Nimer's Blog: 2009/08

14 August, 2009

[Fwd: I'm Tired]

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Subject: I'm Tired
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:02:02 -0500
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A lot of us can identify with this.

* "I'm Tired" by Robert A. Hall

I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when
jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but
job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some
health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick
in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job
or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no
retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth
around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the
government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it
to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to
"keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm
willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of
our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the
leftwing Congress critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community
Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them-with their own money.

I'm tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing
millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who
live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years,
if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and
women's rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the
press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay
people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won't
multiculturalism be beautiful?

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace,"
when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their
sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor;" of Muslims rioting
over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because
they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims
stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating
the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur`an
and Shari`a law tells them to.

I believe a man should be judged by the content of his
character, not by the color of his skin. I'm tired of being told that "race
doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it's all
that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and
graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government
contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and
fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the
appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's very cool that we
have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the
desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the
black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and
the individual and less in an all-knowing government.

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and
inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost,
were wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of
presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to
control weight and stress. That picked over every line of Bush's military
records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with
two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama
with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.

Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or
switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the
media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other
cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and
madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no American group
is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia
to teach love and tolerance.

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to
fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live
in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We
also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live.
Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're 95% greener
than Gore, you're green enough.

I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease,
and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did
a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up
their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people
choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And
I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I
tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented
workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare
or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?
And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it's been
a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm
willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak
English, doesn't have a criminal record, and who is self-supporting without
family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.
Those are the citizens we need.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never
wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their
entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our
military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make
split-second d ecisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth
better people then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our
troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that
were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not
even close.

So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the
humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo,
and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims
who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who
tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the
Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found
in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia,
because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and
American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for
help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner
on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the
papers-bums are bi-partisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need
bi-partisanship. I live in Illinois, where the " Illinois Combine" of
Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to

loot the public for 20 years. And I notice that the tax
cheats in Obama's cabinet are bi-partisan as well.

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and
politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes
or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was
getting caught.

I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or
poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with
air-conditioned homes, color TVs, and two cars called poor. The majority of
Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The
poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the
dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for
their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or
discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because,
mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making. I'm
just sorry for my granddaughter.

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts state senate.

He blogs at **www.tartanmarine.blogspot**..com***

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[Fwd: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare]

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Subject: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:59:57 -0500
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* OPINION
* AUGUST 11, 2009, 7:30 P.M. ET

The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.

By JOHN MACKEY

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more
in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and
Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches
over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are
rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply
not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new
taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country
needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds
of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer
to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should
be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward
less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight
reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:

• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible
health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The
combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution
that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole
Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work
30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our
high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per
year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees'
Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health
and wellness.

Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time.
Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the
annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks
in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully.
Our plan's costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while
providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.

• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and
individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now
employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but
individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.

• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing
across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase
health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should
be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be
portable.

• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must
cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by
billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be
determined by individual customer preferences and not through
special-interest lobbying.

• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to
pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These
costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.

• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care
treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last
doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or
services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?

• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that
Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create
greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.

• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a
voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who
have no insurance and aren't covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State
Children's Health Insurance Program.

Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an
intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors,
medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are
sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to
health care than they have to food or shelter?

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and
shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial
market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to
health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This
"right" has never existed in America

Even in countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right
to health care. Rather, citizens in these countries are told by
government bureaucrats what health-care treatments they are eligible to
receive and when they can receive them. All countries with socialized
medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines
to receive scarce treatments.

Although Canada has a population smaller than California, 830,000
Canadians are currently waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get
treatment, according to a report last month in Investor's Business
Daily. In England, the waiting list is 1.8 million.

At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they
most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees
express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental
health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without
permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional
health-care benefit dollars if they already have an "intrinsic right to
health care"? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either
Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.

Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address
the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that
every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.

Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted:
two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most
of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all
health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and
obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not
smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.

Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of
foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent
and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are
expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives
until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.

Health-care reform is very important. Whatever reforms are enacted it is
essential that they be financially responsible, and that we have the
freedom to choose doctors and the health-care services that best suit
our own unique set of lifestyle choices. We are all responsible for our
own lives and our own health. We should take that responsibility very
seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will
protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create
a vibrant and sustainable American society.

Mr. Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.

[Fwd: Technology Report: Microsoft prices Zune HD below iPod]

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[Fwd: There is some concern that a government run 'insurance health care' system will create euthanasia...?]

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Subject: There is some concern that a government run 'insurance health
care' system will create euthanasia...?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Caesar <info@caesarsquitti.com>
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There is some concern that a government run 'insurance health care'
system will create euthanasia...?

Its all about integrity....! No matter the system.

If we can pay a doctor to kill healthy unborn children, when some
other person or couple will adopt the same, then it is easy to see
that a similar doctor will easily kill or terminate or euthanize an
elderly patient, since the cost savings to the insurance company and
or the government would be substantial.

We already have selective female abortions in North America based on
sex (we don't hear about it, but that does not mean it does not
happen...)

Each system has its merits and disadvantages, but a system that has
insurance without appropriate controls will motivate 'them' to
terminate certain lives rather than treat them.

Having said, that let us look to Italy, a true socialized health care
system where doctors are paid a flat annual fee PER PATIENT....here
there is some incentive to keep you alive and healthy...the American
health care system creates an inverse relationship between your health
and the income of most all doctors.

Oh and by the way don't look to Canada for the best system, even
though it is universal, doctors have retained their private business
component, and they are motivated to create volume of visits,
referrals and testings...

Look to Italy...

Caesar J. B. Squitti
http://www.caesarsquitti.com
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[Fwd: Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress (Updated 2x) < RBO]

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Subject: Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress
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Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress (Updated 2x)

*October 22, 2008 by Procrustes
<http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/author/bmerry7/> *

*^See James Simpson's Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured
Crisis
<http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html>
at American Thinker, 09/28/08. **
<http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/acorn-network.jpg>Ever
heard of the House Progressive Caucus? You won't find it on James
Simpson's chart but a lot of the connections you will read about in this
article are.*

*The House Progressive Caucus (HPC) is just another name for the
**Progressive Caucus (Democratic)
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497>**,
which, according to Discover the Networks, is a "radical caucus of
nearly six-dozen members of the House of Representatives. Until 1999,
the HPC "worked in open partnership" with **Democratic Socialists of
America
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428>**, the
"largest Socialist organization in the U.S."***

*Update: According to the January/February 1999 issue
<http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng56.html#anchor1041720> of DSA's
New Ground, DSA "helped to organize" the Caucus. *

*The March 29, 1999, issue of The New American describes
<http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm>
the House Progressive Caucus (HPC) as*

*… a consortium of radical congressional collectivists whose
stunning success in November remains one of the most under-reported
stories of the election. Fifty-five of the 58 members on last year's
HPC roster ran for re-election; every one of them was re-elected.*

*This success occurred in spite of the fact that there is a
symbiotic relationship between the HPC and the Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA) — a relationship that has been ignored by the major
media. The DSA is the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist
International, the world's oldest and largest hodgepodge of
socialist, social democratic, and labour parties. The Socialist
International proudly boasts that it is the successor to the
so-called "First International" of Karl Marx, founded in London in
1864.*

*HPC/DSA "goals"***

*The New American informs
<http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm>:*

* <http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-logo3.jpg>*

*According to one DSA position paper, its collectivist agenda
includes "massive redistribution of income from corporations and the
wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector"; "a
massive shift of public resources from the military … to civilian
uses"; and "expanding [Medicare] eligibility to people of all ages
and income regardless of health or employment status" so that "the
federal government can serve as the single payer" for the nation's
health care. After all, the DSA contends, "Free markets or private
charity cannot provide adequate public goods and services. [...]*

*The HPC's list of legislative goals includes "a more progressive tax
system" (Karl Marx would be pleased), deep cuts in the military budget,
and a "cradle-to-grave" single-payer health care plan. In the following
pages we survey a rogues' gallery of HPC congressmen and others with a
similar ideological bent.*

*The Wikipedia article
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus> on the
Congressional Progressive Caucus says:*

*According to their website, the CPC advocates "universal access to
affordable, high quality healthcare," fair trade agreements, living
wage laws, the right of all workers to organize into labor unions
and engage in strike actions and collective bargaining, the
abolition of significant portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the
legalization of gay marriage, strict campaign finance reform laws, a
complete pullout from the war in Iraq, a crackdown on free trade and
corporate welfare, an increase in income tax on the wealthy, tax
cuts for the poor, and an increase in social welfare spending by the
federal government.*

*Anything sounding familiar? It should. We've certainly been hearing a
lot of sound bytes on the evening news and in political TV and radio ads
that sound just .. like .. this:*

* *redistribution of wealth? –* ***–** *
* *increase income tax on wealthy? – **–** *
* *tax cuts for the poor? – **– */*Note: 40% of Americans pay zero
taxes now.*/* *
* *more progressive tax system? – **–** *
* *crackdown on corporate welfare? – **–** *
* *increased social welfare spending? – **–** *
* *"cradle-to-grave" health care? – **– ***
* *complete pullout from Iraq? –** –** *
* *cuts in military budget? – **–** *

*Must read**: John Batchelor's October 22, 2008, article Keynes Again,
which will put all of these goals in a chilling perspective.*

*CPC founding***

*The New American continues
<http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011123/www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/03-29-99/totally_radical.htm>:*

*The House Progressive Caucus was founded in 1992 by Representatives
Bernard Sanders (Independent-VT), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Lane Evans
(D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and then-Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA).*

*Although Congressman Sanders, who currently chairs the HPC's
executive committee, is a self-avowed socialist, he is one of the
group's more "moderate" members. During the previous Congress, 51 of
his HPC colleagues scored lower than he did on this magazine's
"Conservative Index" voting guide!*

*Sanders, DeFazio, and Waters are members of what is now called the
Congressional Progressive Congress.*

*DSA hosted CPC***

*
<http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsa-new2.jpg>Would
it surprise you to know that the Democratic Socialists of America hosted
the CPC on its website?*

*For this latter piece of information we turn to a May 24, 2008, post
<http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/05/traitors_among_us_socialists_c.html>
at Theodore's World blog:*

*Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the Progressive Caucus.
Following a subsequent expose of the link between the two entities,
the Progressive Caucus established its own website
<http://cpc.lee.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=166&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree=4&lnk=b&ItemID=164>
under the auspices of Congress. But DSA and the Progressive Caucus
remain intimately linked. All 58 Progressive Caucus members also
belong to DSA.*

*The CPC's "own website" for the current 71-member CPC is an extension
of that maintained for its co-chairwoman, Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.) —
cpc.lee.house <http://cpc.lee.house.gov/>. The other CPC co-chairwoman
is fellow Californian, Rep. Lynn Woolsey.*

*The CPC-DSA relationship was confirmed by Trevor Loudon in his November
12, 2006, article The Socialists Behind the "Progressive Caucus"
<http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2006/11/socialists-behind-progressive-caucus.html>:*

*As the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the most powerful and
radical group in the new US Congress, it might be useful to find out
who is behind the organisation.*

*The most obvious backers of the CPC are the Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA).*

*Loudon cited the Wikipedia article on the DSA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America>:*

*During the 1990s, DSA began looking to the Religious Right's
activism within the Republican Party as a model for how the Left
could gain a greater foothold within the Democratic Party…*

*The result was the "Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of 65
Democratic legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives anchored
by US Rep. Bernie Sanders, a DSA sympathizer….DSA's website included
commentary supportive of the legislative caucus throughout much of
the late 1990s.*

*CPC supporters***

*The Wikipedia article
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus> on the
CPC also provides the names of a number of organizations which support
the CPC.*

*Included in the "array of national progressive organizations" that
"work to support the efforts of the caucus" we find a few that top the
list.*

* *Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) *
* *The Nation magazine *
* *Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) *

/*See next page for Institute for Policy Studies*/**

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*1. **on October 22, 2008 at 11:39 am
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mcnorman <http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/>*

*Great piece. The visual will help people understand the complexity of
Obama's web.*

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12 August, 2009

[Fwd: Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear]

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Subject: Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:43 -0500
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*Government Domination Bills--ObamaCare and Cap 'N Tax*

*Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear*

Sher Zieve Bio
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*Photo Gallery*

/By/ /Sher Zieve/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009

As Obama already had SEIU (Service Employees International Union) in his
back pocket, it was easy for him to have his union management friends
pay overtime to SEIU rent-a-thugs at several recent Democrat Town Hall
meetings. Interestingly, as appears on one of the videos of the
ObamaThugs referenced below, after one of the SEIU purple-shirted thugs
beats Ned Gladney the thug pretends he has been injured. Note: This is
part of the Obama and Alinsky Chicago Way--attack another unmercifully
then claim to be the real victim.

Obama has his union Rent-A-Thug program in place to attack and silence
We-the-People who do not want the slavery, loss of freedoms and liberty
and the increasingly likely imprisonment (GoArmy Internment/Resettlement
Specialist Ads are still running) Obama is attempting to force upon us.
Note: For those of you who were not aware, Tyranny is now the form of
government in our land.

Therefore, in order to further suppress and oppress the American people,
Obama is now advertising nationally on Craig's List for paid
pro-ObamaCare protesters. The payment portion of the Ad (see link
below) states: "Earn $350-500 per week. To apply for a job, visit our
website or call Chris at (916) 455-5000." Obama has now thrown down the
gauntlet at the feet of the American people and is telling us, in
extraordinarily certain terms, 'My police force is coming to get you!
Comply--or else'!

We-the-People who do NOT want to be forced to plan our own deaths (see
HR 3200 Section 1233) by having to comply with Mandatory End of Life
Consultation (for the "elderly" and the disabled) are now targeted as
"terrorists" and "Nazis" by Obama and his minions. We-the-People who do
not want to be forced to give the government access to our private bank
accounts (see Page 59 "electronic finds transfers") are labeled
"right-wing extremists' by Obama and his growing group of paid
Czar-thugs. We-the-People who do NOT want a forced single-payer plan
(see Page 16--after ObamaCare is passed private insurance is outlawed)
are told to SHUT UP! And we who do not want to have the government to
bleed us dry and take over the raising of our children (see Page 838)
are to be silenced by Obama and his thugs at any and all costs.

Obama has already shown that he have his "Brown and now Purple shirts"
beat us up if we dare to voice our opposition to destroying us. His new
scapegoat du jour is the Health Insurance companies. And now the tyrant
has also included us--the American people. Note: Pharmaceutical
companies are--for the moment--safe as they made a back-door deal with
Obama.

But, there may be some hope on the horizon. Now, whenever and wherever
Obama speaks, ONLY those who support him (apparently most or all of
these are paid--our tax dollars at work!) are allowed. That's
desperation, folks. But, with intense desperation comes equally intense
desperate measures. There are growing rumors that 'something big' is
being planned by Obama adherents to blame and, therefore, shut the
American people up--once and for all--so that the dictator will be able
to fully implement his Socio-fascist government.

However, We-the-People have become more and more well-read and
articulate on the Government Domination Bills--ObamaCare and Cap 'N
Tax. We are challenging the progressively more and more corrupt and
power-mad overseers--with intelligence and logic. What a tragedy that
the ones we elected to govern (NOT to rule) are not equally well-informed.

Every time one of the elected officials lies (including dear
Dictator-in-Chief Obama), we will counter them with facts--page number
and line--and the truth! With God's blessing and through our continued
efforts we will win and oust the tyrant--and ALL of the tyrants--from
office. After decades of increasing progressivism and creeping
tyranny--that is now manifesting itself in almost total power over
We-the-People--the time has finally come for Americans to take their
country back. And a growing number of us are actually doing it! Keep
it up and remember Ghandi's famous statement: "First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Obama Rent-A-Thug Ads for ObamaCare
<http://sacramento.craigslist.org/etc/1310895349.html>:
ObamaThugs Attack Black Conservative (Video)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls>:
Internment/Resettlement Specialists Ad
<http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292>:
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internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns
have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Boston Star,
Massachusetts Sun, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications,
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[Fwd: Understanding Islam’s Threat to U.S. Vital]

Here's another idiot that knows nothing about religion trying to tell us
who Islam is at war with. Beautiful!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Understanding Islam's Threat to U.S. Vital
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:33:55 -0500
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*Newsmax.com*

http://www.newsmax.com/frank_gaffney/islam_obama_shariah/2009/08/10/246009.html

*Understanding Islams Threat to U.S. Vital*

Monday, August 10, 2009 1:29 PM

*By:* Frank Gaffney Jr.

John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and
counterterrorism, last week approvingly recalled a key point in the
speech Barack Obama delivered in Cairo in June: "America is not and
never will be at war with Islam." Unfortunately, that statement ignores
the fact that the decision as to whether the United States is at war
with anybody is not entirely up to our leadership or people. The real
question is: Is Islam' at war with us?

It is certainly true that hundreds of millions of Muslims the world over
are not seeking to wage war against the U.S. or other non-Muslim states.
America has, as Brennan noted in his remarks before the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Aug. 6, a powerful
interest in not making all those who practice Islam into our enemies.

Yet, it would be a grave mistake to construe the problem we face as
Brennan proceeded to do in his speech at CSIS: "We are at war with
al-Qaida which attacked us on 9/11 and killed 3,000 people. We are at
war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al-Qaida's
murderous agenda." He described that agenda as seeking "to replace
sovereign nations with a global caliphate."

Unfortunately, that is the stated goal of all those who adhere to what
authoritative Islam calls Shariah a number that includes many millions
of people the world over. Brennan's speech made no reference to this
wellspring of jihadism.

Of course, not all those who embrace Shariah are prepared to use terror
against us. Shariah requires though that if its adherents do not
actually engage in violent jihad, they must support it through financial
or other means. After all, according to Shariah, the purpose of jihad is
to bring about the triumph of Islam over the entire world. Shariah
commands that the faithful must use violence where possible to advance
that objective, and non-violent means where not.

By failing to recognize this justification and catalyst for the threat
we face, Obama and his administration effectively foreclose the
possibility of countering it effectively. Worse yet, in their
understandable desire not to give gratuitous offense to Muslims, the
U.S. government has repeatedly deferred to those who are most easily and
most vocally offended.

Specifically, the latter notably, the putatively non-violent, but
virulently Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and its myriad front
organizations have come to dictate what our officials can and cannot say
about the danger posed not just by al-Qaida and its "violent extremist
allies," but by all those who embrace the teachings, traditions,
institutions, and dictates of what authoritative Islam defines as
"mainstream": Shariah.

This practice effectively disenfranchises American Muslims who reject
this Shariah program precisely the sorts of people we should most want
to empower. Last week, I discussed this problem on our talk radio
program with someone who is trying to do something about it: Rep. Sue
Myrick of North Carolina.

*To hear Gaffneys interviews with Myrick and Sen. John Cornyn **go here
now* <http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml>*.*

As it happens, Myrick's district is not far from where Daniel Patrick
Boyd and other alleged "homegrown" jihadists were reportedly plotting
attacks abroad, and possibly here. What is more, the financial sector so
prominent in the Charlotte community she represents is also a prime
target of one of the most insidious forms of what author Robert Spencer
calls "stealth" jihad: Shariah-compliant finance.

Myrick, a co-founder of the House anti-terror caucus, recently convened
a meeting to afford "moderate" Muslims an opportunity to interact with
representatives of various federal law enforcement and other agencies
responsible for securing this country. According to Myrick, some of the
officials seemed to be discovering for the first time that there are
practitioners of Islam who do not embrace the seditious tenets of
Shariah and who were extremely concerned about the government's almost
exclusive reliance on those who do.

Fortunately, decisions in federal court in recent weeks may produce some
urgently needed policy course-corrections. Judge Laurence Zatkoff in the
Eastern District of Michigan recently cleared the way for accelerated
and wide-ranging discovery in connection with a suit brought by a
Michigan Iraq war veteran, Kevin Murray, against the Treasury Department
and Federal Reserve. Murray is challenging on constitutional separation
of church-and-state grounds the practice of a U.S. government-owned
company, the insurance conglomerate AIG, promoting Shariah-compliant
products.

It seems likely that the depositions that will now be taken by Murray's
legal team securities litigator and Shariah expert David Yerushalmi and
attorneys at the Thomas More Law Center, led by its director Richard
Thompson will shed important light on the federal government's
understanding of authoritative Islam's seditious program. It may also
reveal the extent to which U.S. officials have, with their failure to
comprehend the true nature of the threat we face, acted, either
wittingly or unwittingly, in ways that have enabled it to metastasize
further.

Whether through the revelations of this law suit or through the work of
influential legislators like Myrick, the time has come to recognize that
even if we insist we are not at war with Islam, the authorities of Islam
/are/ at war with us. Only by so doing can we connect with and empower
our natural allies in this war Muslims who want to enjoy liberty in a
Shariah-free America. And only by so doing, do we have a chance of
prevailing.

*Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy, a
columnist for the Washington Times, and the host of the nationally
syndicated Secure Freedom Radio.*

*2009*

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[Fwd: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting from Islam to Christianity]

You're goig to try to tell me that it's only Islam that has these sort
of problems?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting
from Islam to Christianity
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:30:53 -0500
From: Travis <baconlard@gmail.com>
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To: baconlard@gmail.com
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It IS Allah's law…Islamic law. No surprise there.

Florida: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting
from Islam to Christianity

http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-ohio-girl-convert-threatened/

--- Muslim Teen Who Converted to Christianity Says Family Threatened to
Kill Her <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538960,00.html>

--- Girl Says Family Wants To Kill Her For Being Christian
<http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html>
--- "An Ohio girl ran away to Orlando because she said her family
threatened to kill her for converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17,
said she was threatened by her family because she converted from Islam
to Christianity."
--- "'What did your father say to you?' WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked."
--- "'He said he would kill me!' replied Bary.

-- Channel 10TV reports
<http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/08/11/story_teen.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=102>:
"Rifqa Bary, 17, says her father, a Muslim, has threatened to kill her
because she converted to Christianity, 10TV's Cara Connelly reported."

Rifqa Bary, 17 - reports say she is threatened with death by her family
in Ohio for converting from Islam to Christianity
<http://www.realcourage.org/?attachment_id=4985>

Rifqa Bary, 17 - reports say she is threatened with death by her family
in Ohio for converting from Islam to Christianity

-- Florida: "Muslim Faith, Christianity Clash In Orlando Courtroom"
<http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/8/10/muslim_faith_christianity_clash_in_orlando_courtroom.html>--
"An Ohio runaway teenager, Christianity and the Muslim religion met
head-on Monday during a custody dispute in an Orlando courtroom."
-- "The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, recently converted from her
family's faith to Christianity and she is worried about her family's
reaction to her change in faith"
-- "'She says her life is in danger and she could be killed in an honor
killing,' Rosa Gonzalez, the teen's lawyer, said after the hearing.
'Unfortunately it happens every day in the U.S.'"
-- "The teen, a non-citizen, told Lorenz she was fearful that her father
would send her to Sri Lanka."

<http://www.wftv.com/news/20349388/detail.html>

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[Fwd: Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:51 -0500
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*Subject:* Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!

Please read this, and listen to the interview. I don't know about
you, but I would rather die in God's time, than when the
government tells me that I have to. If this passes, we are in deep
trouble.

May God help us.

Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!

/Posted by ZZ Bachman.../

*Shocking information about directives on Pages 425-430 of the House
Health Care Bill.*
Listen to the details
<http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01>
regarding Pages 425-430 in the Health Care Bill focused on by Dr.
Betsy McCaughey, former New York Lt. Governor and Chairman of the
Committee To Reduce Infectious Deaths, in a Fred Thomson Show
interview. She has actually taken to time to READ the details in the
proposed House Bill of 1018 pages and was especially shocked at page
425 – 430. *Page 430 mandates a "New Benefit" for patients and
families which is essentially counseling on how to cut your life
short.* The government over time will begin to shape these
"directives" and the conseling to reduce cost to the overall
system. Translation, encourage the removal of life sustaining
treatments. Counseling on foregoing antibiotics, nutrition and
hydration to promote the termination of life. Now the government
will be encouraging and counseling families, patients and doctors on
how to withhold treatment to decrease the cost of treating the
elderly...
Who will be paying for the health care bill ??? The elderly will pay
indirectly by have access to LESS care as it rationalizes the value
of life as the government regulates who should and should not get
medical procedures.
HEAR THE FRED THOMPSON / Betty McCaughey Interview
<http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01>
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK THIS OUT AND WRITE YOUR CONGRESSIONAL
REPRESENTATIVES!!! (Unless of course you agree with this approach!)
Let your friends know about this insanity unfolding in Washington
and get active an write your representatives. Help STOP THE INSANITY !!!
Additional FOLLOW UP Interview
<http://fredthompsonshow.com/premiumstream?dispid20&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD03MzUxJnBsYXlsaXN0PXRydWUmY2hhcnR0eXBlPWNoYXJ0JmNoYXJ0SUQ9MzIwJnBsYXlsaXN0U2l6ZT01>
with Betty McCaughey – Health Policy Expert and Patient Advocate
also Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths in Hospitals.
*DANGEROUS ASSAULT ON THE ELDERLY*
Comparative Effectiveness Research — code for denying Care based on
a patient's birth date is being promoted in the plan. This is all
about big brother government taking over your freedom of choice!!!
The amount of power the government will have over the physician and
nurse practitioner is mind boggling when you read it.
*On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social
Security, (will include all Senior Citizens and SSI people) will go
to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from
ways to end your suffering (and your life). Health care will be
denied based on age. 500 Billion will be cut from Seniors
healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut
health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying
for your own care will not be an option!! *
*Now, CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE
<https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml> IN WASHINGTON!!
Tell them to read page 425 if they don't read anything else. Surely
some of them have parents.*
*Senate Contact Link
<http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm>*
The elderly are going to especially hit hard by a socialist scheme
to help pay for the health care plan. The modern day equivalent of
putting the elderly out on an ice flow to be eaten by polar bears
when they cannot contribute to the society and are increasing costs
to the community.
Page 425 shows just to what degree the radical left is willing to
push through in order to establish socialized health care in this
country.
See other articles at: defendyourhealthcare.us
<http://defendyourhealthcare.us/>
See also pages 16 and 17 of House Bill which confirms you will be
forced to switch health plans to the one being pushed by the House
of Representatives according to Ms. McCaughey.

/Posted by ZZ Bachman.../

[Fwd: Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here Storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America?]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here Storm clouds of civil
war began to darken Barack Obama's America?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:24:20 -0500
From: Travis <baconlard@gmail.com>
Reply-To: politics-current-events@googlegroups.com
To: baconlard@gmail.com
References: <023e01ca1ac8$14f607d0$3ee21770$@com>
<aef954850908111753r28ab7b56o67ea2af22a055132@mail.gmail.com>

*Storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America?*

*Don't Think That It Can't Happen Here*

/By/ /Doug Patton/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Many Americans believe that we will never succumb to the tyranny that
has plagued the rest of the world throughout most of human history. Far
too many of us today think, "It can't happen here."

At the risk of appearing to don my tin foil hat and join the black
helicopter crowd, there are certain undeniable facts that keep rearing
their ugly heads. And as John Adams once said, "Facts are stubborn things."

Fact: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has likened town hall protesters to
Nazis. They have also been called "an angry mob."

Fact: One of those angry mobsters was a Michigan man who confronted his
congressman, John Dingell, about his concerns that the health care bill
will deny his disabled son the care he needs. Later, in the middle of
the night, someone showed up at this man's house and threatened him.
ACORN? Union thugs?

Fact: Barack Obama, President of the United States, has said that those
same mobsters need to "get out of the way and not do so much talking"
while he "cleans up the mess they left me."

Fact: The White House is asking supporters to snitch on their neighbors
by e-mailing any information about people who oppose the Democrat health
care plan. (If you would like to save your neighbor the trouble and turn
yourself in, the address is flag@whitehouse.gov
<mailto:flag@whitehouse.gov>.)

Fact: And, saving the worst for last, the U.S. Army is now running an ad
at http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=292 that reads as follows:
"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily
responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement facility
or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide
rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners
within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections;
prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of
prisoners/internees and staff personnel."

The ad goes on to spell out the duties of an I/R Specialist, with one
particularly chilling sentence leaping off the page: "Provide command
and control, staff planning, administration/logistical services, and
custody/control for the operation of detention facility or the operation
of *a displaced civilian (DC) resettlement facility."* (Emphasis mine.)

During the dark days of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, Lutheran Pastor and
Theologian Martin Niemoller wrote these now-famous words: "First they
came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I did not speak
out. Then they came for the Socialists and Trade Unionists, but I was
not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not Jewish, so I did not speak out. And when they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me."

Fast forward three-quarters of a century: First they nationalized the
banks, and though I was not a banker, I spoke out, but no one listened.
Then they nationalized the automobile companies, and though I did not
work for them, I spoke out. Some people listened, but others took
advantage of "cash for clunkers." Then they nationalized the health care
system, and though I did not work in health care, I spoke out loud and
clear. And if they come to place me in an internment/resettlement camp
for speaking out, will there be anyone to speak out for me?

If the storm clouds of civil war began to darken Barack Obama's America,
do you think for a moment he would not implement martial law? In one of
the most shameful chapters in American history since slavery, Franklin
Roosevelt imprisoned American citizens during World War II because they
were of Japanese descent. Don't ever think it can't happen here.

*Doug Patton* Most recent columns
<http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13621/Doug%20Patton/>

/Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political
speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected
officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are
published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web
sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a
senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at
//dougpatton@cox.net/
<mailto:dougpatton@cox.net/bcc=letters@canadafreepress.com>/./

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[Fwd: The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds]

This article talks about Obama, but a similar article couldhave written
about Bush.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:22:18 -0500
From: Travis <baconlard@gmail.com>
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To: baconlard@gmail.com
References: <019501ca1ac4$ca51c870$5ef55950$@com>
<aef954850908112135x31d9facbxd38ad91d21315727@mail.gmail.com>

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13631

*A tyrant came to power. His goal is the destruction of the Republic,
and an end to freedom*

*The Iron Curtain Descends upon America, and gets Ripped to Shreds*

/By/ /George Potts Thompson/ Tuesday, August 11, 2009

It had to happen at some point in our history. A tyrant came to power.
His goal is the destruction of the Republic, and an end to freedom. His
banker handlers stole our wealth and many _Americans_ are _unemployed_
and losing their homes.

Iraq and Afghan war vets are sleeping in _campgrounds_ since their
unemployment has run out and even MacDonalds and Walmart arent hiring

He took over the auto companies and now wants to nationalize
healthcare. This WILL eliminate private _health insurance_. I have
_family members_ who work for Bluecross who have told me if this Bill
passes that their careers are likely gone.

But something unexpected happened to the Annointed One, _Barack Hussein
Obama_, on his way to becoming Americas First Caliph. Something he
never expected. He WAS on a roll and never thought his runaway train to
a Marxist America would ever be slowed.

He was arrogant and has a hubris, which Ive never seen in a polititian.
He went on TV every day, in love with the sound of his own voice,
thinking he was still on a campaign. His malignant narcissism has no
boundaries so he continued to push even more radical policies on the
American people.

So he over-reached and never considered hed ever have any opposition.
This overreach is a titanic mistake, and one which may halt his agenda
once and for all.

He tried to take away the health insurance choices of older Americans
and deny them coverage under the guise of Reform, and he attempted to
rush it through without the Bill even being read. He turned a
demographic which used to be his reliable constituents, into his
disloyal, furious, opposition.

As a young woman just said to Arlen Specter: This is about the
systematic dismantling of this country.... and YOU have awakened a
Sleeping Giant. As FNCs Megyn Kelly observed, the topic of _healthcare_
usually makes peoples eyes glaze over. No longer. Many of us wondered
what the tripwire would be.

It wasnt Cap & Trade, Taxes, or Gun Control. It was Healthcare. Obama
couldnt ram the Bill through the Senate..... and now Americans have read
it. And they are absolutely incensed. The polititians underestimated
the concern, and intelligence of the American people, and the issue has
blown up in their faces.

The Bill was crafted with the influence of Obamas Healthcare Czar Dr.
Emanuel Ezekiel MD, the brother of Rham Obamas _Chief of Staff_. This
guy is quite frankly frightening in his view of humanity. You are only
worthy of care if you are Contributing to the Communitarian. After youve
outlived your usefulness to the state.... go away and die. Ezekiel
Emmanuel and Joseph Mengele would have got on famously. For they both
apparently share a common view of mankind.

People only exist as a Resource to be used on behalf of The State. When
the resource is used up, it is discarded. Sarah Palin was correct in
her assessment of this monstrous Legislation. Its EVIL.

The Bill is not just bad law it is something the NAZIs might have
thought up. The very young, the disabled, and anyone over 50 will have
care rationed or withheld altogether. They will force this upon all
Americans with The Exception of the Political Class.

THEY will have the _Gold Plated_ healthcare plan like the Commisars and
Apparatchiks had in Soviet Russia. And WE wont even have the option of
paying for our own care with our own money, for that will be illegal.

I frankly never thought ANYTHING would get Americans off their couches
and begin to fight back. But they got up, got mad, and ARE willing to
fight back against tyranny. Obamas union thugs and minions were sent out
to beat up a Black Conservative in St. Louis, and threaten a man with a
disabled son with DEATH in Michigan, who dared take exception to this
nightmare Bill at a Town Hall.

The man with the disabled son told Megyn Kelly of FoxNews yesterday:
They delivered their message. He then said that they should take care as
he will use any force necessary, including LETHAL, to protect his wife
and child. SEIU? You think youre tough by anonymously hanging a death
threat on the mans door.?

Meet your WORST nightmare: A free American Citizen, ABSOLUTELY willing
to face prison if necessary to defend his wife, his child, and his
Liberty.

They brought down the Iron Curtain; are using Alinskys Rules for
Radicals as a playbook, and employing Chicago THUG tactics as the
stick. It isnt working. Its UNAMERICAN, and we see that.

Americans now recognize this for what it is, TYRANNY, and they are as
mad as a nest of wet hornets. They dont want any part of this Communist
Bill and its hideous implications for every free American. Obama wants
us to Shut Up. How dare that pompous, arrogant ##### tell a free people
to shut up.

We wont This isnt Indonesia or Kenya. and Obama is NOT king. We are not
going away. You cant shove your Statist BS on us any longer. Okay, it
wasnt taxes or _gun control_ that got everyone jumpin ugly. Fine. Ill
take my people waking up for ANY reason as a good thing..

The Sleeping Giant has awoken. The DC Elites pushed too far too fast and
it had the exact opposite effect. Their attempt to take _total control_
has now met resistance. You in the political Class should be forwarned
and wary. You were sent by us to Washington to serve us, and you have
now stupidly got that backwards to where you believe we exist to SERVE YOU?

How did you ego maniacs in DC get so full of yourselves? Get a clue,
the days of you running roughshod over us, and stealing us blind have
ended. You in Washington are just too arrogant and foolish to realize
that. We are not your serfs, nor are we willing to be your ATM Machine
to fund our own enslavement.

Not your Union Thugs, nor your Federal Agencies, nor even your military
can force tyranny on the American People. Weve had enough.

The Giant that is the American Peoples Fighting Spirit will NEVER live
under your Marxist boot....EVER. ACORN, Alinsky and SEIU are no match
for the Spirit of Capt. Parker and the boys who stood their ground at
Concord Bridge and Lexington Green against another tyranny on April
19th, 1775.

That Spirit is alive again, and it is an absolute joy and inspiration to
again behold it.

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14 August, 2009

[Fwd: I'm Tired]

[Fwd: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare]

[Fwd: Technology Report: Microsoft prices Zune HD below iPod]

[Fwd: There is some concern that a government run 'insurance health care' system will create euthanasia...?]

[Fwd: Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical members of Congress (Updated 2x) < RBO]

12 August, 2009

[Fwd: Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves into High Gear]

[Fwd: Understanding Islam’s Threat to U.S. Vital]

[Fwd: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting from Islam to Christianity]

[Fwd: Pages 425-430 of the House Health Care Bill Will Shock You!]

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