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The United States government is separated into the legislative, judicial and executive branches to provide a system of checks and balances. Our government was established this way because our forefathers had the common sense to distrust all forms of government and knew that if all of the new government’s authority rested in one body that serious abuses would be inevitable, and by splitting the authority it was hoped that one branch could keep their eye on the others.

Never before in the entire history of the United States has one branch delegated their authority, in part or in whole, to another branch of the government. Supreme Court Justices do not raise taxes and print money, the Congress does not command the Army (even if they think they do), and the President does not give out the tax payer’s money. That is, until now.

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 gives the President of the United States the legislative authority to dole out $700 billion American tax dollars to purchase troubled assets as he sees fit to do which may be the single most unconstitutional act ever thrown into the faces of the American people.
Granted, we can all understand how difficult it is to get decent help these days, and I am certain that the U.S. Congress is no exception. Employees are hired every day that turn out to be dumber than rocks and can’t do the jobs they were hired for; again the U.S. Congress is no exception. However, you would think that they would at least make it through the first paragraph of their instruction booklet (which is the Constitution)

Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

What part of “”All legislative Powers” don’t they understand, or is simply a matter of not wanting to accept responsibility for doing what the job requires of them? Talk about playing fast and loose. I suppose we might as well chuck the entire constitution right out the window for the duration of this fiasco and hope like hell we can repair the damage later.

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Radical Islamic terrorists around the world no longer have to stay up late into the night planning their best route into the country of the hated infidels so they can strike a blow for Allah. They don’t have to dive into their Swiss bank accounts or spend their secret stash of contributed funds that would be better spent on high explosives. They don’t have to depend on unscrupulous South American human smuggling rings, Mexican drug cartels or tattooed Salvadorian gang bangers to sneak them into America anymore. They don’t have to sweat the long dangerous walk across the blazing hot Sonoran Desert filled with rattlesnakes, scorpions and tarantulas. As of January 27, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama has determined that it is important to the national interests of the United States of America to set aside $20.3 million American tax dollars to help these poor unfortunate Islamic terrorists by giving them free airplane tickets to the United States. To make them feel especially welcome Obama is willing to have the American people foot the bill for housing and food allowances while they settle in to their new homes, take stock of their surroundings, scope out any highly populated targets nearby and start stockpiling all of the high-nitrate fertilizer they can get their hands on.

Obama’s current intention is to provide assistance to the Palestinians in Gaza. These are the same kindly souls that have been lobbing homemade rockets into Israel for the last five or ten years. They are also fairly adept at building improvised explosive devices used in roadside bombings but their primary claim to fame is strapping on a vest packed with plastic explosives and ball bearings and blowing a crowded bus into bloody confetti all over the street. Palestine is the home of HAMAS, better known as the “Islamic Resistance Movement.” This anti-Semitic paramilitary group is considered a terrorist organization by Canada, Australia, the European Union, Israel, Japan, and the United States. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the 2002 bombing of a hotel in Netanya in which 30 people were killed and 140 were wounded and between November 2000 and April 2004 they launched more than 425 attacks against the U.S. allies in Israel resulting in 377 deaths and 2,076 wounded. It is entirely delusional to believe that the American people are going to benefit from the presence of a few hundred thousand unemployable Palestinian refugees, and it is even more delusional to believe that there will not be hundreds, if not thousands of highly trained Islamic jihadists from all over the Middle East mixed into crowd. Then again, what the hell do I know? During the last presidential election the American people voted for an inexperienced nobody because he looked like he was a black man, smiled a lot, and said he would change a lot of stuff without getting into specifics. Three months into office and the character has given away more than $9 trillion American tax dollars, bound and gagged the CIA, stopped the military trials of the terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, dropped the charges against the Al Qaeda masterminds behind the USS Cole and 9/11, spent some quality time charming Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah, and gave the terrorist scum a chance to learn about the real Obama by broadcasting his sniveling supplication to them via Al Arabia television.

You would think that the news media would at least report something about a presidential determination that posed as much a threat to the American people as this one does, but we haven’t heard anything except how great Obama is doing as our president. You would think that the Republicans representing the American people would be outraged enough to start screaming about this, but they’re too worried about looking relevant and keeping their jobs to be concerned about the common folk. Clearly, the American government is no longer about the American people and our elected representatives no longer represent us. All things considered, maybe a couple of hundred Hamas suicide bombers blowing the crap out crowded American shopping malls is what it will take to help the American people to wake up and get their heads screwed on right.

[Federal Register: February 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 22)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 6115]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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Presidential Documents

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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27, 2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the “Act”), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 27, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]

Source:http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-2488.htm

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Congress today approved a massive public lands bill that protects 200 million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers, a 50 percent increase in the nation’s scenic river system. The public lands bill establishes new national trails, national parks, one new national monument and provides legal status for the National Landscape Conservation System, which will protect some of the spectacular landscapes that no one will be able to drive to when the price of a gallon of gasoline goes up to $35 because we are buying it all from cut throats in the Middle East instead of developing the abundant resources within our own nation. Between the environmentalists and the labor unions I can’t imagine a greater threat to the future prosperity of the United States except of course, the Democratic Party. With the world’s toughest environmental laws and regulations, is it any wonder why major American manufacturing corporations are packing up and moving their operations overseas? We have environmentalized most manufacturing companies right out of the country, and thousands, if not millions of good paying jobs have left with them. If extinction is nature’s way of saying “incompetent” then the United States Congress is not long for the world.

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The Border Patrol agents working out of multiple stations in Arizona’s Tucson Sector are reporting a significant increase in the apprehension of illegal aliens with criminal records and more alarmingly, most of the illegal aliens they’ve apprehended with prior U.S. criminal records are sex offenders, including a Mexican national with a warrant outstanding in California for willful cruelty of a child and sexual intercourse with a minor and a Honduran national taken into custody on Sunday who was previously convicted of being a sex offender in Georgia. There was also an illegal alien captured last Saturday who had been convicted in California for kidnapping and sexual assault and another illegal caught the same day was found to have prior convictions for rape and assault in Nebraska and Washington. Earlier in the week six illegal aliens crossing the border were picked up in Cochise County and all were found to have prior arrest records for sexual offenses including one Mexican national who had been previously charged in the state of Florida with sexual assault of a minor. A spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector was quoted as saying that many of the illegal aliens now trying to enter the United States are connected to Mexican gangs and are not the sort of people normally crossing the border in search of U.S. employment. The Border Patrol agent stated that, “There’s a whole new element coming across the border.”

The Washington Times reported that the two largest and most violent drug cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel and “Los Zetas”, the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel, are negotiating a merger to combine their force of nearly 100,000 heavily-equipped ground troops. This drug cartel merger would give the Mexican drug gangs an armed force that is nearly as large as the entire Mexican Army and much better equipped. It is common knowledge that the Sinaloa Cartel has successfully infiltrated all levels of Mexico’s federal government, and U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has released several US intelligence reports stating that the drug cartel situation in Mexico currently presents a worse threat to American national security than Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Meanwhile, Mexican President Calderon admitted that his government is essentially powerless against the drug cartels and that without a U.S. rescue operation to save them, the nation of Mexico will soon be a full fledged narco-state entirely taken over by the drug gangs. Unfortunately, at the same time, Calderon blames the U.S. for the situation in Mexico and was quoted as saying that the primary cause of Mexico’s problem was the result of having “the world’s biggest consumer of illegal drugs” as the country neighbor. Furthermore, Calderon demanded that the U.S. make the border safe and open for trade and workers but closed to illegal drugs, weapons, and money trafficking. This is just a bit unrealistic and I seriously doubt that even the masterful leadership of Barack the Omnipotent can figure out a way to have it both ways at once.

American law enforcement agencies have long reported that Mexico’s drug cartel thugs easily hide in plain sight once they enter the countless U.S. migrant communities overflowing with illegal aliens. Many of them are already here in the U.S., and while their presence is well known to the illegal aliens living in these communities, they are not reported to American law enforcement personnel and they do as they please with complete impunity because the illegal aliens will not do anything about it. As long as they avoid the attention of the American police these criminals are free to prey on the illegal aliens around them and large concentrations of drug cartel gang members have been reported in Houston, Texas, Atlanta, Georgia, throughout the state of Arizona and all over Southern California. Jack Killorin, the head of Atlanta Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Task Force, stated that “The same folks who are rolling heads in the streets of Ciudad Juarez are operating in Atlanta.”

There is little doubt that what Mexican President Calderon says is true. The Mexican drug cartels buy their highly sophisticated equipment and their superior armament in the United States. The billions of dollars they pull in every year in drug sales, the funds that subsidize their war against the Mexican government, comes primarily from the sale of illegal drugs to American citizens inside the United States. There is no doubt that American money finances the Mexican drug cartel’s war. There is also little doubt that, as long as the border between Mexico and the U.S. remains in it’s present porous state, the drug money, the sophisticated equipment and the superior armament will continue to flow from the United States into Mexico where it can be used by the drug gangs to wage war against the Mexican government and the increasingly serious threat to U.S. national security will continue to grow unabated.

What Mexican President Calderon doesn’t seem to realize is that the Democratic Party currently controlling all branches of the American government are more concerned with maintaining their own control than they are with the desperate needs of the besieged Mexican government. Maintaining control is the number one priority of the current U.S. administration and everything else takes a back seat to it, including national security and the welfare or safety of American citizens. The hordes of Mexican Nationals flocking over our southern border, including the cartel gangsters, the pedophiles, the sex offenders and the Middle Eastern terrorists are viewed by America’s Democratic masters as future Democratic votes and they are not going to do anything that will jeopardize their source of support for future elections. The Mexican government is expendable, and for that matter, the American people are expendable to a Democratic Party that is willing to do whatever it takes to remain in full control of the U.S. government. The drug cartel thugs and the human smugglers bringing illegal aliens into the U.S. are one in the same. As long as there is money to be made and U.S. politicians willing to look the other way for the sake of political expediency and their own self-serving needs, the problem, both Mexico’s and the united States, will continue to grow.

If you believe that the viewpoint stated above is extreme then you should consider the fact that while the Mexican president is pleading for American intervention, even as unrealistic as his demands might be, on Wednesday of this week, Barack Obama renewed his campaign promise to scuttle American immigration laws and encourage further illegal immigration by providing amnesty to the more than 20 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. At the same time his good friend and mentor, the irrepressible San Francisco based douche bag and current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, publically stated that U.S. immigration enforcement efforts were “Un-American,” and that the illegal parasitic invaders who have contributed a large part to this nation’s current economic problem, “are a special people,” and “very patriotic.” The simple fact of the matter is that as long as the United States of American is under the control of simpering political hacks like Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid and all the rest of of the self-serving, arrogant, liberal elitists, there will be no effort to control the flow of the illegal invaders, the drugs, the drug cartel thugs, the guns and ammunition or the money that washes back and forth across our border unhindered, and Felipe Calderon may as well give up the fight while he is still alive to do so because, while the politicians in Washington. D.C. might be happy to throw a few bucks his way; they aren’t going to do anything about enforcing the security of the border as long as they see all of those illegal aliens as the source of their future support.

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Like pilgrims flocking into Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, hordes of California’s guilty white liberals (GWL) aimed their Beamers, their Mercedes and their Cadillac SUVs, and even a few Toyota Prius hybrids at Costa Mesa Wednesday afternoon where they could bask in the blinding radiance of America’ pop-star in chief, Barack the Omnipotent. Gag me with a stick.

While many have linguistically gushed all over themselves at the seemingly miraculous visitation of the blessed one, I haven’t heard anyone ask the question that really begs asking. Costa Mesa is 3000 miles from the focal point of the economic meltdown and even if the state of California is headed to economic Hell in a hand basket of it’s own design, it is far removed from the Washington D.C. boardrooms where tap-dancing lobbyists negotiate with congressional legislators over who get the bigger chunk of pie. Other than a massive boatload of state spending, unrealistic social welfare programs, increasing home foreclosures and the most unfriendly environment in the nation for business owners, there isn’t anything especially important going on in the soon to be bankrupt “Golden” state of California. In short – California is not part of the solution, if anything, the Great Seal of California could be used as a symbol for the entire problem.

Essentially, Barack the Wonderful burned up all of that jet fuel to stand before a massive crowd of adoring worshipers, bask in his own sense of glorious accomplishment, distract attention from the bottom line of the bailout invoice as it rapidly approaches the $10 trillion dollar mark, and drop a few more meaningless comments and empty promises on the American public while his liberal elitist cronies back home finish looting everything of value. Considering the fact that, not so long ago this was irrefutably the richest nation on Earth and it may take awhile to pick it clean, Obama needs to keep his eye on 2012 in the off chance that the Democrats need another four years to complete the job. After all, his genius is campaigning, and that is all the man is really good at. When he steps out from behind the smoke and mirrors resembling his administration the true nature of his government transparency becomes evident and the man disappears like a puff of smoke in a high wind.

Addressing the issue of the $165 million in bonuses snatched up by AIG executives, Obama said, “I know Washington is all in a tizzy and everybody is pointing fingers at each other and saying it’s their fault, the Democrats’ fault, the Republicans’ fault. Listen, I’ll take responsibility. I’m the president.” He smiled at the crowd, and instead of high stepping him to the nearest tree where the rope waited to punish this incompetence, they melted in forgiveness and brushed the whole matter aside as just being a minor snafu on the yellow brick lined road to the big picture in the distance. When you’re talking about a $10 trillion dollar haul, $165 million could be the chump change forgotten between the cushions of the old sofa sent to Goodwill. $165 million dollars is only a lot of money when you compare it to your annual income or the balance in your checking account, but you could drop it onto a $10 trillion dollar pile and not even notice the difference. Obama can afford to dismiss it as insignificant; he can easily take responsibility for it and smile. The goofy liberals can easily smile and forgive him because they haven’t yet been hit with their share of the bill. For a group that is so emotionally overwrought by the mere thought of what this year’s accumulation of greenhouse gases will have on the environment 100 years down the road this may seem fairly inconsistent, but then again, logic has never been the liberal’s primary talent.

On the second day of his California visit he spent some time touring what Southern California Edison calls their electric-vehicle test facility in Pomona. Southern California Edison maintains a fleet of Toyota RAV4s and 20 Ford Escape Hybrid sport utility vehicles that have been converted to electricity. SCE has been dabbling in electric cars for about ten or fifteen years but their efforts have been less than stupendous. After conversion to battery power, the Ford Escape SUVs in their fleet only manage a twenty mile range from their highly toxic and potentially explosive lithium ion battery packs.

During his campaign, Obama promised to put 1 million plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles on US roads by 2015 and today he was impressed by the show put on for him by SCE and announced that the Department of Energy would be launching a $2 billion competitive grant program under the Recovery Act that will spark manufacturers to produce the batteries and parts for electric cars while putting thousands of Americans back to work. If he had of checked his fact beforehand he might have been a little more reserved with his comments. Currently there is only one American battery manufacturer producing lithium-ion batteries and those batteries are made in Asian facilities that are subsidized by Asian governments. The environmental regulations in the United States make it very unlikely that a permit to mass produce lithium-ion batteries here would ever be issued and I seriously doubt that Obama will turn his back on the tree huggers in his own party to get it done. When you get right down to it, $2 billion dollars wouldn’t pay the permitting, licensing and construction costs of one factory. As I said, logic has never been the liberal’s primary talent.

As far as this Californian is concerned, the less time Obama spends fixing this state’s problems the better off we will be. We have enough goofy liberals of our own without him adding to the mix.

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A recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates that Barack Obama is losing credibility at break neck speed as he fumbles around trying to solve the nation’s economic problems while the stock market plummets toward a black hole, the unemployment rate moves closer to depression era levels and he jettisons campaign promises with faster than a celebrity starlet changes boy friends.

Obama’s job approval rating has dove from 64% in February to 59% this month as more and more American citizens are reaching the obvious conclusion that he simply doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to government administration, politics or anything else. The only area in which Obama seems to be growing is in his disapproval rating, and that has increased nearly twice as much as his approval rating.

This unsurprising decline in Obama’s approval rating is the inevitable result of sending an empty-headed celebrity to do the job of a master-administrator. The American voters disregarded Obama’s lack of experience, background, credibility, integrity and sense of patriotism and they put him in office because he was young, he appeared to be black, and he could talk like the voters thought a president should talk. As it turns out, Obama shot his entire wad during the campaign. We saw everything he had before November, and now that he’s in office, he’s got nothing left to show but the bad ideas of his friends in the Democratic Party.

If the American people wanted Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi as president they could have supported them, endorsed their campaigns and voted for them. That didn’t happen because nobody wanted them or their ideas. Unfortunately, their ideas are all we now have because Obama’s got nothing to offer on his own and he’s depending on them. We couldn’t be in deeper water with an aqualung.

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Cecilia Munoz, formerly a senior vice president for the racist National Council of La Raza is now the director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of Barack Obama, irrefutably proving, once again, that special interest money still speaks louder in Washington D.C. than the voice of the people.

La Raza’s former overseer of legislative and advocacy activities at the state and local levels will now act as Obama’s personal mouthpiece to the Hispanic community. The appointment of Munoz comes, no doubt, as the result of La Raza’s endorsement and financial support of Obama’s 2008 campaign efforts and contradicts Obama’s campaign promise to erect a firewall between lobbyists and the government; so much for Barack Obama’s 53 day old executive order on ethics.

La Raza, which means “The Race”, is a Hispanic organization that works to achieve special consideration for Latino violators of U.S. immigration law. They are also heavily involved in the debate on open borders and the reform of U.S. immigration policy. One of the group’s current projects is to encourage government censorship of anti-immigration speech in America. La Raza is set to receive nearly $1 million dollars in U.S. tax payer money as part of the recent stimulus bill.

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The Democrats currently controlling the fate of freedom in the United States desperately want to curtail free speech, but they want to do it in a way that doesn’t appear to be as heavy handed as some of the past attempts at government censorship. They honestly don’t care if their actions amount to the same sort of heavy-handed censorship that they’ve implemented in the past as long as it doesn’t look that way.

The Fairness Doctrine which was implemented in 1949 required radio broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to giving opposing views on controversial subjects. Coincidentally, the Fairness Doctrine was implemented shortly after the Democrats regained full control of the U.S. Congress from the Republicans on January 3, 1949. The Democrats sold the 1949 Fairness Doctrine as a way to promote diverse viewpoints on broadcast airwaves, but what it really came down to was a way to legally harass radio broadcasters who displeased them. The FCC discarded the Fairness Doctrine because, contrary to its intended purpose, it failed to encourage the discussion of diverse viewpoints and it clearly violated the principles of free speech provided in the First Amendment.

Now that the liberals once again have a 100% lock on the entire American system of government, they again feel the compelling need to silence opposing viewpoints so they are exploring new and unique ways of excusing what is essentially heavy-handed government censorship of broadcast radio. Contrary to what they say, the controlling liberals are not concerned with encouraging diverse opinions, ensuring competition or promoting the public interest. What the liberals want is to silence conservative radio broadcasts and make it as difficult as they possibly can for anyone to air a viewpoint in opposition to their own. No matter how they slant it, the bottom line is pure unadulterated government censorship with no fairness intended.

Broadcast radio in America is a free market enterprise. The successful programs prosper and thrive while those that are not successful wither and die. Liberal talk shows on the radio have never been able to maintain an audience. Because liberal talk show audiences has always been small, their sponsors do not realize any benefit from advertising on liberal programs and they end up moving to programs that have larger audiences and provide the benefit they are looking for. Nobody conspires against the liberal talk shows. It’s a simple matter of people not wanting to listen to them. Conservative radio shows seem to have no problem drawing large audiences, and because of this their advertisers love them. It’s a free market. If there were a liberal radio show that had a large audience the advertisers would love it as well.

Liberals have pointed out that 91% of all weekday talk radio is conservative in nature, and they don’t like it. If there were a liberal talk show host that was entertaining and managed to maintain a decent sized audience, the liberals might feel better about things, but that is unlikely because they are not interested in presenting their ideas as much as they are in silencing the opposition. They are not promoting balance; they are promoting censorship of opposing views. They are telling you that in a democracy it is crucial that the citizens are exposed to diverse viewpoints before making up their minds on a given issue, but what they really mean is that they don’t want the opposition view expressed at all and they don’t really care if you like their viewpoint so long as it remains the only viewpoint that anyone hears about. To this end the Democrats are intent on ensuring the preservation of their definition of fairness by implementing laws that enable them to silence the opposition with a program of harassment, fines for purported violations and convoluted licensing regulations.

The liberal slant in favor of reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine would have it that the available space on the radio spectrum is scarce and that because of the limited space all activities need to be policed by federal bureaucrats who will make sure that all viewpoints are heard. This argument is not quite as factual as it could be. The available space on the radio broadcast spectrum is limited but not especially scarce. There are available channels for new broadcast operators in nearly every state and metropolitan area of the nation and new radio stations pop up on a regular basis. When the fairness doctrine was first conceived, only 2,881 radio and 98 television stations existed in the nation. By 1989 there were more than 10,000 radio stations and today there are something like 15,000 radio stations broadcasting and there are still numerous empty slots available for new radio stations. The argument that space on the radio spectrum is scarce simply doesn’t hold water.

Another augment put forth by the liberals is that fairness in broadcasting is best determined by the FCC, however, this argument is dependent on exactly what definition of “fairness” one is going by. Since it is impossible for every station to be monitored constantly, FCC regulators must select stations for monitoring arbitrarily and the arbitrary selection of stations for monitoring logically means that enforcement of the doctrine would be selective. Unless all stations are constantly monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week and the enforcement of the doctrine is absolute and certain, then there is nothing fair about it. Thomas W. Hazlett, a telecommunications historian, has stated that during the Nixon presidency, “License harassment of stations considered unfriendly to the Administration became a regular item on the agenda at White House policy meetings.” Bill Ruder, a former Kennedy Administration official, reportedly stated that, “We had a massive strategy to use the fairness doctrine to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters, and hope the challenge would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue.” Furthermore, the FCC has already determined that the entire concept of a “Fairness Doctrine” failed to promote the broadcasting of diverse opinions and violated the principles of free speech. The FCC did not implement the discussion regarding the re-implementation of the Fairness Doctrine, that discussion was started by the Democrats in congress during the immigration reform debate of 2007. A politically motivated “Fairness Doctrine” would not be fair to anyone.

The expression of opinion in the United States is not limited to the radio spectrum. We have public radio, television, cable, satellite broadcasts, internet, newspapers and a whole range of other communications tools available. The only possible justification for singling out radio broadcasting is to damage the conservative talk show broadcasts. There is nothing fair intended about the Fairness Doctrine and its only purpose is to censor the opposition and limit free speech in America. Constitutional rights do not need to be regulated by the federal government. Regulation of a right does not enhance that right, it limits it.

What the liberals want is to silence conservative radio broadcasts and make it as difficult as they possibly can for anyone to air a viewpoint in opposition to their own. They are willing to curtail American freedom to achieve their goal and will destroy your right to free speech if they need to. There is nothing fair about the Fairness Doctrine, and any political power encouraging its reimplementation is not working in the best interests of the American people.

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Barack, the delusional, used his best set of crayons to illustrate the “big picture” to Congress last week and the picture he drew should be keeping you awake long after the eleven o’clock news is over. The glassy-eyed liberals have reported Obama’s vision as being “breathtaking in scope,” but the rest of the country, including those who do not work for the government, and everyone whose level of occupational competence is too high for them to be considered good union material, equate the breathtaking nature of Obama’s vision with the unsavory experience of visiting a poorly maintained Death Valley outhouse on a hellishly hot summer day. “Breathtaking” does not always describe something good.

During this first year of total Democratic dominance, the irrepressible Obama intends to use the highest office in the land to mandate the creation of jobs, rescue the failing banks (and some that are not), implement a national health care system, reform education, fix Social Security, and do something about the nation’s energy problems (he’s not sure what that “something” will be right now but he’s thinking “green”).

Toward the middle of September 2008, the inevitability of an Obama victory tilted the highly volatile and precariously balanced American economy enough to cause a downturn in the housing market and set into motion the long chain of events we now simplistically categorize under the heading of “financial market crisis.” Whether or not this string of events was purposely precipitated is a question that conspiracy fans could be speculating about for decades to come.
Looking back over the chronology of events leading up to the current state of hysteria we can see plenty of fuel for the conspiracy engine to run on.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in the wake of the Great Depression. The intention at the time was to facilitate liquidity within the mortgage market and make homes more available to low-income families. The fact that this new government agency provided a great benefit to the multitude of low-income families across America and resulted in a massive increase in the number of newly registered Democrats was not overlooked by the liberal politicians and over the years following, pandering to special interests has become the cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s strategy for growth.

In 1968, under another Democratic controlled U.S. Congress, Fannie Mae was converted into a private shareholder-owned corporation for the purported reason of getting it off the federal budget’s annual balance sheet and make it appear that the Democratic controlled government was spending less money that it really was. At the same time they created the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) to take on some of the functions of Fannie Mae, and in 1970 they became even more redundant by the creation of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), commonly known as Freddie Mac. The alleged purpose of Freddie Mac was to facilitate a more robust and efficient secondary mortgage market by allowing it to compete with Fannie Mae. Bear in mind that all of these agencies were being controlled by the Democratic controlled U.S. Congress via the authority of the federal government and the oversight for each of them came from within the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Essentially, the lasting legacy of solid Democrat controlled congressional sessions running from early 1931 through early 1947 was the creation of a system of mortgage market regulation that resembled a very convoluted house of mirrors, made accountability nearly impossible to achieve, and created enormous opportunities for fraud, extortion and every sort of graft.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have always been regarded as exemplifying the best of all liberal ideals held dear to the hearts of Democratic campaigners looking to corner the votes of minority special interest groups who benefit the most from financially irresponsible government subsidized bureaucracies. The Democrats created them, nurtured them, protected them from all outsiders calling for legislative oversight, and for the most part, have lead them from their earliest infancy right up to their current position as a primary player in the collapse of the American economy. They have fought tooth and nail against any legislation that would actually reform, condense, solidify or otherwise make sense of the convoluted mess they had created.

The Republican Party sat in the majority seat of the U.S. Congress from January 2001 through January 2007, however, throughout most of this period of time the Washington conservatives were suffering from a severe identity crisis resulting in a loss of direction that rendered them generally ineffective. The Republican’s uncoordinated effort to implement practical legislative changes were easily stymied by the better organized Democrats and their superior ability to put together and follow long range plans. When the economic crisis alarms first began to sound, the Bush Administration made a weak attempt to tighten the reins on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the Democrat’s quickly undermined that effort and by the end of 2003 that failure was all but ancient history. In 2005, the Republican Senator Chuck Hagel sponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act, which would have increased the amount of government oversight for loans given by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act was viewed by the Democratic Party as a direct assault on their ability to pander to the votes of America’s less fortunate. With Congressman Barney Frank assurance to the nation that we were “not facing any kind of financial crisis,” as a result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s obvious mismanagement, the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 went down in flames and the financial irresponsibility of the Democrats was allowed to continue unabated.

Despite Congressman Barney Frank’s assurance that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both sitting on solid ground, six months before the end of George W. Bush’s last term of office both agencies very conveniently collapsed into ruin and on September 7, 2008, James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency placed both of them into conservatorship of the FHFA.

The economic avalanche was underway and in the ensuing panic an inexperienced Democratic nobody sailed into office on the dust cloud of chaos and financial ruin. Ironically, the two agencies that triggered the crisis quickly slipped from the attention of the news media following a massive infusion of tax-payer money and now seem to be doing much better, however, the panic ball that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set into motion has grown in both size and speed and regardless of how much money the Democrats now thrown into its path, it shows no sign of slowing.

Oddly enough, now that Obama’s in office and the Democrat’s control the entire ball of wax, we’re being told that the economic crisis is the result of the Republican’s financial irresponsibility and Bush’s incompetent administration. I guess the people in power get to write history the way they want it to read and the rest of us are just supposed to dummy up and believe it.

At any rate, here we are a mere 48 days into Obama’s first term of office and we have 12% of the nation’s homeowners facing foreclosure, the number of new orders being placed with U.S. factories continues to dwindle away, the national unemployment rate is at 8.1% while in some states the unemployment rate is already over 10%. The unemployed population of America is growing by more than 600,000 people per week. 651 thousand jobs were lost in the month of preceding Obama’s inauguration and in the brief period between that auspicious occasion and today over 2.2 million jobs in the United States have been lost and American stock market investors have lost more than $2.5 trillion dollars as the market tumbled to record lows and the DOW has fallen 20.4%. Meanwhile, the Democratic controlled U.S. government has handed out over a trillion dollars of tax payer money to banks and financial institutions with no obvious affect and to make matters even worse still, they are promising to dump even more federal money into these financial institutions as well as into an entire host of highly questionable social programs before the end of this year. Every day they are moving us a bit closer to a socialist government and with each step they take the American economy gets worse. Ironically, I read in the newspaper this morning that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, warned the leaders of the United States about too much government interference with their free market. The leader of the former communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republic stood up during a meeting of high level government officials from all over the world and warned the U.S. about heading off down the same socialist path that Russia took so many years ago. It was a path that led them eventually to great hardship, starvation and economic ruin. Obviously, Putin knows what he is talking about here, but somehow I doubt that the arrogant, elitist, East Coast academic yuppies who are sitting around in Washington D.C. dreaming up new ways to fix what isn’t broken, are going to give much credence to what the leader of the largest formerly communist country on the planet is trying to tell them. They are too smart to listen to someone who has been there and done that, besides that, if they screw it up they can always just come to us for more money to throw at it.

—————- On A Side Note ——————–

Last night the wife and I were walking out a Border’s book store when three teenage girls walked in, saw the latest Barack Obama coffee table book on display and began to talk excitedly about what a great guy our current president was. We were headed out the door and didn’t slow down to listen least we leave our dinner on the floor of the vestibule. Afterwards the apprehension I have felt about our government’s burdening the future generation with massive taxes began to melt away. The Democrats knew what they were doing when they pushed to get the voting age requirement lowered to the point that empty headed gum snappers like those three kids could legally vote, and that is the crowd that helped him carry the day. I still feel sorry for the ones with a few brains in their young heads, but thanks to those three, the pain is somewhat reduced.

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Citigroup, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase are all increasing the interest rates on their credit cards dramatically. The rates on the American Express cards are going up and the company has offered its customers a $300 bonus to close their accounts. Capital One has nearly tripled the rate on their cards and the Discover Card rate is shooting up to something like 29%. This is a good indication of a couple of things; the first being that none of these companies want to keep their current customers so they are trying like hell to drive them away, and the second thing is that, despite the outrageous amount of money the Obaminator and his crowd have thrown at the banks, the stimulus ain’t stimulating nothing.

Millions of American families are already facing foreclosure, bankruptcy and economic ruin and the only news we hear out of Washington D.C. is that our taxes will be going through the roof to pay for all of the stimulus packages being handed out to companies so they can stay afloat while the American people go down for the count.

This entire disaster is the result of the Democratic politicians insistence that loan companies make funds available to low income families so they too could be a part of the American dream and now, at a point in time where the Democrats have 100% control over all branches of the U.S. government, that American dream has become an American nightmare and the only thing they can think to do is to throw more gas on the fire.

The people whose homes are sitting in foreclosure, the people who are wondering if they are going to be living on the street in a month and the people who don’t have any idea how in the hell they are going to put groceries on the table for their kids next month don’t give a furry rat’s ass about whether or not Citi Bank needs a fancy new jet airplane or some group of corporate fatcats have to forego there annual multi-billion dollar shindig in Las Vegas, they need help and they need it yesterday. Nobody cares anymore whose fault it is, nobody has time for excuses, finger-pointing, political slant or the rest of the bullshit games we’ve grown so accustomed to in the last decade.

Cabela’s had a 7% increase in retail sales in the fourth quarter while most other retailers reported decreased sales. Why do you suppose that is? While stocks are literally falling out of the sky Sturm, Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson are going through the roof. Sturm, Ruger & Co.’s sales were 81% higher in the fourth quarter of last year and Smith & Wesson reported a 40% rise in quarterly pistol sales. Now some naive idiots would make the claim that all of the people running out and buying guns are doing so simply because they are afraid the Democrats will ban firearm sales. That doesn’t make a lot of sense when you consider the fact that the people buying those guns and ammunition are the same people who are facing foreclosure, rapidly mounting debt and the inability to provide for their families no matter how much money they are making. Unofficially, it has been estimated that there has been a 400% increase in the sales of guns and ammunition over the last three months and it is a sure bet that all of those people are not buying guns as an investment.

The simple truth is that the American people, that is the people who were born here or came here legally and eventually became citizens, are in a generally pissy mood. They’ve worked their butts off for more years than they can remember to pay their own way, to take care of their families, put their kids through school and build up a retirement. Now everything they’ve worked for is being grabbed up. The moderate debt they had is now astronomical and thanks to the credit card agencies that have raised their rates up to something like 29%, the hole is too deep to ever hope climbing out of. The house they bought and slaved to keep up is now worth less than what they still owe on it. The banks won’t re-finance without equity and there is no hope of getting a loan to pay off the growing debt. Meanwhile the stock market plunge has all but wiped out everything they had in the 401K account that they have been funneling their future hopes into every month and their pension, along with their future hope and dreams are now gone like a puff of smoke in a high wind. Like anyone that has been put through the wringer and comes out the other end feeling royally screwed, blued and tattooed, they are pissed. Not only are they pissed, but they are pissed and have no place to turn. Furthermore, not only are they pissed and have no place to turn, but they are well armed and have plenty of ammunition.

It would seem that this would be a good time for some of those forked-tongued political hacks in Washington to look up from that box he or she is packing all of that money into and take notice of what’s going on around the country. It’s too late to ban the sale of firearms – everybody they don’t want to have on already has six or ten of them sitting around on a stack of loaded clips. The government can pass all the laws they want to make firearms illegal – nobody cares anymore. The government’s ability to seize all the firearms already out there is significantly less than the citizen’s ability to hide them where they can never be found. The proverbial cat is already out of the bag and there is no way to get it back in there. Even if the government could manage to, somehow, round up all of the guns, there are a dozen million backyard mechanics and garage machinists capable of whipping up a downright scary gun in four hours or less. Like the Czech shotgun in the picture below, it doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t even have to be all that efficient, it only needs to work well once and it can get you something much prettier and a whole lot more effective. If the Czech’s can do it you better believe that Americans can do it better. The threat is here to stay and the best way to deal with it is to give hope back to the people. Anything less and we are sure to see them pouring out of their foreclosed houses with a look of pure rage and the intent to do some drastic damage. Change is coming – it can be good or it can be horrible, but its coming nonetheless.

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