrorists who would have been captured under Mr Bush so that every last morsel of information could be wrung out of them have been sent straight to their maker under Mr Obama.
It is against this backdrop that Osama bin Laden’s death should be viewed. Although the Obama administration has squirmed and wriggled when dealing with the issue, it is clear that the US Navy SEALs were sent on a “kill mission”.
It is a supreme irony that Mr Bush was vilified around the world as a war criminal and condemned for his bellicose rhetoric. But it is Mr Obama, armed with a silky tongue, a Nobel Peace Prize and an education in hardball Chicago politics, who took the Wild West adage a stage further. He decided that he wanted bin Laden “dead or dead”. Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington. Toby Harnden’s American Way column is published in the Sunday Telegraph each week.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100086952/american-way-barack-obama-wanted-osama-bin-laden-dead-or-dead/
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The UK Telegraph opines: But the brilliance of the military operation, carried out on the foundations of a painstakingly constructed war on terror built by President Bush and largely continued by his successor, has been a rare moment of success for a presidency that remains in deep trouble with the American electorate. And the bungling by the White House of the aftermath of bin Laden’s killing, including confusion over the release of photographs and the muddled delivery of conflicting accounts of the raid on Bin Laden’s compound, has served as a stark reminder of an administration that has all too often looked inept and poorly managed. For this is a presidency that remains in an overall state of decline, overwhelmingly distrusted on the key issues that will ultimately decide the presidential election in 2012, while still clinging to the big government policies massively rejected by American voters in the mid-term elections last November. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100086957/the-obama-presidency-remains-in-decline-despite-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden/
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The New York Post reveals: President Obama's half-brother runs an off-the-books American charity that claims to support poor Kenyans -- but it lies about its federal status and no one knows how it spends its money.
The group, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, was named after the president's father and founded by his sibling Abon'go Malik "Roy" Obama, a 53-year-old polygamist who recently made headlines by adding a third wife -- who's still in her teens.
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