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Dear Mr. Carnahan

Today I wrote a letter to my U.S. Representative, Russ Carnahan.  Mr. Carnahan is a co-sponsor of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).  The new President has promised to sign this bill as soon as it crosses his desk.  The bill will invalidate numerous state and federal laws that have placed common sense regulations on the million dollar abortion industry.  Short of a filibuster by pro-life senators, the bill has a very good chance of passing.  I will be sending this letter by U.S. mail.  My understanding is that it will have a better chance of being read. 

January 23, 2009       

Honorable Russ Carnahan
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.  20515                                                 

Dear Mr. Carnahan:

I was disappointed to learn that you are a co-sponsor of the House version of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). My understanding is that this act, if passed and signed by the President will, among other things, invalidate the Hyde Amendment, remove the requirement that women be afforded the opportunity to make an informed decision, invalidate laws that require parental notification and laws that require that abortionists be licensed physicians, remove laws preventing sex selection abortions, and invalidate conscience rights of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Additionally it will require taxpayers to fund the genocide. These regulations, which have been passed by numerous states including the state of Missouri, are common sense measures supported by majorities in those states. The passage of the FOCA is a naked power play by the Federal Government against the many states and appears to be a quid pro quo for the political support of the abortion industry.

The brutality of abortion is beyond comprehension. Tearing apart a living human limb from limb or burning her alive in saline solution causes unspeakable pain. Nothing short of crucifixion compares. How can you continue to support the willful termination of the lives of millions of innocent people? I urge you to consider that the life of an unborn girl trumps the right of her mother and doctor to kill her.

Please abort your support of FOCA and come over to the side of life. Millions of children will be grateful to you for your decision.

Sincerely,

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"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt

   Henry Hazlitt (11/28/1894-7/8/1993) was an economist, a philosopher, a journalist and a prolific author of books.  His book, Economics in One Lesson originally published in 1946 is a great economics text for anyone who can read, and a great doorway to further economic study.    It consists of three parts with a total of 27 lessons.  Each lesson is short enough to be read in 3 to 5 minutes.  The thrust of the book is the same today as it was 53 years ago.  From the preface:  "This book is an analysis of economic fallacies that are at last so prevalent that they have almost become a new orthodoxy."  For the majority of politicians today, the "almost" in the previous quote can be safely deleted.  The new orthodoxy of today has thrown common sense economics into the garbage disposal and flushed it into the sewer.  A failure to stem the tide of economic ignorance will destroy our country and have catastrophic consequences for the entire world. 
 
 If you have already read this, then go back and review it.  If you have not read it, please do so. You can easily read through the entire text in one weekend.  Afterwards, read a lesson to your kids periodically as part of your bedtime or family reading.  This kind of economics will not be taught in your public school.
 
You can get the book at Amazon for about $7.  You can also get it for free on the internet..
 
Free on the internet:  http://jim.com/econ/contents.html
 
 
 
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The Blob That Ate the U.S. Financial System

Bennet Sedacca,  priesident of Atlantic Advisors, LLC (www.atlanticadvisors.com) has written a great essay comparing the current wave of government bailouts, buyouts, rescues, and takeovers to the classic Steve McQueen movie, The Blob.
He states:
 
"The Blob is a morass of financial intervention that has eaten every bad financial deal too large to let die on its own. ...The Blob is no more than a SIV (structure investment vehicle) that sits in the middle of the investment landscape absorbing all in its path, with OUR money. Yes, ‘We the People’ own the Blob— ..."
 
The number of bank failures have exceeded the ability of the FDIC to cover the losses incurred.  Read:
 
"The FDIC is so remarkably under-capitalized that it takes the Treasury/Blob to throw another $250 billion at the program just so lousy banks can get cheap financing to make questionable loans. Importantly, in the FDIC’s most recently released ‘troubled bank list’, we find 171 institutions with tens of billions of dollars of assets at risk. No wonder the FDIC has been absorbed by the Blob..."
 
With respect to the inevitable auto bailout he says:
 
" ...I have to admit that I scratch my head when I think of automobile manufactures with bloated balance sheets and ridiculous cost structures now come hat in hand to the Blob for cash.  ...I suppose I have been fired or laid off a few times and can’t recall anyone sending me to the Blob for cash. I found another job...."

This essay is well worth the read and can be found at:

http://www.atlanticadvisors.com/uploads/market-commentaries-2008-12-15-the-blob-on-wall-street.pdf    or
 
 
 
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Say No to the Bailout and the "Car Czar"

No to The Auto Company Bailout

Politicians cannot say it but they know it's true.  A bailout of the "Big Three" (BT) will not really bail them out.  It will only extend the painful life of an outdated industrial bureaucracy that cannot continue to compete in the world marketplace.  What is needed in this case is a prepackaged bankruptcy with the government acting as debtor-in-posession.  This has been proposed by some in Congress and it is the only proposal that will enable the BT to shed their amazing array of cumbersome and oppressive contract liabilities.  There will be great pain involved just as there was in the airline industry, but it will be less painful than the liquidation that will likely occur in the future.  This option will also limit the hemorraging of money from the U. S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve to the cost of debtor-in-possession financing.   
 
No to the "Car Czar"
 
What is the purpose of a "Car Czar" when we already have the superior intellect and unrivaled leadership of Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and Obama to dictate, implement, mandate, oversee, and manage our economic problems?  One obvious purpose is to have a future scapegoat to which liberals can shift the blame for failure, since "W" will no longer be available for that role.    A "Car Czar" will require his own bureaucracy and all of the attendant expense and other nonsense.  If you have the mindset that government is the solution to all of our problems, it's a logical idea.  But isn't our government resourceful and large enough to find somone now on the payroll who can act in that capacity.  The most obvious and best choice for this situation would be to use a bankruptcy judge who would make the hard decisions that would occur in a prepackaged bankruptcy proceeding.   
 
Bottom line, if the liberals must have a "Car Czar", let them have him on their own watch, not ours.  
 
 
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Obamanomics - Ignorance, Goofy Ideas and Bankruptcy

Ignorant on the stock market. 
 
 
 
Ignorant and goofy on capital gains taxes.  Let's tax capital at a higher rate to restrict capital and cause layoffs. 
 
 
Let's bankrupt 50% of our power plants and "save the planet."
 
 
Let's raise taxes to decrease revenue, and to increase prices of everything so that we can have lower economic growth and cause layoffs of middle class workers.  It's only fair.
 
 
Let's do a special tax on our domestic oil companies that Obama will call a "windfall profits tax"  so that our oil companies can't compete for resources with international state owned companies.   Let's promise to give that money away to people who don't pay taxes so that they will vote for Obama. Let's promise pie in the sky nonsense "green" energy technology that isn't economically feasible or developed and promise the people who are losing their jobs millions of non-existent green jobs so that they will vote for Obama.  Let's keep oil prices high by refusing to drill offshore in the United States.
 
 
With this goofball we'll all be bankrupt in less than 4 years.
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Obama "Amends" Report on $800,000 ACORN payment - Deception? YES!--UPDATE - Gaffe Biden also Denies ACORN connection.

After multiple public denials by Barack Obama and an explicit denial in the 3rd debate about the extent of his association with ACORN, the Democrat candidate attempts to come clean while no one is paying attention.
 
The Pittsburg Tribune-Review reports, "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.
 
An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary."
 
 the linik to the article:   http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html
 
Here is a video of the 3rd debate at the time when the subject of ACORN was raised.
 
 
 
Please note the shaking of the head by Obama denying a relationship with ACORN, and the smarmy smiles he exhibits while McCain speaks.. At one point Obama laughs out loud as if to say that what McCain is saying is ridiculous. In reality, we now know that in front of 10's of millions of voters, Obama is the one making the deceptive statements, and not telling the truth.  Obama says on his involvement with ACORN: "The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMV's."  Obama purposely omits the above $800,000.00 given to ACORN by his campaign making his debate statement objectively false.  He purposely omits the $230.000.00 given to ACORN by the Woods Foundation when he sat on the board of that foundation with terrorist William Ayers.  That makes his debate statement objectively false.  He purposely omits the training he himself supplied to ACORN workers in the past.  That also makes his debate statement objectively false.
 
Now, metaphorically, in the dark of night, in the 11th hour of the campaign, when the 10's of millions of people he fraudulently deceived are not looking, he admits the fraud, and lying, by quietly amending his campaign spending report. I particularly love the talking point the Obama campaign has ready (McCain returned some money to some contributor) and the media will happily barf up this obvious misdirection to the public.
 
Update:  Joe Biden also denies the ACORN connection confirmed by the amendment to Obama's campaign finance report.  See the video:
 
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Bill Ayres, Weather Underground, Communism, Revolution, and Re-Education

An expose on the book Prarie Fire authored by Bill Ayres, Bernardine Dohrn and two others is now posted on Zombietime blog at:
  http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/  A quick read of the blog entry is worthwhile. 
 
"Bill Ayres is just a respected professor of education."  How many times have you heard that?  Below is a list of activities of the Weather Underground from May 1970 through May of 1971.  A more comprehensive list can be found on Wikipedia at :
May 10, 1970 – The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C. is bombed.[citation needed]
  • May 21, 1970 – The WUO releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique under Bernardine Dohrn's name.
  • June 9, 1970 - The New York City Police headquarters is bombed by Jane Alpert and accomplices. The Weathermen state this is in response to "police repression."[citation needed]
  • July 23, 1970 – A federal grand jury in Detroit, Michigan, returns indictments against a number of underground WUO members and former WUO members charging violations of various explosives and firearms laws. (These indictments were later dropped in October, 1973.)
  • October 10, 1970 - A Queens traffic-court building is bombed. WUO claims this is to express support for the New York prison riots. [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]
  • October 15, 1971 - The bombing of William Bundy's office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]
  • May 19, 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon, "in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi." [NYT, 5/19/72]
  • May 18, 1973 - The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police.
The You Tube video below is part of an interview with a law enforcement infiltrator of The Weather Underground.  Note what he says about what would be done to U.S. citizens who were incapable of being re-educated after the overthrow of the U.S. government.
 
 
 
It's interesting that comments are disabled on the You Tube site for this video.  I'm not sure why but maybe you could hazard a guess.  Comments on this blog are turned on.
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Oback Arama - Vote Early and Often

I'm Oback Arama and I'm running for President.  When you go to the polls. remember to vote early and vote often, expecially in Ohio and Florida.  As you pull the lever for me, remember that I am the candidate of hope and change, and change that works for you, and change that you can use, and real change not like the last eight years.  Also remember that I will send you a check from the U.S. government of Oback Arama even if you don't work.  And if you need an abortion, I will pay for it personally with other peoples' money so that you don't have to be punished with a baby.
 
I will do all of these things and I will, in addition, be holding a drawing of all ballots cast for me for several prizes.  First prize will be a ride on the Oback Air Force One flying fortress, second prize will be a ride in my bullet proof Oback mobile presidential limosine, and third prize will be an autographed picture of future pardonee Tony Rezko, without whose "quiet" help, I might be heading for the Big House, instead of the White House.  Remember that your right to vote is a precious gift from past patriots of this country, and your right to vote a second time, third time, fourth time and fifth or more time is a precious gift from ACORN due to the generous donation of 800,000 greenbacks that I, Oback Arama provided to that wonderful non-partisan, non-profit group.
 
So feel the love, and vote for the Oback Arama Nation of United States.  It will be a glorious journey of four years of social progress and I want you on board the hope and change express.  Can we do it?
 
Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!
 
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House Republicans Expose Democrat Duplicity on OCS Drilling.

From: Oil and Gas Journal:   http://www.ogj.com/articles/print_screen.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=342257

A new report, "Drilling for Truth and Coming Up Empty," highlights major flaws and inaccuracies in a Democrat staff's report on OCS and other oil leases which Senator Barack Obama used in a Presidential debate, and others have publicly cited to support a ban on domestic drilling on U.S. property. Obama's use of the flawed majority Democrat report sadly misleads the public.
 
The House Natural Resources Committee minority staff led by ranking member Rep. Don Young (R-Alas.) wrote the report that   challenges the majority report published 6 months ago.  "The majority's report contained unsupported and undocumented extrapolations regarding oil and gas resources contained in nonproducing federal acreage that has already been leased, he continued. It illustrates a lack of knowledge about the onshore and offshore leasing process, costs to the lessee to acquire acreage, the nature of oil and gas deposits, and the time required to explore and, if a discovery is made, develop the lease, Young said."
 
The Majority report is akin to "junk science" published for the purpose of giving Democrats political talking points for their campaigns.  The citizens are the losers in the long run when the politicians bend the facts to fit their political agenda.  When you watch the gas pump meter spin past 50 bucks as you fill your car next week, remember that the Democrats will always block drilling in the OCS, and in Alaska.  Harry Reid tried to sneak an oil shale ban into legislation two weeks ago.  That's what we have to look forward to with our Democrat controlled Congress.
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Nine Year Old Bombed by Obama Friend

 
Here is an interesting twist on the Obama mantra/dodge/talking point that we all have memorized because we've heard it so much: "I was only 8 years old when Bill Ayres founded Weather Underground."  Powerline reports on a victim of the friend of Obama.  The victim was nine years old.
 
From City Journal-30 April 2008:
 
..."In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we’d call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night....
 
...Though never a supporter of Obama, I admired him for a time for his ability to engage our imaginations, and especially for his ability to inspire the young once again to embrace the political system. Yet his myopia in the last few months has cast a new light on his “politics of change.” Nobody should hold the junior senator from Illinois responsible for his friends’ and supporters’ violent terrorist acts. But it is fair to hold him responsible for a startling lack of judgment in his choice of mentors, associates, and friends, and for showing a callous disregard for the lives they damaged and the hatred they have demonstrated for this country. It is fair, too, to ask what those choices say about Obama’s own beliefs, his philosophy, and the direction he would take our nation..."
 
 

When asked by an interviewer about Ayres, Obama said that Ayres was a guy who lived in his neighborhood.  He should have said: "Ayres is a terrorist guy who lives in my neighborhood."  Now if he had been honest and said that, we wouldn't be talking about this now.  The cover up of information always leads to far more problems than just being open and honest.  He could have said, "Yes, I knew that he had a shady past but I felt that we could do some good education stuff.  I severed our relationship when he made those unfortunate hurtful comments on 9/11, and I haven't been in contact with him since."  But that's not what he said, and now we have a problem because Obama has been far less than honest and open. His relationship with Ayres and his wife, two despicable unrepentant monsters disqualifies him due to his poor judgment.  When combined with his other poor judgment calls, he gets a no vote. 

 
 

 

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Hey Obama! Here's a Comment from a Real Small Businessman

Here's a great reader comment from the Michelle  Malkin website that gives a rubber meets the road perspective on Obama's misguided tax increase on small businessmen and women:      http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/03/comic-relief-joe-depot/
 
On October 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm, americangrunthog said:

I’m one of the wealthy (just almost at 250) who the commies are targeting. I have a small business. Most of what I make goes back into the business to create jobs and to buy goods that in turn support other businesses. Its called the American dream.We small business men and women fuel Americas economy, not politician leeches. I created 10 jobs and keep 50 consultants busy with my little shop, and I didn’t have to organize one community to make it happen. I took my own capital - no loans - and went from nothing three years ago.

Some turd said I should be happy to have 40 percent left rather than the 55 percent. That 15 percent I’m losing is someone’s job. If not an employee then the guy who wants to build an American car for me to buy, or the guy who I’ll hire to work on my house since I’m getting older, Another person on welfare instead of an entry level position. Another tax taker instead of a tax payer.

I worked my *ss off for 40 years in some good jobs and bad jobs to get to the point where I could own my own business and make some money. Now, Obama says I’m too rich, Biden says I’m not patriotic, and they want to steal my money.

If any democrat had an iota of understanding basic economics, they would get their roads built, their hospitals funded, and their public safety and military funded if they stay the hell out of our way.
 
What this small businessman doesn't understand is that Barack Obama will use his money in a more fair way, that will help someone who deserves the money more than the businessman does.  As far as the person who will lose his job, he can get one of those millions of wonderful green jobs that Barack Obama is going to create.  Barack Obama believes deep in his heart that the government knows how to spend the money of Americans better than the people who earn it.  The government also knows how to spend the money of Americans that they have yet to earn.
 
 
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Video history of Fannie/Freddie Debacle

 
 
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Energy Talking points for Sarah and John

  • Democrats want to take your money and then give it back to you so that you can buy gas and heating oil. They are deliberately blocking oil drilling to keep gas and energy prices high.
     
  • Republicans want to drill for more oil in order to make gas and heating oil cheaper. 
     
  • The Republican program promotes your freedom.  The Democrat program promotes your servitude to the Democrats.
     
  • When you fill your gas tank and see the pump spinning past $50, think this:  The Democrats are blocking our ability to drill for more oil.
  • when speaking of energy always refer to the “John McCain all-of-the above energy development program.”

Background

What have the Democrats done to promote more oil and cheaper gas?  Blocked drilling on the OCS.  Blocked drilling in ANWR.  Blocked development of oil shale.  Promoted windfall profits on our private oil companies so they cannot compete with huge foreign state owned oil companies.  They are actively destroying attempts to produce more supply through their policies and programs.  Result:  Everything costs more due to the centrality of oil to our economy.  Gasoline and diesel cost $3.50 or more at the pump.  Industries dependent on high energy consumption like the travel, trucking, air lines, and heavy manufacturing are seeing permanent destruction to their businesses.  Small businesses and large companies are forced to lay off employees because of to a reduction of revenue and an increase in expenses due to escalating energy costs.

What about Republicans? 
McCain: Pushed for drilling on the OCS. Supports an all of the above energy program: Pushed for oil shale development.  Supports building multiple nuclear power plants.  Supports hybrid vehicles.  Supports coal-to-liquid technology.  Supports clean coal power plants. Supports compressed clean natural gas for transportation. Supports solar and wind energy development. Everything will cost less with the programs promoted by the McCain plan.
 
Palin: Coordinated and managed the approval of the contract to  build a $40 billion natural gas pipeline to bring trillions of cubic feet of gas through Canada to the lower 48 states. Got more oil flowing from the Alaskan North Slope by breaking up the monopoly of private oil companies in her position as Governor. Supports drilling in ANWR. Fully supports the “John McCain all-of-the above energy development program.” Result: Everything will cost less including gasoline and heating oil.

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HIV and Genocide

I recently uncovered historic information countering Obama mentor, Rev. Wright’s assertion that the US government invented HIV in order to commit genocide against African Americans.

 
HIV was invented by highly intelligent mutant research chimpanzees, known in secret African scientific circles as ‘Intellichimps.” Their diabolical plan was to punish humans for using them as research subjects. The Intellichimps successfully transferred the virus to the African population of homosapiens through virus contaminated bananas. This activity took place between 1900 and 1903. The virus was later spread throughout the world by use of  contaminated items at an exhibit at the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis. Transmission of the disease human to human was at an exceedingly low rate because of the chaste mores of the day. With the advent of the sexual revolution in the 1960’s, HIV, which had been carried by a very few individuals, began to spread rapidly, particularly among those who were highly promiscuous. The virus now has a powerful foothold on every inhabited continent of the world.
 
 
Most of Intellichimp subspecies have died off although some have been spotted at PETA rallies and in the Democratic caucus of the US Senate. But their evil deeds are now exacting revenge on the grandchildren of those who, at the turn of the century, performed medical experiments on their brother and sister chimps. So Rev. Wright, and those who say that HIV was a diabolical plan of genocide against African Americans, are just dead wrong. It was instead the Intellichimps that did it, and that is easily as believable as the genocide nonsense spouted by Obama's mentor.
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