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The Democrats, The Media and Al Qaeda: three groups with the same goal

Cartoons By Michael Ramirez
 
Have you ever sat down and asked yourself, I mean "really" asked yourself, in this war on terror, this war for our very survival, just which side are the Democrats and their media friends on?

Given the fact that we have not been attacked again in over six years, you’ve got to think that somebody somewhere must be doing something right. Am I missing something? Or, can we really equate it to, like the Democrats say, just dumb luck? I think not. Have you ever wondered why it is that the many successes made by those in our intelligence community, who are among those on the front lines and responsible for protecting our country are so rarely if ever heard about from our ever so diligent mainstream news media?  However, those pillars of our elite left wing media, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the L. A. Times, are never shy about and just a little to eager to spin any success as a failure or they simply choose to bury any news of success deep down in the bowels of their paper under some innocuous headline so that the likelihood of it even being read is pretty remote. Worse yet, these "news"papers continue to perpetuate the myth that nothing has really changed since 9/11, that we’re really no safer than we were on 9/10. They insist that our intelligence agencies still do not talk to on another, and worse still operate like a bunch of incompetent boobs!

Never the least bit hesitant about revealing or downplaying the usefulness of the most highly effective methods used by the government agencies involved, some of which require years and millions of dollars to develop, to protect us by locating and tracking terrorists, there must always be some down side to those investigative tools. Those in the media love to paint these tools as being dangerous, as nothing more than another way for the government to spy on average everyday Americans. It’s always about how the government is looking for ways to take away our right to privacy. It seems that every time the government comes up with something that really works, the media portrays it as some horrible abuse of power, while at the same time informing the terrorists of what it is our government is doing. The result being that they, the terrorists, end up doing an end run around what we’re trying to do. Terrorists read American newspapers and watch CNN too!

Another sad commentary on how Democrats and the media fail to comprehend this war involves all of the negative spin and outright falsehoods (lies) put out via our wonderful media that is usually echoed by politicians, most often on the Democrat side, who really should know better. For political expediency they say one thing in front of the cameras, while privately they acknowledge the progress generated by the hard work of those working the long hours required to keep us safe. Talk about hypocritical. And lets face it, not real morale builders for all those hard working folks either!

In their constant attempts to undermine the war on terror the media is never shy about using methods eerily reminiscent of the propaganda and censorship techniques used by the old Soviet Union to keep the public uninformed. Having said that, it cannot be overstated that if we do not win the war being waged by the media against our own government, we stand absolutely no chance of winning the war against the terrorists. The Democrat Party has come to rely heavily on the media to keep the public misinformed so they can deny access to the tools needed by the FBI and CIA to effectively combat terrorism. You can’t help but wonder whose side the Democrats are on and why. But then...maybe not. Democrats want, no actually they crave absolute power, and at any cost. And, if it means endangering the rest of us, so be it. But it’s going to require voters to ask themselves some very serious questions, "Do I really want all the government goodies promised by the Democrats, or a country where it’s safe for my kids to grow up?" With the Democrats in power, you might as well forget about option number two.

Legitimate criticism should be both expected and welcomed by those doing the fighting. But our government is not the enemy here. It’s the Islamic, murdering nut jobs that are expending so much energy trying to kill us that are the enemy. The government is going to need a certain degree of flexibility to fight our enemies effectively. People seem to willingly permit the media to convince them that, among other things; the FBI as well as other governmental agencies are eroding privacy rights during terrorism investigations. Those in the media have in the past and continue today to exaggerate, as only they can, the feelings of many Americans that the country is on the wrong track. They also do their best to re-enforce suspicions regarding the trustworthiness of our government. Quite frankly, I’m scratching my head over what Americans have to complain about. Comparatively speaking in what country would any of us rather live? We’ve become a nation of paranoid whiners who have allowed the media to convince us that our government is out to get us. GET A GRIP FOLKS! In this instance the government, at least the Executive Branch, are the good guys.

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Obama and the "Reverend"

Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright
 
What follows are some of the more eloquent words of the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright. As we are all familiar with by now as Senator Barack Obama’s Pastor for over 20 years. The pastor of the very same church that his children have been going to and where they have been exposed to continual racist and bigoted drivel. What says the most about Obama, I think, is a severe lack of judgement in that he would continue to bring his children into a church where absolutely nothing but hatred is what comes from the pulpit. And if this is the kind of person that he likes to have around him, what might his cabinet look like. Can we expect to see the likes of a Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson to be holding vital positions and able to be involved in the making of governmental policy? Don’t get me wrong, my question is not based on the race of those mentioned, but solely on their personalities, motives, perceived goals and obvious racist sentiments.

"This government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth is, they believed all white men were created equal. The truth is, they did not believe that even white women were created equal, in creation nor in civilization. The government had to pass an amendment to the Constitution to get white women the vote. Then, the government had to pass an equal rights amendment to get equal protection under the law for women. The government still thinks a woman has no rights over her own body, and between Uncle Clarence, who sexually harrassed Anita Hill, and a closeted Klan Court that is a throwback to the 19th Century, hand-picked by Daddy Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, between Clarence and that stacked Court, they're about to undo Roe V. Wade, just like they're about to undo affirmative action. The government lied in its founding documents, and the government is still lying today."

"We believe God makes Europeans superior to Africans, and superior to everybody else, too, because we confuse God and government. We said in our founding documents as a government, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Created, that means God, and endowed with a certain inalienable right, that means given by God. And then we define Africans in those same documents are 3/5ths of a person. We believe God approved of African slavery. We believe God approved segregation. We believe God approved Apartheid, and the doctrine which says all men are created more equal than other men, and we talking about white men."

"The election was stolen. We went from an intelligent friend to a dumb Dixiecrat, a rich Republican who has never held a job in his life, is against affirmative action, against education, I guess he is (laughing), against health care, against benefits for his own military, and gives tax breaks to the wealthiest contributors to his campaign. Governments change sometimes for the good, and sometimes for the bad. But I'm fitna to help you again. Turn back and say he's fitna to help us again."

"When it came to treating its citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest-paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education, and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strikes law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no, not God bless America, God damn America, that's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme (applause). The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. Think about this, think about this, for every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got five million blacks who are out of work."

I have a problem in that I think Obama truly believes the rhetoric that comes from his preacher. I also do not believe that he wants to unite this country nor do I believe he has the ability to. When you surround yourself with the likes of the type of people that he does, that image alone is going to make it impossible to relate to many people. And again, not because of race but because there are to many unanswered questions remaining about many of those who Obama chooses to have around him.  Not just Blacks but also the more than a few questionable whites that he has allowed into his inner circle raise doubts about Obama. I guess we’ll just have to see how this all comes out.

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"Reverand" Al, at it again

 

 

It would appear that that pillar of the Black Community, that defender of black civil rights everywhere has managed to get himself once more on the front pages of the newspapers and headlining the nightly news. And how you may ask? This publicity seeking, ego driven supposed "leader" for civil rights is threatening to shut down the Big Apple because the three cops accused in the killing of Sean Bell have been acquitted. Never mind that two of them were also black.

Look, we’re all familiar with this loser’s history and how anyone can use the word "leader" in the same sentence as his name is beyond me. And how he was ever allowed to be a presidential candidate, as he once was, is even more bizarre. He has been given and continues to be given way to much recognition from those who really should know better. He’s allowed to say pretty much anything he wants without substantiating anything. By anybody’s definition he’s a nut.

Here is "Reverand" Al on the accidental death of Gavin Cato in Crown Heights in August 1991:

The world will tell us that [Gavin Cato] was killed by accident....What type of city do we have that would allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies?...Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights....All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise. Pay for your deeds....It’s no accident that we know we should not be run over. We are the royal family on the planet. We are the original man. We gazed into the stars and wrote astrology. We had a conversation and that became philosophy....We will win because we are right. God is on our side.

In an April 2006 interview with Bill O'Reilly discussing the three Duke players then accused of rape, Sharpton said (among other things):

This case parallels Abner Louima, who was raped and sodomized in a bathroom like this girl has alleged she was. That's the case and just like the Louima case, you have people saying she fabricated it. They said he fabricated it -- two guys in jail right now for that.                                                                                                                                

The best service he can perform today for both his people and his country is to simply go quietly into the night. He is really serving no useful purpose and to a certain degree is harming those he says he wants to help the most.
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McCain is gonna drive me crazy!


John McCain
 
Questions continue to surface about John McCain’s continuing willingness to antagonize those whom he needs so very badly the support of to win this upcoming election. First he calls on the North Carolina Republican Party to cease and desist with an ad they have running linking Obama and the most eloquent Rev. Wright. An ad that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the presidential election.

Then, it’s like almost the next day during an exchange with a Ms Jennifer Rubin he says, "All I can tell you Jennifer is that I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas' worst nightmare....If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly." Now personally I don’t have a problem talking about Hamas or even Danny Ortega and Obama in the same sentence. I just have to question why then it’s such a big deal when Republicans in North Caroline link Obama with Wright when it’s now so obvious that he’s been close to Wright for so many years.

McCain can keep saying he wants a campaign run on only the issues and to run an "honorable" campaign until the cows come home. And he can repeat over and over again how the Republican Party is the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It’s not going to mean squat because he’s up against the party of William Jefferson Clinton, Howard Dean and Teddy Kennedy. The last thing they’re going to want is a "honorable" campaign based only on the issues. I hope he is honestly not that naïve. Because if he is, he might as well throw in the towel right now and save himself, as well as the rest of us, the embarrassment of having his butt handed to him by either the other Clinton or Obama.

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Thank the Democrats for the high price of gas


Cartoons By Michael Ramirez
 Cartoons By Michael Ramirez
 
Those of you continuing to go on and on about how the high price of gas is all the fault of those evil oil companies really do need to get a grip. It’s time for a little dose of reality. The Democrats love to go on the news and use words like price gouging, excessive profits at the cost of the little guy and other nonsensical statements but it’s all just political propaganda, which our left leaning news media outlets are more than happy to perpetuate. The honest truth is that Democrats have been pushing for higher prices for years as a way to, in their words, encourage conservation and to save the environment. Well, higher prices are here and people are using less gas, so you’d think they’d be ecstatic. But there not, the reason being is that they’re upset they’re not getting a bigger piece of the action. Whereas the government would love more money to blow, the oil companies need to make money to be able to spend more to complete much needed research and development for new fuels. Gee, what makes more sense, giving money to greedy Democrats to use to buy more votes, or allowing oil companies to spend it on developing new, cleaner fuels? Sounds like a no brainer to me!

The dirty little secret here is that it’s the Democrats themselves who have created the situation we have today regarding the high cost of not only gas, but also energy in general. It’s all about supply and demand, when you have less of something it going to cost more. And because they continue to support barring any oil exploration or production on just about all government owned land we’re able to drill for less oil here at home making us more dependent on foreign oil. That very same land, together with areas off shore where oil exploration is also prohibited, is where experts believe that the U.S. has upwards of 110 billion barrels of oil. Of that amount, upwards of 20 billion barrels are in the form of proven reserves, another 30 billion barrels is undiscovered oil that could be recovered through conventional means, with still another 60 billion barrels of inferred reserves, oil shale and other unconventional sources, which can be recovered today with new, environmentally safe technology. Now I will admit even with the full exploitation of this potential oil supply this country would still not be energy independent, BUT, it would bring down prices and allow time to develop alternative fuels. Something that those evil oil companies will be needing to spend most of those excessive profits on. Just a side note here, does anyone realize that China is drilling for oil 45 miles off the Florida Keys? Just thought I’d ask.

Anyway, so you can go on blaming the oil companies until your blue in the face, and when they start making more money off a gallon of gas than the government already does I’ll be right there with you. The real culprits in this whole fiasco are the Democrats, plain and simple. The same Democrats who are against drilling for more oil, refining more oil, expanding nuclear energy so less oil is used and even against wind power if it involves building windmills that might interfere with the Kennedy’s weekend sailing. The Democrats have engineered this whole thing, so to those of you who continue to vote for them, THANKS!

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Former Democrat Presidents: Beyond Belief and Beneath Contempt


Cartoons By Michael Ramirez
 
 
As evidenced by his recent meeting with the terrorist group Hamas, Jimmy Carter, that senile star of the American left and great America hater, continues to put on display those finely tuned diplomatic skills so frequently demonstrated during one of the most disastrous, if not "the" most disastrous presidencies in modern American history. This inept foreign policy genius continues to persist in doing his best to legitimize terrorism, this time going so far as to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat. He goes on this little groveling mission on the premise that he can "talk" to this group of murdering thugs and comes away with nothing. It’s like he has this sick fetish where he enjoys letting both himself and his country be humiliated.

Carter is nothing more than a waste of skin who seems to derive a great deal of enjoyment and pleasure from slandering his country anytime and anywhere. I fail to understand what motivates this guy. Can it be nothing more than an out of control ego? Regarded, by most rational thinking Americans, as a presidential failure you’d think that he would have just slunk off back to his peanut farm and quietly lived out the rest of his pathetic life. But no, it’s like he has to be getting praise from somebody, anybody anyway he can. And, if he has to get it by slamming his own country, so be it. It’s really quite sad.

There is absolutely nothing that Carter will not say to demean his country, the more outrageous the better. That there is today a former president of this country who would take such enjoyment in proudly telling the world that the United States is nothing but a racist, selfish country who has brought on the majority of the world’s problems is simply unbelievable. Especially when it is the opposite that is so obviously true. No one sends out more money to help the world’s poor and to help in any way we can. Plus how much money do we give the U.N. year after year with little or no return for our money? Carter, for lack of a better term, is a moron.

While it seems that former Democrats Presidents refuse to go quietly off into the night, it would seem that former Democrat Vice-Presidents are not any better. You have to ask yourself are they so addicted to the adulation that they are so willing to do or say anything no matter what the cost to their country? And what’s with these losers being awarded Nobel Prizes? I guess these days supporting terrorists and promoting Global Warming nonsense is the surest way to win a Nobel. It’s become quite obvious that those who decide who the recipients should be of such an honor have come to base their decisions more on politics than upon any specific, worthwhile accomplishments. However, when you choose worthless individuals like Carter and Gore as winners of this prestigious award, all you manage to do is demean all those winners, past, present and future, who truly deserve the honor. The bottom line is, if you give your award to enough worthless individuals eventually your award becomes worthless.

Men like Carter, Gore as well as Clinton are really nothing but traitors of the worst kind, because they willfully betray their country at every opportunity for a few dollars and a little notoriety. They gladly tell anyone who will listen just how screwed up America is. Former holders of the highest and second highest offices of the land who spread anti-American sentiment are beyond belief and beneath contempt. They are not deserving of admiration in any form or any amount. They should be shunned!

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Which America do you see?

As the election nears one cannot help but notice how the rhetoric is increasing in intensity.  The Democrats love to get up on their soapbox and preach the class warfare mantra of how today there are actually two Americas. In one they have the poor getting poorer living paycheck to paycheck, it's also where they see minorities relegated to the back of the economic bus while women are kept barefoot, pregnant and unable to obtain that all important abortion, partial birth or otherwise. In the other, they see the privileged and wealthy continuing to get richer at the expense of the poor and those evil corporations making even more excessive profits on the backs of the poor workers. The Democrats are stuck in the past as evidenced by what you hear from the socialists Obama and Clinton both of whom seem to think that it's still 1929.

I would argue that I see two Americas as well. One America is the government subsidized, gun control favoring, abortion obsessed, gay marriage supporting, secular and morally bankrupt Blue America. The other is the self reliant, Second Amendment favoring, pro-life, traditional value and character driven Red America. 

Those of us living in Red America need to elect politicians who support the ideals and values that we believe in and who will make our states even redder. And those of us who live in Blue America but have Red America values are going to have to decide when enough is enough and help elect those who will help move an agenda that will turn their Blue state a very lovely shade of Red.   

We must all remember that there is, today, an ongoing struggle for the very soul of America, and the battle lines have been clearly drawn. The stakes of our next Presidential election could not be higher with the future of the country hanging in the balance. We cannot allow a Democrat victory in this struggle if we the people, and not the government, are to be the ones that determine what future lies in store for us and our children.


 

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Are we on the verge of voting away our Freedoms?

It is at this point in our history that this great country appears to find itself at somewhat of a crossroads. It’s at this point where we see one political party, namely the Democrats, who can find so little that’s good in America and continues speak of our citizenry in terms like "downright mean", "bitter", "selfish", "angry" and others even more demeaning. This same political party thinks very little of those valued traditions that have made this country the envy of the world. So much so that it works day and night, together with its allies in the media as well as through surrogate groups like the ALCU, Media Matters for America and People for the American Way, to name just a few, to make us all think that we Americans should feel guilty about our place in the world. Assisting in this attempt to dismantle the very foundations of this great country are the rich Hollywood types and the ever-present George Soros. These important traditions go back to that very first group of settlers that chose to flee the oppression of their homeland and come to the New World to find a place where they could live in freedom and without fear from those in power. They started something very special that has endured, through the grace of God, for hundreds of years.

Despite what members of the Democrat Party say about this great country, try to imagine how the world would look without the force for good that is the United States of America. Sure, we’ve made our share of mistakes, but when placed against all the good that we have done they seem somewhat insignificant. How many millions of people would not be living in freedom today were it not for the lives lost by Americans fighting for and defending freedom?

Personally, I still tear up every time I hear the National Anthem played. I am so very proud of my country, and consider myself to be so fortunate to be an American. Which is why it pains me so much when I hear candidates from any political party attempt to run us down and to make it seem like we’re less than we are as they use their leftist reasoning to belittle this country at every opportunity. And for what? Do they get some sick satisfaction from saying that as Americans we’re to blame for so much of what’s wrong in this world? I would ask them, who has made the greater sacrifice for freedom in the world, who has given more money to help people in need and who continues to be more willing to take in masses of immigrants and welcome them as our own, legally of course, than America? No one. But if we Americans are not careful here we could lose that which we hold most dear. If we choose to agree with those who say our way of life is no better than anybody else’s, that we’re just another country, then all those who have died defending this spirit of freedom that burns so bright, will all have died for nothing. There "is" something special about this country. We have been blessed with the freedoms that only God can give to men, but that still not enough men have been fortunate enough to experience. We currently have two very obviously Socialist candidates seeking the highest office in the land who would like nothing better than to convince us to willingly cede our God given freedoms to those who think they know better, those who believe government is the giver of freedoms, of rights and of privileges. We cannot allow those who would try to destroy us from the inside to succeed. For if we willingly give up our freedoms we are not only betraying our children and our children’s children, who may then never get to enjoy our freedoms, we are betraying the God that bestowed those rights upon us in the first place.

Bonus: Obama lie number huh …………… I forget!

Last night at the debate, Obama said, "I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins."

He has also said,  "Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest."

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What is it about Race?

Can anyone explain to me why it is that if I, an average white male living in a free and open society, choose not to vote for a black candidate because I do not agree with his or her positions on specific issues, I am leaving myself open to being called a racist. What exactly am I supposed do, vote for the black candidate regardless of the issues that concern me? Now, why can a black voter, living in that very same free society that I do, vote for that very same black candidate for no other reason than for the specific fact that that candidate is black? Who is the one voting based solely on skin color? Not me, yet I’m the one, more often than not, that’s likely to called a racist.

Personally, skin color is a non-issue for me when I am casting my vote. It’s all about the issues, and I am not going to vote for anybody, white or black, who holds positions opposite to mine on what I consider to be the key issues. Also, I am not going to vote for a black candidate strictly because I have some sort of suppressed guilt over slavery.

Unfortunately, it would appear the same cannot be said about a substantial portion of our black population who seem to base their voting preference specifically on skin color. I guess any black leaders are better than no black leaders. Examples being, Marion Berry, re-elected after being busted for drugs, Ray Nagens, after demonstrating more stupidity than should be allowed by any public official and, of course, there is that genius in Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick. And also we have Barack Obama, a man in who we have someone who possesses zero qualifications for the office he is seeking. And yet, millions of black Americans are voting for him for no other reason than for the fact that he is black. And, if he does win the nomination and goes on to win the general election, it will be on the backs of those very same people, with him laughing all the way to the Whitehouse.

Black Americans have allowed themselves to be conned by liberals for decades and just because this one happens to be black makes little difference, if anything it may make the conning even easier.  They may think that it’s going to be different this time, but I wouldn’t be willing to bet the farm on it just yet. Like all liberals, Obama is interested in one thing and one thing only, achieving political power. Isn’t it sad that he finds it so easy to use those people who are so willing to blindly vote for him, using them only as a means to attain that which he wants so badly.

But what is even sadder is that you have genuinely caring, honest and very smart members of the black community that would be excellent candidates as well as excellent role models for black youths, yet they end up being tossed aside by black voters. Names like Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell and Lynn Swann come to mind immediately. There are others of course, lots of them. GO FIGURE!!

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Public Enemy No.1: George Soros


 
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 GEORGE SOROS 

George Soros’ vision for America 

The America envisioned by George Soros is one that bears little resemblance to the America we live in today. The America of George Soros is one where legalized drugs, euthanasia, open borders and unrestricted abortions are all every day occurrences. It’s also an America where illegal immigrants receive all the same benefits our natural born and legalized citizens receive even though they are not entitled because of their illegal status. This man who has become the new sugar daddy of the Democrat Party has been able to pursue his twisted agenda through his big donations to a party that continues to be more than willing to do his bidding.

He continues to pour big bucks into just about every major nut group out there advocating the legalization of drugs, and not just pot but the hard drugs as well. The ones that poison our kids. But it’s not only these groups that are on the receiving end of major amounts of Soros’ cash, but also groups that are working hard toward euthanasia, immigrant entitlements as well as feminist pro-abortion organizations. These groups run contrary to everything that is good about the American way of life.

His Open Society Institute acts as nothing more than a corrosive acid on the very fabric of our country. It provides huge amounts of money with the goal in mind being the legalization of drugs. He is very anti-drug war. It is very safe to say that without the money coming from Soros, there would be no serious effort against the drug war.

The Emma Lazarus Fund is another gem in the George Soros/OSI crown. It came into being in 1996 with a very generous contribution of $50 million. The fund was created as a direct response to the Welfare Reforms Republicans forced onto then President Clinton, which he very reluctantly signed into law that same year. Its sole mission was to counter all the anti-illegal immigrant sentiment that welfare reform encouraged. It continues to give money to numerous groups to fight any and all attempts to bring illegal immigration under control.

Most if not all of Soros’ interests have little or no public support. Another one of his pet interests is the making the practice of euthanasia both commonplace and lawful. However, the view of the public on this issue ranges anywhere from skepticism to revulsion. That bothers Soros very little because in the long run he doesn’t really care how the public feels one way or the other. You see, to men like George Soros we little people are just a bunch of uneducated heathens who just to ignorant to see the big picture. He figures if we’re properly informed we’ll come around to his point of view and he’ll get what he wanted and we won’t even know what hit us. One way he is attempting to do this is by funding groups that he hopes will make us common folk see the light. In 1994 Soros gave money to start the Project on Death in America (PDIA). Today that organization has an annual budget of $5 million. The purpose of this wonderful little group of people is "to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement through funding initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities, and the arts, and to foster innovations in the provision of care, public education, professional education and public policy." In 2000 OSI contributed a three year $15 million grant to PDIA to sustain its mission.

George Soros is one, the major one, of the financial backers of feminist groups who continue to support the right to abortion. Even the disgusting procedure of partial birth abortion, which is exactly what it’s name implies. In fact, if you go onto the OSI website you will see that between 1998 and 2003 OSI made over 150 grants to pro-abortion groups totaling over $31 million.

I could go on with what negative changes he is desperately trying to bring about in the country so many of us love. The sad thing is that he would be unable to do any damage if it were not for greedy people so easily corrupted by his money. These people put their greed and there hunger for power above the good of the country. You cannot tell me that these people actually believe the sewage that they help Soros peddle.

Here’s the short list of the kind of people that have ridden, and continue to ride on the Soros money train: John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Howard Dean, Tom Daschle, Carl Levin, John Corzine, Mary Landrieu, "Chuck" Schumer, Joe Biden and Patrick Leahy. Notice any kind of a trend here? They’re all DEMOCRATS!!!

In 2004 Soros gave more than $23 million to those"527" groups in an effort to defeat Bush. You have to question though if it was money well spent. Because, when the election was all over the Democrats had only managed a net gain of two Electoral College votes over the 2000 election.

Today the Democrat Party pretty much belongs to Moveon.Org and men like George Soros, with him being the number one backer of the Party. With his ability to corrupt the system almost at will with his vast personal fortune, over $7 billion, he continues as a force to be reckoned with. Like it or not he is a force, albeit a negative force, in today’s politics. He continues to enlist the service of those who don’t care what lies ahead only that they are well paid along the way. All the rest of us can do is to unite as best we can against this Democrat financial juggernaut of Soros and his minions and do our best to prevent what he is trying to do to our country. It will be a difficult battle but one we cannot afford to lose.

As we speak the Democrats are amassing a $40 million "HIT" fund to be used on John McCain come election time. I hear they’ve only managed to get around $7 million so far. But, I’m sure their buddy George will be more than happy to cover any shortfall.

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Lies and the lying Democrats who tell them

The Democrats derive a great deal of pleasure from calling Republicans in general, and the President specifically, liars at every possible opportunity. Trying to make it seem as if the Republican Party uses the same tactics as they do is really quite absurd, since nothing can compare to the whoppers told by Democrats on a daily basis. We are all familiar with the most recent outrageous lies by both Democrat presidential candidates. But, there is a long list of examples showcasing the Democrats inability to tell the truth that goes as far back as you care to look. Lies that most of us have forgotten about or that those among who support the loony left, read Democrats, would like to forget. They even lie about stupid things, things that nobody in their right mind would ever waste their time lying about in the first place! Here are a few reminders:

I think I’ll start with my personal favorite lie.

Lie: Bush lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

Actually everyone thought Iraq had WMDs, even Bill Clinton as well as any number of other Democrats. As did the intelligence agencies of every major industrialized country on the planet. If someone acts guilty, like Saddam, I thinks it's reasonable to assume he is. Can you imagine had we not gone into Iraq and Saddam had either attacked us directly or handed off a weapon to terrorists how the Democrats would have crucified Bush?  It would have been, " Mr. President, how could you not have seen this coming?"

Lie: Bush stole the 2000 election.

Actually, it was Gore that contested the results in Florida, and Gore that placed the fate of the election into the courts. Bush had won the Florida vote count. Gore was just a sore loser.

Lie: Bush tax cuts were only for the rich.

Actually, everyone who pays taxes got a tax cut. Democrats would rather have no tax cuts at all rather than have one that helps the rich. But, with the rich paying 90 percent of the taxes, it’s more than a little difficult to cut taxes for the rest of us without the rich getting a cut too. So, using the Democrat premise that would mean none of us would ever get a tax cut.

Lie: Global Warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, will melt the ice caps and cause massive global flooding.

Actually, in the 400 years we’ve been measuring the global temperature, the temperature has gone up a whopping .75 of one degree. Only the melting of land-based ice could add to the volume of water in the oceans. The majority of land-based ice is in Antarctica where the temperature averages 60 degrees below zero. So, just how much warming would be required to get all that ice to melt? You do the math! But, personally, I’d be willing to bet it would need to be more than .75 of one degree.

Lie: Bush is just to dumb to be President.

Actually, Bush has an Undergraduate and Masters Degree from Yale. He is only the second President in our history to have accomplished that. Most of the morons out there calling him dumb barely made it out of high school.

 

Lie: Bush wants to abolish Social Security.

Actually, this was just another in a long list of many lies designed to scare seniors. All Bush wanted to do was to make Social Security more efficient by allowing people some control over the money that was deducted from their pay. The Democrats came up with this lie because they didn’t want the payroll taxes currently go into the general fund used, at least partially, for discretionary spending. But there’s another reason the Democrats were lying about this. It’s because if you contribute $300 a month to Social Security, you may get back $1800 a month. Now, the S&P 500 has returned more than 10% over its lifetime. Therefore, if the same $300 was invested over 40 years you come up with $2 million which means you could withdraw almost $200,000 or 10% a year and never exhaust your money. Now you tell me, which is the better deal. Then tell me Bush was trying to abolish Social Security. Do that and I’ll call you a liar.

Lie: The only reason Bush went to war with Iraq was to get their oil and to line his own pockets.

Actually, this one is too stupid to even respond to.

Here’s a couple of noteworthy Katrina lies:

Lie: It’s Bush’s fault because Governor Blanco (D) asked for help and Bush did nothing.

Actually, Bush declared a state of emergency on August 27, Blanco asked for help on August 28. And in her request she made no mention of troops, helicopters, food, etc., despite what she and her staff said later.

Lie: Bush caused the flooding by cutting levee funding.

Actually, local officials diverted Federal funding for levee improvement for years. And one other often ignored little fact, Bush’s funding was higher than that of that other Clinton.

There are lots more but I think you get the idea. The Bush haters like to blame Bush for their incompetence. They’re the ones that are too stupid to be in public office, not Bush.

While the lies coming from both our stellar Democrat Presidential candidates Clinton and Obama are too numerous to count, I thought I would remind you all of a few of them and just for fun throw in a few from Slick Willie:

Obama Lie: I did not take money from oil companies.

Actually, that’s true. But it’s true that no candidate does, because it’s illegal for corporations to give money to politicians. However, he does take money from oil company executives and other employee. And as of Feb 29 of this year he had received nearly $214,000 from oil and gas industry employee and their families.

Obama Lie: I am stronger on foreign affairs.

Actually, except for Africa and the Middle East he’s never been anywhere on the planet that would provide any kind of experience.

Obama Lie: I was a Professor of Law.

Actually, not really, he was a Senior Lecturer

Obama Lie: I’ve have always been against the Iraq war.

Actually, he wasn’t even in office at the time of the vote and has voted to fund it every single time.

Obama Lie: I am tough on terrorism.

Actually, he missed the Iran resolution vote on terrorism, and his good friend Ali Abunimah advocates the destruction of Israel.

Obama Lie: I have been a bold leader in Illinois.

Actually, even his own supporters claim to never have seen any of this bold action that he likes to talk about with such enthusiasm.

Obama Lie: My wife didn’t mean what she said about pride in her country.

Actually, what his wife said would be pretty true to form for someone who closely follows the philosophy of someone like Rev Wright, a man who has high praise for Louis Farrakhan. Men who celebrate their contempt and hatred for their country.

Obama Lie: I am as patriotic as anybody.

Actually, he refuses to wear a flag pin or to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem.

Obama Lie: My church is just like any other.

Actually, his church is so extreme, the pastor who married him and his wife blamed the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrakhan as its person of the year.

Obama Lie: I disagree with my country all the time.

Actually, he still has not clearly stated his position on the garbage spewed by this "pastor". He still donates substantial sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message of racial hatred and bigotry. As late as 2006 he donated $22,500 to the church. That doesn’t sound like much of a disagreement to me.

Hillary Lie: "I remember landing under sniper fire," she said lately. "There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Actually, just didn’t happen

Bill Lie for Hillary: "You know, I got tickled the other day. A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated — and immediately apologized for it — what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995 [sic]. Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up.
"Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and General Wesley Clark – who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers, who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way – both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went, they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

"Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops. And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them, when they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."

Hillary Lie: Here’s an oldie but a goodie. Hillary once claimed, while First Lady, that she was named after Sir Edmond Hillary.

Actually, I guess she must have spent the first six years of her life nameless just waiting for Sir Edmond to climb Everest.

Hillary Lie: On her web-site she like to brag that her record includes working to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Actually, it was signed into law by her husband on February 5, 1993 about 2 weeks after he became President.

Hillary Lie: (Regarding NAFTA) "I spoke out against it starting in 1992, the president made a different decision," Clinton said. "I think now with 14 years of experience under our belt, we can see that in some parts of our country there have been, perhaps, some economic advantages, but in other parts of our country, like where we are right here in northwest Indiana, it hasn’t worked as it was promised.

Clinton also said, "I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning."

Actually, on November 1, 1996, UPI reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Mrs. Clinton "touted the president’s support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region." The AP followed up that next day reporting Mrs. Clinton was touting the fact that "the president would continue to support growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the NAFTA Agreement."

Brief Summary of Hillary’s whoppers:

  • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on 9/11
  • She didn’t know about the FALN pardons
  • She learned how to make killing in the futures market from reading the Wall Street Journal
  • Didn’t realize her staff would really fire the Travel Office employees

Some of Hillary’s factoids:

  • The first First Lady to come under criminal investigation
  • The first First Lady to almost be indicted according to one Special Prosecutor
  • Number of fundraisers convicted, or pleading no contest to crime:5
  • Number of times Hillary, providing testimony to Congress, said she didn’t remember, don’t know, or something similar: 250

 

Bill Lie: (Again, starting out with my personal favorite) "I want to say one thing to the American people,. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with the woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time – never. These allegations are false."

Actually, those allegations were not false.

Bill Lie: "I’ve said I’ve never broken the drug laws of my country, and that’s the truth."

Actually, …. Come on, really?

Bill Lie: "I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."

Actually, ahh no one else could remember such burnings taking place.

 

I have focused primarily on just the Democrat candidates, but the problem of purposeful lying and deceit on the part of Democrats goes much deeper. It is pervasive as well as a systemic problem in a political party that shows absolutely no interest in correcting it. You see, telling the truth just doesn’t seem all that important to Democrats because, more often than not, telling the truth just doesn’t really fit in with the completion of their very liberal agenda. They lie to minorities, they lie to seniors, they lie to everybody. It’s like they can’t help themselves, it’s ingrained in their DNA. I’m not sure when they lie it’s because they’ve told the same lies so often that they’ve come to actually believe what they’re saying is the truth or, what I believe is the case, they simply don’t care if what they’re saying is true or not. If Democrats really want to see what expert liars look like they need go no further than the nearest reflective surface and take a good long look at what they see.

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Beware of the Darkside, the ACLU cometh

If it is Al Qaeda that represents the greatest danger to the country from the outside then the organization that poses the greatest threat from inside the country must be the ACLU.   Founded in 1920 by a man named Roger Baldwin who "thought of the ACLU as a group of elitists, of highly educated people, a few thousand at most throughout the country, would be the vanguard of a movement to protect the individual rights in this society."  This kind of thinking is what has always been behind the ACLU's  thinking that it knows what’s best for the great unwashed masses as well as what drives the group’s utter disdain for the will of the people.  It’s also what’s behind the way it uses the bringing of frivilous lawsuits to subvert the will of the people regarding so many issues.
 
As stated by the groups founder, " I am for Socialism, disarmament, and ultimately the abolishing of the state itself as an instrumant of violence and compulsion.  I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control by those of who produce wealth.  Communism is the goal."   With that it should be painfully obvious to anyone willing to look that it is the trashing of every institution that represents or is a part of the very foundation of this country that is the group's focus.  What should also be obvious is that the agenda of the group is more than just a little similiar to that of the Democrat Party.  It would seem that both are working in tandem toward the same end.   To show just how much this radical group is loved by the Liberal Demcrats in 1981 then President Jimmy Carter awarded Mr. Baldwin the Medal of Freedom.  Here's a guy doing his best to limit the peoples' freedoms being awarded such a medal.
 
The group's greatest weapon is intimidation which it most often uses against those who do not have the resources to fight back . So that way they can win these "fights" by default. Whether it's going after the Boy Scouts, Christmas displays, the family, marriage, religion is general, or any number American traditions, it has shown and continues to show itself to be un-American and determined to undermine every institution that supports the American way of life as outline by the Founders in the Constitution. 
 
What makes the group even more dangerous is the fact that so many Americans actually believe that the group is out there to defend the little guy.  Nothing could be further from the truth.   If this radical group along with those who keep it funded with tons of money together with their eager partners in crime, the Democrat Party, are allowed to declare victory, the future of America is going to be very dark indeed.  They can not, they must not be allowed to win.
 
 
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Are Americans bored with Freedom?

Have we Americans finally reached a point in our history where we are just plain bored with the freedoms that GOD gave us?  Are we just too lazy to make decisions for ourselves, or is it the fact we just don't want to be bothered with the ordeal?  It's just so much easier if we have someone else to do it for us.  The reasons I ask are really quite simple.  There are a lot of people voting for Obama and Clinton both of whom would be only too glad to make all of our decisions for us.  What's scary is that people are not only voting for these two Socialists but they're giving them millions of dollars to campaign.  We all need to remember that once freedoms are lost they are extremely difficult to ever get back.  Becuase at that point its up to those to whom we willingly gave them, when and if they ever give them back.
I called Obama and Clinton Socialists, but that may not be quite right.  Because in all actuality I think they fit the definition of Fascists much better.  To illustrate I'll use someone elses definition, but one I very much agree with and that is:"Facism is a religion of the state.  It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good.  It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure.  Any rival identity is part of the problem and therefore defined as the enemy."  Again, I say this definition is not in my words and was put forth by someone else, but I do agree with it.  And, I think it does a very good job of defining today's Liberal Democrat party and that party's two presidential candidates.  So I ask, how is it that people could vote for these candidates, let alone give them money, knowing full well what lies ahead unless they are in fact just plain tired of being free to make their own decisions.  Even worse, the future of those of us who do enjoy our freedoms is placed in peril by those who don't.  If either of the Democrat candidates win the Whitehouse it will result in some very dark days ahead for all freedom loving Americans.
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"Stupid is as stupid does" the mortgage mess

Can I ask why anybody in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to subsidize someone's stupidy with tax dollars.  By doing so the government becomes nothing more than a enabler for ignorant behavior.  Folks can say, "Hey Uncle Sam bailed me out last time, I'm sure if I get in over my head again he'll help me out."   Simply handing over taxpayer's hard earned money to save people for their own bad financial decisions is not just stupid, but harmful.   It's not as if this was a natural disaster, they brought this on themselves.   So, if it's their mess, let them clean it up.   I made a responsible decision when I bought my home.  I bought one I could afford.  I wasn't trying to game the system to try to make a fast buck.
 
Here's where I agree with John McCain when he said, "it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who failed to act responsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers." "Some Americans bought homes they couldn't afford, betting that rising prices would make it easier to refinance later at more affordable rates," he also said.    Later he added that "any assistance must be temporary and must not reward people who were irresponsible at the expense of those who weren't."  "I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers," McCain said.   "Government assistance to the banking system should be based solely on preventing systemic risk that would endanger the entire financial system and the economy."
 
Senator McCain's comments were made the day after Senator Hillary Clinton, Democrat candidate for President, made a more Liberal, or dare I say somewhat Socialist statement, calling for direct federal intervention to help affected homeowners, including a $30 billion fund for states and communities to assist those at risk of foreclosure.   Our other stellar Democrat, read Liberal/Socialist, Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, also called for greater federal involvement, including creation of a $10 billion relief package to prevent foreclosures.  Just where is all this money supposed to come from?  From all of us who were bright enough to know what we could afford at the time we purchased our homes, that's where!   
 
Once again what this all boils down to is people not wanting to be responsible for their own decisions and choices.  Something that has become an every day occurrence in today's society.  The Democrats want to force those of us who made the right choices to pay for those who did not.  It's not only not fair, but it's irresponsible in itself.  They're just out to buy votes with our money, it's that simple!
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Healthcare in America, if it ain't broke, don't fix it

Contrary to what the Democrats, and some Republicans would like us all to think, the U.S., without question has the best healthcare system in the world.  Why else would so many people, from so many other countries flock here for their care?  Each and every American, with or without insurance, even without a job, can go to any hospital emergency room and be treated for an emergency or accident free of charge.  Letting the free market determine the costs of services has allowed this country to be able to provide the best health care services possible.  Yet, for all those politicians out there proposing their own universal healthcare plans I doubt any have done any research to verify all of the crazy numbers flying around.

Here are a few simple facts that I found: Fact – Only about 3 percent of those who do not have health insurance are in that particular situation involuntarily.  The other 97 percent have made a conscious decision to spend their money on things other than insurance premiums betting on the fact they are not going to need it. Fact – Many of these very same people have an annual income of over $50,000. Fact – Each of us is responsible for our own level of fitness, weight and health. And finally, fact – The sixty percent of our population that is obese, love to blame the makers of the food that they eat too much of.

Taking these facts into consideration, why should the taxpayers of this country be expected to pick up the tab for the vast majority of the uninsured. Now, for the three percent who cannot afford it, I have no problem with the government spending my tax dollars to help out in a "limited" way. But, for those people who continue to have children they cannot support, rules need to be put in place, and my tax dollars should not be spent paying the health care bills for those indiviuals who would rather spend their own money on other things. And why should my tax dollars be paying for healthcare for individuals who are in this country illegally?
 
One final question, where exactly in the Constitution does it say that it's the governments job to provide healthcare to anybody?
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