Potpourri

Observation on the President's Early Days

2009-07-13T10:13:00.002-04:00

1. Offended the Queen of England.

2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.

3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.

4. Kissed Hugo Chavez on the cheek.

5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.

6. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions.

7. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.

8. Expanded the bailouts.

9. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.

10. Doubled our national debt.

11. Announced a termination of the space defense system the day after the North Koreans launched an ICBM.

12. Despite the urgings of his own CIA director and the prior 4 CIA directors, released information on intelligence gathering.

13. Accepted without public comment the fact that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two others withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.

14. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who quickly identified as "dangers to the nation", groups including veterans of the military, and opponents to abortion on demand....and who ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used but instead referred to such acts as "man made disasters".

15. Circled the globe so he could openly apologize for America 's greatness.

16. Told the Mexican President that the violence in their country was because of us.

17. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from its Department of Commerce origins.

18. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion (from America to Cuba ) of a nine-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to a life of freedom in the United States .

19. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life... and the next day announces members of the Bush administration will likely stand trial for "torturing" a terrorist who had played a part in killing 3000 Americans by pouring water up their nose.

20. Flew Air Force One over New York City.

21. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure Europe that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims.

22. Began the process of nationalizing the Auto Industry and the Insurance industry.

23. Announced that for intents and purposes the Health Insurance Industry will be nationalized.

24. Campaigned on "the most transparent Government in history". Said American citizens would have time to read all bills on the Internet before he signed the bill into law. Our Representatives weren't even given time to read the Stimulus Bill, much less the People.

25. Cap and Trade, if passed, may well be the biggest tax increase in American history. The Democrats amended the Bill at 3:09 AM the day of The House vote. Once again our Representatives didn't have time to read the 300+ page amendment to the Bill that has major changes and absolutely UNKNOWN consequences to the original 1200+ page Bill. Transparency or Cloak and Dagger?

26. Promised the Russians to cut 1/3 of our nuclear weapons and he will cancel the anti-missile defense program to appease the Russians!

27. He's like God; doesn't have a long form birth certificate.

And he thinks he’ll be re-elected???? And you know what…he probably will because “our liberal press loves him" 1360 more days to go...God help us all!

Thanks Alex.

No Moving On

2009-07-13T10:04:00.002-04:00

The American Spectator

RED MEAT
Despite reports to the contrary over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder's review of a possible criminal investigation into use of enhanced interrogation techniques is taking place with the approval, and even the encouragement, of the White House.

On Sunday, several news outlets, speaking to unnamed sources in the Administration, said that Holder was considering the criminal prosecution despite concerns or "against the wishes" of President Barack Obama, who wanted to leave the issue in the past.

But Capitol Hill Democratic aides and several White House aides who deal with outside political organizations say that's not the case. While the public stance of Obama and his senior aides may be reticence on the enhanced interrogation investigation, "they know the issue is one reason [Obama] has the support from groups like MoveOn, and this is the kind of thing that politically will keep them engaged on other issues," says one White House staffer. "We can't afford to flip on every campaign promise or issue, and there is already a sense out there, what with our decision on terrorist detention, that we're hedging a bit more than these supporters like."

Another concurred, saying that while Obama and Holder would doubtless take political heat from many Republicans and other segments of the public, there was hesitancy to further agitate Obama's friends on the left at a time when they needed that political coalition on a range of issues, including healthcare reform and climate change legislation.

"Better to keep our team happy and willing to fight and have the other side distracted," says a House Democrat aide. "If Holder moves ahead, it doesn't particularly hurt us, but it may indirectly help us: while the other guys get all riled about it, we can just push ahead with other things and leave them in the dust."

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
It would seem David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel have greater faith in Barack Obama's varied teleprompters than in their man in an unstructured setting.

Several weeks ago, it was announced that tomorrow the president would attend a town hall in Warren, Michigan, a Macomb County suburb of Detroit. Yesterday, however, the White House announced that Obama would not take questions from a community angry over his stimulus plans and auto bailout and where unemployment is higher than the national average of about 10 percent. Instead Obama will make a prepared speech, expected to focus, White House sources said, on education and job retraining programs.

The decision was made, according to Democrat sources in Michigan, after party officials determined that Republicans, as well as auto workers, were planning on seeking admission to the event, to ask questions of the President on the economy, taxes, auto and bank bailouts, and the scandal-ridden Democrat House member, John Conyers.

"There were also rumors that Republicans were going to hold their own town hall nearby to answer the questions Obama did not," says a state Democrat party consultant. "It may be a circus no matter what, but this gives the White House a little more control than they might have had."

The White House, according to sources, is mulling to have selected attendees to the speech ask questions specific to the President's remarks, but as it now stands, they would rather control the message than give the citizens of Michigan the answers they feel he owes them.

Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions

2009-07-12T00:49:00.002-04:00

worldnetdaily
by Drew Zahn

...The man President Obama has chosen to be his science czar once advocated a shocking approach to the "population crisis" feared by scientists at the time: namely, compulsory abortions in the U.S. and a "Planetary Regime" with the power to enforce human reproduction restrictions.

"There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated," wrote Obama appointee John Holdren, as reported by FrontPage Magazine. "It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

Holdren's comments, made in 1977, mirror the astonishing admission this week of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."

In 1977, when many scientists were alarmed by predictions of harmful environmental effects of human population growth, Holdren teamed with Paul R. Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb," and his wife, Anne, to pen "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment."

Holdren's book proposed multiple strategies to curb population growth, and, according to the quotes excerpted by FrontPage Magazine, advocated an international police force to ensure the strategies were carried out.

Rest of article at above link.

He says ... Obama’s distractions lead to Constitution’s destruction

2009-06-29T05:52:00.002-04:00

Bluffton Today
by Bill Roe
June 25, 2009

He says ...
The morning sunshine broke over Washington, D.C., this past weekend. Many Americans watched the sad news in Iran as it came on TV while they listened to the television news shows lamenting the failure of the stimulus packages. A news flash broke in showing the riots in Iran taking place because of a corrupt election where the ballot boxes were stuffed.

Sadly, young Iranian protesters were being killed in the streets. Our president told his staff that his children wanted ice cream, so Mrs. Obama put on her $530 sneakers and a 10-car motorcade headed out to Georgetown for ice cream. I would rather the priority at that moment to have been for the president to speak out for the rights of those Iranians, mostly youths; the protesters also included females. Silence is golden, some say, but liberty and freedom are precious.

This is where the president and I disagree. There are those who say my columns belabor the presidency of Obama. Yet I deal with his actions because they are current while the left still is fixated on former President Bush. A new poll by Rasmussen shows Obama’s holiday on the economy is over. Thirty-nine percent of respondents say Obama’s big-spending policies are heading to failure. At the same time, the polls show his strong readings slipping to a new low.

President Obama taught constitutional law in Chicago but his actions are in direct contradiction of constitutional powers, which is definitely a cause for concern. With the presidency, House and Senate controlled by Democrats we are seeing the Constitution rolled like never before.

Obama, by improperly firing Inspector General Walpin, showed his arrogance, mind I didn’t say ignorance, of the law.

He fired Walpin and two others so he could put political friends in those positions, just like he did with our new attorney general, Eric Holder. The qualifier for these jobs is to be a friend of the president, not whether they are the best qualified for the job operating under the established law that justice is blind.

The question has been raised to the Obama administration as to who fired Walpin and why. The answer was mumbo jumbo, but apparently the Obamas were willing to use their political influence to get involved in a sensitive investigation of their friend Kevin Johnston, who apparently misused thousands of dollars of Americorp funds.

The administration accused Walpin of having problems with concentration and making statements that were incorrect. This past week I have seen six excellent interviews with Walpin, who has had an outstanding career until the smear job he received by the administration.

He is articulate and energetic, plus if he sees that something is wrong he will not participate in a cover-up. When compared with Vice President Joe Biden, well, there just is no comparison. Maybe Obama in his arrogance of the law should fire Biden; however, then we would get Pelosi, whose positive numbers are rockbottom after she tried a cover-up by turning on the CIA and calling them liars.

Walpin is eager to see a congressional investigation of his firing, as this is the way it is done in a free America. Our president seems to be consumed with his personal agenda and liberal party ideologies which truly threaten our Constitution. I say bring it on Mr. Walpin, you are a patriot.

Read article at above link.

Farah's $10,000 birth certificate challenge

2009-06-23T13:06:00.002-04:00

worldnetdaily.com

WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama – and he's asking Americans to donate to the cause in hopes of raising the bounty to an irresistible amount.

"Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961," explains Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in the interest of truth, justice and the Constitution, I am making the extraordinary offer to entice someone to come forward with the facts of his birth – whether it took place in Hawaii or elsewhere."

Obama has steadfastly refused to release evidence of that Hawaiian birth – a valid, long-form birth certificate that would show details of the birth, such as the hospital and the attending physician. Because the short-form "certification of live birth" he released to select news organization was at least sometimes issued for foreign births on the basis of an affidavit by one parent, it proves nothing as far as constitutional eligibility – and, in fact, raises suspicions about a foreign birth.

To date, no hospital in Hawaii has come forward to claim this historic birth.

No doctor or nurse has come forward to say they were present for that historic birth.

No witness of any kind has come forward to say they have first-hand knowledge or involvement in that historic birth – at least in Hawaii.

Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claims to have been present for the birth in Mombassa, Kenya.

"It is clear now that Obama will never willingly release his birth certificate," said Farah. "It's time for Americans who still value the Constitution to step up and force the issue. It's time for us to learn the truth of where Obama was born. We may find he was born in Hawaii. We may find he was born elsewhere. I have no pre-conceived ideas. But this issue has haunted the American people long enough. It's time for some truth and transparency."

To collect the reward, the subject must:

1. Agree to an interview with WND journalists;

2. Provide persuasive evidence, such as pictures, documents or verifiable details;

3. Agree to a polygraph test.

"I think it's disgraceful that Americans should be forced to go to such lengths by the intransigence of public officials toward accountability," said Farah. "But that is what it has come to in 2009 with our current president. He prefers to dodge and weave, while his apologists in government and media viciously attack citizens for attempting to see that the Constitution is observed."

Farah launched a petition drive earlier this year that has accumulated nearly 400,000signatures demanding that all controlling legal authorities pursue proof of Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." That petition campaign is still on-going.

More recently, he launched a billboard campaign raising the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" That campaign has raised $85,000 so far. Farah says there are plenty of billboards available, despite a ban on the campaign by several major outdoor advertising companies. But donations have dried up because of an apparent misperception among readers that billboards are not available due to the bans imposed by a few companies.

In addition, Farah points out those interested in backing his latest campaign can also raise visibility for the issue by purchasing magnetic bumper stickers, tea party rally signs and yard signs that raise the same simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?"

Rest of article at above link.

Walpin-gate opens wider

2009-06-22T01:52:00.002-04:00

The Washington Times
Editorial

President Obama's excuses for firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin look weaker every day. The FBI has opened an investigation into a Sacramento program formerly run by a close ally of President Obama's, giving credence to the IG's work.

The president fired Mr. Walpin June 11 after Mr. Walpin filed two reports critical of Obama friends. The highest-profile of the two reports focused on misuse of funds at Sacramento's St. Hope Academy, then run by former NBA star Kevin Johnson before Mr. Johnson was elected Sacramento's mayor in November. Mr. Johnson was a frequent stump speaker for Mr. Obama during last year's campaign and has claimed in TV interviews to be particularly good friends with first lady Michelle Obama.

The inspector general detailed numerous irregularities in St. Hope's use of AmeriCorps funds, including AmeriCorps grantees being used to wash Mr. Johnson's car. Mr. Walpin complained vociferously, though, that acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence G. Brown had negotiated far too lenient a settlement of the charges against Mayor Johnson and St. Hope.

In turn, the U.S. attorney filed a complaint against Mr. Walpin, charging him with unethical behavior throughout the investigation. The White House fired Mr. Walpin long before the relevant committee would have finished its assessment of the U.S. attorney's complaint.

As The Washington Times reported in a previous editorial, U.S. Attorney Brown's complaint included at least two major, easily discernible errors of fact. Many other complaints against Mr. Walpin, both by Mr. Brown and by other AmeriCorps officials, were strangely petty in nature.

Now here is where the story gets really interesting. On the very same day that the president fired Mr. Walpin, St. Hope's executive director, Rick Maya, left his job at St. Hope. He did not go quietly. His resignation letter charged Mr. Johnson and several St. Hope board members with numerous ethical violations. Most explosively, he charged that a board member improperly deleted e-mails of Mr. Johnson's that already were under a federal subpoena.

Suddenly, the problems at St. Hope begin to look as severe as Mr. Walpin had charged rather than being minor infractions.

On Wednesday, the Sacramento Bee reported that Mr. Maya's allegations have been deemed serious enough that the FBI is investigating potential obstruction of justice at St. Hope. In that light, the firing of Mr. Walpin, who properly blew the whistle on mismanagement and possible corruption, looks ill-considered.

Early last week, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, publicly questioned the White House handling of the firing, as did Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. On Thursday, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, and Sen. Michael B. Enzi, Wyoming Republican, sent a strongly worded letter to the White House indicating serious reservations about whether the administration had abided by the laws governing inspectors general.

It also was learned last week that the White House is involved in major disputes with two other inspectors general who were poking around the administration's business, including Neil M. Barofsky, whose job is to serve as watchdog for spending the $787 billion in controversial economic bailout funds.

All of this suggests that the purported White House mistreatment of independent inspectors general is a scandal that might have real legs. As well it should.

Article at above link.

Independence Day tea party tally explodes

2009-06-21T01:58:00.008-04:00

worldnetdaily
by Chelsea Schilling

...The tea party movement is showing fresh signs of momentum as the national tally is once again exploding.

Amy Kremer, national organizer for the Tea Party Patriots, told WND her organization is expecting more rallies on Independence Day weekend than were held on April 15 this year.

"They are going on all across the country," Kremer said. "Last time it was on one day; this time it is all July 4 weekend. We will have more tea parties this time around than we did last time, for sure."

..."The administration is ratcheting up its rhetoric on pushing through its 'health care reform,'" Kremer said. "We can have tea parties until the end of time, but we need to be effective. We're using our tea parties as a platform and an opportunity to educate people about what is going on with this and why we are opposed to government-run health care. If the government gets involved and imposes any kind of governmental health care, it is intrusive into our lives, and it will absolutely affect the free market."

...But the party won't end there. Kremer said Tea Party Patriots has organized another national protest to be held July 17. Her group is encouraging motivated citizens to meet simultaneously at every representative's and senator's office in the country at 12 p.m. EST to show their commitment to stopping Washington's health care agenda.

"It's important because all of these people are concerned about this slippery slope to socialism," she said. Every day there is something the Obama administration or Congress is trying to push through to take more control over our lives."

Kremer referenced Obama's recent firing of the CEO of GM and is sale of Chrysler to Fiat.

...Tea Party Patriots lists events by state on its website. Most of the following protests are organized by Kremer and her Tea Party Patriots team:

South Carolina

Beaufort – Saturday, July 4, 12 p.m., federal courthouse, Bay Street and Bladen Street

Boiling Springs – Saturday, July 4, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Boiling Springs Community Park, Double Bridge Road

Charleston – Saturday, July 4, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Cannon Park, 261 Calhoun St.

Columbia - Saturday, June 27, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Emabssy Suites Columbia, Greystone Blvd.

Erie – Saturday, July 4, time and place to be announced

Florence - Saturday, July 4, Florence City/County Complex, 6:30 p.m.

Greenwood – Saturday, July 4, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Greenwood SC fairgrounds, HIghway 221 South

Myrtle Beach - Saturday, July 11, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Grand Park@Market Common

Rest of article at above link.

Somewhere in Kenya

2009-06-18T08:44:00.002-04:00

patriot depot

Yes folks, we have a President who thinks he can stimulate the economy by printing more "money," raising your taxes, and spending our grand children's inheritance—all to win the votes of illegal immigrants, dead people, and Democrats.

Furthermore, he can't prove he was born in America. According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as he claims. Before his inauguration, his grandmother bragged that her grandson was about to be President of the United States and is so proud because she was present during his birth in Kenya, in the delivery room. This, according to several news sites and Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg who is a life long democrat himself. Berg is the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

This new bumper sticker that has conservatives laughing and liberals hopping mad! Of course, we didn't think of it first. The liberals did the same thing to President Bush. Notice this anti-bush protest sign.

All kidding aside, the really scary part is that President Obama is NOT an idiot. Every decision he makes is calculated to take one more liberty away and moves us one step closer to full-blown communism.

Obama to Jews: I'm Just Not That Into You

2009-06-15T05:32:00.003-04:00

by Stuart Schwartz
American Thinker

...American Jews and Israel would do well to take a page from the book of Saul Alinsky, who provides the radical underpinning for much of how the Obama left sees the world: "As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be."

It is time for American Jews to leave the Democratic Party, to see reality as it is and not how they wish it to be. To be a Jew in this world is dangerous ...and our president and his party are deliberately making it more so (even serial Obama apologist Susan Estrich is "not completely certain...where this president will stand in a crisis" involving Jews). A leading reform rabbi (for whose community Obama "represents the golden harvest," as a senior executive of the Union for Reform Judaism put it) has just issued a clarion call to Jews to wake up and see a world in which a United States president "is most certainly creating a climate of hate against us (Jews)."

...American Jews can no longer afford the luxury of wishful thinking. "No trap is so deadly as the one you set for yourself" was the lesson William Manchester, the award-winning biographer of Winston Churchill, took from a similar time. His characterization of the politicians and journalists who painted rosy portraits of the Nazis in the early thirties as deliberately blind and intellectually dishonest (including Jews, such as Walter Lipmann of the New York Herald Tribune, who hailed Hitler as a "genuinely statesmanlike" leader "of good faith") eerily mirrors the mindset and actions of American Jewish supporters of Obama today. Most continue to cheer a president whose treatment of Israel has been described by one American Thinker blogger as "a sign of moral depravity."

Cartoon originally published in jewcy on February 4, 2008.

..."Stupid is as stupid does," Forest Gump observed in the movie of the same name. Perhaps American Jews will stop "doing stupid" and recognize another movie truth about Obama and his regard for Jews, both domestic and foreign: He's Just Not That Into You.

...An exaggeration? President Obama's speech to the "Muslim world" broke new ground as an American president supported terrorists, "an abandonment" of Israel, Jews, and human rights victims in the Arab world, noted U.N. critic and human rights activist Anne Bayefsky. This after a Jewish electorate gave him 83% of its vote.

...American Jews overwhelmingly continue to praise a leader shaped by anti-Israel political ideologies and anti-Semitic associations (e.g., twenty years a member of a church in which anti-Semitic preaching and activities are the fifth gospel, political alliances with some of the most notorious anti-Semites in American life). And they continue to open their wallets for the first president to officially embrace the despots who delight in playing Whack-A-Jew at the United Nations, the world's Chuck E. Cheese for anti-Semites.

...It is time to see the world as it is. Rush Limbaugh noted recently that Obama has officially "de-tethered" Israel from the United States, describing a process that is doing the same for American Jews. The stark reality, as Richard Baehr, the chief political correspondent of the American Thinker, points out, is that" Israel is no longer an ally" of this nation; it is, instead, an "obstacle" to an Obama-led government that openly seeks alliances with murderous anti-Semites.

...The world as it is: Obama enjoys the support of American Jews who are "blindly liberal" and "in rapture to the almighty Obama." Therefore, he can afford to throw away Israel (literally), one of the most democratic and humanitarian societies in the world, to enhance his power and prestige among the social and international political players he wishes to cultivate as America's first "Muslim" president

...Democratic leaders can play to their anti-Semitic core because, in part, they need not worry about Jewish support.

Rest of article at above link.

Obama's Bow to Saudis Escalates to Sellout

2009-06-13T23:40:00.002-04:00

newsmax.com
by Scott Wheeler

...President Obama bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 nations summit in April, and then he denied it.

Despite the evidence of a video and still photos of the event confirming the bow, the mainstream media told us: “Are you going to believe Obama or your lying eyes?”

But Obama obviously bowed, with such great reverence that some described it as “Obama bowing to the keeper of his holy places.” And this was weeks before Obama went to the Middle East and reclaimed his Muslim heritage. His speech in Cairo was like a Muslim debutante's coming-out announcement.

...This trip to the Middle East had an awkward stop in Saudi Arabia, perhaps so Obama could have the king greet him in broad daylight to show Americans back home that he didn’t bow. And he apparently didn’t this time — or at least not literally. But just days before his trip, he genuflected to the Saudi royals and subordinated American victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as though they were subjects as well.

...Democrats have been curiously silent on the issue of Obama’s affection for the Saudis, especially considering the fact that, when Bush was president, his relationship with the Saudis was a constant source of conspiracy mongering among the left.

Sen. John Kerry sought to exploit Bush’s need for Saudi cooperation in the war on terror in the 2004 election. And who could forget the Democrats' favorite film of that year: Michael Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9-11," which masqueraded as evidence of the Bush administration’s complicity with the Saudis in the attacks.

Obama has declared whose side he is on; now the question is whether the Democrats prove to be as duplicitous on this issue as they do on most everything else.

Rest of article at above link.

Obama's 100 Days by Jeff Kuhner on the Michael Savage Show

2009-06-11T10:54:00.001-04:00

Wednesday Hero

2009-06-10T10:50:00.001-04:00

Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marc A. Lee
28 years old from Hood River, Oregon
Navy SEAL
August 2, 2006

"Marc was amazing. He was my best friend, my love," his widow, Maya, said.

Petty Officer Marc A. Lee joined the Navy in 2001 and became an AO after completing Naval Air Technical Training. Later that year he attempted to complete the grueling BUD/S program but caught pneumonia and had to drop out. He tried again in 2004 and completed the course.

On August 2, 2006, Marc A. Lee became the first SEAL to be killed in combat in Iraq when he was fatally wounded in a firefight in Ramadi, Iraq. The following is from the award citation:

"During the operation, one element member was wounded by enemy fire. The element completed the casualty evacuation, regrouped and returned onto the battlefield to continue the fight. Petty Officer Lee and his SEAL element maneuvered to assault an unidentified enemy position. He, his teammates, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Abrams tanks engaged enemy positions with suppressive fire from an adjacent building to the north.

"To protect the lives of his teammates, he fearlessly exposed himself to direct enemy fire by engaging the enemy with his machine gun and was mortally wounded in the engagement. His brave actions in the line of fire saved the lives of many of his teammates"

"It was so like Marc to give up his life to save his friends," his mother, Debbie Lee, told the Hood River News. "I am so proud of him. He is my hero."

Petty Officer Lee was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star with combat "V" for his actions in Iraq during his team’s combat tour and the Purple Heart medal.

All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Evan Thomas: Obama Is a 'Brave,' 'Great Teacher' Who 'Stands Above' Us All

2009-06-10T08:29:00.002-04:00

newsbusters
by Scott Whitlock

...Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas appeared on this weekend's edition of Inside Washington and lauded President Obama as a "brave," "great teacher" who "stands above everybody." These comments were only slightly less hyperbolic than a gushing assertion on Friday's Hardball. On that program, the journalist cooed, "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

...Moderator Gordon Peterson prompted Thomas to expound on Obama after asking him and other panelists for their critiques of Obama's speech last week in Cairo, Egypt. Thomas extolled, "We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody." He did allow that "there's some condescension" in this attitude. However, the Newsweek editor continued, "But, he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.'"

...Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, who also appeared on the show, dissented. Speaking of Obama's remarks on Iran, he derided, "What he said about Iran, it was the weakest statement on Iran's nuclear program ever given by a president, weaker than anything heard in the last seven or eight years." He added that the President "did more in three minutes to delegitimize the existence of Israel than any president in American history."

Rest of article at above link.

Obama Tears Down US Economy; Mikhail Gorbachev Endorses Plan

2009-06-09T10:42:00.003-04:00

rushlimbaugh.com
by Rush Limbaugh

...Ladies and gentlemen, there can be no other way to say this now. The gloves have to come off. It's time for people to sober up. The president of the United States, Barack Obama, is destroying the United States economy.

... Even the Associated Press, government-run Associated Press with a headline: "Big Government Spending Programs Have Opposite Effect on Economy." They are concluding that you cannot spend yourself out of a recession. So what is President Obama planning to do? Spend even more, even sooner.

... I know the Democrat Party is oriented toward socialism. I know the Democrat Party is oriented toward big government and massive power. I'm speaking specifically of the Democrat Party now. I'm still not convinced the Democrat Party wants to destroy the US economy.

...Obama's nationalized health care will require businesses and individuals to insure everybody who is uninsured whether they want to be or not, that's 50 million new health insurance customers that will happen by government fiat if this health care bill gets passed and is signed into law. And with this as a backdrop: "President Obama met with his cabinet Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his stimulus plan this summer,"

...Obama ramping up his stimulus program this week, even as his wife stays in Paris to shop with the kids while Obama continues to warn CEOs not to get on their jets and fly to Las Vegas. For a man who said he didn't have time to see any troops or to meet with Sarkozy or to have some quality time with Angela Merkel, the man had to get back and he got back yesterday and went and played golf at Andrews Air Force Base 90 minutes after arriving back from France, or wherever he was. And Michelle and the daughters are still over there on a sightseeing tour.

...To add insult to injury -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- Mikhail Gorbachev has now entered the world economic question with his own point of view, my friends.

...The truth be known, Gorbachev was the world's first messiah. Obama is number two.

...Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the collapse of his country like Barack Obama is presiding over the collapse of his. And so a man who knows how to collapse his own economy is now advising us on how to collapse ours. He said that "it was now clear to him 'that the new Western model was an illusion that benefited chiefly the very rich.'" He's not talking about Obama's current policies, folks. He's talking about officially ditching capitalism.

...There is no other way to say this. Given the economic numbers that we have -- given the 25-year record unemployment, given that there is no positive economic news anywhere -- wouldn't somebody with common sense and a brain think that after... Let's count 'em up here. This is just five months, and then we add October, November... After eight months of an amount of spending that equals $11 trillion and an over $2 trillion budget deficit this year -- after eight months of stimulating the economy in ways that have never been done, under the theory that this was the only way to revive our US economy -- isn't it time to stop and say, "Wait a minute! The political solutions not only aren't working, they are making it worse"?

...Barack Obama inherited greatness in a nation. He inherited the birthplace of the individual. He inherited the defender of liberty at home and abroad, the United States of America. He inherited the opportunity to lead a nation of sheer exceptionalism, a nation of equal opportunity, a nation which featured its citizens the right to fail and to try and try and try again. He inherited the financial center and capital of the world. Barack Obama inherited the country that has successfully championed capitalism and widespread prosperity. He inherited a nation which liberated billions of people who lived in oppression. He also inherited great responsibility. He inherited the responsibility to lead this great nation, the world's lone superpower, a nation oriented toward the good of humanity. He inherited the responsibility to preserve and strengthen the free markets and economies that made this the greatest nation in the history of human civilization. He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and the tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles.

He inherited the Constitution of the United States. He did not claim the right to remake it, to rewrite it, to change it. He swore to uphold it. And he's in the process of wreaking as much damage to the Constitution as he can get away with, with nominations like Sonia Sotomayor, as he is wreaking damage to the US economy. Barack Obama did not inherit a mess. He leads a mess. He inherited the United States of America, where anything is possible. And greatness has been delivered to the world time after time in the form of private sector inventions, innovations, advancements in products that improve people's lives for over 200 years. He inherited a country of individuals energized by their liberty and strengthened by their character. Barack Obama inherited the leadership of the greatest collection of human beings in the history of human existence.

...And what has he done with this inheritance? He has run around the world and apologized at every stop he makes for what he considers the sins, the immorality, and the unjust unfairness of the way he perceives the United States of America.

...There is a lot to be proud of this country, but you don't hear much about that from the Oval Office or wherever Obama's teleprompter happens to be planted. We don't hear people in his administration talk about how proud they are of this country and how proud they are of the people who make this country work.

...Evan Thomas said he was above America, above the world, he's a god. Barack Obama is a human being. He is not a god. I was simply trying to, shall we say, emphasize that proclamation by describing his humanity. He is not a god.

Carla & Michelle

2009-06-08T11:21:00.002-04:00

U.S first lady Michelle Obama and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy at Colleville-sur-Mer cemetery, June 6
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Is questioning Obama 'offensive'?

2009-06-08T06:33:00.003-04:00

by Joseph Farah
worldnetdaily

No doubt you've heard about CBS' decision to ban billboards questioning Barack Obama's eligibility for office as "offensive, misleading or incompatible with community standards."

As I have explained before, I don't care if CBS prohibits the use of its billboards for my campaign to bring public attention to this issue. In fact, I support CBS' absolute right to reject any kind of advertising it deems inappropriate.

However, I think it is the public's right to know what CBS' standards are – if, indeed, the company has any.

According to CBS, this billboard in Phoenix, purchased by a group of Arizona atheists," is not offensive or incompatible with community standards.

This one is.

Again, that's fine. If those are CBS' standards, so be it. But the public should know.

Questioning God is OK. Questioning Barack Obama, even when he is not named, is not.

But I'd like you to see what the billboard industry states in its code about billboard suitability: "We advocate the use of outdoor advertising for political, editorial, public service, and other noncommercial messages."

Is this not a "political" and "editorial" message?

It would seem that CBS has a bias here against certain kinds of political and editorial messages.

There is indeed some self-censorship at work here.

And I can certainly understand it given the way the Obama administration has shown no hesitation in hiring and firing the chief executive officers of some of the biggest public corporations in America, indeed, taking over those companies, regulating freedom of speech and strictly controlling debate.

CBS obviously doesn't fear God. It does, however, fear Obama.

...They stopped being watchdogs and became lapdogs.

...The Constitution establishes only two criteria for serving as president of the United States – that the officeholder be at least 35 years of age and be a "natural born citizen." This campaign seeks to find the proof that Obama is indeed a "natural born citizen."

Rest of article at above link.

Sanford wins bet with Palin on hockey series

2009-06-07T04:17:00.004-04:00

wistv.com

There will be no shrimp and grits for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She owes South Carolina's Mark Sanford some king salmon from her home state.

The two Republican governors - rumored to have aspirations for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination - bet on the ECHL's Kelly Cup finals between the Alaska Aces and South Carolina Stingrays.

The Stingrays won their third Kelly Cup on Friday, defeating the Aces 4-2 in the decisive game in Anchorage - so Sanford wins some Alaska king salmon.

Had the Aces won, Palin would have received shrimp and grits and she-crab soup from Tristan Restaurant in Charleston.

Article at above link.

Wednesday Hero

2009-06-03T13:09:00.000-04:00

Sgt. Pablo A. Calderon
26 years old from Brooklyn, New York
1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
November 30, 2004

"He wanted to fight for his country," said his heartbroken younger sister, Lilliana Calderone. "He always wanted to be there."

Pablo Calderon joined the Army in 1997, right out of High School. "He went straight to the army from high school," said his sister. "He wanted to improve himself. He was proud. He loved his country."

Sgt. Calderon was killed when an IED was detonated near his vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq. Also killed in the attack was Sgt. Jose Guereca of Missouri City, Texas.

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Sonia Sotomayor 'La Raza member'

2009-05-28T11:36:00.002-04:00

American Bar Association lists Obama choice as part of group
by Joe Kovacs
worldnetdaily

...As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a "racist," Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police.

...Over the past two days, Sotomayor has been heavily criticized for her racially charged statement: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

..."Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman,'" blogged former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. "Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw."

Radio's Rush Limbaugh noted, "And the libs of course say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power. Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he's appointed one. ..."

...As WND previously reported, La Raza was condemned in 2007 by former U.S. Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., as a radical "pro-illegal immigration lobbying organization that supports racist groups calling for the secession of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland."

Norwood urged La Raza to renounce its support of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan – which sees "the Race" as part of an ethnic group that one day will reclaim Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs. In Chicano folklore, Aztlan includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas.

Rest of article at above link.

Wednesday Hero

2009-05-27T09:45:00.001-04:00

USS George H.W. Bush

Sailors assigned to the Air Department of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) are silhouetted against the setting sun at the conclusion of flight operations. George H.W. is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting flight deck certifications.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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2009-05-25T08:16:00.000-04:00

Pepsi vs Obama

2009-05-22T14:41:00.001-04:00

Radio fire ignited to burn Savage ban

2009-05-21T12:57:00.003-04:00

Talkers urged to boycott U.K., rally around blacklisted host
worldnetdaily
by Chelsea Schilling

...A well-known right-leaning radio firebrand whose face has become a staple on cable TV news shows has vowed to speak out against the U.K.'s blacklisting of Michael Savage – and he's demanding that the nation's talkers join him.

Bill Cunningham, Cincinnati host of 700 WLW who replaced Matt Drudge on the Sunday night Premiere Radio Network talk show, is best known for being scolded by John
McCain after he referred to President Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama" during the presidential campaigns. He pledged Sunday to talk about Britain's ban every week on his live show, aired in more than 200 markets, until the U.K. removes Savage's name from its blacklist.

"If the kings and queens of talk radio do not arise and stand with Michael Savage, they're going to start picking us off one at a time," Cunningham told WND. "If we don't stand with Michael, there'll be no one left to stand with each of us when the FCC or the British government or the American government comes after us. I see it as personal because if Michael Savage falls, who are they going to pick on next?"

Cunningham pledged, "Every Sunday between now and the end of time, I will talk about Michael Savage, support Michael Savage and encourage boycotts of everything British until they free Savage from this fatwa that was issued by the British government."

...The U.K. list also includes Hamas leader Yunis Al-Astal, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe and radical American pastor Fred Phelps, known for his virulent anti-gay protests at funerals. Phelps' daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper also is on the list. But Cunningham said he believes it is outrageous to link Savage with members of the Ku Klux Klan and radical Islamists.

...Asked why he thinks the nation's talk radio hosts haven't already voiced their support for Savage, he replied, "I think there are two reasons: One is competition. Maybe they think that if Michael Savage leaves the airwaves it'll give them more time clearances on more stations. I think that is short-sighted. Secondly, Michael Savage is a bit radioactive, and they don't want to engender commercial boycotts of their own shows."

..."I guarantee that if the British government had issued a fatwa against left-leaning politicians, if it had banned Ed Schultz who sits in the front row of Obama's news conferences, I bet the Obama administration would get the ban lifted," he said.

"But because it's Michael Savage, who's on the opposite side of the political spectrum as Obama, they keep their damn mouths shut."

...On his website, Savage is appealing to his listeners to contribute to his legal fund as he considers action against the home secretary. Cunningham said listeners should also boycott Britain. He and his wife had planned to go to London in September, but they canceled the trip after the blacklist was released.

...I don't agree with some things Michael Savage says, but I will fight to the death for his right to say it," he said. "That's the essence of the First Amendment. He may say some things that I wouldn't say, but damn it, he's got the right to say it."

Rest of article at above link.

Wednesday Hero

2009-05-20T01:57:00.001-04:00

Sgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos
25 years old from Paterson, New Jersey
3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade
May 11, 2009

On Mother’s Day, Eugenia Gardos made a tabletop shrine to her recently deceased mother — surrounding her photograph with silk roses, a small white rosary cross, two votive candles and a prayer card of Senor de los Milagros, the patron saint of Peru.

The next day, May 11, she added her son's picture to the shrine for the dead.

Sgt. Gardos was killed along with five fellow servicemen; Army Spc. Jacob D. Barton, Army Maj. Matthew P. Houseal, Navy Cmdr. Charles K. Springle and Army Pfc. Michael E. Yates Jr. in the attack on Camp Liberty.

"The first time he left for Iraq, when they would read the lists of the dead on the news, we used to hold our breath, praying he wasn't on it," his mother said. "I don't understand how he could have died this way. I just don't understand it."

Sgt. Galdos had emigrated with his family from Mollendo, Peru, as a child and had been a U.S. citizen since high school. His mother, two older brothers and older sister recalled how he used to hand out candy to children in Iraq the same way he always did in Paterson — never making a trip to the corner bodega without a group of neighborhood children tailing behind, knowing he would buy them candy or a soda.

"We were all here at home," Carlos Bueno, Sgt. Galdos's father, said. "I was getting ready to go to bed when I heard screaming downstairs. I ran downstairs and everyone had thrown themselves to the floor, thrashing around, screaming."

Bueno said he does not feel bitterness toward the man accused in the shootings, whom he described as "mentally ill."

"We want people to know we're proud of our son's Army, but if my son had died in war we would be able to handle that," he said. "But not to die in this manner."

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Obama Used ‘Tough Love,’ Bibi Stood Firm

2009-05-19T05:05:00.002-04:00

Arutz Sheva
by Gil Ronen

...Global media report that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "stood firm" against pressure from the Obama administration Monday on the issue of a "two-state solution" with the Palestinian Authority.

“The Israeli prime minister stood firm,” reported France24 after the talk between President Barack Obama and Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “He said he is ready to negotiate with the Palestinians but only if they recognized Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”

...“Israel stood firm against demands from Barack Obama on Monday to cease the construction of Jewish settlements and embrace the ‘two-state solution’ to achieving peace in the Middle East,” the newspaper said. It added that Netanyahu “made it clear that while he welcomed Mr. Obama's commitment to the region, he was more concerned about dealing with the threat of Iran than peace talks.”

...French press agency AFP reported that the “intense first talks” between the leaders “laid bare differing approaches on Iran and the U.S. goal of a Palestinian state.” The agency characterized Netanyahu’s remarks after the meeting as “blunt” and describing “an impassioned Netanyahu voicing his fears before reporters that a nuclear-armed Tehran would pose a mortal threat to Israel.”

...CNN reported that, based on interviews with U.S., Israeli and Arab diplomats, a drastic change in the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is not likely. “The Obama administration won't waiver from the traditional unshakable commitment to Israel's security,” the news outlet estimated.

Rest of article at above link.