O.B.A.M.A.: One Big Ass Mistake, America!

MEMORIAL DAY 2010-Why Aren't You At Arlington National Cemetery President Illegal Alien?

It is the 
VETERAN, 
not the preacher, 
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is
the VETERAN, 
not the reporter, 
 who has given us freedom of the press.

It is
the VETERAN, 
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
  
It is
the VETERAN,
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble. 

   
It is
the VETERAN, 
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial. 


It is
the VETERAN, 
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote. 

Viva Los 1070!!!!

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. - John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814

ARIZONA, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

American Suicide-Thank You Kevin

American Suicide

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context
his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an
immigration overpopulation conference in Washington , DC , filled to
capacity by many of America 's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant
college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his
latest book, 'Mexifornia,' explaining how immigration - both legal and
illegal was destroying the entire state of California . He said it would
march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American
Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and
gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America

The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the
destruction of the United States . He said, 'If you believe that
America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy
America . It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived
the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great
civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show
that all great nations commit suicide.''

'Here is how they do it,' Lamm said:

'First, to destroy America , turn America into a bilingual or
multi-lingual and bicultural country...  History shows that no nation
can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more
competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to
be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The
historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: 'The histories of
bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories
of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada , Belgium , Malaysia , and
Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press
for autonomy , if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided.
Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with
Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims.'

Lamm went on:

'Second, to destroy America , invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage
immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that
all cultures are equal; that there are no=2 0cultural differences. Make
it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due
solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other
explanation is out of bounds.

'Third, we could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec ' without
much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As
Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent
success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have
been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance
that once dictated ethnocentricy and what it meant to be an American, we
are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lamm
said, 'I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and
culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl
metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural
subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similarities.'

'Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least
educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated,
and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass
have a 50% dropout rate from high school.'

'My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations
and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in
ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I
would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the
fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority.'

'My sixth plan for America 's downfall would include dual citizenship,
and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I
would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people
worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they
are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is
against most historical precept. People undervalue the unity it takes to
keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed
that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language
and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part
in the Olympic games.. A common enemy, Persia , threatened their liberty.
Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors:
local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political
divisions. Greece fell. 'E. Pluribus Unum' -- From many, one. In that
historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of
the 'Unum,' we will 'Balkanize'   America as surely as Kosovo.'

'Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits. Make it taboo to
talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word
similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and
paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion
and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having
established multi-cultum, having the large foundations fund the doctrine
of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our
immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has
been good for America , it must always be good. I would make every
individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of
millions of them.'

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound
silence followed. Finally he said, 'Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson
Davis 's book 'Mexifornia.' His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to
destroy America .. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't
read that book.'

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous
cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that
room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically,
quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the
foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even
barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as
we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third
World as corporations create a Third World in America Take note of
California and other states. Todate, ten million illegal aliens and
growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book '1984.' In that
story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building:
'War is peace,' 'Freedom is slavery,' and 'Ignorance is strength.'

FAIR AND BALANCED...LIKE CNN, MSNBC, NEW YORK TIMES

CRIME OF THE CENTURY

Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.  The history of liberty is the history of resistance.  The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson

Best of Jim Cook May 10, 2010
We are in the grips of an evil system.  Big government social planners claim their programs do good but they do more harm than good.  In fact they do horrible things.  For example, the black family has disintegrated under the auspices of the nanny state.  The illegitimacy rate has soared to 70%.  Drug addiction and alcoholism are epidemic among the subsidized.  Among Native Americans the rate of alcoholism hovers around 90% and the reservations have become degrading repositories of dysfunction. If you care about people don’t give them money they didn’t earn.  The more you give them the worse off they are.  The liberals and leftists with their fanatical devotion to social justice never bother to examine the damage they do or stop to pick up the pieces.  They push for more behavioral poison blinded by their radical zealotry.  They foster dependency.  They consign little children to sexual predation.  They promote criminality and misbehavior.  They beat their breast in outrage over the social disaster they themselves have engineered casting blame on those who diagnose their damage.  Whatever their motives, the modern leftist commits atrocities. They ruin people. A wise man said, “The worst thing that can befall you is to have nothing to do.”  Is it too much to ask the left to absorb some simple truths about human behavior?  Do liberals know Proverbs?  e.g.  “Idleness is the devil’s workshop.”  Bad behavior emanates from boredom.  Think of its opposite – stimulation.  People will do bad things to escape boredom.    That’s not all, runaway social sympathy obscures the crucial fact that human beings improve themselves through struggle.  Adversity carries the seeds of wisdom and growth.  The left is engineering a nation of wimps and ne’er-do-wells, who run to the government with every hangnail and eventually become permanent wards of the state.  Taxpayers are creating and subsidizing villains who can rob and maim them. This is the Achilles heel of liberalism.  These are the facts that should be relentlessly publicized.  To defeat the left attack their weakest point.  Shine the spotlight on their atrocious handiwork.  They can never defend what they have done.   In it lies the seeds of their undoing.  They will never own up; never acknowledge.  The magnitude of their sins exceeds anything that came before.  Expose these crimes of the liberal do-gooders.  By reducing tens of millions of people to self-destructive behavior and outright helplessness they are guilty of the greatest wrongdoing in history.

"You can't borrow your way out of debt... or spend your way to prosperity."

"And today, I'm happy to report that we received some very encouraging news... I should also note that the unemployment rate ticked up slightly from 9.7 to 9.9 [percent]."  President Illegal One, May 7, 2010.

Five Cultural Expectations About Work That Must Go

By Vedran Vuk

There’s no other way to put it. The Greek riots were no more than a temper tantrum thrown by overgrown government employees. Previously, Greek government employees could retire with a full pension (80% of their salary) after 35 years of work. Theoretically, a worker starting at 18 could retire at 53 with full benefits. With reduced benefits, an even earlier retirement was possible.  With the overly plush benefits disappearing, the workers are naturally angry. The problem isn’t that the Greek government is too cruel but rather that Greek expectations are too high. But Greece isn’t our main concern. U.S. culture also has some problematic expectations of work and employment.

1. First, we all expect to live like kings, no matter what our profession. The subprime mortgage crisis was the result of systematic government interventions. However, it doesn’t explain why so many purchased a $300K home in the suburbs rather than a $150K home in the city. If most subprime buyers had financed homes in their price range with ARMs, many would likely still have their homes. We have a cultural problem of financially reaching beyond our means and future expected salaries.

2. To most Americans, the 40-hour work week is sacred. But with globalization, this simply cannot last forever. The history of the world is filled with 80-hour weeks in the factory and on the farm. For most of the world, this is still true. Having two jobs or attending school while working is considered a Herculean effort by most Americans. For the rest of the world, it sounds like a vacation. Sooner or later, globalization will force us back to reality.

3. The expectation of a great factory job straight out of high school is finally gone. There are only a few parts of the country with this mentality left, and they’re struggling. But there is a new, equally unrealistic idea left over from better times: get a college degree and receive a job afterward. 

Many critics suggest fixing the college system. But it doesn’t need to be fixed. The students’ expectations need to adapt. That’s a much easier solution. These days, one goes to college to get a degree, which leads to a series of internships. These internships lead to a job. It’s a much more entrepreneurial approach to the job market. Employment is no longer handed to any bozo with a diploma. A recent graduate really has to make things happen for himself. Students operating under the old model fail in the job market.

4. The worship of the college degree hurts non-degree holders as well. Skilled labor is completely demeaned in the United States. Society encourages a young adult pursuing an art degree more than an electrician’s apprentice. Without a college degree, one is basically treated like a second-class citizen. Being a plumber, electrician, or mechanic are perfectly respectable jobs. Further, small business and entrepreneurship can create very rewarding careers. By pushing everyone to attend college, society demeans these important career paths without degrees.

Most Americans don’t realize that our value system is somewhat unique. For example, when I was entering college, I remember a conversation with my grandfather from Croatia. I explained to him my desire to study economics. His response was, “Economics? Why don’t you do something useful, like become an electrician?” What American parent would want their kid to be an electrician rather than a college graduate! And it’s not that Croatians don’t value education – they do. It’s just that becoming a good electrician is a respectable job over there.

5. The college degree is a double-edged sword. Once someone acquires a degree and can’t get a job, things get even worse. Students are often too embarrassed to change careers toward non-degree work. Shame and guilt prohibit former students from amending their college mistake. Instead of finding a new career, they dig the hole deeper by seeking a Masters or Ph.D. in useless majors. Even when they do accept non-degree jobs, the choices are very specific. Somehow, it’s socially acceptable for a former philosophy student to work at the coffee shop but not at a construction company for more money. It’s a very confusing social predicament.

A Simple Test...

-----The    One (1) Question Test

This test only has one question, but it's a  very important one. By
giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally..

 The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which
you will have to make a decision.  Remember that your answer needs to be
honest,
 yet spontaneous...give due consideration...


THE SITUATION:

You are in Miami, Florida . There is chaos all around you caused by a
hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions.
You are a photojournalist
working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this
epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.  You're trying to shoot
career- making photos. There are houses and people
swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is
unleashing all of its destructive fury.



THE TEST:

Suddenly you see two men and a woman in the water. They are fighting for
their lives, trying not to be taken down with the debris.  You move
closer. Somehow they look familiar...you suddenly realize who they are.

It's Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi!!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take
them under forever.

You have two options:

You can save their lives or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize
winning photo, documenting the deaths of two of the world's most
powerful people.


NOW, Here's the    question...

please give an honest answer...



Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the
classic simplicity of black & white?

Lunacy of the Left

Lunacy of the Left

By Glenn Beck
Sunday, May 9, 2010

"Papers please: Law makes it crime to be Illegal Immigrant."

This is how MSNBC summarized the new law in Arizona, designed to do something that our federal government will not: take illegal immigration seriously.

The idiocy of the not-so-subtle Nazi reference is exceeded only by the idea that doing something "illegal" should be anything other than a "crime."

But common sense didn't stop many from reacting as if Arizona's attempt to ask for identification would turn the Southwestern United States into the Fourth Reich.

Mexico even issued a warning to anyone daring to travel to Arizona, which would have been much more intimidating if it didn't sound so much like loving and sensible motherly advice: "It is important to act carefully and respect the local laws."

Isn't that good advice to anyone traveling anywhere?

Mexico's outrage rings particularly hollow considering Article 67 of its Population Law:

"Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal ... are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues."

In addition, Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico "a major human rights crisis."

Here, we occasionally ask for identification. In Mexico, an estimated six of 10 migrant women and girls are victims of sexual violence -- a crime often participated in by authorities themselves.

That's a real human rights crisis.

If the Arizona law is so controversial, the residents of Arizona don't seem to understand why. A Rasmussen poll found that 70 percent supported the basic concept of the law.

How did this happen?

Was it all those rich people? No, those earning less than $20,000 per year supported it 60-34 percent.

Was it all those old people? No, those between 18 and 29 years old supported it 72-28 percent.

Was it all those Republicans? No, Democrats supported the bill 51-43 percent.

Was it all those conservatives? No, liberals supported the bill 44-39 percent.

Was it all those white people? No, even the "other race" category, which includes mostly Hispanics, supported it 63-36 percent.

Either Arizona is filled with racists or they just know more about the law than those criticizing it.

President Obama said he believed it was a "poorly conceived law." He would have been right -- if anything like the law he described actually existed.

This is how he summarized his worry for "Hispanic Americans": "(If) you don't have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to be harassed ... ."

Well, perhaps -- but not legally.

The law specifically prohibits such behavior. It applies so many circumstantial limitations that it's hard to imagine how systematic abuse is possible. Law enforcement will make a "reasonable attempt" to determine the immigration status of a person, "when practicable," if there is a "reasonable suspicion," if it doesn't "hinder or obstruct an investigation," or if he or she is already "arrested."

However, "race, color or national origin" cannot be the only reason someone is asked. Furthermore, any such interactions must be "permitted by the United States or Arizona constitution," must "be implemented in a manner consistent with federal laws regulating immigration," must protect "the civil rights of all persons" and the questioning must occur during "lawful contact."

What does "lawful contact" mean? According to the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School professor who helped draft the law, it means "the officer is already engaged in some detention of an individual because he's violated some other law. ... The most likely context where this law would come into play is a traffic stop."

Arizona is currently in the midst of clarifying this even further, just to be completely clear.

So unless your mythical trip to the ice cream stand includes reckless driving or armed robbery, you're probably OK enjoying your mint chocolate chip waffle cone in peace.

The larger point, however, is that those who attack this law are making a very specific complaint about a very specific group of people. They claim the bill is ripe for abuse. But by whom? No critic is claiming that Republican politicians will start making citizen's arrests of passing Hispanics.

They are saying that police officers will abuse their powers to recklessly harass and detain Hispanic citizens for no reason. Why can we trust the police to make judgments on the use of lethal force but not to ask for identification when appropriate?

It's been my experience that police officers, along with members of the military, represent the finest among us. These are people who risk their lives every day to protect us, so why are we repaying them with accusations of widespread bigotry?

Do we really believe the everyday cop will be inextricably tempted to unfairly detain Hispanics, even when he will clearly have to break the law to do so? If you really believe that our men and women in uniform at the local precinct are the equivalent of German Nazis asking for "papers," then be honest about it.

Make that case to the American people.

I dare you.

Glenn Beck is host of "The Glenn Beck Program" on the Fox News Channel (5 p.m. weekdays). This is the first in a series of occasional columns he will be writing for the Trib.

Incoming

"all muslims aren't terrorists, but most terrorists are muslims"


"We can have no 50-50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.", Teddy Roosevelt

Et Tu Immaculate Illegal?

OBAMA CHEATING SCANDAL: SHOCKING NEW REPORTS

Photo by: splash news online

UPDATED: Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide.

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-oldVERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions.

While Baker has insisted in the past that "nothing happened" between them, reports reveal that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says in 2004 that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous in where Obama was staying. 

An ENQUIRER reporter has confirmed the limo driver's account of the secret 2004 rendezvous.

Bits And Pieces From The Past Week

In reality, no variety of "prosperity" has ever been built on debt. The very notion is absurd. The notion of regaining lost prosperity by issuing even more debt is even more absurd. The ONLY way out of the mess we are in, is to return to sound money. Better to get there first while the "authorities" founder... and dig the grave of the paper system even deeper. - Bill Buckler, the-privateer.com... April 24, 2010

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails them. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."  Anonymous

Powerpoint does not equal leadership...SB from California