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Never mind what JFK said. Too many Americans are not asking what they can do for their country. They just want to know what their country is going to do for them.
Watch the video below and listen to "Peggy Joseph". She's not going to have to worry about bills anymore, thanks to Obama. All hail the Obamassiah!
I think I am going to be violently ill.
Friday, October 31, 2008
This lady is part of the problem
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Election anxiety
I'm just disgusted with this whole election. You might ask why I continue to be obsessed with it and read so much about it if it's stressing me out so much. Well, I believe this election is the most important one ever. There is a whole lot at stake.
People who say they don't follow politics amaze me. Politics affects every area of your life. I'm certainly not as politically aware as I'd like to be. I don't know as much about history as I should, and I'm not as familiar with who my local elected officials are as I should be. But I'll be damned if I'm going to sit back and be blissfully ignorant while someone like Barack Obama tries to take our freedoms away.
For one thing, I'm disgusted with the liberal media coverage. Well, more specifically, I'm disgusted with their non-coverage of the truth about Obama. As Neal Boortz said today, what if someone could come up with something that John McCain wrote in which he detailed his attraction to members of the Ku Klux Klan? We all know what would happen. Yet Obama talks about his attraction to Marxism in his book Dreams From My Father. Have you heard that reported in the liberal media? I didn't think so.
Not only that, if you attempt to ask the Obama campaign any tough questions, you are put on shut-up immediately. Have you heard about the television anchor who rattled Joe Biden? Biden was incredibly condescending and angrily defensive in his responses, and now that TV station has been banned from the Obama campaign media list. Wow. If you're going to interview a liberal, make sure to ask only softball questions. Here comes the "Fairness" Doctrine. Look out, talk radio.
In general, I am just disgusted with anyone who would vote for the Democrats in this election. I have never been a fan of a Democratic candidate, but I wasn't simply astounded when I knew people who were voting for Clinton. I wasn't appalled when I heard that a friend had voted for Al Gore. But in this case, I simply don't get it. I can't think of a single redeeming quality that Obama possesses. I only see 2 types of Obama supporters: 1. People who are voting for color. 2. People who are mad at George Bush and therefore voting against the Republican party.
I guess these people either don't know what socialism is, or don't care. I guess these people aren't worried about Islamic extremists, and don't find it significant that Obama is awful chummy with some horribly wicked people. Well, I don't believe in coincidence, at least not to this extent. You aren't pals with Ayers, Alinsky, Khalidi, Wright, etc., and endorsed by multiple evil dictators and terrorist groups, yet completely innocent of any wrong-doing or backwards thinking.
I don't drink often, but I might have to get drunk on election day.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
This should be all over the news
But of course, it isn't.
Watch this video that was just uncovered today. Actually, it's more audio than video, but there is a little to watch that goes along with it. It is less than 5 minutes long, so everyone can find time to watch this. Then read what I have to say below it.
I have listened to this about 6 times now.
I hear something more than what most of the pundits are saying about it. In fact, the only person I have heard mention what I'm about to say is Glenn Beck. I caught about 5 minutes of his radio show this morning, and he said it.
In this tape from 2001, Obama mentions that the Civil Rights movement didn't do enough, in that it did not provide for the redistribution of wealth.
As you know, the Civil Rights Movement refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans.
Don't get me wrong. That was a good thing.
HOWEVER, when Obama says that he doesn't believe it did enough, he is saying that it didn't do enough for African Americans....because, again, that is what the movement was about.
And what he feels was left out of the movement was the redistribution of wealth.
So, is Obama talking about reparations? I think one could infer that, don't you? That's the logical conclusion here. He's not just talking about redistribution of wealth, in general. He's talking about reparations for African Americans.
How does Obama feel about white people? Just as a reminder, here are some quotes from him again:
"That's just how white folks will do you."--Barack Obama
"....After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."--Barack Obama
"It is this world...where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"--Barack Obama (Edited to make Malcolm happy: This is actually a quote from Jeremiah Wright. As if that matters. Obama included it in his book, and Obama all but idolized Wright. Birds of a feather, and all that...)
"I don't believe it's possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away."--Barack Obama
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person."--Barack Obama
I am not drinking the funny Kool-aid. I'm no paranoid conspiracy theorist.
I'm just listening to what is coming out of the man's mouth!
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Boortz explains Obama's misleading statements
If you don't read all of this, at least read the part in bold. It spells out Obama's "tax credits" for those who pay very little, if any, taxes. In other words, it is his plan for welfare for those who are "less fortunate".
This is from Neal Boortz:
AT LEAST KNOW WHO YOU'RE VOTING FOR -- A CHALLENGE
The election is now eight days way. If you've made up your mind for Obama; or if you're trying to noodle through some of the things he's been saying on the campaign trail, this should help. I've taken four statements that The Chosen One repeats at almost every campaign rally. Now these statements are pretty powerful ... if unchallenged ... and we know that the MoveOn Media isn't exactly what we would call "eager" to challenge God's Candidate on any of these issues.
So, here we go again .. this simple talk show host (right wing, hate-filled shock jock, I believe they call us) is going to use some basic logic and the ability to actually read newspapers to catch you up to speed on just what the Big BO is saying here. Now if you're educated in our wonderful government schools you may find this challenging. Stick with it. In spite of what the government has done to you, you can generate some new brain cells that will help you deal with this stuff. It would also help if you got your campaign news from somewhere other than Saturday Night Live.
Here we go, front and center with Barack Obama!
"I'm going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans."
This Obama promise has already been pretty much debunked in the media. The problem is that it hasn't been debunked on the Black Entertainment Television network or on Inside Edition or Entertainment Tonight. Until these television outlets bring forth the facts most of Obama's supporters won't know the truth.
And what is the truth? The truth is that almost one-half of working Americans eligible to vote don't pay federal income taxes in the first place. This brings forth the interesting question of how do you cut taxes for people who don't pay taxes. What Obama has done here is change the definition of "tax cut."
It used to be that when the government walked up to someone who had just received their paycheck and said 'Gimme some of that," and the government then gave that money to someone else who had not earned it; that was called welfare. Now apparently you can't get welfare if you're working ... so we'll just call it income seizure and redistribution. Under Obama a couple earning, for example, $70,000 and owing no federal income taxes at all will get several checks from Obama's federal taxpayer-funded treasury. These checks will be called "tax cuts."
So .. for those who don't pay taxes, here are some of the "tax cut" checks you'll be getting from The Chosen One. I'm taking some literary license here and replacing the words "tax credit" with the word "payment." That literary flourish brings us much closer to the truth. Here are your goodies; come and get 'em:
A $500 "make work pay" payment.
A $4,000 payment for college tuition.
A payment equal to 10% of your mortgage interest
A payment equal to 50% of the amount of money you put into a savings account up to $1000.
A payment equal to 50% of the amount of money you pay for child care up to $6000.
A payment of up to $7,000 if you purchase a "clean car." By that Obama means an environmentally correct car.
Plus ... an expansion of the earned income tax credit .. increased payments on top of your earnings if the government doesn't feel you are earning enough.
There you go ... Obama's "tax cuts." Sounds pretty good, doesn't it. Well, I guess it is, if you're not too successful it IS pretty good. Remember, the harder you work the lower these payments get. Barack Obama's tax plans are all about punishing success and rewarding failure. He understands that if it weren't for failures, Democrats would be scrounging in the alleys for votes.
It's rather ironic that the Obama campaign will go to the mat with critics over the definition of "socialist," but feel absolutely free to change the definition of "tax cut" to anything that suits them.
"95% of small businesses won't pay any more taxes."
Once people started hearing that the very people that Obama wanted to raise taxes on are the people we depend on for jobs, The BO campaign had to come up with a line to neuter the "small business" argument. Barack Obama knows he's in trouble if the voters find out that 70% of all extant jobs are in the small business sector and that 80% of all new jobs are coming from small businesses. So, Obama comes up with this line about 95% of small businesses not paying any more taxes under his plan.
Here's the trick. Let me illustrate reality with a simple comparison. Let's say that we have 1000 small businesses. About 950 of them, that would be 95%, employ one or two people each for a total employment figure of 1,200. Now let's assume that the other 50 businesses employ anywhere from 20 people to hundreds of people for a total of about 250,000 workers. If someone comes along and says 95% of small businesses won't be affected by his tax increases, how do you feel? You know that the tax increase is going to slam those businesses that employ 250,000 workers, while leaving the 95% of businesses that employ just 1,200 people alone. Quite a deal, huh. Aren't you impressed?
The point here is that it's not the percentage of small businesses your tax increases hit, it's the percentage of small business employees. Unfortunately that nuance is lost on the majority of voters educated by the government, and the MoveOn Media sure isn't going to take the time to explain it to you. Obama's tax increases are going to hit the small business owners who employ the most people. They are the ones that make the most money. These business owners are going to respond to the tax increases one of two ways. They'll increase prices -- which hit all of us -- or they'll cut expenses. Their number one expense? Personnel. Vote for Obama, say TTFN to your job. Makes perfect sense to me, but then I was government educated too.
"John McCain voted with George Bush 90% of the time."
First of all, George Bush doesn't cast votes in the U.S. Senate, though McCain and Obama do. The best way to judge how they vote is to see how often they vote with their respective parties. You might want to get those nuisance resolutions proclaiming the need for a colonoscopy every once in a while out of the way. That would leave some key votes for you to consider. The Congressional Research Service did the work. They looked at votes for Obama and McCain on KEY issues. The results? Barack Obama voted with Democrats 97% of the time. John McCain voted with the Republicans 79% of the time. Now .. just sit on your hands and wait for the MoveOn Media to report that one. Sit on your hands, but for God's sake don't hold your breath.
"John McCain wants to tax your health insurance benefits."
He's right, but here's the rest of the story. Let's say that you and your brother work for different companies. Your company provides you with health insurance. Your brother has to buy his own. Your boss gets a tax deduction for the cost of your health insurance. Your brother does not get a tax deduction for the cost of his health insurance. In effect, he is paying much more than you are for the same policy. Not fair. There's a reason for this. For decades government has wanted to coerce you into getting insurance through your employer. This gets you acclimated to the idea of someone else -- someone besides yourself -- is responsible for your health care. The end result is that the government, in effect, subsidizes the cost of your health insurance, but not your brother's. Now McCain has this idea of a $5,000 tax credit for every family to pay for their own health insurance policy. To make this work everyone has to start from the same starting line. Remember, you're subsidized, your brother is not. So McCain takes away the tax deduction your employer gets for your health insurance. There ... now we're all of equal standing when the $5,000 tax credits start coming out.
Now that wasn't too hard, was it?
Now .. just in case you've read something here, heard something on my show or gathered some information from some other source that might cause you to switch your vote from Obama to McCain ... just remember. You're a racist. There is only one reason NOT to vote for Barack Obama, and that's if you're a robe-wearing, cross-burning Klansman. Just so you know. You're going to have that on your conscience.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Who's the racist? (Otherwise titled: The double standard)
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. The reason it has been on my mind so much is because of the many times I have heard white people being called racists, especially during this heated election season, for the most innocuous comments.
There are probably some people who will have a problem with what I'm going to say here (including the "rehab monster" who left a comment on my last post), but since everyone has the right to my opinion, I am going to post it anyway.
When I was in high school, I had quite a few black friends. I was a "band nerd", and most of my friends were in band, as well. I'd have to say that I had just as many black friends as white ones. Sharonda, Mona, Ron, Ayisha, Denise, Wally--I had more fun with them than I have ever had in my life since. Color wasn't even something we thought about. We were always together doing band activities (go ahead, call me a nerd again) and those were some of the best times of my life.
After high school, I lost touch with most of my school friends.
Cut to 2003. I moved to the city I live in now. I got a job at a local hospital, and the floor I worked on had a diverse crew. Diverse, but the majority of the employees on this particular floor were black. After being there for about 3-4 months, I was having a party at my house. I invited everyone at work. I was talking to the secretary, who happened to be black, about the party. When I asked if she knew if any of the girls were coming, she told me that they probably would not, because they didn't think there would be any black people there. Never mind that if a few of them came, HELLO, there would be black people there! That didn't seem to matter.
None of them showed up.
I can't recall how the subject came up, but a few months later, this same secretary told me that the black girls who worked with me did not like me. It wasn't a real surprise, as they made it excruciatingly obvious. But now she told me that they thought I was a racist. I asked what in the world I could have possibly done or said to make them feel that way. Her answer? "They found out you are a Republican." Yes, that is exactly what the secretary told me. I had never discussed politics or mentioned race. But someone had overheard me say that I was registered Republican, and I was immediately branded a racist. It was obvious to me how important race was on that unit, and now I knew for sure that I did not fit in.
My black co-workers, when pointing me out to a visitor on our unit, would yell down the hall, "THE WHITE GIRL!" Yet, I am have been told, more than once, that if I point out the fact that someone is black, even just to mention it in passing conversation, I am a racist.
So, here I was, the minority, and I was being accused of being a racist because of my party affiliation. The black people were refusing to come to my party, not really because there wouldn't be any black people there, but because "the white girl" was having the party. And, while it's ok to refer to me as such (which, incidentally, didn't bother me in the least), I had better not get caught doing the same thing if the tables were turned.
So, what is going on in this country? In 1985, I could be friends with black people, and we never stopped to consider the color of each other's skin. In 2004, I am a racist because I am Republican, and the black people I work with every day don't want to come to my house.
Who were the racists? Who was making race an issue? It wasn't me.
So, now I will get to the main point of this blog post:
I am so sick of hearing about people being called racists for choosing not to vote for Barack Obama. I have never voted for a Democrat, and I'm certainly not going to start now. But if there had been a black, conservative Republican candidate as an option in the primaries, and if his policies were in line with my beliefs, I would not have hesitated to vote for him.
On the other hand, I think it's pretty clear that Obama is a racist. Too bad the liberal media didn't pound on him for his religious beliefs the way they did Mitt Romney for his. I have already mentioned Obama's former church. It's the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. On their website, they proclaim to be "unashamedly black". I can just imagine what would happen if any church bragged on their website about being "unashamedly white". And HERE is the value system of the church. As I suggested before, every time you read the word "black" there, replace it with "white". What would have happened if John McCain had attended a church with that value system? Jesse and Al would have gone on a tirade, and McCain would not be the Republican nominee for the presidency, to say the least. Yet Obama attended this church for 20 years, and only left under election year pressure. Even Oprah, who I am not a fan of, left the same church years ago because of Jeremiah Wright's sermons. The sermons that Obama claimed he had never heard.
To further support my argument, here are some quotes, straight from the horse's mouth. You have probably heard all of them, but it really drives the point home when you take them all together. These comments make it obvious that Obama has an incredible amount of contempt for white people, and that his loyalty lies not with the American people, but with one race.
"That's just how white folks will do you."--Barack Obama
"....After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."--Barack Obama
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"--Barack Obama (Edited to make Malcolm happy: This is actually a quote from Jeremiah Wright. As if that matters. Obama included it in his book, and Obama all but idolized Wright. Birds of a feather, and all that...)
"I don't believe it's possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away."--Barack Obama
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person."--Barack Obama
What white person, much less white presidential candidate, could get away with saying anything like that about black people?
So why the double standard? In a country where we are told that we must be "color blind", why is race constantly being brought up in this election? Why are whites considered racist if they choose not to vote for Barack Obama? Why do I hear black people saying they are voting for Obama because "it's about time we put a black man in the White House"? And why does Obama get a pass on some of his comments, not to mention his association with the hateful, despicable Jeremiah Wright and his racist church?
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Is Obama a citizen of the US?
There is certainly enough negative information about Barack Obama to convince any intelligent person that he's a very poor choice for president. So, even if the following is just a political smear, it certainly doesn't change my opinion of him.
Having said that, I still don't like to post things if I'm not reasonably sure they are true. When I first heard about this, it just didn't sound believable. But the more I hear about it, the more I start to wonder.
I don't watch much TV, but I'll go out on a limb and guess that the media isn't reporting this story.
Read the article, and watch the video.
Obama's grandma confirms Kenyan birth
'This has been a real sham he's pulled off for the last 20 months'
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Philip J. Berg
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The Pennsylvania Democrat who has sued Sen. Barack Obama demanding he prove his American citizenship – and therefore qualification to run for president – has confirmed he has a recording of a telephone call from the senator's paternal grandmother confirming his birth in Kenya.
The issue of Obama's birthplace, which he states is Honolulu in 1961, has been raised enough times that his campaign website has posted an image purporting to be of his "Certification of Live Birth" from Hawaii.
But Philip J. Berg, a former deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania, told the Michael Savage talk radio program tonight that the document is forged and that he has a tape recording he will soon release.
"This has been a real sham he's pulled off for the last 20 months," Berg told Savage. "I'll release it [the tape] in a day or two, affidavits from her talking to a certain person. I heard the tape. She was speaking [to someone] here in the United States."
He said the telephone call was from Obama's paternal grandmother affirming she "was in the delivery room in Kenya when he was born Aug. 4, 1961."
Berg said he's pursuing the issue because of "the most important document in the United States," the U.S. Constitution.
"Nothing is more important than enforcing the Constitution," he said. "The Constitution's provisions are very small for qualifying for president. One, be over 35, and he is. Two, be in the country 14 years, and he has been. Three, be a natural-born citizen. He is not."
Obama campaign officials acknowledged the dispute by posting the image purporting to be a copy of his certification of live birth earlier this year. But they've declined to return WND requests for comment on the issues.
WND reported earlier this week Berg's claim that Obama has legally "admitted" the accusations included in his lawsuit, including that he was born in Mombosa, Kenya, by not responding to the allegations.
Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court in August alleging Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus ineligible to serve as president of the United States.
His lawsuit is demanding that the courts verify Obama's original birth certificate.
Berg has cited Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states that unless the accused party provides written answer or objection to charges within 30 days, the accused legally admits the matter.
Since Obama filed only motions to dismiss the case and did not actually answer the claims, according to Rule 36, Obama has legally admitted he is not a natural-born citizen., asserted Berg, who has taken his information public through his website.
Berg addressed the existence of a birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, featured on the Atlasshrugs2000 website, that suggests Obama was born in the city Aug. 4, 1961.
But Berg explained to Savage he believes Obama's mother was near the end of her pregnancy and unable to travel by plane, so Obama was born in Kenya. The family then traveled to Hawaii and registered the birth and submitted the newspaper announcement.
Besides Berg's lawsuit, several other court challenges also have been filed, including one in Washington state where petitioners are seeking to have the Washington secretary of state "verify Obama's eligibility" to serve prior to the election.
The claim states, "The 'certificate' that Mr. Obama has posted on his official Website is a 'Certification of Live Birth,' and not a 'Birth Certificate' from Hawaii. There is no indication on even this certificate as to specifically where the birth took place."
Berg also told Savage there is no information available on which hospital Obama's mother used in Hawaii.
The Washington state case also alleges, "Wayne Madsen, Journalist with Online Journal as a contributing writer and published an article on June 9, 2008, stating that a research team went to Mombassa, Kenya, and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Kenya Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen.
When Jerome Corsi, senior WND investigator reporter, recently traveled to Kenya to investigate several questions about the candidate, he was told the records were sealed and would not be made available.
Though it hasn't given Berg the evidence he seeks, the Obama campaign has publicly answered allegations that the candidate was born in Kenya and faked his Hawaii birth certificate.
"Smears claiming Barack Obama doesn't have a birth certificate aren't actually about that piece of paper," says the "Fight the Smears" section of Obama's website, "they're about manipulating people into thinking Barack is not an American citizen.
"The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America," the campaign website states. It also includes images of the Hawaii certificate bearing the name Barack Hussein Obama II.
The Washington claim states, "If in fact Obama was born in Kenya, the laws on the books in the United States at the time of his birth stated if a child is born abroad and one parent was a U.S. Citizen, which would have been his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother would have had to live ten (10) years in the United States, five (5) of which were after the age of fourteen (14). At the time of Obama's birth, his mother was only eighteen (18) and therefore did not meet the residency requirements under the law to give her son (Obama) U.S. Citizenship much less the status of 'natural born.'
"Berg said he believed it also was a complication that Obama's mother divorced his father, married and moved to Indonesia for several years and Obama attended school there at a time when, Berg said, only Indonesia citizens were allowed in schools. Records that are available from Indonesia revealed Obama was registered in school as Barry Soetoro, and his religion was listed as Islam.
When Obama later returned to Hawaii, within the United States, there should have been a government document affirming his citizenship, but that also cannot be found. If that was not processed properly, Berg said, Obama would be in a situation even worse than not being a natural-born citizen.
"If he didn't go through immigration
, he now is illegal and has been an illegal alien. He couldn't even hold the position of senator for Illinois," Berg said.
Further, Berg said he suspected Obama's college records may indicate he received aid as a foreigner, and that's why those records have been withheld by the campaign.
"I really think it's because it probably indicates he's from Kenya, or Indonesia, or received foreign aid," Berg said.
"I feel very confident saying these things," Berg told Savage.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
It's ok, Joe. I'm not good with numbers, either.
Let's break up the political monotony and take time out for a little humor.
Ok, it's still political. But what's more entertaining than making fun of a Democrat?
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Obama supporters: This is who you are voting for
And I want to know why. I want to know why some Americans, who appear otherwise sane, would choose Barack Obama as our commander-in-chief.
Many people are voting for Obama strictly because they are angry at Republicans. I can't believe that anyone could hate the GOP so much that he/she would vote for someone with ties to so many shady individuals, including but not limited to Bill Ayers.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the videos I posted HERE. Go ahead. Take 30-45 minutes and just watch them.
How do you explain away all of these connections? Coincidence?
Why doesn't this scare Obama supporters?
There is a reason that many members of the US Communist party support Obama. There is a reason that the terrorist group Hamas openly endorsed him. There is a reason that Hugo Chavez is in favor of an Obama presidency.
Last night in the debate, Obama assured the American people that Ayers will not serve in his cabinet. Imagine a world where a presidential candidate has to promise us that he will not have an unrepentent terrorist as part of his administration. You'd think we should be able to take that for granted. Not in this campaign.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Obama, the Socialist
Why is it that some people who appear to be good, intelligent, hard-working Americans are actually planning to vote for Obama? Just this week, I discovered another friend who supports the socialist candidate. Of course, she has the right to vote for whoever she wants. But I have to admit that it disappoints me. I wonder if she really understands what his plan is, and what he stands for.
Obama has now come out and said that he believes in wealth redistribution. Listen to what he told this plumber, who asked why Obama planned to raise his taxes:
What? Say that again?
"It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too."
NEWSFLASH: We all have a chance at success. It's not a guarantee. The American Dream is based on hard work leading to prosperity, and that doesn't mean my hard work leading to your prosperity.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
ACORN: We will beat down McCain
Watch the very short video, then read the article below it.
Conservatives, get out there and vote!
From Atlas Shrugs
By Jeffrey Lord
A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is "not confident we can get a fair election" in the state come November.
Justice Sandra Newman, accompanied by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward Marsico and Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason, expressed her concerns at a Harrisburgpress conference this morning. A thick document replete with photo copies of phony registrations and aerial shots of vacant lots used as "addresses" for "voters" was handed out to journalists.
Gleason was even more explicit.
"Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board" with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. "Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election."
"Voter fraud is no longer just a Philadelphia problem," Gleason said, with ACORN targeting key counties across the state.
Counties specifically cited included:
* Delaware County: One of four key suburban counties that surround Philadelphia and are at the heart of the campaign by the forces of Senator Barack Obama to carry the state. In one instance, an ACORN employee circulating voter registration forms in Delaware County was featured on the Pennsylvania "Megan's Law" website, described as having been arrested for "aggravated indecent assault" of a child. Other ACORN circulators had prior criminal records for forgery and giving false information to a police officer, among other charges. Gleason has provided copies of complaints from actual Delaware County voters who were notified by the local election board of their "new" registration to vote. One voter wrote that he "did not complete this form because this information does not match my info at all. I have been a voter for many years. Did not recently register to vote." Said another: "I did not submit any application for voter registration…While the spelling of my name and address is correct, the birth date and Drivers License (sic) number are incorrect." And another angrily wrote that the "personal information" on a form submitted in her name "IS NOT ME." She added: Please have the county investigate this. I feel my identity is being compromised."
* Philadelphia County: The situation in the state's largest city is so bad the Philadelphia City Commission, which supervises the registration of Philadelphia voters, voted unanimously to "voluntarily" turn over its extensive records to the United States Attorney's office for prosecution.
* Dauphin County: Dauphin County (the location of the state capital) District Attorney Marsico said the situation was so bad in Harrisburg that one ACORN worker is now being sought by authorities for submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration forms. The charge is 19 counts of perjury. One Harrisburg lobbyist, a voter for 30 years, had received notification she had recently filled out a registration form. The lobbyist went straight to the DA with her complaint. Marsico said that what was happening with ACORN "affects the integrity of the process" and that the volume of phony registrations made him "sure that others are going on" that have been undetected.
* Allegheny County: Pittsburgh. Here District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. and county police Superintendent Charles Moffatt have just announced, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that "they are investigating and considering charges against ACORN staffers and other voter registration groups."
* Centre County: The home of Penn State, which enrolls more than 40,000 students at its home campus. Justice Newman said there was a "massive effort" to fraudulently register students, with efforts aimed at "multiple registrations."
* Erie County: The county at the northwestern tip of the state with its largest namesake city, here too students at local colleges are being targeted in "student registration drives" designed to register voters 18 and over "multiples of times." Student registrants, registered to vote in their home states, had "pending absentee ballot applications" submitted so they could vote for president both in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The Director of Elections in Erie has reported the telltale "same handwriting" on applications, according to Newman.
Marsico added that he believed the attempted fraud was being perpetrated in smaller Pennsylvania counties as well, counties where the resources to investigate simply don't exist.
Perhaps most humorously was the role of 21st century technology in tracking down several attempted frauds.
Through the wonder of Google, aerial shots displayed the following:
* 2418 Curtin Terrace in Philadelphia is -- an empty field.
* 3103 S. 24th Street in Philadelphia -- ditto.
* 4543 N. 11th Street in Philadelphia -- ditto.
And so on. And on again.
Asked whether the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party had come forward to work with the GOP on the ACORN voter fraud issue, Gleason tersely shook his head. One source did say that much of the impetus for the fraud was "an Obama effort," as opposed to the Democratic Party as an institution.
All of this brings Pennsylvania into focus as yet another key battleground state where a serious effort is being made to, bluntly put, steal the presidency in a move reminiscent of the attempts made by the 2000 Gore campaign in Florida. Just as ACORN's efforts have been directed at key electoral states such as Florida, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico Ohio, and Wisconsin, so within Pennsylvania have its efforts been targeted at key Pennsylvania counties. For decades the internal electoral math of the state for Republicans has been to overwhelm the heavy Democratic vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with strong showings in the Philadelphia suburbs, Central Pennsylvania, and western counties outside Pittsburgh.
Thus have ACORN's fraud efforts -- those at least that have been detected -- been directed at Philadelphia (where increasing the Obama total to counter less enthusiastic support from white ethnics becomes critical), Delaware County in the pro-GOP Philadelphia suburbs, Dauphin County (in the heart of Central Pennsylvania) and Erie in the Northwest.
Is it really possible that the presidency could be stolen for Obama by virtue of a massive voter fraud here in Pennsylvania? And elsewhere? ACORN seems to think so. One so-called "non-partisan" ACORN member, Gleason pointed out, has been captured on video tape saying the group's objective was to "beat McCain down." Not exactly "non-partisan" sounding, is it?
Newman, the retired Supreme Court Justice, was blunt on the evidence: "I don't want a president who does this."
ACORN clearly does.
Makes you wonder: why?
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
American Carol sabotage?
Saturday, I saw the movie American Carol. If you don't know what that is, you can click HERE to find out. Let's just say that it makes fun of all things liberal, especially Michael Moore, and there's nothing wrong with that. :)
Anyway, after I bought my ticket, I was standing in line for popcorn and the manager came over and asked to see my ticket. She told me that they had sent me to the wrong theater, and that I should go to theater #14, rather than #4. When she walked off, I glanced down at the ticket and realized that they had actually sold me a ticket to see Eagle Eye, rather than American Carol.
I didn't think anything else of it until today.
This afternoon, I signed in on the political forum that I read, and someone had posted the following letter that he received on Facebook, supposedly from the actor who played JFK in the movie:
From Chriss Anglin:
"Free speech for me but not for thee."
Mpower pictures and Vivendi are starting to hear complaints about sabotage of An American Carol by employees of theaters that are carrying the movie. So far, ten theaters have been implicated in outright fraud regarding this movie.
Obviously, the producers and distributors would like to get to the bottom of this and find out the extent of any fraud, but they need our help to determine whether the problem is systemic, or confined to a few theaters in a nationwide release.
What we know: in at least ten theaters nationwide, customers were sold tickets they were told were for An American Carol but turned out to be for other movies.
Obviously, this type of "error" sometimes requires collusion between employees--a way of marking the ticket so that you are sent to the correct theater, even though you've been sold the wrong ticket.
As the customer, you'd have to actually read your ticket to check and make sure you weren't an unwitting instrument of this fraud.
If you suspect that this might have happened when you went to see the movie, please go double-check your tickets. If they have the wrong movie title on them, please take a picture of them and send them to the investigative team at http://americancarol.com/fraud . Please place the original tickets in a safe place and fill out the info on the AAC fraud site. They may need your ticket as evidence.
For more details on the investigation of various types of fraud against/sabotage of this movie please monitor the AAC Fraud Site: http://americancarol.com/fraud
Here are some subtler things to be on the alert for, in terms of attempts to suppress viewership / the appearance of viewership / box office receipts for this film. If you have noticed these irregularities with the theatres in your area please fill in the form at the AAC Fraud site, and leave their investigative team details in the comments section.
Examples:
• The theater suggested that the movie was rated R (its true rating is PG-13);
• Posters for the film are not visible inside or outside the theater;
• An American Carol is not on the marquee, even though the movie is playing there;
• The film title not listed behind the clerk in the box office, so you have to ask if that movie is playing at that theater, never mind that you checked on the internet and called in advance (this actually happened to me);
• Showtimes are given on the theater's outgoing message machine for every movie playing except for An American Carol;
• technical sabotage: image or focus issues, problems with sound, and the like.
Please check those tickets, check those movie houses where the movie is supposedly playing (but you have to ask about it if you want to see it), and document everything you can. Put those cell-phone cameras to use whenever possible.
Of course, I have no idea if that letter really came from Chriss Anglin, but I did a little internet search and found that this is being discussed online. Where this rumor started, I don't know. And I would normally not believe something like this. But it did happen to me. Coincidence? Or are there some people out there trying to deflate the box office numbers for the opening weekend of this conservative film?
Okay, okay. I sound paranoid, right? Maybe I should put on my tin foil hat.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Obama's Radicalism
Everyone should see this. Especially anyone who is actually considering voting for this man.
Not only is Barack Obama woefully unprepared to be President of the United States, I believe that he is evil.
Yes. Evil.
Below, I have embedded 6 videos from a special called Barack Obama and Friends that was done by Sean Hannity. It's scary to see some of the people Obama is and has been associated with. Please don't tell me that this has nothing to do with what kind of person he is. You'd have to be a fool to believe that. I am pretty sure that there has never been a presidential candidate who has been linked to so many morally reprehensible people and organizations.
This isn't some email rumor that someone invented as a political smear. Yes, I have received some of those, and no, I don't believe everything I read. I try to look into everything and sort through the BS. But I think Sean Hannity has proven himself to be pretty credible in the past, and he has plenty of sources to back up his information.
If you don't have time to watch all of them now (I think it's 30-40 minutes), watch a little at a time. But don't miss this.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
There are a lot of things wrong in this country
And this is just one of them.
When we decorate any of our public buildings on Christian holidays, we are told that it violates the separation of church and state.
But the Empire State Building is lit up in green to celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, the "Festival of Fast-breaking," which marks the end of Ramadan. 
From what I understand, this is the second year in a row this has been done. So we shouldn't celebrate Christmas, but Muslim terrorists attack our country in the name of their religion and a few years later we start lighting up one of our iconic buildings to honor that very religion.
Un-EFFING-believable!
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