While releasing terrorists and investigating the CIA for their treatment of terrorists, Obama is also trying to erase our "harsh" memories of September 11, 2001. This administration has signed into law, a new view of September 11th. It is now a National Day of Service. Their motivation is to "take September 11th away from Republicans," because in Obama's view, it's a Republican day. The plan is to push activism, the environment, ethanol, service in the sense of ACORN activity and forgetting all about those "detainees" and the devastation they inflicted upon New York, Pennsylvania and the whole country.

Who's behind this? http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911

"The administration's plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group's senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.

Yearwood, who uses the honorific "Reverend" before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the "Democracy Now" radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. "I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die," he said. "

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.

Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn't happy that TV's Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" who became the president's green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show. Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. The group has acknowledged that it dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.

With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media -- which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation's first black president -- to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens. "

Please read the entire article for more disturbing details.

Did you hear about this on television? Was there any debate about this? Did anyone ask "We the People" if we wanted to change it's meaning?

Start planning your own observance of September 11 and boycott everything Obama and his Communist organizations do. Boycott the television stations and networks that cover the Obamanation of September 11th. Don't let the true memory of that terrible day be painted over with Obama's agenda. This day belongs to all of us. We will continue to call them terrorists, not detainees, and continue to observe September 11th as the day that radical Islamic terrorists killed over 3,000 people on American soil. We will not call them freedom fighters or detainees. We will not refer to the war on terror as an "overseas contingency plan". Of course, it now looks as if that accurately sums up Obama's orchestration of the war on terror.

Put flags on your houses, your cars and everything that you can place a flag on. Wear flag pins on red, white and blue clothing. Put black ribbons on your yard trees and front doors. Hang them from your porch lights. Set up candles and crosses in your yards, offices and churches. Hold church services in remembrance. Hold prayer services for the families and pray for America. Refuse to be led by Obama down a path of neutralizing September 11th and turning it into a Democrat's dream of left-wing activism, environmentalism and enrolling citizens in Obama's civil army. No one asked you if you wanted to "fundamentally change" the way we observe September 11th.

Don't let them get away with it.

Obama Promised to Fundamentally Change America

fun·da·men·tal :
Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary: the fundamental laws of the universe.
Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central:




Five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America! Look at all those happy people behind Obama as he tells them that he is going to change the very foundation of America, the bastion of freedom in the world, the country that stands up to bullies and dictators around the world, the center of economic growth, the most generous and charitable nation in the world, a place where everyone's dreams can come true, a mix of every nationality and religion, yet not plagued with hatred and terrorism. What are they smiling about? Why do they want to change the basic foundation of America?

What is it that those smiling people are happy to change? Is it the Constitution? The Bill of Rights? Freedom? Individual liberty? Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers? Amendments protecting citizens from "big brother"? Amendments prohibiting unreasonable search and seizure of citizens and their homes? Free elections? Self-government? Debate of the issues open to the public and broadcast on C-Span?

A two-term President rather than a life-time dictator or royal monarch? Freedom of speech? Everyone taking care of themselves and their families without government interferance? The right to own property, homes and one's own wealth? The right to travel the world? The right to worship our God as we see fit?

July 4th celebrations of the birth of our nation, our founding fathers, patriotic parades? Religious services on Sunday or Saturday, depending on your faith? Freedom to put your children in private, religious or public school or home-educate them? The right to spend your money any way you want, to invest it or save it? The right to drive whatever you want? The right to privacy?

Someone tell us which fundamental component of our country's foundation are they happy to change? Which basic element in the foundation of our country do they want Obama to change? I wonder if they will still be happy after the fundamental changes are made. I know I won't. I love the basic foundation of this country. Someone once said,

"No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.

This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?

Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation -- the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.

We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.

Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.

If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775

NOW IT'S A $9 TRILLION DEFICIT?

So it’s Friday afternoon and everyone’s anxious to get on with their weekend plans, especially the Obamas who are taking off for a vacation in “the tony Martha’s Vineyard”, as some reporters put it. They’ve rented a $20 million dollar farm from a wealthy Republican, which begs the question, “why did Michelle tell college students at their commencement ceremony to forego a corporate career and chose a life of service, essentially steering them away from making hefty salaries. It seems like a case of “do as I say, not as I do”, which is a typical Obama pattern.

What you might have missed in all the vacation talk, or your own scurry home for the weekend, is the little bit of news released by the White House amidst the Friday afternoon “no one is paying any attention right now” time slot. Obama’s administration has raised its 10-year deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion. They tried to stick with the former projection of $7.1 trillion (oh what’s a trillion or two?), but finally had to agree with the Office of Management and Budget Office on the higher figure.

This doesn’t include the universal health care bill that the Congressional Budget Office pegs at a cost of $1.6 trillion or the cap and trade bill that will wind up costing $2 trillion over eight years instead of Obama’s initial projection of $646 billion. As usual, the government underestimated the costs. Don’t be surprised if they raise the projection for the cost of the health care bill, too. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/03/18/will-can-andtrade-cost-2-trillion.html

So why do you think Obama’s people released the new $2 trillion higher figure on Friday afternoon as the President is capturing the news media’s attention with his vacation plans? Why do they always tend to release bad information on Friday afternoon during the “no one’s paying any attention right now” time slot?

With the Communist Chinese buying our debt instruments, at least for now, we could find ourselves in a peck of trouble someday. Where will the government get the money to pay these astronomical debt amounts if and when the Chinese call it in? They’ve got two places to grab a buck or a trillion bucks: print it or take it from our paychecks by hiking taxes to astronomically high rates. If they print it, the dollars in our bank accounts will be diluted to minimal value. A dollar that once bought a loaf of bread, now only buys one-fourth of a loaf. So it could take four diluted dollars to buy the same loaf. (Of course, I’m not trying to be accurate, just over-simplifying.) Either way, or a combination of the two, would be devastating to families, young people trying to get started in life and retirees on a fixed income.

It certainly seems that Obama is hell-bent on taking Americans to that unholy place of “flat-broke” at home and in Washington, D.C. Do you think the White House, the Congress and the Senate will give up their jets, cushy hotels, world travel, expensive restaurants and other perks to save money? Rather doubt it, don’t you? They never have!

We’re going to have to stand up and fight these bills and expenditures without growing weary. We can’t let up. Our future is at stake. Our chidren and grandchildren’s futures are at stake. America is a republic, and it should never be a banana republic.

The Day the Health Care Died/Sung by Paul Shanklin

Gathering Storm

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Universal Health Care - Obama Intends to Get It Done

Obama intends to get it done, no matter what he has to do, no matter what he has to say. He intends to get it done. Universal health care - socialized health care.

Here’s the tactics he uses to sway the people.

He speaks in generalities so that the public projects whatever they desire onto what he said. They interpret what he means through their own desires. He speaks in generalities so that no one can take issue with him and he can say that he didn’t say “that”.

He says what he really means to his left wing, liberal and progressive special interest groups to secure their vote and enlist their help and support. He’s at home with them and speaks the truth among friends. When speaking to the general population on the same issue, he waters down his ideas and makes them acceptable to everyone, but keeps his agenda. He brings the general public along gradually, or so he thinks.

He blames everything on the previous adminsitration and paints himself as just arriving and hands clean, all the while working furiously to strong arm everyone into compliance with his agenda. Mr. Clean does his dirty work behind closed doors.

When speaking to the American public, he drops his Ivy League speech patterns and gets down to the level of the common man. Many people fall for that one. They believe he’s one of them and they trust him. He is not your average Joe (No pun intended. Apologies to Joe the Plumber.) He lives among the rich, like the rich because he is rich. Read Michelle Malkin’s new book, Cultur of Corruption. One chapter explains all the ways Michelle Obama made hundreds of thousands of dollars every year after her husband was elected to the Illinois Senate and then more so after he became U.S. Senator from Illinois.

To ensure that his listeners trust him, he evokes their sympathy by telling a heart-wrenching story about his mother or grandmother dying. People are supposed to melt and agree with him. Once he’s back at the White House, it’s business as usual - hard line progressive, socialist or whatever category it falls into. But it’s not what the freedom-loving Americans want.
When asked about his previous controversial statements, he claims he is being taken “out of context.” However, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

A particularly disgusting tactic Obama uses routinely is to attack, mock and denigrate anyone and everyone who disagrees with or opposes him. But, when the shoe is on the other foot and he’s being mocked, Obama is indignant. How dare they?

A tactic that is particularly deceptive, but not exclusively Obamas’ is that of not calling a spade “a spade.” The killing of a living human baby in its mother’s womb is not called murder, it’s called “abortion” because that is less repugnant. The “death panels” in the health care plan are not called “death panels” because that is highly objectionable. They are there, but they are given paragraphs of soothing descriptions rather than a name that sums up what they will do. There will be lots of government appointed agencies that decide how to spend the allocated funds for health care. They will have mandates and restrictions. When money is tight, they will figure out that it is better, in their minds, to spend the money on younger, more productive people than on older retirees, the infirmed and the end of life’ers. People will decide to allow some folks to die rather than spend a lot of money on their treatment. As Obama said to a woman asking about care for the elderly, it might be better to give her mother a pain pill rather than surgery. That decision should be left to each individual, not a government appointed stranger in another state. This cannot be called “freedom” by anyone’s definition.

Lastly, Obama says one thing and does the opposite.

He may have been forced to back off for now, but don’t let your guard down. He intends to get it done. He may tack parts of universal health care on the backs of other bills that have nothing to do with health care. It may be passed in the middle of the night with little media coverage.

Don’t stop attending town hall meetings. If Obama himself comes to your town, try to go and ask him about his statements in the video presented here. Don’t accept the answer that he was taken out of context. He was not. He’s said it too often in different places. Ask him where HIS health care plan is. (He doesn’t have one.) Ask him when his discussion panel was ever on C-SPAN for the American people to watch. Ask him when any of his bills, cap and trade, bail-outs, buying General Motors, and now health care, was ever open and transparent. Ask him to list all the things that are MANDATORY in Congress’s health care plan and what the penalties are.

This man has lied to get elected, lies to get his agenda passed and lies when he’s asked about anything controversial. There is no reason to trust him now. He is saying whatever he has to say to get his agenda passed. Know this – he intends to get it done, despite the American public.

Time Magazine's Dr. Death Spin

The article in Time Online, “Ezekiel Emanuel, Obama’s ‘Deadly Doctor’, Strikes Back,” by Michael Scherer, August 12, 2009, seems like a spin control piece by an Obama supporter. If Mr. Scherer would read Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s book, The End of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polity, he would know that Dr. Emanuel has very radical views not aligned with main stream America.

Emanuel’s statements and writings have not been taken out of context. That’s the standard defense of anyone who’s been caught by the truth. Case in point, the YouTube video of Obama in 2007 stating that he favors a single-payer health care system in America. He has no defense. He’s caught. He can’t say that he didn’t say it, so he shifts to, “I was taken out of context.” That’s the usual defense when caught.

America should ask the question, “Why does anyone have to decide what kind of care and how much care any other human being is allowed to have?” There’s no need. Keep the government out of our most personal decisions. We’ll make them for ourselves. Then it won’t matter how radical Emanuel is or isn’t.

And as for those awards that are supposed to validate Emanuel’s statements, well, just remember that Yassar Arafat, father of modern day terrorism, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! Awards mean very little now days.

BTW, Americans should know that Chicago politics has moved to the White House. “No one has leveled with the public about these dangerous views. Nor have most people heard about the arm-twisting, Chicago-style tactics being used to force support. In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, Emanuel explained how business should be done: “Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration’s health-reform effort.”

Do we want a “reform” that empowers people like this to decide for us? Betsy McCaughey, New York Post, http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm?page=2 Betsy McCaughey is founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former New York lieutenant governor.

BE SURE YOU SEE THIS: http://romanticpoet.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/democracy-alliance.jpg

Obama's Tech Policies

Larry Lessig - Obama's Tech Advisor




Follow up to the posts, “Fourth Amendment/Cash for Clunkers Program” and” Cash for Clunkers – A Gov’t Worm Hole”: Why we should be suspicious of the government disclaimer that any computer logged on to the Cash for Clunkers Program web site becomes the property of the Federal Government and they take all rights to anything on the citizens’/car dealers’ computers.

On April 27, 2008, Marbie’s Blog wrote about Larry Lessig, an Obama friend, colleague and Obama’s technology expert/advisor during his presidential campaign. See the original post below.

Today, the referrenced web sites have been cleansed of everything controversial, but I personally saw what I wrote about on April 27, 2008. Larry Lessig would not be a Christian’s choice, and Obama claims to be a Christian, and the film maker, Javier Prato, was a self-proclaimed Marxist with Che Guevera faces all over his web site. All gone today. His current web site describes Prato as a digital guerilla.

Bottom line for today’s post is that there is reason to be suspicious of the Obama administration’s intentions and possible actions when citizens log on to government computers for any reason, especially in light of the disclaimer posted on the Cash for Clunkers program.

Glenn Beck, after reporting about the government disclaimer last week, has checked today and the disclaimer has changed to a much less threatening blurb, probably as a direct result of flack from citizen’s who heard Beck’s program. But does this action ensure our Fourth Amendment Rights will be protected now? It’s not clear, since Obama is over-riding previous bans on government computers using tracking cookies to store information about citizens and companies.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136001/Use_of_tracking_cookies_on_government_sites_sparks_privacy_concern

“Computerworld – Privacy advocates are raising questions about a proposal to revamp the use of tracking cookies on federal government Web sites.

Under the proposal, U.S. government agencies would be allowed to use single-session and multi-session cookies, including persistent cookies, to track users — as long as security and privacy standards governing the collection and use of tracking information are met. The agencies would have to post clear notice of data collection and allow users to opt-out.”

“If the plan is adopted, it would mark a departure from a policy first put in place in 2000 and updated in 2003that prohibits government sites from using persistent cookies “or any other means” such as Web beacons to track visitor activity, unless agency heads authorize their use. When tracking cookies are used, agencies must conspicuously post the reasons for collecting information, spell out the sort of data collected and detail privacy safeguards.

Privacy advocates have for some time maintained that such restrictions protect site visitors from being tracked and profiled. They have argued that users should reasonably expect privacy when visiting a government site and that any attempt to dilute the protections is ill-advised. Those concerns have grown in recent months, with many worried that the Obama Administration’s espousal of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking tools will affect long-held privacy protections.

Soon after Obama took office, for instance, privacy advocates were up in arms over a White House policy change that permitted the use of tracking cookies in YouTube videosembedded on the WhiteHouse.gov Web site.”

Now if you’re deciding whether or not to trust that the Obama administration will not collect, store or use information on your computer, remember the people Obama surrounds himself with. Remember Larry Lessig and the film he uses routinely in teaching seminars, produced by a Marxist film maker, who calls himself a digital guerilla.

ORIGINAL POST – APRIL 27, 2008





http://www.youtube=http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbRE_H5hoU

This video is over 61 minutes long. You don’t need to watch all of it. Skip the first 12 minutes and begin precisely at 12 minutes and 14 seconds.

I WARN YOU. IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN, YOU WILL BE OFFENDED.

Who is the narrator lecturing to Google company employees?

LAWRENCE (LARRY) LESSIG - Who is Larry Lessig? (April 27, 2008)

FORMER FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE AND ADVISER/AIDE OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Obama’s campaign website calls Lessig one of the industry experts supporting his technology plan. Larry Lessig has worked actively on behalf of Obama, explaining to journalists, Obama’s plan to appoint a technology czar to serve in the White House under the title of chief technology officer. Lessig’s website endorses Obama.

“In August 2006, several people in the audience walked out when Lessig showed the “Jesus Will Survive” video in his keynote address to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.” http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62484by Jerome R. Corsi

In the Google lecture, you hear them laughing at the video. Prefacing the video, Lessig warns the viewer that it is sensitive, and says, “I don’t know why”.

I KNOW AND I BET YOU KNOW!

Obama has said many, many times that he is NOT a Muslim and that he IS A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, how can he add someone as his campaign aide who has this anti-Christian sentiment and who uses a video depicting Jesus in this horrible way? I would expect Obama to be just as offended as I am, if he is truly a Christian. An aide’s religious beliefs don’t have to be in sync with a candidate, but when the candidate is a Christian and the aide is using (multiple times) such an offensive video, that does make a difference.

For the record, Lessig says he didnt’ make the film, he just chooses to use it in his lectures. There are hundreds of others he could have chosen, but he didn’t. He chose this one.

The film was made by Javier Prato. His web site is http://www.javierprato.com/. When you visit his site you will immediately notice that he has chosen Che Guevera’s picture to represent himself instead of his own and has used that picture repeatedly for his background. If you’re wondering where you’ve heard Che Guevera recently, it was the controversy over the Cuban Flag and the Che Guevera flag hanging in the Houston, Texas campaign office for Barack Hussein Obama.

Che Guevera was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary terrorist who was involved in efforts to overthrow governments in Guatemala and Cuba. He left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions in Congo-Kinshasa, then Bolivia, where he was captured and executed.

Isn’t it odd how the same themes keep popping up in Obama’s camp?

If you decide that this isn’t important, you should know what Wikipedia says about Lessig online at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

“He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications.”

“Lessig has known president Barack Obama since their days teaching law at the University of Chicago, and has been mentioned as a candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the telecommunications industry.“

What a horrible thought!

According to this Wikipedia article, Lessig, a political activist, decided to focus on political corruption through his wiki, “Lessig Wiki” and has encouraged the public to use it to document cases of corruption. This sounds a lot like Obama’s call for citizens to rat out their friends and neighbors by emailing the government’s new site flag.gov.

How long before Obama’s Opponents will be forced to wear arm bands bearing the tell-tale “OO” mark???

Of course, that is far-fetched, but his actions and those of his administration, are scary at best. We need to regain this country’s freedoms.

Be vigilant. Be wise. Be free.

"Obama Will Be Tested," Biden Said

Remember when Vice-P Joe Biden said that Obama would be tested in the first six months of his administration? Well, it’s been six months. Where’s the test? Could it be the two Russian submarines cruising just 200 miles off America’s Eastern Shores?

This follows Russian Navy exercises off the coast of Venezuela last summer and a visit by two of their destroyers to Cuba in November of 2008, just about election time in the States. It’s such a rare event that Defense Department officials “expressed wariness over the Kremlin’s motivation for ordering such an unusual mission.” MARK MAZZETTI and THOM SHANKER Published: August 4, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html?_r=1

The New York Times online further reported that:

“Any time the Russian Navy does something so out of the ordinary it is cause for worry,” said a senior Defense Dept. official.

“I don’t think they’ve put two first-line nuclear subs off the U.S. coast in about 15 years,” said Norman Polmar, a naval historian and submarine warfare expert.

According to Defense Department officials, one of the submarines remained in international waters on Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States. The location of the second remained unclear. (oh great!) Parenthesized expressions are my own.

One official said it headed south toward Cuba while another said it headed north. Let’s hope somebody knows where it actually is.

The funny thing is that Russian Pres. Medvedev called Obama Tuesday to wish him a happy birthday. (And by the way, Mr. Obama, we sent you two of our best subs for your birthday.)

Not to worry, though, because these Akula II subs are quieter than the older variant and shouldn’t disturb aquatic life or the delicate ecology of the sea. The Russians were careful to send their newest, most advanced sub which is capable of carrying torpedoes for attacking other submarines and surface vessels (whose, I wonder? ) and missiles for striking targets on land and at sea.

Even though the New York Times reported that one Defense Dept. official said one sub went south, while another official said it went north, the Times also reported in the same article that,

“We’ve known where they were, and we’re not concerned about our ability to track the subs,” the official added. “We’re concerned just because they are there.”

Huh? Now where exactly is that second sub?

I hope no one loses any sleep over this because Obama is sure to pass the test with flying colors (no pun intended) just like he’s passed every other test in his brief six months in the White House.

Notes: The Akula II class vessels are considered the quietest and deadliest of Russian nuclear-powered attack subs, built to engage surface taks forces and coastal facilities. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/971.htm

Although technically able to successfully deploy their long-range nuclear missiles while moored at their docks,[7] Soviet doctrine for these vessels was to have them attack North America while submerged under the arctic circle, avoiding the traversal of the GIUK gap to remain safe from enemy attack submarines and anti-submarine forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_class_submarine

9/12 MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. - 2

The time has come! ACORN has met it’s match. Americans for freedom, individual liberty, small uninstrusive government, lower taxes, individual responsibility and a free market are marching on Washington, D.C. September 12, 2009 to make their voices heard.

Visit: http://912dc.org/ for more information.

Go if you possibly can!

No doubt the main stream news media will not cover this event adequately, leaving the impression that nothing of any consequence happened. Go if you are able. Take a video camera and document the entire protest. Post that video on YouTube for everyone to see. Bypass the main stream media.

Call and write the main stream media and demand that they cover the protests against the current government activities that are un-Constitutional, illegal, instrusive, freedom-stealing and downright suffocating.

We’ve been calling the government officials on the carpet, but we’ve forgotten to do the same with the main stream media who are aiding and abetting the Obama administration’s efforts to change America into a third-world country with debt-burdened, unemployed and enslaved citizens, like Cuba.

Every day, let’s all contact the same news media and pressure them to cover Obama’s opposition to the same extent that they covered Pres. Bush’s opposition. Let’s demand that they cover us as much as they covered Michael Moore’s diatribes.

Today’s news media in the cross-hairs is:

ABC

500 S. Buena Vista St.

Burbank, California 91521-4551

818-460-7477

abc.g0.com

Tell them you want to see most, if not all, of the Tea Party protests, the 9/12 March on Washington, D.C. and the town meetings. Insist they give accurate attendance numbers and honestly report on the protests without spinning them as insignificant, violent or nut-cases.

Tomorrow, we’ll contact another news media.

Scary Health Care Instrusion Bill

Notice the two snakes in the medical symbol. They are the legislative and executive branch of the current U.S. Government.

Here’s the work of another person who read the bill:

Call or email your congressman and let him know your opinion. This is House Bill 3200—look up http://www.house.gov/ under Thomas system by bill number. You can read it yourself. Another excellent critique was the article in Fortune magazine recently.

Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard (this is strange since our Texas House Representative from Waco, Jim Dunam, was able to defeat a Voter ID card because elderly folks couldn’t get out and get a card! If they can’t get a voter’s ID surely it would be a kiss of death if they can’t get a proper National ID Healthcard!)
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the governmentmonopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcareindustries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

Call or email your congressman and let him know your opinion. This is House Bill 3200—look up http://www.house.gov/ under Thomas system by bill number. You can read it yourself. Another excellent critique was the article in Fortune magazine recently.

Remember to look at the bill yourself. That way, you don’t have to decide which voices to listen to.

JUST SHOW ME THE DANGED LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

Whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen, I'm surprised at the people who don't care to be sure of it. This is a basic Constitutional protection for U.S. citizens. It prevents our enemies from planting someone in the highest office in the land and protects U.S. from those who don't have American beliefs from becoming our ruler. If we allow anyone to usurp the office of the President and don't even care if he is eligible, then it's over. Nothing else will make a difference.

I applaud those who were willing to suffer ridicule to make sure that the Constitution is upheld. This is just as important to our liberty as any of the amendments. Whether or not someone is eligible to be our president is just as important as any of the issues we are debating. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can debate it all.

We all should know by now that "proof" offered by Obama doesn't necessarily close the case. He's not known for being completely truthful when he wants something. Everyone knows how to "Photoshop" documents and Obama hired a technology czar. His campaign caused a lot of the controversy by giving two different hospitals as his birthplace. His grandmother complicated things by stating that he was born in Kenya and she was there. Then Obama refused to release the long form and put this whole controversy to rest. Why not? It's so simple. He could do it today and everyone would drop it. Blame him for the life of this controversy.

Those who say that the State of Hawaii has verified that he was born in Hawaii should read their statement again. All it says it that they have it. They don't say anything about his citizenship or place of birth. In fact, they say they can't comment on any of that. They can only give that information to Obama by law. According to Hawaiian law, he could have been born anywhere and his mother, upon her return, could have filed the information and received a document that certifies that he was born alive. That's all if proves. They had to take the mother's word for the specific information. If he was born in Hawaii, then the delivery doctor would sign the long form. He can release that today and stop all of this. Why not?

Newspaper birth announcements? Did Stanley Ann Dunham or her parents place them there to create a proper situation for a 17-year-old teenager who became pregnant by a 23 -ear-old Kenyan that she barely knew? Who knows? Obama won't clear it up.

As for McCain's staff looking into this, I regard that as little proof. He also thinks he knows enough about cap and trade to be in favor of it. I wrote him during the election and asked him to really research cap and trade because I was sure he'd be opposed to it, if he knew more about it. Nope. He remained in favor of it. So much for his ability to "look into" something.

The documents we have seen include a school record of Obama from Indonesia where he is listed as a Muslim son of Lolo Soetoro named Barry Soetoro. I find no record of Obama disputing this document.

I apologize to those who are aggravated by the controversy and want it to die. I do understand why they would feel this way. However, I can't say that I "KNOW" Obama is eligible to be POTUS and that is a shame. I wrote my Congressman and asked him this question, "Who certifies that a candidate is eligible to hold the office of President?" His reply to my letter avoided that question. So who does certify candidates are eligible? Anyone? Who certified Obama's eligibility and on what documents?

Can anyone say with certainty that Obama is eligible? I can't. And I should know without a doubt according to the Constitution. I want to protect our Constitutional rights. Just show me the long form and I'll be happy.

P.S. The Daily Kos admits that one of their frequent commenters forged a BC for Obama as a gag to show how easily it could be done. He was involved in the debate at that time over why Obama refused to release any BC. This forgery had an anomaly on the top near the center. It was a black mark. It looks like someone accidentally touched a black ink pen to it or there was a black spot on the scanner used. Immediately, a BC appeared on Obama's web site bearing the same anomaly. Coincidence? This was discussed and explained on The Daily Kos which is a very left wing web site.

BIG FAT GOVERNMENT

While everyone’s debating the government take-over of America’s health care system, it should be noted that Obama appointed Nancy Ann DeParle as his health care czar. Who is she? Visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31566399. MSNBC is hardly a right wing news org. They’re the home of Chris Matthews who gushed that listening to Obama speak made chills run up his leg! TMI!!!

DeParle headed up corporations who were under investigation for engaging in illegal billing schemes, alleged kickbacks, serious violations of federal quality standards, including one company that failed to warn patients of deadly problems with an implanted heart defibrillator. She ran Medicare for Bill Clinton’s administration.

“Since leaving her government job running Medicare for the Clinton administration, DeParle built a lucrative private-sector career. Records show she earned more than $6.6 million since early 2001, according to a tally by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Much of that corporate career was built at companies that have frequently had to defend themselves against federal investigations. After leaving government, DeParle accepted director positions at half a dozen companies suspected of violating the very laws and regulations she had enforced for Medicare. Those companies got into further trouble on her watch as a director.

Now she’s back in government as a leading voice in deciding the shape of health care reform.

Named by Obama in March as director of the White House Office of Health Reform, making $158,000 a year, DeParle is the point person in pushing for the administration’s plans for changing health care and the ways Americans pay for it — changes in which her former companies have a great deal at stake.” Fred Schulte, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University, MSNBC Online

Does Obama know ANYONE who is honest? Do you see a pattern here? Everyone he appoints to his cabinet or a czar position has a dishonest or shady past, didn’t bother to pay their taxes or is some kind of radical with beliefs that run afoul of American values. Perhaps he identifies with them more than with the rest of us honest, hard-working tax-payers.

He recently said in a televised press conference that he believes pediatricians choose to remove children’s tonsils when it isn’t really necessary, to make more money. (I don’t believe that.) Pediatricians don’t operate, so they won’t make the money, unless Obama was suggesting that they get kickbacks for every surgery they set up for a surgeon. DeParle would know more about kickbacks than our pediatricians.

It’s clear that Obama will use the health care overhaul or take-over to punish doctors and put them in their place, as he sees it. He has attacked insurance companies, placing blame on them for our health care problems, but didn’t he bail out AIG with millions? They supported his candidacy and Sen. Chris Dodd, Democrat., wrote the exemption in the bailout bill that allowed the huge bonuses to be paid to AIG executives.

Pay attention to all of the “studies” being done on obeisity and how it affects our health care costs. The government will use the Obama plan to affect people’s behavior and place extra tax burdens on those who are obese by his administration’s standards. That means that you will be scrutinized and records will be kept on your weight, what it should be, and what you must do about it. What will become of freedom, individual liberty and the right to privacy?

They will increase taxes on smokers, drinkers, race car drivers, athletes, people with dangerous jobs, people who don’t exercise, etc., etc., etc. They are now talking about unhealthy lifestyles costing our system much more. When they’re looking for ways to cut costs, they will use taxes to modify our behavior.

What kind of people will Obama appoint to police our lifestyles? I shudder to think. Doctors may be required to report unhealthy lifestyles. It’s the first line of knowledge and Obama health care is all about controlling costs.

Read this article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/study-blames-obesity-for-high-cost-of-health-care.html. The key info here is:

“New research shows that medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone with normal weight, the journal Health Affairs reports.

The study by government scientists and the nonprofit research group RTI International says obesity-related health spending has doubled in the past 10 years to $147 billion, USA TODAY reports.“

If you love freedom and individual liberty, you’d better fight to keep it, because there is a strong effort to snatch it away by power-hungry people who believe they are smarter than the average citizen. Don’t make the mistake of trusting these people, because they’ve already revealed the fact that they are unscrupulous. Just remember the past transgressions and beliefs of everyone Obama has appointed to office.

YOU should be controlling THEM. Oh wait! Isn’t that what the Constitution says?

HILLARY DEMANDS INDIA DO MORE THAN U.S.

Hillary Clinton, as Sec. of State representing the U.S., went to India last week and said the following:

“Yesterday’s bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, provide a painful reminder that the threat of such violent extremism is still very real. It is global. It is ruthless. It is nihilistic and it must be stopped,” she said.

“We have a great sense of solidarity and sympathy, having gone through what we did on 9/11,” she added.

Her voice rising, Clinton insisted that the U.S. demand for international action against terrorist should not be taken lightly.

“We know how important (it is). We are fighting wars to end the threat of terrorism against us, our friends and allies around the world.”

She said India can choose its own way of contributing but must be part of a broader effort to defeat the threat.

“We expect everyone” who shares the U.S. goal of a more stable world “to take strong action to prevent terrorism from taking root on their soil and making sure that terrorists are not trained and deployed” from their territory to carry out attacks elsewhere, she added.”

Just exactly what is the current Obama administration doing to prevent terrorism from taking root here on American soil? Exactly what strong action is Obama taking to make sure that terrorists are not trained and deployed to carry out their attacks right here in the U.S.?

All I can find is that Obama is releasing them, ordering that they be read the Miranda rights of American citizens (which they are not entitled to because they are not U.S. citizens and have not paid taxes for any privileges here), is closing Gitmo as soon as he finds a place to release the terrorists to, is giving some of them trials in U.S. courts which requires their lawyers be given secret information and they can’t be convicted because the crime scene was not processed at the time of their arrest (battle field in war), apologizing around the world for America’s wrong-doing, giving fuel to terrorist recruitment groups, releasing photos and documents of U.S. military torturing terrorists (true or not), cozying up to dictators and America-hating leaders, reducing the military budget while giving trillions to everything else, befriending Muslim activists and supporters of Islam – the very religion that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, doing nothing about Khalifah Conferences in American cities (which recruit activists/terrorists), doing nothing about Muslim schools brainwashing generations of children to hate America and Israel.

The Obama administration is allowing – even making easy, terrorist recruiting, training and funding in this country.

What has Hillary Clinton said to Obama regarding this hypocrosy? What is she doing in America to comply with her demands of India? Nothing that I can find!

And let’s not forget that while Hillary is in India saying, We are fighting wars to end the threat of terrorism…” , Obama changed the name “War on Terrorism” to “Overseas Contingency Operation!!!!!!!!!” How absurd!!!!!

It’s “do as I say, not as I do.” It’s talk for the cameras and sound-bytes, not for U.S. policy and actions. Remember these things when it’s time to vote again. Throw out the double-talkers and deceivers. Put America on the right track.