Provoking The Goddess Of Distress

“True, This!  Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Behold the arch-enchanters wand!  Itself a nothing! But taking sorcery from the master-hand to paralyze the Ceasars, and to strike the loud earth breathless! Take away the sword. States can be saved without it!”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton penned these words nearly 200 years ago in his play Richelieu but anyone who participates in or follows politics closely can attest to their ageless relevance as we still witness today those who govern or seek to govern engaged in a war of words waged daily within their respective arenas.

Entire empires and nations have risen and/or fallen due to words spoken at the right or wrong time, inspiring men to fight beyond their believed ability or causing men to cower and retreat in spite of their overwhelming strength.

In days gone past swords were designed for different tactics.  The most effective swords were those designed for in-close battle.  They were short, comparatively light, sharp and pierced deeply.  In this same way a catchy cliché, a humorous quip, a sedative slogan, a headline by which a diversionary or character assassinating leak is disseminated, all these and more make up the weaponry of politics and as such the means by which victory or defeat is often determined.  As the words of Bulwer-Lytton contend it has always been this way and perhaps always will.

Adolf Hitler, arguably the most effective manipulator of words in our lifetime once said: “All great movements are popular movements.  They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”

Idolatrously pledging his allegiance and unwavering loyalty to his goddess of distress Hitler implanted his nationalist ideology into the downtrodden war weary Germany through skillfully and tactfully spoken words, inspiring them to once again to take up arms against the world.  With provocative claims such as: “Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all”, Hitler alleviated their fear of taking on so great a task by first igniting the torch of hatred against a smaller target, the Jews.

The German people bought into this lie and foolishly believed their destiny pre-ordained and victory inevitable.  But as is often the case with those deceived, rather than conquest and greatness Hitler’s words proved to be nothing more than the prophetic eulogy of a narcissistic madman.

American politics are especially vulnerable to the weaponry of words because we have a Constitution that does not severely limit what can be said.

Franklin Roosevelt’s famous: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” speech at his first inauguration in 1933 helped him launch what we recognize today as the hard core implementation of socialism through his “New Deal”.  Recognizing the all too real trepidation of our nation stagnated by the Great Depression FDR mesmerized the American electorate into believing that “new” is always an improvement over old simply because it is new.

FDR justified his experiment in Keynesian economics as the path to a better future by stating emphatically: “One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment…If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

Presently we find too many of our fellow citizens and far too many of our elected officials still trying to affirm FDR’s contention we can “modify the moment” in spite of all evidence that proves we simply made the wrong choice in allowing FDR his failed experiment in socialism.  Didn’t someone once say, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”?  Are we becoming as mad as nations past and present in the search for Utopia?

It would seem so.  American pride has served us well in the past but it is now becoming a glaring weakness.  Nowhere is this more evident than in the deconstruction and redefinition of words becoming even more treacherous and destructive in their cause and affect.  And nowhere is this treachery more evident than in this current administration.

Just like Hitler, Obama’s team of deconstructionists has identified a common enemy in their war against America.  And like Hitler, Obama has allied himself with the Goddess of Distress, skillfully and methodically casting words of hate and division into the midst our people.  Who is his target?  Conservatives in general and the Tea Party in particular.  Consider these words in a recent interview with David Axelrod on CNN when asked why Obama had not yet achieved immigration reform as he had promised in his bid for the White House in 2008;  “A lot of Republicans in Congress want to cooperate, they know better, but they are in the thralls of this reign of terror from the far right that has dragged this party to the right.”

By taking the word “terrorist” and redefining it as a domestic enemy rather than a foreign one (remember it was Obama who said the word was inflammatory in his decision to no longer use it to describe Islamic fundamentalists), Axelrod presumptuously claims a majority of the GOP would actually be Obama’s ally were it not for those pesky extremists on the right.

Axelrod also falsely claims the Tea Party is an extremist faction “dragging” the GOP to the right rather than the truth Obama is deceitfully enticing the nation to move “forward” by storming to the left.  In reality the right is simply remaining where it has always been.  It is the left that is on the move.  Legislation introduced by conservatives to prevent abortion, homosexual marriage and/or reform of entitlement programs have all been in response to legislation from the left not the other way around.

The Goddess of Distress has been provoked the torch of the spoken word has been ignited and cast into the midst of the people.  The question is are we like those who were entranced by Hitler and others like him, going to march silently into an inevitable destruction prepared for us by this unholy alliance between a delusional narcissist scheming with his Goddess of Distress?  Let us hope not.

FDR once said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident.  If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”   If we allow Obama to continue knowing what we now know, we deserve the same plight and destiny as those before us who in their silence surrendered to the Goddess of Distress and her messenger.

Jon Matthews is President of Terra Productions in California.  He produces and hosts the weekly conservative talk show “Right & Wrong Radio” which broadcasts live every Friday at 12 PM (PST) from Puka Shell Studios in Garden Grove, California.  View his website for information and show archives at: http://www.rightandwrongradio.com/.  You can contact Jon at jon@rightandwrongradio.com.

It was the second largest financial penalty levied on a single industry in U.S. history. $25 billion was extracted from the nation’s banks for financial fraud committed during the heyday of the home mortgage boom. The money was intended to help qualified homeowners nearing foreclosure.

That, however, was when another fraud was perpetrated.

“In a budget proposed this week,” reports the New York Times, “California joined more than a dozen states that want to help close gaping shortfalls using money paid by the nation’s biggest banks and earmarked for foreclosure prevention …”

Oh, just in passing, Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown announced that the Golden State will suffer a $16 billion shortfall. To cut costs while keeping state employees happily feeding at the public trough, California will slash its budget for “hospital and nursing home inspectors to perform unannounced inspections to monitor compliance with state laws,” says the Huffington Post.

When given a choice to help his state’s most powerful union keep its perks (California’s prison guards) or preventing elderly abuse … you know whose side Gov. Moonbeam will come down on.

The party of “the little guy” has it in for the littlest and most vulnerable.

So, let me see if I’ve got this straight: taxpayers funded the bailout of the international financial sector, we were told, to prevent another Great Depression. The federal government then sued U.S. banks for engaging in “predatory lending” that was in keeping with mandates passed by Congress. As the dip in home prices triggered an economic collapse, which triggered Depression-era unemployment, more and more Americans lost their homes.

That’s when our subprime Congress decided to aid homeowners down on their luck. However, it turns out to be a backdoor bailout for bankrupt Blue States so as to keep their pampered public employees living large.

The bailed-out are bailing out the bailers. And the guy footing the bill continues to be, well, you – the little guy.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, President Obama is gearing up for another debt-ceiling fight. He told the press that Republicans should “avoid fighting old political fights.” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney added, “It’s simply not acceptable to hold the American and global economy hostage to one party’s political ideology.”

So, when Speaker Boehner eventually caves, and Obama shovels additional trillions onto the nation’s massive debt, it won’t be the Tea Party’s “political ideology” that pushed the country into a second Great Depression.

It was a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a bailout.

Richard Lugar and a Boy Named Jules

By Bill Colley

While it isn’t exactly a rendition of Johnny Cash singing A Boy Named Sue some years ago I worked with a guy named Jules.  He assured me it was just as much a challenge for him on the playground as the fictional boy in the song.  The Jules I knew had survived the recess wars and to my knowledge no passing Mormons clipped Jules’ hair.

I’ve met only one other Jules and heard of a third, the latter being a newspaperman with a desire for government playground monitors for policing the taunts.  The latter is syndicated columnist Jules Witcover.  His work appears in the Setting Sun, Maryland’s largest newspaper.  At the conclusion of each column a couple of lines in Italics explain Jules once worked at the Sun during the glory days, which would be roughly about the moment Russell Baker left for the New York Times.

Witcover is in mourning.  He’s joining a chorus of liberals distressed by the forced retirement of Indiana Senator Richard Lugar.  Considering Lugar had been around Washington since the final days of the Ford Administration isn’t it fair to ask if he was the only Hoosier capable of doing the job.  Obviously his fellow registered Republicans in his home state believed the man had worn out his welcome.  They spoke fairly and legally and term limited the fossilized relic.  Many of Lugar’s fellow Republicans always believed he wasn’t much of a party man and his bona fides as a Hoosier were in question since he found it more comfortable living in Virginia.  I don’t see how the Senator’s length of service and choice of address in any manner approaches the ideals of our founding fathers.  For a liberal like Witcover I’ll bet the founders are nothing more than villainous relics.  White men, capitalists and in some cases slave holders in a culture where the practice then had wide acceptance.

Witcover wailed writing this week about the loss of a man of reason.  He means the loss of a fellow traveler.  Does then his lengthy column suggest the man who defeated Lugar in a primary is unreasonable?  Richard Mourdock drew his base while serving as Indiana State Treasurer and I’ve read nothing these last several weeks offering Mourdock absconded with taxpayer funds or invested money in sky trains to the stars.  So why does Witcover wail?

Lugar voted with the liberals.  Lugar voted often with the liberals.  Lugar was a liberal.  The writer lists a series of votes where the Indiana Senator was a given for the other party in the Senate and this is the nub, I suspect, of the argument.  Witcover is just another liberal columnist who claims liberalism is a self-evident truth.  Mourdock’s identity is still in the future.  He needs to win in November in what is shaping up as a Republican year.  Tea Party factions have been burned in the past and there are no guarantees Mourdock is an extremist as defined by mainstream media.  Shoot, from my view of self-evident liberty loving truth it’s the Tea Party brigades that are normal.  Witcover is a Cabernet sipping big government sycophant.

As for Lugar always willing to say yes I remind you no one on the playground wanted a reputation of being easy.

For a change can’t we see compromise from the liberals?  Where’s a Senate budget?  Did the liberals include the Republicans in crafting and then shoving Obamacare down the throats of Americans?  Witcover and all the Sues on the left know the day of reckoning is here.  Don’t let them sway you with talk of rose petals on the floors of the cloakrooms of the Capitol.  Never in history has our government operated with legislators sitting in circles and singing Kumbaya.

A rout of epic proportions is on the way.  While a great many of us aren’t pleased with the choice of Mitt Romney the man isn’t named Barack Obama.  It’s a key point on ballots across the country.  I predict the challenger rolls up 45 states and the Senate falls while Romney’s party consolidates gains in the House and across much of the country.

Clear the playground Jules.  You’re about to get schooled.

Both Quayle and Schweikert entered office in 2011. They have taken very different paths since then. Quayle has gone along with leadership to become the establishment favorite, avoiding controversial votes rather than crossing Speaker Boehner. Quayle missed 65 votes last year. By missing votes, Quayle is able to claim he has one of the best conservative records in Congress. To avoid the perception that he votes as he is told, Quayle voted against approving the notes from the House Journal, a benign and meaningless vote that was exposed as a parliamentary procedural trick.

In contrast, Schweikert, a Tea Party favorite, has stood up to House leadership on major legislation, only missing around five votes last year. He voted against CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. CISPA grossly infringes upon privacy rights, permitting internet companies like Facebook and Google to turn over emails from their users to law enforcement without obtaining probable cause or a search warrant first. Most Republican members of Congress voted for it, since they receive large contributions from those companies for their campaigns. Schweikert also voted against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would transfer vast amounts of power to the Department of Justice to shut down websites over vague intellectual property accusations. Schweikert voluntarily stepped down from his position as Deputy Whip last year on principle, unwilling to lobby other members to vote for bills he did not agree with.

Quayle co-sponsored CISPA, and added an amendment to it which some believe made the privacy invasions even worse. He was criticized for this, acquiring the nickname “Net Nanny.” He has been accused of being a hypocrite for thinking it is acceptable to report everyone else’s personal internet behavior, while he hid his online activity writing under a porn star pseudonym for a sleazy website. Quayle flip-flopped on voting for SOPA.

Schweikert has a long history of public service, having served as Maricopa County Treasurer and Majority Whip in the Arizona State House of Representatives. He also owns a small business as a real estate broker. Quayle began his career as a lawyer, which he left to start an investment company with his brother.

Quayle has enjoyed a significant fundraising ability over Schweikert due to connections from his father Dan Quayle. Former President George H.W. Bush hosted a fundraiser for him. Quayle has pulled in some big establishment endorsements, including Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Schweikert’s support comes from grassroots conservatives and fiscal hawks. He has been endorsed by Citizens United and Pat Toomey (R-PA), a former president of the Club for Growth known for his outspoken conservative stands on fiscal issues.

The Club for Growth has tried to stay neutral in the race, but when it became a possibility that House Republican leadership might support Quayle over Schweikert, president Chris Chocola issued this statement, “Should it become apparent that you are choosing sides on behalf of Rep. Quayle, the Club for Growth PAC will consider it necessary to intervene on behalf of Rep. Schweikert. We will not sit back and allow House Republican leaders to invest resources with impunity against an incumbent fiscal conservative.”

Polling so far shows Schweikert significantly ahead of Quayle. A poll done by a GOP consultant with ties to neither campaign found Schweikert leading Quayle 44-30 last week, an increase from a month earlier where Schweikert led Quayle 37-30.

It is unfortunate that Republicans are forced to waste money on this race, which has pitted Republicans against Republicans. Quayle may end up the loser, since many see him as a carpetbagger for not running inArizona’s new CD9, where he resides and there was no incumbent. Prominent Republicans had agreed to stay out of the race and give him an uncontested primary, and the Tea Party urged him not to switch to CD6, but he did not listen.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cal.) is getting angry. The chairman of the House Oversight committee is circulating a “contempt of Congress” citation among Washington’s lawmakers accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of withholding information shedding light on the person or persons within the Obama administration responsible for ordering the deadly Fast and Furious operation. The aforementioned action funneled weapons to Mexican drug cartels that killed or wounded hundreds of innocent Mexican citizens and led to the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

Chairman Issa issued a subpoena last October requiring Obama’s Justice Department to hand over relevant Fast and Furious documents covered under 22 categories of information. According to Issa, Justice has remanded documents pertaining to a mere 12 of those categories.

Issa understandably considers Holder’s noncompliance stonewalling. Holder insists that handing over the identities of those responsible for the death and misery on both sides of the Mexican border would interfere with his “ongoing investigation.”

One Justice Department person of interest is Deputy Attorney General David Ogden who, in testimony before Congress back in 2009, said $10 million in Obama stimulus money had been earmarked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to increase ‘its efforts by adding 47 more employees and three new offices … and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest Border … to fortify its Project Gunrunner, which is aimed at disrupting arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.”

None of the thousands of Justice Department documents handed to the House Oversight committee pertain to David Ogden or what he described as “several new and aggressive steps” that were part of the Obama administration’s new “comprehensive plan” to  combat Mexico’s drug gangs.

“Is there an appetite in the House with the GOP leadership to issue a contempt citation?” asked Greta Van Susteren on her Fox News program “On the Record.”

“There is going to come a point where there’s nothing left but to say, ‘We find, broadly, this Attorney General to be in contempt,” answered Issa.

“But this has been going on for over a year and a half,” insisted Van Susteren, “You have a border agent who has been murdered, and you have a family that’s grieving and wants that information. And it seems like a simple thing … and it’s sort of caught up in this sort of Washington – whatever. I know you want to dot every ‘I’ and cross every ‘T’ but time is running out to get answers for this family.”

Van Susteren got to the heart of the matter.

“We hear rumors … we hear that Speaker [John] Boehner isn’t wild about this [issuing a contempt citation]. That he doesn’t what to do this … will a decision be made before the November election?”

Issa sidestepped the Boehner question, assuring Van Susteren that the citation would be issued before the election.

“We’ve sent out, to every member of Congress, sixty-four pages laying out the case for contempt. We’ve asked them: Do they have any questions; can we show them the proof? A lot of them, especially our Democratic members … they have a lot of misinformation on what is owed [in subpoenaed documents] and what hasn’t been delivered,” said Issa.

In a letter to his House colleagues, Issa recounts Holder’s initial denial of “whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department had facilitated the illegal transfer of weapons to Mexican drug cartels” and that the Justice Department made “every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico.”

“Nearly ten months later,” Issa continued, “the Justice Department sent Congress a new letter rescinding the previous written denial and acknowledging that Operation Fast and Furious was ‘fundamentally flawed.’”

It is understandable why Eric Holder would wish to impede Issa’s investigation into the Obama administrations facilitation of cross-border mass murder. It is, after all, an election year, and Holder’s boss would like four more years in office to … God only knows.

What is more perplexing is the hesitation on the part of the GOP’s intellectual colossus, John “Bonehead” Boehner, to unequivocally support Issa’s quest to bring justice to Justice … giving voice to those whose lives were snuffed out so callously.

And, to Ohio’s 8^th Congressional District: it is to your eternal shame that this disgraceful GOP embarrassment has not suffered the same electoral fate as his Senate colleague – and fellow Republican gelding – Richard Lugar.

That itself  is deserving of a contempt citation.

As you know, Liberty Counsel Action and our hundreds of thousands of supporters nationwide have been demanding congressional action against Attorney General Eric Holder for some time now. Last Wednesday evening, while approving the DOJ budget for 2013, the House overwhelmingly voted (138-41) to prevent the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress, with 142 Democrats joining Republicans in the effort to pin Holder down!

Yesterday, the Washington Times called for action against Holder, saying in their editorial, “Justice has waited long enough.” And last night, Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, once again vowed to take immediate action.  Toria, the momentum in our campaign is truly building and Congress has reached a tipping point when even Democrat Members are citing the DOJ for obstruction!

Our message is resonating on Capitol Hill because of the relentless actions of grassroots Americans like you! Liberty Counsel Action is among the loudest voices encouraging Congress and others with influence to hold Attorney General Eric Holder accountable!

Together, we are calling on the House to issue their “Contempt of Congress” citation to Holder over his stonewalling of information on the deadly “Fast and Furious” debacle – or pass the proposed “Vote of No Confidence” – or demand Holder’s resignation for dereliction of duty.

The simple fact is – Washington in general and Congress in particular is feeling our pressure!

Yesterday, the Washington Times editorial said…

Last night on Fox News, Congressman Issa vowed to take action because…

Imagine if you or I simply decided to not comply with a congressional subpoena!

++House tells Holder “Stop lying to us” by cutting his funding!

Unfortunately, in the Obama-compliant “mainstream” media, the bi-partisan expression of disgust with Holder was not widely reported.  The House of Representatives has voted to reduce Holder’s DOJ credit limit in a novel move to prevent the DOJ from using taxpayer funds to deceive Congress!

According to The Hill…

North Carolina is the latest state featured by Project Veritas in its series on how America’s electoral system is extremely vulnerable to voter fraud. During last week’s North Carolina primary, James O’Keefe and his colleagues demonstrated how easy it is to obtain ballots even if the person has publicly professed not to be a U.S. citizen.

Poll workers insist that the ridiculously dressed activists do not need to show identification or a passport. The video further shows an election official telling Project Veritas that it’s “up to the public” to expose voter fraud.Filmmaker James O’Keefe exposes ‘total liars’ in undercover video

Click here to see video from O’Keefe’s latest undercover investigation

O’Keefe also tells WND about his group’s visit to the University of North Carolina, where a dean and a program director laugh off confessions of voter fraud and even seem to encourage it. Yet a day later, both officials tell conservatives that voter fraud never happens.

“We’re trying to highlight the hypocrisy of these individuals and their inablility to do the right thing,” O’Keefe told WND.

And Project Veritas catches up with an election official who says he can no longer agree to uphold the state constitution in his oath since voters passed the amendment establishing only traditional marriage as the definition of marriage in the state.

Source: News.Yahoo.com

By: Genevieve Shaw Brown

Posted: May 15th, 2012

What does one have to do to escape a TSA pat-down? No one is immune to a so-called secondary screening, not even a former Secretary of State.

Henry Kissinger is the latest in what seems to be a never-ending series of high-profile pat-downs, The Washington Post reported. He was spotted on Friday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport getting “the full Monty,” according to the freelance reporter who claims to have witnessed the incident. Matthew Cole told the paper that the TSA agent did not recognize Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Vietnam.

In fact, “None of the agents seemed to know who he was,” said Cole. Kissinger  is said to have been in a wheelchair, apparently because of the long walk to the gate. The 88-year-old Kissinger was reportedly headed to Toronto.

Kissinger joins a long line of celebrities who have recently been subject to a security pat-down. From the Jersey Shore’s JWOWW to the model Bar Refaeli to actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, it seems airport security is the great equalizer.

But he should at least have had the courtesy to tweet about it.

Source: News.Yahoo.com

When Welfare Was a Dirty Word

By Bill Colley

When Anna Nicole Smith died a reporter paid a visit to the woman’s home town and recorded some of the reaction to the news.  I recall reading the quotes made by a waitress working at a local diner at the edge of Smith’s hometown.  The waitress wasn’t at all sympathetic, saying Smith never shared any of her wealth with people back home.  I’m not endorsing the way Anna Nicole Smith lived and there is a larger point to the story.  How can someone who knew her peripherally claim an ownership stake in the woman and her estate?  It appears Smith fled her hometown with a belief there was something better somewhere else.  She took her demons with her and died tragically and young.  Her story suggests she had few attachments back home long before she ever left.

I come from what I suspect is a very similar small town.  I’ve also witnessed on rare visits home growing attitudes similar to the one reported from the waitress.  It wasn’t always the case.  As a boy in small town America welfare was a dirty word.  It was often a slur.  An uncle referred to some of his deadbeat customers as “wellies” and he would shake his head side-to-side making the pronouncement.

It wasn’t as if everyone getting government assistance was mocked.  There was an understanding some people found themselves in dire predicaments through no fault of their own, however.  If your disability was temporary then it was expected your time at the public trough would also be brief.  Then the liberals found a new marketing campaign.  Calling someone out for taking welfare was mean-spirited.  The media echoed the admonishment.  Do you remember a televised public service announcement from the 1970s where an elderly couple are setting the table and talking about dinner?  The husband turns to the camera and says, “Food stamps, they’re good for you!”  To try and further the social message the couple was black.  The latter fact didn’t carry much of a wallop where I lived.  Most of the people getting help from the government where I grew up were white.

Mocking people on welfare became politically incorrect.  Broach the subject on a radio talk show and the liberals call as if assigned and recite the talking points.  “I thought you claimed to be a Christian?” is one of the usual angry responses from liberals who haven’t been near a church since the 1980s.

Some years ago I attended a high school class reunion and an alumni banquet and remember speaking with a woman who attended my high school.  She explained her family had been on welfare throughout much of her childhood.  Not that I’d ever given it any thought but it wasn’t a surprise.  Since school she and all her siblings have gone on to spectacular success.  The motivation was fear of public scorn.  The children knew people whispered behind their backs when food stamps were presented at the grocery check-out and sometimes it was much more than a whisper.  Now that they’ve made some money in their lives I don’t believe the siblings are in any way required to drop by the diner and hand a bankroll to any waitresses (unless they work a Presidential security detail).

The siblings earned what they’ve got.  The liberals will argue they were horribly and emotionally scarred by the whispers and insist the next social engineering project is to eliminate the whispers.  Will that eliminate future motivation?  Like the anti-bullying campaign now enshrined in liberal dogma, the efforts to wipe away thousands of years of hardwired social interactions continues.  If the lefties are so married to concepts like evolution then why are they messing with nature?  Isn’t it usually the charge lodged against the rest of us for driving behind internal combustion engines?

I’ve spent about as much time in my hometown these last 25 years as Anna Nicole Smith spent visiting her home.  Would you blame me if I said I’m concerned I’d be asked to empty my pockets when I go out for breakfast?  Also I’m greatly concerned the number of people living on government benefits has grown exponentially and now it appears it may be a permanent condition.  Did some academics and government actuaries see this day some forty years ago and begin planning?  Was it intentional in order to create a needy class and to make the need culturally normal and respectable?  Then was it intentional to set the wards of the state against the producers?

About the same time I saw the food stamps public service announcement on television during the 1970s I saw the comedian Jimmy Walker on the Mike Douglas Show.  “The other day I read where there are 3 women for every man in this country,” Walker explained.  “I’d sure like to know who has my 3 women!”

Now substitute money for women and you’ll see a whole new paradigm.

May 14th, 1948 was the day that Israel officially declared its independence. It was immediately attacked by a half dozen Arab armies, and as a result of the war which the Arabs themselves initiated, two sets of refugees were created–Arabs fleeing the fighting in that small portion of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine which would become Israel and a greater number of Jewish refugees fleeing their ancient homes in the so-called “Arab” world.

To date, Arabs have almost two dozen states, including one created on almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine…Jordan.

In 1947, Arabs were offered a second state for themselves in about half of the roughly 20% of the land remaining after the creation of Arab Transjordan. They rejected this offer–which would have netted Arab nationalism, in its various stripes, almost 90% of the total territory.

Jews have one minuscule, resurrected state which they never ceased to call home for over three thousand years of history. It sits on less than one half of one percent of the territory of the region.

Regardless, each May 15th Arabs protest and demonstrate about their catastrophe–Israel’s rebirth–because in their attempt at completing Hitler’s genocide in 1948, their efforts backfired on themselves.

Since the Arab tune is the same every Nakba Day, there is no need for me to reinvent the wheel on this issue either.

So, my friends, for your reading pleasure, please check out my widely-published responses to Nakba Day in years gone by. I have selected one of many versions of each article. Here they are below…the answer to the Arabs’ distortions and outright lies:

A Tale Of Two Nakbas…

http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/dec02/2nabkas.html

Nakba Crapka…

http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/08/11/nakba-crapka/

Self-Inflicted Nakba…

http://www.icjs-online.org/indarch.php?article=263

And, last year’s edition, The Case Of The Missing Nakbas…

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10240

Had Arabs granted any of the scores of millions of non-Arab peoples in the region just a tiny slice of the very justice they demand solely for themselves, their own “nakba” would have never occurred. It happened as a result of their own self-centeredness and greed–pure and simple. Now please read any or all of the above articles to see what I mean.

http://q4j-middle-east.com

Kansas state Sen. Ty Masterson, left, an Andover Republican, speaks in favor of a bill meant to prevent Kansas courts government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, as Sen. Tim Owens, right, an Overland Park Republican, waits to reply, Friday, May 11, 2012, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Owens opposes the measure.

Source: NYDailyNews.com

Posted: May 14th, 2012

Source: AmericanThinker.com

By: Janet Levy

Posted: May 10th, 2012

Resplendent in her royal blue hijab for an official appearance in Bangladesh on Sunday, Hillary Clinton proclaimed that she was deeply hurt by charges brought forth at a public forum that the United States was biased against Muslims.

“It hurts me so much,” Clinton lamented.  ”It’s a painful perception to hear about, and I deeply regret that anyone believes that or propagates it.”

Even for a woman who had no trouble during her husband’s tenure as president consorting with the father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat and his wife, Suha — recipient of the famous Clinton kiss — it is a remarkable statement.  Hillary Clinton voiced no public distress over the findings of the last FBI report on religious hate crimes in the United States, which revealed that the overwhelming majority of hate crimes — 72% — target Jews, compared to just 8.4% for Muslims and 6.4% for Christians.  Meanwhile, in the Indian subcontinent, Mrs. Clinton also failed to address the decades of oppression and massacres suffered by the Hindus of Bangladesh at the hands of Muslims and the abject discrimination, extortion, and threats that remain rampant today.

Instead, under the guise freedom of religion, Clinton held a summit last December — the “Istanbul Process” — that actually promotes the global blasphemy law relentlessly pushed for over a decade by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation to combat “defamation of Islam.”  Ironically, in the United States, a country with an exemplary record of upholding freedom of religion and little evidence of anti-Muslim discrimination, Clinton chooses to advocate on behalf of Islam.

Clinton is not alone in her deference to Islam.  This bending over backwards to appease and accommodate Muslims has been blatantly displayed throughout the recent arraignment of 9/11 terrorists at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (GITMO).  What should have been a straightforward presentation of charges was instead a showcase for how we are compromising our rules and values in the face of the Islamic threat.

Defense attorney Cheryl Bormann, sporting a black hijab and abaya in court, audaciously requested that the prosecution’s female paralegals and FBI agents dress with cultural sensitivity for enemy detainee defendants.  Perhaps she was unaware that her call for respect is directed toward followers of a doctrine which commands men to beat wives who fail to meet their husbands’ sexual demands, mandates gender apartheid, allows men to enslave infidel women, sanctions female genital mutilation, allows a husband coital relations with his wife up to six hours following her death, demands the stoning of women suspected of adultery, and requires four male witnesses to corroborate a woman’s accusation of rape.

Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole

Source: WashingtonPost.com

Posted: May 14th, 2012

NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities say a Newark, N.J., airport security supervisor arrested on a charge he pretended to be someone else to hide his status as an illegal immigrant used the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder case.

Nigerian Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole was known by his co-workers as Jerry Thomas. He was arrested Monday at his home in Elizabeth.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says he had worked at Newark’s Liberty International Airport for about 20 years and had passed background checks. It says he used the name Jerry Thomas since 1992, the year Thomas was killed in New York City.

New York police aren’t saying whether he’s a suspect in the unsolved murder case.

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by Aaron Klein  @ WND.com

The protest group that stormed President Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters today was founded by a Communist sympathizer recently named by Obama as a “great” reformer.

Obama has ties to several other activists plotting chaos in Chicago this week in the lead-up to the NATO summit that starts on Friday.

Dozens of protesters slipped past security guards today and ran up escalators at the Obama Chicago campaign headquarters to kick off what they called a “Week Without Capitalism,” reported the Chicago Tribune.

Eight protesters, cheered by other demonstrators, reportedly were led out in handcuffs after they refused to clear the lobby.

The protest reportedly was organized by the Catholic Worker Movement, or CWM, founded by the late radical Dorothy Day, a journalist who wrote for Marxist newspapers.

CWM protests capitalism as an economic system that is “far from God’s justice” and calls for “a withdrawal from the capitalist system so far as each one is able to do so.”

CWM calls for the nonviolent destruction of capitalist society to rebuild a socialist utopia.

Discover The Networks notes that CWM recommends “a complete rejection of the present social order;” “a withdrawal from the capitalist system so far as each one is able to do so;” and “a non-violent revolution to establish an order more in accord with Christian values.”

Such measures are to be used, according to CWM, to create a “new society within the shell of the old” – “a cooperative social order” of “communitarianism” without “extremes of wealth and poverty.”

This February, Obama used the annual National Prayer Breakfast to uphold Day as a “great” reformer.

Declared Obama: “Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Abraham Heschel – the majority of great reformers in American history did their work not just because it was sound policy, or they had done good analysis, or understood how to exercise good politics, but because their faith and their values dictated it, and called for bold action – sometimes in the face of indifference, sometimes in the face of resistance.”

Day is known for her motto: “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

Homes to be abandoned in lead up to NATO summit?

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Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander Caesar Acellam gestures as he talks to the media in Djema May 13, after he was captured by Ugandan soldiers tracking down LRA fugitive leaders at a forest bordering the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. James Akena/REUTERS

The capture of Caesar Acellam, the fourth highest commander under the LRA’s Joseph Kony, is a huge boost in the effort to end a 20-year rebellion that has killed thousands.

Source: NewsYahoo.com

By:Scott Baldauf

Posted: May 14th, 2012

Ugandan troops have captured a senior commander of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army, a group that has led a bloody rebellion against the Ugandan government for more than 20 years and gained international notoriety with the recent “KONY2012″ viral video.

Caesar Acellam is thought to be the fourth highest commander in the LRA, under Joseph Kony. At the time of his capture on Saturday morning, he appears to have split away from a larger group of LRA fighters, apparently over a dispute. He had just one AK-47 rifle and eight rounds of ammunition, and was accompanied by his wife, a daughter, and a helper.

“The arrest of Major General Caesar Acellam is big progress because he is a big fish,” said Felix Kulaigye, the Ugandan army spokesman, at a press conference announcing Mr. Acellam’s capture. “His capture is definitely going to cause an opinion shift within the LRA.”

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Veteran CIA official Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

By: Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter

Posted: May 14th, 2012

Veteran CIA official Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., who led all U.S. counterterrorism operations after 9/11, tells Newsmax that under President Obama the agency has been forced to give up interrogation “capabilities” that it may need to protect American lives.

He also warns that al-Qaida still poses a “continuous threat” of a terrorist strike, and says the leaking of details regarding the new underwear bomber is “very damaging to national security.”

Rodriguez is the former director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, and oversaw the Counterterrorism Center, which collected vital intelligence from captured terrorists following the September 11, 2001 attacks. His new book is “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.”

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, Rodriguez discussed the leaking to the press of details about the new underwear bomber. The plot to use an underwear bomb was recently foiled by the CIA through the use of an operative posing as a would-be bomber, and some reports allege that the leak came from Obama’s White House.

“I am very distraught by the leak,” he says.

“People don’t understand that this is very damaging to national security. It prevents us from doing similar things in the future because the methodology is compromised. I think it is just very unfortunate.”

See the excerpt of the Newsmax interview with Rodriguez below:

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Source: WND.com

By: Jack Cashill

Posted: May14th, 2012

Author and WND columnist Jack Cashill, whose works include “Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President,” says revelations in Vanity Fair’s excerpts of a coming Obama biography simply raise more questions about just exactly who wrote what in Barack Obama’s history.

That’s because excerpts from Obama’s writings, love letters to a girlfriend, quoted by biographer David Maraniss in his coming book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” are smooth, erudite and grammatically fluent, as opposed to the “clunkers,” clichés and calamities from other documented examples of Obama’s writings.

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