The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

As they always say, a picture is worth a thousand words! Take a look at this 31 second time-lapse presentation, then ask yourself - so...how's that hopey/changey mantra from the 2008 election workin' for ya?

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession



After one year in office, it is extremely apparent to a majority of Americans that Obama lied throughout his campaign just to get elected. Conservatives saw through his lies way back in the beginning of his run for the presidency. We tried to warn you!! But people got caught up in that "hope and change" mantra. But what kind of "change" was Obama referring to? We are finding out and it's devastatingly bad for our nation! As Rush Limbaugh once quipped, "It's more like hype and chains."

Hat Tip:

The Obama File

Is It Hateful to Ask Questions?

That's what Glenn Beck wants to know. This week, Glenn is presenting a special - The New Republic: America's Future? Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times. Tonight's show was simply awesome! Very scary - but being informed is far better than keeping one's head in the sand!

Here are some of the questions that Glenn (and, now, all who have been watching his show) wants answered:

August 25, 2009 - 2:05 ET


Watch Glenn Beck weekdays at 5p and 2a ET on the Fox News Channel...

Am I hateful if I ask:


- Who is "surrounding" the President in the White House?

- Do any of the President's advisers have criminal records?

- Are the President's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?

- Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?

- What roles do they have in crafting bills?

- What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders, where are they now?

- What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser?

- What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?

- Do the czars have power?

- Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States?

- What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?

- Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?

- How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society?

- What role does George Soros play... CONSTITUTIONALLY?


- Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?

- We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?

- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?

- If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?

- Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work?

- Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?

- Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?

- Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?

- How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president?

- Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor?

- The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?

- If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?

- If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?

- If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?

- Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?

- Why would you want to overwhelm the system?

- Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about "not letting a crises go to waste"?

- What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

Hat Tips:

Glenn Beck.com

American Thinker

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Former Talk Wisdom blog posts about Soros:

Soros Evil Financial Manipulator

Allies of Soros Helped Bring Down Wachovia

Financial Terrorism?

Nobama's Radical List Grows

The following is an excerpt from From Bill O'Reilly's "Culture Warrior" book which is also posted in the "Nobama's Radical List Grows" link:

Bill O'Reilly has opined MANY TIMES that Soros is A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON. In his book, "Culture Warrior," O'Reilly shares much of the awful truth about this evil man. There are over two dozen pages that either mention or describe how despicable a man Soros truly is! You owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Culture Warrior and read Chapter One.

Soros has several partners in crime and organizations that he supports which are bent upon destroying America. WAY to much information to type out here. However, O'Reilly sums it up this way:

To sum up, Soros is a smart, ruthless ideologue who will stop at nothing to advance the secular-progressive offensive. He has no scruples, ethics, or sense of fair play. The guy reminds me of Colonel Banastre "Butcher" Tarleton, the most justly hated Redcoat during the Revolutionary War. Soros and Tarleton can both be associated with take-no-prisoner policies: In both cases, their prey, whether traditionalists today or colonial rebel fighters in the eighteenth century, were simply people trying to strengthen their country.

I mean it. for traditional-minded Americans, George Soros is public enemy number one. Without his unlimited cash (along with that of Peter Lewis), the S-P movement could not attack so readily and so effectively - and with such venom. Soros envisions a libertine society that soaks the rich (except for him) and forms no judgments on personal behavior. His one-world philosophy would obliterate the uniqueness of America and downsize its superpower status. His secular approach would drastically diminish Judeo-Christian philosophy in America and encourage his own spiritual philosophy: atheism. George Soros is truly an imposing force, and his elite media allies are making him even more so. We ignore him at our peril.

ARTICLES EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO READ!!

Not quite sure how I missed the following "The Trojan Horse" post back in September. I found it and read it today while reading Stand By Me over at Texas Darlin's blog.

Perhaps I missed it because the writers at the TD blog were originally Hillary supporters. Nonetheless, EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO READ IT NOW!

There is SO MUCH AT STAKE in the Donofrio vs. Wells case, it's become astounding to me. NIGHTMARISH, IN FACT!

However, we must not let our hearts be troubled...YET!

It just might turn out that the "natural born citizen" clause of Article II in our beloved U.S. Constitution WILL SAVE US - and, may keep us from inaugurating a usurper-in-chief - a Trojan Horse kind of candidate with the worst anti-American, Marxist/Communist worldview that we could ever have imagined!

GOD HELP US!

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After I posted these two links, I continued to read "The Trojan Horse" post. The following is just a brief snippet of the article (yes- it is long and detailed BUT WELL WORTH YOUR TIME TO READ IT ALL!). I think that this portion exposes A LOT about Obama and his radical associations and worldview.

Excerpt from "The Trojan Horse" article:

Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals further specifies the role of community organizer:

It was Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by ‘change’, he meant a Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means which turned society inside out. This had to be done through systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through ‘people’s organisations’. Community organisers would mobilise direct action by the oppressed masses against their capitalist oppressors.

Obama must have shown promise as a potential “stealth candidate” who could infiltrate the “march of institutions” to “capture the culture”, and “turn it inside out”. For the purpose of overturning western society. For in 1988, Bill Ayers began raising funds for his law school education, likely through his contacts and Khalid Al-Mansour whom he had befriended in his association with the Black Panthers. It was reported then that Percy Sutton was approached by Al-Mansour seeking a letter of entry to Harvard on behalf of Barack Obama . I believe some serious strings were pulled to achieve Obama’s entry into Harvard .

In 1989, Bill Ayers and his father Tom Ayers got Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin , where he met Michelle Robinson . Recall that Bill Ayer ’s wife, Bernette Dohrn , also worked at Sidley & Austin and was the one who hired Michelle . Recall that Michelle could be considered a black separatist radical in her own right from college days!

It was during this time that Barack Obama was introduced to Reverend Wright and the theology of black liberation. Obama is likely to have at least studied or been introduced to black separatism, black nationalism, and black liberation theology in New York . James Cone is commonly cited as the founder of black liberation theology:

“The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God’s experience, or God is a God of racism…The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God’s own condition. This is the essence of the Biblical revelation. By electing Israelite slaves as the people of God and by becoming the Oppressed One in Jesus Christ , the human race is made to understand that God is known where human beings experience humiliation and suffering…Liberation is not an afterthought, but the very essence of divine activity.” [A Black Theology of Liberation, pp. 63-64]

“Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does not represent God as being for oppressed blacks and thus against white oppressors. Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God. The brutalities are too great and the pain too severe, and this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution. There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject God’s love.” [A Black Theology of Liberation, p. 70]

In 1993 Ayers appointed Obama to the Woods Foundation, and in 1995 to the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. In 1995 Ayers and Dohrn hosted a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut. By 1995, Obama has written his first book, Dreams, and in 2006 published Audacity of Hope , whose title he gained from a sermon by Reverend Wright . Obama served in the Illinois Senate until 2003, and then was elected to the US Senate in 2004.

Much can–and I hope will–be written about the funding and techniques employed in Obama’s various campaigns, including the use of ACORN, CPUSA, and the Annenburg Challenge funds; how he was funded to complete his books, especially Dreams, and the role of Dreams in creating a “storybook” candidate which has now been marketed to the public. Notice how Obama, Axelrod , the Democrats, and the obots can’t stand challenges to the story of Obama.

Revolution You Can Believe In

Well if you’ve read this far, I first thank you. Second, you know that even this lengthy article just begins to scratch the surface of some very serious concerns that should be raising eyebrows among elected officials and the public. We have not, for example discussed the incredible symbology being created for a world audience as Obama’s elaborate trips and stage craft are implemented. For example, Obama’s campaign logo can be seen also to reflect the two most common symbols of Islam–the crescent and the sword…the logo contains a crescent with the stripe representing an Islamic scimitar. The “rising sun over the west” –another significant symbol–is shown in Obama’s logo as the rising sun over the lands of America .

What started out as a simple observation–Obama’s lack of respect for America and American symbols–led to connecting the dots on Obama’s background, motivations and backers. And I see incredible stealth in his campaign.

Sometimes things seem just so obvious that we are lulled into complacent denial, thinking that it couldn’t be true– “Obama is too smart, he’s a U.S. Senator, he’s so nice, no that can’t be true!!”

To openly discuss his communist and revolutionary mentors with such intensity and focus lays open the charge of “McCarthy” tactics, “racism”, “red scare”, or “red baiting”, or “doubting Obama’s patriotism”. How convient that the Obama campaign has the race, class, gender, education, age, and the ” McCarthy ” cards to obfuscate and distract from any serious examination of Obama’s motivation for seeking POTUS. In my view, Obama is a perfect tool, agent, or mole to use in advancing an agenda that lies entirely hidden from the public. His ego and insecurity can be manipulated for other goals.

In his run for the Presidency, Obama has structured his campaign as small offices all over the country, something no other Presidential candidate has done. Interesting that Howard Dean ’s so called “50-state strategy” served as a perfect cover for Obama to move in and take over the apparatus of the democratic party. This kind of strategy is very much in line with Alinsky’s approach and the Marxist concept of revolutionary change.

Alinsky viewed as supremely important the role of the organizer, or master manipulator, whose guidance was responsible for setting the agendas of the People’s Organization…

Alinsky laid out a set of basic principles to guide the actions and decisions of radical organizers and the People’s Organizations they established. The organizer, he said, ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people; fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act.’ The organizer’s function, he added, was ‘to agitate to the point of conflict’and ‘to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.” ‘The word ‘enemy,’ said Alinsky, ‘is sufficient to put the organizer on the side of the people’; i.e., to convince members of the community that he is so eager to advocate on their behalf, that he has willingly opened himself up to condemnation and derision.

Bill Ayers is a proponent of locally based revolutionary tactics. Ayers’ playbook is Mao Tse-Tung ’s handbook. And Obama’s campaign structure follows Ayers’ matrix. A nationwide network of “ Camp Obamas ” controlled from Chicago has been established to train volunteers in some of the Alinsky techniques.

In particular, Alinsky advocates “in your face” techniques wherein the ends justify the means. Didn’t we just hear Obama call for his supporters to “get up in your neighbor’s face,” and argue with them?

What of Obama’s control over destruction of the Democratic party? Quite simple: according to Marxist revolutionary thought, a vanguard must be created which serves as the “point” of leadership for the communist-style revolution to come. Remember Brazile told us to stay home? That is so the new democratic party–the vanguard led by Obama as trojan horse can begin the process of radical change in America .

Add to this mix Soros, the mainstream media, the Democratic Party, voting integrity, an Alinsky-style field operation and it makes me think that we are in serious trouble.

Obama is not stupid. He is a bright man, very talented, very personable, and until recently, a man without much of a personal history. But there is a shiftless, searching side to Obama’s personality. Due to childhood neglect and abuse, he is a man without a conscience. He was and remains the perfect front for Ayer’s –or any other revolutionary ideology–ongoing revolutionary campaign to subvert and subdue the United States of America .

It's a BRILLIANT PIECE OF JOURNALISM - THE KIND THAT WE NO LONGER SEE IN THE MEDIA OF MASS DECEPTION!

GO READ IT ALL.

HUGE HAT TIP: Dr. Kate at Texas Darlin blog

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Update at 1:20 p.m. PT:

The Relevant Obama Admission

Excerpt:

At Barack Obama’s web site, the following admission:

“FactCheck.org Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship


‘When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children…’ “


Read that last line again.

That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children…”

That’s an admission that Great Britain “governed the status” of Barack Obama, Jr. Brack Obama has chosen to highlight this on his own volition.

And this leads to the relevant question:

HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN’S STATUS BE “GOVERNED” BY GREAT BRITAIN?

A natural born citizen’s status should only be governed by the United States. This is the core issue before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Yep....

The Tragedy of the Uninformed Voters

Time out from the current Talk Wisdom Bible study series to keep everyone up to date on the Obama election debacle.

First, you must see the videos at the web page: How Obama Got Elected. Also, don't forget to read the results of the survey at that page. Yes. It's shocking to see how uninformed voters can be. It is also very evident that the bias and non-reporting of all of Obama's radical associations (yet, the media widely covered Gov. Palin negatively) and the lack of coverage about the crimes of several Democratic leaders in Congress is precisely because we have a media of mass deception here in the United States.

Even blogging friends from other countries saw the huge amount of evidence for this fact. Check out Bill Muehlenberg's Culture Watch post on Media Bias.

I received a heart-wrenching email from an Internet acquaintance last night. He is so extremely concerned about what will happen to our nation once Obama is in office. Can't blame him one bit. I don't want America to become a Communist nation, either!

More detailed information on Communist Goals (1963) over at the NEIN Blog.

Absolutely chilling...and scary.

Well, I still hold out hope (filled with much prayer, too) that the truth about Obama's natural born citizenship status (or, lack thereof) will be once and for all proven and resolved. There are many people - (including Janet Porter of Faith2Action.org who wrote an absolutely breathtaking article over at World Net Daily) - working to do just that!

There are several bits of information that I'd like to share which may give you some additional hope.

First, according to a post over at Locomotive Breath 1901, Obama does not officially become the "president-elect" until January 6th, 2009.

Excerpt:

Not until Jan. 6, 2009 when the official electoral vote is tallied by Congress and entered into the record. All this is done in accordance to Article 15, Chapter 1 of Title 3 of the United States Code.

More than a half dozen lawsuits have been filled demanding that Obama produce the original document to prove natural born citizenship. The Obama camp has dismissed these lawsuits as 'garbage'.Most courts have already dismissed these suits as 'vague' and 'without standing'. But if Joe Citizen is 'without standing' to require a candidate to meet the basic Constitutional requirements for office, then who does? How about another candidate for President.

"Alan Keyes, Presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, Wiley S. Drake, V.P. candidate of the Independent Party and California elector, and Markham Robinson, California elector have filed this lawsuit to prevent California from certifying their electors until satisfactory proof is produced that Obama is in fact a natural born citizen..."

It appears that we have a very uninformed electorate out there (hey, don't get mad - I could have phrased it the way Michele Malkin did at her blog) - but I didn't! ;-)

Of course, the media of mass deception is mostly to blame for this. However, each individual voter is also to blame for their own ignorance on important information surrounding each and every candidate. When a person (on the video) claims that he gets most of his "news" from the Bill Maher show - well - you get the kind of Obama voters that we got in the 2008 election.

But take heart! Truth is on the horizon! I just know it!

I was gratified to see that a full-page ad (thanks to Philip J. Berg Esquire of ObamaCrimes.com) is going out in the Washington Times National Weekly which asks three very important questions which have, as of yet, gone unanswered:

1. Was Barack Obama born in Kenya?

2. Is he really a citizen of Indonesia?

3. Does the Constitution still matter?

[Note: CLICK HERE FOR READABLE PDF FILE]

As news of the questions about Obama's citizenship status spreads, more and more people are getting actively involved with wanting proof of his natural born citizen status.

The truth may very well set us free:

* free from the tragic results of our current media of mass deception.

* free from the terrible errors of an uninformed electorate whose choice for the next president may be found to not even be eligible under the laws of the United States Constitution.

* free from the Marxist type of government that Obama would inflict upon our nation.

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NEWSFLASH UPDATE!

Just noticed the following blog post over at the NEIN blog:

A Wider Conspiracy

Perhaps this helps explain why there is dead silence on this issue from Congress!!

*sigh*

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Additional update from The NEIN Blog:

The rub here is that Barack Hussein Obama was born to a Kenyan father (British citizen) and an American mother. He may have been born on foreign soil - only the 1961 typewritten long-form Certification of Live Birth which Obama has successfully demanded be sealed by the State of Hawaii can reveal the truth of his status as a citizen.

The Senate may have passed S. Res. 511, by "Unanimous Consent" on 30 APRIL 2008 but that does not make it binding federal law. As detailed under the definition of a "Simple Resolution" on the Senate.Gov website :

"Simple resolutions do not require the approval of the other house nor the signature of the President, and they do not have the force of law."

Stay tuned indeed.

Huge Hat Tip: The NEIN Blog

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Update @ 1:32 p.m. PT:

At least ONE news outlet is covering the Keyes lawsuit!

Former Obama opponent now suing to prove President-elect's citizenship

HT: Commenter "Frank" at The NEIN Blog

Apparently, Drudge has it somewhere on his website, too. Just looked. It's way down towards the end of the news headlines. Hmmmm....at least there is a crack in the media silence on this issue....I guess.

HT's:

How Obama Got Elected

Culture Watch

Locomotive Breath 1901

ObamaCrimes.com

World Net Daily

Faith2Action.org

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Update 11/19/08 @ 3:13 p.m. PT:

Update @ 3:09 p.m. PT - Just learned of this!!

US SUPREME COURT SCHEDULES FULL CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS NJ CITIZEN SUIT CHALLENGING OBAMA ELIGIBILITY

Excerpt:

THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS SCHEDULED FOR FULL CONFERENCE, LEO DONOFRIO'S NJ CITIZEN SUIT CHALLENGING THE ELIGIBILITY OF MULTIPLE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CANDIDATES, INCLUDING BARACK OBAMA.

Today, the United States Supreme Court scheduled the case - Leo C. Donofrio v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey - US Supreme Court Docket No. 08A407 - for a conference of the nine Justices. The conference is a completely private affair.

If four of the nine Justices vote to hear the case in full review, oral argument may be ordered. The conference is scheduled for December 5, 2008, ten days before the meeting of the Electoral College.