I DIDN’T MEAN TO LISTEN TO RUSH, I REALLY DIDN’T

I was in the middle of a Chinese fire drill, scrambling from one town to another to put together last-minute details for a business trip, and I happened to turn on the radio; lo and behold, Rush Limbaugh was on the air. Now, Rush is not my favorite show, by far. He’s right about many things, I will admit, but he’s just too bombastic for me, too narcissistic, if you know what I mean. In those respects, he’s much like Obama. Rush fancies himself as being the God of conservatism in this country and Obama believes that his is the Omnipotent One. I guess they have forgotten about the Unknown Scribbler?

In any event, Rush got onto something. No, it wasn’t a rant. But, he started talking about Obama and his belief that Obama is deliberately sabotaging efforts to stop the oil leak and clean up the Gulf. Don’t know if you know this or not, but they have halted the building of sand bars to keep the oil away from the beaches because some government ninny doesn’t like the source of the sand. Cleanup barges have continuously been prevented from going out to skim oil and someone mentioned that there were other skimming rigs located elsewhere in the country that could come to help and the Administration prevented that move because there “might” be another oil accident somewhere else and those skimmers would be needed there.

Rush went on to suggest that Obama is doing these things deliberately to detract us from the economy, unemployment and the immigration issue, and I agree; never let a good crisis go to waste. In fact, if the crisis gets bad enough, Obama could declare a state of national emergency and glom onto all kinds of power…even suspending the Constitution. In fact, he could manage to get the leak plugged around a month before the election, and then hire 300,000 people to come and clean up the mess. Unemployment would decline, there might be some improvement in the economy and Obama could ride the favorable wave of his "decisive leadership" to rescue his Democrats in Congress.

Would he do such a dastardly thing? Look at some of the many dirty tricks he has pulled so far, including the Health Care debacle; of COURSE he would! In a heartbeat! In fact, he’s already put the word out that he wants to pull the Gulf workers off the job because of the tropical storm. “They could be out two weeks or more,” comes official word from the White House. 

Floating out of the White House gas machine Friday was the word that the Administration is working on a plan to have the President issue an Executive Order declaring amnesty for all illegal aliens. Have you ever noticed how Obama, taking a cue from Clinton, always lets these gaseous bombs waft out on Fridays after everyone has gone home for the weekend?

We really need to start paying closer attention to what this guy is doing. I agree with Rush in this case that Obama has committed far too many bad acts for them to be chalked up to mistakes, stupidity, or anything but the actions of a very shrewd man. Start asking yourself “Why?”

OBAMA'S DYNASTY IS CRUMBLING

General Stanley McChrystal is on his way out after criticizing President Obama in a ROLLING STONES interview. McChrystal was summoned to appear in the White House today to explain his remarks to the effect that he has been left “on the outside” in his dealings with the White House and stated that he had been in the untenable predicament of having to sell “an unsellable position” with respect to troops and the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. Against mounting public pressure, Obama had delayed for months the decision to increase troop levels in Afghanistan while McChrystal had said the United States was in a “no win” situation unless the troops were provided.

McChrystal has apologized to Obama, but has undoubtedly burned his bridges. "I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome."

In the meanwhile, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has announced his resignation effective in July. Orszag has been a key part of Obama's economic team during the passage of the economic stimulus bill and this year's health care reform legislation. He was formerly in charge of the Congressional Budget Office before the CBO provided figures that did not suit Obama’s agenda in getting the stimulus and health care packages passed against the public will.

Rumors are also circulating in Washington that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will be resigning after the November elections due to “frustration” with Obama’s inner circle of key advisers. Emanuel has denied the rumors, but word is that he has been set up to be the “fall guy” if Democrats get slaughtered in the elections.

Obama has apparently become disengaged with the many major problems facing the nation at this juncture. He has failed miserably in his handling of the Gulf Oil crisis. He seems insensitive to the growing national immigration issue and to Arizona’s plight in dealing with the crisis. He has given weak response to Iran’s flagrant violations of international pressures against that country’s nuclear ambitions and has been less than effective in dealing with North Korea’s similar programs.

The insurance industry has confirmed that it is increasing health care premiums. New benefits of the health care program kick in now and the companies are seeking to cover the increased costs. Obama summoned key company officials to the White House for an ass-chewing session and threats of industry takeover by the government, a move essentially turning the industry into government run health care. This move is being made amidst revelations that the costs associated with the program are much higher than revealed as it was being shoved down Americans throats and as doctors across the country are refusing to see Medicare patients due to declining Medicare reimbursements.

The economy is not cooperating. On the one hand, Vice-President Biden is claiming that the stimulus plan has worked, but Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac remain buried in a sea of red ink, unemployment is not improving, and the national debt is on the verge of dragging the company into anarchy.

With these problems and more facing the Presidency, there appears to be rampant indecision in the Oval Office and Obama has earned a reputation of being calloused and ambivalent. His polls and the polls of his Congressional lapdogs are sinking so fast that one can only hope and pray that they will land at the bottom of the Gulf and plug the damned hole.

OBAMA BLASTS EUROPEAN UNION

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Faced with the reality that his economic stimulus plans have not worked and that his ERA programs have not lessened unemployment, President Barrack Hussein Obama reacted as anyone could easily predict to the news that the members of the European Union are drastically cutting back spending in an effort to avoid financial calamity… by saying that their actions could hurt the U.S. economy. In other words, he’s not accepting responsibility and blame for his own mismanagement; instead, he’s transferring blame to the European Union when, in fact, we should be following their lead and cutting back on spending here at home.

Obama continues to plow ahead speaking, as Native Americans would say, “with forked tongue.” On the one hand, he tells us that the country needs to quit spending and on the other hand he continues to spend our money hand over fist. His administration has refused to account for the TARP money and ERA money that has been allocated and, “let me be clear,” the Republicans have not pursued that question, either. He’s forging ahead with pressure to pass his Cap and Trade legislation and to shove tens of billions of dollars into another economic stimulus.

The Mohegan Sun, a Native American Casino in Connecticut, has received over $54 million in stimulus money at the behest of Senator Charles Dodd. That casino made $1.3 billion in 2009. The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to this type of blatant misappropriation of taxpayer funds. This is but one example of misspending of ERA and stimulus funds over the past 18 months.

With all of this spending going on, unemployment hangs on at 10.0%, the first-time filings for unemployment benefits soared last week to 472,000, retail sales are down and other ominous signs point to the fact that Obama’s tax and spend agenda has failed the nation in a time of desperate need. Still, instead of listening to the growing clamor of economists who are calling for reduced spending and reduced taxes in order to get small business back into the hiring mode, he blindly continues to go forward to where no successful man has gone before.

He’s not akin to a drunken sailor; rather, he’s like a drunken gambler in a casino, out of money to play with and begging the credit manager for a higher credit limit. And, he’s gambling with the taxpayer’s money and the well-being of our grand children.

Only Congress can rein this drunk in, but Congress has been party to his drunken antics. Even the Republicans, now trying to retreat into a false sense of conservatism, were there at the spending trough in late 2008 to hand over $850 billion to Geithner and Bernanke without restriction. It is apparent that, in order for us to force Congress into cutting Obama’s spending, we need to remove every Member of Congress who is up for re-election.

Obama suggests that the damned European Union is just trying to make him look bad. This is all their fault. It’s time to quit blaming Bush and pick on someone else, and God forbid Obama should ever own up to his own pathological shortcomings.

This is just one more compelling reason for us to stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder and arm-to-arm as we move forward to take back our country.

POSTAGE STAMP UPSIDE DOWN

I begin this post with an ominous thought. Back in the early days of our country, when people were coerced into writing things they did not wish to write but wanted to convey a situation of distress, the practice was to paste the stamp on the envelope upside down. So it is that today, I began pasting my American flag stamps on my mail upside down because we are, most assuredly, a nation in distress. I urge you, too, to follow the practice until we get our country turned back to the correct direction.

Now, as to the President’s speech last night…. It was too little, too late. You get the feeling that they only reason he made it was because the Democrats in Congress are sick and tired of hearing about the oil spill from their constituents. There was nothing new in it. There were no alternatives offered to either fix the problem or clean up the mess; rather, he indicated to me that he wants more money for some other commission to be formed to look into it and resolve it. AND, of course, he wants his Cap & Trade Energy Bill passed and he doesn’t care if we can afford it or not.

That’s basically what I heard. There was nothing new, just the same old shoulder shrugging and finger wagging that I have seen for the last 18 months. His reactions are to point blame and seize assets. Frankly, if I was Tony Hayward with BP, I’d be inclined to tell the President to “buzz off.”

BP is solidly to blame here, and I agree with that. I was one of the first, if not THE first, to wag MY finger and proclaim BP/ARCO as being the villain.  They have misled everyone involved from minute one. As I have said since two or three days after the rig blew, BP’s traditional cost cutting and lack of safety was the direct cause of the disaster. Mark my words, BP will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into many Courts of law before this story is over and people get paid.

One has to wonder why this President didn’t arrange to meet up with Hayward and tour the rig site and Gulf by chopper together, to then sit down with top government and BP officials to have an eyeball-to-eyeball discussion. The "hide behind your Oval Office desk and teleprompters, spewing forth confrontational ass kicking comments routine" is no more likely to draw cooperation and a spirit of urgency than does lying through your teeth and cramming a health care plan down people’s throats that they do not want. 

This was just another day of audacious Presidential pomposity, as far as I’m concerned.

I believe that our President came into office with an agenda to firmly place in action a series of events that would centralize every last drop of power in the White House before the November elections, and he has been distracted from his objective several times. He just can’t bear to turn his back on those objectives and to deal with the more pressing issues of the nation. Every day that goes by where his events don’t kick in as he planned gets him one day closer to November, and that seems to be relentlessly gnawing at him.

The momentum that carried him into office is now eroding. The polls reflect that the pendulum is starting to swing against him. His political capital is now confined to just a handful of Congress; the rest are doing their best to distance themselves from him in such a manner that it doesn’t amount to outright rebellion.

The fact that Obama didn’t even have the courtesy to respond to an offer from Royal Dutch Petroleum, (Shell), made in the beginning days of this disaster to send help speaks volumes about his in ability to function when he is not in control of his own diabolical agenda. 

Don't blame me; I'm just the messenger.  

OBAMA LOSING HIS GRIP; Long, Hot Summer in Washington Begins

OBAMA LAUNCHES WHITE HOUSE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE HEALTH CARE PLAN;

Unemployment, Economy, Oil Spill, Immigration Take Back Seat

PELOSI GETS HAMMERED AT HEALTH PLAN CONFERENCE;

Protesters Don’t Like the Plan, Shout Her Down and Throw Objects


SECOND OIL LEAK DISCOVERED; 
Two Additional Plumes Found Floating 3,400 Under Water

Yes, a second oil leak has been hiding from Americans since at least April 30 and, as this post is being written, those involved are still stonewalling the news. Recent satellite photos show oil around the Ocean Saratoga Rig, operated by Diamond Offshore for Taylor Energy. Taylor has reportedly instructed Diamond Offshore to “plug and abandon” the well. The rig was damaged by a hurricane in 2004 and Diamond Offshore was told in 2009 to plug the well according to “sources.” This would seem to indicate that the well could have been leaking for over a year and Taylor Energy is not talking.

In the meanwhile, it has been discovered that pools of oil are gathering underseas at about 3,400 feet and this discovery leads to the probability that marine life will ultimately be extensively damaged. It appears that BP has known of this for “some time” but did not disclose the fact until they were recently asked in a press conference about the possibility.

President Obama, now faced with a multitude of festering problems which include Middle East tensions in and around Israel as well as belligerent rhetoric from North Korea and Iran, has decided to take to the road and try to gain support for his cram down health care bill.

Don’t you just wonder who in the hell is running this country while Obama ignores these issues?

BP/ARCO HAS NO ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Anyone who thinks that BP is getting unfairly criticized for the Gulf Oil disaster has not done their homework. Anyone who thinks that BP is the shining star of environmental and safety track records needs to take an hour or two and start digging around on the internet. Anyone who wants to come to the defense of BP/ARCO is either insane or an attorney looking to get rich. Eric Holder is definitely not the first government official to threaten a criminal investigation into BP/ARCO’s activities. 

So, why doesn’t BP straighten up its insolent corporate act? Because, historically speaking, BP has made more money by operating the way it does. With the hundreds of billions of dollars of operations they have around the world, they have figured it out that they can shave corners and cuts costs in all of them and, should anything bad happen in one of them they will have saved far more than enough to cover the costs, fines and legal fees involved. 

In Yerington, Nevada, its shuttered Yerington Anaconda Copper Mine is an environmental disaster that is polluting ground water with uranium and chemicals. For almost ten years, BP has stalled, stalled and stalled on the cleanup of the site. Many unilateral orders of consent have been issued by the EPA to prod BP into accomplishing what little it has accomplished so far. But, the magnitude of the problem continues to grow day by day. 

If you want a one-stop source of information about BP’s past misdeeds around the world and how it has handled that Yerington Mine disaster, check out www.yamsite.info. 

I heard the argument that, if we boycott BP/ARCO at the pumps, we could drive them out of business and then we, the taxpayers, would be left holding the bag for the cleanup costs in the Gulf. That’s very naïve. The plain simple fact of the matter is that BP/ARCO is not going to go bankrupt. It has dozens of operating divisions and can sever any one of them at any time, including U.S. operations, and never look back. They have associations and operations all over the world including Iran. 

We’re going to end up paying through the nose for this disaster anyway. They will fight in court every step of the way, and we’ll be stuck with the legal fees. Historically, you will see them fighting until some Court hits them with $500 million here and there and then they’ll threaten to appeal and offer to settle out of court for $100 million and they’ll get away with it. If they’ve spent $1 billion in the Gulf already on this cleanup, that is 1/25th of the money they make every year. That $1 billion will get written off against tax liabilities and we are going to therefore be stuck for it anyway. 

We would like to proclaim that we are not to blame for the way BP does business, but we are. We allow their cavalier attitude toward safety and the environment to continue; our courts and agencies let them off the hook much too easily, and we continue to buy their gas although they have been in trouble in several states for their pricing strategies.

As for me, I’ll be damned if I’ll buy one ounce of their gas; I’ll walk first.

ARE OBAMA, HOLDER & NAPOLITANO LIARS, OR NOT?

YOU DECIDE

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

WE'RE NOT TO BLAME

So, let's rid ourselves of the ones who are!

WE ARE NOT EQUAL

Contrary to what President Obama would have you believe, we are not equal. We may be created equal, but that is the end of that. Some people go to college, some drop out of high school; some become doctors or lawyers, some work on oil rigs; some encounter extensive health problems, others live to old age and die healthy. We could create an endless list of individual differences we acquire in life that make us “not equal.”

Some people end up being extensively wealthy and others end up without two coins to rub together. Our President would have us subscribe to his Socialist-Marxist ideology that says we must take from the rich and give to the poor until everyone is back to being equal. If he wants everyone to go back to being equal, we must return to our days of nativity; there will be no doctors, lawyers, oil workers, cops, or Presidents, for that matter. We will all do the same thing in life, whatever that might be, and we will acquire the same levels of wealth. If I have $10,000 in the bank, so will you and Obama. We will all wear the same khaki uniforms and march to the same drummers. We will have a universal state religion and all others will be banned.

Those are the objectives of the “social justice” and “economic justice” programs current being thrust upon us. Everything this administration is engaged in is focused on making us all equal in every respect.

How ludicrous can you get?

What they really mean to say, when they tell us about “equal social justice” and “equal economic justice” is that they have total control over every aspect of our lives and we have no control over any aspect. Anyone who tries to break that mold must be eliminated. Glenn Beck must be eliminated. I must be eliminated. Millions of Americans must be eliminated. You have three choices: (1) go along with the program, (2) leave the country, or (3) be eliminated. There are no other alternatives unless… you are willing to stand united, stand together shoulder-to-shoulder, arm-to-arm and deny them their objectives at every turn. Stop them in their tracks.

We are a nation of God-fearing people. We live according to religious teachings that are morally and ethically sound. These teachings are contrary to their objectives. They believe they have the rights to lie, cheat, steal, plunder and rape. In order to accomplish their objectives, one of the things they must do is to marginalize or take over religions. Nancy Pelosi, making no bones about it, recently started to tell religions what to preach and how to preach it. Obama operatives are already in contact with various religious leaders peddling their influence and exerting their “authorities.” You will soon be hearing about “equal social justice” and “equal economic justice” as being teachings of Christ or God; nowhere in any religious scriptures is there a call for total equality, because that cannot be achieved and it contrary to the spirit of man.

Obama and his henchmen may try and tell us that we need to be equal, but we need to rise up and rid ourselves of these demons in our midst. Judging by the polls and by the elections so far, we’re off to a good start. Let’s hope and pray that we still have the right to vote in this country in November; I’ll guarantee you that Obama has been reading the Hugo Chavez strategy on how to ignore a constitutional requirement for elections.

On the other hand, if we succeed in forcing them out and if we regain control of our country, is there going to be any money left to run it with? Don't blame me, I just posed the question. 

WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE AGAINST FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

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The White House is engaging in a highly sophisticated control of the press.  Attempts by a President to prevent negative news stories from getting published are not unprecedented.  However, this far-reaching control of the President's message transcends all boundaries and appears to firmly place the stamp of Marxism on the White House agenda.  White House aids have all but shut out the Press Corps from any meaningful dialogue; when the Press Corps has its daily briefings, they consist of dancing, dodging and ducking any questions of substance.  The White House has banned any...any and all contact by the press with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan; an internal White House staffer did ask her some mundane questions and the interview was released in the trappings of authentic journalism.  


There is growing evidence that White House "operatives" have been surfing the Internet and systematically scrubbing any and all material which contains any historical information regarding Obama's past associations or relative to current Czars and other close advisers.  At the same time, the White House has apparently launched an offensive against all advertisers on the Glenn Beck Show, warning that their continued advertising will result in serious and dire consequences. 


One needs to consider these events in the full context of what other actions have been taken by the Administration since Obama took office.  When you look at it in that aspect, you can only reach one conclusion, and it is not pretty.  Our country is being attacked from within.  The ominous warnings that appeared on this blog and MY AMERICAN OPINION long before Obama was elected are coming true.  Our country is in peril.  


We have to do something about this and, at the rate progress is now being made by the Czars and other Administration officials, I'm beginning to think that the November 2010 elections may be our last free elections in this country.  That's scary talk.  While Obama and his henchmen are doing everything they can to drive us apart, racially, economically, socially, politically, religiously.... we must do just the opposite.  We must stand together, shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, and we must make every attempt to cut off the head of this ugly snake that is poisoning our country.  We must stand united, because divided we will fail. 

POLITICAL BIG WIGS STUMPED OVER VOTE?

The Republicans have been salivating to no end over the prospect that they are going to reap major, major gains this year. Hannity and Rove have been predicting a Democrat slaughter like no other ever before in history. They have not, however, been reading my blogs. So, one more time, let me explain it to you knuckleheads.

We American citizens, the ones paying the way for all of the things that are wrong with this country, are tired of it. We’re tired of the double-talk, the lies, the disinformation, the misinformation, the relentless spending, the innuendo talk, the corruption, the ethics violations, the partying, the lobbying, the deal making… we’re just flat tired of all of the bullshit. This is not about Democrats vs. Republicans; it’s about us vs. them… the proletariat vs. the elitist Progressives. And, it’s about big government vs. our Constitution.

When it comes to the sad state our government is in, the Republicans are just as much to blame as the Democrats. And. As I’ve said countless times, if the Republicans want to have another chance to mend their ways, (they sure as hell blew their last chance), they need to show us some strong leadership and an undeniable commitment to our country. We have seen neither. The Republicans have weak leadership at the National Committee level. They have not come out with any solid commitments as to where they stand on anything. In our eyes, the only reason they made any noise at all about the health care debacle is because we, the rank and file, were flat ticked off about it.

As far as we are concerned, we want to replace every incumbent in office… to clean house and to send the message that we are taking our country back. Now, as Barry Goldwater would say, it’s time to “shit or get off the pot.” If the Republicans expect to make gains in Congress, they know what they need to do. The fact that they have not recognized our sincerity of purpose for what it is or stepped up to the plate just lends credence to the proposition that they are part of the problem.

WE did not create the national debt, the immigration problem, the economic mess, the energy crisis, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the Health Care lie, TARP… We surely know who was in on all of this and we surely know that we are going to continue to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, elbow to elbow, until every last person in Washington who has had anything to do with this gross endangerment to our country has been removed.

If you want to make political hay out of it, you need to clean up your act big time and cut out the lap dances because the music is about to end.

WE'RE NOT TO BLAME

They ALL Sound Like Obama 

THE VERY REAL IMMIGRATION ISSUES

Whether you realize it or not, our immigration system is far more serious than it is being portrayed. For one thing, when the subject of immigration comes up, we immediately think of Mexicans splashing across what’s left of the Rio Grande. What we DON’T think about is a Pakistani coming into the country on a visa, applying for and obtaining U.S. citizenship, and blowing up Times Square. You see? The whole system is broken.

Do you think, perhaps, that the porous U.S. – Mexican border has only Mexicans going back and forth? A letter which follows points out that several copies of the Quran have been found along border crossings. Our immigration problem is a very real security issue. There is no reason that anyone should be allowed to come into this country except through a checkpoint such as U.S. Customs; yet, there is nothing to prevent anyone from walking across the U.S. – Mexican border, or the U.S. – Canadian border for that matter, with a nuke in their suitcase. And once they get 10 or more miles into the United States, they can easily blend into the population.

Read the following letter from an Arizona Senator. This is the fairest, most comprehensive article I've read on the subject. MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC and the other media stations have it wrong--there's been a mass hysteria of disinformation from all of them. None of the media have taken the time to look at the bill along with its amendments. This Arizona State Senator has it right:

I don’t see how anyone can argue with Arizona’s right to defend itself after reading this.
I’m an Arizona state senator. I want to explain SB1070, Arizona’s immigration bill, which I voted for and which was just signed by Gov. Jan Brewer.


Rancher Rob Krentz was shot to death on his ranch over a month ago and the shooter fled into Mexico. His family suspects a drug smuggler is responsible. I participated in a state Senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence that is, and has been, sweeping our border communities for years. From those hearings, we learned that:


– The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have been terrorized by the Mexican drug cartels and human smugglers. One rancher testified that 300 to 1,200 people cross his ranch every day, vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles, cutting down his fences and leaving trash. He testified that in the last two years, he has found 17 bodies and, alarmingly, several copies of the Quran.


– Another rancher testified that drugs are brought across his ranch in a military-style operation, with guards armed to the teeth. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, a half-mile behind are the fully armed guards, a half-mile behind them are the drugs, and behind the drugs are more guards. This was not the only rancher we heard who talked about the drug trains.


– One man told of two border crossers who came on his property, one of them shot in the back and the other in the arm by drug runners who forced them to carry drugs and then shot them. They frequently hear gunfire at night and are afraid to leave their ranch for fear of what the smugglers will do to it.


The Border Patrol is not on the border. It has set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. The officers are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering.


The national media do not report on these stories because it conflicts with their perception of the illegal immigration issue, which is based on an assumption that all illegal immigrants are law-abiding landscapers, maids and day laborers. While this is true in many cases, it is also true that our federal and state prisons and county jails are full of a disproportionate number of illegal immigrants who are committing a disproportionate number of crimes.


The federal government has failed to do anything substantive to help border states like Arizona. We have been overrun by immigrants and, once they are here, the state has the burden of funding services that they use. With a $3.5 billion state budget deficit, we have many difficult decisions to make, and one of those decisions is that we don’t have the money to care for people who are not here legally.


This has to stop. The border can be secured. We have the technology, we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming into the country, and they must come in an organized manner – legally, so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country.


The national media has distorted, disfigured, and dismembered Senate Bill 1070 to the point that its reputation no longer bears any resemblance to what the bill actually does. Those who claim it is racist, or will foster a Nazi-state are themselves fostering unwarranted and irrational hysteria.
The fact is that Senate Bill 1070 merely makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally. It also explicitly prohibits law enforcement officials from solely considering race, color, or national origin in determining immigration status.


Many lawmakers who supported SB1070, including me, also support amnesty, but not until we secure the border. Failing to secure the border only moves us closer to some form of a North American Union with no borders and no national sovereignty. Many of those protesting SB1070 have called for just that.


Maybe it is too late to save America. Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But as an elected official, I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic.
Living in America is not a right simply because you walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility. Freedom is not free.

(Sylvia Allen, a Republican from Snowflake, serves in the Arizona Senate.)

We have a responsibility as Americans to get this problem fixed, right now. We need to examine our passport policy, our visa policy, our “anchor” policy, our border policies… all of these policies need to be reviewed not only from the aspect of cost to the taxpayer, but also from crime in the streets and our requirement to be secure from terrorism.

We are not to blame for these blaring and consistent failures to address vitally important issues. But, we certainly know who is, and all they need to be removed from their positions in November, Republican and Democrat alike.

WAS GULF TRAGEDY AN ACCIDENT, OR CAUSED BY GROSS NEGLIGENCE?

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Information barely being covered in any press or media outlet is that BP/ARCO had certain environmental responsibilities when drilling and operating in the Gulf that they did not meet. It has already been pointed out, albeit briefly, that a rubber-skirted boom is supposed to be on hand in order to provide an immediate response to such an incident. The boom surrounds the leak and pumps then skim the oil off the top. Where was the barge with that equipment, and where was the response crew? Is it true that they were told they were not needed because BP/ARCO had already sealed the well?

When you drill, you pack special cement around the outer side of the casing at the top to prevent a blowout, where oil and gas pressure force their way up the outside of the casing and blow off the wellhead. It is possible that the company which provided that cap, (Haliburton), was misinformed by BP/ARCO (in an effort to cut costs?) as to the depth of the well and therefore poured too small a cement cap. Resulting pressure could blow that cap, destroy the automatic shutoff valves and create the resulting mess. Word seeming to support the possibility came late Friday that a huge methane bubble escaped from the wellhead and surfaced below the drilling rig, causing the instantaneous explosion and fire.

The White House was also slow to respond. Nine days passed before the Administration put into motion its emergency management response to the disaster. Although the President and Secretary of DHHS both insisted that the Administration was on top of things “from day one,” it was heard Friday and mostly unreported that BP/ARCO had called authorities and told them they had everything under control. That remark would tend to substantiate Obama’s early statement that the "experts," BP/ARCO, were on the scene and taking care of things.

Those who have followed BP/ARCO’s environmental and safety track record are very aware of its extremely poor performances, its stone-walling and its continued failure to meet its corporate responsibilities to the environment and to the countries where it operates. While accidents can and do happen, BP/ARCO’s accidents invariably involve negligence… usually gross negligence. Their CEO, Tony Hayward, bragged last year that, despite increased oil production in exotic deep waters, he had cut BP's costs by an extra one billion dollars a year. Was that all due to cutting safety corners? Does the fact that they were partners with Exxon in Alaska drilling operations when the Exxon Valdez ran aground tell you anything?

British Petroleum’s 1st Quarter profit in 2010 exceeded $6.1 billion. That’s $67 million per day operating profit. While three days worth of profits could more than adequately mitigate the remaining radioactive and other dangers at BP’s Yerington Anaconda Mine in Nevada, BP has continued to fight cleanup efforts every step of the way. In the meanwhile, downstream residents are facing increasing levels of uranium and arsenic in their domestic wells.

If I owned stock in BP/ARCO, I couldn’t bear to look at myself in the mirror every morning.

GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

This post will be a little shorter than usual, primarily because I had to rewrite it with limited time to do so. I had originally intended to lambast BP ARCO over their environmental record; it’s abominable, you know. Look it up on the Internet; search Google on “BP ARCO LAWSUIT” or “BP ARCO FINED” or along those lines. You’ll even eventually get a lead to their big oil deals with Iran. Check out www.yamsite.info

I had also considered tackling immigration and the failures of so many administrations which have failed to deal with the issue, going all of the way back at least 40 years.

Some other ideas had intrigued me, such as the relationships between a couple of major labor unions that are taking member’s hard-earned dues money and using it to undermine our government and our country.

But, a breath of good air has blown across the country and I would be remiss if I didn’t pause and recognize it as being something truly remarkable. I think that the New York City Police Department and the F.B.I. did a truly remarkable job in all aspects of the attempted Times Square bombing over the weekend. From the very moment that a street-side vendor tipped off a mounted policeman to a Nissan Pathfinder left running with its passenger compartment filled with smoke, to the capture and arrest of the admitted perpetrator as he was attempting to make his escape at Kennedy Airport… literally plucking him off the plane after it had left the gate… everyone involved knew what had to be done to identify and nail those responsible and they did it. Not only did they get the job done, but they did it within less than three days and that included rounding up accomplices in Pakistan.

I do disagree with Mayor Bloomberg and Eric Holder taking the credit for this. Bloomberg initially alluded that the guy who did it was probably some deranged and disgruntled American stirred up by bloggers and right-wing evildoers like the Tea Party. Holder grandstanded after the arrests started to come down as if he had personally been in the thick of things and was single-handedly responsible for the quick resolution.

The real applause belongs to the guy on the horse, the explosives experts, the fingerprint guy, and the VIN investigators… each and every one of the outstanding gum-shoe detectives who rolled up their sleeves and put the facts and clues together. Great job and, on behalf of Americans everywhere, thanks from the bottom of my heart.

MANHOLE COVERS BLOW UP IN NEW YORK CITY

BREAKING NEWS POST

Manhole covers started blowing off in New York City around 2:20 PM EDT today, May 3rd.  Initial reaction is that there is an electrical fire in underground tunnels and vaults.  There is no indication at this point that these events are tied in to the weekend bombing attempt. 

In the meanwhile, reports are coming out that the weekend bombing attempt DID involve international sources. 

NYC BOMB: TERRORISM? (UPDATE)

The news as of 3:30 PM EDT on Sunday, May 2nd, is pretty much the same.  We now know that a shop manager initially saw the vehicle and notified a mounted policeman.  We know that a Caucasian-appearing individual was looking at the vehicle from an alley while taking off an outer dark shirt and leaving a red shirt underneath; that he then immediately left the area.  The white powder in the vehicle appears to be fertilizer.  The bomb is said to have been assembled in an unsophisticated manner using MD-80 firecrackers as the primer.  

I'm of the initial opinion that this is not the result of the "heated rhetoric" that President Obama claims may cause some radical extremist to do something "explosive;" neither of the shirts worn by the suspect bore the "S.E.I.U." logo.  

NYC BOMB: TERRORISM?

SPECIAL POST

A Nissan Pathfinder containing a white powder, propane and gasoline was discovered smoking in a crowded Times Square by an alert police officer at approximately 7:00 PM EDT on Saturday, May 1st.  He also noted someone running from the vehicle; the officer immediately called for the bomb squad, as well as more police and fire response.  Within a very short time, it was determined that the plates on the vehicle did not belong to that vehicle.  The bomb squad determined that the bomb was intended to do a lot of damage and certainly would have killed people, had it gone off.  Times Square was evacuated.  

Although it was not officially called a terrorist act after seven hours into the investigation, it most certainly was and I do not think that the attempt was domestic in the generic sense of the word.  I believe as of the time of this post that the plot involved foreign influence. 

Counting the Christmas Day airline bomber, that's two very close terrorist acts that could have caused massive destruction and loss of life.  We got lucky, but I don't know how much longer this run of luck will last under this President. 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Churchill, Truman, Reagan, Patton, Grant… Where have all of the truly great, inspirational and patriotic leaders gone? Here we stand in the middle of the greatest national and international crisis since World War II and we have no leaders. Why?

We are surrounded by greed, crime, graft and corruption. Those who want to seize all powers from the people are in charge, and they are too busy accomplishing their all-consuming tasks to pay attention to the fact that none of them are leaders; no matter how much power they manage to accrue, there is not one among them who is a genuine, bona fide leader. They may manage to seize control through the creation of a dictatorship or the advancement of their “regime,” and they may succeed in ruling through sheer oppression but… there’s not one of them who can lead his or her way out of a wet paper bag.

Their style is to lie, twist, cheat, coerce, bully, bribe, instill fear and threaten in order to get things done. Those are the tactics that were used to belligerently pass a Health Care Bill that Americans still do not want, to enact TARP and Stimulus, to seize control of banks and businesses and now the markets… These are not leaders; they are tin-horned despots clawing their ways to the pinnacles of power.

McCain, Paul, Romney, Graham… These are people seeking to achieve the Presidency but, there are still no leaders among them. The plain and simple fact is that we are a nation without leadership, floundering in a sea of declining statesmanship, seeking to find our way in turbulent times without a compass, and without purpose.

People follow leaders because they are inspired to do so; they seek to follow because the leader possesses a quality of righteousness, fairness, vision, and the ability to get the job done. Despots, on the other hand, command people to do as they say or to suffer some dire consequence; either you pass the Bill today, right now, or the world will end. As much as I disliked his politics, Kennedy was a leader; Obama is a despot. Kennedy had a genuine, heartfelt interest in the benefit of his followers; Obama doesn’t give a damn about anyone’s benefit other than his own.

In times of crisis in this country, there has always been someone with the guts, courage and foresight to be a leader and to crusade against the despots of the world. Joe Wilson showed guts and courage when he stood up and hollered “Liar!” during Obama’s speech to Congress, but I don’t know that he is a leader. Gingrich certainly shows signs of leadership, as does John Boehner, but I haven’t made up my mind yet that they are what we need.

In short, we are to blame for this dearth of leadership; we have been asleep at the switch. Now that we are awake, we have a very short time to seek out, identify and enlist leaders who can take responsible charge of the situation and lead us out of this mess which has been accumulating over the last 21 years. We have to dismiss charisma and slick talk and look to the people who have a history of getting jobs done right and who owe their allegiance first to their families, second to their country, and lastly to their parties or agendas.

We need to create an atmosphere in Washington that will attract leaders rather than despots and elitists. We need men and women in charge who are God-fearing, patriotic Americans who believe in our Constitution and who are willing to stand up to the tasks of chasing crime, corruption, graft and Progressivism out of Washington. Time is of the essence in this endeavor. On November 2nd, when we go to the polls, we must know beyond doubt in our hearts and minds that we will be successful.

We cannot afford… We must not be deterred in our quest by the naysayers, by the name callers, by detractors or by the “establishment.” We must keep our hearts and minds focused on the tasks that will be done. We must stand together, united in the common bond of patriotism, certain in our ability to succeed and determined not to fail. 

YOU’RE DAMNED RIGHT I’M PREJUDICED!

SPECIAL POST

I absolutely despise people who lie, cheat, yell, scream epithets, accuse me of being a terrorist, call me an un-American, Astroturf, misguided Tea Party Member, and tell me to shut up and get out of the way. I have absolute hatred for those who tell me they are going to do one thing and then do another. I can’t stand power mongers and Progressive elitists who openly and willingly tear town the Constitution that my ancestors gave their blood to create and protect.  My ancestors have been here since 1636; just how long have your ancestors been here? 

I would like to spit in the faces of those who piss away my hard-earned money and have the gall to extract more from me. I hate crime, graft, greed and corruption. There is no place in my heart for sanctimonious, low-life potentates who attempt to purloin my right to free speech, who mock me about my guns and religion…. You amount to despicable despots whose agenda is in direct conflict with everything I believe in and am willing to die for.

There, I’ve done it. I’ve openly admitted my prejudices. In your face, Barack or Barry or Hussein or whatever your name is. In your faces Clinton, Carter, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Sharpton, Jackson, Emanuel, Holder…. et al…. Yes, I’m prejudiced. I don’t like you. You are the antipathy to all of the fundamental good things that our ancestors brought to this country. You are evil wrongdoers and you and those like you need to be removed from any and all positions of authority in this country. Like dogs in heat... you need to be neutered.  

Now that I’ve admitted my prejudices in your face, just what do you intend to do about it? It probably makes your blood boil, doesn’t it?

T.S.

We're not the ones who are to blame here.  You are.  

Silent no more.

P.S. I support Arizona's legislation.  Gosh I'm glad I got all of that off my chest.  I feel so much better.  I've been wanting to cut loose like that for months.  How about you?