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2011-10-31T11:51:00.000-07:00

President Donates $100 Billion to the United Nations

2011-07-27T12:55:00.000-07:00

The U. S. State Department yesterday announced that the Obama Administration has agreed to contribute $4 billion to the United Nations Global Fund to fight AIDs, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from 2011 to 2013.

The $4 billion represents a 38% increase over the previous U.S. commitment to the fund.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that a total of $11.7 billion has been raised from 40 countries, the European Commission, faith-based organizations, private foundations, and various corporations.

This means that over one-third of the money will come from the pockets of US taxpayers.

Oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and the United Arab Emirates contribute next to nothing, and China, which holds most of the US $14 trillion debt, agreed to provide a measly $14 million.

In addition to the annual gift of $1.33 billion to the Global Fund, President Obama has agreed to provide billions more for UN projects.

These allocations are set forth in a 28 page document as follows:

•Funnel $63 billion to the Global Health Initiative during the next six years
•Make $1 billion annually to education programs
•Give $475 million to the Global Agricultural and Food Security Program’
•Provide $800 million from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. An additional $3.2 billion will be provided by private equity capital sources to these Muslim nations
•Shell out millions more available through USAID for developing tech hubs in Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, and Senegal.
•Dole out $80 million through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for small to medium enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa.
•Cough up $2.5 billion annually to 90 countries to “strengthen governance and democratic institutions.”
•Make available $30 billion through the Obama’s Climate Change Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, $100 billion a year will be provided through taxpayer and private resources to deal with the alleged threat of global climate change.
The United States is assessed at 22% of the U.N. regular budget and more than 27% for U.N. the peacekeeping budget. Mr. Obama has requested $516.3 million for the U.N. regular budget and more than $2.182 billion for the peacekeeping budget for 2011.

The United States is also assessed for numerous other United Nations organizations as well. More than $6.347 billion went to U.N. organizations in FY 2009.

The United States also provides money to the U.N. through the State Department, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies.

Andrea Lafferty of The Traditional Values Coalition writes: “The U.S. taxpayer is forced to pay billions to an inefficient organization run by world leaders who hate America and the free market system. This doesn’t make any sense – nor does our paying 22% of the cost to keep this bureaucracy alive when we have only one vote in the General Assembly.”

Several candidates have called for the U.S. to sever its relationship with the United Nations. The list includes Dennis Ross, a Republican candidate for Congress from the 12th Congressional District of Florida.

In a statement to The New American, Mr. Ross said:

An organization that allows nations like Iran and Libya to chair committees dedicated to human and women’s rights makes a mockery of both. The UN, like any bureaucracy, must constantly be evaluated and put to the test, and if found lacking, be dismantled. I believe the US government is perfectly capable of conducting bilateral and multilateral relations with other nations on our own. Despots, human rights violators, and tyrants should be confronted, not congratulated.

Such concerns over the U.S. involvement with the UN are not new.

Senator Barry Goldwater was quoted in 1971 by the Congressional Record as saying:

The time has come to recognize the U.N. for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the U.N. to find a headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking.

LEAVE Act!!

2011-04-26T12:39:00.000-07:00

FINALLY – Legislation Introduced to STOP Illegal Immigration & Make Illegals "L.E.A.V.E."

Tell Congress To Pass HR 1196 – The "Loophole
Elimination and Verification Enforcement" Act

ALERT: Can we finally WIN the war against ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION that we've been fighting so hard for so many years?

YES, thanks to legislation that's just been introduced in Congress: the "Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act," or "LEAVE Act."

The LEAVE Act was introduced by Rep. Gary Miller, who is from California. Like so many other states, California has good reason to want to finally END America's illegal immigration crisis: Each year, California households alone pay an average of $1,183 EACH to provide health care, education, and incarceration to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. In these economically challenging times, there is NO REASON that hard-working families in ANY state should be forced to bear these costs.

NOW WE CAN FINALLY PUT A STOP TO THAT! But we need YOUR HELP to make sure it happens!

TELL CONGRESS TO FINALLY MAKE
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "L.E.A.V.E." AMERICA:
SEND BLAST FAXES NOW!

The LEAVE Act takes an enforcement first approach to solve the problems caused by ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION by removing the incentives and loopholes in our current laws that encourage illegal aliens to come to the United States to live and work, and if they entered legally, to overstay their visas. In addition, this sweeping legislation gives law enforcement the tools they need to protect our nation and communities.

Among its many provisions, the LEAVE Act dramatically tightens the forms of personal identification that may be accepted by the federal government and financial institutions; expands the E-Verify program to require all employers to confirm the work eligibility of their employees; and prevents illegals from receiving Social Security credit for illegally working in the United States.

The LEAVE Act also ends birthright citizenship, excludes illegals from receiving in-state college tuition, requires the completion of the border fence, and mandates the hiring of 8,000 new Border Patrol agents by 2015.

There's just no denying it: it is CRITICAL for America's national security, sovereignty and prosperity that we reduce our nation's illegal immigrant population, NOW. With this new legislation, we can FINALLY GET THAT DONE…

But we need YOUR HELP to get this passed QUICKLY!

TELL CONGRESS TO FINALLY MAKE
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "L.E.A.V.E." AMERICA:
SEND BLAST FAXES NOW!

The official purpose of the LEAVE Act is "to prohibit all activities that assist, encourage, direct, or induce an alien to reside in or remain in the United States or to attempt to reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien is not authorized to be present in the United States."

This is one of the best pieces of legislation against illegal immigration to be introduced in a long time. Our friends at NumbersUSA have publicized a rundown on all of the specific things that the LEAVE Act would do, including:

Prohibit dealings that assist or encourage an illegal alien to cross the border or remain in the United States.
Uphold identification security by specifying what forms of identification may be accepted by the federal government or financial institutions. Accepted forms of identification include a Social Security card with a photo ID, a REAL ID Act compliant identification card, a passport, or a USCIS photo identification card.
Require federal agencies to coordinate with states to develop an electronic birth and death registration system, which would reduce the number of stolen identities and help prevent Social Security fraud.
Mandate new fines and penalties for passport fraud.
Make E-Verify (Basic Pilot program) permanent.
Require all employees to be verified with the E-Verify program after four years of enactment.
Prevent illegal aliens from working in the U.S. Capitol Complex by prohibiting the House of Representatives and the Senate from awarding contracts to any contractor or subcontractor who does not participate in the E-Verify program.
Close the self-employed subcontractor loophole by withholding funds to a state or local government that does not require all business license applicants to comply with E-Verify. A company can currently hire a subcontractor to provide goods and services, bypassing the E-Verify process.
Prohibit states from issuing driver's licenses unless they first verify citizenship or lawful immigration status.
Require the SSA (Social Security Administration) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) to share information related to the investigation and enforcement of no-match letters.
Add an additional 3,000 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents by 2014.
Affirm the right of state and local authorities to enforce immigration laws in the course of carrying out routine law enforcement activities.
Require the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to provide immigration enforcement training for state and local law enforcement officials.
Reimburse states and localities for costs associated with immigration enforcement by making grants available for equipment, technology, facilities, and other products that directly relate to investigating, apprehending, arresting, detaining, or transporting illegal aliens.
Make the Institutional Removal Program available to all states, which would expedite the deportation of criminal aliens after incarceration.
List all immigration violators in the (NCIC) National Crime Information Center Database.
Expand the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) to include illegal aliens that have been convicted or charged with a crime.
Prohibit the DHS and DOJ (Department of Justice) from making funds available to cities that provide sanctuary to illegal aliens.
THIS is the kind of common-sense bill that not only SHOULD pass -- it MUST pass!

That's why we've set up our website to enable you to send "Blast Faxes" to EVERY SINGLE U.S. Congressmen AT ONCE, demanding that they finally put a STOP to illegal immigration, by supporting HR 1196, the LEAVE Act!

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to Congressmen, Senators, Democrats, Republicans -- EVERYONE in the U.S. Congress, DEMANDING that they SUPPORT the "Loophole Elimination and Verification Enforcement Act" NOW!

WE MUST CONTACT CONGRESS NOW and convince them to PASS THIS BILL -- or this problem will only get WORSE!

Will YOU help us to finally put an END to ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION in America -- before it's too late?

TELL CONGRESS TO FINALLY MAKE
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "L.E.A.V.E." AMERICA:
SEND BLAST FAXES NOW!

If you're like me, you're sick and tired of politicians coddling the illegal immigration lobby, and giving LIP SERVICE to ending this problem instead of actually DOING something about it.

Well, now we can MAKE them do something about it. This is a bill that is finally putting serious action behind all the talk, and really aiming for our goals of border security and legal immigration enforcement!

WILL YOU HELP US? Will YOU join the fight to FORCE Congress to finally pass legislation that can STOP the illegal immigration crisis in our country?

Please, TAKE ACTION NOW! Thank you!

For America,

Carmen Mercer
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Project

Do you know what this means? "Dhimmitude" YOU BETER!!!

2011-03-02T10:01:00.000-08:00

New Word For The Day - "Dhimmitude" - What Does It Mean?

Obama used it in the health care bill.
Now isn't this interesting? It was used in the health care law.
Every day there's another revelation of what Obama and his fellow
Democrats
are doing to our country.
Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google
and
start reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare
bill.
I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists. It is a REAL word.
Word of the Day: Dhimmitude
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations
conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in
exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of
converting
conquered remnants to Islam.
Obama Care allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat
in the United States . Folks, this is exclusively an Islamic concept under
Sharia Law. So exclusive they had to make up an English word to define the
concept. Why would our government start interjecting Sharia Law concepts
into new broad and sweeping legislation like health care that would
control
the US population? ....Anyone?
Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase
insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured.. Islam
considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is
thus
banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.
How convenient. So a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed
against
all of their assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts
receivables, and will face hard prison time because they refuse to buy
insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan and all other
US Muslims will have no such penalty and will have 100% of their health
needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims paying a
tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Sharia Law definition of... Dhimmitude.
This is not a Western Civilization concept.
Dhimmit has two purposes: To enrich Muslims AND to drive conversions to
Islam. "Sure, I'll be a Muslim if it means free health insurance and no
taxes. Where do I sign, bro?"
I recommend sending this post to your contacts. This is desperately
important and people need to know about it -- quickly!
This really is happening in your country. A fraction at a time.
Wake up America ! They're coming in the back door.
To check it out on Snopes click here: Health Insurance Exemptions..
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/exemptions.asp

I APOLOGIZE!!

2011-03-02T09:59:00.001-08:00

Sorry folks. Earlier I had told you that I was going to post about a new Government program that we could all benefit from. Unfortunately, the website is no longer available. However, here is some quick info...it was a program where you could buy SILVER for under $3 per ounce....if anyone happens to find this program on the net somewhere, please email me @ weskyle@hellbillytees.com so I can post it here. Thanks!!!

Check this out!!!

2011-02-01T13:13:00.000-08:00

Keep reading, I will be posting about a "new" government program this week too!! You will DEFINATELY want to read it!!

Last week, the New York Post newspaper referenced a controversial video that is sweeping the nation.

More than 4 million people have now watched this free video. It is encouraging many people to think about the current state of affairs in America, and what they can do to protect their money.

If you care at all about our once great nation, and what we can do to preserve our way of life, I strongly encourage you to spend at least a few minutes checking it out.

I promise that it will be a real eye-opener, no matter what political party you are affiliated with, or where you live.

You can watch the full video here: http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1011PSIENDVD/LPSIM1BT/PR

A MUST READ!!!!!!

2011-01-24T16:42:00.001-08:00

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits - 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms.

2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately.
All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

You are one of my 20. Please keep it going

Words of Wisdom.....

2011-01-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion

to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is

wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent

the government from wasting the labors of the people under

the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Patriot Action Network

A message to all members of Patriot Action Network

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion

to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is

wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

Dear Patriot:

As we head in to this New Year of 2011, I find Jefferson's words timely.

It is amazing that words have the ability to stand and outlast the days

of a man. Today and tomorrow are the perfect time to reflect but more

importantly to plan.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

The new Congress will be taking office in a matter of days. The agenda

is filled to the brim with issues we consider critical. We must start by

encouraging our new Congressmen to remember the reason we elected

them. In addition, we must remain diligent in our pursuits of truth,

information, and holding our elected officials accountable. Elected officials

at every level (City, County, State, Federal) need to hear from their

constituents.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent

the government from wasting the labors of the people under

the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their

own good.

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...

They are the only sure reliance for the preservation

of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be

trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it

and hang on.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Some Good News on several of Arizona's SB 1070 challenges

2010-12-13T11:10:00.000-08:00

Federal Court Grants Governor Jan Brewer’s Motion to Dismiss Several Challenges to SB 1070
PHOENIX – Governor Jan Brewer today announced that the federal district court has granted her motions to dismiss the challenges to SB 1070 filed by Phoenix police officers David Salgado, Corbet Clack, and Paul Dobson and Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., and the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders et al. The court also dismissed several claims filed by the United States against the State of Arizona.
“I am pleased with today’s decisions,” stated Governor Brewer. “I strongly believe that the citizens of Arizona will ultimately prevail in all of these legal challenges. My defense of the rule of law will continue as vigorously as ever.”
The Arizona Legislature enacted SB 1070 primarily to require that Arizona’s law enforcement officers cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and, pursuant to the State’s broad police powers, to adopt state crimes that mirror existing federal laws. These laws were duly passed by the Arizona Legislature to protect the citizens of Arizona from the federal government’s failure to enforce the immigration laws effectively.
In today’s orders Judge Susan Bolton agreed with the Governor that the Phoenix police officers, Chicanos Por La Causa, and all of the plaintiffs in the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders action lack standing to bring the suits and rejected every one of their standing arguments.

SEMPER FI

2010-12-02T12:42:00.000-08:00

One sunny day in January, 2013 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue . He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."
The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer president and no longer resides here." The old man said, "Okay", and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama." The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer president and no longer resides here." The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama." The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I've told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?" The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir."

Dallas TX's solution to illegal's

2010-11-03T16:23:00.000-07:00

Get'em off the road WITHOUT making'em show proof of nationality. Wonder how the ACLU or the Justice Department will get around this one.

Dallas TX's solution to Illegal’s...Brilliant!!!!

Recently, in the City of Dallas, Texas, they passed an ordinance that if you are pulled over by law enforcement and not able to provide proof of insurance, your car will be towed right away.

Afterwards, to retrieve your car after being impounded, you must require proof of insurance to have your car released. This has made it easy for the City of Dallas to remove uninsured cars that are typically driven by mostly illegal’s.

Shortly after "No insurance" ordinance was passed, the Dallas impound lots began to fill up quickly and was full after nine days. Most of the impounded cars were driven by illegal’s. Not only must you provide proof of insurance to have your car released, you have to pay for the cost of the tow, a $350 fine, and charged $20 for every day their car is kept in the lot.

I would suggest other cities across the nation to follow what Dallas, Texas is doing. Not only is it getting uninsured drivers off the road, but it is taking away vehicles driven by illegal’s that have no insurance.

OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY!!!!

2010-10-25T10:39:00.000-07:00

*Verified true on Snopes *http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp> * * * **Gun owners.... Look what's on the 2010 tax return....* * **If you have a gun, I hope it isn't registered!* *It begins... More Freedom gone.... The right to protect yourself and your family gone! Now **ALL GUNS **must be listed **on your next (2010) tax return! ** **Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It will require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun. This bill was introduced on February 24, 2009, by the Obama staff. BUT, this bill will only become public knowledge 30 days after the new law becomes effective! This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee has passed this without the Senate voting on it at all. Trust Obama? You must be kidding!* *The full text of the IRS amendment is on the U.S. Senate homepage: ** www.senate.gov**. **You can find the bill by doing a search by the bill number, SB-2099. You know who to call; I strongly suggest you do. * *Please send a copy of this e-mail to every gun owner you know.* *Text of H.R.45 as Introduced in House: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009:** **www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/text** **Obama's Congress is now starting on the firearms confiscation bill. If it passes, gun owners will become criminals if you don't fully comply. **The tip of the iceberg!' Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House. This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009.* *Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because the government is trying to fly it under the radar as a 'minor' IRS revision, and, as usual, the 'political' lawmakers did not read this bill before signing and approving it!** To find out about this - go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Goggle HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information. Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless: 1) It is registered 2) You are fingerprinted 3) You supply a current Driver's License 4) You supply your Social Security number 5) You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing. Each update change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25. Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail.* *There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 years in prison. If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this.. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters in your family pass this along. This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it. This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.. <**Search Results - THOMAS (Library of> > Congress)> > "> > rel=nofollow> > as.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45%3e>> > **:> > > > <**H.R.45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 -> > U.S. Congress - OpenCongress*> > ** > g/bill/111-h45/show%3E>> > *> > **> > <**H.R. 45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009> > (GovTrack.us )*> > * **> > * > .us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45%3e>> > *> > **> > Please..... Copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA , whether you> > support the Right to Bear Arms or are for gun control.. We all should have> > the RIGHT TO CHOOSE!*

Immigration Reform…

2010-10-21T14:19:00.000-07:00

Here are the results!

The Total Number of people who voted in this poll: 543,342

1) Should America follow Arizona’s lead when it comes to immigration reform?
96% voted: Yes
3% voted: No
0% voted: Undecided
2) Do you believe illegal immigrants take jobs U.S. citizens want?
84% voted: Yes
10% voted: No
5% voted: Undecided
3) Do you feel being asked for proof of citizenship is a violation of your civil rights?
5% voted: Yes
94% voted: No
1% voted: Undecided
4) Would you like to see your state pass a similar immigration law?
92% voted: Yes
3% voted: No
0% voted: Undecided
3% voted: I live in Arizona
5) For whom did you vote in the 2008 presidential election
8% voted: Obama/Biden
79% voted: McCain/Palin
12% voted: Other

Thank you for your participation.

NAACP Report The Tea Parties Are Racist: A Desperate Hail Mary Pass.Posted by Lloyd Marcus on October 21, 2010 at 2:26am

2010-10-21T13:52:00.000-07:00

The Associated Press reporter confronted me with the NAACP's accusation that Tea Party Express is paying me, a black tea party patriot, to say the Tea Party Movement
is not racist. In essence, the NAACP is calling me a
characterless paid “mouth piece” traitor to my race.

Fun how characterless people project their sins upon others. The modern day NAACP have abandoned the vision and dream of the Civil Rights Movement Founding Fathers years
ago to be granted a seat at their liberal democrat Massa's table. And
they dare call me a traitor.

Meanwhile, they shamelessly betray blacks by convincing them they are victims in America which is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose
to “Go for it!”

The NAACP's attack on me and their so-called documented report that the tea parties are racist are a part of their desperate, “throw everything against the wall and see
what sticks” get out the vote campaign.

With only two weeks remaining before the predicted democrat Armageddon at the polls, democrats are frantically attempting to fire up their lethargic base.

The latest and most evil tactic of the Democrats via the NAACP to ignite their base is “hate” via race baiting. “Let's get black America angry at those tea party folks
who are mostly white.”

On this third day of the Tea Party Express IV national bus tour, I have been swamped by interviewers from around the world, all asking me to respond to the NAACP report
that the tea parties are racist.

I'm telling you what I told the world, “The NAACP's report is hogwash! I've attend over two hundred tea parties across America. I'm right in the middle, in tune, with the
pulse of the movement; hearing their concerns and feeling their
hearts. All of the racism is coming from the Obama camp. We tea party
patriots are opposing Obama's socialist agenda, not his skin color.
Polls say 25% of tea parties attendees voted for Obama.”

So NAACP, your latest trick will fail because it is divisive and evil. Good always triumphs!

Our next Tea Party Express rally will be in Los Angeles, California. Pat Boone is scheduled to speak. I wonder if Pat will wear his trademark white shoes?

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Republicans will unveil their new 'Contract' on Thursday in Virginia

2010-09-21T13:17:00.000-07:00

By Michael O'Brien

Republicans will unveil their new “Contract With America” in Virginia on Thursday as they try to present a clear alternative to the Democrat-led Congress heading into the midterm elections.

The new document — modeled after the original “Contract With America,” credited with helping Republicans win the House in 1994 — will highlight
what the GOP would stand for if it were to return to power in Congress.
Polls show Republicans have a strong chance of winning back the House
this fall, and taking the Senate is not considered out of reach.

Material for the contract was culled from the GOP’s America Speaking
Out program, which asked voters to submit ideas on how to govern the
country.

“House Republicans have been listening to the American people, and we’re going to put forth a positive agenda that focuses on solutions for the top priorities of the nation,” said Brendan Buck,
spokesman for America Speaking Out.

For much of the last two years, Republicans have won points from voters chiefly by opposing the Obama administration’s agenda.

But now, with momentum on their side for a possible takeover of Congress, Republicans are moving beyond their opposition to President Obama and
developing a more concrete legislative agenda.

GOP leaders have already hinted at some of the ideas that could be included in the contract. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), for instance, has
called for a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts and a
reduction in spending to 2008 levels. Obama and Democratic leaders, in
contrast, want to let the tax breaks for upper-income individuals and
families expire.

Republicans have also pressed for repeal of the healthcare reform law, and for replacing it with new reforms. Some GOP figures have also called for repealing the Wall Street reform law
that established a new regulatory structure for the financial sector.

Social conservatives have said they’re confident their priorities will be well-represented in the contract.

Democrats, for their part, are eager to have a look at the new GOP agenda. They are planning their own event on Thursday to outline the “Real Republican
Agenda,” an extension of an effort they’ve made in recent weeks to
argue that the GOP would revive unpopular initiatives.

“Washington Republicans are finally getting around to releasing an agenda for this Congress. What’s shocking is that it took them more than 20 months to
repackage a plan that’s no different from the one that caused the Great
Bush Recession,” said Doug Thornell, a spokesman for Rep. Chris Van
Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee.

The GOP document will likely be different from the 1994 contract pioneered by Newt Gingrich (Ga.), the GOP leader who became Speaker after landslides handed Republicans the House and Senate
that cycle.

The original contract promised a floor vote within 100 days on a variety of legislative initiatives, from a balanced-budget amendment to term limits to a crime-fighting
package. GOP officials have not said whether the new Contract will set a
timeline for floor votes.

Republicans also won’t sign the new governing document, as candidates did during a highly publicized rollout event in 1994.

Arizona Sheriff: Obama ‘Undermining’ Law on the Border

2010-09-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

By: David A. Patten

An Arizona sheriff contends that President Obama is “undermining the rule of law” by blocking the border enforcement needed to prevent
illegals and narco-terrorists from flooding into the United States from
Mexico.

In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu
said the administration has actively thwarted law enforcement efforts
to help secure the border.

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County Ariz rails against the Obama administrations
legal assault on his states immigration enforcement efforts Mexicos
deadly drug cartel violence is bleeding into America says Babeu, who
recently invited President Obama to visit him for a lesson on
immigration control

As a consequence, Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of
Arizona, says Babeu, who is president of the Arizona Sheriff’s
Association.

“Every day, there are paramilitary, squad-sized elements who are out
escorting drugs or human illegals with AK-47s,” he said. “And they have
scouts on top of high points of terrain, hilltops, and literally for
miles and miles they control movement in these areas.

“Now we’re the ones who patrol this area. And I can tell you quite
honestly that we do not control those parts of the area, because we’re
not there all the time. And they know when we’re there and when we’re
not there. We don’t even have a helicopter.”

Babeu, an outspoken supporter of Arizona’s controversial new
immigration law, said the administration has made it more difficult to
protect citizens on an increasingly unstable border.

“The federal government, instead of supporting us and saying, ‘You go,
Arizona, sorry we can’t help you,’ they decided to go a step further
and drag us into court, with the ACLU, so they’re undermining the rule
of law,” he said.

“They literally want to leap frog over border security and just go
right to amnesty. And that’s not going to happen. This is our country.
You just don’t get to citizenship by breaking the law,” he said.

The nature of the violence “bleeding over into America” has changed
during the past year, said Babeu, who lists the following among his
chief concerns:

His department, which is responsible for patrolling an area larger than the state of Connecticut, faces two or three high-speed pursuits a night. That never happened before, he said.
His deputies routinely face drug gang members armed with AK-47 automatic rifles. In April, one of his deputies was wounded seriously when six
members of a Mexican drug cartel ambushed them.
The gangs that smuggle humans and drugs are becoming more aggressive. “We have sheriffs here in Arizona, myself included, who have death threats
against us by the Mexican mafia and the drug cartels,” he said.
More than 20 percent of illegals passing through his county are OTMs – Border Patrol jargon for “other than Mexicans,” and some are coming
from “nations of interest” known for terrorists, such as Iran, Yemen,
Somalia, and Jordan.

Babeu, who, along with Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has been an
outspoken critic of the administration’s failure to secure the southern
border, said: “You’ve got to be kidding! And this is not considered a
national security threat, when we know their M.O., what they’re trying
to do, to have sleeper cells come into America?”

Babeu told Newsmax he is certain border fences work. One reason for his
confidence: He helped build the fence that protects San Diego.

A combat engineer and major in the Arizona Army National Guard, Babeu
said completion of the fence that protects San Diego from Tijuana has
had a profound impact.

“The following year, once it was finally completed, violent crime went
down in San Diego by 52 percent,” he told Newsmax. “That’s an FBI
statistic.”

He urged the administration to resume construction of the double-walled
border fence and to send another 6,000 soldiers to secure the border.
Of those, he said, 3,000 need to be assigned to patrol Arizona.

The Bureau of Federal Land Management has responded to the escalating
violence, posting signs along 60 miles of highway linking Tucson and
Phoenix, warning citizens in English that the area is unsafe because of
armed criminals, drugs, and alien smugglers.

Babeu told Newsmax that he wants President Obama to visit the border region and “take these damn signs down.”

He added: “This is the United States of America. This isn’t half way
across the world. This is our country, and we should have a right to
enjoy our own safety and freedoms here in America, and not have to
worry about armed squads of illegals and armed squads of drug cartel
members. We don’t even feel safe in our homes and on our own property
in many parts of my county.”

Babeu said he believes it’s only a matter of time until the administration files a lawsuit against him or one of his officers.

“The allegation’s going to be made that they racially profiled,” Babeu
said. “And of course people are going to believe that, because the
president and Eric Holder told everybody that that’s what we’re going
to do.

“So that’s what they’re going to use to take us to court again, to drag
a hero, a police officer, through the mud publicly . . . which is just
shameful that our own president would do this,” he said.

In response, Babeu and fellow Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise
County have established a legal defense fund to support the state’s
immigration law. Information on the fund is available at
BorderSheriffs.com.

“We need help from patriots, from Americans across the country, to
donate $20, $50, $100, whatever they can afford, to literally fight
back against our own government,” he said.

“We’re building this legal defense fund to articulate a law-enforcement
perspective, and to say why we need this law as an additional tool for
us to keep our family safe and protect America, because you know what?
Our own federal government under Barack Obama is not protecting America
by having a secure border,” he stated.

How Obama Thinks...its long but a MUST READ!!!!

2010-09-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Dinesh D'Souza,
09.27.10, 12:00 AM ET

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps
in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back.
Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He
has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages,
investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The
Weekly Standard
summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and
supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue
of the
Wall Street Journal
: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly?
You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off
the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank
offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil
company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de
Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian
exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.

More strange behavior: Obama's June 15, 2010 speech in response to the
Gulf oil spill focused not on cleanup strategies but rather on the fact
that Americans "consume more than 20% of the world's oil but have less
than 2% of the world's resources." Obama railed on about "America's
century-long addiction to fossil fuels." What does any of this have to
do with the oil spill? Would the calamity have been less of a problem if
America consumed a mere 10% of the world's resources?

The oddities go on and on. Obama's Administration has declared that even
banks that want to repay their bailout money may be refused permission
to do so. Only after the Obama team cleared a bank through the Fed's
"stress test" was it eligible to give taxpayers their money back. Even
then, declared Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the Administration might
force banks to keep the money.

The President continues to push for stimulus even though hundreds of
billions of dollars in such funds seem to have done little. The
unemployment rate when Obama took office in January 2009 was 7.7%; now
it is 9.5%. Yet he wants to spend even more and is determined to foist
the entire bill on Americans making $250,000 a year or more. The rich,
Obama insists, aren't paying their "fair share." This by itself seems
odd given that the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of all federal income
taxes; the next 9% of income earners pay another 30%. So the top 10%
pays 70% of the taxes; the bottom 40% pays close to nothing. This does
indeed seem unfair--to the rich.

Obama's foreign policy is no less strange. He supports a $100 million
mosque scheduled to be built near the site where terrorists in the name
of Islam brought down the World Trade Center. Obama's rationale, that
"our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable," seems utterly
irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be
constructed at Ground Zero.

Recently the London
Times
reported that the Obama Administration supported the conditional
release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber convicted in
connection with the deaths of 270 people, mostly Americans. This was an
eye-opener because when Scotland released Megrahi from prison and sent
him home to Libya in August 2009, the Obama Administration publicly and
appropriately complained. The
Times
, however, obtained a letter the Obama Administration sent to Scotland a
week before the event in which it said that releasing Megrahi on
"compassionate grounds" was acceptable as long as he was kept in
Scotland and would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya.
Scottish officials interpreted this to mean that U.S. objections to
Megrahi's release were "half-hearted." They released him to his home
country, where he lives today as a free man.

One more anomaly: A few months ago nasa Chief Charles Bolden announced
that from now on the primary mission of America's space agency would be
to improve relations with the Muslim world. Come again? Bolden said he
got the word directly from the President. "He wanted me to find a way to
reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly
Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution
to science and math and engineering." Bolden added that the
International Space Station was a model for nasa's future, since it was
not just a U.S. operation but included the Russians and the Chinese.
Obama's redirection of the agency caused consternation among former
astronauts like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, and even among the
President's supporters: Most people think of nasa's job as one of
landing on the moon and Mars and exploring other faraway destinations.
Sure, we are for Islamic self-esteem, but what on earth was Obama up to
here?

Theories abound to explain the President's goals and actions. Critics in
the business community--including some Obama voters who now have
buyer's remorse--tend to focus on two main themes. The first is that
Obama is clueless about business. The second is that Obama is a
socialist--not an out-and-out Marxist, but something of a European-style
socialist, with a penchant for leveling and government redistribution.

These theories aren't wrong so much as they are inadequate. Even if they
could account for Obama's domestic policy, they cannot explain his
foreign policy. The real problem with Obama is worse--much worse. But we
have been blinded to his real agenda because, across the political
spectrum, we all seek to fit him into some version of American history.
In the process, we ignore Obama's own history. Here is a man who spent
his formative years--the first 17 years of his life--off the American
mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent
journeys to Africa.

A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question:
What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King's
dream? Or something else?

It is certainly not the American dream as conceived by the founders.
They believed the nation was a "new order for the ages." A half-century
later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct
species of mankind." This is known as American exceptionalism. But when
asked at a 2009 press conference whether he believed in this ideal,
Obama said no. America, he suggested, is no more unique or exceptional
than Britain or Greece or any other country.

Perhaps, then, Obama shares Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind
society. The President has benefited from that dream; he campaigned as a
nonracial candidate, and many Americans voted for him because he
represents the color-blind ideal. Even so, King's dream is not Obama's:
The President never champions the idea of color-blindness or
race-neutrality. This inaction is not merely tactical; the race issue
simply isn't what drives Obama.

What then is Obama's dream? We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography,
Dreams from My Father
. According to Obama, his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not
Dreams of My Father
but rather
Dreams from My Father
. Obama isn't writing about his father's dreams; he is writing about the dreams he received from his father.

So who was Barack Obama Sr.? He was a Luo tribesman who grew up in Kenya
and studied at Harvard. He was a polygamist who had, over the course of
his lifetime, four wives and eight children. One of his sons, Mark
Obama, has accused him of abuse and wife-beating. He was also a regular
drunk driver who got into numerous accidents, killing a man in one and
causing his own legs to be amputated due to injury in another. In 1982
he got drunk at a bar in Nairobi and drove into a tree, killing himself.

An odd choice, certainly, as an inspirational hero. But to his son, the
elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of
anticolonialism. Obama Sr. grew up during Africa's struggle to be free
of European rule, and he was one of the early generation of Africans
chosen to study in America and then to shape his country's future.

I know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of
Mumbai, India. I am part of the first Indian generation to be born after
my country's independence from the British. Anticolonialism was the
rallying cry of Third World politics for much of the second half of the
20th century. To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an
unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it.

Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich
by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and
South America. As one of Obama's acknowledged intellectual influences,
Frantz Fanon, wrote in
The Wretched of the Earth
, "The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the
sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow
races."

Anticolonialists hold that even when countries secure political
independence they remain economically dependent on their former captors.
This dependence is called neocolonialism, a term defined by the African
statesman Kwame Nkrumah (1909--72) in his book
Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
. Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, writes that poor countries may be
nominally free, but they continue to be manipulated from abroad by
powerful corporate and plutocratic elites. These forces of
neocolonialism oppress not only Third World people but also citizens in
their own countries. Obviously the solution is to resist and overthrow
the oppressors. This was the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr.
and many in his generation, including many of my own relatives in India.

Obama Sr. was an economist, and in 1965 he published an important article in the
East Africa Journal
called "Problems Facing Our Socialism." Obama Sr. wasn't a doctrinaire
socialist; rather, he saw state appropriation of wealth as a necessary
means to achieve the anticolonial objective of taking resources away
from the foreign looters and restoring them to the people of Africa. For
Obama Sr. this was an issue of national autonomy. "Is it the African
who owns this country? If he does, then why should he not control the
economic means of growth in this country?"

As he put it, "We need to eliminate power structures that have been
built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals
shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now." The
senior Obama proposed that the state confiscate private land and raise
taxes with no upper limit. In fact, he insisted that "theoretically
there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income
so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate
with their income which is taxed."

Remarkably, President Obama, who knows his father's history very well,
has never mentioned his father's article. Even more remarkably, there
has been virtually no reporting on a document that seems directly
relevant to what the junior Obama is doing in the White House.

While the senior Obama called for Africa to free itself from the
neocolonial influence of Europe and specifically Britain, he knew when
he came to America in 1959 that the global balance of power was
shifting. Even then, he recognized what has become a new tenet of
anticolonialist ideology: Today's neocolonial leader is not Europe but
America. As the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said--who was one of
Obama's teachers at Columbia University--wrote in
Culture and Imperialism
, "The United States has replaced the earlier great empires and is the dominant outside force."

From the anticolonial perspective, American imperialism is on a rampage.
For a while, U.S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the
end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower. Moreover,
9/11 provided the occasion for America to invade and occupy two
countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, and also to seek political and economic
domination in the same way the French and the British empires once did.
So in the anticolonial view, America is now the rogue elephant that
subjugates and tramples the people of the world.

It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of
Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United
States. That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his
formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global
domination and destruction. He came to view America's military as an
instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position
that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder.
Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of
neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a
measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and
America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes
the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the
rest of the planet.

For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the
neocolonialism out of America and the West. And here is where our
anticolonial understanding of Obama really takes off, because it
provides a vital key to explaining not only his major policy actions but
also the little details that no other theory can adequately account
for.

Why support oil drilling off the coast of Brazil but not in America?
Obama believes that the West uses a disproportionate share of the
world's energy resources, so he wants neocolonial America to have less
and the former colonized countries to have more. More broadly, his
proposal for carbon taxes has little to do with whether the planet is
getting warmer or colder; it is simply a way to penalize, and therefore
reduce, America's carbon consumption. Both as a U.S. Senator and in his
speech, as President, to the United Nations, Obama has proposed that the
West massively subsidize energy production in the developing world.

Rejecting the socialist formula, Obama has shown no intention to
nationalize the investment banks or the health sector. Rather, he seeks
to decolonize these institutions, and this means bringing them under the
government's leash. That's why Obama retains the right to refuse
bailout paybacks--so that he can maintain his control. For Obama, health
insurance companies on their own are oppressive racketeers, but once
they submitted to federal oversight he was happy to do business with
them. He even promised them expanded business as a result of his law
forcing every American to buy health insurance.

If Obama shares his father's anticolonial crusade, that would explain
why he wants people who are already paying close to 50% of their income
in overall taxes to pay even more. The anticolonialist believes that
since the rich have prospered at the expense of others, their wealth
doesn't really belong to them; therefore whatever can be extracted from
them is automatically just. Recall what Obama Sr. said in his 1965
paper: There is no tax rate too high, and even a 100% rate is justified
under certain circumstances.

Obama supports the Ground Zero mosque because to him 9/11 is the event
that unleashed the American bogey and pushed us into Iraq and
Afghanistan. He views some of the Muslims who are fighting against
America abroad as resisters of U.S. imperialism. Certainly that is the
way the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi portrayed himself at his
trial. Obama's perception of him as an anticolonial resister would
explain why he gave tacit approval for this murderer of hundreds of
Americans to be released from captivity.

Finally, nasa. No explanation other than anticolonialism makes sense of
Obama's curious mandate to convert a space agency into a Muslim and
international outreach. We can see how well our theory works by
recalling the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969. "One small step for
man," Neil Armstrong said. "One giant leap for mankind."

But that's not how the rest of the world saw it. I was 8 years old at
the time and living in my native India. I remember my grandfather
telling me about the great race between America and Russia to put a man
on the moon. Clearly America had won, and this was one giant leap not
for mankind but for the U.S. If Obama shares this view, it's no wonder
he wants to blunt nasa's space program, to divert it from a symbol of
American greatness into a more modest public relations program.

Clearly the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. goes a long way to
explain the actions and policies of his son in the Oval Office. And we
can be doubly sure about his father's influence because those who know
Obama well testify to it. His "granny" Sarah Obama (not his real
grandmother but one of his grandfather's other wives) told
Newsweek
, "I look at him and I see all the same things--he has taken everything
from his father. The son is realizing everything the father wanted. The
dreams of the father are still alive in the son."

In his own writings Obama stresses the centrality of his father not only
to his beliefs and values but to his very identity. He calls his memoir
"the record of a personal, interior journey--a boy's search for his
father and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a
black American." And again, "It was into my father's image, the black
man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in
myself." Even though his father was absent for virtually all his life,
Obama writes, "My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted,
inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work
hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up,
black man!"

The climax of Obama's narrative is when he goes to Kenya and weeps at
his father's grave. It is riveting: "When my tears were finally spent,"
he writes, "I felt a calmness wash over me. I felt the circle finally
close. I realized that who I was, what I cared about, was no longer just
a matter of intellect or obligation, no longer a construct of words. I
saw that my life in America--the black life, the white life, the sense
of abandonment I'd felt as a boy, the frustration and hope I'd witnessed
in Chicago--all of it was connected with this small piece of earth an
ocean away, connected by more than the accident of a name or the color
of my skin. The pain that I felt was my father's pain."

In an eerie conclusion, Obama writes that "I sat at my father's grave
and spoke to him through Africa's red soil." In a sense, through the
earth itself, he communes with his father and receives his father's
spirit. Obama takes on his father's struggle, not by recovering his body
but by embracing his cause. He decides that where Obama Sr. failed, he
will succeed. Obama Sr.'s hatred of the colonial system becomes Obama
Jr.'s hatred; his botched attempt to set the world right defines his
son's objective. Through a kind of sacramental rite at the family tomb,
the father's struggle becomes the son's birthright.

Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man
in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market
economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the
problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and
growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top,
we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped
in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled
according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This
philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world
for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now
setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in
his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only
living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the
inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is
governed by a ghost.

U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants

2010-09-14T11:37:00.001-07:00

By Marcus Stern, ProPublica

The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such
as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations.
The changes focus enforcement on immigrants who have committed serious crimes, an effort to unclog immigration courts and detention centers. A record backlog of deportation cases has forced
immigrants to wait an average 459 days for their hearings, according to
an Aug. 12 report by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which analyzes government data.

Among the recent changes:

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton ordered agency officials on Aug. 20 to begin dismissing deportation cases against people who haven't committed
serious crimes and have credible immigration applications pending.

• A proposed directive from Morton posted on ICE's website for public comment last month would generally prohibit police from using misdemeanor traffic stops to send people to ICE.
Traffic stops have led to increased deportations in recent years,
according to Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center
for Immigration Studies, a think tank whose research supports tighter
enforcement.

The directive said exceptions would be made in certain cases, such as when immigrants have serious criminal records.

• ICE officers have been told to "exercise discretion" when deciding whether to detain "long-time lawful permanent residents, juveniles, the immediate family members of U.S. citizens,
veterans, members of the armed forces and their families, and others
with illnesses or special circumstances," Daniel Ragsdale, ICE executive
associate director of management, testified July 1 in the
administration's lawsuit to block Arizona's controversial immigration
law. The law requires police officers to determine the immigration
status of suspects stopped for another offense if there was a
"reasonable suspicion" they are in the USA illegally. A U.S. district
judge has held up the provision pending review.

• A draft memo from ICE's sister agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, to Morton discussed ways the administration could adjust regulations so certain groups, such as
college students and the spouses of military personnel, could legalize
their status or at least avoid deportation if Congress doesn't pass
comprehensive immigration reform. USCIS rules on applications for visas,
work permits and citizenship. USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley said
the memo was intended to stimulate brainstorming on how to legalize
immigrants if new laws aren't passed.

The administration's new direction puts it at odds with those who believe the nation's immigration laws should be strictly enforced and that all illegal immigrants should be deported.

ICE is "thumbing its nose at the law," said Rep. Steve King of Iowa, the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee.

The changes have also drawn complaints from immigration advocates. They say deportations under Obama are at record highs and immigrants who remain behind are living in limbo, without work
permits, Social Security cards or driver's licenses.

"This isn't a free ticket," said Raed Gonzalez, a Houston attorney who saw cases against his clients dropped last month. "The government can put them back into proceedings at any time."

Morton said in an interview that the new strategy is smarter, not softer, enforcement. At a time when more than 10 million people are in the country illegally, record sums are spent on
enforcement and the federal budget faces huge deficits, it makes sense
to target people who pose the biggest threat to public safety or
national security, he said.

"Congress provides enough money to deport a little less than 400,000 people," Morton said. "My perspective is those 400,000 people shouldn't be the first 400,000 people in the door but
rather 400,000 people who reflect some considered government enforcement
policy based on a rational set of objectives and priorities."

ICE statistics show that deportations have increased dramatically from 189,000 in 2001 to 387,000 in 2009. Much of the increase results from deportations of people who haven't committed
serious crimes, according to TRAC.

This year, however, that trend took a sharp turn, according to an Aug. 12 TRAC report.

The number of criminal immigrants removed by ICE "climbed to an all-time high," the report said. In fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1, "The removal pace of criminal aliens ... is fully 60%
higher than in the last year of the Bush administration, and at least a third (37%) higher than in the first year of the Obama administration."

Obama 15 most obvious lies in Ohio Speech plus one Freudian slip David Swindle calls it like it really is!

2010-09-13T10:28:00.000-07:00

Posted By *David Swindle* On September 8, 2010

The naked lies were too numerous to count in President Obama’sspeech in Ohio today. But let’s try and respond to a couple.

*15. “We also hoped for a chance to get beyond some of the political divides between Democrats and Republicans…”*

One cannot “get beyond” the political divides of this country when the objective is to “fundamentally transform” the United States. Obama’s talk of bi-partisanship has been clearly demonstrated to just be a campaign technique to woo moderates.

He could have ruled from the Center — the model was there in Bill Clinton’ssecond term. Instead he chose to push a leftist agenda, thus further exacerbating the divide.

*14. “Because we are proud to be Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans.” *

Says the Post-American Presidentwho rejects the concept of American exceptionalism and bows to foreign kings.

*13. “I ran for President because for much of the last decade a very specific governing philosophy had reigned about about how American should work.”*

He expects us to believe that anything President Bush did in any way inspired him to run for President?

*12. “Folks were forced to put more debt on their credit cards and to borrow against homes that many couldn’t afford to buy in the first place.”*

*Forced*? As in Discover Card and American Express put a gun to their customers head and demanded they load themselves up with debt? Monster Housecame by and threatened to devour people if they didn’t sign the mortgage?

*11. “I ran for president because I believed that this kind of economy was unsustainable for the middle class and the future of our nation.”*

Obama is not interested in sustainability. The debt levels we already have and that he is further burdening us with make a mockery of his claims for interest in sustainability.

*10. “I ran because I had a different idea about how America was built. It was an idea rooted in my own family’s story.”*

*Built?* Obama does not have a different idea about how America was built. The historical facts are quite clear. He has a different idea about the America that *he* wants to build — and build by destroying what already exists.

*9. “Yes, our families believed in the American values of self-reliance and individual responsibility and they instilled those values in their children. But they also believed in a country that rewards responsibility, a country that rewards hard work, a country built on the promise of opportunity and upward mobility.”*

If Obama was raised with the American value of self-reliance and individual responsibility then why was a communist like Frank Marshall Davisallowed to be one of his mentors?

*8. “The flawed policies and economic weaknesses of the previous decade culminated in a financial crisis and the worst recession of our lifetimes.”*

This is perhaps the most fundamental, important lie in Obama’s entire speech: the recession we’re going through right now was caused by Republicans’ economic policies. The truth is far less dramatic: everyone is to blame for the economic recession. “Blame” can be pointed toward the Left, the Right, the Democrats, the Republicans, the “fat cats” on Wall Street, and the poor people who took out mortgages they could not pay

If everyone is to blame for something then no one is to blame for it. And we can understand this recession as just one more wave in a perpetual cycle of booms and busts .

*7. “Some Republicans thought it was smart politics to sit on the sidelines and let Democrats solve the mess. Others believe on principle that government shouldn’t meddle in the markets — even when the markets are broken.”*

No, Republicans thought it would be smart politics to fight Democrats and try to stop them from making the problems we face worse. No, conservatives who believed on principle that government should not interfere in a company failing did not believe the market was broken. A boom and bust business cycle is not an example of the market being “broken” but of it functioning in the same pattern it has ever since the Roman empire.

Obama — and the rest of the Left — is unable to actually confront the conservative argument. They always have to lie about their opponents’ position. Observe how in the fight over the Ground Zero Mosque somehow the debate magically shifted to whether there was a legal right to build a mosque at the location.

*6. “The same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place.”*

*What* was the philosophy that led us here? Friedman economics? Keynesianism? Obama can’t say because he needs to be as vague as possible in order to try and manipulate the least educated people listening. That’s who Obama relies on to develop and maintain power.

*5. “Their argument is should insurance companies go back to denying care for people who are sick or let credit card companies go back to raising rates without any reason… Cleveland, that is not the America I know. That is not the America we believe in.”*

Insurance companies do not “deny care.” They deny paying for some procedures. This is an inevitability of every healthcare system on the planet. If we had the most socialist healthcare system imaginable — like Britain’s for example — all that would be different is it would be the government being forced to make the decisions to deny paying for something. There is not a health insurance tree in the backyard yielding unlimited insurance fruit for all.

But at least there is a moment of honesty here — yes, the America that actually exists today is not something Obama believes in. When he talks of an America he loves he speaks of the country that exists in his imagination — one decades down the line that has come into being through his brilliant policies.

*4. “It’s still fear versus hope, the past versus the future.”*

As stated in *The Art of Political War*, “fear” and “hope” are just symbols used in political combat. In his previous breath it was Obama himself evoking fear by lying about insurance companies “denying” people care.

*3. “I’ve never believed that it’s government’s role to create jobs or prosperity. I believe it’s the drive and ingenuity of our entrepreneurs, small businesses, the skill and dedication of our works that’s made us the wealthiest nation on earth. “*

You can just feel the disdain in his voice. He can push through government “stimulus” programs that cost more than all the money spent on the Iraq warand actually tell us this with a straight face.

*2. “I believe it’s the private sector that must be the main engine for our recovery.”*

If this was the case the he would fuel that engine through slashing taxes across the board.

*1. “But in the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, I also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves.”*

Yeah, um, let’s read the quote in contextto see what a shameless liar our current president is.

And the *damning* Freudian slip:

*“I believe government should be lean, government should be efficient, I believe government should **lead** people free to make the choices that are best for themselves and their families so long as those choices don’t hurt others.”*

He meant to say government should *leave** people free to make the choices. But **lead** came out instead. Read the prepared remarks here.This is, of course, his embrace of the big government philosophies of his czar Cass Sunstein, co-author of the book **Nudge ** which argues government should push people to make the right choices.*

*This is a President with such disdain for America and its people that he demands he and his elite team **lead** the citizens in making the choices that are best for you.*

*In the words of Kathy Shaidle : “You’re not smart enough to tell me how to live!” *

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2010-09-03T12:21:00.000-07:00

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How OBAMA lost AMERICA!

2010-09-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

The president's agenda, arrogance and attitude have dulled that shiny, gold-plated image so many Americans bought. Now, his hubris and damn-the-voters posture are leading his party to a 2010 disaster.

President George W. Bush was a buoy for Republicans in 2002, the first midterm election of his presidency. Obama, on the other hand, is like an anvil. How did things go so wrong?

His predicament is partly the result of bad luck. Obama did not create the bad economy, even if it helped him get elected. He did not cause the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, even if a majority of Americans now frown upon his response to it. Both circumstances are now exacerbating his current problems, but neither can explain the relatively sudden crackup that polls suggest happened between late 2009 and early 2010.

The simplest explanation for Obama's demise is ObamaCare, but it's still not enough just to point to the law itself. Think of the health care debate as the small chip in your windshield, which, though small, compromises its integrity. When your car hits the next big bump, the chip becomes a crack, which then grows and spreads with every little jolt. In similar fashion, Obama's ruthless push for health care reform—and his failure to heed the public's negative reaction—created the first cracks in Obama's administration. They have since widened and multiplied with each new disaster, gaffe and piece of bad economic news.

Obama laid the groundwork for failure much earlier, during his 2008 election campaign. As a candidate, he promised Hope, Change and as few specifics as reasonably possible. This was the political path of least resistance, and President George W. Bush's unpopularity virtually guaranteed its success. The mainstream media, enrapt by the candidate's tingle-inspiring rhetoric and transformative post-partisanship, did as little as possible to reveal Obama's true policy intentions and left-leaning ideological origins.

This played to Obama's strong suit. David Mendell of the Chicago Tribune wrote in his 2007 biography, "Obama: From Promise to Power," of the senator’s "ingenious lack of specificity. … While talking or writing about a deeply controversial subject, he considers all points of view before cautiously giving his own often risk-averse assessment, an opinion that often appears so universal that people of various viewpoints would consider it their own."

This formula, along with incredible good luck, had been key to Obama’s effortless political rise as a legislator. But when it brought him to executive power, the effect was slightly different. Because he never had to sell his least popular policy reforms, Obama won office without the broad mandate he needed to govern as he wanted. This is the best available explanation for why Americans reacted so negatively to his agenda as soon as it materialized in Congress. They suddenly felt surprised, even deceived, after all the talk of post-partisanship

SAVE SB1070!!!

2010-07-28T16:03:00.000-07:00

We need to tell the Judge we do NOT agree with her ruling!! Her info is below--call/write/whatever just let your voice be heard!!!
Also, whenever you see a suspected illegal immigrant/alien call ICE and demand they look into it!! Maybe if enough of us flood the system with calls than MAYBE they will be FORCED to do something, ya know, like their JOB!!

HONORABLE S. R. BOLTON
United States District Court
Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, Suite 522
401 West Washington Street, SPC 50
Phoenix, AZ 85003-2153
Phone: (602) 322-7570

Enough said!!!!!!

2010-07-23T17:24:00.001-07:00

SCREW OBAMAtics!!!!

2010-07-20T15:14:00.000-07:00

Under the new health care bill - did you know that all real estate transactions are now subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax? The bulk of these new taxes don't kick in until 2013 (presumably after Obama's re-election). You can thank Nancy, Harry and Barack and your local Democrat Congressman for this one. If you sell your $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to screw the retiring generation who often downsize their homes. Is this "Hope & Change" great or what? We can vote the Dems out in November and demand that they eliminate the bill or at the very least defund it. Then in 2012 repeal it

Know how to report Illegal Immigration!!

2010-07-10T14:36:00.000-07:00

Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration
Get the Facts about Illegal Immigration
.
Report Illegal Immigration & Employers of Illegal Immigrants

We commonly receive calls and emails that ask "How do I report an employer who hires illegal aliens?" or "How do I report illegal immigration?"

The first thing we always explain is that your broader political involvement is needed because our government is barely enforcing any of our existing immigration laws at this time.

While the chances that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will take any action on your report are slim to none, in the current political environment in Washington, DC, you should still file your reports.

You should do your part in this struggle even though thousands of Americans call in reports each month and ICE does very little to respond.

All reports filed are considered CONFIDENTIAL.

Before filing a report with Homeland Security, make sure you have the following...

1. You must have direct evidence before reporting illegal immigration or employers. Have you seen direct evidence? Has someone that works with the company told you directly about illegal activities?

2. Please gather all of the detailed information you can to include in your report such as the name, address, and phone numbers of the employers, illegal alien drop house, drug and illegal immigrant smugglers, etc... Car descriptions, license plate numbers, appearance descriptions, names, methods, photos, anything you can compile will help.

Once you have direct evidence and your details compiled, proceed to report using the following resources.

Contact ICE to report illegal aliens, employers who hire illegal labor, smugglers, document fraud, and other crimes by illegal aliens. Bilingual services are offered. Confidential reporting is allowed. ICE operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Toll Free: 1 (866) 347-2423
1-866-DHS-2ICE
Visit ICE Website.
Contact ICE Field Offices.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Mailing Address: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C. 20528
Citizen Lines:
Operator Number: 202-282-8000
Comment Line: 202-282-8495
Visit DHS Website.
Send DHS a message online.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Mailing Address:
Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
FBI HQ Phone: 202-324-3000
Visit FBI Website.
Locate FBI field offices.
Submit a tip to the FBI online.

United States Department of Justice USDOJ
USE TO REPORT HUMAN trafficking
Hotline/How to file a complaint
Report trafficking crimes or get help by calling the toll-free hotline
1-888-428-7581 (voice and TTY)

Para registrar su queja o obtener ayuda, llame gratis a 1-888-428-7581 (linea directa y de TTY para personas con incapacidad auditiva)

If you are trying to report illegal immigration, smugglers, or employers who hire illegal immigrants, which involves Social Security fraud, documents fraud, or tax law violations, then file your report with these agencies in combination with Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Social Security Administration (SSA) Mailing Address: Social Security Administration, Office of Public Inquiries, Windsor Park Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235
Main Number: 1-800-772-1213
Visit SSA website.
How to report fraud.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Fraud Line: 1-800-829-0433
How to report criminal activity with the IRS. While the IRS has the task of making sure we pay the extensive bill for illegal immigration, they can also be an asset to your efforts. Please report employers that hire illegal labor and use illegal alien day laborers to the IRS.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB)
4200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 800 Arlington, VA 22203-1838
National Office Phone: 703-276-0100
Visit the BBB website.
Find your local BBB chapter

Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration

2010-07-10T14:35:00.001-07:00

Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration
Get the Facts about Illegal Immigration
.
Illegal Aliens Vs. Undocumented Workers

The official legal language found in the US law codes and provisions for a person who unlawfully enters the US or overstays their visa is illegal alien.

Undocumented workers is a political term or slogan crafted by biased members of the media, illegal aliens and amnesty supporting groups.

Illegal aliens are not undocumented, they have plenty of documents because most engage in document fraud and identity theft to conduct their crimes in America.

The term illegal aliens is not meant in a disparaging or dehumanizing way. The definition and use of the term "illegal" is completely appropriate, since it is illegal for a person to enter or remain in the US without permission, as it is illegal for them to hold a job. Webster's dictionary defines the word alien as "belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing" and "relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government".

Illegal aliens owe their allegiance to other countries and they are both related to and belonging to other nations and governments!

Illegal alien and amnesty supporters politically oppose the term "illegal alien" because they think the American public will respond more negatively to the official definition for illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigration supporters feel that the term "undocumented workers" sounds more friendly and less destructive than illegal alien.

America is a nation of laws and the Rule of Law means that everyone receives justice regardless of status. For illegal aliens to receive justice by American standards, they are required to be repatriated to their home nations or return on their own accord.

Biased reporters and illegal alien supporters often engage in anti-immigrant and racist behaviors by trying to mischaracterize illegal aliens as migrants, immigrants, Hispanics or Latinos. It is highly anti-immigrant to compare law abiding and due paying legal immigrants with illegal aliens. It is equally racist to try to mislabel illegal aliens as Latinos or Hispanics.

Can you imagine the national uproar, if someone tried to mischaracterize shop lifters or prostitutes as black Americans?

We advise everyone to be on the lookout for the rampant political propaganda masquerading as news, that reports illegal aliens inappropriately as undocumented workers.

The definition!!!

2010-07-10T14:22:00.001-07:00

Illegal immigration is the movement of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Illegal immigrants are also known as illegal aliens to differentiate them from legal aliens. Conversely, illegal emigration refers to unlawfully leaving a country.

HA!

2010-06-30T14:23:00.000-07:00

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.

We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

--Jay Leno

America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

--Jay Leno

Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.

--Conan O'Brien

Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.

--Jay Leno

Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.

--David Letterman

Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America !

--Jimmy Fallon

Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.

--Jimmy Kimmel

Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

--David Letterman

Truth!

2010-06-27T14:57:00.000-07:00

"The Simple truth is that we've
lost control of our own borders,
and no nation can do that and survive" - Ronald Reagan

2010-06-15T12:00:00.001-07:00

JOKE OF THE YEAR!!!

2010-06-11T11:32:00.001-07:00

A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!"

The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am a Mexican." The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America ."

The person says, "I not American, I Vietnamese."

The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful America !

That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Middle East . I am not American."

He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an American?"

She says, "No, I am from Africa ."

Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the Americans?"

The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."

Muslims getting Appointed! F*** Obama!!

2010-06-03T11:42:00.001-07:00

Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep! Obama appoints two devout Muslims to home land security posts. Doesn't this make you feel safer already? Obama and Janet Napolitano Appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...? Just wondering. Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already?? That should make our home land much safer, huh!! Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 8 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood? Forward this important info. to anyone that cares about the future of our Country. Snopes documents it's true http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dhs.asp

Intersting Polls....

2010-06-02T14:12:00.000-07:00

The general public overwhelmingly favors immigration reform. Poll after poll shows that Americans want well-enforced, sensible, and sustainable immigration laws.

--70% of likely Arizona voters approve of the state's new law authorizing police officers to inquire about an individual's immigration status; only 23% oppose it (Rasmussen, April 2010).
--60% of likely voters nationwide favor the passage of a law authorizing police to inquire about an individual's immigration status, while 31% are opposed (Rasmussen, April 2010).
--66% of Americans believe that the U.S. "should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens" (CNN, April 2010).
--59% of Americans believe that the U.S. should continue to build a fence along the Mexican border. Just 26% believe the U.S. should stop building the fence (Rasmussen, March 2010).
--68% of likely voters think that securing the border is more important than granting amnesty to illegal aliens, but only 20% believe that Congress will take steps to secure the border in within the next year (Rasmussen, March 2010).
--67% of likely voters believe illegal immigrants are a "significant strain" on the U.S. budget (Rasmussen, March 2010).
--68% of African-Americans, 56% of Hispanics, and 57% of Asian-Americans believe that immigration is too high (Zogby, February 2010).
--87% of U.S. voters believe that anyone receiving federal health care subsidies should be required to prove they are in the United States legally (Rasmussen, December 2009).
--67% of likely voters including — 63% of Executives, 70% of Small Business Owners, and 63% of Union Member Households — believe that immigration to the U.S. is too high (Zogby, November 2009).
--71% of likely voters including — 61% of Executives, 65% of Small Business Owners, and 72% of Union Member Households — believe there are enough American workers available to fill unskilled jobs (Zogby, November 2009).

2010-05-28T11:54:00.000-07:00

2010-05-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Screw you Mexico

2010-05-28T09:14:00.000-07:00

There comes a day, once a year, on September 11, when Americans pause to remember the price we paid for ignoring the threats that come from our enemies. There is no doubt about who attacked us on that day, they have confessed culpability and revel in the death toll. For those who choose to ignore evil because it soothes an insecurity so deep seated that it strangles any sense of gratitude, and instead accuse us of assuming a depravity so heinous that any decent person would deny the charity we offer out of a sense of justice – I pity you. If you had any honor you’d refuse the hand out. If we had any brains we’d never give you the opportunity.

Screw you Mexico.

Arizona dares L.A. to carry out boycott

2010-05-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

The spat over Arizona's new immigration expanded Tuesday as a state official dared the city of Los Angeles to follow through on its new boycott by agreeing to give up the 25 percent of electricity that city gets from Arizona sources.

In a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce said a boycott war is bad for both sides, and said he would "be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements" to end the electricity flowing to Los Angeles.

"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Mr. Pierce said. "If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy."

Los Angeles's city council voted overwhelmingly last week to adopt a boycott of Arizona businesses — at least in instances where the boycott wouldn't impose a significant economic cost to the city.

Arizona's law requires police to ask for proof of legal residence from anyone they have reasonable suspicion is not in the country legally. In most cases a driver's is sufficient to comply, and the law prohibits using race or ethnicity as a reason for suspicion, but critics say they expect the measure to spark racial profiling nonetheless.

Civil rights and Hispanic groups have sued to try to block the law, and the Obama administration is reviewing the legislation to see if it violates civil rights laws.

The law goes into effect in July, but already a number of municipalities have condemned or announced boycotts of Arizona. Mr. Villaraigosa said his city's boycott was intended to hurt the Arizona economy.

Mr. Pierce, the Arizona official, said in his letter to Mr. Villaraigosa that this was the wrong way to go.

"I received your message; please receive mine," he said.

A message left with the Mr. Villaraigosa's office was not immediately returned.

But Mr. Villaraigosa offered his own tongue-in-cheek challenge to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon this week in a bet over the NBA playoff series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns.

Mr. Villaraigosa said if Phoenix wins, Los Angeles will have to accept Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a fierce opponent of illegal immigration. If the Lakers win, Mr. Villaraigosa said Phoenix will have to accept Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman, two Republicans battling for the GOP's gubernatorial nomination in California, where illegal immigration is a major issue.
By Stephen Dinan

MEXICO VS. UNITED STATES: MEXICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE TOUGHER

2010-05-24T15:04:00.000-07:00

MEXICO VS. UNITED STATES: MEXICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE TOUGHER
Posted by FactReal on May 8, 2010

UPDATE 5/19/2010: Thank you to Mark Levin for linking to this article and reading it on his show.

Mexico has stricter immigration laws than the United States of America.
Here is a summary of two excellent 2006 research papers exposing how Mexico discriminates illegal and legal immigrants.

UNDER MEXICO’S IMMIGRATION LAW (GENERAL LAW ON POPULATION): [1][3]

Mexico’s Immigration Law
(General Law on Population)
1999

• Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
- Foreigners are admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.” (Article 32)
- Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents. (Article 34)
- Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when “they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)
- The Secretary of Governance may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38)

• Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country:
- Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)
- A National Population Registry keeps track of “every single individual who comprises the population of the country,” and verifies each individual’s identity. (Articles 85 and 86)
- A national Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).

• Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
- Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
- Foreigners who sign government documents “with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses” are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article 116)

• Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
- Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
- Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
- Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison (Articles 119, 120 and 121). Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico — such as working with out a permit — can also be imprisoned.

• Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population says,
- “A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article 123)
- Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. (Article 125)
- Foreigners who “attempt against national sovereignty or security” will be deported. (Article 126)

• Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:
- A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)
- Shipping and airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined. (Article 132)

UNDER MEXICO’S CONSTITUTION :[2][4]

Mexico’s Constitution
(English translation)
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• The Mexican constitution expressly forbids non-citizens to participate in the country’s political life.
Non-citizens are forbidden to participate in demonstrations or express opinions in public about domestic politics. Article 9 states, “only citizens of the Republic may do so to take part in the political affairs of the country.” Article 33 is unambiguous: “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.”

• The Mexican constitution denies fundamental property rights to foreigners.
If foreigners wish to have certain property rights, they must renounce the protection of their own governments or risk confiscation. Foreigners are forbidden to own land in Mexico within 100 kilometers of land borders or within 50 kilometers of the coast.

Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters. The State may grant the same right to foreigners, provided they agree before the Ministry of Foreign Relations to consider themselves as nationals in respect to such property, and bind themselves not to invoke the protection of their governments in matters relating thereto; under penalty, in case of noncompliance with this agreement, of forfeiture of the property acquired to the Nation. Under no circumstances may foreigners acquire direct ownership of lands or waters within a zone of one hundred kilometers along the frontiers and of fifty kilometers along the shores of the country.” (Emphasis added)

• The Mexican constitution denies equal employment rights to immigrants, even legal
ones, in the public sector.

“Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable. In time of peace no foreigner can serve in the Army nor in the police or public security forces.” (Article 32)

• The Mexican constitution guarantees that immigrants will never be treated as real Mexican citizens, even if they are legally naturalized.
Article 32 bans foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico from serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports:

“In order to belong to the National Navy or the Air Force, and to discharge any office or commission, it is required to be a Mexican by birth. This same status is indispensable for captains, pilots, masters, engineers, mechanics, and in general, for all personnel of the crew of any vessel or airship protected by the Mexican merchant flag or insignia. It is also necessary to be Mexican by birth to discharge the position of captain of the port and all services of practique and airport commandant, as well as all functions of customs agent in the Republic.”

• An immigrant who becomes a naturalized Mexican citizen can be stripped of his Mexican citizenship if he lives again in the country of his origin for more than five years, under Article 37. Mexican-born citizens risk no such loss.

• Foreign-born, naturalized Mexican citizens may not become federal lawmakers (Article 55), cabinet secretaries (Article 91) or supreme court justices (Article 95).

• The president of Mexico must be a Mexican citizen by birth AND his parents must also be Mexican-born citizens (Article 82), thus giving secondary status to Mexican-born citizens born of immigrants.

• The Mexican constitution singles out “undesirable aliens.” Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.”

• The Mexican constitution provides the right of private individuals to make citizen’s arrests.
Article 16 states, “in cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.” Therefore, the Mexican constitution appears to grant Mexican citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution.

• The Mexican constitution states that foreigners may be expelled for any reason and without due process.
According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

SCREW SEATTLE'S BOYCOTT!

2010-05-18T13:11:00.000-07:00

They've done it. Unanimous. We know what we need to do. Below is a list of companies headquartered in Seattle. More details will be forthcoming along with a full 'Boycott' section covering all municipalities which have declared economic war on Arizona, in violation of the Commerce Clause and 14th Amendment. Our members have significant economic impact. It's time to use it.
Companies based in Seattle, WA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Seattle

U of A Prof should NOT be an educator!!

2010-05-18T13:09:00.001-07:00

Sad. Pathetic. Disgraceful. That a 'professor', a Director of Graduate Studies at the Univ. of Arizona could give a speech filled with such abject lies, distortions and fear-mongering. There isn't much else to say. Watch the video yourself (and try to ignore the dumb comments off camera). Then contact the school and "Dr" Soto to let t...hem know what you think of this performance...

Sandra K Soto, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies, Co-Coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies.
Phone: (520) 626-9150
Email: sotos@email.arizona.edu
Website: http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/soto.php

The University of Arizona
Facebook Page: http://is.gd/cdF6D

Robert N. Shelton, President
Telephone: (520) 621-5511
Email: robert.shelton@arizona.edu

Even George Washington knew!!

2010-05-18T13:07:00.001-07:00

Washington, George
First President, founding father
"My opinion, with respect to emigration, is that except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement, while the policy or advantage of its taking place in a body...may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them."
(Letter to John Adams, Nov. 15, 1794)

Subject: Terrorist Threat From Our Open Border

2010-05-18T00:12:00.000-07:00

Wake up America- Pass this on before video expires, PLEASE!!

This is frightening. Arizona MUST do something and their new law is a step in the right direction.

According to the Border Patrol the public is being mislead as to WHO is coming into the US from Mexico. This IS THE TRUTH. as reported by WSBTV in Atlanta.

Video 1 http://www.facebook.com/l/eaa4c;www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html

Video 2 http://www.facebook.com/l/eaa4c;www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html

If we don't get this message out to the people, we are dead ducks...and soon!
PLEASE send to people before the video expires.

2010-05-17T19:21:00.000-07:00

Enough said....Ummmmmmm....goood!

Quote of the day...

2010-05-17T14:11:00.001-07:00

Adams, John
Former President, founding father
(Referring to applicants for public office)
"Among the number of applications..., cannot we find an American capable and worthy of the trust? ...Why should we take the bread out of the mouths of our own children and give it to strangers?"
(Letter to Sec. State John Marshall, Aug. 14, 1800

Support for Immigration REFORM!!!

2010-05-17T12:19:00.000-07:00

The general public overwhelmingly favors immigration reform. Poll after poll shows that Americans want well-enforced, sensible, and sustainable immigration laws.

-70% of likely Arizona voters approve of the state's new law authorizing police officers to inquire about an individual's immigration status; only 23% oppose it (Rasmussen, April 2010).
-60% of likely voters nationwide favor the passage of a law authorizing police to inquire about an individual's immigration status, while 31% are opposed (Rasmussen, April 2010).
-66% of Americans believe that the U.S. "should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens" (CNN, April 2010).
-59% of Americans believe that the U.S. should continue to build a fence along the Mexican border. Just 26% believe the U.S. should stop building the fence (Rasmussen, March 2010).
-68% of likely voters think that securing the border is more important than granting amnesty to illegal aliens, but only 20% believe that Congress will take steps to secure the border in within the next year (Rasmussen, March 2010).
-67% of likely voters believe illegal immigrants are a "significant strain" on the U.S. budget (Rasmussen, March 2010).
-68% of African-Americans, 56% of Hispanics, and 57% of Asian-Americans believe that immigration is too high (Zogby, February 2010).
-87% of U.S. voters believe that anyone receiving federal health care subsidies should be required to prove they are in the United States legally (Rasmussen, December 2009).
-67% of likely voters including — 63% of Executives, 70% of Small Business Owners, and 63% of Union Member Households — believe that immigration to the U.S. is too high (Zogby, November 2009).
-71% of likely voters including — 61% of Executives, 65% of Small Business Owners, and 72% of Union Member Households — believe there are enough American workers available to fill unskilled jobs (Zogby, November 2009).

Remeber the importance of it all...

2010-05-17T12:00:00.000-07:00

A Veteran is someone, who at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America for an amount up to, and including, their life. That is an honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer remember that fact.

Poll: Arizona Immigration Law Viewed Favorably

2010-05-16T15:25:00.000-07:00

By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services

May 14, 2010

By a fairly wide margin, most Americans support the key provisions of Arizona’s new law which targets illegal immigrants.

A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center found that 62 percent of those questioned think police should be able to question those they believe are in this country illegally. And 67 percent say police should be able to detain anyone unable to verify their legal status.

The survey, conducted last week, also found that 73 percent said people should be required to produce papers verifying they are in this country legally

Immigration Game!!

2010-05-13T18:20:00.001-07:00

The greatest game to be found on the web...PLAY THE IMMIGRATION GAME!!!
http://www.transience.com.au/el/elgameo.html

Please Understand....

2010-05-12T10:16:00.000-07:00

To our readers and followers, please understand that we do NOT support amnesty for ANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT in any form whatsoever. The ads on this site are placed by Blogspot and we do not get to choose them. Hellbillytees will NEVER endorse amnesty or Illegal Immigration. Hellbillytees will has and will continue to SUPPORT SB 1070 and Govenor Brewer and law enforcement!! Hellbillytees is IN FAVOR OF DEPORTATION of ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Thank you for reading our blog.

3rd class non-citizens!!

2010-05-11T13:30:00.000-07:00

Please read the sign in this picture carefully. Draw your own conclusion...I say thank god for our right to bare arms and for SB 1070. GO BACK TO MEXICO!!

An American Citizen must read!!!

2010-05-10T15:53:00.000-07:00

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American....There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Kinda depressing isnt it?

2010-05-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

How sad...

Remember when Ronald Reagan was president?
At that time, we also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.

Now, we have Obama and no hope and no cash.

Mexican Double-Standard

2010-04-30T11:14:00.000-07:00

So how tough are Mexican immigration laws? They are pretty strict, but not often enforced. Until recently, entering Mexico without proper documentation was a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, as codified in the country's General Law of Population.
Think abou this...all we do is DEPORT!! If the Illegals and the Naturalized citizens are going to complain about being detained under SB 1070, that shouldnt we make the penalties equal to Mexico's and enforce that? Than they would really have something to complain about!!
Also, I want everyone to know...the LEGAL immigrants and the Naturalized citizens that are protesting SB 1070 are only doing to SAVE THEIR OWN SKIN!! See, they obviously hang out with or in associate with ILLEGALS and are afraid that when they are pulled over that they will be charged with transportation of an illegal alien! Yes folks, that is a Felony! As it should be!!
So, in the end, the word is that the hispanic community will be leaving Arizona. Ok. Have a good trip. This WILL NOT hurt our economy as they have threatened, they dont pay taxes and what they do make they send HOME TO MEXICO and that revenue and sales tax money is not seen in Arizona. It sure sounds to me like Texas, Colorado, Utah, California, New Mexico and others should hurry up and follow Arizona's lead and get some laws on the books and some enforcement on the street!!

SB 1070 or the 1070 senate bill

2010-04-26T10:24:00.000-07:00

Ok, so the Govenor of Arizona(Jan Brewer) did pass the immigration bill to enforce anti-illegal laws in Arizona. Now; Al Sharpton, some call him a Reverend but I have never seen him in church so he is not a Reverend, he is a loud mouth without a point; is threatening to come march the streets of Phoenix because it is about civil liberty and not race. The way I see it is that the ILlegals want rights that the must be denied because they are ILLEGAL!! If you werent ILLEGAL or if you ARE LEGAL than you have nothing to worry about...however if you are ILLEGAL, than I guess you do have something to worry about and its about time you do. Also, may I ppoint out that yes the ILLEGALS will be pulled over and they will call it profiling, but, do understand they got pulled over because the car/truck had NO registration-NO insurance-and the driver had NO license! So, if you are legal and you are paying extra in TAXES and more for INSURANCE because of these people that are now being "profiled" because they are breaking the law...arent you happy they will be leaving soon and maybe you can start getting more of your money back? One last thing...the "PROFILING" crap that is going to start...it is total BS otherwise DUI checkpoints would be considered profiling as well. So, I say goodbye and good riddins to you, the ILLEGAL that is costing ME and my fellow AMERICANS more than we can measure...Good Day.

Welfare....

2010-04-19T19:44:00.000-07:00

This morning I went to sign my Dogs up for welfare. At first the lady said, "Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare". So I explained to her that my Dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddy’s are. They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care, and feel guilty because they are dogs.

So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. My Dogs get their first checks Friday.

Damn this is a great country.

Somethign to think about....

2010-04-19T09:57:00.001-07:00

Rough Day In American History Today. The Oklahoma City Bombing, The Columbine Tragedy, and David Koresh and Waco.

2010-04-16T12:44:00.001-07:00

A Million people attended Obama's Inauguration and only fourteen missed work!

Feed the thieves!!!

2010-04-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

PEOPLE!! Do not forget tomorrow is tax day!! The government needs MORE of your money to squander!! And remember, dont steal---the government HATES competition!!

Random thought...

2010-04-14T11:39:00.000-07:00

Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my behind everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

Some thoughts for the day....

2010-04-11T16:15:00.000-07:00

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

Its a crazy world...

2010-04-08T16:31:00.000-07:00

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the four most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick','Colon', and 'Obama Hussein'

Police Radar vs. F/A 18 Hornet

2010-04-08T11:16:00.000-07:00

Two Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of Oceanside, San Diego, California . One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then it suddenly turned off. Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near this, it's home base location. Back at the California Highway Patrol Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Marine Corps. Base Commander for shutting down his equipment.

The reply came back in true USMC style:

'Thank you for your letter. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location. Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position. The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.
Semper Fi

2010-04-06T12:58:00.001-07:00

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2010-04-06T12:47:00.000-07:00

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2010-04-05T18:23:00.000-07:00

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