Today is being referred to as "Super Tuesday II," but it is hardly super when it comes to the number of states participating. The impact of today, however, more than confirms its "super" status. In fact, rather than Super Tuesday II, a better name may be "The Day of Reckoning."
John McCain, at the time of writing this piece, has been projected to be the winner in Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio and Texas. As a result, he has clinched the Republican Nomination, and Mike Huckabee has stepped down.
In today's primaries Barack Obama sought a knockout punch against Hillary Clinton. The Clinton camp understands that Hillary desperately needs victories in Texas and Ohio particularly in order to salvage her once overwhelmingly strong candidacy for the Democrat Presidential nomination.
As I write this, Barack Hussein Obama has been projected to win Vermont, and Hillary Rodham Clinton looks to have won Rhode Island. And in the larger states, Ohio is projected to go to Hillary, and Texas remains too close to call.
Of the Democrats I have spoken to of late here in Southern California, most of them say that Hillary Clinton is too polarizing, and that they hope Barack Obama wins the nomination. Of those that did not say they are hoping for an Obama win, there was a strong feeling among them that if Obama wins the nomination, they would be willing to vote for McCain because Obama is too far to the left even for them.
Enter, stage left, Ralph Nader to further split the Democrat vote.
And through it all, John McCain continues to criticize the Democrats for their intention to withdraw the U.S. troops from Iraq, saying, "They say they want to set a date for withdrawal. I tell you, if they did that, my friends, we would be back."
As for myself, I place a lot of importance on a candidates legislative record, and connections. Though John McCain has a history of being a "maverick," I have to admit his voting record as an Arizona Senator is much more appealing than that of Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. In fact, Barack is being christened as the most liberal Senator. Perhaps that is true. From my research I have noticed that since 2004 as the U.S. Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama more often than not simply voted "present." When he did vote, he voted against the confirmation of John Roberts for the Supreme Court, against Samuel Alito (even voting in favor of a filibuster to stall his confirmation), opposed a bill in 2006 that would have denied citizenship or other legal status to illegal immigrants, voted in 2007 against a measure that would have allowed police to question people about their immigration status under certain circumstances, voted in favor of the McCain/Kennedy amnesty plan (of which McCain angered conservatives), voted for an act last October that would have allowed illegal aliens who became legal residents through amnesty to qualify for lower in-state tuition rates at state universities, voted against a 2006 bill that would prohibit the transportation of a minor girl across state lines to get an abortion if this would circumvent parental consent, voted against a bill extending the cuts in capital gains and dividends tax rates that Congress enacted in 2003, voted against the repeal of the tax on inherited wealth (double taxation), and then contradicted his votes when in June of 2006 he voted against a bill that would have required President Bush to withdraw most U.S. troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, and then last September he joined 27 other Democrats in voting for a bill ordering Bush to begin withdrawing most American forces within 90 days. Obama now is proposing a bill called the Global Poverty Act that essentially taxes the United States for being prosperous, and would cost us 0.7% of our gross national product.
So what about his connections?
There has been a number of articles claiming that Barack Hussein Obama was born of a Muslim father, and there is even a rumor that, like Ellison, he will place his hand on a Quran to take his oath of office. Though these rumors are disconcerting, there is no solid proof (yet) that his Muslim intentions are true. So, I must settle on what has been proven to be true.
First, I must go with what I have seen with my own eyes. Recently, during the singing of the National Anthem, Barack Obama not only refused to place his hand on his heart, but if you look carefully in the video, he is facing farther to the right and looking downward, meaning he even refused to look at Old Glory.
In February of 2007 Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth," in an interview with the New York Times. Then Obama recited with a "first class Arabic accent" the opening lines of a Muslim prayer. Now, Obama professes to be a Christian (and technically, that shouldn't matter because though I disagree with the idea of the Separation of Church and State as the Liberal Left professes it to be, it do believe that from a Constitutional standpoint there can be no religious litmus tests for office), specifically he claims to be a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. This church, however, espouses its non-negotiable committment to Africa that is essentially a theological version of the Black Power movement, and essentially places their allegiance to Africa before the United States of America. And one of the church's heroes is Minister Louis Farrakhan of The Nation of Islam, whose slurs against Jews are well known.
Obama eventually did denounce Farrakhan, but what about his pastor who thinks Farrakhan is an American Hero?
Obama is now calling his vote to help save the life of Terrie Schiavo his "biggest mistake," has now been considered a target of the Rezko investigation, has a wife that has never been proud to be an American until now, is endorsed by American Muslims as well as Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega, backs a Taliban Supporter in Kenya, has cited as his friend and mentor Frank Marshall Davis who is a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, has ties to a former leader of the violent left-wing activist group the Weather Underground, has essentially been caught cheating with all of his plagiarism, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farakhan calls Obama the "hope of the entire world," Obama knowingly worked with a confessed domestic terrorist as a paid director, desires to further handcuff the intelligence community in their programs to protect us from terrorism, and has suggested numerous tax hikes.
Facts are clear. Obama is not the best man for the job of Commander in Chief, nor is Hillary Clinton. As much difficulty as I have in admitting it, due to my past disagreements with many of McCain's positions and legislative bungles, John McCain is the best man for the job.
In the words of Atlas Shrugs when she was on my radio show, "John McCain, because the alternative is unthinkable."
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Email of the Week: Do you remember January 3, 2007??
This is just a History lesson. I am sending it to all regardless of party .
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 2nd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 2nd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
Remember that day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS (especially Barney ) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment...to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie -starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy). Barney blocked it and called it a "Chicken Little Philosophy" (and the sky did fall!) And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? - OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? - OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!
So when someone tries to blame Bush...
So when someone tries to blame Bush...
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel, while they were driving the economy into the ditch.
Budgets do not come from the White House.. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel, while they were driving the economy into the ditch.
Budgets do not come from the White House.. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush, though belatedly, got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running and to increase government spending until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running and to increase government spending until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budget.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for, and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."
There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!
"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Monday, May 14, 2012
Destroying the Economy
By Douglas V. Gibbs
We are told the unemployment rate is working its way down to 8%. The real unemployment rate is well over 10%, and the U-6 is pushing 20%. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000. This is the highest on record. Yet, despite that number, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% because the labor force participation rate dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%.
The less positions available in the universe of jobs, compared to the number of participants, has actually dropped the rate. When people go beyond their eligibility for unemployment insurance, and drop off the rolls, they are no longer counted as unemployed, even though they have not found a job yet. Their job they lost, however, is also no longer counted as existing, thus, decreasing the universe of jobs.
In other words, the Obama administration is cooking the books. The democrats understand that they have to get the unemployment rate under 8% to have a fighting chance for Barack Obama to win reelection. N. President in the modern era has been reelected with an unemployment rate over 7.1%. The goal is not to keep the rate where it is at. Obama will not win in November with an unemployment rate of 8.1%. They need the rate under 7.5% by November, and they have the manipulation of the unemployment rate in high gear.
If we used the same method to calculate the unemployment rate as we did during the Great Depression, the current rate would be 17%. Labor force participation, the percentage of Americans who are actually working, has dropped to 64.3%. Thanks to the liberal policies of the democrats, from the Community Reinvestment Act to the fiscal madness of the democrat controlled Congress from 2007, and the socialist policies of the Obama administration, 30 years of economic growth has been wiped out.
In January 2007, when the Democrats took control of Congress, the unemployment rate was 4.6%. In 2007, the number of people not in the workforce was only 79 million. In short, under Obama almost 9 million Americans have fled the workforce, and our economy has plunged into an abyss.
Obama's job-killing policies have been so damaging that the democrats are even trying to cover up what they've done. Internal e-mails disclosed by the House Natural Resources Committee show that a report on the administration's doctored drilling moratorium analysis, issued by the Department of Interior's Inspector General's office, was itself incomplete, misleading and unsubstantiated. Even worse for Obama and gang is that the documents reveal the White House actively blocked investigators and Obama's administration has continually refused to comply with subpoenas.
After the BP oil spill in 2010, the White House's six-month moratorium on America's entire deepwater drilling industry sent us into an energy tailspin. The ban, inserted into a technical safety document in the middle of the night by Obama's green extremists, destroyed an estimated 19,000 jobs and $1.1 billion in lost wages. The expert panel that recommended those actions, and the federal judiciary, called out then-eco czar Carol Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence and "contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were."
Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made sure the drilling ban report completely misrepresented the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict. Federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana blasted the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf.
The Republican Party has attempted to hold administration officials accountable for the drilling ban fraud, but the truth has been diverted, and the public has been distracted with the tactics of personal destruction against any GOP member involved in shedding any light on the truth.
The reports were full of intentional editing, specifically designed to deceive the public, and investigators. In fact, now the IG report is being used by the Obama Administration and others as a defense that this matter has already been investigated and resolved. Nonetheless, the emails contradict that claim and raise new questions on whether the IG's investigation was as thorough and complete as it should have been.
Congressman Hastings wrote, "Despite the President's pledge of transparency, this Administration has not answered questions by anyone on how this decision was made that forced thousands of Americans out of work and cost millions of dollars in lost economic activity."
Now, to finish us off, after all of this spending, and destructive policies against the private sector, the Obama administration plans to slam us with the biggest tax hike in American History.
The increase in taxes will happen January 1, 2013, if Obama has his way. The coming tax hike is being named "Taxmageddon," and would impose $494 billion in higher taxes on the American people in the first year. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that if it takes place, it will send this country toward a “fiscal cliff.” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has announced that the House of Representatives will take on this issue before the November election, but the democrat controlled Senate has vowed to do as it has been doing for the last few years. . . punt, and then blame the republicans when things go south.
The mere threat of the massive tax hike is already having an impact on the economy. Business owners and corporations are putting off growth, which means they will also be putting off hiring. That kind of rise in taxes could destroy any chance to climb out of this economic hole. Not only will income tax rates shoot up, but also the child credit will be cut in half, the marriage penalty will be back in place, the capital gains tax rate will rise, the dividend tax rate will rise, the payroll tax rate will jump two percentage points, the Marxist estate tax/death tax will be restored to its punitive past, the Alternative Minimum Tax relief will expire, and a new additional payroll tax hike from Obamacare takes effect.
Higher taxation is only the tip of the iceberg, however. The result of the taxation on any chance for economic growth, job loss, and a second wave of foreclosures will be devastating.
Congress must act to keep this from happening at the end of the year, and make the lower tax rates permanent if they wish to avoid this in the future. Then, we need to work towards real tax reform, which in my opinion would include repealing the 16th Amendment altogether.
Repealing the 16th Amendment would take away a lot of power from the federal government. I am not talking about replacing the income tax with some national sales tax, or something, but eliminating taxing the American People directly once and for all. It would not only force the federal government to cut back a lot of unnecessary, unconstitutional spending, and become a smaller governmental bureaucracy, but it would do a lot for returning sovereignty to the States.
Liberals reading this will immediately cry about the loss of revenue, but understand this, if eliminating the income tax would have happened in 2008, it would have set back federal revenues to the same level as they were in 1997. Income tax is but a minor source of revenue, and a huge tool for governmental control and manipulation of the economy. Elimination of the income tax, and the IRS, would be a grand step in the right direction, returning America to the Constitution, halting the collapse of our economy, and stopping the destruction of the United States as founded.
Eliminating the Federal Reserve would be the next step after that.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
People Not in Labor Force Soar by 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981 - ZeroHedge
Lies, damn lies and unemployment rates - Tea Party Nation
White House Lied, Jobs Died - GOP USA
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hamilton's Curse - How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed The American Revolution and What It Means For Americans Today; New York: Three Rivers Press (2008), page 203
We are told the unemployment rate is working its way down to 8%. The real unemployment rate is well over 10%, and the U-6 is pushing 20%. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000. This is the highest on record. Yet, despite that number, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% because the labor force participation rate dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%.
The less positions available in the universe of jobs, compared to the number of participants, has actually dropped the rate. When people go beyond their eligibility for unemployment insurance, and drop off the rolls, they are no longer counted as unemployed, even though they have not found a job yet. Their job they lost, however, is also no longer counted as existing, thus, decreasing the universe of jobs.
In other words, the Obama administration is cooking the books. The democrats understand that they have to get the unemployment rate under 8% to have a fighting chance for Barack Obama to win reelection. N. President in the modern era has been reelected with an unemployment rate over 7.1%. The goal is not to keep the rate where it is at. Obama will not win in November with an unemployment rate of 8.1%. They need the rate under 7.5% by November, and they have the manipulation of the unemployment rate in high gear.
If we used the same method to calculate the unemployment rate as we did during the Great Depression, the current rate would be 17%. Labor force participation, the percentage of Americans who are actually working, has dropped to 64.3%. Thanks to the liberal policies of the democrats, from the Community Reinvestment Act to the fiscal madness of the democrat controlled Congress from 2007, and the socialist policies of the Obama administration, 30 years of economic growth has been wiped out.
In January 2007, when the Democrats took control of Congress, the unemployment rate was 4.6%. In 2007, the number of people not in the workforce was only 79 million. In short, under Obama almost 9 million Americans have fled the workforce, and our economy has plunged into an abyss.
Obama's job-killing policies have been so damaging that the democrats are even trying to cover up what they've done. Internal e-mails disclosed by the House Natural Resources Committee show that a report on the administration's doctored drilling moratorium analysis, issued by the Department of Interior's Inspector General's office, was itself incomplete, misleading and unsubstantiated. Even worse for Obama and gang is that the documents reveal the White House actively blocked investigators and Obama's administration has continually refused to comply with subpoenas.
After the BP oil spill in 2010, the White House's six-month moratorium on America's entire deepwater drilling industry sent us into an energy tailspin. The ban, inserted into a technical safety document in the middle of the night by Obama's green extremists, destroyed an estimated 19,000 jobs and $1.1 billion in lost wages. The expert panel that recommended those actions, and the federal judiciary, called out then-eco czar Carol Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence and "contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were."
Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made sure the drilling ban report completely misrepresented the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict. Federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana blasted the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf.
The Republican Party has attempted to hold administration officials accountable for the drilling ban fraud, but the truth has been diverted, and the public has been distracted with the tactics of personal destruction against any GOP member involved in shedding any light on the truth.
The reports were full of intentional editing, specifically designed to deceive the public, and investigators. In fact, now the IG report is being used by the Obama Administration and others as a defense that this matter has already been investigated and resolved. Nonetheless, the emails contradict that claim and raise new questions on whether the IG's investigation was as thorough and complete as it should have been.
Congressman Hastings wrote, "Despite the President's pledge of transparency, this Administration has not answered questions by anyone on how this decision was made that forced thousands of Americans out of work and cost millions of dollars in lost economic activity."
Now, to finish us off, after all of this spending, and destructive policies against the private sector, the Obama administration plans to slam us with the biggest tax hike in American History.
The increase in taxes will happen January 1, 2013, if Obama has his way. The coming tax hike is being named "Taxmageddon," and would impose $494 billion in higher taxes on the American people in the first year. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that if it takes place, it will send this country toward a “fiscal cliff.” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has announced that the House of Representatives will take on this issue before the November election, but the democrat controlled Senate has vowed to do as it has been doing for the last few years. . . punt, and then blame the republicans when things go south.
The mere threat of the massive tax hike is already having an impact on the economy. Business owners and corporations are putting off growth, which means they will also be putting off hiring. That kind of rise in taxes could destroy any chance to climb out of this economic hole. Not only will income tax rates shoot up, but also the child credit will be cut in half, the marriage penalty will be back in place, the capital gains tax rate will rise, the dividend tax rate will rise, the payroll tax rate will jump two percentage points, the Marxist estate tax/death tax will be restored to its punitive past, the Alternative Minimum Tax relief will expire, and a new additional payroll tax hike from Obamacare takes effect.
Higher taxation is only the tip of the iceberg, however. The result of the taxation on any chance for economic growth, job loss, and a second wave of foreclosures will be devastating.
Congress must act to keep this from happening at the end of the year, and make the lower tax rates permanent if they wish to avoid this in the future. Then, we need to work towards real tax reform, which in my opinion would include repealing the 16th Amendment altogether.
Repealing the 16th Amendment would take away a lot of power from the federal government. I am not talking about replacing the income tax with some national sales tax, or something, but eliminating taxing the American People directly once and for all. It would not only force the federal government to cut back a lot of unnecessary, unconstitutional spending, and become a smaller governmental bureaucracy, but it would do a lot for returning sovereignty to the States.
Liberals reading this will immediately cry about the loss of revenue, but understand this, if eliminating the income tax would have happened in 2008, it would have set back federal revenues to the same level as they were in 1997. Income tax is but a minor source of revenue, and a huge tool for governmental control and manipulation of the economy. Elimination of the income tax, and the IRS, would be a grand step in the right direction, returning America to the Constitution, halting the collapse of our economy, and stopping the destruction of the United States as founded.
Eliminating the Federal Reserve would be the next step after that.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
People Not in Labor Force Soar by 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981 - ZeroHedge
Lies, damn lies and unemployment rates - Tea Party Nation
White House Lied, Jobs Died - GOP USA
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hamilton's Curse - How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed The American Revolution and What It Means For Americans Today; New York: Three Rivers Press (2008), page 203
Friday, May 20, 2016
There's An Obama Foundation, Same As The Clintons'
by JASmius
Red Barry evidently takes good, quality notes, and really is willing to learn corruption from the masters:
Pay to play with the president of the United States and everything gets covered up. Neat.
And there is, of course, much, much more....:
....and it's been going on for years:
So Barack Obama started up a foundation and sold access to himself and the power and resources of his office in exchange for donations to it, and then conveniently had all record of all those meetings with donors deleted from White House visitor logs, making them enormously more difficult to track to put all the pieces back together, or connect the dots if you prefer that metaphor.
Yes, The One is a Marxist ideologue, but he, too, has his dacha on the Black Sea.
As the old saying goes, "The more Democrats change, the more they stay the same".
[h/t: Captain Ed]
Red Barry evidently takes good, quality notes, and really is willing to learn corruption from the masters:
More than a dozen of the thirty-nine named donors to the Obama Foundation have visited the White House for exclusive gatherings and events, according to a new report from the transparency group MapLight. …
In fact, every donor whose family or foundation had given more than $100,000 met with Obama at the White House, according to the review by MapLight, a non-profit research organization that tracks money in politics. The group looked at White House visitor records, the foundation’s website and its tax returns.
Donors who have met with Obama include the actress Julia Roberts and her cinematographer husband Danny Moder, private equity executive Mark Gallogly and his wife Lise Strickler; and the founder of clothing retailer Zumiez, Tom Campion, and his wife, Sonia.
They all attended a private gathering at the White House in January, MapLight found. The visit went unnoticed because it was not listed on Obama’s public schedule.
Gallogly and Strickler had donated $340,000 to the Barack Obama Foundation before the event, while the Campions had contributed $500,000. [emphases added]
Pay to play with the president of the United States and everything gets covered up. Neat.
And there is, of course, much, much more....:
Campion and his wife have donated about $270,000 to the DNC since 2007, but they do not appear to have been to a small gathering with Obama in the White House before the one with Julia Roberts in January 2015. One day before that event, the Campion family met with John Podesta, who served as a senior advisor to Obama before joining Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Jim Simons, founder of the private equity firm Renaissance Technologies, and his wife gave $340,000 to the Obama Foundation in 2014. Visitor logs show the Simons family was invited to a smaller event with Obama at the White House for the first time in March 2015 — a dinner with Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, Google parent company chairman Eric Schmidt, and a handful of prominent scientists and mathematicians.
Marilyn Simons had not been invited to the White House before March 2015, visitor logs show. She leads the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose website says its mission is to “advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.” In April 2015, Simons met with Meredith Drosback, the assistant director for education and physical sciences in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Simons family contributed an additional $330,000 to the Obama Foundation last year.
....and it's been going on for years:
Barack Obama is using privileged access to the White House to reward his most generous financial supporters in ways that Republican rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum can’t match: More than sixty of Obama’s biggest campaign donors have visited more than once for meetings with top advisers, holiday parties or state dinners, a review by the Associated Press has found.
The invitations to visit the White House, which are a legal and established practice, came despite Obama’s past criticisms of Washington’s pay-for-access privileges and mark a reversal from early in the president’s term, when donors complained that Obama was keeping them at arm’s length.
When Obama was a presidential candidate running against Hillary Rodham Clinton, his campaign sharply noted that [Mrs.] Clinton and her husband, President Bill Clinton, had invited David Geffen — whom Obama’s campaign said had raised $18 million for the Clintons — to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.
The AP found no evidence of Obama’s donors sleeping overnight in the White House, but time stamps showing arrivals and departures on the government’s logs are incomplete for more than 1.7 million records. [emphasis added]
So Barack Obama started up a foundation and sold access to himself and the power and resources of his office in exchange for donations to it, and then conveniently had all record of all those meetings with donors deleted from White House visitor logs, making them enormously more difficult to track to put all the pieces back together, or connect the dots if you prefer that metaphor.
Yes, The One is a Marxist ideologue, but he, too, has his dacha on the Black Sea.
As the old saying goes, "The more Democrats change, the more they stay the same".
[h/t: Captain Ed]
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Obama School Indoctrination Proceeds On Schedule
By Douglas V. Gibbs
We have been promised that the speech to the school children of American today, September 8, 2009, will only be about how kids need to stay in school, and be all that they can be.
The assignments for writing about how they can help the president have been scrubbed.
Obama and gang have done everything they can to convince the angry parents, and those crazy right-wingers, that Uncle Barry's nice little chat with the children of American inside their classrooms is about as benign as it can get.
So why am I still uneasy about Obama speaking via television link to all of the school kids in America?
"The other presidents did it," has argued many that support Obama's actions.
No president ever spoke to all school kids at once, interrupting important class time in all schools across the fruited plains. Maybe past presidents have spoken to a single class, and even to an entire school, but never to all students nationwide. And when Daddy Bush did it in 1991 at Alice Deal Junior High School, which broadcast live on radio and television, urging students to study hard, avoid drugs and turn in troublemakers, the Democrats went crazy, calling it "Paid Political Advertising". And note, the speech was to that junior high, and was broadcast live on radio and television to the regular world - not beamed into every classroom in America.
I have even received Internet backlash from The Village Voice in New York for asking the question: "Does the Hitler Youth come to mind?"
What defenders of Obama do not understand is the actual text of the speech is not the problem. It is the timing of the speech, it is the obvious marketing ploy being utilized, and as Michelle Malkin puts it, it is the "subtext."
The White House's argument seems sensible enough. According to the Obama White House press release, "As children across America go back to school, President Obama will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of taking responsibility for their success in school. In advance of this address, the Department of Education is providing resources developed by and for teachers to help engage students and stimulate discussion about persisting and succeeding in school."
Remember, the original assignments were to write how students can "help Obama." The White House has since withdrawn their call for students to help Obama, claiming it was an "honest misunderstanding." The address was meant to be an "inspirational, pro-education" message.
Notice, however, the original wording wasn't how to help your country. Long lost is the John F. Kennedy question of "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." The discussions and assignments proposed have all been about Obama. The speech, and the teacher's urgings of the students before, during, and after the speech makes it a pro-Obama narcissist exercise.
Here's a piece of irony for you, as well, regarding this speech to the kids of America. On September 27, 2007, then Senator Obama introduced the "Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act" in the Senate. S.2111 would have redesigned and amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow, in part, for "State, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services particularly school-wide positive behavior supports." In Section three of that bill, positive behavior support was defined to mean "a systematic approach to embed proven practices for early intervening services, including a range of systemic and individualized strategies to reinforce desired behaviors and eliminate reinforcement for problem behaviors, in order to achieve important social outcomes."
Is that what Obama is doing here? Is he trying to embed governmental behavior standards on the children?
Section five of the bill calls for "Teacher and Principal Preparation to Improve School Climate," mandating a new requirement for teachers and principals.
Section 8 creates the "Office of Specialized Instructional Support Services" which shall "administer, coordinate, implement, and ensure adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of programs" via a new "Director" who provides "continuous training and professional development opportunities for specialized instructional support personnel" comprised of "school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and others." These "instructional support personnel" provide "assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other necessary corrective or supportive services" for students.
Though the bill did not specify the systematic approach that would be used for embedding America's students to achieve the desired behaviors the government demands of them so that acceptable social outcomes could be met, apparently he has not forgotten about his agenda to get to the children.
Even more alarming is that this comes at a time when Obama is begging for support, and is losing ground rapidly. As Michelle Malkin has pointed out, "It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext."
On Michelle's site the following subtexts are then considered:
- It's the radical activism of the White House Teaching Fellows who designed the education guides tied to Obama's speech.
- It's the overzealousness of public school educators who have turned classrooms into Obama campaign offices.
- It's the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama.
- It's the Left's embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers' pedagogical philosophy of "education as the motor-force of revolution."
- It's the activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists to pressure legislators for higher education spending, pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage, environmental propaganda, and anti-war causes.
Strong, power hungry types always want to get their hands on the kids. All Dictators of the past have used that strategy. Indoctrinate them now, in turn making them your allies now, so that they can be of use later. It's an age-old tactic, and no matter how much they sugar-coat it, the speech to the children of America today is about making the kids allies of big government, and marketing Obama to a generation that may be voting soon, or can influence their parents in the next election. Or, it may even be in the hopes that getting to the kids could influence the policies on the table now.
If you want to change society, you do it through the children.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Flashback 1991: Gephardt Called Bush's Speech to Students 'Paid Political Advertising' - News Busters
I repeat: It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext; Update: Don’t let me, me, me down - Michelle Malkin
S.2111 - Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act - Open Congress
Obama plans to systematically “embed positive behavior” into America’s Kids - Canada Free Press
School's Out! Rightbloggers Decry Obama's Hitler Speech to Schoolchildren - The Village Voice, New York News
We have been promised that the speech to the school children of American today, September 8, 2009, will only be about how kids need to stay in school, and be all that they can be.
The assignments for writing about how they can help the president have been scrubbed.
Obama and gang have done everything they can to convince the angry parents, and those crazy right-wingers, that Uncle Barry's nice little chat with the children of American inside their classrooms is about as benign as it can get.
So why am I still uneasy about Obama speaking via television link to all of the school kids in America?
"The other presidents did it," has argued many that support Obama's actions.
No president ever spoke to all school kids at once, interrupting important class time in all schools across the fruited plains. Maybe past presidents have spoken to a single class, and even to an entire school, but never to all students nationwide. And when Daddy Bush did it in 1991 at Alice Deal Junior High School, which broadcast live on radio and television, urging students to study hard, avoid drugs and turn in troublemakers, the Democrats went crazy, calling it "Paid Political Advertising". And note, the speech was to that junior high, and was broadcast live on radio and television to the regular world - not beamed into every classroom in America.
I have even received Internet backlash from The Village Voice in New York for asking the question: "Does the Hitler Youth come to mind?"
What defenders of Obama do not understand is the actual text of the speech is not the problem. It is the timing of the speech, it is the obvious marketing ploy being utilized, and as Michelle Malkin puts it, it is the "subtext."
The White House's argument seems sensible enough. According to the Obama White House press release, "As children across America go back to school, President Obama will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of taking responsibility for their success in school. In advance of this address, the Department of Education is providing resources developed by and for teachers to help engage students and stimulate discussion about persisting and succeeding in school."
Remember, the original assignments were to write how students can "help Obama." The White House has since withdrawn their call for students to help Obama, claiming it was an "honest misunderstanding." The address was meant to be an "inspirational, pro-education" message.
Notice, however, the original wording wasn't how to help your country. Long lost is the John F. Kennedy question of "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." The discussions and assignments proposed have all been about Obama. The speech, and the teacher's urgings of the students before, during, and after the speech makes it a pro-Obama narcissist exercise.
Here's a piece of irony for you, as well, regarding this speech to the kids of America. On September 27, 2007, then Senator Obama introduced the "Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act" in the Senate. S.2111 would have redesigned and amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow, in part, for "State, local educational agencies, and schools to increase implementation of early intervention services particularly school-wide positive behavior supports." In Section three of that bill, positive behavior support was defined to mean "a systematic approach to embed proven practices for early intervening services, including a range of systemic and individualized strategies to reinforce desired behaviors and eliminate reinforcement for problem behaviors, in order to achieve important social outcomes."
Is that what Obama is doing here? Is he trying to embed governmental behavior standards on the children?
Section five of the bill calls for "Teacher and Principal Preparation to Improve School Climate," mandating a new requirement for teachers and principals.
Section 8 creates the "Office of Specialized Instructional Support Services" which shall "administer, coordinate, implement, and ensure adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of programs" via a new "Director" who provides "continuous training and professional development opportunities for specialized instructional support personnel" comprised of "school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and others." These "instructional support personnel" provide "assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other necessary corrective or supportive services" for students.
Though the bill did not specify the systematic approach that would be used for embedding America's students to achieve the desired behaviors the government demands of them so that acceptable social outcomes could be met, apparently he has not forgotten about his agenda to get to the children.
Even more alarming is that this comes at a time when Obama is begging for support, and is losing ground rapidly. As Michelle Malkin has pointed out, "It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext."
On Michelle's site the following subtexts are then considered:
- It's the radical activism of the White House Teaching Fellows who designed the education guides tied to Obama's speech.
- It's the overzealousness of public school educators who have turned classrooms into Obama campaign offices.
- It's the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama.
- It's the Left's embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers' pedagogical philosophy of "education as the motor-force of revolution."
- It's the activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists to pressure legislators for higher education spending, pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage, environmental propaganda, and anti-war causes.
Strong, power hungry types always want to get their hands on the kids. All Dictators of the past have used that strategy. Indoctrinate them now, in turn making them your allies now, so that they can be of use later. It's an age-old tactic, and no matter how much they sugar-coat it, the speech to the children of America today is about making the kids allies of big government, and marketing Obama to a generation that may be voting soon, or can influence their parents in the next election. Or, it may even be in the hopes that getting to the kids could influence the policies on the table now.
If you want to change society, you do it through the children.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Flashback 1991: Gephardt Called Bush's Speech to Students 'Paid Political Advertising' - News Busters
I repeat: It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext; Update: Don’t let me, me, me down - Michelle Malkin
S.2111 - Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act - Open Congress
Obama plans to systematically “embed positive behavior” into America’s Kids - Canada Free Press
School's Out! Rightbloggers Decry Obama's Hitler Speech to Schoolchildren - The Village Voice, New York News
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Obama's Job Creation Lie
By Douglas V. Gibbs
One of the liberal dreams is to put a high-speed train in California, connecting Anaheim to San Francisco. The problem is nobody plans to use it, the cost to build the train is turning out to be twice what was originally planned, and it will take 13 additional years to complete the project. . . all for a train nobody plans to ride.
There is no money for the project, and in California everyone prefers to drive. In fact, we don't even carpool. Many areas are doing away with their HOV lanes because of a lack of use.
And it is projects like California's bullet train that Obama is preaching will put Americans back to work.
When the project is complete, do these people then go back to the soup line?
Of course, it will all be okay, because the unemployment will be paid by everyone else, the money to fund the bullet trains will come from the taxpayers, and at least for a short time those construction workers got a chance to work temporarily because of the benevolent federal government.
In the real world, unfortunately for the President, that's not enough to sustain this nation. The real job creation occurs in the private sector, on marketable projects that people want to use, and somewhere a profit is being made.
Government jobs do not offer the same for the long term.
What the President is proposing is just another redistribution scheme through the federal government. Federal spending on these projects simply moves around monies and resources, but creates nothing.
“How do we sit back and watch China and Europe build the best bridges and high-speed railroads and gleaming new airports, and we’re doing nothing?” Obama asked.
If they jumped off a cliff, would you too, Mr. President?
Obama has been talking about investing in the infrastructure since his 2008 campaign. Record amounts of money has been fed into stimulus programs designed to invest in our infrastructure. He has been talking about our infrastructure all along. So, why hasn't anything been done up to this date? Why do we still need to invest in the infrastructure?
The stimulus money has yet to go into these projects because Obama never intended to invest in the infrastructure. The stimulus funds went to bail out Obama's corporate buddies, or into places that would bring him votes or funds for his next campaign . . . such as with unions.
Besides, it is not exactly as rosy in China, for example, as Obama says. China has been hit with severe power shortages affecting the country’s exports, an episode where 500,000 train passengers were left stranded for days, and outbreaks of violence where airplane travelers were left grounded without accommodation. And that’s not to mention the working conditions under which China builds its infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Europe, which heavily subsidizes its passenger rail systems, receives a poor return on its investment, as will the bullet train in California.
In Europe as a whole (EU-27), rail accounted for only 6.1 percent of passenger travel in 2007, including travel by air and sea. Buses accounted for 8.3 percent of the market, and air travel accounted for 8.8 percent. Despite Europe’s huge investment in passenger rail, its market share declined from 6.6 percent in 1995 to 6.1 percent in 2007. Over that same period, commercial air increased its share from 6.3 percent to 8.8 percent. By providing faster service and competitive prices, it took passengers away from rail, buses, and autos. In other words, it is the travel service using capitalism in the private sector that grew.
Besides, all of this has nothing to do with jobs. Obama simply wants to be able to say during his next campaign, "See the great trains I gave you. . ."
Jobs originate in the private sector, so Mr. Obama, instead of feeding our hard earned tax dollars into the black hole of federal spending, how about we just give everyone tax cuts across the board, and relax regulations - do that, and then have the federal government get out of our lives as much as possible, and in the end the economy will not only grow, but we'll escape the economic destruction caused by your presidency, and head into a period of prosperity in America the history books will speak fondly of someday.
Problem is, Obama's liberal left ideology would never allow him to do such a thing. He does not want jobs created, or prosperity in America. Obama is a Marxist, determined to destroy the existing system, only to replace it with a failing socialist system of authoritarianism, where he and his democrat minions rule in perpetuity.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Debunking Obama’s Latest Jobs Myth - Heritage Foundation
One of the liberal dreams is to put a high-speed train in California, connecting Anaheim to San Francisco. The problem is nobody plans to use it, the cost to build the train is turning out to be twice what was originally planned, and it will take 13 additional years to complete the project. . . all for a train nobody plans to ride.
There is no money for the project, and in California everyone prefers to drive. In fact, we don't even carpool. Many areas are doing away with their HOV lanes because of a lack of use.
And it is projects like California's bullet train that Obama is preaching will put Americans back to work.
When the project is complete, do these people then go back to the soup line?
Of course, it will all be okay, because the unemployment will be paid by everyone else, the money to fund the bullet trains will come from the taxpayers, and at least for a short time those construction workers got a chance to work temporarily because of the benevolent federal government.
In the real world, unfortunately for the President, that's not enough to sustain this nation. The real job creation occurs in the private sector, on marketable projects that people want to use, and somewhere a profit is being made.
Government jobs do not offer the same for the long term.
What the President is proposing is just another redistribution scheme through the federal government. Federal spending on these projects simply moves around monies and resources, but creates nothing.
“How do we sit back and watch China and Europe build the best bridges and high-speed railroads and gleaming new airports, and we’re doing nothing?” Obama asked.
If they jumped off a cliff, would you too, Mr. President?
Obama has been talking about investing in the infrastructure since his 2008 campaign. Record amounts of money has been fed into stimulus programs designed to invest in our infrastructure. He has been talking about our infrastructure all along. So, why hasn't anything been done up to this date? Why do we still need to invest in the infrastructure?
The stimulus money has yet to go into these projects because Obama never intended to invest in the infrastructure. The stimulus funds went to bail out Obama's corporate buddies, or into places that would bring him votes or funds for his next campaign . . . such as with unions.
Besides, it is not exactly as rosy in China, for example, as Obama says. China has been hit with severe power shortages affecting the country’s exports, an episode where 500,000 train passengers were left stranded for days, and outbreaks of violence where airplane travelers were left grounded without accommodation. And that’s not to mention the working conditions under which China builds its infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Europe, which heavily subsidizes its passenger rail systems, receives a poor return on its investment, as will the bullet train in California.
In Europe as a whole (EU-27), rail accounted for only 6.1 percent of passenger travel in 2007, including travel by air and sea. Buses accounted for 8.3 percent of the market, and air travel accounted for 8.8 percent. Despite Europe’s huge investment in passenger rail, its market share declined from 6.6 percent in 1995 to 6.1 percent in 2007. Over that same period, commercial air increased its share from 6.3 percent to 8.8 percent. By providing faster service and competitive prices, it took passengers away from rail, buses, and autos. In other words, it is the travel service using capitalism in the private sector that grew.
Besides, all of this has nothing to do with jobs. Obama simply wants to be able to say during his next campaign, "See the great trains I gave you. . ."
Jobs originate in the private sector, so Mr. Obama, instead of feeding our hard earned tax dollars into the black hole of federal spending, how about we just give everyone tax cuts across the board, and relax regulations - do that, and then have the federal government get out of our lives as much as possible, and in the end the economy will not only grow, but we'll escape the economic destruction caused by your presidency, and head into a period of prosperity in America the history books will speak fondly of someday.
Problem is, Obama's liberal left ideology would never allow him to do such a thing. He does not want jobs created, or prosperity in America. Obama is a Marxist, determined to destroy the existing system, only to replace it with a failing socialist system of authoritarianism, where he and his democrat minions rule in perpetuity.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Debunking Obama’s Latest Jobs Myth - Heritage Foundation
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Fast and Furious Scandal, Holder's Contempt
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser. President Obama asserted executive privilege to protect documents regarding the Fast and Furious Scandal from being thumbed through by the Congressional investigation team that is threatening to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt.
What is the democrats hiding?
The Fast and Furious operation gave the drug cartels American guns, and then they walked across the border. The idea was for those guns to kill people, for people to find out they were American guns, and then there would be an outcry by Americans to ban those weapons.
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser. President Obama asserted executive privilege to protect documents regarding the Fast and Furious Scandal from being thumbed through by the Congressional investigation team that is threatening to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt.
What is the democrats hiding?
The Fast and Furious operation gave the drug cartels American guns, and then they walked across the border. The idea was for those guns to kill people, for people to find out they were American guns, and then there would be an outcry by Americans to ban those weapons.
A flawless plan, the liberals figured. But, you see, they didn't figure on getting caught.
The President's administration assumed that only Mexican citizens would die. They didn't care if those Mexicans died, as long as they'd be able to take guns away from Americans as a result.
But something unexpected happened. A Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed with one of those guns, too, and then the whole operation was exposed. Immediately, the democrats treated it like it was some conspiracy theory. The liberal media laughed at those talking about the scandal. Eventually, though, the evidence piled up too high, and there was no place to hide.
But something unexpected happened. A Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed with one of those guns, too, and then the whole operation was exposed. Immediately, the democrats treated it like it was some conspiracy theory. The liberal media laughed at those talking about the scandal. Eventually, though, the evidence piled up too high, and there was no place to hide.
Obama and Holder put guns into the hands of drug lords, they allowed assault weapons to end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, and they wanted the guns to be used to kill people. They knew they couldn't just ban guns, the American people would go nuts. They needed to demonize those guns, accuse those guns of being a problem, and convince the people to turn against those guns.
After the evidence began piling up, they then began to blame Bush . . . Eric Holder testified before the Senate that the whole thing started under Bush, but then they recanted. Issa wanted proof, and Holder didn't have it.
Now, to cover this up even more, President Obama is asserting executive privilege. They won't release the documents associated with this scandal.
What does he not want us to know?
Remember, this guy thinks he is the ruling elite. He's above the law. He's above the Congress. They ain't gettin' no stinkin' documents. . .
What does he not want us to know?
Remember, this guy thinks he is the ruling elite. He's above the law. He's above the Congress. They ain't gettin' no stinkin' documents. . .
Yet, I seem to remember Obama criticizing Bush at one time for using the executive privilege.
Obama and the democrats want to confiscate guns, and their liberal counterparts at the local level are also always trying to do so when they can, but they also know they must do it under the guise of protecting the common good, and get the people so angry at guns that they demand confiscation. That was the plan. That was the whole idea behind Fast and Furious.
The fact is, when gun ownership goes up, crime goes down. That is just a fact.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Border Patrol Group Calls For Holder's Resignation - Washington Times
Holder Retracts Claim Bush Team Knew About Fast and Furious - Washington Examiner
Sides Dig In Over Gun Documents - Wall Street Journal
Miller: Gun Ownership Up, Crime Down - Washington Times
Police to Hold Gun Turn-In Event This Weekend - CBS Chicago
Saturday, July 05, 2014
Constitution Radio with Douglas V. Gibbs: Going National, and Bringing Along the Youth
Today's guest is Ryan Murphy, a young lady who won an oratorical contest, delivering a speech on the United States Constitution.
Today's Book of the Week is Donald Rusfeld's "Known and Unknown," which will also be one of the two giveaways at today's Constitution Association Meeting.
Today's Constitution Quest Question of the Week will be offered to Ryan, as well, to see if she has the Constitutional prowess I believe her to have.
Then, we will discuss the. . .
5 Big Stories of the Week, July 5, 2014
Quick Quote: That’s crazy. The government doesn’t lie to people.
- Chelah Horsdal as Darcy Benson in Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem from 2007
Honorable Mention: Douglas V. Gibbs Goes National
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/doug-on-fox-and-friends.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/douglas-v-gibbs-on-national-television.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/im-on-drudge-report.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/murrieta-illegal-alien-protest-channel.html
5. Worst President Ever
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/poll-obama-worst-modern-day-111329150.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/voters-call-obama-worst-president-ever.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-taunts-gop-on-executive-powers-so.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-tells-cabinet-to-find-areas-open.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/abandoning-capitalism.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-risks-constitutional-crisis.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-to-youth-your-climate-change.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-i-will-bypass-congress-on.html
4. Courts Slap Down Obama
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/breaking-hobby-lobby-wins-supreme-court.html
http://news.yahoo.com/justices-cant-employers-cover-contraception-141923713--finance.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-expanded-hobby-lobby-20140702-column.html#page=1
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_BIRTH_CONTROL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-30-10-19-15
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_UNION_FEES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-06-30-10-08-45
3. Global Caliphate. . . As Obama Continues to Deliver Middle East to Russia
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/isis-declares-global-caliphate.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/world-risk-of-another-global-catastrophe.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/iraq-takes-delivery-russian-fighter-jets-201462944837214478.html
http://news.yahoo.com/thumbing-nose-u-russia-sends-military-experts-iraq-155100726.html
2. Murrieta Clashes with Federal Government over Illegal Immigrant Issue
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-officials-deflect-immigration-uproar-obama-congress-20140703-story.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/murrietas-patriotic-blockade.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/obama-changing-illegals-policy-not.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/house-gop-demands-obama-deport-illegals.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/murrieta-townhall-meeting-tonight.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/murrietas-cliven-bundy-moment.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/healthcare-workers-in-border-crisis.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/murrieta-patriots-reject-busloads-of.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/illegal-immigration-bio-warfare.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-i-will-bypass-congress-on.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/obama-to-seek-2-billion-for-illegal.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/illegal-aliens-dumped-for-political.html
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/06/protest-rally-against-illegal-alien.html
1. Independence Day, 2014.
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2014/07/happy-independence-day-2014.html
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Muslim Brotherhood “Massive” Government Infiltration While Stigmatizing Government Employee With "Islamophobia"
By Capt Joseph R. John, June 29, 2016
Many law abiding Muslim America citizens have assimilated in the United States and fought as members of the US Armed Forces, against Sadam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and also against “Radical Islamic Terrorism” over the last 50 years. They are opposed to ISIS’ murderous attacks against gays, Christians, and Jews, and are frightened of the “Radical Islamic Terrorist” threat. More Muslims worldwide than Americans have been murdered by “Radical Islamic Terrorists”.
The Muslim Brotherhood (the progenitor of Jihadism), and its front groups, the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), do not have members who are law abiding Muslim Americans, like many Muslim Americans who are good citizens and have assimilated in the United States. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC have sinister goals that are not in support of the US Constitution or The Bill of Rights. They have become a very dangerous “Fifth Column” in the United States, appointed by Obama to very high and sensitive positions in the US Government Agencies.
For nearly 8 years Obama has been filling the Washington Bureaucracy including DHS, the CIA, DOD, the National Security Council, the White House, the State Department, every US Intelligence Agency, and the US Armed Forces with thousands of members of the CAIR, MPAC, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Muslim Brotherhood front groups.
Phil Haney (former Custom & Border Protection DHS Law Enforcement Officer) and Richard Higgins (former DOD Manager of the Combating Terrorism & Technical Support Office & Irregular Warfare Section) made explosive charges on national radio. They stated that the Obama administration is a "tool" for the Jihadi movement in the US. That the driving force behind America's domestic counter-terrorism strategies and its foreign policy is a massive Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement in the United States, that the MB controls how the issue of terrorism is handled at the National Security Agency level; UTT 6/20/16-SA John Guandolo ’89, FBI (Ret).
Mr. Higgins stated, "What (leaders in the Obama administration) are actually scrubbing is any references to the Islamic doctrine that would allow us to define who is or who is not actually one of our enemies." Mr Higgins went on to say, "When you look at the deliberate decision-making process of the Obama administration, as it relates to “Radical Islam”, that deliberate decision-making process is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. And the way they control it is by prohibiting US National Security Agency personnel from ever developing an understanding to the level where Phil Haney had it."(UTT 6/20/16)
An excellent example of how the Muslim Brotherhood controls security decisions concerning “Radical Islam” at the highest levels of the Obama administration, More precisely Mr. Higgins said, "The Muslim Brotherhood was killed en masse by Saddam Hussein – the US removed him. Qaddafi killed the Muslim Brotherhood – the US removed him. Egypt’s Mubarak defeated the Muslim Brotherhood--he had to go. Mr Higgins alleges the US has become the MB instrument because the MB control our deliberate decision-making process."(UTT 6/20/16)
Another example of the Muslim Brotherhood controlling security decisions at the highest levels of the Obama administration, was how Obama, Hillary, and Susan Rice lied on national TV, to the families of the 4 dead Americans killed in Benghazi, to the United Nations 3 weeks after the Battle of Benghazi, and still today, insisting the attack on the Mission in Benghazi was because of an anti-Islam U-tube video that no one ever saw. They all repeatedly lied instead of telling the truth, that the attack was preplanned and executed by “Radical Islamic Terrorists”. Over a 9 month period leading to the attack, the US Ambassador to Libya, desperately begged Hillary directly, 12 times, for critically needed security; he was turned down 12 times, then he was murdered along with 3 other Americans.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been banned from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Jordan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirate because the Muslim Brotherhood & CAIR have been identified as International Terrorist organizations, that have tried to undermine and overthrow friendly Muslim Middle East governments. Despite the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood, and CAIR, have been designated Terrorist organizations, the Obama administration continues to support their anti-US Constitutional philosophy, and Obama has become an apologist for members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and CAIR’s terrorist ties.
In 2007, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator by the FBI in the Holy Land Foundation trial; it was the largest terror-financing case in the Republic’s 240 year history. The FBI specifically identified CAIR as an entity of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, a secret body set up to advance the Hamas agenda.” The UAE designated CAIR as a terrorist organization in 2014. Yet over the next two years, Obama kept appointing CAIR members to federal government highly sensitive security positions. The Muslim Brotherhood very dangerous “Fifth Column” has been well established within US Government Agencies.
“Muslim Victimhood” has helped masquerade the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC members trying to position themselves alongside legitimate civil rights organizations, despite their very dangerous “Radical Islamic Terror” links. They have a history of obstructing Federal Law Enforcement Agencies from indoctrinating new graduates of the Federal Law Enforcement and the FBI Academies about the dangers that ties members of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC have to “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” They also try to impede investigations, by calling attention to Obama administration new policies, intimidating witnesses, using “Muslim Victimization” as a defense, and by using other attempts to halt investigations into activities of accused Jihadists.
The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and the MPAC appointees in the Obama administration have scrubbed a great deal of information about the 28,000 worldwide racist murderous attacks against gays, Christians, and Jews by “Radical Islamic Terrorists”, from all training manuals and historic reference material. To date, the 380 “Radical Islamic Terrorists” who have been convicted in US Federal Courts for terrorism acts and threats against the US government, were not Americans, they were foreigners who supported the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC Jihadist doctrine.
Historic information and reference books about “Radical Islamic Terrorism”, that was provided to the FBI, CIA, DHS, the Border Patrol, Custom Law Enforcement, the US Armed Forces, and other Law Enforcement Agencies nationally, in order to acquaint them with the ties that CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and MPAC had to Jihad, have been scrubbed by Muslim Brotherhood appointees in the Obama administration.
Philip Haney's publicly stated he was ordered by DHS supervisors to remove the names of suspected terrorists and terrorist organizations that had strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood from the DHS databases, he inputted many of the 850 names through the course of investigations he was conducting. That was a violation of US Federal Law. That critical information had been painstakingly accumulated over 8 years, of intensive investigation, by US Intelligent Agencies during the Bush administration.(UTT 6/20/16)
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC in key positions of leadership throughout the Obama administration, have used the hammer of “Political Correctness” and every other means possible, to threaten Government employees. Anyone in the US Government Agencies who uses terms that the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC disapprove of, such as Muslim, Islamic, Hamas, Jihadist, Sharia, Wahhabism, Genocide, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Army of Islam, etc. have felt the very negative results of their using those terms vocally, on their computers, or in any drafted documents.
The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC have created paranoia by employees in federal bureaucracies, that if they use the above listed terms, which are not “Politically Correct”, there will be repercussions. Using those term will stigmatize the federal employee, he will be viewed as bigoted and a racist; they have coined a word to slander the federal employee, that word is “Islamophobia.”
Just the opposite is true, “Radical Islamic Terrorist” are racist and bigoted, and have been murdering gays, Christians, and Jews in 28,000 attacks worldwide for many years. Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and MPAC appointees in the US Government are using “Islamophobia” to stifle anyone, who would expose Jihadists perpetrated as “Radical Islamic Terrorists” and who identified the dangerous threat Sharia poses to the US Constitution and to the rule of law in the United States.
Mr. Haney stated: "The gravitational force of the Global Islamic Movement is not radicalization, the gravitational force of the Global Islamic Movement is the implementation of Sharia Law." The primary goal of the Global Islamic Movement is “the destruction of Western values” and “the destruction of Christianity.” Both Mr. Higgins and Mr. Haney made it clear the “Jihadist” threat to America must be addressed immediately or we will suffer significant consequences for our inaction and for allowing our leaders to surrender their duties to our enemies. (UTT 6/20/16)
ISIS “Radical Islamic Terrorists” have been spreading their genocide of gays, Christians and Jews beyond the Middle East, worldwide employing bombs, box cutters, shoe bombs, suicide vests, throwing people off high buildings, in stoning people to death, using underwear bombs, employing crucifixions, using commercial airliners as missiles, burning people alive, setting destructive fires promoted by ISIS, using swords for beheading, drowning people in cages, setting off roadside IEDs, burying children alive, using acid baths to immerse people in, using machetes to hack people to death, honor killings of girls, exploding pressure cooker bombs, and knifing people to death. “Radical Islamic Terrorism” racist attacks cannot be prevented by passing new restrictive gun laws.
There have been 86 racists attacks in the US against gays, Christians, and Jews by “Radical Islamic Terrorists.” Many of the 86 racist attacks in the US were conducted without guns at all. Those terrorist attacks were planned and conducted where Americans were prevented from carrying guns such as in Fort Hood, the Little Rock Recruiting Office, the Chattanooga Naval Reserve Center, the San Bernardino State Office Building, and the Orlando gay night club.
Obama, and his Democratic allies in Congress covered up the Jihadist motivated racist attacks against Americans in the US, by calling for stricter guns laws, that violate the 2nd Amendment, and would result in preventing law abiding Americans from defending themselves. Mr. Higgins warned, "Every time one of these attacks happens in the United States, you see the Left in unison with the Muslim Brotherhood immediately responding with direct attacks on the First and Second Amendments. That is not by accident, and we are going to continue to see that."(UTT 6/20/16)
“Freedom of Speech” guaranteed in the US Constitution, permits employees in US Government Agencies to freely express facts. However employees of US Government Agencies are no longer allowed to identify the “Radical Islamic Terrorist” threat facing the Republic and using the previously listed descriptive terms of Islam: they are threatened with being labeled as bigots, racists, and being stigmatized with “Islamophobia”, and that using such terms may result in the loss of promotions, the loss of merit pay raises, failure to be removed from employment probation, and may ultimately result in the loss of their jobs.
What most Americans do not know, is that after CAIR’s appealed its Racketeering, Influence, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conviction in a lower court, but the appeal was turned down by the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. The case involved CAIR’s racketeering, its massive criminal fraud schemes, and its attempt to cover up crimes against hundreds of American who were victimized. Despite the RICO case, the fact that CAIR opposes the US Constitution, and CAIR’s ultimate goal is to install Sharia Law, Obama continued to appointment CAIR’s members to senior positions in the Obama administration.
That new Obama administration policies, developed by the Muslim Brotherhood, on how suspected Muslim Terrorists can be interrogated by federal Law Enforcement Officers, contributed greatly to the slaughter of 49 innocent gay Americans and the wounding of 53 others. Omar Saddiqui Mateen, the son of refugees who was unable to assimilate, was given three passes by the FBI, because of the Muslim Brotherhood’s new hands off policies, instituted by the Obama administration.
Possibly Mateen was treated differently, because he was previously issued a firearm license so he could work for DHS, he alleged “Muslim Victimization” three times when questioned by the FBI, and possibly because his father, Seddique Mateen, had been received by the Obama administration at the White House and the State Department. The Obama administration has been covering up the fact that Mateen’s father, who had very strong ties with the Taliban Islamic Terrorists, had been received at the White House and the State Department (we have photos of Seddique Mateen in the White House and at the State Department.)
Recently, Attorney General Lynch, made a public statement about the Orlando Massacre; her ignorant “talking points” were most probably drafted by the CAIR and MPAC appointees in the Obama White House. Lynch did identify the “Radical Islamic Terrorist” who perpetrated the Orlando racist massacre of 49 innocent gay Americans, and wounded 53 others, a Jihadists who believed all gays should be put to death. Like defendants with a losing case, being forced to cough up bits of discovery, it took the Lynch’s Justice Department a week to release the factual, formally redacted transcript of the Orlando shooter’s 911 call “pledging allegiance to ISIS.”
Instead Lynch stated, as if Americans are stupid, “we may never know what motivated Omar Saddiqui Mateen to commit those murders—she further stated “what would be effective as a resolution in combating terrorism in the US is compassion, unity, and love as part of a larger pattern to wipe out Islamic Terrorism”, making such asinine comments is like telling children to go play in traffic. Lynch, in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, took “Islamophobia” to a higher level, by threatening to prosecute anti-Muslim hate speech---probably talking points given her by Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood appointees in the White House.
Please click on the below listed link, where Bill Whittle exposes Obama’s view of the “Radical Islamic Terrorist” attack in Orlando, and Obama’s continued profession that “Radical Islamic Terrorism” doesn’t exist in the US—it’s supposed to just be “home grown extremism”, and Bill Whittle exposes how Obama has been impeding Federal Law Enforcement from identifying and effectively fighting “Radical Islamic Terrorists” within the US:
In an article in Townhall in May 2015, Sebastian Gorka warned against Obama’s greatest concern, which is not to offend Muslims, rather than informing the American people openly and honestly describing Radical Islamic Terrorists “as an enemy that seeks to spread its Sharia-based totalitarian rule over the world (including in the United States). In so doing, Obama ignores Sun Tzu’s dictum about knowing your enemy if you wish to win — he does so at our nation’s peril.”
What the American people should be asking is why Obama has brought in nearly 1 million Muslim Refugees from the Middle East and Africa and resettled them in 180 cities throughout the US, while excluding Christian refugees from entering, and refusing to permit the FBI to vet those refugees to determine if they had terrorist ties. When Obama knew ISIS seeks to spread Sharia-based totalitarian rule in the US; there have been 86 “Radical Islamic Terrorist” attacks by either those refuges or the children of those refugees.
What Obama has been hiding from the American people, is that since he called ISIS the JV team and refused to eradicate the Caliphate, ISIS has recruited thousands Jihadists, and now, after all their battle deaths, ISIS still has 80,000 trained “Radical Islamic Terrorist” spreading their Jihad worldwide, and many have made their way into the United States through the wide open southern border. ISIS now holds territory populated by more than 6 million people, and it has affiliates in at least seven nations, including West Africa.
The enemy is already here, in a “Fifth Column” in the Federal Government, and in “Radical Islamic Terrorist” cells in all 50 states. Over the last 2 years, the FBI has arrested over 103 ISIS terrorists, and they are currently prosecuting 1000+ RADICAL Islamic Terrorist cases in all 50 states. Obama has failed miserably in protecting the American people from 86 racist “Radical Islamic Terrorist” attacks in the US (60 occurred in the last 2 years).
The enemy is already here, in a “Fifth Column” in the Federal Government, and in “Radical Islamic Terrorist” cells in all 50 states. Over the last 2 years, the FBI has arrested over 103 ISIS terrorists, and they are currently prosecuting 1000+ RADICAL Islamic Terrorist cases in all 50 states. Obama has failed miserably in protecting the American people from 86 racist “Radical Islamic Terrorist” attacks in the US (60 occurred in the last 2 years).
If the United States ever hopes to defeat ISIS and the 80,000 murderous “Radical Islamic Terrorists”, the next President must move away from the failed Obama’s alliance with the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, Shite Iran, and realign the nation back with America’s traditional Arabic Sunni allies, that the nation worked with so well for the last 70 years (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, and Bahrein); the NATO nations need their cooperation and support if it hopes to destroy ISIS.
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Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI
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