Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Obama by de faco encourges Child RAPE
Monday, September 28, 2009
Nascar 2010
NAASCAR 2010 Schedule
| Date | CUP | Date | NATIONWIDE | Date | TRUCK | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 6 | Bud Shootout | ||||||
| Feb. 14 | Daytona | Feb. 13 | Daytona | Feb. 12 | Daytona | ||
| Feb. 21 | Fontana | Feb. 20 | Fontana | ||||
| Feb. 28 | Las Vegas | Feb. 27 | Las Vegas | ||||
| March 7 | Atlanta | March 6 | Atlanta | ||||
| March 21 | Bristol | March 20 | Bristol | ||||
| March 28 | Martinsville | March 27 | Martinsville | ||||
| April 3 | Nashville | ||||||
| April 10 | Phoenix | April 9 | Phoenix | ||||
| April 18 | Texas | April 17 | Texas | ||||
| April 25 | Talladega | April 24 | Talladega | ||||
| May 1 | Richmond | April 30 | Richmond | May 2 | Kansas | ||
| May 8 | Darlington | May 7 | Darlington | ||||
| May 16 | Dover | May 15 | Dover | May 14 | Dover | ||
| May 22 | All-Star Race | May 21 | Charlotte | ||||
| May 30 | Charlotte | May 29 | Charlotte | ||||
| June 6 | Pocono | June 5 | Nashville | June 4 | Texas | ||
| June 13 | Michigan | June 12 | Kentucky | June 12 | Michigan | ||
| June 20 | Sonoma | June 19 | Milwaukee | June 18 | Milwaukee | ||
| June 27 | New Hampshire | June 26 | New Hampshire | June 26 | Memphis | ||
| July 3 | Daytona | July 2 | Daytona | ||||
| July 10 | Chicago | July 9 | Chicago | July 11 | Iowa | ||
| July 17 | Gateway | July 16 | Gateway | ||||
| July 25 | Indianapolis | July 24 | O'Reilly | July 23 | O'Reilly | ||
| Aug. 1 | Pocono | July 31 | Iowa | July 31 | Pocono | ||
| Aug. 8 | Watkins Glen | Aug. 7 | Watkins Glen | Aug. 7 | Nashville | ||
| Aug. 15 | Michigan | Aug. 14 | Michigan | ||||
| Aug. 21 | Bristol | Aug. 20 | Bristol | Aug. 18 | Bristol | ||
| Aug. 29 | Montreal | Aug. 27 | Chicago | ||||
| Sept. 5 | Atlanta | Sept. 4 | Atlanta | Sept. 3 | Kentucky | ||
| Sept. 11 | Richmond | Sept. 10 | Richmond | ||||
| Sept. 19 | New Hampshire | Sept. 18 | New Hampshire | ||||
| Sept. 26 | Dover | Sept. 25 | Dover | Sept. 25 | Las Vegas | ||
| Oct. 3 | Kansas | Oct. 2 | Kansas | ||||
| Oct. 10 | Fontana | Oct. 9 | Fontana | ||||
| Oct. 16 | Charlotte | Oct. 15 | Charlotte | ||||
| Oct. 24 | Martinsville | Oct. 23 | Memphis | Oct. 23 | Martinsville | ||
| Oct. 31 | Talladega | Oct. 30 | Talladega | ||||
| Nov. 7 | Texas | Nov. 6 | Texas | Nov. 5 | Texas | ||
| Nov. 14 | Phoenix | Nov. 13 | Phoenix | Nov. 12 | Phoenix | ||
| Nov. 21 | Homestead | Nov. 20 | Homestead | Nov. 19 | Homestead |
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Islamic Day of Prayer at the White House
Islamic Day of Prayer
at the White House
In June 2007, Presidential candidate Barack Obama declares theUSA no longer a Christian nation.
In 1952 President Truman established one day a year as a National Day of Prayer.
In 1988, President Reagan designated the first Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of Prayer.
This year however, President Obama, decided to cancel the ceremony at the White House not wanting to offend anyone.
On September 25, 2009 from 4am until 7pm , a National Day of Prayer for the Muslim religion will be held on Capitol Hill, beside the White House. As a Christian, it makes me really wonder where the REAL direction of this country is headed.
Whether you didn't vote for the man or you did, as Christians I would surely hope that this would stir your spirit. They are expecting over 50,000 muslims that day in DC.
The website is:
http://www.islamoncapitolhill.com/
Pay particular attention on the website to the bottom of the page where it states, "OUR TIME HAS COME."
2 Chronicles 7:14 says "if my people, who are called by my name,will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." becomes more important each day.
Perhaps all the things going on now in this country and around the world could be solved if we would heed this scripture.
If you feel that this is an important issue, please feel free to make your friends and family aware. If not, delete it.
Just a few thoughts to ponder on.
God Bless,
~If this upsets you, we have no one to blame except the Christians who haven't prayed.
~I've heard many complaints about the direction that our country is taking, many people are upset with President Obama and our government officials, but the truth is the only people to blame are we Christians who haven't chased hard after our God. This is a spiritual battle that will become a natural battle if we don't pray.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Democrats destroyed the world economy! (Here is how!)
The Democrats destroyed the world economy! (Here is how!)
First of all I keep getting this A.P. story shoved in my face as "proof" of Bush's incompetence, http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=6364464 .Did anyone read this article? This story blames Bush at the beginning then states that "Bowing to aggressive lobbying-along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK, regulators delayed action for nearly one year". The regulators are congress! More specifically the House Financial Services Committee, http://financialservices.house.gov/jurisdiction.html
Every person on this committee is a democrat, every one of them thwarted all attempts at regulation and it was their responsibility led by Barney Frank. Everybody has seen the Utube videos of Barney bad ass telling congress there is no issue here at Fannie and Freddie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epapamiket%2Ecom%2F%3Fp%3D17810&feature=player_embedded#t=108
Bush had no authority to regulate the housing industry, even though he tried many times.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae.html
I can't believe all you delusional liberals think this disaster was caused by the same things:
1. runaway greed ("market failure") on the part of lenders is the cause of the subprime crisis;
2. these same greedy lenders routinely ignore billions of dollars in potential profits in lower-income communities because of their systemic racism, stupidity, or both — hence the need for the CRA; (Community Reinvestment Act) and
3. No government agency, especially not the Fed, had anything to do with either the creation or bursting of the housing market bubble and the subprime crisis.
At least you were on to something when you brought up that lax mortgage underwriting and relaxed income standards as being a factor, but this is just a symptom, not the disease.
Did you ever wonder why the banks and brokers lowered their standards? I'm sure it never occurred to you to even ask that question.
The Community Reinvestment Act and other government fair lending laws such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants, required and encouraged lax lending standards that contributed to the later mortgage boom and bust.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-folks-the-cra-really-did-require-crap-lending-standards-2009-6
The private sector (brokers and banks), were "pushed" into making these loans, if you look at the evidence, the fed. And local community groups (Acorn) forced banks to meet benchmarks in their performance to comply with the Community Reinvestment Act.
Banks that fell short had to deal with the consequences:
http://www.usnews.com/money/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/03/17/yes-the-community-reinvestment-act-really-did-help-cause-the-housing-crisis.html
Or how about this article:
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/03/16/story3.html
But really, don't take my word for any of this, read this speech given by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke at the Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C.March 30, 2007
Allow me to highlight my favorite part: "Further attention to CRA was generated by the surge in bank merger and acquisition activities that followed the enactment of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994. As public scrutiny of bank merger and acquisition activity escalated, advocacy groups increasingly used the public comment process to protest bank applications on CRA grounds. In instances of highly contested applications, the Federal Reserve Board and other agencies held public meetings to allow the public and the applicants to comment on the lending records of the banks in question. In response to these new pressures, banks began to devote more resources to their CRA programs. Many institutions established separate business units and subsidiary community development corporations to facilitate lending that would be given favorable consideration in CRA examinations. Local and regional public-private partnerships and multibank loan consortia also gained more prominence as banks developed strategies for expanding and managing CRA-related activities".
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/Bernanke20070330a.htm
This is extortion, this is how the Community Reinvestment Act was enforced! Did you read the part about " In response to these new pressures, banks began to devote more resources to their CRA programs. Many institutions established separate business units and subsidiary community development corporations to facilitate lending that would be given favorable consideration in CRA examinations".
What else would make a bank push through bad loads?
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/17/business/fed-stops-bank-merger-cites-lending-concerns.html
This was the first time the Fed had ever taken this kind of action, and it had profound effects through the banking sector. It sent a strong signal to the banks that the Fed would closely scrutinize lending practice, limiting the ability of banks to grow or make acquisitions if they were found to have insufficient low income or minority lending. Banks immediately responded by lowering down payment requirements and using more flexible income criteria.
You have to ask yourself one question: Why would any bank lend money to people with poor credit histories and low incomes? Greed? Hardly. There was the carrot of Fannie and Freddie buying up the mortgages and the stick of the Justice Department prosecuting the banks for redlining. No greedy person I know would lend his money to bad credit risks! Private businesses acting on their own would never lend themselves into bankruptcy across an entire industry without government policy interfering.
The left states "More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions". Yes, but you have to realize, independent mortgage companies are middlemen who arrange mortgage loans for borrowers — including "subprime" borrowers — with banks, including CRA-regulated banks. The private institutions did make most of the sub-prime loans, but that was because (a) they were intimidated into doing so by the CRA and the politicians, and (b) Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae were waiting anxious to buy them from the private businesses as soon as they were made. And Banks lacking the equity capital needed to hold large volumes of these risky loans in their portfolios were glad to sell them to Fannie and Freddie, this gave them more capital to lend to the next guy, and so on. And lenders of all types couldn't originate and then sell these loans to investors (Wall Street) in the form of residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS—at least not without added protection against defaults.
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This is where Fannie and Freddie comes in, These GSE (Government -sponsored enterprises) Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the 12 federal home loan banks (FHLBs). Using information as of September 30, 2006 these 14 firms have total assets of $2.67 trillion; given their thin capital positions, their total liabilities are only a little smaller. Just two firms—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—account for $1.65 trillion of the assets, or 62 percent of all housing GSE assets. Moreover, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have guaranteed mortgage-backed securities outstanding of $2.82 trillion. Thus, the housing GSE liabilities on their balance sheets and guaranteed obligations off their balance sheets are about $4.47 trillion, which may be compared with U.S. government debt in the hands of the public of $4.83 trillion! It is estimated that 75 percent of outstanding first-lien residential mortgages are held by securitization trusts, and that two-thirds are in GSE MBS.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the largest GSEs, with Ginnie Mae being smaller. These enterprises guarantee the loans and pool large groups of them into RMBS. They're then sold to investors, who receive a share of the payments on the underlying mortgages. Because the GSEs are federally chartered, investors perceive an implicit government guarantee of them. Having confidence in the ability of quantitative models to accurately measure nonprime default risk, a brisk market emerged for securities backed by nonprime loans.
http://www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2007/el0711.html#1
You people keep saying" Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law" that doesn't matter when Fannie and Freddie wanted subprime or Alt-A loans, the mortgage markets would produce them. Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of HUD between 1997 and 2001, actively pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into backing the enormous expansion of the nonprime mortgage market.11 In the short run, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac found that their new flexible lending lines were profitable, and they continued to expand their purchases of nonprime mortgages under the rising goals set by subsequent HUD Secretaries.
The hyper expansion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was made possible by their implicit backing from the U.S. Treasury. To fund their enormous growth, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to borrow huge sums in wholesale financial markets. Institutional investors were willing to lend to the government-sponsored mortgage companies cheaply—at rates only slightly above those on the Treasury's risk-free securities and well below those paid by other financial intermediaries—despite the risk of default that would normally attach to private firms holding such highly leveraged and poorly diversified portfolios. The investors were so willing only because they thought that the Treasury would repay them should Fannie or Freddie be unable. As it turns out, they were right. The Treasury did explicitly guarantee Fannie's and Freddie's debts when the two giants collapsed and were placed into conservatorship.
Congress was repeatedly warned by credible observers about the growing dangers posed by Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's implicit federal backing. A leading critic was William Poole, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, who as far back as 2003 pointedly warned that the companies had insufficient capital to survive adverse conditions, and that the problem would continue to fester unless Congress explicitly removed the federal backing from the two companies so that they would face market discipline.12
Congress did nothing. http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/hud/housing-finance-2008-financial-crisis
By late 2004, Fannie and Freddie very much wanted subprime and Alt-A loans. In order to curry congressional support after their accounting scandals in 2003 and 2004, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac committed to increased financing of "affordable housing." They became the largest buyers of subprime and Alt-A mortgages between 2004 and 2007, with total GSE exposure eventually exceeding $1 trillion. In doing so, they stimulated the growth of the subpar mortgage market and substantially magnified the costs of its collapse
.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html
So don't give me this crap about Phil Gramm and his Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 as a source of all these recent problems. Credit Default Swaps would not have killed Lehman Brothers if all of its assets weren't toxic! That's the only thing you could even begin to blame the right for, and why hasn't it been repealed?
Or the repeal of the bipartisan Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, That act opened the door for financial firms to diversify: a holding company that owns a commercial bank subsidiary may now also own insurance, mutual fund, and investment bank subsidiaries. Far from contributing to the recent turmoil, the greater freedom allowed by the 1999 act has been a blessing in containing the fallout. Without it, JPMorgan Chase could not have acquired Bear Stearns, nor could Bank of America have acquired Merrill Lynch—acquisitions that avoided losses to Bear's and Merrill's bondholders. (It is not the Act's fault that the Fed sweetened the Bear Stearns acquisition at taxpayer expense and forced Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch when the bank wanted to scotch the deal). Without it, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley could not have switched specialties to become bank holding companies when it became clear that they could no longer survive as investment banks.
So you can believe me or you can believe Ben Bernanke either way, it's the same!
The democrats (Carter administration)brought the Community Reinvestment Act into law in 1977, Bill Clinton gave it wings in 1997, they then spent the last 12 years abusing the system and defending its practices until the whole thing collapsed under rising interest rates in 2008.
Carter projecting his own racism on others
Jimmy Carter is projecting his own racism onto opponents of ObamaCare. Upper-class Democrats have traditionally charged their enemies of racism in the post-war era to distract audiences from their own ghastly histories. Of course, it is easier for Big Media to pretend to read the hearts of multiracial working-class protesters from afar than admit that Carter's was no true friend of the civil rights movement.
I suggest we focus on the historical facts at hand:
Jimmy Carter's church (like Obama's) promoted racism. But whereas we rightly associate Obama's with anti-European and anti-Semitic sermons, Carter's fringe Baptist church family actually "canceled services rather than admit four blacks," according to an Associated Press Report, dated November 2, 1976 (in the Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, Mo.).
Jimmy Carter attended a church where race-obsessed deacons enforced a 1965 resolution to exclude "Negroes or other civil rights activists." For years, the peanut farmer attended an openly racist church. Today, though, he magically reads the hearts and minds of Obama's critics.
Jimmy Carter -- like Obama -- tried to downplay and hide his religious leaders' racism: "For several years, the Plains Baptist Church has admitted worshipers without discrimination. I will seek church action to continue worship opportunities and also offer membership to those who live in our community and who share our religious faith." Yet, Carter failed to explain (a) why blacks were being kicked out of his church in 1976 and (b) why he attended an institution with a racist resolution.
I could go on. In more recent times (for example) Carter -- like the Reverend Wright -- openly railed against Zionist Jews, not blood thirsty Islamists. The key word here is "projection." Obama certainly was (and probably still is) a Wright-wing extremist, but Carter is a seasoned hypocrite.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
ACORN is back at it again.
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![]() ACORN is back at it again. Or more correctly, additional information on what ACORN has been up to all along has come to light. You'll remember it was the ACU who was one of the first to raise alarms about ACORN. We produced videos, issued petitions and worked to spread the message about ACORN: voter fraud, mixing taxpayer funds with political activities and their direct ties to Barack Obama. Now we have learned more. As I am sure you have seen, ACORN within the last two weeks has been tied to illegal activities involving prostitution. ACORN workers have also now finally been indicted for illegal voter activities... a pattern of activities we helped uncover last year. NOW IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS TO END ANY FUNDING, WHATSOEVER, FOR ACORN OR ANY ACORN RELATED SUBSIDIARY. A back-door way for ACORN to receive funding is to funnel it through one of their related groups. All ACORN entities must be disqualified. The Senate has taken one step, but we must finish the job. We must demand that Congress end funding for ALL ACORN related groups ... ACU is fighting this battle. To win the battle we need your help. As we pointed out in our ACU YouTube created and inspired videos last year, which we will provide a link to after you sign the petition, ACORN has direct ties to Maxine Waters who called for the "socializing" ie. socialism of America's energy producers. ACORN has direct ties to pressuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to give subprime loans; which helped cause the downfall of our nation's economy. ACORN had direct ties to voter fraud across multiple states and ACORN received $800,000 from Barack Obama's campaign - which was never fully investigated. ACORN is a corrupt organization that is pushing an ULTRA-LIBERAL agenda, plain and simple. As the Associated Press reported, "ACORN's national drive produced some 1.3 million voter applications (in 2008). Authorities on Wednesday began arresting 11 people suspected of falsifying ... voter applications." The Florida Palm Beach Post newspaper said, "ACORN workers busted for fraud. At least five ACORN workers are behind bars and law enforcement officials are seeking six others for forging signatures on voter registration applications last year." It is time for Congress to stop ALL funding of ACORN. You may have seen the latest undercover videos on FOX News or heard the latest news on their working to support prostitution. It almost seems unbelievable - but the video proves it. The Washington Post reported, ACORN employees in Baltimore and DC offices were caught on tape advising a couple on how to buy a house to use as a brothel and to house the prostitutes. Is this how ACORN has been working to "help the community" with housing... by helping illegal enterprises acquire buildings? They have claimed they are merely aiding liberal goals of promoting affordable housing. They have been praised by liberal politicians from Barack Obama to Chris Dodd for their work on housing. Now we find out that their housing work includes setting up prostitution rings. Republican legislators in Maryland have called for a full investigation into ACORN's Baltimore office. We must do more. Our ACORN video produced last year - a link to which we will provide after you sign the petition - shows how ACORN has used its housing arm, which receives federal funds and was involved in the brothel, to promote its political activities. We must stop the funding. The Baltimore Sun newspaper reported that ACORN workers were not only willing to help set up housing for a prostitution ring, they were also willing to help people create documents that would enable their tax evasion. That's right. They not only want to take your money - taxpayer money - to fund illegal activities they want to teach criminals how to promulgate tax evasion so that you - not they - pay for their criminal enterprises. It was reported widely that Barack Obama's administration actually worked to have ACORN involved in the next census. The very census that is used to develop district lines for state and federal elections and that is used to hand out federal funds. Only after severe criticism from ACU and others did the Census Bureau finally announce just last week that it would cut its ties with ACORN. The New York Times, in a very small story, reported that Mr. Robert Groves, the Census Director, grudgingly stated, "It is clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern..." This after the Census Bureau previously announced in March that there were going to use ACORN and the NAACP together to assist in the "hiring of census workers around the country." The real question should be - why was ACORN involved in the Census in the first place? We here at ACU will continue fighting to get the answer. We are also going to work to have a full FBI investigation into the Barack Obama campaign to find out what they knew and what they were funding with their $800,000 payment to ACORN. A former ACORN worker came forward in March and stated that "more than half" of ACORN's voter registrations in 2008 were "invalid" in testimony to a House Judiciary Subcommittee. She said that if anyone reported fraud, they were thrown "under the bus." We are not going to rest. Was the Obama campaign payment, his election and the census work connected? Where did this money go, who was involved and what did ACORN do for Obama. As our videos last year, available when you sign the petition, prove these are questions that must be answered. According to federal documents, ACORN's Housing Corporation - which our video noted last year - has received $1.6 million in federal taxpayer funds. Earlier, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave ACORN more than $8 million in taxpayer funds. Where did this money go? In January it was reported by the Seattle-Tacoma News Tribune that, even before Obama took office, ACORN was working behind the scenes to drum up support for the eventual passage of the massive, liberal stimulus program saying the funding would, "benefit the more troubled among us." As ACU reported to you and fought against earlier this year - their push for the Stimulus was just another attempt by ACORN to grab even more taxpayer money. Should ACORN still have 501(c)(3) non-profit status after it has been involved in prostitution rings and after it directly took funds to aid Obama's 2008 campaign? I say no. ACORN has received millions and millions more dollars in taxpayer funds for many years. Where is all of this money going? As Reporter Stanley Kurtz wrote last year, ACORN is "the largest radical group in America." Writer Sol Stern in 2003 noted ACORN is the successor to the 1960's "New Left" with an "agenda of anti-capitalism." It should be no surprise then that they have been involved in protests against private businesses, forcing private companies to push subprime loans and actions which have harmed our economy. YESTERDAY THE U.S. SENATE TOOK ITS FIRST STEPS TOWARD DENYING ACORN FUNDING. However, this is just the first step. The House must act and we must force all subsidiaries, and affiliated groups to also be disqualified for federals funds. We cannot do it - however - without your help. We simply must have your continued help to fight ACORN. Support ACU today and help us fight. SIGN THE PETITION HERE AND NOW! Sincerely, Dennis Whitfield ACU Executive Vice President Former Reagan Deputy Secretary of Labor P.S. Corrupt ACORN has been using hidden entities for years to funnel money back and forth. Do not allow taxpayer funds to flow from one ACORN entity to another. Help us fight to ensure ALL funding for ACORN - and any ACORN related subsidiary or group - is ended. 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Obama to support abortion-on-demand not just as a "fundamental right" but as a taxpayer-funded entitlement
Help us stop this EVIL law!
In July 2007, Barack Obama promised a group of his supporters that, if elected president, he would sign perhaps the most evil piece of legislation in the history of our republic.
It's called the "Freedom of Choice Act," or FOCA -- but don't let the Orwellian title fool you. It isn't about "freedom" or "choice" at all. It's about forcing each and every American citizen -- regardless of his or her view on abortion -- to support abortion-on- demand not just as a "fundamental right" but as a taxpayer-funded entitlement.
But the compulsion wouldn't stop there. Because FOCA would also run roughshod over the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, and hospitals that oppose abortion on religious or moral grounds -- forcing them to provide or counsel for abortion or face professional de-certification, loss of funding, lawsuits, and even prosecution.
Not only that, FOCA would immediately strike down any and all state restrictions on abortion -- even those with wide popular support, such as prohibitions on partial-birth abortion and parental notification requirements for minors seeking abortions.
Make no mistake: FOCA is the most radical piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed, one that would go far beyond Roe v. Wade in making abortion a government-protecte d and taxpayer-supported "right," through all nine months of pregnancy.
That's why I'm asking you today to support HUMAN EVENTS in its efforts to stop this outrageous piece of legislation before it ever reaches President Obama's desk.
Let me explain why this is possible -- and how
HUMAN EVENTS plans to do it...
You see, in his 2007 campaign pledge to Planned Parenthood members, Obama promised that signing FOCA would be "the first thing I'd do as president." The only reason he hasn't followed through on that promise is that Democratic-controll ed Congress has yet to introduce and pass it.Why the delay? For one thing, they've had bigger fish to fry -- such as trillion-dollar "stimulus" packages and a new government-run health care system. They learned from Bill Clinton's immediate post-election action on gays in the military not to squander a new president's honeymoon period on divisive social legislation.
But also, by delaying, they can lull their pro-life opponents into thinking that FOCA has been tabled, while quietly building support for it in a stealth propaganda campaign that is already underway using major media outlets -- such as the Washington Post, which recently ran a piece in its "On Faith" section called "Why Fear FOCA?"
But with your help, HUMAN EVENTS will defeat the pro-abortionists' "stealth" media campaign with its own media blitzkrieg designed to counter pro-FOCA lies and propaganda with the facts.
Here's how it will work...
The main weapon in HUMAN EVENTS' media blitzkrieg will be an in-depth Special Report called, "The Facts About FOCA: Truth vs. Propaganda in the Battle Over the Most Radical Pro-Abortion Law in American History."Written in consultation with the finest legal minds of our time, "The Facts About FOCA" will reveal how, despite pro-abortionists' attempts to soft-pedal its potential impact in order to ensure swift passage, the Freedom of Choice Act would:
- Establish abortion as a "fundamental right," elevating it to the same status as the right to vote and the right to free speech -- going beyond any Supreme Court decision in enshrining unlimited abortion-on- demand into American law
- Eliminate every restriction on abortion nationwide -- including 44 states' laws concerning parental involvement, 40 states' laws on restricting later-term abortions, 46 states' conscience protection laws for individual health care providers, 27 states' conscience protection laws for institutions, 38 states' bans on partial-birth abortions, 33 states' laws on requiring counseling before an abortion, and 16 states' laws concerning ultrasounds before an abortion
- Compel taxpayer funding of abortions through state and federal welfare programs, federal employee insurance plans, and in military hospitals.
- Force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions
- Force doctors and nurses to provide counseling and referral for abortions
Included among the activists, opinion-makers, and other influential citizens to whom HUMAN EVENTS will distribute "The Facts About FOCA" will be:
- Pro-life, conservative, and/or Republican activist groups on HUMAN EVENTS' own extensive nationwide list, with an invitation to help spread the word by ordering and distributing inexpensive bulk reprints of the report
- Top editors, reporters, and syndicated columnists on every major metropolitan and regional paper in America, plus many local ones. HUMAN EVENTS will give them blanket advance permission to reproduce the report in whole or in part, without paying royalties
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- TV news editors, anchors, and reporters at all the networks and cable news channels, as well as local affiliates
- All 435 members of the U.S. House and Senate, with additional copies for their staff members and committee aides
- More than 150,000 dedicated HUMAN EVENTS readers
Can HUMAN EVENTS do it?
YES - because they've done it before
In 2004, HUMAN EVENTS helped an obscure organization with no money known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth publicize their claims about John Kerry. They had planned a commercial for a small number of local TV markets. But before it even ran, HUMAN EVENTS posted the ad on its website and leaked it to Matt Drudge -- then sent out hundreds of thousands of email messages calling attention to it over several weeks. Result? Tens of millions of people were able to view an ad that otherwise would have reached a few hundred thousand at best. That, in turn, helped make a #1 New York Times bestseller out of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, published by HUMAN EVENTS' sister company, Regnery -- provoking the New York Times itself to concede, "If John Kerry loses the presidential election, Unfit for Command, by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi, will go down as a chief reason." He did, and it was.
I promise you, HUMAN EVENTS can accomplish the same sort of thing with "The Facts About FOCA."
But They Need YOUR Help
Creating and distributing "The Facts About FOCA" on a massive, nationwide scale will not come cheap. But it will be worth every penny if it helps defeat this deadly and freedom-destroying legislation.It wouldn't be fair to pass on that cost to HUMAN EVENTS readers by hiking subscription rates. And unlike most liberal publications, they receive no support from big corporations or foundations -- for whom they're about as "politically incorrect" as you can get.
Which leaves people like you -- dedicated conservatives who share not only HUMAN EVENTS' pro-life principles, but their commitment to making an impact on the great political struggles of our day.
It's going to be tough, but I believe we can do it. Your donation will help HUMAN EVENTS "fight the good fight" against FOCA, and support it in its ongoing mission to promote limited government, individual liberty, and traditional values.
And to express their gratitude for your donation of just $75 or more, HUMAN EVENTS will send you a complimentary hardcover copy of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, written by National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru.
Best Regards,
Mike Huckabee
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Is America Returning to a Pre-9/11 Mentality?
It's a softer and relational Washington, with whom international bonds are more important than national borders and boundaries. It's a more secular Washington, which says that the country is no longer a "Christian nation." It's a more liberal Washington; it has enacted more left-leaning legislation in its first year than any previous administration. It's a more generous Washington, from whom handouts, bailouts and borrowing are granted and given at record-breaking political speed.
But my greatest concern, I must confess, is that it's a kinder and gentler Washington, to whom the global war on terror has turned into an "overseas contingency operation." That kinder and gentler Washington begs the question, "Are we returning to a pre-9/11 mentality?" Pondering the answer prompts a pre-9/11 memory in which I fought that form of complacency via one of my television movies.
In 2000, I had starred in a CBS movie of the week, called "The President's Man," which garnered high ratings for the network. I played Joshua McCord, the president's secret agent who masquerades as a university professor between assignments. Two years later, the network wanted another film with me playing the same character.
During the time I was trying to come up with a story idea for the movie, my wife, Gena, and I had dinner in Dallas with our friends, one being a senator from Texas.
I asked the senator what she thought was the greatest threat to America. "Terrorism," she replied straightforwardly. "Our greatest fear is someone like Osama bin Laden sneaking a nuclear weapon into our country." She explained that we had allowed our nation to become vulnerable to such an attack. "During the last eight years, under President Clinton's administration, our security measures and enforcement personnel have been drastically reduced," she said. "That concerns me."
It concerned me, too, and I thought that I might be able to shed some light on the problem. After dinner, I called my brother, Aaron, and told him to get our scriptwriters to my house first thing in the morning. "I think I have the storyline for 'The President's Man,'" I told him.
The story we developed involved a bin Laden-type terrorist who contacts the president of the United States and threatens to escalate terrorism all over the world unless his holy warriors, incarcerated for their involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are released. Of course, the president refuses to give in to his demands.
In our story, a nuclear weapon is indeed sneaked into the United States. The president is threatened and told that the nuclear weapon will be detonated if the holy warriors are not released.
That's when I come into the picture, as the president's main man. I sneak into Afghanistan, where the lead terrorist is hiding out. I kidnap him and bring him back to the United States for trial.
That would be coincidental enough, but it's even more so considering the timing of the movie's release and the rest of the story!
Interestingly, my conversation with the senator took place nine months before Sept. 11, 2001. I had finished my last episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger" in April of that year and then plunged right into working on the sequel to "The President's Man" in May. As we made the film, we thought we were creating a fictitious story; we shuddered at the possibility that something catastrophic would happen in our country.
We delivered the finished movie print to CBS Sept. 6, 2001, just five days before that horrible day that none of us ever will forget. Ironically, when the print was delivered to CBS, the original title was "The President's Man: Ground Zero." After 9/11, we changed the title to "The President's Man: A Line in the Sand."
As eerie as the juxtaposition of that script and that tragic event was, that was only a television movie. What our nation experienced was real-life. And the grief of those who still suffer from the loss of loved ones on 9/11 is still more real than life itself. May God continue to comfort them.
Of course, questioning God's concern when tragedy happens is a normal human reaction and understandable passage of grief (just as I did when my brother Wieland was killed, in 1970 in the Vietnam War). I learned back then that it's OK to doubt the Almighty, but staying there is definitely a dead end. If you feel stuck in your personal pain, I encourage you to read my friend and best-selling author Randy Alcorn's brand-new book, "If God Is Good," a genuinely encouraging read that embraces struggle and offers real answers that help. (You can learn more about the book, read an excerpt and order a copy at http://www.epm.org.)
Like many of you, I pray every day that nothing like 9/11 ever will happen again. But only if we are prepared and our country seeks God in genuine prayer will we prevail and possibly prevent another such tragedy.
Mostly, for the sake of those who still bear the grief of that disastrous day eight years ago, I hope the present Democratic majority in Washington doesn't drop its guard on the global war on terror. Otherwise, someday my television movie tragically may have a prophetic consequence.
Taylor Swift please go far far away
Monday, September 14, 2009
Joe Wilson was Right
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CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. OBAMA ACCUSES HIMSELF AND FELLOW DEMOCRATS OF LYING Last month Obama held a conference call with reportedly 140,000 members of the "religious left" and accused himself of lying, saying that anybody who claims his health care plan funds abortion violates Exodus 20:16, "thou shalt not bear false witness." But Obama knows his fellow Democrats supported the Capps Amendment to HR 3200 funding abortions through an accounting-scheme, and defeated pro-life amendments prohibiting abortion funding. On July 17, 2007, Obama himself told Planned Parenthood, "in my mind, reproductive care [abortion] is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I propose. [My] plan…will provide…reproductive services [abortion]." It now appears Obama is calling himself a liar, since he personally believes his own plan must contain funding for abortion. The Capps Amendment has a Section 4B that reads: "Abortions for Which Public Funding Is Allowed. -- The services described in this subparagraph are abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted..." As the Washington Times analysis says, "You can't get more explicit than that." But Obama calls a liar anybody who reads the bill aloud, verbatim. Obama further accused as "bearing false witness" anyone who claims his plan will result in "death panels" that ration care to the young at the expense of the elderly. That must first include his own Democrat White House Health Policy Advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel. In an article entitled "Deadly Doctors," The New York Post just confirmed from Democrat Emanuel's own writings, the White House plan prefers "communitarianism" which should Emanuel explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years" (Lancet, Jan. 31). EXCUSE ME? Obamacare funds 25 year olds, but excludes 65 year olds? RATIONING, DEATH PANELS, SMOKING GUN. Don't accuse conservatives of bearing false witness, Mr. Obama, until you first accuse your own Health Policy Advisor. This quote is direct proof that Obama's COMMUNITARIANISM (like Socialism only bigger, on steroids, like Communism), favors treating the young at the expense of the old. CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. 1) More Proof EUTHANASIA is pushed by Obama's socialist government "health" care. President Obama had been confronted by a North Carolina woman asking if "everyone that's Medicare age will be visited and told they have to decide how they wish to die." In response Obama joked morbidly about euthanasia, that he hadn't yet hired enough bureaucrats to conduct such an operation, yet he could not deny the New York Post's discovery the House bill "compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care" (pages 425-430). In other words, your grandmother will be told, when insufficient resources are rationed to young people, that her duty to die begins with mandatory "end-of-life counseling," or as Obama explained, "encourage the use of living wills" that terminate otherwise salvageable lives prematurely through signed "do not resuscitate" (DNR) legal releases that authorize "pulling the plug" on Grandma. The White House made a quick video to refute claims of euthanasia in the health care bill, but interestingly they deleted Obama's quote about living wills, and AARP sent emails claiming rumors about euthanasia in the bill were generated by conspiracy theorists. But then a respected bioethicist wrote a scathing editorial in the Washington Post, confirming that euthanasia is initiated by the government in the bill. Lane writes: "Consultations envisioned in Section 1233 aren't quite 'purely voluntary.' To me, 'purely voluntary' means 'not unless the patient requests one.' Section 1233, however, lets doctors initiate the chat and gives them an incentive -- money -- to do so. Indeed, that's an incentive to insist. Patients may refuse without penalty, but many will bow to white-coated authority. Once they're in the meeting, the bill does permit 'formulation' of a plug-pulling order right then and there." Lane agrees the legislation mandates the doctor 'shall' discuss living wills and durable powers of attorney, and their uses: "Section 1233 goes beyond facilitating doctor input to preferring it. Indeed, the measure would have an interested party -- the government -- recruit doctors to sell the elderly on living wills, hospice care and their associated providers, professions and organizations. You don't have to be a right-wing wacko to question that approach" says the Washington Post. CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. Bankrupt state can't afford to pay for grandma's hip replacement? Obama's plan turns her doctor into a lawyer, paid by Uncle Sam to persuade her to sign a DNR, explaining her hastened duty to die, and obtaining her signature legally absolving him of all guilt. Lane says he personally has a living will, but doctors shouldn't be paid extra by the government to push them on seniors. Euthanasia begins when socialism replaces capitalism. AARP LYING TO SENIORS TO PROFIT FROM OBAMACARE? The seniors advocacy group AARP defended Obamacare, stating in emails to seniors: "FACT #3: There is no provision of any piece of legislation that would promote euthanasia of any kind. The rumors out there are flat out lies...It is not mandatory and it has nothing to do with euthanasia." But since the House bill includes the legal term "shall," the Dean of Liberty University School of Law Mat Staver disagrees. "I just went back and re-read the bill. The end-of-life counseling is mandatory and there is a 5 year requirement that it must occur every 5 years. The bill is on our website and people can read it for themselves. It is not new that AARP favors killing their own members. They...do not have the best interests of their members in mind." Attorney Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel had stronger words. "AARP is lying. See pages 424, 425 and 426 of HR 3200. The government 'consultation' that seniors 'shall' get if they have 'not had such a consultation within the last 5 years' is clearly designed to encourage them to get out of the way and to just go ahead and die already." Widely respected Minister Rick Joyner wrote, after reviewing Mat Staver's detailed analysis of H.R. 3200 "Health" care bill, voicing his strong opinion that this bill "is about euthanasia, the power to determine who lives or dies in America. Hitler and Stalin would have loved to have had a means such as this for dispatching the millions they killed—it would have made their job much easier, and probably given them the ability to kill many more than they did. THIS BILL IS THAT SINISTER. This is not a joke." CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. 2) Tax-payer funded ABORTION on demand is another guaranteed result. Last week several so-called "pro-life Democrats" executed a bait and switch that will fully fund abortion on demand in the new Obamacare "health" bill. Led by compromiser and ex-pro-life Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), who was recently booted as an advisor to Democrats for Life of America for his lack of principle, the liberal House Democrats overruled conservative Republicans 30-28 to pass the hideous "Capps Amendment" to H.R.3200 in the Energy and Commerce Committee. This amendment now deceptively creates a phony accounting scheme that gives the false impression your tax-payer dollars will not subsidize abortion, while it simultaneously nationalizes free abortions for low-income urban neighborhoods, fulfilling the dream of Margaret Sanger (and her protege Ruth Bader Ginsburg) that African American babies will be the first exterminated in the government funded ovens that weed out "Populations that we don't want to have too many of." Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) explained the Capps Amendment: "It's one of the most deceptive amendments I have ever seen. The bottom line is that money is fungible, and the plan itself will be subsidizing abortion-on-demand, with taxpayer funding commingled, and the numbers of abortions will go up significantly." CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. 3) Obama will REMOVE Christian prayers and symbols from Government-run hospitals The hostile socialist government takeover of Catholic or Christian hospitals will eventually result in atheistic silencing of religious expression (and removing all Christian symbols) from the very place where faith in God is critical to sick and dying patients. For example, look at the Veterans Hospitals, already government-run, who are busy removing crosses and Christian symbols from their chapels (like in Iowa), because easily-offended atheist complainers have successfully intimidated hospital administrators with threats of lawsuit, by demanding separation of church and state. Just imagine more atheist lawsuits, when all Catholic and Christian hospitals are seized in the same way Obama took control of General Motors, inviting easily-offended atheist complainers to demand we change the name of the hospital from "St. Luke's Memorial" to the "Obama Government" hospital, falsely claiming tax-dollars cannot subsidize religion. But if St. Luke's refuses government subsidies, they will be drummed out of business, and Christian doctors' licenses revoked. Can a government-run hospital still allow Christian chapels, or pay Christian chaplains, or permit Christian doctors to pray Christian prayers with their willing patients, or even allow Christian parents to c ontrol the health care options forced upon their dying children? Just ask Florida Hospital Chaplain Danny Harvey, fired last year from Leesburg Regional Medical Center because he prayed "in Jesus name" at a public memorial service. Ask Christian Pharmacists who Washington has already forced to dispense "Plan-B" abortion pills against their conscience, or doctors denied a "conscience clause" to opt out of abortions when Obama refused to renew Bush's pro-life executive orders. Ask Nurse Catherina Lorena Cenzon-DeCarlo, who recently was forced to participate in a second-trimester abortion against her will, and is now suing Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan for "blatantly" violating her rights under a 35 year old federal law that protects health care workers with religious objections from being forced to assist in murderous abortions. Ask Pentecostal Ministers Dale and Leilani Neumann, who were charged with second-degree murder of their 11-year-old daughter, because they refused to trust the power of a government hospital to heal their little girl who tragically died with diabetes. Can you say mandatory godlessness in "health" care? If government has power to dictate your health care options, they also have power to seize your children when you refuse. Think about it. Will you dare refuse the H1N1 vaccine when ordered to poison your children? No religious exemptions for doctors, patients, or parents are readily apparent in the current Obamacare bill. So take action with me... So let me summarize Obama's health care plan: 1) Euthanize grandma and veterans, 2) Mandate funding murder of innocent children, then lie about it in denial, 3) Empower atheist litigants to outlaw the healing power of the Christian faith, 4) Lie about it to Congress and the American people five times on national television. CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION, AND WE WILL FAX ALL 52 "BLUE-DOG" DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE, AND ALL 100 SENATORS, TO OPPOSE OBAMACARE. We all gasped when the federal government seized control of General Motors, and Obama effectively fired the Chairman and replaced the board with government bureaucrats selected by Treasury Secretary Geithner. Now Obama and his liberal Democratic House allies want to replace your doctors with bureaucrats, hasten grandma's demise, abort and kill children in urban neighborhoods, cut doctors' pay and control their religion, and transform Christian hospitals into government-controlled atheist bureaucracies. Does any of this remind you of Communism? I won't stand idly by to allow this. I will fax Congress to say, "no to Obamacare." Will you? Please sign our petition and I'll send your faxes now. Then please forward this email to all your friends who care about our beloved country, especially those senior citizens who may be at greatest risk. | |
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