There Is A Document…

Dear Friend and Reader,

What set me off on this calling out the perpetrator of this High Handed attack on the Freedoms of citizens of the USA?

It’s an attack on one of the most precious, most dearly held concepts that has been put into a document ever.

The Constitution of The United States of America

If I remember correctly… It starts off with…

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Oh yeah… it does. You can verify this at US Government Archives

Let’s Move To Article III of the US Constitution

Article III.

Section. 1.

The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Section. 2.

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;–to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;–to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;–to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;–to Controversies between two or more States;– between a State and Citizens of another State;–between Citizens of different States;–between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

Now I am not by any stretch of the imagination a Constitutional Lawyer, or expert on the Constitution of the United States of America.

I am just a lowly citizen. I was always taught that those in elected office (and they refer to themselves as) are Public Servants. I did not think the USA was a Banana Republic until recently.

As I understand what I just copied from the Constitution of the United States of America, is even lowly citizens like me can bring a lawsuit against a “Public Servant” if I do it in the right venue (right place… right court) the one that has jurisdiction.

So What Am I Talking About?

As you may know… recently a gentleman named Phillip Berg brought suit against Barak Obama claiming he is not a Natural Born Citizen as required in the United States Constitution to be President of the United States of America.

Now I’m not going to say whether or not I agree with Mr. Berg’s premise.

That is for the Court to decide… as outlined above in Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Mr. Obama has made declarations stating he is Natural born, but will not release copies of his actual birth certificate, which is why Mr. Berg brought the law suit as far as I can see.

According to my reading of the Constitution of the United States of America, Mr. Berg has ever right to bring such a law suit as long as he does it in the proper venue.

A Philadelphia Judge Apparently Thinks the Rights of a Citizen Do Not Count

Here’s the story… As Associated Press reported it…

Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Obama citizenship
Oct 25, 3:37 PM (ET)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama’s qualifications to be president.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick on Friday night rejected the suit by attorney Philip J. Berg, who alleged that Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency. Berg claimed that Obama is either a citizen of his father’s native Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia after he moved there as a boy.

Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man.

Internet-fueled conspiracy theories question whether Obama is a “natural-born citizen” as required by the Constitution for a presidential candidate and whether he lost his citizenship while living abroad.

Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was “too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters.”

After expressing my Outrage at U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick’s inane reason for dismissing the lawsuit, We will also have a dissection of the propaganda in the AP report.

Stick around… this will get interesting.

First let’s get some definitions… shall we…

I’m a simple person. I don’t understand $1,000,000 words that such a well educated man like U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick uses. Words like “attenuated” so I had to look it up.

Webster’s defines attenuated as…

1. to make thin or slender
2. to make thin in consistency : rarefy
3. to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken
4. to reduce the severity, virulence, or vitality of an attenuated virus
5. to become thin, fine, or less

Now that we have these definitions… Let’s look use these simple everyday 10 ¢ words… in place of the $1,000,000 word at the last part of U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick’s reason for dismissing the lawsuit.

“any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was ‘too vague and its effects too (attenuated) — to make thin or slender — to confer standing on any and all voters.’ ”

So U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick says Any Harm From an Ineligible Candidate is too vague, and too thin an argument to have any “standing on any and all voters”????

Yes We Read That Right!

How about we use another definition…

“any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was ‘too vague and its effects too (attenuated) — to make thin in consistency : rarefy — to confer standing on any and all voters.’ ”

So U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick says Any Harm From an Ineligible Candidateto make thin in consistency : rarefy an argument to have any “standing on any and all voters”????

How about we use another definition…

“any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was ‘too vague and its effects too (attenuated) — to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken — to confer standing on any and all voters.’ ”

So U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick says Any Harm From an Ineligible Candidate is so weak as to not even have a point to argue or have any “standing on any and all voters”????

Now if such a great Constitutional Scholar… or even a Judge who is obviously well read in the Constitution of the United States of America is going to dismiss the suit. It should be because it was brought in the wrong venue. It should be brought in the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Not Because The Argument That A Presidential Candidate is Not Legally Qualified To Run For the Office And If The In-Eligible Candidate Is Elected… Contrary To What The Constitution of the United States Says…

To paraphrase that leading Constitutional genius (sarcasm intended) U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick… “Having Someone Not Legally Eligible To Be President Does Not Harm Any Citizen”

What’s next U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick… Will you allow known and proven illegal aliens and proven enemies of the USA to run for President of the United States of America because Any Harm resulting from having an ineligible person serving as President of the United States of America is “too vague”??? Yeah, I guess that’s s why the Founding Fathers of the United States of America Specifically Detailed Who and who was not eligible to become President of the United States of America. Hey I bet if Hugo Chavez of Venezuela wanted to run for President of the United States of America U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick would find no problem with that either! Look at his reasoning.

And do not get this wrong… I am not saying Mr. Obama is doing anything wrong. I Am and Do have a problem with the high handedness of U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick. He should immediately be impeached, and returned to being a lowly citizen not important enough to have standing to bring a lawsuit against wanna be elected officials.

To paraphrase further “You are ONLY a private citizen… ONLY one vote… so you have no standing to vote for your leader. And You as a private citizen have no right to challenge those ‘Public Servants’ either holding or running for office. They are insulated from scum like you. I’m a high authority and I deem it so… Now go climb back to the hole from whence you came and let those brilliant minds… much more brilliant than you decide what’s best for you. Obey… Do Not Question!”

Talk About a Fascist Dictatorship

Thank you U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick for insulating those high up’s from us lowly citizens.

Propaganda Tactics in The AP Story

Let’s analyze the propaganda tactics in the AP Story Covering this Over-reaching Ruling

Second Paragraph…

(Color Maroon: Testimonial combined with Color Pink: Card Stacking “Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father.(card stacking ends) His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man.

Color Pink: Card Stacking — They are alleging something in question to be a fact.

The Third Paragraph… starts with Color Red: Name Calling

Internet-fueled conspiracy theories question whether Obama is a “natural-born citizen” as required by the Constitution for a presidential candidate and whether he lost his citizenship while living abroad.

Considering the Source AP this propaganda is really mild.

In the Word‘s of Porky Pig “Ehh… BahDa BahDa BahDat’s All Folks!

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Dear Reader and Friend,

In case you did not hear… On October 8, 2008 Associated Press had a news story about Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. The man is doing his best to appeal to his constituency… the masses… rather than uphold the law he has sworn to obey.

The title kind of says it all…

Chicago’s Cook County won’t evict in foreclosures

The Cook County Illinois Sheriff is refusing to send his deputies out to evict people who have for whatever reason refused to pay their mortgages, and have been forclosed on in the court.

Now why would he refuse to uphold the law? Hmmmm?

He is grasping at straws here to justify his behavior.

Example One:

The article says The sheriff here said Wednesday that he’s ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong.

He neglects to mention that the renters are advised the property is going into foreclosure and they better find a new place to live.

Further, he is trying to justify his behavior by pretending he is doing this for the people… the poor downtrodden renter. Though the article does not say he is ignoring only renters… He ordered his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties.

Obviously he does not understand economics (Fiscal economics). You come to someone to lend you money. You agree to pay back the money being lent to you, and pay interest on that money. Then you refuse to pay back the money and tell the lender Fuck You! And the sheriff… the one they are counting on to enforce the legal agreement tells the lender Fuck Off! Shows he obviously does not understand the consequences of his actions long term.

If lenders are not assured they will be re-paid, will they lend money?

No!

If lenders do not lend money, can they pay depositors interest?

No

Sheriff Stupidity

Sheriff Dart is quoted in the article with a “Populist” message… he is quoted as saying”

We will no longer be a party to something that’s so unjust…

And He Goes On…

We have to be sure that when we are doing this – and we are destroying some people’ lives – we better be darned sure we’re talking about the right people

And on

My job as sheriff is to follow court orders, absolutely, But I’m also in charge of making sure justice is being done here and it is clear that justice is not being done here.

Regarding his last sentence… WELL DUHHHHH!

If his job as Sheriff is to follow the law, then follow it.

Why Would A Sheriff Not Follow The Law?

It’s not up to the Sheriff to arbitrarily decide which law to follow and which law to ignore… Unless that Sheriff is appealing to his constituency so he can get re-elected and maintain his power.

Could that be the reason?

After all… the press, the politicians, and people being foreclosed on are all vilifying the bankers. They are turning them into scapegoats. And there are fewer bankers and mortgage company executives than there are people who have mortgages.

Remember in my post above…

The Law Is NOT Designed To Deliver Justice… It’s There To Keep Those In Power… In Power. Nothing more, nothing less.

And what better way to be a greedy, selfish pig after power, than doing the popular thing… NOT the right thing.

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I was talking with someone today and it brought up some thoughts so I thought I would share them with you.

Go get a history book and look back to when the USA was in the gloomiest times of World War II

We, the United States did what we needed to do. I was watching a show on Nazism in the USA. Did you know that in addition to the Japanese put in internment camps, there were 1000’s of Germans put into the same camps, and 1000’s of Italians too?

Well, it’s true.

The government of the USA did what it was supposed to do… what ANY responsible government will do… the utmost thing of importance of ANY government to it’s promise to it’s people…

No… not be politically correct. No… not hope our enemies will love us if we only would be more like them. No… not worry about if people around the world like us

The government took on the responsibility to uphold the country. To look out for the welfare of the people. To do what is best for the country Fuck the rest.

And the people respected and understood that. They trusted their government.

You will see, most of the people willingly made sacrifices. We were all in it together.

Rationing of gas. Steel pennies rather than copper because copper was needed for the war effort. Congress behind the president, not sniping and whining, praising the enemy and attacking those brave and thoughtful enough to put on a uniform of the US military and fight for us on our behalf. The press was not out taking potshots… actually calling the shots. We had real leaders then.

Captain America

Cartoonists created comic book heroes. Captain America… Superman… They took on the bad guys. They uplifted the spirits of the people of the USA.

So what has the wonderful elites in publishing — newspapers, magazines, TV news, radio news, and yes… comic books done?

They killed Captain America… They killed Superman!

Why? To discourage the people?… You decide.

All I know

All I know is I see a bunch of weak no backbone politicians on all sides. Spineless worms who if they saw a shadow would run from it. But still talk tough.

You know… the classic bully

They have no principles… except to get elected, and re-elected. Why? So they can get more and more ever expanding power. They think they can dictate to the world.

And Who is Controlling the Politicians?

Not you and me! Not the voters.

If it’s not the voters, who could it be?

Easy answer really… if you look carefully.

It’s the Mainstream Press

The NY Times with their “All the news that’s fit to print” theme. Of course they will print an editorial by Obama… their candidate of choice, and refuse to print one by McCain (frankly I don’t understand how either one could be the standard bearer for their respective parties. They are both inept, corrupt dirty and impressed by their own press clippings)

Obama goes overseas and the big three ABC, NBC, CBS send their nightly anchors to cover him, all swooning like little girls did when the Beatles first came to the USA. No coverage of McCain, or Bob Barr (Libertarian Party ), or Ralph Nader, or any of the other candidates. As if they didn’t exist.

Then the mainstream press self justifies their bias claiming it is not bias on their part.

It Amazes Me

It amazes me that the people elected to congress are so weak kneed, so spineless (there are a couple of exceptions to this rule, but not many) that seeing the overt bias and… dare I say it… prejudice of the mainstream press they still coddle up to them, doing the bidding of some jerk who just graduated journalism school or some over priced puff who talks tough (Dan Rather comes to mind), but falls over easily when pushed. And worst yet, these dolts, don’t live in the real world.

We’re the Press

“We’re the press” they say. As if that justifies anything. “We are supposed to be unbiased” they say. But they obviously are not. “We… the press… we know what’s best for the people… because we are the press.”

And these incompetents are leading the other incompetents who write and pass laws, and hope they will get some nice write up in the paper

I don’t know about you. But I am thoroughly disgusted.

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Do you like getting the best prices you can when you shop on the net?

Do you like to pay extra so an out of state merchant can hire extra people and waste more time figuring out tax codes for states they do not have a presence in?

And what do these big spenders — big spenders with YOUR MONEY — spend it on?

Feel good “Projects” inane laws, more intrusion into your privacy, and whatever hand-outs they can come up with THEY (the politicians) think will get most of the people to vote for them to keep themselves in office… so they can waste public money on all sorts of things… like say in the case of Elliot Spitzer former Governor of NY… Hookers. High priced hookers.

Let me ask you a question…

Is paying for hookers… high priced call girls… for politicians where you want your tax dollars to go?

Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against job perks for jobs well done… but this is a bit overboard… don’t you agree?

Especially in this time of supposed fiscal belt tightening, where the politicians are crying

“there isn’t enough money in State funds to pay for education” (Spitzer got his… I’ll be he was educated on some new positions ),

or they cry whaa whaa whaaa “there’s not enough money to keep proven criminals in prison”, or care for the sick, or keep the libraries open every day, or…

You get the picture.

But they have enough money to go on expensive “fact finding missions” aka Junkets at tax payer expense. They can find enough money to pay $10,000 a month cell phone bills. They can find enough money to pay for private cars and chauffeurs to take them wherever they want to go… and this goes for local city level politicians too.

Why Your Internet Purchases May Cost You More, Due To Politicians Greed And Lust For YOUR Money

Do you like to pay extra so an out of state merchant can hire extra people and waste more time figuring out tax codes for states they do not have a presence in?

How would you like to see prices on everything you buy on the internet go up by at least 10% + the sales tax you should be paying… all because some greedy politicians want to get their grubby huge hands deeper into your pocket?

Well, if you like that idea, you will love New York.

As just reported…

New York Rules Out-of-State Web Merchants Must Collect State Taxes

Apr 16, 2008 1:44 PM , By Jim Tierney

The complete story can be read at…

target=”_new”>Illegal Taxation: New York Rules Out-of-State Web Merchants Must Collect State Taxes

The funny… actually stupid thing is… this law was already declared illegal… make that ILLEGAL… back in 1992 in the 1992 Supreme Court Decision, Quill Corp. vs. North Dakota cry and cry as the politicians will, and their cronies complaining that the ONLY reason they are not selling as much is because of “unfair” competition from out of state stores because the out of state stores don’t have to collect sales tax.

Did these stores ever think of the ADVANTAGES THE LOCAL STORES HAVE OVER OUT OF STATE RETAILERS?

Of course not. Everyone ONLY buys based on price.

We are all like lemmings. (this is sarcasm)

Specialization in an interest has nothing to do with it.

Customer service has nothing to do with it.

A pleasantry when we come in like maybe a simple “Thank You” has nothing to do with it./p>

Receiving notifications from out of state retailers on items they are carrying we may have an interest in has nothing to do with falling sales at local retailers.

Oh no… why it has to be that 3, or 4, or 8&151; sales tax.

Of course when we buy from an out of state retailer, we typically end up paying shipping which is about the same as the sales tax would be.

Maybe these Cry babies should look for a less costly location, and then reduce their prices… IF they think it is strictly a price issue.

Better yet… why not stat selling on the internet themselves and get even.

They Make Me Sick… The Whole Lot Of Them

And any store or company who believes I should have to pay higher prices so they can make more profit for themselves, I will boycott. I will refuse to buy a single thing from them. Even if they were the last water store and I was in the desert.

They are beneath contempt. Blaming others for their deficiencies in their business.

Hey Fast food places are hiring, maybe these cry baby store owners should go get a job there. They won’t have to face “unfair competition”

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I was reading TV Guide the other day… April 21-27, 2008 edition. When I saw a headline that stunned me. But the article was even funnier.

The Headline was…

Will Katie Leave CBS?

Well, sure… some day… Duh!

The story in TV Guide Starts out with…

When Katie Couric arrived to take over the CBS Evening News, the plan was to have one of America’s favorite TV personalities reinvent the stolid evening newscast and attract younger viewers. After a strong debut in September 2006, the show quickly dropped to a distant third…

… The ratings immediately indicated viewers who tune in for a 22-minute distillation of the day’s events didn’t want something new.

Now Hold On A Minute There Bucky!!!!!

Katie Couric spouting the same old heavily biased, slanted, one sided propaganda she was known for on the morning show she hosted… the same drivel Dan Rather was spouting is… Something New?

You don’t get it do you Stephen Battaglio, author of this piece.

Maybe people were sick and tired of only getting one side of the news… not both. Is that possible?

Maybe people were sick and tired of the relentless propaganda coming from her and Dan Rather’s mouth. Is that possible?

As I remember it, first the blame was on the audience, something like they could not understand her.

Then it was the audience was prejudice against a woman anchoring the news… couldn’t handle it

Now it’s… oh Dan Rathers ratings were dropping faster than the US Dollar is today, and the audience didn’t want something new.

Yeah Right!

Their logic is astounding… and really funny.

With this mentality I have a new name, and a totally new concept for the CBS Evening News.

Since no one is taking it seriously, why not have a comedian do the news? Do it with physical pratfall humor, or do it with the humor of the glory days of Saturday Night Live, or SCTV that gave comedic greats like John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and others their start to fame in the USA.

Now That would be wort watching!

The New Name?

Comedy Broadcast Service Evening News

After all the CBS Evening News is a joke now, so why not make it really funny, and let us all in on it.

Maybe Steven Wright is available. His straight faced esoteric humor might just be the ticket. Or perhaps Jon Lovitz. Now that… that would be really funny.

What are your suggestions? Who would you liek to see hosting it?

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In my opinion, John McCain

1. Is a Phony who will say anything to anyone to get and hold power.
2. Has an ego one hundred miles long and one hundred miles deep

“I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need,” – John McCain after beating Mike Huckabee in the Virginia primaries. A speech in Alexandria VA Feb 13, 2008

If he has to say it rather than letting people see it through his actions, it is the opposite of what he says. Remember Bill Clinton’s famous quote “I did not have sex with that woman… Monica Lewinsky”

3. Charles Keating — and the Lincoln Federal Savings scandal in the 1980’s.
4. All for illegal immigration but says the opposite if he thinks it will help him gain power.
5. Against the First Amendment of Free Speech — McCain Finegold “Campaign Finance Legislation”. Remember, the case of the Lincoln Savings and the Keating Five (McCain was involved … heavily), was all about bribing U.S. Senators and Representatives with campaign contributions. If they are that crooked they can be bribed, then they should be out… plain and simple. Not a law passed to prevent them from being tempted into doing wrong. As the saying goes, “The integrity of a person is judged by what they are doing when no one is looking.” McCain flatly fails that test.
6. He Wants to give Constitutional Rights to al-Queda, and other terrorists
7. He doesn’t like tax cuts

And more proof that McCain is still as corrupt as ever…

From a story in Worldnetdaily.com about John McCain’s Reform Institute

In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute. According to the article…

McCain used the institute to promote his political agenda and provide compensation to key campaign operatives between elections.

Does this sound like campaign reform. Like keeping money out of politics. Using a non-profit you own to give your Key Campaign Operatives salaries outside of your campaign funds? Honest? “Straight Talk”??? Well… yeah…. if you are straight talking about how corrupt you are. McCain according to him is totally clean.

The article goes farther, and deeper into this…

“In 2006, the Arizona senator was forced to sever his formal ties with the Reform Institute after a controversial $200,000 contribution from Cablevision came to light. McCain solicited the donation for the Reform Institute using his membership on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, he supported Cablevision’s push to introduce the more profitable al la carte pricing, rather than packages of TV programming.”

What? Mr. Integrity himself using his public office and letterhead from a committee he was a member of? McCain? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you… to see the stench of corruption near “Mr. Clean” John McCain.

Let’s look at a Non USA advisor to McCain

Juan Hernandez — a non-paid volunteer for the McCain campaign. Oh yeah did I forget to mention he is also the Reform Institute’s senior fellow of its Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative.

“A dual Mexican-U.S. citizen, he was a member of former President Vicente Fox’s cabinet, representing an estimate 24 million Mexicans living abroad. Hernandez, with a “Mexico first” message, has argued aggressively against building a fence on the Mexican border, insisting the frontier needed to remain wide open so illegal immigrants could easily enter the U.S.”

The Best Democrat Running For President?

In my opinion John McCain is the best Democrat candidate running.

He is definitely NOT conservative, fiscally anyway, and only partly socially. Though his wrong headed position on abortion — he’s against a woman’s right to choose. (If she want’s to have an abortion or not… why should the government decide????)

Fiscal Conservative?… Ha Ha Ha

He objected to Bush’s tax cut because it “Did not tax the rich enough” Not for the reasons he was trying to make it out. (too much pork and earmarks)

McCain Economics

He is someone who understands economics… only in the sense that if you pay him enough, you can get results. Otherwise, he even admitted he does not understand economics, and he never worked in or owned a business that had to make a profit.

Regarding his “Straight Talk Express” it reminds me of an old Beatles song “The Long and Winding Road”

He is anything but straight talk. He is just like Hillary Clinton in this regard, he will say anything to get elected. Another Bob Dole “If you want me to be Reagan, I’ll be Reagan.” … How about just being yourself!

Integrity?

McCain taking bribes in exchange for using his personal influence is already well known.

Reminds me of the song title Three Little Words… no not “I Love You” Rather…

Lincoln Financial Savings

A Name from the past… Charles Keating. Remember him. Yes, McCain was also implicated by the Congress, and by Keating himself. Unfortunately, or fortunately for McCain, there was not enough direct evidence to easily convict him, so he got a pass.

He takes all sorts of bribes… er … um… campaign contributions. Wink Wink.

“Sure I flew on Lobbyists jets, took expensive vacations provided by them… it was legal at the time” Legal maybe, but come on now John… was it moral?

He is like the murderer… “Stop me before I kill again!”

So he believes it’s the money in politics that corrupts?! Well, does he have any morals? If he did, he would know enough to turn (bribes)… er campaign contributions down. Instead, he writes legislation to curtail freedom of speech.

Regarding his policy on illegals.

I have many friends from other countries, I have seen them all go through the ringer of what used to be INS (Immigration), all the tension, all the heartache, all the interviews, after interview, after interview, the background searches, mountains of paperwork, paying ridiculously high lawyers fees just to make sure the paperwork is done correctly. These people who are here legally and doing it the legal and right way, who unfortunately get stuck in some job that pays them less than they should be able to make, because they need to hold on to that job to get their green card. Some times they get treated much worse because low quality people in positions of power take advantage of their situation, so they suffer in silence biding their time until they get that green card and can quit. And McCain wants to give people who jumped the line, people who did it wrong a free pass????

No, no, no,. no, no, no! On principle Absolutely MOT!

For those of you wondering… Yeah, right now I live in the South. (I like the weather). I grew up in the Chicago area, I lived in Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York City. I have been, and still work in International trade.

I have seen first hand how bureaucratic immigration is. How the immigration officers in other countries feel like they are god and get corrupted by all that power.

John McCain’s National Security credentials…

Wasn’t he the one who led the charge against torturing Al-Queda members to prevent terrorism? This led and is continuing to lead to more USA troops being killed by I.E.D.’s, not to mention the drop in safety in the USA.

Wasn’t he the one that led the charge against waterboarding?

Why I do believe he was… Get This…

“We always supported allowing the CIA to use extra measures,” he said. ”I believe waterboarding is illegal and should be banned,“ McCain said.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080214/usa/us_bush_congress_intelligence_veto

Wasn’t he the one that led the charge to give terrorists, and non-uniformed fighters rights not bestowed on enemy combatants, rights under the Geneva convention (sorry spies are not covered, and those irregulars — non uniformed while making war taking pot shots against uniformed troops are not covered either.

Wasn’t he the one who led the charge to give al-Queda members rights granted USA citizens under our Constitution? (Due process)?

Why, I do believe he was… Get This…

“Last year, Congress engaged in a significant public debate on the standard that should govern the treatment of captured al Qaeda terrorists. Congress codified that standard in the McCain Amendment, part of the Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibits ”cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,“ as defined by reference to the established meaning of our Constitution, for all detainees held by the United States, regardless of nationality or geographic location.”

http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1986&wit_id=5505

And This…

John McCain: No ‘Torture’ for 9/11 Mastermind

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the U.S. was wrong to “torture” al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, saying that torture shouldn’t be used against suspects even if they have extensive knowledge of terrorist operations planned against the U.S.

Asked “if you could save American lives” by threatening a
terrorist like Mohammed with torture, McCain told Fox News
Sunday: ”If you decide to torture him you probably don’t get the right information, because torture doesn’t work.“

But Yet… he calls himself and positions himself as “Strong on National Defense”

But Yet… he claims to understand economics.

No Thank You! I’m Not Going To Vote For You

I won’t vote for Hillary, or Obama either, and I’ll tell you why in other posts.

Next time I’m going to dissect Obama’s speech on race for it’s propaganda. Yes, we are in a political season. Yes, politicians are supposed to inundate us with their beliefs. Yes, they use propaganda. Yes, that is why we need to be able to see the facts versus the lies and mis-characterizations.

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This was said by the self professed non-partisan “journalist” Chris Matthews… after Obama’s victory speech Feb 12, 2008.

The exact quote I saw was…

“I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.”

That quote comes from News Busters

An objective assessment????

I think Chris got it wrong… two ways.

Actually Chris, I Think It Was Something Dripping Down Your Leg

What a sap he is.

But he has the same arrogant outlook as most of the “Newscasters” do. Which appears to be “We are royal, and the public is stupid. So we can mold them into whatever we want.”

This May Have Been True

This may have been true… no make that… this was true B.I. (Before the internet). Because newscasters, and newspapers could write and publish anything they wanted, slant it any way they wanted, and there was no real public record of what they said.

It was really easy to obfuscate what they said, and let’s face it, the public’s attention is that of an AD (Attention Deficit) mosquito in a nudist colony.

But with the public record the internet now gives us… anyone can go back. Everyone has their own public record of anything they write because it will get posted. It will get referred back to.

Blown Trust

So now there are a lot of people running around with blown trust. They can say anything they want. Say anything they think you want to hear. But they also create a track record, they may not fully realize is now a public record.

And the best way to judge someone is not by what they say, but by their actions. And if their actions are always taking one side over the other, if their actions are always slanting things in one direction over another, you better believe they lean very heavily to that side… in spite of what they say.

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Only Two Left Who Walk Their Talk

After seeing the results of the primary and Edwards and Romney dropping out, there are still Four to pick from. Two who will say and do anything, and two who are True Believers who walk their talk.

Now that I said that, they will probably come back and bite me.

Anywhoo… I see Obama and Ron Paul as the two true believers to their way. They will stand or fall on their principles. They do not seem to be playing one song for one audience and another song for a different audience in hopes of “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool ALL the American people All the time!”

I have been reading Public Opinion by Lippman. He makes a very interesting observation. A bunch of them really, but this from 1921.

Landslides can turn one machine out and put another in; revolutions sometimes abolish a particular machine altogether. The democratic revolution set up two alternating machines, each of which in the course of a few years reaps the advantage from the mistakes of the other. But nowhere does the machine disappear. Nowhere is the idyllic theory of democracy realized. Certainly not in trades unions, nor in socialist parties, nor in communist governments. There is an inner circle, surrounded by concentric circles which fade out gradually into the disinterested or uninterested rank and file.

Democrats have never come to terms with this commonplace of group life. They have invariably regarded it as perverse. For there are two visions of democracy: one presupposes the self-sufficient individual; the other an Oversoul regulating everything.

1921 — Wow! Since before 1921! That’s amazing.

If you look at the “Mainstream” of both parties, they are the same. Oh sure one defines itself as one party and the other defines itself as a different party. But they both want to regulate everything, every aspect of your life and thought.

Same person… different suit.

Something to think about when you go in to vote.

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Talk about stupidity…. Make that STUPIDITY.

Let’s try and twist something, because as everyone in the USA and basically around the world knows, the USA ALWAYS seems to need an enemy.

Why? Because having a common enemy in the past united the people of the USA. So now those in power have decided to manufacture them.

Don’t believe me?…

Great, I love it when you do that…

Look.

In an article entitled “U.S. sees Russia, China, OPEC financial threat” it is once again a “sky is falling” article.

The Logic is Mind Bending

The article dated Feb 5, 2008 starts with…

The United States is worried that Russia, China and OPEC oil-producing countries could use their growing financial clout to advance political goals, the top U.S. spy chief told Congress on Tuesday.

Duh!!!

They have lots of currency, they have gold and oil reserves… we don’t. At least not like theirs.

Did you know that China is currently the number two producer of gold? It only missed South Africa by a few tons. And with the strikes going on in South Africa possibly this year China will be the number one producer of raw gold.

And besides, isn’t that what the UK, the USA and any other country or group does?

Don’t they use their financial clout to get their way?

Security Threat?

The article went on to say

Such economic matters joined terrorism, nuclear proliferation and computer-network vulnerabilities as top U.S. security threats described by National Director of Intelligence Michael McConnell in an annual assessment.

Gee… A country using it’s financial clout now equals terrorism? What kind of world are we living in? What are they going to do, bury us in our increasingly useless US Dollars?

Maybe if those “learned ones” in Washington DC would actually care about the people they were elected to serve rather than care for themselves and their personal power they would act in the best interests of the USA. But that’s a bit much to ask.

The article went on

In the energy sector, a weak U.S. dollar had prompted some oil suppliers, including Iran, Syria and Libya, to ask for payment in other currencies, or to delink their currencies from the dollar, McConnell said. ‘Continued concerns about dollar depreciation could tempt other producers to follow suit.’

Wouldn’t that make economic sense?

Ask yourself, if you could make more money in the stock market than you could putting your money in a savings account, would you do it?

If you could make more money and your money was safer in bonds rather than stocks would you do it?

If your financial wherewith all was safer in one currency over one that was dropping worldwide like a rock, would you get out, and not want to be paid in that currency?

If you answered NO, then I have a suggestion for you. Somalia has about a 10,000% inflation rate right now. Change your currency into Somali money. It costs somewhere around 1,000,000 Somali dollars for a loaf of bread according to an article I read over the weekend. That’s up from around 3000,000 a few months ago.

But you are NOT stupid. You wouldn’t put your money at risk, so why would anyone expect businesses to do so? Why would any sane person expect countries to do so?

Seeing an Enemy Where There Is None

The most telling part regarding China — who so many on the left, right, center, and in the media seem to see as the enemy… this quote from National Director of Intelligence Michael McConnell in the article should put an end to it.

“China has pursued a policy of global engagement out of a desire to expand its growing economy and obtain access markets, resources, technology and expertise,” McConnell said.

“It seeks a constructive relationship with the United States and other countries, but as its influence grows ‘Beijing probably will increasingly expect its interests to be respected by other countries,’ he said.”

Ummmm so let’s see. China is NOT posing a threat. They are peacefully expanding their influence by trade. They are working on expanding their economy looking to get access to more markets, more resources, and more expertise… like any growing entity whether business or country should do. They are looking for a constructive relationship with the USA (who seems to regard them as an enemy),and China expects it’s “interests to be respected by other countries” Gee! What a surprise.

One last thought before I get off this rant…

It is time for the self centered, babies to grow up. The whole world does not revolve around them. The whole world does not revolve around the USA. The government can not protect anyone against every possible negative thing. Whether it’s bullies in the school yard, some knuckle dragging idiot who overpays for a house, or whatever. We will all get along better if we simply adopt the belief of treating others as we would like to be treated ourselves.

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I know you are not supposed to rejoice at someone’s downfall, but I’m not about to spill some wine out of my cup for it either.

I would say, it goes by the old saying “What comes around, goes around”

So what gave me a bit of a lift?

I found out in some cases there actually IS Justice

What am I talking about?

Mike Nifong Bankrupt

You remember the slime that decided to persecute and prosecute the innocent Duke LaCrosse players?

You remember the slime that hid evidence proving the boys were innocent.

Including DNA evidence…

You remember the slime was abusing his position to garner headlines…

For What?

It was an election year, and he wanted to get re-elected.

And God Damnit he was going to convict those boys no matter what the evidence said.

He Lost

As you may know, he lost his law licence.

He lost the protection of not being sued.

He lost his self respect.

He lost his honor.

He lost his reputation.

And now…

Mike Nifong Is Bankrupt

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.

Look, when people are in positions of power and have the ability due to their position to affect other people’s lives forever… especially when in an official governmental position, they have a special responsibility.

They should be held to a much higher standard. That means no lying to protect yourself. No cheating or playing games to get the upper hand for friends, family or contributors to your campaign.

It means to ALWAYS act with integrity and remember the job you are there to do. What the position REALLY means.

Anyway, I don’t think the punishment meted out to Nifong is enough yet. I think he deserves to go through more Hell in his life. He should be forced to live the life he was trying to put those boys through. And he should have spent years in jail for corruption and abuse of power… in the very same jail, under the very same circumstances he was trying to get those boys locked up under.

Then justice would truly be served.

If you want to read the article with a great picture here it is

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