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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tea Protests Actually Hit Home
Laughable Budget Cuts
The graphic from Heritage’s John Fleming might assist in understanding the paltry budget cuts. The little black dot just above the top of the largest circle, positioned under the "s" in “requested,” is it. There is even a black arrow pointing to it. Even with all that, it is not easy to spot.
Jake Tapper of ABC News and Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press press Robert Gibbs on the laughable $100 million proposed budget cuts.
5 Photoshopped Images of Obama: Just Ducky
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
In Just 100 Days
Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of Education and the Constitutional Literacy Program for BasicsProject.org, a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to the basic elements of our constitutional heritage while providing non-partisan, fact-based information on relevant socio-political issues important to our country, specifically the threats of aggressive Islamofascism and the American Fifth Column. She serves as a Senior Editor for The New Media Journal. She received her BA in history from Loyola University and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from National-Louis University. She is certified to teach in grades K-9 and 6-12 and as a teacher has worked with students in preschool, 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, and 12th grades. She has also worked as an adjunct instructor at the graduate school level. She continues to augment her education and areas of expertise by taking college courses and participating in a variety of workshops. She currently earns her living as the VP of Compliance and Program Expansion at a graduate school of education.
Google Begins to Track Flu: 13 November 2008
Obamabow has been particularly close to Google executives.
Google Uses Searches To Track Flu
'Flu' Searches Closely Mirror Actual Influenza Cases, CDC Says
Benjamin Grove, Staff Writer
UPDATED: 9:37 am EST November 13, 2008
Just in time for flu season, Google has launched Google Flu Trends -- a Web site that uses flu-related searches to track influenza outbreaks.
Health officials say the chief benefit of Google's Web site is the speed of its data.
Google tracks where flu queries are made and can update the data daily for the new Web site, which shows flu-search activity by state. By comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathers data on actual flu cases from doctors and patients for reports that are typically a week behind real time.
Public health officials are intrigued by the fact that Google's flu searches closely mirror actual cases tracked by the CDC.
Google compared aggregated flu search data -- hundreds of billions of individual searches going back to 2003 -- to the CDC's actual flu trend data. There is a close correlation, said Lyn Finelli, chief of the CDC's influenza surveillance division.
"This is a very innovative approach to surveillance, and the CDC is always interested in innovative approaches," Finelli said. "We're really excited about these electronic sources of data."
Critics warn not to put too much reliance on the Google data. Flaws include the fact that not everyone who googles "flu" has the flu.
"Some of this data may be extremely noisy," said Philip Polgreen, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Iowa and author of a study based on flu searches on Google's search rival Yahoo.
That study also concluded that such searches can be helpful in the early detection of flu patterns. Internet searches could hold promise in the detection of other diseases, Polgreen said.
"Certainly, availability to more information is good," said Polgreen, who is also director of Infectious Disease Society of America's emerging infections network. "It's an exciting topic at the interface of computer science, epidemiology and clinical medicine."
Google's Web site offers users an interactive map to get a quick description of flu-search activity in their state. On Wednesday, most states had "low" or "minimal" activity, according to the Web site. Six states already had "moderate" activity: Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine and Mississippi.
Users of the Web site also will find a line graph for each state and one for the entire nation that show previous years' search results by month. Generally, flu searches tend to increase in November and then rise and dip before falling off through February and March.
According to a post on the Google blog, Google engineers had suspected that they could provide federal officials and the public with more timely information about where the flu was spreading by analyzing the locations of searchers who were googling certain flu-related queries.
Between 5 and 20 percent of Americans contract the flu each year, according to the CDC. With more up-to-date information, public health officials potentially can respond more quickly to smaller seasonal outbreaks. Doctors and health officials might use the data in making decisions about testing patients and notifying emergency room staffs, as well as decisions about vaccination stockpiles and communications to the public, Finelli said.
An early warning of an outbreak could be especially important in the case of a highly rare pandemic like the one that struck the U.S. in 1918, Google noted.
Google officials stress that their system is experimental. They also say that user privacy is completely protected. The company explains on the Google blog that its data was taken based on "anonymized" aggregated counts used to track broad patterns, not single out individual users.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Media Love Affair with Obamabow
Not only has Obamabow gotten more coverage, but that coverage has been more positive than his predecessors.
On the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts, 58% of all evaluations of Obamabow and his policies have been favorable, while 42% were unfavorable. That compares with 33% positive in the comparable period of Bush's tenure and 44% positive for Pres. Clinton.
Updated Number Killed by Virus
The WHO raised its pandemic alert level for the swine flu virus to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a pandemic, a global outbreak of a serious disease. Another source stated the level was phase 5.
The last such outbreak, a "Hong Kong" flu pandemic in 1968, killed about 1 million people.
Although the new flu strain has so far killed people only in Mexico, there were more than 40 confirmed cases in the United States, including 20 at a New York City school where eight cases were already identified.
Fight the Swine: the Flu Also
1) Colloidal Silver (oral, IV, and nebulized, with particle size 0-10nm and a Ag+ positive charge). Also administered as drops into eyes and nose. Brands: Sovereign Silver, Super Silver, Silver Lungs, Silver Gen, APAP etc.
2) Atomic (nascent) Iodine
3) Allicin
4) EGCG
5) Oil of Oregano
6) N-acetyl-cysteine
7) Curcumin (tumeric extract)
8) Lauric acid
9) IV saline / ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution)
10) Vitamin/Mineral Support , including Selenium
EXPERIMENTAL
1) 99% Resveratrol administered orally in dilute pharmaceutical grade DMSO.
2) Colloidal Silver administered orally in dilute pharmaceutical grade DMSO.
3) EGCG administered orally in dilute pharmaceutical grade DMSO.
GENERAL PRACTICE
1) Wash hands after returning from any public place
2) Put 10ppm silver drops in eyes and nose prior to attending any public place.
3) Diet to include: onions, fatty oils, garlic, tumeric, cumin, etc.
4) Resist forced vaccination up to and including the use of deadly force, if necessary. We know the vaccines cannot be trusted and will likely amplify disease.
Obamabow's Plane Buzzes New York: Why?
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Some Practical Advice
The number one treatment is black elderberry extract, particularly Sambucol.
Black elderberry extract can be found in a syrup form, lozenges, or capsules.
There are also natural cold and flu fighters:
* Green tea--capsules are more potent than tea. Green tea works as an immune system booster, an anti-viral and it also has anti-bacterial properties. Decaffeinated green tea is probably the best way to take it so that you're not hyped up and unable to sleep which definitely lowers your immune system.
* Garlic--nicknamed 'Russian penicillin,' this herb has broad antiviral, antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-yeast properties. Odorless garlic is less effective because it means the manufacturer has removed all traces of the most essential nutrient. Instead, enteric-coated garlic pills dissolve deeper in your digestive track and therefore doesn't produce garlic breath or give you garlic odor. Enteric-coated garlic is absorbed better so it can get into your system and seek out and destroy flu and flu-like illness viruses.
One caution is that like aspirin, garlic is a blood thinner, so if you're already taking aspirin or more serious prescription blood thinners you have to be careful and consult your doctor.
* Echinacea and goldenseal--while there have been recent reports that question the efficacy of Echinacea, like anything else in human disease and treatment people respond differently to different treatments. The same is true for Echinacea. It doesn't work for everyone but Echinacea has been around for a long time because it is effective for some number of people, maybe not the majority.
Since 2007, Warned of Pandemic
The symptoms of swine flu in people include fever, fatigue, lack of appetite, coughing and sore throat.
Michael Osterholm, a pandemic flu expert at the University of Minnesota, said new cases were probably already incubating around the world.
Tamiflu, an antiviral drug used against bird flu, is said to be effective against the new strain.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Obamabow "More Dangerous Than Al Qaeda and the Vietcong"
An Air Force veteran was interviewed at the Philadelphia Tea Party; he remarked that he was afraid of Obamabow than he was of Al Qaeda or the Vietcong.
Obamabow Christ
This image is a painting by artist Michael D’Antuono called “The Truth” that will be officially unveiled at Union Square in New York City on April 29 to mark Obamabow’s hundred days in office.
Islamic Professor Suggested Mexican Border Open for Chemical Attack
Is This Barry as a Foreign Student?
This is a copy of the journal of CA Assembly, Senate. When you enter the name Soetoro Moestabjab of Indonesia, you can see his name among the names of the foreign exchange students, who received financial aid from the state of CA. It is possible that this foreign student is our own little Barry Soetoro, Obamabow himself.
Tea Bad News for Republicans: To Wit, Spector
An excellent example is Senator Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who is one of only three Republicans in Congress to vote for Obamabow’s $787 billion stimulus plan. According to a Rasmussen poll released this morning, the 28-year senator now trails his 2004 GOP primary rival Pat Toomey in the polls by 21 points: 51% of Pennsylvania Republicans say they’d vote for Toomey in a 2010 primary, while just 30% would support Specter.
A separate Rasmussen poll demonstrated that 58% of Specter’s Republican constituents cited his support of the stimulus package as reason for their waning support.
The grass roots tea parties seem to have energized the populace. In Specter’s state, the poll found that 79% of Pennsylvania Republicans have a favorable opinion of the tea parties, and 30% knew someone personally who attended. Overall, 82% of Pennsylvania Republicans agree with the parties that the federal government has too much money and too much power.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Massive Increases in Electricity Costs Promised by Obamabow
"Cap and trade is a tax, a big one," Representative John Dingell (D-Michigan).
The Islamic Center of Hate in the U.S.A.
Obamabow's Spending 1st
Clinton’s 1st Year $312 Billion
Bush’s 1st Year $194 Billion
Obamabow’s 1st 100 Days $564 Billion
Fraudulent Newspaper Proof
This is allegedly from the 1961 Honolulu Sunday Advertiser announcing Obamabow's birth. However, examine the flaws in the documentation from Obama's Neighborhood.
Look at the column grids (lines separating the columns). The person who over layed this text onto the background image, completely missed the proper placement of these lines. Notice on the right side, the border lines of the inflated (over layed) text almost match-up with those on the background image (the Newspaper), but the left-side border alignment is a deficient. In addition, the border lines in the inflated text are the incorrect number of segments from the Newspaper. Finally, we are supposed to believe the inflated text matches with the sentences on the newspaper, but clearly the borders do not. The sentence endings do not match-up to the sentences on the Newspaper in most places (and not even the actual text).
More Americans Arrested Worldwide
Dry-run
It all seems too neat and wrapped up in a bow to me. I think we have a dry-run for martial law.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
U.S. to Get Educated by Chinese Human Rights Abusers
Leading human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize-nominee Harry Wu, who has documented many of China’s human rights abuses and crimes, said the United States cannot learn anything from the Communist Chinese educational system.
“The United States cannot learn anything from China, okay?” he said. “But we [the Chinese] want to go there to study the systems and study the culture and find out the best way for America to handle the China case.”
The State Department’s Human Rights Report on China, dated Feb. 25, 2009, states that the Chinese government puts political dissidents into reeducation through labor camps.
“The government reportedly continued to limit access to mosques, detain citizens for possession of unauthorized religious texts, imprison citizens for religious activities determined to be ‘extremist,’ pressure Muslims who were fasting to eat during Ramadan, and confiscate Muslims' passports to strengthen control over Muslim pilgrimages,” the report reads.
“Following violent clashes in western Xinjiang during the Olympic Games, XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) authorities imposed widespread detentions, restricted movement within the XUAR, and established curfews in some cities,” reads the report.
“XUAR party secretary Wang Lequan declared in September that the XUAR government would carry out ‘preemptive attacks,’ implement ‘antiseparatist reeducation’ across the region, and increase policing of religious groups.”
Harry Wu said you cannot compare China’s way of governing with that of the United States.
“The Communist Party is talking about dictatorship; talking about totalitarian. How to handle the dissidents – that is Laogai [re-education] camps,” said Wu.
“You cannot [function in China] without it. Laogai and freedom and democracy are incompatible. That is very clear,” he said.
The Laogai Research Foundation estimates there are at least 1,000 laogai prisons functioning in Communist China today, holding more than 6 million prisoners. The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press) estimates that at least 65 million people have been killed or died as a result of China’s Communist policies.
Overwhelming Majority View Tea Parties in a Positive Light
Obamabow Bowing to Photo-Op Dictators
Dan Henniger, who writes the Wonder Land column for The Wall Street Journal, has noted the limitations of Obamabow in palling around with the dictators.
Bill Cosby for President
I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE.
HERE IS MY PLATFORM:
(1) ‘Press 1 for English’ is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait at the border until you can.
(2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country’s attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will use the ‘Wal-Mart ’s policy, ‘If we ain’t got it, you don’t need it.’
(3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.
(4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5) Social security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn’t put nuttin in, you ain’t gettin nuttin out. The president nor any other politician will be able to touch it.
(6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.
(7) Professional Athletes–Steroids. The FIRST time you check positive you’re banned for life.
(8) Crime - We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is [sic] no more life sentences. If convicted of murder, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim; [sic] gun, knife, strangulation, etc.
(9) One export will be allowed, Wheat. The world needs to eat. A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we’ll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it’s a worthy cause.
(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.
(12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.
Sorry if I stepped on anyone’s toes.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Bill Cosby
More Combat Troops Patrolling America
Get accustomed to seeing combat military troops in the streets of America.
On Monday, the National Guard deployed 400 Massachusetts National Guardsmen from the 126th Combat Support Battalion to keep the Boston Marathon race route clear for more than 26,000 runners. Ordinarily a police function, the military is increasingly being used to patrol American streets, in contrast to the democratic tradition.
Under the Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, the federal uniformed services-—including the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces-—are prohibited from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. National Guard forces operating under the state authority are technically exempt from Posse Comitatus Act restrictions.
However, with the passage of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, federal law was changed so that the Governor of a state is no longer the sole commander in chief of their state’s National Guard, a direct violation of Article I, Section 10 and Clause 3 of the Constitution.
The deployments and exercises have increased significantly since the U.S. military announced last year it will place 20,000 troops on the streets of America by 2011 under the control of the Northern Command. soldiers were in attendance to “safeguard” the public. However, this role is usually assigned to the police, not a combat support battalion. The military’s job is to break things and kill people during war, not protect civilians from participants in a marathon.
Printing Press Available for Long Form Birth Certificate Forgeries
A 1960 Heidelberg Printing Press sold on 14 April 2009. This technology is so rare, and most no longer work, it would seem very few would have need of such an ancient printing pres.
Before this image is scrubbed from Google's cache server I produce it here for archiving. Someone at the White House can tell George Soros' son at Google, who is in management, that the disappearance from the cache servers will be noted. But if someone was to forge a birth certificate from the early '60s, this would be the press they would need.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Gorbachev Danger
Flip Flopper Obamabow Saves $6.00 a Year
Axelrod Attacks Anti-Obama Tax Protests as "unhealthy"
When asked on "Face the Nation" to comment on the Tax Day Tea Parties that took place, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod referred to the protests as "an element of disaffection that can mutate into something unhealthy."
Sunday, April 19, 2009
CNN Censors FoundingBloggers News Coverage
FoundingBloggers has left the clip available and online at their site.
The hapless Norman (who did not want his last name used), who was attacked by Roesgen, was later interviewed by Neil Cavuto.
Obamabow Threatens "Sanctions" Against Those Who Question His Long Form Birth Certificate
U.S. Sells Out Citizen to Islamic Regime
The Americans are not out to defend their citizens as they are attacked, harassed, or imprisoned by Islamic countries.
Iran convicted Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison.
It was the first time Iran has found an American journalist guilty of espionage - a crime that can carry the death penalty.
The American-Iranian citizen was arrested in late January and initially accused of working without press credentials. But earlier this month, an Iranian judge leveled a far more serious allegation, charging her with spying for the United States.
Americans have been sold out to Islam.
Obambow Mum on Ortega Diatribe
I get the impression that Obamabow has no loyalty to the U.S. He feels as though only on a personal level is he responsible. He does not represent America or the Americans. It is almost as if he is not a natural born citizen. Perhaps his nearly $700,000 in legal fees is indicative of just how much he is hiding from scrutiny.
Obamabow took the same stance when he was criticized during the campaign for his connections to fellow radical William Ayers. Obamabow's stance then was that he could hardly be blamed for things that happened when he was only eight years old. He is clear; Obamabow is out for himself, the Americans be damned.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Obamabow Nearly $700,000 in Legal Fees
What does he have to defend? If the long form birth certificate were not a big deal then what does Obamabow have to hide?
Sean Hannity on Muslim Terrorist Training Camps in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security describes Americans as "terrorists" yet there are 35 Muslim terrorist training camps located in the United States.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
CNN Clueless
A few tea protesters talked further with CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who does not have a clue on how to report a news story that includes regular, every day people. Journalism is supposed to be objective but she is clearly biased against the people making the news as was obvious even from the earlier short clip. She interrupts and argues with an attendee.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Judge Upholds 47 Year Old Man Marrying 8 Year Old Girl
Saudi court rejects plea to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man.
"Dr. Ahmad Al-Mub’i, a Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Allowed to Marry a Girl at the Age of One, If Sex Is postponed. The Prophet Muhammad, Whose Model We Follow, Married ‘Aisha When She Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was Nine"
The following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu’bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008:
Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu’bi: Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage having sex with the wife for the first time is another thing. There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight. This is merely a contract [indicating] consent. The guardian in such a case must be the father, because the father’s opinion is obligatory. Thus, the girl becomes a wife… But is the girl ready for sex or not? What is the appropriate age for having sex for the first time? This varies according to environment and traditions. In Yemen, girls are married off at nine, ten, eleven, eight, or thirteen, while in other countries, they are married off at 16. Some countries have legislated laws forbidding having sex before the girl is eighteen.
[...]
The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took ‘Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine.
Interviewer: When she was six…
Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu’bi: He married her at the age of six, and he consummated the marriage, by having sex with her for the first time, when she was nine. We consider the Prophet Muhammad to be our model.
Interviewer: My question to you is whether the marriage of a 12-year-old boy with an 11-year-old girl is a logical marriage, which is permitted by Islamic law.
Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu’bi: If the guardian is the father… There are two different types of guardianship. If the guardian is the father, and he marries his daughter off to a man of appropriate standing, the marriage is obviously valid.
[...]
People find themselves in all kinds of circumstances. Take, for example, a man who has two, three, or four daughters. He does not have any wives, but he needs to go on a trip. Isn’t it better to marry his daughter to a man, who will protect and sustain her, and when she reaches the proper age, he will have sex with her? Who says all men are ferocious wolves?
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