• 1. “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” ~Thomas Jefferson
• 2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams
• 3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
• 4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
• 5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
• 6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
• 7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
• 8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
• 9. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
• 10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
• 11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
• 12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
• 13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
• 14. What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you NOT understand?
• 15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
• 16. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
• 17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

The latest “BIRTHERS” sign has arrived in front of the Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas, NV)

For those of you not familiar with this GRASSROOTS campaign started by Joseph Farah CEO of WND. It is real GRASSROOTS not “Pelosi Astroturf”. Want to contribute to their effort? Do it HERE.

Astroturf? … where does this embarrassment to all women come up with this stuff? I was never a fan when she hit the political stage (some people just have an “innate air” of phony about them). My opinion of her today is below that of pond scum.

I almost rolled out of my chair with laughter when I heard Dennis Miller’s description of her the other night on Bill OReilly. He called her a “Karma Compromiser” … one who compromises or negated all of the good work you have accumulated by your own good deeds by just be being around her.
As if that was not enough to bring tears of hysterical laughter to me his further description was the crowning glory … “vapid, insipid, empty headed, nasty piece of work”. I had to wonder how divinely inspired those comments were … LOL still.

I use to turn on the TV and find myself yelling at the stupidity of it all. Today I turn it on for my laugh of the day.

So what do I think about the “birthers” sign campaign?
1. They are certainly keeping the “birth certificate” in the public eye.
2. They demonstrate how the “Saul Alinsky” tactic of “attack the character of your opponent when you have no real valid attack” is alive and well in the Obama supporter camp. Much to their chagrin their opposition (conservatives, liberals, libertarians as well as thinking Democrats) are a quick study and are FINALLY starting to fight fire with fire (Ann Coulter leading the charge … with real life facts “not astroturf” as her shield and sword).
3. No matter what they are NOT GIVING UP!

I have to wonder how long it is going to take (if ever) before the Republicans pull their heads out of the sand (or worse their own asses) and wake up to the fact AMERICANS are FED UP.
WE ARE NOT MUSHROOMS!

The “ONE THING” that I can not reconcile in my mind is:
WHY!
Why is Obama spending close to a million and a half dollars on hiding ALL OF HIS RECORDS from a public that hired him?

I do not buy into Bill OReilly’s “he is simply arrogant”.
What? … is “arrogant” a good reason to piss off 1.4 million in lawyers fees. Is “arrogant” better than “arrogantly stupid”?
How does someone let “arrogantly stupid” over ride pride in your life achievements (if indeed your achievement is real)?
At what point in life being proud of your achievements (if you actually have them) over rides arrogance?

So for me it boils down to something fairly simple.
For a man to continue a fight over something so trivial (IF INDEED HE IS LEGITIMATE) means clearly?
HE DOES NOT HAVE THE PROPER CHARACTER TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.

I was reading this morning an article at Mises Daily about our American dollar.

Here is a snip: Store ‘em If You Got ‘em
Interestingly, when asked if there is anything else a person can store their savings in, globetrotting investor Doug Casey recently offered up an item that has historically been used as money — cigarettes. “Well, they keep raising the taxes on cigarettes — a pack now costs $10 in some places in the US, that’s 50 cents per individual cigarette,” Casey says.

If you’re American and are going to be storing things, you probably can’t go wrong building a stash of cigarettes. Even if you don’t smoke — or perhaps especially if you don’t smoke — every time you return to the US, you should buy the maximum amount of duty-free cigarettes allowed and store them.

Cigarettes, despite flunking the “durability” test, meet all the other criteria to make them a good monetary instrument. They are generally marketable, despite the constant attacks on their use as being unhealthy. Cigarettes are divisible, recognizable, (somewhat) homogeneous, and, due to the increased taxation, fairly stable in value and have a high value per unit weight. In fact, a 7-Eleven at the Jersey shore recently advertised selling cigarettes priced “at the state minimum.”

Cigarettes are so valuable that they are being stolen by the truckload to be sold in high-tax states — like New Jersey, New York, and Washington. But individual counties also ladle taxes on each pack leading to smuggling within a single state with varying county tax rates, reports the Wall Street Journal. “It’s a big business and it’s getting horribly bigger,” Paul Carey III, enforcement coordinator for the Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board, told the Wall Street Journal.

As in the case of counterfeiting, states don’t take cigarette bootlegging lightly. Undercover agents for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance arrested 18 people, including two 7-Eleven operators, for buying untaxed cigarettes. Smugglers are even willing to trade cocaine for cigarettes. “That tells you about the profit margin they saw on cigarettes,” the ATF’s Edgar Domenech told the Wall Street Journal.

Congressman Tom McClintock offered remarks in Washington , D.C. , on Friday to the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Pacific Research Institute that clearly illustrate why California is facing such a large fiscal mess.

His beginning joke is so funny because it is so true:
“I know that everybody likes to poke fun at California – but I can tell you right now that despite all of its problems, California remains one of the best places in the world to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a successful large business.”

Here is the rest of the speech:
Laugh if you will, but let me remind you that when these policies finish wrecking California, there are still 49 other states we can all move to – and yours is one of them.

I should also warn you of the strange sense of déjà-vu that I have every day on the House floor as I watch the same folly and blunders that wrecked California now being passed with reckless abandon in this Congress.

We passed a “Cash-for-Clunkers” bill the other day – we did that years ago in California .

Doubling the entire debt every five years? Been there.

Increasing spending at unsustainable rates? Done that.

Save-the-Planet-Carbon-Dioxide restrictions? Got the T-Shirt.

To understand how these policies can utterly destroy an economy and bankrupt a government, you have to remember the Golden State in its Golden Age.

A generation ago, California spent about half what it does today AFTER adjusting for both inflation and population growth.
And yet, we had the finest highway system in the world and the finest public school system in the country. California offered a FREE university education to every Californian who wanted one. We produced water and electricity so cheaply that many communities didn’t bother to measure the stuff. Our unemployment rate consistently ran well below the national rate and its diversified economy was nearly recession-proof.

One thing – and one thing only – has changed in those years: public policy. The political Left gradually gained dominance over California’s government and has imposed a disastrous agenda of radical and retrograde policies that have destroyed the quality of life that Californians once took for granted.

The Census Bureau reports that in the last two years 2/3 of a million more people have moved out of California than have moved into it. Many are leaving for the garden spots of Nevada, Arizona and Texas . Think about that. California is blessed with the most equitable climate in the entire Western Hemisphere; it has the most bountiful resources anywhere in the continental United States; it is poised on the Pacific Rim in a position to dominate world trade for the next century, and yet people are finding a better place to live and work and raise their families in the middle of the Nevada and Arizona and Texas deserts.

I submit to you that no conceivable act of God could wreak such devastation as to turn California into a less desirable place to live than the middle of the Nevada Nuclear Test Range . Only Acts of Government can do that. And they have.

You can trace the collapse of California’s economy to several critical events: the rise of environmental Ludditism beginning in 1974; the abandonment of constitutional checks and balances that once constrained spending and borrowing; and the rise of rule by public employee unions . There are other factors as well: litigation, taxation, illegal immigration – but for the sake of time let me concentrate on the big three.

The first was the rise of environmental Ludditism with the election of a radical new-age leftist named Jerry Brown as governor of the state – an election that also produced overwhelming liberal majorities in both legislative houses.

Like Obama today, Brown lost little time in pursuing his vision of California – an incoherent combination of pastoral simplicity, European socialism and centralized planning. At the center of this world view was a backward ideology that he called his “era of limits” – the naïve notion that public works were growth inducing and polluting and that stopping the expansion of infrastructure somehow excused government from meeting the needs of an expanding population. Conservation replaced abundance as the chief aim of California ‘s public works, and public policy was redirected to developing irresistible incentives for the population to concentrate in dense urban cores rather than to settle in suburban communities. Brown infused his vision into every aspect of public policy, and it is a testament to his thoroughness and tenacity that its basic tenets have dominated the direction of California through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

He cancelled the state’s highway construction program, abandoning many routes in mid-construction. He cancelled long-planned water projects, conveyance facilities and dams. He established the California Energy Commission that blocked approval of any significant new generating capacity. He enacted volumes of environmental regulations that created severe impediments to home and commercial construction, empowering an incipient no-growth movement that began on the most extreme fringe of the environmental cause and quickly spread. This movement reached its zenith with Arnold Schwarzenegger and t he enactment of AB 32 and companion legislation in 2006. This measure gives virtually unchecked authority to the California Air Resources Board to force Draconian reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020.

This has dire implications to entire segments of California ‘s economy: agriculture, baking, distilling, cargo and passenger transportation, cement production, manufacturing, construction and energy production, to name a few.

We, too, were promised an explosion of “green jobs,” but exactly the opposite has happened.

Up until that bill took effect, California ‘s unemployment numbers tracked very closely with the national unemployment rate. But since then, California ‘s unemployment rate began a steady upward divergence from the national jobless figures. Today, California ‘s unemployment rate is more than two points above the national rate, and at its highest point since 1941.

The second problem is structural: the collapse of the checks and balances and other constitutional and traditional constraints on government spending and borrowing.

Let me mention a few of them.

The State Supreme Court decision in Serrano v. Priest severed the use of local revenue for local schools and invited the state take-over of public education. AB 8 of 1979 – the legislature’s response to Proposition 13 – essentially did the same thing to local governments generally.

This means that vast bureaucracies have grown up over the service delivery level, wasting more and more resources while hamstringing teachers in their classrooms, wardens in their prisons and city councils in their towns.

Next, constitutional constraints on fiscal excesses began to fall. In 1983, Gov. George Deukmejian approved legislation to remove the governor’s ability to make mid-year budget corrections without having to return to the legislature. The loss of this provision exposed the state to chronic deficit spending by removing any ability of the governor to rapidly respond to changing economic conditions. In 1989, Deukmejian sponsored Proposition 111 that destroyed the Gann Spending Limit that had held increases in state spending to inflation and population growth. If that limit had remained intact, California would be enjoying a budget surplus today.

The disastrous tax increases by Pete Wilson in
1991 and Arnold Schwarzenegger this year were made possible by this tragic blunder. Finally, we’ve watched the constitutional budget process that had produced relatively punctual and relatively balanced budgets for nearly 150 years collapse in favor of an extra-constitutional abomination called the big five.

That new process, that began under Pete Wilson and has culminated under Arnold Schwarzenegger bypasses the entire legislative deliberative process in favor of an annual deal struck between the governor and legislative leaders behind closed doors and handed to the legislature as a fait accompli.

This short-circuits the separation of powers that is designed to discipline fiscal excess and it literally bargains away the line-item veto authority of the governor. It is a process that allows legislative leaders to extract concessions from the executive that would not be possible if the separation of powers were maintained. With the checks against excessive spending broken down, borrowing became the preferred method of public finance. The Constitutional requ irement that all taxpayer-supported debt be approved by voters began to erode in the 1930′s, when a depression-era Supreme Court decision allowed the state to run a temporary deficit in the event of an economic down-turn – as long as the shortfall was addressed in the following fiscal year. This practice was narrowly construed until the Wilson administration began using it to justify spreading out a single year’s budget deficit over several years.
During the 1980′s, Gov. Deukmejian began employing a legal fiction called a “lease revenue bond,” to circumvent constitutionally required voter approval.

Although Proposition 13 still protects property owners from unsustainable increases in their property taxes, most of the other fiscal constraints are now gone, and California has entered a period of unprecedented public debt to finance an unprecedented expansion of state government.

The third factor that also can be traced back to the 1970′s was the radical transformation that took place in the nature and power of the state’s public employee unions. Until that time, state law prohibited public employee strikes against the public and prohibited collective bargaining or closed shops.

During the Jerry Brown era, a series of collective bargaining acts handed to public sector unions all the rights and powers of private sector unions – but without any of the natural constraints on private sector unions. The unions soon brought these newly-won powers to bear to elect hand-picked officials to state and local office.
Today, political expenditures by public employee unions exceed all other special interest groups, while they hold compliant majorities in the state legislature and most local agencies.

The result has been radically escalating personnel costs and radically deteriorating performance.

The impact on governmental services has been devastating. Despite exploding budgets, service delivery is collapsing. Firing incompetent teachers has become a virtual impossibility, adding to the deterioration of educational quality. Essential services can no longer be performed because labor costs have made it impossible to sustain those services.

Today, California is like the shopkeeper who leased out too much space, ordered too much inventory, hired too many people and paid them too much. Every month the shopkeeper covers his shortfalls with borrowing and bookkeeping tricks. Ultimately, he will reach a tipping point where anything he does makes his situation worse. Borrowing costs are eating him alive and he’s running out of credit. Raising prices causes his sales to decline. And there’s only so much discretionary spending he can cut.

That’s the state’s predicament in a nutshell. California ‘s borrowing costs now exceed the budget of the entire University of California and it is increasingly likely that it will fail to find lenders when it must borrow billions to pay its bills at the end of this month. Ignoring dire warnings, Gov. Schwarzenegger and legislators from both parties earlier this year imposed the biggest state tax increase in American history.

And I can assure you that the Laffer curve is alive and well. In the first two months after the tax increase took effect, state revenues have plunged 33 percent.

Although there are many obsolete, duplicative or low priority programs and20expenditures that the state can – and should – do without, there aren’t enough of them to come anywhere close to closing California ‘s deficit.

Sadly, California has reached the terminal stage of a bureaucratic state, where government has become so large and so tangled that it can no longer perform even basic functions.

Fortunately, we have a model that we know works. A generation ago, it produced a high quality of public service at a much lower cost. It maximized management flexibility and it required accountability at the service delivery level. It recognized that only when commerce and enterprise flourish can we finance the basic responsibilities of government.

Restoring this efficiency will require a governor and a legislature with the political will to wrestle control from the public employee unions, dismantle the enormous bureaucracies that have grown up over the service delivery level, decentralize administration and decision making, contract out services that the private sector can provide more efficiently, rescind the recent tax increases that are costing the state money and roll back the regulatory obstacles to productive enterprise.

Alas, we don’t have such leaders and even if we did, the systemic reorganization of the state government can’t be accomplished overnight. Restructuring the public schools would take at least a year; prisons at least two; and health and welfare three to five years before serious savings could be realized.

This brings us to the fine point of the matter. What Churchill called history’s “terrible, chilling words” are about to be pronounced on California ‘s failed leadership: “too late.”

A federal loan guarantee or bailout may be the only way to buy time for the restructuring of California ‘s bureaucracies to take effect, but the discussion remains academic until and unless the state actually adopts the replacement structures, unburdens its shrinking productive sector and presents a credible plan to redeem the state’s crushing debt and looming obligations.

Without these actions, federal intervention will only make California ‘s problems worse by postponing reform, continuing unsustainable spending and piling up still more debt.

In short, if California won’t help itself, the federal government cannot, should not and must not.

And before anyone gets too smug at California ‘s agony, remember this: Congress is now enacting the same policies at the national level that have caused the collapse of California . So whistle past this cemetery if you must, but remember the medieval epitaph:
“Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I; as I am now so you will be.” The good news is there is still time for the nation to avoid California ‘s fate. If anything, the collapse of California can at least serve as a morality play for the rest of the nation – unfortunately in the form of a Greek tragedy.

Usually the “gimme generation” is the generation “Y” crowds of older teens and twenty something’s who are all self absorbed with themselves. But when the term “gimme” comes up I tend to think of “The Greatest Generation” as Tom Brokaw termed them. These are the elderly today who went through the Great Depression and WWII. Two generations sacrificed financially and with their blood. After the war many went to college on the GI Bill and the process of hitting up the government for goodies was firmly engrained in the psyche of the folks.

My grandmother is one of these people. She thinks Hoover was a laze faire corporate shrill and Roosevelt a god. When I point out to her taxes were raised to 55% and federal spending increased 40% under Hoover she just ignores it. When I tell her taxes were raised to 70% and the average unemployment rate was 17.2% under Roosevelt’s miserable 11 year dictatorship she doesn’t believe me. To her and millions of elderly there is nothing wrong the federal government can do. And they have been this way for decades. Dictatorship and fascism go together like ice cream, apple pie and baseball for this generation.

And then comes this half Negro president and his party that has paid them off for generations with social security ponzi schemes (this generation only paid 1.65% tax for SS), Medicaid, Medicare and a whole plethora of government goodies taken form their kids and given to them. And all of a sudden the roles are REVERSED! The half Negro and his fascist buddies are now going to rob Medicaid and enrich politicians and give “THEIR” money to illegal immigrants and Negros! Quite astonishing for these coddled old farts who never meet a government hand out they didn’t like.

Quite similar to the Jews reaction in fascist Italy in 1938 when Hitler told Mussolini to start putting his Jewish supporters in ovens instead of the presidential palace. The Jews were the strongest supporters of fascism both politically and financially and JUST LIKE THAT the fascist turned on them. Boom. And the fascist never looked back. The Jews did end up in the ovens just like the elderly will end up dealing with “Death Panels”.

And what is the lesson in all this? Dictatorships and dictators will use anyone to get that power. You may think (psss 78% of American Jews who supported Obama) you’re on the right side of the dictatorship but it can change literally overnight.

And now the greatest generation has had the dictatorship they have nurtured and created their entire life turn on them. Cry me a river.

It seems we are seeing some pretty desperate moves coming from the Whitehouse of late.

The president is busy scurrying from town to town standing in front of hundreds spouting (ad nauseam) either lies or examples that are drop dead funny.
My favorite was the clip of him comparing UPS, FedX and the Post Office.
None of it furthers his cause of the “Health Care Make Over” very much.

By now the people are more “boned up” on the documents being rushed through congress at the speed of sound and are NOT SO RESPECTFULLY saying NO!

For those of you who follow this blog you know one of my biggest peeves is hypocrisy.
After 8 years of listening to the “Bush Haters” drag out every disrespect known to man against him … I have little respect for these whiners now weeping and wailing as the mass is beginning to shout NO ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to Obama.

What is this latest illegal and desperate move out of the Whitehouse?
SPAM?
I personally received 3 so far one supposedly from the president, one supposedly from the first lady and the 3rd about health care. I did not stop and think seriously about it until all of this hit the fan yesterday.
Otherwise I would have pulled the headers and reported them to SpamCop.
Gee whiz silly me!

Now I am left to wonder where did they mine these email addresses?
Have they joined the hated “spam bots” who crawl websites, blogs, facebook, twitter etc. looking for email addresses that they can spam?
What other clandestine crap are they pulling behind our back that comes from laws passed under Bush and foisted on us under the guise of Homeland Security?

We are beginning to see change all right.
That 1% who pushed Obama into office (falling for the HOPE AND CHANGE CON) are beginning to wake up.
I would be willing to bet if election were held today he would be out on his “patooty” along with Reid, Pelosi, Frank, and the rest of the corrupt crew.

I chuckle at the media who says he is losing ground over the “health reform” … wake up MEDIA he is losing ground because the mass is opening their eyes and screaming “holy cow” … so much for hope and change the guy is simply a “crooked Chicago Politician”. More of the same BLA BLA BLA!

What is the REAL CHANGE on the horizon?
THE PEOPLE are awakened, banding together and are willing to fight for the liberty we have allowed to clandestinely be snatched from our grasp while we were busy earning the money the government is so free to piss off.

Who forgets THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT generate REAL MONEY without us?

By Ben Stein on 7.24.09 @ 9:45AM

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.

Leave it to Canada to reporting the news of the day.

In these times of recession a president who says he understands “the government coffers are tapped” apparently does not think it applies to him or his family.

Wonder if he understands HIGH ON THE HOG?

By the staff of thelastcrusade.org

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
–Albert Einstein

“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “ Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.

How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

1.$172,2000 – Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
2.$140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
3.$113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
4.$102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
5.Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
6.$90,000 – Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
7.$84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
8.$75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
9.$70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
10.$65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
11.Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
12.$62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
13.$60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
14.Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
15.$52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
16.$50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
17.$45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
18.Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
19.$40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
20.$36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
21.Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
22.Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

Who is the writer of this article?

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is the author of such best-selling books as The Day of Islam, The Al Qaeda Connection, Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Crusades and The Vatican Exposed. An award-winning journalist, he is a frequent guest on such national news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Williams operates from his blog thelastcrusade.org

I am an insignificant blogger out there who is in desperate need of your re-education camps you will soon be setting up. Much like the communist did in Cambodia and Vietnam after the conflict ended in 1975. You see while I had government indoctrination in my primary and secondary education it seems as though the propaganda didn’t’ take hold in me. I had further government education for my bachelors and masters degree programs but some of the professors were not as complicit as my previous teachers in high school. You see after all my education I came to the politically incorrect conclusion that the federal government is incapable of administering any program more efficiently than the private sector. I even went so far as to register to vote with the Libertarian Party. Surly this party will be banned in the coming years f or their subversive ideas and thoughts.

My first glimpse at the incompetence of federal judges and officials was in the 1970’s in Pontiac, Michigan when my school district was forced to integrate its school system when I was a 5th grader. When the program was started it was Kim by Ya, peace, tranquility, the Age of Aquarius. Academic standards were lowered and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world to not have to study. Really I was quite impressed with this new dumb down system of lower expectations. It made my junior high years really live up to the name junior high all the time years. It was cool missing 30+ days a year and still being moved on to the next grade. Wonderful years filled with gang activity, violence, drugs and getting slapped in the face by all the girls when I approached them. And then it all ended.

I moved in with my father and an all white school district except for one black guy. I was shocked and sober for the first time in my life. These kids dressed nice, studied and the most radical thing they talked about was the latest Kiss concert. It was a complete and total cultural shock. I didn’t know what to do. I had to read books for the first time in years. Russian history? You got to be kidding me! And what was really freaking me out is even though I studied I only got C’s. It was then after I woke up out of my drug induced slumber I began questioning THE GOVERNMENT!

How could they destroy a community all in the name of equality? Whose equality? And who gained? The black kids didn’t gain anything from crappy schools. Sitting next to white kids didn’t improve their IQ any. All it did was encourage gang formation and violence as the two groups fought for dominance. Maybe that’s what the federal judge wanted? A good gang fight? The City of Pontiac was destroyed by busing just as Detroit, Flint, Lansing, Benton Harbor and many others. Anyone with money moved out and the welfare queens moved in.

As I moved through life I saw social security on the verge of bankruptcy. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill raised my taxes to bail the program out and the “lock box” never materialized. Politicians continue to this day to raid the fund making it an unsustainable program. My Medicaid taxes went up. And my property taxes. It just seems like a never ending cycle of taxes for nothing.

And now you want more from me to pay heath care for illegal aliens and the uninsured. Let me tell you a secret. I was in poverty when I was young. My mother was on every welfare program she=2 0could get signed up for. You know how I escaped the cycle of poverty? My secret? I got a job.

It was a horrible experience at first. I had to show up to work at this office and do these crappy cores all day long. This psychology major with a bad attitude was my boss and he really sucked. It was the pits. Gradually I began to realize these jerks paid me every two weeks. They paid me money. It was really quite shocking. And after 90 days I got medical insurance. Not that I ever used it but they told me it was a valuable thing to have. And there is my secret to you Mr. Obama on how I was able to move into the middle class and get health insurance. I will allow you to use my secret and tell it to the 47 million uninsured if you would like to. I just kind of stumbled on it myself, having no guidance from my school or family. My life experiences as a wise white man make me uniquely qualified and I am honored to pass it along to you a guy who has never worked a day in your life.

Here is a link to my disinformation about reforming health care along capitalistic competition models. I am sure you will find it inflammatory propaganda and immediately sign me up for your re-education camps. You know after the Vietnam War I read about the communist re-education camps and always wondered if they were as fun as my summer camps on Crystal Lake in Michigan. I guess I will be finding out soon.

Sincerely
Economics9698

Who do you trust? Who should “we” trust? Is it smart to trust in the character of our President today?

There is indeed a tangled web that surrounds Barack Obama. It is becoming more and more clear there is more to the story Obama told in his autobiography “Dreams From My Father.” Could this all be simple fabrication with a bit of truth tossed in?

World Net Daily has been relentless with their research of facts. Unlike others who report they back up their comentary with real live documentation from OFFICIAL RECORDS … not documents made up or doctored in PHOTOSHOP. Here is the latest hot off the press.

BORN IN THE USA?
Evidence challenges claim over Obama’s birth address
Father in bachelor pad while mom left islandsPosted: August 09, 2009 7:40 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Documents uncovered by WND strongly suggest Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s parents, did not live at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in Hawaii – even though birth announcements in local newspapers listed that address.

Both newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin, carried the announcement about the Aug. 4, 1961, birth. Both included the 6085 Kalanianaole Highway address.

But WND has confirmed that the house at that street number was owned and occupied in 1961 by another longtime resident Hawaiian couple. Moreover, throughout the time he was in Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr. maintained his own separate apartment at 625 11th Ave. in Kaimuki, within walking distance of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he was enrolled for studies in the fall term 1959.

‘Birth home’ at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway on Oahu

The records from a Honolulu title search, obtained by WND, document 6085 Kalanianaole Highway was purchased in 1958 by Orland Scott Lefforge, a University of Hawaii professor, and his wife/companion Thelma Young, who lived at the property and remained owners into the 1970s.
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