Saturday, September 3, 2011

Self Reliance the key to strengthening Americans

 Self-reliance the key to strengthening Americans
     
In these days of deep division, of pitting one American against another in hatred, and of Presidential words of blame, the following words (in bold type) of William J. H. Boetcker, a Presbyterian minister, are as true today as when he wrote them in 1943:
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift”.   For example, our government actually required mortgage lenders to extend mortgages to those who could never repay them.     
“ You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer, nor help the poor man by destroying the rich”.  Corporations taxed at one of the highest rates in the world, and not given long-term regulations upon which they can depend, keep their profits and stop hiring and expanding. Some move jobs overseas or find legal ways around taxation, as has GE.  Unemployment increases. Libertarian Wayne Allen Root, Obama’s classmate at Columbia, describes the book Atlas Shrugged, wherein “the rich were going on strike to teach that civilization cannot survive when people are slaves to government; that without a productive class of innovative business owners willing to risk their own money and work 16-hour days, weekends and holidays, there are no jobs and no taxes to pay for government. If you punish the wealthy, the risk-takers, the innovators, you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”  Inciting class hatred does not lead to jobs, rational discussion or compromise.  It surely does not produce net government revenues.
“You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money”.  President Obama added more to our national debt in his first 19 months than all presidents from Washington through Reagan – combined.  He is spending at a rate more than 3 times that of President Bush.  Because of Baseline Budgeting mandates, funds for discretionary spending in government programs increase automatically by 8% per year with no regard to inflation.  The current baseline is enormously inflated because of Obama’s Stimulus and various new programs he signed into law in his first two years. In the recently passed bill, there are only cuts to the automatic 8% increase on this inflated spending, not on last year’s expenses. Our debt and deficits will continue to go higher. 
“ You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred”.  We must stop name-calling, limiting ourselves to debating issues.  We see in London what has transpired due to class hatred and an entitlement mentality.
“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence”.  Welfare life begets continued generations of Americans on welfare, effectively telling many capable people they are not smart or good enough to take care of themselves. Welfare has become a way of life for millions.   A recent Presidential order in 3 states including Michigan, for instance, directs that if 40% of school children in a district qualify for free meals at school, then all of them shall get it –to “eliminate the stigma of getting a free lunch”, thereby putting more people on government programs – an effective agenda for bankrupting our government.

President Obama has appointed Cabinet members, heads of many government departments and panels, and Czars who are “progressive” thinkers displaying beliefs quite the opposite of Boetcker.  For decades our government has weakened the weak by not effectively expecting and assisting able citizens in becoming wage earners, permitting many to continue to receive government funds with no expectations of conduct to qualify for them.  Unwed Mothers in America are empowered by our laws to receive more government funds for each child they have, and many fathers abandon their children to enable this government income, for instance.  Government continues to redefine poverty so that higher incomes qualify as the poverty-stricken. For many decades our country’s anti-poverty spending has not lead to less poverty. 

Creative ideas and expectations are required to enable success.  Perhaps those who are able to should do volunteer work, promote schooling for their children, or learn to read to qualify for welfare, or as in Florida take a drug test to assure that our taxes are not simply supporting their habit.  Work ethics, self-assurance and the drive to excel is not promoted by permanently doing for some what they can and should do for themselves.

Boyne City Gazette column;


      I am reposting this, as the first attempt left words running off the page so that you 
could not see them......

 Self-reliance the key to strengthening Americans - My latest column in the Boyne City
Gazette

   In these days of deep division, of pitting one American against another in hatred, 
and of Presidential words of blame, the following words of William J. H. 
Boetcker, a Presbyterian minister, are as true today as when he wrote them in 1943.
  "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift".  For example, our 
government actually required mortgage lenders to extend mortgages to those who 
could never repay them. 
   "You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer, nor help the 
poor man by destroying the rich."  Corporations taxed at one of the highest rates in 
the world, and not given long-term regulations upon which they can depend, keep their 
profits and stop hiring and expanding.  Some move jobs overseas or find legal ways 
around taxation, as has GE.  Unemployment increases.  Wayne Allen Root, Obama's 
classmate at Columbia,  describes the book Atlas Shrugged, wherein “the rich were 
going on strike to teach that civilization cannot survive when people are slaves to 
government; that without a productive class of innovative business owners willing 
to risk their own money and work 16-hour days, weekends and holidays, there are 
no jobs and no taxes to pay for government. If you punish the wealthy, the risk-takers, 
the innovators, you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”  Inciting class hatred does
not lead to jobs, rational discussion or compromise.  It surely does not produce net 
government revenues.
   " You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money."  President Obama 
added more to our national debt in his first 19 months than all presidents from 
Washington through Reagan – combined.  He is spending at a rate more than 3 
times that of President Bush.  Because of Baseline Budgeting mandates, funds 
for discretionary spending in government programs increase automatically by 8% per 
year with no regard to inflation.  The current baseline is enormously inflated because 
of Obama’s Stimulus and various new programs he signed into law in his first two 
years. In the recently passed bill, there are only cuts to the automatic 8% increase on t
his inflated spending, not on last year’s expenses. Our debt and deficits will continue to
go higher.  
    "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.We
must stop name-calling, limiting ourselves to debating issues.  We see in London what 
has transpired due to class hatred and an entitlement mentality.
   “You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and 
independence."   Welfare life begets continued generations of Americans on welfare, effectively 
telling many capable people they are not smart or good enough to take care of themselves. 
Welfare has become a way of life for millions.   A recent Presidential order in 3 states including 
Michigan, for instance, directs that if 40% of school children in a district qualify for free meals 
at school, then all of them shall get it –to “eliminate the stigma of getting a free lunch”, thereby 
putting more people on government programs – an effective agenda for bankrupting our government.
   President Obama has appointed Cabinet members, heads of many government 
departments and panels, and Czars who are “progressive” thinkers displaying beliefs 
quite the opposite of Boetcker.  For decades our government has weakened the 
weak by not effectively expecting and assisting able citizens in becoming wage earners, 
permitting many to continue to receive government funds with no expectations of conduct
to qualify for them.  Unwed Mothers in America are empowered by our laws to 
receive more government funds for each child they have, and many fathers abandon
their children to enable this government income, for instance.  Government continues 
to redefine poverty so that higher incomes qualify as the poverty-stricken. For many 
decades our country’s anti-poverty spending has not lead to less poverty.   
   Creative ideas and expectations are required to enable success.  Perhaps those 
who are able to should do volunteer work, promote schooling for their children, or 
learn to read to qualify for welfare, or as in Florida take a drug test to assure that 
our taxes are not simply supporting their habit.  Work ethics, self-assurance and the 
drive to excel is not promoted by permanently doing for some what they can and 
should do for themselves.  
  


 

   
  


    
    







Creative ideas and expectations are required to enable success.  Perhaps those who are able to should do volunteer work, promote schooling for their children, or learn to read to qualify for welfare, or as in Florida take a drug test to assure that our taxes are not simply supporting their habit.  Work ethics, self-assurance and the drive to excel is not promoted by permanently doing for some what they can and should do for themselves.  

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Yahoo reports, [confirming that conservatives have made our President back down]: Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.
Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. The decision rests in part on reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had muted praise for the White House, saying that withdrawal of the smog regulation was a good first step toward removing obstacles that are blocking business growth. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation-143731156.html 
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CNBC reports:
It was the first time since World War II that the economy had a net zero jobs created for a month.
Economists had been expecting the report to show a net of 75,000 jobs created, an unusually low number considering the US is technically more than two years removed from the end of the last crisis. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/august-jobs-report-released-no-jobs-added/
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Getting to know Michael Moore; Feds suggests Gibson Guitar ship manufacturing jobs overseas; Freddie and Fannie will file lawsuits against big banks; Tis legal for citizens to film government officials on duty; Government stonwalling info on solar panel company Solyndra; Obama finds jobs w/o input of Congress; Homes where no one has ever worked double in decade in England;

World Net Daily opines: His 10-acre, waterfront home today is on Michigan's Torch Lake, one of the three most beautiful lakes in the world, according to National Geographic. He was accused by authorities of despoiling a wetland – just like many of the greedy, robber-baron land-grabbers he criticizes – when he tried to expand his private beach.
Perhaps nothing irritates Moore more than criticism of his lifestyle.
He's been known to refer to his house on 10 acres of Torch Lake frontage as a cabin, as if it were a place with four walls, a roof, an outhouse and a stack of cordwood to beat back the chill in winter.
Technically, it is a log cabin. Two stories. According to Antrim County records, the home is worth $1.2 million.
At an appearance at Michigan State University in late January, Moore took questions after his two-hour talk. A student asked if rumors about him building on a wetland Up North were true.
Silence. Then: "Don't know what you're talking about."
According to state records, Moore partially filled in a wetland to improve his beach. He quickly fixed the problem and wasn't fined.
 "Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes. http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/09/michael-moore-says-capitalism-is-evil.html

[Touchy, touchy, touchy!  That is Michael Moore and his minions.....  I just happened to have the occasion to be in a boat on Torch Lake this week.  We slowed down as we passed the Michael Moore mansion, which is now being added to with a 3 story addition the size of about half the existing "cabin".  It is an enormous home.  The second we slowed down, someone started walking down the close to 50 steps to the dock with a pad and pencil in his hand.  We assumed he was going to fix the boat.  No - he asked us if it wasn't rather odd to be just drifting in front of a home on the lake.  We exclaimed that no one owns the lake surface.  One person in our boat said we wanted to see a Capitalist's home - another yelled we wanted to see a hypocrite's home.  The man on the dock motioned us closer, so he could get the MC number on the boat, we presumed.  You see, we were at a most respectful distance, well beyond the drop-off, and he couldn't see the number.  We are still amazed at the speed with which someone came down to try to get us to leave.  No - we had no camera nor any intention of taking a photo.  It is still a free world, Mr. Moore, until and unless you have your way.
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Redstate reports: Regarding the raiding of the Gibson guitar factory by federal agents, according to CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, agents of the United States government are bluntly informing them that they’d be better off shipping their manufacturing labor overseas.
In an interview with KMJ AM’s “The Chris Daniel Show,” Juszkiewicz revealed some startling information.: CHRIS DANIEL:  Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?
HENRY JUSZKIEWICZ:  They actually wrote that in a pleading.
CHRIS DANIEL:  That your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of our labor?
HENRY JUSKIEWICZ:  Yes
So the government attacked them in the first place by citing obscure regulations that probably weren’t violated about importation of wood. Now they are suggesting that all these problems would go away if they simply exported their labor. http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/31/doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-export-labor/
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CNBC writes: The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold at the height of the housing bubble, and seeking billions of dollars in compensation.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency suits, which are expected to be filed in the coming days in federal court, are aimed at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, among others, according to three individuals briefed on the matter. http://www.cnbc.com/id/44367003  The suits will argue the banks, which assembled the mortgages and marketed them as securities to investors, failed to perform the due diligence required under securities law and missed evidence that borrowers’ incomes were inflated or falsified. When many borrowers were unable to pay their mortgages, the securities backed by the mortgages quickly lost value. http://www.cnbc.com/id/44367003
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Prison Planet reveals: “The filming of government officials while on duty is protected by the First Amendment, said the Court,” reports Daily Tech.
“The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a public place, including police officers performing their responsibilities, fits comfortably within these principles [of protected First Amendment activity].,” said the Court. “Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting the free discussion of governmental affairs,” stated the ruling, adding that this has been the case all along, and that the right to film police officers is not just restricted to the press.  The court ruling also made it clear that bloggers who report news based on their recordings of police have equal protection under the law as journalists.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/appeals-court-rules-it-is-not-illegal-to-film-police.html
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National Review reports: The collapse of Solyndra, the solar panel company to which the federal government extended more than half a billion in loan guarantees as part of the stimulus package, ought to be a national disgrace in and of itself. That said, there could very well be even more damning revelations on the horizon regarding the nature of the Obama administration’s involvement — through the Office of Management and Budget and Department of Energy — in the debacle. House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce committee have been seeking information from the administration regarding Solyndra since February 2011, but White House officials have repeatedly stonewalled these efforts, as illustrated by this timelinehttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/276120/omb-and-solyndra-something-hide-andrew-stiles#
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The Atlantic writes: President Obama is either fed up with Congress or he's testing his own administration's mettle. Or both.  On Wednesday, Obama took a now-familiar path in adopting a program--this time a jobs and infrastructure effort--that can happen entirely within his domain. Obama directed several federal agencies to identify "high-impact, job-creating infrastructure projects" that can be expedited now, without congressional approval.
One week before he will make a major address to Congress on jobs, Obama is making sure they know he plans to move forward without them. In practical terms, that means speeding up the permitting and waiver processes for green-building or highway projects to get the government out of the way.
The president has also directed the Education Department to come up with a "Plan B" updating the 2001 No Child Left Behind law in the absence of congressional action. The message to Congress is clear: Do your work or we'll do it for you.  http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/obama-rolls-out-a-jobs-plan-that-doesnt-need-congress/244420/
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UK Daily Mail reports: The number of homes where no one has ever worked has doubled in little more than a decade.
There are now nearly 300,000 homes where no one has had a job in their lives, and more than 300,000 children living in families where no one knows what it is like to go out to work.
These numbers have more than doubled in the years since Labour came to power.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032599/Households-EVER-worked-doubled-297-000-14-years.html#ixzz1WnBCZ2XA
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With thanks to Lucianne for the photo:

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Federal Judge deems no public interest served by knowing about our President's fraudulent SSN; Obama says we must politicize 9/11 commemorations, must recognize world anger at our interrogations and invasion of Iraq; Obamacare secured $105 billion in spending; Illegal Obama uncle to benefit from Obama's new presidential order on illegals?; Representative Allen West considers leaving Congressional Black Caucus over Tea Party rhetoric; There's just one Presdent, many debates; Representative Carson's redefinition of cuts; Babysitter might qualify for benefits, paid vacations and a break every two hours - in CA; Dangerous Mexican trucks deep into America; A million new tempoary jobs; Guitar company raid costs company $2 million; We are being gamed

[America, we hardly recognize you any more.......] World Net Daily reports: Announcing it's "not her lucky day," a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has told an eligibility attorney he has dismissed her case demanding information from the Social Security Administration regarding President Obama's Social Security Number, sought because of suspicions it may be fraudulent.
The case was filed by California attorney Orly Taitz, who has brought many of the major court challenges to Obama's eligibility based on a lack of evidence that he meets the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural-born citizen."
The judge, Royce Lamberth, credited Taitz for her dedication to her cause but said that "today is not her lucky day."
He concluded that there's no real interest in determining whether the Obama Social Security Number is genuine or fraudulent, arguing that the need for privacy for the president trumps all else.
"The SSA explained that the Privacy Act of 1974 ... protects the personal information of social security number holders," he wrote. "The SSA determined ... the plaintiff had identified no public interest that would be served by disclosure.

But Lamberth wrote in the case against Michael Astrue, Social Security commissioner, that whether Obama is using a fake number isn't his concern.
He said he would "disregard" documents from the Selective Service and the Social Security Number Verification System suggesting there are problems with Obama's number, because he "concludes" they were obtained "under false pretenses."
Taitz told WND she is submitting a motion for reconsideration based on new evidence that includes an affidavit from an individual who obtained a government affirmation that the number Obama is using doesn't match his name.
She said it is important to the public, because it could provide evidence of fraudulent IRS returns, fake election documents and Social Security fraud, should the allegations prove accurate.
 Read more: Judge rules on Obama's Social Security Number http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=339629#ixzz1WhT9aQxl
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Redstate writes: The Obama regime shamelessly issued two sets of documents setting guidelines on how to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks against United States.
One set of the 9/11 commemoration guidelines, entitled “9/11 Anniversary Planning,” is for domestic audiences and highlights Obama’s continuing attempts to politicize the 9/11 anniversary as a campaign propaganda tool. The second set of 9/11 commemoration guidelines is for foreign audiences
According to the New York Times, the guidelines list what themes to underscore — and the tone to set:
  • Officials are instructed to memorialize those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and thank those in the military, law enforcement, intelligence or homeland security for their contributions since.
  • Officials are to warn that Americans must be prepared for another attack — and must be resilient in recovering from the loss.
  • Officials are cautioned that commemorations should not cast the United States as the sole victim of terrorism.
  • The tone should be shaped by a recognition that the outpouring of worldwide support for the United States in the weeks after the attacks turned to anger at some American policies adopted in the name of fighting terror — on detention, on interrogation, and the decision to invade Iraq.
The guidelines also seek to remind everyone that Osama bin Laden was killed and cite his death as a reason for officials to “minimize references to Al Qaeda”:
  • The guidelines say officials are to make the point that “Al Qaeda and its adherents have become increasingly irrelevant.”
  • The guidelines say the absence of Al Qaeda playing any significant role in the “Arab Spring” uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa should be cited as evidence that bin Laden’s organization “represents the past,” while peaceful street protesters in Egypt and Tunisia “represent the future.”
The 9/11 commemoration guidelines aimed at foreign audiences call on American officials to praise overseas partners, who have joined the worldwide effort to combat violent extremism, formerly known as the Global War On Terror:  http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2011/08/30/obama-continues-to-politicize-911-anniversary/
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Commentary Magazine writes: Some senior administration officials … noted that the tone set on this Sept. 11 should be shaped by a recognition that the outpouring of worldwide support for the United States in the weeks after the attacks turned to anger at some American policies adopted in the name of fighting terror — on detention, on interrogation, and the decision to invade Iraq.
So Americans should spend the tenth anniversary of 9/11 being remorseful about American policy. The best way to do this, according to the White House’s 9/11 observance guidelines, is to “honor and celebrate the resilience of individuals, families, and communities on every continent, whether in New York or Nairobi, Bali or Belfast, Mumbai or Manila, or Lahore or London.” Note the alliterative coupling of place names. It’s a good example of the tacky dime-store doggerel this White House habitually substitutes for genuine inspiration.
Anyway, that’s the wound. Here’s the salt: According to the guidelines, “officials are to make the point that ‘Al Qaeda and its adherents have become increasingly irrelevant.’” Now, how did that happen? It couldn’t have anything to do with those mean policies we’re supposed to apologize for, could it? http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/31/white-house-be-contrite-this-911/#more-766042
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World Net Daily opines: After learning that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – or "Obamacare" – contains over $105 billion in already-approved spending "hidden" in it's nearly 1,000 pages, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is calling for President Obama and top Democrats to give the money back to the American people.
Bachmann is outraged that Obamacare, which was passed by congressional Democrats and signed by Obama before many in Congress could read or understand the bill, skirted the usual process of passing law first and funding it later. Instead, she says many are only now learning, the bill already appropriates over $105 billion to implement itself over the next eight years.
"When Nancy Pelosi famously said we had to pass the bill to find out what's in it, it was more prophetic than anyone realized," Bachmann told WND.
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Boston Herald writes: President Obama’s illegal alien uncle, now locked up on an immigration detainer, could be a beneficiary of his nephew’s new go-easy policy on foreigners facing deportation.
Obama recently announced feds are focusing on convicted criminals and immigrants who may be national security threats instead of illegal aliens living below the immigration radar.
Those clean-nosed illegal aliens are being given the chance to stay in the United States and apply for work permits. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0831baracks_policies_could_aid_locked-up_relative/
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Politico writes: The lone Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus said Wednesday he’s thinking of quitting the group over fellow members’ comments trashing the tea party.
“I think that we heard the president talk about some of this over-the-top rhetoric and we should move away from that,” Florida Rep. Allen West said on “Fox & Friends.”
When you start using words such as lynching, I was born and raised in Georgia and my folks were from southern Georgia, born in the ’20s and ’30s, that’s a very reprehensible word and we should move away from using that type of language. And I have to tell you, one of the things I’m starting to think about is reconsidering my membership in the Congressional Black Caucus because I don’t think that they’re moving towards the right manner in which we’re going to solve the problems not just in the black community but all across the United States of America.”
[I wonder if the Democrats actually remember that it was the Democrats (along with Al Gore's father) who voted against the Civil Rights Act -
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62414.html#ixzz1WcrTlmUn
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Politico writes: [In a move which will take viewership away from the upcoming Presidential debate, Obama has asked for a speech to Congress at the very same hour of the debate, saying people can take their choice.  The debate is just politics, after all, but Obama is looking out for the nation.  It seems to be the only time that week when he can give his speech.  Right.]
The White House suggested Wednesday that the hosts of next week’s GOP presidential debate can change the time by an hour so it doesn’t interfere with President Obama’s planned jobs speech to Congress.
POLITICO and NBC are hosting a Republican debate Sept. 7 at 8 p.m., the same time the White House said Obama asked Congress to make an address.

Asked about the timing on Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney said, “It is coincidental.”
“There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint session,” he said. “You can never find a perfect time. ... There are many channels, there are many opportunities for people to watch the president, and obviously for people to watch the debate.”

Asked later if the interruption is then an “added bonus” for the White House, Carney suggested that isn’t the case. “There's one president, there's 20-some-odd debates," he said.

“There are many opportunities for the American people. There's a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate,” he said. “A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”  [Obama has now changed his speech to the 8th, where he will compete with the opening National Football League game.  Better that than to compete against the debate.  How bad would that have been to get lower ratings than the debate?  It would also have given the candidates an opportunity to give on the spot comments on Obama's proposals.]  http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0811/a_question_of_timing_370151e1-8b24-4482-800c-1c43a65c1485.html
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[Yesterday I posted an article concerning Representative Andre Carson's racist quote about the Tea Party.  Today I went to his website and found the following]: Opposing Child and Senior Nutrition Cuts
This week, I voted against the Republican-backed Agriculture Appropriations bill because it cuts $680 million from food and nutrition programs that assist millions of low-and middle-income families.  One might think that, given rising food prices, if there is any issue that should garner bi-partisan support, it would be ensuring that children and seniors get proper nutrition.
Regrettably, only 19 Republicans joined me and the other House Democrats in opposing these cuts. Republicans chose to sever the lifeline to essential food for up to 350,000 low-income women and children (some 6,600 of whom are Hoosiers) and cut $30 million from senior food assistance programs next year.  Yet, they remain unapologetic about overwhelmingly voting in favor of extending tax breaks to millionaires and subsidies to oil companies already earning record profits.
As long as I am in Congress, I will fight to ensure our most vulnerable citizens do not go hungry.
For more information click here
[Just for purposes of debate here, he is talking about the Agriculture Appropriations Bill.  I would like for him to explain just how the program is being cut and how he comes to this figure. Baseline budgeting gives all programs an 8% INCREASE each and every year unless a low is passed to keep that from happening.  I imagine that the CUT Carson is talking about is a cut on the 8% increase that may not be given.  Unless more than 8% is cut from the baseline, there will be NO cut in funding, but rather another increase.]
Another interesting part of the website concerns  the commemoration of the ending of slavery. 
Celebrating Juneteenth
Every June 19, we celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest, nationally-celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers brought news to slaves in Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over and that they were now free. Juneteenth is a meaningful occasion for African-Americans to reflect on the monumental figures who brought about freedom, as well as the equally-inspiring pioneers who have combated the lingering injustices thereafter. I wish you all a joyous celebration with friends.
[I wonder if the glorious Representative even knows the history of the "monumental figures" who brought about freedom by ending slavery.  I'll have more on that on another day.] 
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The Union reports: How will parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers' compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for…babysitters? Dinner and a movie night may soon become much more complicated.

Assembly Bill 889 (authored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, will require these protections for all “domestic employees,” including nannies, housekeepers and caregivers.

The bill has already passed the Assembly and is quickly moving through the Senate with blanket support from the Democrat members that control both houses of the Legislature – and without the support of a single Republican member. Assuming the bill will easily clear its last couple of legislative hurdles, AB 889 will soon be on its way to the Governor's desk.

Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to workers' compensation coverage, overtime pay, and a meticulously calculated timecard/paycheck.  http://www.theunion.com/ARTICLE/20110830/BREAKINGNEWS/110839991/-1/RSS
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Expose Obama reports: Weeks before the Obama administration starts letting Mexican cargo trucks travel deep into the U.S.,the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that,in the last few years,trucks coming from Mexico had more than one million safety violations.
This is hardly earth-shattering news since Mexican trucks have long failed to meet U.S. safety standards. That’s why they aren’t allowed to travel freely throughout the country,but rather in restricted zones within 25 miles of the southern border. Even within their limited boundary,they have created a huge risk to Americans’ safety,according to the Transportation Department Inspector General.  http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/08/31/one-million-violations-wont-keep-mexican-trucks-off-u-s-roads/
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Rasmussen reports:  A proposal has been made for the federal government to spend $46 billion to hire a million people on a temporary basis in areas including childcare, eldercare, education, public health and housing, construction and maintenance, recreation and the arts. Voters aren’t exactly on board with this idea, as many believe that most of the temporary jobs created would be wasteful projects
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 30% favor the federal government hiring one million people on a temporary basis. Just over half (51%) oppose this idea while another 19% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)   [Do we think we can figure out which 30% of Americans favor this scheme?  More money will be spent on the government overhead than on the paychecks, as usual.  Call me cynical, but I'll bet the jobs would be "temporary" through the next election.]  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2011/30_favor_federal_government_temporarily_hiring_one_million_people
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Daily Caller reports: It sounds like a case of government overreach: federal agents raiding guitar factories in Memphis and Nashville, Tenn. and confiscating wood imported from India. But why the raids occurred are still open questions, according to Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz.

“Well, total — you know, this second raid and all-inclusive — my personal guess is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million to $3 million,” Juszkiewicz said.
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LA Times writes: Within minutes of agreeing with congressional leaders Wednesday night on an address to a joint session next week, President Obama flashed out an email to millions of supporters criticizing the chambers, their members and vowing to pressure them to enact his as yet unspecified job creation ideas.
"It's been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused  on." the Democrat charged in an email with the subject line: "Frustrated."  [I say it is frustrating that the supposed "great orator" can't write or speak well without a teleprompter.  Did he not learn in college, if not in junior high school, that a sentence is not be end in a preposition?  Just asking.]  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-jobs-speech-warning-to-congress.html
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Fox News reports: The Justice Department's recent staff reshuffling can be seen as a result of the criticism of the botched gun tracking operation known as Fast and Furious, but it is unlikely to get the operation out of Congress' crosshairs anytime soon.
"We know we are being gamed and we think the time for the game should be up," House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told Fox News host, Greta Van Susteren.

"We have confidential sources that have shown us why the administration's representatives knew these weapons were going to the cartels. Not mostly, not maybe, but virtually all of ‘em," and that is why Issa says they can't give up on the investigation.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Washington October protest has goal of shutting down the U.S. government; No Republicans in Labor Day parade, then you must pay for the parade; Unionization of nursing home workers made easier by Board's decision; Same Labor Relations Board eliminates secret ballots on union elections; Tea Party "wants to see African Americans hanging from a tree" according to Representative Carson; U.S. has exclusive rights to Arctic unless we ratify Law of the Sea Treaty

The Blaze reports: Swanson is working with a coalition of groups to launch a protest with a goal of shutting down the U.S. government.
These tactics will be familiar to those who remember The Blaze exclusive report on the protest plans of SEIU’s Stephen Lerner and his plans to “swarm” Wall Street to the point of bringing down the stock market.
Swanson told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Monday that “we are going to occupy Freedom Plaza in the middle of Washington D.C., the name of which is very similar of course to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, and from there we are going to expand to shut down offices, buildings, streets, hallways, to nonviolently, strictly nonviolently resist what our government is doing.”
The author of “War is a lie” said “we are taking the same sort of agenda that all left, liberal and progressive groups intend to take to Washington: Tax the rich and the corporations, end the wars, cut the military spending, protect our safety net, our social security, give us Medicare for everybody, end the corporate welfare, give us clean energy and jobs and infrastructure and cleanup the system.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/radicals-plan-cairo-style-occupation-of-freedom-plaza-in-washington-dc/
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Reuters reports:  Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending. The move in Wausau, Wisconsin, came after a county labor official said last week that Republican politicians were not welcome at the event due to their party's stance against collective bargaining when state lawmakers voted to curtail it earlier this year.
Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple told Reuters on Tuesday that the decision to exclude elected Republicans "flies in the face of public policy."
"This is not a political rally, it's a parade, for God's sake," Tipple said, noting that taxpayer money is used by the city to pay for staging the event. Tipple's office is nonpartisan, and he claims no affiliation with either political party.  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-labor-day-wisconsin-idUSTRE77T64220110830
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The NYT wrote: The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday released a decision that would make it easier to unionize nursing home workers.
It is the latest in a flurry of moves favorable to unions that the board completed before the term of its chairwoman, Wilma B. Liebman, expired on Sunday. The board released two other pro-union decisions on Tuesday, both reversing decisions issued under President George W. Bush.
In the nursing home decision, the board ruled that the union, the United Steelworkers, could organize just the 53 certified nursing assistants at a nursing home in Mobile, Ala., as part of one bargaining unit, without including the home’s 33 other nonprofessional workers, including janitors, cooks and file clerks.
Groups representing businesses and nursing home operators attacked the decision, fearing it would make the homes more vulnerable to unionization drives.
“This ruling makes it easier for unions to gerrymander who is in a bargaining unit to help them be successful in organizing,” said Michael J. Eastman, executive director of labor law policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/business/economy/nlrb-eases-unionizing-at-nursing-homes.html?_r=3&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
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Big Government reports: Outgoing NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman and the of the Obama Appointed NLRB Board members, Craig Becker & Mark Pearce, voted to eliminate secret ballot election protections.  Now, when employers make secrets deals with a union bosses agreeing to recognize a union without allowing his employees a secret ballot vote;  employees no longer have the right to force an NLRB secret ballot election and allow workers to decide if they want the union or not.
Unable to pass EFCA, Card Check Forced Unionism,  through a Democrat-controlled congress, Obama is paying off Big Labor through his handpicked NLRB Board.  He is doing all this at the expense of worker freedoms and worker paychecks. And, the NLRB Decision is applied retroactively to bar even elections that have already been held but not counted.  http://biggovernment.com/dloos/2011/08/30/obama-nlrb-eliminates-secret-ballot-elections-making-card-check-forced-unionism-a-reality/
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Mediate writes: The various ways many on the left describe their distrust of the Tea Party seem to be growing ever more graphic– so argued Bill O’Reilly tonight in response to Rep. Andre Carson’s comment that the Tea Party “wanted to see us [African Americans] hanging from a tree.”
“What good does this do to have a sitting Congressman say the Tea Party wants to see us hanging from a tree?” Bruce countered that it is “indicative of the chaos and panic in Congress,” and of polls showing that Democrats’ approval ratings are falling, and argued that it demonstrated an attitude that went all the way up to the White House.  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-panel-takes-on-congressional-black-caucus-anti-tea-party-race-rhetoric/
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Accuracy in Media opines: “In a multinational race to seize the potential riches of the formerly icebound Arctic, being laid bare by global warming, Russia is the early favorite.” So says the Christian Science Monitor. “At stake is an estimated one-quarter of all the world’s untapped hydrocarbon reserves, abundant fisheries, and a freshly opened route that will cut nearly a third off the shipping time from Asia to Europe.”
What the paper neglected to note is that the U.S. has exclusive rights to this region because Americans were the first to the North Pole. There is no Russian advantage, despite their planting a flag there in 2007. There is also a dispute, of course, whether the “warming” is man-made or not.
“Within the next year,” the paper went on, “the Kremlin is expected to make its claim to the United Nations in a bold move to annex about 380,000 square miles of the internationally owned Arctic to Russian control.”
In fact, the Arctic is not “internationally owned” and the U.N. has no jurisdiction over the area unless and until the U.S. gives up its rights by ratifying the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty.  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-prepare-russian-treaty-trap-for-the-u-s/
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Switching from Wisconsin Education Association's health insurance product saves nearly $700,000; Obama's illegal uncle has magically reappeared and gets DUI; Obama's uncle has had dummy SSN for 20 years; WST asks for suspension of EPA rules; Obama's labor specialist pick for economic adviser; Government protection for the ugly?; Economic downturn, smaller tax revenues, causes more spending on "income security"; Former justice officials call for investigation of hiring only liberals in Civil Rights Division; WikiLeaks outs names of those who spoke confidentially to American diplomats; Climate changes causes mental illnesses?; Justice Dept. refuses to release memos; Cover-up of fact that flash mob violence being done by blacks against whites

The Washington Examiner reports: The Hartland-Lakeside School District, about 30 miles west of Milwaukee in tiny Hartland, Wis., had a problem in its collective bargaining contract with the local teachers union.
The contract required the school district to purchase health insurance from a company called WEA Trust. The creation of Wisconsin's largest teachers union -- "WEA" stands for Wisconsin Education Association -- WEA Trust made money when union officials used collective bargaining agreements to steer profitable business its way.
Changing to a different insurance company would save Hartland-Lakeside hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be spent on key educational priorities -- especially important since the cash-strapped state government was cutting back on education funding. But teachers union officials wouldn't allow it; the WEA Trust requirement was in the contract, and union leaders refused to let Hartland-Lakeside off the hook.
That's where Wisconsin's new budget law came in. The law, bitterly opposed by organized labor in the state and across the nation, limits the collective bargaining powers of some public employees. And it just happens that the Hartland-Lakeside teachers' collective bargaining agreement expired on June 30. So now, freed from the expensive WEA Trust deal, the school district has changed insurers.
"It's going to save us about $690,000 in 2011-2012," says Schilling. Insurance costs that had been about $2.5 million a year will now be around $1.8 million. What union leaders said would be a catastrophe will in fact be a boon to teachers and students.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/wisconsin-schools-buck-union-cut-health-costs#ixzz1WQ8eynbv
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Barack Obama's long-lost "Uncle Omar" has been arrested for alleged drink-driving outside Boston and detained as an illegal immigrant, The AustralianTimes can reveal. The arrest ends a mystery over the fate of a relative that the US President wrote in his memoir had moved to America from Kenya in the 1960s, although the circumstances of his discovery may now prove to be an embarrassment for the White House.

The Times has established from his birthdate that Mr Obama is the Uncle Omar mentioned in President Obama's best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. In the 1995 book, President Obama writes of "the uncle who had left for America 25 years ago and had never come back".
In 2008, The Times mounted a search for Uncle Omar. Instead of finding him, we discovered his sister, President Obama's Auntie Zeituni, who was living as an illegal immigrant on a Boston housing estate. Uncle Omar and Auntie Zeituni are the children of President Obama's grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, by his third wife Sarah, the woman President Obama calls "Granny", because she raised his father, Barack Sr, who was Hussein Obama's son by Hussein's second wife, Akumu.  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obamas-uncle-has-been-arrested-and-held-as-illegal-immigrant/story-e6frg6so-1226124269032
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The Washington Times reports:  Mr. Carr contacted the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and asked spokesman at the state motor vehicle how someone Onyago Obama's circumstances could get a driver's license. He later told his audience what he discovered: (emphasis is the Times writer's)
"According to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles he has a valid driver's license and you can't get a valid driver's license, supposedly, unless you have a social security number. And I asked them (RMV), 'Well how did he get a license if he never had a social security number? But they said that they couldn't tell me because he had the license for at least 20 years, so he had gotten it back in their pre-computer days."  
In President Obama's 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father" he writes that he learned in 1988 through family members in Kenya that his Uncle Omar came to the United States 25 years prior. A number of commentators are mentioning that President Obama's uncle may have benefited from a policy from the days that go back to former Massachusetts Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis, whereby illegal immigrants were assigned identification numbers that looked similar to social security numbers. A 1989 Associated Press article with the headline "Mass. Aliens Given Fake Social Security Numbers" describe how these numbers were released: (bolding is mine)
Massachusetts welfare workers assigned hundreds of dummy Social Security numbers to illegal immigrants to enable them to receive millions of dollars in state benefits.
Onyango Obama is currently being held by ICE authorities. Interestingly his immigration case will be handled by the same Cleveland attorney who successfully represented President Obama's Aunt Zeituni when she was about to be deported back to Kenya. http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/30/picket-questions-arise-over-onyango-obamas-drivers/ 
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The Wall St. Journal opines: Since everyone has a suggestion or three about what President Obama can do to get the economy cooking again, here's one of ours: Immediately suspend the Environmental Protection Agency's bid to reorganize the U.S. electricity industry, and impose a moratorium on EPA rules at least until hiring and investment rebound for an extended period.
The EPA is currently pushing an unprecedented rewrite of air-pollution rules in an attempt to shut down a large portion of the coal-fired power fleet. Though these regulations are among the most expensive in the agency's history, none were demanded by the late Pelosi Congress. They're all the result of purely bureaucratic discretion under the Clean Air Act, last revised in 1990.
As it happens, those 1990 amendments contain an overlooked proviso that would let Mr. Obama overrule EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's agenda. With an executive order, he could exempt all power plants "from compliance with any standard or limitation" for two years, or even longer using rolling two-year periods. All he has to declare is "that the technology to implement such standard is not available and that it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576524423674218998.html?mod=opinion_newsreel
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Fox News reports: As President Obama prepares his jobs plan speech, he's also filling out his economics team, preparing to nominate Princeton University's Alan Krueger to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. 
"I am pleased to nominate Alan Krueger to lead the Council of Economic Advisers," Obama said in a written statement Monday. "As one of this country's leading economists, Alan has been a key voice on a vast array of economic issues for more than two decades. Alan understands the difficult challenges our country faces, and I have confidence that he will help us meet those challenges as one of the leaders on my economic team."
Krueger, 50, a labor specialist who served in Obama's Treasury Department in the first two years of the administration, returns to Washington to succeed Austan Goolsbee, who is now back at the University of Chicago.
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American Thinker writes: It's not often I read an op-ed in the New York Times and confuse it with an article from The Onion.  But, I did just that Sunday with Daniel Hamermesh's piece calling for government protections for "The Ugly." 
At first, I thought it was written tongue-in-cheek, but, no, the University of Texas economics professor is completely serious.  He says ugly people earn between 10 and 15 percent less a year than their attractive counterparts, and thus, deserve protection.   Where does it end?  What sort of personal differences justify government intervention? http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201/08/should_the_ugly_be_a_protected_class.html#comments-container
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The Washington Examiner writes: There's no doubt federal spending has exploded in recent years. In fiscal 2007, the last year before things went haywire, the government took in $2.568 trillion in revenues and spent $2.728 trillion, for a deficit of $160 billion. In 2011, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the government will take in $2.230 trillion and spend $3.629 trillion, for a deficit of $1.399 trillion.
The deficits are largely the result not of entitlements but of an explosion in spending related to the economic downturn and the rise of Democrats to power in Washington. While entitlements must be controlled in the long run, Washington's current spending problem lies elsewhere.
A lot of the higher spending has stemmed directly from the downturn. There is, for example, spending on what is called "income security" -- that is, for unemployment compensation, food stamps and related programs. In 2007, the government spent $365 billion on income security. In 2011, it's estimated to spend $622 billion. That's an increase of $257 billion. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/york-spending-not-entitlements-created-deficits
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Expose Obama reports: Former Department of Justice officials are calling for an investigation into current hiring practices,which they say have become politicized under Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration.
Pajamas Media conducted an analysis of the resumes of hired individuals in five Civil Rights Division sections. The conservative media outfit was only able to obtain the documents after filing a federal lawsuit in response to DOJ’s 10-month delay in responding to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Based on their investigation,the researchers found that every single new hire — 70 in all — boasted far-Left résumés. They found no conservative or apolitical new hires in the Voting Section (16 hires),the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (5 hires),the Special Litigation Section (23 hires),the Education Section (11 hires),or the Employment Section (15 hires).
“The Department’s political leadership clearly recognized that the resumes of these new attorneys would expose the hypocrisy of the Obama administration’s polemical attacks on the Bush administration for supposedly engaging in ‘politicized hiring’ — and that everyone would see just how militantly partisan the Obama Civil Rights Division truly is,” wrote former Justice official and Pajamas Media investigator Hans von Spakovsky,explaining why the Department stonewalled FOIA requests for nearly a year.  http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/08/29/fmr-officials-say-investigate-political-hiring-at-doj/
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The NYT writes: In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.
A sampling of the documents showed that the newly published cables included the names of some people who had spoken confidentially to American diplomats and whose identities were marked in the cables with the warning “strictly protect.”
State Department officials and human rights activists have been concerned that such diplomatic sources, including activists, journalists and academics in authoritarian countries, could face reprisals, including dismissal from their jobs, prosecution or violence. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30wikileaks.html?_r=1
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports: RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.
As many as one in five people reported ''emotional injury, stress and despair'' in the wake of these events.
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The Justice Department is refusing to release legal memos the George W. Bush administration used to justify his warrantless surveillance program, one of the most contentious civil liberties issues during the Republican president's time in office.
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American Thinker reports: Recent flash mob violence has alerted Americans to a troubling wave of sadistic racial mayhem.  A notable outbreak occurred in Denver in 2009, setting a pattern of delay, denial, and silence.  Now that same scourge has returned to Denver, among many other places.  
The first-hand accounts and surveillance videos of the 2009 attacks are shocking. These weren't sucker punches or fair fights -- the attackers swing madly and rapidly with a viciousness that can only come from blind cruelty.  The victims, who can be seen in interviews, were kind-looking, ordinary people.  The victims were mostly either gay or straight couples. They didn't provoke the attacks in any conceivable way.  The attackers sometimes fractured skulls, or broke eye sockets, and left one victim in a coma.  There were a total of 26 attacks from July 17 to Nov. 17.  The story first came to light in 2009 when a source inside the Denver police department said that the department was "keeping the public in the dark" about the attacks.  
Late last month, Denver saw a possible return to violence, as couples leaving restaurants were being attacked by a group of black men with baseball bats. The Denver Police have renewed warnings of those attacks.
The brutality  in Denver is disturbingly similar to violence occurring elsewhere, nationwide.  In the last few months alone, a young white lady named Shaina Perry was taunted and beaten in Milwaukee.  A young white man named Carter Strange had his skull fractured by a mob in South Carolina.  Dawid Strucinski was beaten into a coma by a mob in Bayonne.  Anna Taylor, Emily Guendelsberger, and Thomas Fitzgerald were beaten and kicked to the ground in separate Philadelphia flash mobs.  Every weekend in July, mobs have attacked in Greensboro, NC.  In a mostly-white suburb of Cleveland, witnesses reported large groups of "teens" walking through the streets, "shouting profanities and racial epithets," and one man was viciously beaten while leaving a restaurant with his wife and friends.  In all of those cases, the victims were white and the attackers were black.
It cannot be emphasized enough that these attacks often occur in suburban areas where the black groups have to leave their own neighborhoods and purposefully travel to areas that are predominantly non-black, to attack non-black victims.   But the social problem we're looking at is large groups, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, sometimes armed, engaging in racially-focused violent crimes. 
The Washington Post, New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, have all openly stated that they will refuse  to report on the racial facts of these violent crimes. The Los Angeles Times explains that they don't want to "unfairly stigmatize racial groups." They prefer the soft bigotry of low expectations instead. 
Indeed, the welfare state itself is in large part based on the assumption that whites need to give more to achieve racial equality, as reflected in President Obama's lament that the civil rights movement didn't focus on economic redistribution.
We all pay the price, as racial guilt is used to extort tax money for the welfare state, which fosters the mobs. The PC status quo will not acknowledge the fact that the worst form of racism today is black mob violence.  http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_racial_violence_that_dare_not_speak_its_name.html