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		<title>Stand Up With Bachmann Nov 5th</title>
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The time no longer draws nigh&#8230; the time is upon us.  The future of our Country teeters on the fulcrum of freedom.
We&#8217;ve been going to Tea Parties, Townhalls, and Council meetings.  We&#8217;ve been writing on our blogs and venting our frustrations in blasts of 140 characters or less.  We&#8217;ve been calling, writing, faxing our Congress; [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The time no longer draws nigh&#8230; the time is upon us.  The future of our Country teeters on the fulcrum of freedom.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We&#8217;ve been going to Tea Parties, Townhalls, and Council meetings.  We&#8217;ve been writing on our blogs and venting our frustrations in blasts of 140 characters or less.  We&#8217;ve been calling, writing, faxing our Congress; talking to neighbors, friends, and family.  We&#8217;ve been protesting outside media outlets, local, State, and Federal offices.  We&#8217;ve been begging for our elected leaders to hear us.  And now, one of those leaders has not only heard us but has answered us by opening the door to the House and inviting us to enter.  If we don&#8217;t accept her invitation and cross that threshold we deserve exactly what we will get: an ObamaNation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Few members of Congress have taken our pleas seriously.  We have been called tea baggers, astroturfers, radicals, and extremists.  If loving my Country and the freedom she stands for means I am all of those of things then so be it.  I wear those epithets proudly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Our Country is being usurped and unless we take our stand now, she could be irretrievably abducted.  Michele Bachmann is right.  Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s Health Care bill is the crown jewel of socialism.  Progressives, aka Repressives, have always known that to take over a people it has to be done in the dark of night while they lay sleeping.  For too long Americans have slumbered in their freedom.  We became an apathetic people not wishing to see the light that was being snuffed out of our Constitution.  Pelosi&#8217;s Health Care bill has little to do with actual health and everything to do with socialism and the corruption it is founded on.  And this coming week, our freedom will slip from our grasp and onto the floor of the House of Representatives if we let it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We can stop this.  But it will take more than phone calls, letter, and faxes.  We have to show up on the steps of the Capitol on Thursday, November 5, 2009 and storm thru the hallways of our elected officials.  We have to knock them from their self-erected thrones and show them we say what we mean and mean what we say.  Unless we heed Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s call to action then the freedoms we grew up with, the freedoms our fathers, grandfathers, and Founding Fathers fought hard to attain for us will be gone.  And unless we heed her call, we deserve what we get.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The time is now.  If we put this off because of our responsibilities at home, then we will lose the liberty to attend to those responsibilities.  We will no longer be working to provide for our families.  We will no longer be striving for our own goals.  We will no longer be free to follow the path of self-determination.  If we don&#8217;t heed the call, everything from here on out we will be doing for our government; not our Country&#8230; our government- and all the connotations that surround a socialized institution.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is it.  This is our moment in time.  This is that point in history for which we will be judged by our children, grandchildren, and all who follow.  We can turn this bloodless revolution around and save our country now or we can risk time and wait until it is too late to save it peacefully.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I will be joining Rep. Bachmann on the Capitol steps and I will march thru the hallways of Congress.  I will also be taking copies of the <a href="http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=116&amp;t=1542">5 Pledges</a> for each member of Congress to sign.  For those who refuse to sign, I will publish their names and their comments.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I will not let this country&#8217;s cornerstone &#8211; The Constitution &#8211; be destroyed by corrupt men and women whose only goal is greed and power over the very people who put them in office.  If you don&#8217;t stand up now, while standing up is still possible, when will you?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you can&#8217;t go but these words ring true to you, please link to this article on every site you are a member of and email the link to every list you are on and to every person you know.  Spread the word!</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;">UPDATE-11/02/09</h1>
<p>If you are or you know of a group or site organizing  a trip to  Stand Up With Bachmann, please tell us in the comment section and provide a link if you have one.  Let everyone know!</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;">UPDATE-11/01/09</h1>
<p>In an effort to rally as many people as possible to Stand Up With Bachmann, members of several sites are organizing groups and getting the word out to be in DC on Nov 05.  If you or your site plans on attending the the rally please complete the <a href="http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/stand-up-with-bachmann-registration" target="_blank">form provided here</a> and let us know who you are and what help you may need. Thanks!</p>
<h1 style="text-align: justify;">UPDATE-10/31/09</h1>
<p>Per Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s <a href="http://www.michelebachmann.com/news.php?cid=62">site</a>:</p>
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<p class="bold">Make a House Call on Congress on November 5th and Stop the Government Take Over of Health Care!</p>
<p>November 5th, 2009</p>
<p>Democrat leadership in the House wants to pass a government run health care bill before Veteran&#8217;s Day, and it&#8217;s up to us to make sure this prescription for socialized medicine doesn&#8217;t pass.</p>
<p>If you can come to Washington to look your Member straight in the eye and tell them to keep their hands off your heatlh care, do it. If you can&#8217;t make it to Washington, go to your Member&#8217;s district office. And, if you can&#8217;t do that at least call and email.</p>
<p>Also, Americans for Prosperity is organizing a House Call to legislators district offices on Thursday at noon, and I encourage you to check out their website at <a class="bluelinks" href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/">www.americansforprosperity.org</a> to see how you can take part in their efforts if you can&#8217;t make it to D.C.</p>
<p>Thanks so much and let&#8217;s keep up the fight!</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Robert Bauer Partner in Perkins-Coie; sound familiar?</title>
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Breaking: full details to come on SOCN and Jolly Rogers
As Glenn Beck reported on Fox yesterday Robert F. Bauer, Anita Dunn&#8217;s husband, has been offered the position of Chief White House Counsel.  What hasn&#8217;t been reported is that the firm, of which he is a partner; Perkins-Coie,  not only is defending Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s driver [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Breaking: full details to come on SOCN and <a href=" http://rog99.blogspot.com/">Jolly Rogers</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As Glenn Beck reported on Fox yesterday Robert F. Bauer, Anita Dunn&#8217;s husband, has been offered the position of Chief White House Counsel.  What hasn&#8217;t been reported is that the firm, of which he is a partner; Perkins-Coie,  not only is defending <a href="http://www.muckety.com/Query?SearchResult=30984&amp;SearchResult=30989&amp;graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D">Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s driver</a> but is also responsible for the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/21/palin-implicated-ethics-probe/?feat=home_headlines">ethics complaints filed</a> against Sarah Palin&#8217;s Alaska Defense Fund.  Of course, the charges were completely bogus but the firm tried to do as much damage as possible by bringing them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More details and analysis are forthcoming <a href=" http://rog99.blogspot.com/">Jolly Rogers.</a></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;">UPDATE: Analysis</h1>
<p>September 24, 2009</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>reprinted in part from Jolly Rogers for full article go <a href="http://rog99.blogspot.com/">here</a></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Who is Bauer? In addition to being the alleged source of Obama’s decision to forgo general election spending limits, he was chief counsel to <span id="lw_1256393162_4" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle</span> during the impeachment trial of <span id="lw_1256393162_5" class="yshortcuts">President Bill Clinton</span>. Bauer was also counsel to <span id="lw_1256393162_6" class="yshortcuts">Bill Bradley</span>’s failed run for the presidency and is the current chairman of the Political Law Group at the Washington Firm of <span id="lw_1256393162_7" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">Perkins Coie LLP</span>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And of course <span id="lw_1256393162_8" class="yshortcuts">Perkins Coie</span> is known for the pro bono defense of <span id="lw_1256393162_9" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">Salim Ahmed Hamdan</span>, aka Saqr al-Jedawi, <span id="lw_1256393162_10" class="yshortcuts">Osama Bin Laden</span>’s former chauffeur and good buddy of Nasser Al-Bahri who was linked to the bombing of the American Destroyer U.S.S. Cole. The case, which the law group brought to the <span id="lw_1256393162_11" class="yshortcuts">Supreme Court</span>: <span id="lw_1256393162_12" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Salim Ahmed Hamdan</span> versus <span id="lw_1256393162_13" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Donald H. Rumsfeld</span>, et al. With charges dropped as unconstitutional, Hamdan was held as an <span id="lw_1256393162_14" class="yshortcuts">enemy combatant</span> and brought up on new charges July 21, 2008. He was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment, but had already served five. He was cleared of terrorism and conspiracy charges and transferred to Yemen where he was released January 8, 2009.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">That isn’t the end of the strange coincidences involving Bauer and <span id="lw_1256393162_15" class="yshortcuts">Perkins Coie</span>. This law group hasn’t only been involved in backing folks like Hamdan (which set the course for the whole question of <span id="lw_1256393162_16" class="yshortcuts">Guantanamo Bay</span> detainees, the <span id="lw_1256393162_17" class="yshortcuts">War on Terror</span> and military commissions versus civil trials, etc.), but they’ve been involved in American politics – deeply.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Perkins Coie is the group responsible for boosting the intensity of one of the most persistent ethics attacks against former <span id="lw_1256393162_18" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">Alaska Governor Sarah Palin</span>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In an e-mail dated July 14, 2009 Kim Chatman, a blogger in Alaska, filed an ethics complaint against <span id="lw_1256393162_19" class="yshortcuts">Sarah Palin</span>, making the allegation that the governor established a trust fund for the purpose of soliciting donations from members of the public. The original report on this complaint was published in the <span id="lw_1256393162_20" class="yshortcuts">Anchorage Daily News</span>. Chatman was a co-plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Palin and filed a complaint regarding Palin’s use of per-diem monies. In all, Chatman leveled</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Alaska Personnel Board asked Perkins Coie to review the complaint. Their nine- page report to the Alaska Personnel Board found essentially nothing, but combined with the pressure of 17 other complaints against the Governor and former candidate for Vice President, may have contributed to her finally leaving office. This complaint was number 13 in that long list.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Perkins Coie has offices in <span id="lw_1256393162_21" class="yshortcuts">Anchorage</span>, Beijing, Bellevue, Boise, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Madison, Melo Park, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, <span id="lw_1256393162_22" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Seattle</span>, Shanghai and of course, Washington, D.C.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But it’s the firm’s experience that makes it most interesting. Listed on its’ website are the areas which it excels at. These include Industry, clean-tech, communications, e-commerce, <span id="lw_1256393162_23" class="yshortcuts">electronic financial services</span>, energy, energy commercial transactions and <span id="lw_1256393162_24" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">project finance</span>, energy litigation, energy project permitting and development, energy regulations and policy, forest products, franchising and distribution, hotels and leisure, interactive entertainment, life sciences, mining, renewable energy, retail and consumer products, semiconductor, senior housing and winery and vineyard.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So, knowing that, we can understand why there is an office in <span id="lw_1256393162_25" class="yshortcuts">Anchorage, Alaska</span>, and we could understand in a basic sense why the Personnel Board may have asked that firm to review the complaint and offer their opinion – after all, they have a big office there in Anchorage. But isn’t it strange coincidence that the very firm they ask to offer a review is so deeply involved in <span id="lw_1256393162_26" class="yshortcuts">alternative energy concerns</span>, and has made such a big mark by going up against <span id="lw_1256393162_27" class="yshortcuts">Donald Rumsfeld</span>, allowing a scumbag like Hamdan to walk – and in that single stroke, producing the firestorm of legal problems that Guantanamo creates. One might just have to wonder who is benefiting from this? More lawyers? And who benefits from the quick passage of <span id="lw_1256393162_28" class="yshortcuts">Health Care Reform</span> without addressing <span id="lw_1256393162_29" class="yshortcuts">tort reform</span>?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">More lawyers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And who benefits from taking <span id="lw_1256393162_30" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">Sarah Palin</span> out of the game – people like Bauer and people like Obama – more lawyers. Why Perkins Coie? What do they have to gain? Well, they’re not just lovers of Guantanamo detainees. Perrkins Coie is connected to <span id="lw_1256393162_31" class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Boeing</span>, <span id="lw_1256393162_32" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;">Google</span>, <span id="lw_1256393162_33" class="yshortcuts">Nintendo</span>, <span id="lw_1256393162_34" class="yshortcuts">Microsoft</span>, <span id="lw_1256393162_35" class="yshortcuts">Craigslist</span>, AT&amp;T, Western Urban Water Coalition, Dragonslayers (wildfire mitigators) and something called <span id="lw_1256393162_36" class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">America Votes</span>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span id="lw_1256393162_37" class="yshortcuts">America Votes</span> claims to be the largest grassroots voter mobilization effort in the country. Its’ website has the following on the home page: “<span>America Votes is the centerpiece of a permanent progressive campaign infrastructure nationally and in the states. America Votes and our coalition partners, c</span><span>oordinate independent electoral activity</span><span>, s</span><span>hare innovative strategies and resources</span><span>, m</span><span>aximize electoral impact</span><span> a</span><span>nd build lasting capacity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">If you’re unsure what that really means, you can get a better explanation from the column on the right of the page. The organization, which is connected to Perkins Coie, is designed to improve “progressives’ ability to succeed in the long term.” The site explains that this effort “is directly linked to the work we do today to build the infrastructure in the states.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">The question I have is “what is the real infrastructure being built and how much of this really has the specific aims of destroying the country regardless of who gets in the way?” And the more obvious this becomes – the more of this structure is uncovered, the faster everything will change. And it won’t be Obama’s “change.” All that will be finished.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Because I think they counted Sarah Palin out too early. She’ll be coming back swinging along with an enraged public.</span></p>
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8.5 billion dollars.
That’s what is on the plate for the community group, ACORN if our leadership allows the organization to continue operating and receive money already slated to go to them.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">8.5 billion dollars.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That’s what is on the plate for the community group, ACORN if our leadership allows the organization to continue operating and receive money already slated to go to them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are so lost in the smoke now, that there are lawmakers who are actually remaining silent in the face of the videotape collected by two young people. So, should we take their silence to mean that they don’t mind the concept of under-age girls being imported illegally for prostitution – indeed, that they don’t mind a community organization offering housing to support such a business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Senate, a motion to strip the funding from ACORN passed 83 for and seven against. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Roland Burris (D-IL), Robert Casey (D-PA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) were the seven who voted to allow ACORN to continue unmolested.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If the measure goes through, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will make ACORN ineligible to receive HUD grants for programs such as housing, education and outreach.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">ACORN’s funding prior to this could be measured in the range of $40 to $50 million. With that money they are happy to fund and encourage illegal businesses of this type. Just imagine, what would be possible with the nearly $8.5 billion slated to go to ACORN in the near future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I have mentioned Lev Vygotsky, a Soviet psychologist who developed an unusual approach to the development of thought and concepts. His work was published following his death in 1934. Vygotsky’s work has been echoed in our nation’s schoolrooms for decades and is touted by the online “Encyclopedia of Marxism” as a “superior understanding of the relationship between the educator and the educated, in which the educator must ‘negotiate’ with the child or student who is credited with an active role in the learning process.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More importantly, the quote goes on to say that “especially in the United States, Vygotsky has found a following among Community Development workers who value his concept of a ‘Zone of Proximal Development,’ in which leadership is able to facilitate intellectual and social development in struggles by communities to change their circumstances, leading to a subsequent benefit in an all-round development of conceptual ability.”<span id="more-3967"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So why do I bring up Vygotsky again?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Progressivism education in the United States developed from the 1930s and promoted the ideas of social reconstructionism, active citizen participation in all spheres of life, and pulling all public institutions into democratic behaviors. The movement was greatly influenced by the writings and lectures of an educator named John Dewey. Dewey began to test his theories in the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, which he had opened in 1896. He believed that through education, society could formulate its own purposes, and organize means and resources.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Subsequently, if you track the progressive movement in the school system, you end up with individuals like Mike Klonsky, a Maoist and friend of Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Klonsky originally received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop. But the Annenberg Challenge was started with a grant of $500 million to support school reform in public schools throughout the United States and in Chicago, a $49.2 million grant. That money was used to build a structure of public schools paired with universities, nonprofit groups, and the Chicago Teacher’s Union. This organization helped produce a follow-on group, the Chicago Public Education Fund, which works to develop “principal and teacher leadership.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ayers served with Obama on Woods Fund, and promoted him to head the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which eventually spent some $160 million in the Chicago Public School system. Their cooperation on the Challenge effort occurred between 1995 and 2001.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Challenge was developed to build support for Local School Councils. The School Councils were set up to watchdog teachers, principals and school administrators. The Challenge, in Chicago, spent millions of dollars through a “Leadership Development Initiative” to recruit and train individuals for the school councils. This idea, backed by Bill Ayers, was sent to the Board of Directors, chaired by Barack Obama.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But long before that, Klonsky, an Obama supporter and friend of Ayers (all the way back to the Students for a Democratic Society &#8211; SDS), was setting the groundwork, attempting to develop support for progressive education in the United States. Klonsky founded a maoist party in the U.S. and spent a lot of his time between 1979 and 1981, as Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman. To attempt to garner support from Chinese leaders, he made numerous trips to China for state dinners and years later, his “Small Schools Workshop” received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Challenge headed by Obama and Ayers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 70s marked the beginning of several organizations: The Industrial Areas Foundation, Citizen Action, National People’s Action, PICO, DART and the Gamaliel Foundation. Citizen Action was founded by Heather Booth; another member of the Alinsky’s SDS. That group later transformed into the infamous Weather Underground. Booth’s husband was both a member of SDS and the IAF. Booth, herself, was a radical organizer and activist since the 1960s and is the co-founder and President of The Midwest Academy, which according to their website, “is a leading national training institute for the progressive movement and social change.”<br />
The Academy, according to their website, “advances the movements for social change by teaching a strategic, rigorous, results-oriented approach to social action and organization building.”
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Booth enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1963 becoming a member of the Freedom Summer Civil Rights Project and was a leader of the Progressive Student Political Committee. She is connected to another individual who had his start in the 1970s – Wade Rathke,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rathke started working for NWRO (National Welfare Rights Organization) in Springfield, Massachusetts. According to his biography listed on his official blog, after working for NWRO, Rathke started a group in Arkansas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That group became ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) – eventually touted as the largest organization of lower income and working families in the United States. Wade ran ACORN for 38 years and also was the founder and is the Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union. SEIU worked with members in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas in 1980. Lastly, Wade is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Social Policy, a quarterly magazine for activists and scholars.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rathke proclaims on his blog “that through the hard work of hundreds of community organizers and thousands of community leaders across the country, ACORN has won landmark victories in the areas of community reinvestment, fair lending, living wages, education reform, environmental justice, and other issues.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Education reform.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today, SEIU Local 100, headquartered in New has been involved in organizing “public sector public workers, including school employees.” Rathke himself says he is a longtime member of the Tides Foundation, which provides services to new and existing nonprofit organizations promoting social change.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">About 131 million people were reported voting by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. This number represents an increase of 5 million from 2004 with voters 18 to 24-years-old as the only age group to show a statistically significant increase in turnout, reaching 49 percent. This statistic is significant only because, when taken with many other factors, it suggests that it is possible we have an entire generation of people, possibly “grown or farmed” within the public school system, to support the kind of structure being assembled within the administration today.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the very least, Barrack Obama arrived at exactly the right time and the right place – and was exactly the right guy, as far as folks like Ayers and Rathke and Klonsky are concerned. Timing is often everything, and this timing was a progressive celestial alignment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lastly, the question being asked so often is “why is the majority of the media are not focusing on major stories, such as the breaking ACORN scandal – and why are they operating with shameless bias?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The answer may be wrapped up in the whole progressive education package, which has been pressed upon an entire generation of people. As just one example, the educational organizations started by the Annenberg Foundation have almost exclusively centered their attention on journalism and communication as they apply to politics, social sciences, healthcare issues, digital technology and the intersection of the media and public policy with these studies at various grade levels – even within our public school system. One of these organizations, Annenberg Media, has been responsible for distributing multi-media educational resources to schools throughout the nation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The other groups started by the Foundation were: The Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at the Eisenhower Medical Center, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In conclusion, I believe that somewhere in the smoke, the truth exists – that there is a direct connection between the progressive education movement, ACORN and organizations like it, and the problems we are facing today, from the collapse of the housing market to the bailouts and now, even universal healthcare. The public school system gave Obama his springboard into the “community organizing” efforts which eventually led him to the White House, but at its’ base, community organizing claims to be about providing for families and children.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, then we are presented with examples like the current ACORN scandal and we are left to wonder what kind of things these groups really are organizing in our towns and cities – and what lessons our children really are learning in school.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is precisely why it is so difficult to follow all this – there’s so much smoke, it is obscuring the view of the flames. Something is on fire, but what it is – and where it is, seems difficult to determine.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But without an environment conducive to Marxism, there can’t be activity like we are seeing now at the highest levels of government. Creating that environment in a nation like ours requires years of focused development. The forest needs to be dry, with a lot of undergrowth and dead wood – and the season needs to be dry with very little relief, to start the big wildfires. And today, dear reader, the forest, which is our society – our economy and our way of life, is very dry indeed.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And the fires have started.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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January 1,1959, at the stroke of midnight, Castro brought his &#8220;change&#8221; to Cuba with a loud bang. My grandfather was a police officer in Havana and for that he was considered an enemy of the state. Within hours he was snatched from his wife and 3 children. He was unfairly sentenced to death by firing [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">January 1,1959, at the stroke of midnight, Castro brought his &#8220;change&#8221; to Cuba with a loud bang. My grandfather was a police officer in Havana and for that he was considered an enemy of the state. Within hours he was snatched from his wife and 3 children. He was unfairly sentenced to death by firing squad. My great aunt and my great grandmother pleaded for his life. So those revolutionary guerrillas sentenced him to 30 years in prison of which he served 21 and a half years. He was freed in 1979 due to a treaty that was signed between Cuba and the United states to free the oldest political prisoners. My grandpa was in that category. We were living in Miami at the time. We listened to the radio as they were announcing the political prisoner&#8217;s names and we heard my grandpa&#8217;s name, Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Fernandez! We drove from South Miami to the Opa-Locka airport. We were excited and yet nervous. I met my grandfather when I was 7 years old. My mother had her father until she was nine years old so at least she had some recollection of him. My uncle too. To my aunt however he was really non-existent she did know him at all until she was 24 years old and ready to be married. I always heard my family&#8217;s stories with great fascination. One story my mother tells is when she was a little girl in school&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She was 9-10 years old at the beginning of the revolution. One day the teacher told the children in her classroom to close their eyes. The children did so as they were told. Then, the teacher said, “now pray to God for a piece of candy.” The teacher then commanded the children to open their eyes and they found no candy on their desks. So then the teacher again instructed the children to close their eyes and &#8216;pray to Fidel for a piece of candy.&#8217; Then the teacher commanded the children to open their eyes and each child found a piece of candy on their desk. “See,” she said “God doesn&#8217;t exist. Fidel will give you what you want.” So much was told to me. You can see a pain that still runs deep. These stories were passed on to me so that I and others may not fall into the same trap. It is what made me go out into the streets hand in hand with my grandmother and my great-aunt to protest the return of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba. It is what made me realize what a mistake I made in having believed in the Liberal promise and vote for Bill Clinton only to have him turn his back on the Cuban exiles like his fellow Democrat John F. Kennedy did so many years ago. This is why I do not believe the promises that are made by Barrack Hussein Obama. It is not about the color of skin black, brown, yellow, white; or political party Republican or Democrat. It is about defending our country&#8217;s very principle of freedom for all and family values. The core values that make our nation great. To me it is the reason why my family escaped Cuba&#8230;.Freedom! My brother, Staff Sergeant James Joseph Breslin, Jr., is defending our freedom right now in Afghanistan. The fact that we have communists advising the President of this country and the fact that the President himself is a socialist defiles what my brother and so many others are fighting for and have fought for.  Don&#8217;t let them fight and die in vain! Wake up America!! Do not let our children be indoctrinated the way they tried with my mother years ago. Don&#8217;t let our businesses that we sweat and work hard for be taken over like my grandmother&#8217;s business was years ago. This is why my family shares these stories. They are lessons that are very deeply engraved in my soul forever.</p>
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What is the truth in a “civilian army” as described briefly by President Obama?
Does anyone recall the significance of Kent State as regards protests and military action?

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<p style="text-align: justify;">What is the truth in a “civilian army” as described briefly by President Obama?<br />
Does anyone recall the significance of Kent State as regards protests and military action?
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently the term brownshirts, has been thrown around in conversations, and I have myself written about the use of propaganda on our children and young adults as some kind of recruitment tool.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But the term “brownshirt” doesn’t just hearken back to the start of Hitler’s Nazi Party. The word, “brownshirt,” was used by Vice President Spiro Agnew to describe student demonstrators in the 1970s and the setting for that use was Richard Nixon’s illegal invasion of Cambodia. The whole resulting incident was perhaps set to develop into something terrible when the late Gov. James Rhodes (R-Ohio), sent troops to Kent State University to help quell growing disturbances.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rhodes had been heard calling the demonstrators, “the strongest, well-trained militant revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America &#8230; They&#8217;re worse than the brownshirts and the Communist element and the night riders and the vigilantes. They are the worst type of people that we harbor in America&#8230;.&#8221; Interesting how these words seem to match in tenor, the ways current-day, regular Americans are being derided at public meetings and described by congressional leadership.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the 70s, four students died at Kent State after being fired upon by National Guardsmen. Two days later, the number was upped to six as police fired into a college dormitory without provocation. No officers or government leadership were ever brought to trial for these killings, although eight low-ranking guardsmen were put on trial and acquitted. In an amplified version of the tape, a Guard officer is can be heard shouting, &#8220;Right here! Get Set! Point! Fire!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, when we use the term “civilian army,” does that give anyone else pause?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The funding is already available, provided by our bailouts, and stimulus money, which is being filtered here and there. There’s literally trillions of dollars, and no one has any real idea what it will all be used for in the next ten years, as no one is really reading the bills they are passing. But if they carry through with the development of some kind of civilian army where will these people for this group come from?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I believe this will be our younger generation – today’s children – our children. And what will be their task? Will they be some kind of new federal uniformed force, their presence felt on our streets and in our day-to-day lives? How will their jobs overlap with local police forces? Will they be allowed to carry weapons? What will be the basis of their authority? Will their authority override that of city or state governments? What regulations will they be required to follow? Who will they answer to? Will they have their own detention centers – their own intel-gatherering network and their own interrogators? How will they be accepted by members of the actual active duty, reserve and guard military and by veterans?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This “civilian army” idea does seem on the surface to re-invent the real “brown shirts.” But direct details are scarce. The only way to get a grasp on what is meant by the term is to look at the things which are currently being done by the administration in our school system and elsewhere – and what was originally touted as Obama’s plans during his campaign. In making a judgment on all this, the reader should factor-in the recruitment programs underway to press those in college and with college loans, into volunteer programs funded, organized and administered by the federal government to assist in “furthering Barrack Obama’s agenda.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, we may soon face this new political police force – this American KGB. And does that mean our country will still be the United States of America, or will it mean that it would be more accurately be called the United Socialist States of America?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And what of freedom? Well, that ideal is already so thin it’s nearly intangible. In fact, it’s becoming more of an illusion with every passing action the current administration takes, and it will be merely a memory, the day this new “army” takes to the streets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But the saddest thing of all, is that it will once again be children, who are pulled into the vortex of out-of-control government and political ideology. It’s an ideology, which has been proven to be a failure and the foundation for true horror and inhumanity throughout history.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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I remember pestering my parents about smoking.
My sister and I grew up during the time when the school system was being saturated with anti-smoking material. I remember it as any childhood memory – everything was bigger. The teachers were all-knowing, authority. “Smoking was bad. Smoking can be bad for people around you&#8230; etc.” Who knew [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I remember pestering my parents about smoking.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My sister and I grew up during the time when the school system was being saturated with anti-smoking material. I remember it as any childhood memory – everything was bigger. The teachers were all-knowing, authority. “Smoking was bad. Smoking can be bad for people around you&#8230; etc.” Who knew what that would eventually become in today’s world? Not only was smoking bad for us, but the whole tobacco industry were beyond bad. Now if you’re seen with a cigarette in public, you might almost feel a need to run.</p>
<p>And it was all started in the school system. “Tell your parents that smoking is bad,” they said. And we did. We pestered my mom until she quit. When we went after my aunt, my mom told us to back off. We did. They did the same with alcohol of course &#8211; and probably a bunch of other stuff we didn&#8217;t notice.</p>
<p>So what are today’s school rooms and today’s hot-button topics going to be like?</p>
<p>I now know.</p>
<p>The gutless leadership we have in our country would love to send ACORN door to door, but they no longer have to. The 2010 census will be pushed into school rooms everywhere, and children will be told to push the program on parents who may not be interested in cooperating.</p>
<p>Think this can’t possibly be true?</p>
<p>Renee Jefferson-Copelan, chief of the Census Schools Program has said that “it’s great to reach the children because children are such strong voices in their homes.” Between January and March, the Census Bureau will put into play a week of “census education” in schools. During that week, posters, teaching guides, maps and lessons will be used to indoctrinate children in more than 118,000 schools. That’s 56 million children.</p>
<p>Our children.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t stop there. Not just grade-school persuasion will be in-play, but citizen volunteers are already actively recruiting college-age students across the nation to “build support for President Obama’s agenda” while they earn college credit while being “change” advocates.</p>
<p>Obama’s political campaign actually merged with the Democratic National Committee in January and is now being called Organizing For America. OFA is now offering internships on several websites including the teen favorite social networking site, Facebook.</p>
<p>&#8220;As an Organizing Intern, you&#8217;ll work side by side with OFA staff and community leaders to help build support for President Obama&#8217;s agenda,” reads some of the recruitment material. “You&#8217;ll learn core organizing principles that are crucial for any campaign and play an important role in building our organization in your state.&#8221;</p>
<p>Volunteers must commit to working at least 12 hours a week according to the OFA website and could receive college credit from their schools for doing so.</p>
<p>Set in tranquil blue tones, the Obama site also urges viewers to organize locally with their special online tools, titled lovingly, <a href="http://my.barrackobama.com/" target="_blank">my.barrackobama.com</a>.</p>
<p>“I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington&#8230; I’m asking you to believe in yours,” reads the Obama quote which tops the website page.</p>
<p>So where does the use of children by the current administration stop? I’m not sure it does. If they are allowed to proceed with their census programming, one can easily imagine the use of children as mouthpieces for healthy eating, and teen informants who drop the dime when they catch their parents enjoying French fries or ice-cream. Guess I won’t have to inform on Ben and Jerry’s anymore to the White House. Kids all around the country will be doing it for me.</p>
<p>In 1922 an organization was started for youth in another country. Called the HJ, the organization had recruited nearly 25,000 youths from 14-years-old and up. A junior version of the group was also set up for boys aged 10 to 14. These children were viewed as future “supermen,” and were indoctrinated in the various views of their country’s ultimate leader.</p>
<p>The youth groups were organized into local cells on a “community” level. By the end of 1932, more than 107,000 children were involved in the program. One year later, there were 2,300,000 members. By 1936, there were five million and by that time, membership by children was required even when the parents protested. The membership had reached eight million by 1940.</p>
<p>So how did this juggernaut of the young get started? The nearest anyone can accurately determine, the genesis of the whole thing started with an article by Gergor Strasser in the 1920s. The title of the article, “Make Way You Old Ones,” gained momentum in an environment, which was bringing focus to the young. The propaganda focused on harnessing and exploiting the emotions of the young within the political arena.</p>
<p>This youth group, the HJ, were of course, the Hitler-Jugend.</p>
<p>The Hitler Youth.</p>
<p>I need some tobacco, some good rum and maybe some French fries. Care to join me?</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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I’m worried about the Brown Shirt squads.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I can’t sleep – usually it is because of the bad dreams, which have been with me since my time in Somalia. Tonight it’s less heavy.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I’m worried about the Brown Shirt squads.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I just don’t know what to do about them. When they come knocking on my door offering a nice big, framed photo of Big Brother (with its’ embedded wireless camera and microphone) do I just smile and invite them in? Do we all sit around the tiny suburban home with the smell from the bad city sewer lines ( also a potentially shovel-ready project) – or do I yell them down and loose the dogs and see who makes it to the fence-line faster; an overweight Obamanator or an overweight English Bulldog.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I’m betting on the dog. That’s because the Bulldog doesn’t care about the re-education programs. He doesn’t care if 2+2=4 or if it equals 5.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And should I join the “mobs” at the town hall meetings? Should I go and picket, yell down a few senators or other useless functionaries and assorted pieces of inanimate office furniture? Should I write angry notes, make angrier phone calls to congressmen, which will all go unanswered? Should I get the H1N1 virus immunization as soon as it is offered – so as to avoid the huge lines in front of the new government-run clinics? Or should I hope the Pig flu takes me out and spares me a world without Twinkies and potato chips and all the other stuff THEY want to take away from us?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And that last one is an interesting question, isn’t it? As I get older, I can appreciate the siren call of the brightly colored chip bags in the grocery store. I can appreciate the smell of pipe smoke and the taste of good rum, but it’s all going to be legislated away – so we can all be healthier. The president will continue to smoke and drink, but that behavior will be re-educated out of us. They’ll sign Richard Simmons on as the new aerobics czar, next. We’ll all be jiggling the sad remains of those sweets away in the park – endless rows of Orwellian Citizens, dancing to some old Lionel Richie songs or something. Yeah, we will be all “dancing on the ceiling,” because we will be so light, we will float there, like some forgotten helium balloons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, we’ll be lighter, but we won’t be free. Big Brother will be watching from that painting on your wall. He will look suspiciously like President Obama. Weird, huh?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I’m no different from anyone else. I don’t like people screwing with our nation – I don’t like dumb congressmen – I don’t like dumber union people – and heavies who attack people exercising their rights at these rallies. I don’t like the tenets of organizations like the Black Panthers. I think haters are among the most lost in our society. I don’t like smears against our regular citizens, I don’t like environmental legislation, which does nothing more than line the pockets of the rich and powerful – the buddies of those same Congressmen – while it forces unionization on contractors who do not want to be unionized (this is basically another form of money and power grab – and it’s legal!)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don’t like any of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But I do like the fact that America is coming alive. I like the fact that the Tea Parties are continuing to grow. I like the feeling I get when I see congressmen running for the door at some meeting, because they are becoming afraid of the people. They should be afraid – or maybe they should act like men instead of mice or worms – and stand their ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Got balls? Guess not.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s 3:15 a.m. This is a condition I came away with from my time in the service. But I would never trade it for a chance to have the slate wiped clean. I loved serving my country. I loved wearing the uniform. I loved the military – even on the hard days. And I don’t ever remember being released from my oath – “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, while I am a civilian now and as such, some of this may no longer apply to me (the UCMJ, chain of command, etc), I will defend this country still, against all enemies foreign and domestic.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don’t know about you, but it seems like we’ve taken a lot of the foreign enemies out of the equation, lately. Our troops have hammered the foreign killers into the dust – and continue to do so. But it’s the domestic versions – mostly those trying to turn a free nation into some kind of socialist experiment… those are the ones we need to keep our eyes on. Like the bulldog, we have to try to figure out whether they are really our leaders – or just a different kind of enemy – or maybe like the bulldog, we should just not try to add 2+2, and just chase them to the fence-line and bite them on the butt.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I’m looking at the bulldog now – he’s eyeing me dubiously.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So seriously, what do we do with those who would make this the USSA?</p>
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Vote ‘em out. Vote ‘em all out.  In the meantime, keep yelling the maggots down at these town hall meetings. Verbally hammer them mercilessly. And for those who wish to meet us on a more personal footing – who wish to beat us down physically in the streets…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You are outnumbered. You are outclassed (way outclassed in this case). Remember this…<br />
We are coming for you. We are coming for you all.</p>
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		<title>Lifestyle choices &#8211; and the List of Liberties Lost.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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Lifestyle choices, Yep. That’s top on my list of things to be concerned about.
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif; color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Lifestyle choices, Yep. That’s top on my list of things to be concerned about.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Give me a break. Please. In fact, give yourself a break if you happen to be one of these food, environment or government health care NAZI types. Do yourself a favor. Don’t come out to the real world to talk about this. You won’t be well received.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I don’t know how many folks out there are tired of turning on the television only to see some 92-pound bleach-blonde telling us what we should buy at the grocery store, but I am well sick of it. In fact, I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it. I don’t even need to develop high cholesterol or diabetes, or any other illness to put me at risk. All I need is another self-righteous, stick-person to get on TV and talk about how fat people are the “biggest” issue in America right now, and my head will probably explode.<span id="more-3803"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The latest in this string of string-bikini types is MeMe Roth, President and Founder of the “National Action Against Obesity.” Through education, legislation, and parental action (according to their stated mission), MeMe and her group of cult-like foodies would like to control what people can buy or eat, what schools can distribute in the lunch-line, and what type of exercises everyone should participate in “across all ages.” Don’t images of long lines of dutiful citizens doing calisthenics in fields filled with alternative energy wind-turbines, just bring tears to your eyes?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to NAAO’s website, “when the majority is overweight, America cannot be normal.” So we must conform. We must conform NOW!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But before we do, let’s just take stock of the liberties we are losing both with recent legislation and the push for further government interference by groups like Roth’s. Following is my “Basic List of Liberties Lost.” It’s a work-in-progress, kind of like my physique, so cut me some slack, OK?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, here they are:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1. You won’t be able to buy anything bigger than a clown car. The clown car must run on carefully collected Moose farts – or something like that.<br />
2. More than half your income will be going to pay for the latest batch of government bailouts. More than half of your children’s and grandchildren’s and possibly great grandchildren’s income will go to paying off the debts the government is incurring today. Three generations down the road, if organizations like our current administration and NAAO have their way, we will all be skinny peasants working in volunteer government programs.<br />
3. You will no longer be able to choose your own doctor or control your own health care. You will be part of a “community” care system. Marxist government officials will determine what care is appropriate for you and whether you live or die. The lives of your parents and children and grandchildren will also be controlled by these policies. The new U.S. version of KGB will observe and report any violators.<br />
4. The intimate details of your medical data will be available to these same government officials.<br />
5. You will be less able to get a job because there won’t be much other than government positions and “volunteer” positions to fill.<br />
6. You won’t be able to spend your money on an item like tobacco or alcohol without Uncle Sam keeping knowing about those purchases – and using that data to possibly deny medical care in the future.<br />
7. Taxes on goods will increase the cost of foodstuff and perhaps other items, which you buy day to day.<br />
8. And of course, those items, which are not on some kind of “approved” list, will have some kind of surcharge placed upon them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What’s next? Any guesses?<br />
Thought-police anyone? Better control on the media – maybe only media who agree with the administration? Subdermal microchips, so we don’t get lost? Don’t think any of it is at all preposterous. It’s all on the table, now.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Does anyone else see the dangers involved here? Is anyone else outraged at the constant inane babbling of the lifestyle NAZIs?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As disgusted as MeMe obviously is over the over-weight among us, I for one, am disgusted with those like her, who would project their belief systems – indeed, seek to force their belief systems onto the rest of humanity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Roth decided to single out the new Surgeon General appointee, Dr. Regina Benjamin, explaining that Dr. Benjamin should not have stepped forward at all because of her weight. Roth suggested that young women need a good-looking role-model … I guess that is more important than Benjamin being a qualified doctor. Oh, and don’t we already have a new, fit, role model for young women – Miss America? What about the new Miss California? Can we add that to her job description?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here’s some suggestions for Roth and anyone else who wants to play fitness police over top-notch people like Benjamin:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Go to medical school, develop a resume that would allow you to compete with someone like Benjamin, have some kids, raise a family, live in the real world, and then feel free to criticize the rest of us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Just don’t expect us to listen.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Team is So Transparent, They&#8217;re Opaque; Release of Mid-Year Budget Review Delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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The release of the mid-year budget review from the White House has been delayed.  It really comes as no surprise anymore that the Obama team meant &#8220;transparency for thee but not for me.&#8221;
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The release of the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.3accf76695529d0ed9d3824c1cc629f1.611&amp;show_article=1&amp;catnum=0" target="_blank">mid-year budget review from the White House has been delayed</a>.  It really comes as no surprise anymore that the Obama team meant &#8220;transparency for thee but not for me.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a democrat, it&#8217;s ok to harp about Republicans, scream, and whine when you feel as though they aren&#8217;t being transparent enough.  Then campaign on empty slogans of hope and change, but once in office do nothing of the sort.  As they say to the victor goes the spoils and in this scenario, the spoils include hypocrisy and a lack of information disseminated to the American public. <span id="more-3788"></span></p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>The White House said Monday it was delaying the release of the annual midsummer US budget update, but refuted suggestions it was trying to put distance between its own optimistic predictions and the sour state of today&#8217;s economy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of the unique circumstances of a transition year, we are &#8212; like President George W. Bush in 2001 &#8212; releasing the Mid-Session Review a few weeks later than as is usual in non-transition years,&#8221; said Kenneth Baer, communications director for the White House&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When all else fails, as this administration has demonstrated, play the victim and take no responsibility for your actions.  The greatest leadership characteristic is finger pointing&#8230;/sarc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Funny, I thought that Obama was going to stop using old Bush policies and was going to create &#8220;change we could believe in?&#8221;  Seems like those old Bush policies are convenient when he needs to get away with something, such as bad budget numbers/forecasts from his office.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The White House has run so far over budget in only the first half of the year, that they would prefer this report was covered up and never released.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><p>The report is traditionally published in mid-July. This year&#8217;s version is expected to include massive deficit projections as the administration of President Barack Obama stewards a costly overhaul of the US healthcare system.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The CBO is projecting a $1.9T budget deficit, but that&#8217;s not exactly accurate.  The accurate approximation is a $4T deficit &#8211; which is unprecedented in this nation&#8217;s history.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CrabbyCon</dc:creator>
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Yesterday afternoon Obama&#8217;s Teleprompter was on overload apparently &#8211; it came crashing down in the middle of his speech:


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If a teleprompter falls on a floor, does Obama make a noise?
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday afternoon Obama&#8217;s Teleprompter was on overload apparently &#8211; it came crashing down in the middle of his speech:</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Here are some quips:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If a teleprompter falls on a floor, does Obama make a noise?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Breaking: TOTUS to be buried in Arlington, there will be 24/7 news coverage and Al Sharpton plans on praising TOTUS during the memorial service.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If the President&#8217;s TOTUS dies, does that mean Biden&#8217;s TOTUS takes over?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Update: Obama plans on stating tomorrow that he inherited TOTUS from Bush &#8220;Bush Lied, TOTUS died.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Have any other good ones?? Do tell!</p>
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