"We're playing russian roullete with the lives of the people we administer this chemical to."
Herb Newborg is the Vice President of Chiropractic America...he and others suggested the government will bypass FDA regulations in order to release the vaccination by October....saying H1N1 cases are expected to spike in the fall. Their main concern, a particular chemical that's used to stretch the vaccine supply.
"It's been connected to neurological deficits that have been labeled gulf war syndrome."
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Folks Not Buying Swine Flu Propaganda
Obama and Dems Implode
Obama's disapproval number jumped to 52% just as word was released that the 44 more moderate Democrats of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record in opposition to the current health care rationing bill in the House. Meanwhile, 57 Liberal Democrats are on record to vote no on a bill without strong government intervention. The Democrats, totally in control, and completely disintegrating all on their own without the Republicans.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Contrast Between Two Speeches to School Kids
The controversy over Obama’s speech to the nation’s schoolchildren is in stark contrast to the time when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on 1 October 1991. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush’s speech — they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.
The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.
With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”
Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush’s appearance. On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech. “The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC,” Ford began. “As the chairman of the committee charged with the authorization and implementation of education programs, I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event.”
Unfortunately for Ford, the General Accounting Office concluded that the Bush administration had not acted improperly. “The speech itself and the use of the department’s funds to support it, including the cost of the production contract, appear to be legal,” the GAO wrote in a letter to Chairman Ford. “The speech also does not appear to have violated the restrictions on the use of appropriations for publicity and propaganda.”
That didn’t stop Democratic allies from taking their own shots at Bush. The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it “cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers’ money on a staged media event."
Today, there are no newspapers decrying the act, no call for an investigation, and, goodness, no one is asking how much it cost.
Of course presidents should stay out of the classroom. However, I would go so far as to entertain the notion of abolishing the Department of Education, it does so little good, much less bring up that pesky notion of cost in a failing economy. The present regime is not transparent at all.
The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.
With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”
Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and legality of Bush’s appearance. On October 17, 1991, Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the speech. “The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC,” Ford began. “As the chairman of the committee charged with the authorization and implementation of education programs, I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event.”
Unfortunately for Ford, the General Accounting Office concluded that the Bush administration had not acted improperly. “The speech itself and the use of the department’s funds to support it, including the cost of the production contract, appear to be legal,” the GAO wrote in a letter to Chairman Ford. “The speech also does not appear to have violated the restrictions on the use of appropriations for publicity and propaganda.”
That didn’t stop Democratic allies from taking their own shots at Bush. The National Education Association denounced the speech, saying it “cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers’ money on a staged media event."
Today, there are no newspapers decrying the act, no call for an investigation, and, goodness, no one is asking how much it cost.
Of course presidents should stay out of the classroom. However, I would go so far as to entertain the notion of abolishing the Department of Education, it does so little good, much less bring up that pesky notion of cost in a failing economy. The present regime is not transparent at all.
Parents Protest Against Barry for Better Schools
While Barry prattles on about how he is supportive of education the actual, flesh and blood victims of his educational policies protested at the Department of Education. Barry has remained steadfast in his opposition to vouchers so parents could send their kids to the better, and private, schools in D.C. Yet, he sends his kids to an elite, private school. Nice guy and how many are really fooled by his hypocrisy?
U.S. Propaganda Art Funded by Taxpayers
Propaganda art is proliferating in the U.S. according to yet another leak about the taxpayer funded National Endowment for the Arts. Two artists have confirmed that taxpayer funds are being used to promote a political agenda with alleged non-political Endowment funds.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Tim Hawkins, "The Government Can," Sung to the Tune of "The Candy Man"
Malcolm in the Middle episode where Commandant Spangler and his cadets sing Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Candy man."
One of a kind, Sammy Davis Jr. singing "The Candy Man" live in Germany.
Government Case vs. Orly Taitz is Weak
Government attorneys, your tax dollars, are being used to defend Soetoro Obama's case against Orly Taitz and her plaintiffs. I am not able to predict the outcome, since the case is so heavily politicized, but the government's case seems weak. Their first defense is that after the election any objections are moot because they should have been dealt with already under the Constitution, by the presidential Electors, and is up to the Legislative branch. None of this makes any common sense whatsoever. It assumes everyone responsibly performed their duties. The lawsuit filed seeks a redress of a wrong. The government has no case. Lieutenant Jason Freese and some other plaintiffs in the case claim they have a real injury because they are serving in the military and the commander-in-chief does not qualify as president under the Constitution. I would think that injury or death following orders of an unqualified commander would constitute genuine injury but this is post-Obama America after all and common sense does not predominate. Alan Keyes is a three-time presidential candidate who ran most recently in 2008 and Gail Lightfoot, was a vice presidential candidate in 2008. The government's bases their position on the opportunity to win. The argument is that is that they could not win so they are not injured. They may lose on popularity but I do not believe that weakens their legal argument one iota. The less popular candidates qualified under the Constitution which constitutes genuine injury by an unexamined, though popular, candidate. What I find quite interesting is the government’s position is that any person lacks standing to challenge a potential usurper to the POTUS under Article II, Section 1 Clause 5 even though he is not legitimate under the Constitution. If an election took place by fraud the Court should entertain an interest. Winning by fraud does not make it legitimate.
The case will be heard tomorrow in Santa Ana, California.
Obama Repeating Mistakes of Great Depression
A new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan provides an alarming view of Obama's failed policies. Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and general director of The Locke Institute has concluded that "it is not impossible that the US will experience the kind of economic collapse from first- to third-world status experienced by Argentina under the national socialist governance of Juan Peron." In an important new monograph, Rowley and co-author Nathanael Smith, also from the Locke Institute, warn that Obama is making the same mistakes that led to the Great Depression.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
History Channel: Origins of Labor Day
This video is a series of short clips from the History Channel that takes a look at the origins of Labor Day.
Blogger Challenges Norm Dicks to Take $20 From Her for Health Care Rationing
Bremerton, Washington blogger Keli Carender challenges Norm Dicks to come and take the first $20 for healthcare from her. He refuses: 31 August 2009 town hall meeting in Bremerton, WA.
What's Wrong With Obama Chatting Up the Kids? Plenty!
Obama is bypassing parents who may challenge his statements.
Obama should not use children as his personal pawns and he should abide by the rule of law.
According to Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel as well as dean of Liberty University School of Law, the address may be illegal. The Department of Education is governed by statute: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 states,
Staver's concerns were echoed by the Texas Justice Foundation who warned that the "classroom activities" suggested by Obama's speech were illegal.
According to a statement by the Foundation:
"This is perhaps one of the greatest invasions of personal privacy and injecting political affiliation into the public school system in the history of the United States," the Foundation statement added.
The group cited the Pupil Rights Amendment:
"It also violates 34 Code of Federal Regulations Section 98.4[c] [1] and [2] that defines psychological testing as:
(1) Psychiatric or psychological examination or test means a method of obtaining information, including a group activity, that is not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings;
(2) Psychiatric or psychological treatment means an activity involving the planned, systematic use of methods or techniques that are not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to affect behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or group.
Foundation officials said the group activities suggested by the Department of Education "are not directly related to academic instruction and that are designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings."
Obama's political agenda violates the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children, federal law, and is perhaps the greatest intrusion of a president into the education process in the history of the United States. "In the opinion of the Texas Justice Foundation lawyers, it is both morally and legally wrong."
"Federal law expressly forbids the Secretary of Education or any officer from exercising 'any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system,'" the Foundation analysis stated.
The law states:
20 U.S.C. § 3403. (Pub.L. 96-88, Title I, § 103, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 670) United States Code Title 20. Education Chapter 48. Department of Education Subchapter I. General Provisions § 3403. Relationship with States (a) Rights of local governments and educational institutions
Students may be asked to write down "key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful, make posters of their goals, create a "supportive community" by sharing those goals with one another.
Junior-high and high-school students may be asked to brainstorm answers to the following questions before the speech:
The children are encouraged to talk about how Obama has inspired them or challenged them to do something.
The cult of personality promoted by Obama in the class has elicited a backlash. In addition to boycotts, or parents opting their children out of the propaganda, some students will wear black arm bands which was the same type of student protest of the Vietnam War that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Obama should not use children as his personal pawns and he should abide by the rule of law.
According to Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel as well as dean of Liberty University School of Law, the address may be illegal. The Department of Education is governed by statute: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 states,
"No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system."
Staver's concerns were echoed by the Texas Justice Foundation who warned that the "classroom activities" suggested by Obama's speech were illegal.
According to a statement by the Foundation:
"The questions, comments, evaluations and analysis that occurs before, during, and after the president's speech will clearly 'reveal information concerning political affiliations' and probably, 'critical appraisals of other individuals with whom the child(ren) has/have close family relationships' (such as parents)."
"This is perhaps one of the greatest invasions of personal privacy and injecting political affiliation into the public school system in the history of the United States," the Foundation statement added.
The group cited the Pupil Rights Amendment:
"It also violates 34 Code of Federal Regulations Section 98.4[c] [1] and [2] that defines psychological testing as:
(1) Psychiatric or psychological examination or test means a method of obtaining information, including a group activity, that is not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings;
(2) Psychiatric or psychological treatment means an activity involving the planned, systematic use of methods or techniques that are not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to affect behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or group.
Foundation officials said the group activities suggested by the Department of Education "are not directly related to academic instruction and that are designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings."
Obama's political agenda violates the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children, federal law, and is perhaps the greatest intrusion of a president into the education process in the history of the United States. "In the opinion of the Texas Justice Foundation lawyers, it is both morally and legally wrong."
"Federal law expressly forbids the Secretary of Education or any officer from exercising 'any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system,'" the Foundation analysis stated.
The law states:
20 U.S.C. § 3403. (Pub.L. 96-88, Title I, § 103, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 670) United States Code Title 20. Education Chapter 48. Department of Education Subchapter I. General Provisions § 3403. Relationship with States (a) Rights of local governments and educational institutions
It is the intention of the Congress in the establishment of the Department to protect the rights of State and local governments and public and private educational institutions in the areas of educational policies and administration of programs and to strengthen and improve the control of such governments and institutions over their own educational programs and policies. The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal Government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States. (b) Curriculum, administration, and personnel; library resources
No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.
The lesson plans are seriously flawed, although the Department has back peddeled and revised items.
However, students as young as kindergarten will, nonetheless, be asked: "Why is it important that we listen to the president?" and then, initially, were to be asked to write about "what they can do to help the president." Their writings would later be used to make students accountable to their goals.
As WND reported, worksheets provided by the U.S. Department of Education encouraged teachers to ask pre-K through 6th-grade students the following questions:
* What is the president trying to tell me to do?
* What is the president asking me to do?
* What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me to think about?
Students may be asked to write down "key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful, make posters of their goals, create a "supportive community" by sharing those goals with one another.
Junior-high and high-school students may be asked to brainstorm answers to the following questions before the speech:
* Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?
* How will he inspire us?
* How will he challenge us?
* What might he say?
The children are encouraged to talk about how Obama has inspired them or challenged them to do something.
The cult of personality promoted by Obama in the class has elicited a backlash. In addition to boycotts, or parents opting their children out of the propaganda, some students will wear black arm bands which was the same type of student protest of the Vietnam War that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pastor Broden Tells It Like It Is
Pastor Stephen Broden tells it like it is; if you are not in a faith community the Pastor explains why you might want to think about attending. Our country is in peril.
"...the problem with us as Americans: we have been relying and trusting our legislators to do what only we can do. We must insist that they represent our interests. We must insist that they stand on the Constitution and if they don't, get rid of them."
"...it's time for us to stand up and if we don't we deserve to lose our liberties. The time for action is now; right now."
"...where are the young people? ...they've got to be educated and they've got to recognize what the framers have given us and that they are facing the most ominous and dangerous situation that our country has ever faced."
"These people.... [who are abrogating our Constitution]... are our enemies and we must resist them."
"We have a constitutional remedy here and the framer says [in the Declaration of Independence] 'if that don't work -- revolution.'"
"I believe it's time to wake up.... We must fight. Not only must we fight, listen to me, we must win."
Pastor Broden was one of the black ministers arrested when he was praying once Obama snubbed the traditional Judeo-Christian "Day of Prayer" in May.
Obama Denies God and Country Fly-over, 1st in 42 Years
There is no promotion of Islamic issues therefore I see no reason why Obama would promote a traditional American tradition. Obama has stated publicly that the Muslim call to prayer is the most beautiful sound he has ever heard. And, bear in mind that in his Cairo speech he stated clearly he views his role as president to defend Islam. Obama stated: "I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Communist Gone! One Czar Gone and 38 More to Go
Obama's Communist adviser, Van Jones, resigned after feeling the heat from talk shows and Internet reporting went viral. Clips of Jones' racism and communist sympathies apparently do no resonate with the American people. Obama is experiencing the flack from a people aware, awakened, and highly motivated.
1. Herb Allison-TARP Czar
2. Alan Bersin-Border Czar
3. Dennis Blair-Intelligence Czar
4. John Brennan-Terrorism Czar
5. Carol Browner-Energy Czar
6. Adolfo Carrion, Jr-Urban Affairs Czar
7. Ashton Carter-Weapons Czar
8. Aneesh Chopra-Technology Czar
9. Jeffrey Crowley-AIDS Czar
10. Cameron Davis-Great Lakes Czar
11. Nancy-Ann DeParle-Health Czar
12. Earl Devaney-Stimulus Accountability Czar
13. Joshua DuBois-Faith-based Czar
14. Kenneth Feinberg-Pay Czar
15. Danny Fried-Guantanamo Closure Czar
16. J. Scott Gration-Sudan Czar
17. Richard Holbrooke-Afghanistan Czar
18. John Holdren-Science Czar
19. Van Jones Green-Jobs Czar GONE!
20. Gil Kerlikowske-Drug Czar
21. Vivek Kundra-Information Czar
22. George Mitchell-Mideast Peace Czar
23. Ed Montgomery-Car Czar
24. Dennis Ross-Mideast Policy Czar
25. Gary Samore-WMD Czar
26. Todd Stern-Climate Czar
27. Cass Sunstein-Regulatory Czar
28. Paul Volcker-Economic Czar
29. Car Czar - Steve Rattner / Ron Bloom
30. Pay Czar - Kenneth Feinberg
31. Cyber Czar - Melissa Hathaway
32. Energy Czar - Carol Browner
33. Gitmo Czar - Daniel Fried
34. Healthcare Czar - Nancy-Ann DeParle
35. Infotech Czar - Vivek Kundra
36. Stimulus Czar - Earl Devaney
37. TARP Czar - Herb Allison
38. Urban Czar - Adolfo Carrion [couldn't make up a more ironic name]
39. WMD Czar - Gary Samor
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Obama Visits the Peasants (Courtesy of Monty Python)
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1850–55.
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