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“UPDATED” FOX News Asks: “Should Obama Release Birth Certificate? Or Is This Old News? “
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?
WHAT???? Dusting Off “Doddly-Do-Wrong’s” 1991 Bank Bail-Out Legislation “UPDATED”
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
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.
The “Big Brother” Census Survey..Is Really Manditory?
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.”
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!!!
Constitutionally Speaking 