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<title><![CDATA[BHussein: "Let MY People Go"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lieberman: Barghouti Will Not be Released Article: Israel National News Speaking Thursday morning, F]]></description>
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<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/175320" target="_blank">Article: Israel National News</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Speaking Thursday morning, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he could <em>&#8220;guarantee&#8221;</em> that arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti would not be released from prison in any deal to exchange terrorists for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. <em>&#8220;<strong>We have no intention to free the head of the murderers</strong>, a person who has been sentenced to <strong>four life terms in prison</strong>. There are red lines, and this is one of them,&#8221;</em> Lieberman said.</p>
<p>In response to <strong>U.S. demands that Israel free an additional 1,000-some terrorists as a <em>&#8220;gesture&#8221;</em> to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas</strong>, Lieberman said that <strong>previous releases of Fatah terrorists</strong> <em><strong>&#8220;have not proven themselves.</strong> The Olmert administration did this several times and it did not work, and we do not plan to allow it to happen,&#8221;</em> Lieberman said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why can&#8217;t BHussein be smart enough to know that freeing RADICAL TERRORISTS does NOT PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS?! Oh. I guess &#8220;brotherhood&#8221; has a lot to do with it.</p>
<p><img src="http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii403/hahayouredeadblog/BHusseinAbuMazen.jpg"><br />
BHussein with Palestinian President Abu Mazen as he demands that Israel releases an additional 1,000 terrorists as a <em>&#8220;gesture&#8221;</em>to <em>&#8220;moderate&#8221; &#8220;Palestinians&#8221;</em>. </p>
<p>Ohhhhhhhhhh golly&#8230;</p>
<p><B>Israel pardons 92 Fatah members</b><br />
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3811370,00.html" target="_blank">Article: YnetNews</a></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Israel has granted pardon to 92 wanted members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs&#8217; Brigades, Fatah&#8217;s military wing</strong>. Some were awarded full pardon while others were granted partial pardon. <strong>The most prominent member on the list is a commander in the al-Aqsa Martyrs&#8217; Brigades in the territories</strong>. (Ali Waked) </p></blockquote>
<p>Yet; the Palestinian terrorists are holding one of Israel&#8217;s soldiers captive. Does BHussein Obama give a shit? The answer is NYET. He cares about himself&#8230; and his brothers in Allah. </p>
<p><B>Israel soldier swap talks on hold: Palestinian</b><br />
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9aeb811c34f04ad5b25503dec9359b10.b1&#38;show_article=1" target="_blank">Article: Breitbart</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Indirect <strong>talks between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement over a prisoner exchange involving</strong> <strong>Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have been suspended until Tuesday</strong>, according to a Palestinian official .</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Negotiations on Shalit will resume<strong> after Eid al-Adha</strong> in Cairo on Tuesday,&#8221;</em> the official told AFP on Thursday on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>The Hamas delegation, which visited the Syrian capital on Wednesday to meet the movement&#8217;s leadership in exile, returned to the Gaza Strip via Cairo, he added, while refusing to detail the content of the discussions.</p>
<p><strong>Shalit was captured by Palestinian militants including Hamas in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip in 2006.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hamas</strong>, which has controlled the territory since June 2007, <strong>is demanding that more than 450 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails be released in exchange for the soldier</strong>.</p>
<p>But <strong>Israel is refusing to release some of the detainees</strong>, blocking the chance of any agreement being reached, an official close to the talks said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The same official said reports of an imminent prisoner exchange were <em>&#8220;premature.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Both Hamas and Israel earlier this week reported progress in the negotiations, which have been mediated by Egypt and Germany, but played down reports of a quick deal.</p>
<p><strong>Hamas</strong> on Wednesday<strong> blamed the delay on Israel</strong>, which <em>&#8220;has not yet answered the demands of the Palestinian factions,&#8221;</em> senior Hamas official Khalil al-Haya said. </p></blockquote>
<p>So; even the terrorists who are holding the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captive demand only 450 Palestinian terrorist prisoners that are being held in Israeli jails be released in exchange for Gilad Shalit; but BHussein seems to think that&#8217;s a pretty low number. <em>&#8220;DUR&#8230; I HAZ A BETR IDEA! LETZ GO FOR A THOUSAND. THEY IS MY TERRORIZT BROTHERZ.&#8221; </em> UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE. Negotiations are on hold until after Eid al-Adha&#8230; I guess the terrorists must be shopping at Best Buy.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Baracus &amp; Michelda The Other America]]></title>
<link>http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/baracus-michelda-the-other-america/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TOTUS Tragedy Strains Obama Home Life]]></title>
<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/totus-tragedy-strains-obama-home-life/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama (Still) Weighing Options in Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/obama-still-weighing-options-in-afghanistan/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/obama_weighs_options_in November 18, 2009 | Issue 45•52 Ob]]></description>
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<p>November 18, 2009 &#124; <a href="/content/index/4552">Issue  45•52</a></p>
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<h2>Obama Weighs Options In Afghanistan</h2>
<h3>Pressure is mounting on President Obama to make a decision on the future of  Afghanistan.</h3>
<p>Here are the options currently being considered:</p>
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<li>Not only learn the lessons of Vietnam, but apply them as well</li>
<li>Visit; act fascinated by their rugs</li>
<li>Remove every American soldier; see if fighting continues</li>
<li>Legalize gambling, as that&#8217;s worked well domestically</li>
<li>Thunderdome-style battle to the death between Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and  Afghanistan Taliban leader Mullah Omar</li>
<li>Call the Taliban pretending to be the Prophet Muhammad and tell them to stop  ambushing American soldiers</li>
<li>Announce you&#8217;re raising troop levels by 15,000, then pull everybody out,  then come back with a half million soldiers, in the process convincing al-Qaeda  that you&#8217;re loco and not to be messed with</li>
<li>Arm and finance a group of religious fighters</li>
<li>Back the murderous drug-dealing warlord with the most government officials  in his pocket</li>
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<title><![CDATA[PALIN’S GOD VS. OBAMA’S GOD]]></title>
<link>http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/palin%e2%80%99s-god-vs-obama%e2%80%99s-god/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[J. Grant Swank, Jr. Sarah Palin’s deity is the God of the Bible. Her personal Savior is Jesus Christ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>J. Grant Swank, Jr.</p>
<p>Sarah Palin’s deity is the God of the Bible. Her personal Savior is Jesus Christ. Her holy writ is the infallible, inerrant Bible. Her hope for eternity is heaven as described in the Word of God. Her hope for the present is God’s will activated in her dedication.</p>
<p>Barack Hussein Obama’s deity is the god of the Koran—Allah. His personal savior is Allah, though he professes to be a Protestant via his membership in the theologically liberal United Church of Christ (Congregational / UCC). That would make him out to be a witness to Jesus Christ; of course, that is bogus, including his testimony that at an altar at Chicago’s Trinity UCC he discovered Christ. If it was Christ, it is not the Christ of the New Testament.</p>
<p>Obama’s so-called holy writ is the abominable Koran. His hope for eternity is unknown; but if he becomes a suicide bomber for Allah, he will be guaranteed pronto a score of virgins for everlasting. His hope for the present seems to be his reliance upon Islam’s Koran furthered by his clandestine support of Islam World Rule via czars and a shadow government given to overthrowing our Republic.</p>
<p>In January 2009, Marxist Muslim’s Obama seemed to be riding high on mob hysteriacs seating him proudly in the Oval Office. Recall he told the world, “I won.” Countless devotees showed up at his inauguration. He was applauded throughout Congressional halls as the new messiah promising “hope” and “change.”</p>
<p>Not yet a year later, he has not produced productive “change” for America; therefore, there is no grassroots “hope” in the Pied Piper who led millions into his lying machine.</p>
<p>Today he is below par in polls. He has not accomplished anything worthwhile, per Saturday Night Live spoofs, for example.</p>
<p>Today he is on the verge of submerging America into the trenches due to his pro-Islamic policies installed by crooks and Muslim cronies surrounding him 24 / 7.</p>
<p>He stalls on Fort Hood investigations. He enforces the warmist religion by bowing down to Al Gore clones at global global warming sessions.</p>
<p>He cheers on 9/11 civil investigations, providing Allah disciples privileges not deserving self-confessed Muslim murderers.</p>
<p>Obama is being unsealed moment by moment so that even the young mob hysteriacs are starting to get the cruel message instigated by the chief betrayer set loose in America. In short order he has plotted to ruin our health care system, dump us into the devil’s debt and bankrupt our Christian heritage by uplifting Muslims and atheists on the same honorary level as biblical believers.</p>
<p>This cancer sore Obama is the most dangerous occurrence ever in all the Republic’s history for it promises us our doom.</p>
<p>Then comes along Sarah Palin. What does she hold out for the populace?</p>
<p>She speaks of common sense politics, a Christian heritage history continuance, reliance upon the God of Scripture, actual hope in prayer and the Holy Spirit’s guidance in one’s personal faith life.</p>
<p>She comes from a biblical base regarding worship gatherings. It is not theological liberalism as touted in the United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church, Anglican Church, United Church of Canada, Unitarianism, Evangelical (a misnomer) Lutheran Church of America and other anti-Christ labels.</p>
<p>She worships with Christians who seek to live out the Bible, confess to following Christ as personal Redeemer, pray daily, conduct family devotions, believe in miracles, repent of their sins and then yearn to go forth in holiness.</p>
<p>Palin is the antithesis to Obama. Palin represents a biblical way of life. Obama represents a satanic cult.</p>
<p>America is now faced with the choice of Palin or<br />
Obama. Of course, in weeks and months to come, someone else may log in to sideline Palin. But at the moment, it is Palin versus Obama.</p>
<p>To say that America is at a crucial fork in the road is to speak in understatement.</p>
<p>Read PALIN’S PENTECOSTAL FAITH: LIBERALS WILL POUNCE at http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/palin%E2%80%99s-pentecostal-faith-liberals-will-pounce/</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Byron York - Dems' kamikaze mission: Health care by New Year's]]></title>
<link>http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/byron-york-dems-kamikaze-mission-health-care-by-new-years/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington Examiner Political Digest Byron York &#8211; Dems&#8217; kamikaze mission: Health care by]]></description>
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<h5><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer/politics/">Washington Examiner Political Digest</a></h5>
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<h3><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Dems_-kamikaze-mission_-Health-care-by-New-Year_s-8591284-74880747.html">Byron York &#8211; Dems&#8217; kamikaze mission: Health care by New Year&#8217;s</a></h3>
<p>Start with the calendar. No matter what Durbin says, there&#8217;s not enough time to get a bill of the scope and complexity of the 2,074-page Senate proposal &#8212; which was only unveiled 10 days ago &#8212; done by New Year&#8217;s.</p>
<p>The Senate&#8217;s first full day of business after the Thanksgiving break is Tuesday, Dec. 1. After that shortened week, there are two more workweeks, beginning Dec. 7 and 14, before the beginning of the traditional Christmas-New Year&#8217;s break. That&#8217;s a total of 14 working days (assuming the lawmakers work through the weekends) to debate, amend, and vote on the bill.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Taxes-going-up-Voters-yup-74863202.html">Michael Barone Taxes going up? Voters: yup</a></h3>
<p>Just as my column appeared, pollster Scott Rasmussen reported that 48% of likely voters expect their taxes to go up and only 9% expect them to go down. That&#8217;s a vivid contrast with the responses back in January, when only 29% expected their taxes to go up and 21% expected them to go down. About half of American voters, it seems, have caught on to the Democrats&#8217; stuff-the-beast strategy: raise spending to previously unheard of levels and then raise taxes to reduce the deficit.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Stimulus-Update-Be-thankful-for-more-phony-jobs-created-or-saved-74908922.html">David Freddoso &#8211; Stimulus Update: Be thankful for more phony jobs &#8220;created or saved&#8221;</a></h3>
<p>As you sit down for Thanksgiving with your family, be thankful for President Obama. He is such a great leader that, in his hands, just $500 is enough to create or save a job. Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8212; or at least, that&#8217;s what the stimulus reports would suggest.</p>
<p>The Examiner has continued to study stimulus contracts, focusing this week on the ones that make outlandish claims about the number of jobs created with tiny sums of cash. Who would have thought, for example, that the Toro Company, which famously created 50 jobs by selling one lawn mower, could create yet another 50 jobs by selling a single utility truck?</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Senate-civil-wars-heating-up-8582949-72898677.html">Chris Stirewalt &#8211; Senate civil wars heating up</a></h3>
<p>With a rapidly changing political atmosphere, the 36 Senate seats up for election in 2010 are drawing a big field of office seekers. But before Republicans can try their luck after eight years of Democratic gains, both parties have to settle their own internal struggles.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad to Chavez: 'We're going to be together until the end']]></title>
<link>http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ahmadinejad-to-chavez-were-going-to-be-together-until-the-end/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>budsimmons</dc:creator>
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<div>Nov. 26, 2009<br />
Jpost.com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST</div>
<p>&#8220;We feel at home here and among our brothers &#8230; we&#8217;re going to be together until the end,&#8221; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a visit to Latin America on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Both leaders roundly denounced US &#8220;imperialism,&#8221; and Chavez also called Israel &#8220;a murderous arm of the Yankee empire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chavez said he had just returned from an unannounced visit to Cuba, where he met with his mentor Fidel Castro as well as President Raul Castro. &#8220;They asked me to give you a hug for them,&#8221; he told Ahmadinejad.</p>
<p>Also during Ahmadinejad&#8217;s visit, the two leaders agreed on the inception of a direct flight route between Teheran and Caracas, according to a report by AFP.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Is THE Impediment to the Mideast Peace Process]]></title>
<link>http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/obama-is-the-impediment-to-the-mideast-peace-process/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>budsimmons</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama Is an Impediment to the Mideast Peace Process By Lauri B. Regan From the outset of his preside]]></description>
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<p><strong>By</strong> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/lauri_b_regan/"><strong>Lauri B. Regan</strong></a></p>
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<div>From the outset of his presidency, Obama foolishly made Israeli settlements the focal point of his administration&#8217;s admonishments of Israeli policy. Beginning with his refusal to confront Iran on its nuclear weapons program, Obama barked orders at the Israeli government, requiring the full cessation of construction in the settlements without regard to the realities of the situation.</p>
<div>In his thuggish Chicago style, Obama felt confident that he could successfully bully Netanyahu into halting construction in disputed territories and then go down in history as the president who brokered peace between Israelis and Palestinians. In doing so, Obama not only underestimated the resolve of the Israeli people, but he empowered the Palestinians by handing them an excuse to discontinue all negotiations for peace for the foreseeable future.</div>
<div>What has since resulted from Obama&#8217;s ill-informed, grandiose pronouncements is Abbas threatening to quit due to Obama&#8217;s failure to achieve a settlement freeze, Palestinians contemplating a unilateral declaration of an independent state with U.N. backing, and the likely hardening of positions on both sides of the conflict.</div>
<div>It looked like the administration had awoken to reality when, for a brief period of time, it began to ease up on previous statements. However, this week, Obama made it perfectly clear where he stands on this completely misguided position. In an interview with Fox News, Obama condemned the construction of nine hundred new apartment units in Jerusalem, <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/18/jews-and-palestinians-criticize-obama/">stating</a>:</div>
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<div>I think additional settlement building does not contribute to Israel&#8217;s security. I think it makes it harder for them to make peace with their neighbors. I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.</div>
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<div>I have come to expect the rest of the world, including European leaders, U.N. diplomats, and Mideast despots to play the blame-game and ridicule Israel as the sole impediment to peace in the Mideast. I am getting sick and tired of listening to my country&#8217;s president do the same thing. American presidents are supposed to arrive in office with full knowledge of world affairs before they undertake a task as weighty as the Mideast conflict and make declarations that have grave ramifications from which they cannot retreat. As Yisrael Harel <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258489189931&#38;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">wrote</a> in the <em>Jerusalem Post</em>:</div>
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<div>Had the president of the United States done his homework and not relied on an ideology without foundations or bowed to the pressures of his closest aides &#8230; he would have discovered that his vision is a nonstarter.</div>
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<div>And Noah Pollak <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/171462">writing</a> at <em>Commentary</em> further noted:</div>
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<div>Having staked the peace process on an undeliverable promise to the Palestinians of a settlement freeze, the administration is now forced to spin furiously for Abbas in order to shield him from even more humiliation than he&#8217;s already suffered.</div>
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<div>It is no surprise that this administration blames Israeli settlements for the lack of peace in the Mideast. Obama&#8217;s advisors, czars, and life influences have all made it clear that their view of the world includes censuring Israel and holding it responsible for the violence and conflict in the Mideast. But to claim that nine hundred apartment units could embolden Palestinians in a &#8220;very dangerous&#8221; way is one of the most ignorant comments Obama has made to date (and that includes when he said he was on a path to visit 58 of the 60 states).</div>
<div>The Palestinians have been committing &#8220;dangerous&#8221; acts in the name of resistance (their code word for terrorism) for decades. Israel has been under attack and forced to take defensive measures in order to ensure its survival since its inception. And since the birth of the Jewish State, when absolutely no settlements existed or were even contemplated, the Arab world has been at war with Israel.</div>
<div>Obama must realize that there were no settlements when Israel was attacked in the wars of 1948, 1957, and 1967. Yet he proclaims that if only Israel would halt development of buildings on land that it secured in accordance with international law in its own self-defense in the 1967 war, peace would exist. Notwithstanding the lessons learned when Israel unilaterally handed over the Gaza strip to the Palestinians, receiving absolutely nothing in return other than years of missile barrage, Obama claims that if Israel would simply cede land that it won in defense of its existence, peace would prevail. The &#8220;land for peace&#8221; mantra is moronic, but the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125849713271252721.html">claim</a> by Robert Gibbs that &#8220;[at] a time when we are working to relaunch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed&#8221; is even more so.</div>
<div>The only people buying these ludicrous and unrealistic proclamations are either anti-Semitic, uneducated, or both. The clear and historic reality is that if the Palestinians want peace, they have had a number of opportunities to attain it, and they rejected every single one. If the Palestinians want peace, they could put down their arms tomorrow, recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish State of Israel, and a homeland of their own would be forthcoming.</div>
<div>The United States, for the first time since the start of Israel&#8217;s existence, has a president who has absolutely no understanding of the history of the land of Canaan, no understanding of the legitimate claims of Israel to Jerusalem as its capital, and no desire to confront reality. What he desires is to force his will and his world vision on populations, reality be damned. The implications of Obama&#8217;s fantasies will result in more violence in the area, prolonged economic strife for the Palestinian people, and resentment and enmity toward America and Israel across the region.</div>
<div>Jews the world over should have been on red alert when candidate Obama flip-flopped on the division of Jerusalem as part of a two-state solution. Any candidate who promises a Jewish audience that Jerusalem will remain unified one day, and the next day changes his mind in response to Muslim backlash, should have received 0% of the Jewish vote. But Barack Obama received 78% of the Jewish vote, and his policies have proven disastrous.</div>
<div>We&#8217;re ten months into his presidency, and Obama is now castigating Israel for building apartments in Jerusalem, believing that this land should be part of a future Palestinian state. As Jonathan Tobin <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/172152">noted</a>,</div>
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<div>The president&#8217;s decision to speak as if this part of Jerusalem was a ‘settlement&#8217; where Jews had no right to live and build is&#8230;a provocative escalation of the administration&#8217;s hostile attitude toward Israel.</div>
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<div>Obama&#8217;s predecessor was one of the best friends that Israel has ever known. Perhaps Obama believed that it was time for tough love since unconditional love did not lead to peace. What he missed from that equation, which led to an inapt conclusion, was the fact that there is no true partner for peace on the other side. The empowerment of that faux player by Obama is now not only leading to potential catastrophic consequences, but it is taking the focus off finding a proper solution. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Netanyahu <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9C23HQ80">stated</a>:</div>
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<div>I hope the Palestinians answer our calls for negotiations. The Palestinians have groomed themselves with unrealistic expectations.</div>
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<div>Netanyahu was too diplomatic to state that on the way to achieving those unrealistic expectations, the Palestinians had a little help from their friends in the White House.</div>
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<description><![CDATA[Obamazilla Is America&#8217;s True Nemesis, Not Fellow Patriots By Lloyd Marcus Eleven months ago, h]]></description>
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<p><strong>By</strong> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/lloyd_marcus/"><strong>Lloyd Marcus</strong></a></p>
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<div>Eleven months ago, he landed on the shores of  the presidency, destroying everything in his path. A gigantic, fire-breathing monster wreaking havoc, consuming private sector industries, crushing institutions which have made America great, and destroying lives. With fear and trembling we dare to utter his name&#8230;Obamazilla! Though appearing indestructible and unstoppable, millions of brave patriots arose to challenge the beast, vowing not to sit idly by as America as we know it is terminated.</p>
<div>As a patriot, I am totally focused on defeating Obamazilla, America&#8217;s true nemesis. I will not allow myself to be sidetracked into participating in Tea-Party-movement family feuds. We are blessed to have brilliant, strong-willed strategists on our side who think they know which direction is best for the movement. That is fine. However, it is unfruitful and misdirected to boycott, trash, and waste time and resources suing those on our side who have varying opinions.</div>
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<div>No one person or organization can claim ownership or take full credit for this amazing, historical Tea Party movement. It belongs solely to We, the People. It still blows my mind how without media support, but through online social networks and word of mouth, 1.7 million patriots showed up in Washington, D.C. on 9/12 to oppose tyrannical government.</div>
<div>Some have even attempted to force me to take sides. They threatened, &#8220;Lloyd, if you sing at their tea party, I will no longer be your fan.&#8221; Unless a tea party group is wacko, while I may not totally agree with their approach, I consider them an ally. Again, my total focus is on the big picture: stopping the huge monster which is destroying our freedom, liberty, and culture.</div>
<div>Back in April, an upset California patriot e-mailed me after a successful tea party. His local organizers were gung-ho about fighting the battle on the national level. My e-mailer had a fire in his belly to fight locally. I advised my patriot brother to follow his passion. Our incredible movement was sparked by the passion of one man: Rick Santelli. What began with passion can be sustained only by passion, by everyone doing what he or she feels passionate about doing.</div>
<div>Besides, we need patriotic freedom-fighters in all areas and on all levels.</div>
<div>Unfortunately, feuding over strategies has become a major distraction in the tea party movement. No, I am not asking anyone to compromise beliefs or ideas. Quite the opposite. Whatever way you and your group choose to fight Obamazilla is fine with me. But do not feud with tea party patriots who disagree or do not share your passion. Remember, your target is Obamazilla.</div>
<div>Like everyone else, I have opinions regarding the focus of the movement, but I will not allow my opinions to cause me to break fellowship with my fellow freedom-fighters.</div>
<div>For example, some think the Tea Party movement should remain &#8220;pure&#8221; by  not supporting any political candidates. I disagree. We can tea party until the cows come home, but if we do not work to put true conservatives in office, we are simply making noise without achieving anything.</div>
<div>Another source of contention in the movement is talk of a third political party. I believe a third party would ensure the election of Democrats. Remember how Ross Perot got Clinton elected?</div>
<div>Having said that, you third-party patriots, if you feel strongly about starting a third party, go for it. You will not get any flack from me. My efforts are targeted solely on stopping Obamazilla. I only ask that you graciously accept me not wearing your t-shirt.</div>
<div>For crying out loud, patriots, Obama has awarded a terrorist the same legal rights as an American citizen. Reid is muscling health care through the Senate. Cap-and-trade is next on the agenda. In America, we have a &#8220;pay czar.&#8221; The list of horrors grow daily, and we patriots are fighting amongst ourselves. Please stop it. Stay focused on the real monster, the real enemy, the real threat to America: Obamazilla!</div>
<div>The Tea Party movement has birthed countless grassroots organizations. It is truly a wonderful thing. I find it extremely exciting that patriots all over America are fighting to defeat this monster administration and restore our great nation in their own way. I met many of these committed patriots while traveling on the national Tea Party Express II tour. Conservatives from twenty-something to eighty are running for office for the first time. Old ladies are bombarding their congressmen and senators with phone calls and letters. Everyone is doing his part.</div>
<div>As corny and clichéd as this sounds, it still holds true: &#8220;United we stand, divide we fall.&#8221; Let&#8217;s stand together, brothers and sisters. Let&#8217;s stand!</div>
<div><a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?page_id=741%3ELloydMarcus.com%3C/a"><strong><em>Lloyd Marcus</em></strong></a><strong><em>, (black) Unhyphenated American</em></strong></div>
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<title><![CDATA[The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah By Jack Cashill In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then]]></description>
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<p><strong>By</strong> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/jack_cashill/"><strong>Jack Cashill</strong></a></p>
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<div>In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grunman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.</p>
<div>At that same time, in America&#8217;s other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him.</div>
<div>At the time, not even Nostradamus could have foretold that the paths of Barry and Sarah would intersect in the &#8220;historic&#8221; 2008 election, Barry as the first major party presidential nominee of African descent and Sarah as the first woman with a real shot at the vice-presidency.</div>
<div>Each would change names before reaching the national stage. Barry Obama would become Barry Soetero, and then Barack Obama. Sarah Heath would become Sarah Palin after eloping with the formidable Todd Palin. Obama would chronicle his journey in the 1995 memoir, <em>Dreams From My Father</em> and the 2006 sequel, <em>The Audacity of Hope.</em> Palin would chronicle hers in the 2009 memoir, <em>Going Rogue: An American Life</em>.</div>
<div>How the literary/media establishment would respond to the respective memoirs of these two political figures would reveal far less about the authenticity, honesty, and literary quality of the tales the authors told than it would about the collective mindset of that establishment.</div>
<div>From a classical perspective, Palin&#8217;s is the more compelling narrative. The obstacles that she must overcome to fulfill her destiny are many, varied, and real. Raised in the frozen outback by a schoolteacher father and a school secretary mom, Palin accomplishes nothing without a good deal of work, often under difficult physical circumstances.</div>
<div>Palin takes a semester or two off to pay for college. She works at a diner over the summer. She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition and is awarded second runner-up and &#8220;Miss Congeniality.&#8221; She interns during other summers to become a sports reporter. </div>
<div>After college, Palin joins fiancé Todd on his Bristol Bay salmon boat. During slow salmon runs, she works &#8220;messy, obscure seafood jobs&#8221; until she can find a job as sports reporter, and even then she keeps returning to Bristol Bay when the salmon are in season.</div>
<div>Throughout this period, despite the hard work and harsh environment, Palin never loses her sense of wonder about the spectacular natural theater in which she is so very much at home. When asked about the state&#8217;s best attributes during a Miss Alaska pageant, Palin responds, &#8220;its beauty and everything that the great Alaska outdoors has to offer.&#8221; Prophetically, she also plugs the state&#8217;s &#8220;potential in drilling for oil,&#8221; which, even then, &#8220;Outsiders don&#8217;t understand.&#8221;</div>
<div>Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents&#8217; connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii&#8217;s poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his &#8220;pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother&#8217;s race.&#8221;</div>
<div>In his recent book <em>Barack and Michelle</em>, Chistopher Andersen quotes a black friend who rejected Obama&#8217;s claimed reason for being benched in a particular game.</div>
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<div>No, Barry, it&#8217;s not because you&#8217;re black. It&#8217;s because you missed two shots in a row.</div>
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<div>Obama admits to &#8220;marginal report cards&#8221; in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the &#8220;diversity&#8221; movement in full flower. Diversity&#8217;s rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama&#8217;s upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn&#8217;t care less. His skin color improves their &#8220;metrics.&#8221; Obama will ride this pony far.</div>
<div>After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League &#8212; Columbia, to be precise. In <em>Dreams</em>, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea&#8217;s nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.</div>
<div>After several years as a low-paid community organizer in Chicago, Obama decides to return to law school. Despite a lack of resources and a mediocre performance at Columbia &#8212; he does not graduate with honors &#8212; Obama limits his choices to &#8220;Harvard, Yale, Stanford.&#8221; He had absorbed the diversity zeitgeist deeply enough to see success as an entitlement.</div>
<div>In the spring of 1989, during Obama&#8217;s first year at Harvard Law, Palin&#8217;s &#8220;life truly began&#8221; with the birth of her oldest son, Track. That summer, with Todd working a blue-collar job on the North Slope oil fields, Palin, her father, and their Eskimo partner work Todd&#8217;s commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay. Palin&#8217;s mother, meanwhile, baby-sits the ten-week-old Track.</div>
<div>In 1992, while an anxious Obama dithers in an office that the University of Chicago has given him to write <em>Dreams</em>, half of his $150,000 advance already cashed, Palin is pulling her babies, Track and Bristol, along on a sled as she goes door-to-door seeking votes in her run for Wasilla city council. </div>
<div>Not yet thirty, Palin settles upon the philosophy that will guide her political career: reducing taxes &#8220;and redefining government&#8217;s proper role.&#8221; Like few Republicans this side of Ronald Reagan, Palin will adhere to these principles throughout her political ascent.</div>
<div>Not surprisingly, Palin&#8217;s tenacity makes enemies among those who have cashed in their Republican heritage for the perks and power of office. Palin&#8217;s perseverance in the face of this resistance makes for compelling political drama. That she is a woman challenging the good old boys of backroom Alaska heightens that drama.</div>
<div>Yet despite pushing the boundaries of female accomplishment throughout her career &#8212; as sports reporter, as commercial fisherman, as councilwoman, as mayor, as oil and gas commissioner, as governor, as vice-presidential candidate &#8212; Palin never loses her sense of the feminine. Having five children surely helps. So does living in an environment where manly virtues still matter.</div>
<div>An exchange with the larger-than-life Todd helps clarify Alaskan reality.  Todd is a four-time winner of the Iron Dog competition, a 2,200 mile snowmobiling marathon. One night, Sarah expresses interest in competing. Says Todd:</div>
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<div>Can you get the back end of a six-hundred-pound machine unstuck by yourself with open water up to your thighs, then change out an engine at forty below in the pitch black on a frozen river and replace thrashed shocks and jury rig a suspension using tree limbs along the trail?</div>
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<div>When Sarah answers &#8220;Nope,&#8221; Todd replies, &#8220;Then go back to sleep, Sarah.&#8221; Todd lives his Eskimo heritage. He does not just dream about it, let alone exploit it.</div>
<div>While Palin is slugging through Alaska&#8217;s political morass like a determined Iditarod musher, Obama is cruising through Illinois politics on skids greased by his Chicago cronies. In his 2004 run for U.S. Senate, both his chief primary opponent and his expected general election opponent are undone by damaging personal information leaked to the media. Obama wins both elections easily.  </div>
<div>The combination of his black genes and white upbringing makes the famously &#8220;articulate and bright and clean&#8221; Obama an irresistible choice to keynote the race-conscious 2004 Democratic convention. &#8220;I mean, that&#8217;s a storybook, man,&#8221; alleges the inimitable Joe Biden. </div>
<div>The story told in <em>Dreams</em> will become a huge bestseller in the wake of the 2004 convention.  The lofty, lyrical style of the book will seal the Ivy-educated Obama&#8217;s reputation as a genius, and its much-celebrated narrative would serve as a foundational myth for Obama&#8217;s ascent to the White House.</div>
<div>Said NEA chairman Rocco Landesman just last month, reiterating the accepted wisdom of the chattering classes, &#8220;This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln.&#8221;</div>
<div>The establishment will not be so kind to Palin. In the week of <em>Going Rogue&#8217;s</em> release, the <em>New York Times</em> house conservative David Brooks will call her &#8220;a joke.&#8221; Dick Cavett, the Norma Desmond of TV talk, will dismiss her as a &#8220;know-nothing.&#8221; Ex-con Dem fundraiser Martha Stewart will brand Palin &#8220;a dangerous person.&#8221; And literally thousands of lesser liberal lights will deride her as &#8220;stupid,&#8221; an &#8220;idiot,&#8221; or a &#8220;moron&#8221; (8.5 million Google hits and counting for &#8220;Palin&#8221; &#8220;moron&#8221;).</div>
<div>In that same week, Chris Matthews was worrying out loud that Obama was &#8220;too darned intellectual,&#8221; and author Michael Eric Dyson was celebrating Obama&#8217;s &#8220;sexy brilliance.&#8221; But while the Associated Press was sending a platoon of reporters to fact-check Palin&#8217;s book, neither the AP nor any other media outlet dared check either <em>Dreams</em> or <em>Audacity of Hope</em>.</div>
<div>They likely feared what they would find &#8212; namely that Obama&#8217;s genius depends solely on his willingness to lie about it. &#8220;I&#8217;ve written two books,&#8221; Obama told a crowd of teachers in Virginia last year. &#8220;I actually wrote them myself.&#8221; He did no such thing. He had massive help with both books.</div>
<div>Although the prose of <em>Dreams</em> is often lyrical, it is not Obama&#8217;s. As I have argued in these pages, and as Christopher Andersen has confirmed, Obama&#8217;s gifted friend Bill Ayers gussied up the rough outlines of Obama&#8217;s life and imposed upon them the mythic dimensions of Homer&#8217;s <em>Odyssey.</em> To accomplish this, the authors invented any number of incidents, many of which are easily disproved. For a serious seeker of facts, <em>Dreams </em>is Sutter Creek in 1848.</div>
<div>In <em>Going Rogue</em>, by contrast, Palin does not shy from crediting Lynn Vincent for &#8220;her indispensable help in getting the words on paper.&#8221; And yet the story is told honestly and sincerely in Palin&#8217;s voice. There is no artifice, no postmodern mumbo-jumbo, and not a sentence in the book that Palin could not have written herself. My personal favorite, &#8220;I love meat.&#8221; I suspect that, unaided, journalism major and former reporter Palin is a better writer than Obama.</div>
<div>Left to their own devices, Palin is clearly the better speaker. In <em>Going Rogue</em>&#8217;s climactic moment, the unknown Palin serves up the most dazzling convention speech in modern political history, and she does so in spite of a malfunctioning teleprompter. &#8220;I knew the speech well enough that I didn&#8217;t need it,&#8221; writes Palin.</div>
<div>Had Obama&#8217;s teleprompter malfunctioned at the 2004 convention, he would not be president. He has always depended on the eloquence of others. So thoroughly hooked on the teleprompter is Obama that the irrepressible Biden jokes about it. &#8220;What am I going to tell the president?&#8221; Biden asked the crowd at the Air Force Academy after a teleprompter blew over. &#8220;Tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?&#8221;</div>
<div>In the final analysis, <em>Going Rogue</em> is a better book than <em>Dreams</em>. No Republican has ever held Palin up as a genius, literary or otherwise, but her narrative is as shrewd, sensitive, and straightforward as its author.</div>
<div><em>Dreams</em>, on the other hand, is merely a well-crafted fraud.</div>
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<strong>Old Butch:</strong></p>
<p>John was in the fertilized egg business.  He had several hundred young layers (hens), called &#8216;pullets,&#8217;  and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.</p>
<p>He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.</p>
<p> This took a lot of time,  so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.  Each bell had a different tone,  so he could tell from a distance,</p>
<p>which rooster was performing.  Now, he could sit on the porch And fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.</p>
<p> John&#8217;s favourite rooster, old Butch,  was a very fine specimen,  but this morning he noticed old Butch&#8217;s bell hadn&#8217;t rung at all!  When he went to investigate, </p>
<p>he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover.</p>
<p> To John&#8217;s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn&#8217;t ring.  He&#8217;d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.</p>
<p>John was so proud of old Butch,  he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.</p>
<p> The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the <strong>No Bell Piece Prize</strong> but they also awarded him the <strong>Pulletsurprise</strong> as well. </p>
<p>Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.  Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards </p>
<p>on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren&#8217;t paying attention.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Fresh new polls out by Rasmussen Reports shows that although 26% of American voters Strongly Approve]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Fresh new polls out by Rasmussen Reports shows that although 26% of American voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President, <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">41% <em>STRONGLY</em> DISAPPROVE of Obama</span></span>, giving Obama a <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Presidential Approval Index rating of -15</span></span>. And this is the second straight day at -15, which is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Obama&#8217;s <em>lowest </em>Approval Index rating yet</span>. And for the first time in the Obama era, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index has been in negative double-digit territory for <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>nine</em> straight days</span>.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/us_president_barack_obama_spending_money_for_debt_policy_speech_strategy_comic_political_cartoon_economist_funny_best_top_free_greatest1_obama_debt.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6271  aligncenter" title="us_president_barack_obama_spending_money_for_debt_policy_speech_strategy_comic_political_cartoon_economist_funny_best_top_free_greatest1_obama_debt" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/us_president_barack_obama_spending_money_for_debt_policy_speech_strategy_comic_political_cartoon_economist_funny_best_top_free_greatest1_obama_debt.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="294" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">But that may be the good news for Leftists, Democrats and RINO Republicans. According to Rasmussen, there is a massive divide of 74% of African-Americans Strongly Approving of Obama, with only <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">a<em> tiny</em> 19% of white voters agreeing</span></span>. When, oh, when will Black Americans see that they left the plantation for the Democrat&#8217;s Jim Crow and KKK wayward ways, only to be given the right to vote in the Sought in exchange for government handouts that have RUINED YOUR FAMILIES, neighborhoods, schools, murdered your offspring, and basically have withheld the Great American Dream from you yet again? Just a question.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">On the economy,  <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">just 34% now give the President good or excellent marks</span></span>, while thirteen percent more (47%) say he is doing a poor job. Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President&#8217;s performance, while <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">54% disapprove</span></span>, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">97% of African-American voters approve</span> of Obama, while <span style="text-decoration:underline;">61% of white voters <em>disapprove</em></span>. Wow! They never even lowered the glass of Kool-Aid yet, have they?</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kscn1427l_obama_debt.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6272  aligncenter" title="kscn1427l_obama_debt" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kscn1427l_obama_debt.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="400" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">This all comes as the GOP has tied it&#8217;s highest number of adherents to Dem counterparts in the Generic Congressional Ballot at 44% versus 37%. And voters not affiliated with either party continue to<em> </em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>STRONGLY</em> FAVOR Republicans over Democrats</span></span> by a whopping twenty-four percentage points, 44% to 20%.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">But wait! There&#8217;s more bad news for those Wealth Redistributors in Washington District of Corruption, where Marxism, Socialism, Radicalism, and insane debt spending run rampant in our nations&#8217; Capitol. While Nancy Pelosi and other Wealth Redistributors are busy trying to saddle our grandchildren with even more Public Debt, only 21% believe that additional Stimulus Spending is best, and 62% believe <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">tax cuts are a <em>better way</em> to create jobs and fight unemployment</span></span>. A full 51% of Americans now say a better way to create jobs is to<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"> STOP ALL <em>STIMULUS </em>SPENDING NOW!</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/rman8602l_obama_cries_racist.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6273  aligncenter" title="rman8602l_obama_cries_racist" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/rman8602l_obama_cries_racist.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /></a></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">And as far as Obamacare is concerned, the American People are speaking <span style="text-decoration:underline;">LOUD AND CLEAR</span> that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">WE DON&#8217;T WANT IT</span> by a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">whopping 18%</span>, with <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">56% OPPOSING</span></span>, and only 38% in favor, the LOWEST LEVEL in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted by Rasmussen since June. Prior to this, support <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">never</span></em></span> went below 41%.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Not only is Obama and the Democrats losing the battle to take over our capitalist nation through Obamacare Socialism, but <span style="text-decoration:underline;">only 21% strongly favor the plan</span>, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">43% are <em>strongly</em> opposed</span></span>.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">But the bad news doesn&#8217;t stop <em>there</em> for Obamacare Socialism, since <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">only 16% of Americans now think passage of the plan will actually lead to lower health care costs</span></span>. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Nearly four times as many (60%) think the Dem plan will <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>increase</em> health care costs</span></span>, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">54% think passage of it will <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>hurt </em>the quality of care</span></span>.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-health-care-plan-in-a-nutshell.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6276  aligncenter" title="obama-health-care-plan-in-a-nutshell" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-health-care-plan-in-a-nutshell.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="318" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Americans are divided between Democrats, who favor Obamacare at 73%, and GOPers and unaffiliated voters, who <em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">DISAPPROVE</span></span></em> at 83% and 70% respectively.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">And for those that just love the idea of &#8220;free stuff&#8221; from the government such as an Obamacare Public Option, 63% of voters say <span style="text-decoration:underline;">guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority</span> than giving us a &#8220;public option&#8221; Government-Run Health Insurance Company. And a huge 83% say that </span></strong><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/83_say_proof_of_citizenship_should_be_required_to_get_government_health_aid" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">proof of citizenship should be required</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;"> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">before</span></em></span> anyone can get health care assistance from a government program.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">For those that think government has run the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and a whole host of other bankrupt or near-bankrupt entities better than the Private Sector could, <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">47% trust the Private Sector more than government to keep health care costs down and the quality of care up</span></span>, and two-thirds (66%) say an <span style="text-decoration:underline;">increase in Free Market Competition will do <em>more</em> than Government Regulation to actually reduce health care costs</span>.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">A full 53% of voters worry that the </span></strong><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2009/voters_still_worry_government_will_do_too_much_for_economy" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">federal government will do <em>too</em> much</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;"> regarding reacting to the America&#8217;s financial problems, which is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">up seven points since Obama took office</span>. </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-debt1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6274  aligncenter" title="obama-debt" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-debt1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="364" /></a></span></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">“The most important fundamental is that 68% of American voters have health insurance coverage they rate good or excellent,&#8221; Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, wrote in the <em><a title="blocked::http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574330442429438938.htmlblocked::http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574330442429438938.htmlblocked::http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702043136045743304424294" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574330442429438938.html" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a></em>. &#8220;Most of these voters approach the health care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.”</span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Earlier polls show </span></strong><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/48_want_abortion_coverage_banned_in_health_care_plan" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">48% nationwide favored the abortion ban,</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;"> but just 13% of voters wanted abortion coverage mandated in the legislation, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>only</em></span></span> </span></strong><a title="blocked::http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/october_2009/most_voters_say_they_know_health_care_bill_much_better_than_congress" href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/october_2009/most_voters_say_they_know_health_care_bill_much_better_than_congress" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">31% believe Congress has a good understanding of the proposed health care reform</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Last month for the first time since Oct. 2007 </span></strong><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/mood_of_america_archive/importance_of_issues/government_ethics_edges_out_economy_as_top_issue_among_voters" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">voters rated government ethics and corruption as <em>more</em> important than the economy</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000000;">. But now 76% give it a second place standing, with 85% of voters considering the issue of the economy as very important, topping a list of 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen. GOPers and voters that are not affiliated with either major political party put more emphasis on Government Ethics and Corruption than Democrats do. Health care is in third place with 66% of voters saying it is a very important issue, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Republicans are trusted <em>more</em> than Democrats are on the top three issues</span></span>.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">And did you know that Democrats are doing worse than Republicans are under President Obama and his Democratic cohorts in Congress as far as unemployment is concerned? Fifteen percent of Democrats are currently unemployed, versus just 9.9% of Republicans who are unemployed and looking for work.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">As far as the country heading in the right direction is concerned, only 31% of voters agree, the <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>LOWEST</em></span> matched only two times this year, last time in early October.  Sixty-four percent believe we are <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">HEADED IN THE <em>WRONG</em> DIRECTION</span></span>. Breaking the numbers down, 57% of Democrats say the country is heading in the right direction, but only a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">tiny 9% of Republicans and 22% of voters not affiliated with either party feel the same way</span>. A solid 89% of Republican and 72% unaffiliated voters believe the country is <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">HEADING DOWN THE <em>WRONG</em> TRACK</span></span>.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama20debt20plane20cartoon_obama_debt.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6275  aligncenter" title="obama%20debt%20plane%20cartoon_obama_debt" src="http://777denny.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama20debt20plane20cartoon_obama_debt.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="318" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Other Rasmussen polls:</span></strong></p>
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<li><strong><span style="color:#000000;">J.D. Hayworth, a conservative former U.S. congressman, earns 43% of the vote even though he has not formally announced, while McCain earns 45% of the vote. </span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2009/63_say_political_correctness_kept_military_from_preventing_ford_hood_massacre" target="_blank"><strong>63% Say Political Correctness Kept Military From Preventing Ford Hood Massacre</strong></a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/new_york/55_in_new_york_oppose_civilian_terror_trials" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">55% in New York Oppose Civilian Terror Trials</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/most_recent_videos2/2009_11/just_43_give_positive_marks_to_obama_s_fort_hood_response" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Just 43% Give Positive Marks to Obama&#8217;s Fort Hood Response</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/most_recent_videos2/2009_11/31_say_government_will_get_back_bank_bailout_money" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Just 31% Say Government Will Get Back Bank Bailout Money</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/68_oppose_cities_that_give_sanctuary_to_illegal_immigrants" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">68% Oppose Cities That Give ‘Sanctuary’ To Illegal Immigrants</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/november_2009/42_rate_geithner_s_performance_as_poor" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">42% Rate Geithner’s Performance As Poor</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/energy_update" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">47% Blame Global Warming on Planetary Trends, Not Human Activity</span></strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/budget_priorities"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Voters Continue to See Deficit Reduction as Top Priority</span></strong></a></li>
<li><strong><span style="color:#000000;">81% Still Concerned About Inflation</span></strong></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>62% Say Congress <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>More</em> Responsive To Media Than To Voters</span></span></strong></span></li>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>In other news, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/25/plan-restrict-health-accounts-hurt-disabled-critics-warn/?test=lastestnews" target="_blank">Plan to Restrict Health Accounts Will Hurt the Disabled, Critics Warn</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/economic-growth-revised-rd-quarter/?test=economy" target="_blank">Economic Growth Revised Down in 3rd Quarter, as Commerce Department says GDP growth over the summer was 2.8 percent not 3.5 percent</a>.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/11/24/the-young-turn-against-obamacare/" target="_blank">The Young Finally Turn Against Obamacare</a>. Just Ask dick Morris, who with your help, ran television advertisements and an Internet campaign aimed at young people focused in Arkansas, North Dakota and Maine, which saw young people in those states now THE <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>MOST OPPOSED</em></span> to Obamacare.</strong></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Q</span>uote of the<span style="color:#ff0000;"> D</span>ay</span>: &#8220;Two weeks ago three hundred 9/11 families sent a letter to the President telling him <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">we ADAMANTLY OPPOSE THIS FOOLISH AND DANGEROUS AC</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">T</span></span> (of trying 9/11 conspirators in New York civilian court). The letter was never acknowledged.&#8221; &#8211; Debra Burlingame, sister of one of the pilots of one of the planes used by the terrorists, and co-founder of &#8220;9/11 Never Forget Us!&#8221;</strong></span></p></blockquote>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[By Alan Caruba Thursday, November 26, 2009 Canada Free Press Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Boxer, Mark]]></description>
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 By <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/17270/Caruba/">Alan Caruba</a>  Thursday, November 26, 2009   <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/">Canada Free Press</a></p>
<p><strong>Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Boxer, Markey, Waxman</strong></p>
<p> <em>As the global warming fraud unravels, it’s a good time to look at the politicians who have been some of the most outspoken advocates, using global warming/climate change to advance “Cap-and-Trade” legislation and other related laws and regulations. </p>
<p>Top of the list is President Barack Obama who has made many references to “climate change” and “global warming” to further this national and international fraud. He’ll pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in December; the same one given to Al Gore and the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a few years back. Further proof of his mendacity will be his attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference in Denmark.</p>
<p>Speaking on World Environment Day last June, Obama said of global warming, “We’re going to have to make some tough decisions and take concrete actions if we are going to deal with a potentially cataclysmic disaster.” This mirrors years of similar doomsday statements by former Vice President Al Gore.</p>
<p>This is the kind of drivel Americans and others around the world have heard from their supposed “leaders” for far too long.</p>
<p>As we move through the congressional hierarchy, one of the biggest prevaricators about global warming/climate change has been Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-C) and her counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), manages to wheeze about it from time to time.</p>
<p>Former presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, (D-MA) has been leading the fight for “Cap-and-Trade” but after much reflection former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) concluded his support of global warming was a mistake. </p>
<p>Sen. Kerry said that failure to pass the Senate version of “Cap-and-Trade” (of greenhouse gas emission credits) would be comparable to another 9/11. He also has blamed tornadoes on global warming. The man is a complete idiot.</em></p>
<p>Click the link below for more:<br />
<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17270">A Political Who’s Who of Global Warming Liars</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The National Nightmare]]></title>
<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-national-nightmare/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>texan2driver</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t say it any better, so I just highlighted the salient points. God Bless http://www.g]]></description>
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<p><span style="color:#dc143c;"><em>God Bless</em></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2009/dl_1124p.shtml">http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dlimbaugh/2009/dl_1124p.shtml</a></p>
<h2>A National Nightmare, Indeed</h2>
<p>By David Limbaugh<br />
November 24, 2009</p>
<p>In a Democratic fundraising speech in Iowa over the weekend, Vice President Joe Biden told party loyalists that opponents of the Obama administration&#8217;s agenda &#8220;should be worried about us, for we are their worst nightmare.&#8221; Duh.</p>
<p>Finally we can agree on something, Joe. Even the liberal New York Times reports that at the current level of federal spending, the annual interest on the national debt will exceed $700 billion by 2019 &#8212; compared with $202 billion this year. Some forecasters predict it will be much higher. <span style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">This additional half-trillion dollars a year in interest is more than our current combined expenditures on education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;color:red;">Oh, and the Times isn&#8217;t even factoring in the cap-and-trade nightmare you and Barack have in store for us, Joe</span> &#8212; you know, that urgent legislation to catapult the nation back into Third World status based on hysteria generated by fraudulent science and corrupt zealots and politicians.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;color:red;">Nor is the Times including in its calculations the additional debt that would result from Obamacare.</span></p>
<p>Joe, when The New York Times is sounding the warnings over the exploding national debt, you and Barack insist not only on not reversing your disastrous course but also on making it worse. <span style="font-size:130%;font-weight:bold;">How can reasonable people assume anything other than that you are trying to run this nation into the ground financially?</span></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t dare keep telling us your hyper-ambitious spending is a necessary evil required to deliver us from a financial crisis you inherited. <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;">Whatever crisis we face is debt-related, purely and simply. Everything else is manageable.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;font-weight:bold;">Yet you all are deliberately increasing our indebtedness as far as the eye can see, without the slightest pretense of scaling back in this millennium. In fact, you are laboring to establish further entitlements and institutional changes that would generate exponential burdens on our debt and would be enormously difficult for any responsible and financially sane successor to undo, much less reverse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">Adding insult to injury, you are spending this money not to improve (&#8220;stimulate&#8221;) the economy</span> &#8212; which even the most politically and economically illiterate should now realize &#8212; <span style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:red;">but to restructure American society, dismantle our free enterprise system and impose in its place a command-control economy and political system &#8212; in which life&#8217;s decisions, including over our private health care, are dictated from Washington.</span></p>
<p>But while you and Barack are hoisting your wrecking ball, could you please spare us the pseudo-sanctimony and transparent populism in telling us that it will take &#8220;grit and determination&#8221; to outlast the &#8220;special interests&#8221; on Wall Street and the insurance industry to pass your destructive agenda?</p>
<p>You both know better. <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;">When you have to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., with a larcenous $300 million addition to your Senate bill</span> (I know, you&#8217;re pretending it&#8217;s just Harry Reid&#8217;s bill) <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;">that&#8217;s specifically earmarked just for her state</span> &#8212; <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;color:red;">at the expense of the rest of the states and the national interest</span> &#8212; something smells to high heaven. <span style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;">You could at least have the decency to admit this provision to raise the bill&#8217;s cost by increasing Medicaid subsidies for &#8220;certain states recovering from a major disaster&#8221; is not even motivated to help Louisiana, but to buy Landrieu&#8217;s vote.</span> <span style="font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;color:darkred;">And you want to talk to us, Joe, about the corruption of special interests?</span></p>
<p>Special interests, Joe? Is that how you describe 56 percent of the American people, who now oppose Obama&#8217;s plan? And that&#8217;s without even knowing the half of it. Or maybe you would describe them as dangerous protesters or domestic terrorists?</p>
<p>But, Joe, I do applaud you for your candor in telling your fawning supporters, &#8220;I can tell you with absolute certainty: (Barack&#8217;s) resolve has never waivered for one instant.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bull&#8217;s-eye, Joe. <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;">You and Barack believe you know better than the American people what is good for them, and you only care what they think to the extent that it makes your job more difficult when they oppose you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;">But if you told the truth about your plan</span> &#8212; <span style="font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;color:darkred;">that it would cost dramatically more than you pretend (especially considering that the benefits wouldn&#8217;t begin to be paid until 2014 and that taxes would increase almost immediately); that the public option would subsume private care; that the federal government would ration care; that medical choice would be drastically reduced; that you are still trying to secure federal funding for abortion; that you intend to cover currently illegal immigrants; that after all your hype about promoting this bill to achieve universal coverage, millions would remain uninsured and penalized, to boot; that medical quality would be seriously reduced; and that overall costs would increase</span> &#8212; your support for the bill would be in the single digits.</p>
<p>So keep chanting it, Joe; you are indeed a national nightmare.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:90%;font-style:italic;">David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book &#8220;Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today&#8217;s Democratic Party&#8221; was released recently in paperback. To find out more about David Limbaugh, please visit his Web site at www.DavidLimbaugh.com.</span></p>
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<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/give-thanks-for-veterans/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#800000;">&#8220;We have always been here. Since the American Revolution. We will always be here, waiting in the shadows &#8217;til America needs us again.  We are your Veterans and we love you more than our own lives, America.&#8221;</span> <em> &#8211;Anonymous</em></p>
<p><em>This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.  He dictated this letter  to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.</em></p>
<blockquote><p>Dear President Obama,</p>
<p>My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year.  People meeting me for the first time don&#8217;t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.</p>
<p>I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos&#8217;n Mate.  Now I live in a &#8220;rest home&#8221; located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.</p>
<p>So here goes.</p>
<p>I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">&#8221; We&#8217;re no longer a Christian nation&#8221;</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">&#8221; America is arrogant&#8221; &#8211; (Your wife even announced to the world,&#8221;America is mean-spirited. &#8221; Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and  hopelessness.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;d say shame on the both of you, but I don&#8217;t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you.  To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.</p>
<p>After 9/11 you said,&#8221; America hasn&#8217;t lived up to her ideals.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British?  Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War?  I hope you didn&#8217;t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination.  You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.</p>
<p>Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.</p>
<p>Shape up and start acting like an American.  If you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue.  You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.</p>
<p>And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don&#8217;t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight?  You don&#8217;t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don&#8217;t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.</p>
<p>One more thing.  I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you&#8217;re the Commander-in-Chief now, son.  Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him.  But if you&#8217;re not in this fight to win, then get out.  The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you&#8217;re thinking of.</p>
<p>You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.You&#8217;re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy.  That&#8217;s not our greatest threat.  Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don&#8217;t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
Harold B. Estes</p></blockquote>
<p>When a 95 year old hero of the &#8220;the Greatest Generation&#8221; stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can.</p>
<p>Please pass it on.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Weekly Articles (Thanksgiving Edition)]]></title>
<link>http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/weekly-articles-thanksgiving-edition/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/weekly-articles-thanksgiving-edition/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The under reported victims of trade restrictions: http://lincicome.blogspot.com/2009/11/protectionis]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The under reported victims of trade restrictions:<br />
<a href="http://lincicome.blogspot.com/2009/11/protectionisms-hidden-victims.html?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottLincicome+%28Scott+Lincicome%29&#38;utm_content=Google+Reader">http://lincicome.blogspot.com/2009/11/protectionisms-hidden-victims.html?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottLincicome+(Scott+Lincicome)&#38;utm_content=Google+Reader</a></p>
<p>The Times of India reports that at the International Conference of Communist Workers Parties, the US delegation says, “There could not have been a better time to be a communist in the USA than this.” Unfortunately, I tend to agree with them. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-better-time-to-be-a-communist-in-US/articleshow/5253066.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/No-better-time-to-be-a-communist-in-US/articleshow/5253066.cms</a></p>
<p>When you borrow, you owe interest. When you borrow astronomical sums, it follow that you owe astronomical amounts of interest. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/19/news/economy/debt_interest/">http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/19/news/economy/debt_interest/</a></p>
<p>Destructive policy, a disincentive to work (thanks for tipping me off Bill) <a href="http://mises.org/daily/3822">http://mises.org/daily/3822</a></p>
<p>My two favorite Senators are Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint. Here&#8217;s an article on Jim, where he repeats his mantra, &#8220;The fastest way to a lasting Republican minority is to repeat the mistakes of the last decade &#8211; simply chasing numbers and power without living up to our principles.&#8221; <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29827.html">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29827.html</a></p>
<p>Rolling back Obama, thank God for the Tea Partiers <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34524">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34524</a></p>
<p>Never a better argument for private schools and home schooling <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/23/university-of-minnesota-demanding-political-allegiance-for-educators/">http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/23/university-of-minnesota-demanding-political-allegiance-for-educators/</a></p>
<p>NO SH*T!!! This may be the all time biggest understatement of a headline. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_economy">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_economy</a></p>
<p><strong>CLIMATE CHANGE</strong><br />
Have hackers come up with evidence of climate change data manipulation?<br />
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229740/Hackers-expose-global-warming-Claims-leaked-emails-reveal-research-centre-massaged-temperature-data.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229740/Hackers-expose-global-warming-Claims-leaked-emails-reveal-research-centre-massaged-temperature-data.html</a><br />
&#8230;&#8230;and more on this story <a href="http://www.thedailybell.com/603/Leaked-Emails-Show-Collusion-Among-Global-Warming-Supporters.html">http://www.thedailybell.com/603/Leaked-Emails-Show-Collusion-Among-Global-Warming-Supporters.html</a></p>
<p>The Heritage Foundation gets in the act <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/23/climategate-heats-up-global-warming-debate-before-copenhagen/">http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/23/climategate-heats-up-global-warming-debate-before-copenhagen/</a></p>
<p><strong>HEALTHCARE</strong><br />
Opportunities to defeat Obamacare <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29798.html">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29798.html</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Safe?]]></title>
<link>http://waitingonthenewmoon.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/is-obama-safe/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>poetryman69</dc:creator>
<guid>http://waitingonthenewmoon.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/is-obama-safe/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I’ve got that same annoyed feeling that I had after that guy threw shoes at Bush.  I don’t care for ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I’ve got that same annoyed feeling that I had after that guy threw shoes at Bush.  I don’t care for Bush but where the hell were the Secret Service?  Were they taking a coffee break?</p>
<p>Now we have a couple of glorious loser Wedding Crasher types who get past all the security and might have even created an international incident.  Hey Secret Service, are you saying you can’t vet these people, or that  their presence doesn’t  matter for some reason?   If you don’t know who’s hobnobbing with President Barack Hussein Obama, I for one do not feel that confident in your performance.   I guess we have to wait for you to tell us that we don’t understand that it’s not important.  If you do, I’m not buying it.</p>
<p>By the way,  I expect some trickonology to played.  Sooner or later someone will discover a back dated invitation to these two interlopers.   Silly Rabbit, tricks are for kids.  If it was easily discoverable that they actually were invited why didn&#8217;t you easily discover it? If they were invited are we to conclude that the way to get an invitation into the White House or a job in government is to either refuse to pay our taxes or get sued 16 times?  If so, some of us law-abiding citizens who endeavor to keep our noses clean have been going about it all wrong.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/26/dinner.whitehouse.crashers/index.html">Sue city for White House Crashers</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/25/state.dinner.crashers/index.html">Party Crashers</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1521261-feeling-lucky">Feeling Lucky</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1514611-advanced-search-tips">Safe Surfing</a></p>
<p><a href="http://socyberty.com/people/pamela-anderson-still-sexy-after-all-these-years/" target="_blank">Still Sexy After all these Years</a></p>
<p><a href="../2009/11/26/2009/11/25/2009/11/25/2009/11/05/twin-bed-pans-over-looking-the-septic-tank/" target="_blank"><br />
Twin bed pans overlooking the Septic Tank</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2400302/is_sarah_palin_qualified_to_squeeze.html?cat=75">Is Sarah Palin Qualified to Squeeze the Cheese?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4864873_travel-naked.html">Traveling Naked</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4801417_much-want-still-lose-weight.html">Avoid a fat head</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2172953/it_is_better_to_be_drunk_than_wasted.html?cat=42">It is better to be drunk than wasted</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4864873_travel-naked.html">How to Travel Naked</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/113204_how-to-use-up-that-extra-beer">Beer Alert</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/48792_a-constellation-of-idiots-in-a-galaxy-of-fools">A Constellation of Idiots</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2172953/it_is_better_to_be_drunk_than_wasted.html?cat=42">It is Better to be Drunk than Wasted</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1639667/texas_toast.html?cat=10">Texas Toast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2340248/happy_gagaween.html?cat=74">Going GaGa!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bukisa.com/articles/183785_happy-gagaween">GooGoo GaGa</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5590309_happy-gagaween.html">Oct 31 is dress up like Lady GaGa day.  Halloween is canceled!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5590309_happy-gagaween.html">Happy GaGaWeen!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.instablogs.com/outer_permalink.php?p=transsexual-prostitute-linked-to-italian-political-sex-scandal-found-burned-to-death">Burned Tranny</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5590309_happy-gagaween.html"><img title="A_24-8-2009_3" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/a_24-8-2009_3.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="A_24-8-2009_3" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5345959_celebrate.html"><img title="A_29-8-2009_9999" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a_29-8-2009_9999.jpg?w=300&#038;h=166#38;h=166&#38;h=166" alt="A_29-8-2009_9999" width="300" height="166" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4864873_travel-naked.html"><img title="Coin3" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/coin31.jpg?w=450&#038;h=336#38;h=336&#38;h=336" alt="Coin3" width="450" height="336" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4801417_much-want-still-lose-weight.html"><img title="Eye3" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/eye3.jpg?w=450&#038;h=336#38;h=336&#38;h=336" alt="Eye3" width="450" height="336" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/13329/cyber_rainbows_and_digital_dreams.html?cat=2"><img title="picI.jpg" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/pici.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="picI.jpg" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4815989_perform-online-job-search.html">Online Job Search</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1916042/how_to_find_and_apply_for_a_government.html?cat=3">Government Work</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1628293/job_search.html?cat=31">Job Search</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1625178/job_search_for_the_older_worker.html?cat=31">Job Search for the Older Worker</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4815989_perform-online-job-search.html"><img title="A_26-8-2009_3" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/a_26-8-2009_3.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="A_26-8-2009_3" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1916042/how_to_find_and_apply_for_a_government.html?cat=3"><img title="A_11-9-2009_4" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/a_11-9-2009_4.jpg?w=300&#038;h=166#38;h=166&#38;h=166" alt="A_11-9-2009_4" width="300" height="166" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1628293/job_search.html?cat=31"><img title="A_26-8-2009_8" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a_26-8-2009_8.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="A_26-8-2009_8" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1625178/job_search_for_the_older_worker.html?cat=31"><img title="A_29-8-2009_9999" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a_29-8-2009_9999.jpg?w=300&#038;h=166#38;h=166&#38;h=166" alt="A_29-8-2009_9999" width="300" height="166" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1576878/alternative_job_hunt.html?cat=25"><img title="A_26-8-2009_2" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a_26-8-2009_2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="A_26-8-2009_2" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bukisa.com/slides/148006_rainbow-dreams"><img title="A_24-8-2009_3" src="http://waitingonthenewmoon.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a_24-8-2009_3.jpg?w=300&#038;h=177#38;h=177&#38;h=177" alt="A_24-8-2009_3" width="300" height="177" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nodoubt.com/user/photos/default.aspx?pid=19368&#38;mid=5641552">Dressed as Lady Gaga</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ladygaga.com/forum/default.aspx?cid=454&#38;tid=361192&#38;cmid=2278276">Monster Ball</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/galleries/lady_gaga_the_ultimate_costumer/lady_gaga_the_ultimate_costumer.html">Ultimate Costumer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://therapup.uproxx.com/2009/10/how-to-make-your-own-lady-gaga-halloween-costume-video.html">Becoming Gaga</a></p>
<p><a href="http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/10/23/how-to-make-the-ultimate-lady-gaga-halloween-costume/">Gagging on Gaga</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.celebuzz.com/lady-gagas-fame-monster-promo-s149551/">Sexy</a></p>
<p><a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/post/which-lady-gaga-will-you-be-for-halloween">Which witch to twitch?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20314653,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn">Prepare to go Gaga</a></p>
<p><a href="http://gagaween.tumblr.com/">A Hottie does GaGaWeen right</a></p>
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<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>texan2driver</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[TRUE Global Warming Agenda Revealed]]></title>
<link>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/true-global-warming-agenda-revealed/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>texan2driver</dc:creator>
<guid>http://texan2driver.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/true-global-warming-agenda-revealed/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Those who would take our liberty from us are growing impatient.  They have seen a door opened to the]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#dc143c;">Those who would take our liberty from us are growing impatient.  They have seen a door opened to them with the election of the mOssiah, Chairman Maobama, and they are emboldened by America&#8217;s forced dash towards socialism.  Yet you, the American people, still stand in their way.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">It is you, the American people, who can stop and unseat our corrupt elected representatives.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">It is you, the American people, who can stop Barack Hussein Obama from pushing us off the cliff of socialism.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">It is you, the American people, though it may be difficult, who can recover from the near destruction of our economy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">It is you, the American people, the people of the greatest nation the earth has ever known, the people who made America the shining beacon of freedom around the globe, who stand in the way of an unelected global government who will strip your freedom and wealth from you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">The true agenda behind the global warming/climate change agenda has been revealed by its own proponents.  Global governance is their aim.  On the surface that can only mean lowering your standard of living, taking your wealth, taking your freedom, and giving it to those who have not earned it.  Those pushing for global governance have told us they want to do this.  But what <em><strong>aren&#8217;t</strong></em> they telling us?  As is always the case with any liberal proposal, what they tell you and what they really mean are two entirely different things.  The chances that what they steal from us will ever make it into the hands of the African tribesmen or Pygmies in the outback of Australia is remote at best.  They will never see any benefit from wealth stolen from us.  That wealth will only be used to line the pockets and consolidate the power of those who form this global government.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">What can we do to aid the less fortunate around the world?  Can it be done without a one-world government?  How can it be done?  The answer is simple.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">American exceptionalism and capitalism.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#dc143c;">America has <em><strong>ALWAYS </strong></em>been the most generous nation on earth.  We have <em><strong>ALWAYS </strong></em>given </span><span style="color:#dc143c;">more than all other nations combined</span><span style="color:#dc143c;"> to those less fortunate nations.  We have <em><strong>ALWAYS </strong></em>been the first on the scene providing aid when there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world.  How have we been able to do this?  Because our American ingenuity, and capitalist free market system have always produced more than we need.  When that system is destroyed, there will be nothing left to give.  When you destroy the wealthy and those who produce wealth, you are left with nothing a-la &#8220;<em>Atlas Shrugged</em>.&#8221;  Obama and the rest of the liberal elites are using class warfare to justify their increased taxation of the wealthy and middle class.  I will leave you with this short story that explains quite well what is happening.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>How Taxes Work . . .(not an original work, author unknown)</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:</p>
<p>The first four men, the poorest, would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1, the sixth would pay $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18, and the tenth man, the richest, would pay $59.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until one day the owner threw them a curve (in tax language a tax cut).</p>
<p>&#8220;Since you are all such good customers,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20.&#8221; So now dinner for the ten only cost $80.00.</p>
<p>The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six, the paying customers?  How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his &#8220;fair share?&#8221;</p>
<p>The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody&#8217;s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being PAID to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man&#8217;s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.</p>
<p>And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free.</p>
<p>But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. &#8220;I only got a dollar out of the $20,&#8221; declared the sixth man who pointed to the tenth. &#8220;But he got $7!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s right,&#8221; exclaimed the fifth man, &#8220;I only saved a dollar, too . . . It&#8217;s unfair that he got seven times more than me!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s true!&#8221; shouted the seventh man, &#8220;why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Wait a minute,&#8221; yelled the first four men in unison, &#8220;We didn&#8217;t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!&#8221;</p>
<p>The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night he didn&#8217;t show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered, a little late what was very important. They were FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS short of paying the bill! Imagine that!</p>
<p>And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore.</p>
<p>Where would that leave the rest?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most taxing authorities anywhere cannot seem to grasp this rather straightforward logic!</p></blockquote>
<hr /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-27580-St-Louis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d25-EU-President-claims-2009-first-year-of-global-governance">http://www.examiner.com/x-27580-St-Louis-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d25-EU-President-claims-2009-first-year-of-global-governance</a></p>
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<h2>EU President claims 2009 first year of global governance</h2>
<p>November 25, 9:38 AM<br />
St. Louis Conservative Examiner<br />
Andrea Simoncic</p>
<p>According to recent statements by the EU&#8217;s President, <strong>Herman van Rompuy</strong>, the year 2009 will mark the first year of <em><strong>global governance</strong></em>. The EU President, a former Belgian Prime Minister, mentioned this in a recent speech upon confirmation of his presidency. Said the newly confirmed EU President, &#8220;2009 is the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of financial crisis. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.</strong></span>&#8221; This claim has given rise to fears of a possible coup of the American government if the <a href="http://www.germanwatch.org/klima/treaty1nar.pdf">proposed Copenhagen Climate Treaty</a> is signed by President Obama in December.</p>
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<p>The climate treaty, it is theorized, would mandate that <strong>wealthier nations redistribute up to 2% of their annual gross domestic product to third-world countries in <span style="text-decoration:underline;">reparation for so-called &#8220;climate debt.&#8221;</span></strong> In other words, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">it mandates a handout from richer nations to poorer nations</span>, based on the spurious scientific evidence of global warming. Evidence which has recently proven to be falsified, according to the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Hadley-CRU-hacked-with-release-of-hundreds-of-docs-and-emails">leak of information from Hadley CRU</a>.</p>
<p>The foundation for these fears that U.S. Sovereignty will be usurped result from a section on governance in the treaty, beginning on page 22 of the proposal. Some believe it would <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>create an unelected world government with direct control over all financial and trading markets, plus the direct power to intervene over the heads of elected governments in the economic and environmental affairs of the nations which sign the Treaty.</strong></span> It is on this basis that some fear the U.S. may lose its sovereignty if  President Obama signs this treaty, and Congress ratifies it into law. Among those who warn against the treaty is British <a href="http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5513-lord-monckton-warns-un-copenhagen-treaty-would-impose-communist-world-government">Lord Monckton</a>, the former science advisor to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.</p>
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<p>Whether or not these fears and suspicions are well-founded, however, the new EU President nonetheless has displayed a worrying presumption in regards to other nations. Certainly <strong>Americans would do well to be vigilant regarding this matter</strong>, particularly concerning the devaluation of the dollar, and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7156932&#38;page=1">China&#8217;s past urgings to accept a global currency</a>. Yet America has not surrendered her sovereignty, despite the EU President&#8217;s implied assumptions that America, along with other nations, will indeed bow to the authority of a one world government in the future. Indeed, many recent reports have sounded the death knell for this treaty. Regardless, <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>America must stand firm against those who would seize or coerce unrightful power; American must not and cannot cede its sovereignty to any person or entity.</strong></span> That means you, too, President van Rompuy.</p>
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<p>For more information, please visit:</p>
<p><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/un-fccc-copenhagen-2009.pdf">UN Framework for Convention for Climate Change (Most recent version of the proposal)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-MWN76&#38;show_article=1">Obama says &#8217;step closer&#8217; to climate deal</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6905356.ece">All hope is lost for Copenhagen climate treaty, British officials say</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&#38;sid=aHZ4UFjPVrr4">APEC Concedes Copenhagen Climate Treaty Out of Reach</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.webcommentary.com/signrep.php">Instrument of Repudiation Petition Opposing Treaty of Copenhagen</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA[We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet If you think things have been rough so far, hang on.]]></title>
<link>http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/we-ain%e2%80%99t-seen-nothing-yet-if-you-think-things-have-been-rough-so-far-hang-on/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>budsimmons</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet If you think things have been rough so far, hang on. By Victor Davis Hanso]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span class="articletitle">We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet</span><br />
<span class="articlesubtitle">If you think things have been rough so far, hang on.</span></p>
<p><span class="articlesubtitle">By Victor Davis Hanson</span></p>
<div class="article"><span class="drop">W</span>hen it comes to the problems facing this country, an old slogan comes to mind: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.”</p>
<p>High unemployment, the recession, and a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan are bad enough. But there are a number of problems on the horizon that could dwarf President Obama’s first-year trials.</p>
<p>Why the pessimism? In short, we are doing nothing to prepare for the crises to come.</p>
<p>A global recession has led to low oil prices. Yet in this window of opportunity, America has not decreased its foreign-oil dependence. We are not encouraging domestic exploration. And we are still ambivalent on nuclear power.</p>
<p>But as the world economy recovers, oil will probably surge back over $100 a barrel, increasing our oil-import tab by 25 percent or more. The Obama administration, though, mostly is obsessed with subsidizing relatively small amounts of wind and solar power. It likely won’t be long before angry motorists at the pump are demanding to know why we have not pushed for more development at home of still-plentiful natural-gas and oil fields.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, other economic bad news may be just around the corner. Today, interest rates on short-term Treasury bills still are less than 1 percent. But they, too, will climb as business picks up and worries over American inflation spread.</p>
<p>If we have to pay foreign lenders 5 percent to 7 percent interest on our debt, as in the past, the increased costs will gobble up additional billions from our annual budget. Yet sadly again, we are missing this rare opportunity of low interest to pay off cheaply the trillions that we already owe. Instead, we are borrowing even more!</p>
<p>The War on Terror is also heating up again. Fairly or not, the Fort Hood massacre sent the message that the United States is more worried about appearing politically correct in matters of diversity than about hunting down radical Islamists on its home soil. Those who seek to copy what happened at Fort Hood will be encouraged. And those charged with stopping them will be discouraged and confused.</p>
<p>Such uncertainty was reinforced by the attorney general’s decision to try the architects of 9/11 in federal courts in New York City. At best, the confessed mass-murderer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will lecture the United States. At worst, one sympathetic juror could find the monster only 99 percent guilty, and therefore the court might fail to convict him of planning the murders of 3,000 innocent people.</p>
<p>After announcing a new strategy of counterinsurgency in March, and appointing Gen. Stanley McChrystal the new supreme commander in Afghanistan, it looks like Obama only now will commit more troops to Afghanistan. That will be a wise decision — but one coming three months after the generals’ request.</p>
<p>We were given an unexpected reprieve through the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq. We can now build on that victory by routing the Taliban in the way the Iraq surge stabilized democracy there.</p>
<p>Finally, there is an array of taxes on the horizon — increased federal income-tax rates; promised hikes in health-care surcharge taxes; and even rumors of value-added federal sales taxes. These increases are said to be aimed at the proverbial wealthy. But that could change — given that the top 5 percent of households already provide 60 percent of the nation’s income-tax revenue. And many are already paying 50 percent to 60 percent of their incomes in combined local, state, federal, and payroll taxes.</p>
<p>Just consider. The price of gas will soon likely increase. The cost of servicing our profligate borrowing will, too. One more terrorist attack like at Fort Hood, or nightly sermons from a grandstanding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or a new Taliban offensive, and the momentum could shift to radical Islam in its decades-long war against the United States. Next year’s tax hikes will be real and large — and no longer just this year’s idle talk.</p>
<p>As these storm clouds gather, Congress bickers on Saturday nights about borrowing even more money for health-care reform, yet another federal entitlement.</p>
<p>If you think things have been rough so far, hang on, ’cause you ain’t seen nothing yet.</p>
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<p><span class="bioline"><em>— <span class="bioline"><em>Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the <a href="http://www.hoover.org/">Hoover Institution</a> and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal. </em></span><span style="color:#666666;"><em>© 2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.</em></span><br />
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<p>By Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama</p>
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<p>Over time, myths and distortions have arisen, twisting the reason for Thanksgiving Day. For starters, the Pilgrims did not hold their harvest festival to thank the local Indians. Unfortunately, this myth is often perpetuated in schools and textbooks. Many children and adults now believe we celebrate the help given to the Pilgrims by Native Americans. If the Pilgrims were to visit this Thanksgiving, they would be shocked.</p>
<p>The Pilgrims focused on thanking and praising God for His love, for all that He had done for them, and for the freedom they enjoyed in the New World.</p>
<p>A glimpse into the history of Thanksgiving Day gives a greater appreciation of this great American holiday. Even earlier than the Pilgrims, people of faith set aside days for prayer and thanksgiving to God. Many times rather than a feast, they were a time dedicated to prayer.</p>
<p>It may come as a surprise to some that the word holiday is actually from old English compound word combining holy and day. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines holiday as “a day set aside for special religious observance.”</p>
<p>The ancient Hebrews had many days set apart to worship, praise and thank God. Passover and Succoth are holy days of gratitude to God for His loving-kindness and deliverance from Egypt.</p>
<p>Early Americans often held days of thanksgiving in the various states and commonwealths. Washington and Madison each proclaimed a day of thanksgiving while president.</p>
<p>In October 1789, President George Washington signed a proclamation requested by Congress “to recommend to the people of the United States a Day of Public thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to form a government for their safety and happiness.”</p>
<p>Washington then assigned the twenty-sixth day of November “to be devoted by the people… to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be;” and to “all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country…”</p>
<p>It was to remember, Washington said, God’s “manifold mercies” and providence, “for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed,” and, “in general, for all the great and various favors” He gave them.</p>
<p>In the dark days of the Civil War in 1863, Lincoln proclaimed, by Act of Congress, an annual National Day of Thanksgiving following a letter campaign promoting the idea by Sarah Hale. As a mother, widowed at the age of 34, Hale was the editor of the first woman’s magazine in America and campaigned for over 40 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.</p>
<p>Lincoln’s words are especially timely now with our soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign land, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November…as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”</p>
<p>He recommends that we “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers” from the war and to look at the many blessings we have been given by God including “which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come… Almighty God…”</p>
<p>“…But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagine, by the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessing were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own…”</p>
<p>In conclusion, Lincoln says, “It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people…”</p>
<p>Even amongst the pain, upheaval and difficulties of the Civil War, the nation came together for a day of thanksgiving and praise.</p>
<p>Sadly, someone erroneously wrote in Wikipedia, “Thanksgiving Day is … a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general…While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.” Maybe this is true for some Americans, but certainly not for all. And definitely not the way the “Mother of the American Thanksgiving,” Sarah Hale visualized it.</p>
<p>Hale wrote, “Let this day…be the grand Thanksgiving Holiday of our nation, when the noise and tumult of worldliness may be exchanged for the laugh of happy children, the glad greeting of family reunion, and the humble gratitude of the Christian heart.”</p>
<p>And Edward Martin wisely reminds us, “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.”</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>All of a sudden those budget deficits don&#8217;t matter to the Democrats. The numbers are just short of $2 trillion and onward they push for nationalized health care which will likely double that figure.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s their end game? European-level taxation for the American people.</p>
<p>From Michael Barone&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Damn-the-deficit_-Full-speed-ahead-on-health-care-8583120-73022217.html">excellent op-ed</a>, citing Scott Winship of the Progressive Policy Institute:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yet the congressional Democrats who are pressing to expand federal health care spending do not seem much fazed by the prospect that, as Winship writes, &#8220;the level of taxation it would require to meet projected spending needs is far higher than anything the country has ever seen-slash-tolerated.&#8221;</p>
<p>That suggests that, at least for some Democrats, huge looming budget deficits are not a bug but a feature.Just as Ronald Reagan hoped that cutting taxes would force politicians to cut spending, these Democrats hope that increasing spending will force politicians to increase taxes to levels common in Western Europe. Never mind that those economies have proved more sluggish and less creative than ours over the long haul.</p>
<p>The instrument they may have in mind is the value added tax, which operates as an invisible sales tax on goods and services. Back in May, Budget Director Peter Orszag&#8217;s spokesman mentioned the VAT as a &#8220;credible idea&#8221; that he did not want to rule out. In June, House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel suggested a VAT as &#8220;a point of discussion.&#8221;</p>
<p>In September, John Podesta, head of the Obama transition team, spoke of how a VAT would &#8220;create a balance&#8221; with other economies, and White House adviser Paul Volcker cited a carbon tax and a VAT as ways to raise lots of revenue. In October, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, &#8220;Somewhere along the way, a value added tax plays into this.&#8221;</p>
<p>These statements are noteworthy, because American politicians are ordinarily skittish about saying we should imitate Europe&#8217;s high-tax and high-spending policies. These policies seem more unpopular than ever 10 months into the Obama presidency. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that 53 percent of voters worry that the federal government will do too much in response to economic problems, while only 37 percent worry it will do too little.</p></blockquote>
<p>The VAT, or value-added tax, has been on the table for Congressional Democrats and the White House almost since Day One. Bela Pelosi is <a href="http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/here-comes-the-vat/">on record as supporting it</a>, and Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama <a href="http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/obama-eyeing-a-vat/">also wants it</a>.</p>
<p>Once the health care takeover is complete — and it will be passed, you can bet on it — watch the oush in Congress for a VAT prior to the election. Why? Because, like health care and cap-and-tax, it will be their last chance to get it done. The mid-term elections will change the makeup of Congress and they won&#8217;t be able to do it with the 112th Congress. This Congress is hellbent on destroying America&#8217;s free-market economy. Never mind that there would be, as even a progressive like Winship noted, a sever public backlash at raising taxes to the levels seen in Europe and admired by Obama and Democrats in Congress. It wouldn&#8217;t matter to them, just like overwhelming public opposition to everything else they&#8217;ve done and are doing hasn&#8217;t mattered.</p>
<p>How&#8217;s that hope and change thing workin&#8217; out for ya?</p>
<p>The 111th Congress is arguable the worst Congress ever. Porkulus. Ca-and-tax. Government-run health care. Coming soon: a VAT.</p>
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<p><strong>By</strong> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/kyleanne_shiver/"><strong>Kyle-Anne Shiver</strong></a></p>
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<div>It goes without saying, of course, that all good things come from God.  It is to Him, above all, that we owe our lives, our liberties and our individual pursuits of happiness on this earth. </div>
<div><em>Praise God from whom all blessings flow!</em></div>
<div><em>Let it ring in glorious chorus from all over the land this Thanksgiving.</em></div>
<div>We ourselves, though, are God&#8217;s hands on earth, His workers, His vintners, His harvesters of these our many good gifts.  As all wise men and women know, God helps those who help themselves. </div>
<div>So, I say, if we and our families are blessed with freedom this year, then we must thank a soldier.  Freedom, as the sentient saying goes, was never free.  And it never will be. </div>
<div>Without those Americans ready to shoulder the burdens of our defenses &#8212; most of us city-dwelling, computer-whizzing, armchair-quarterbacking, cocktail-partying, tennis-playing, lunch-doing, mall-shopping, celebrity-ogling, book-reading, podium-pontificating Americans &#8211; would be up the creek in dangerous waters without so much as a twig for a paddle.</div>
<div>And this year, more than most, the American citizen&#8217;s burden of gratitude is far greater than average. </div>
<div>We now have a Commander in Chief, who in shallow, selfish mode, <a href="http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2009/11/19/obama-troops-you-guys-make-pretty-good-photo-op">regards</a> our troops as a &#8220;pretty good photo op.&#8221;  A Commander in Chief, who plays golf, vacations at the Vineyard, takes his wife on fancy dates in New York City and goes apology-tour globetrotting at every possible opportunity &#8212; but dithers and dithers and dithers over the very real decisions concerning our national security.  American troops are dying in Afghanistan, ome for necessity, others shamefully for want of adequate numbers to get the job done.  Without a responsible Commander in Chief this year, our troops need to hear from us more than ever. </div>
<div>We have just suffered the first terrorist attack on our own soil since 9/11.  Now, let those safely-ensconced, bubble-headed media elites go on and on all they want with their armchair psychobabble.  Anyone with better than a pea-sized brain and an ounce of common sense understands exactly what happened at Ft. Hood.</div>
<div><em>It was solitary jihad.  It was solitary jihad.  It was solitary jihad.</em> </div>
<div>Yet, our Ditherer in Chief would apparently like to wait until more Americans are similarly gunned down before &#8220;drawing conclusions.&#8221;  Our army&#8217;s own top officer, General George Casey, <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/11/08/general-casey-diversity-shouldnt-be-casualty-of-fort-hood/">thinks</a> more Ft.-Hood-type attacks would actually be better than if our troops&#8217; &#8220;diversity&#8221; were to suffer:</div>
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<div>As a mother, I have to wonder whether these dimwits would be singing the same tune if the people killed were little American school children and the shooter was their bus driver, hired by a diversity chief.  Perhaps in these leaders&#8217; addled minds, soldiers are expendable pawns, not flesh-and-blood sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.  </div>
<div>But there you have it, dear readers.  President Obama and General Casey would seem to prefer the innocent shedding of real human blood to profiling against even the self-sworn, very vocal enemies within our midst.</div>
<div><em>With friends like these&#8230;</em></div>
<div>So, this Thanksgiving, more than in any year since 9/11, I&#8217;m writing the biggest check I possibly can to my favorite troop-support group.  <a href="https://www.mysimplegive.com/SG/landing?id=opgrat">Operation Gratitude</a> says it all.  It&#8217;s not political; it&#8217;s just plain thankfulness.  Thankful for each and every man and woman, willing to lay down his or her life for the safety of all Americans.  Without them, there would be no more Thanksgiving Days. </div>
<div><a href="https://www.mysimplegive.com/SG/landing?id=opgrat">Operation Gratitude</a> is the only troop-support organization in which every single penny donated actually goes to pay postage for care packages sent to our troops.  Not one penny goes for any other expense; none goes for salaries or advertising.  Thousands of pure volunteers &#8211; receiving not a penny for their time and effort &#8211; work tirelessly throughout the year to gather the donated items, which fill each package, addressed to an individual soldier or Marine in harm&#8217;s way. </div>
<div>Thousands more volunteers lovingly assemble each package in Van Nuys, California and fill it to the brim with snacks, DVDs, phone cards, toiletries and anything else America&#8217;s companies, civic groups and individuals donate to the cause.  Handwritten letters and cards from real Americans go into each and every package. </div>
<div>But, sadly, in this age of profligate government spending, rampant with waste and fraud and political payoffs, postage for packages going to soldiers and Marines in harm&#8217;s way is an expense our congress simply cannot abide. </div>
<div>They&#8217;ll spend our money to frank their own political mail from their offices.  They&#8217;ll spend our money to build bridges to nowhere and airports with no passengers.  They&#8217;ll spend thousands of dollars each year for fresh flowers to adorn the Speaker&#8217;s offices.  They&#8217;ll spend our money on every frivolous absurdity the mind can imagine, but they won&#8217;t spend it to get packages to our troops in the war zones.</div>
<div>In this age of utter moral confusion, we can thank the Good Lord every minute of the day that some people remain on the straight and narrow and do the good that must be done.  One such group of well-grounded folks is Operation Gratitude.  The holiday drive is underway.  It costs $11 this year to send a single package to the middle east, where most are headed.</div>
<div>Yes, this whole column is a thoroughly shameless, unapologetically transparent plea for money.  There are scores of groups asking for it and most are worthy of every penny.  But <a href="https://www.mysimplegive.com/SG/landing?id=opgrat">Operation Gratitude</a> is my favorite.  It was started by a mom in her own living room with not an ounce of support from any fat-cat or bigwig.  In only 6 years, it has grown to a veritable homefront army, sending not only good cheer and morale-boosting goodies to our beloved troops in harm&#8217;s way, but enriching a grateful nation &#8211; one person at a time &#8211; in the process.  So, if you possibly can, please donate to the holiday drive this year.  More than ever, our troops need to know we love them and appreciate them and honor them &#8212; with all our hearts and souls and wallets. </div>
<div>Happy Thanksgiving Day 2009!  We&#8217;re still free, hallelujah!  God-granting and soldiers willing to serve, we always will be.</div>
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<div>Global stock markets tumbled Thursday on mounting anxiety over a debt default request by Dubai and tighter lending conditions in China, analysts said.London lost 1.86 percent to 5,264.97 points in late morning trade but was suspended at about 1030 GMT owing to a technical issue.</p>
<p>The London Stock Exchange said it was investigating the &#8220;root cause&#8221; of the problem and would update investors when it had further information.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Frankfurt dived 1.80 percent to 5,698.99 points and Paris plunged 1.89 percent to 3,737.06 points at the half-way stage.</p>
<p>In Asia, Beijing nosedived 3.62 percent, Tokyo fell 0.62 percent and Hong Kong closed 1.78 percent lower. Chinese shares were also hit by the prospect of tighter banking rules and worries about monetary policy next year.</p>
<p>New York markets is closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have two major factors weighing on equities and other risk markets: Dubai&#8217;s call for a moratorium on its debt repayment to May and more stringent capital adequacy requirements for Chinese banks &#8212; but Dubai is bigger,&#8221; David Morrison, an analyst at financial betting firm GFT, told AFP.</p>
<p>The government of Dubai shocked financial markets on Wednesday when it said it would ask creditors of its Dubai World conglomerate for a debt moratorium of at least six months.</p>
<p>The Dubai government announced that it would revamp the Dubai World group and wanted its lenders to extend its maturing debt until at least May 2010.</p>
<p>Dubai added that it had raised five billion dollars in a new bonds issue aimed at helping meet its debt obligations.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dollar weakness &#8230; sent Asian markets plunging, which then took European exchanges with them,&#8221; said Xavier de Villepion, an analyst with Global Equities in Paris.</p>
<p>In addition, the partial default by Dubai &#8220;fed a climate of insecurity and crisis of confidence at a time when fears are mounting about excessive public debt.&#8221;</p>
<p>As equities sank heavily, investors sought safety in the bond market and gold, which struck yet another record high point.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s causing a mini flight-to-quality as US, European debt gets bought as a relative safe haven,&#8221; noted Morrison.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;If (Dubai) had given the debt markets more warning, then there would be less of a panic now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, ratings agency Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s said the development could be considered a default and downgraded a raft of Dubai government entities including Dubai World.</p>
<p>&#8220;The rating actions are the result of the announcement on November 25 of the restructuring of the debt obligations of Dubai World and its subsidiary, (construction group) Nakheel,&#8221; S &#38; P said in a statement.</p>
<p>&#8220;In our view, such a restructuring may be considered a default under our default criteria, and represents the failure of the Dubai government to provide timely financial support to a core government-related entity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barclays Capital analyst Paul Robinson warned that the issue of Dubai could contribute towards a &#8220;serious&#8221; pullback in global stock markets.</p>
<p>Others warned that it could take more than a decade for investor enthusiasm over Dubai to return, as a result of this week&#8217;s development.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dubai could not undermine either itself, or global perception any further as a place not to do business in at the moment,&#8221; MF Global analyst Manus Cranny told AFP.</p>
<p>&#8220;Quite literally, this geographic region is now looking as a mirage in stability terms.&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;It is the much longer term implications on funding, confidence and capital raising that will take a decade or more to re-establish.</p>
<p>&#8220;This last-minute moratorium on debt repayments at Dubai World is unacceptable has all the smacking of an Ireland &#8212; nay worse, an Iceland &#8212; in the making.</p>
<p>&#8220;The two regions may be polemic in climate but mirror images in terms of credit and ability to meet their bills.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elsewhere on Thursday, gold soared to a record high of 1,195.13 dollars an ounce after a purchase of IMF gold by Sri Lanka&#8217;s central bank, traders said.</p>
<p>The precious metal has also won support in recent weeks from inflationary fears, the weak US currency and increasing moves by central banks to diversify assets into gold.</p>
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