Submitted to the blog by R L.
Op Ed article in Albuquerque Journal April 10, 2009 by Kathleen Parker, Syndicated Writer.
Selected Quotes Only.
Suffice to say, there is usually much talk of sabers. missiles and such.
"Speak softly and carry a big stick," was how Teddy Roosevelt framed his foreign policy.
Thus evaluating Barack Obama's first European tour as president, analysts have focused on whether he was quite manly enough.
Columnists asked whether Obama should have "grabbed an opportunity ..to demonstrate his toughness, showing his saber as well as his smile.
Verily, spoken like men.
What they're really asking is: Did Obama do justice to the fire hydrant?"
In what may prove to be an epochal development, Obama seems to have his under control. He doesn't strut, swagger or flex. He doesn't even notice the hydrant.
If George Bush was a cowboy, Obama is a group hug.
He says we should show leadership by listening. That we should show humility. This is, of course pure porn for women, But unfortunately, women don't rule the world.
Men still do and we have to worry whether Obama will be viewed as weak and the U.S. therefore, vulnerable.
We now know that he is without qualm when he finds it necessary to fire corporate chiefs. But will he be as bold when rogue nations strap on their Speedos and display their missilery, as North Korea just did?
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said the president's "hand-wringing" which is a polite way of saying Obama is "girly".
A man who listens may be perceived as weak by those who prefer to talk big. But playground wisdom holds that showoffs are usually overcompensating, and the strongest one has nothing to prove.
To answer the original question: When you're the big dog, you can afford to smile. . The saber is understood.
Posts and Comments from Readers
Thursday, April 30, 2009
OPED PIECE:
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
OPPOSE H.R.1913: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
Title click to read the bill on OPEN CONGRESS website.
While we're being distracted by the Mexican (Swine) Flu threatened pandemic, Barney Frank's bill is gaining momentum, another stab at the Tenth Amendment and duplicate laws we don't need.
Contact your elected officials and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 1913.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
SWINE FLU: PANDEMIC, OPEN BORDERS ON OBAMA'S WATCH: WHAT'S BEING DONE?
News links about swine flu pandemic.
WHO Alert
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12242231
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
GLEN BECK WEBSITE INFO ON SWINE FLU
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/24533/
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Napolitano, Man Caused Disasters, New Flu and INS
After you title click and read the Michael Cutler (29-year veteran of INS) commentary, check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4g930pm8Ms
Now ask yourself did this new variant of avian/human and swine flu originate in Mexico? If not, how did it get there?
Bloomberg has an interesting story that includes President Obama (now known for his creepy handshakes and bows) meeting a man in Mexico who died within 24 hours:
...Obama’s Visit
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not....
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q&refer=worldwide
The Democratic Underground site is going bonkers and some claim it might be anthrax planted by Republicans.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5536975
I know one thing for sure. Rahm Emmanuel is rolling on the floor laughing his guts out over this new "crisis". And who is laughing with him?
Saturday, April 25, 2009
800-828-0498 Toll Free to U.S. Senators/Representatives
I have placed one round of calls to voice my opposition to Arms Trafficking Treaty and will do it again Monday, Tuesday, etc., until it is passed or our employees get the message. There is plenty of information on our front page to get you started and believe me, the staffers that answer the phone have no idea about any specifics so just tell them you are vehemently opposed, give you zip code and asked to be transferred to the other senator or representatives. All of this takes maybe two to three minutes and costs you nothing unlike the treaty they are shoving ahead.
I have found two websites that are new to me and I have put them in my favorites:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ "Manhattan Institute is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility." Their range of topics is impressive.
Manhattan Institute publishes an online magazine where I found this:
Bound to Burn by Peter W. Huber
Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.
Cheap coal, like that extracted from this Chinese mine, is essential to the developing world’s economic growth.
Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. It will run you about $500 for 5 tons of forgiveness—about how much the typical American needs every year. Or about $2,000 a year for a typical four-person household. Your broker will spend the money on such things as reducing methane emissions from hog farms in Brazil.
But if you really want to make a difference, you must send a check large enough to forgive the carbon emitted by four poor Brazilian households, too—because they’re not going to do it themselves. To cover all five households, then, send $4,000....
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html
The second find is one that is indispensable when dealing with radical greenies and it is just plain fun, educational reading:
http://climatedebatedaily.com/
Onward and upward.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
News from an Informed Friend in Arizona
Bill number:
H.R. 1476
Bill name:
Open Fuel Standard Act of 2009
Date introduced:
March 12, 2009
Sponsor:
Representative Eliot Engel (D-17th/NY)
Current Cosponsors:
Representatives: Allyson Schwartz (D-PA); Bruce Braley (D-IA); Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD); Steve Israel (D-NY); John Barrow (D-GA); Bob Inglis (R-SC)
Committee of Jurisdiction:
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Summary of Proposal:
Requires that auto manufacturers ensure that not less than 80 percent of automobiles manufactured or sold in the U.S. (by each manufacturer) operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 percent methanol, or biodiesel.
Full text at: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1476
This information came via ACT, Act for America founded by Christian Lebanese Woman, Bridgette Gabriel, author of They Must Be Stopped. From her homepage:
What We're Up Against
Islamic extremists have proclaimed jihad against Christians, Jews, non-Muslims and secularists - simply because they regard us as infidels.
The warriors of Islamofascism are not only "over there". Tens of thousands of Islamic militants now reside in America, operating in sleeper cells, attending our colleges and universities, even infiltrating our government. They are here - today. Many have been here for years. Waiting. Preparing.
They are being aided and abetted by the purveyors of political correctness - those in government, the media, academia and Hollywood who are apologists for Islamofascism, who outrageously blame America for the cruel and brutal actions of those who want to kill us and destroy our way of life.
Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even exasperating. In the battle against Islamofascism, political correctness will literally kill us.
Click on title of post to access ACT.
Stealth Destroyer of American Wealth - Cap and Trade
This comprehensive article needs to get in the hands of every elected official. Now get to it. It can be copied and pasted into an email, printed up for snail mail.
More Great American Jobs Scams
Two very interesting articles on Haussamen.
Bingaman says he wasn't involved in Quadrangle deal Bingaman's son introduces him to his boss, Rattner, just a social thing?
Film incentives are a serious public policy problem
By Rep. Dennis Kintigh
I think Representative Kintigh is on to something. Will he stick to his guns?
ANOTHER IDIOTIC REMARK FROM JANET NAPOLITANO
Title click to read article on FOX NEWS website.
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano riled Canadian officials this week by suggesting that the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States through Canada, even though the 9/11 Commission determined they came to the United States from overseas. "
LINKS TO CLONING: CURRENT NEWS AND UNITED NATIONS WAFFLEING
There is a current news story about cloning getting some play on the internet.
I posted these links (title click) for the purpose of archiving and preparation for the future. The Obama administration might connect cloning to a heavy tax on child birth. I am only projecting based on the globalist/socialist bent this current administration is on.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
OBAMA/CALDERON = GUN CONTROL TREATY FOR U.S.
Title click to read article on the WASHINGTON POST website.
"On his first presidential visit to Mexico, Obama praised Calderón for taking on the drug cartels, whose potent arsenals and economic power are threatening the integrity of the Mexican state. Obama announced that he will push the U.S. Senate to ratify an inter-American arms-trafficking treaty. "
OBAMA TO ENTER INTO GUN CONTROL TREATY W MEXICO
Title click to read 09 February 2009 State Department on Pact to Counter Illicit Small Arms Traffic convention of America.gov website.
Obama car czar's tentacles reach to NM finances
April 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama expressed confidence in Steven Rattner, the U.S. auto czar whose former private-equity firm was linked to federal and state probes of millions of dollars in New York pension-fund kickbacks....
Rattner, co-founder of New York-based Quadrangle Group LLC...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.hFMkeaCK7U&refer=home
NM puts contract on hold because of NY scandal
...It’s the same scandal in which, according to the New York Times, Steven Rattner, who heads the Obama administrations’ restructuring of the auto industry, has been described in documents as having arranged for his investment firm -- the Quadrangle Group -- to pay $1.1 million in exchange for business with the state of New York. The SIC also has investments with Quadrangle....
http://haussamen.blogspot.com/ AND WHILE YOU ARE THERE READ:
Seven results of highly destructive political policies by MICHAEL SWICKARD. Quick link in left hand column.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
MARCIA STIRMAN: ALAMOGORDO TEA PARTY
Republican Women of Otero County hosted this year’s Taxpayer’s Bawl in conjunction with the first ever TEA Party on Tuesday, April 14th at the Civic Center on First and Florida. TEA is an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already.” These TEA Parties were held all over the country on Tax Day, but ours was to accommodate our church-going folks so they wouldn’t have to miss either one.
Over one hundred people attended the rally outside, carrying posters they’d made. We protested outside while people drove by honking their horns in support. The event lasted just thirty minutes, and then we proceeded inside for the Bawl.
Joe Loya, father-in-law of former Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos came up from El Paso as our guest speaker. He spoke for 30 minutes giving factual details the mainstream media has avoided.
Attendees wrote short notes on and signed long sheets of butcher paper to be sent to the President, Udall, Teague and Bingaman.
Three short videos were shown: Bob Basso as Thomas Paine in “We The People,” the video “Born Again American” and finally Lee Greenwood singing the song he’s most famous for, “God Bless the USA.”
During the Bawl, American Veterans were asked to stand and were saluted with a glass of tea and overwhelming applause.
The local GOP chairman and her executive board members were introduced.
Excited folks from every corner of Otero County were clamoring for more. Don Omey, director of the two Tax Day TEA Parties, has said our next TEA Party will be in November with another scheduled for next April 15th.
Stay tuned for more. We’re considering ways to make this effort more worthwhile.
Marcia Stirman
Chairman, RWOOC
OBAMA UNAWARE OF TEA PARTIES
Title click to read article on BUSINESS & MEDIA INSTITUTE website.
“The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties and will hold his own event today,” ABC’s Dan Harris said on “Good Morning America” on April 15."
HUFFINGTON POST: TEA PARTY BASHING (I SMELL FEAR)
Click on title to read multiple articles on Tea Party bashing. (Paranoia journalism?)
TEA PARTIES HAVE BIGGER IMPACT THAN MOST AMERICANS KNOW
The Obama administration and its agents don't like criticism. The embarrassing news coverage across the nation, by pro-Obama propaganda dupes portray the Tea Party movement as a right-wing, Conservative attempt to obstruct Glorious Leader's policies. In Denver participants at the Tea Party held at the State Capital witnessed usurpers wearing bandannas covering their faces and hoodies, shouting into a bullhorn attempt to get the crowd to pickup an 'impeach Obama' chant. The Obama plants were quickly shouted down and told to knock it off. The more the media and this administration react to the Tea Party movement as a Conservative agenda to sabotage this president's polices, the more proof that this administration can't handle opposition and will manipulate the media and the truth.
One guy from an organization named PROGRESS ACTION, a pro-Obama group, attempted to start a fight with Tea Party participants and was escorted away by the Colorado State Police. Where was Homeland Security and why didn't they flag this guy before he could attempt to incite violence and home-grown terrorism? Other participants at the Denver Tea Party reported being spit on by individuals cursing and accusing the Tea Party of being an anti-Obama rally.
MORE GUN HYSTERIA BLAMES U.S. FOR MEXICAN VIOLENCE
Title click to read article on UPI website.
"WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Smugglers supplying guns to Mexican drug cartels can evade detection for years because arms dealers are lightly regulated in U.S. border states, officials say."
From the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/sorry-nra--mexican-gun-tr_b_187328.html
Sorry NRA--Mexican Gun Traffickers Buy American
Link to Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) PROJECT GUN RUNNER:
http://www.atf.gov/gunrunner/gunrunner.htm
When you click on one of the reports it takes you to a black page that doesn't load.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MODERN DAY PIRATES: U.S. NAVY INSTITUTE
Title click to be taken to the U.S. NAVY INSTITUTES website. Great site for history and current policy on dealing with piracy on the high seas.
Eric Wertheim is a Naval historian who writes for the U.S. Naval Institute.
He has a great website on combat fleets of the world.
http://ericwertheim.com/
COMMUNITIES PRINT LOCAL CURRENCIES
Title click to read article on USA TODAY.
"A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.
Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.
The systems generally work like this: Businesses and individuals form a network to print currency. Shoppers buy it at a discount — say, 95 cents for $1 value — and spend the full value at stores that accept the currency."
JUDGE RULES SHERIFF CAN'T SEIZE TAX RECORDS OF CRIMINAL ILLEGALS
Title click to read on the DENVER POST'S website.
"Trusted by illegal immigrants to do their taxes and certified by the government to do taxes, Cerrillo was turned by the investigation into the "Typhoid Mary of the Hispanic community," attorney Reid Neureiter said."
"Deputies examined 5,000 records taken from Amalia's Tax and Translation Service and say they found evidence of about 1,330 allegedly illegal immigrants filing returns with false or stolen Social Security numbers.
But Hiatt said that the search was overly broad and "was not a proper search. There was little the public could gain from this search."
ORF says: The Weld County Sheriff should challenge the jurisdiction where this case was decided to preserve the evidence of records seized, under Title 8.
Title 8: Aliens and Nationality
PART 1270—PENALTIES FOR DOCUMENT FRAUD
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§ 1270.1 Definitions.
For the purpose of this part—
Document means an instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matters which may be used to fulfill any requirement of the Act. The term “document” includes, but is not limited to, an application required to be filed under the Act and any other accompanying document or material;
Entity means any legal entity, including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, joint venture, governmental body, agency, proprietorship, or association, including an agent or anyone acting directly or indirectly in the interest thereof.
§ 1270.2 Enforcement procedures.
(a) Procedures for the filing of complaints. Any person or entity having knowledge of a violation or potential violation of section 274C of the Act may submit a signed, written complaint to the Service office having jurisdiction over the business or residence of the potential violator or the location where the violation occurred.
Friday, April 10, 2009
It Is Okay For Him But Not For Us
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TURNING CITIZENS INTO CRIMINALS
By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
April 8, 2009
© NewsWithViews.com
As the price of cigarettes rises -- in the New York City metropolitan area they now cost nearly $10.00 per pack or about $100.00 for a carton of ten packs -- and there are more and more government programs aimed at controlling sale and use, the US and state governments are creating a new organized crime enterprise.
For example, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives New York office last Thursday arrested two suspects who purchased untaxed cigarettes from undercover ATF agents while also selling the agents counterfeit New York State/City Tax Stamps...http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news138.htm
THE ORIGINS OF EASTER CHRISTIAN ANSWERS.NET
Title click to read article on CHRISTIAN ANSWERS.NET
"The name “Easter” has its roots in ancient polytheistic religions (paganism). On this, all scholars agree. This name is never used in the original Scriptures, nor is it ever associated biblically with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. For these reasons, we prefer to use the term “Resurrection Sunday” rather than “Easter” when referring to the annual Christian remembrance of Christ's resurrection."
Also in the article:
"Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). The Bible often speaks of the Satanic religions which came from her. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus "witnessed the Mystery religion and its rites in numerous countries and mentions how Babylon was the primeval source from which ALL systems of idolatry flowed.[7] Austen Layard said “that we have the united testimony of sacred and profane history that idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia - the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]"
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Climate Engineering, Know the Facts to Know the Scam
AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air. ...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97ECHLG1&show_article=1
NASA: Clean-air regs, not CO2, are melting the ice cap
New research from NASA suggests that the Arctic warming trend seen in recent decades has indeed resulted from human activities: but not, as is widely assumed at present, those leading to carbon dioxide emissions. Rather, Arctic warming has been caused in large part by laws introduced to improve air quality and fight acid rain. ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/09/arctic_aerosols_goddard_institute/
For the political angle, try The Politically Incorrect Guide to GLOBAL WARMING and Environmentalism.
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Global-Warming-Environmentalism/dp/1596985011
Monday, April 6, 2009
WHAT? Mother Jones and World Net Daily Share Concerns of Cybersecurity Act (Updates)
You would be hard pressed to find more left (Mother Jones) and more right (World Net Daily) websites. Yet, here they are asking the same questions of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009.
WorldNetDaily
Will bill give Obama control of Internet?
Proposed new powers called 'drastic federal intervention'
..."Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V. [also Olympia Snow], are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack....
"The whole thing smells bad to me," writes Larry Seltzer in eWeek, an Internet and print news source on technology issues. "I don't like the chances of the government improving this situation by taking it over generally, and I definitely don't like the idea of politicizing this authority by putting it in the direct control of the president."...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=93966
Mother Jones
Should Obama Control the Internet?
A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.
"...The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) gives the president the ability to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any "critical" information network "in the interest of national security." The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.
The bill does not only add to the power of the president. It also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." This means he or she can monitor or access any data on private or public networks without regard to privacy laws...."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet
Links to the working drafts of the legislation are available on either of the above sites. Click on the title to read CHAIRMAN ROCKEFELLER AND SENATOR SNOWE INTRODUCE COMPREHENSIVE CYBERSECURITY LEGISLATION, a senate document.
Please take the time to contact Senators Bingamen and Udall and make your voice heard.
Update 4/8/09: The media blitz has begun and it is all about fear. First, the Wall Street Journal 4/8/09 Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914805204099085.html followed by "General: Growing threat from cyber attacks..." a Breitbart link on DRUDGE that appears to be broken. Oh, no! It is already happening, heh, heh.
Update 2: Noon MST, it is now being reported on nationally syndicated radio news. They picked up the WSJ story, the one where we should be afraid - this has been going on for over a year - nothing has happened, hype. Good job, Rockefeller and Snowe.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Obama's West Wing Populated with Bildeberg Members
From a Politico article entitled W.H. team discloses TARP firm tieswhich is disconcerting in itself, read down and click on the blue "favorite targets of conspiracy theorists" for another article naming some top officials Geitner - Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers - top economic advisor to the president, and more as Bildeberg members.
Trillions, Your Cost, Compromised Administration. What To Do
TRILLIONS:
Congress passes $3.5 trillion budget in the dark
“The practical implications of this budget are that we will put in place
spending and borrowing which will absolutely put this country on an
unsustainable path and WILL create massive problems for us in the out years if
it’s followed,” said ranking Senate Budget Committee member Judd Gregg
(R-N.H.).
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/03/congress-passes-35-trillion-budget-in-the-dark/
YOUR COST:
• President Bush began a string of expensive financial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
What does this mean for the average taxpayer?
Before the recession, federal spending totaled $24,000 per U.S. household. Obama’s budget would increase it to $32,000 per household by 2019—an inflation-adjusted $8,000-per-household expansion of government. And while your taxes will be raised to pay for it, no livable level of taxation would be able to pay for this increase in spending.
http://www.askheritage.org/Issues.aspx?ID=260
COMPROMISED ADMINISTRATION:
Summers Earned Millions in D.E. Shaw Salary, Bank Speech Fees
By Timothy J. Burger and Kristin Jensen
April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, earned millions working at a hedge fund and speaking to banks such as Citigroup Inc. that later received taxpayer bailout money....
The disclosure statement for Summers and several other top administration officials illustrates the quandary Obama and his predecessors have faced in their personnel decisions because “powerful people are almost always also rich people” who have earned money from private interests, said Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Obama’s “choice going forward is to choose unknowns of modest means who may be less controversial in terms of their connections,” Schmidt said. “Except those people would be far less knowledgeable and thus less of an asset to fix these very same urgent problems.” ...
Other Officials
The White House also released the personal financial disclosure forms of other top White House officials yesterday.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s form listed a holding of less than $1,000 in shares of American International Group Inc., the insurer that has taken $182.5 billion in taxpayer funds to avoid financial collapse. The White House said Emanuel doesn’t currently own shares in the company...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4iGjejJVRko&refer=home
WHAT TO DO:
Beware the fury of enraged citizens
Posted 4/03/2009 01:00:00 PM
© 2009 by Michael Swickard, Ph.D.
It is hard for our local, state and national leaders to understand the fury of enraged citizens. A local politician was startled when I said, “Go against the wishes of the people at your own political risk.” We were discussing the introduction of “red-light cameras” to our city. I predicted that if they were adopted in this faltering economy, no one voting for these cameras would ever be re-elected. ...
http://haussamen.blogspot.com/
Thursday, April 2, 2009
KINSHIP MAY BE CONSIDERATION IN OBAMA'S ILLEGAL AUNT'S REPRIEVE
We grant the petition for certiorari. We vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals. And we remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion."KINSHIP MAY BE CONSIDERATION IN OBAMA'S ILLEGAL ALIEN AUNT CASE
