Hearings On Radicalizing American Muslims [Update 2]

I watched most of the hearings today on the problem of how Islamic extremists are radicalizing American Muslims. Simply put, terrorist-related organizations are turning American citizens into home-grown terrorists.

Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ put it bluntly in an email that I received today regarding the hysteria surrounding those who are against these hearings:

There is no greater threat to our safety and the safety of our homeland than a radicalized American citizen intent on doing us harm.

For having the boldness to bring this emerging threat to light and trying to conduct a civil and rational discussion about this significant threat, the Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Representative Peter King, has been accused of racism, McCarthyism, and more. The ACLU and several other liberal groups have been trying to stop this hearing in the name of political correctness.

This is not about offending a group of American citizens - this is about understanding the clear and present danger that radicalized Muslim American citizens pose to our nation.

I watched the proceedings via the Fox News Channel live stream at their site on the Internet. I was absolutely riveted when the man whose son became gradually radicalized "under his family's radar screen." By the time they saw how much he had changed, it was too late.

It is so unfortunate that liberals at the hearing had to pull the same old political correctness stunts and disparage and harass those who did not deserve to be bashed. I, for one, am so glad that this problem is finally seeing the light of day and will be addressed over the course of several additional hearings on the issue.

Any thoughts from those of you who saw the hearings? Did you see it all or just some clips of what was said?

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Update 3/11/11:

There was something about that Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, that made me think he was shedding crocodile tears during his testimony at the hearings yesterday. It turns out that my intuition was correct!

Read this:

Gateway Pundit: HORRIBLE… Rep. Ellison’s Sobbing Jag at Radical Islam Hearing Was All Based On a Lie (Video)

I sincerely hope he gets called out on it by Congressman King at the next hearing. What a LIAR Ellison is!

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Also, be sure to read:

Pajamas Media: Why Do Islamic Groups (like CAIR) Fear Hearings on Islamic Radicalization?

Short answer: "Because they are the radicalization problem."

Read the eye-opening article!

Truth Is What Is Unequivocally True

There is so much turmoil and chaos going on in the world today. It is difficult to focus on just one topic at a time. But focus we must if we are to truly understand what is really happening.

For many people, the truth is a relative concept. Political correctness gone crazy is mostly the culprit. Without the foundation of God's Word, the Bible, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the leading of the Holy Spirit (Who guides us into all truth), it can be very difficult for individuals to discern truth from error.

The prophecies on the end times in the Bible are occuring now at an alarmingly rapid rate. It would behove us all to pay close attention to them. But you most likely will not get such information from the Media of Mass Deception, except for a few news analyst shows on the Fox News Channel.

That is why the new media - blogs - are so vital to finding out the truth. The spin that seems to rule the airwaves in most newsroom circles is very disturbing. That is why many people are turning to the Internet and blogs to find out what the Lamestream media refuses to report.

For example. The following link to a blog post at American Thinker reiterates my point:

Can Truth Prevail in a Culture of Spin?
posted by null at American Thinker - 9 hours ago
Truth is what is unequivocally true. It is not constrained by ideology, creed, or spin.

Glenn Beck is quoted as saying, "The truth doesn't have an agenda."

But the spinmeisters do have an agenda. And most of it leads (unfortunately) to evil.

The five comments over at the American Thinker link (as of 2/19 at 8:29 a.m.) are quite excellent as well.

Posted by: ManfredHoffmann
Feb 19, 04:40 AM


I applaud the author for the spirit of this article. It can be difficult sometimes not to despair when one sees and hears the million blatant and obvious lies all around us. The chuzpah with which politicians and "journalists" take us for fools is breathtaking and it seems to be getting worse with accelerating speed. With all the lies and propaganda, will people realize when they are being robbed of their money, of their freedom, their rights and essentially their culture? The Europeans never did. It seems a lot of Americans do. God bless the United States of America!

Posted by: Tiger1996
Feb 19, 05:41 AM



Truth is a sword that can slay political correctness.

What we need is those with courage to use it

Posted by: sedonaman
Feb 19, 07:43 AM


Re: “the co-opting of the academic community”

The government didn’t co-opted the academic community; THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY CO-OPTED GOVERNMENT. The academy is where all ideas originate. Not wanting to appear un-enlightened, members of government and business adopt its ideas. That’s where multiculturalism came from. By taking over, liberals in the academy have replaced the pursuit of truth with political advocacy [archive.frontpagemag.com] , namely of ideas everyone is afraid to challenge for fear of being accused of not being worthy of their position.

Posted by: marrlon
Feb 19, 08:16 AM


Lay this article over the pages of Atlas Shrugged and see if you can find much difference. No, the author is not trying to plagiarize the story, she's simply reporting on the reality of the day and it just so happens to be frighteningly similar.

Posted by: gxm
Feb 19, 09:10 AM



An interesting article. What you are describing here is the process of becoming a third world country. Our venal, corrupt, collectivist, hack politicians and bureaucrats would rather rule in a third world country than serve in a first world one.

That last sentence reminds me of John Milton in Paradise Lost, who has Satan saying this quote on his expulsion from Heaven:

"It is better to reign in hell than to serve in
heaven."

Considering the fact that Jesus warned us in the Bible to avoid hell even more than he spoke about heaven, I'd take Jesus' advice over Milton's or satan's.


The link in the third comment above to a FrontPageMagazine.com article is excellent and well worth the time to read it.

Excerpt:

Advocacy and activism have their legitimate roles in the political sphere. But it has long been the consensus of higher educators that the core mission of colleges and universities, apart from research, is education. This was made clear in the founding statement of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915, and more recently in a landmark brief submitted to the Supreme Court by the American Council on Education (ACE) and fifty-three other academic associations, including the AAUP, in the 2003 case of Gratz v Bollinger, which stresses that the purpose of education is to instill the capacity for independent thought.

“Educators believe that developing the powers of analysis in this way is not merely one among many skills to be taught; it is the chief skill, because on it rests understanding and freedom. Socrates thought knowledge and freedom so essential, and so dependent on close reasoning, that the unexamined life is not worth living. The purpose of education, held the Stoics who carried his idea forward, is to confront the student’s passivity, challenging the student’s mind to take charge of its own thought. To strengthen the ability to reason is to enable the student to determine what to believe, what to say, and what to do, rather than merely to parrot thoughts, words, and actions of convention, friends or family.”

Since education and advocacy (to say nothing of activism) are thus antithetical to each other, serious issues are raised when universities and their subdivisions engage in advocacy and activism. Such actions undermine educational purpose and fall outside of authorized mission. Indeed, they transform education into indoctrination.



Unfortunately, advocacy and activism are well established in the public university systems of Pennsylvania, often announcing themselves boldly in department and program mission statements. That such announcements are considered acceptable is a strong indicator of how deeply the academic culture of the component institutions has, in some respects, been deformed.

The difference between the kind of education which allows the freedom of students to think through any issue and be presented both sides before forming an opinion or analysis of such, and the advocacy/activism that is currently going on via the majority of leftist (some socialist and even communist!) professors who mostly adhere to indoctrination of students to be puppets of their own beliefs is quite evident and exposed for all to see through what is happening in our own country when so many young people were fooled to vote for Obama and his undefined "change" mantra. Well, all of America is now suffering at the hands of the kooks and thugs that used to only protest at rallies in places like San Francisco, but are now running (and ruining our nation) things in our current socialist/Islamo-fascist/communist/and radical union leader advocating government.

But you don't need to take my word for it. Read these blog posts:

Alarm Bells - Radical Union Leader Appointed to Important Trade Post
posted by Trevor Loudon at New Zeal - 5 hours ago
President Barack Obama has appointed a far left labor unionist to a security sensitive U.S. trade post. Bob KingOn February 16, 2011, Obama announced the appointment of United Auto Workers president Bob...

Figures. Dems Solution to WI Budget Crisis: “We Can Fix the Deficit… Tax, Tax, Tax the Rich” (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago
There’s nothing that gets a mob of democrats excited than chanting about taxing the rich. Media Trackers reported: Video taken within the Wisconsin State Capital during the union protests of the budget rep...

Jesse Jackson Leads Leftist Mob in “We Shall Overcome” at Wisconsin Union Rally (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago
Jesse Jackson addressed the union members yesterday in the Wisconsin Capitol. He led them in a rendition of “We Shall Overcome.” WKBT reported: The Rev. Jesse Jackson has urged thousands of protesters in t...

Thus Ever Are Tyrants
American Thinker - 9 hours ago
Contempt for the people and their just laws are the hallmarks of tyranny.

Leftist Hate Mongering in Wisconsin - Who is Surprized?

posted by Trevor Loudon at New Zeal - 11 hours ago

UC-Davis Charges Christianity with Institutionalized Oppression
posted by noreply@blogger.com (PG) at Evil Conservative Radio - 11 hours ago
Only days after a group of deeply religious university students were charged with engaging in a criminal conspiracy to disrupt a speech by a foreign diplomat, a controversy has erupted at another universit...

I could post dozens more, but I don't want to overwhelm readers with too many links.

Actually, when I first started this post my intent was to share an emailed post that I received from Joel Rosenberg. I would urge everyone to read it (and the links) because most likely, you will not get such information (except for Glenn Beck's Program) from the Lamestream Media.

Joel is an expert at associating what is happening in our world today and relating it to biblical prophecy. You can go to the following link or read a copy of the article here:


AHMADINEJAD SAYS “THE FINAL MOVE HAS BEGUN”: Revolution in Egypt managed by the Twelfth Imam

posted by joelcrosenberg at Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog - 1 day ago
>> UPDATES on the latest Palestinian leadership efforts to condemn Israel at the U.N. Security Council >> Anne Graham Lotz, internationally renowned Bible teacher and daughter of Billy Graham — and a speak...

AHMADINEJAD SAYS "THE FINAL MOVE HAS BEGUN," GLOBAL REVOLUTION MANAGED BY THE TWELFTH IMAM

* Anne Graham Lotz has written an excellent column on "Prayer for Egyptian Believers" now posted at www.joshuafund.net

By Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., February 18, 2011) -- Quick update before the Iran story: Mahmoud Abbas is trying to force a U.N. vote to condemn Israel for building "settlements" on territory the Palestinians claim is theirs but refuse to sign a peace treaty to get. The good news: the Obama administration is threatening to veto the resolution if it comes before the Security Council. The bad news: the U.S. is proposing to condemn Israel in a different manner to appease Abbas and the Islamic world.

"The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body 'does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,' a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal," reports Foreign Policy magazine in a story posted on its website. Unbelievable. Way to treat our only true democratic and stable ally in the Mideast. I'm posting updates on the blog as the story develops.

Now, back to Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is telling the people of Iran that the Twelfth Imam is managing the the revolution now underway in Egypt and in various parts of the Islamic world, and that "the final move has begun" to destroy America, Israel and the influence of the Western powers in the epicenter.

"We will soon see a new Middle East materialising without America and the Zionist regime and there will be no room for world arrogance (the West) in it," Ahmadinejad told a crowd chanting "Death to America, death to Israel and death to Mubarak" last Friday. Agence France Presse reported that "in his fiery style, Ahmadinejad, showed his messianic beliefs on Friday, saying the world was witnessing a revolution managed by Imam Mahdi, the 12 Shiite imam who disappeared as a five-year-old in the 10th century and who Shiites believe would return on the judgement day."

"The final move has begun," said Ahmadinejad. "We are in the middle of a world revolution managed by this dear (12th Imam). A great awakening is unfolding. One can witness the hand of Imam in managing it."

The Twelfth Imam and Iranian eschatology are topics that deserve more attention than they are getting from the media or our government officials. Let us pray that our leaders wake up to the true gravity of the threat posed by Iran's apocalyptic regime before it is too late.

UPDATES:

* Yesterday, Glenn Beck devoted an entire one-hour program to the topic of the Twelfth Imam, which I was glad to be able to assist with. I've posted a link to a YouTube clip from the program on my blog. My comments are part of a video segment that begins at 6:22 minutes into that clip. I was glad to see other people interviewed for the program included Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Delta Force commander Lt.-Gen. (ret) Jerry Boykin.

* Anne Graham Lotz, the internationally renowned Bible teacher and daughter of Billy Graham -- and a speaker at our upcoming 2011 Epicenter Conference -- has written an excellent column on "Prayer for Egyptian Believers" that is now posted at www.joshuafund.net. Please take a moment to read it and share it with others.

* Also posted on my blog is my recent interview on Fox News Channel discussing the implications of the fall of the Mubarak regime for Israel, for followers of Jesus Christ in Egypt, and for the battle between Radicals and Reformers in Iran.

>> For the latest headlines from Israel, Iran, Egypt and the Middle East -- please go to the blog: http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/. Thanks.

Hat Tips to all links.

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Update:

Isn't this a perfect example of astroturfing?

MICH. UNION HIRING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO PICKET
posted by noreply@blogger.com (PG) at Evil Conservative Radio - 54 minutes ago
“Astroturfing: An artificially-manufactured political movement designed to give the appearance of grass roots activism.” If ever you wanted to see a great example of “astroturfing,” then the video below mi...

Go right to the source of the information!

The Blaze.com: Michigan Union Hiring Homeless People to Picket

Read the comments! Especially these:

Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:27am
NO suprise here that they would chose to do this; fulfilling the old adage of ‘when in doubt about a subject, fake it.” So it has been done in his case.

cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:33am
That’s it in a nutshell Snow. I have a friend who is laid off right now and belongs to a union. He recently got a great offer for a job. The union started harassing him when they found out. They told him he “would regret it” if he took the job. Even with their own members out of work, they hire homeless people to protest. Hypocrites.

http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the lesson in civility video

Ruler4You
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:36am
You union folks, this is the kind of use of your union dues your union has in mind. Not your “pension”, not your “benefits”, not your best interest, but theirs. After all they are making six figure salaries with great benefits. Not you.

Think4yourself
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:55pm
Typical example of union corruption.

http://www.unsalvageable.org

So much more! Go read them all!

Those Who Promote Evil Are Offended By Everything Good

Someone recently gave me an opinion about George Soros and Barack Obama. He wrote that he doesn't personally think that these two men (and others in and around the administration) are out to destroy America, but sincerely think that what they are doing is "good" for America.

I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with that!

All of the evidence points towards this truth - that the "evil emperor Soros" and his "puppet-man Obama" are out to "fundamentally transform America" (from what the Founding Fathers and most patriots here in America desire for our nation) into a Marxist, anti-capitalist, globalist regime which would end America as we know it - the Constitutional Republic that Benjamin Franklin described to the lady who asked him, "what type of government have you given us sir?"

Those of you who are to preoccupied with your own lives and perhaps pooh-pooh the dangers that America is facing today need to wake up, pull your heads out of the sand of complacency, and prepare for what is inevitably coming down the pike.

Much damage has already been done by the out of control Democratic destructive leadership in Washington D.C. Thank God that the 2010 election results will stop the Obama destruction machine in its tracks. But right now, during the Lame Duck session of Congress we are going to see a push for all things socialist and evil before the Republican leadership takes over in January.

On a personal note, my 86-years-young mother - a lifelong Democrat - is reading Sarah Palin's first book, "Going Rogue" and guess what? She is highly impressed with the lady! You see, prior to being at my home, my mom was a victim of the liberal media elites on all of the non-cable channels. Now that she has gotten a good dose of Fox News and is reading THE TRUTH about just who Sarah Palin is and what she has accomplished, her opinion of the woman has changed dramatically - and for the better!

I love the new blog post up over at American Thinker: Sarah Palin's Charisma

Excerpts:

If 'Bam is "historic" for being black (which is bizarre enough), Palin will be doubly historic for being a passionately conservative female president. Skin color is only skin-deep.


With President Sarah Palin, we will get a sane and moral foreign policy, totally different from Obama's wacky prostration to the King of Saudi. Palin will work to reverse the damage done by Obama's Medical Piracy Act -- a big, big job. And best of all, Palin gives a wonderful example of what women (and men) can achieve. Sarah Palin is a normal person with a normal life who decided to fix what's rotten in Anchorage -- and now Washington, D.C.


What could be better than that?

"Bam"...HA! Reminds me of the Flintstones cartoons where Barney Rubble's son, appropriately named "Bam-Bam" would attempt to destroy everything in sight with his over sized club!

Continuing:

While you're thinking about the next election, just enjoy the sight of Sarah Palin's charisma. Ronald Reagan had it. Obama lost it.

[T]his may be the crucial time for history to produce the woman, a critical time for a charismatic conservative to reverse the damage done by the Left. The single most important fact is that Sarah Palin can communicate. She can talk to the American people without talking down to them. She can have a real conversation, and it is high time to have a good talk with the American people...

Hers isn't the fake kind of "charisma" that was created via teleprompter (and the lap-dog media) for the Bam-Bam man. Nope. Sarah Palin is a real, genuine person who knows what she believes and why she believes it. And her morals, values, ethics, and love for America and America's Founders and Founding Documents shines through for all to see!

The first question that Sarah Palin asks in her new book, "America By Heart" is "Do you love your freedom?!" Of course, her audience of "rowdy patriots waving American flags and chanting, USA! USA!" roars in the affirmative in answer to her question.

"If you love your freedom, thank a vet."

How sad it is to realize that our military is being targeted towards destruction by the treasonous bunch running the show in Washington D.C. It totally disgusts me! But let's get back to Sarah Palin's introduction called "An American Awakening."

Palin mentions some of the signs that were held by TEA Party Patriots during demonstrations and states:

What honest, heartfelt sentiments. These people aren't an angry mob - they're Americans. Why do some feel the need to demonize them?

The answer is because of the evil likes of Soros-backed groups such as "Open Society," "SEIU" and other corrupt unions, and their Marxist bosses.

Don't believe me?

Then purchase and read WND's latest Whistleblower Issue: GEORGE SOROS AND HIS EVIL EMPIRE: Exposing the real power behind the radical transformation of America.

This issue illuminates the heart and soul of this mysterious leftwing transformer of societies. It reveals how he creates and financially sustains scores of influential and shockingly anti-American organizations – all dedicated to converting America into a European-style, government-controlled, socialist state.

"Soros, like Obama, is wired very differently than most of us," says WND Managing Editor David Kupelian. "He rejects and reviles most things decent Americans regard as good and sacred, and he tends to favor everything rotten: He wants to legalize drugs. He supports euthanasia. He's for socialism and opposes free-market capitalism. He’s for devaluing America's currency, telling the Financial Times last year 'an orderly decline of the dollar is actually desirable.' He supports the destruction of American sovereignty in favor of global governance. He detests conservative talk radio, Fox News and WorldNetDaily, and funds organizations that constantly attack the only free press America currently has."

In short, says Kupelian, "if it's immoral, subversive or harmful to America, Soros favors it, organizes it and funds it. If it's noble and freedom-producing, like free markets and small government, he despises it and creates organizations to undermine and ultimately destroy it. This issue of Whistleblower shines intense daylight on all of this."

Contrast people like Obama and Soros with people like Sarah Palin and TEA Party Patriots, and you see the obvious struggle over the future of America. Will we remain as Franklin stated, "a Constitutional Republic" (if we can keep it??) or become what the evil emperor and his cohorts have in mind for us - a "European-style, government-controlled, socialist state?"

I know my preferred choice to that question!!

Sarah Palin describes "the left" this way:

The Left seems to think that there's something wrong with America -- not something wrong with our policies or our government, but something wrong with our country and what we value. So they're hell-bent on changing it. They don't seem to share the timeless values that so many of us hold dear: our belief in our God-given freedom, our faith in free markets, and our certainty that the truths of our American founding are the way to a more perfect union.

A friend sent me a perfect illustration of this mind-set. It was a copy of the U.S. Constitution that was purchased with this warning label printed on the back: "This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would it if were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."

That's right: a warning label attached to the Constitution of the United States! It's outrageous, but in a sense it's a perfect reflection of the thinking of those who believe America needs a "fundamental transformation." They believe that the ideas of limited government and personal liberty that are contained in documents like the Constitution are dangerous and outdated. They honestly believe that our founding ideas and documents are obstacles to their vision of America. The Constitution doesn't reflect their values because it is a document that fundamentally constrains government. So they work to get around those constraints.

I think that Sarah Palin is being kinder than she needs to be about our political opponents. A LOT is at stake here and those who are "hell-bent" on changing our nation into a socialist utopia are not just different in their beliefs - THEY ARE ALSO DANGEROUS PEOPLE!

There is so much more that I could share about the introduction of Sarah's book. But I will save it for another day. For now, I will share what David Kupelian of WorldNetDaily wrote at the above link:

"Make no mistake," concludes Kupelian. "George Soros' goal is nothing less than to overthrow the United States of America and its Constitution. Fortunately, armed with the kind of information and insight found in this issue of Whistleblower, there's real hope we can engage and defeat the forces of the atheistic left which, for some strange and ungodly reason, always seem to be offended by everything good."

So true! The radical progressive left "IS offended by everything good." Why? For "strange and ungodly reasons."

Those of us who have read and studied the Bible - especially the books of the Bible that are detailed about prophecy - are not surprised by what is transpiring on earth the closer we get to the end times. However, I don't read anywhere in the Bible that we are to be complacent and just let evil take over here in America. We are here to preserve and protect American values for the sakes of our children and grandchildren! Listen and learn from Ronald Reagan's wise words:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.

Hat Tips:

World Net Daily

American Thinker

Talk Wisdom Reports, You Decide: White House Scandal to Break Soon?

While taking a break from watching the World Series, I saw a new post up over at New Zeal entitled: White House Insider on Upcoming "White House Scandal". [Update: for some unknown reason, the post has been removed. However, the "White House Insider On Obama: The President is Losing It" post at New Zeal still exists.]

It is already Thursday, October 28th over in New Zealand. When I checked my favorites, the post had been up for only six minutes. It took me a long time to get through the two-part post and I still have other links and comments to read!

Hat Tip to New Zeal for alerting me to NewsFlavor.com: White House Insider - President Obama is Lost - Absolutely Lost.

As you will see when you visit the New Zeal blog spot, it can't be known for certain if the information being shared by the "White House Insider" is genuine or not. Therefore, this is a "Talk Wisdom Reports, You Decide" kind of post.

Excerpt from New Zeal:

In September I posted an excerpt from the article, "White House Insider On Obama: The President Is Losing It". Since this interview was published, nine other interviews with this "White House Insider" have been published. Note that because both the interviewer and the insider have remained anonymous, we cannot be certain that these interviews have not been fabricated. However read through them for yourself and see what you think.

White House Insider Interviews:

On Obama: The President Is Losing It
Part 2: The President needs to grow up
The Clintons Are Going For It
Update: President Clinton Intentions Revealed
Obama Battling Severe Depression
Obama Offering Hillary Clinton Vice President Position
Michelle Obama Blowout
Coming Soon – Serious White House Scandal
"They were in shock at the president’s behavior"
"President Obama is lost. Absolutely lost."

This corrupt administration has gotten away with so much it makes the average American shake his/her head in disbelief! But, perhaps there will be a huge reckoning after the November 2nd election! I sincerely hope so! It's about time that this criminal and his evil cohorts are exposed for what they really are!

Mar 4:22 "For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.

Luk 8:17 "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.

Luk 12:2 "For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

Hat Tips:

New Zeal

NewsFlavor.com

Warning! FCC Wants To Be Big Brother

As if we don't already have enough bad news floating around today, here comes more! This one is BIG people! This story MUST GO VIRAL! I would encourage EVERY READER HERE TO POST, BLOG, TWEET, EMAIL ETC. this story to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

As "Missy 8's" so accurately stated over at Big Government:

Missy8s 127p · 51 minutes ago
Can anyone say "state run media", this action is the most vile constitutional violation of the first amendment in the history of the republic.

This is also upsetting to me personally because such a breach of our Constitutional free speech rights might occur on my birthday - November 30th!!

Please, PLEASE SEND THIS POST TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! SPREAD THE WORD!

Christine

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Big Government.com: November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet

November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet
by Seton Motley

November 30th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially engage in one of the largest federal power grabs we have ever seen.

After two years of this Presidential Administration and this Congress, that is saying an awful lot about an awful lot.

And what’s worse, the FCC would be doing it without Congress weighing in. At the FCC’s November meeting – note the coincidental date of choice, AFTER the impending election – three unelected bureaucrats (of five) could simply vote themselves rulers of 1/6th of our entire economy – the information and technology sector.

Meaning the Internet that you currently enjoy – that has been a marvel of economic and information innovation and success – will be subject to vast new governmental regulations. You didn’t elect these people – but they are on the verge of electing themselves Internet overlords.

The Internet is the future – and increasingly the present – of news and information delivery. With each passing day, we move a little further away from the old media models – print, broadcast and cable television, radio – and towards an all-Web world. Eventually, most or all of the news and information we get – written, and spoken into microphones and cameras – will be on and for the Internet.

And we are on the verge of having this new world – the all-encompassing future of First Amendment free speech in America – swallowed up by three unelected D.C. bureaucrats and their Commission.


This is one of the most important battles ever waged in Washington – and precious little is known about it outside the Beltway.

What we are talking about is Internet reclassification. What that means is the FCC – which by its own admission doesn’t have authority over the Web – would just vote itself said authority. By reclassifying the Internet – so that it would be subject to the same rules as landline telephones.

The FCC has long had tremendous power over landline telephones, which is why there has been so much incredible innovation with them these last 70+ years. (Note: tremendous sarcasm here.)

The FCC has no power over the Internet because the FCC doesn’t have power over anything until Congress writes a law saying they do. And Congress has never done this for the FCC with the Internet.

It’s not just me saying this. 299 members of Congress have said so – a large bipartisan majority. More than 150 organizations, state legislators and bloggers have said so. So have seventeen minority groups – that are usually almost always in Democrat lockstep.

So have many additional normally Democrat paragons, including several large unions: AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America (CWA),International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); several racial grievance groups: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Minority Media and Telecom Council (MMTC), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Urban League; and an anti-free market environmentalist group: the Sierra Club.

So too has the unanimous D.C. Circuit Court – led by a Democrat Bill Clinton-appointee – ruling in April in the Comcast-BitTorrent case that the FCC doesn’t have the authority to regulate the Internet.

Most importantly, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has himself said so. In an interview last week with the Washington Post, the Chairman readily acknowledged “(W)e have a Communications Act that wasn’t written for broadband.”

Chairman Genachowski is referring to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the last time Congress addressed communications policy and the authorities the FCC has there over. Broadband Internet for all intents and purposes didn’t yet even exist.

The remedy to all of this is crystal clear. Congress should do what it’s supposed to do – write a law that defines and details the FCC’s role (or lack thereof) in regulating the Internet.

And the FCC should do what it’s supposed to do – unless and until Congress acts, NOTHING.

What the FCC must NOT do is unilaterally vote itself vast new powers under the cover of bureaucratic, post-election darkness.

Hat Tip:

Big Government

One Trashy Event

When certain events are reported incorrectly by the media of mass deception, one has to wonder whether or not such errors were simply due to laziness on the part of the organization. Or, was it more likely done because of someones stupid attempt at spreading pro-progressive/liberal/Marxist/pro-union bosses/Communist/Socialist/Global warming propaganda? Nice Deb reports: When Is C-Span Going To Apologize For Using An 8/28 Crowd Shot For Its One Nation Promo?

Wow! Glenn Beck should have a field day on both his radio and T.V. shows. He will most likely do a lengthy report on the event and reveal to the public the very low turnout of the One Communist Nation Rally in Washington, D.C. which was held this past Saturday. How ironic it is to see the trash return to the mall - just like it did during the Obama inauguration.

Neil, over at Eternity Matters has a great roundup posted at his blog, including a photo morph of the difference between the crowd that showed up at Glenn Beck's 8/28 Rally and the sparse crowd that was mostly bussed in by union leaders to attend the One Socialist Nation litter fest. [H/T Eternity Matters for still pic - I couldn't get the "morphing" to work here.]

I don't get it. Aren't these people supposed to be the "green" crowd? Ironic Surrealism has the photos to show how trashy the event was. If these people are so worried about the planet, then why do they throw their trash around our nation's capital? Are they so brazen that they think they are too "elite" to pick up after themselves and so just leave it there for someone else to discard? Says a lot about their character - or, more accurately - their lack of character, decency and respect - as it were.

Oh my...while viewing the photos of the trash event, be sure to read the comments over at Ironic Surrealism!

Even though the grounds were so disrespectfully trashed, what was even worse in my mind were all of the anti-American trashy messages given at that garbage fest!

Hat Tips:

Nice Deb

Eternity Matters

Ironic Surrealism

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More blog posts and photos:

New Zeal: Mall Post Barackalyptic Wasteland

The Blaze: Politics
‘One Nation’ Crowd Didn’t Exactly Leave the Mall (or World War II Memorial) Spotless

What If Pres. Bush Did This?

I have a question for my liberal blogging friends who occasionally choose to comment here at Talk Wisdom. Please read the following post from American Thinker, and then answer me what would have happened if President George W. Bush (or any other Republican president) did such a stunt?

Obama Attends Non-Existent Soccer Game?
posted by null at American Thinker - 11 hours ago
We are told that President Obama broke tradition and ditched the presidential press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter's soccer games. But the story has several problems.

Recall that my previous post shared links that brought up Obama's mysterious actions which were initially explained away by a spokesperson as "Obama attending one of his daughter's soccer games."

The American Thinker commenter's have been speculating about Obama's 41 minute disappearance without the press. Apparently, it has also been reported that the Secret Service didn't accompany him either! Don't you find that very odd???

Some of the speculations regarding his whereabouts included:

1. The daughter's soccer game (now know to have been non-existent).
2. He went to buy drugs.
3. He may have been involved with giving secrets to Russia.
4. It was a ruse to get people (especially the press) away from the White House for some nefarious purpose. Who was let in at that time? I know. People will say that there are logs taken for everyone who enters the White House. What makes anyone think that this lying, cheating, unconstitutional, fraudulent, America-destroying usurper would follow any "White House rules?" He doesn't even follow the United States Constitution!!
5. He had a gay sex tryst. (After all, isn't Michelle out of the country in Haiti?)
6. He went to smoke some crack.

Better yet, let me share some of the comments:

Posted by: gordo
Apr 13, 12:27 AM

Maybe he went to meet his pusher? George Soros? Vladimir Putin? Bill Ayers? The one thing I know for sure is that the MSM isn't going to tell us a thing.

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Posted by: Emudude
Apr 13, 12:53 AM

It is believed that he went to the Kenyan Embassy to stop the Kenyan Parliament Minutes of March 25, 2010 from being released or at least have it pulled by the Embassy People there. Page 31 of the Document states that he was Born in Kenya and that he is not a Native American. This Document is all over the web now.

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Posted by: Bryan
Apr 13, 01:09 AM

And today Andy Stern resigns. Coincidence?

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ted by: VHG
Apr 13, 02:14 AM

What better courier for state secrets to the Russians than an unaccompanied Obama? Wonder how much he got for whatever it is he sold us down the river for? But the ego this person has really has begin to show itself as an ugly attachment and what he thinks of the United States and his duty to the country. Pressure the media to find out more. Keep asking the WaPo, NY Times, and the rest of the fawning media lapdogs to dig! Maybe Tina Fey can do an Obama parody?

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Posted by: xiphos
Apr 13, 02:47 AM

Obama didn't have to leave Our White House to get to a High Crime area. [Now THAT comment would be funny, if this subject wasn't so serious!]

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Posted by: airedaletwo
Apr 13, 03:26 AM

I just checked Sidwell's website in the Athletics section. The only athletic events listed for Saturday 4/10/2010 are:

Apr 10
Crew - Club (Girls) - Baltimore Invitational at Glass Beach
Track & Field - Boys Varsity - Woodward Relays
Time: 8:30am
Track & Field - Girls Varsity - Woodward Relays
Time: 8:30am
Baseball - Varsity at Bullis
Time: 1:30pm
Baseball - Varsity at Bullis

Not one soccer game. If you check the soccer schedule it's all in the fall that goes for Varsity through Girls 7-8B

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Posted by: rudy c.
Apr 13, 07:37 AM

Every thing about this guy, Barry Soetoro, is suspect. Everything he does and says is just down right creepy. Just to look at him with that smirk on his face. If you look closely enough at his eyes you can see evil and the eyes say, almost out loud, "I'm lying and I really want to hurt you". That's what my gut instinct tells me about O'Barry. He's always sneaking around and you can't believe anything he says. I mean, what can you expect from a guy who's first executive order is to seal his birth certificate and school records? What kind of person would do something like that? Someone with something to hide? That would be my guess.

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Posted by: JanevonMises
Apr 13, 07:45 AM

He ditches the press lackeys and Lady M, and goes away for about 41 minutes. No soccer game is scheduled, the field is abandoned, the press is told to turn around. Sounds like he had to meet his connection alright. Maybe a little storm blew in from Bolivia, maybe a little local "agriculture".

BTW, you are not allowed to smoke TOBACCO in the White House. Rules don't say anything about anything else.

Where were his kids?

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Posted by: amerigal1
Apr 13, 07:55 AM

We have every reason in the world to suspect something foul when Obama disappears like this. It's not the first time. Obviously he didn't want the press corps following and photographing him. Since there was no verifiable "soccer game," his leaving the WH like that is provocative. He's hidden his documents and most of his history. He doesn't care about the process of how things get done......he said so himself. What was he "getting done" this time?

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Posted by: swim-r-sink
Apr 13, 07:59 AM

Well, he sent the media on a goose chase, that's a fact! But the touching story of just wanting to see his daughter at the game with out all those creepy media people hanging about! This is new the Sympathy Card excuse!! Obummer can sure shovel out the B.S.!!

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Posted by: stormywthr
Apr 13, 08:10 AM

Since Emudude has brought up the topic, I would add that if Obama has found a place to hide he better keep it a secret, he may want to return there.
The Hansard reports that “Obama born in Kenya”. (March 25, 2010, page 31.) [www.bunge.go.ke]
In fact this record of the Kenya Parliament has revealed much about the great love and devotion that the Kenyan people have for their “son of Kenya”. The records of November 5, 2008 and March 25, 2010 alone are evidence enough suggesting that Obama has a great connection with the African country. [www.bunge.go.ke] And should not the question be asked, will the Kenya government ask to see and examine Obama’s long form birth certificate now under seal?

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Posted by: Ender
Apr 13, 08:39 AM

Other problems: The wife doesn't go to the games? Which daughter?

They couldn't even decide on which kid to use as a cover story.

He does whatever he wants regardless of the Constitution or the People.

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Posted by: sccdc08
Apr 13, 09:46 AM

I think we are being led down a rabbit hole. This administration is very good at creating red herrings. What ever happened during that time, we would need to look at something bigger than just where the president was, and why the press corps was lured away, and why none of the players seem interested in truth. The commentators who mention that the heads of several important nations were in town, and that Poland's highest officials had just died, are most likely onto something. If this is indeed a nice neighborhood, rather than a bad one, I think that hints at a secret meeting, rather than a drug run. But it could have been both. Imagine how much blackmail power a foreign country could have in the white house is they were the supplier for POTUS. But life isn't a Tom Clancy novel. Beware the red herring.

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Posted by: Constitution First
Apr 13, 09:56 AM

Lies, Misinformation, Lap-Dog Media Compliance?

Normal Day.

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Posted by: Danae
Apr 13, 09:57 AM

So..... Who did the President spend his time with? In what way will it effect our National security.

Where is the "Transparent" government that came with the "Hope and Change" promise? Oh right, we are still hoping for change. Meanwhile, in other news, Code Pink leader Jodie Evans meets with White House officials and then Taliban members in Afghanistan.... Oh yea, now there is some change for ya, being a traitor is now officially sanctioned, business as usual in the Obama White House. This "presidency" will go down into history as an obamanation, equal to an Abomination.

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Posted by: Stan G.
Apr 13, 10:12 AM

There is a weird, odd, strange, other worldly, phony, mysterious, nefarious, evil side to this guy. How in the heck he ever got elected without knowing any more about him than we do is a mystery in to and of itself. It may come out someday, but as often is the case, there is much more to this than has been reported. The whole thing just simply cannot be explained away by fatuous love displayed by the media.

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Posted by: Roxanna
Apr 13, 10:33 AM

I doubt if we'll ever learn the truth about where he went. We certainly will not be able to believe anything we're told, either by anyone on his staff or the MSM.

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Posted by: Rontenw
Apr 13, 10:34 AM

"He had a meeting that he did not want published"?
Come on! He could have found a better story than the soccer games scam for that, or no story at all. Why not say, the President is busy now - with no further explanation? Or that he is studying a CIA intel document that cannot be discussed?
The only plausible reason for using the soccer story is to get rid of the press for awhile, but why that?

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Posted by: ahem
Apr 13, 10:38 AM

f-stop is right: He met someone at the WH--that's or he skipped out to meet with his Soviet handlers.

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Posted by: H Hazell
Apr 13, 10:41 AM

f-stop may have it pegged! Is there any verification that the President actually left the WH? If none, then the issue does seem to be not where he went, but who visited.

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Posted by: Siridh
Apr 13, 11:32 AM

Its disgusting that the MSM has done nothing to vet Obama or to keep him honest. A President doesn't have the right to sneak away for 40 minutes -- it might suck, but its the way it is. For the media to ignore this borders on treason. I don't care how innocent the 40-minute mission was, he's the president and he is accountable to the U.S. for every minute of his time. F-stop that sounds very plausible. It also sounds plausible that he met someone secretly. That part of Pennsylvania Avenue and immediately surrounding is not a bad neighborhood BTW. I don't trust this guy one bit and its things like this that make it worse.

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I agree with what the author at American Thinker wrote in the first paragraph:

It is rather disturbing when you dissect it.

Hat Tip:

American Thinker

The Looming "Islamization" of Europe

Even though the original blog post was about John McCain's new ad which describes that "Obama is leading an extreme left wing crusade to bankrupt America", it was a certain comment within the thread that caught my attention. A commentator over at GateWay Pundit posted a comment that was so good and informative about the goal of the Islamization of all nations, that I thought I would include it here as a blog post.

OT.. “Crusade”

Czech archbishop warns of Europe’s ‘islamization’

[PRAGUE—Outgoing Prague archbishop and head of Czech Catholics Miloslav Vlk warned of a looming "islamization" of Europe in an interview published in Prague on Tuesday.

"Europe has denied its Christian roots from which it has risen and which could give it the strength to fend off the danger that it will be conquered by Muslims -- which is actually happening gradually," Vlk said.

"If Europe doesn't change its relation to its own roots, it will be islamized," the 77-year-old cardinal, who was named Prague archbishop by pope John Paul II in 1991, added on his website http://www.kardinal.cz/.

He blamed immigration and Muslims' high birth rate for helping Muslims to "easily fill the vacant space created as Europeans systematically empty the Christian content of their lives".

"At the end of the Middle Ages and in the early modern age, Islam failed to conquer Europe with arms. The Christians beat them then," Vlk said.

"Today, when the fighting is done with spiritual weapons which Europe lacks while Muslims are perfectly armed, the fall of Europe is looming," added the cardinal.

Vlk, who was persecuted by the former communist regime toppled in 1989, offered his resignation as Catholic bishop two years ago -- at age 75, in line with Church rules, but Pope Benedict XVI extended his term by two years then.

Vlk's successor should be named this
week, according to Czech media.]

Boiling The Infidel Frog

“The fifty million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. [..] Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time”

Notice what is written at the SIOE Stop Islamization Of Europe site. It bears repeating here:

Text from FrontPageMagazine.com
What Islam Isn’t

By Dr. Peter HammondFrontPageMagazine.com Monday, April 21, 2008

The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:


Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable’ Muslim demands for their ‘religious rights,’ they also get the other components under the table. Here’s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States — Muslim 1.0%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1%-2%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam – Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan — Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%
Somalia — Muslim 100%
Yemen — Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

‘Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. – Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

There are two videos that you can view at the GateWay Pundit link.

I think that America, as a nation, needs to heed these warnings! What are you thoughts about this?


Hat Tips to all links above.

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Update:

Found this link via Nice Deb's blog:

Bill Whittle Investigates the Islamic Infiltration Inside Our Government.

Only viewed "Part 1" so far today, but it was quite chilling to find this out! Part 2 is next.

Chairman Zero And His Thugs

Millions of people now know that they don't want what Obama and his evil, America-destroying cohorts are selling. The recent elections Tuesday that solidly smacked down and rejected Obama policies show just how much of a difference a year makes.

The slobbering Obamamania media may try to hide it and/or spin it, but the 20% swing of Independent voters in the governor contests cannot be swept aside as a fluke. It is a direct repudiation of Obama's horrible policies!

As many readers here know, Glenn Beck [BTW, please keep Glenn in your prayers - he underwent an appendectomy yesterday] often shows a video of Obama on his T.V. show where ObaMao is shown telling his audience to judge him according to "the people he surrounds himself with." Glenn has been exposing all of the Marxists, Maoists, liberal leftist progressives, socialists and radical thugs that Obama has surrounded himself with through the unconstitutional, unelected czars that now creep around the White House. These people are not only loony - THEY ARE DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS!

We all are familiar with the ones who have already been exposed - Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Cass Sunstein, George Soros; just to name a few. However, the most frequent visitor to the White House - Andy Stern - has to be one of THE most troublesome thugs introduced yet. But don't take my word for it. The Obama File has a post up with several links that will inform you just how dangerous Stern really is. Here is the post in its entirety:

Andy Stern: Comrade Obama’s #1 Visitor

Stop the ACLU reports that two recent court rulings have resulted in the Moonbat Messiah "voluntarily" disclosing his White House visitor’s list. General Stanley McCrystal -- commander of our forsaken troops in Afghanistan -- has met with ObaMao twice. In stark contrast, Andy Stern -- head of the ACORN-affiliated Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- has visited the White House 22 times, leading the list.

SEIU has earned its face time with the POTUS by donating $60 million and 100,000 volunteers to Obama’s campaign. Although Stern has made it clear that every single member of SEIU is to devote time to helping elect Democrats, the union is designated a 527, meaning that it is supposedly apolitical and therefore is not limited in the soft money it can shovel at sleazy politicians, unlike honest institutions.

Given Stern’s radical background, it’s unsurprising that his tactics are thuggish:

Under Stern’s leadership, SEIU commonly bullies and pressures companies into signing agreements to make SEIU the representative of their employees. If a company resists joining the union, Stern and his political, media and activist allies conspire to launch "corporate campaigns" aimed at breaking down that resistance through what they term the "death of a thousand cuts." In such campaigns, the cabal of attackers harasses and disrupts company activities, sends vicious emails and letters to stockholders, intimidates customers, stalks and frightens employees, files baseless lawsuits, and plants false stories with media allies to smear the company’s reputation.

These pressure tactics are often successful in bringing companies into SEIU’s fold. When this occurs, all of their employees are required to join the union. SEIU prefers this arrangement (which Stern calls "Union Democracy") because, in times past, a large percentage of workers who were given a choice voted against joining the union.

This is also why Chairman Zero & friends favor Card Check.

SEIU stands to make out big from health care nationalization, so when patriots spoke out against it at town hall meetings, even high-level SEIU thugs turned out to rough them up.

Another favored White House visitor is the radical financier George Soros, who only has to snap his fingers for a sit-down with the Manchurian Teleprompter. Investor.com reports:

Like the sociable Stern, administration records show Soros’ appointments were officially scheduled within hours of his actual visit. It looks like fast service.

Soros not only has made statements critical of free-market capitalism, he’s also a philanthropist whose hobbyhorse MoveOn.org tried to smear Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus as "Gen. Betray-us" in a full-page ad in the New York Times.

Both Soros and Stern are prominent partisans in the Shadow Party, a network of ultra-left activist groups working feverishly toward the destruction of liberty in favor of collectivist statism. They have a comrade at the top.

Hat Tips:

GOP USA

The Obama File

Maggies Notebook

College Paper Shows Obama as Anti-American/Military Kook! [2 Updates!]

This is certainly interesting and quite the eye opener! Gateway Pundit reports:

College Paper Shows Obama Was a Raving Anti-American Kook

I would have been more specific. He was a raging anti-AMERICAN MILITARY kook! Be sure to read Gateway Pundit's brief commentary (below). A lot of the comments are really good, too.

The fact that there is a lot of rambling about nothing (an Obama trait that lasts to this day), misspelled words, improper grammar, and what looks to me like some copied content (without crediting references) shows how inarticulate the author is without his teleprompter! Ha!

Gateway Pundit:

Well, what do you know?

The state-run media can do research. It only took them 8 months after the election to release this crazy Far Left anti-American article Barack Obama wrote while in college.

Nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya know? The New York Times unearthed a 1983 article called, "Breaking the War Mentality," that Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American "militarism" and its "military-industrial interests," while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement.

Moreover, while indicating a preference for the political wisdom of reggae singer Peter Tosh over Ronald Reagan or Scoop Jackson, Obama bewailed the "narrow focus" of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the "symptoms" rather than the real "disease," namely, America's underlying economic and political injustice... Student Obama summed up with near incoherent Lefty gobbledygook:

Indeed, the most pervasive malady of the collegiate system specifically, and the American experience generally, is that elaborate patterns of knowledge and theory have been disembodied from individual choices and government policy. What the members of ARA and SAM try to do is infuse what they have learned about the current situation, bring the words of that formidable roster on the face of Butler Library, names like Thoreau, Jefferson, and Whitman, to bear on the twisted logic of which we are today a part. By adding their energy and effort in order to enhance the possibility of a decent world, they may help deprive us of a spectacular experience — that of war. But then, there are some things we shouldn't have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.

how long do you suppost the NT Times have been sitting on this piece?

Today, the kook landed in Russia and is going to try to talk the Russians into disarming. It's more likely that he will sell out our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic instead.

It's all part of that hope and change we're getting used to. Thanks, New York Times.

One of the commenters mentioned that the New York Times probably released this information because they are as lefty-looney as Obama and think it's a "positive" about him as a college student!

Yeah right...UGH!!!

The portion of the sloppy, often incoherent rant that bothered me the most was this:

Generally, the narrow focus of the
Freeze movement as well as academic
discussions of first versus second strike
capabilities, suit the military-industrial
interests, as they continue adding to
their billion dollar erector sets. When
Peter Tosh sings that "everybody's asking
for peace, but nobody's asking for
justice," one is forced to wonder whether
disarmament or arms control issues,
severed from economic and political
issues, might be another instance of
focusing on the symptoms of a problem
instead of the disease itself. Mark Bigelow
does not think so. "We do focus primarily
on catastrophic weapons. Look,
we say, here's the worst part, let's work
on that. You're not going to get rid of
the military in the near future, so let's at
least work on this."

Mark Bigelow does feel that the
links are there, and points to fruitful
work being done by other organizations
involved with disarmament. The
Freeze is one part of a whol [sic] disarmament
movement. The lowest common
denominator, so to speak. For instance,
April 10-16 is Jobs For Peac [sic] week, with
a bunch of things going on around the
city. Also, the New York City Council
may pass a resolution in April calling for
greater social as opposed to military
spending. Things like this may dispell[sic]
the idea that disarmament is a white
issue, because how the government
spends its revenue affects everyone."
The very real advantages of concentrating
on a single issue is leading
the National Freeze movement to challenge
individual missile systems, while
continuing the broader campaign. This
year, Mark Bigelow sees the checking
of Pershing II and Cruise missile de·
ployment as crucial. "Because of their
small size and mobility, their deployment
will make possible arms control
verification far more difficult, and will
cut down warning time for the Soviets
to less than ten minutes. That can only
be a destabilizing factor." Additionally,
he sees the initiation by the U.S. of the
Test Ban Treaty as a powerful first step
towards a nuclear free world.

Earth to student Obama?? We live in the real world here! If we did what you wanted America to do with her nuclear weapons in the 80's we would be sitting ducks for North Korea and Iran!

There is so much more that can be commented on about that article. But I will leave that fun for anyone else who would like to do that.

Found this section quite ironic - based on the ObamaFRAUD's habit of "talking out of both sides of his mouth during the entire campaign, as well as right now as our usurper!

Regarding Columbia's possible
compliance, one comment in particular
hit upon an important point with the
Solomon hill, "The thing we need to do is
expose how columbia is talking out of
two sides of its mouth."

Even though the following section of the newspaper (included in the PDF file) is the second part of an additional article that started on "page 1" - take a look at the STUPID opinion that was expressed about Reagan "playing into the Russian's hands."

History has shown otherwise!

Bet that writer feels like such a fool now!

Green • continued from page 1

[a]nd soon, it is quite probable that the
Germans will do something on their
own. The Reagan administration's stalling
at the Geneva talks on nuclear weapons
has thus already caused severe
tension and could ultimately bring about
a dangerous rift between the United
States and Western Europe. By being
intransigent, Reagan is playing directly
into the Russians' hands.
In 1933 the German establishment
thought it could use Hitler to restore a
modicum of order to the confused and
confusing Weimar Republic. In fact,
Hitler did strengthen the German establishment,
but not exactly in the way
the bankers and businessmen had
wanted; and now, fifty years later, it is
clear who was using whom.
Nevertheless, the Western World
did not complain in 1933 because Hitler,
though a fascist and a totalitarian, was
seen, like countless American puppet
dictators today, as someone who leaves
the established order in place. (Christine: what??)
Not so the Greens. If a group of
young, anti-establishment pacifists
with unusual ideas and uncomfortable
answers to hard questions terrifies us
more today than Hitler, Himmler,
Goering and Goebbels did back in 1933,
our terror says more about us than it
does about the Greens or the Germans. (Christine: that's just so crazy but lol!!)
It indicates that we have failed to comprehend
the meaning of Nazism and
blind obedience to authority in their full
horror, and that we, unlike the Greens,
have yet ourselves to learn the demo­cratic
lesson that we have taught the
Germans so well.
Since the European peace movement
has long since become the American
peace movement, and since America
now has its own Green Party, the rise
of the Greens in Germany has profound
significance here. It is at once a warning
to us that the old solutions of more weapons
and again more weapons will no
longer be accepted in a Europe that is
already a powderkeg waiting to go off;
and it is an invitation to work towards a
peace that is genuine, lasting and non-nuclear. (Christine: Earth to this author, too?? We live in the real world here! If we did what you wanted America to do with her nuclear weapons in the 80's we would be sitting ducks for North Korea and Iran.)

One more thing. A commenter shares some thoughts about Obama's "Fourth of July" speech.

From Doug Ross' site:

Quote o' the day: "We don't know about you, but we find it creepy that an American President gave a 751-word, Fourth of July address without once mentioning the words "freedom" or "liberty" or even the American Revolution." -- Dinocrat

Not to mention "limited government"... though he did mention "American workers", saving the planet through carbon cap-and-trade and nationalizing health care.

Chisum 07.06.09 - 11:57 am

Obama rarely, if EVER talks about liberty or freedom.

President Ronald Reagan ALWAYS spoke of love for our nation, praise for our military in protecting it, and the demonstration of patriotism by helpful Americans.

Not so Obama.

Why?

Perhaps that college paper gives us a hint.

Hat Tip:

Gateway Pundit

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Update 7/7/09:

Maggies Notebook reports:

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Obama Chides Military Might

In a speech before Moscow's New Economic School, Time.com is quoting President Obama saying countries who are militarized have no future.

The future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground.

And one, two, three...all together now, al Qaeda and the Taliban said: "you go brother!" So what's his plan for Iran and North Korea?

One day this President will learn a hard lesson: his power lies in the military might and strength of America - that means our military strength, not his military strength.

The naivete of this former Columbia college kook is unconscionable!!

You people that voted for this DOOFUS and HIGHLY UNQUALIFIED, INELIGIBLE USURPER OF OUR CONSTITUTION - thanks a lot for your utter stupidity!!

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GateWay Pundit: How Much of This Hope & Change Disaster Can Americans Take?

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Update #2:

The Obama File's post on Obama's college article and naivete:

"I Am Not Naïve"

Rosslyn Smith writes -- That brief statement of Barack Obama's last month seems every bit as risible as Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook", after one reads the article on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Obama wrote for the student newspaper his senior year at Columbia. The New York Times rediscovered the student article on Independence Day and seems to want to spin it as a sign of the president's deep nature.

He railed against discussions of "first- versus second-strike capabilities" that "suit the military-industrial interests" with their "billion-dollar erector sets," and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.

The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced "the twisted logic of which we are a part today" and praised student efforts to realize "the possibility of a decent world." But his article, "Breaking the War Mentality," which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.

Unfortunately that sorting out process hasn't exactly progressed in 26 years. Obama's plans for a nuclear free world today are just as chock full of high sounding rhetoric and wishful thinking and just as bereft of details as they were when he was a senior at Columbia as to exactly how one is to accomplish such a lofty goal in a world of rogue nations. Conveniently forgotten by The Times is that all the nuclear freeze movement predictions Obama supported about the shape of the future were wrong. Instead of leading to a nuclear Armageddon, the increases in defense spending under Reagan led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern block.

Obama seems determined to continue to pursue the policy goals he held as a student instead of learning from two decades of subsequent real world events. What is even more disturbing is how people like Richard Lugar continue to give Obama high marks for "being a good listener" and a "serious student" as they patronizingly give him a pass on the implementation of workable plans.

Most Americans outgrew their student mode shortly after they had to earn a living for themselves in jobs that had more quantifiable performance criteria than community organizing, Obama naive? Throw in sophistic, jejune and purblind to everything isn't a neat fit into ideological cubby holes that haven't change in two decades and you'll be on the right track.

Frank Gaffney sums it up in Commentary:

"If the implications were not so serious, the discrepancy between Mr. Obama's plans and real-world conditions would be hilarious," said Frank J. Gaffney Jr., a Reagan-era Pentagon official who directs the Center for Security Policy, a private group in Washington.

Look Beyond The Bogus Bonus Smokescreen [Add-on!]

As usual, Michele Malkin's got it right and is exactly on point. Her new column Look Beyond The Bogus Bonus Smokescreen reiterates what Glenn Beck covered recently (the printing of one trillion dollars the other day) plus all of the other terrible spending that Resident Obama and the Democratic majority are doing - supposedly without the awareness and behind the backs of most Americans.

Great comments at The Forum

Heard on Fox News this morning that AIG employees are fearful for their lives! A memo went out to not wear their AIG badges in public, travel in pairs, don't discuss AIG. What is this? CONGRESS - EXPRESSLY THAT CROOK CHRIS DODD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS DEBACLE!!

Here's a comment from The GOP Forum:

FlaJim
Statesman Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Tampa
Posts: 783

Re: Malkin: Look Beyond The Bogus Bonus Smokescreen

Quote:

"We will hunt you down!" thundered Colorado Democratic Rep. Jared Polis...

Who's this clown trying to fool? Neither he nor any of his comrades have any intention of going after their own who perpetrated this.

While this is going on, we'd all better heed Malkin's warning that this is a designed distraction from the Socialist-Democrat Party's scheme to destroy America as we know it.

Geez....America is turning into a vast wasteland of corruption with these absolute IDIOTS in charge!!!

AIG employees have to run for their lives while ACORN shamelessly still works to intimidate people? What is wrong with this picture, people?

Awful!

Except for the giddy ObamaBorg bots and ACORN, I don't see too many people who are still joyful about the NOBama administration.

*sigh*

How long will America have to suffer under this inept, inexperienced, horribly ignorant, multi-trillion dollar mistake of an administration and clueless Congress?

Hat Tip:

Michele Malkin: GOP USA

If you don't abide by God's truth, nor hold to our United States Constitution and what is good and right for our nation, then you get what's left: error, evil, and all that is bad and dangerous for our nation. - Christine

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Ohhh...now! Isn't THIS SPECIAL??

A Version Of Obama’s Civilian Service Corps Approved By House

Are You Ready to Pledge Your Loyalty to Lord Obama?

My answer: NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!!!! NOT EVER!!!!

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Update on Obama Citizenship being questioned:

Read this article: Taitz to FBI: Investigate 'tampering' at Supremes
'305 million Americans need to know if foreign national is usurping presidency'

Listen to the video tapes of an interview with Orly Taitz at Citizen Wells blog

Then, see the video clip of Orly confronting Chief Justice John Roberts during a lecture at a university in Idaho.

Orly had previously given the documents to Justice Scalia during a book signing.

Therefore, TWO JUSTICES are now FULLY AWARE of all of the information (provided that they read them!!) in Orly's arguments for her case (that is now suspected of being sidestepped through the alleged illegal tampering of a clerk at the Supreme Court!). If nothing is done from here, then we know that the Supreme Court must have been bought, threatened, silenced, or all three.

If it is found to be true that the SCOTUS clerk DID TAMPER with Orly's case, and something is done about it in the near future, then perhaps we have a chance of ousting Resident Obama.

More and more people are finding out about all of the Obama citizenship cases and the questions surrounding his refusal to release documents about his past.

It has been suggested on other blogs to bring copies of website links (Orly's blog, Citizen Wells, etc.) with you when you attend a Tea Party protest and give out the fliers to those who may not already know the details about Obama's citizenship issues.

BE SURE TO LISTEN TO THESE TWO:

SCOTUS Tampering I

SCOTUS Tampering II

READ THIS ARTICLE: Did Supreme Court clerk torpedo eligibility cases?


Hat Tip:

Citizen Wells blog