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This is absolute madness and it must stop! It’s one thing to call the ‘War on Terrorism’ , ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’, BUT…
when they start banning us from using the term ‘American’ to describe American citizens in the United States of America they have crossed a line that will NOT be tolerated. This is race baiting at its absolute worst coming right out of the Obama administration.
This guy hates our great country and it is time to rise-up against this tyranny and take our country back!
Get out the old phonograph and pull out the Neil Sedaka vinyl:
MOSCOW, July 8.— Former Russian presidential candidate Guennadi Ziuganov has demanded an end to the US blockade on Cuba at a meeting with American President, Barack Obama, advisors of this political leader announced today.
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Ziuganov, who is also the head of the Communist Bloc the Duma (the Parliament’s Lower Chamber) urged Obama to suspend NATO expansion and give up the unnecessary antimissile defense shield in Eastern Europe, the sources added.
Newsweek has more on the Commander in Thief’s trip:
The very fact of Obama’s meeting with the leaders of Russia’s opposition infuriated the authorities.
UPDATE: Ruskies snub Obama…this just made my day!
I guess once a communist, always a communist, it’s just that not all communists agree with your back stabbing tendencies and they are not afraid to show it in public.
Our 21st Century Thomas Paine clears up some confusion and makes yet another plea. This time to the President, but for the sake of “Common Sense”, it would behoove US Congress as well as State Congresses to heed Mr Paine’s advice:
KNBN Rapid City:
Former State Legislator Joel Dykstra is working on the “Save Our Secret Ballot- South Dakota Campaign”, to preserve the right of a secret ballot.
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Dykstra says saving secret ballot voting like this came about because of the Employee Free Choice Act, or the Check Card Bill.
The campaign needs 40,000 signatures to get the issue on the Nov. 2010 election ballot.
By Walter E. Williams
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students ranked 25th of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science. McKinsey & Company, in releasing its report “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools” (April 2009) said, “Several other facts paint a worrisome picture. First, the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers. In recent cross-country comparisons of fourth grade reading, math, and science, US students scored in the top quarter or top half of advanced nations. By age 15 these rankings drop to the bottom half. In other words, American students are farthest behind just as they are about to enter higher education or the workforce.” That’s a sobering thought. The longer kids are in school and the more money we spend on them, the further behind they get.
While the academic performance of white students is grossly inferior, that of black and Latino students is a national disgrace. The McKinsey report says, “On average, black and Latino students are roughly two to three years of learning behind white students of the same age. This racial gap exists regardless of how it is measured, including both achievement (e.g., test score) and attainment (e.g., graduation rate) measures. Taking the average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for math and reading across the fourth and eighth grades, for example, 48 percent of blacks and 43 percent of Latinos are ‘below basic,’ while only 17 percent of whites are, and this gap exists in every state. A more pronounced racial achievement gap exists in most large urban school districts.” Below basic is the category the NAEP uses for students unable to display even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at their grade level.
The teaching establishment and politicians have hoodwinked taxpayers into believing that more money is needed to improve education. The Washington, D.C., school budget is about the nation’s costliest, spending about $15,000 per pupil. Its student/teacher ratio, at 15.2 to 1, is lower than the nation’s average. Yet student achievement is just about the lowest in the nation. What’s so callous about the Washington situation is about 1,700 children in kindergarten through 12th grade receive the $7,500 annual scholarships in order to escape rotten D.C. public schools, and four times as many apply for the scholarships, yet Congress, beholden to the education establishment, will end funding the school voucher program.
Any long-term solution to our education problems requires the decentralization that can come from competition. Centralization has been massive. In 1930, there were 119,000 school districts across the U.S; today, there are less than 15,000. Control has moved from local communities to the school district, to the state, and to the federal government. Public education has become a highly centralized government-backed monopoly and we shouldn’t be surprised by the results. It’s a no-brainer that the areas of our lives with the greatest innovation, tailoring of services to individual wants and falling prices are the areas where there is ruthless competition such as computers, food, telephone and clothing industries, and delivery companies such as UPS, Federal Express and electronic bill payments that have begun to undermine the postal monopoly in first-class mail.
At a Washington press conference launching the McKinsey report, Al Sharpton called school reform the civil rights challenge of our time. He said that the enemy of opportunity for blacks in the U.S. was once Jim Crow; today, in a slap at the educational establishment, he said it was “Professor James Crow.” Sharpton is only partly correct. School reform is not solely a racial issue; it’s a vital issue for the entire nation.
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Another useful link on the dumbing down of our youth through progressive NEA tactics:
‘Global Citizenship’: An Unsustainable Social Injustice by Adam Baldwin
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.
AMEN!!!
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Taking a few days to do some spring cleaning and planting, so in the meantime…
The Conservative forces are uniting and it’s time to get to work, let not one weed be left to grow, spread and destroy the fruitful garden that is the United States of America!
A Tale of Two Courageous County Sheriffs
By Ron Ewart
All around us, the power of the federal government is manifested by hundreds of presidential executive orders, thousands of un-read legislation emanating from the U. S. Congress and millions of bureaucratic rules, regulations, restrictions and ordinances, issuing forth from the government’s massive bureaucracy ….. laws, rules, regulations, restrictions and ordinances that in most cases, bear no resemblance to constitutional law, much less constitutional authority. These people don’t seem to care about constitutional law or constitutional authority, they just do it, because they can and it takes an alert citizenry to challenge them. How do you fight such a monster?
The U. S. Constitution is still in tack and upon occasion the U. S. Supreme Court will rule along the lines of the actual intent of the Framers of that Constitution. But it took two brave sheriffs of the great state of Arizona and the great state of Montana, both Western States who still believe strongly in states rights, to “esplain” it to the federal government, whom apparently does not think that they are governed by that famous document of liberty, or falsely believes that their “rule” supersedes it. It doesn’t…
It is not necessary to resort to civil war or revolution, to upset the “apple cart” of an arrogant, out-of-control federal government that has lost all allegiance to the Supreme Law of the Land. We only need use the most important tool of all, that the Founders gave us, our Constitution. With it, we can challenge the “bully” and win.
Finally, throughout our history, from even way before the ratification of our Constitution, the County Sheriff was the ultimate law for his jurisdiction. He is the only law enforcement officer in America elected by the people and answerable only to the people. He swears on solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and most sheriffs take that oath very seriously. The County Sheriff, operating under the authority of the 10th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, could very well be the last line of defense of the God-given, unalienable, individual rights of the people and the protector of the Constitution, as well as American sovereignty.
In Mack/Printz v USA, the U S Supreme Court declared that the states or their political subdivisions, “are not subject to federal direction.”
Sheriff’s Mack and Printz paid a very heavy price for their courage but it was that courage and their sacrifice that scored a victory for all citizens of the United States, proving that we are still a Constitutional Republic under the rule of law and we have not morphed into an Absolute Democratic Monarchy, under the rule of the mob ….. yet!
read full article here
RED FLAG ALERT: IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED: CONTACT ALL YOUR REPS ON THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 4
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding
health care.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 6, 2009
Ms. MCCOLLUM introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States regarding health care.
1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Health
5 Protection Amendment of 2009’’.
6 SEC. 2. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
7 The following article is proposed as an amendment
8 to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be
9 valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitu10
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1 the several States within seven years after the date of its
2 submission for ratification:
3 ‘‘ARTICLE —
4 ‘‘SECTION 1. Health care, including care to prevent
5 and treat illness, is the right of all citizens of the United
6 States and necessary to ensure the strength of the Nation.
7 ‘‘SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation.’’.
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THERE IS ALSO A LOT MORE GOING ON WITH HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION AND THERE ARE BILLS UP THE WAZOO THAT NEED TO BE PICKED THROUGH THAT ARE NOT BEING REPORTED INT HE MSM. I URGE EVERYONE TO TAKE THE TIME TO READ AND GET A 1ST HAND GRASP AS THE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS AS IT IS ONE OF THE “KEY” ITEMS THEY NEED TO GET IN PLACE FOR COMPLETE TAKEOVER AND ABOLISHMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION AS IT WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND RATIFIED, AS WELL AS ADOPTED, BY ALL THE STATES.
Update #1: So now the “stars” are in the drivers seat for Constitutional legislation?
Quoting the T.I.C.(teleprompter in chief): “The stars are aligned for health care reform”.
So, even though he tried to pass silliness like this onto one of the most diplomatic, upstanding and classy 1st ladies, the TIC is now falling back onto former 1st lady, his SOS for advice on how to tackle big legislative issues:
For some reason, this just isn’t making me feel very confident, care to chime in?
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