The Radio Patriot

THOMAS SOWELL ON THE DISMANTLING OF AMERICA

2009-10-28T13:30:00.002-04:00

I mentioned this in my earlier post below. But Rush Limbaugh just read it aloud on his program, and it bears further attention here as well. As Rush said, when Thomas Sowell is writing something like this, it is time to stop gathering information and DO something about it.

Dismantling America
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?

Does any of this sound like America?

How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.

How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.

We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.

How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

Jeremiah Wright said it with words: "God damn America!" Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.

Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.

Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?

Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government-- people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.

Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration's enemies list.

Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation.

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THE SCARIEST MAN IN AMERICA

2009-10-28T10:27:00.011-04:00

A couple of things this morning while I'm sipping my coffee and tuned in to Glenn Beck's radio program...

The Washington Post has a hit piece on Beck, using Beck's PR guy Matt Hiltzik as a foil to paint him to be some reincarnation of Lonesome Rhodes. Glenn tore it apart, pointing to all the journalistic errors -- three in the first sentence alone -- and the strategy behind the piece, that these thugs in the White House first come after you and try to isolate you. Next they go after your employer, and when that doesn't work, they go after your friends and associates. That's where they're at now. It's the Saul Alinsky (Chicago) way: Isolate the target. Freeze it. Polarize it. And then destroy it. Beck says they're not going to destroy him unless they shoot him. "But they're more subtle than that," he assured his listeners "...But just so you know, I'm not suicidal and my brakes are working fine."

Update: From Glenn's show transcript:

You've tried to destroy me personally. Then you tried to destroy my business. Then you tried to destroy me and drive a wedge between me and Fox News. Then you tried to destroy Fox News. Well, none of those things have worked.

So now what you have to do is destroy everybody around me to isolate me as much as gee, that sounds like Saul Alinsky. Isolate me. Make sure nobody will talk to me.

I got news for you, man. Except for the White House my phone is ringing all the time. I can't tell you how many people are coming out of the woodwork to squeal on the corruption that is going on. We're working on stories now that will boggle your mind. I think we have one maybe coming out today, maybe. If not today, then it's going to be tomorrow. And tomorrow I unveil the blue, the blue curtained chalkboard.

Tomorrow I show you the radicals that are around what it all means.

An excerpt from the WaPo hit piece:

To Find the Right PR Guru, Beck Looked to his Left
Since Hiltzik has started working for Beck, the commentator has graced the cover of Time and the front page of the New York Times (a copy of which is framed in Beck's Manhattan office). He made the Forbes Celebrity 100 list and was profiled by "20/20." He has millions of radio listeners. His books are bestsellers. His Web site is a cash cow. His comedy tour sells out theaters around the country.

And his name is cursed in the White House.

Beck's fame is, of course, directly related to the heightened platform given to him by Fox News, and his willingness to use it to say outrageous things. Hiltzik said that he deferred to Fox News on all things related to Beck's television show. He repeatedly said that he had nothing to do with the content of Beck's commentary.

Some of Hiltzik's critics failed to find that a convincing distinction.

"Lawyers sometimes have to represent mobsters," said Green, the onetime mayoral candidate in New York and president of Air America Media. "But it's not the same excuse when you are a public relations guy. There's a due process that requires everyone to have a lawyer in a criminal case. There is no due process that requires a talk show host to have a flak."

"I love Matt," said Ken Sunshine, a Democratic activist and public relations powerbroker whom Hiltzik regards as a mentor. "I value our friendship, but I wouldn't be caught dead representing Glenn Beck."

Hiltzik is ever ready for counterattack. "Apparently Mark failed to mention that he sought my assistance in resolving an Air America issue," Hiltzik said. "And that he called me repeatedly this summer soliciting contributions for his most recent campaign."
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UPDATE: Shortly after the interview, Steve Forbes updated the Glenn Beck mask write up. Check it out

Forbes Top Ten Scariest People of 2009 has named Beck it's #1 Scariest. Such an honor!

In a brief interview with Steve Forbes, Glenn asked him why rich people like wealthy progressives George Soros and Michael Moore hate capitalism. Soros is dumping another $50m into an anti free-market think tank. "Why do rich people hate capitalism? Because once they make it, they feel guilty about it," was Forbes' best guess.

Later, Wall Street Journal's Steven Moore explained how Soros made his fortune by shorting the dollar and other currencies, and made $9billion from hedge funds last year alone during an economic downturn. Is he pursuing policies that undermine the US dollar to make money off it? Soros is involved in this newly established think tank council to fight capitalism. And they're all economists, some Nobel prize winners.

"A dollar today is worth .62 compared to a year ago, because of the enormous debt. If we continue to spend the way we are, the only way out of this crisis is by continued devaluation of the dollar. We're facing a jihad against the free enterprise system. The only checks and balances are you and Rush Limbaugh the other people they're trying to gag," according to Steven Moore from WSJ.

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Net neutrality is big money determined to shut down and control free speech. Glenn referred to de Toqueville's "Democracy in America" who wrote that a democracy can become so great and so successful that those who benefit most will want to close the door to anyone else.

Where are the wealthy Americans who are willing to put their country first, business second?

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Beck mentioned a piece by Thomas Sowell. It's a must read (actually, everything Sowell writes is a "must read"). First coupla' graphs to get you started. The link...

Dismantling America
Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
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Call to Action

"The number one question I'm asked is 'Glenn, what is the next step?' I have it, but I can't tell you yet because it's not ready yet. We're battling the wealthiest people on planet earth. We're trying to develop a strategy against people with resources beyond your wildest imagination.

"So I'm putting out a call to millionaires and billionares. The plan I have for next year will play an instrumental role in the refounding of this country. But I can't finance it all myself and I can't do it all myself. But there's a part of me that I'm willing to lose my life, my fortune, and rest or pledge my sacred honor to you. If you're millionaire or a billionair contact us. Put your money where your mouth is.

"I'm also looking for volunteers. If you believe in our founding fathers, I need people who will question with boldness, speak without fear, and hold to the truth. Email me right now. Serve@glennbeck.com

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Forbes Mag thoughtfully provided a cut out Halloween mask for those who plan to trick or treat as Glenn Beck, the scariest person of 2009. But I think Forbes made a mistake. The Scariest Man designation belongs to George Soros, the real masked man.

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"POLITICIANS ARE THE WORST..."

2009-10-28T02:10:00.006-04:00

"Politicians are the worst; they'll wear their country's flag in public, but they'll use it to wipe their asses in the caucus room, if they think that it will win them a vote."
~ Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.

"President Obama has been aware of just exactly what was and is going on and at stake in Afghanistan for almost a year now. He has seen three separate assessments, Lute, Seidel and now McChrystal that say go big or go home.
Now we have 14 troops die in helicopter crashes and 8 more in IEDs in two days.
He has shown no leadership and plenty of weakness to our enemies and our allies. More meetings and more coffee sipping isn't going to change a damn thing on the ground except to watch it deteriorate.
If anyone wonders why I hate politics and politicians this is a perfect example. There is no legitimate way to frame this as a decision made on strategic national security concerns. Get off the dime sir, better men and women than you are dying. Reinforce them and try to win or bring them home now!"
-- Uncle Jimbo, Blackfive

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TONIGHT WE TALK MEDIA WITH ACCURACY IN MEDIA'S CLIFF KINCAID

2009-10-27T15:59:00.008-04:00

Tonight on The Andrea Shea King Show - Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid.

We'll talk about a president loved by the press who goes ballistic on the liberal media. Obama? Yes, but he's mimicking FDR. Also, newspaper circulation is plummeting, and a ratings gain for Fox News is a loss for CNN. It's being called the "teabaggers" revenge. Fox News Channel's firing of Marc Lamont Hill.

That and much more at 9 pm ET. Link to listen:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/10/28/The-Andrea-Shea-King-Show

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THE BIG SILVER BALLOON

2009-10-27T14:51:00.003-04:00

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14 GOLD STARS OVER THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER 8 OVERNIGHT

2009-10-27T11:37:00.007-04:00

WE LOST ANOTHER EIGHT OF OUR FINEST.
Eight U.S. troops killed in bomb attacks...U.S. official resigns over Afghan war; No longer knows why his nation is fighting...
OCTOBER DEADLIEST MONTH IN AFGHAN WAR

In today's mailbag... this letter from a retired Navy man who writes about the senior senator from Taxachusetts, who by the way, was in Vietnam...

Dear Veterans and friends,

General McCrystal, the man in charge of fighting for a our freedom in Afghanistan was asked to submit a threat assessment to win the war.

He complied.

Over 60 days ago he requested 40,000 combat troops to surge and defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

In the mean time our troops are getting killed.

President Obama is not listening to his General.

General McCrystal has asked and has so far been denied the resources to win this war.

Senator John Kerry, the left wing anti American, communist just told the national press that general McCrystal's request is over reaching and too fast.

What the hell does John Kerry know what the General in combat needs to win this war ?

John Kerry is a waste of tax payer money.

He was sympathetic to the enemy in Vietnam and he has now just publicly thrown General McCrystal under the bus.

If I were general McCrystal I would resign and retire.

Please call Comrade Kerry and tell him what you think.

Ask him when was the last time he was in a bunker in Afghanistan taking mortar and RPG rounds.

Kerry is a lowly sack of goat manure.

Here is his phone #.

Call him and leave a message.

(202) 224-2742
(413) 785-4610
(617) 565-8519
(508) 677-0522

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne.
Signed,
Senior Chief Geoff Ross, USN, Ret.
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Steve Schippert of Threats Watch and host of Take That Radio weighs in:

Listening to John Kerry for National Security insight is like watching NFL Network and waiting for the Pele' biography.

Period.

Kerry's bus is small, lacking tread, and running in reverse.

The question is whether he is foreshadowing the Obama announcement.

The Obama White House said weeks ago that they would not make a decision - nay, would not be pressured into a decision domestically - until the Afghan run off was determined. This, the argument went, was to ensure we knew what kind of ally/government we would have in Afghanistan.

Funny thing, that run off. Obama has signaled his decision will be announced within hours of poll closings in Afghanistan next week. It will take days perhaps weeks to know the hand-counted results from across the country.

So which election is he waiting for really? The Afghan elections, with results unknown, or the NJ/NY/VA elections, the results which will be known the night of election day next week?

The truth, to me, is clear. He is avoiding an announcement before US elections which are critical barometers of his policies. And why?

Because he will announce a less than full surge, which will be immensely unpopular, criticized and will anger many. This would show up in NJ/NY/VA polls. So he will save it for after then to damage them less.

If he were truly going to go out to win in Afghanistan, a decision which would be applauded from the center to the right and even among the non-hard left, he would have announced before - even close to - the state elections.

Brace yourselves. There is a dithering, withering path ahead.

John Kerry is laying the foundations for it now.

We will not see an Afghan Surge (TM) for one simple, yet critical, reason. Do you all recall, post-stimulus, the Obama budget forcasts that were eventually blown out of the water by both the CBO and reality? Do you remember where most of the budgetary "savings" came from?

That's right, a draw down in Iraq. Merely shifting these resources in number and cost to Afghanistan will have an even more devastating impact on the already laughable Obama budget projections, and materialize right in the heat of 2010 election cycles. Deficit beyond imagination and so far off Obama forecasts as to appear wholly mindless. the 2010 elections would be an even hotter Hell to pay for Dems supporting the O nonsense.

This was the reality that I saw from the beginning: That Afghanistan will be starved of resources rather than fed them as Candidate Obama assured in his pledges to fight "the real war" in Afghanistan.

It is domestic budget - NOT intellectually considered counterinsurgency v. counterterrorism strategies - which will dictate how this White House conducts the war in Afghanistan.

The trick for them is how to sell not shifting resources from Iraq to Afghanistan as brilliance rather than the domestic policy trickery that it really is.

Our enemies can take heart: This President and his team have greater and more aggressive designs on the American society and its free market-based economy than on them, the jihadists who would slit our throats quite literally given opportunity.

And this budget elephant in the Situation Room is what makes me so angry when folks consider Biden/Levin/Kerry options as intellectually vetted counterterrorism alternatives.

Bull! Look at the budget. Someone go back to spring '09 and dig up the Iraq Drawdown accounting in O's budget as the source for freed funds. Fighting the enemy in Afghanistan? It was bull on the campaign trail, and its bull now. Iraq Drawdown funds (created or saved) were never - EVER - accounted for as shifting to another theater of war, "real" or imagined. It was shifted to redistribution schemes here at home.

Go ahead. Prove me wrong. Please. Someone.

Anyone???

Hope and change my ass.
This is the moment...

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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - DEJA VU?

2009-10-27T09:59:00.008-04:00

In my World Net Daily column Surfin Safari this week and last, I wrote that it was 47 years ago this month our nation was threatened with nuclear war with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles being installed in Cuba. We know it as The Cuban Missile Crisis. President John Kennedy spent a tense 13 days negotiating with then Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove the nukes. Khrushchev thought he could get away with it because he perceived JFK to be weak against Communism when our president buckled with the Bay of Pigs disaster earlier in his Administration.

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Last week, I told you about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Forty-seven years ago, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to dismantle all Russian missiles based in Cuba and ship them back to the Soviet Union.
The announcement was made in a public message to President John F Kennedy broadcast on Moscow Radio. In response, President Kennedy said the decision to remove the Cuban missiles was an "important contribution to peace". He also promised the U.S. would not invade Cuba and would eventually lift the U.S. naval blockade imposed on the island and remove the Jupiter missiles based in Turkey.
And the Cold War continued.

Today we find that history is repeating itself. Are the Russians smelling weakness in our "president"? From World Net Daily:

Russia is offering to modernize Cuba's deteriorating weapons systems – installed when the former Soviet Union was expanding worldwide – and it also wants to reactivate a sensitive electronic eavesdropping station on the nearby island at Lourdes, use Cuba as a base to refuel its bombers and a port to replenish supplies on its warships, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

These developments emerged following the visit to Cuba in late September by Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the Russian General Staff. Makarov met with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana.
Cuba's Soviet-made military equipment has been falling apart. After an assessment, the Russian military has decided to undertake a comprehensive modernization. In addition, the Cuban army also will receive Russian military training.

There's more.

The question now is: what will our current "president" do about it?

Care to guess? After all, he loves being compared with JFK...

The Noisy Room thought this important enough to repost it.

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"WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING IS GOING TO DESTROY THE CURRENCY, DESTROY THE ECONOMY"

2009-10-26T11:25:00.003-04:00

GET OUT OF THE US DOLLAR NOW!!!

"What the government is doing now is extremely dangerous... the dollar is sinking on its own weight and it's gonna drop like a stone." -- Peter Schiff

(h/t The Noisy Room)

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OUR TROOPS DIE WHILE THE DITHERER GOLFS

2009-10-26T10:14:00.006-04:00

14 AMERICANS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

Obama plays more golf in 9 months than Bush did in nearly three years... Troops hope Afghan sacrifices not in vain... Morale dips...

SON OF A B****

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THE TEA PARTY EXPRESS KICKS IT OFF IN SAN DIEGO

2009-10-25T22:00:00.003-04:00

We're havin' a tea party across this land...

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A 1948 CARTOONISM...ISM...ISM...ISM

2009-10-25T18:35:00.002-04:00

(h/t to Patriotman1787 who discovered this gem and the Space Coast Patriots who sent it along)

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SON OF A B....IDEN!

2009-10-25T10:59:00.004-04:00

This is what's being blasted out to Democrats from the Court Jester Joe Biden. Pay special note to the paragraph in boldface.

Folks, if we are going to have victory over these corruptocrats in Washington, we have to storm our congressional district offices. Letters, phone calls, and emails just are not going to cut it. Set up a schedule with your neighbors, friends, meet-up groups, to pay a visit to your senator and congressman's local office. Even though they might not be in town, their people are. And the word will get back to Washington. WE ARE HERE AND WE DEMAND YOU VOTE TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION!

A lot of us are under the misperception that these Jamokes work for us. Well, here's the sad sorry truth. They DON'T. They work for the special interests that own them. And because they're grunting and squealing at the public taxpayer (our) trough, they also kow-tow to the Marxist in the White House.

Don't allow it happen anymore. Make your presence known. Let them feel and smell your breath. Go to them -- make your physical presence work for you. Be polite. Maintain proper decorum. But get there. Schedule appointments. Or walk in. Make them know we're mad as hell and we're NOT going to stand for it! Cards, letters, and emails aren't enough anymore. Get to your congressional District offices and tell them what's on your mind. Do it first thing tomorrow. And the next day, and the day after that. Keep a steady stream of patriots walking in and out the door. Overwhelm them the same way they're overwhelming us.

DON'T STOP! LET THOSE SOBs KNOW WE MEAN BUSINESS TOO! And we won't stand by making pitiful mewing sounds on our telephone calls to them any more. Here, read what Joe is telling the dummies out there...

We've got a fight on our hands. Powerful insurance companies are pulling out all the stops to defeat the President's plan for health reform. They're spending seven million bucks a week on lobbyists, blanketing the country with deceptive TV ads, and just funded two high-profile "reports" to distort what reform would mean for you.

I know their game. I was in the Senate the last time health reform came around, and I saw the special interests savage our efforts. Frankly, under the old rules of Washington they were nearly impossible to beat. But now, thanks to you, the rules are changing. All the lies, scare tactics and lobbyist shake-downs in the world are no match for the incredible work of Organizing for America supporters like you. That's exactly what frightens them so much -- and it's what Barack and I are counting on.

After decades of false starts, we're now just a short time from finally passing real reform. Every member of Congress will soon have to cast their vote. As real change draws near, you can bet the insurance companies will hold nothing back. That means OFA will need the extra resources to beat back whatever attack they can dream up next. Here's the bottom line: it's not time to let up -- it's time to double down.

Please donate $5 or more to power OFA's fight for change as we head into the final round.

When I talk about you changing the rules in Washington, here's what I mean: This week, crucial negotiations on Capitol Hill are shaping a comprehensive reform proposal. At the same time, the insurance companies' phony reports are grabbing headlines and their lobbyists are twisting arms. But your work is keeping them from setting us back.

On Tuesday, OFA supporters around the country organized more than 1,000 local outreach events and generated an astounding 330,000 calls to Congress from constituents telling their representatives that "it's time to deliver." From my years in Congress and my conversations with Senate colleagues this week, I can tell you with confidence that your message broke through and you helped keep us on track.

If this fight were only about guaranteeing the choice of secure, quality, affordable care for every American, it would be worth everything we could throw at it. But as Barack reminded us this week, this fight for change is now about something even bigger: a test of whether or not "we as a nation are capable of tackling our toughest challenges, if we can serve the national interest despite the unrelenting efforts of the special interests; if we can still do big things in America."

I believe we can. And Barack believes we can. But what really matters is whether you believe we can. If you do, now is the moment to make it happen. Please contribute today:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c103de/6c75efbd/d10caaf5/118860f9/2121398410/VEsE/

Thank you,

Vice President Joe Biden

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O-BAH-MAH! OH...BAH-MA! GONNA GIMME A JOB, AND A PHONE, AND HEALTH CARE TOO!

2009-10-25T10:36:00.005-04:00

This hit my email inbox this morning accompanied by this note:

"Sorry, but I just HAD to hit delete after watching 1 (one) second of that, it took me that long to get to the "delete key". Will try to "listen" to it again when I don't have a full stomach!

Sad to have to write like that 'bout "my" president.

hmmmmmm. nope, not much better with just the sound either."

And this...

I'm sorry, but are the OPEC Nations destitute that we need to give such handouts? But let's be sure to cut missile defense and the future combat systems.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/10/23/89038.html

Pissing me off. Again.

Then this...

Sebelius Says U.S. Will Donate Ten Percent of H1N1 Vaccine Supply to Foreign Nations Before Meeting This Nation’s Demand

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) asked Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius why the United States should get vaccinations ahead of people in other countries, including those in countries that are producing the vaccine for the United States.

When Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) had his turn to question Sebelius, he raised the issue of whether the United States was "entitled" to the vaccine more than other nations. "Why should we be more entitled, the U.S. be more entitled to that vaccine than some other country in the world?"

Oh-Bah-Mah!!! is also giving away "Obama Phones" too... had you all heard about this?

Oh-Ba-Mah!!! OH-BA-MAH!!! We love him! OHHHH-BAH-MAH!!!

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FOR OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE ARMED FORCES WITH OUR LOVE AND GRATITUDE

2009-10-24T22:03:00.003-04:00

Last week on his TV show, Glenn Beck played a video produced by Military Moms of America, an organization created by military moms and spouses for friends and family of the Armed Forces. You must watch the video. This tribute to our soldiers and the mothers who are their lifelines made my heart stop. Be sure to note the irony of the news crawl content as it plays.

Weeping here...

SILENT PROTEST: A LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

This is a follow on letter campaign that needs your attention! Please get those stamps out again and send this to the addresses listed below.
The Armed Service committees are the ones making the decisions for our military, they need to hear from us!!!
I want to thank Cindy Peak for writing this letter

United States House Armed Services Committee
2120 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Main Phone Number: 202-225-4151; Fax Number: 202-225-9077

Congressman Ike Skelton, Chairman
Congressman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, Ranking Member

United States Senate Armed Services Committee
Room SR-228, Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-6050
Main Phone Number: 202-224-3871; Fax Number: 202-228-0036

Senator Carl Levin, Chairman
Senator John McCain, Ranking Member

Dear Gentlemen:

We are military moms.

We have sons, daughters, husbands, and loved ones serving in the United States Military protecting the freedom of not only our country, but the freedoms of people all over the world.

And we are furious.

President Obama has promised to provide our loved ones with the resources to fight this war in Afghanistan. According to former Vice President Dick Cheney in his acceptance speech for the Keeper of the Flame Award on October 21, 2009 , “in August of this year, speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the President made a promise to America’s armed forces. ‘I will give you a clear mission, defined goals, and the equipment and support you need to get the job done. That’s my commitment to you.’”

We are furious because the President still, after more than two months since the request from General McChrystal, has not made a decision to supply those resources. His delay in providing the necessary and sufficient support to our troops means our children are dying unnecessarily. We desire your assistance in making sure the President keeps his promise.

We have written to the President demanding an explanation. We have received nothing. The President has time to party and raise money for politics, but no time for being the Commander in Chief and doing the right thing for our military. Instead he and his administration deem it more important to wage a war on Fox News and the Chamber of Commerce. Shame on him.

We are furious because you, elected officials who work for us and for those military men and women, are doing nothing to get them the resources they need to win this war. You could be urging this President to support our troops in Afghanistan. You should be fighting for them in Washington. But you are not. Your silence on this matter is deafening. Instead, you are playing politics with health care. The place people are actually dying in the streets is in Afghanistan. And some of them are in US military uniforms. Shame on you.

We are tired of your politics. We are tired of your games. This is not a game to us. These are our children, our husbands, our loved ones. Your political games do not even come close to measuring up to the importance of their lives.

We do not speak in Congressional jargon and eloquent platitudes. We are simple speaking women, but do not misunderstand. We will not be ignored.

We demand that you and others in positions of power (including the President) do your jobs and immediately provide them the resources they need to get the job done; change the rules of engagement so that our deployed forces can perform the mission they were sent to accomplish; and bring them home when the victory is ours.

Sincerely,

Military Moms

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TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM OBAMA

2009-10-24T10:10:00.018-04:00

Remember this?

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles within six steps to actor Kevin Bacon.

The game requires a group of players to try to connect any film actor in history to Kevin Bacon as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible.

Let's play a variation on that game, shall we? We'll call it "Two Degrees of Separation from Obama".

Here's how it works:

I'll name a dictator or a terrorist organization and you see if you can -- with just one separation -- link that person to Barack (mmm...mmm...mmm) Obama.

Ready?

VENEZUELA DICTATOR HUGO CHAVEZ ...and the answer is __________

IRAQI DICTATOR SADDAM HUSSEIN ...and the answer is __________

IRANIAN NUTJOB AHMADINEJAD ...and the answer is __________

HAMAS ...and the answer is __________

AL QAEDA ...and the answer is __________

HEZBOLLAH ...and the answer is __________

If you guessed Code Pink co-founder JODIE EVANS, you are correct!!! Wink, tell them what they've won!

Jodie Evans consorts with the unsavories of the world, and yet gets face time with Obama. Is she an agent? A conduit between dictators, oppressors, terrorists and the man who occupies the White House?

Who did she meet with during a recent trip to Afghanistan, besides the ministers? Was she relaying messages? Making connections? For what purpose?

Jodie Evans is the one degree of separation between our president and known Marxists, Communists, Jihadists, Terrorists. She has the President's attention, his ear. She gets face time with Obama, and she's got the propaganda video to prove it -- Jodie Evans made a fashion "statement" when cameras caught her during a high dollar meet and greet with "president" Obama.

The full story broke Friday night at BIG GOVERNMENT.

Show them what's behind the prize door, Wink!!!

It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out the problem with a radical like Jodie Evans having the ear of Obama.

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BREAKING! CODE PINK'S JODIE EVANS GO BETWEEN FOR OBAMA AND TERRORISTS?

2009-10-23T19:11:00.003-04:00

TONIGHT at 9 ET on THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/10/24/Code-Pink-Jodie-Evans-story-beaks-on-Big-Government

NOW POSTED AT BIG GOVERNMENT - BREAKING NEWS!!!

A Name Americans Should Know – Jodie Evans and the Obama- Hollywood-Terrorist Connection

by Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King

How much access can a possible agent of influence for state sponsors of terrorism buy from President Barack Obama? For Jodie Evans, a progressive Hollywood activist, the going rate appears to be $30,400 for dinner and a conversation.

Last week in San Francisco, Obama headlined a three million dollar fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports about 160 people paid $30,400 or more per couple for a private dinner with Obama followed by a reception costing $500 to $1000 that drew over 900 attendees. Among those at the dinner was the leftist, so-called antiwar group Code Pink co-founder, Jodie Evans.

Read the rest... (and it ain't pretty)

Jodie Evans, Max Palevsky, Diane Keaton

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MSM GOOSE STEPS TO WHITE HOUSE ORDERS WHILE 'NEW MEDIA' ROCKETS PAST THEM

2009-10-23T16:13:00.008-04:00

Last night I was invited to speak before a group of fellow patriots -- the local chapter of The Friends of Ronald Reagan club.

I was welcome to speak on any topic so after consideration, I decided to talk about the new media: blogs, on-line news journals, micro-blogs like Twitter, social networks like Facebook, and the growing impact these elements are having on news collection and dissemination.

Most of those in the audience already knew my background as a TV anchor/reporter, radio show host, newspaper columnist and magazine writer.

I told them about the radio show I host on the internet from the comfort of my home. Equipped with nothing more than a computer, internet connection, telephone, we bring on nationally reknowned experts, analysts, authors, and newsmakers who are plowing new ground with research and results that keep us updated and oftentimes ahead of the curve with breaking news.

Among the more recent guests -- Dr. Jerry Corsi on the Selling of America, Anita MonCrief on the corruption of ACORN, Mario Apuzzo on the legal challenge to Obama's constitutional eligibility, Jack Cashill on the Bill Ayers-Obama-Dreams From My Father connection; the controversial Orly Taitz on her lawsuits demanding Obama reveal his birth certificate; noted blogger Pamela Geller about Rifka Bary and Islamist "honor killings"; and so many others it would take an archive of shows to list them all.

I told them about Andrew Brietbart and how his Bigs (Big Hollywood and Big Government, and at least three more Bigs in the pipeline) are zooming past the legacy media with breaking news and exposes of ACORN, the NEA, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, and tons more. Leaving the "drive by's" wondering what just blew by them.

I told them about Conservative Hollywood and actor Ed Ames, who talked of a growing conservative movement among the show biz types and Big Hollywood's aim to expose Tinseltown's Lefist agenda and show there is a growing united front on the Right. And how the Left marginalizes those who disagree with them, like they do with self-described Black Conservative Lloyd Marcus. And the special friendship writer and author Burt Boyar of L.A. had with the late Sammy Davis Jr. who struggled with racism and discrimination.

I brought the conversation back to the "now" -- the White House attack on Fox News and talk radio and the internet, how Obama, Rahm and the Axe, along with Anita Dunn et al want to control the message, freezing out Fox. How Glenn Beck is charting new truth territory by questioning with boldness.

And how the current Administration could not -- repeat, COULD NOT get away with what they're doing without the mainstream (now more commonly known as the "fringe left") media's complicity. I contrasted today's Washington Post with the WaPo of the Watergate era, reporters Woodward and Bernstein who routed about for the facts as though they were (pardon) boars hungrily digging for Watergate truffles.

I asked if they were familiar with Operation Mockingbird. Not surprisingly, they knew nothing of the 1940-50's CIA project to feed misinformation to our domestic media outlets which were willing accomplices. Under the guise of national security, of course. The methods employed in Operation Mockingbird are being used with a deft and practiced hand by our president and his minions. Leaks. Lies. Misinformation. Media malfeasance.

The old media has thrown in with the Hopenchange crowd who are doing their damndest to bring our nation to its knees in obeisance before our enemies the world over. Mr. President, take a bow. Again.

But there is an antidote. New media is what will save our bacon, if (to borrow a phrase from Ben Franklin) we can keep it.

So, was my talk well-received? We'll find out if I'm invited back.

Meantime, meet this emerging leader and new media pioneer -- Andrew Brietbart.

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TRICK OR TREAT

2009-10-22T00:59:00.003-04:00

THE TRICK'S ON US

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TONIGHT ON THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW INSIDE THE SECRET UNDERWORLD THAT'S CONSPIRING TO ISLAMIZE AMERICA

2009-10-21T19:36:00.005-04:00

TONIGHT on The Andrea Shea King Show

We take a look inside the secret underworld that's conspiring to Islamize America.

Telling the story -- Dave Gaubatz, co-author of the controversial new book "MUSLIM MAFIA" and his son Chris Gaubatz, who was part of the daring undercover operation at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) organized by his father.

More thrilling than a Clancy novel, Muslim Mafia is not fiction, and reveals a well-funded conspiracy to destroy American Society and promote radical Islamism.

We get underway at 9p ET sharp. Don't be late. You won't want to miss a word of this.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/10/22/The-Andrea-Shea-King-Show

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APUZZO/KERCHNER LAWSUIT AGAINST OBAMA DISMISSED, TO BE APPEALED.

2009-10-21T13:25:00.006-04:00

Attorney Mario Apuzzo and lead plaintiff Charles Kerchner laid out their case on my radio program during "Birther Week". Today they have disappointing but not unexpected news. On his website this morning, Apuzzo wrote:

The Hon. Jerome B. Simandle of the Federal District Court in the District of New Jersey at 10:39 a.m., on October 21, 2009, filed his long-awaited opinion dismissing the Kerchner et al. v. Obama et al. complaint/petition.

In the complaint/petition, we allege that Obama has not conclusively proven that he was born in Hawaii. We also allege that even if he was so born, he is not an Article II “natural born Citizen” because his father was a British subject/citizen when Obama was born and Obama himself was born a British subject/citizen, all of which makes him ineligible to be President and Commander in Chief of the Military.

We also allege that Congress violated it constitutional duty under the Twentieth Amendment to adequately investigate and confirm whether Obama is an Article II “natural born Citizen.”

Judge Simandle ruled that the plaintiffs do not have Article III standing and that therefore the court does not have subject matter jurisdiction. The Court found that the plaintiffs failed to show that they suffered an “injury in fact.” It added that plaintiffs’ alleged injury is “only a generally available grievance about government” and “is one they share with all United States citizens.” Finally, it said that plaintiffs’ “motivations do not alter the nature of the injury alleged. . .”

By way of footnote, the Court said that even if the plaintiffs could show that the Court had Article III standing, they would not be able to show that the court should exercise jurisdiction because prudential standing concerns would prevent it from doing so.

Finally, the Court again in a footnote said that it cannot take jurisdiction of the issue of whether Obama is a “natural born Citizen” and whether Congress has acted constitutionally in its confirmation of Obama for President because the matter is a “political question” which needs to be resolved by Congress.

The Court said that there simply is no room for judicial review of political choices made by the Electoral College and the Congress when voting for and confirming the President. The Court added that the plaintiffs’ remedy against Congress may be achieved by voting at the polls.

It is important to understand that the Court did not rule that Obama has conclusively proven that he was born in Hawaii.

It is also important to understand that the Court did not rule that Obama is an Article II “natural born Citizen.”

Rather, the Court dismissed the plaintiffs’ case because of jurisdiction and the political question doctrine without commenting on the underlying merits of whether Obama is constitutionally qualified to be President and Commander in Chief of the Military.

The Court also did not rule that the plaintiffs’ claims are frivolous. Given the nature of the Court's decision, the American People unfortunately still do not know whether Obama is constitutionally qualified to be President and Commander in Chief.

Apuzzo added that the ruling will be appealed to the Third District Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

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ACORN BUSTED YET AGAIN - PHILLY STING REVEALED

2009-10-21T12:41:00.010-04:00

This morning's news conference with Andrew Brietbart, ACORN whistle-blower Anita MonCrief, and the video sting duo Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe at the National Press Club unveiled this little gem...

The White House hyenas are writhing.

But the good guys on this side are doin' the happy dance. Oh yeah, oh yeah... Another one for the Good Guys. Boom, shaka-laka!

Attorney Michael Gaynor explains. Billy Hallowell pulls back the curtain to reveal the media curled up in a nap in the master's lap.

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WORTH NOTING

2009-10-21T11:22:00.011-04:00

"Non-presidential contests often go badly for the party in power, and there are indications that 2010 may be even more painful than most.

The extremely high turnout among African-Americans that marked the 2008 race is unlikely to be repeated without Obama on the ballot. Democrats in general seem less enthusiastic this time than Republicans. ...

Election maven Charlie Cook envisions 2010 as the year of the 'angry white seniors' as older voters turn out in force to oppose health care reform. Much can change in a year of course. But for now, the tide is running very much against the Democrats." --columnist Mona Charen

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"The Administration has decided to start a fight to re-energize the base. It doesn't do any good to fight with someone who is not worthy, if you want to make this strategy work you have to have the fight with someone your base already knows -- and already hates. Fox News Channel fits that bill.

If Obama can make the point stick, that Fox News is not 'news', and gets his base to buy into the theory that Obama is the victim of unfair coverage, it gives the White House a rallying point. I don't think it's having the desired effect." --political analyst Rich Galen

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"Twenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe. Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled.

Matt Welch, the editor of Reason magazine, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren't we making more of the biggest mass liberation in history?

Well, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory over Communism. And, after the left's long march through the institutions of the west, most are not willing to do that. There's the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and, indeed, fetishists can still be found everywhere, even unto the White House." --columnist Mark Steyn

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Getting it right II: "It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations 'not a news organization' and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one?" --ABC's Jake Tapper to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

(h/t Patriot Post Chronicle)

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GLENN BECK KICKS SOME MORE OBAMA A$$

2009-10-21T10:24:00.004-04:00

From Director Blue (h/t Larwyn), comes this post. Glenn Beck read the story DB writes about on his program this morning. Worth your read. No doubt about it. Oh, and Glenn says he'll be unveiling what's under the blue cover on his TV show today. Brace for impact.

And you know that red phone he's had on the set for a week? The one that White House Communications Chief Anita "tongue darter" Dunn hasn't called? Yeah, well he's installing a new means of communication on his set. Cause probably the White House doesn't know how to string a series of digits together to call on the Red Phone in case he has his facts wrong.

And now... Director Blue.

"President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year"

The Soros-funded front group MoveOn.org has announced its complete solidarity with President Obama's campaign to isolate and silence a mainstream news organization.

I just received this email from the anti-American, moonbat leftists I fondly refer to as MorOn.org. I think that's the name they prefer. Got Marx?

All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama's agenda—repeating lies about "death panels," promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping up fake political scandals.

Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a "wing of the Republican Party...let's not pretend they're a news network." To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.

It's about time Democrats stood up to FOX! Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama's stance by staying off FOX as long as he does? We'll deliver it to Democratic leaders. Clicking here will add your name:

http://civic.moveon.org/foxobama/o.pl?id=sUcK%20It%20SoR0s&t=3
The petition says: "Democrats should support President Obama's effort to call out FOX. Please stay off FOX for as long as he does."

Democrats often appear on FOX in hopes of reaching out to conservative viewers. But FOX cuts off their mic, distorts what they say, or runs biased headlines at the bottom of the screen...

...In the end, Democrats always lose on FOX.

Yes, Democrats tend to lose on Fox. Badly.

That's because they have to face facts, logic and reason.

And, in the marketplace of ideas, conservatism almost always wins. Remember the money pit called "Air America"? Home of failed radio host Al "Spiteful Troll" Franken? Its Nielsen ratings tended to trail airport radar, the tumble-dry setting at the laundromat, and sonograms.

History treats the Democrat brand of Socialism very unkindly. And the hard left puppet-masters -- such as George Soros -- don't want arguments or criticism.

They want Caracas.

They want a chorus.

And that's precisely why Fox will continue to kick MorOn.org's a$$. They just haven't figured it out yet.

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SEVEN LIES IN UNDER TWO MINUTES

2009-10-21T00:09:00.001-04:00

Words. Just Words...

(Hat tip to Theo Spark)
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ANITA MONCRIEF FIGHTS BACK

2009-10-20T12:18:00.011-04:00

ATTENTION:
Clark Hoyt, Editor, New York Times
(The editor who quashed reporter Stephanie Strom's investigation into ACORN last September with the help of ACORN whistle blower Anita Moncrief, during Obama's presidential campaign.)

The screenshot of Anita was taken during an interview on Fox News.
This is not a player. It is a static photo.

At 4p ET this afternoon, Anita MonCrief will announce in an Andrew Breitbart hosted conference call details of a counterclaim and motion to dismiss in the Project Vote case she filed yesterday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

"The conference call is about the legal defense fund fightforanita.com but I am sure there will be questions about the suit. We want the world to know that I am not going to be silenced," Anita said.

Anita is the former ACORN employee who is blowing the whistle on the organization that has many criminal suits against it. Yes that ACORN - the one Glenn Beck exposed on his afternoon TV program. The one I've written about on this site more than a dozen times in posts about Anita's brave involvement in helping expose this corrupt organization.

Anita Moncrief has been on our radio program several times to talk about what she knows about ACORN, the SEIU, and the implications /connections they have to Barack Obama.

Later this evening, Anita will again join us on my radio program with all the details. What she knows, the lawsuit, the blowback from the Left, and the support she's gotten from seekers of the truth.

Join us. We get started at 9 p ET. Here's the link to listen in:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/10/21/The-Andrea-Shea-King-Show

Feel free to forward this post to Clark Hoyt, public editor at the New York Times so that he can be sure his new nameless editor -- the one who's monitoring "opinion media and bubbling controversies" -- is aware of the breaking news happening tonight on The Andrea Shea King Show with Anita MonCrief.

If you'd like to be sure the NYT's "opinion and bubbling controversy editor" gets this, feel free to email him or her at public@nytimes.com, attention: Harpo Marx.

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