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GOOGLE

Shuts Down

Anti-Obama sites

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Hussein Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any site that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to lock out the owners of anti-Obama sites so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Hussein Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

TYSON DROPS LABOR DAY HOLIDAY FOR EID AL-FITR

Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.

A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility "implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... muslim workers at the plant."

The RWDSU stated that "the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan."

Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.

Tyson's Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated that while the new contract does not provide an additional holiday, as the union claimed, "the new contract includes eight paid holidays, which is the same number provided in the old contract."

"However, the union leadership did request and receive Eid al-Fitr (which is apparently spelled various ways including Id al-Fitr and Eid ul-Fitr) as a paid holiday in place of Labor Day," Mickelson confirmed in an e-mail to the T-G.

"Since all Team Members will still have eight paid holidays, the change will not affect production," Mickelson said.

Eid al-Fitr means "Festival of the Breaking of the Fast" in Arabic, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and marks the end of Ramadan, the muslim holy month of fasting.

The festival "is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer (salat) at daybreak on its first day. It is a time of official receptions and private visits, when friends greet one another, presents are given, new clothes are worn, and the graves of relatives are visited," the encyclopedia said.

Mickelson said that "Eid al-Fitr is one of eight paid holidays for all Team Members covered by the contract, while Labor Day is not a paid holiday."

"Based on the contract, the other paid holidays include: The Team Member's birthday, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day," Mickelson said.

"Implementing this holiday was a challenge, since it falls on a different day every year and is declared on fairly short notice," RWDSU Representative Randy Hadley said in the press release. "But the negotiating committee felt this was extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to muslims as Christmas is to Christians."

"The date for this holiday (Eid al-Fitr) is not the same each year," Mickelson said. "however, it is in the early fall."

The press release stated there are approximatly 700 muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.

"All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr," the Tyson spokeman said.

The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the muslim holiday, "two prayer rooms have been created to allow muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant."

Mickelson said that Shelbyville's Tyson plant "does have a prayer room to accommodate the needs of muslim Team Members."

"In addition to regular, non-paid breaks, all Team Members are allotted a seven-minute paid break," the Tyson spokesman said. "Some Team Members choose to pray during this time."

However, Mickelson took issue with another claim made by RWDSU, which stated that another "improvement" in the contract is time-and-a-half pay for Team Members who work more than an eight hour shift.

"This statement is not accurate," Mickelson said. "This overtime pay provision is not new nor is it unique. In fact, it was included in the previous contract."

(Hummmm ... 8 paid holidays!

Okay ... take away the birthday holiday and make it an optional holiday. The the muslims can take off their Eid al-Fitr, and the non-muslims can take whatever they want.

And, HEY TYSON! Even though you hired 700 Arabs, you are still located in the United States Of America, and Labor Day is an American holiday!

What are you going to do next? Take away Christmas and give "My Camel Got Circumcised Today" as another holiday?

While you are at it, why not eliminate July 4th and celebrate September 11th instead, and instead of calling it Independence Day, call it "The Day We Killed 3,000 Americans For Allah Day"?

WADDA BUNCHA FUCKIN' IDIOTS!)

THE 180LB. "GUERILLA"

China’s

Military aspirations

As the mainstream media is dominated by its attention to the preparations for Beijing Olympics being held August 8-24 this year, an obvious truth is being ignored or going unaddressed. The more important story is that China is on a mission to dominate the United States and the rest of the world militarily by building nuclear weaponry meant to defeat the United States on the world stage. The actual Olympics pale in comparison to this upcoming event. And while our people continue to be distracted by a variety of "shiny things" meant to divert their attention, the Chinese continue their march to dominance in the military sphere. What serves to distract our nation from such an important subject?

Let’s first look at the notion of Global Warming. Despite the fact that, "There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution," the mainstream media continues to report on a phenomenon that has not been proven as though it is fact. Furthermore, policy around carbon emissions is being developed based on this misinformation. "In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years...Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth."

The upcoming election serves as a distraction - in that the really important issues are not discussed and instead media attention is focused on Barak Obama’s associations, i.e., Jesse Jackson using the "nigger" word (in two different ways, mind you); Jeremiah Wright and the novel idea (sarcasm) that there is a contingent of black people who do not like white people; fellow democrat Kucinich, who during his first presidential campaign quoted the Koran and roused his muslim audience to chant Alahu akbar wants us to spend oodles of tax payer dollars to impeach George Bush (and at the end of his term of office, completely irresponsible), and Tony Rezko, a slumlord connected to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (who may also, rightly so due to his mismanagement of Illinois government, face impeachment). None of this enlightens the electorate on Obama’s strategic plan for the defense of our country, if he was to be elected to the highest office of the land. If Obama had plans to aggressively fight terror, secure our borders, and defend our sovereignty, I think it would be safe to say that most of the people who want to see this on his platform would ignore all the rest.

The "recession" is another shiny thing. In an article in the Wall Street Journal, J.P. Morgan’s chief economist Bruce Kasman is quoted, ‘While earlier this year it seemed like momentum was carrying the economy into a clear recession, there's only "a slightly better than even chance" of a recession now. "Even though there are meaningful drags from the credit crisis and energy costs, the economy is showing resiliency."’

Human Event’s Mac Johnson writes:

"Highlighting economic (and other) bad news anytime it can be pinned on a Republican incumbent (or his successor) has been standard procedure in the left-leaning media for decades...Talking down" the economy to bolster a Democrat challenger is nothing new.

This economy faces real and significant structural problems. Housing prices have crashed, lending has contracted, the dollar has been halved, oil prices have soared, and food prices have been biofueled up to recent highs.

All these issues have taken a huge toll on consumer confidence, pushing it - and the stock market - to the lowest levels in years. And consumer confidence is precisely what is targeted by exaggerated election-year doom-mongering from the mainstream media. Given the already anemic state that confidence is in, it may not take much hyperbole and rant to send it into a tailspin - especially since the media will have much better ammunition to work with in such an already worrisome economic environment."

Finally, the headlines are dominated by Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, and Pakistan. No one would dispute that there is reason to fear the volatile nature of the Middle East and the exporting of muslim extremists to the United States, the possible activation of terrorist cells with nuclear capability in our own country, and the political correctness which contradicts our rule of law and detracts from our ability to defend ourselves against foreign agents operating on our soil.

Getting back to China...China now has a new fleet of submarines which can launch Julang-2 (JL-2) ballistic missiles, "Five Type 094 missile submarines could account for over 180 warheads," Richard Fisher, a military affairs specialist with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, is quoted as saying. Julang-2 missiles could be used to target Guam, Alaska and Hawaii. China acquired all the needed technology from the U.S. during the 1990s (during Clinton’s term in office). Particularly troublesome is the following contradiction in why China has embarked on their military buildup:

"China’s rise in international trade and commerce, plus its growing dependence on imported foreign oil, also has expanded Beijing’s maritime strategy from a mostly submarine force to one of building surface ships to "defend sea lines of communication" (SLOCs)."

"Chinese Gen. Zhu Chenghu told reporters in 2005 that China would attack U.S. cities with nuclear weapons in response to any conventionally armed U.S. missile strikes against China during a conflict over Taiwan. Years earlier, Gen. Xiong Guangkai threatened to use nuclear weapons against Los Angeles if the U.S. helped Taiwan defend against a Chinese invasion of the island."

China’s advanced cyberwarfare capability has been implicated in, "a number of intrusions and attacks on military, government and corporate systems," which are tied to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Stratfor China is also developing an anti-ship ballistic missile and electromagnetic pulse weapons (which are also a threat from Iran) which can be used to wipe out electronic systems over a very wide area. All of this means that the United States must involve itself in an expensive arms race if it is to maintain superiority in weapons technology and defense capability. Certainly, this should be a topic of election concern.

The 2008 election is a great disappointment. Each candidate’s appeal to voters appears to be based on a level of examination of the issues reflective of an intellectual challenge more suited to the kind of popularity contests influencing junior high school class elections all over America. It’s frightening to think that one of the candidates for office has captivated the electorate because he is articulate and good looking even though he is completely devoid of experience on the foreign stage and does not have a coherent plan for running our country. Furthermore, his understanding and loyalty to this country’s rule of law can legitimately be considered questionable. And while the other candidate seems to have a much better understanding of the threat of radical Islam, he is too quick to pander to potential voters on non issues such as global warming and the economy, contributing to a massive misinformation campaign designed to detract from what is really important.

BARACK SAYS WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the "african-american" community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids.?

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for "african-american"s are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the "african-american" community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Hussein Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

US ARCTIC OIL

May Be Lost

To the U.N.

"The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years." One would have thought Joe Carroll’s Bloomberg News report would have evoked some interest by the public and other media outlets. Instead, news of the U.S. Geological Survey was greeted mostly by a giant collective yawn.

"One third of the undiscovered oil is in Alaskan territory, the agency found "... Considering that the Democrat-controlled Congress adamantly refuses to let drilling occur for the oil known to exist in and off-shore Alaska, it is not surprising the public has concluded this vast treasure will remain untouched.

Apathy, however, is not a very good response to the prospect of this mother lode of potential new oil. Worse yet, we stand lose any of the wealth it will generate if the same Congress signs the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty, whose acronym, LOST, could not be more accurate. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have endorsed it, apparently oblivious to the fact that the mighty U.S. Navy can go anywhere it wants in the world. Even the Bush administration has marshaled no arguments against it.

This monstrosity of a treaty has been around since the days when the Reagan administration first rejected it.

Full disclosure of the contents of this treaty would have Americans in the streets of Washington, D.C. brandishing pitchforks. Bernard Oxman describes its text as "amply endowed with indeterminate principles, mind-numbing cross-references, institutional redundancies, exasperating opacity, and inelegant drafting." In other words, it is a document intended to steal the wealth to which the United States has a legitimate claim.

Douglas Stone, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, warns that, "LOST fostered the idea, per se, of international organizations with increasing transnational jurisdiction. Its bureaucracy will be nourished by royalties on mineral extraction and provide a model for similar agencies to assume authority and impose taxes and to inexorably devour American institutions and autonomy."

Can you imagine gifting the United Nations with $50 trillion in Arctic oil taxes? That is what the U.S. Senate proposes to do if it ratifies LOST.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr., president of the Center, reminds us that, "If Americans have learned anything about the United Nations over the last 50 years, it is that this ‘world body’ is, at best, riddled with corruption and incompetence. At worst, its bureaucracies, agencies and members are overwhelmingly hostile to the United States and other freedom-loving nations..."

For more than a decade, the United Nations International Seabed Authority (ISA) has never produced a single commercial minerals harvesting operation despite having unfettered access to all the world’s great oceans resources.

The United States, however, needs more oil now. In addition to Congress having put vast reserves in Alaska’s ANWR off-limits, it has done the same for exploration and drilling in 85% of the nation’s continental shelf.

The solution to America’s present oil crisis lies in part in the Arctic Commons and, in particular, the Amerasia-Canada basin that holds the promise of huge oil reserves for centuries to come.

A dangerous scramble for the oil and gas reserves between Russia and the West can be avoided and, more to the point, the U.S. will lose its entire future commercial and energy security by signing onto LOST. Meanwhile, Democrat leaders in both houses of Congress have already rejected President Bush’s July 14 effort to end a 25-year moratorium on drilling in most coastal waters.

The Democrat controlled Congress is either insane, treasonous, or both. Its presumptive candidate for President wants to repeat Carter’s appalling windfall profits tax on oil companies. The ultimate result was a nearly 60% reduction in U.S. oil production.

As the Bloomberg News report noted, "The region above the Arctic Circle also holds an estimated 1,669 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, equal to 27 percent of the world’s known gas reserves, according to the U.S. Geological Survey report. "Contributors to the data included the Geological Survey of Canada, the U.S. Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Program, and researchers in Denmark and Greenland. No Russian institutions took part in the study."

At a time when nationalized foreign oil companies control more than 70% of the world’s energy resources, private enterprise is the only answer to our national energy security. The largest transfer of wealth in history is occurring and it bodes ill for the United States. We dare not compound this travesty by failing to take steps to ensure access to the Arctic Commons vast reserves.

TIRED OF OBAMA’S CHICKEN LITTLE CAMPAIGN YET?

Before Americans will vote for more socialism in a nation almost bankrupt from social conscience already, they must believe that capitalism has failed the vast majority of Americans who now need the government to be their keeper.

Nobody understands this better than community organizer Barack Hussein Obama and his entire campaign is based on Chicken Little rhetoric as a result.

Obama and his socialist companions define the "general welfare" mentioned in the Constitution not as the common interests of all Americans, such as roads, bridges, a strong standard currency and a national defense system, as intended by the Founders who wrote those words, but rather as a "general welfare state," whereby the ideas of Karl Marx, "from each according to his ability; to each according to his need" can be employed to redistribute the benefits of capitalism in a more "equitable" fashion. - "Equitable" being defined by Obama, of course.

Equitable is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as simply "fair and impartial."

As America has demonstrated for more than 230 years, no economic system on earth is more "fair and impartial" than capitalism. Individuals, who work hard, save, invest wisely, control spending and plan for a brighter future, will indeed reap all the same rewards as any other individuals doing the same things. Those who choose not to do these same things will not reap the same rewards. It’s called "economic freedom," and there is no more fair or impartial economic system anywhere on earth.

But this is not the "equity" Obama and his socialist minions speak of...They speak of Marx’s version of "general welfare."

Is the average American glass really half-empty?

At The Base of the New Democrat (Marxist) Philosophy Is This Obama Statement...

"This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many."

Though it recognizes that our open market (capitalism) has indeed created the most productive, prosperous society on earth, it also implies that the unparalleled benefits of capitalism have not been "equitable" to all. Though it suggests that free trade is the cornerstone of our national development and our global position as the last remaining super-power, it also suggests that the fruits of capitalism must now be used to fund an accelerated move to socialism, or else...the sky is falling.

This is the foundation of the Chicken Little fear-mongering woven throughout modern Democrat campaigns, and the Obama campaign has attempted to put a fine point on this message.

Obama’s Chicken Little Economic Outlook

According to Obama, America is in "recession" and the majority of Americans are hurting. They must be hurting, or they don’t need Obamessiah to save the day with socialism, you understand.

Technically speaking, the economic performance term "recession" refers to "negative" economic growth for at least two back-to-back quarters. America did have negative growth for one quarter, at a rate of -.2% (2/10 of 1%) in the 4th quarter of 2007. That was before the Bush "stimulus package" (tax rebate).

The economy returned to growth in the first quarter of 2008 (.9%) before the rebate, and the economy accelerated to a growth rate of 1.88% in the 2nd quarter of 2008, after the rebate. Whether you attribute the improving economic performance to the Bush tax rebate or not, you certainly can not call that stimulus policy a "failure" since the economy improved.

In the last three quarters, our economy went from a -.2% negative growth rate in the 4th quarter of 2007, to a positive growth rate of +.9% in the 1st quarter 2008, followed by a +1.88% positive growth rate in the 2nd quarter of 2008. However small, this is an "expanding" not "contracting" economy.

As a result of hard facts, no honest educated economist on earth would call this a "recession" - nor would they call this "heading in the wrong direction." But Chicken Little Obama does... because he must.

Obama’s Chicken Little Employment Outlook

The latest employment survey places our current unemployment rate at 5.7% - which of course means that the employment rate is 94.3%...One of the best in the world. The European Union unemployment rate is 6.7% as of March 2008, down from 8.9% in March 2005, as a comparison.

Roughly 4% of Americans are unemployed at all times, no matter the state of the economy. This is largely due to the fact that about 4% of Americans are "unemployable" for a variety of reasons and America takes care of those who can't take care of themselves via unemployment benefits and several social welfare programs.

At worst, this means that 1.7% of the American workforce that can be employed, most of them teenagers, is unable to find suitable employment at this snapshot in time, the operative word being "suitable." 4% will never be employed and 94.3% of those seeking employment have "suitable" employment.

But according to Chicken Little Obama and his Democratic Socialist minions, the American employment glass in more than half-empty. Is it?

How could 94.3% of Americans agree with that assessment?

Obama’s Chicken Little Energy Crisis

After almost 40 years of Democrat legislative blockades on American oil exploration and refining, Democrats are all of a sudden concerned with Americas 70% dependence upon foreign oil.

That’s because their constituents are not reacting well to the +$4.00 per gallon fuel prices Democrats created with their "failed" energy plan of forcing Americans to leave fossil fuels in the past, in favor of wind, sun and water energy, none of which are developed in to viable sources yet.

Even now, as Democrat leaders of congress turn off the lights and leave Republicans screaming in the dark on capitol hill, with more than 70% of Americans crying to increased domestic drilling and refining, leftists promise to "save the planet" by trashing the American economy, keeping America increasingly dependent upon foreign energy sources well into the future.

According to Chicken Little Obama, increasing domestic production is not the answer to the Democrat manufactured crisis. Copying Bush’s "failed" stimulus package with yet another $1000 "tax rebate" to people who don’t pay taxes, and releasing 10% of the nation’s strategic emergency oil reserve is the answer, according to Obamacrats.

Yet the signs are all counter-indicating. Bush’s mere threat of opening up domestic production caused oil speculators to retreat from the $147.27 a barrel high to $123 per barrel, a 16.5% drop before closing back up at $125.10 a barrel on Friday August 1st, while congressional Democrats continued to hold American oil production hostage as they headed off on vacation.

Still, Obamacrats insist that unleashing American production will not have any impact on current prices. Huh???

While voters get more frustrated by high gas prices and Democrats obstructionist tactics in congress, and market speculators continue to bank on Democrats blocking future domestic production, House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid leave for vacation without allowing the matter to come to a floor vote.

Members of congress on both sides of the aisle would force Pelosi and Reid to lift the Democrat ban on domestic production and that’s why they left on vacation without allowing that vote to take place.

Meanwhile, Chicken Little Obama is busy pandering to the handful of socialist Americans who believe that taxing record oil company profits is the answer, as if those taxes will not be passed back down to consumers in even higher prices at the pump. And never mind the fact that many average Americans have invested their retirement plans in the idea of American profits, including oil company profits.

No matter the question, socialism is the answer, according to Chicken Little Obama. Some of his fellow Democrats are even openly calling for nationalizing the energy industry, a decidedly socialist concept. They want control of the nation’s medical industry cash cow too. Do I have to say why? (CASH COW)

Obama’s Chicken Little Foreign Policy

Consistent with the Chicken Little philosophy of today’s Democratic Socialists, Obama sees capitalist America as the root of all evil in the world and socialism as the answer to every problem.

Obama sees national security as only a defensive operation. Somehow, he misses the very real message that offense is often the only viable defense. He sees international Islamic terrorism as only a criminal reaction to unsavory U.S. foreign policies of the past, even though Islamic terrorism predates the founding of America as a nation, and despite the fact that no nation on earth has wasted more tax-payer money trying to get along in an ungrateful world.

Though Obama has built much of his campaign on the notion that "Bush’s War" in Iraq was a "failed policy," including last years "troop surge," after visiting Iraq for the first time a week ago, he was forced to concede that "Bush’s War" is actually much more successful than he had imagined, before bothering to check the facts on the ground.

Though Obama talks about respect for and support of troops and military commanders on the ground, he continues to ignore their advice on how to win, trusting instead in his own inexperienced and unqualified war instincts.

Obama’s Chicken Little Campaign of "Hope"

- According to Obama, American employers are not the solution to unemployment; government is. Employers are the enemy; Government is our friend...
- According to Obama, 1.7% of American workers currently seeking employment and receiving federal benefits until they find work - is a "crisis" that only government can solve.
- According to Obama, 1.9% American economic growth is a "recession" that must be fixed by more government intrusion into the already not-so-free markets.
- According to Obama, domestic oil producers are not the solution to America’s dependence upon foreign oil; government is.
- According to Obama, offense is not the best defense, retreating and waiting to be hit again is.
- According to Obama, everything wrong in the world is nothing more than an example of "failed Bush policies," even though the facts will never support such an insane notion.

Are You Getting the Picture Yet?

According to Obama, despite all the hard evidence, government is not the problem but rather the solution. Capitalism is the problem and Obamacratic socialism is the answer...

And in all cases, when Obama says "government is the solution," he means Obamessiah is the solution.

Obama recently stated that "Americans...still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do."

As is often the case, Obama is half right in this statement. Most Americans do still believe in a FREE capitalist America where anything is indeed possible, and for good reason. No nation on earth has ever demonstrated more widespread unparalleled success by design.

He’s also right that most Americans don’t think their leaders believe in those same ideas anymore and that’s because so-called leaders like Obama, Pelosi and Reid spend all day every day attacking the very fundamental principles and values that made America the greatest nation on earth, namely, individual freedom, including economic.

Are Americans buying the Chicken Little doom and gloom campaign of fear? Or are they getting fed up with it?

Obama once proudly proclaimed, "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."

Yet Obama’s entire campaign is built upon two very simple minded premises...

- Everything is awful and only Obamessiah can fix it...
- Bush ruined the world and Obamessiah is here to save it...

During last weeks international Obamessiah global pander-fest, Obama pronounced to his adoring international constituents, "People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time." - as if he was campaigning for Secretary General of the One World Order, instead of for President of the sovereign United States of America. Maybe he is...

But what kind of megalomaniac (a pathological egotist) sees himself as such an omnipresent savior of the world, after only 143 days on the job as a freshman member of congress, leader of nothing with an otherwise blank résumé? What kind of useless idiot falls for such an obvious egomaniacal charlatan?

In a nation that came from nothing a little more than 200 years ago to the world’s only standing super-power today on the basis of individual freedom and capitalist principles, what foolish American would ever vote himself back into democratically induced bondage by supporting such an individual?

Why do I even have to write a piece like this? I'm pointing out truths that should be glaringly obvious to every American, no matter their past political affiliations, their hyphenated citizenship, their color or creed.

The fact that I have to point out the obvious only demonstrates the power of the massive misinformation effort of the last sixty years...and the fact that so many Americans clamor at this guy’s feet as if he were the second coming, demonstrates just how insanely ill-informed many American voters are today.

In the end, it comes down to one single factor in this election and George Bernard Shaw said it exactly right..."A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Obama and his Chicken Little companions in today’s Democratic Socialist Party have a global constituency full of Pauls...Have American tax payers had enough of Obama’s doom and gloom Chicken Little Campaign Yet?

Obama Is About "Change" We Can't Afford To Believe In Anymore!

America has only two very serious problems today.

- A near bankrupt currency
- A near bankrupt public intellect

American leftists like Obama are responsible for both...Have tax-payers had enough of it yet?

BARACK OBAMA

And Defining Anti-Americanism

Downwards

If Barack Hussein Obama sought to win the votes of Germans, he need seek no more. Of course, his new image was all the rage in the Old World long before he gave his July 24 speech in Berlin. Along with the mainstream media and murderer Dale Leo Bishop, Senator Sweetness and Light is the man the Europeans want as our leader.

Although Obama certainly has a stateside cult following as well, one reason Americans' enthusiasm pales in comparison may be that we - at least some of us, anyway - can decipher his words better than foreign-language speakers. As to this, there is a certain segment of the Berlin speech I'd call your attention to:

"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."

It might be pointed out to Senator Obama that if he finds a perfect country, he should be sure not to go there.

For then it will cease to be so.

But allow me to lend further perspective. Imagine that you gave a speech in which you "honored" your mother and said:

"I know my mother has not perfected herself. At times, she has struggled to keep the promise of fairness for all of her children. She has made her share of mistakes, and there are times when her actions around the town have not lived up to her best intentions."

Wouldn't this strike you as odd? My first thought would be, wow, you really must not think very highly of your mother. After all, since we're all sinners, it goes without saying that no one is perfect. So why would you feel compelled to state the obvious about her?

It could only be because you consider her unusually flawed, so much so that she falls outside the boundaries of normal human frailty; thus, a disclaimer is necessary before homage can be paid. It's the kind of thing you do when you're embarrassed by someone - or something - you're obligated to praise, when you feel the object of the compliments is, relative to others, unworthy of unqualified laudation and that rendering such would tarnish you. It's kind of like if you needed to defend a brother on death row or who had been convicted of rape; since he was guilty of heinous acts, you'd feel compelled to issue an "I know he has fallen from grace, but . . ." statement. It is the most a good person can muster when talking about a bad one.

And Obama's "but" came right after his disclaimer, as he said:

"But I also know how much I love America."

Note that he didn't actually reveal how much.

Lest I be thought a hypocrite, I agree with G.K. Chesterton's sentiment, "'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" I've often lamented America's intoxication with sin, issuing indictments of various aspects of our declining culture. Yet the difference is context.

It's one thing to point out what our country could do to become superior to its former self, but quite another to preface such counsel with the implication that it's inferior to every other nation. In the first instance you're talking about making a relatively good thing better; in the second you're talking about why a relatively bad thing might at least deserve some scraps from the table of man.

Of course, honesty is a virtue. So if Obama really believes America is that bad, shouldn't his words reflect that? Yes, without a doubt, but being honestly wrong is not a virtue. Remember that Obama was speaking in the nation that birthed the Holocaust, a Maginot-line away from that which spawned the Napoleonic Wars, not too far from the land of the Stalinist purges, and just across the North Sea from an empire that colonized much of the Earth. In this drunk-on-power world, Senator Obama, do you really believe your motherland is an embarrassment?

Getting back to mothers, mine often instructed, "Don't wash your dirty laundry in public." I mention this because Obama also rendered more explicit criticism of his beloved nation, asking:

"Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law?"

This is, of course, an allusion to our military's use of waterboarding during coerced interrogation. And, to be fair, I don't say good people cannot oppose it. Journalist Christopher Hitchens actually volunteered to undergo the procedure and emerged firm in the conviction that it is, in fact, torture. This warrants consideration as Hitchens, for all his militant-atheist zealotry and faults, has been nothing but honest regarding the war against Islamism.

Yet, as per my mother's injunction, there is a time and a place for criticizing family - this includes national family. Obama can argue against waterboarding, but it should be done in-house, not overseas in front of a throng of screaming, anti-American foreigners.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Obama's implication that America is uniquely damnable is that he was oblivious to it. Sure, you may say that few would connect those dots, but that is what makes the remark so telling. It's one of those unthinking comments that give you deeper insight into a person's heart and mind.

To fully grasp this, understand where Obama is coming from. This is an individual who sat in pews for 20 years and imbibed the preaching of a man who disgorges sentiments such as "God damn America!" and calls her the "US of KKKA!" Wouldn't it strain credulity to say that such a politician doesn't have a negative view of his country? Even Oprah Winfrey, not a woman known to wrap herself in the flag and belt out "The Star-Spangled Banner," left Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ after being assailed with such vitriol.

They say that how a son treats his mother speaks volumes about his character. We should bear this in mind when evaluating Barack Hussein Obama, this son of America who is lauded by Europeans. There are people who just wouldn't issue the "my country has not perfected itself" disclaimer, and then there are those who would. In the cases of those who utter it instinctively - the son of America and his brethren - it's an example of a very common phenomenon: Defining anti-Americanism downwards.

To the left, America is the black sheep of the world, that brother who raped the Earth and only escapes death row because he is also the law. To leftists, a statement like Obama's is patriotic - thoughtful, honest, introspective patriotism. Self-flagellation is a sign of enlightenment (although, leftists never actually whip themselves, only the "country," which is the bane of humanity because of regrettably-live conservatives and thankfully-dead white males). It is the "Of course, we're not perfect" meme. It has become Bolshevik boilerplate.

In other words, leftists have lowered the bar for patriotism and raised it for anti-Americanism. The bile of a Reverend Wright, well, it is anti-American (but understandable and excusable); it is a bridge too far. But their confession-of-sin disclaimers are no-brainers because the United States really is a bad country, and they're positively charitable when they follow-up with mention of her few redeeming qualities. It's the most a good person can muster when talking about a bad homeland.

The question is whether any of this will hurt a candidate who racks up style points like Yves Saint Laurent. Many citizens don't even care what Obama actually says, never mind what must be inferred. Even pollster Frank Luntz asserted that we have to give him credit for capturing the imaginations of "250,000 people" in Berlin. Perhaps, but it occurs to me that he isn't the first ambitious orator to capture the imaginations of a quarter-million Berliners.

Style can be blinding, but I suspect that Americans who actually pay attention to substance won't be quite as taken with Obama's rhetoric as Otto the Old Worlder.

WHO IS AN AMERICAN?

"Who is an American?" I asked myself that question the other day, when I heard on my car radio, that former Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean had the appeals of their lengthy prison sentences (11 and 12 years, respectively), rejected. They were convicted of shooting an "alleged" illegal alien drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, in the buttocks, as he was fleeing to the Mexican border with nearly a million dollar's worth of marijuana, that he had tried to smuggle into the U.S.

In spite of nationwide protests, Ramos and Compean were imprisoned and Davila was let go! Go and smuggle some more? With the rejection of the appeals, it occurred to me that, these days it appears that the full force of the law, is directed against "Americans." People who have no legal right to be here, and who already broke American law to enter and remain in this country, appear to be receiving preferential treatment. The message to Americans, from many of our so called "leaders," appears to be: "Shut up. Keep working. Pay your taxes. We will take it from there."

So who is an American? An American is the border agent who is performing a difficult task patrolling America’s cheesecloth borders, walking a fine line between enforcing politically correct rules that could mean the loss of his life. On the one hand, he has to do a Paso Doble (two-step) with vicious gangs, traffickers in people and drugs, and possible terrorists, and, on the other hand with ambitious district attorneys. One wrong step in that danse macabre and he could end up doing more time than some murderers, if not dead. Ask Ramos and Compean.

Again, who is an American? The Marines of Haditha are Americans, to whom "political correctness and prosecutorial zeal," made a post-engagement visit, and lined them up against the bars of a military cell, for doing the jobs for which they were hired. Luckily, these are not the days of the wild, wild West, or a firing squad could have dispensed "justice" and maybe sorted out the facts after the funerals of these Marines.

To their dismay, these Marines found out that they had graduated from cannon fodder to "political-expediency" fodder, when a member of the legislative branch, who is supposed to represent them and not vilify them, pronounced them guilty before their trial! Lose your limbs and/or lives in battle, or your reputation in the courtroom? Which is the deeper cut?

There was no corresponding rush to a mea culpa on the part of the accuser after the Marines were cleared. They and their families are still waiting for the press conference by Democrat Congressman John Murtha, a former Marine, to apologize for his intemperate remarks and rush to judgment. Maybe that is why there have been no reports that hell has frozen over.

Is Joe Ordinary an American? He is only a taxpayer extraordinaire, offspring, sibling, husband, and father. Poor Joe O thought that by working hard and saving a few bucks here and there, he could lead a placid life. But the pool of tranquility he envisioned keeps being invaded by huge boulders called "taxation," as well as higher and higher food and gas prices. Throw in a little renegade wave of increasingly high mortgage payments and Joe is almost literally swimming with the sharks!

Joe O. is not of sufficient stature to command one of the sweetheart real-estate deals that recently made headlines. But he was recently tossed a "verbal life line" by presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, who suggested that Joe not eat as much; lower his thermostat to below 72 degrees; and get rid of his SUV. Candidate Obama also advised Joe and his fellow Americans to "inflate their tires" in order to counteract high gas prices. Somehow, "tire inflation" was not the economic remedy Joe was expecting. Poor old Joe was probably thinking along the lines of drilling for domestic oil, building new nuclear facilities, or exploring viable alternative avenues of energy.

Last week, Joe got his answer. His legislators took off for their month-long recess while poor Joe was still in "school" - the school of hard knocks. Here is a piece of advice, Joe: You would be better off swimming with real sharks.

Then there are the Needlessly-Wronged Americans. "Needlessly wronged," because they have had family members slaughtered on the streets of their hometowns, crimes that could have been prevented. These family members were gunned down, or murdered by other means, by illegal aliens, many of whom are gang members. Too often it appears that these gang members, or to use the politically correct term, "bands of men," are the defacto rulers of the neighborhoods they illegally inhabit. Now and again, they have the "misfortune" to be caught, sometimes only after the commission of multiple crimes. By that time, it is too late for the parent or spouse who is left to mourn the senseless murder of a loved one.

Two recent slaughters made headlines that finally began to get our attention. Sgt. Anita Shaw was recalled from Iraq to bury her older son, Jamiel, who was destined to be The One. Unlike some political fakers, Jamiel had the credentials to make that claim, particularly in regard to his athletic prowess. Prestigious schools like Stanford were recruiting him. But the illegal-alien gangbanger who shot him dead - who probably couldn't even spell "Stanford" - was able to live large in America, the land of the free, without the requisite documents, and robbed Jamiel of his life. We are left to wonder what contributions Jamiel would have made to America and his fellow Americans.

The Shaws, to their credit, "moved on" by seeking justice for the loss of their son. They have been displaying a doggedness that should be emulated by our elected officials, who have - but refuse to use - the authority to end the conditions that allow illegal alien criminals to snuff out the lives of the young and old of America.

In another case, I saw Mrs. Bologna on television describing her ordeal in dealing with the cold-blooded murder of her husband and two sons. They too had gotten on the wrong end of an illegal alien’s gun. He shot them for unintentionally blocking his way in traffic. I was near tears as I heard Mrs. Bologna’s tale. She and the Shaw family share the same experience of living in a "sanctuary city." Sanctuary cities that are sanctuaries for illegal aliens - just not for Americans.

Are These True Americans?

What about those I term "Faustian-Americans?" While I am dead set against hyphenated Americans, I'll make an exception this time. Remember the legendary Faust, who reportedly sold his soul to Mephistopheles (the devil) for youth and power? The souls of our modern day Faustians are available for cold hard cash. Sometimes that cash is even stored in refrigerators, replacing the usual poultry and peas. Faustian-Americans come in all skin colors and ethnic backgrounds. They pursue those green greed backs with unrelenting zeal, even if it means throwing Momma from the train, or Grandma under the bus!

Deep down in the recesses of what is left of their souls, they have a vague awareness that pillaging, looting and financially raping their fellow citizens is wrong, but they have made a bargain - obscene wealth in exchange for their souls. While they're fleecing their clients or constituents, they rationalize that sheep are made to be fleeced and better that fleecing be done by an experienced shearer!

Among the "fleecers" are businessmen who charge Joe Ordinary an exorbitant mortgage rate, but set aside special deals - in one case, FOA (friends of Angelo) - that are reserved for members of the legislative branch of the U.S. government. Presumably this is all perfectly legal because there is no provable quid-pro-quo. The lesson for Joe Ordinary taxpayer, is to quit his backbreaking, soul-numbing job and seek a really, really lucrative gig, something like becoming a congressperson or senator. Yeah! That’s the ticket!

Other "fleecers" include the species known as "politicians." They are the folks who begin many speeches with "My fellow Americans," just before they outline the various ways in which they plan to screw their fellow Americans! In addition to the other perks they accumulate (just as a kleptomaniac "shops" for items at a store), they are allowed to spend one term in office and collect thousands in pension benefits over their lifetimes, or be convicted of a crime, but collect those same pensions in prison! They can verbally mutilate a soldier or Marine with unfounded charges of crimes against suspected terrorists, but continue to "serve" and collect their pensions! And they can shuffle we lowly taxpayers into an oft-raided national pension plan (the aptly misnamed "Social Security") while they enjoy an exclusive deal that is more secure than Fort Knox.

So who truly is an American? Ultimately, a true American is not really defined by his or her profession, status in life, color of skin, religion, or even hobbies. A true American is one who simply loves this country, would probably give his or her life for this country, and works overtime to preserve the culture and traditions of this country. Many an American - like me - began life in another country, came here by choice and once here made the effort to become steeped in the culture and traditions of America. Without being asked, but with joy and optimism, we automatically pledge "allegiance to The Flag of the United States of America, and the Republic for which it stands."

AGENT HELD AT GUNPOINT

By

Mexican military

A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint by the Mexican military last night south of Ajo. Mexican military personnel crossed over the border and pointed rifles at him. Backup units arrived from the Ajo Border Patrol station, and the Mexican military personnel eventually returned to Mexico.

Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years. They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of "Oh well, they didn't know they were in the United States."

A few years ago the Mexican military went a step further and put a .50 caliber rifle round through the rear window of a Border Patrol agent's patrol vehicle south of Ajo. Nothing was ever done. Nobody was ever held accountable.

Particularly galling is the fact that the Mexican military often pulls these stunts in Humvees donated to them by the American taxpayers (although they were apparently on foot this time). We note that Border Patrol agents have historically driven worn-out, junk vehicles.

MARXIST MOMMA HEADS DENVER DEM CONVENTION

Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a skirt is Chief Executive Officer of this month’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.

While the media hounded Wright for his anti-American rants and while presidential hopeful Senator Barack Hussein Obama divorced him as his personal pastor, Obama’s head will be crowned by Leah Daughtry, who ardently believes in the same Marxist "Black Liberation Theology" preached by Wright.

Readers can step, figuratively into Daughtry’s Washington, DC church with the New York Times:

"Behind her as she preached, a simple wooden cross hung on a brick wall, in the vaulted and sizable sanctuary of the church, which is headed by her father, Herbert Daughtry. A prison convert who served time in his early 20s for armed robbery and passing bad checks, Herbert Daughtry - whose father founded the church and whose grandfather and great-grandfather were also ministers - became the church’s pastor 50 years ago, and today Leah was delivering the sermon as part of an anniversary celebration.

Below the sanctuary, in the fellowship hall, a banner for slavery reparations proclaimed, "They Owe Us." Fliers, recounted Herbert Daughtry’s arrest, a few weeks earlier, as he led marchers protesting the not-guilty verdict in the police killing of Sean bell, an unarmed black man. His ministry has always combined consuming spirituality with black liberation theology - the theology Jeremiah Wright invoked this spring to defend his controversial sermons - and zealous political activism. Leah holds these forces within her."

"But wait there’s more! This New York-born Pentecostal minister is not only the head of their religious outreach, she’s the CEO of the Democratic National Convention. That’s right, the CEO of the DNC is a MARXIST! Folks...do we really need any more proof?" ( conservativepunk.com, July 21, 2008).

Like Wright, Daughtry is in your face about her activism: "That’s why I work in politics. My family, we're activists," she described herself to TheHill.com in May 2007.

Among other things, the Rev. Daughtry believes that God finds abortion acceptable.

If God finds it acceptable, why shouldn't Obama?

The Hill’s Betsy Rothstein pitched 20 questions to Daughtry.

When Daughtry was asked if her faith as a Pentecostal fit with the Democratic Party, she answered, "Of course. Why wouldn't it fit? The Democratic Party is full of people of faith."

The Hill asked, "What kind of personality do you bring to your ministry?"

She responded, "My congregation would say I am a nurturer. I'm everybody’s mother, everybody’s big sister. Truth teller. Hugger, Kick in the pants."

Some would say with Marxist Momma in the top job, It’s little wonder why Barack Hussein Obama is the DNC’s Golden Boy coming to Denver with mainstream media garnered rock star status.

His lack of experience, no substance, nobody home in an empty suit or even valid proof of what Bruce Springsteen would call "Born in the USA" matters not to the White House coveting Dems.

"Have you been to our conventions? Music and waving and happiness, it’s perfect," Daughtry told Betsy Rothstein.

"Is the Democratic Party suicidal," asks conservativepunk.com.

No, just Marxist!

LIVING WITH THE BOMB

On August 6, 1945, in order to end the war with the Empire of Japan, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, thus launching the atomic age. The Japanese warlords did not respond with a notice of surrender, so the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered unconditionally.

That’s the way wars used to be fought. By that time, Germany had been so thoroughly destroyed with conventional bombs that its cities laid in ruins. Over a half century ago, wars were not waged with concerns for "collateral damage", i.e., civilian deaths. It was understood that the civilian population had to be killed to the point where there was simply no capability to proceed.

For a short time the U.S. was the only nation with a nuclear capacity, but thanks to having infiltrated much of the government with a vast spy network, the Soviet Union was able to develop its own atomic bomb.

At that point American children were taught to hide under their school desks or gather in the hallways to avoid the affect of an atomic bomb blast. This was, of course, ridiculous because a nuclear bomb would flatten any school, along with much of the city in which it was located.

In 1965 Herman Kahn of the Rand Corporation published "On Escalation" in which he postulated the concept of MAD, mutually assured destruction, as the only rational solution to another nation’s nuclear weapons program. Red China joined the nuclear club and, in time, others such as Pakistan and India as well. Both of these nations developed their nuclear programs in secret. North Korea hasn't even bothered to keep it a secret, nor has Iran.

Today, in the Middle East, Israel has long had nuclear weapons in response to the many conventional wars waged against it and in anticipation of a nation like Iran that is led by lunatics who repeatedly tell the world that they intend to "wipe Israel off the map."

Although no nuclear weapon has been used in war since August 6, 1945, the likelihood that Iran will use one is too great to ignore. There are reports that Iran has tested launching presumably nuclear-tipped missiles from ships. This would be a means to attack the United States.

What is Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s response to the threat of a nuclear attack on America?

On October 2, 2007, Sen. Obama gave a speech at Chicago’s DePaul University in which he declared "A New Beginning." He said, "America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons." While he said he did not intend to pursue unilateral disarmament, he proposed "a global ban on the production of fissile material for weapons."

For all the treaties that have been signed since the dawn of the Atomic Age, the one thing we know for sure is that nations, if they want, will simply ignore them. Iran, for example is a signatory to the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the same time its president brags of adding thousands of gas centrifuges for the creation of fissile materials.

Presumably, Sen. Obama, if elected President, will use his charm and diplomatic skills to talk Iran’s mad mullahs into ending their nuclear weapons program. He is on record as saying he would meet with Mamoud Amadinejad, but has since "refined" that statement saying such a meeting would have pre-conditions, et cetera.

"When I'm president," Sen. Obama now says, "we’ll strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty so that nations that don’t comply will automatically face strong international sanctions." Meanwhile, Germany has just signed a deal to purchase natural gas from Iran.

There is a simple reason that nations have nuclear weapons. Their neighbors and their perceived enemies have them. Treaties are nice, but useless. Sanctions are useless. The United Nations is useless.

My generation, born prior to or during the era of World War Two has learned to live with the bomb. Every President since Harry Truman has wanted to outlaw nuclear weapons and none has come close.

You cannot un-invent such lethal technology. You cannot assume some madman will not want to use it. The only prevention of such use is to destroy the capability to use it. Israel destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities on June 7, 1981. It has more recently destroyed such facilities in Syria. When the Israelis say "Never again", they mean it.

Sen. Obama has surrounded himself with advisors with known anti-Israel views and he continues to blather away about some form of disarmament. He has laid out a program by which America’s military defense would be severely reduced, including weapon development.

History teaches that only strength can deter aggression. Waiting to be attacked is folly. Expecting nations led by men with evil intentions to respond rationally is folly.

Mutually Assured Destruction only works when leaders care enough to not sacrifice their people, but Iran’s leaders are eager for the return of the Twelfth Imam, a mythical Islamic figure who would impose Islam on the entire world.

Sixty-three years since the first and only atomic bombs were used to end a war that had cost millions of lives we are still living with the bomb. The immediate question is whether we will witness its use against Israel and the United States.

If elected, Sen. Obama’s policies will amount to unconditional surrender in the face of a very real threat.

POLL:

Nearly Half Hearing Too Much

About Obama

Barack Hussein Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says.

With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain.

Obama, the 47-year-old Illinois senator who would become the first black president, has dominated political news coverage much of the year. According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say they have heard more about him than McCain, the longtime Arizona senator who also ran for president in 2000.

Two-thirds of Republicans and about half of independents said they've heard too much about Obama, as did a third of Democrats, a significant number.

At the same time, nearly four in 10 said they've been hearing too little about McCain - about four times the number who said so about Obama. About half of Republicans, four in 10 independents and even a quarter of Democrats said they've not heard enough about the GOP candidate.

The poll was conducted from Aug. 1-4 and involved telephone interviews with 1,004 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

ICE CHIEF CALLS FOR CONGRESS
TO DISCIPLINE LAWMAKER FOR ‘GESTAPO’ REMARK

The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will ask Congress to consider taking disciplinary action against one of its members for a statement he made equating ICE agents with the Gestapo, a senior agency official said Wednesday.

Luis V. Gutierrez , vice chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee that handles immigration, has called for a moratorium on ICE enforcement actions until Congress passes a comprehensive overhaul, something it has failed to do in each of the past two years.

In a column written for Politico, Gutierrez, D-Ill., commenting on recent ICE arrests of illegal immigrants in Iowa, said: "You know who is in charge now? The Gestapo agents at Homeland Security. They are in charge."

A senior ICE official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Julie L. Myers, the assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was "absolutely appalled and deeply angered" by the statement. The official said Myers would send a letter to senior members of Congress asking that disciplinary action be taken against Gutierrez’ for his remarks.

Another official, Jamie Zuieback, director of congressional affairs for ICE, went on the record.

"It’s not OK," Zuieback said. "Aside from being demeaning to the law enforcement officers that uphold the very laws passed by Mr. Gutierrez’s Congress, it’s potentially dangerous. No member of Congress should be encouraging the public to defy or demean federal law enforcement officers. Words matter."

A call seeking comment from Gutierrez was not returned.

Similar comments from the immigration activist community are not all that uncommon, and at least one other Democratic House member has made a similar remark.

At a February hearing, California Democrat Sam Farr , assessing ICE’s tactics, said, "What happens is the public image of you becomes one of not this compassionate law enforcement agency but essentially a Gestapo-type agency that is knocking on doors."

At that hearing, Myers responded by saying "Congressman Farr, we are not the Gestapo, and I will not listen to you call . . . us Gestapo."

Gutierrez should not only be forced to resign his position on the House Judiciary Committee (he would have to if he were Republican) ICE should do a comprehensive audit of the voter records in his Chicago Congressional District. This is the arrogance of the "sanctuary city" mentality advanced by those who kneel before the altar of political correctness. Dump Durbin for calling our soldiers Nazis and dump Gutierrez for calling ICE officers the Gestapo!

3 STATES TO CONSIDER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN

With one brief criticism of affirmative action, John McCain has brought new attention to ballot issues aimed at dismantling preferential treatment programs for women and minorities.

The question is whether McCain's support for one of those initiatives, in Arizona, will make any difference.

Ward Connerly, the former University of California regent who is bankrolling the Arizona initiative and similar measures in Nebraska and Colorado, said he hasn't seen any increase in donations or GOP supporters flocking to his cause since McCain spoke up last month.

"We're of course delighted to have the senator's support," Connerly said. "As to whether it translates to any positive or negative effect on us, I don't think so."

McCain's comments also have drawn critics who pointed to comments he made a decade ago calling similar measures "divisive."

The ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska call for amending the state constitutions to ban any hiring practices, university scholarships and other public programs that favor one group over others. Arizona and Nebraska officials are still verifying petition signatures while Colorado has the initiative slated for the November ballot.

Connerly's group, the American Civil Rights Initiative, already has been successful with similar initiatives in California, Washington and Michigan. And he plans to continue four years from now in other states.

Ultimately, Connerly said, "the goal is to try to get either the Supreme Court or the Congress to get the policy changed at the national level."

Connerly said his ballot initiatives would attack programs like the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Program in Tucson. It allows minority and women-owned businesses to bid more for city contracts than other groups and requires prime contractors to make a serious effort to hire them for work.

"Those clearly would be outlawed," Connerly said of the Tucson program. "Any standards that are applied to groups based on race. Any jobs where there are different standards for admissions."

Tucson officials said they crafted the program in response to a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down quotas for minority-owned construction companies. Because Tucson has only a small percentage of minority and women-owned businesses, "you have to adopt narrowly tailored measures to help you overcome that disparity," said Mark Neihart, who directs Tucson's procurement department.

McCain weighed in on Connerly's efforts in late July, saying on ABC's "This Week" that he endorsed the Arizona initiative _ although he added that he had not read the details of the proposal.

Critics accused him of another "flip flop," pointing to a 1998 conversation about similar measures in which he told a Hispanic business group: "Rather than engage in divisive ballot initiatives, we must have a dialogue and cooperation and mutual efforts together to provide for every child in America to fulfill their expectations."

His campaign officials did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment Wednesday.

Opponents in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska criticize Connerly for billing the initiative drive as a civil rights cause. They say thousands of voters were likely duped into signing petitions because the initiatives were described as a ban on discrimination instead of an attack on programs that help women and minorities.

"If you put things in deceptive terms, like if you say 'We're trying to get civil rights protections for everybody,' then, you know, people say 'yes,'" said Shanta Driver, a lawyer for a Detroit-based affirmative action coalition called By Any Means Necessary. "They don't know those terms mean something completely different."

Driver's group has filed a lawsuit in Arizona seeking an injunction to block state officials from putting the initiative on the ballot. Among other claims, the lawsuit says that homeless people were offered water and food to entice them to circulate and sign the petitions.

In Colorado, initiative opponents filed enough signatures Monday for a competing ballot question that would ban quotas and point systems while preserving support programs for women college students, male nurses and other underrepresented groups. Colorado elections officials are still verifying signatures for that competing initiative.

And in Nebraska, lawyer and GOP presidential delegate David Kramer said he has started challenging the ballot initiative with county elections officials. Kramer said petitioners left signature lists unattended, filled in information for signers and failed to explain the ballot initiative as required by law. His group, Nebraskans United, also has filed a lawsuit challenging the language in the initiative.

"It's misleading," Kramer said. "It talked about what this wouldn't do, instead of talking about the programs it would eliminate."

WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS

Plane Detained

In China

A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing's international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games.

The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP terminal, but after landing was instead directed by the control tower to a normal international gate.

White House officials would say only there were "logistical problems" getting clearance to unload the aircraft. The flight crew was told the Chinese were insisting that all luggage be inspected.

Typically, the White House press charter receives the "custom of the port," meaning reporters, photographers and camera crews are able to get off the plane right after landing, board buses and head to their hotels and work areas while U.S. State Department officials process immigration and customs details.

Delays on landing have happened before, but no one on the plane was able to recall one this long.

The plane landed at 2:10 a.m. local time. Passengers finally were able to get off the plane shortly after 5 a.m. However, they were made to pass through Chinese immigration control individually, and baggage was still being screened.

Many of those on the plane - roughly 40 journalists - were due to cover the president's first appearance of the day: the opening of the new Beijing U.S. Embassy complex.

(I told these assholes, including G.W., to stay away from the "games". But would they listen?

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CENSORSHIP MAY OPEN OUR EYES TO CHINA

Reporters charged with covering the Olympics are now whining about "not knowing what they will be able to cover and not knowing how much the Chinese government will censor their online coverage."

The fact that the mainstream media is even remotely surprised at a Communist Government not allowing complete freedom of the press is laughable, irrespective of the fact that China promised them complete freedom to report on the events after this one party state was awarded the honor of hosting the Olympics. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is absolutely right when he reminds folks that the Chinese government is "only doing what authoritarian and dictatorial regimes always do."

Those reporters who dominate the mainstream media are finally getting a small taste of what it feels like to navigate the barriers set up by a country that limits their liberty to speak their mind. The New Media writers have been all too aware that the continuing erosion of our own country’s freedoms in the name of political correctness has been steadily subsuming our constitutional rights for years now. Many writers plying their craft in the New Media are used to their message not being published by agenda driven mainstream papers. A substantial number of people who rely on the New Media for the news have long recognized that the sovereignty of our people is being subsumed by the one world agenda being preached by the socialist left and echoed by the alphabet network lemmings. The hours spent identifying and exposing the prejudices embedded in the mainstream coverage of the issues has well honed the analytical skills of New Media writers.

Political Correctness, which dictates to people what they must feel, so as not to offend anyone, is only one encroachment on our liberties. Each time the government spends our hard earned dollars, we give away our right to choose what we think is best for ourselves. I'd much rather be given a tax break, to donate my money to a cause that has personal meaning for me than have to give 33 percent of my paycheck to a Congress made up of spendthrifts who think nothing of bribing the electorate in order to retain their power and award their cronies, putting political opportunity before government. Furthermore, the system of public education in this country, a system funded by the hard work of our citizens, reflects a secular agenda, promotes a one world order, and discourages divergent thinking.

What might it be like to live in a country where people are prevented the freedom to disagree, to practice their chosen religion, or from habeas corpus? How would it feel to live in a country where a government acts with complete disregard for rights the US Constitution was uniquely designed to protect?

The Olympics might serve to remind people in this country just how truly lucky we are to be American citizens. These athletic contests might provide a lesson on the difference between a nationalism based on the notion of "E Pluribus Unum," out of many-one, versus a "Rising China" which means, "A China that is the leader in Asia is a China that will have the allegiance of its masses."

The games are seen by the Communist Party of China (CCP) as a way to show off their country’s strength, adding legitimacy to their rule. In the United States, the Olympics are seen as a chance for our country’s best athlete’s to compete against athletes from other countries for medals and prestige. If we don’t win the games, it won't impact our feelings about our government. For some athletes, it’s about personal bests, for those watching, enjoyment of a sport. It’s an opportunity for representatives of our country to interact with those who may not share our beliefs but have sports in common, to compete against each other without threatening our sovereignty.

The CCP in China wanted very badly for China to host the games, to elevate their prestige in the world and with their people. However, "The construction of facilities for the Olympics in Beijing has directly resulted in the forced eviction of thousands of citizens in and around Beijing, often without due process or compensation to ensure access to new housing." This is unlike eminent domain in the United States, where people are compensated based on the value of their homes should a need arise to build critical infrastructure on their land According to the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) "15,000 people are evicted every month in Beijing, often in poor neighborhoods, in a brutal and arbitrary manner with inadequate compensation." The 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees that, "No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

While many people complain about the political processes in our country, no one can argue that we have not been afforded the opportunity to vote our conscious and for the candidate who best represents our beliefs. This is in direct contrast to China, in which the US Department of State 2006 Country Report on Human Rights Practices counts among their long list of Human Rights Abuses that citizens are not provided the right to change their government. A small sample of other abuses include extrajudicial killings, torture and coerced confessions of prisoners, and the use of forced labor, including prison labor. What is produced by some of this forced labor? Next time you buy something at Walmart, Target, Cosco or Sam’s Club, look at where the product was manufactured. It might be very enlightening.

In China, there is no guarantee of a trial by a jury of our peers, or that someone arrested will even be able to offer a defense. Exercising strict political control of courts and judges, the Party and state maintain "closed trials" and "administrative detention." A person can be convicted of a crime and executed all in the same day. A family violating the single child birth planning law may be subjected to forced abortion and sterilization. Freedom to assemble, practice religion, and travel is severely limited.

All of this information might lead an inquiring mind to question what makes the Chinese people loyal to their government and express anger when outsiders want to report their affairs to the rest of the world. One explanation is that, "China’s nationalism today is shaped by its pride in its history as well as its century of humiliation at the hands of the West and Japan." When a U.S. plane "accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade" and when "a U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane, in what China says was a violation of its airspace, collided with a Chinese F-8 jet fighter," the Chinese saw these acts as American aggression. The Chinese government, stoking the nationalism of their people, reported these acts as encroachments upon China’s "sovereignty." The Chinese people will not be allowed to see the United States as anything other than an imperialist country with designs on China. The Chinese government keeps its people united by promoting ideas like this. If the CCP can make the country strong militarily, able to defeat a country like the United States, it legitimizes itself.

In this country, we have access to information, although private search engines like Google have taken to censoring information and the mainstream media unfairly portrays those who disagree with their ideas. People in our country have the freedom to travel abroad, although it might not be safe in some countries. We can generally count on the enforcement of laws which are designed to maximize our safety, even though some might seem to compromise our freedoms. It’s a balancing act. It has always been a balancing act between what is best for the individual and what is best for the community. It’s a balancing act between the federal and state powers. As long as there is a balance of ideas, most people will have maximum freedom. Vigilance is required by the people of this country to make sure that one group is not empowered over another.

Our system will never be perfect, but that is why we say, "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Socialism and Communism is based on the idea that there can someday be a utopia and that the means justifies the ends. In our country, it’s all about the journey. Let the games begin!

OBAMA AND THE LAND THAT A NATION FORGOT

"AMERICA. LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!"

Though the stories have surfaced in news arenas for many years about Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL), there are more than enough pages to be filled with the overflow.

More and more, many citizens want to know how could such a person as he have come this far in spite of all of the most damaging evidence to support his not being under consideration as the next President of the United States of America.

Americans have been deceived for so long that they have lost sight of what this nation has stood for since its inception centuries ago. It is not enough to continue to say what we must do. It is time to do what we must to reclaim this nation of Godly morals, values and mores.

Traditionalists are right. The liberals are wrong.

The more we have moved back the societal standards of decency, the more the lines have become blurred between what is right and what is wrong. And, in their attempts to change the foundational structure of America in order to gain a foothold on the liberals feeble means to bring their destruction and degradation into the most powerful and Godly free nation in the world, they have also brought in a mindset that has sought to do away with law and order and respect for those in authority. And America is steeped in the stench of ungodliness, which has gone on for so long that it has become accepted by most as an acceptable way of life without shame or the means to stem the tide.

The damage thus far, however, is not irreparable. But all of those who have been instrumental in perpetrating such a corrupt form of lifestyles are replaceable. And replaceable they must be.

Though all over this world nations have set up their form of government and people are placed in positions to secure the needs of its citizens, there can never be any excuse to have anybody in that leadership who would arbitrarily and secretly sell out the rights to life in this land of America into the hands of any foreign entities.

Nevertheless, Obama and his Democratic colleagues have long made local and overseas trips in their capacity as elected leaders. And, more often than not, as most of us are now finding out, quite a few of them have met with leaders of foreign nations (i.e., both legitimate and illegitimate) where this governmental policy is to not engage them in individual negotiations before they have met certain itemized preconditions set by this government, under the authority of the President.

Contrary to public policy, Dems have not abided by this policy and every now and then citizens find out about it only during their interviews when they mention their having had such meetings in which they have taken it upon themselves to take on ambassador-like roles to -- in some cases -- seek to go behind the scenes to intimidate and blackmail, as it were, those foreign leaders into coming around to meeting their terms in order to ensure their own political standing while Americans remain oblivious to those unauthorized tactics even when they are exposed as such.

Americans!

Once again, your wake up call is here.

Eventually you will have to realize that if you do not fight to keep faith with the United States of America Constitution and the plans of our forefathers for this nation, then we will surely all give away our rich inheritance. And it will never be the same. And this we must not continue to be a party to.

Even if every citizen of America has a Holy Bible in their possession and has taken every word to heart, it would still do no good to know it verbatim and yet be afraid to stand up and defend our right to abide by it.

Each person who knows the message of the Gospel of Jesus has a duty to project that into the world and to let that be your guide in every way and for every day.

Because, unless we are faithful and have a heart for the true and living God, then we will surely fail in our every attempt to live in a nation with God's blessing. For, in Him is our peace and He shall never fail to prosper us as a nation in every way that He has promised. Strangers and foreigners in this land must never be allowed to snatch our faith-filled means of keeping America as the blessing they sought when they came from their own lands to take up residence here.

Our elected officials have received from constituents into their hands their mandate "to protect, preserve, and defend the constitution of the United States of America."

Any nationalities that land on these shores and adhere to total loyalty to their own nations once they come here ought not to expect all the rights and privileges afforded to the citizens of America just by virtue of their being here. And, in no way, should anybody from foreign shores be allowed to use the full force of our own laws to be tweaked in such a way as to conform to those laws that they left behind in their own land.

"AMERICA. LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!"

TERRORISM

We tend to think of terrorists as killers but terrorists can be just as deadly by the things they say. We must know what they are. On September 11, 2001 America was turned into a victim, our citizens hunted in our own cities, our economy temporarily in ruin and our government on the defensive. Why?

Ramzi Yousef, - 1993 WTC attack was from Iraq. Saddam harbored Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal and financed suicide bombings in the Middle East. For seven years he stalled UN inspectors, throwing them out of Iraq as he boasted that he did, indeed, have weapons of mass destruction. Was he part of Al Qaeda? A connection does not have to be direct to be real. Democrats on the 9/11 Commission Report, said bin Laden couldn’t get a desk from Saddam, thus, had no connection with Al Qaeda. Now that’s dim logic. October 31, 1998, President Clinton declared "That it should be the policy of the U.S. to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime and replace it with a democratic government." The House voted 360 - 38 in favor of the bill he signed.

Osama on CNN in 1998:

"We call on every muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God’s order to kill Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it..."

In The World Social Forum, 2000’s Social Movement Manifesto:

"There is the beginning of a permanent global war to cement the domination of the U.S. Government and its allies..."

Going back several decades, Sayyid Qutb, author of Social Justice in Islam, was the leading theoretician of the Egypt-based muslim Brotherhood founded in the 1920s. The agenda was to impose Islamic law - sharia - on the entire world as the condition of its purification and redemption. The goals of jihad are purification and social justice which are to be accomplished through Islamic law in the states conquered by Islamic arms. Applied to more recent times: Crimes of which we are accused and held by western leftists include:

1) Settlement in North America and extermination of the first inhabitants and ill treatment of the survivors;
2) War crimes against Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, and Somalia;
3) Assisting Israel, the Shah of Iran and Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

Ten days before 9/11 a conference in South Africa that expressed the new global coalition of the UN against racism, xenophobia and intolerance was an international assault on democratic countries, such as the U.S., GB and Israel, yet Slavery still exists in muslim countries; the worst ethnic genocide since WWII occurred in Rwanda - ignored by the UN and the UN agenda was set by dictators in countries practicing the worst (they outnumber the democratic members). Colin Powell left but NGOs (Mex-Amer Legal Defence, National Lawyers Guild - communist front organization, the Castro Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU) stayed because to talk about racism is to talk about revolution. American leftists seized the occasion to state that the 9/11 attacks had root causes: Susan Sontag, "The 9/11 strike was not a cowardly attack on civilization or liberty or humanity or the free world." While bin Laden claims their war is a jihad against Crusaders and Zionists, Historically, the Crusades were a response to the muslim sacking of Jerusalem. University of North Carolina attacked America as a rouge state. Professor Nicholas De Genova, of Columbia University: "Peace is not patriotic but subversive…Peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live - a world where the U.S. would have no place."

You have John Edwards speak of the two Americas.

Well, the two Americas that matter are an America that embraces its heritage and purposes, and an America that has seceded from both. Secessionists (John Edwards, Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid et al) believe that America is the adversary of what is decent and good, that its heritage is one of inequality and injustice, and that its purposes are expressed in an arrogant will to dominate and oppress. They believe America is the root cause of the forces that assault it and that its adversaries are actually its victims. Consequently, the secessionists want to make a separate peace with America’s enemies, even in the midst of a war on terror in which the enemy has condemned every American to death. They want to disown the courageous and generous acts of their own country defending the powerless against oppressive regimes like the Taliban or tyrants like Saddam Hussein. The secessionists are the heirs of Marxism and Communism who believe they are citizens of the world rather than of the nation that guarantees their survival and their freedoms.

Lynne Stewart, National Lawyers Guild attorney for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of WTC bombing 1993:

"We have in Washington a poisonous government that spreads its venom to the body politic in all corners of the globe. We now welcome modern heroes...Ho, Mao, Lenin, Fidel and Che Guevara."

Leftist Terrorism wherein European anarchists, socialists and communists and in the U.S., students, led by the 60’s kids picked up components of Marxist thought. The left has traditionally opposed our military power and subscribe to Leon Trotsky - "American power is a conservative force, constantly interested in the maintenance of order in every corner of the globe"

Right-Wing terrorism wherein the European Union and single currency created fear of a loss of national identity and growing influx of immigrants from muslim countries.

And, there is the Ethnic-Based terrorism such as the Basques of Spain who want complete separation from the Spanish and an independent homeland within Spain

Defining Terrorism: United States Code - Sec. 2331

International terrorism means activities that involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws...that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy of a government ...or to affect the conduct of a government by assignation or kidnapping and occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum.

Future terrorism may come from both left and right:

The Left opposes control of the world’s economic resources by the multinationals and feels democratic governments cannot hold these corporations in check.

The Right sees globalism, as in the UN, as a threat to sovereignty.

Extremists on both sides are willing to use violence. The terrorist has decided on issues that trouble us and is engaged in politics, making little distinction between strategy and tactics on the one hand, and principle on the other. Terrorists distinguish themselves from the casual homicide in critical respects: they murder systematically rather than at random and they are symbolic rather than passionate and their actions are usually well planned rather than spontaneous. Thus, terrorism is a sociological phenomenon rather than psychological. Terrorists believe that an act of violence will encourage the uncommitted to withdraw support from the regime and hence make wider revolutionary acts possible by weakening the resolve of the opposition.

Previously, terrorists typically did not have a well-defined ideological persuasion whereas today’s terrorism has political and social aims. Therefore, treating terrorists as criminals has simply not worked. They are motivated by fierce commitment to an ideology and they are imbedded in a culture. So, 21st Century terrorism is truly global, WMD are more accessible, information systems are highly vulnerable, and solutions will involve money, convenience or liberty. If you doubt this, consider that the Al Qaeda Training Manual teaches kidnapping enemy personnel, assassinating enemy personnel as well as foreign tourists, blasting and destroying places of amusement, embassies and economic centers, and spreading rumors that instigate people against the enemy.

Please recall that Chamberlin thought he had a peace agreement with Hitler - today’s politicians don’t seem to remember their history very well.

Leaping forward, muslims are gradually overtaking Europe via birthrates - at current rates, in 70 years they will be a majority. Since 9/11: Bali bombings, Australian bombings, GBs July 7/7 bombings, 10 airliners from London to U.S were threatened, and Terrorist cells are in at least 80 countries.

Terrorism is no longer confined to the Middle East and Northern Ireland: Sep 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, 1995 Oklahoma City. Most Recently: 9/4 British tourist shot in Jordan, Johnny Jihad, Adam Gadahn - said change your religion or die, Al Qaeda - will try to manipulate upcoming elections. UN effectiveness is zero. New terrorism is more aimed at destruction of society and elimination of segments of populations. One problem is the availability of destructive weapons - biological, chemical, cybernetic and nuclear. Biological need not be especially hi-tech - anthrax in Washington and Florida. Chemical are available by homebrew or via rouge states - Japan - sarin gas is an example. Cyber terrorism - viruses such as Melissa and the Love Bug can do serious economic damage. And Nuclear - just time.

Terms to know include Intifada - Arabic for uprising refers to a spontaneous outbreak of unrest that triggered the December 1987 killings of several Arabs in the Gaza Strip when their vehicle collided with an Israeli vehicle. Rumors that the killing was deliberate inflamed riots. Necklace - A burning, gasoline soaked tire placed around the neck. Shiites - Sect that split from mainstream Sunni (orthodox muslims) sect of Islam in the Seventh Century over who had spiritual leadership. Iran is the only muslim state in which Shiites are a majority. Peaceful muslims: We keep hearing about peaceful muslims - where are they? muslims want to kill all infidels - that’s us, so which muslims do we trust?

Do you remember - the horrors of 9/11, 3000 dead, people covered in soot, burning buildings, calls for revenge? What can we do? Face reality and realize this is happening and should never be excused as a reaction a perceived wrong. Become knowledgeable but NOT via the common media - see publications such as Christian Science Monitor, Economist, International Tribune but not the NY Times or CBS or the like. Amend our sense of justice to see these people see the world different from us. Get out of bed with the Saudis. Know our enemy - The al Qaeda training manual: "Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and cooperative councils. They are established as they always have been by pen and gun by word and bullet by tongue and teeth."

Harden targets. Cut off support - their benefactors - countries, charities, sympathizers. Accept the fact that this war will not be over in a TV hour but will go on for 20 - 30 years. Insist on action beyond simple police action, these terrorists are not common criminals. Organize groups who want to defeat terrorists. Develop the political will to fight these people and not back away from because it may be risky (Clinton when CIA had bin Laden located). Demand accountability of, and access to decision makers and when you get solicitations for monies to help this or that group say NO until they are willing to answer questions. Insist on two years national service for every person between the ages of 18 and 24 - yes, a draft!

We need an out of government experience - we need to adapt to a situation in which participants do not play by the rules. Develop the will to win - Beirut, Somolia, and Viet Nam prove to bin Laden that we don’t have the nerve to fight.

Finally, Remain Vigilant -- DO NOT FORGET!

RELATIVES OF U.S. MEN'S VOLLEYBALL COACH

Stabbed In Beijing

1 Dead

A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.

The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.

The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because of the rarity of violent crime against foreigners in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics.

The stabbing came only hours after what by many accounts was the most spectacular opening ceremony in Olympic history and it has already dampened some of the enthusiasm.

"They are deeply saddened and shocked," Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, said of the volleyball team.

The U.S. Olympic Committee said in a statement that two family members of a coach for the men's indoor volleyball team were stabbed at the Drum Tower "during an attack by what local law enforcement authorities have indicated was a lone assailant."

One of the family members was killed and the other was seriously injured, it said, without giving details.

The official Xinhua News Agency identified the attacker as Tang Yongming, 47, from the eastern city of Hangzhou. It said Tang attacked the two Americans and their Chinese tour guide, who was also injured, at 12:20 p.m. on the second level of the ancient tower, then leapt to his death immediately afterward. The second level of the tower is about 130 feet high.

Seibel said the two Americans who were attacked were not wearing anything that would have identified them as Americans or part of the U.S. team. He could not name the coach.

"They were not wearing apparel or anything that would have specifically identified them as being members of our delegation" or as Americans, he told The Associated Press.

He said it is "too early to say" whether the U.S. delegation or athletes will require additional security.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan said it was aware of an incident involving two Americans and was working with Chinese authorities to find out more. He said U.S. officials were in contact with relatives of the two Americans who are in Beijing.

"Out of respect for the families involved, we can't say more than that," Don Q. Washington, another embassy spokesman, told reporters.

Police blocked off streets leading to the Drum Tower immediately after the attack and cordoned off the area with yellow police tape. Security officers were examining the scene on the tower and below.

Attacks on foreigners in China are extremely rare. A Canadian model was murdered last month in Shanghai, but police said that was because she stumbled onto a burglary.

In March, a screaming, bomb-strapped hostage-taker who commandeered a bus with 10 Australians aboard in the popular tourist city of Xi'an was shot to death by a police sniper.

Shanghai and Beijing are still safer than most foreign cities of their size. Punishments for crimes against foreigners are heavier than for crimes against Chinese, and police-linked neighborhood watch groups are highly vigilant. Chinese are not allowed to own guns.

Even so, the U.S. government now warns Americans against muggings, beatings and even carjackings, especially in the nightlife and shopping districts of large cities.

Built in the 13th century, the Drum Tower is one of the few ancient structures still in Beijing, and was used to tell time in imperial China for the city, using drummers who pounded their instruments to mark the hours. It is located on an important central axis of the city, to the north of the Forbidden City, the former home of the emperor.

The White House said President Bush, who is in Beijing for the opening days of the games, was informed of the incident, and his heart goes out to the families of the victims. It said the administration and the Beijing U.S. embassy have offered those families any assistance they need. Also, U.S. officials have been speaking to Chinese authorities about the incident.

International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said in a statement that the committee had received reports of the attack and was in contact with Beijing Games organizers "to find out full details, and are ready to provide whatever assistance we can."

(I told everyone to stay away from the "games". But would they listen?

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OBAMA RUNNING IN VIOLATION OF US ELECTION LAW

Barack Hussein Obama is not legally a US natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth; a law that was in effect between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, when the law was changed.

However, the new law did not preempt the former law in the cases of those born between the above listed dates when the old law was in effect.

Therefore, Senator Obama may very well be disqualified as the Democratic candidate in the upcoming Presidential campaign.

Presidential office requires the person elected to be a natural-born United States citizen if the child was not born to two US citizen parents.

US Law very clearly stipulates: "If only one parent was a US citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16."

Barack Hussein Obama’s father was not a US citizen, and Obama’s mother was only 18 when he was born, which means although she had been a US citizen for 10 years, his mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years prior to Barack Hussein Obama’s birth.

In order for her child to have been a natural-born US citizen, his mother would have had to be 21 at the time of his birth.

In essence, Mrs. Obama was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic US citizenship.

His mother would have needed to have been 16+5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Hussein Obama’s birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen.

Barack Hussein Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office of President under current law.

At best, Barack Hussein Obama is only a naturalized US citizen.

This is an issue that must be clarified before the election.

Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President as is the case with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Barack Hussein Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, all the other information does not matter because his mother is the one who needed to have been a US citizen for at least 10 years prior to his birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after she became age 16.

If Obama were elected President without being a natural-born US citizen, it would set precedence that would enable Governor Schwarzenegger and other naturalized US citizens to also run for President.

The above information may be presented from the floor at the Democratic National Convention, and my be the impetus of resurrecting Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Presidential campaign.

(And let's not forget that the "birth certificate" presented by Obama is NOT A VALID CERTIFICATE!)

CHINESE POLICE TIGHTEN SECURITY

Following Fatal Stabbing

Of American tourist

Police tightened security Sunday as they investigated the fatal stabbing of the father of a former U.S. Olympian, an attack that stunned the athletic community and embarrassed Chinese authorities determined to hold the most successful Summer Games ever.

(Isn't that something like closing the barn door AFTER the horse escapes?)

NO MORE VIETNAMS

The war in Iraq may be ending in much the same way the war in Vietnam appeared to be ending in 1973 with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. We had finally won in Vietnam, but then lost the peace two years later. The outcome of the 2008 presidential election could determine whether Iraq becomes "another Vietnam" should there be a significant renewal of insurgent activity.

The Left would have us believe we were stuck in Iraq in an endless and unwinnable quagmire like they said we had in Vietnam. That comparison, however, has not held up. While much about the two wars is similar, a key difference was Lyndon Johnson's muddled strategy in Vietnam compared with George W. Bush's winning strategy in Iraq.

In 1965, Johnson should have decided either to win the war quickly or to pull U.S. forces out and go home. Instead, he chose a middle road that resulted in a series of "measured responses" and troop escalations that lead to a debacle. One measured response Johnson employed was restrictive rules of engagement. Barry Goldwater identified a few in his autobiography:

American pilots were not permitted to attack North Vietnamese MIGs sitting on the runway. It could only be attacked when it was flying and showed "hostile intent". . . . SAM missile sites and supporting radar could not be struck while under construction, only after they became operational and actually fired at U.S. aircraft.

And on and on they went. Not surprisingly, North Vietnamese aggressiveness increased in direct proportion to our restraint resulting in many needless U.S. casualties. It is an ironic fact that the threat of swift and effective military action is one of the best ways to insure peace. A quick and decisive war, moreover, will result in far fewer casualties for both sides than one that drags on for years.

If Johnson was serious about winning, he should have made that clear early on. Goldwater believed LBJ should have publicly stated what he intended to do if the North Vietnamese continued to wage war against the South. That probably would have meant the threat of destroying their factories, ports, dikes, and infrastructure. Such an attack would have to have been launched when we were still a credible adversary, and not years later when our resolve was clearly fading.

When any president goes to war, he has a limited amount of time to win it before the people grow weary and want out. By March 1968, that time had come for LBJ.

Contrary to the media's portrayal of an endless unwinnable war in Vietnam, however, we virtually annihilated the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive. In a matter of weeks, Ho Chí Minh effectively lost the "people's war" by solidifying the South against him. That year, it also became apparent that a negotiated settlement was perhaps the best outcome we could hope for in Vietnam. To reach that end, however, several difficult years of building up South Vietnamese forces would lay ahead. Richard Nixon's Vietnamization policy was designed to achieve just that, and proved to be successful.

Only after determined South Vietnamese resistance against the 1972 offensive, and twelve consecutive days of devastating B-52 air strikes on North Vietnam did Hanoi move toward a genuine peace agreement. As part of the deal, we agreed to be the enforcer of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. But when North Vietnamese violations occurred, antiwar liberals in Congress prevented us from fulfilling our commitments to the treaty.

Congress cut funding and slowly starved South Vietnam of the supplies they needed to defend themselves. The Soviets, meanwhile, continued to pump arms into the North. Public apathy, a scandalized president and a liberal Congress gave up all for which we had struggled. The U.S. effectively abandoned Southeast Asia, and the North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge moved in - with horrific results. And in doing so, we betrayed our trusted allies and our own good name.

In both Vietnam and Iraq, our cause was just. A valid debate continues on whether we should have fought either one of them. But it must be acknowledged that once we are committed to war the only acceptable way out is victory. Bush may have been unprepared for the insurgency that followed his initial success, but we always knew he would ultimately do whatever was necessary it win. For more than five years he has been able to maintain Congressional funding and public support and to achieve success.

Unlike Johnson in Vietnam, George W. Bush clearly warned Saddam Hussein of the consequences of not abiding by UN resolutions. Saddam ignored them, and was crushed within days of the start of the war. Our early aggressiveness in the war was a principle reason casualties in Iraq were so much lower than they were in Vietnam.

The effectiveness of Iraqi soldiers and police were agonizingly inept in the early days, but they eventually improved. The "Anbar Awakening" and the counterinsurgency surge strategy were major turning points in the war. Today, Iraqis are taking over security of their country.

The media's cries of "another Vietnam" started even before Baghdad fell, and increased as the insurgency took hold. Their "objective reporting" served mostly to encourage the terrorists i