I just want to know where all those people who whined because their phone might be tapped during the Bush administration are now that the White House wants to be able to check out what we are doing on the internet when they think we might be a terrorist. Now don’t be getting all, well… I ain’t no terrorist, on me because the fact is if you have ever disagreed with the president or any of his policies you are on the list so if they choose to check out what you are doing they can.
While we are on the subject, don’t you find it interesting that there is no more body count on the war, it is like Obama took office and suddenly there are no more deaths… Except the five last weekend and the two who were kidnapped and killed, oh yeah, they are not in Iraq so they don’t count. Why do we not hear the screams of a corrupt government even though Charlie has been charged with 13 counts?
Come on folks, you knew so much back then, now suddenly you are mute, suddenly it does not matter if your privacy is violated, our boys are being killed and all we are paying taxes for is to maintain the life of a bunch of corrupt politicians… Let me hear you scream, what you can’t get any big named stars to duct tape their mouths for peace, afraid that if you burn an effigy of this president the secret service might visit, is that it, is everyone afraid to speak, funny I do believe you blamed our former president of doing this and elected one who actually did.
We now have a president that has called for a national army since before he was elected and Mr. Rangle who is charged with 13 ethics violations supplying the bill for it. Hey, peace protestors what do you think they need a national army for??? You people said you stood for something and yet you cower down the minute Obama get’s in office. You threw a fit when Bush wanted to allow the FBI to tap phones of known terrorists because they might be listening to you, but it does not bother you in the slightest that the White House has specifically asked to be able to monitor the internet…
So which is it, were you just part of the lets bash Bush crowd that really had no reason to but hey everyone else was or do you really give a damn about the right to privacy, putting an end to the killing of our young men and women sent in harms way. Well guess what, all the things you predicted Bush was going to do have come to pass under Obama so it is time to put up or shut up.
The FBI would not need a court order to monitor individuals’ Internet activity during a terrorism or intelligence investigation, under a new White House proposal.
The Obama administration wants to include “electronic communication transactional records” on a list of items that the law says the FBI can collect from companies without a judge’s approval, The Washington Post reported.
The House ethics committee formally charged Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Thursday with 13 counts of violating the rules of the House of Representatives. The charges were announced at a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill.
Say no to Congress…….I now have even a bigger respect for Arizona !
Born and Raised…this is so wrong!!! My name is d’Lynn. I’m a disabled Vietnam vet. I don’t look too bad for a beat-up old fart, do I? And that’s my ride. She’s looking pretty good also, especially when you consider that she’ll turn twenty this summer. That’s right, it’s a 1990 with a 1990 sidecar.
I can’t ride a solo bike, ergo the sidecar rig. It’s my sole means of transportation – rain or shine, snow or wind, and this summer also marks a milestone in both of our lives, as I will finally be able to pay her off.
Twenty years old? What? Why did it take so long? You weren’t paying attention, were you? It’s right in the first paragraph.
I am a disabled vet, which means I receive a veterans administration disability pension, which also means “I’m broke!” Just one step ahead of being homeless every month, and that’s not an idle statement or an “Oh, woe is me” dire complaint. There’s a point to this, so hang in there a minute or two and read on.
There’s a 25-year-old illegal immigrant woman living in Florida, with eight kids. Yes, eight “anchor babies” and she receives just shy of $1,500 per month per kid, plus medical, plus food stamps.
Oh, wait — I’ve been informed that I shouldn’t call them Food Stamps anymore. That’s not PC. It’s all called “Social Assistance” now. You do the math on that yourself. I’d say that she was schooled early in how to make it in the system.
Twenty-five years old, eight kids . . . . . yep, she started early.
You can whip out the calculator if you want, but this woman, who never has paid a dime in taxes of any kind, (and still doesn’t – she’s ‘illegal,’ remember?) is here in this country illegally. She hasn’t paid out one cent in medical for all the “anchor babies,” makes more in one month, legally, than I receive in over a year-and-a-half in disability payments and I
can’t even get food stamps! Oops, I mean “Social Assistance.”
Technically, I am eligible for “Social Assistance.” I was told it would be a walk through – a gimme – being disabled. No problem, and in the very next breath I was also informed that under the law the amount I received in “Social Assistance” would be deducted from my disability pension.
Let’s say I take a great photograph. It was just luck, a one of a kind accident, in the right place at the right time shot. My local newspaper offers me fifty bucks to use the photo in a featured story. (I live in a small town and fifty bucks is all they could afford.) I have to report that fifty dollars to the VA as earned income, which will immediately be deducted from my next month’s disability check. If I don’t report it I’m in violation of federal law and technically they can stop my disability pension and prosecute me under a federal felony. Pretty cool, eh? For fifty bucks.
I see no point in dealing with two federal bureaucracies, so I don’t bother. What’s the point?
She’s here illegally and with just one kid would make over twice what I receive per month. She has eight and she’s not a stand-out case. She’s not alone. That’s the way the system works. Millions of illegal immigrants know this, know how the system works and know how to use it. (Haven’t you seen the pamphlet? It’s handed out all along our borders, “The Illegal Immigrants’ Guide to Keeping America Just The Way It Is.”) and that’s just the way it works.
Did you know that the federal government provides a “refugee” in this country with a monthly “stipend” of $1,890, plus $580 a month in “Social Assistance?” That’s $2,470 a month, tax-free. That’s two and a half times what I’m allowed to receive as a disabled vet. And just what did they do to earn this? All you have to do is show up on our collective doorstep, raise your right hand and swear that you’re a refugee and, bingo, receive $30,000 a year, tax-free. That’s more than someone making $15 an hour, and they have to pay taxes to boot!
Now, in defense of the Veterans Administration, they are doing what they can with what they’ve got. This is precious little compared to what they should have to get the job done. At least this country has a VA.
It’s the Senate that keeps passing laws, rules and guidelines, cutting their budget, denying requests for more staff and computer systems to handle the massive work flow. Their hands are tied by the very government that’s supposed to give them what they need to get the job done, by the government you voted into office. Don’t scream at the VA. I have. It’s misguided anger.
The point to this “story?” Just why are you paying such high taxes to support this incredibly screwed-up government? Why? And I’m not proposing you stop paying your taxes. That’s wrong. There are good programs and reasons to pay your taxes and support our government.
What am I proposing? It’s quite simple. Vote.
The government, our government, is broken and we as the voters serve as the maintenance crew. We fix it . . . . . by voting. If your state Senator has been in office more than two terms, vote ‘em out at the next election. If your state representative has been in office more than two terms, vote ‘em out of office. We put term limits on just about every publicly-elected official in the country except the House and Senate.
Why? Believe me, they know this and love it! Ahhh – the power!
I don’t care how much you believe your Senator or Representative is doing a good job. They’re not! Look at the government you have….that we have. How can you state they are doing what you want as the voter that put them there? How?
Vote them out of office. Do it.
Change the course of this country’s history by what you are granted and guaranteed under the law. Vote! And if you have the guts, the anger, the outrage, start a petition in your state for a state-wide initiative to be placed on your next state ballot — Limiting the terms of office for your state senators and state representatives to your federal government to two terms.
The federal government will never pass such a law, but you can. You can get it done. You can force it. You can make it a law.
This is the first step in “getting it right.” Just vote. It’s simple. It’s easy, dammit!
This first step will send a very clear message. It’ll work. It’ll put “us” back in control of “them.” As it should be. As it was intended in the first place.
Are you an American? Born and raised? Then vote!
Side note: I sent this e-mail to a little over one hundred on my e-mail list. If you believe I’m wrong or misguided or you simply don’t agree, that’s fine. Go right ahead and delete this e-mail. No problem. Sorry to have bothered you. But if you think I just might have a worthwhile idea, something we can easily accomplish, something that could be a small part at getting this country straightened out, then forward it to everyone on your e-mail list and keep it going!!!!
“In God We Trust” Again Upheld by Federal Appeals Court
In a 3-0 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, DC, ruled that the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” is constitutional and does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Quoting the 1970 decision in Aronow v. United States, the Court wrote: “It is quite obvious that the national motto and slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion.”
Read our News Release to learn more about the history of our motto.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (July 29) — A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.
A Chandler police officer and two criminal suspects were killed in a shootout when an undercover operation went awry in south Phoenix on Wednesday evening.
Two other officers and two suspects were wounded. Both surviving officers were listed in stable condition Thursday morning. One underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night.
FresnoZionism.org —
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an embarrassing videotape of Barack Obama speaking at a party for Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi. Well, Khalidi’s done it again by joining an appeal to raise funds for an American boat that will try to break the blockade of Gaza. And just in case anyone might fail to see the connection, they’re calling the boat “The Audacity of Hope”.
FresnoZionism.org has obtained a top-secret transcript of a recent telephone conversation between the President and Khalidi. Although we journalists — like the LA Times, which still keeps its tape locked up — must protect our sources, I can guarantee that in some possible universe every word of it is entirely accurate:
Barack Obama: Ahlan Rashid!
Rashid Khalidi: Barack! Good to hear from you. Why don’t you come over for some of Mona’s hummus, like you used to?
BO: Well, you know. I have to be careful of my associations. Those right-wing neocon Zionist bloggers would have a field day if I did that. Which is why I called…
RK: You mean you want me to whack some Zionists? Just say the word, Barack. I’ll give Marzook a call. Itbach al yahud –
BO: No! Don’t do that. But actually, it does have to do with the pesky Jews.
RK: Al-Yahud qalab’na! We know how to handle them. Just fire some rockets into Montgomery County. I can –
BO: Please. I’m in enough trouble already. Why do you have to call your Gaza boat “Audacity of Hope?” You might as well name it “Barack’s Gaza Love Boat.” Here I am trying to make the Jews forget the fact that my administration has been the most anti-Israel one since 1948 — before the midterm elections — and you drag me into this!
RK: We must break the horrific blockade! Gaza is an open-air prison! People are suffering! You can see how bad it is here and here.
BO: But I thought the Zionists had ended restrictions on consumer goods… and even the UN thinks there shouldn’t be…
“Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.” James Madison (Federalist No. 39, 1788)
