No Defense Allowed

UPDATE: 4/5/09
The North Koreans successfully launched their missile/satellite.
Japan and the USA sat back and watched the show.

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Gates: U.S. Not Prepared to Respond to North Korea Missile Launch.

The United States can do nothing to stop North Korea from breaking international law in the next 10 days by firing a missile that is unlikely to be shot down by the U.S. or its allies, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

Appearing on “FOX News Sunday,” Gates said North Korea “probably will” fire the missile, prompting host Chris Wallace to ask: “And there’s nothing we can do about it?”

“No,” Gates answered, adding, “I would say we’re not prepared to do anything about it.”

Last week, Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said the U.S. is “fully prepared” to shoot down the missile. But Gates said such a response is unlikely.

“I think if we had an aberrant missile, one that was headed for Hawaii, that looked like it was headed for Hawaii or something like that, we might consider it,” Gates said. “But I don’t think we have any plans to do anything like that at this point.”

I hope that Adm. Keating has not been handcuffed.
I hope that Adm. Keating can still protect America and our ally, Japan.

And if Adm. Keating has been handcuffed, I hope he will still issue the order to protect America and our ally, Japan.
I would stand on his side at his Courts Martial.

Granted, this is a delicate situation. But the UN has limited North Korea,
but BO is not asking the UN Security Council for permission to act,
and BO appears to be spineless and does not want to act.

But to allow innocent civilians to die, whether in Japan, Alaska, or Hawaii,
when we have the means to prevent it,
is stupidity.

To allow them to die, because you do not want to acknowledge that the Ballistic Missile Defense system of the US Navy works,
is murder.

To encourage these deaths, by announcing we are not prepared (a lie),
is pre-mediated murder.

To want an incident that triggers a war,
is mass-murder.

Yes, BO is like FDR.
FDR did not go all out to protect Pearl Harbor, FDR needed that attack to enter the war, a war he knew the US had to enter.
But,
BO is retreating from all combat, BO is surrendering.

Why does BO want to surrender to North Korea?

To allow the death of innocent civilians, in order to surrender to a third rate nation,
is treason.

Adm. Keating has a difficult decision;


Choose Wisely


 



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BO's Birth Certificate

There are 2 reasons why the 'Birth Certificate Issue' will not cause Obama to be removed from office.
It took me a while to accept them, but they are 2 very strong reasons.

First, I am not a lawyer and I have no desire to be one.

Reason 1) The courts do not want to open the floodgates of lawsuits by allowing any US Citizen to challenge the eligibility of elected office holders. Therefore, the courts will not grant standing and will not hear the case.

Reason 2) Justice is not blind. The judge knows all possible outcomes of a case before the judge agrees to hear it. Since the judge does not want to be responsible for the chaos that will ensue if required to rule that Obama is not a natural born citizen, the judge will be quick to avoid the issue.

And if the judge is forced to hear the case: the judge will avoid the chaos by focusing on the one undisputed fact - Barack Hussein Obama's mother was a US Citizen. The judge will ignore all other claims and rule that BO is a natural born citizen of the USA, because his mother was a US Citizen.

The above is why at least 6 Justices on the Supreme Court are refusing to hear the case.

The only way the Supreme Court will consider the case is in the unlikely case that a lower court has ruled against BO.

I wish the courts would hear the case, but I accept that they will not.

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Medal of Honor Day

March 25th - Some folks are trying to get it labeled 'Medal of Honor Day.
To honor those who went above and beyond in their service to our great nation.

USS Franklin CV-13
March 19, 1945
50 miles off the coast of Imperial Japan

On fire, severely damaged, about half her crew dead or wounded, listing heavily,

BUT the crew fought to save the ship, inspired by their new Chaplain, Father Joseph T O'Callahan (who had reported onboard the Franklin on March 1st).
Father O'Callahan tended the wounded and the dead (his duty)
and he organized and led firefighting parties,
plus he pushed burning ammo over the side,
and he led efforts to find and free men who were trapped below decks.

BUT the crew fought to save their ship, led by a mustang Engineering Officer, LTjg Gary.
LTjg Gary fought the battle below decks,
to keep the ship afloat,
to keep a boiler online.

Both Father O'Callahan and LTjg Gary were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions in saving The Franklin. This is the only time the US Navy has awarded 2 MoH to men on the same ship for actions on the same day.  
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Who to Blame?

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.

They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.

The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ . If they
do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

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Everything is new again

or is it:

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.– John Adams

2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.– Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.– Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.– Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.–  George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.– G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.– James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.– Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.– P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.– Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.– Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.– Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! — P.J.. O’Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. — Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!– Pericles (430 B.C..)

16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap..except when Congress does it.– Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.– Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.– Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.– Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class….save Congress.– Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.– Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.– Gerald Ford

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Federalist Papers

After hearing a caller to the Neal Boortz show refer to 
the Federalist Papers, I decided to read them. 
The Federalist Papers were published in various newspapers
as 'op-eds' in support of the new US Constitution 
(our current Constitution). 
The Articles of Confederation did not allow for the 
sweeping changes, the Constitutional Convention which 
wrote our Constitution was in fact, illegal. 
The adoption of the US Constitution was a bloodless 
overthrow of the then current government. 

Excerts from Federalist #15, show how the current 
situation, 
an incompetetent BO in the White House, 
an economy going downhill, 
states declaring their independence, 
and a non-existent foreign policy; 
are very similar to the impotent central government 
under the Articles of Confederation. 

Do we need a new constitution 
or a return to the limited federal 
government envisioned by our founders?  

FEDERALIST No. 15

HAMILTON

… 
It must in truth be acknowledged that, however these may 
differ in other respects, they in general appear to 
harmonize in this sentiment, at least, that there are 
material imperfections in our national system, and that 
something is necessary to be done to rescue us from 
impending anarchy. The facts that support this opinion are
no longer objects of speculation. They have forced
themselves upon the sensibility of the people at large, 
and have at length extorted from those, whose mistaken 
policy has had the principal share in precipitating the 
extremity at which we are arrived, a reluctant confession 
of the reality of those defects in the scheme of our 
federal government, which have been long pointed out and 
regretted by the intelligent friends of the Union.
We may indeed with propriety be said to 
have reached almost the last stage of 
national humiliation. There is scarcely 
anything that can wound the pride or 
degrade the character of an independent 
nation which we do not experience. 
... 
Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of 
public danger?
 We seem to have abandoned its cause as desperate and 
irretrievable.
 Is commerce of importance to national wealth? 
Ours is at the lowest point of declension. 
Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard 
against foreign encroachments? The imbecility of our 
government even forbids them to treat with us.
 Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic 
sovereignty.
 Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land 
a symptom of national distress? The price of improved land 
in most parts of the country is much lower than can be 
accounted for by the quantity of waste land at market, 
and can only be fully explained by that want of private 
and public confidence, which are so alarmingly prevalent 
among all ranks, and which have a direct tendency to 
depreciate property of every kind. 
Is private credit the friend and patron of industry? 
That most useful kind which relates to borrowing and 
lending is reduced within the narrowest limits, and 
this still more from an opinion of insecurity than from 
the scarcity of money.   
...
This is the melancholy situation to which we have been 
brought by those very maxims and councils which would now 
deter us from adopting the proposed Constitution; and 
which, not content with having conducted us to the brink 
of a precipice, seem resolved to plunge us into the abyss 
that awaits us below. 
Here, my countrymen, impelled by every 
motive that ought to influence an 
enlightened people, let us make a firm 
stand for our safety, our tranquillity, 
our dignity, our reputation. 
Let us at last break the fatal charm  
which has too long seduced us from the 
paths of felicity and prosperity.
...
 Why should we consent to bear more than 
our proper share of the common burden? 

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Americans Didn't Vote for a Rush to Failure

BO - Since:
"Americans Didn't Vote for a Rush to Failure."

Why are you Rushing to pass your massive spending bills?
Why are you Rushing to pass your socialist agenda?

Why can't Congress take the time to carefully consider these bills?

What is your Rush.

Your agenda will cause massive failure, it is not sustainable.

BO STINKS

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Obama Signs Spending Bill as He Criticizes Earmarks

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One Sided Budgeting - All Spending

Senator Judd Gregg's introductory comments at today's Senate Budget Committee hearing:

I appreciate the chairman saying that, in the second five years of this budget, the debt levels are unsustainable, because they are.

And the cost of this budget is unsustainable. And the tax burden is unsustainable. The chairman didn't say that. I added the second two categories. ...

The problem is that that effort to try to stabilize the economy has been used as a straw dog for the purposes of expanding the size of government in the out years exponentially, moving it to the left in a way that has never been projected or seen before, should it be successful.

The budget proposes about $1.4 trillion in new taxes over the next 10 years, about $725 billion in new discretionary spending, about $1.2 trillion in new mandatory spending. And virtually no savings. ...

It doubles the national debt in five years, publicly-held debt, this budget. And as the chairman has said, some of that is understandable, because of the fact that we've got this severe situation, and a lot of debt is being run up as a result of that.

But remember, much of the debt that's being run up in the short term, if it works, if the spending works -- for example, the TARP works, and some of the other initiatives work -- it's actually going to come back to us, because it's invested funds.

But the assumption is that it isn't going to come back to us to be used to reduce the debt. It's going to come back and be spent, all these funds coming back to us, so the debt triples in 10 years.

The practical implications of that are staggering for our children.

All the presidents -- including George Bush -- since the beginning of our republic, will not have run up as much debt as this budget will run up in the first period of its term.

And there is no factoring in, really, of what is coming at us in a significant way, which is the retirement of the baby boom generation, the cost of entitlements on top of all of that.

So, you essentially have set up a scenario here under this budget, where we will pass on to our children in the very near future, at about the end of four years from now, a debt-to-GDP ratio which is unsustainable and a deficit ratio which is unsustainable. And that means our kids are going to have a hard time digging themselves out of this hole.

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How Low Can We Go

Obviously, Wall Street has not been thrilled with Barack Obama's tax and spend rescue plan. Obama's budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined.
In response to this:

** The stock market had its worst January in 113 years.
** This was followed by the worst February for the stock market since 1933.
** And, the Dow has dropped faster under Obama than any other new president in 90 years.

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Cool

Politics Down Under:

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TINSTAAFL

Robert Heinlein in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" stated the simple fact of life:
There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TINSTAAFL).

If I recall the story correctly, The Lunar Colony was being oppressed. An underground movement, the 'Baker Street Irregulars' fought to protect the colonist's rights.

That is a good script for us to follow now.

This can be done within the limits of our current Constitution
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

We, the taxpayers, must continue to 'Peaceably Assemble', with 'Tea Parties', 'Tax Protests', and other such activities.

We, the taxpayers, must continuously 'Petition the Government for a redress of grievances' by writing to our elected officials at all levels of government.

We, the taxpayers, must demand a repeal of the grossly excessive spending in the 'Stimulus Bill'. A bill which will do more harm than doing nothing according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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Clueless

When Barack Obama met with TV anchors at a White House lunch last week, he assured them he likes being president. "And it turns out I'm very good at it," he added.

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Speaking out of both sides of the mouth.....

from the Washington Times

President will lay down 'some very clear lines'

Jon Ward (Contact)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

President Obama, who has been criticized for his plans to sign a pork-laden $410 billion omnibus spending package moving through Congress this week, will release new rules for earmarks prior to signing the bill, the White House said Monday.

"The president is going to draw some very clear lines about what's going to happen going forward," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "The rules of the road going forward for those many appropriations bills that will go through Congress and come to his desk will be done differently."

Mr. Gibbs said privately that the president would announce the new rules - which the White House did not reveal when asked - either when he signs the omnibus bill or prior to the signing.

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Speaking out of both sides of the mouth.....
Left Side: "Here is 9000 earmarks!!!!...."
Right Side: "I will not sign a bill that has earmarks..."

BO is a Liar.
BO Can Not Be TRUSTED.

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Quote

Jim Kramer - CNBC

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Cabinet Tax Policy

"When you put anybody's tax filings under a microscope, people don't have to be dishonest," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "It's just hard to do all the right things. It certainly shouldn't disqualify him."

Remember, Senator Reid has stated that 'income tax is optional'.

NO WONDER THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO RAISE TAXES;
DEMOCRATS DO NOT PAY TAXES.

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Unintended Consequences

Read this.

Maybe they intend for that to happen, they really seem to hate America.

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Rush at CPAC

The money quotes from Rush Limbaugh:

"'It doesn't matter to me what his race is. He's liberal, and that's what matters.'

"'The racism in our culture was exclusively and fully on display in the Democrat primary last year,' Limbaugh said. 'We didn't ask if he was authentically black. What we were asking, was, 'Was he wrong?' We concluded, 'Yes.' '

"'The racism, the sexism, the bigotry that we are all charged with ... doesn't exist on our side,' he added. 'We want everybody to succeed.'"

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Doom, Despair, and Agony

Doom

Despair

and Agony

I've seen


And that was just the first month of BO.

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Radio Chip on ID's

Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly.

The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."

"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.

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This is scary.

How do you know if the person on the card is the person holding the card?

This would make it easy to 'plant' false evidence by simply having a Government agent/brownshirt use a duplicate Enhanced ID to create a false trail for a Critic of BO.
Then use this false information as cause to search this critic's home.

IF a bumper sticker is enough cause for the Secret Service to search a home..... more...

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