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Efforts to stay the Obama Inauguration continue, even as we are only hours from swearing him in as our next President.

Last week, President George W. Bush enacted an Executive Order providing for, in part, “Re-investigating Individuals in Positions of Public Trust.” Stating, “It is necessary to re-investigate individuals in positions of public trust in order to ensure that they remain suitable for continued employment.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090116-1.html

Based on this Executive Order, people will no doubt continue to interpret Obama’s suitability- including a response to the Order, http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-action-filed-by-orly-taitz-esq.html  from attorney Orly Taitz who has filed on behalf of Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes, Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, on the issue of legitimacy for presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Obama aka Barry Soetoro.

Like others before her, she is suing Obama yet again, to prove he meets the qualifications specified for the Office of the President of the United States as set forth in the Constitution, which includes that he must be a “natural born” citizen, having sole allegiance to the United States as required to become Commander in Chief. 

In part, “pray this Court will determine that the inauguration set for January 20, 2009 should be stayed pending the outcome of this, and similar litigation, determining that the Plaintiff has a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, that under Article II, Section 1 and Amendment 20 Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, Defendant Barack H. Obama is not a natural born citizen and has not qualified,…”  I wouldn’t expect a ruling today. Chief Justice Roberts will be busy swearing in Obama.

Attorney Philip Berg , has sent a 2nd letter to Oprah, stressing that she is one that can have Obama withdraw his name to avoid damage to racial relations in the U.S. for years to come.  http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/

Opera must be laughing her ass off like the rest of us.  Throw in Andy Martin and it is a three ring circus.  In a recent release Martin says, “The Obama’s are the most vulgar, nouveau rich family to ever occupy the White House. Our long national hangover is now beginning; we just don’t realize it yet.”  http://www.pr-inside.com/andy-martin-says-the-obamas-are-r1011343.htm  Tell me how you really feel Mr. Martin.

Even lower than low, we have this letter to Michelle Obama, ” I have enclosed a physical description of your husband’s genitals. I ask you to, publicly state that the enclosed description is not accurate. I also ask you to take questions concerning your personal knowledge of your husband’s sexual encounters with the murdered Donald Young, myself and other men over the course of your marriage….Then let’s be open and transparent.” by Lary Sinclair and posted at http://obambi.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/letter-to-michelle-obama-by-larry-sinclair/

Boys and girls.  This is gross.  It is one thing to question someones past but it is quite another to get the man’s penis involved, wherever it has gone.  I don’t care if it has gone where no man has gone before- we are getting down to plain old slander here.  Leave the man’s dick out of politics- it leaves a sour taste.

If the courts of the law haven’t seen fit to allow one, just one, freaking case to proceed to require Obama to show his legal birth records, then either the attorneys have failed in their job or justice has failed.

For whom among us has standing to question the Constitution?  When it comes to the natural born citizen clause, no one at this time has the authority, as formally entered into record by Judge Surrick in Berg v Obama, et al which is reviewed here http://www.americasright.com/2008/10/lawsuit-against-obama-dismissed-from.html .

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has themed the Obama inauguration, “A New Birth of Freedom.” http://inaugural.senate.gov/  The bill for this new birth may hit $150 million!  Although Obama is spending our tax dollars, he did not accept funds from corporations, lobbyists, unions or political action committees’ instead, large donations from Wall Street have poured in making the list a who’s who in hedge fund managers with people like George Soros and D.E. Shaw Group’s David Shaw. http://www.finalternatives.com/node/6656 

Lincoln couldn’t fathom the dollars nor the fact that we know more about him than our next President.  Lincoln was involved in more than 5,100 cases in Illinois alone during his 23-year legal career.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln  We’ve had plenty of time to fully vent Mr. Obama yet, how many cases has Obama has tried?  What do his college transcripts reveal? What does his birth certificate say?

In the next four years we will come to know his views and aspirations, but President Obama will be defined by his actions.  Obama is the heir apparent and for the sake of our nation, while we can watch and criticize- today he will be number 44- President Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama has asked us to “Join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.”  http://www.patrolmag.com/arts/1215/dear-jon-favreau

In his inaugural address, George H.W. Bush announced, “My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads.”  What will Obama have to say?  Stay tuned…

God Bless America.

God Bless President Barack Hussein Obama

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Filed in, “What the frig else,”  during the peaceful transference of power to a new president, comes the fact that a State of Emergency has been declared in Washington, D.C.  during  the inauguration of Obama. 

President Bush declared that, “an emergency exists in the District of Columbia”” in authorizing federal money to assist the District of Columbia in saving lives and protecting public health and safety during the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2009/01/15/inauguration-prompts-state-of-emergency.htm

It would also seems that such a declaration would free up some  FEMA funds to supplement the mayor’s spending deficit.  ” FEMA will reimburse for eligible emergency protective measures performed on January 20, 2009, only if the District has expended on the Presidential Inauguration during the period of January 17-21, 2009, the $15 million appropriated to it for “Emergency Planning and Security Costs” by the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2009, P.L. 110-329.”    If FEMA is paying for it out of its budget, you can bet your sweet little last piece of delicious apple pie, that FEMA is going to be in charge.  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090113-9.html  At least President Bush relinquished the powers and the funds effective, January 21st, 2009.

With FEMA in charge, the designated  ‘state of emergency’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency  carries a whole bucketful of centralized powers.  There is always the option of declaring martial law.  There is always the option of ignoring and suspending the Constitution.  There is always the remembrance of New Orleans with FEMA. 

Gets me to thinking how Obama said in his train speech, “What is required is a new declaration of independence,…”  https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/obamas-new-declaration-of-independence/

“Generally speaking, changes of government are only “emergencies” in the livelier banana republics where this week’s president-for-life suddenly spots the machete-wielding mob scrambling over the palace walls so nimbly he barely has time to dial the Liberian branch of FEMA and put in a request for extra Portapotties and a rope-line management team.” said Mark Steyn at  http://www.ocregister.com/articles/federal-emergency-fema-2283617-new-government.  He goes on to say that, ” Washington is one of those disaster relief cases, where they get the relief, and the rest of us get the disaster.”

This is not some banana republic, this is America where a smooth transition of power is not only expected, but taken for granted- until now.  To add further insult,  for the first time, 1,300 Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers and airmen are joining a team of 10,000 National Guard members providing security during the inauguration.   The soldiers and airmen will get training this weekend at Fort Indiantown Gap in everything from basic first aid to civil disturbance response. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/01/national_guard_assisting_in_in.html  So while not quite a state of Martial Law, we again see active duty soldiers on guard on our own US soil.

Civil Disturbance Response?  Saving Lives? A State of Emergency?  Oh, Mr. Obama, I hardly think this is what you had in mind when you spoke of change? 

Assuming that the Constitution could be under suspension when the new President takes the Oath of Office, is the newly sworn in President Obama not really our President?  Anyone want to go there?

The costs emotionally and financially are staggering.  Besides the actual inauguration itself there are all the balls.  I do mean the dancing balls of course!  President Woodrow Wilson decreed in 1913 that he would not have an inaugural ball believing that  it was frivolous for a serious occasion. Later Warren Harding cancel events.  Not Obama, he would never cancel such extravagance paid for by tax dollars or private dollars- even if we were at war, even if our economy was in worse shape than all the Portapotties lined up along the mall and filled with shit, sans toilet paper.

White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel said Sunday the inaugural address would touch on themes that call on everyday Americans, business leaders, and politicians to exercise greater responsibility in their day-to-day lives. “This is larger than the economy; it goes to a value system that has held us for 200-plus years,” Emanuel argued. http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/emanuel-says-obama-will-stress-need-for-responsibility-2009-01-18.html

A greater responsibility, eh?  It has been many American’s privilege and responsibility to get up before the crack of dawn and go to work and it will continue to be, even under a redistributing the wealth policy.  It has been the responsibility of Americans to vote, and vote for Obama they did.  I find it appalling the level of dismissal of 200 plus years of history, let alone the thousands upon thousands who have died to protect the value system the Emanuel so easily trounces upon.  What did your ancestors do for this country Mr. Emanuel?  We already know the answer, his father –” a Chicago pediatrician who worked in the 1940’s with Irgun, the militant Zionist group that committed acts against Palestinian and British targets that have been widely categorized as terrorism.” http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/11/13/rahm-emanuels-father-problem/  Isn’t that special?

The value system that Emanuel, and apparently Obama too is already dismissing is what has made this country great and I am finding that the real state of emergency may be ahead for all of us.

In other news, thinking of reasons to love America, I am thankful for Joseph Gayetty of New York, credited with inventing toilet paper in 1857.  His concept was later perfected and successfully marketed by Thomas, Edward and Clarence Scott of Philadelphia when they marketed a small roll of perforated paper.  They began the Scott Paper Company by selling their product from a pushcart.  From, 1001 Reasons to Love America by Hubert Pedroli & Mary Tiegreen, p, 206, c 2004.  http://www.amazon.com/1-001-Reasons-Love-America/dp/1584793775

What do you want to bet that the toilet paper in all those Portapotties for the inauguration is imported from China?  Maybe the real state of emergency is when there are no more squares to share- wouldn’t you say?

God Bless America.

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On the road to Washington, Barack Hussein Obama started with a train trip in Philadelphia delivering a speech declaring that we need a new Constitution.  

“And yet while our problems may be new, what is required to overcome them is not. What is required is the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed. What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives — from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry — an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.”  said Obama.  Full text is at:  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGqbGwZPC2aq_b0j23IDsoFJZsVQD95P6A8O0

A New Declaration of Independence?  Ladies and gentleman, once again you are being introduced to the change that is coming your way.  For the other half of the country that did not vote for Obama this is more than disheartening, it is just plain wrong.  For the most part, we all want to believe in the hope and change of a new President.  We also want to believe in the laws of our land that have made it possible not only for a black man to be elected, but that have yielded a free democracy for America.  

To promote his new, what I’ll call a- Declaration of Incidence, Obama has allocated $75 million dollars toward what he calls, “Organizing for America.”  The LA Times reported, “Obama said Organizing for America, the new network, would be used as a tool to press for policies on major issues, including the health care system, the Iraq war and the development of new energy sources. He also said the effort would be housed in a distinctly partisan place: the Democratic National Committee.” http://www.latimes.com/la-na-obama-network18-2009jan18,0,2815566.story 

Perhaps it is not illegal for our own government to give monies to the Democratic Party, but it is certainly suspect.   Where is the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee when you need them?  Should we turn to Representative José E. Serrano represents the 16th Congressional District of New York – the Bronx fro remedial action?  He is the only Congressman from New York City on the exclusive House Appropriations Committee and is serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. 

Seranno proposed  an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.   http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5  I wouldn’t be holding my breath for intervention.

At this rate, not only will we have a President Obama with an unlimited term as President, but a leader who plans on ignoring the Constitution.  The DNC will be fully funded and able to promote candidates and issues to promote his agenda of change.  Obama, it would seem is clearly working within the system to promote propaganda that resembles socialism with a “redistribution of wealth” and an abandonment of free enterprise and capitalism.   

Nice Deb quotes, “The entire purpose of the Constitution was to limit government. That limitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population.  Barack Obama sees that limiting of government not as a linchpin but rather as a fatal flaw.” http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/obama-speaks-of-imperfect-constitution/

Let us hope as we near the Inauguration of Obama that the fatal flaw of more than half the voters in the country, wasn’t electing him in the first place.

God Bless America.

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Absolutely freaking amazing.  People have found a way to conclude that the current cold affecting most of America is due to global warming.   It is Winter, idiots.  Contrary to fact that global temperatures have been steadily cooling since the 1940’s, environmentalists have created a whole industry centered around the lie that mankind has some influence on weather.  

As far as what has been reported to the public, we humans have no way to decrease or increase the planet’s temperature.  Barely a footnote in the media,  is all the research that has been underway for years to, in fact- change the weather. 

“The US and Russia have developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use. Environmental modification techniques have been applied by the US military for more than half a century. US mathematician John von Neumann, in liaison with the US Department of Defense, started his research on weather modification in the late 1940s at the height of the Cold War and foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare as yet unimagined’.http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/haarpintentional-weather-manipulations/ 

I find it much more likely indeed that, “The US military has developed advanced capabilities that enable it selectively to alter weather patterns. The technology, which is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is an appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative ‘Star Wars’. ” 

Established in 1992, HAARP, based in Gokona, Alaska, is an array of high-powered antennas that transmit, through high-frequency radio waves, massive amounts of energy into the ionosphere (the upper layer of the atmosphere). Their construction was funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  Operated jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating ‘controlled local modifications of the ionosphere’. According to  its official website, http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/  There is also an interesting link to an article on Weather Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, The Ecologist, December 2007  that merits a glance at http://globalresearch.ca/articles/haarpecologist.pdf.

 

 

While we expect Sarah Palin’s Alaska to be cold http://www.mountainweather.com/alaska.htm  “Extreme temperatures — in Johnson’s case about 60 below zero — call for extreme measures in a statewide cold snap so frigid that temperatures have grounded planes, disabled cars, frozen water pipes and even canceled several championship cross country ski races.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_re_us/alaska_extreme_cold

We’ve seen snow in Las Vegas and even in Hawaii this Winter.  The odds makers must be realigning statistics that it will happen again based on reports from the National Climatic Data Center.  This will be America’s coldest year since 1997, thanks to La Niña and precipitation in the central and eastern states.   Throw in the Sun’s Solar quiet and we see another reason for global cooling- not global warming. Sunspots and solar radiation are approaching  the minimum in the Sun’s cycle, corresponding with lower Earth temperatures.  National Snow and Ice Data Center has found that the extent of Artic sea ice has  expanded by 13.2 percent over last year.  This 270,000 sq mile  growth in Arctic sea ice is just slightly larger than Texas’s 268,820 square miles. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGYzMzA2MzEzZTI4YjAxOTZhMGY4N2YwOTVmZWIzOTg=

Yet , we have our next President- Obama -about to spend millions of our tax dollars to inhibit climate change.  “Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear…  said Obama at http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_promises_new_chapter_on_climate_change/  Maligned facts got us into the Iraq war and choosing to believe these facts as truth, is equally reprehensible.

One small bright spot in this political climate of change is that Al Gore will not have an official part in the next administration.   Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for climate change is among the nation’s worst energy hogs. Al’s carbon footprint was twenty times that of the average American household http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=764

Obama does not fair any better at preserving climate change with his inauguration, The Institute for Liberty has created a carbon footprint estimate for the Obama inauguration itself and estimates more than 500 million pounds of CO2 will be released during the four-day inaugural but goes farther to say that study isn’t entirely accurate. “We haven’t looked at the methane or CO2 that will be expended by people standing on the mall.”

The Institute goes on to say, ” they should not have to be lectured — or regulated or taxed — by officials who appear, at best, to conveniently forget their own rhetoric when celebrating their success.”  http://thechillingeffect.org/wp-content/themes/paalam-11/CarbonBigfoot.pdf.  Um- no one should be lectured, taxed or regulated by the government into buying deadly mercury filled light bulbs or any other product that supports a greener world- unless of course they want to. 

 

Who knew the amount of  hot air coming from Obama supporters on the Mall in D.C for the inauguration, could in fact, be precipitous to altering the climate.  Political climate yes, weather climate? 

I am ROFLMFAO, farting, freezing, watching the snow fly with my old fashioned, mercury free light bulbs on.  Oh yeah, I am burning through the BTU’s with the furnace on too.

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According to the Wall Street Wire of the Wall Street Journal, “President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit the U.S. Supreme Court today after an invitation was extended by Chief Justice John Roberts. [sic 01142009]

This is the third time in modern history that a president-elect and vice-president elect have made pre-inaugural stops to the court—Bill Clinton and Al Gore visited the court on Dec. 8, 1992 and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush visited the court on Nov. 19, 1980.

Obama and Biden will meet with Roberts and the associate justices in the ceremonial West Conference Room, and are expected to take a tour of the court. The event is private and closed to the press. ”  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/01/14/obama-and-biden-to-meet-with-supreme-court-justices/#comment-289510

Chief Justice Roberts is scheduled to officiate the swearing in of Obama on January 20, 2008 , but lingering court cases regarding Obama’s citizenship have been shuffling around the Supreme Court.  All have been denied or denied without judgment, so far.  Still, cases are pending.  Perhaps this is a perfect opportunity, behind closed doors for the Justices to ask Obama if he is qualified under our Constitutional Law, to hold the office of President.  Maybe they will ask him but even if they do, I doubt we would ever be privileged to the answer.   

Obama said, “I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution”  but then again we have to ask how does Obama propose to protect and defend a document he believes to contain a “fundamental flaw”? 

I have a pair of Hawaiian flip flops for sale if anyone is interested. 

Wheresyourevidence is a site that has been keeping up on must of the the legal challenges regarding his citizenship. The site  has been challenged by some as being run by Obama’s legal team.  http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/the-natural-born-citizenship-clause-updated.html.

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Change you can believe in?

H. J. Res. 5 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5  is a proposed amendment to repeal the term limits for presidents and introduced Jan.6, 2009 by Democrat Serrano.    http://serrano.house.gov/Biography.aspx  U.S. Representative José E. Serrano represents the 16th Congressional District of New York – the Bronx.  He is the only Congressman from New York City on the exclusive House Appropriations Committee and is serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.

From his bio, “Serrano believes that government should work to ensure that the prosperity of our country is shared by the neediest and most vulnerable members of our society- the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and children- in the form of participation in government, educational opportunities, access to housing and affordable health care. ” 

Golly Gee, sounds just like socialistic rhetoric from Obama.   More participation in government?  Howza bout enforcing laws on the books?  Laws that would have alleviated the disastrous economic declines of Freddie, Fannie, etc.?  Laws that were already in place to prevent the Madoff ponzi?  Laws that discourage capitalism and instead form a reliance on the government to solve the individual woes?  Honest effort and pride in accomplishment used to be a winning formula.

At a time in this country when we have an incoming president who has faulted the Constitution more than once,  here we have an elected official with a significant amount of clout introducing on the first day of Congress a bill to change our Constitution and allow for a President to serve pretty much without time limits, “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.” 

 He also introduced a total of 16 other Resolutions – http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d111:FLD003:@1(rep%20serrano): from ending the trade embargo with Cuba, allowing Cuban baseball players waivers to play professional baseball in the US, to changes title XIX of the Social Security Act, to something he coins as the “English Plus Resolution”-H.CON.RES.3   English Plus has emerged as the main policy alternative and rallying cry for those opposed to the English Only campaign. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/engplus.htm Back in 2001, Serrano introduced HCON 9 IH, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/HCR9.htm s similar measure that would seemingly mandate a foreign language.  It was not passed.

“English Plus” resolutions have been passed in the U.S. states of New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington.  Ironically, English Plus has not been passed in the Congressman’s home state of New York.  I wonder what language would be proposed?  Arabic? Mandarin?  Any of the countries who might be perceived as a military threat? 

For heaven’s sake if he wants to remove a language barrier, how about starting with educating the military.  Imagine these poor soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who were never trained in a fundamental intelligence operation like being able to speak the enemy language.  “I surrender, What? What did you say? Oh, you’ve got a gun, bang.”  

We have American combat troops stationed right here on our soil, and I am pretty happy that they speak English and able to defend us.  In fact, I wish there were more protecting our borders.

The leader of the free world, President Obama clearly views the Constitution as an obstacle to “political and economic justice in this society.”   The Constitution has served Mr. Obama well, and rather conveniently somehow allowed him to avoid providing proof that he meets the requirements of the natural-born citizen clause, Article II, Section 1, for eligibility as President.   Every case to date and under the interpreted laws of the land, all the way up to the Supreme Court, he has avoided providing any documentation of his birth.

The Constitution and law has been circumnavigated more than once by Presidents.  Minuscule on the scale are little Orders like-” All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas Day”  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081212-2.html to some pretty hefty changes in a Presidents authority can be found here  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/.  I wonder if our tax dollars paid them for the day off? 

In tracking the Obama Presidency, apparently BHO is going to repeal some of them including an attempt to close Gitmo.  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/01/61265288/1

We had all better become better informed as to what our elected officials are doing, what laws they are proposing, and what laws they choose to enforce.  We can’t rely on MSM and let’s face it, often times watching C-SPAN is like watching paint dry.  Whatever language we speak, everyone here in America, even the illegals get certain rights afforded to them. It is everyones right, privilege and obligation to see that things aren’t just snuck through the cracks when it becomes convenient. 

The Constitution was designed for America.  It is your Constitution-  our Constitution, yet today multilateral institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are privatizing economies and restructuring the social policies of  the world- including America and certainly influencing our Constitutional law. 

Our Constitution should not be bent or amended so much so, that we are lost in the New World Order we hear so often about.  Our Constitution should not be amended to allow for a President to serve indefinitely, even if he is “The One,” his campaign promise stood on. 

Press 1 for English, press 2…..

God Bless America.

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Thinking of recent developments in politicians who are supposed to fight crime and not commit crimes, I am reminded of former Congressman Jim Traficant of Ohio.  Famous for his unique one minute speeches, http://www.thememoryhole.org/traficant/  A partial biography can be found here http://www.freetraficant.com/bio.html.

Traficant served 17 years in Congress but in July of 2002,  received an eight year  prison sentence after being convicted of racketeering, bribery, obstruction of justice and tax evasion. The House, using the trial transcript expelled him.  Traficant is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, MN but with six months to go to the end of his sentance, he had the option of being transferred to his hometown of Youngstown in a half-way house. 

Usually non-violent federal inmates are permitted the chance to spend the last six months of their sentences in a half way house, but on Jan. 12, 2009,  The US Bureau of Prisons notified directors with the Youngstown based Community Corrections Association half way house, that Traficant planned transfer has been canceled.  As reported by local paper, The Vindicator.  What?  Why? Who wouldn’t want a get out of jail card?

James A. Traficant, that’s who.  Traficant reportedly told prison officials he did not want to go to CCA because its director Richard J. Billak, CCA chief executive officer testified against him during his racketeering trial.  As the former Congressman would have said in his the one-minute House speeches -the phrase “Beam me up.”

Rather than have to deal with Billack and have work privileges, weekend passes, and other perks afforded to rehabilitated inmates, he chose jail.  

In 1983 while being a Youngstown sheriff , he was charged with racketeering for accepting bribes by the mob. In 1980, Youngstown found itself in the middle of a Mafia turf war.  At the time, the city had two major organized-crime factions.  One was the Carabbia brothers–Ron (who had been convicted of murder and was doing time in prison), Charles and Orland; their principal loyalties were to the Cleveland syndicate.  The other faction, aligned with the Pittsburgh mob, was led by James Prato and Joey Naples.  Charles Carabbia and Prato were the bosses of the two crime groups.      Although Carabbia and Prato were rivals, they often worked together on certain operations, such as buying off local politicians.

Traficant, who represented himself in the criminal trial, claimed that he accepted the bribes only as part of an undercover investigation into corruption and was was acquitted of the charges.  He pleaded not guilty, telling the press, “To all those politicians who want me to resign: Go fuck yourselves.”

Question:  What did the people of Youngstown, Ohio, do when their sheriff was accused by the FBI of taking payoffs from the Mafia, signed a “confession,” and then beat the wrap by defending himself in court?

     Answer:  They elected him to Congress. source- http://www.moldea.com/Traficant.html 

Surely prosecutors never forgot his actions, indifference and attitude and upon being brought up again on RICO charges and yet again defending himself, they pounced and found him guilty.

The Traficant conviction wasn’t without controversy with allegations of  malicious prosecutions.  The Justice Department declined to investigate sworn allegations of witness tampering, despite a public request from then Congressman (now Ohio Governor) Ted Strickland. http://www.governor.ohio.gov/

“Richard Detore, former chief operating officer of  U.S. Aerospace Group, told the House Ethics Committee that Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Morford in Cleveland, on orders from former Attorney General Janet Reno, pressured him to lie to win Traficant conviction. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58248,00.html 

When the National Democrat Party Committee accepted a $10 million contribution from a General in the Red Chinese Army, Traficant charged that Attorney General Janet Reno, was a traitor for failing to investigate the issue. Traficant made his charges on the floor of the Congress.

a) China’s trade surplus with America is now over $150 billion per year, and China is buying missiles and nuclear submarines with American dollars.b) Traficant also charged Janet Reno for the Waco tragedy.c) AIPAC and Janet Reno were incensed, “Traficant had to go!” http://truthilizer.livejournal.com/

Morford became a national celebrity when the President appointed him Acting Deputy Attorney General but left in 2008 never having made a Senate testimony and a  Senate confirmation would have been required for permanent appointment of Morford as the Deputy AG .  Detore testified before the ethics panel without an attorney or a promise of immunity. No one else backed up his claims and Morford has denied them.  Morford wento on to work at Cardinal Health.  http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS139557+18-Mar-2008+PRN20080318

Traficant’s final address to the reiterated his pleas of innocence and that “I am not going to shut up”  http://www.thememoryhole.org/traficant/final-speech.htm

“People identified with me having the balls to stand up.  When you think about it, that’s what it is: balls,” said Traficant. 

Balls enough to stay in prison rather than work for and live within reach of a man who helped convict you?  Seems so.  I wonder what he is going to have to say upon his release?

The colorful outspoken maverick has never before painted anything-other than perhaps the side of a barn or fence.  However, in January of 2005 at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota he took to “art” like a duck to water. Some of his original paintings can be found at http://www.beammeupart.com/  

For those who may be interested -“”After reading Traficant’s speech, “The Bankruptcy of the United States” delivered on the floor of Congress in 1993, it was evident why THEY wanted to shut him up. He proclaimed, “The United States Federal government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, declared by President Roosevelt. The receivers of the United States bankruptcy are the International bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States offices, officials and departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War powers. This new form of government is known as a Democracy (instead of a Republic), being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America.””
Posted near the bottom of http://truthilizer.livejournal.com/

Traficant is now expected to remain behind bars until his release date, now projected for this September.

James A. Traficant
Reg. No. 31213-060
Federal Medical Center
PMB 4000
Rochester, Minnesota   55903-4000
 
Addendum Edit– For what its worth I found a link to a book  on Traficant’s ordeal on of all the odd places, David Duke’s website.  http://www.davidduke.com/general/michael-collins-piper-reports-on-the-railroading-of-rep-jim-traficant-mp3_4771.html
the direct link for the book is here-

Updated September 10, 2009 in a related post- https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/jim-traficant-free-to-speak-out-again/

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America is sending out an SOS and here we have Mrs. Clinton, most likely to be confirmed as Secretary of State, touting that climate change threatens our very existence. ““At the extreme [climate change] threatens our very existence, but well before that point, it could very well incite new wars of an old kind—over basic resources like food, water, and arable land. The world is in need of an urgent, coordinated response to climate change and, as President- Elect Obama has said, America must be a leader in developing and implementing it,” she said. http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003009111 

New wars?  More wars?  So now I get why we were so pissed Russia wants to claim Antarctica-is must be the supposed melting ice to control the drinking water- not the oil.  Duh.  Good thing we’ve hung on to Alaska and all that frozen tundra up there.  Good for Palin! 

Gee, I was figuring an Iran with nuclear weapons is a bigger threat. 

As a Senator from New York, Clinton has voted at least 17 times against measures promoting ethanol production saying she was concerned that it would raise gasoline prices for her constituents. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/29/145402.shtml?s=ic I suppose now that gas is below $2 that is as good of reason as any to abandon drilling here in the US and instead focus on Obama’s plan to help the economy in a greener way.  OMG- how many trees are being cut down to print all that TARP and bailout money?  Tit for tat, a bit of cheese for a rat.

Robert Reich the the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor had this to say about what to do? … there’s no reason to think about “green jobs” as simply high-tech. Many low-income and low-skilled workers — women as well as men — could be put directly to work providing homes and businesses with more efficient and renewable heating, lighting, cooling, and refrigeration systems; installing solar panels and efficient photo voltaic systems; rehabilitating and renovating old properties, and improving recycling systems. “Green Jobs Corps” teams could be trained to evaluate and advise homeowners and businesses on these and other means of conserving energy.” http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/01/stimulus-how-to-create-jobs-without.html  A Green Jobs Corps?  Oh, heavens to Mergatroid!  Want to bet Mrs. Obama wears a green dress suit to the inauguration?  Will Obama wear a green tie to signify his green, one world global policies?  Got me wondering if he’ll wear a flag pin as well?

Hillary will most likely once again take credit for initiatives her husband’s administration sought, as well as Obama’s and maybe even The Green Job Corps. Whatever goes wrong, she can blame O. 

What about that little diddy in her past about the illegal campaign contributions?  Under the rug.  Peter F. Paul claimed in his lawsuit that he financed a gala and other fundraisers for Hillary Clinton because he was promised by some of the Clinton’s’ handlers that Bill would join the board of his company Stan Lee Media.  The Movie Star laden Hollywood fundraiser was the subject of a criminal trial of Clinton’s former national finance director, David Rosen, who ended up being acquitted.  Hillary was dropped from the suit under California’s anti-SLAPP statute that is designed to reduce frivolous lawsuits and protect people’s First Amendment rights. 

Hillary couldn’t even tell the truth about whom she was named after, “Mrs Clinton also once said her parents named her after [New Zealand native] Sir Ed Hillary, a nice line till it was pointed out she was born more than five years before he climbed Everest, when he was still a lesser-known beekeeper.”  http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/8721  Guess that bee stung a bit.

There is a nice little review on Hillary’s most revealing fibs at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/most_revealing_bloopers_hillar_1.html 

Making sure nothing could embarrass Hillary or the US, it seems there are still thousands of documents absent from the federally funded Clinton Presidential Library.  http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=-1&grpId=3659174697241980&articleId=281474977176190  Donations to the foundation apparently don’t have enough bearing on Hillary Clinton’s prospective tenure as Secretary of State.  The donor lists a who is who of intermingling and can be reviewed in part http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/clinton-foundation-donors_n_152128.html  Definitely no improprieties there –grumble-but just to be sure Senator Kerry thinks the donor list should be released once a month.

I want to know if she can define the word- is.  President Clinton put it this way, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the–if he–if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not–that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement….Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”  http://www.slate.com/id/1000162/

Is Obama completely off his rocker to employ Hillary Clinton?   For all intents, it appeared they couldn’t stand each other.  Oh, but remember SR 511?  The little resolution that Clinton sponsored about natural born citizenship.  This is payback .

America is in distress and sending out an SOS to anyone who will listen and we are spending countless millions on an inauguration.  Heck, even Bruce Springsteen is going to show up for a free concert.  I can’t bet he will not be playing, “Born in the USA.”  I’ve heard the Beltway mantra is that we need to look forward to as opposed to looking back wards.

Like GWB often says, maybe we misunderestimated Hillary Clinton.

God Bless America

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Obama’s eligibility appears to be a go go from The Supreme Court.  Oh no, no, no some will say.  Numerous court cases have challenged President Obama’s natural born citizenship under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution that says that the president be a “natural born citizen.”  All have been met with the same outcome as today- Denied. 

Phil Berg originally filed his suit against Obama and others way back in August.  It has taken five months to get the official word from the Supremes that his petition for certiorari is denied before judgment.  It should come as no surprise that  The Court offered no explanation but note the court said, denied before judgment.  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R-l1iejogZw/SWtjunekRMI/AAAAAAAAB7I/QNmswBBRZcQ/s1600-h/Berg+Cert+Denial.bmp  Humph, denied should be denied, but ya never know. 

It did allow, “The Motion for Bill Anderson for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae is granted.”   (http://www.techlawjournal.com/glossary/legal/amicus.htm ) I wonder what relevant matter not already brought to the Court’s attention he could offer?  The Anderson brief in its entirety can be found here  http://wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/joyce_anderson-amicus-final.pdf  and also at  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145354/posts  The meat and bones of the amicus is—

“The amicus is a citizen of the State of Arizona and an elector of that state for elector for President of the United States. He voted in the general election held by the State of Arizona on November 4, 2008. This Court has in fact recognized that the amicus has an interest in this type of case. See United States v. Newman, 238 U.S. 537, 547, 35 S.Ct. 881, 883, 59 L.Ed. 1446, 1450 (1915); and the same holds true for the petitioner. Ibid. Your amicus submits that it will not be possible for this Court to dispose of this case properly without considering the following points which either have not been brought to the attention of this Court by the parties or which have not been adequately discussed: 1.) This Court is not facing a question of the constitutional aspects of standing, but a question pertaining to the prudential considerations only; and, 2.) The lack of an adequate remedy following the inauguration of Barack Obama, 2 and the potential civil and military crises which could arise therefrom, crises that could not be readily addressed by the ordinary processes of the law, must be considered in addressing the prudential aspects of standing; and, 3.) With respect to the prudential considerations of standing, certain aspects of this case are analogous to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.”

Jeff Schreiber of America’s Right http://www.americasright.com/ has shared his insights into the Berg case with objectiveness and professionalism.  He was  in the Clerk of Court’s office in the Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia doing part of his job as a legal writer and reading the civil cases that had been filed that day including Berg’s.  I encourage any reader here to follow his blog and note Berg’s recent reaction to the denial.  I look forward to his thoughts on Anderson.

Truth In our Time and numerous bloggers are convinced that,  “Courts throughout the USA aided and abetted the usurpation of the Presidency by refusing to hear cases challenging the citizenship of Barack Obama, now, major media is doing the same thing.”  Citing network news refusal to broadcast a commercial questioning his citizenship- the video can be viewed at the site  http://www.truthinourtime.com/2009/01/obama-citizenship-commerical.html.

Does Obama have divided loyalties?  I doubt it.  Really, the minute Obama would act to place Kenya or Indonesia above the best interests of the USA, the wrath of the domestic and foreign media, Congress, the Senate and even Nancy Pelosi would jump to attention and outrage.  Wouldn’t they? 

Is Obama factually eligible?  I don’t know.  http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/01/natural-born-citizenship-for-dummies/ offers a pretty good glance at the issues but still no solution.  Perhaps the entire language of what makes one an American is extinct and moot.  A large reference to citizenship cases and notations can be found at http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/the-natural-born-citizenship-clause-updated.html.

Whatever the evidence may bear in the future, on January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama is most likely going to place his hand on former President Lincoln’s Bible and swear to the duty of allegiance to the United States of America.   This bond will be administered by Chief Justice  Roberts who will carry out his ceremonial duty of swearing in the next President of the United States.  If Roberts was to consider the possibility that he is swearing in a man who doesn’t  meet fundamental eligibility requirements, I imagine he would be removed unceremoniously and rapidly from the bench.  Or perhaps made a hero to those who seek the legal means to force Obama’s citizenship discloure.  Maybe the failure to deny Anderson will be enough for pause.  Berg, Donofrio and others have certainly made their cases before the justices and while not hearing the cases formally, must be aware of Obama’s current question of ineligibility for the office he is about to be sworn into.

The Supremes have once again spoken in saying nothing,  and by leaving the Anderson Amicus hanging have further blurred the waters.   

Obama, by delivering his official birth records to support his compliance with the Constitution and his professed transparency in government would alleviate future burdens on The Court and her people.  I don’t think we can hold our breath that long.  Instead, we’ll watch a new chapter of American history unfold with a democrat, black man leading our destiny either for the next four or eight years, unless a court forces him to prove his citizenship and it turns out he is ineligible.  I pray for a sufficient bond of union between Obama and America to allow him to make worthwhile choices in keeping America the land of the free and home of the brave. 

God Bless America.

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The following is a funny and supposedly true story occurring in a Government class at Santa Fe High School.
  
In one civics class, the young adults were discussing the qualifications to be president of the United States. It was pretty simple. 
  
The candidate must be a natural born citizen and at least 35 years of  age.
  
However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
  
The class was just taking it in and letting her rant, but everyone’s jaw hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating…
  
“What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?”
  
They walk among us and they vote.

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