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The “REAL” Ted Kennedy

856 Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday night at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. Kennedy’s life was full of contradictions and self-destruction, yet full of success. He earned a reputation as an outspoken liberal standard-bearer during a conservative-dominated era from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

In 1951 he was expelled from Harvard for cheating on exams. Kennedy became a voice for ending the war in Vietnam. Kennedy is best known for his focus on health care and education. Kennedy fought to end apartheid rule in South Africa. In 1964 Kennedy’s first speech to the Senate was in support of the civil rights bill that finally established full citizenship rights for African-Americans. Kennedy worked with his friend and colleague, conservative Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, to develop the State Children’s Health Program, which provides the matching funds for state programs. Congress passed the necessary legislation in 1997. Kennedy played a key role in passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act. Kennedy introduced legislation to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. In 1987, Kennedy led the opposition to President Reagan’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Robert Bork. The senator was quick to warn that he thought Bork’s conservative ideology would be dangerous for the country.

Some think of personal controversies, like the Chappaquiddick incident, having been drinking and partying with young women aides of his brother Robert Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, at this time a married man and a father, slipped away with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, who was trapped in his car after he took a wrong turn off the Chappaquiddick bridge, lost control of his car which was submerged in just eight feet of water. Kennedy chose to flee the scene , leaving the young woman to die an agonising death not of drowning but of suffocation over a period of hours. Incredibly, it was 10 hours before Kennedy reported the accident, by which time he’d consulted a family lawyer. The senator’s explanation for this unconscionable, despicable, unmanly and inexplicable behaviour was never convincing: he claimed that he’d struck his head and was “confused” and “exhausted” from diving and trying to rescue the young woman and had gone home to bed.

Senator Kennedy pursued collaboration with the Soviet Union to undermine Ronald Reagan’s defense policy during the Cold War, and influence the 1984 election. The proof of this comes in the form of a memo from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to Andropov. In 1983 Kennedy conveyed an offer to Soviet General Secretary, Yuri Andropov through his law school and confident John Tunney. Kennedy’s offer was to help the Soviets burnish their image in American public opinion to ostensibly ease tensions during a particularly warm period of the Cold War. Kennedy was concerned about the deteriorating US-Soviet relationship.

If you remember Kennedy criticizing George W. Bush for being in the National Guard during Vietnam, Kennedy was in the Army, and was assigned to honor guard duty in Paris until 1953. Easter 1991 was yet another proud moment for Sen. Kennedy. He was “hanging” with his young nephew, William Kennedy Smith, and his friends in his Palm Beach home, where his nephew was accused of raping a young woman.

Then there is the “kennedy dodd waitress sandwich”. Some accounts put this event at The Monocle, another DC restaurant. For all we know, it happened at both establishments–and who’s to say similar antics didn’t occur at many others. In 1985, Chris Dodd and fellow Senator Ted Kennedy were out (with dates) for a night on the town at La Brasserie. Much liquor was consumed and the two Senators were at one point unaccompanied by their dates. Kennedy picked the waitress up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered and he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd, who was slumped in a chair, Kennedy then jumped on top of her, forming a ‘human sandwich’. Another waitress entered to find things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, the waitress was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom. She was said to have run screaming from the room.”

Should Kennedy have stayed in the Senate for as long as he did?

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2009: 08/28
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The Afghanistan War

us.coalition.bnr There have been 1,337 coalition deaths — 801 Americans, 11 Australians, one Belgian, 207 Britons, 127 Canadians, three Czech, 24 Danes, 19 Dutch, six Estonians, one Finn, 29 French, 30 Germans, two Hungarians, 14 Italians, three Latvian, one Lithuanian, four Norwegians, 10 Poles, two Portuguese, 11 Romanians, one South Korean, 25 Spaniards, two Swedes, two Turks and one NATO/ISAF — in the war on terror as of August 27, 2009. Here are the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors whose deaths have been reported by their nation’s governments. The troops died in support of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom or the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Obama You Can’t Hide On This Conflict Forever!

2009: 08/28
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British Sound Off On Afghanistan War

6812a The Afghanistan War seems to be following the footsteps of the Korean War. Obama has kept so silent about Afghanistan that America has forgotten that troops are over there. At least the Sun in Britain has acknowledged that the Afghanistan War is still going on.

The Sun placed the faces of 207 soldiers on a cover page to remind Prime Minister Gordon Brown that they were still in conflict.

The Obama Media will never do something like this, unless it was George Bush or any Republican Official. This is the problem with the Democrats, they hide the truth when they are in office. The Sun asks the Government and Gordon Brown: Where is your leadership? Sun, come over there and ask Obama, Where Is His Leadership?

207 heroes … faces of those who have died

2009: 08/28
CATEGORY: Afghanistan
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Glenn Beck Attacks Obama

Glenn Beck detailed a multitude of questionable quotes and inappropriate associations of Obama’s White House appointees. To the Obama Kool Aid Drinker, Obama Dust Sniffer, and Obamedia Beck is a thorn in the side. Blogger Pasadena Closet Conservative commented in a post something all should know ‘If you want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie; if you want to piss off a liberal, tell him the truth.’ Thanks Pasadena for that wisdom.

Below are excerpts from Glenn Beck’s broadcast which aired on Fox News.

Treasury Secretary, Timothy Giethner said, ”To get through this, governments need to act, great obligation, responsibility for governments to act to solve these things. The Market will not solve this and the great risk for us that we do too little, not that we do too much.”

Vice President, Joe Biden said, “The markets are still a free market, still need to be able to function, but if I can steal a phrase from a former president, it was referenced about him that he saved capitalism from the capitalists.”

President of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern said, “I think I’m gonna win the Nobel Prize, cause I think I can finally prove that Ronald Reagan is wrong, George Bush is wrong, wealth does not trickle down, it trickle’s up.”

US Congresswoman Maxine Waters said to oil industry leaders on the house floor, “And guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be all about socializing… uh… would be about… basically [pause]… taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said, “I think we’ve had enough capitalism in the last eight years, I think we need some regulation now.”

Obama administration Science Czar, John Holdren said, “The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than the present one redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

John Holdren also said while writing of large families, that they “contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children [and] can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility.” - “it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” – “Neither the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce.” This quote is directly from his book 1977 book, “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” co-authored with Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and dealt with limited resources and mandatory population control.

Obama administration Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein said, “Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes few of us would have any assets worth defending [it is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden on the public fisc… there is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.” Sunstien has proposed bans on hunting and eating meat, offered a proposal that dogs, be allowed to have an attorney in court and proposed a fairness doctrine for the internet.

Carol Browner, Global Warming Czar, was listed up until January 5th, as one of 14 leaders of the socialist group, Socialists International. Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies. The group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization’s action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Healthcare Czar, Ezekial Emanuel a believer in the “Complete Lives System” said this in a paper he co-authored in Lancet 2009, “ Because none of the currently used systems satisfy all ethical requirements for just allocation, we propose an alternative: the complete lives system. This system incorporates five principles: youngest-first, prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value. … When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated … the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents. Prognosis allocation encourages physicians to improve patients’ health, unlike the perverse incentives to sicken patients or misrepresent health that the sickest-first allocation creates.”

Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones developed the radical group STORM, who says this about itself, “STORM developed and promoted a set of explicitly revolutionary ideas during a time when these politics were hard to find. While many people in our generation dismissed Marxism as inherently white and sectarian, we looked towards the revolutionary traditions of third world communism and found valuable and inspiring models for revolutionary change.” Van (Anthony) Jones was a leading member of a Marxist organization known by the acronym STORM, which means Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

Van Jones, is a former black Nationalist who admitted to becoming communist whie in jail. He has served on the board of directors for, the Social Venture Network, an acivist group for the Global Government giant, the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Apollo Alliance mentioned above, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a group listed on several Socialist action websites as a resource on several websites.

Regarding the coal industry in the united states, Van Jones has said, “All that clean coal stuff, now, I’m gonna tell ya right now…we could have clean coal, I’m for clean coal, but I tell ya what, if we gonna have clean coal, let’s have a couple of other things, Instead of clean coal, we could have unicorns pull our cars for us equally fictitious, equally fantastic, equally ludicrous… we could have the tooth fairy bring us our energy at night, equally ludicrous, there is no such thing as unicorns, there is no such thing as the tooth fairy and there is no such thing as clean coal, so let’s be clear about that.” As clean coal is the only way the coal industry will survive regulatory requirements in Cap and Trade, is the administration going to put the coal industry out of business?

Deocrating representative John Conyers said when asked about reading the healthcare bill before signing it, “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill… What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

And we end with President Obama’s long time friend and advisor, William Ayers. In 2006, Mr. Ayers said, “You want me to elaborate the point? Down with capitalism!”

I like Beck, don’t get a chance to listen/watch him but I do try to read some of his articles. Those on the LEFT cannot face the truth of how this Administration plan to ruin this country. Beck, keep the torch, sooner or later the country will wake-up and see the Real Obama.

2009: 08/27
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Military Deaths In Afghanistan

795 Since the Afghanistan War started in 2001, 2009 is the deadliest year for foreign troops since the overthrow of the Taliban. The independent icasualties.org website said 63 foreign soldiers died in Afghanistan so far this month and 295 so far this year, making 2009 the worst year on record after less than nine months. Obama, who accused Bush during the 2008 campaign of favouring a “war of choice” in Iraq over a “war of necessity” in Afghanistan, has ordered 21,000 more soldiers to the fight. Remind you readers, Obam a became Commander In Chief in November 2008 and has been in office since January, eight months ago.

Obama plans to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan to about 68,000 by year’s end, more than double the 32,000 the US had there before he took office at the beginning of the year. The situation in Afghanistan is “deteriorating”, the Taliban’s tactics are becoming more sophisticated, the Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated. US combat deaths in Afghanistan have risen since Barack Obama, the US president, ordered a troop build-up with a record 44 US soldiers killed in July.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001: Reuters

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 802
Britain 206
Canada 128
Germany 35
France 29
Denmark 25
Spain 25
Netherlands 19
Italy 15
Other nations 60
TOTAL: 1,344

America’s eight-year war in Afghanistan is the new ‘Vietnam.’

2009: 08/27
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Japanese, Koreans Gain From Cash For Clunkers

539w Japanese and South Korean automakers registered the biggest market share gains in the “cash for clunkers” program that ended this week. Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T), Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T), Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) capitalized on the program’s goal of pushing consumers away from gas guzzling sport utilities and pickups, to more efficient cars and trucks, preliminary sales figures showed.

I stated in a post, No one want’s to buy American cars, that’s why the sales were dropping in General Motors Co (GM.UL) and Chrysler. Nearly 700,000 sales, $2.87 billion in rebates. Cars outsold trucks, 2-1. Overseas manufacturers dominate in car sales.

According to the figures, Toyota’s “clunkers” market share was 19.4 percent, compared with its year-to-date U.S. share through July of 17 percent. Honda captured 13 percent of the “clunkers” market compared with 11 percent for the first seven months of the year.

Nissan accounted for nearly 9 percent of “clunkers” sales compared with a January-July share of 7 percent. Hyundai with a 7 percent share compared with 3 percent for the year through July.

Ford’s “clunkers” topped 14 percent, compared with a 15 percent share for the year through July. GM reported 17 percent of “clunkers” compared with 21 percent from January to July. Chrysler’s “clunkers” share was 6.6 percent, compared with 11 percent.

Now that the “Cash for Clunkers” program is over, WHAT NOW!!. Car Sales for the next months will drop like dead flies. This “Cash for Clunkers” program has not fixed anything. People that fell for this program are not stuck with a $300.0o monthly bill for the next 4 or 5 years depending on the car’s price. This program was only temporary, just like the stimulus jobs program, a 3 month deal. Car makers and dealerships are now left again with the worst market in a quarter-century.

Was this a DEAL or NO DEAL?

2009: 08/27
CATEGORY: Economy
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Stimulus Money Sent To 4,000 Cons

What a mess up this time Obama, Sending inmates convicted of murder and rape a $250.oo stimulus check. Federal officials say some 4,000 cons nationwide were cashing in the $250.00 checks the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.

The IG also is investigating whether any improper payments were made to dead beneficiaries, felons on the run from the law, individuals living overseas and recipients no longer legally authorized to live in the United States, said IG spokesman George Penn.

The Inspector General of Social Security is now tracing the checks that were mailed to 3,900 prisoners at a cost of nearly $1 million. The U.S. Treasury Department began mailing the $250 checks to 54.4 million Social Security beneficiaries in May as part of a $13 billion spending plan in Obama’s President $787 billion stimulus bill.

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2009: 08/27
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Obama’s 9 Trillion Dollar Deficit

Over the next 10 years, the net impact is to add $2 trillion to the projected deficit, compared to our last projection made based on February’s economic assumptions. That brings the projected 10-year deficit for 2010-2019 to $9.05 trillion.

Obama has LIED to America again. The congressional budget analysts said in a report that the deficit this year will total $1.6 trillion. In February when Obama made his statement, the Democrat, Obama Supporters, MSM went crazy, declaring that Obama is fix the country. The new estimates of our ten-year deficit jumped by $2 trillion to $9 trillion Obama! The Obama adminstration has promised a pay-as-you-go rule for new spending, which means that, as in health care reform, any new spending measures will have to be accounted for to stay deficit neutral. AND there no mentionings of this from the Obama supporters.

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2009: 08/26
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Ted Kennedy’s Timeline

images 09 Feb. 22, 1932 Edward Moore Kennedy is born in Boston, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.

1958 Kennedy marries Virginia Joan Bennett

1962 Edward M. Kennedy is elected to the United States Senate.

1963 Senator Kennedy becomes a member of the Health Committee and Judiciary Committee in the Senate, and works on fishery research and development, the NASA Electronics Research Center, and the Northeast Airlines Boston-Miami route. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on Nov. 22 in Dallas. He was 46.

1964 Kennedy’s back is broken in a plane crash that kills his aide and the pilot.Senator Kennedy makes his maiden speech to the Senate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the fall election, Robert Kennedy was elected to the Senate by New York.

1965 The first major bill that Senator Kennedy managed on the Senate floor was the Immigration Act of 1965.

1966 Senator Kennedy passed legislation creating the national community health center program. He joined a health center in Columbia Point in Dorchester, Massachusetts, with a center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi as the start of a national program that now includes more that 1200 health centers nationally serving more than 20 million low income patients.

1967 Senator Kennedy made his first speech that openly questioned the Vietnam War.

1968 The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 was passed by Congress. Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated during his campaign for president.

1969 Kennedy drives his car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, Mass., and manages to escape. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns.

1970 Senator Kennedy amended the Voting Rights Act to lower the voting age to 18, laying the basis for a constitutional amendment moving the voting age from 21 to age 18.

1971Senator Kennedy becomes Chairman of the Senate Health Subcommittee.

1972 Senator Kennedy champions the Meals on Wheels Act, which offers nutritional meals to homebound senior citizens and the Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program, known as WIC.

1973 Senator Kennedy and Senator Hugh Scott sponsor legislation for public financing of Senate and House elections. The bill is approved by the Senate but not the House.

1974 Senator Kennedy leads the fight to cut off U.S. military aid to Chile. Kennedy and Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced comprehensive legislation providing national health insurance.

1975 Senator Kennedy was an original cosponsor of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and requires a free and appropriate public education for children with disabilities in every state.

1976 Senator Kennedy offers numerous amendments to the Tax Reform Act to increase fairness in the tax laws.

1977 Senator Kennedy, Senator Moynihan, House Speaker O’Neill, and NY Governor Carey (the “Four Horsemen”) issue a statement on St. Patrick’s Day condemning IRA violence in Northern Ireland.

1978 Senator Kennedy led the successful effort to deregulate the airline industry, enabling airlines to set competitive rates and reduce costs for consumers.

1979 Senator Kennedy becomes Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

1980 Kennedy campaigns to become the Democratic nomiee for president, but loses to Jimmy Carter. Kennedy introduced the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act

1981 Senator Kennedy relinquished his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee to become Chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

1982 Senator Kennedy is the chief sponsor of the Voting Rights Act Amendments.

1983 Senator Kennedy becomes a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

1984 Senator Kennedy sponsors legislation requiring polling stations to provide accessibility for physically disabled and elderly people to vote in federal elections.

1985 Senator Kennedy introduces the Anti-Apartheid Act to impose economic sanctions against South Africa in response to pressure that government to end legalized racial discrimination in that country.

1986 Senator Kennedy sponsors several bills to assist persons with disabilities.

1987 Senator Kennedy supports a minimum wage increase and also the Welfare-to-Jobs Incentives.

1988 Senator Kennedy introduced the Fair Housing Act Amendments to extend the law to prohibit discrimination towards people with disabilities in the sale or rental of housing.

1989 Senator Kennedy won passage of the National Military Child Care Act.

1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted into law. Introduced by Senator Kennedy.

1991 Senator Kennedy was the chief sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Nephew William Smith was charged with raping a woman at the end of a night out with the senator.

1992 Senator Kennedy worked to expand Head Start by increasing the number of low-income children served by 25%.

1993 Senator Kennedy worked closely with President Clinton to expand opportunity for working families.

1994 Senator Kennedy brought about the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

1995 Patrick Kennedy (son) becomes the youngest member of the 104th Congress.

1996 Senator Kennedy and Senator Nancy Kassebaum sponsored the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

1997 With Senator Hatch, Senator Kennedy led the successful effort to enact the major Children’s Health Insurance Program.

1999 Senator Kennedy and Senator Jeffords also increased job training opportunities for unemployed and at risk by passing the “Work Incentives Improvement Act.” John F. Kennedy Jr., the senator’s nephew, and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die in a plane crash in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard.

2000 Senator Kennedy is the lead sponsor of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act.

2001 Senator Kennedy works with President Bush to pass the No Child Left Behind Act.

2002 Senator Kennedy was one of the first in Congress to speak out against going to war with Iraq.

2003 Senator Kennedy led an effort to provide funds for additional armored Humvees for our forces in Iraq.

2004 Senator Kennedy was a lead sponsor of bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

2005 Senator Kennedy again sponsors legislation to increase armored Humvee production.

2006 Senator Kennedy sponsors the Family Opportunity Act.

2007 Senator Kennedy led the effort to pass the first increase in the federal minimum wage in more than 10 years.

2008 Senator Kennedy worked with Senator Enzi, with the help of Senator Mikulski, to pass the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Kennedy is diagnosed with brain cancer.

2009 Senator Kennedy championed the health and employment provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Kennedy was also a leader in passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Kennedy’s Health Committee was also the first committee in Congress to pass comprehensive health reform legislation called for by President Obama the Affordable Health Choices Act that will reduce health costs, protect individuals’ choice in doctors and plans, and assure quality and affordable health care for all Americans.

Aug 25 2009: Kennedy dies at his home, aged 77.

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2009: 08/26
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Marine Vet David William Hedrick Rips Rep. Brian Baird

This is a must see video.

David States, “I also heard you say that you were going to let us keep out health insurance. Well, THANK YOU! It’s not your right to decide whether or not I keep my current plan or not. That is my decision! And “The Nazi’s were the National Socialist party, they were leftist. They took over the finance, they took over the car industry, they took over the health care in that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm”.

This is America Standing Up For Their Rights! Bravo David! Bravo!

2009: 08/24
CATEGORY: National Issues
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Obama’s Ramadan Message

American Muslim President Barack Hussein Obama did his job to make sure the muslim community received his message of ‘Ramadan’. Skipping a National Prayer Day ceremony, American Muslim President Barack Hussein Obama made sure that the ninth month on the Islamic calendar was understood to all Americans. Ramadan, a time to practice patience and modesty, pray extra and refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn until sunset.

American Muslim President Barack Hussein Obama this means you cannot stare at 17 Mayara Tavare or look at Michelle walk around in Short-Shorts or have Beer Summits with two men that hate each other. American Muslim President Barack Hussein Obama does that mean that you will give Libyan Leader Moamer Kadhafi another call to patch things up with his deal with Prime Minister Gordon Brown for releasing bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, you know ‘a time of peace’. No wonder he got the hero’s welcome home.

No readers, I’m not against Muslims, this is the argument I was having during the election with friends about, Obama being a muslim, I keep forgetting the media pounded the airwaves with ‘he’s not a Muslim’ and kept us focused on Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The argument continues with: What Does It Mean To Have An American Muslim President?

2009: 08/24
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Lockerbie Bomber Released

shakehand-ap Remember when President Barack Hussein Obama triggered debates by saying that Washington should be prepared to speak with its enemies. Remember when Obama was in L’Aquila during the G8 summit, shaking hand with Libyan Leader Moamer Kadhafi.

Well….Libyan bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison and was greeted in Libya by cheering crowds. al-Megrahi was convicted for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which was carrying mostly American passengers to New York, blew up as it flew over Scotland in 1988. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground died.

Relations between Libya and the United States have been back and forward over the past 30 years. But America’s Muslim President President Barack Hussein Obama seems to see different with his hand shakes with Kadhafi. al-Megrahi returned home with an official delegation that included Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam.

phpTp8X7m Former Libyan intelligence officer al-Megrahi was convicted on all 259 counts of murder. He insisted he was innocent. al-Megrahi was imprisoned in 2001, sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in a Scottish prison. A 2007 review of the case opened the round for him to file an appeal against the sentence.

The group was greeted by hundreds of flag-waving Libyans when they landed in Tripoli to the sound of patriotic songs ringing from loudspeakers. Upon al-Megrahi’s release FBI Director Robert Mueller sent a letter to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who cited compassionate grounds in his decision to let Abdel Baset al-Megrahi return to Libya because he has prostate cancer and was given only months to live by British doctors.

Lockerbie Bomber Released
Obama slams Libyan welcome for Lockerbie bomber

al-Megrahi was welcomed with celebrations, remember he was convicted for the Pan Am Bombing. Mueller says releasing the convicted bomber “gives comfort to terrorists around the world who now believe that regardless of the quality of the investigation … the terrorist will be freed by one man’s exercise of ‘compassion.” President Barack Hussein Obama tried to weigh in saying the US condemnation of Libya’s welcome for convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, amid warnings about the future of ties with Tripoli, but you were so happy to be in the presence of Moamer Kadhafi a few months ago President Barack Hussein Obama, make up your mind are you going to be buddies with the enemies or not. Will the MSM address this….NO!!

2009: 08/22
CATEGORY: International Events
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Obama On Abortion

“Reproductive care is at the center and at the heart of the plan I propose.” @ 1:17

You have to be familiar with pro-choice lingo, then you easily recognize the terms Obama use to talk about abortion without using the word Abortion. Abortion is replaced with the terms “reproductive rights”, “reproductive care”, “Basic Care” and “essential benefit” have been used by groups like Planned Parenthood.

While the word “abortion” may not appear in either of the health care bills, the term “essential benefit” is and will likely be interpreted by the courts to mandate abortion coverage as illustrated by past administrative and legal interpretation. An amendment was offered by democratic Congresswoman Lois Capps (CA-23) to allow for subsidized reproductive care under the House health care reform plan. The amendment will result in “the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade,” is unlikely to be removed from the final bill.

Obama Record on Abortion

No litmus test; nominate to Court based on their fairness. (Oct 2008)
1990: Wrote law article that that fetus cannot sue mother. (Aug 2008)
FactCheck: Abortions HAVE gone down under Pres. Bush. (Aug 2008)
1997: opposed bill preventing partial-birth abortion. (Aug 2008)
Opposed legislation protecting born-alive failed abortions. (Aug 2008)
Ok for state to restrict late-term partial birth abortion. (Apr 2008)
We can find common ground between pro-choice and pro-life. (Apr 2008)
Undecided on whether life begins at conception. (Apr 2008)
Teach teens about abstinence and also about contraception. (Apr 2008)
GovWatch: Obama’s “present” votes were a requested strategy. (Feb 2008)
Expand access to contraception; reduce unintended pregnancy. (Feb 2008)
Rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007. (Jan 2008)
Voted against banning partial birth abortion. (Oct 2007)
Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 major diseases. (Aug 2007)
Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion. (Apr 2007)
Extend presumption of good faith to abortion protesters. (Oct 2006)
Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism. (Oct 2006)
Moral accusations from pro-lifers are counterproductive. (Oct 2004)
Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill. (Jun 2004)
Protect a woman’s right to choose. (May 2004)

Voting Record
Opposed born-alive treatment law because it was already law. (Oct 2008)
Supports Roe v. Wade. (Jul 1998)
Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Sponsored bill providing contraceptives for low-income women. (May 2006)
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)

2009: 08/21
CATEGORY: ObamaCare
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