values - Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) (2 videos)

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer was most likely the first victim of Nazi censorship. On February 1, 1933, just a couple of days after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of the German Republic…

Two days after Hitler was installed as Chancellor, Bonhoeffer delivered a radio address attacking Hitler, in which he warned Germany against slipping into an idolatrous cult of the Führer (leader), who could very well turn out to be Verführer (mis-leader, or seducer)."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

In a radio address titled “The Younger Generation’s Altered view of the Concept of the Führer,” Bonhoeffer warned that if a leader surrenders to the wishes of his followers, “then the image of the Leader (Führer) will gradually become the image of the misleader (Verführer).” Although his microphone was mysteriously switched off before is unmistakable evidence of the clarity with which Bonhoeffer viewed the Nazi threat (Stephen R. Haynes and Lori Brandt Hale, Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians, 29.)"
source: http://bonhoefferblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/dietrich-bonhoeffers-radio-address-on-february-1-1933/

"Human persons ~ especially young people ~ will have the need to appoint a Führer to lead them until they feel themselves sufficiently mature, strong, and responsible to fulfill in their own persons he claim that they make of this authority. The führer must be responsibly aware of this lear limit to his own authority. If he understands his function otherwise than in keeping with the nature of the matter, he will fail to inform clearly those who he leads about the limitation of his task and about the responsibility which is genuinely incumbent upon this task. Those who he leads will always want him to embody their idol. But if he lets himself be carried away by the people, and accepts this expectation, the image of the Führer will slip over into the image of the seducer /Verführer/."
-- excerpt from Bonhoeffer's radio broadcast, February 1, 1933
source: Google Books: 'Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a life in pictures' by Renate Bethge, Christian Gremmels

.. from the 2003 film, 'Bonhoeffer', an excerpt of narration: "The church has three possible ways it can act against the state.  First, it can ask the state if its actions are legitimate.  Second, it can aid the victims of the state action.  The church has the unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society even if they do not belong to the Christian society.  The third possibility is not just [to] bandage the victims under the wheel, but to jam a spoke in the wheel itself."
source: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/bonhoeffer/particulars.shtml

posted on Youtube by OmniChristianVids2 on May 29, 2010 — Mike Huckabee talks to author Eric Metaxas about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor who stood up to Hitler's evil against the Jews at the cost of his own life. To see OmniChristianVids2's Huckabee Youtube playlist, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/OmniChristianVids2#g/c/4E351D461EAD6DBD

posted on Youtube by firstrunfeaturesnyc on April 30, 2007 re the film 'Bonhoeffer', A Film by Martin Doblmeier, available for purchase at http://firstrunfeatures.com/bonhoefferdvd.html

The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the first, and strongest, voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. An acclaimed preacher, pacifist and author, Bonhoeffer came to the famed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on a teaching fellowship. When Bonhoeffer returned to Germany in 1932 he had a new awareness of racial prejudice and challenged Christian churches to stand with the Jews in their moment of need. Bonhoeffer eventually joined the unsuccessful plots to assassinate Hitler and was executed three weeks before the end of the war

A comment quote: "God bless Bonhoeffer for his bravery. He did what all Christians should have done-resisted the idolatry and evils of the third reich. Let this be a lesson for all of us."

The Nazi regime executed Bonhoeffer by hanging him on April 9, 1945, just three weeks before Berlin fell. He is commemorated as a martyr by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of England and the Church in Wales.

related:
http://www.bonhoeffer.com
http://www.rc.net/wcc/readings/heroe30a.htm
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/10/07/12256/bonhoeffer_lectures_will_examine_political_violence_and_cycles_of_never_again

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o'katrina - BP underwater oil leak live camera (24/7)

Updated blog entry at: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2010/06/okatrina-bp-underwater-oil-leak-live.html (Tu.1Jun09, URL change)
BP Updates information page is at: http://www.bp.com/bodycopyarticle.do?categoryId=1&contentId=7052055
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Please be aware, this is a live stream and may freeze or be unavailable from time to time.

BP will report on the progress of the operation as appropriate and on its outcome when complete.

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"..hundreds of "workers" that showed up on Grand Isle when President Barack Obama visited the oil-stricken Louisiana coast Friday were shipped in for a "dog and pony show" just for the President's benefit.  Chris Roberts, Jefferson Parish [Louisiana] Councilman, accused BP of a clean-up charade, telling CNN that the oil company had recruited the workers during the week to show up on Friday in time for the President's visit.  Even worse, when President Obama left, so did the workers."
-- quote source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5433936/la_councilman_accuses_bp_of_oil_spill.html
Written by Saul Relative, WVU graduate, with degrees in History, English, Secondary Education, Computer Programming, and Psychology (... view his full profile)

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o'hand over heart - "Obama prefers McCartney over troops."

From: kd/jt/lc Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010  From: news@glennbeck.com Subject: Obama prefers McCartney over troops

"Isn't it sad that our president isn't going to lay the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier?  He is going to Chicago to be with friends.  A slap in the face to military families, and indicative of his lack of respect for those who served or are serving."  -- JT "But do we really think that those fallen heroes would want the sumnab***ch there anyway?" -- LC .. "President Obama is skipping out on Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington this weekend - but don't worry, he'll be back in time for a Paul McCartney concert!   What a guy.   What a leader.   But this isn't shocking, the President just doesn't seem too fond of America. " .. quote source: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/show/2010-05-27/ Obama will use Memorial weekend for a trip home to Chicago 'Obama skips Memorial Day tradition' By Anne E. Kornblut  article source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/obama-will-use-memorial-weeken.html?wprss=44 With the long Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, President Obama is finally addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so. In 16 months at the White House, the Obamas have been back home just once - in February of 2009. But they plan to make the trip over Memorial Day weekend, an official said. After arriving on Thursday night, they will visit with friends and participate in private events. On Monday, Obama will make remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, south of Chicago - missing the usual tradition of presidents speaking at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. Vice President Biden and his wife will appear in Obama's place, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as holding a breakfast for Gold Star families -- families whose loved ones died in military service -- at the White House earlier that day. By Anne E. Kornblut  |  May 24, 2010; 7:00 PM ET 'Voices: Washington Post'

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o'bribe - Why Chrysler Dealerships Were Closed! [Remember in November]

And, most recently, o'who? and his National Socialist Democrat Party in D.C. are planning to commit over $165 Billion more of our money to "bail out" unions!  And another $65 Billion to 'offset' doctor losses from o'scamcare!  Who else can he bribe? ...criminals in prisons?  Puerto Ricans?  Why not statehood for Cuba ... he could garner a lot of votes there too!  Can we be more bankrupt?  Or is that his plan? -- rfh

 

From: jrp Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010

 

Chrysler's Railroad
 
This could be a scandal of epic proportions and one that makes Nixon's Watergate or Clinton's Monica Lewinsky affair pale by comparison.  Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?
 
Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared bankruptcy. 

 

Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and federal government "graciously" offered to "buy the company" and keep them out of bankruptcy and "save jobs."
 
Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration, "Too big to fail," same story with GM.
 
The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is.
 
Rattner is the liaison between Obama, Chrysler, and GM.

 

Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this list of dealerships'. Not true!
 
The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox New and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.
 
Now the plot thickens.
 
Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?
 
Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down.  Again, on May 27, 2009, The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.
 
Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes. The only "Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama's campaign.
 
Does that seem a little odd to you?
 
Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together. Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White. Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation- Republican or Democrat. But of course, this is just a wacky "coincidence," we're certain.

 

Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."
 
On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas , North Louisiana, and Southern Missouri . It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealership in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.
 
Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.
 
These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers.  Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one!
 
While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!
 
Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone.
 
Isn't that amazing?
 
Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made up.

Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken. Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union!  Fiat owns 20%.  The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded on the stock market. Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the auto industry.

 

As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to be the United States of America, it would appear that the president has the power to destroy private businesses and eliminate upwards of 100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda.
 
This is Nazi Germany stuff, and it's happening right here, right now, in our back yard.
 
There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.
 
Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story.  If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.

 

Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

 

Car Czar No More
 
An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom.
According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family."
 
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future."

 

By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York .
 
Uh-oh!
 
But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation.
 
And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family."
 
Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority.
 
But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"......as Tim Geithner likes to say!
 
SOOOOO. HOW'S THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?
 
Check it out at the following websites.....
 
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot..com/2009/05/hope-change-car-czar-behind-chrysler.html
 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html
 
This goes beyond corruption in high places - to gross criminal actions on the part of our government!  I hope you will spread this far and wide, and hopefully the taxpaying public will demand some of that transparency we were promised......followed by criminal prosecution of the perpetrators!

 

What a crooked government, we have!!!!!

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illegals - opine: "New Immigrants"

From: drude Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010

Recall:   Michelle Obama, "..for the first time in my life, I am proud to be an American."

 -- Remember in November.

This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points.  For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions.  This lady made the argument pretty simple.  Which was NOT printed in the Paper because Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public.  This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!

Dear Editor:

     So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants.  Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

       Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer.  Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented.  Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground.  They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times.  They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.  They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.  Nothing was handed to them.  No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them.  All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

     Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.  My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Tialy, France and Japan.  None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from.  They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan.  They were defending the United States of America as one people.

     When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American.  The people of France saw only Americans.  And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were.  It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here.  These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American.  They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

     And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges.  Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country.  I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about.  I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life.  I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

     And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill.  I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND QUIET! -- LET THIS NEVER HAPPEN.   Do you recall a candidate for the Presidency, in 2008, who did not honor our National Anthem?

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o'nocchio - Sestak: "Truth and Fiction"

From: kd Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010
This was a good comment someone wrote concerning an article about the Oblama, Cllinton Sestak fiasco. ...KD

"It's amusing that Pres Obama is using former President Clinton as an alibi.   Because it makes everybody sure about one thing.   We may not know what law was broken, and we may not know to what extent the law was broken, but we know for sure that if Bill Clinton is involved, some law was broken."

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illegals - Harry Reid Favors Illegal Aliens over U.S. Citizens! Are you "anti-immigrant?" He thinks you are.

From: ConservativeActionAlerts  Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 

Scold Majority Leader Reid for Immigration Name-Calling!

During a recent appearance on a Spanish television news program, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused those who do not favor granting amnesty to illegal aliens as being "anti-immigrant."   As the leader of the U.S. Senate, Harry Reid should realize there is a drastic difference between those who enter our country through the proper legal channels and illegal aliens who disregard our laws and sovereignty.

His comments only add more hateful rhetoric to the immigration debate.  Please don't delay, and send this critical message to Harry Reid today.

ROY BECK , NumbersUSA PresidentSE

PRESS HERE TO SEND THIS NO-COST FAX

DEAR Senate Leader Reid,

Your performance on Univision's "Al Punto" was absurd. Throwing around the term "anti-immigrant" does not help the situation.

On "Al Punto," you said, "We are committed to do comprehensive immigration reform, the President supports us on that, but I tell everyone we can't do a bill unless we get some Republican.... I believe, as has been indicating in all the polling, that even people who are Hispanics who identify as being Republicans, are walking away from the Republicans. This is an anti-immigrant party and is very clear."

I have two problems with what you said. First, President Obama said that name-calling has no place in politics or political discourse. Your use of the term "anti-immigrant" falls into this category.

Second, you assume that being anti-illegal immigration makes a person anti-immigrant. I am in favor of securing the borders and against any amnesty or "pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens. Does this make me "anti-immigrant."

I suggest you take President Obama's advice and keep the immigration debate civil.

Sincerely,
(Your Name Will Appear Here)

(When you Click above, you'll be taken to a web page where you will be able to take INSTANT ACTION if you wish.)  NumbersUSA, America's largest-member immigration-reduction organization. We are non-profit and non-partisan.  Conservative Action Alerts, 1725B Oregon Pike, Suite #106, Lancaster, PA 17601 US

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 5/25/10 #4903

From: LifeNews.com  Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Current Headlines

• Obama Approval Rating Drops, Repeal of Pro-Abortion Health Care Hits High
• Pro-Life Group Asks Senate to Postpone Hearings on Pro-Abortion Elena Kagan
• Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Signs Health Care Abortion Funding Opt Out
• Sixth State Passes Measure to Opt Out of Some Abortion Funding in Health Care
• Britain to See Abortion Ad on TV for First Time Tonight, Legal Challenge Looms
• Woman Dies From Botched Abortion at Marie Stopes Clinic as British Ads Run
• Planned Parenthood Patient Taken to Hospital, Possible Botched Abortion Victim
• Unborn Baby Gives British Mom a Thumbs Up in Rare Ultrasound Picture
• Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood: Pro-Life People Should be Warned
• Florida Pro-Life Group Calls on Governor Crist to Sign Abortion-Ultrasound Bill
• Oklahoma Gov Brad Henry Vetoes Pro-Life Bill for Better Abortion Reporting
• Virginia Principal Placed on Leave for Distribution of Fetal Models to Students

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o'who? - Obama Got Into Harvard (Western Journalism)

 From: Western Journalism Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010

How Obama got into Harvard

 Posted on Western Journalism by Caleb on May 27, 2010 at http://www.westernjournalism.com/?p=8127

     Two years ago I inadvertently began my exploration of the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' with an inquiry into how Obama got into Harvard Law School in 1988.  In the summer of 2008, I was tipped to a story that the media were scrupulously ignoring. It involved the venerable African-American entrepreneur and politico Percy Sutton.

Obama had some influential friends�

     A Manhattan borough president for 12 years and a credible candidate for mayor of New York City in 1977, Sutton had appeared in late March 2008 on a local New York City show called 'Inside City Hall.'

When asked about Obama by the show's host, Dominic Carter, the octogenarian Sutton calmly and lucidly explained that he had been 'introduced to [Obama] by a friend.'

     The friend's name was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction had taken place about 20 years prior. Sutton described al-Mansour as "the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men."  The billionaire in question was Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

     According to Sutton, al-Mansour had asked him to 'please write a letter in support of [Obama]' a young man that has applied to Harvard.  Sutton had friends at Harvard and gladly did so.

    Three months before the election it should have mattered that a respected black political figure had publicly announced that a crazed anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally bonkers Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama's career perhaps for the last 20 years, but the story died a quick and unnatural death.

Read More: By Jack Cashill, WND

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illegals - Arizona Cartoons

From: burd Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 Subject: illegals - Arizona Cartoons
America Vote RIGHT!
related: http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/08/governor-sarah-palin-transcript-of.html

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o'redistribution of wealth - Entrepreneur dies at 25

From: drude Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 Subject: ENTREPRENEUR DIES AT 25

Entrepreneur dies at 25             Tragedy: Another heartbreak for New Orleans Entrepreneur?  It took me a couple of minutes to get it, but imagine, He's 25 and has 3 sons and 6 daughters ...NINE welfare recipients collecting $1500 each..... That equals $13,500 a month !!!  Now add food stamps, Free medical, free school lunches, on and on and on.  Now that, to me, is a real Entrepreneur. Do the math, that's $162,000.00 a year, not counting food stamps, medical, etc. etc.  Anybody out there reading this message making that kind of money? And people wonder why there is so much anger in this country  - -   REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER

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illegals - Whose country is this? (Pat Bachanan)

From: burd Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010

Whose Country Is This?
by Pat Buchanan  © 2010 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved. 
reposted from source at http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2010/04/27/whose_country_is_this
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.

Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.

"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."

We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.

How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?

Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.

Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome.  But what choice did Arizona have?

The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.

Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.

If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop
the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.

What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.

The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.

Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.

Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?

 

Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.

Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the "path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty -- that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.

Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.

Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.

Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government -- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.

What are we doing to our own people?

Whose country is this, anyway?

America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.

Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.

This is not an option. It is an obligation.

Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?

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illegals - Arizona won't take L.A.'s boycott sitting down: Letter to Villaraigosa from AZ ACC

From: thy Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Subject:  Arizona won't take L.A.'s boycott sitting down
This sword cuts both ways.
(see attached) AZ-SB1070-HB2162New

Letter Azcc Villaraigosa

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values - Obama to Skip Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery

article source: http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate?nodeid=360091

 

In a highly unusual move, President Barack Obama is going to skip the traditional Memorial Day event at Arlington National Cemetery to return home to Chicago for the long holiday weekend.

Obama sees it as addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so, according to The Washington Post.

On Monday, Obama will make remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery and miss the usual tradition of presidents speaking at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.

Instead, Vice President Biden and his wife will appear in Obama's place, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as holding a breakfast for Gold Star families -- families whose loved ones died in military service -- at the White House earlier that day.

See the entire story at The Washington Post.

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values - Psalm 109:8 Let us pray. [redux]

From: hh Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010

We were in slow-moving traffic the other day and the car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it.   It read: "Pray for Obama.  Psalm 109:8"   My husband's Bible was lying on the dash board & he got it & opened it up to the scripture & read it.   He started laughing & laughing.  Then he read it to me.  I couldn't believe what it said.  I had a good laugh, too.

Psalm 109:8
"Let his days be few; and let another take office."

At last - I can voice a Biblical prayer for our president!

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war, the long war - "Happenings in Fresno"

From: joeb Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010

Forwarded by a friend. Interesting, and darn scary!

I remember when Hussein's daughter was interviewed when she was living in the US a couple of years ago---she plainly said at that time that terrorists had infiltrated the US and walked among us everyday.......JG

 Happenings in Fresno ... Fyi 

          We now live about 30 miles from Fresno .  We are up in the Sierras and Fresno is the first big town we encounter when we leave the mtns.  We shop there often.

            I received this from my ex-homicide partner who is still active in law enforcement circles in the Fresno area.

            Excuse the language, but don't excuse the facts. Don't give up your guns, and buy necessary ammunition if you can find it. Be cautious and alert. Be ready if, God forbid, we need to protect our families and loved ones.

            If You weren't at Rotary Friday. You missed the only decent speaker we've had in more than a year. LTC John Cotter is the 144th Fighter Wing's antiterrorism officer. John had a two-part presentation. First part was describing his job as the units antiterrorism officer. Pretty standard stuff.

            The second part was information that will curl your hair. A Part-time air guardsman works as a checker at local Von's. Two women in full burkas buy every pre-paid cellphone in the store. Clerk/airman gets to thinking about it. Goes to Cotter and reports incident. Cotter asks store for surveillance video. It's scary enough that he contacts Fresno FBI.

            FBI investigates, determines these women have been doing this all over the Valley. Cell phones shipped through Canada to Iraq/Afghanistan where they become triggers for roadside bombs.

            The Shell station at Peach and Shaw. Every time a local GI goes there in fatigues they are asked specific questions. What is your unit? When are you deploying? How many aircraft are you taking?

            The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. As such they are the first line of defense so they have the US 's most sophisticated air-to-air missiles. Foreign governments would like to get their hands on those missiles or at least learn how to build them. Also how many we have, etc. Two spy groups are working on it, one based at Fashion Fair Mall (the F-16s take-off pattern) and one based at Sierra Vista Mall (the F-16s landing pattern).

            Cotter said the ragheads (But we don't profile.) are always probing the base. Two dorks in a pickup show up at the front gate wanting to deliver a package marked Air National Guard, Fresno . No postage, no UPS, no FedEx, no DHL, no nothing. Just a probe.

            I asked Cotter why we haven't seen anything about this in The Bee, on KMJ, on local TV news. He said they're not interested. Since Friday I've learned of two other things. My brother-in-law Frank, (management at Avaya) had a Muslim tech who took a leave-of-absence for 6 weeks in Afghanistan . After the 6 weeks were up he called from New York requesting an extension. Frank (who does profile) said, you're fired, and called the Fresno FBI who were very interested. Don't know the outcome.

            A Muslim who owns a liquor store in my former hometown of Kingsburg was constantly bugging customers to buy guns for him. Finally one of the guys I grew up with called the FBI.

            We are a country at war and the enemy is among us. I don't care what Janet Napolitano says, it's a fight to the death and we should be prepared as possible. Brother-in-law Frank has a theory and I think it may be closer to the truth than Homeland Security wants to admit. There are a certain number (probably a large number) of Muslims among us who are awaiting the trigger date and will begin randomly killing as many of us as they can, sort of a Fort Hood on steroids. I know I'm getting prepared to shoot back.

            Two items of interest. Sheriff Margaret Mims wants to grant concealed carry permits to all who are qualified. Columnist Jim Boren, among the most bleeding of the bleeding heart liberals, says it's time for Fresno residents to arm themselves. LOAD up, you can bet this is happening in places other than Fresno -- D.R.

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o'change - music video: "Let us help you pack!"

From: joeb Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010

PROVERB 15:17 "A bowl of soup with someone you love is better than steak with someon you hate."

video source: http://www.youtube.com/v/x2G3wGVAnlQ

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CNSNews.com - We.26May10 Headlines

From: E-Brief from CNSNews.com  Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Rep. Hoyer: Obama Medicare Nominee Qualified, Rationing Already Happening
(CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the man nominated to run Medicare and Medicaid, Donald Berwick, is qualified to oversee the two massive government health care programs despite Berwick's claim that the government must ration health care. Hoyer added that health care rationing is already happening in America -- because not all Americans can afford it.

Boehner: Republicans 'Committed to Repealing the Health Care Law' If They Take Back House
(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that the House Republican leadership is "committed to repealing the health care law" if Republicans win a majority in the House in the November elections. Boehner  also announced the launch of the House Republicans' new Web site, AmericaSpeakingOut.com, where citizens can submit ideas for congressional Republicans to consider making part of their agenda.

Obama Should Visit U.S.-Mexico Border to See the Threat to Americans Firsthand, Republican Senators Say
(CNSNews.com) – On the same day President Barack Obama announced he was ordering 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, two Republican senators from Arizona said it's about time – and it's too few troops.

International Community Has 'Responsibility and Duty to Respond' to Ship Sinking by North Korea, Clinton Says
(CNSNews.com) – On Wednesday, one day after North Korea threatened to sever all remaining ties with South Korea, North Korea did not prevent South Korean employees from entering a joint industrial project that employs thousands of North Koreans. The Stalinist regime warned, however, that it would bar entry to South Koreans if Seoul resumes anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along their shared border, which South Korean President Lee Myun-bak has said he would do.

Suspected Terror Mastermind Free to Rail Against India and 'Blasphemy'
(CNSNews.com) – Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the Islamist leader released from house arrest by Pakistan's highest court, remains one of that country's most outspoken advocates of jihad against India, and he is now free to press his case that the U.N. should declare 'blasphemy of prophets' a capital offense.

Bill Requires Rhode Island to Pay Taxpayers Interest on Delayed Tax Refunds
(CNSNews.com) – Several Rhode Island state congressmen have introduced a bill requiring the state to pay the same rate of interest after 60 days on tax refunds owed to taxpayers that the state assesses for overdue taxes.

CNSNEWS.COM VIDEO

Dave Matthews: 'Too Bad If We Have To Pay a Little Extra Money for Gasoline'
(CNSNews.com) – Grammy award-winning musician Dave Matthews told CNSNews.com that higher energy prices are what "we have to do" to protect the environment.

Rocker Dave Matthews: 'I Would Pack the Bags' and Leave Afghanistan and Iraq
(CNSNews.com) - Grammy award-winning musician Dave Matthews told CNSNews.com that if he could, he "would pack the bags" and remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, adding that the ongoing wars there are a "big disappointment." He also said there is enough evidence that "fighting for peace is a broken model."

OTHER CNSNEWS.COM HEADLINES

Obama's New National Security Goals Include Diplomacy and Support From Abroad
Obama's Border Plan Looks Similar to Bush's, AP Says
USDA Offers $1.3-Billion Settlement to Female, Latino Farmers Who Claim Discrimination
Obama Applauded, But Also Chastised, At Private Meeting With Republicans
Mexico Arrests Cancun Mayor on Drug Charges
Oil Spill Brings Mini-Job-Boom to Gulf Region
As Oil Spills, Obama Touts Alternative Energy
Iran's Ahmadinejad Urges Obama to Accept Nuclear-Swap Deal
Car Bomb Explodes Outside NATO Base in Kandahar City
U.S. Prison in Afghanistan to Hold First Trial
International Red Cross Defends Giving First Aid Courses to Taliban

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Biden tells E.U., Brussels could be 'capital of the free world'
Minnesota will pick up tab to counsel divorcing couples
Justice Dept. lawyers draft challenge to Arizona immigration law
Activists blast Mexico's immigration law
Congressman: White House job offer to Sestak may be an 'impeachable' offense
Sen. Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, says no to repeal of 'don't ask'
U.S. military Reconsiders Army's use of M4 rifles in Afghanistan
Mass. lawmakers consider charging inmates various fees stemming from incarceration
After meeting with GOP, Obama says day for 'partnership' with GOP has passed
State's cash flow problems mean longer wait for R.I. tax refunds
California Democrats: Let's borrow cash to save welfare
Building oversize federal courts wastes millions; Maintenance adds to costs
Backyard cottages seen as way to address Seattle's need for affordable housing
House Democrats would add $50 billion in domestic spending to war legislation
Senate showdown over EPA climate rules scheduled for June 10
Dems say 9/11 first responders have earned guaranteed healthcare
Florida gets $25 million from BP to tell the world its beaches are still clean
Lawyers flock to seminar on Gulf of Mexico oil spill issues

COMMENTARY

Obama Names Rationing Czar to Run Medicare
By Terence P. Jeffrey
President Obama's choice to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services does not like free enterprise, but he does like rationing. To Dr. Donald Berwick of the Harvard Medical School, America's health care system is not the model for the world. Great Britain's is.

Look Who's Behind the White House/Sestak Stonewall
By Michelle Malkin
After three months of zipped lips and feigned ignorance, the Obama White House is finally taking real heat over Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak's consistent claims that the administration offered him a job to drop his Senate bid. Now it's time to redirect the spotlight where it belongs: on the top counsel behind the Washington stonewall, Bob "The Silencer" Bauer.

Preposterous Bill Press
By L. Brent Bozell
Radio talk-show host Bill Press is the tiniest of fish in the radio ocean, but this minnow's all over the place complaining about the whales in his new book about how the 'radical right' has 'poisoned' the airwaves. He discusses 'hate on the right," while ignoring hate on the left.

The Gulf of Ocean
By Rich Galen
President Obama has been roundly criticized for planning to attend fundraisers and other political events in California while forcing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to be the public faces of the increasingly inept government handling of the increasingly destructive oil spill in the Gulf of Ocean. I hope someone is keeping track of the stuff that keeps spewing out of Napolitano's mouth because there is going to be a best-selling book involved.

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portent - Prepare (highway sign) [redux]

From: lc Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010

On I-70 in Missouri

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illegals - Threat to USA: links to 2 WSBTV videos

From: bb Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010

Mexican immigration [alone] is not the BIG Threat. --- Listen to this before something takes the Newscast off the Net.  According to the Border Patrol the public is being misled as to WHO is coming into the US from Mexico.  This IS THE TRUTH as reported by WSBTV in Atlanta. Video 1 http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html Video 2 http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html     If we don't get this message out to the people, we are in more trouble...and soon! PLEASE send to people before the video expires.

illegals - 1 Question Survey (MSNBC)

From: baja Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010
Hi, Please vote.  Notice how MSNBC words the question. I think it's not only inaccurate but a bit slanted. Please Answer This ONE Question!  - Then Pass It Along!  Thank you!
http://world-news.newsvine.com/_question/2010/05/12/4274124-do-you-support-arizonas-tough-new-law-on-illegal-immigration

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o'ppease - Israel Endangered by President o'fool (REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER)

reference:  http://www.jewishjournal.org/index.php/story/news_features/ 

Mon, May 10, 2010:  "Israel's relationship with the obama Whitehouse"

From: piloto Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Couldn't confirm this but if true it is shameful! -- piloto ISRAEL IS BEING ENDANGERED BY U.S. GOVERMENT AUTHORITIES. I have just received this from someone in Israel who moves in high circles in Israel. Tonight we heard very disturbing information from a consultant to the United States who meets once a month with the President in the White house.  He is in the know.  This is what actually has happened with the relationship with Israel and the USA and it is not pretty: 1.       Israel during the Bush and Clinton Administrations had landing rights in Turkey, and in the USA bases in the middle east and more recently under George Bush, in Iraq.  This was in case they were invaded by Iran, or Saudi or any other Arab country.  Obama has withdrawn those landing rights.  Israel now has nowhere to refuel in the middle east. 2.       Netanyahu was  instructed to come to the white house for a meeting.  He was brought in through a servants entrance the only head of state ever in US history to be given that disgraceful treatment.  He was not offered even a cup of tea but was lectured to by Obama who told him that he is not permitted to attack Iran and that he has to withdraw all forces from the West bank and may not build any more settlements (neighborhoods) in East Jerusalem. 3.       Israel found out that there were four terrorists meeting in Dubai.  As they have done for the past 62 years, they informed the US of that and said that these terrorists had to be dealt with.  Obama said under no circumstances.  Israel decided to go ahead.  They killed the one terrorist who showed up.  However the CIA was sent there to film the entire event by Obama and then a concerted PR campaign was waged by the White house to discredit Israel and what they did this kind of action has taken place with US support for the past 62 years since we have common enemies. 4.       Obama has refused to oppose Syria's re arming of Hezbollah and Hamas.   Israel now sits in imminent danger from the amounts of missiles that can be sent into her territory. 5.       Israel will never tell the US again of its plans since they cannot trust us. 6.       Israel intends to attack Iran there are over 30 installations of which 4 have underground bunkers that contain nuclear weapons.  Israel cannot wait any longer.  The US is no longer supporting Israel's self defense. 7.       This is the same man that gave the White House a full file on the 9.11 attack his warnings and proof were laughed at. 8.       He believes that the next attacks in the USA will be mass transportation, subways and malls, especially the largest malls where the most people can be killed  - and that Vegas and wherever there are conventions of employees will be a huge target.  We are not prepared and are naive in our lack thereof. 9.       Once Israel attacks Iran, every Jew and Jewish institution will be at risk - temples, religious schools, etc.  We must be prepared. 10.   This kept a room of 200 people spellbound.  It is not fiction.  It is fact. What can be done?  It is essential that everyone who doesn't know yet, now understands that the protection and survival of Israel is not on Obama's list and he is now taking ACTUAL steps to move all protections away - no more landing rights, negotiating with Iran and Syria, making nice to the Moslem World in the face of allies of long standing and he is no friend of the Jewish people and Israel. We must be sure that we elect politicians who protect Israel as well as the USA - our interests are intertwined.