Sunday, September 22, 2013

Canada Free Press: Too Late to Reverse Indoctrination?

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, September 22, 2013

Scanning the newspaper today, I was wondering what else would shock me in the education section, knowing that we are a few decades too late to do much about it even if we tried.

A teacher in Virginia has ordered a student to turn his shirt inside out because the message content was offensive. The t-shirt pictured Si Robertson, the jocular sage uncle of the Duck Dynasty clan, a tight-knit family with traditional Americanvalues, who believe in God, country, and hunting. The wonderful Robinson family members are the type of Americans who made this country great. 

Progressives have labeled and derided real patriotic Americans who are proud of our history, of our exceptionalism, of our way of life, the “cling to your guns, Bible thumping, and fly over country” Americans.

Conservative Americans’ healthy values are being challenged by self-loathing, dumbed down indoctrinated progressives who hate their country and everything it stands for. Liberal teachers and administrators do not bat an eye when their students show up for class in Che Guevara, Karl Marx, and Fidel Castro t-shirts – those are enlightened garments and it would violate their freedom of speech to tell them to change into more appropriate clothing.

Does it surprise me that the whole country is now adopting Common Core educational standards that introduce revisionist history on purpose, praise wrong answers if the students feel good and justified in their incorrect calculations, and “educators” teach Ebonics instead of proper English? It does not surprise me because the decay and rot have been coming for years – it has accelerated since the introduction of the State Department of Education in 1979-1980. Carter was such a terrible president but his crowning achievement was the toxic Department of Education.

A Maryland school board meeting recently turned into bullying of parents when they tried to ask questions about the adoption of Common Core standards without community input. One father was assaulted by a man wearing a white t-shirt with the words “Security” written on it. This parent was later arrested after being physically forced out of the meeting while the superintendent droned on.  Why were the rest of the parents silent and not jumping to help him? Is this America anymore? You be the judge.

Common Core standards do not represent just abject mediocrity; they indoctrinate students into community organizing and the collective mindset


Common Core standards do not represent just abject mediocrity; they indoctrinate students into community organizing and the collective mindset, the hallmarks of socialism/Marxism. Michelle Malkin said, “Stanford University professor James Milgram, a prominent dissenting member of the Common Core math standards committee, has exposed how the muddled standards would leave American students at least two years behind the rest of the planet.”

CONTINUED:  Too Late to Reverse Indoctrination?

President Barack Obama owes world explanation about why he supports al-Qaeda

Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod
September 22, 2013

If ever there was a terrorist attack that cries out the name “President Barack Hussein Obama!” the massacre at Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi is it.

The Somalian terrorist group, al-Shabaab, which has links to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the slaughter of at least 59 people, including Canadian diplomat Annemarie Desloges and an as yet unnamed other Canadian. Annemarie’s husband, Robert Munk was injured and has since been released from hospital.

Imagine this horrific scene: Terrified shoppers hid behind counters as the gunmen went on the rampage using guns and grenades. (Daily Mail, Sept. 22, 2013)

Today 10 to 15 hostages are still trapped in the shopping center as security forces lay siege to the building, from which Armed police managed to lead about 1,000 people to safety.

This time the radical Islamic terrorists live-blogged their carnage on Twitter.

Campaigning on the slogan “Obama here, Obama there” promising voters he would have a “direct line to the White House”, Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik Obama went down to humiliating defeat, garnering only 2,792 votes and trailing the winner by 140,000 votes.

With typical Obama family ‘blame the other guy’ tactics, Malik accused the Kenyan Election Commission of concealing the official results.

Earlier this week Malik Obama denied that his Lois Lerner-approved Barack H Obama Foundation has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Malik Obama is not the only Barack Hussein Obama relative knocking himself out in Kenya.

CONTINUED:  President Barack Obama owes world explanation about why he supports al-Qaeda

Saturday, September 21, 2013

America-hating Obama a Threat to World Freedom

The impassable roadblock now facing civilized society can be summed up in a single sentence: While radical Islam becomes increasingly intolerant of all others, the West has become hopelessly hooked on ‘Tolerance Overkill’.

The U.S. is tolerating a presidentwhose life’s passion is a poisonous hatred of America.

Not a single Senator from either side of the political aisle has called Barack Hussein Obama out on his palpable hatred of the country that pays his heavy freight.

This is where ‘Tolerance Overkill’ has already taken a not-so-long-ago free society: “I can hear you.  The rest of the world hears you!” The words shouted by President George W. Bush via bullhorn at a decimated Ground Zero in 2001 were replaced 12 years later by a president who trashed freedom by officially throwing America in with al Qaeda, now claiming thousands of lives in Syria.

In 2001, the New York Times openly providing op-ed space for ex-KGB agent, RussiaPresident Vladimir Putin would never have been tolerated without vociferous public outrage.  Nor would Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s op-ed in the Washington Postproclaiming “gone is the age of blood feuds” when those blood feuds were ongoing even as his words were being read,  including today’s terrorist attack in Kenya Mall, where at least 15 are dead when non-Muslims were targeted.

READ MORE:  America-hating Obama a Threat to World Freedom

What Happens During a Government Shutdown?

What Happens During a Government Shutdown?

Family Affair Report Details Nepotism in Congress | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

This report marks the first-ever complete study of how members of the House of Representatives use their positions to benefit themselves and their families. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) undertook a similar study in 2007, but it was not all-inclusive. Expanding on our earlier work, for this 2012 edition we reviewed every sitting member of the House.  Download the full report.
CREW’s investigation uncovered 248 members meriting inclusion in this in-depth compilation, which covers the 2008 and 2010 election cycles.

MORE:  Family Affair Report Details Nepotism in Congress | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Are We Too Late to Stop U.N. Agenda 21?

CANADA FREE PRESS
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh   Friday, September 20, 2013 

The global cabal of U.N. Agenda 21 is behind global warming, regionalism, zoning, land and water use control, wealth redistribution, weakening and eventual replacement of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, global warming, cap and trade, Smart Grid, Smart Meters, carbon taxes, high gasoline prices, global citizens, IB World Schools, Common Core nationalized education standards, biofuels, Marxist advancement across the globe, food control, water access control via the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), gun control, health control, the Arab Spring/Winter, unchecked illegal immigration, and they are unstoppable.

They’ve had 100 years of preparation ahead of us. Their effort is bearing fruit on every facet of our lives and around the globe.

I am certainly not advocating surrender, freedom is worth fighting for, and we are the last bastion offreedom in America. If America goes, so does the rest of the world. Other nations want us to fight because they’ve given up.

I was told by a very conservative ladies’ group that we must be careful not to use the word Agenda 21 lest we are labeled “loons.” In other words, let’s self-censor and enable the Agenda 21 to march on unrestrained because we have to appear that we are trusty team players.

Having survived communism and seeing all the elements of global governance, I am not going to mince words. I have already been labeled “aggender” because I have ample research evidence that Agenda 21 exists, a “denier” because I do not believe in global warming. It is a manufactured crisis by the Club of Rome, IPCC, and other like-minded environmentalist-based groups and NGOs, based on verbal agreement called “consensus,” and faulty and manipulated data. I was called “islamophobe” because I gave a speech on Agenda 21 on the same stage that another person used when speaking about Sharia Law—that makes me guilty by proximity. I am a “racist” and a “bigot” because I am definitely against amnesty and illegal immigration.

MORE:  Are We Too Late to Stop U.N. Agenda 21?

Friday, September 20, 2013

Are We Too Late to Stop U.N. Agenda 21?

The global cabal of U.N. Agenda 21 is behind global warming, regionalism, zoning, land and water use control, wealth redistribution, weakening and eventual replacement of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, global warming, cap and trade, Smart Grid, Smart Meters, carbon taxes, high gasoline prices, global citizens, IB World Schools, Common Core nationalized education standards, biofuels, Marxist advancement across the globe, food control, water access control via the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), gun control, health control, the Arab Spring/Winter, unchecked illegal immigration, and they are unstoppable.

They’ve had 100 years of preparation ahead of us. Their effort is bearing fruit on every facet of our lives and around the globe.

I am certainly not advocating surrender, freedom is worth fighting for, and we are the last bastion offreedom in America. If America goes, so does the rest of the world. Other nations want us to fight because they’ve given up.

I was told by a very conservative ladies’ group that we must be careful not to use the word Agenda 21 lest we are labeled “loons.” In other words, let’s self-censor and enable the Agenda 21 to march on unrestrained because we have to appear that we are trusty team players.

Having survived communism and seeing all the elements of global governance, I am not going to mince words. I have already been labeled “aggender” because I have ample research evidence that Agenda 21 exists, a “denier” because I do not believe in global warming. It is a manufactured crisis by the Club of Rome, IPCC, and other like-minded environmentalist-based groups and NGOs, based on verbal agreement called “consensus,” and faulty and manipulated data. I was called “islamophobe” because I gave a speech on Agenda 21 on the same stage that another person used when speaking about Sharia Law—that makes me guilty by proximity. I am a “racist” and a “bigot” because I am definitely against amnesty and illegal immigration.

Nationally syndicated radio talk show hosts have finally started speaking about Agenda 21 elements – they describe seemingly unrelated components of it and thus ordinary people, who do not have the time to do research, have difficulty connecting the dots into the larger picture. I connected many of the stories in my book, “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy.”

Survivors of communism know and are speaking out. A political refuge from Romania appealed to the St. Lucie County Commissioners in Florida at a recent meeting about the U.N. environmental regionalist Seven50 plans for Florida. “I do not come here to lose my freedom; I beg you – get out of the Seven50. Do not destroy our Freedom.”

READ MORE:  Are We Too Late to Stop U.N. Agenda 21?

The Hoax of Global Warming, AKA, Climate Change and Death of Coal Mining

Not content with various country killing plans,Obama seeks now to apply more new rules through his infamous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that greatly concerns those who say his new “change” will be even less loved than the nightmarish “Hope and Change” of 2008. 

These next new changes could possibly result in deaths to our citizens and excessively high costs in their applications; in fact, one of Obama’s own former appointees who has deep concerns that these new coal regulations could kill, was published in the following FoxNews.com story on September 19, 2013.

“New clean-energy rules pushed through by the Obama administration are raising concerns that they could cripple the coal industry—and may require power plants to use technology so risky that even the president’s former top energy official once warned it could ‘kill.’

“The EPA, by Friday, is expected to release a new proposal to set the first-ever carbon dioxide limits for new power plants.

“To meet those emissions caps, power plants would likely have to use what is known as ‘carbon-capture technology,’ which involves burying the carbon underground.

“The technology, which is still under development, remains expensive and not commercially available. But there are lingering safety risks.

Illegal Immigrants Cost Taxpayers Billions

California is a den of waste, mismanagement and superfluous spending. That’s not news. However, the amount of money that one county in California is spending on welfare for illegal immigrants may surprise you. An estimated $650 million in welfare will be doled out to the illegal immigrant parents of children in Los Angeles County in 2013. The numbers come from the Department of Public Social Services which uncovered that more than $376 million in benefits and food stamps had been given to illegal alien parents for their American-born children through July.

Los Angeles County is living testimony to the fact that the scourge of illegal immigration is a huge impediment to our own financial well being. How can we ever hope to recover fiscal sanity when we just one county is forced to spend over $1.6 billion on the illegal immigration epidemic?
That’s right, over $1.6 billion.

“When you add the $550 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year,” Department of Public Social Services Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said in a statement. “These costs do not even include the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually for education.”

Read more at http://eaglerising.com/1830/illegal-immigrants-cost-taxpayers-billions/#StoFWD05PkJZkq8T.99 


Illegal Immigrants Cost Taxpayers Billions

GOP Slams ‘Pathetic’ Decision not to Fire Anyone over Benghazi

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) slammed the State Department on Wednesday for not firing anyone in relation to the terror attack in Benghazi.

“We’re here today because at the end of the day nobody was held accountable,” Royce told Patrick Kennedy, the under secretary of State for management. “Reassignment just doesn’t cut it in terms of addressing that issue.” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) went one further, calling the decision “pathetic” and accusing the department of seeking to “shuffle the deck chairs.”


Kennedy is the first official to testify before Congress since the State Department’s decision last month to reassign four employees. An independent audit had recommended that two of the four employees “leave their jobs.” 

Kennedy defended the decision, which has infuriated Republicans. 

“I respectfully disagree,” he said. “Four employees were relieved of their senior positions. To me that is serious accountability.” 

Kennedy’s testimony is but one of three Benghazi hearings this week as House Republicans ramp up their investigation following the first anniversary of the terror attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans last Sept. 11. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is under pressure to create a select committee to investigate security lapses that has the support of more than 170 members of his caucus.

READ MORE:  GOP Slams ‘Pathetic’ Decision not to Fire Anyone over Benghazi

American Thinker: Immigration Alternatives

September 20, 2013
As the president announces his desire to work with House members on immigration reform, the Senate Immigration Bill looms in the background. Supposedly coauthored in a bipartisan fashion by "the Gang of Eight Senators," it is really an amnesty bill in disguise. Those in favor of this bill make statements about fairness and equality, but for whom: American citizens, illegal immigrants, or both? The House members feel this bill does not address the problems Americans face today and have put forth five of their own bills: The SAFE Act, giving states the power to arrest, and Border Patrol Agents the necessary tools; the Skills Visa Act, raising the number of visas allowed for highly skilled workers; the Legal Workforce Act, requiring every employer to utilize E-verify; the AG Act, creating a new guest worker program for agriculture that includes a requirement of paid minimum wage and a stay of no longer than eighteen months; and the Border Security Results Act, which passed unanimously out of committee, calling for a secure border before immigration reform. American Thinker interviewed experts to get their opinions about these bills.
Janice Kephart, the former special counsel and witness to the  Senate Committee on Judiciary as well as a former advisor to Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), considers the Senate bill "horrible. Basically it is immigration reform equaling immigration minus enforcement minus national security. It promotes amnesty beyond those who are currently here." Spearheading the opposition, she wants Americans to understand that, as in the case of ObamaCare, this bill is being ramrodded down the people's throats. It is incredible how the senators have not learned their lesson. She describes how the bill "was pushed through as fast as the senators could without adequate time for review, arguments, and amendments. Only a few Senators of 'The Gang of Eight' read the bill and I am not sure which Republicans read it.The bill is hard to understand because it has contradictory sections in its 1050 pages."


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Immigration Alternatives

Obama’s DHS seizing local power

WND
The Department of Homeland Security under President Obama is demonstrating troubling signs the agency is shifting the balance of power away from local and state municipalities toward a centralized federal authority, charges a recently released book.
In “Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from Office,” New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott document the DHS has likely violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
CONTINUED:  Obama’s DHS seizing local power

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Joe for America: You Didn’t Build These Ten Things – Barack Obama Did

It’s not like he didn’t warn us that his goal was to fundamentally transform America – but most of us didn’t think that meant wrecking the economy, killing the golden goose, giving away the farm and generally screwing the pooch. But here we are and here are the top ten things Obama owns – despite him blaming everyone else – he built them:

10. Food Stamp Nation:The government said the recession ended in 2009, but people getting on food stamps didn’t. The Obama Administration dispatched armies of workers into the streets to find people eligible to get on the program and it’s worked:  A record 47.8 million people are on food stamps as of December 2012 — a 70 percent rise since 2008. It will be over 100% by this year’s end.   

9. The Sin of Envy: It used to be not that long ago that folks who succeeded were looked up to and emulated. Not anymore, because after 5+ years of Obama propaganda, the successful, go-getters, job-creators, upwardly mobile, wealth-creating Americans are nothing more than evil white devils who exploit poor working families – then don’t pay taxes. Forget that the top ten percent of taxpayers pay .. oh forget it -you’ve heard it a million times and would rather hear Obama’s pitch I guess. Anyway – he built it, he owns it.   

8. Destruction of the greatest healthcare system in the world: They’ve been trying for 100 years to control us by controlling our health care, but it took a community organizer to force, lie and bribe it through. Everyone, Barack Obama included, knew the American people didn’t want socialized medicine. Polls showed it. Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s seat by promising to vote against It. He forced and bribed it through anyway and now is ignoring key parts of it and issuing waivers to keep it alive.   

7. Goodbye To Our Children’s Future: $17 trillion in debt and $90 trillion in unfunded mandates assures many generations of economic slavery. Yes, it’s you President Obama. You. Not Bush, Not the fairy god spender. You.

Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/09/didnt-build-ten-things-barack-obama/#X3zYluyDyJxKOIfp.99

Revised, Expanded JLF Report Tackles Key Common Core Questions

Education expert Stoops offers parents, voters, taxpayers helpful resource

Sep. 19th, 2013
RALEIGH — Just five months after releasing a report that outlined key questions surrounding new Common Core public school education standards, the John Locke Foundation has revised and expanded the report -- nearly doubling the number of questions answered.

"Parents, educators, and taxpayers continue to raise serious questions about the Common Core State Standards Initiative," said report author Dr. Terry Stoops, JLF Director of Research and Education Studies. "As we continue to learn more about Common Core and its potential impact on public education in North Carolina, we see a strong demand for good, solid information."

Written in a question-and-answer format, Stoops' revised report expands the number of topics addressed from 35 to 60. Stoops also grouped questions in categories to help readers find the information they seek more quickly.

"Readers will find information about the very basics of Common Core -- What is it? Who wrote it? What grades and subjects are covered? -- along with sections focusing on Common Core in North Carolina, the federal government's involvement, the impact on testing and accountability, as well as Common Core's impact for classroom teachers and data collection," Stoops said. "The report also addresses political and legal questions surrounding Common Core, and it discusses sources of opposition and support for these new standards."

Among Stoops' updates are questions dealing with recent developments in North Carolina's General Assembly and executive branch. "While the report makes clear that there is no standard left versus right or Democrat versus Republican dimension to support or opposition to Common Core, the revised report mentions Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest's decision this summer to question the adoption and implementation of Common Core," Stoops said,. "The report also discusses legislative action in 2013, including a bill to create a Common Core study group. That measure stalled in a state House committee."

CONTINUED:  Revised, Expanded JLF Report Tackles Key Common Core Questions

Obama Defies Congress And Keeps Immigration Position They Eliminated

If you are keeping a list of impeachable charges against Barack Hussein Obama, you may want to add this one to the list.  Congress passed a bill and Obama signed it into law.  Then Obama defies the law he just signed. 

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had a position of public advocate that works on behalf of illegal aliens facing deportation.  In February 2012, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait held that position.  Earlier this year, Congress passed HR 933 that eliminated Strait’s position saying they no longer wanted to pay a federal employee to defend illegals.  In March 2013, President Obama signed HR 933 which defunded and eliminated the position of public advocate for illegals. 

But you know how Obama feels about illegals facing deportation don’t you?  They are Democratic voters, even if they do vote illegally.  He can’t have the government deporting his party’s support base.

In a defiance against Congress and the law that he signed, Obama had the position held by Strait changed to read deputy assistant director of custody programs and community outreach.  The job description is basically the same as that of the public advocate and Strait continues to perform the same duties he did before, mostly defending illegals facing deportation. Ira Mehlman, Media Director for Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is pointing the finger at Obama for openly ignoring and defying Congress, saying:

"Congress had said [it wasn’t] going to pay for somebody in the federal bureaucracy to serve as an advocate for the illegal aliens. Then the administration said, We'll just retitle the position, essentially leave the same job description, and go ahead and do this anyway.”

CONTINUED:Obama Defies Congress And Keeps Immigration Position They Eliminated

President Barack Obama Defender of the Muslim Faith

Christians... Not so much


President Barack Obama walks like a duck, talks like a duck but gets a mainstream media and low information voter pass as a swan.

Back on March 10, 2006, Canada Free Press (CFP) asked: Barack Obama a Muslim apostate headed for the White House?

“The chapters in the Life and Times of Barack Obama always race ahead,” CFP wrote.  “It was during one of those chapters where we found him taking up community organizing in the Altgeld Gardenshousing project on the south side of Chicago, when he converted to Christianity, formerly being secular. (brainsip.com).

“As a fledgling Christian, Obama didn’t join just any church.  He joined the Trinity United Church of Christ,” the CFP story continues.

“The Trinity United Church of Christ is very anti-Israel and supports divestment.  It also sponsorsspeeches at its many functions by the Arab ‘Christian’, pro-terrorist religious organization, Sabeel.  Sabeel holds some of its biggest meetings in Chicago.

“Essentially Obama is a Christianconvert—but also then a Muslim apostate.
That is the “What if” category that never got written up by the same mainstream media who introduced Obama as “the new face of change and reform for the Democratic party” when he was still the largely absentee senatorfrom Illinois.

“What if Obama is engaged in pious fraud?” CFP asked.  “This is a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to “defend the faith”.  He becomes president and then says, “Gee…I think I want to be Muslim again” after he finds the “football” in his hands that carries the launch codes for the USA nuke forces.

CONTINUED:  President Barack Obama Defender of the Muslim Faith

Obama’s Move to Arm Al Qaeda in Syria

On Monday, twelve years and five days after al Qaeda precipitated the worst domestic attack in modern history, President Obama waived two sections of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), allowing him to provide military assistance to “vetted” rebel grips in Syria.  

Though the AECA was designed to prevent arming terrorists, Obama announced that he had the authority to “waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40(a) of the AECA related to such a transaction.”

Section 40, “Transactions With Countries Supporting Acts ofInternational Terrorism,” and Section 40(a), “Prohibited Transactions by the United States Government,” ban sending munitions to any nation described in Section 40 (d), “Countries Covered by Prohibition:” “The prohibitions contained in this section apply with respect to a country if the Secretary of State determines that the government of that country has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.”

CONTINUED:  Obama’s Move to Arm Al Qaeda in Syria

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

NRA-ILA | Gun control failed in congress. It's happening anyway

Gun control legislation failed loudly following the Newtown school shooting, but that has not stopped President Obama from leaving Congress behind to launch a broad gun control campaign of his own.
Between the December 2012 massacre and the Navy Yard mass shooting Monday, Obama has taken 25 separate gun control initiatives, all of which came from executive actions that did not require congressional authorization.


CONTINUED:  NRA-ILA | Gun control failed in congress. It's happening anyway

House to Vote on Temporary Budget that Defunds Obamacare

The House of Representatives is gearing up for a vote on a continuing resolution (CR) that will defund Obamacare. The question is, are the Republicans' heart in it? National Review reports:  Speaker John Boehner huddled with House Republicans this morning at the Capitol. According to several sources in the closed-door meeting, the speaker confirmed his plan to bring a continuing resolution to the floor that funds the government and defunds Obamacare. "On the CR, we know what the position of this conference is," Boehner said, speaking before his colleagues. "Every member in this room is for defunding Obamacare while letting the rest of the government continue to operate. We're going to put Obamacare defunding directly into the CR. And then we're going to send it over to the Senate, so our conservative allies over there can continue the fight. That's where the fight is." "On every major issue we've faced for the past two and a half years, the math has been the same: House Republicans either find a way together to get to 218, or the Democrats who run the rest of Washington essentially get everything they want," he added, pressing for House GOP unity. 

An earlier idea of using a procedural trick by House Republican leadership in order to fund Obamacare and keep the government from shutting down was floated. We had RINO Eric Cantor to thank for that, and fortunately that idea has been shelved. So what's going on now? It appears that instead of two parts to the CR, one that funds the government and one that defunds Obamacare, the CR will contain both. It will be sent to the Senate where men with some cajones will actually take a stand in favor of defunding Obamacare; men like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY). However, the chances of the Senate allowing such a measure are pretty much zero. Sure, the House gets to say, once again, they made a "symbolic" stand against Obamacare as they have 40 other times. However, in the end, it becomes meaningless if they don't stand their ground completely, even if it means a government shutdown. However, Representative Paul Ryan (R- WI) demonstrates he is more concerned with maintaining his power than he is defunding Obamacare and maintaining principle. 


CONTINUED:  House to Vote on Temporary Budget that Defunds Obamacare

Sunday, September 15, 2013

New state law requires city to allow concealed weapons in parks - Winston-Salem Journal: Local News

The Winston-Salem City Council may amend the city code on Monday to loosen restrictions on carrying concealed handguns, but it won’t happen because council members like the idea.
Along with the new regulations, the council could adopt a resolution setting forth its strong disagreement with statewide concealed-carry regulations passed by the N.C. General Assembly this year. The regulations apply to people who have a legal permit to carry a concealed handgun, and take effect Oct. 1.

Under the new state law, local governments must allow people to carry concealed weapons on city park properties such as playgrounds, athletic fields outside of scheduled events, and on greenways, paths and open fields.

City Attorney Angela Carmon told council members during committee meetings last week that the city must update its code to comply with the changes in state law, or risk not having any regulations that cover recreational areas because the current law will no longer be in compliance with state law.

CONTINUED: http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_c08b5082-1da7-11e3-94b0-0019bb30f31a.html

Monday, September 9, 2013

Report: DC denies permit for 9/11 bikers; Planners move ahead anyway

In response to the planned “Million Muslim March” in Washington, D.C., on 9/11, bikers announced their own rival 2 Million Biker Ride. This weekend, news surfaced on blogs and Twitter that D.C. had denied the bikers an event permit.

Washington DC has DENIED our permit for a no-stop ride through Washington DC. We find this regretful for the residents and businesses of that great city, and humbly offer our apologies. What could have been a one or two hour ride through will now likely be an all day event. We will be obeying all laws. We will be stopping at all stoplights, stop signs, and yielding to all pedestrians.
RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES OF WASHINGTON DC: On behalf of the National “2 Million Bikers to DC” Team, please accept our sincere apologies. We did the right thing and went through the proper channels to secure a no-stop permit to ride through your great city. We wanted to ride an established route, which would have taken us past the Viet Nam Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, across the bridge into Virginia, and that’s it! We would have been completely out of Washington DC, and your city would have been back to normal.
The National Team fully expected our permit to be rejected, and have already drafted a Plan-B.
Participants are moving forward.

CONTINUED:  Report: DC denies permit for 9/11 bikers; Planners move ahead anyway

Friday, September 6, 2013

The Middle East’s Peace of the Grave

The Middle East's Peace of the Grave
·       Posted by Alan Caruba on September 6, 2013 at 10:35am in Tea Party Nation Forum
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By Alan Caruba

After both great wars of the last century nations got together to create organizations that would ensure that large conflicts would not occur again.

After World War I, it was the League of Nations. When Woodrow Wilson (who was reelected in 1916 after promising to keep the U.S. out of the war in Europe) tried to get the U.S. to sign on, membership in the League was rejected by Congress in the interest of retaining our national sovereignty. The Versailles Treaty that followed the defeat of Germany also set in motion all the elements of that led to World War II and the creation of colonies, new nation-states, in the Middle East by the French and English after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Even as World War II was winding down, Franklin D. Roosevelt had work begun on the creation of the United Nations.

In 2007, in response to a question from New York Times’ editors, then Senator Barack Obama explained how he would resolve the problems in Syria. “I would meet directly with Syrian leaders. We would engage in a level of aggressive personal diplomacy in which a whole host of issues are on the table…Iran and Syria would start changing their behavior if they started seeing that they had some incentives to do so, but right now the only incentive that exists is our president (Bush) suggesting that if you do what we tell you, we may not blow you up.” 

“My belief about the regional powers in the Middle East is that they don’t respond well to that kind of bluster. They haven’t in the past, there’s no reason to think they will in the future.”

So, naturally, the President is currently threatening Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with military action and, having decided to let Congress determine whether he should be granted permission to proceed, may be deterred if it votes to deny it.
George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 after putting together a “coalition of the willing” and going to the United Nations to secure a resolution permitting that action. His Secretary of State, Colin Powell, made a presentation to the Security Council in which he presented proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Obama’s Secretary of State has argued forcefully for U.S. intervention in Syria to rid the nation of Assad, but America currently has no international support, including longtime ally Great Britain.

Bush’s intervention in Iraq, March 2003 to April 2009, led to casualties whose estimates range from 110,600 by the Associated Press to more than a million by the Opinion Research Business Survey. The intervention in Libya in 2011 had estimates of casualties of protesters, armed belligerents, and civilians ranging from 2,000 to 30,000.

Even a “limited” military action in Syria would inflict more casualties, adding to the 100,000 that Assad has already slaughtered and is likely to expand the war into Lebanon, home to Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, as well as Jordan and possibly Turkey. Americans are telling their representatives in Congress not to engage our military.

Writing in The Weekly Standard on September 6, Reuel Marc Gherecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a contributing editor, dissected the problems posed by Syria and Iran, along with al Qaeda. “When it comes to the Middle East, Obama’s presidency has largely been predicated on two ideas: A hegemonic America is a bad thing, and the second Iraq war was a serious mistake.”

“Time has been unkind to Obama,” said Gherecht. “The withdrawal from Iraq has not left that country better off…al Qaeda now boasts, along with Iran and its militant Iraqi allies, that it drove the Americans out of the country.” Hardly a week has gone by since American military forces left that bombs by Sunni militants have not killed Shiite Iraqis.

In Syria, as Assad’s forces have been unable to quell the rebellion, he has turned to the use of poison gas.


CONTINUED:  The Middle East’s Peace of the Grave