Headline: [but not to be found in major newspapers....]

ACORN Rent-A-Mob Thugs to Harass Lenders in 14 Cities Tuesday

By Matthew Vadum on 6.29.09 @ 11:05PM

ACORN, which played a starring role in creating the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to add insult to injury by harassing lenders across the nation with protests tomorrow in an effort to coerce them into supporting President Obama's Making Home Affordable foreclosure-avoidance program.

Austin King, director of ACORN Financial Justice, sent out a press release today advising of the demonstrations that are planned as part of its "Homewrecker 4" campaign. The four financial companies targeted are Goldman Sachs, HomEq Servicing, American Home Mortgage, and OneWest. Read the whole document here.

ACORN plans to hit Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Wilmington (Del.), Columbus (Ohio), Houston, Little Rock, Boston, Los Angeles.

How does it make you feel knowing that WE are paying these community organizers who were taught by our current President, to do these deeds?

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From Britain's The Telegraph: "Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming. Dr. Taylor, one of the world's most respected expert on polar bears has been banned from attending a "Global Warming" conference because: his view that global warming is not manmade is UNHELPFUL... Dr. Taylor would like to show his evidence that in spite of any un-manmade global warming, the number of polar bears is higher now than it was 50 years ago..... Oh, that's right! Now the global warming crowd has been renamed the global climate change crowd, and they are now saying the the INCREASE in polar bears is due to the warming of the earth, when once they said the warming was causing the demise of the polar bear. Can we keep all of this straight?
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And from Arizona:– Arizona is in the process of criminalizing the presence of illegal immigrants through an expanded trespassing law. Their Senate passed the bill, which must now pass the House and be signed by the governor.
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I think it's time for a review of what candidate Barack Obama said about his "Cap and Trade" bill. He said, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket . . . because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, natural gas, you name it . . . Whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money, and they will pass that [cost] on to consumers.’’ Obama also suggested that his energy policy would [happily] ruin the coal industry, for “if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant, they can - it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.’’ Better turn you thermostats WAY down!

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From Mike Allen of The Washington Post: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors. "Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate," says the one-page flier. "Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. ... Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table. Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders." So much for a free press..... Guess one needs to PAY the paper to get some influence. Since this news hit the air, the paper has issued an apology for it's [discovered] and misguided intentions.
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At a recent staged Obama town hall meeting, Obama knew the questions and answers ahead of time. Even old reporter Helen Thomas pointed out that "Even Nixon didn't try to do that. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. “What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.” A writer for the liberal Huffigton Post was invied by the White house attend the conference with the condition that he ask Obama a question about Iran. “When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said. “I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well–for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.” It has to be REALLY bad to get Helen Thomas so incensed... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From Byron York: Key Republicans in both the House and the Senate are accusing the White House of giving “incomplete and misleading” information to investigators probing the president’s abrupt firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. In return, the White House is hinting that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be protected by executive privilege. Not surprising, given the situation.....
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The Census Bureau responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, leading Judicial Watch to report that:

In its official statement responding to the ACORN controversy, the Obama Commerce Department downplayed ACORN's participation in the Census, and labeled "baseless" the notion that ACORN would be involved in any Census count. However, the Census Bureau offered ACORN the opportunity to "recruit Census workers" who would participate in the count. Moreover, as an "executive level" partner, ACORN has the ability to "organize and/or serve as a member on a Complete Count Committee," which, according to Census documents, helps "develop and implement locally based outreach and recruitment campaigns."

According to its application ACORN also signed up to: "Encourage employees and constituents to complete and mail their questionnaire; identify job candidates and/or distribute and display recruiting materials; appoint a liaison to work with the Census Bureau; provide space for Be Counted sites and/or Questionnaire Assistance Centers; sponsor community events to promote participation in the 2010 Census," among 18 requested areas of responsibility. The documents also show the decision to add ACORN as a partner occurred in February, long after the January 15th Census partnership application deadline.

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Did you know that workers who lose their jobs if the pending climate change legislation becomes law could get a weekly paycheck for up to three years, subsidies to find new work and other generous benefits -- all courtesy of Uncle Sam -- under a little-noticed provision of the bill? Watch your wallets! It's yet another reason our taxes will be going up! This is certainly an acknowlegement that the Cap-And-Trade (Tax) bill will cause many jobs to be LOST - not gained!
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Two senior Republican senators, Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl, sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday expressing concern over the possibility that the administration negotiated "directly or indirectly" with terrorists for the release of those British hostages in Iraq. In the letter, the two senators said that a deal to free the hostages had been "reported by numerous outlets in the United States and Europe. If these reports are accurate, they confirm that your [Obama] administration released a major terrorist detainee in connection with hostage negotiations with a terrorist group." That ought to encourage more hostage-taking, don't you think?
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Concerning global warming: not only are NASA satellites showing a cooling trend, but 700 scientists, comared to the UN's 50, have come out in opposition to the patently false claims of the global warming lobby. The only way that meteorologists have been able to reproduce the findings of the IPCC is using 'data-padding", which the IPCC has admitted to using. The IPCC, therefore, lied by manipulating data in order to get the alarming results they desired. Now, it has been discovered that NYC has had the coolest June since 1958. This is yet another example of the FACT that the globe has been cooling over the last 10 years!

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Former Gitmo prisoner Mullah Zakir is now leading a reconstituted Taliban. We can look for this happening again and again when Gitmo detainees are released....
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From ABC: With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

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BREAKING NEWS: the judgement of Judge Sonia Sotomayor regarding the white firefighters in NY has been overturned by the Supreme Court. Count this as only the latest of her decisions which has been proven to be invalid. And President Obama is trying to put her on the Supreme Court - for life....

IS THERE TO BE NO END TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INSERTION INTO OUR LIVES? JUST HOW MANY "ADVISERS" AND "CZARS" WILL BE PAID BY WE THE PEOPLE BEFORE THIS PRESIDENT IS DONE? Vice President Biden announced recently that Lynn Rosenthal will be the White House adviser on Violence Against Women, a new position created to work with the president and vice president on domestic violence and sexual assault issues. We can all support the notion that these issues should be addressed, but enough with the intrusion of the Feds!

There was once said in this world a phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and popularised in the United States by Mark Twain: ...that there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics". This notion is bourne out by the methods which liberal pollsters use to get their statistics, and this has been true for a long time. Let's say, which is true, that in the last election the popular vote tally was 53 percent for Obama and 46 percent for McCain - a 7 point difference. Now let's assume that we wish to have an outcome which greatly favors our liberal side. I've got an idea! Let's just poll 52% liberals and 28% conservatives- nearly two to one! That's the ticket! Apparently The New York Times skewed their polling by offering the questions to mostly Obama voters. Is it shocking, then, that their poll shows that the majority supports higher taxes for federal health care? The NYT is calling this a scientific poll. I'm not buying it, are you?

HOUSE PASSES 'GLOBAL WARMING' LEGISLATION... 'BILL OF THE CENTURY' VOTED ON UNREAD... ENOUGH SAID.... Well, almost. Part of this bill which has come to light includes the mandate that when any of us who wish to sell our home, we would first have to pass a government inspection which demands that we have energy efficient windows, appliances and the like! From Daquella Manera of Fight for Forefathers comes these excerpts: "This bill funds and allows government hired personnel (youth brigades who are recruited from low income areas) to enter your house in the name of home inspections. These regulations go from the amount of carcinogens in your building materials to the wiring. You will be given a notice on what needs to be replaced with a time limit of repair. Yes this is, as bad as it sounds] my fellow freedom fighters! The goal of this legislation is not to help save the planet, it is designed to achieve complete control over people’s lives under the disguise of a fictitious “carbon foot print” by taxing them in every aspect of their lives. Alex Jones stated, “This is a world dictatorship, paying your taxes to the robber barren banker class, directly to them." No chance for the Iron Fist of a Tyrant government - right? And now news comes of a 98 page document from the EPA which was concealed from America. It began: “We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and others have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups…as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation.” It was stated that this document does not further their agenda, and that the document was to be withheld from publication. And yet today, Henry Waxman is still spouting that the science is uncontested and that the Republicans are standing in the way of the bill being passed in the Senate. Call your Senators!!

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. and it's President's regret its criticism of Iran's postelection crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations. "You should know that if you continue, the response of the Iranian nation will be strong," Ahmadinejad said. "The response of the Iranian nation will be crushing. The response will cause remorse." How's that friendship thing working, Obama?

Headline: White House Is Drafting Executive Order to Allow
Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects. Wait a minute! Isn't this what Obama blasted Bush for doing, and the Supreme Court disallowed? This must really irritate his cronies on the left.....

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After inviting Al Gore to speak to the House of Representatives regarding their plans to pass the Cap and Trade Bill, Nancy Pelosi has decided to disinvite him, to have him make phone calls instead. "It was a question of what was energy efficient", she said, as if this woman who flies a large government jet to and from California each week-end is worried about energy efficiency.... Perhaps it is because his message of the globe warming up is a hard one to present, in the face of global cooling for the last ten years.....

From Matthew Vadum: President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs [from the government plan] is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care. In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care." He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller." So, old people: screw you. In the future Uncle Sam will put you on an ice floe and let you float away to your heavenly reward. It gives new meaning to the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." (In English, How sweet and glorious it is to die for one's country.) Medical decisions should be made by patients, their families, and their doctors, not by government bureaucrats, but that's ObamaCare for you.

Barack Obama has suggested that that unions would be exempt from the taxation of their health care benefits under his ObmaCare plan! What?? Obama said he was open to imposing new taxes on Americans who are not union members. How that "Change" he promised working for us?

According to Senator John Conyers, "the powers that be decided against" a continuation of their investigations into ACORN and its possible voter fraud. This is the same ACORN who will be involved in taking our new Census......

Barack Obama has made some pretty shocking appointments in his first 5 months of office. But some say that the worst appointment yet is that of Kevin Jennings to serve as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools in the Department of Education. Jennings, who is homosexual, founded and served as the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) until last year. He has made a career of leading an effort to promote to children as young as kindergarteners that homosexuality is normal - via pro-homosexual messages. Every appointment of our President truly displays his agenda for America...

News You Need To Know

Wade Rathke, who founded ACORN, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.” Too much bad press and 14 lawsuits is making it difficult for them to do business - so they are hoping a name change will provide cover for them..... They are also dismantling a New Orleans non-profit named Citizen's Consulting Inc. which is connected to several of over 200 ACORN affiliates. ACORN currently works in 12 countries.

Stating that SPEED is needed in order to pass the energy and health care bills, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats have cut off debate regarding the group
ACORN and it's wide-ranging possible violations of the law..... they recently authorized an unprecedented change in House rules, curbing the right of the minority to offer amendments to appropriations spending bills.

While President Barack Obama is not creating another Czar, via Executive Order he is creating a White House council to handle issues that affect American communities and workers tied to the automotive industry, the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers. It is little wonder that the unemployment number in Washington, DC is only 5.6% or so.....

In a display of pure arrogance, pettiness and narcissism, California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer admonished Brig. General Michael Walsh of the Army Corp of Engineers (while he was testifying to the Senate), "Do me a favor, can you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am'? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it. Thank you." Ms. Boxer SHOULD have been telling Walsh of her appreciation that he and all in the military are protecting our country so that she CAN be a Senator. If she understood the military, she would know that "Ma'am" is a very respectful way for a military person to address someone. How petty, small and embarrassing can one be?

From Politico, by Patrick O'Connor:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will roll the dice on a top priority this week, bringing a contentious climate-change bill to the floor despite strong misgivings from her rank-and-file and an outspoken chairman who remains a major impediment. The speaker filed the legislation with the Rules Committee on Monday night, her spokesman said, even though its authors, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey, are still working out a deal. [I'm sure this will be presented as a dire emergency which needs to be addressed NOW, along with everything else they are attempting in their desire to "never let a serious crisis go to waste". We can watch the farmers, among others, try to keep this from passing.] On the Global Warming front, Thursday was the 14th consecutive day in Arizona to stay below 100 degrees, the longest period in June to be recorded since 1913. When considering a national health care program for America, keep in mind that in Canada, where government provides health care for all of its citizens, patients must wait an average of 7 weeks for treatment of life-threatening cancer, and 9 hours for emergency room care.

The Latest Obama Plans

DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE has now declared that "protests" (such as Tea Parties) are considered by them to be "Low Level Terrorist Threats"
What HAS this government come to? And when WILL we stand up and be counted??

Consumer Financial Product Safety Commission is the name for yet another new idea of Obama's. He wants to name this commission to oversee the credit card and mortgage industries, among others. "However, the commission could end up limiting consumer credit options and innovation just as the economy is beginning to rebound", said Bill Himpler, the executive vice president for government affairs of the American Financial Services Association, the trade association for the consumer credit industry. "The last thing we want to do is scare the consumer. And we're afraid that creating an agency that would put government in control of personal finances would undermine that confidence that seems to be being restored," he said.

Prior to watching the ABC Prime Time show from Obama's Whitehouse next Wednesday - know this:

In another arena, Obama now overtly and formally controls US network news, according to a writer in Canada who calls this a substantive sign of Tyranny. Following are her words.

Reminiscent of Orwell’s book 1984, soon all television broadcasts may carry Dictator in Chief Barack Hussein Obama and his message all of the time. Joining NBC (the New Barack Channel), ABC (the All Barack Channel) will now begin broadcasting from the White House. We assume CBS (perhaps the Central Barack Station?) will follow its betters soon and announce that it too will officially become an Obama mouthpiece. By the way, no opposing viewpoints will be carried or allowed. ABC also plans to run a free-to-Obama campaign promoting the dictator’s healthcare plan [this Thursday night]. Does anyone at all remember the name Hugo Chavez? Obama now overtly and formally controls US network news. This is a substantive sign of Tyranny.

And in the true spirit of his tyranny, Obama has been releasing at least one horrific piece of information almost each and every day—the latest being his control of the news. Tyrants release shocking information each and every day until the now-ruled member population becomes numbed to it. When the members (once know as “We-the-People”) become “numbed-down”, they become more compliant and are far easier to control. These members then begin the process of ignoring or denying the fact that they have become slaves to the tyrant. This is also a substantive sign of Tyranny. [Again, American needs to wake up!]

Plans of Obama

In an article by Terrence Jeffrey:

President Obama used the first-person singular pronoun "I" 34 times on Monday when he announced he was nationalizing General Motors. He used “Congress” once and “law” not at all. As Obama described it, the government takeover of General Motors was Obama’s decision made for Obama’s reasons.

What law now gives Obama authority to buy General Motors? The White House says, when pressed, it is the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But that legislation was written specifically to allow the Treasury Department to purchase assets from “financial institutions.” It says nothing about buying auto companies. And where does the Constitution say the government can take ownership of an auto company, let alone at the individual initiative of a president who cannot point to a duly enacted law that clearly expresses the deliberated will of the people that he should have that power. [I add that a 39 yr. old who admits that he knows NOTHING about automobiles has been put in charge - by President Obama.]

Capturing the news this week is the fact that President Obama has fired AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. Top executives at the corporation which runs Americorps were unhappy with his investigation into the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California and a prominent supporter of President Obama.
President Obama’s options here are circumscribed by the Inspector-Generals Reform Act of 2007, which was co-sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama. The IGs are appointed by presidents but do not serve at the Chief Executive’s pleasure as do other presidential appointees. The AmeriCorps case illustrates why IG independence must be maintained. Walpin found that Johnson used about $850,000 of AmeriCorps funds for personal and political benefit. Johnson was not charged and the half of the grant money that was supposed to be returned under an agreement with the government has not been received. The key issue now is whether Congress will permit this latest illustration of what The Examiner’s Michael Barone calls Obama’s “gangster government". News comes today that there are also similar problems regarding the NYCU....and the ways in which government have been put to use at that institution.


Last week President Obama appointed yet another “czar” with massive government power, answering only to him. Even before this latest appointment, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate, Robert Byrd, wrote President Obama a letter saying that these czars are unconstitutional. President Obama’s “czar strategy” is an unprecedented power grab centralizing authority in the White House, outside congressional oversight and in violation of the Constitution, said Byrd.
He criticized the president’s strategy of creating czars to manage important areas of national policy, saying that these appointments violate both the constitutional system of checks and balances and the constitutional separation of powers, and is a clear attempt to evade congressional oversight. [Didn’t this White House promise unprecedented transparency?]


The man behind the plan to bulldoze a wide area of depressed Flint, Michigan, in order to bring it back to some state of abundance, is Dan Kildee, the treasurer of Genesee County, Michigan. President Obama absorbed his vision and now believes that it would be a good thing for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to choose parts of 50 failing cities which he, or his next Czar, perhaps, would deem ripe for bulldozing. These cities include Detroit and Philadelphia. Big Brother is expanding his grasp of America...

More taxation ideas

• News from the Guardian U.K. reveals that fifty of the least developed countries on this earth have suggested a way to get billions of dollars from others to fund their climate change abatement. They have proposed a tax on international air travel . Curiously, they have not chosen to actually make any behavior changes, nor to consider that humans have not caused the "climate change" and cannot therefore halt it. In fact, as shown later in this blog, temps are getting ever colder over the last 10 years, even setting new lows not seen since 1943, when manmade "climate change" was not being suggested. This taxation "suggestion" could be matched by a shipping fuel surcharge, according to Connie Hedegaard, the Danish environment and energy minister who will host the final UN climate summit in December.. Haven't we already been paying that surcharge when we fly? I think so, but not enough for poor countries to help in making the US another poor country so that we can all be equal....

In another move to supress those Americans who have worked hard to earn a good living, Bloomberg reports that President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul, as House Democrats discuss a plan to require health insurance for most Americans. Beware! The "lucky" rich will never have paid enough taxes to satisfy Barack Obama. In yet another move to prevent Obama's promise of lowering taxes for 95% of American tax payers, Democrats are now considering the taxation of everyone's employer paid health care insurance.

Concerning the Obama Stimulus Plan, the Federal Reserve announced a $1.2 trillion plan three months ago designed to push down mortgage rates and breathe life into the housing market. Quite the opposite is occuring, as rates are heading higher in response to concern for inflation brought on by our massive National Debt.


In the latest news about "global warming", Green Bay, Wisconsin recorded a high temperature of 52, the lowest high temp there since 1943, according to the National Weather Service.

And snow has fallen in Dickinson, North Dakota in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.


A follow-up on Obama's desire to force a"Buy American" policy on any stimulus monies: in retaliation, Canadian mayors have passed a resolution that could shut out U.S. bidders from local city contracts. One wonders what other countries will decide to block American companies from gaining business in theirs.

Gov't plans

OPINION/ANALYSIS: some thoughts of Wesley Pruden of the Washington Times

Barack Obama's legacy is coming sharply into focus, four years early. He's out to transform "a nation of laws," once the pride of the Anglo-Saxon heritage and exemplar to the world, into "a nation of feelings." We won't need judges, just social workers damp with empathy. This is in line with the president's larger vision, to cut America down to a size a community organizer could manage, making it merely one of the nice nations of the world, like Belgium or Brazil. The home of the brave and the land of the free would become what our English cousins call "wet," weak, ineffectual, fragile, fearful, and inconsequential.

President Obama himself leaves no one under any misunderstanding about how he intends to remake America. "It is experience that can give a person a common touch of compassion," he said on introducing Sonia Sotomayor, "an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live. And that is why it is a necessary ingredient in the kind of justice we need on the Supreme Court." Not much there about the law and the Constitution. This is scary enough, but he told a Hollywood audience this week that "you ain't seen nothin' yet." The twinklies suddenly felt limp, wet and warm. Senators should rise above that, but a prudent man bets the other way.

So Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs declared, "I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they've decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation." Not just careful, but "exceedingly careful"! Senator Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans "oppose her at their peril." These are pretty heavy-handed attempts at intimidation. One wonders whether a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experience, might have found a better way to make that point than a hapless white male like Gibbs.

The White House said Friday that Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor now regrets saying in 2001 that a Hispanic woman would tend to arrive at a "better conclusion" in making legal decisions than a white male. (snip)"I think she would change that word," Mr. Gibbs said.

From George Wittman of American Spectator:
The past few weeks have contained a sharp dose of reality therapy for a person who had become used to gliding through complicated issues like a traveling preacher expounding on the evils of sin. While exhorting the public to accept sacrifice, Pastor Obama laid out pat answers to all questions only to have to change his positions as he and his staff actually studied the problem.

And from Pravda, on America: 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.

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. 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.

[Are many Americans getting this message? Certainly they are not getting this view from our fawning media.....].

Our President's Agenda.....

Did you know that our President's Justice Department recently declared that the civil suit against some New Black Panther members has been dropped? These men, wearing military-style uniforms and wielding nightsticks (verified by UTube video) intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day. This violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but that matters little to Barack Obama, apparently.

And now word comes that in the state of Georgia, the government was planning to actually check their voter files against drivers licenses, SSNs and death notices in an attempt to prevent the dead, illegal and multi-addressed people from voting. Barack Obama's Justice Department has rejected those plans, saying it would be discriminatory! And here I thought our Constitution actually limits voting to live American citizens!

President Barack Obama, who during his campaign declared that using his middle name (Hussein) was racist, has stated in an interview in France that America is one of the world's largest Muslim nations, in spite of the fact that only 1% of us are Muslims... Though stating that he is now a Christian, such is the new presidential honesty and diplomacy that he is now proud to be counted among the Muslims of the world..... In Cairo he declared that ""No single nation should pick and choose which nations should hold nuclear weapons," he said. He naively assumes that our enemies, who are even now not allowing inspections and are repeatedly saying that they will "wipe Israel off the map", can be counted on to be true to their word. As one with a Muslim background, he should well know that in their world a good lie is celebrated as a good way to meet their objectives. And this: "ANY WORLD ORDER THAT ELEVATES ONE NATION OVER ANOTHER WILL FAIL..." I ask if this is Obama's way of telling us that American exceptionalism will not be tolerated, that Americans will give their assets to the rest of the world until we are all equal? After all, this is possibly the agenda of Obama's desire to form a Global Welfare program thru the United Nations.

Rush Limbaugh points out the lengths to which Obama will go to praise Muslims:

Where do we start here [concerning Obama's speech]? "It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra." No. The origins of algebra trace back to the ancient Babylonians. They were not Muslims. Algebra was temporarily developed by the ancient Greeks and later the English. "Our magnetic compass, tools of navigation," Islam gave us these? No. "Recent research suggests that the compass may have been discovered by Central Americans, but if they didn't do it, the Chinese are then its discoverers. In either case, be it the Chinese or the Central Americans, the compass was discovered centuries before the advent of Islam." "Our mastery of pens and printing..." Has anybody ever heard of Gutenberg? I didn't know Gutenberg was a Muslim. "Our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed..."? Are there Nobel Prizes for Medicine awarded to Muslims I have missed? "Islam has given us some majestic arches and soaring spires..." Well, sorry, folks, but arches and spires predate the arrival of Islam by centuries. He also talked about the great gift, "timeless poetry and cherished music." The only problem there is that music -- and musical instruments especially -- are forbidden in most Islamic traditions. And it should be unnecessary to have to note Islam's "religious tolerance" has been demonstrated. If President Obama can give a speech like this about all of the quote-unquote 'contributions to humanity from the ancient Muslim world,' then take heart, my friends, says Rush. Be optimistic! Because it may be that someday Barack Obama can give one speech about America and all of our accomplishments.

And a quote from none other than Hugo Chavez: "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right," Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.

On another topic, from the Telegraph Blog: "The British press, especially the Telegraph, has been singled out [by our President's Press Secretary] because they frequently publish articles critical of the Obama administration and are not afraid to take on the status quo in Washington. Increasingly, millions of Americans are turning to online UK news websites for cutting edge reports on American politics and U.S. foreign policy that the mainstream media refuses to cover in the States, especially if it is unflattering. In the current climate of "engagement" with America's enemies the White House is far more likely to attack its own allies. Congratulations Gibbs - you've just made an enemy out of the entire British media, quite an achievement for the man in charge of selling the President's message."

Cap and Trade Legislation

I am sending this letter to my Congressmen, and give you permission to copy and send to yours.....

I am writing in regard to your current deliberations of the Climate Change/Cap and Trade legislation. Most of your constituents will be pointing out their concerns regarding the enormous expenses such legislation will add to the burdens on American taxpayers. Even the watered down Waxman/Markey version of this bill, with it’s proposal to give away 85% of it’s credits, will produce many unintended consequences. These will include, but not be limited to: more government control over who shall receive the credits; increased lobbying in order to gain the government favors; a disincentive to produce cleaner energy or to use less energy; a large increase in consumers’ expenses for energy due to less money coming in to pay for your Budget; and difficulties in understanding and following the 932 pages of rules. Indeed, even the sponsor of the bill, Henry Waxman, did not know of the terrible cost of one section of the bill which will underwrite income and healthcare insurance for anyone who loses his job because of this bill. Spain, which has endeavored to use these ideas, found that for every job the green agenda produces (and our President declares this to be 5 million), job losses will be twice as high. This means that over 10 million more US citizens will likely need to be covered for income and insurance!

But I am writing to plead that we back up a step to consider if this global warming, or as it is now being called, global climate disruption, has truly been caused by man in the first place. I wish for you to consider these facts: global warming has occurred every 1500 years throughout the ages; global temperatures have stabilized and slightly cooled since 1998 - at the same time that CO2 levels have been steadily rising; some scientists are now saying that global cooling is perhaps more likely and will be much worse for humans than is global warming; and the end result of jeopardizing the world's as well as our economy for this agenda, especially at this most difficult time, would be to prevent only 0.1 degrees F in temperature rise from occurring.

It troubles me that Chairman Waxman prevented Lord Monckton from testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This proves to me that no debate will be entertained - only fear tactics. Contrary to the UN's 2100 folks who expound on the problem, Lord Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was to represent over 31,000 scientists , including the founder of the Weather Channel, who have signed a Global Warming Petition expressing their doubts over the cause being manmade. This is your proof that there is no consensus. Two hundred of these scientists recently attended the 2nd Annual International Conference on Climate Change in NYC - and yet the media failed to inform us about it and it was never considered by our Congress. Until true debate and consideration of the problem is undertaken, any move by Congress to further our debt and increase our government in this way is the wrong thing to do.
Thank you for your consideration.

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Foreign Leaders' Comments on Obama

How is our President doing at wooing the world's leaders?

At a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Americas Summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared that Venezuelan socialism has begun to reach the United States under the Obama administration. (Snip) ''It would seem that the changes that started in Venezuela in the last decade of the 20th century have begun to reach North America''

Bavarian EU Parliament member, Bernd Posselt, told Germany’s Der Spiegel, “The EU is not Obama's plaything…He should accept Turkey as America's 51st state instead.”

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the rotating EU president, is calling Obama’s policies “socialist”. He said of Obama, to the old Agence France Presse several weeks ago: “The same chimera of equality, which we rejected with the fall of communism, is taking hold again.”

Prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami referred to Hillary Rodham Clinton as the "immature and newcomer" secretary of state.

Ahmadinejad has boasted of telling a prime minister at the Durban II conference in Geneva that America and the Zionists -- how the Iranian regime refers to Israel -- "are on the verge of death."

Amnesty Bill Particulars

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine

The Next Big Obama Push:
As reported by none other than CNN's Lou Dobbs: The Particulars of the Amnesty Bill currently being presented :

1) Z Visas must be given within 24 hrs., whether a background check has been completed or not. These Visas are to be renewed indefinitely, making them permanent

2) WE pay for all the attorneys who work for the illegals to become visa holders

3) Illegals who are gang members can get a Visa by simply saying they don't want to be gangsters anymore

4) WE must pay for programs which are intended to encourage Mexicans to stay in Mexico

5) Illegals do NOT have to pay back taxes to get a Visa

6) SPP, the Security Prosperity Program, is to be fast-tracked, erasing our borders

7) The Dream Act will provide college tuition to illegals

8) Illegals will cut in front of those who have been going thru the legal route to become citizens

9) Amnesty will be granted even to those who were ordered departed

10) Illegals don't have to learn to speak English for 9 years

11) Illegals will qualify for Earned Income Credit, a government check for not working

As a consequence of all this, we can expect illegals, whom Nancy Pelosi has declared to be oh so patriotic, to always vote for Democrats! What will they think of next? Oh, yes - paying back the gay rights groups for their campaign support by enacting a new Hate Crimes bill which makes it illegal to "put someone in fear of their safety." This may morph into criminalizing anyone who is not politically correct, perhaps even by speaking unkindly of any minority group, that's what...

Gitmo Releasees

From Rep. Frank Wolf: " The Obama administration is ready to release a number of Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 into the United States, according to several recent press reports.
Information I have received, however, indicates that the 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo may be more dangerous than the public has been led to believe. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have reportedly raised serious concerns about the release of the 17 detainees, who are said to be members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, a terrorist organization affiliated with Al Qaeda".

Here's how Dennis Blair, President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, rationalizes their plan for welfare for terrorists: "If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life," Blair said last month. "You can't just put them on the street."

The House Appropriation Committee yesterday denied President Obama's request for the $81 million dollars closing Gitmo. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is demanding to know just where the prisoners will go and what will be done with them.

Then there is this from Times Online:

"BARACK Obama is on the verge of breaking two key campaign promises in his troubled attempt to shut Guantanamo Bay, with plans to revive the military tribunal system set up by George W. Bush and to continue the indefinite detention of up to 100 inmates".

It has been admitted that up to 100 of the 241 detainees remaining are either too dangerous to release or cannot be tried in a military or civilian court because the evidence against them contains issues of national security which should not be revealed. Mr Obama’s lawyers are concerned that a civilian judge could throw out much of the evidence against the detainees, allowing allegedly dangerous men to walk free.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked if this administration would abandon the Guantánamo tribunal system, to which he replied,“Not at all. The commissions are still very much on the table.” Hopefully this shows that our neophyte President is capable of learning on the job. In this instance it would be learning that we should not give aid to our enemies. When any of the detainees are put into our country, to move around freely, it is we the people who will be paying their hotel bills, food and other expenses, by the way. Doesn't that make us feel oh, so compassionate? I wonder if they will inform the neighbors, as they inform neighbors when a pedophile moves into the neighborhood.....

American University Chair of Islamic Studies said today, "Obama's biggest challenge is not Rush Limbaugh, it is Pakistan and Afghanistan". And still we will be closing Gitmo so that we American citizens can get to better know our terrorists.

Canada Free Press on Obama

Once again, the unvarnished truth about our President comes not from the USA, but from the Canada Free Press.
From Joan Swirsky: In decades of commenting on the political scene, [including those of dictators and despots], I cannot recall a single leader of any country or regime who has ever spoken negatively of his country or tolerated others speaking ill of the land or the people he represented
Until now. Bizarre and, yes, repugnant as it is to our essentially centrist country, America now has a president who has broken that time-honored tradition. Barack Obama, on the campaign trail and as the leader of the free world is the first U.S. president to proclaim to anyone within earshot that he, like his wife, is not proud of his country, and is all-too-willing to offer serial apologies – for America! – to Americans and foreigners alike. As Ed Lasky writes: “We know that during the campaign [Obama] warned that criticismof his wife was `off-limits’. But criticism of America – well, that is fine.
We also know that during his run for the presidency, Obama expressed sneering condescension towards all those bible-clasping, gun-owning yahoos who “cling” to those silly things, and that in Europe he consistently gave voice to America’s supposed “sins.” But all that pales in comparison to the clear contempt – looks more like hatred to me – that Obama feels for the United States of America and for it's Constitution.
In true utopian-kindergarten fashion – Obama pledged “with conviction” that America will “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” In other words, destroy big bad America’s ability to defend itself!

• In London, Obama made clear that the world’s financial wealth was no longer made by those inferior leaders Roosevelt and Churchill, effectively ceding America’s leading role in creating and sharing wealth to nations that have never measured up to our country’s bountiful generosity or spirit of free-market entrepreneurship.
• In Venezuela, Obama sat passively while the Marxist Chavez handed him an American-bashing book and delivered another revile-America speech, while never once rising to defend our country.
• In Nicaragua, Obama again sat passively while the Marxist Ortega blamed the United States for a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America, again emitting not a whisper of defense on our country’s behalf.
• In Turkey, Obama said – incredibly and inaccurately – that America was not a Christian nation.
• And in his recent trip to Mexico, Obama said that the escalating border violence was essentially America’s fault.

Scan you memory. Can you think of any other leader in world history who so consistently badmouths his own country, or fails to defend it? I can’t.

Historian Victor Davis Hanson also noticed something odd about Obama’s apology tour. “Despite this fresh climate of atonement, there was a complete absence of a single apology from any other foreign leader…not a word came from Britain about colonialism…nothing from Germany on the Holocaust…not a peep from France about Algeria or Vietnam. Turkey was mum on the Armenian killings…Russia said nothing about the 30 million murdered by Stalin…Nothing came from China about the 70 million who perished under Mao…Mr. Medvedev said nothing about Putin’s brutish rule…We saw no concrete evidence of any help — or hope and change — from any foreign leader. Zilch.”

In addition, Hanson continues, “We hear nothing about our Gettysburg, or our entry into World War I. Iwo Jima and the Bulge are never alluded to. Drawing the line in Korea and forcing the end of the Soviet monstrosity are taboo subjects. That we pledged the life of New York for Berlin in the Cold War is unknown. Liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the diabolical Taliban and Saddam Hussein is left unsaid. The Civil Rights movement, the Great Society, affirmative action, and present billion-dollar foreign-aid programs apparently never existed. Millions of Africans have been saved by George Bush’s efforts at extending life-saving medicines to AIDS patients — but again, this is never referenced.”

Blogger James Lewis says that Obama’s “obsessive need to put down his own country shows a stunningly ignorant man who has evidently never spoken to a concentration camp survivor, a Cuban refugee, a boat person from Vietnam, a Soviet dissident, or a survivor of Mao’s purges.”

And speaking about appeasing Iran, the Obama administration recently asked a federal judge to throw out a $6.6-billion class-action lawsuit against Iran filed by 52 American diplomats and military officials held hostage for more than a year at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 30 years ago. Nothing like selling out Americans to make brownie points with a bloodthirsty dictator!

How Is This Playing in the Arab world of our Enemies?
On Friday, prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami referred to Hillary Rodham Clinton as the "immature and newcomer" secretary of state.

Ahmadinejad has boasted of telling a prime minister at the Durban II conference in Geneva that America and the Zionists -- how the Iranian regime refers to Israel -- "are on the verge of death."

Wonder Why Obama Changed His Mind?

President Obama has surrendered national security with a radical appointment at the Defense Department. Rosa Brooks, this month made adviser to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Flournoy, will be in a position to do significant damage to U.S. security. She is formerly an LA Times columist.

And from a Washington Times Editorial: This position is unknown to most outside the Beltway but is at the critical locus of defense policymaking. The undersecretary for policy's office is the nerve center producing most of the Defense Department's strategic documents and governing policies. According to a George W. Bush-era occupant of that office: "If she wanted to write her wacky ideas into policy controlling the entire defense establishment, that would be the place to do it." A review of Ms. Brooks' published work reveals her hard-left, rabidly ideological positions on defense matters. She regularly referred to Mr. Bush as a war criminal, and argues that Bush-era policies on terrorism - which prevented any major attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001 - made America less secure. Referring to Mr. Bush and former Vice President Richard Cheney, she wrote, "They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment." She has called al Qaeda "little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs" and wrongly predicted that the surge in Iraq was "a feckless plan" that would prove "too little, too late." Putting her in the policy shop "is like Lyndon Johnson making Jane Fonda a senior adviser on Vietnam," the former Pentagon adviser says. She frequently criticizes what she sees as a pro-Israel bias in U.S. policy.
[And we still wonder where our President's overnight change of opinion on this matter might have originated?]