WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF: The Place of Birth Issue

Now that he's firmly entrenched in the White House, and now that he has his new "shadow government" in place, what would happen if.... just if, by some long-shot extreme possibility... someone was able to prove that Barrack Hussein Obama is not a natural United States citizen? What then?

Well, the first question to come to my mind is... Would we therefore remove him, or would we ignore our Constitutional requirement that the President be a natural born citizen?

That's a major question. It has more import than you can possibly imagine. The answer, whatever it might be, could lead to another civil war. It could lead to insurrection, rioting, anarchy. Would we bow to that fear, or would we as a nation step up and remove him from office. And, if we tried, how would the Supreme Court rule?

Now, let's presume that we were to pull this off, and to remove him. Who would we blame... who would we prosecute for allowing it to happen in the first place?

The next major question would be... who will be his replacement, the next President of the United States? Joe Biden? Well, if Obama had not been able to run because he didn't qualify, then Biden may not have been Vice President. Hillary or John would have been President and I don't believe that either one of them would have had Joe has his/her running mate.

Okay, this is getting awfully sticky, isn't it? You know and I know that the Republicans will raise Holy Hell if Joe Biden steps in as President. Naturally, this issue will be back to the Supreme Court.

Well, pal, we haven't even tackled the issue of whether or not Obama's signature on bills passed by Congress would be valid, yet. And, would he be billed for his many apology trips overseas? That eventuality would most certainly set "economic stimulus" back on it's fanny.

You can see that, should some posterior opening prove that Obama cannot be President because he was born in Nigeria or..... By the way, don't 90% of the modern day scams originate in Nigeria? Anywho... This is going to be one major hassle. People clinging on to their Bibles and guns will definitely be in the way of things.

Still, the biggest problem of all would be... Who do we really blame? Americans inherently must blame someone else for their problems. You can't blame me, because I was shouting the dangers at the top of my lungs back in August, September and October of 2008. You can't blame the Republicans, because they were all running around with their male sex organs, (commonly referred to as "peckers") hanging out for Sarah Palin and their brain gears had moved from "idle" to "reverse." And that statement is NOT against Sarah; I happen to think she's probably what this country needs right now, someone refreshingly honest and straightforward. But, she's also very good looking and appealing and I never saw a male Republican who didn't have a bulge behind his zipper in the last 60 days before the election. How shallow they really are.

So, who ARE you going to blame? Did your butt ever get into the voting booth? And if the chips were now down, what would you do?

Sorry if I've caused you to lose a lot of sleep.

THREE MORE IDIOT AMERICAN'S GET IMPRISONED

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That's all you can call them... "idiots."

I said it when the two American women journalists got caught by the North Koreans and I'll say it again with these numbskulls who got caught by the Iranians:

Any American civilian who is within 50 miles of any border of any hostile or unstable country, is an idiot. The United States government's responsibility to get them back safely has been diminished by their own stupidity.

In this case, they have no one to blame but themselves.

CHINA MAY PULL FINANCIAL BACKING

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It hasn't really made the news, probably because the media is covering it up at a White House request; the White House certainly would not want this issue to be a matter of rabid public discussion while the President is trying to get his $1.5 trillion Government Health Care Plan passed.

When Miss Hillary visited China, the Chinese told her in no uncertain terms that they are "very concerned" about America's growing budget deficit.

There it is folks. The warning has been put out there for us to see. But, the warning has not been heeded; we continue to move forward on a reckless spending spree while, at the same time, new unemployment claims forge ahead at break-neck speed. Those who are unemployed do not contribute to the tax base; in fact, they increase government expenditures in jobless benefits. So, at a time of a huge deficit, expenses are going up and income is going down. In short, we are all on a train spelled D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R; the wheels could literally come off at any second.

You can depend on this: When it happens, the White House will point the fickle finger of blame everywhere except where it belongs.

I don't know about you, but I am very scared, and I AM clinging on to my guns and my religion.

SAY GOODBYE TO LIBERTY, FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

The current government seems to be making it clear that they want to intrude themselves into your living room, your bedroom, and your way of life. In short, they are operating from the philosophical standpoint that only the government can give you rights... You are not, contrary to what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution say... born with "unalienable rights."

In taking his sarcastic jab at Pennsylvanians clinging to their guns and religion, Obama stuck it out there on his sleeve that he has a dim view of both religion and guns. In tackling the Cambridge, Massachusetts Gates arrest, Obama made it plain that he believes that racial discrimination still exists and that whites need to be penalized for it. In accusing the medical profession of unnecessary procedures taken strictly for the purpose of profit, he says that doctors are inherently unethical and that, therefore, the government needs to protect you by taking away from you the right to choose your own physician, hospital, or insurance plan.

The new Government Health Care Plan solidly puts government into your living room. It provides for health care for 12 million illegal aliens and for people who deliberately sit on their duffs and draw welfare. It provides for you to pay a penalty if you are overweight, it provides for government-funded abortions, and it allows for the denial of medical care to senior citizens while at the same time reducing their Medicare benefits.

The government is telling you what kind of cars you will be allowed to drive. The government is saying how much energy you can use and, if you exceed that, you are going to pay a penalty. The government is on the verge of denying you the right to own or carry a gun. Already, it is a crime to pray in many public places. If you make too much money, the government is going to take it away from you.

How long will it be before the government declares that you cannot have more than two children and, if you do, the third one is going to be "eliminated," and you are going to be sterilized and imprisoned? No way? That's the law in China already.

Once they have taken away all of our rights, we will never get them back.

And who will we blame, when the blame lies with us because we didn't put a stop to it.... right now, today?

OBAMA'S FLAMING BIGOTRY

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Back in pre-election days, Barrack Hussein Obama's remarks about Pennsylvanian's "clinging on to their guns and religion" stormed across the country and threatened to destroy his Presidential ambitions.

At Wednesday night's Press Conference, the President stepped into another furor when he accused the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department of being "stupid" in its handling of the arrest of a distinguished university professor. In doing so, he prefaced his statement by admitting that he did not have all of the facts of the matter. And then, he stepped right back into it again by playing the race card, practically accusing the Police of racial prejudice against the professor.

Presidents know better, and very rarely comment on any such event because of the weight their remarks carry. Here is a purported lawyer and university graduate with a degree in law, who publicly acts as prosecutor, jury and judge on a matter of which he is not fully informed.

To me, his remarks were a "knee jerk reaction" to a reporter's question and, as such reveal a great deal about the substance of the man... just as did his remarks about "guns and religion" last fall. They reveal a deep-seated prejudice against whites and everything whites stand for. They reopen wounds in our history that most certainly predate Martin Luther King Jr. and transcend decades of progress on civil rights issues.

They also finally demonstrate and prove to me that the man known as "The Messiah" is unfit for a position of national and world leadership.

GOVERNMENT IGNORES TREASONOUS ACTS

If you knew that an enemy was within your immediate vicinity, what would you do about it? By enemy, I mean someone who hates you, your country and everything you stand for and who is prepared to do anything and everything necessary to eliminate your opposition. If you knew that the only way to make yourself safe was to get rid of them, either by killing them or by removing them to a safe distance or by otherwise neutralizing their ability to do you harm, would you ignore them?

The founding fathers decided that they would not tolerate such activity within their midst if the activity was directed at the overthrow of the United States Government. They wrote into the Constitution a provision for dealing with "Treason." That is, anyone within the country who is an enemy of the country or who gives aid or comfort to such an enemy is guilty of treason.

On July 19, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois,Hizb ut-Tahrir held a conference in Chicago to recruit new members and to openly identify itself. The group is reportedly linked to Al Queda and its goal is to establish an international Islamic Empire to the exclusion of everything else, including the United States and all of its non-Islamic citizens. Hizb ut-Tahrir has strongholds in Western countries, including Britain, France and Spain, and clearly is looking to strengthen its base in the U.S.

Their plan is to indoctrinate children into their ideology and strategy beginning in middle school years so that they are ready to carry out the objectives of the organization when the call comes.

Is our government to blame for not arresting members of this group and charging them with treason against the United States?

Certainly, that prospect brings to mind the detainment of Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. That was a horrible wrong by our country against our own citizens who had pledged their allegiance to the United States. Those radical Muslims in Chicago, however, have pledged their allegiance to seeing us dead.

These radicals need to be arrested, charged, and imprisoned. Not only is this necessary for our safety, but it is also necessary for the safety of peace-loving non-radical Muslims living here; if the radicals start something, which they surely will, I don't know of an American in his right mind who will not start shooting Muslims...all Muslims... and asking questions later.

We certainly will be to blame if we do not act now to protect ourselves and our country. The failure of our government to proactively address this issue is treason in and of itself.

OBAMA CONTINUES TO PUSH COUNTRY TOWARD REBELLION

We're all aware of the fact that Congress did not read one word of the TARP Bill before it got passed. Nor did they read word one of the Stimulus Bill. 350 plus pages were added to the Energy Cap & Trade Bill in the wee small hours of the morning and the House passed that bill a couple of hours later, so we know they did not read THAT bill either.

As a matter of fact, this Congress is a rubber stamp for anything the President wants, pure and simple.

Obama comes back from another world trip and discovers that his Health Care Reform Bill is showing signs of resistance and he immediately takes to the microphone and announces that the bill will be passed and that "inaction is not an option." In other words, he flat out told Congress that they will do as he says, or else.

Once again, we are going to be saddled with what will amount to another trillion dollars or so... Maybe two or three.... over the next few years and we, the people, have no say in it. We are not going to be allowed to read it, to discuss it, to digest, or to propose alternatives.

Are we now living in a total dictatorship? Don't you understand what is going on to our country here?

THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

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During the next two weeks, Sotomayor will be confirmed by the Senate as a Supreme Court Justice. That will set the stage up for the momentum needed by Obama to get the Cap and Trade Energy Bill passed as soon as Congress comes back from summer recess. In fact, I think there's a reasonable chance that a Health Care Bill will get out of the House before the summer recess begins.

Obama is used to getting his way and he will not hesitate to use dirty tricks to get it.

The Republicans are too disorganized and lack the leadership to prevent it. In fact, recent polls that show declining faith in Obama and his goons squads are definitely NOT matched by improving opinions of the Republicans.

More and more, I become convinced that the nation needs a new political party.

I TOLD YOU SO

I said it way back when they passed the Stimulus Bill, that there was going to be another one. All of my friends started looking at me as if I had gone around the bend. Here we are in July... Unemployment is at 10% or more, (who knows what the figure is, but you can bet your sweet petunias they are not telling us the truth), lots of money has gone missing, and the Administration is talking about doing another stimulus package.

And, when you ask them what in the hell is going on, they still shrug their shoulders and blame Bush.

It is now apparent to me that we have elected a real dunce to the White House and he has surrounded himself with more dunces.

The price of gas is $3.14 where I live and again climbing by the minute. Some gumball in Congress is advocating that we lower loan standards for the poor who are trying to get into condos.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

The major stumbling block in the Health Plan they are trying to shove down our throats is.... How they're going to convince the public that we need to provide coverage for the illegal aliens?

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
They've been caught trying to sell their power and influence in cooperation with the WASHINGTON POST.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
They blame their own Congressional Budget Office for disagreeing with their economic projections.


IS THIS THE CHANGE YOU VOTED FOR?

WHAT'S COMING IN THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION

You really need to read this:

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/08/folsom/crisis.html

And check out the new blog: Burney Mountain Hermit

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T CLING ON TO YOUR RELIGION

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THE BLAME STOPS HERE

The Minnesota State Supreme Court decision to seat Al Franken into that state's U.S. Senate slot all but guarantees total and complete centralization of the nation's governing power into the hand of those who have been on a spending spree bound to be a burden on the backs of Americans for generations to come. Their only opposition, the decimated Republican Party, has now been totally trumped.

What this means in the days and weeks to come is that the Congress no longer has to listen to its critics. The energy CAP and Trade bill is now certain to pass in the Senate, meaning that manufacturing companies will be thereby "incentivized" to move their operations to Mexico or South America where they don't have to face the monstrous regulation and cost of doing business that this bill poses. There go even more jobs out of the country.

The cost to Americans for their energy, now rapidly going up again, is likely to soar, further grinding the economy to a halt. Americans are not going to be able spend anything on anything except for food, gas, clothing and heat.

Adding to this ominous outlook is the reality that the new Administration does not understand the whys of the fact that no loans are being made and credit is not moving. They have no one to blame but themselves. It is Hussein's administration that has virtually made written, legally binding contracts changeable at will by the government; they can change mortgage rates, repayment terms, and collection policies at will. That, of course, means that banks and mortgage companies can no longer assure their stockholders of an operating profit if they lend money out. The net result is... No one wants to lend money. That's quite a paradox. The government has put tons of our money into the hands of a banking industry that doesn't want to lend it out. On the other hand, who wants to borrow it, given the dire financial and employment situation this country is in?

Now comes Hussein's Health-Care Reform that is another tax ball-and-chain waiting to happen. If passed, stockholders in insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and all of their associated sub-industries are going to be taken to the cleaners. The Canadians who can afford to come to the United States to get better health care than they can get at home... will stay home. And, the Administration is already making noise about fat people, people who smoke, people who drink, people who don't exercise... You just know that more liberties and freedoms of choice are going to be erased. In the meantime, estimates of a $1.6 trillion cost admittedly will not cover everybody, (perhaps as low as 10% of the uninsured Americans). At the same time, benefits being extended to the elderly under the current Medicare system are going to be greatly reduced, and taxed at that. The costs of training new people in the new system have also not been included in the cost estimates.

In the meantime, back at the ranch, there's the unsolved mystery of the $134.5 billion in U.S. Bonds that surfaced in Italy. Everyone who has attempted to get to the bottom of that story has been thwarted. Treasury refuses to confirm or deny anything and everything to do with the story, which means there must be substance to it. The two Japanese men who were detained while carrying the bonds to Switzerland have reportedly been released.

Now that your trust in our government has been restored, my fellow Americans, we've just seen the tip of the well-known iceberg.

Remember those Black Panthers who obstructed voting in Philadelphia November? Well, after being arrested, charged, tried and convicted... all charges against them were dropped and they were released by Attorney General Eric Holder. ACORN, under investigation in several states for its contribution to "election irregularities," was named by officials in the Hussein Administration to be in charge of the 2010 Census, a job routinely assigned to the Department of Commerce. The Administration tried to mitigate the news by claiming that ACORN will only be handling a few, minute details of the census in "remote" areas of the country. The facts are that attempts have been made to cut off federal funds being directed to ACORN and those attempts have been summarily checkmated by a group of Congressional Democrats. Both Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd have refused to allow their committees to investigate ACORN's activities and Eric Holder is refusing to allow the Justice Department take a look at the accusations. In the meantime, ACORN is changing its name to "COI," short for Community Organizations International, because they are afraid the bad ACORN publicity might present problems when they conduct the "census," which, by the way, will be used to redraw Congressional political boundaries.

With a Congress and Administration now keeping us from getting to the bottom of these wrongs against our country, what are we going to do? And, yes I know he doesn't like to be called Hussein. It's "disrespectful." On the other hand, he has no respect for the wishes and fears of the overwhelming majority of the nation right now, either.

Sadly, we have no one to blame for this mess but ourselves.And, I most certainly don't like the alternatives.

OUTRAGE: HOUSE $1 TRILLION CAP TAX BILL

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ONCE AGAIN, THEY HAVEN'T EVEN READ IT!

BEFORE THEY PASS A NEW HEALTH CARE MONOPOLY...

1. A government monopoly on health care is bound to be run at no better a track record than it's best-run monopoly currently in existence...the United States Post Office.

2. Monopolies stifle growth, innovation and advancement. Future improvements in health care will drastically slow down.

3. Tens of thousands of employees with longevity, benefits and retirement plans would be thrown out of work in the private health care industry.

4. The costs of planning, establishing and training in the vast new system will be enormous and are not being considered in the plans to establish a new $1.6 trillion national system.

5. Stockholders in insurance companies, hospital corporations and pharmaceutical companies will lose their investments.

These are just five immediate ramifications of a monopolized single-source government-run health-care system. Undoubtedly, there are many more.

The point is... They seem to be bound and determined to cram this down our throats without open discussion and consideration of what we are doing. This is akin to being on a new car lot, blindfolded, holding a fistful of someone else's money, and being told to buy, buy, buy.

Frankly, I'd much prefer to build a bridge to nowhere in Alaska. At least, I would know what I was getting for my money.

CALFORNIA VALLEY MIWOK TRIBE FIGHTS TAKEOVER BY CASINO GROUP

For several years, the federally recognized California Valley Miwok Tribe has been fighting with non-member organizers who have been attempting to actually take over the tribe for the purpose of building a casino on its property. The in-and-out of court battle has progressed to the point that the organizers have succeeded in isolating the tribe from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which now refuses to intercede in eviction proceedings under way in Stockton. Tribal leaders have barricaded themselves in their offices in a last-ditch attempt to gain support for their position.

Subject: For Those Who Want To Know The Truth


Why is it that we are STILL being IGNORED by the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
We are a federally recgonized Tribe that is being threatened to be evicted
by the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department and we have done everything
to make our District Congressman, and Senators aware of our URGENT
situation. We've continued to request the assistance of the Department of
the Interior/Bureau of Indian Affairs to help us resolve this URGENT issue,
yet as of this writing, we have not received a call from any of our elected
officials or any of the BIA agencies/offices

Many college students from a vast number of Universities have pledged their
support for us, they have stated that they would be willing to rally around
our home in protest, to bring attention to our dire situation.

Today, two AIM (American Indian Movement) members came by to check on us to
see how we are holding up. We have received many calls from concerned
citizens who are outraged at the way we are being treated by officials. We
have always complained that this is how our situation became this bad... by
officials continually choosing to ignore the problem.

Local Tribes are upset and showing their concern

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has the TRUST RESPOSIBILITY to protect us...
and they are not doing their job.... they should be ashamed. What does the
local BIA get paid for? If I got paid, and ignored my job responsibilites,
I'd be FIRED!!

The BIA must not have any idea of how high emotions run when you are forced
out of your home (as if it hasn't happened to Native American Indians
before) but like they say, if one doesn't learn from the past, history is
doomed to repeat itself....

We are the "legitimate" federally recognized California Valley Miwok Tribe
and we are not being treated fairly, our civil rights are being trampled on
by the Bureau, we want equal protection. We are a FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE
that should be treated no differently than all the other federally
recognized Tribes across the United States.

We are asking for the AMERICAN PEOPLE, to investigate into why the Bureau of
Indian Affairs has allowed a non-Indian Chadd Everone (aka, DOCTOR INTERNET,
out of Berkeley, CA) to be given through FOIA from Mr. Troy Burdick,
Superintendent of the Central California Agency, Sacramento, CA
a copy of our Internal Governmental Document (2006 Official Tribal Roll)
that has confidential information of our Tribal Members. This particular
document was not to be used as a public document. One copy stays on file at
our Tribal Office and one copy was sent to the Central California
Agency/Bureau of Indian Affairs.

A few months ago, our Vice Chairperson happened to google her name and found
that on a phony website set up by Chadd Everone, he had posted a document
that he had received from Mr. Burdick through the FOIA. Mr. Burdick did not
black out our personal information and allowed our names, birth dates and
social security numbers to be placed in the hands of the non-Indian Chadd
Everone to do with as he pleased. So in his viciousness, he posted our
personal information on the internet...without any remorse or regard of the
fallout of his actions as to what his reckless behavior would do emotionally
to our Tribal Members when we found out that most of our personal
information is posted for anyone to abuse.

What happened to the TRUST RESPONSIBILITY of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Does Mr. Burdick release personal information of ALL federally recognized
Tribes to any outsider who asks through FOIA or did he do it purposely for
Mr. Everone because he and Everone are friends. Since we are bringing up
FRIENDS maybe you would like to know a couple of Mr. Everone and Mr.
Burdick's other friends, Mr. Peter Melnicoe and Mr. Arlo Smith who are ex
employees of the Calfornia Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) who in return
talked to their friends the current Chairman Dean Shelton and Cy Rickards
who stopped our RSTF (Revenue Sharing Trust Fund) monies, on the word of a
non-Indian and his FRIENDS!!

Believe me... THERES'S MORE!!!! READ IT ON OUR DOT US WEBSITE
http://californiavalleymiwoktribe.us

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has allowed an outsider (non-Indian who's only
interest is creating a phony group to lead people into believing that they
are the real Tribe so that they can build a Casino, backed by Albert D.
Seeno, Jr. owner of the Peppermill in Reno, and other casinos in Wendover,
Nevada and he also owns 30 to 40 businesses in the Bay Area.

HOW CAN THE BUREAU LET THIS HAPPEN TO US... WHO IS OUT THERE TO PROTECT US
WHEN CORRUPTION RUNS SO RAMPANTLY!!! PLEASE LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN... ASK
FOR AN INVESTIGATION AS TO WHY OUR TRIBE HAS BEEN PLACED IN THIS SITUATION
OF BEING FORCED FROM ITS HOME BECAUSE OF THE RECKLESS ACTIONS OF
SUPERINTENDENT TROY BURDICK, OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AGENCY...

DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN!!

The money due to the Tribe should be released IMMEDIATELY!!! and then the
Tribe would be able to save its property!

/s/
Silvia Burley
Chairperson
s.burley@californiavalleymiwoktribe-nsn.gov

California Valley Miwok Tribe
10601 Escondido Pl
Stockton, CA 95212
Tribal Office 209.931.4567 or 209.487.9519
Fax: 209.931.4333 or 209.487.8579

HOT NEWS: INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE, WITH OUR MONEY!

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a62_boqkurbI

BEWARE OF COMPLACENCY

There seems to be a sense of complacency settling in on America.

Granted, there are a whole lot of us who are upset about what the government is doing with our money. The administration has responded with a barrage of tales about how everything is getting better and that massive campaign seems to be registering with a large segment of the population.

But, don't be fooled.

We've already been lied to so much since January that we realistically cannot believe a thing this administration is saying, except for some of the more audacious reports. Yes, terrorists now have Miranda rights. Yes, the government is paying some terrorists who are being relocated to other countries. Yes, the United States now provides free legal service to illegals who are caught, detained and lined up for deportation. Yes, we have now officially apologized to the world for 9/11. Yes, the government now owns and operates enterprises, banks, railroads, car manufacturing companies, and financial institutions. Yes, the Administration is demanding over $1.3 trillion for its new health care reform but, like Gitmo and TARP and endless other items... it has no plan.

But, everything is rosy, right?

What pushed this greatest economy in the world down the drain was a lot of misbehavior on the part of corporate America, assisted by the prodding and complacence of official Washington. But, the final push over the abyss was the sky-high cost of gas at the pumps that finally forced Americans to stay at home and quit spending.

Now that the economy has been ruined, gas prices are on the rise again and no one is paying attention to it. Prices in northern California have gone up 80 cents per gallon in the past seven weeks and are over $3.00 per gallon. The unemployed can't afford the gas at these prices to go and look for a job. In other words, another big push down the abyss is in the imminent making.

Quietly, more things are lining up against the country abroad as the new financial leaders of the world are coming to grips with the fact that America's great economy is in the toilet. Who wants to lend money to us when they are faced with the prospect that we will soon be in an inflationary trend as we print more money to try to meet our ongoing government expenses? Certainly, the prospect of lending us money that will only be repaid with new dollars worth half as much cannot be rationally considered.

All of this adds up to a renewed crisis that may have no end to it. And, when the market drops this time, it will probably hit the 5,000 level overnight.

SEDITION AND TREASON IN HIGH PLACES?

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Non-citizens who actively seek to usurp our government, our freedoms or our rights through the use of deadly force have no rights.

Any so-called American citizen who rushes to their aid... to free them from imprisonment, to confer rights to remain silent upon them, to give aid and comfort to them, to give them tools to use against us... is guilty of sedition at the very least, and probable treason against the United States of America.

The first two names that come to mind are Nancy Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama.

Those of us who are patriotic Americans and who continue to tolerate it are out of our minds.

GOVERNMENT FAILS ON ENFORCING GUN LAWS

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He was a convicted felon, barred by the law from owning or possessing a gun.
He had spent six years in jail for the attempted kidnapping of Paul Volcker of the Federal Reserve Board. He was an acknowledged hater of Jews and Negroes, a "radical extremist" who, according to Janet Napolitano, should have been high on the watch list.

Yet, James Von Brunn walked into the National Holocaust Museum and opened fire with a difficult- to-conceal 22-caliber rifle and killed a guard.

Here I sit, a model citizen, never in trouble with the law. Those in charge have failed to discharge their duties to keep Von Brunn from having and using a gun and, in the same breath, they seek to penalize me for having a gun.

There, Mr. Obama; sit on THAT and smoke it.

WHERE AMERICANS STAND TODAY IN JUST TWO WORDS

If you are a reader of any of my blogs, you're going to find this difficult to believe. I usually use quite a few words to lay out my case or position. As a matter of fact, when any one truly and passionately believes in something, they tend to get....wordy.

But, I'm not going to do that, because I sometimes believe in being short and getting straight to the point. And, this is one of those times.

You see, we have a nation full of people who know we are in trouble. It's like having a boat full of rowers all heading off into their own direction while water continues to gush through the hole in the bottom of the boat. It only takes two words to describe the situation.

"WE'RE FLOUNDERING."

Those are my two words for this column. If we don't do something to rescue this boat pretty damned soon, I'm going to be forced to change them to "OH SHIT."

THANK YOU JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG

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I haven't really been fond of Justice Ginsberg's rulings in the past, but I feel compelled to give congratulations and recognition where it is due.

The Justice has issued a restraining order in the sale of Chrysler to Fiat. She is showing due caution over the sale, as she should, because it is a sham.... a criminal act perpetrated against the bondholders of Chrysler. In fact, if you or I tried to accomplish this sham.... we'd be in Guantanamo with the terrorists.

In straight bankruptcy, the assets are sold and fully secured creditors get paid first. Second on the list are bondholders and they get paid full bore unless the money runs out first. Then, the rest of the investors, stockholders, unsecured creditors, etc.... get paid. In the case of Chrysler, the federal government arranged for a new shell corporation into which Fiat invested. The "shell" was worthless until Chrysler filed bankruptcy and, under court supervision, all of the assets of Chrysler were moved into the shell corporation, leaving Chrysler with a pile of debt and no assets.

The bondholders got the total shaft.

Geithner and Obama turned a deaf ear to the many pension funds that had invested in Chrysler bonds. They obviously don't care if those nearing retirement get the shaft. Various court rulings upheld the move until.... Justice Ginsberg issued a stay and gave the opposing parties an opportunity to file briefs and state their arguments.

She was right to do so.

WHY THE REPUBLICANS ARE MISSING THE BOAT

They like chasing down rabbit trails and the Democrats are using that fact to their advantage.

Here comes a scandal, or something that somebody in Congress or the Administration has totally screwed up. The Republicans get their bowels in an uproar and go chasing after the story, digging up facts and screaming like wounded kangaroos. Then, the Dems let loose with another scandal or story and the Republicans drop everything and go down that new rabbit trail, screaming and hollering and making other obnoxious noises.

Seems like they just can't stick with any issue long enough to bring it to a head. That shows lack of understanding of how they are being played. It also displays lack of focus and the absence of leadership.

In other words, they don't have their act together.

That's why Pelosi gets away with saying what she did about the CIA. That's why the bailouts to banks who throw lavish parties and pay bonuses go unchecked. That's why the ACORN thing is already on "fizzle."

Imagine, to everyone's surprise, today's story that the new national Health Plan is just about ready for a vote! Why was it a surprise? Because the Democrats were making hay while the Republicans have been chasing down rabbit trails.

So, they're wavering about Sotomayor while Obama has them worried about what he's going to do or say on this trip.

Get the picture?

NOT SO PLEASANT GOVERNMENT SEX

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The members of United Auto Workers are jubilant that they get to keep their wages and their benefits AND they gain ownership rights in General Motors. The creditors, bondholders, and stockholders get the not-so-royal shaft. And the American taxpayers, you and me, again get stuck with the bill... somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.

We've now had six months of TARPs, stimulus, bailouts, bank shams and bonuses.... and outrageous unemployment figures.

I don't know about you, but I feel like the American taxpayer has just been gang raped again.

WHY OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN WON'T WORK

It is said that we have the best health care system in the world. It is also the most expensive.

Can it be improved?

The answer, of course, is yes. And, it must be improved... With thoughtful evaluation of what is wrong, what alternatives are available, what plans must be put into effect, and what the costs will be.

Why can't the government just...do it?

For starters, ask yourself how the "just do it" approach worked with TARP, stimulus, and bailout. We will never know where all of those billions and trillions of dollars went that WE and our descendants our now obligated to pay back.

But, there's more. Let's talk about how successful and adept the Government is is managing Medicare. This would be a good comparison, would it not? More than 34% of processed and paid claims for wheelchairs, oxygen supplies, and other equipment in 2006 was misspent....questioned by auditors. 31.5% of the medicare claims processed and paid had missing or incomplete documentation. Over $1 billion per year in waste and fraud.

What do you think a full-blown government mandated and government operated health care system is going to look like?

Would that $1 billion pay for health-care insurance premiums from private companies to cover care for those who are under-covered or not covered at all?

If we Americans are going to have the opportunity to talk about health-care and the options, isn't this a good first question to ask? "Mr. Congressman, if we cut the fraud and corruption in the Medicare system, can we actually save enough money to fund health-care for those who don't have it?"

If we don't ask questions, if we don't demand the right to explanations and discourse so we have an educated chance to recommend "we the people" decisions to Congress, who can we blame but ourselves if their plan doesn't work?

GOD, GUNS AND VALOR

Our Country was founded on them
Our Country has been defended by them
Let us remember and be forever grateful
For God, guns and valor.

TAXPAYER REVOLT IN CALIFORNIA

Faced with a Governor and a legislature who have promised to close schools, lay off cops, turn prisoners loose on the streets and put California into bankruptcy court, California's citizens banded together, Republican and Democrat alike, and soundly voted down proposed tax increases in special election held Tuesday the 19th.

Let our voices be heard, Congress: You and all of your cronies in Washington are going to pay the piper in next year's elections. We, the commoners, have had enough. And, I mean.....WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!

CALIFORNIA TAX PAYERS HAVE TWO BULLETS TO FIRE

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California's citizens have had enough. The State Legislature and the Governors have traditionally been of the spend and tax mentality. In recent years, the state government has managed to skirt around the budget issues by raising taxes and raising taxes. Now, confronted with a drastic drop in tax revenues and a national economy that has put a drain on its social services and unemployment funds, the Legislature has come to the grips with the fact that one of the contributing factors is ...businesses have been flocking to nearby Nevada. And, of course, people who are unemployed aren't paying taxes. Real estate values are not only upside down, but in foreclosure; those tax revenues have plummeted.

The results have made national news, which doesn't need to be repeated here.

The fact is that the state government has ignored the plight of small business and of its citizens. In fact, they have responded to several special election ballot issues calling for more taxes to cover their wild spending that are very unpopular with the state citizens by threatening to put the state in bankruptcy. There's been no meaningful discussion of budget cuts, but the citizens have been put in the penalty box because... they have to come together and work as a team to bail Sacramento out.

Citizens have had enough with irresponsible government. The election, Tuesday May 19th, will probably find them firing round one by turning the tax proposals down. Round two will undoubtedly be filed next November when they vote the incumbents out of office.

Some how, some way, those who govern must be taught a lesson. And Congress is also in the cross-hairs.

HEALTHCARE REFORM: Special Post

There are those Americans out there sounding the health-care alarm and demanding reform by day's end, saying that the world will come to an end unless reform happens right now. Right now. Right now.

Well, I have a different approach. There are thousands of unemployed, underemployed, and downright poor people in this country who should not be denied health care. But, I have seen the quality of health care that is being delivered by the government out there on Indian Reservations and, by and large, it sucks. If the government's answer to the healthcare problem is the same as what I have seen, then the answer is wrong.

Second, I like my doctor, my dentist. I don't want to change. I've signed up with a great health-care program and I don't want to change.

I do agree that something has to be done, but I saw this country stampeded into TARP, Stimulus, and bailouts over the cries of imminent danger and what happened was that this country got the economic and budgetary shaft, big time. Our kids and their kids and generations to follow are going to be feeling this shaft for decades to come.

I am adamantly opposed to passing any kind of health-care reform this year, or next for that matter. What I am in favor of is a good, solid, educated in-depth investigation of various alternatives, good strong dialogue, communication and discussion of those alternatives over the next two years, and then a public vote in November of 2010.

If the government is getting ready for another "emergency" cramdown of something that has not been well-thought out and discussed, then I am going to fight it like hell.

BIN LADEN'S FAVORITE AL JAZEERA NETWORK IS COMING TO YOUR TV SOON!

Remember back when Obama was running for the White House and the right-wing conservatives challenged both his religion and his birthplace? The rumble was that Obama intended to sell out America to his Muslim friends.

Now, just four months into a new Presidency, guess who's coming to dinner?

The Al Jazeera English news channel — the English speaking partner of the Arabic al-Jazeera network — will soon be on your TV.

The network is funded by the Persian Gulf island nation of Qatar and angered officials in the Bush administration with its anti-American rhetoric and bias. It is also widely noted for its airing of Osama bin Laden videos. 18 million U.S. households will ultimately be able to receive some or all of the network's programming.

Check it out.

And, don't have any worry about the Taliban and Al Queda taking over Pakistan and its nukes. Your friend in the White House has everything under control.

P.S. There's no truth to the rumor that the FCC is going to knock FOX off the airwaves in order to make room for the new Al Jazeera Network. The necessary space has already been made.

ON VACATION, BUT...

Forget about Miss California. She's toast. I mean, she will lose her crown. She will lose her dignity and her future. She dared to stand up against the liberal agenda. She espoused a belief in traditional marriage.

Her ass is grass.

Back next week.

MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS?

And furthermore, anyone who is dismayed because Spector left the Republican Party doesn't really know what they are talking about. It hasn't changed a thing, except that he has come out of his liberal closet. He'll still vote the same...

After yesterday's special post, that's all I've got to say now except....

There's a nasty story floating around on the Internet to the effect that the reason the Navy didn't go to Captain Phillips' rescue the first time he dove into the water was that President Obama had issued orders not to fire unless fired upon. The pirates were firing at Phillips, not the Navy. The story goes on to suggest that Obama vascilated back and forth for the entire four day ordeal, finally saying that the Navy COULD use weapons IF they felt that Phillips' life was in imminent danger, which is the excuse the Seals ultimately used to take out three of Phillips' captors and to bring him to safety.

Now, if this story is true, I wonder why the Navy Seals are not being investigated to determine whether or not there really WAS an AK-47 aimed at Phillips' back when the Seals took action? If not, they should be prosecuted for murder on the high seas.

What lunacy we have brought upon ourselves!

DISASTER IN WASHINGTON: CHAOS REINS!

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The tax-cheat Secretary of the Treasury... the "only" guy who can deal with the national economic crisis... is now faced with the fact that Bank of America and Citi-Bank are again on the verge of collapse after he, Ben Bernanke, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank "saved" them with billions of dollars of our tax money in a bailout plan that we were 100% against. Complicit in his grand "scheme" to "save" our economy were the Democratic and Republican underling Senators and Representatives who thumbed their collective noses at we "dumb" Americans and went ahead and stampeded us into it, anyway.

Don't you know now why they wanted to keep the list of banks who can't pass the "stress test" from us?

We're now told that we will have to "bail out" the banks again. They have a new "scheme" to move our tax money... billions and billions of more dollars... into these banks. Only this time, they're saying that they're not actually "loaning" the money to the banks, they are buying bank common stock instead. Number one, that is nationalizing the banks, pure and simple. Number two, they're still doing it with our money!!!

Treasury is running out of our money! So, they plan to borrow $500 billion just to cover their July operating expenses.... They need $350 billion for April, May and June and $500 billion more for July and they don't know about August because their calculators are in burn out! This....BEFORE they deal with Bank of America and Citi-Bank!

Well, I don't know about you, but THIS dumbed-down right-wing former military extremist is really burned out that the White House chose to defy their critics and to celebrate their first 100 days in office and their "era of change" by flying Air Force Two, or whatever it's called, at low altitude on a junket around New York City while being chased by military jets...at taxpayer expense and while the citizens, fearing another 911, took to the streets in shear terror for their lives.

Aren't you sooooo glad you voted for all of them?

SWINE FLU IS A RED HERRING: Special Post

It's been percolating in Mexico for several weeks. No one paid any real attention. Today, it's a national media and political obsession.

Although DHHS and the boys assured all of us on Sunday that there is really nothing to worry about, the media and the politicians are all over this "WORLD WIDE PANDEMIC" like glue. Why?

Could it be the national economy? Could it be the upcoming budget votes in Congress? Could it be the investigation into Bush's "War Crimes?"

With our attention diverted to the Swine Flu....who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of politicians?

Oh my God.....I feel a sniffle coming on!

IT MAY BE SPRINGTIME, BUT THERE'S MORE THAN FLOWERS BLOOMING IN WASHINGTON

It's bad enough that no one is hot on the trail of corruption in Washington; the names of Dodd, Rangle and Murtha are all targets of investigation into charges of using their influence and power to feather their own nests financially. But, oddly, no one seems to be moving toward digging out the answers.

It's also bad enough that Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House who is targeting the rich, fails to mention that she and her husband Paul are by far the wealthiest in the Congressional halls; they have around $130 million in California real estate investments alone.

Then, of course, there's our pal Barney Frank of the now infamous House Financial Oversight Committee, who appears to have his fingers all over the $360 billion now missing and unaccounted for from the fall TARP Bailout emergency spending bills. Or, did you know about that?

Now appears... Senator Dianne Feinstein, (Number 8 on the list of wealth at the Capital), who arranged for the FDIC to get $25 billion in special funding right after that agency awarded C.B. Richard Ellis, (CBRE), a large property management firm in California, lucrative contracts to handle residential foreclosures at a higher rate than normal market price. The stench surrounding this deal is that it is her husband's firm, and the firm has substantially less experience in this type of management activity than competing firms that were summarily turned down. The allegation is that her husband, Richard Blum, purchased 10 million additional shares in the company just prior to the award and that he and Feinstein made $14 million in the process.

In the meantime, administration officials would label those of us who are sick and tired of this wide-open corruption and manipulation in Washington at our expense... "Right Wing Extremists" who need to be on the F.B.I. Watch List.

Now, who do we blame for this mess? An even more critical question urgently needing an answer is, what are we going to do about it?

"VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY" REARS ITS UGLY HEAD

It was Hillary Clinton who first alluded to the "vast Right Wing conspiracy" during the Monica years. Now, it's the Department of Homeland Security that is apparently setting aside terrorism, border crossings and other trivial pursuits in order to redirect its sights toward the target of the "conspiracy."

The DHS recently released an assessment to the effect that military personnel returning from the Middle East should be scrutinized and watched closely in case they could form "right wing" extremist groups within the United States. The report lists the veterans as being "terrorist risks."

These statements are patently offensive to every American who has ever served in the military and are indicative of the Administration's all out war....and it is a war... against their perceived enemies. It smacks of being an orchestration straight out of Rohm Emanuel's office, tucked neatly into a pile of other "projects" that includes the banning of gun ownership and change to socialism.

According to a Washington Times report on April 16th, DHS Secretary Janet Napolotano as recently as April 15th, stood by the assessment in saying that she had been briefed and she concurred. "The document on right-wing extremism sent last week by this department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis is one in an ongoing series of assessments to provide situational awareness to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies on the phenomenon and trends of violent radicalization in the United States," Ms. Napolitano said in a statement. In making the statement, she alluded to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City.

This morning, April 16th, Napolitano did an abrupt about-face and apologized for the report, saying that she hadn't read all of it.

Given the sequence and her prior insistence that the "assessment" was accurate, the apology not only falls on deaf ears, but is one more reason why Americans took to the streets in protest on April 15th.

It's NOT just about taxes. It's about the Administration's cavalier insensitivity to Amertican patriotism, to its very roots... the President's bow to Saudi royalty, his snide representations about Americans being "dismissive and arrogant," his radical turn to Marxism and socialism, his budgets and tax plans, and his affinity for tax cheats.

Napolitano may have apologized, but you can be assured that the list will not be modified and that the returning vets will continue to be scrutinized. This transcends party lines and attacks the very foundations of Americanism.

Thankfully, Americans regardless of party affiliation, have now demonstrated that we CAN take our country back. We can, and we must.

SPECIAL POST: AMERICANS ARE STINGY AND SELF CENTERED

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Washington, having mortgaged our future for generations to fund it's "economic stimulus" plan, is now blaming the American Consumer for not emptying his own pockets and going on a spending spree. We, who have the wisdom and fortitude to buckle down and hold on to our money to meet the rising unemployment, inevitable inflation and future horrendous taxes....are to blame because the banks want to give their TARP money back?

Did I hear that right?

To hell with all of them. I'm heading for a tea party.

DEMOCRATS DISS AMERICAN TEA PARTIES

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The thousands of tea parties planned for April 15th in cities and towns across the United States to protest the unparalleled spending of Congress and the looming tax increases have now been categorized by some leading Democrats as being nothing but "a bunch of disgruntled Republicans trying to create a ruckus."

I don't recall anything about partisan politics being associated with the organizers. Those protesting transcend party lines. This isn't about party affiliation.... it's about America. It's about being fed up with our tax dollars going into a "black hole" never to be seen again while the futures of our children and their descendants are being mortgaged to the hilt. It's about passing horrendous spending bills without reading them.

This just goes to show how shallow their understanding of the situation really is.

What's next? An edict from Obama, Reid and Pelosi that any Democrat caught attending an American Tea Party will be tossed out of the Democratic Party? (Maybe their names will be posted on a "nasty board" in the halls of Congress??

WHAT MAKES BARNEY FRANKFARTER TICK?

I've frequently wondered where this guy comes from, and how he continually gets away with what he does. I may have found the answer.

Could it be that he has a basic character flaw? Obviously, Massachusetts doesn't seem to think so, because they keep re-electing him. Check this out:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/scandal/gobie2.htm

ANOTHER SHOOTING?

Since it can be presumed that the weapon(s) used were not obtained legally, I would like to know why the cops were not doing their job in collecting those illegal weapons in the first place.

As for me, and millions of others, I came by my guns legally and they have never been used in the commission of any crime.

NATIVE AMERICANS AND METH: A National Tragedy

Tribal law enforcement agencies across the United States say that methamphetamine use is the number one cause at the root of domestic abuse, child neglect, beatings, theft, embezzlement, fraud, rape and murder. The problem is made worse by the inability of tribal law enforcement agencies to deal with the problems due to lack of funding, personnel, training and equipment. Mexican drug cartels take advantage of the often complicated law enforcement jurisdictions in Indian Country; isolated communities are hit the hardest, and sometimes even tribal leaders are not immune; if not part of the "action" themselves, they are often intimidated and threatened to allowing such activities to exist, even to the point of arranging for tribal and federal money to trickle into the hands of the addicted.

On one reservation alone, the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, the Sangaste crime organization out of Ogden, Utah, saturated the Northern Arapaho and the Shoshoni tribes with it, starting in 2000; by 2005, the Wind River had the highest per capita use of meth on any reservation in the country. Crime soared. From 2003 to 2006 alone, cases of child neglect increased 131 percent, drug possession was up 163 percent; spousal abuse rose 218 percent. Tribal finances simultaneously fell into a state of disarray and federal funds.

Wind River is not alone. Throughout Indian Country, resources are few and most reservations don't have treatment centers. Between 2000 and 2005, the number of methamphetamine contacts in Indian Health Services facilities increased by almost 250 percent. On March 20, 2009, an illegal alien from Mexico was found guilty by a federal jury of Conspiracy to Possess With Intent to Distribute 500 grams or More of Methamphetamine and Possession With Intent To Distribute over 500 grams of Methamphetamine on the Gila Indian Reservation in Arizona.

Methamphetamine, or meth, is a highly addictive drug that can cause paranoia and delusions in long-term users. Addicts often turn to crime to supply their habits, which can sometimes lead to violent, headline-grabbing offenses. In a recent and highly publicized case, Andre Calac was sentenced to 80 years in prison for killing his pregnant girlfriend with a shotgun blast at the Rincon Indian Reservation. His blood, taken shortly after the shooting, tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamine, and his blood-alcohol level was 0.19 percent. Meth was recently found in about 36 percent of men and 47 percent of women who were booked into southern California jails.

The Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs both pretended that the problems did not exist. While meth use and related criminal activities and health issues were on a rapid rise, budgets were being cut. The National Congress of American Indians cites the meth problem at the top of their list of priorities.

Once again, Congress and the federal agencies have seen fit to let the American Indian suffer without help and without answers. Our officials in Washington should be ashamed of themselves.

PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE WAS "CANNED" PROPOGANDA

It is my opinion that President Obama's selection of news reporters to ask questions in last night's Press Conference was not random and that those selected knew in advance they would be selected and had their questions pre-approved. If so, this is not the first time such a tactic has been used to avoid embarrassing questions for the President; President Clinton used this tactic more than once during the Monica scandal.

The problem, of course, is that the press conference is turned into a political show as opposed to a legitimate inquiry from the press and media as to what is going on in today's world. I think that the answers were somewhat pre-staged and lacking, as opposed to transparent and candid. There was total lack of spontaneity as well as a void of real empathy.

We deserve a better communication from our President. We're to blame for accepting less.

PELOSI SHOVES IT ALL OF THE WAY UP AMERICA'S HIGHNIES

We all now know about Princess Nancy's flagrant, wide-open abuse of the Air Force's fleet of Washington jets and the lowly personnel who fly and maintain them. This while, talking out of the other side of her mealy mouth, she has vehemently chastised those who fly corporate jets and drive SUV's.

She's also taking a position against secret union ballots. Anyone who has ever studied history knows that getting rid of secret ballots opens the door wide to tyranny. "Oh, Mr. American, you voted for WHO? Well, I'm from the I.R.S. and I'm here to audit your taxes for 1995 through 2009."

The not-so-royal royal princess in a haughty display of contempt for the unemployed and economic stressed country, also worked hand-in-hand with Dirty Prince Harry to remove a provision in the last stimulus bill that would have denied its benefits to illegal aliens and, in so doing, put an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens ahead of 3.5 million unemployed Americans in the benefits line.

The evil, wicked witch from California now has the audacity to put the frosting on the pile of her pompous dung. She doesn't seem to think that Americans need to have a say anymore in how much Congress gets paid, regardless of whether the national economy is good or bad. She doesn't want them to have to vote publicly on whether or not they get a raise and she doesn't want them to have to wait until the following term to take effect. She wants automatic, guaranteed raises every year for all of Congress. Not only does she want it, she is demanding it, and she's hounding the members of the House and badgering them, just like she does the Air Force about her planes.

Grovel it up big time, because there's not a damned thing you can do about it.

Or, is there?

AMERICANS IN THE HEARTLANDS ARE FED UP

I recently took a week-long trip. These are my findings:

(1) At a motor hotel in Reno the clerk, who had previously become unemployed when a local hotel-casino closed its doors due to lack of business, showed me a computer list of expected check-ins for the day. The list was about 1/3 page long. She explained that the normal list was three pages long. But, Washington is not to blame.

(2) At the airport, where you normally have to park on the top level and walk from the back to the front with luggage in hand, I had no problem finding a spot on the covered level near the elevator of my choice. Inside, the normally hustling, bustling and very busy airport was almost devoid of people. The security line had six in line. Grand total time to check in and walk to my gate was less than 15 minutes. But, Washington is not to blame.

(3) The plane from Reno to Salt Lake City, normally packed with standbys waiting, only had 30 passengers on it. But, Washington is not to blame.

(4) In Salt Lake City, I went straight to the rental car agency, there was no one standing in line at the counter. In less then 10 minutes, I was driving away to Wyoming. But, Washington is not to blame.

(5) There were plenty of trucks on I-80, but almost no cars.

The long and short of this story is that almost no one is traveling, and Washington says... "We're not to blame."

The few people I did talk to along the way were all grumbling about how Washington is handling the economy. I spoke with people from Oregon, California, Utah, Wyoming, Illinois and New Hampshire. Everyone is weary over the constant lies, denials, and blame shifting of Congress and the White House. They are even more upset, Democrat and Republican alike, at the cavalier way Congress is throwing away our hard-earned money. "They don't give a damn what we think or feel," lamented one trucker, who is a staunch union member as measured by the several union badges on his shirt. "I think it's time we ran every one of those damned bastards out. Every damned last one of them."

PRESIDENT PROVES NATION IS GODLESS: Special Post

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With one, quick and broad stroke, President Barack Obama today proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the United States of America is not only Godless, but that it has no compunctions whatsoever about the indiscriminate denial of life to the unborn.

May God have mercy on our souls.

DOW PLUMMETS BELOW 7,000

See my post of February 13th. I predicted the stock market would drop below 7,000, and it has. I also suggested it may get as low as 6,500 by March 1st. The Market was closed March 1st and this is March 2nd and, as I write this, the market is hanging around 6,800 with three more hours to trade. It will hit 6,500 sometime this month, probably today or tomorrow.

Will it get into 5,000 territory? I won't rule it out. 4,000? I won't rule that out either. 3,000? I seriously doubt it will get that low.

The problem is, the more money you throw into the fires of "stimulus" and "bailout," the more the total will be, (plus interest), that will have to be repaid; Obama has made no secret of his intent to increases taxes on "rich" and "big business" in general. So, the more money he throws into the fires, the faster investors are withdrawing and/or canceling plans for future investments and business growth.

Ironically, in this process he's financially killing innumerable retirement plans, throwing now retired people into economic disaster and wiping out savings.

Obviously, he and his advisors collectively know less about the national economy than Bush and company, and we all know that the latter was a litter of economic imbeciles.

LEGAL GUN OWNERS NOT TO BLAME FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

How often do you think a potential rapist, bank robber, or murderer saunters into a gun store, picks out a semi-automatic pistol, produces identification, pays for the gun, takes a required gun safety course and test, waits 3 to 10 days to receive the gun, and then goes out to commit the crime?

The fact is that the day-to-day already illegal use of guns does not involve legally owned guns. Guns are stolen, or traded back and forth between individuals, gangs, and territories so that they can’t be readily traced back to the criminal.

I do agree that many crimes committed by juveniles involve guns that come out of the homes of parents. But, the proper answer to this issue is that the parent did not exercise proper control of the weapon and the parent deserves some legal repercussions.

How often do you hear of an armed citizen, carrying a concealed weapon with a permit to carry that concealed weapon, committing a crime? Never. On the other hand, how often do you hear about such an individual stopping a crime, aiding law enforcement, or in other ways displaying a positive role in an emergency situation? Frequently.

I know of no single legitimate gun collector in this country who has taken an AK-47 and gone on a shooting and killing spree. But, I do hear, almost every day, about some hood or gang member who used an AK-47 to shoot and kill people. Reasonably, you know that the thug with the AK-47 does not own it legally. So, if you make the possession of an AK-47 illegal, do you think the thug is going to turn his in?

I live near a major highway. I am sure that criminals, armed with guns, travel up and down the highway everyday. You could reasonably expect that one of those guys is going to end up in my yard someday, looking for a telephone, or to steal my car because the one he’s driving broke down; there are many possible scenarios. I have several guns in my house, all loaded and ready to shoot. And, I do shoot them. On a regular basis, I take them to the range and fire them.

In my lifetime, there have been several times when I reached for a gun and was prepared to use it in self defense. Thankfully, I have never had to show a gun and I’ve never had to fire it at someone. But, if I had not been able to talk an ugly situation into a better situation, I was prepared to defend myself.

There are many reasons that legal gun owners have those guns. Some hunt, some shoot for sport in sanctioned gun competitions, some collect like others collect cars or baseball caps, and some keep them close by for defensive purposes. But, we are not the ones to blame for the gang shootings in the streets, the wild kid in a school, or the bank robber. On the other hand…. If you take away our legal guns, those guys will still have their illegal guns.

And, God help the stupid s.o.b. who tries to come and take away my legal guns because, when I shoot, I don’t miss.

TALKING HEADS AKIN TO RABID DOGS

It's been all but over for days now, ever since the White House flew, round trip and at taxpayer's expense, it's fair-haired Ohio Senate puppet back to Washington in the middle of the night to vote "yes" on the passage of the "stimulus" bill. The only thing left to do in the official enactment of the bill into law was to send it over to the President for him to sign, which he did on Tuesday in Denver.

So, it was all over except the shouting, but the talking heads at all of the major networks just could not help themselves; they continued, ad infinitum, to dissect, analyze, forecast and babble about the pros and cons, just as they had been doing for weeks. It's becoming to be nauseating. But, they're still going at it. Yak, yak, yakkity yak.... Just like bobbing heads in the back window of a beat-up old car.

Hey! What's going on in Afghanistan that Obama, the anti-war President, wants to send another 17,000 troops over there? Would you like to hear something about that? What's going on in Israel these days? IS THERE NO OTHER NEWS?

So, the stock market dropped. We all expected it to drop. Smart money is reacting to the passage of the dumb bill. Get over it; the market will drop more and may, in fact, dip below 7,000 by the end of the week. That could trigger a mass dumping of stock on the market and we could see 6,500 by March 1st.

As expected, the auto makers are going to have major layoffs and there will be some more banking problems and major retailers closing their doors in the immediate future. Because we know that is all going to happen, the bad news may not have as big an impact on the economy as we expect it to; it won't be a shocker to our system. Nevertheless, we Americans are very likely to hang on to our extra $13 a week in tax savings, proving, (in their feeble minds), their prophecy that cash to the citizens is not the answer.

But, why belabor these points? Maybe, if we quit getting reminded every minute that Congress and the President have passed the worst legislation in the history of mankind, we can somehow get past this and move on to what could hopefully be bigger and better things when the $800 billion actually starts to get spent next year sometime. That is, if the Chinese decide not to file a lien on Fort Knox in order to secure their loans, which I doubt they will do. Who wants to own a bunch of empty vaults?

HOW TO PLAY THE CONGRESSIONAL BLAME GAME

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This is how Congress thinks: We all know that they did not read their coveted "Stimulus" Bill before they voted for it. By this method, they are protected if the wheels come off, as they surely will. I can hear them now.... "Don't blame ME! It was such a rush to get the Bill passed that I didn't have a chance to read it!"

It's too damned bad...there ARE some good provisions in the Bill and the Republicans had a few good ideas to add, and surely more good ideas would evolve if they had been a little more deliberate. They COULD have enacted the good parts and deliberated on the rest, but they chose to shove it to us.

The plain fact is that Congress has NEVER passed rushed legislation that turned out to be good or to accomplish what it was intended to. Unfortunately, they've used the same excuse over and over again...."It was so urgent, I didn't have a chance to read it before the vote."

WE'RE NOT TO BLAME FOR THE PACKAGED DECEIT AND FRAUD OF THE STIMULUS PACKAGE

Would it interest you to know that they included, as part of the "economic stimulus," funding for the new health plan that has not been presented to us or debated in the halls of Congress yet? Check it out. All health information on EVERYBODY in the country will be entered into a national health computerized data base administered by the U.S. Government. Additionally, the new national health plan will require that all health providers check that database before prescribing you anything or diagnosing you with anything. So, the patient died in the operating room because the national computer is down?

And, what if I don't WANT my damned health history in a government operated database?

Would it interest you to know that Mr. Tom Daschle, who was going to be the national health Czar, urged the Senate and the President to include this health provision in the stimulus plan so that we Americans would never have the opportunity to voice our opinions about it, lest the proposal be headed off? That was the reason that the Prez was so hot to trot to get Daschle confirmed.

This is just for openers. Wait until we, the ignorant public, find out what else is in this "economic stimulus" bill, soon to be signed by the Prez.

CONGRESS PLAYS AMERICANS FOR PATSIES

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I'm going to say it exactly as I feel it in my heart. The bastards are really sticking it to us, and we are letting them do it. This piece of legislation is absolutely the worst thing to strike this country since 911 or Pearl Harbor; the manner in which this is being accomplished is nothing better than thinly disguised domestic terrorism.

They have totally ignored the will of the people and the advice of the country's best economists. They are blatant opportunists who are using our world-wide economic crisis as a vehicle to pass legislation that will do nothing but line their own pockets and stick it to the taxpayers. They are the worst kind of assholes ever created.

FOLLOW UP: STIMULUS BILL MORPHS INTO RAW SEWAGE

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President Obama is "on the muscle." He is practically demanding that the "Economic Stimulus Bill" be passed, and passed immediately. In doing so, he is making it plain that he does not care what a growing number of Americans think about the pork-laden bill, and he doesn't care that the price tag is ballooning, either.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has joined the President by saying that he will not tolerate the new group of 17 Senators who are trying to change the Bill into something that is more responsible to America.

The "Gang of Three," Reid, Pelosi and the President, are now threatening Americans that this Bill had better pass, and pass now, or something BAAAAAD is going to happen.

They want it passed by tonight.

If we Americans are going to let them get away with this, we deserve what we are going to get and we need to bend over on the well-known freeway, pronto. We need to call, email, fax, telegram all of them; get them off their bar stools and let them know what we are thinking: This bill, in its present form, is pure, unadulterated el toro poo poo. We're not arguing the need for some kind of action, but this kind of action and cavalier treatment of we Americans by them is not acceptable. Repeat...NOT acceptable.

PRESIDENTIAL "CRAM DOWN" ANNOUNCED

First of all, I would like to congratulate President Obama and making a statement that too few Presidents have made. It was in regards to the botched nominations of Daschle and what's-her-face. He took full responsibility for the mistakes in the "vetting" process; he didn't duck the fact that the buck did stop at his desk on that one, so that's a point in his favor this morning, as far as I'm concerned.

Standing by his side, ironically, was Tim Geithner, the new Secretary of the Treasury who had his own tax problems and managed to get confirmed. No further comment on this irony.

Obama went on to suggest that the current economic crisis was the fault of the business executives who were busy in their self-serving ways. Well, I certainly would not disagree that they have some culpability in this mess, but the real people responsible are FRAP, (Frankfarter, Reid and Pelosi), and the House Financial Oversight Committee of which Frankfarter is Chairman. Although that is well-established fact, I think the Prez was trying to justify his capping of executive wages at $500,000 for those firms who accept government money.

Right away, FOX News concluded that other major and successful companies will be out there trying to hire away those execs frozen at the $500,000 level. I don't think that will happen. If you were the Chairman or on the Board of a successful corporation that didn't need government handouts to operate, why would you hire some President-CEO of a company that was in financial trouble to replace your own successful President? Actually, I don't disagree with the Prez on this one; I think it sends a good and strong message.

So far in this post, he's batting two for three. But now, however, he steps into real doo doo.

He's been saying, as he's been pushing his economic stimulus package, that he wants Congress to review it and pull out the stuff that's not really "stimulus." Today, however, he reversed himself and told Congress flat out to quit playing games with it and to get it passed by next week. Obviously, he wants it passed in its current $900 billion form, pork and all and including the probability that ACORN will get up to $5 billion of it.

Now, how does THAT grab your buttocks?

CONGRESS HEARS PLEA FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HELP, RESPONDS

This news just in... The stimulus bill includes $2.8 Billion to help Native Americans in economic recovery.

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/38694392.html

A couple of posts ago, I asked readers to write, call, email their Congressional representatives on behalf of the forgotten Native Americans. On their behalf, thanks for your overwhelming response.

Now all we have to do is to hope and pray that the bill does not fall victim to pending cuts.

IS AMERICA READY FOR WAR WITH MEXICO?

We have our military spread out pretty thin... Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, England, France, Japan, Spain...

Just to the south of our border is a nation full of more corruption than we have, (if you can believe that), beleaguered by drug wars and plagued by poverty. Their government is so fragile that there is every possibility, even probability, that Mexico will plunge into anarchy sometime this year. When that happens, hundreds of thousands... or even tens of millions...of Mexicans are going to be heading north, with drug lords probably hot on their trails.

Are we ready for this? With all of our troops overseas and our bank accounts about to run dry after Congress tosses another $825 billion + pork down the toilet, how are we going to deal with this massive influx of humanity that will need medical attention, shelter, clothing and food? And, how are we going to fight the crime and street fighting that will inevitably come with it?

That'll be a great opportunity for terrorists to strike again, won't it?

We are embarking upon dangerous times, indeed.

THE FORGOTTEN CITIZENS: A NATIVE AMERICAN TRAGEDY

I think it really got ugly when the United States Calvary put a $200 bounty on the head of any Indian in Nevada. Over in California, Indians were rounded up and herded off to San Francisco with the promise of a better life; many were slaughtered, others were put into servitude and by the time they got back to their native lands several decades later, they found out they had been stripped of their heritage, culture, and timber.

Today, we visualize them as being filthy rich casino moguls, playing on American greed, and we pat ourselves on the back and say, "Well, after what we did to them, they deserve a break."

But, here are the facts. Only a few Native casinos are making significant money; many are losing propositions and those tribes who own them are in a sea of red ink. Not every tribe owns a casino. In fact, countless tribes across the country have no economic development at all, either because their land bases are too small or remote, or because they have never been able to accumulate enough money and education to get anything started.

When you go out there onto "the rez," you see government buildings with leaky roofs and that haven't been painted or properly maintained since the day they were built, forty or fifty years ago. You see countless houses with plywood over broken windows that no one could afford to repair, surrounded by yards full of junk cars that no one can afford to have hauled away. In IHS hospitals, you find hundreds of human beings suffering from maladies that cannot be treated because IHS doesn't have enough money while, on the other hand, illegal immigrant criminals who land in American jails get full medical benefits.

Every year, the Federal Government has systematically been decreasing the funding for IHS and BIA activities, resulting in tribes being on the short end of the human social services stick. Education, the key to breaking away from a poverty rate above 50%, has also been cut, cut, cut.

Now, the Congress is hell-bent on giving hundreds of billions of dollars away to the fat cats because the fat cats are having to eat beans one night a week. Congress is willing to mortgage the future of our children and grandchildren in order to bail those fat cats out of their short-sighted ways, and Congress wants to cut some more from the IHS and BIA budgets while they do it.

There are children with empty stomachs running down the unpaved streets on their way to desparity and depression, and Congress is turning its collective back and a blind eye to the problem.

As an American, I ask for your help on behalf of these people. Write, wire, phone your Congressional representatives today. Interrupt their drunken stupors just long enough to ask them to add $3 billion to help Native Americans instead of adding $10 billion to build a bridge to nowhere.

Otherwise, we are still to blame for this national tragedy.

MEDIA: HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS INNOCENT

The media is tainting the news again. In some cases, it is more subtle than others. You'll catch it in the way they ask questions of Israeli representatives and Palestinian representatives. The innuendos almost lead to the answers that the "reporters" are seeking.

The bottom line here is that the media would like us to believe that Israel is in the wrong. "Why haven't you followed the peace accord?" they ask. Then, they almost cut off the answer, "Why don't THEY follow it?"

Hamas has been tossing missiles and rockets into Israel with alarming frequency for several years. How long would you put up with your neighbor throwing dog crap over his his fence and into your bedroom window before you did something about it? The United Nations, so-called peace maker of the Earth, has been turning a blind eye toward the matter. If the cops don't show up to arrest your neighbor, are you eventually going to throw the dog shit back, along with everything else you can get your hands on? Maybe you'll just go over there and beat the tar out of him?

The media makes a big major point about how Israel is trying to ignore calls for cease fire, about the rocket that hit a school. They make no mention of the indiscriminate and unprovoked Hamas rocket attacks that have been killing innocent Israelis on a daily basis for years.

Our Constitution, for valid reasons, protects the freedom of the press. With that freedom, the press has a responsibility to us, the American citizens, to report objectively and fairly. When they violate that responsibility, they violate the purpose and intent of the law, and we need to find a way to hold them accountable.

FRANKFARTER, REID AND PELOSI (FRAP) HAVE BIG BUNS!

Obama is talking about a $5 trillion additional "economic stimulus package." Now, I think he has in mind giving US $300 billion of that to get us smiling and in a good mood so we'll go buy, buy. " Maybe he thinks that we won't worry at all about the $5 trillion plus the $1.5 trillion already spent in economic bailouts that we're going to have to pay back...plus interest.

They probably also think that we'll feel so guilty about taking the $300 billion that we'll forget that the real blame for this whole mess belongs with them. Reid is so ecstatic that he's even going to let Burris have his appointed Illinois Senate seat!

But, when the bill comes due for all of this, FRAP are all going to be retired so we can't get angry at them anyway.

FRAP, FRAP, how sweet.