Monthly Archives: May 2009

Classic Cases Of Kool-Aide Withdrawal Sprouting Up Nationwide!

In The News May 31, 2009

As Telepromter in Chief jet sets to NY for Broadway show, his followers are reeling from KOOL-AIDE withdrawal:

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Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss.

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Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed George W. Bush, I won’t follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power.

read full article HERE

A few more bad policies, a few more America Bashing Tours overseas and a few more jet-setting dates on the tax-payer dime and he’s going to be needing some of his own “Hope ‘N’ Change”.

“UPDATED” FOX News Asks: “Should Obama Release Birth Certificate? Or Is This Old News? “

Action Item, Educational Material, In The News May 30, 2009

My reply was:

The Constitution and its qualifications for a President will “NEVER” be “OLD NEWS”

Let them know how you feel!

UPDATE: Over 1700 responses in 1 day..keep up the good work, let’s get FOX to follow through and report this atrocity that the Usurper has managed to keep covered up in the MSM thus far!!!

UPDATE #2: FOX seems to have cut off responses at 2:09am today(Sat, Sept 30). What’s up with that? Are they feeling the guilt in letting down the country by not reporting responsibly?

“UPDATED” : AutoGate

Action Item, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Economy, In The News, US Congress Legislation May 30, 2009

URGENT UPDATE: The truth is hard to keep under the rug:

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The ratio of donations for dealers that were shuttered was 42 to 1, GOP to Democrat.

Gee, I wonder if that difference is statistically significant?

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I had been following this for a few days and now it seems that it is gaining some teeth and credibility to its substance:

From GatewayPundit: Hope & Change– Car Czar Behind Chrysler Closings Married to Former Dem Party Leader

More Hope and Change…

** Earlier it was reportedthat the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors.
** Later it was discovered that a Big Dem Donor Group was allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open…. And, their local competitors were eliminated.
** The Auto Task Force, which includes Obama cabinet members, is reportedly calling the shots on which dealerships will close and stay open.
** Steven Rattner leads The Auto Task Force and is married to the former National Finance Chair of Democratic Party, Maureen White.
** The closings in several instances appear to benefit Dem donating dealers where local GOP-linked dealerships were closed.
** Even Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla) lost his Chrysler dealership in Florida and found out from a colleague on the House floor.
** Lithia Motor Group’s owners gave $15,000to two Democrat candidates and support nationalized healthcare. They will likely lose just two of 29 dealerships and gain 5 more.
** One report claims the odds that these Chrysler closings occurred without partisan bias are less than 1%.
** After closing the 789 dealerships Chrysler announced that they are already looking to open new franchises.

Car Czar Steve Rattner’s wife Maureen White, was the former National Finance Chair of Democratic Party. Rattner and his Auto Task Force decided on which dealerships would close and which would stay open.

The Washington Examiner reported this morning on the partisan Chrysler dealer closings…

Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans.

What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty. 

The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan learned from a House colleague that his Venice, Florida, dealership is on the hit list. Buchanan also has a Nissan franchise paired with the Chrysler facility in Venice.

“It’s an outrage. It’s not about me. I’m going to be fine,” said Buchanan, the dealership’s majority owner. “You’re talking over 100,000 jobs. We’re supposed to be in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs,” Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station.

Buchanan, who succeeded former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership’s termination from Rep.Candace Miller, R-MI. Buchanan owns a total of 23 dealerships in Florida and North Carolina.

Also fueling the controversy is the fact the RLJ-McCarty-Landers chain of Arkansas and Missouri dealerships aren’t being closed, but many of their local competitors are being eliminated. Go here for a detailed look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The “J” is Robert Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a heavy Democratic contributor…

There’s more at The Examiner and also more at The Gateway Pundit.

This is disturbing in so many ways one’s head spins to find a place to start. But it is only the start of what is to come.

Imagine “The One” appointing one of his commie lackies as the head of ALL of the banks that control how much of our money goes into the new Government Motors without our knowledge if the next phase of his complete take-over of another private sector industry is realized. Especially since he now has gained a strong foot-hold on the door.

WHAT???? Dusting Off “Doddly-Do-Wrong’s” 1991 Bank Bail-Out Legislation “UPDATED”

Action Item, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Economy, Educational Material, In The News, US Congress Legislation May 30, 2009

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Well, at least we now know why the Fed & the Treasury Dept are spending money they don’t have.

It seems that after the 1987 crash on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs went to Dodd and asked for legislation to protect them should it happen again. Dodd bent over like a good paid politician and made sure the corrupt bank bail-out legislation was added in at the last minute so that it went unnoticed except to those that knew:

WaPo: 

There is also a question about the roots of the crisis: Did investment banks take greater risks in the past two decades because they knew the Fed could rescue them?

The 1991 legislation, authored by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), was requested by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms in the wake of the 1987 market crisis, and it would save some of them a generation later.

I have a hard time believing that Dodd didn’t know of the implications that this type of unconstitutional legislation would bankrupt the enire nation because of the sinister way in which it was slid into the bill:

On the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the U.S. Senate voted to vastly expand the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve.

Almost no one noticed.

The critical language was contained in a single, somewhat inscrutable sentence, and the only public explanation was offered during a final debate that began with a reminder that senators had airplanes to catch. Yet, in removing a long-standing prohibition on loans that supported financial speculation, the provision effectively allowed the Fed for the first time to lend money to Wall Street during a crisis.

Dodd, at the time chairman of the securities subcommittee of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, agreed to insert the language into a bill whose primary purpose was to reform the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which guarantees commercial bank deposits.

Talk about a safety net! No wonder Dodd and Frank didn’t want the Bush regulations to go anywhere:

During a meeting to discuss the bill’s final language, a representative of the Federal Reserve was asked to comment. Donald L. Kohn, then the director of the Fed’s Division of Monetary Affairs, said the agency had no objections, according to people in attendance that day.

The Fed has extensive regulatory authority over commercial banks, to keep them from needing its safety net. But after Dodd’s language passed into law, the Fed did not seek new regulatory authority over investment banks, nor did Congress move to provide new authority.

Instead, over the next two decades, federal officials would emphasize that investment banks had an incentive to be cautious because they were operating without a safety net.

read entire article here for the complete story

This is outrageous!!! Time for more calls to DC come Monday and insist on the resignations of Dodd and Frank as the chairman of any financial committee!!!

UPDATE: WaPo Sept 12, 2008: Where Was Sen. Dodd? Playing the Blame Game On Fannie and Freddie

. . . from late 2002 through 2007: Starting in 2002, White House and Treasury Department economic policy staffers, with support from then-Chief of Staff Andy Card, began to press for meaningful reforms of Fannie, Freddie and other government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

The crux of their concern was this: Investors believed that the GSEs were government-backed, so shouldn’t the GSEs also be subject to meaningful government supervision?

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President Bush was receptive to reform. He withheld nominees for Fannie and Freddie’s boards — a presidential privilege. While it would have been valuable politically to use such positions to reward supporters, the president put good policy above good politics.

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The administration did not accept half-measures. In 2005, Republican Mike Oxley, then chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, brought up a reform bill (H.R. 1461), and Fannie and Freddie’s lobbyists set out to weaken it. The bill was rendered so toothless that Card called Oxley the night before markup and promised to oppose it. Oxley pulled the bill instead.

During this period, Sen. Richard Shelby led a small group of legislators favoring reform, including fellow Republican Sens. John Sununu, Chuck Hagel and Elizabeth Dole. Meanwhile, Dodd — who along with Democratic Sens. John Kerry, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the top four recipients of Fannie and Freddie campaign contributions from 1988 to 2008 — actively opposed such measures and further weakened existing regulation.

 

The president’s budget proposals reflected the nature of the challenge. Note the following passage from the 2005 budget: Fannie, Freddie and other GSEs “are highly leveraged, holding much less capital in relation to their assets than similarly sized financial institutions. . . . A misjudgment or unexpected economic event could quickly deplete this capital, potentially making it difficult for a GSE to meet its debt obligations. Given the very large size of each enterprise, even a small mistake by a GSE could have consequences throughout the economy.”

That passage was published in February 2004. Dodd can find it on Page 82 of the budget’s Analytical Perspectives.

 

 click HERE for the full article and outline of events that lead up to the collapse of the markets

Em-“Pathetic” Justice for Un-Constitutional Voting

Action Item, Contact Your State Senators & Representatives, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Educational Material, In The News, South Dakota State Legislation, US Congress Legislation May 29, 2009

As I watched the following unfold last November, a surge of fear came over me. That soon turned into outrage . . .

Let The Brothers Go : Obama’s Justice Department is dropping charges against the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and two of its members who were involved in voter intimidation on Election Day at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania polling station.

A Justice spokesman said the department decided to take this action after winning an injunction earlier this month against a third member, Samir Shabazz, that prevents him from ever brandishing a weapon outside a polling place again as he was charged with doing last November.

Obviously, Obama’s Justice Department was just displaying some of the Obamamessiah’s vaunted empathy — “based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law” — what a hoot! — obviously, the biggest fact was the guy is a brother — but Justice warned him not to do it again — that’s the ticket.

Obama has now replaced Justice’s blindfold with shades.

The Washington Post reports:

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

But if using billy-clubs to intimidate wasn’t going to be enough, the DNC made sure that their presence would be legal:

The lawyers also had ascertained that one of the three men had gained access to the polling place by securing a credential as a Democratic poll watcher, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Washington Times.

The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

This is not going to be “case closed” as they would like it to be:

Mr. Miyar declined to elaborate about any internal dispute between career and political officials, saying only that the department is “committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote.”

Incidents of this kind of intimidation as well as DNC party disregarding the laws of not campaigning inside polling places were rampid during the 2006 mid-term elections and now that they have their boy in office, look for it to get worse for the 2010 elections.

 

Ambassador Economics 101

In The News May 29, 2009

Times are a-changin’.

It seems now you do not need to have any foreign policy nor foreign relations experience to become an Ambassador for the United States. All you need are deep pockets with the contents going to a certain “Teleprompter in Chief”.

This in via Bloomberg via Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:

Ambassador “Vacuum Cleaner” Gets Company

Louis Susman of Chicago was nicknamed “the vacuum cleaner” because he was so good at cleaning out the pockets of the wealthy to get them to give to Democratic causes and candidates. As noted on this blog last February, Susman was in line for ambassadorship to Britain after having raised $240 milliion for Democrats.

The Susman appointment now is official, as are the appointments of numerous other wealthy contributors to the Obama campaign, including (via Bloomberg News):

— John Roos, chief executive officer of the Palo Alto, California-based law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, to Japan. He raised more than $500,000 for Obama.

— Charles Rivkin, chief executive officer of Wildbrain Inc., to France. Rivkin collected more than $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and $300,000 for his inauguration.

— Laurie Fulton, a partner with Williams & Connolly LLP, to Denmark. Fulton, 59, raised $100,000 to $200,000.

Obama is continuing the presidential tradition of rewarding campaign contributors and denigrating career foreign service officers. So much for change, more like business as usual.

So much for hope”n”change, it seems all we are going to see from here on in is: 
hope ‘n’ a whole lotta cha-cha-cha-ching cha-ching, cha-ching

The “Big Brother” Census Survey..Is Really Manditory?

Action Item, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Educational Material, In The News, US Congress Legislation May 28, 2009

This topic has been on my mind since we received 2 of these ominous 14 page surveys.

A WND article yesterday lays out a sampling of it’s ludicrous questions and the extent of the intrusion into our personal lives that the federal government is trying to pull off:

The federal government is forcing 3 million Americans to disclose sensitive, personal information about finances, health and lifestyle in a 14-page survey – including questions about availability of household flush toilets and difficulty with undressing and bathing.

The 2009 American Community Survey, an annual supplement to the decennial Census, asks about residents’ personal relationships and whether a home has hot and cold running water, a flush toilet, bathing facilities, appliances and phone services. It also asks how many rooms are in a home and what vehicles are used at each household.

The article also brings to light a very important mis-representation as to the legal aspect it:

While many recipients may consider the questionnaire to be tedious and meddling, the Census Bureau warns that citizens are required by law to complete it and may be fined as much as $5,000 for willfully refusing. While an individual may feel uneasy about answering each question truthfully, the fine for filing false information can be as much as $500.

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While the U.S. Constitution allows Americans to be counted for purposes of taxation and political representation, Jim Harper, a privacy expert at the Cato Institute, told the New York Post the survey is “a classic example of mission creep over the decades – this constitutional need to literally count how many noses are in the United States has turned into a vast data-collection operation.”

Rep. Ron Paul blasted the government for spending “hundreds of millions of dollars” on the survey and called the questionnaire “insulting” in his Texas Straight Talk column.

“The questions are both ludicrous and insulting,” he wrote. “The survey asks, for instance, how many bathrooms you have in your house, how many miles you drive to work, how many days you were sick last year, and whether you have trouble getting up stairs. It goes on and on, mixing inane questions with highly detailed inquiries about your financial affairs. One can only imagine the countless malevolent ways our federal bureaucrats could use this information. At the very least the survey will be used to dole out pork, which is reason enough to oppose it.”

read the article in it’s entirety here

OK, so tell me, how can they impose fines on only a certain portion of the population that is chosen at random? How did we get to be chosen as 1 of only 3 million of the over 300 million residents of this country?

I am not a legal scholar nor even spent a day in college, but my knowledge of the Constitution and my Common Sense smelled a rat and thus the threat of being fined or arrested for not filling this form out did not send me into a tizzy to get right on it and send the federal government mine and my families personal information. Quite the contrary.

What I did was sit to start filling it out with much sarcasm:

ancestry/origin: Natural born US citizen

when did you move into your home: after the furniture was in place and the utilities turned on

how many separate rooms in the domicile: enough to be comfortable

appliances: yes we have the ones that we need at this time, no they do not all work all the time

autos: depends on if you are asking about ones we own or ones the neighbors own

home heating fuel: we’re working to recycle the livestock gas to save the neighboring farmers from being unduly taxed, we’ll let you know how that all works out

food stamps: no thank you, we either cut back or get an extra job

taxes: yes, they come due annually

and my fav was…any physical, mental or emotional condition: only when government intrudes where it has no business being, lying, threatening us that we will be fined or prosecuted for not answering this illegal survey

 While I was filling out the form, the phone happened to ring and I am sure they wished they had skipped our number as it was a representative/acorn red-shirt calling to again assist me in filling out the form. I say again, as they had already called to inform me that it would be coming and I had told them we had already received a survey, I just hadn’t sat down to fill it out.

But this time when the call came, having opened the survey and seeing it for what it was, and being dressed in full sarcasm, I decided to bait the red-shirt caller and conceded to let them ask me a few questions. What I did not do was give them the answer they wanted. Instead I asked them what these questions had to do with a constitutional head count of the population for election purposes and what article or clause in the constitution required me to answer them?

After repeated rounds, them asking and me asking back, they never did answer my question, instead the caller abruptly hung up with no good-bye or even a thank you for taking their call. HOW RUDE!! But on the upside, it has been 3 weeks since that call and they have not made any attempts to re-contact us and we haven’t been arrested or served with a federal citation for refusing to divulge personal information that is none of their business.

So, now you know my story of the census survey. If you have gotten one of these surveys and have not fallen into the illegal trap of our corrupt government and already sent it in…DO NOT…It is NOT illegal to refuse to fill it out!!!

Making Our Voices Heard

Action Item, Economy May 27, 2009

Let’s keep this going…an e-mail I recieved that if implemented by enough can send a HUGE message to DC about why American Made is the only way to get this economy moving again….

> LETS GET BEHIND THIS!!!!!!!!!!
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> we can really start right now.
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> I WAS BUYING FOOD THE OTHER DAY AT THE LOCAL MARKET. ON THE LABEL OF
> SOME PRODUCTS IT SAID FROM CHINA. FOR EXAMPLE THE” OUR FAMILY” BRAND OF THE
> MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN “FROM CHINA.” I WAS SHOCKED!!
> SO FOR A FEW MORE CENTS I BOUGHT THE LIBERTY GOLD BRAND FROM CALIFORNIA. TAKES FOREVER JUST TO BUY FOOD AND DO LABEL READING ! !
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> Are we Americans as dumb as we appear — or — is it that we just do not think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the Bush Administration for perceived errors.
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> Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.
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> Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
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> SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA !!
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> Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says ‘Made in China ‘ or ‘PRC’ (and that now includes Hong Kong ), simply choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.
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> Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.
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> THINK ABOUT THIS – If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that’s a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor…fast!!
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> The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh
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> The solution? Let’s give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on June 4, and continue it until July 4. That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.
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> Remember, June 4 to July 4.
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> EVEN BETTER. . . START NOW.
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> Send this to everybody you know. Let’s show them that we are Americans and NOBODY can take us for granted.
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> If we can’t live without cheap Chinese goods for one month out of our lives, WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!
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> Pass it on, America

God Bless Our Brave Servicemen and Women and God Bless America

Youth Educational Material May 25, 2009

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President Bush’s 2008 Memorial to our Fallen Soldiers:

Today, we gather to honor those who gave everything to preserve our way of life. The men and women we honor here served for liberty. They sacrificed for liberty. And in countless acts of courage, they died for liberty. From faraway lands, they were returned to cemeteries like this one, where broken hearts received their broken bodies — they found peace beneath the white headstones in the land they fought to defend.

It is a solemn reminder of the cost of freedom that the number of headstones in a place such as this grows with every new Memorial Day. In a world where freedom is constantly under attack and in a world where our security is challenged, the joys of liberty are often purchased by the sacrifices of those who serve a cause greater than themselves. Today we mourn and remember all who have given their lives in the line of duty. Today we lift up our hearts especially those who’ve fallen in the past year.

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The men and women of American armed forces perform extraordinary acts of heroism every single day. Like the nation they serve, they do not glory in the devastation of war. They also do not flinch from combat when liberty and justice are embattled. Ronald Tucker, Nathan Hardy and Mike Koch make clear, they do not waver — even in the face of danger.

And so today, here in Washington and across our country, we pay tribute to all who have fallen — a tribute never equal to the debt they are owed. We will forever honor their memories. We will forever search for their comrades, the POWs and MIAs. And we pledge — we offer a solemn pledge to persevere and to provide the security for our citizens and secure the peace for which they fought.

The soil of Arlington and other sites is filled with liberty’s defenders. It is nourished by their heroism. It is watered by the silent tears of the mothers and fathers, and husbands and wives, and sons and daughters they left behind. Today we pray for God’s blessing on all who grieve and ask the Almighty to strengthen and comfort them today and everyday.

On this Memorial Day, I stand before you as the Commander-in-Chief and try to tell you how proud I am at the sacrifice and service of the men and women who wear our uniform. They’re an awesome bunch of people and the United States is blessed to have such citizens. (Applause.)

I am humbled by those who have made the ultimate sacrifice that allow a free civilization to endure and flourish. It only remains for us, the heirs of their legacy, to have the courage and the character to follow their lead — and to preserve America as the greatest nation on earth and the last best hope for mankind.

May God bless you and may God bless America.

We may have not always agreed with everything he did, but then when do we agree with everything anyone does. No one is perfect.

The one thing we always could count on and that we could never fault President Bush, was his patriotism and dedication to our men and women of the armed forces. Our national security and our men and women of the Armed Forces ALWAYS came 1st to him, as it should be for any Commander in Chief.

The Armed Forces held a farewell ceremony in Fort Myer’s Conmy Hall in honor of the departing commander in chief, President George Walker Bush. President Bush praised the military for their service and efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. The ceremony included military honors and a pass in review, as well as remarks by Admiral Mullen and Secretary Gates.

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“Obama-man Can Cuz He Mixes It With Hope And makes The world Feel Good”

Economy May 24, 2009

Hillarious . . . Yet sad at the same time because of the destruction this administration is imposing on our economy and the future of our children and grandchildren.

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