Progressives Use Tragedy to Make Another Run at Gun Control

Another worthwhile article by Bob Livingston:

The Gun Grab Cometh

December 31, 2012 by Bob Livingston 

PHOTOS.COM

Whether the gun grabbers orchestrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre or just saw it as the perfect opportunity to rip the heart out of yet another Constitutional amendment, before the bodies of those slaughtered babies were even cold the 1 percent were signaling that 2013 is going to be a tumultuous year for gun owners — and liberty.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (Fascist-Calif.) announced on her website on Dec. 17 that she was introducing a bill in January to “stop the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of military-style assault weapons and high capacity ammunition feeding devises.” It will ban 120 specifically named weapons, including handguns and shotguns, and strengthen the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004.
According to the outline of Feinstein’s bill, it will grandfather in all legally owned weapons, but it will require they be registered and the owner fingerprinted. It will require a $200 per weapon tax be paid. The guns will not be transferable, meaning that upon the death of the owner the guns will become the property of the Federal government. It will allow the sale of 900 specifically named weapons, but none that can accept a detachable magazine that holds more than 10 rounds.
She and her fascist cohorts in crime — New York’s Senator Chuck Schumer and Representatives Carolyn McCarty and Jerrold Nadler and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, among others — are calling for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and any weapon that uses high-capacity magazines. Unfortunately, a vast number of the unwashed masses — in a fit of emotionalism resulting from the thought of all those dead kindergartners — are buying into the lie that one more law would have saved those innocents. The above-mentioned 1 percenters all indicated they would steal everyone’s weapons and magazines, placating themselves with the rationalization that it’s a gun and magazine buy-back program, if they thought they could get away with it.
Never mind that purported shooter Adam Lanza broke a half dozen or more laws before he ever shot the first child. Never mind that Connecticut is ranked fifth of the 50 States in gun control laws, according the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence because the State “has strong gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of most guns without background checks and reduce risks to children.” And never mind that, according to FBI homicide data, rifles of all types are the least-used guns when crimes are committed.
Of course, Feinstein, Schumer, et al. care not a whit about children, as I explained here. If they did, they’d be weeping over the hundreds of children killed by President Barack Obama’s drone attacks, those killed in car accidents because of corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards and government-mandated air bags, and the 2,000 aborted every day in America.
Instead, they try to turn reason on its ear by equating law-abiding Americans — who own certain semi-automatic weapons — with terrorists. So their answer is to add more layers of laws, bureaucracy and expense on the already burdensome exercise of acquiring weapons for protection (and yes, it can be burdensome in some States).
But you don’t need those scary-looking so-called “assault weapons” to protect yourself, they’ll say. Or, as President Barack Obama reminds us in typical straw man fashion, military-style weapons with high capacity magazines shouldn’t be in the hands of civilians.
Tell that to these men who were left to their own devices during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

When society broke down, law enforcement was nowhere to be found. These business owners armed themselves to protect their property. But had a large crowd braved the guns they possessed and come to loot their stores, the double-barreled shotgun and bolt-action rifle being wielded would have been inadequate, where an AR15 and several 30-round magazines would have been quite a deterrent. As the reporter said at the end of the clip, more than 100 Korean-owned businesses had already been looted. Just not this one.
The gun grabbers will tell you that you no one needs an AR15 because they’re not used for hunting. That would be a surprise to the tens of thousands of deer and other small game felled by them each year.
But the 2^nd Amendment was not put in place just for hunters or for self-defense. It was put in place to protect Americans from totalitarians in government like Jerrold Nadler, who told CNS News: “One of the definitions of a nation state is that the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence. And the state ought to have a monopoly on legitimate violence. If the premise of your question is that people are going to resist a tyrannical government by shooting machine guns at American troops, that’s insane.”
Yes, it’s insane because Americans are prohibited from owning “machine guns” unless they first acquire a Class 3 Federal firearms license, an expensive and daunting undertaking. The weapons on the list to be banned are semi-automatic — one trigger pull, one round fired — not fully automatic. That meme is yet another straw man.
If the state has a monopoly on violence, that is full-blown tyranny. Americans would no longer be citizens, they would be subjects. Nadler has revealed the end game.
Folks, the Sandy Hook shooting narrative has more holes than a piece of hardware cloth, as do the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting, the Milwaukee Sikh temple shooting and the 1999 Columbine, Colo., massacre, for that matter. They’re likely all false flag events. And just like previous ones, they will lead to loss of liberty.
The fallout from these shootings is always the same: a call for stricter gun laws. As Nadler’s comment indicates, this time the gun grabbers are emboldened as never before. But why wouldn’t they be. It was just a year ago that they passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the indefinite detention, without charges or trial, of Americans on American soil. And they did so with barely a whimper out of the populace, which is becoming ever more docile and subservient by the day.
The psychopaths in the cesspool of Washington, D.C., realize there is no better time to strike than while Americans are emotionally drained from the visions of grieving parents and the sweet smiles of the dead children.
The truth is that of the 12,664 murders committed in the United States in 2011, rifles were used in only 323 of them. “Knives or other cutting instruments” were used in 1,694 murders; hands and feet in 726; and blunt objects like clubs and hammers were used in 496. A ban on knives and hands and feet would be far more effective in reducing murders, which Nadler claims is the goal.
But, of course, reducing murders is not the goal of the 1 percent. It’s total disarmament. That would give the state the long-awaited monopoly on violence.

The Real Cliff

The Fiscal Cliff Is A Mirage, But A Real Cliff Is Ahead

• Dec. 3, 2012  

PHOTOS.COM

Don’t worry over the so-called fiscal cliff. It is just the latest in a long line of crises created by the elected sociopath class as another ploy to extract more wealth from the middle class and further advance its agenda.
The cliff you need to worry about is the one we are barreling toward regardless of how the fiscal cliff negotiations turn out. It’s the hyperinflation cliff. It’s dead ahead. It has become unavoidable. The Nation is in default.
The fiscal cliff is the term adopted to refer to the end of the misnamed George Bush tax cuts (which expire on Dec. 31) and sequestration ($1.2 trillion in cuts to social programs and defense spending that kick in on Jan. 1 barring a budget deal). It’s an unpalatable option to the political class because the political class hates cutting government — which reduces the power of the state — and uses a progressive tax rate to help reinforce the Hegelian dialectic.
President Barack Obama and his redistributionist minions have drawn a line in the sand over the misnamed George W. Bush tax cuts (because Obama extended them in 2010, we will rightly call them Obama tax cuts). Obama wants to end his own tax cuts on those making more than $200,000 ($250,000 for joint filers). This, despite his statement in 2010: “You don’t raise taxes in a recession.”
The United States remains in the old or has entered into a new recession. As John Williams of Shadowstats.com writes here¹ (subscription required): “[T]here has been no recovery in economic activity, since the economy plunged from 2006/2007 into mid-2009, just ongoing low-level stagnation. Reporting of retail sales, production and durable goods orders shows the economy turning down, once again, into what will become recognized as the second-dip of a double-dip recession, likely timed from third-quarter 2012. The reality remains that current economic woes are an ongoing part of protracted economic collapse, not the beginning of a new cycle.”
While the “official” phony-baloney government statistics show U.S. gross domestic product rising steadily since late 2009, real GDP growth remains stagnant, as it has since late 2009, and mirrors real unemployment, retail sales and housing starts.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has instituted QE3 to infinity. This will serve to prop up banks and the establishment, but it will hasten the demise of the dollar. (Watch the prices of gold and silver for confirmation.) It’s out-and-out theft from the American worker, saver and retiree.
QE3 and the unwillingness of the political class to make substantial and substantive cuts to government have prompted Williams to shorten his outer hyperinflation timeline from 2018 to 2014.
America is a warfare/welfare state². A full 20 percent ($718 billion) of the Federal budget in 2011³ was spent on perpetual war, defense and security-related international activities. “This portion of the budget is untouchable,” according the neocon/warfare wing of both parties.
Another 21 percent ($769 billion) went to Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). An additional 13 percent ($466 billion) went to safety-net programs like SSI, food stamps, school meals, housing and childcare assistance, etc. “These are untouchable,” according to redistributionist class of both parties.
And 20 percent ($731 billion) paid for Social Security, which provided retirement benefits to 35.6 million workers and other benefits to another 19.8 million spouses and children of retired workers, spouses and children of deceased workers, disabled workers and their eligible dependents. Social Security is considered an entitlement program, but it should not be since it is supposedly funded by money confiscated from workers — who had no say in the matter — to fund their retirement. The program was long ago looted by the elites and is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. “Social Security is sacrosanct and untouchable,” leadership of both parties lie to you as they confiscate the funds faster than they pour in.
Obama and his redistributionist minions play the class-warfare game to perfection, pitting the poor against the so-called rich in order to steal more from the middle class. Their big lie is that the “rich” pay a lower percentage of income in taxes than the poor or middle class. The politics of envy — nasty, vile and green wealth envy that causes some to wish ill will or disaster on others who have enjoyed more success and has turned to hatred in the hearts of many — is advancing us toward total totalitarianism and one world governance.
And now Republicans — supposedly the party of low taxes and smaller government — are joining the growing ranks of redistributionists and feeding the dialectic. (Of course, anyone who has paid attention knows better than to fall for the big Republican lie⁴.)
According to Internal Revenue Service data⁵, the highest average tax rates in America are paid by those making between $1.5 million and $2 million. Their tax rate is 25.1 percent. Tax rates then begin to fall on incomes greater than $2 million, as a greater percentage of income comes from capital gains and dividends. Still, those making more than $200 million pay an 18 percent tax rate on their adjusted gross income.
Those making $1 million to less than $1.5 million pay a 24.9 percent tax rate. Those making $500,000 to less than $1 million pay 24.1 percent, and those in the $200,000 to less than $500,000 range pay 19.6 percent. Tax rates below $200,000 break down as follows:

• $100,000 to less than $200,000 incomes pay 12 percent.
• $50,000 to less than $100,000 incomes pay 7.5 percent.
• $30,000 to less than $50,000 incomes pay 4.8 percent.
• Those making less than $30,000 paid no Federal taxes⁶ after deductions and credits.

Representative Tom Price (R-Ga.) says Obama’s plan to increase taxes on the rich will generate only enough revenue to fund the Federal government for eight days⁷. What he doesn’t tell you is that income taxes don’t fund the government. They are simply a wealth redistribution/information gathering tool used by the government.
Price is one of the employees of the state who daily work to propagandize the masses on the idea that there is government debt and that money (sometimes called “revenue” to fool the people with doublespeak) to pay that debt must be confiscated from the masses. But there is no debt. Ask yourself this question: If you had a machine that would crank out an unlimited number of bills, would you have debt? Of course not. And that’s what government does.
Government debt is a world-class delusion. It is a tool used to justify theft and redistribution. And it has worked to perfection, pitting the have-nots against the haves, while the 1 percent (government workers and elected class) make out like the bandits they are. Meanwhile, many become ever more embittered over the idea that someone may have a greater pile of worthless green paper strips than they do.
It won’t be too much longer before people will be papering their walls with the green paper strips they’re so jealous of others for having. Study your history, and look to Weimar Germany as the example.
Workers were transporting wheelbarrows of cash to the store for bread, hoping to arrive before the prices changed. The price of coffee would triple between the time it was poured and the time it was consumed and the check arrived. Mothers prostituted themselves so their kids could be fed.
The next U.S. Great Depression is the cliff to be concerned with. Time is short. Store food (buying it now is also a hedge against inflation) and water, guns and ammunition, and personal hygiene items. Accumulate silver and gold. This Christmas, give silver as a gift that keeps giving — especially pre-1965 U.S. silver coins:

• Dec. 1, 2000: silver $4.69/oz.; today: silver $34.28/oz.
• Dec. 1, 2000: Dow Jones industrial average 14,053; today: DJIA 13,023.

Times will be especially difficult for the unprepared and those who depend upon the system for sustenance.

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Bob Livingston⁸ Bob Livingston is an ultra-conservative American who has been writing a newsletter since 1969. Bob has devoted much of his life to research and the quest for truth on a variety of subjects. Bob specializes in health issues such as nutritional supplements and alternatives to drugs, as well as issues of privacy (both personal and financial), asset protection and the preservation of freedom.

Wisdom of our Forefathers & Ronald Reagan

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

 

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Sitting Duck!

Remember when Iran tested a short range ballistic missile and America dismissed it as insignificant?  Remember when some Republicans proposed that if we're going to spend all that stimulus money, that a significant portion should be spent on the electrical grid/infrastructure, which is in dire need?  America is a sitting duck!  One EMP (electromagnetic pulse) blast from one short range ballistic missile fired from a barge or non-military ship off our coast would cripple us and send us back to the 19th century.  The results --- Our communication systems would be shut down; our military capability would be set back to WWI standards; air travel would be halted; banks would be shut down; inventory and distribution systems would be shut down. 

So why is this more of a threat now than ever before?  Because Obama was reelected as Commander in Chief.  He continues to talk about negotiating with Iran.  Iran's leader has repeatedly made his intentions clear -- He believes if he destroys the Great Satin (USA) and Israel that he will earn and preserve his place in heaven.  He believes it is his duty to destroy us to pave the way for the muslim savior to return and lead muslims to victory over all non-muslims.  So why would he want to negotiate with us about anything?  So what is Obama's motivation?  He is either extremely naive, extremely incompetent, shares the same belief system as such extremists, or has another set of beliefs that support the destruction of America. 

Perspective on Romney's Defeat

Good Read:

Hello, I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. What a stunning and miserable day. Ronald Reagan gave us “Morning in America” — as in a new sunny morning. I feel like I just woke up in “Mourning in America” — as in mourning for the loss of this great country. And it’s all because, in politics, “nice” doesn’t work. Mitt Romney is a nice guy, a gentleman. But in politics, nice guys often finish last.
To win the election, and beat a sitting President, Romney needed to do more than nicely debate Barack Obama.
He needed to indict Obama.
Here is the speech that Romney should have given. Had he given this speech, we’d all be waking up to “Morning in America” — as in a bright, sunny day filled with opportunity.

Let me start by stressing that President Obama may be a nice man. He may be a good husband and father. He may love this country. He may think he is doing what is right. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Nice or not, Barack Obama believes government has the answer to every problem. He believes in punishment of the successful. He believes in income redistribution. He believes in massive spending and debt. He believes in so many rules, regulations and mandates that no one can open a lemonade stand anymore without permission from government.
Those beliefs destroy economies and kill jobs everywhere they’ve ever been tried. The U.S. economy under Obama is in crisis and free fall. You don’t need to look far to prove Obama’s policies are dangerous and deadly. Europe has been following Obama’s plan for decades: big government, big unions, big spending, big taxes, big entitlements, big pensions, free healthcare, too many government employees and unlimited spending on green energy and high speed rail. The result? Economic disaster on a grand scale. Greece, Italy and Spain are enduring a tragedy few can comprehend. France is next. Someday, we will read about this in history books.
America, under Barack Obama, is following the exact same path.
This is the state of the U.S. economy under Obama. Judge for yourselves:

• As of Election Day, unemployment is officially listed at 7.9 percent, the highest for any incumbent since FDR.
• More importantly, the real unemployment rate (including the under-employed and those who have given up looking) is in the range of 15 percent — higher than in most years of the Great Depression.
• Unemployment in the black community is 14.3 percent.
• Unemployment and under-employment for college graduates is a staggering 53 percent.
• The Labor Force Participation Rate among men is the lowest since 1948.
• Food stamp growth is 75 percent greater than job growth under Obama. Forty-six million Americans are now on food stamps.
• The record 11 million Americans on disability is larger than the population of a majority of U.S. States.
• Over 100 million Americans get entitlement checks.
• One-sixth of all personal income in the United States is now provided by government.
• The housing collapse is now deeper than at the peak of the Great Depression.
• The net worth of the average American is down 40 percent.
• New business startups are at the lowest level in 30 years.
• The U.S. credit rating has been downgraded for first time in history.

We are experiencing unimaginable economic wreckage, crisis and collapse from coast to coast.
None of this is a coincidence.
With 60,000 new rules, regulations and mandates in only three years, Obama has turned the entire U.S. economy into a “hostile work environment”:

• With Obama demonizing the wealthy and taunting entrepreneurs and financial risk-takers with “You didn’t build that.”
• With the Environmental Protection Agency attempting to put the coal industry completely out of business and end oil drilling.
• With thousands of new Internal Revenue Service agents hired to harass and intimidate business owners.
• With massive new tax increases looming.
• With 3,000 pages of Obamacare, containing 23 new taxes.
• With 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, making it much harder for banks to lend or for businessmen to raise money.
• With $115 trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities at the Federal level.
• With States, counties and cities even more broke and insolvent than the Federal government. The debt in Cook County, Illinois (Obama’s Chicago), is now an unimaginable $108 billion.

You have to question if this is incompetence or a purposeful plan to overwhelm the system with debt and entitlements, to collapse the U.S. economy and weaken faith in capitalism, to turn America into a European social state.
Obama tells us that he “saved” the auto industry. It’s his one and only accomplishment, so he repeats it 100 times a day. The reality is that he merely stole $25 billion from you and me (the taxpayers) to protect the pensions of auto union members who contributed tens of millions of dollars to his election. Now your children owe that $25 billion, plus interest – and you don’t even get a car! But Obama allowed private sector autoworkers to lose their pensions (because they didn’t contribute to him), while closing only auto dealerships owned by Republican contributors. This is all immoral, if not criminal.
Ladies and gentleman, we have to change direction:

• Before we have no country left to defend.
• Before we have no economy left to rebuild.
• Before unions strangle the life out of the private sector.
• Before taxpayers are sucked dry to pay for a food stamp and unemployment benefits economy.
• Before “free” healthcare adds trillions of dollars in debt to our children’s burden.
• Before Obama’s extreme views on energy leave us all dependent on nations that hate America and support terrorism.
• Before Obama uses executive orders to render Congress and the Constitution meaningless.
• Before every terrorist attack is given a politically correct name.
• Before more victims are blamed when Islamic radicals slaughter them over a cartoon, book or film.
• Before every Bible is permanently removed from our military bases and hospitals.
• Before all religious celebrations, except Ramadan, are permanently removed from our White House.
• Or before 6 million Israelis are wiped out in a second holocaust due to a foreign policy of apology, appeasement and indifference.

This is our last stand. For capitalism. For small business. For the American Dream. For our Judeo-Christian values. For our small businesses. For our children and grandchildren’s future. For the survival of the American Dream. And yes, for our guns and Bibles.
When you walk into that polling place to vote, remember that Osama bin Laden is dead. And so is a U.S. border agent who died in the Fast and Furious scandal. And so is our Ambassador and three heroes abandoned and left to die at our Libyan embassy. And so is the U.S. economy.
Remember that even at this moment, as broke as America is, Obama is giving $450 million of your taxpayer money to the radical Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.
Remember Obama denigrates those who cling to old-fashioned ideas: God, country, faith, family, capitalism and our American exceptionalism.
Remember Obama presided over a Democratic convention that booed God three times.
Forgive, but never forget. Now, let’s go out and reclaim our country. God Bless America.

That was the speech Romney should have given. The American people needed to hear the raw, unvarnished truth without sugar-coating.
The key to Romney’s getting elected as President wasn’t to debate Obama. It was to indict Obama. Being “nice” and refusing to offend anyone just re-elected Obama. It may lead to the end of America as we know it.
Well, I’m not Romney. I’m not waving any white flags. I’m a Tea Party conservative. I’m going to fight hard and aggressively. And I’m going to help take back our country. This battle has only just begun.
I’ll be back next week with my commentary on what went wrong and why and what the GOP must do moving forward to build a winning coalition. I’m Wayne Allyn Root for PersonalLiberty.com. God Bless.

Obama Wins Re-Election?

Really?  Can this be happening?  So there will not be any Revival of Freedom in this country.  We allowed the media to propagate lies and get away with it.  We allowed the democratic machine to vote illegals and steal votes in many precincts. We were too timid, too quiet, too politically correct.  It's over unless some miracle happens that we don't know about yet.  So here's a website to visit to pick a better country because the United States of America is no longer a great country:   http://www.worldaudit.org/home.htm.  The choice is to stay until America collapses or to find a better place to live.  Plato said that when the masses discover the purse strings all democracies will fall.  We have fallen  -- Obama will finish the job.  I am angry, hurt and totally demoralized.  That's probably quite obvious at this point.

Election Day. Down to the Wire.

Just two more days till America decides.  If everyone analyzed the facts and made a rational decision, it would be a landslide for Romney.  But the majority of media sources in this country refuse to present the facts and have worked to propagate Obama's agenda.  Liberals know only the politically correct ideology they have been sold and many blacks cannot see past the color of Obama's skin.  They are all so proud to have a black president that they are blinded by the rhetoric of Obama's agenda.  Truth and facts have no color, but the liberals are incapable of seeing truth and facts.  They don't think; they feel.  They choose their elected officials with their emotions.  It's ironic that the liberals have argued since the early sixties that conservatives are bigots, yet liberals tend to be the most bigoted of all, refusing to hear or consider any idea other the liberal perspective.  At this point, all we can do is hope and pray for America.  

UN Election Monitors Coming to America!

So we are allowing UN election monitors to come into our country to monitor our US elections for the purpose of making sure that election officials in various locations do not require identification at the polls. You have to show an ID to cash a check, buy alcohol or tobacco, buy a gun, enter the US Justice Department, but somehow the Eric Holder, who is protected by such ID verification in his Ivory Tower Justice Dept. Bldg., and his socialist allies have the audacity to try to convince the American public that it would be a violation of individuals' civil rights to require them to show a valid ID to vote in our most important national election. The Justice Dept. and the UN are not concerned about Union intimidation at the polls or armed Black Panther members intimidating voters in PA, but they don't want anyone asked to show an ID to vote. Let me repeat that the United Nations is sending election monitors into the United States of America and our Justice Dept. is allowing and supporting them in doing so!!!!   

Biden Laughing Throughout Debate

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Obama Administration Tells Defense Contractors to Ignore Federal Law

Outrageous!  How much more can the Obama Administration get away with?  Read Fox News Article below:

The Obama administration has advised defense contractors not to warn employees of looming layoffs 60 days in advance, as specified in the law, as Congress and the White House hurtle closer to a deadline for avoiding severe defense spending cuts in January. Both sides of the aisle say they intend to prevent those cuts from happening, though they face an uphill climb to reaching an agreement.
Republicans particularly object to promises made to the contractors to pick up the cost -- at taxpayer expense -- of any financial liability the contractors incur for withholding the layoff notifications.
"Companies have a choice whether to rely on (the Office of Management and Budget's) politically-motivated guidance or to comply with the law," McCain, the Arizona Republican, said. "But I can assure them that I will do everything in my power to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to compensate contractors who do not comply with the law."
Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the notice amounted to a "threat" to contractors. And warned that the administration was using tax dollars to win over companies to follow the "dubious" and "politically motivated" guidance to ignore the federal law known as the WARN Act.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., also said it was "troubling that the Obama administration would openly encourage the violation of federal law and offer to pay the legal fees that resulted."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., claimed Obama was trying to prevent layoff notices from hitting mailboxes "right before the election."
"This is typical Barack Obama politics -- being supportive of the WARN Act when convenient and against it when it creates political downside," Graham said. "This is the most outcome-based White House in memory."
Lockheed Martin has reportedly already backed off threats to issue thousands of layoff warnings ahead of the election, in response to the administration's latest assurances and guidance.
The offer to pay the legal fees was included in a memorandum issued by the administration Friday that also restated the Labor Department's position from July that contractors should not issue written notices to employees because of the "uncertainty" over the across-the-board cuts to the defense budget and other federal spending that will occur Jan. 2 unless Congress reaches a new deal.
The notices are required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and generally require employers with more than 100 employees to provide 60-day notices of "mass layoffs if they are reasonably foreseeable."
The projected $500 billion in Pentagon cuts under the so-called sequestration will occur because Congress failed to agree on a deficit-reduction plan in the wake of the deal last summer to raise the debt ceiling. The guidance issued by the Labor Department this summer stated "it is neither necessary nor appropriate" for federal contractors to issue the warnings.
The latest memorandum states the federal government would cover employee compensation under the WARN Act -- "irrespective of the outcome" as long as the contractor follows the Labor Department guidelines.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/03/mccain-vows-to-block-funds-linked-to-possible-warn-act-suits/#ixzz28NfZNYDN

Voter ID Laws

How can any rational, intelligent human being believe that laws requiring voters to verify their identity before voting are designed to violate any citizen's civil rights?  Do the politicos who make such accusations believe any part of what they are saying?  Can they really be that ignorant or are they that evil -- so evil that they will do anything to win this election?  Requiring identification can only contribute to the sanctity and integrity of the election process.  No legal citizen, regardless of race, age, gender, national origin, religion, or even sexual preference would be prevented from voting in any state by any voter ID law under attack by Eric Holder's "Justice" Department.  All legal citizens have the right to obtain an official ID from their respective State and all have had the opportunity to obtain an official ID.  The fact is that voter ID laws do not discriminate and the only reason for opposition is to ensure that people who are not legally eligible to vote can still vote because the Democrats plan to steal this election if that's what it takes to win.  The media has allowed the liberals to take demagoguery to an extreme during this campaign.  Every American who cares about freedom, liberty, democracy and the principles of our founding fathers should be outraged.  The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of good men.  For too long, good people have been too complacent and too afraid to stand up.  My God, how far do we have to go before people wake up?  Perhaps Americans are just too brainwashed, politically correct, complacent and cowardly to even stand up for their freedom.  If so, Americans deserve everything they will get in the near future. 

Arab Spring Turns Against US?

Are the liberals really surprised?  Don't they know that the attack and murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Libya is just the beginning? The last time a US Ambassador died at the hands of terrorists was in 1979 when Jimmy Carter was President and there are a lot of similarities between Jimmy Carter's Presidency and Obama's Presidency.  Both men systematically moved to weaken our military strength, slashing military spending among other things.  Both men insisted that all foreign relations issues could be solved through peaceful negotiations.  Peaceful negotiations do not work when dealing with Islamic extremist, but these two Presidents refuse to face this truth.  Both Presidents supported terrorist regimes that turned more violent and oppressive than the governments they overthrew.  I think the biggest difference between Carter and Obama lies with their motivation.  Carter was just naive.  Obama  purposefully plans to level the playing field among the nations so the USA will not be superior to third world countries.  When the USA shows weakness, our enemies respond.  Peace can only be achieved and maintained through strength.  With a President like Obama, our strength will be diminished one step at a time.

Congress Todd Akin Gaffe

Will the real Mitt Romney, please stand up?  I think he just did.  Yes, the real politically correct, afraid of the liberal media, moderate Mitt Romney promptly jumped on the politically correct bandwagon to condemn Congressman Akin's comments and call for him to step down from his candidacy for the US Senate.  Yes, Mitt Romney would apparently prefer to have Claire McCaskill reelected than to defend the right of free speech.  Not one of the news reports I heard yesterday, including Fox News presented Congressman Akin's comments in context and I doubt that Mitt Romney cared about the context.  Mitt Romney cared about how quickly he could distinguish himself from Congressman Akin to avoid the tide of media criticism during the media frenzy against  Congressman Akin.  I am confident that if Mitt Romney will disavow a conservative candidate under shark attack that quickly as a Presidential candidate, he will cave into the liberally biased media when it counts as President should he be elected. 

I am a woman who has truly experienced sexual discrimination in my lifetime and I am a strong advocate of equal rights for women, but I am just as much a strong advocate for liberty and freedom of speech.  The liberals have worked tirelessly to end individual rights in favor of their politically correct agenda.  They are quite bigoted about attacking anyone who has any beliefs other than their own socialist ideas and their double standards are outrageous.

The sad truth is that there is actually some factual basis to Congressman Akin's comments.  It is only when his comments are taken out of context and assumptions are added that his comments become so offensive.  His attackers want us to believe that Congressman Akin was implying that if a woman gets pregnant and claims she was raped that she wasn't actually raped.  That's not what he said.  He said there is some medical evidence to suggest that a women's body sometimes reacts against the rape, preventing pregnancy.  This is not a new medical theory because I have heard and read it before.  There have been actual medical studies that support this claim.  But of course that does not mean a woman cannot become pregnant as a consequence of a rape and Congressman Akin acknowledged this in his next sentence.  If you want to attack him for believing that abortion is wrong even in the case of rape, then attack his belief -- his opinion on the abortion issue.  Attacking him and labeling him as a stupid extremist by taking his words out of context and denying the evidence that supports his statement is nothing more than the same old demagagory that liberals always use.  They are agressive, relentless and bigoted in their shark attacks against conservatives and Mitt Romney was quick to jump on the media frenzy bandwagon. 

I know that Obama is destroying this country.  His record demonstrates that he does not value liberty and freedom.  However, I am concerned that if we elect Mitt Romney, he will not take the necessary steps to turn things around and that whatever he does will only be too little too late because he will fear being labeled an extremist by the media.  I do not believe Mitt Romney has the courage to be the leader this country needs.  America will fall and Mitt Romney will be blamed if he is in office and the liberals will be only too happy to say, "See, we told you so."   If I sound cynical, it's because I am cynical.  We know Obama will destroy the country if reelected; he has already laid the framework.  But Mitt Romney is an establishmet Republican who lacks the conservative values and courage to take the bold action needed to save America. 

I admire Paul Ryan greatly, but Paul Ryan is not the Presidential candidate.  I do not agree with Congressman Akin's opinion on abortion, but this election is not and should not be about abortion. 

Below is an article from the Yahoo headlines today about Congressman Akin's comments that sheds a little more light on the issue. 

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Akin releases new campaign ad asking for ‘forgiveness’ (VIDEO)

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News

Senior Media Reporter

Facing a fury of calls from his own party to drop out of the Missouri Senate race—and a 5 p.m. (CT) deadline to do so—embattled Republican Rep. Todd Akin released a new campaign ad early Tuesday apologizing for his comments about "legitimate rape" and asking for forgiveness.
"Rape is an evil act," Akin says in the 30-second ad. "I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize. As the father of two daughters, I want tough justice for predators. I have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault. I pray for them. The fact is rape can lead to pregnancy. The truth is rape has many victims. The mistake I made was in the words I said, not in the heart I hold. I ask for your forgiveness."
On Monday, Republican leaders called for Akin to abandon his campaign against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill, and Mitt Romney condemned the "legitimate rape" remarks.
"Congressman Akin's comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable and, frankly, wrong," Romney said. "Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive."

[Related: Will Todd Akin drop out of Senate race?]
Akin then canceled a scheduled interview with CNN's Piers Morgan. Still, Morgan proceeded to open his primetime show with a shot of Akin's empty chair, calling the embattled Republican Senate candidate a "gutless little twerp" for canceling the sit-down.
"Congressman, you have an open invitation to join me in that chair whenever you feel up to it," Morgan said. "Because if you don't keep your promise to appear on the show, then you are, what we would call in Britain, a gutless little twerp."
Earlier Monday, several news outlets—including BuzzFeed—reported that Akin would withdraw from the race before Tuesday's deadline.
[Also read: Obama on Akin: 'Rape is rape']
In an interview on Mike Huckabee's radio show, Akin apologized for his "legitimate rape" comments but said he wouldn't drop out of the race. "I'm not a quitter," he said.
Following the Huckabee interview, Akin tweeted: "I am in this race to win. We need a conservative Senate."
Akin's new campaign ad hits the airwaves a day after the powerful conservative super PAC Crossroads GPS announced it was pulling its advertising money from the Missouri Senate race amid the political firestorm Akin's comments created.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy after rape] is really rare," Akin told St. Louis' KTVI-TV Fox affiliate in an interview broadcast on Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

Akin said that even if a rape victim does somehow become pregnant, "there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."

 

Allen West: Obama ‘doesn’t have a vision for the black community’ in America

Allen West: Obama ‘doesn’t have a vision for the black community’ in America

WAKE UP AMERICA

Facts to Wake Up America

The U.S. is 244 years old and more than one-third of the national debt has been created in the past three years.

·         Gold has skyrocketed a whopping 514 percent in the last five years, from a low of $281.50/oz. to $1,731/ oz.

·         China and Japan are now planning to trade the Yuan and Yen WITHOUT using U.S. Dollars for the first time in history.

·         The International Monetary Fund is openly campaigning for the U.S. Dollar to be replaced by SDRs (Special Drawing Rights)—a hybrid composed of the U.S. Dollar, the Euro, the Yen and the British Pound. The Obama administration has ALREADY stated their support for adding the Chinese Yuan!

·         In mid-2011, China announced it was going to start reducing its foreign currency reserves. In plain English, they want to dump the dollar because they're worried about U.S. government spending and a Fed that's ready to start printing more money on a moment's notice.

·         China is quietly purchasing massive amounts of gold. In October 2011 alone, Chinese imports jumped a whopping 4,000 percent over the previous year. Thanks to a secret Chinese communication released by WikiLeaks, we now know that this is a DELIBERATE attack aimed directly at the dollar.

·         Want to know what China really thinks about the U.S. Dollar, and our government's efforts to control spending and STOP printing money? Ask Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner about his recent speech to the students at Peking University.

The Chinese laughed Tim Geithner off the stage!

After reaffirming his faith in the ongoing strength of the U.S. Dollar, Geithner went on to say that "...Chinese assets are very safe." HE WAS INSTANTLY INTERRUPTED BY THUNDEROUS LAUGHTER from the usually polite Chinese audience.

Did you ever hear about it? There were a few brief mentions in the mainstream media. But they all focused on the humor of the situation. It was a convenient distraction from the REAL story you're NOT being told...

The Chinese students were RIGHT. The almost 50-year reign of the U.S. Dollar as the World Reserve Currency is cracking apart. The next step is hyperinflation... and a $500 bill for filling your car with gas.

·  The early signs of hyperinflation have already begun.  The United  
  States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that BEEF prices
  jumped a whopping 10.2 percent in 2011. Eggs climbed 9.2 percent  
  and cooking oils soared 9.3 percent. That's a HUGE increase in just  12
  months.

·         The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an outright LIE. Starting in 1980, the government actually began CHANGING the formula used for calculating the CPI so the inflation numbers wouldn't look so bad.  (Note:  Jimmy Carter was president in 1980; Ronald Reagan didn’t take office until 1981.)

Why would they do this? It's those annoying "Cost-of-Living-Increases" for Social Security checks, pensions and other obligations.

If Uncle Sam can't afford to pay you, no problem! Just LOWER the CPI (artificially) and VOILA, everything's taken care of. Except it's NOT really taken care of. That's why so many seniors can't afford to make ends meet on Social Security anymore. Just how ignorant do our politicians think we are!

Today, the CPI is basically useless as a measure of your rising costs. Last year, the "official" CPI was about 3 percent. If you use the "old" 1980 formula, the REAL CPI was closer to 12 PERCENT. Now that explains your grocery and gas bills.

·         Last year, the "official" deficit was reported to be a "mere" $1.3 trillion. That's pure fantasy from politicians who don't want you to know the truth. If you use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)—the same principles corporations are REQUIRED to use—the actual deficit is almost $5 TRILLION. That's four times worse than you're being told.

And the grand total for our Federal debt?
How does $15 trillion sound? But wait, it gets worse...

That $15 trillion does NOT include our TOTAL obligations (like Social Security). It's almost impossible to get a REAL number on this but shadowstats.com, one of the most reliable monitors of government spending, estimates the true debt to be in excess of $80 TRILLION.

You could confiscate the wealth of every
last man, woman and child in America and
still not pay for this debt!

·         What can Washington do or more accurately, what is the Obama Administration doing? They'll try "buying" their way out by printing MORE MONEY, devaluing every dollar you own and triggering a hyperinflation crisis.

In fact, some people believe the government is already printing special RED dollars to handle the crisis...

Why? Because it's just not practical to carry $50,000 in your wallet for everyday expenses. (Can you believe we're even THINKING about this?) So you'd need a SPECIAL currency—such as a $10,000 bill, or even higher.

·         No WONDER the Chinese are dumping dollars and buying TONS of gold.

·         No wonder nations are starting to ignore the U.S. Dollar for bilateral trading.

·         No WONDER the IMF wants to replace the dollar with SDRs and eventually a "global currency."

·         No wonder OIL is being traded more and more using gold instead of dollars.  Example:  Iran is now trading oil to the Chinese for Gold, not US Dollars.

The ENTIRE FINANCIAL WORLD is losing faith in the dollar. The dollar is now a financial house of cards ready to collapse (and trigger) hyperinflation with a single breath. That means...

Washington desperately needs your money, and they know where to find it: In your pension plan...

In November 2008, Congress held a little-publicized meeting to discuss the COMPLETE confiscation of all private retirement accounts...  (Note:  both the House and the Senate had strong Democratic majorities in 2008).

Think the Federal government can't confiscate private wealth? FDR did it in 1933 by ORDERING all citizens to turn over their gold for PAPER MONEY that's WORTHLESS by today's standards. But that couldn't possibly happen today, right?

Argentina grabbed all private pension plans in 2008, and Obama and his union friends are watching.

In 2008, Argentina's President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner confiscated the entire $24 billion pension industry and immediately used the money for social programs that helped her maintain power and then provided subsidies to "favored" industries. ALL for the good of the people, of course.

How did it work? It worked great for Fernandez. By "spreading the wealth" through confiscation, she won reelection in a landslide. (Obama has been taking notes!) But things aren't working out so well for the people in her country.

The Argentine Peso is now in freefall—losing 25 percent of it's value against the dollar and the people are getting restless. No problem for Christina though. She's now imposing government controls on capital, nationalizing private property and making it illegal to hold a public protest (under the guise of fighting terrorism). By the way, she's also seized control of the media as well.

·         The Obama Administration has already laid the legal groundwork to do the same with laws and Executive Orders already quietly put in place within the last 3 years.  Do you really believe that legal framework was laid without a plan?  If reelected, we will all see Obama’s real plan.

Source:  Bob Livingston, Liberty.com.

American Muslims Stone Christians in Dearborn, MI (Original edit)

More Class Warfare from the Left

The Trayvon Martin Story...

If you doubt that the media and the left have intentionally put a spin on the Trayvon Martin story to stir up racial and class conflict, compare the pictures used by the media of Trayvon Martin and of Zimmerman to recent photos of both men.  How old was Trayvon in those early photos released by the media -- 12 maybe, but on the day he died, he was 6'2" and all grown up.  And could they have found a worst picture of Zimmerman?  The article below summarizes the biased presentation of this story very well.  Please read.

 

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Media Trayvon Martin, the media and the regression of U.S. race-relations

• Posted on March 27, 2012 at 11:13am by Meredith Jessup
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Conservative author Victor Davis Hanson has a thought-provoking column out this morning which examines the public uproar over the Treyvon Martin case and what it means for race relations in the United States today:

The Trayvon Martin tragedy, by the time the entire process is played out, will reflect poorly on lots of people and groups, who in mob-like fashion have weighed in before all the facts in the case are fully aired. We have reached the nadir when the civil-rights community decries the release of further pertinent information about Mr. Martin as gratuitously defaming the deceased — with the implicit understanding that incomplete and leaked information so far has been welcomed if it reflected poorly on the alleged perpetrator.
The narrative of the shooting unfortunately changes every 24 hours, which suggests the media saw a preliminary narrative it liked and then adorned it in a manner to ensure sensationalism and polarization. …

This is a key point — What role has the media played in fanning the flames of racial tension? Bernie Goldberg takes a good, hard look:

It is understandable why so many Americans would demand justice for Trayvon Martin. But the hypocrisy and the high profile sanctimony of the oh-so-concerned media and the civil rights establishment is downright galling.
Let’s not be naïve: If Trayvon Martin had been shot that night by another black teenager there would be have been nothing from president Obama, no nationally televised demonstrations, no demands for justice by prominent civil rights leaders, and nobody outside his immediate circle of family and friends would even know his name.
We know about Trayvon Martin only because the man who shot him looks white. Actually, Zimmerman’s mother is Peruvian, which makes him half Hispanic, a fact you might not have known if you get your news from the usual places. That would only detract from the storyline: black kid shot by overzealous (and probably racist) white vigilante. For what it’s worth, the New York Times refers to him as a “white Hispanic,” a politically correct description to make sure we know Mr. Zimmerman is a white man – and not “a person of color.” You think the Times would call him a “white Hispanic” if he had won a Nobel Prize for curing cancer?

While white-on-black crimes tend to throw the media into a frenzy, Goldberg notes how thousands of other crimes go unnoticed because there is no attention-grabbing angle for the media to exploit:

Delric [Waymon Miller IV] was a 9-month old baby – a 9-month old African American baby – who was sleeping on a couch at home in Detroit a few weeks ago, when in the early morning hours, someone fired 37 shots from an AK-47 into the house. One shot killed Delric Waymon Miller IV. …
Police think the shooting may have been an act of retaliation stemming from a fight between rival gangs a few days earlier at a bar.
So of course there would be no national outcry, no comments from the president, no rallies led by Al Sharpton demanding justice for Delric, no pieties from Jesse Jackson about how “blacks are under attack” in America. It’s a safe bet the shooter was black. This was just one more case of black on black crime, the kind of story that gets ink in the local papers but that’s about it. …
Journalists who work for the national news networks, or major American newspapers with a national reach, don’t spend a lot of time shining a spotlight on dysfunctional behavior in parts of black America. Stories about such things in black neighborhoods, imposed on black people by black people, would be tantamount to airing dirty laundry in front of the whole country. And that is something liberal journalists who are proud of their good racial manners (along with their friends in the civil rights establishment) do not want to do.

So what does all this mean for race relations in the U.S.? Davis explains (emphasis mine):

The net result of the demagoguery will be more racial polarization, as African-Americans believe that young black males are unfairly stereotyped by society and treated less fairly by police, while non-African-Americans will only be further convinced that the African-American leadership is not concerned with the vastly inordinate rates of black violent crime, given the small percentage of the African-American community within the general population, much less the much higher rates of black-on-white crime – and as both sides argue either for more money to be invested in social programs, or that too much has already been spent in counter-productive fashion.