...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed...
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father
We leave for Thanksgiving, a national holiday to celebrate our free nation, later this week and will have forced on us intrusive measures the Obama Administration says are needed. The measures will include taking pictures of our genitals, having them rubbed and lines of really angry voters. There is nothing that can be done to stop it. Obama, Napolitano and the rest of progressive know-nothings have decreed it so they look like they're actually doing something to protect our country.
They won't secure our borders or arrest illegals, but they will threaten and bully those that refuse having their groins rubbed and they'll make probable 3 year old terrorists cry. But as far a children go the TSA suggests making this outrage a game or something fun.
I have a suggestion for Obama, et al, quit this crap because you are treating security as a game, an electoral game to make it appear you know what you are doing. You haven't a clue. That you haven't a clue is only made more obvious by violating, legally it seems, the basic rights and freedom of Americans.
Gateway Pundit has more about how citizens that refuse to be groped will be charged with a crime, but the screen grab from the Drudge Report says it all.
This is wrong on so many levels. It is a reactive approach to security that isn't really functional. It is a security measure that is making us the laughing stock of the world, especially among those with bin Laden when they laughed as the twin towers fell. It is a violation of our rights. It is also just another ridiculous measure by a government that couldn't run a lemonade stand, but tells all others how to run their business.
I call BS. Anyone can be beaten. Those that lose either didn't adequately plan to fight and win or didn't want to win. That a "top" British soldier is being quoted here will be news all over the miserable murdering world of Islamofascists in the next few days. Which is why it was published.
The general said: "In conventional war, defeat and victory is very clear cut and is symbolised by troops marching into another nation's capital. First of all you have to ask: do we need to defeat it [Islamist militancy] in the sense of a clear cut victory? I would argue that it is unnecessary and would never be achieved.
What will not be part of the story throughout Islamonutso World is:
"But can we contain it to the point that our lives and our children's lives are led securely? I think we can."
Can al-Qaeda be defeated? Yes. Will we defeat al-Qaeda? Not with the administration we currently have because they not only do not know how to defeat al-Qaeda they do not really want to defeat al-Qaeda. They don't have the guts nor the inner-necessity to fight this evil.
That's the problem. It is also a problem that a "top" British soldier cannot contain his diarrhea of the mouth which emboldens our Islamofascist enemy.
"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations..." Barack Obama, 2008
Among those who FoxNews.com determined have attended the prayer services during the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations are:
— Anwar al-Awlaki, the notorious Al Qaeda cleric believed to be hiding in Yemen and the lone American on the U.S. government’s capture or kill list, who conducted a prayer service on Capitol Hill shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
— Randall “Ismail” Royer, a former communications associate for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who confessed in 2004 to receiving jihadist training in Pakistan. He is serving a 20-year prison term.
— Anwar Hajjaj, former president of Taibah International Aid Association, which was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and U.N. in 2004.
— Esam Omeish, the former president of the Muslim American Society, who was forced to resign from the Virginia Commission on Immigration in 2007 after calling for "the jihad way," among other remarks.
— Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who was forced to step down from a national terrorism committee post in 1999 for pro-terrorist comments.
— Nihad Awad, CAIR executive director, who attended a Hamas meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 that was wiretapped by the FBI.
— Johari Abdul Malik, Dar al-Hijrah imam, who made statements in support of convicted and suspected terrorists who attended his mosque.
— Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim scholar banned from the U.S. for six years beginning in 2004 for his alleged ties and donations to terror groups. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lifted Ramadan's ban in January.
— Abdulaziz Othman Al-Twaijri, the head of a division of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, considered a foreign agent by the U.S.
It is unclear who else has attended these services, because there appears to be no public record of those CMSA has invited to Capitol Hill. The group’s website, included in the official congressional staff associations directory, displays an error message. And out of the more than 25 people associated with CMSA whom FoxNews.com contacted for this article — members, participants, guests, listed officers, congressional sponsors and Muslim advocacy groups — only one person was willing to speak.
The one person willing to speak on the record was pretty unsure of anything about anything except:
When asked if he is in the video of the service or had attended any service on Capitol Hill led by Awlaki, Hooper said, “I don’t even remember. I don’t have a real big interest in furthering Fox News' anti-Muslim agenda, but thanks for calling.”
Be sure to watch the video and to read about this. As Webutante points out, information and stories about the prayer sessions and the group are fast disappearing.
One would think that places like Cleveland, a city that Democrats can count on to find the votes necessary to win 'elections', would learn that Democrats and unions don't care about them. One would think.
A union representing hotel workers has asked the Democratic National Committee to rule out two of its four convention-site finalists, Cleveland and Charlotte, N.C., because they lack sufficient unionized hotel facilities.
"Among the DNC's four finalist cities, only St. Louis and Minneapolis" have the capacity to "house a large portion of the delegates and other guests ... in unionized hotels," John Wilhelm, president of the international UNITE HERE union of hotel and textile workers, wrote in a letter to DNC Chairman Tim Kaine.
Let them go to St. Louis or Minneapolis. Ohio doesn't want them. We''ll make money and create jobs the old fashioned way. Honestly.
Islamic protesters sparked fury today after they burned a model of a poppy and deliberately broke the silence at Armistice Day commemorations in central London.
As millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, members of a group called Muslims Against Crusades clashed with police during an 'emergency demonstration' in Kensington, west London.
As the clock struck 11am, the Islamic protesters burned a model of a poppy and chanted 'British soldiers burn in hell'.
If Muslims around the world are opposed to this type of activity and terrorism in general, why is there no backlash by them against this type of activity. Their silence speaks volumes.
The icon of union/big government/machine politics, Illinois, can't find a few literate officials to finalize the necessary paperwork so Senator-elect Kirk can take his seat in Congress. It may be an education problem.
Maybe those fighting Illini could dig up some voters or elected officials to fill in the blanks. They don't seem to have problems with forms when it comes to elections. Or a community organizer. They also don't have a problem with forms either unless they get caught.
Ann Althouse led me to this page on the FDA website:
How about we post photographs and other imagery on different government sites warning of what too much government means to the people. Oh, there are the usual images from Russia, Germany, China, North Korea, Iran and others, but then there are also images of desolation, despondency and other results of desperate lives resulting from over regulation from over powerful governments.
But then some freak from the bureaucratically engineered society known as government will weep as they explain it is all for the children. At least for those children that survived government encouraged and paid for abortions. Logic only shows that those children won't need such warnings.
All dumb and dumber jokes aside the level of ignorance displayed in the clip makes one wonder if they were trying to outdo each other. Ratigan, whose work covers an industry Rall despises, was clearly in sync with Rall as they ticked off their agreed upon script and talking points. Rall, who is a cartoonist, wants the world to know he loves America, but believes it has needed to be undone since agitators fired the first shots at Kent State. Rall thinks America needs a redo and he is happy to remake America in his vision which is pretty damned scary to anyone who values honesty and ethics let alone freedom.
Ratigan is really just a talking head trying to increase his bottom line. Not too bright, but probably pleasing to many dimwits who watch him. Rall is really a truly despicable elitist who doesn't have much to be elitist about and as most elitists, he's a hater. He hates America, but he loathes conservatives, voters and especially soldiers and the military.
Their duo act is apropos as voters just voted as they did to display disgust with the vision du jour that progressives see for America. Yes, it is about jobs, but voters realize that jobs will not appear with this vision of governance.
Ratigan and Rall deserve each other. America doesn't
Really. When did we say go right ahead and take the power to micromanage our lives? More importantly, at what point did we allow mommyesque morons to tell us that we are out of line to protest this takeover of our lives?
No soup for you! Mike targets salt sellers Mayor Bloomberg's latest health campaign -- cutting salt intake -- has targeted soup as one of the big sodium offenders to be taken down with new city ads.
There is consistency here if you look at the weather in their world.
Individuals do not have the right to make individual decisions.
Government has the power to force its will on the governed because elected officials do not do the actual rule making and enforcement of government power.
Government units are more important than societal, family and local units.
In our world there are people making decisions for us that we have no right to refuse. I guess, to make our lives easier, we have acted like morons to allow this.
In terms of legislation (including push back of legislation on states by the US Congress), the deep replenishing of the Republican back bench and a rejection of progressive statist crap, the Democrats totally lost on redistricting. Good.
State legislatures before the 2010 election
State legislatures after the 2010 election
These elections have set the liberal agenda back at least 10 years which is absolutely great news for Americans. The incredible rejection at the local level will not only affect legislation at the local, but also at the state and federal levels. The take over of so many state legislatures by Republicans will also decide which party will lose seats due to redistricting, but also which party will gain seats in those states with a growing population. Here in Ohio there will be a loss of two congressional seats because people have fled the liberal/progressive assault on business and individuals through taxation and repressive control of the citizenry. Because of the election Republicans will now decide which two seats will be erased from our congressional map.
If Republicans act like as republicans, not some smug hierarchical country club like Roman Senators from the Palatine, we will set the progressive agenda back for a generation in 2012.
Musta been the straw that broke that very strong camel's back. The man is a walking violation of every ethical standard that's so much as been thought of.
Well, he obviously needed a time out. Bonus for the crockery cracking department: he'll tweet like crazy and that is always fun to watch. Like a slo-mo train wreck. Peckinpah style. With crazy people on board.
One can surf to find whatever du jour formula is needed for Republicans or Democrats to succeed in 2012. That's cool, but it's eying the bark on the tree in front of you instead of seeing the forest.
Democrats will fail if they continue to act as they have.
Republicans will fail if they continue to act as they have.
"The outcome of the election does not diminish the work we have done for the American people." But it does diminsh the work you did to the American people. They don't like you, your methods and your policies. Other than that, you're cool.
The only blue areas left are those surrounding Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and the area east of Akron around Youngstown.
The striped areas are districts that were in Democrat hands, but switched to Republican hands in the election.
Now that "Our Future Ohio" PAC has flushed over $3M down the drain it is time to find out who funded their last minute effort to alter our elections here in Ohio.
If they are to be believed, OFO PAC raised the money, obtained staff, offices, researched the issues, wrote scripts, filmed, did the voice overs, bought ad time (in the last two weeks of the campaign???) AND went through the same process for very expensive print material in just 14 days. I do not believe that they did all this in just two weeks. I believe it was a planned sneak attack at the last minute. I also don't believe the money they were given came from Ohio unless some local PO Box or address was used as a pass through to make the money appear to be local. I think Ohio deserves some answers from Ted and Lee's good friend Alan Melamed.
Of course the people who gave him the money want some answers too. Maybe he is explaining how he lost the entire thing and hasn't had time to answer questions from the voters of Ohio.
It is very interesting to look at the congressional and state and local election results maps. It appears that those that are the bluest this morning all huddle around cities pleading for the most in government handouts.
This video is pretty telling.
I'd love to go back to bed and catch up on some sleep, but too much to do.
Ohio is once again a red state and once again our state legislature is Republican. We will have the finest Speaker of the House, Bill Batchelder, in the nation.
Below is a photograph of Gov. elect John Kasich and soon to be Speaker of the House Bill Batchelder. The photographer is Jack Kustron who very graciously posted it on my Facebook page. The photo says it all.
Boehner did not remember Paula Nowakowski who for years made him successful. In his moment of victory his non-mention of her is wrong. Totally wrong. Incredibly wrong.
Who forgot to wear their Red Wings lapel button. Double Bummer.
Those who loved her remember. Those who just said so, probably don't.
CORRECTION: An emailer accused me of being a traitor. I like Boehner, a lot. I am incredibly happy Ohio came to its senses this night, but I never forget who helped the cause. Paula Nowakowski did more for others and the cause than any one person I know. That humbles my expectations of myself.
Isn't this fun? That's what I heard from Paula later than others quitting working. We got there early and stayed late, went for drinks and fun and were back at work earlier than others. Then we did it again and again. Good Lord what fun, what work, what pressure and what reward.
I always remembered who brung me to the dance. Thanks Mike.
Paula would be giggling right now. And so are you. That's good.
Eric Holder's DOJ, HHS, ACORN, SEIU, UAW, AFL-CIO, GM, NAMBLA & PETA have joined forces to file charges ranging from election fraud to civil rights hate crimes for the resurrection of a midget army of Republican zombies trying to sway the mid-term elections. A PETA spokes thing wept as it described the average Republican zombie as 3' in stature with a telltale cigarette hanging from its lips and almost always wearing the mangled fur of a dead animal, "From a distance they look like full grown country club members. They are frightening," it averred, "and they run in packs near neighborhoods most negatively affected by George W. Bush. If their CC bosses hadn't fought Health Care Reform we could have helped them."
A spokesman for the midgets, known as Chairman Short, responded, "This is racism. We are not a condition. We do not choose to be what we are. We were born this way and are damned proud of it." As reporters shouted more questions Chairman Short stomped on his spent Lucky Strike, straightened his 'Coolidge for President' button and faded into a strange swirling mist.
First thought this morning was that it is election day. I remember two years ago I had the same thought and as I turned on the TV the newspaper screamed 'historic' at me and the friendly crew of the Early Show stated that at long last the ugly season of Republican campaigning was over.
This morning they are discussing, in depth, special online sales and deals and the common cold. Last night the evening news had an in-depth discussion about teenage sex and the expected outcome. My, how two years cools the ardor of the marketeers of the party of the left.
ABC, this morning is tackling 'Look and Cook', home improvement and infidelity. NBC is toughing it out with babies that can read, civility and bargains for 'Todays Kitchen.'
Appropriate for election day CBS is fawning over a "Dream Job" for a gentleman who wants to cook. In the Caribbean. Paradise Island. Nassau. A member of the British Commonwealth.
Strange that another mysterious group has jumped into a race that OFO PAC is involved in and just like OFO they also have secret money and secret supporters.
However, no Tea Party groups in Ohio have heard of the group or endorsed Binsky.
"Until that flier came out, no one had ever heard of the Ohio State Tea Party," said Chris Littleton, head of the Ohio Liberty Council, an umbrella group of dozens of Tea Party organizations across Ohio. "Is somebody trying to spilt the ticket or do something shady? We suspect, but we don't really know."
A 49-year-old Bedford man listed as the group's treasurer declined to comment about who belongs to the group or who was behind the mailings.
The flier has Binsky and other Libertarians suspecting that Democrats are behind the mail piece as a ploy to drive conservatives away from voting for the Republican in the race, Matt Carle. Democrats, however, say they don't know anything about it.
This is tolerance... this is open-mindedness... I will particularly ignore those members of my own Episcopal Church who seek to break away from this body to form a "new church," claiming that this new and bigoted instrument alone now represents the Anglican Communion. Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives. Church unity can never be a virtue that is preserved by allowing injustice, oppression and psychological tyranny to go unchallenged. (emp mine)
The Bible says one thing, but Bishop John Shelby Spong states that it really says the opposite and that we are too intolerant and stupid to know any different. To some, I guess church unity in these modern times is more important than the Gospel.
I feel better knowing that I no longer am worthy of Spong's attention nor will I be subjected to his tolerance.
I guess this flier that just came in the mail is over and above the $2.5M that Our Future Ohio PAC magically got to spend on TV for Tedious Ted Strickland. It is heavy gauge stock, 4 color and 8 1/2 X 11. I'm sure they had it designed, printed, delivered and bulk mailed in just one week.
Of course, OFO PAC wants voters to think that John Kasich caused the meltdown of our economy. If they can get voters to think about that then voters won't remember Fannie and Freddie being protected by Democrats as housing prices continue to plummet. Nor do Democrats like Strickland/Fisher/Pelosi/Reid and Obama want voters to think about Trillion$ spent by big government liberals using Chinese loans to print worthless money while Ohio jobs were lost or moved out of state to the tune of 400,000.
Our Future Ohio PAC wants "transparency." OFO PAC wants transparency? When in Hell will Our Future Ohio PAC be transparent and tell voters who gave them millions of dollars to try to influence our election here in Ohio?
They won't tell voters where they got the money because the money is probably dirty money, not Ohio money or, possibly foreign money.
Transparency? The deceivers at OFO PAC wouldn't know transparency unless someone paid them bags full of cash to look it up in a dictionary.
But several people close to him say he has spent considerable time in the Senate trying to dispel an image that hung over him in the House: that of the sharp-elbowed politician who puts his own interest ahead of his party’s, a reputation that has led him to move very cautiously at the moment. In addition, leadership elections can be unpredictable and Mr. Durbin has his own advantages, like his support among the more liberal Senate Democrats.
Chucky "subtly stands in the Wings." Are there now no cameras in "the Wings"?
It will be interesting, there has been no play in the media yet, to see if the blatant thuggery and vote fixing that unions and other leftist groups are using in this election will finally bubble to the top as news stories, investigations and convictions. This is not the usual "You'll get a fair trial before we hang you" situation because there is proof of corruption and the proof shows that the corruption is getting worse.
Here in Ohio we have the usual union towns like Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron and Toledo which are sure votes for the Democrats because unions own those towns, they own the media in those towns and the town officials are acolytes to the unions. Also, we have groups popping up, like Our Future Ohio PAC, just before the election being funded by secret groups specifically to trash anybody that doesn't drink the union/liberal kool-aid and the media, their media, isn't even asking questions. The media can't because they're too busy toeing the union/liberal lie about rich Republicans and evil foreign donors to the USCOC and how that is a danger to our democracy. Our Democracy.
We're a Republic and their "democratic" anti-American ideals are washing over the country, our elections and our ideals in an attempt to take our Republic away from us.
Read the above article. It say what others only whisper. The Obama administration screwed its own just to get elected and now is screwing America. And all of it is based on lies and corruption.
Zack, Zach, whatever, does his carnival magic act of diverting voters attention away from what he doesn't want them to see.
What has Zack done on immigration? Well, he hasn't done squat for any of these immigration issues:
Reduce Chain Migration
Reduce Visa Lottery
Reduce Unnecessary Worker Visas
Reduce Amnesty Enticements
Reduce Refugee and Asylum Fraud
Challenge Status Quo
Reduce Anchor Baby Citizenship
Space did vote on these immigration issues:
Space voted in favor of allowing illegal aliens to vote in union elections Motion to Recommit H.R. 800 Space opposed a committee amendment to prevent illegal aliens from accessing taxpayer-funded health care in 2009 Deal amendmenttoH.R. 3200
Space supported a health bill that creates rewards or incentives for illegal immigration.H.R. 3962
It's been happening it seems forever. Ballot fraud. As with most crime there has to be an investigation, then the process of finding whether there is guilt or innocence and then an acquittal or conviction. The final decision is always after the election. Voter disenfranchisement (a term that means different things to different people) be damned. The election stands. Political pros know they can always find dupes to commit the crime and they know that only the little people take the fall in most cases. In ballot fraud the odds are in their favor and has a bonus of big future rewards for them.
There is a difference now.
The difference is an electorate that has had enough and with recording technology to verify the fraud. Voters are doing the job the media and government are refusing to do.
When will the MSM get outraged? What will it take?
This is a list that will grow in the next week or so. Then there will be, somewhere, a list of places where ballot fraud was successful in that it wasn't caught. There is also a list to be compiled that shows ballot fraud in precincts all over the country whether it is in big cities, towns and villages. This list will show friends trying to "help" friends, unethical campaigns, nursing homes residents having their votes changed or their votes being made without their knowledge, illegal voters hoodwinking election officials and on and on.
There is a pattern. When will it be exposed in the manner it should be exposed. When will the nightly news shout it, newspaper headlines boldly state the shame of it and government officials and courts demanding investigations? It won't happen, at least not by these groups who appear to be complicit in it.
As it has always been in America, good things happen when good people, not government nor compromised news outlets, make it happen. Time to get to work
With just six days left until Election Day, a key component of the Democratic strategy to hold the House is becoming clear: In more than a dozen close races, Democrats are encouraging and advancing little-known, conservative third-party candidates in an attempt to fracture the Republican vote enough to eke out narrow victories.
Definition of DECEPTION
1a : the act of deceiving b : the fact or condition of being deceived
2: something that deceives : trick
At times VP Jabbering Joe Biden slips up and states exactly what Democrats believe.
VPOTUS, who stood next to Bishop and grasped the four-term Democrat’s shoulder at several points during his remarks, waded into the audience as he discussed the nation’s need to compete with education and infrastructure investments made by nations like China and India, and Republican opposition to such spending.
“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. … No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years.”
Jabbering Joe probably has uncovered proof of an undislosed Dept. of Energy grant to Thomas Edison and a FAA funding of the Wright Bros. Maybe a light bulb will go on as he's flying back to Washington, DC.
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