Northwest Indiana Politics

Indiana Democrats Scrambling For Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Gearhart) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:18:00 +0000

It seems like Evan Bayh saw the writing on the wall and decided to cut and run before his party could embarrass him.

I'm not going to pretend to know all of the little tid-bits regarding the inner circles and personal problems that Democrats have with each other; it's time consuming enough to worry about the Republicans in that respect. But this particular "bickering", which parties are able to (usually) keep to their own rank and file with, has become a front page spectacle.

First, it was discovered that Indiana Democrats may have forged signatures in order to put Barrack Obama on the ballot in 2008. This was big news, and though it wouldn't matter particularly in the sense that Obama would still have enough electoral votes to be President, it's corruption by Democrats in Indiana (or rather, MORE corruption). The story was big enough to make it to the national news channels, and just added to the piling on of negative news stories about Democrats over the past couple of years in our state. It started with Dem's walking out and hiding in Urbana, Illinois, it continued with Philpot being indicted in Lake County, and now this? To help make matters worse, and helped to make everyone pretty well KNOW that those signatures were fake, Indiana Democrat Chairman Dan Parker decided to put forth his resignation.

This looked bad enough, but the fact that Tim Jeffers was supposed to be the top pick by Gregg (former Speaker of the House and Democrat who is running for Governor) was another negative notch. While the Republican party in Indiana has been advocating forward momentum and has pushed towards progress, the Democrats are continually reaching into the past to try and make things work. Gregg is considered an unelectable relic by many Democrats in the state, and the choice of Jeffers would continue this theme of "We have no idea what to do!"

Although this looked bad, it looked even worse when, after the realization that Jeffers would not enough votes, he decided to drop out. THEN Parker PULLED his resignation! Many angry Democrats walked out, eliminating the possibility for quorum (and though there is a joke there about Democrats always walking out, in this instance I don't blame them).

So, whats to come out of all of this? In a time where Democrats are facing a number of troubles in this state, particularly with a lot of pressure from their core base regarding their ability to combat right to work legislation, they can't afford to have unorganized leadership. With the 2012 elections rolling around the corner, and poll numbers showing that the odds of Indiana going blue again are highly unlikely, it seems that Indiana is going to turn an even brighter shade of red. What we, as Republicans have to remember, now, is that voters don't like to see the winner wallowing in the victory. There are still a lot of Republicans who have to (and are more than willing to) work with Democrats in different areas; I'm one of them. I'm one R on a council with D's, and I have a good relationship with every one of them. We have to continue, at the state level, to treat the minority party fairly, because it shows good working relationships and helps those of us that are the minority in other areas. Just let the Democrats who are running the show keep doing what they are doing, while we just smile and stay positive.

Democrat Party in total disarray

noreply@blogger.com (briefs) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:35:00 +0000

In a comedy that only politics could envision with a laugh, Indiana State Democrats are in total disarray and cannot seem to even choose a leader. The leader who quit now says he wants the job back because he doesn't like his replacement. Lol

See Hoosier Access for the break down of today's embarrassing events

Let's be frank, after getting caught cheating in South Bend ... voter fraud no less, losing just about everything that wasn't nailed down in municipal elections, and now being totally leaderless - it can only get worse. What company or individual will want to throw money into their hands to use on a Gubernatorial loss and Obama loss this year?

It's time for labor unions, yes labor unions, filled with workers who actually care about their companies and aren't just trying to destroy them ... time to toss out your Democrat handlers and join in job creation and quality of life improvement with Indiana Republicans. I'm sorry about the whole right to work mess, really we can all blame that on the party and labor leaders of the 70's and 80's who didn't know how to work together.

Occupy Wall Street Part Two - Violence - not instruments in an orchestra!

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:46:00 +0000

But the OWS violence is definitely an orchestrated attack on America and Americans!

The 2012 election will fill some important offices around here, and many of them Federal and State offices. But first the May primary will give you choices for the final ballot. Make no mistake, the 2012 election could signal the end of the America you and I know if traditional conservative normal Americans do not come out and vote! Here is another reason why anyone who supports the Obama Administration should be voted out of office:

Violence is an instrument of change, Obama/Ayers/Alinsky/Marx/Lenin type of change! First you need unrest (Obama ruins the economy) then you need violence (OWS riot in the streets and block businesses) and third you need to declare martial law and take over the nation. Thank God, I do believe our military would refuse to turn their guns on their fellow citizens to let a Socialist dictator take control. From the Big Government Website:

UPDATED #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far

by John Nolte

***Updated 12/9/2011– Today we hit incident 417.

New commentary has been added. Original commentary can be found below the Rap Sheet.
Don’t let the MSM get away with lying to you. Obama and the Democrats are all on record endorsing, embracing, encouraging and emboldening #OccupyWallStreet.

Obama on Occupy Wall Street: ‘We Are on Their Side’

House Democrats Endorse Occupy Wall Street

Top Democrats Endorse Occupy Wall Street Protests

Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement

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The plan was a simple one. The path to Obama’s second term requires that enough voters forget that our current economic woes are the fault of a failed President who enjoyed two years of having every single item on his wish-list passed by Congress. And so the idea was to create Occupy in order to give the MSM the cover they desired to spend every single day up until the election talking about greed and income inequality in order to blame both for the stagnant economy.

The hope was that by repeating this message incessantly, enough voters could be convinced that Wall Street, and by extension, evil Republicans, were to blame for our chronic unemployment, record deficits, and stillborn economic growth. President Obama who?

—–

Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely. Thanks to the rise of New Media and our unwillingness to let the MSM’s lies, bias, and cover ups stand for even one more day, Occupy is in its death throes and might take the President and Democratic party down with it. First and foremost, we uncovered the lie that Occupy was grassroots and then we exposed every Occupy rape, poop, death, overdose, old woman thrown down the stairs, attack on a police officer, and public act of masturbation. In the process, public opinion turned against the Occupiers and as a result these Leftists have started doing what the Left always does when they lose … have a tantrum:

NY: 10/1/2011 — Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 — Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
Phoenix: 10/28/2011 — Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
NY: 10/18/2011 — Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
NY: 10/9/2011 — Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
NY: 10/7/2011 — Occupiers Rush Police … More
Cleveland: 10/18/2011 — ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
NY: 10/10/2011 — ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10/12/2011 — Iran Supports ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Portland: 10/16/2011 –#OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
Portland: 10/15/2011 — #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
Chicago: 10/17/2011 — COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
10/15/2011 — American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
Boston: 10/14/2011 — Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
Boston: 10/11/2011 — Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
New York: 10/11/2011 — “You Can Have Sex with Animals.”
New York: 10/15/2011 — Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
New York: 10/9/2011 — ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
New York: 10/25/2011 — Three Men Threatened to Kill 24-Year-Old Occupy Wall Street Protester for Reporting Rape
Baltimore: 10/18/2011 — #OccupyBaltimore Discourages Sexual Assault Victims from Contacting Police
Portland: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Portland’s Attempt At Wealth Redistribution Ends In Theft
Los Angeles: 10/14/2011 – Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street
10/27/2011 — A Death Threat From an Occupy Wall Street Protester
10/27/2011 – Anti-Semitic Tweet From Occupier or Sympathizer
Boston: 10/20/2011 — Occupy Boston Doesn’t Want Police Involved in Rape
New York: 10/5/2011: Anti-Semitic Occupier Screams About Jews, Israel
New York: 10/4/2011 — Occupier Taunts Jewish Man
Boston: 10/2011 — Occupiers Block Street
New York: 10/2011 — Occupier Tries to Steal Police Officer’s Gun
New York: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic, Get Arrested
Oakland: 10/27/2011 — Occupiers Throw Garbage at Police
Oakland: 10/19/2011 — Abusive #OccupyOakland Protesters Ban Media from Tent City
Eugene, OR: 10/19/2011 — Occupiers Displace Farmers’ Market Threatening Hundreds of Jobs
Portland, OR: 10/18/2011 — Capitalist Offering Jobs at Occupy Portland Finds Few Takers
NY: 10/20/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Threatens Businesses, Patrons
NY: 10/14/2011 — Violence Breaks Out During #OccupyWallStreet March Toward Stock Exchange
NY: 10/14/2011 — Protesters March On Wall Street, Scuffle With Cops
Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Protesters Threaten Reporter
Oakland: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Scuffle with Police
Oakland: 10/24/2011 — Protesters Storm, Vandalize, Shut Down Chase Bank
Dayton, OH: 10/22/2011 — Protester: ‘F*ck The Military, F*ck Your Flag, And F*ck The Police’
Chicago: 10/14/2011 — Protesters’ Message At #OccupyChicago Rally: ‘Destroy Israel’
NY: 10/23/2011 — #OccupyWallStreet Supporter Rants Against Israel, Jews
NY: 10/22/2011 — #Occupy Kid: ‘Burn Wall Street, Burn!’
NY: 10/21/2011 — New Yorkers Fed Up With Noisy, Defecating Protesters
Oakland: 10/21/2011 — Occupy Oakland Evicted After Reports Of Crime And Intimidation
Oakland: 10/19/2011 — #OccupyOakland Out of Control: Rats, Graffiti, Vandalism, Sexual Harassment, Public Sex and Urination
Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupiers Under Investigation by FBI for Links to Terrorism
Cleveland: 10/29/2011 — Rape Reported at Occupy Cleveland
Dallas: 10/24/2011 — Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas
Bloomington, IN: 10/26/2011 — Man Claims Occupy Bloomington Protesters Drugged, Handcuffed Him
NY: 10/10/2011 — Sex, Drugs and Hiding from the Law at Wall Street Protests
Glasgow: 10/26/2011 — Woman Gang-Raped
Boston: 10/23/2011 — Occupy Boston Protesters Arrested For Dealing Heroin – With 6 Year-Old in Tent
Portland: 10/16/2011 — Sex Offender Registers Occupy Portland Camp as Address
Denver: 10/15/2011 — Occupy Denver Demonstrator Accused of Groping TV Photographer
Lawrence, KS: 10/25/2011 — Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Camp
Minneapolis, MN: Bricks, Rocks, ‘Riot Supplies’ Discovered by Police
Phoenix, AZ: 10/27/2011 — Neo-Nazis Patrol “Occupy Phoenix” With AR-15′s
Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Chicago Invades City Hall
10/26/2011 — ACORN, Occupy Email Talks About Assault on Banks
10/26/2011 — OccupyWallStreet Strategy for Reports of Violence Against Cops
Chicago: 10/26/2011 — Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers Wows Occupiers
Chicago: 10/25/2011 — Ayers Coaches #OccupyChicago, Callsg for School ‘Occupations’
10/26/2011/ — Occupy Protests Have Jewish Leaders Concerned
Wash DC: 10/27/2011 — OccupyDC Leftists Provoke Police – Hang Flag on Top of DC Statue
Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — Occupy Squatters Riot With Police
San Diego: 10/25/2011 — Flag Used as Chew Toy by Occupier’s Dog
Oakland: 10/25/2011 — Occupiers Throw Bottles at Police
NY: 10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Rush Limbaugh Is Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda
10/27/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Launching First Nationwide General Strike in America Since 1946
NY: 10/28/2011 — Fox 5 News Reporter Assaulted at OWS
10/28/2001 — Total Occupy Arrests Made Thus Far: 2750
Nashville: 10/28/2011 — 30 Arrests Made at Wall St. Protest
NY: 10/20/2011 — Former Marine Tries to Taunt Police into Violence
NY: 1023/2011 — Islamist Group Joins with Occupy Wall Street
Los Angeles: 10/13/2011 — Roundup of Overt Occupy anti-Semitism
NY: 10/12/2011 — There are No Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street. Except for This Guy
Missoula, MT: 10/20/2011 — Drunk 11-Year-Old At Occupy Missoula, Adult Arrested
Oakland: 10/28/2011 — Bounty Out On Police Officer?
Manchester, NH: 10/28/2011 — Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
San Diego: 10/28/2011 — 40 Occupiers arrested
Boston: 10/24/2011 — Occupy Boston Vandalism of Banks
Boston: 10/25/2011 — Store Owner Suffers 4 Break Ins Since Occupy Boston Began
Portland: 10/28/2011 — Portland Police: Buckets of Excrement Scattered Around #OccupyPortland Camp
Seattle: 10/20/2011 — Two Possible Occupiers Charged With Assault
Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Armed Felon Arrested at Occupy Seattle
Seattle: 10/18/2011 — A Tent Fight and (At Least) One Arrest at Occupy Seattle
Seattle: 10/17/2011 — Over 50 Cops Clear Westlake Occupation, Make Eight Arrests
Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Cops Arrest Several Occupy Protesters
Seattle: 10/13/2011 — Chanting Protesters Surround Police After Officers Arrest Two
Denver: 10/29/2011 — Protesters Clash with Police at OWS Denver
Austin: 10/13/2011 — Occupy Austin protesters arrested for blocking cleaning Crews
Calgary, CN: 10/28/2011 — Occupiers do $40,000 in Property Damage
Cincinnati, OH: 10/21/2011 — 23 Arrested, Remains of protests fill two dumpsters
Sacramento: 10/19/2011 — 9 arrested in ‘Occupy Sacramento’ protest
Sacramento: 10/13/2011 — Four More Occupy Sacramento Demonstrators Arrested
Austin, TX: 10/22/2011 — Man Arrested After Knife Incident at Occupy Austin Camp
Nashville: 10/29/2011 — Tenn. Protesters Arrested For 2nd Straight Night
Austin, TX: 10/30/2011 — Austin Police arrest 38 Occupy Austin Protesters
NY: 10/30/2011 — Woman Assaulted in Her tent
Orlando, FL: 10/28/2011 — Occupy Orlando, police clash over use of downtown park
Orlando, FL: 10/26/2011 — 2 Occupy Orlando protesters arrested for trespass
Orlando, FL: 10/22/2011 — Police arrest 19 Orlando protesters on trespass charges
Asheville, NC: 10/30/2011 — Occupiers Clash with Homeless in Asheville
Nationwide: 10/27/2011 — Pro-Occupy Site claims 2511 Arrests Thus Far
Fort Worth, TX: 10/16/2011 — Arrests at Occupy Fort Worth Protest
NY: 10/29/2011 — Three Incidents of Anti-Semitism
San Francisco: 10/29/2011 — Anti-Semitic, Folsom Street Fair Types & Che Guevara Lovin
Oklahoma City: 10/30/2011 — Death of Street Poet at #OccupyOKC Treated as Homicide
Baltimore: 10/31/2011 — Woman Claims She was Raped at #OccupyBaltimore
Boston: 10/31/2001 — Alleged Heroin Dealer Joined Occupy Movement
Ottawa: 10/31/2011 — #OccupyOttawa Violent & Sexual Assaults Not Reported to Police
Santa Barbara, CA: 10/5/2011 — Occupiers Defy Police
Santa Barbara, CA: 10/6/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
Denver, CO: 10/31/2011 — Occupiers Taunt Police, Knock Motorcycle Cop to Ground
Dallas, TX: 10/24/2011 — 23 Occupy Dallas Protesters Arrested After Bank Demonstration
Richmond, VA: 10/31/2011 — Arrests of Occupiers in Richmond
Dallas, TX: 1v1/1/2011: Man Arrested for Child Sex assault at Occupy Dallas Camp
NY: 11/1/2011 — Protesters Flock to STD-Test Clinics After Occupier ‘Free Love’
Iowa: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Intend to Disrupt Iowa Caucus
NY: 11/1/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Main Street Workers Their Jobs
San Diego: 10/29/2011 — Businesswoman Closes Shop After Threats By Occupiers
Palm Desert, CA: 11/1/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
Tampa, FL: 10/24/2011 — Six Occupiers Arrested
Tampa, FL: 10/27/2011 — Two More Arrested In Connection to Occupy Tampa Movement
Tampa, FL: 10/29/2011 — Occupy Tampa Protesters Arrested After Scuffle With Police
Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Rallies Turn Violent
Seattle, WA: 11/2/2011 — Cops, Protesters Clash
Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — Protests Degenerate Into Chaos
Tulsa, OK: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Clash With Police
Sacramento, CA: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Smash County Vehicle Windows
Philadelphia: 11/2/2011 — Occupiers Arrested
Charlottesville, VA: 11/1/2011 — Underage Drinking at Occupy Charlottesville Site
Portland: 11/2/2011 — Occupier Shoves Police Officer into Moving Bus
Oakland: 11/2/2011 — Malkin’s Collection of Vandalism and Menacing Signs
NYC: 11/3/2011 — Occupier Busted In Tent Grope, Suspected In Rape
NYC: 11/4/2011 — 16 OWS Protesters Arrested at Goldman Sachs HQ
Oakland, CA: 11-3-2011 — Occupy-Friendly Business Vandalized
Asheville, NC: 11/3/2011 — 24 Occupiers Arrested
Raleigh, NC: 10/28/2011 — Eight at Occupy Raleigh Arrested After Standoff
NYC: 11/4/2011 — Deranged Homeless Man Goes on Violent Rampage In Zuccotti Park
Dallas, TX: CPS Seizes Baby From ‘Occupy Dallas’ Site
Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Uses Child as Human Shield — Video
Wash DC: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Try to Storm Americans for Prosperity Event — Video
Omaha, NE: 11/3/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
Atlanta: 11/3/2011 — Protester Turns On Fellow Protester With Knife
Los Angeles: 10/28/2011 — Drug Use and Property Damage
Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — 3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’
Boston, MA: 11/4/2011 — Occupiers Storm Israeli Consulate; Anti-Israel Chants — Video
Vancouver, CN: 11/5/2011 — Occupy Vancouver Death Dooms Protest Camp
Fort Collins, CO: 11/4/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Setting Fire to Condo Complex … $10M Damage
Chula Vista, CA: 11/6/2011 — Underage Girl Missing From Occupy Protests
Los Angeles, CA: 11/5/2011 – Two Assaults Raise Concerns About Crime at Occupy L.A.
Dallas, TX: 11/5/2011 — Eight Arrests at Dallas Bank Protest
Olympia, WA: 11/5/2011 – Two Occupy Protesters Arrested
Seattle, WA: 11/3/2011 — Occupiers Cost City $426,000; Most of it Police Overtime
Olympia, WA: 11/2/2011 — 3 Occupiers Arrested for Suspected of Robbing Local Wine Merchant
Worcester, MA: 11/6/2011 — 25 Occupiers Arrested
Milwaukee, WI: 11/2/2011 — Photojournalist, Two others Arrested at Protest … Video
Milwaukee, WI: 10/20/2011 — Police Confront Occupier –Video … Arrested
Wash. DC: 11/5/2011 — Rampaging Occupiers Attack 78 Year-Old Woman — Video
Rochester, NY: 11/3/2011 — 161 Occupiers Arrested at Park
NYC: 11/5/2011 — Police Clash With Occupiers, 20 Arrested at Courthouse Protest
NYC: 11/5/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Vandalizing McDonald’s; Wanted Free Food
Asheville, NC: 11/5/2011 — Four Occupiers Arrested
Honolulu, HI: 11/6/2011 — Police Arrest Half-Dozen Occupiers
Waikiki, HI: 11/7/2011 — Two Dozen Occupiers Arrested
Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Threatening Restaurant Employees
Portland, OR: 11/7/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Threatening Security Staff with Hammer
Augusta, GA: 10/28/2011 — Occupier Arrested in Knife Threat
Portland OR: 11/9/2011 — Police Suspect Occupiers in Molotov Cocktail Attack
Sacramento, CA: 11/7/2011 — Homeless Clash With Occupy Protesters At Park
New Orleans: 11/8/2011 — Man Dead for Two Days Found in Occupy Encampment
San Diego: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Splatter Vendor Food Carts with Blood, Urine
Los Angeles: 11/7/2011 — Occupiers Shut Down Burger King — Video
Atlanta, GA: 11/6/2011 — Occupiers Arrested After Attacking Police
St. Louis, MO: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Hack Into Mayor’s Website
Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — “Dangerous” Occupiers Hurting Small Business Owners
Vancouver, CN: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Bite Two Police Officers
Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Children to Block Traffic — Video
Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupiers Threaten Citizen-Journalist – Video
Wash DC: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Use Racial Taunts Against Black Security Guard — Video
Eureka, CA: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Defecates in Bank – Video
Wash DC: 11/5/2011 – Occupiers Menace Children, Female Reporter – Video
Portland, OR: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Menace News Crew – Video
NYC: 11/8/2011 — Occupier: ‘I Wouldn’t Give a F**k if 9/11 Happened 911 More Times’
NYC: 11/8/2011 — Small Business Owner Threatened, Terrorized By Occupiers
San Francisco, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Threatens Park Ranger
Burlington, VT: 11/10/2011 — Veteran Shoots Self at Encampment
Oakland, CA: 11/3/2011 — ‘Occupy Oakland’ Goes After Cop
NYC: 11/10/2011 — EMT Assaulted at Occupy Wall Street
San Diego, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupier Attacks Woman with Camera
Berekely, CA: 11/10/2011 — 39 Occupiers Arrested
Westwood, CA: 11/9/2011 — 11 Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
Fresno, CA: 11/9/2011 — 40 Occupiers Arrested
Toledo, OH: 11/1/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
Houston, TX: 11/9/2011 — 10 Occupiers Arrested
NYC: 11/8/2011 — Hobbyist Photographer Describes Assault in Zuccotti Park
Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011: Fatal Shooting Over Drugs
Oakland: CA: 11/10/2011 — Protesters Attack News Crew Covering Fatal Shooting
Pasadena, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Announce Plans to Disrupt Rose Bowl Parade
Tampa, FL 11/10/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
Portland, OR: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Billed for Police Car Vandalism
Olympia, WA: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Asked to Pack Up After Assault, Drug Arrests
Denver, CO: 11/11/2011 — Occupiers Storm BlogCon 11 … One Arrest
Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — Protest Shut Down After Body Discovered In Tent
San Francisco: 11/8/2011 — Shoplifting, Fights On The Rise Around Encampment
San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Accused of Ferry Building Thefts, Filth
San Francisco: 11/10/2011 — Protester Busted For Gun Violation Arrested Again
Mobile, AL: 11/9/2011 — 18 Occupy Protesters Arrested
New Orleans: 11/11/2011 — Death at Campsite Attributed To Alcohol Abuse
San Francisco: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Slashes Police Officer With Razor, Another Injured
Portland: 11/13/2011 — Three Arrested with Mortars, Fireworks
Chapel Hill, NC: 11/13/2011 — Eight Occupiers for Trespassing
Norfolk, VA: Six Occupiers Arrested
Philadelphia, PA: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Rape
Portland, OR: 10/27/2011 — Sexual Assault: ‘nobody should contact the police’ — Video
NYC: 11/12/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
Oakland, CA: 11/8/2011 — Occupiers Plan Mass Trespassing Campaign
Salt Lake City, UT: 11/12/2011 — 19 Occupiers Arrested
St. Louis, MO: 11/13/2011 — 27 Occupiers Arrested
St. Louis, MO: 11/12/2011 — Occupier Arrested
NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Slugs Police Officer
Oakland, CA: 11/10/2011 — Occupiers Withdraw Resolution to Remain Peaceful
Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — Occupier Requires Life-Saving CPR After Drug Overdose
Portland, OR: 11/9/2011 — 4 Reports of Substance Abuse
Olympia, WA: 11/12/2011: Growing Number of Drug, Violence Complaints
Atlanta, GA: 11/10/2011 — TB Breaks Out at Occupy Home Base
NYC: 11/13/2011 — Occupy Wall Street Costs Local Businesses $479,400
Nationwide: 11/11/2011 — Occupy Death Toll Hits 7
Seattle, WA: 11-14-2011 — Occupier Defecates on Public Sidewalk
Hartford, CT: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Charged After Pulling Knife
Dallas, TX: 11/14/2011 — 9-Month-Old Baby Removed From Camp Due to Health Concerns, Neglect
Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested
Albuquerque, NM: 10/26/2011 — More Than a Dozen Occupiers Arrested
Albuquerque, NM: 10/22/2011 — Knife Attack at Occupy Camp
Albuquerque, NM: 10/27/2011 — Police Forced to Remove Occupiers From Park Again, 37 Arrested
Albuquerque, NM: 10/8/2011 — Occupier Arrested
University of New Mexico: 11/8/2011 — Sordid Story of Lawlessness, Dozens of Arrests, Spitting on Walmart Customer
Albuquerque, NM: 10/16/2011 — Occupier Cited for Blocking Traffic
Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — 51 Occupiers Arrested
Portland, OR: 11/14/2011 — Occupiers Smash Bank Windows
Albany, NY: 11/15/2011 — 20 Occupiers Arrested
Near Salem, OR: 11/13/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested With Explosives
Wash DC: 11/11/2011 — Occupy’ Mom ‘Won’t Stop’ Putting Protest Above Her Kids’ Safety
NYC: 11/15/2011: — Hundreds of Occupiers Arrested, Chaos, Resisting Arrest, Object Thrown at Police
Houston, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested
Minnesota: 11/15/2011 — Occupy Minnesota Costs Taxpayers $10,000+ Each Day
Austin, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Accused of Masturbating in Front of 16 Year-old Girl
San Francisco, CA: 11/15/2011 — Deadly Dog Disease Spreads at Occupy Camp
Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Assaulting Woman
Philadelphia, PA: 11/15/2011 — Occupiers Vandalize Dilworth Plaza With Graffiti and Feces – Video
Santa Cruz, CA: 11/15/2011 — Ringworm, Scabies Outbreak at Occupy Camp
Oakland, CA: 11/14/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $2.4 Million
Wash DC: 11/16/2011 — Suspected White House Shooter Spent Time with OccupyDC.
Pittsburgh, PA: 11/15/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested for Disorderly Conduct, Blocking Traffic
San Francisco, CA: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Storm Bank, 95 Arrested
Chicago, IL: 11/16/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Child Porn
NYC: 11/16/2011 — Dozens Of Hypodermic Needles Found In Zuccotti Park
NYC: 11/16/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Making Terror Threats — Video … More.
Dallas, TX: 11/17/2011 — 18 Occupiers Arrested
Charlotte, NC: 11/14/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested
Charlotte, NC: 11/15/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
Ottawa, CN: 10/29/2011 — Feces, Urine, and Blood Covered Blanket Hung Over Tent
Los Angeles, CA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Charged With Masturbating In Front of Children
Los Angeles, CA: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Attempting to Light Food Vendor On Fire
NYC: 11/15/2011 — City Claims Occupy Wall Street Protesters Were Stockpiling Weapons
Wash DC: 11/15/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic, Three Injuries
NYC: 11/16/2011 — 150 Trashmen Needed to Clean Occupy Park Filth
Los Angeles: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Block Freeways, 26 Arrested
NYC: 11/17/2011 – Mob of Occupiers Taunt, Bully Small School Children
San Francisco, CA: 11/17/2011 — Lice, Fleas, Disease Spread in Camp
NYC: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Create Citywide Mayhem, 275 Arrested
West Jordan, UT: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Hurls Molotov Cocktail at Bank
NYC: 11/17/2011 — Police Officer Slashed, Others Attacked
NYC: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Throw Vinegar In Eyes of Police Officers
Lincoln, NE: 11/5/2011 — 4 Occupiers Arrested at Bank Protest
San Diego, CA: 1/17/2011 — Occupiers Hold Moment of Silence In ‘Solidarity’ With Accused Obama Would-Be Assassin — Video
Melbourne, AU: 11/18/2011 — Children as Young as 12 Given Drugs, Alcohol
Los Angeles, CA: 11/17/2011 — Dozens of Occupiers Arrested at Bank Protest
Denver, CO: 11/16/2011 — Residents Complain Police Response Slowed Due to Occupiers
Denver, CO: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Block Traffic
Denver, CO: 11/18/2011 — Occupiers Charged With Inciting a Riot, Assaulting Police Officer
Columbus, OH: 11/15/2011 — 7 Occupiers Arrested for Refusing to Leave Bank
St. Louis, MO: 11/18/2011 — Woman Sexually Assaulted
Portland, OR: 11/18/2011 — Occupier Punches Police Horse – Video
Missoula, MT: 10/26/2011 — Occupier Charged With Getting 11-Year-Old Drunk
Portland, OR: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Brags About Urinating In Public — Video
Chicago, IL: 11/17/2011 — 58% Believe Violence Against Government Sometimes Necessary
Portland, OR: 11/18/2011 — Ocupier Uses Infant as Human Shield — Video
NYC: 11/18/2011 — Mob Calls For Revolutio,n Screams “F*ck cops! F*ck police!” — Video
Portland, ME: 11/19/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested for Brutal Assaults
Orlando, FL: 11/14/2011 — Two Occupiers Fight, One Injured By Knife
Pensacola, FL: 11/18/2011 — Occupier Charged With Burglary, Brought Furniture to Occupy Camp
NYC: 11/19/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Blocking Traffic Also Wanted in Indiana
Philadelphia, PA: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Arrested During Protest
Seattle, WA: 11/17/2011 — Hundreds of Occupiers Snarl Traffic Around Medical Center
Columbia, SC: 11/16/2011 — At Least 15 Occupiers Arrested
Mobile, AL: 11/17/2011 — Occupier Arrested in Government Building
Dallas, TX: 11/2011 — Media List of Occupy Arrests, Infractions
Santa Cruz, CA: 11/19/2011 — County Officials Release List of 93 Acts of Lawlessness In and Around Occupy Camp
Santa Cruz, CA: 11/19/2011: Occupiers Suspected of Dumping 200 Pounds of Human Feces Near Veterans Building
Berkeley, CA: 11/18/2011 — Woman Assaulted for Refusing to Join Occupy
Des Moines, IA: 11/20/2011 — Occupy Leader Arrested on Drug Charges
NYC: 11/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested With Handgun, Ammo
Eugene, OR: 11/19/2011 — Heroin Overdose at Occupy Camp
Seattle, WA: 11/19/2011 — 70 Occupiers Trespass on Foreclosed Home
Portland, ME: 11/19/2011 — Three Occupiers Charged, Including a Hammer Attack
NYC: 11/18/2011 — ‘Runaway Mom’ Arrested for Disorderly Conduct
Hartford, CT: 11/17/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
Austin, TX: 11/18/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
Minneapolis, MN: 11/20/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Burglary, Blocking Police Car — Video
Oakland, CA; 11/20/2011 — Occupiers Defy Legal Eviction, Return to Camp
Wash DC: 11/19/2011 — 11 Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
San Francisco, CA: 11/18/2011 — Camp Declared Public Health Nuisance; Eviction Deadline Passes
Oakland, CA: 11/19/2011 — Occupiers Plan to Shut Down all Ports on West Coast
NYC: 11/19/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Forcibly Touching Woman
NYC: 11/21/2011 — Occupiers Pledge to Stick It to Taxpayers
Houston, TX: 11/22/2011 — 15 Rounds fired Into Occupy Camp, Gunmen Shot & Arrested
London: 11/21/2011 — Occupiers Defecate in St. Paul’s Cathedral
Oakland, CA: 11/21/2011 — Occupy Oakland Hosts Gay Porn Movie Shoot
Oakland, CA: 11/22/2011 — Domestic Terror Group, Weather Underground, Joins #Occupy
Columbia, SC: 11/21/2011 — Occupiers Defy Curfew
NYC: 11/21/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested After Rowdy Demonstration Outside Mayor’s Home
Phoenix, AZ:; 11/21/2011 — Eight Occupiers Arrested
Albany, NY: 11/20/2011 — 48 Occupiers Arrested
Pensacola, FL: 11/21/2011 — City Hall Vandalized After Occupy Protest
Fort Meyers, FL: 11/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested On Bomb Threat Charges — Video
Milwaukee, WI: 10/20/2011 — Occupier Arrested at Bank Protest — Video
Nationwide: 11/23/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $13 million, So Far
Toronto, CN: 11/23/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested
Seattle, WA: 11/27/2011 — Armed Thief Flees Into Occupy Camp
Dallas, TX: 11/25/2011 — 2 Occupiers Arrested for Throwing Red Liquid On Neiman Marcus Walls, Windows
Seattle, WA: 11/27/2011 — Bank Vandalized With Graffiti: ‘Revenge for Occupy Oakland’
Santa Cruz, CA: 11/25/2011 — Police Arrest Occupier for Heroin Use
Columbia, SC: 11/26/2011 — Occupy Sympathizer Threatens to Murder Governor Haley
Seattle, WA: 11/23/2011 — Police: ‘Pregnant’ Occupy Protestor Tried to Lure Children
Augusta, ME: 11/27/2011 — 8 Occupiers Arrested for Criminal Trespass and Mischief
Boston, MA: 11/26/2011 — Occupier Arrested For Failing to Appear In Court For Assaultong Police Officers
Ottawa, CN: 11/26/2011 — Occupier Arrested, Eight Cited
Raleigh, NC: 11/26/2011 — Six Arrested For Disrupting Black Friday Shoppers
Edmonton, CN: 11/25/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
Unknown: 11/25/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing at Walmart on Black Friday — Video — More
Bloomington, IN: 11/26/2011 — Occupiers Drain Local Businesses, Attract Drug Use
San Diego, CA: 11/25/2011 — Report: Flash Mob Invades Walmart, Leaves 75 Full Carts — Video
Unknown: 11/25/2011 — Occupiers Hand Out ‘Don’t Be a CUMsumer Whore’ Pamphlets at Walmart – Video
Portland, OR: 11/28/2011 — Occupy Raided … Cops Find Machetes, Body Armor, Drugs
Austin, TX: 11/25/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Criminal Trespass
Oklahoma City, OK: 11/29/2011 — Drunken Occupiers Beat Security Guard
Harrisburg, PA: 11/27/2011 — Occupier Arrested at Mall
Del City, OK: 11/25/2011 — 10 Occupiers Arrested for Disorderly Conduct at Walmart
Olympia, WA: 11/28/2011 — Arrests Made After Occupiers and Other Groups Clash With Police
Boston, MA: 11/28/2011 — Occupier Threatens Man With Knife
Portland OR: 11/28/2011 — Occupier Threatens Woman With Arson — Video
Los Angeles, CA: 11/28/2011 — Several Occupiers Arrested For Throwing Objects at Police
Wilmington, NC: 11/28/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Refusing to Obey Police
Tucson, AZ: 11/28/2011 — Two Occupiers Arrested
Olympia, WA: 11/29/2011 — 4 Arrests, Occupier Bites Police Officer’s Arm
Dayton, OH: 11/29/2011 — Occupiers Rage at Target Shoppers — Video
Los Angeles, CA: 11/30/2011 — Hundreds of Occupiers Arrested
Philadelphia, PA: 11/30/2011 — 50 Occupiers Arrested
Tucson, AZ: 11/30/2011 — Occupiers Arrested For Assaulting Police Officer, Graffiti
Frontenac, MO: 11/30/2011 – Occupiers Vandalize Subdivision Sign
Monterey, CA: 11/30/2011 – Occupiers Smacks Citizen Journalist – Video
Los Angeles, CA: 11/30/2011 — Police Required to Wear Hazmat Suits During Camp Clean Up, Human Waste Stored for Some Reason
Charlottesville, VA: 12/1/2011 — Several Protesters Arrested, One Nude
Eureka, CA: 11/30/2011 — Occupier Arrested, 11 Detained
Bloomington, IN: 12/1/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested
Riverside, CA: 11/30/2011 — Occupier Arrested
Philadelphia, PA: 11/30/2011 — Robber Claims To Be Part of Occupy Movement
Tampa, FL: 12/2/2012 — 29 Occupiers Arrested
Boston, MA: 12/1/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
NYC: 12/1/2012 — 10 Occupiers Arrested
Denton, TX: 12/4/2010 — Man Found Dead at Occupy Camp
Wash DC: 12/4/2010: Occupiers Refuse to Remove Illegal Structure, 31 Arrested
Hartford, CT: 12/3/2011 — Sexual Assault Victim Covers Up Crime
Seattle, WA: 12/3/2011 – 16 Occupiers Arrested After Building Break-in
Seattle, WA: 12/2/2011 — Occupy Sympathizers Assault Anti-Occupy Protester
Portland, ME: 12/1/2011 — Occupier Already Facing Assault Charge, Charged With Threatening … More.
Seattle, WA: 12/3/2011 — Occupiers Spit on Police
Las Vegas, NV: 11/17/2011 — 21 Occupiers Arrested for Blocking Traffic
Olympia, WA: 12/2/2011 — Two Arrests at Camp, Robbery and Assault On Police Officer
Salt Lake City, UT: 11/10/2011 — Police Break up Fight Involving 30 Occupiers
Santa Cruz, CA: 12/2/2011 — 20 to 30 Occuppiers Break Into Building
Boston, MA: 12/4/2010 — Knife-wielding Occupier Arrested
NYC: 12/4/2011 — Three Occupiers Arrested
Nashville, TN: 12/4/2011 — Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
NYC: 12/3/2011 — ‘Troubled’ Occupier Has Now Been Arrested 6 Times
Augusta, ME: 12/4/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Threatening Resident with Sledgehammer
Ft. Meyers, FL: 12/2/2011 — Occupiers Shut Down Preschool
Portland, ME: 11/30/2011 — Occupiers Cause $86k In Damage to Parks
Los Angeles, CA: 12/3/2011 — Undercover Police Report Occupiers Prepared Weapons
NYC: 12/1/2011 — Occupy Causes Small Business to Lay Off 25% of Staff, May Close
Santa Cruz, CA: 12/4/2011 — Two Arrested for Beating Photographer
Santa Cruz, CA: 12/5/2011 — Two Arrested for Trespassing
San Diego, CA: 12/5/2011 — Nine Arrested: Resisting Arrest, Vandalism
Boston, MA: 12/5/2011 — Woman Stabbed at Occupy Camp
Eugene, OR: 12/5/2011 — Occupiers Cost Taxpayers $100k
Nashville, TN: 12/4/2011 — Four Occupiers Arrested
Portland, OR: 12/4/2011 — Several Occupiers Arrested
Orlando, FL: 12/5/2011 — Several Occupiers Arrested
Tulsa, OK: 12/9/2011 — Occuppiers Rally in Support of Accused Murderer
San Francisco, CA: 12/8/2011 — Occupiers Clash with Police, 70+ Arrested
Orlando, FL: 12/5/2011 – 5 Occupiers Arrested
Wash DC: 12/8/2011 — 70 Occupiers Arrested In Protest, Block Traffic for Hours
Des Moines, IA: 12/7/2011 — Occupiers Steal From Evicted Man
Dayton, OH: 12/8/2011 – 5 Occupiers Arrested for Trespassing
Tucson, AZ: 12/6/2011 — 5 Occupiers Arrested for Fighting
Darien, CT: 12/6/2011 — Occupy Organizer Arrested for Blocking Traffic While Drunk
Hartford, CT: 12/6/2011 — Occupier Arrested
Newark, NJ: 12/9/2011 — SEIU Local President Complains Occupy Offered Son Drugs
Orlando, FL: 12/8/2011 — Five Occupiers Arrested
Sacramento, CA: 12/8/2011 — Two Dozen Occupiers Arrested
Santa Cruxz, CA: 1/7/2011 — Occupiers Commit $30,000 In Vandalism
Oakland, CA: 12/3/2011 – Occupiers Taunt, Harass Police — Video

Recently, President Obama said that the Occupiers are just like the Tea Party.
That’s a lie.

We need to keep this list updated and comprehensive. Please email whatever I might have missed and any future incidents to jnolte@breitbart.com or tweet them to @NolteNC.

One of the secret weapons the corrupt mainstream media uses in their never-ending quest to Palace Guard for the left is context. For example, when it came to the Tea Party, the MSM was notorious for amplifying a single incident (that was usually a lie) and using it to attempt to smear and define an entire movement. This is what you do when you want to quickly take out a political enemy.

The MSM’s contextual game changes, however, when their desire is to strengthen a movement and give it credibility and room to grow. By dutifully reporting individual incidents but not reporting on the growing scope and size of Occupy Wall Street lawlessness, the MSM is willfully covering up the violence, vandalism, and anti-Semitism that truly does define this movement. Moreover, by intentionally keeping the pieces of this story scattered, the MSM is allowed to have their cake and eat it too. No one can accuse them of not reporting these incidents, but by choosing not to bring the pieces together, the MSM ensures the least amount of public relations damage is done to the Occupiers.

What I’ve collected below is far from comprehensive but still shows over 75 incidents of sexual assault, violence, vandalism, anti-Semitism, extortion, perversion, and lawlessness.

The MSM could easily tell the story of how this violence-prone movement is becoming an increasing threat to our society. After all, my research below is the result of nothing more than Twitter and Google. Among others, The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and the LA Times have willfully chosen not to use the resources at their disposal to give the public an honest look at this growing menace. In their partisan minds, truth doesn’t trump agenda.

A few notes on the list below. Whenever possible, I traced the incident back to the original news source. I was as careful as possible when it came to duplicate postings, though I would guess there are a few in here. There are also less than five examples that don’t involve what I would qualify as outright lawlessness but do help to expose the Occupiers for who and what they really are. Finally, and this is the most important way in which the list is imperfect, I most certainly wasn’t able to document everything. A perfect list would be much more alarming than the one I slapped together in just a few hours.

What is true is that on October 18, pollster Doug Schoen (a Democrat!) discovered that a full 31% of Occupiers were willing to commit violence in pursuit of their agenda, whatever that is. As a response to this startling and frightening admission, the MSM either outright ignored or dismissed it. What you’ll see below proves that at least when it comes to their willingness to break the law, the Occupiers are keeping their word.

The list is in no particular order. Like the Occupiers themselves, it’s unruly, disorganized, messy and not focused solely on the nation’s media centers. The movement is spreading across America and bringing with it their outrageous and appalling behavior.

On top of everything else, imagine the drain all this lawlessness has on law enforcement resources. My list doesn’t even include the collateral damage. Thanks to Occupy Wall Street’s drain on police personnel, shootings increased 154% in New York alone. What is it in Chicago, Seattle, Boston, Oakland, and Cleveland?

Just last week Vice President Joe Biden was all freaked out about the possibility of crime rates increasing if Congress didn’t pass Obama’s Son of Stimulus. Well, that premise was based on a lie, but the same White House trying to sell that bill of bull isn’t at all concerned with the very real increase in crime caused by the Occupiers they encourage.

Please keep the tips coming. Email me at jnolte@breitbart.com.

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Also, pay attention, the OWS is trying to kill the economy faster by blocking not only businesses, but entire PORTS!!! Check out the Office of CDBO:

As the 2012 presidential race heats up, Barack Obama is trying to blame everyone else for the massive job losses that have taken place during his administration. If he had his way everything would be George Bush's fault. But truth be told, even as he points fingers at others, he is continuing to undermine job creation to this very day.
Today began an effort by the "Occupy" mobs to shut down western ports, to further impede commerce and hurt our economy. Here are the latest TV news pictures from the mob protests, which once again included more arrests:

The Occupy mobs have said they are targeting ports from San Diego all the way up to Anchorage - in an attempt to cripple shipping to and from the United States.

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and virtually every other Democrat leader in Washington, D.C. have been cheerleaders for these mobs. And it's time to hold Obama accountable for his support of these lawless mobs who are trying to destroy our nation's capitalist system.

Obama Administration gives guns to Mexican Drug gangs, Americans killed, just to attack our second amendment rights!

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:03:00 +0000

Sad but truth...The Obama Administration appoints radicals to the Supreme Court and is willing to spill American blood to pass more restrictive gun laws? Eric Holder and Barack Obama have blood on their hands now...

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From the Political Arena and CBS...

Government Emails: Use “Fast and Furious” to argue for gun restrictions

First of all, we would like to show appreciation to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Her courage in the face of derision and implied threats to get this story right has earned her great respect. If we had an award for Reporter of the Year it would go to Sharyl Attkisson.
Please examine our other operation gunrunner news HERE.

CBS News:

Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.

PICTURES: ATF “Gunwalking” scandal timeline

In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the “big fish.” But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called “gunwalking,” and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

ATF officials didn’t intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called “Demand Letter 3″. That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or “long guns.” Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF’s Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:

“Bill – can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks.”

On Jan. 4, 2011, as ATF prepared a press conference to announce arrests in Fast and Furious, Newell saw it as “(A)nother time to address Multiple Sale on Long Guns issue.” And a day after the press conference, Chait emailed Newell: “Bill–well done yesterday… (I)n light of our request for Demand letter 3, this case could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case.”

This revelation angers gun rights advocates. Larry Keane, a spokesman for National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade group, calls the discussion of Fast and Furious to argue for Demand Letter 3 “disappointing and ironic.” Keane says it’s “deeply troubling” if sales made by gun dealers “voluntarily cooperating with ATF’s flawed ‘Operation Fast & Furious’ were going to be used by some individuals within ATF to justify imposing a multiple sales reporting requirement for rifles.”

Read more of the emails HERE.

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Meanwhile one of the links shows us that the White House has gotten to CBS News and the intrepid reporter has been muzzled...From Weekly Standard...

3:23 PM, Oct 5, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal tied to the deaths of two U.S. law enforcement agents. Attkisson also revealed that she'd also been yelled at by the Justice Department.

Today, I called CBS News in an attempt to interview Attkisson. I was told by CBS News senior vice president of communications Sonya McNair that Attkisson would be unavailable for interviews all week. When I asked why Attkisson would be unavailable, McNair would not say.
I've also heard from a producer at another media outlet that has previously booked Attkisson that they tried to book her since she made news with the Laura Ingraham interview yesterday. They were also told that she would be unavailable.

After our initial conversation earlier today, I called McNair back and left a message with her office. I also sent McNair an email asking whether Attkisson's unavailability has anything to do with reporting that the White House and Justice Department were angry at her. I further asked McNair if the White House or Justice Department contacted CBS News about Attkisson since yesterday. McNair has not responded to my inquiries.

Recall what Attkisson told Ingraham yesterday:

[The White House and Justice Department] will tell you that I'm the only reporter--as they told me--that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I'm the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I'm unfair and biased by pursuing it.

That's significant, because CBS News, and Attkisson in particular, has done more reporting to advance the Fast and Furious scandal than arguably any other media outlet.

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Does anyone remember the days of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and how they were feted for uncovering the Watergate scandal? Well, this is far worse. This involves innocent Americans being gunned down by drug cartels with weapons supplied by the Obama Administration via Eric Holder and the ATF! Now we can see that the purpose was to try to take gun rights away from Americans! How evil can you get? Why doesn't the mainstream news in general jump on this with both feet? Are they that much devoted to Barack Obama that his Administration can do whatever it pleases?

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Updates!

UPDATE: Eric Holder lied to Congress & threatened with impeachment!

Holder: Lying has to do with your state of mind …..
Wow, talk about Clintonian answers. Holder didn’t mean to lie when what he said to Congress wasn’t true repeatedly…

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Occupy Wall Street are paid organizers and assorted miscreants, not ordinary Americans!

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

99% of us are not bullies, criminals, communists and slackers. OWS have no right to pretend to represent the average American, even if they do represent the Obama Administration and his Communist buddies. Excerpt:

"...To dismiss these rabble-rousers as mere nuisance would be a gross underestimation not only of their Saul Alinsky-style direct action and community organizing capabilities, but of the ideological alliance between these street activists and the far more patient radicals who have infiltrated Congress, shaped Barack Obama’s presidential agenda, and now in fact threaten the future of our country. (For those of you not familiar with Alinsky, he is considered the father of modern community organizing.)..."

I do not believe that John F. Kennedy was perfect. I do not believe he was the best President we ever had. In fact, he did not have much time to build a legacy as President because he was shot down in November of 1963. I suspect his father made sure lots of dead people voted for him in Chicago to ensure it was a Kennedy and not a Nixon who took office after the 1960 election. But I also know that JFK loved his country. He'd served as a WWII PT boat commander and his life was in danger at times during his service and I am sure you all know the story of his PT 109 being sunk and his bravery in rescuing his men. His older brother, Joe Jr., lost his life serving in WWII. John and Robert Kennedy were Democrats in a day when Democrats were anti-Communist, anti-Socialist and Pro-America. Once both parties generally supported capitalism and freedom and the Constitution, they just had policy differences about how to go about doing it.

John F. Kennedy said this in his Inaugural Address:

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"...In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."

Democrats, one of your own condemns you with words that resonate with truth even today.

Kennedy's words are in accord with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. This administration is apparently intent upon turning the United States into The Socialist States of America. The current Democratic Party is so radically left that JFK would probably see that they more closely resemble his Communist enemies than his fellow Americans. I suppose JFK would be a Republican today rather than associate with the kind of people who would organize and encourage Occupy Wall Street.

The Tea Party Movement is not dead, but it was and is a genuine grassroots movement of ordinary Americans tired of seeing the Federal Government taking away rights from States and citizens and spending money a a record rate. While the Tea Partiers have had meetings in various cities and towns all over the United States for several years now, they have had some commonalities;

They get permits when they need them to gather in pubic places that require them.
They clean up after themselves.
They remain law abiding, even when people are sent to try to cause them to react to bad behavior.
They consist primarily of people who have jobs or attend schools so they come for a period of time and then peacefully disperse.

They Occupy Wall Street people are pretty much the opposite:

They have lots of paid instigators leading them to do what they do.
They consist of people who do not have anything constructive to do like, say, work a job or go to school or go look for a job. In other words, the ones who are not being paid to be there are slackers...or crooks...or bigots...or entirely clueless but think anarchy is fun.
They make a great big mess whereever they are.
They are constantly committing crimes like assault, rape, larceny, resisting arrest and etc.

So I ask you, how dare the OWS people claim to be representing 99 % of the people? Do we primarily consist of union thugs, criminals, bums and people hired by the Democratic Party to try to invent an anti-Tea Party? No, we do not.!

Fact: 53% of Americans pay 100% of the Federal taxes. (article reproduced near bottom of post)

So the thugs and bums of OWS do not represent a majority at all.   In fact, a normal person who is out of work begins putting in applications to get a job, or goes to (or back to) school to get the training to get a job in a specific field.   When I was injured and could no longer work in the industry that I was in, I got a student loan and went back to college and retrained to work in the IT industry. I got a job in that industry because I worked hard at training for a new career. If you do not have a job, you should be working full-time to get a new job or get training for a new job.

Only slackers and bums and crooks expect the government to support them.   Guess what, you have no right to be supported. The government spends money taken from people who work.   Are those who work supposed to support those those who won't?   Of couse not!

Occupy Starts, Stops with Trash

John Ransom

"30 tons of leftover waste as a monument seems fitting somehow for a protest movement made up of the intellectual trash-bin of the country’s- the world's?- left wing. Europe is forcing balanced budgets, so one has to wonder how long the FDR-Keynesian crowd can pretend to be anything other than an historical curiosity.

When police evicted the protesters from in and around city hall in LA, hazmat teams found personal items that “astonished city workers,” according to the LA Times.

The protesters left “books and CDs, luggage and boom boxes, mattresses and dining chairs, cellphones, electric razors, a small red guitar with its neck snapped –- all surrounded by dozens of collapsed and empty tents.”

Hazmat teams had to come in to clean up the mess. Imagine dozens of Carl Spacklers squeegee-ing out the grounds of LA’s city hall.

And thus, the contrast between the Tea Party protesters and the Occupiers is now complete.

Good going to all those media sophisticates who tried to tell us that the Occupy movement was the left’s mirror image of the Tea Party.

Forget the double-standard that the media has applied to the two movements when they reported on them. The double standard just makes the media look more foolish in the end.

And you know the end is near for any political movement when TB breaks out amongst people freely-associating for political purposes- and smoking a little weed.

Pot kind of gives a different context to the idea of a grassroots movement.

Don’t get me wrong. There are Tea Partiers, who, uh, party. But outside of the Paulites, they don’t make partying part of the officially sanctioned activities.

The Tea Party folks would have just brought some sort of cheese-covered casseroles and maybe some bottled water and s’mores to a rally- and then gone home a few hours later to spend time with their families.

Occupiers brought communicable diseases.

Now that’s a type of “communism” in action; hope you can believe in.

The great thing about the mainstream media is that the coffin nails which are sealing up the pine box surrounding them are being fashioned everyday by themselves.

They haven’t made a right call since they asked John Kerry to report for duty in his yachting cap and ascot.

Give them this though: The Occupiers' trash shows that they apparently are sincere when they trash the materialism of the lower, middle and upper classes. But it’s easy to discard material things in a park in LA when your first demands are that someone else pay for those things in the first place.

Easy come is easy go when a third party pays the tab.

Still, the urban cognoscenti from New York Magazine has noted the much fairer way that NYPD treated trash the Occupiers left behind when kicked out of Zuccotti Park.

“By contrast, when the OWS protesters at Zuccotti Park were unceremoniously evicted,” whines NYMag, “the debris was taken to a sanitation facility at West 57th Street where protesters with ‘proper ID’ could recover their belongings once waste was sorted from personal property. Why weren't the L.A. protesters afforded the same opportunity?”

They are so right: It’s just not fair.

I say make the Occupiers pick up and sort their own trash next time."

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Thirty tons of trash just in LA? Now multiply it around the country.   Various municipalities have had to give OWS bums the heave-ho and it is no wonder.   Last week marked arrest number FIVE THOUSAND of the OWS protesters. I guess they are protesting cleanliness and lawfulness.

Here are a few pictures and the lead text from an OCCUPY OAKLAND PHOTOJOURNALISM POST. I ask you, is this representative of who you are?

"Much ado has been made about recent media reports describing Occupy Oakland as a cross between Lord of the Flies and Animal House. The leftist magazine Mother Jones was furious about the negative coverage, deeming it "The Right-Wing Media Assault on Occupy Oakland," and attempting to debunk the bad press. But Big Journalism lashed back with an article entitled MotherJones: Truth To Unflattering Reports On OWS.

Out of curiosity, I decided to check out the scene for myself to settle the matter."

DRUG USE and COMMERCE

Everywhere I went, I encountered people taking drugs -- mostly marijuana. Many of them were understandably camera-shy. But this guy stood right on the main walkway and puffed away on a drug pipe.

The ground around and inside the camp was also littered with other evidence of drug use, such as this crack cocaine baggie that had been dropped or discarded.

This guy was sitting outside his tent, riffling through and counting huge wads of greenbacks. I can't say for sure that he was a drug dealer, but I found it mighty suspicious that he would have such a massive amount of cash amidst such squalor.

INTIMIDATING "INTERNAL SECURITY" TEAMS

Occupy Oakland has agreed by consensus to not cooperate with the Oakland Police Department under any circumstances. But as the law-breaking and nuisance behavior within the encampment started to grow, the evolving mini-society found it necessary to appoint its own ersatz police force. Basically, the scariest looking guys, and/or those guys with with strongest authoritarian urge, have assumed the role of internal policemen. As many reporters have discovered, these guys really really do not appreciate having their picture taken, so I could only get a few surreptitious shots. In this scene, someone had found a large Bowie knife in the camp and turned it into these two Occupolice, who set about scanning the crowd for the potential owner, ready to wreak justice on anyone who broke the "no weapons" ~~law~~ consensus agreement. They communicate with walkie-talkies.

There also seemed to be a possibly separate "rally security force" consisting of guys wearing Black Panther buttons on their berets.

SEGREGATION

But not all is rosy in this new society. Some of the very worst customs already banned from our existing society have re-emerged at Occupy Oakland. One of the ugliest of these is segregation.

The encampment has already fractured into a series of micro-neighborhoods, just like a real city. But at Occupy Oakland, where you are permitted to live is determined by your gender and/or racial or sexual identity. Here, for example, is a roped-off "gated community" reserved exclusively for female, gay and transgender residents.

Elsewhere are tents with a "minorities only" rule.

And lest you might be so naive to think that these rules would only ever apply to the Occupy camp, and not to the city at large should the Occupiers ever take over, be aware that one of the Occupation's many demands is to "Stop White Gentrification in Oakland" -- which would mean the establishment of new laws preventing white people from moving into certain neighborhoods.

Yes, my friends, the Occupy movement has made segregation trendy again!

They aleady have this in Middle Eastern society; it's called a harem.

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There is much more at the site.   Lots of Communists and Socialists and anti-society anti-American groups along with lots of criminals and slackers.   Funny how many decry capitalism while talking or texting on cell phones, eh?

Occupy Wall St. Hits New Milestone: 5,000 Arrests

By Dan Gainor

November 30, 2011

"After more than two months of assaults, vandalism, resisting arrest, and more, the Occupy Wall Street movement has a new accomplishment: more than 5,000 arrests.

The most recent tally, handled by the Occupy Arrests Twitter feed, was from Nov. 25 and was at 4,752. But, arrests of Occupiers in Los Angeles and Philadelphia last night should push that total to a new milestone.

According to the Associated Press, LA police arrested “more than 200 who defied orders to leave.” AP reported that another 52 were arrested in the City of Brotherly Love, safely pushing the total above 5,000.

Confronting police and getting arrested has been a primary Occupier strategy since roughly 700 people were arrested trying to seize the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1. Since that date, the battles between police and Occupiers have spanned the globe.

Occupy Arrests, which tracks the arrests by location, shows New York is the top city for arrests. More than 1,400 Occupiers have been arrested at Wall Street alone. Chicago, Tucson, Boston, and Oakland have also been hot spots for arrests. But close behind is Melbourne, Australia, with more than 100 arrests on its own.

Arrests in some of those cases were very confrontational, but AP said last night’s were “relatively peaceful.” “By dawn in Los Angeles, trash, flattened tents and the stench of urine were the Occupy LA legacy,” according to AP."

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Meanwhile the most radical President in US history is also the one who has taken the most vacations, so while OWS is wreaking havoc across the nation, Barack Obama is taking another 17 days off work!

So here is the Democrat game plan. Get radical communist and socialist and union agitators to start a big combination protest and party in cities around the nation, making it even harder to get work done and putting a massive strain on the peace-keepers by providing their own crime wave, drug party and trashfest. Anarchy is the theme. Why do the Democrats want anarchy? Well, if anarchy is widespread, then you get tyranny next. Socialism can only succeed by tyranny. It requires a dictator and the loss of individual freedoms in order to exist. Nations that begin to tend towards Socialism eventually begin changing their collective minds, as we now see European socialist health care programs being revised or abandoned because they simply don't work. As nations, the Soviet Union and it's satellite nations all fell because Socialism does not work. In China a form of capitalism is being allowed because capitalism does work. China has operated on the world stage as a capitalist entity but they have found that allowing citizens to have a return for labor and innovation has increased productivity.

OWS is obviously a plan cooked up by the Democrats, whose leaders do not respect the law or the Constitution. When a State legislature like the ones in Indiana or Wisconsin get a majority and begin to enact laws the Democrats don't like, they run away to another state like the unAmerican cowards they are. Is that strong language for you? Well, ask yourself who was paying for the Wisconsin legislators to run away, who was paying the salaries of Indiana legislators when they bolted last year because they were no longer the majority and they didn't like what the majority wanted to do. I think any legislator who refuses his or her responsibility should be docked their pay and, if AWOL for a week or longer, be suspended from office and a special election should be held to replace them.

Hey, if you decide to just quit going to work and deliberately refuse to come, should your boss keep paying you and should you be able to keep your job? I guarantee you that if you tell your boss you are deliberately avoiding work you would not get paid and you would not keep your job! Just an aside because Democrats in Indianapolis are threatening to run away again if the Right To Work legislation comes to a vote in the House. Call them traitors or cowards or slackers or anything you want other than public servants, because when you run away from your job you have run away from the people who you are supposed to serve. You get elected, you go to work and cast your vote and try to persuade others but what you DO NOT DO IS RUN AWAY!

Anyway, the article I promised AND a video to boot:

The 53%: We are NOT Occupy Wall Street

By Tami Luhby

Frank Decker has a message for those at Occupy Wall Street.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there's a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd.

They call themselves the 53%...as in the 53% of Americans who pay federal income taxes. And they are making their voices heard on Tumblr blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages devoted to stories of personal responsibility and work ethic.

47% of Americans don't pay federal income tax, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. The 53 percenters stress the fact that they are paying the taxes that support the government assistance the protesters say they want.

Kevin Eder was among the first to galvanize those who wanted to differentiate themselves from the thousands of people rallying across the nation to raise awareness of the growing economic gap between the rich and everyone else.

In early October, Eder created the Twitter hashtag #iamthe53, which has since been posted in hundreds of tweets as the backlash to Occupy Wall Street mounts.

"I would never identify myself with those occupying Wall Street," said Eder, 26, a business analyst in Washington D.C. "The frustration was born out of people claiming to speak for me who don't."
Meet the Occupy Wall Street protesters

Many of those tweeting share the belief that the protesters need to stop complaining about the government and financial institutions and start looking for work. Ken Gardner, an attorney in Dallas, joined the conversation because he opposes government handouts.

"We don't want to be the 53% who carries the 47% on our shoulders," said Gardner, who thinks more people should pay federal income taxes.

Eder's hashtag helped inspire Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of the conservative website RedState.com and a CNN contributor, to set up a Tumblr blog called "We are the 53%." It mimics Occupy Wall Street "We are the 99 percent" site.

"The 53% site gives a voice to those who reject the contention that most Americans are victims of the system," said Josh Trevino, "quasi-official spokesman" for the blog.

"What the 99% is missing is the element of personal responsibility," said Trevino, who is also vice president at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. "The 53% want to bring that into the conversation."

More than a thousand people have sent in entries to the 53% site, which generally features their photo next to a piece of paper that outlines their views, as well as their struggles and work histories.

"I am responsible for my own destiny," writes one 34-year-old father of three. "I will succeed or fail because of me and me alone."

"I took jobs I didn't want. Why don't you?" says one poster to the protesters. "Suck it up and become part of the 53%."
(The original post has a video here that cannot be copied to this site)

As Frank Decker read through the posts, he felt he could relate. A public school teacher in Vancouver, Wash., Decker and his wife lived below the poverty line until they decided to go back to school to become educators. He sent in a post because he wanted to share his story.

"We didn't go through all that struggle while raising three kids to support people who don't feel they need to work or people who feel they are entitled to something they haven't earned," said Decker, 44.
At this point, neither Keder nor Trevino plan to shift their 53% efforts from the online world to the physical one. But they are both surprised at how popular the backlash has become.

"It's lasted far longer than we thought and it's become much bigger than we thought," Trevino said. "It's not over yet."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As long as the Democrats and Unions and the Communist Party and other such entities are willing to pay people to protest, the OWS will not end until commnunities get sick and tired of them and forcibly toss them out. Which is what they have been forced to do, and in doing so pay even more tax dollars in the process. So in the end the OWS represent the dregs of society...bigots, bullies and bums...and by their own words, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and their cronies. Nice, huh?

Why Mourdock and not Lugar? Because Indiana needs representation rather than abandonment!

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:32:00 +0000

I have had the pleasure of meeting both men running for Senate on the Republican side. You can compare their stances on the issues here:   But I do urge you to read this post before you decide which man will get your vote. November brings many local races to the front pages.   I do urge you to consider now what you will do in the Primary season to come as well.   The councilmen you elect today become the Senators of tomorrow. Every election is crucial!   So with that in mind, a look at the Senate race that is coming our way.

Once decades ago I believe Dick Lugar represented the mainline Conservative Republicans and ordinary Hoosiers.   Then again, once long ago he actually resided in Indiana!   Now he still maintains an address in Indiana but is well known as a longtime Beltway Boy.   McLean, Virginia claims him as their own...excerpt:

"Two McLean neighbors attended the posh White House state dinner Thursday evening given for the visitng South Korean president and his wife.

Sen. Richard Lugar and wife Deb Lugar are long-time McLean residents. The senior senator from Indiana is also the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.

Virginia Del. Mark Keam, whose 35th District includes a western sliver of McLean, and his wife Alex Seong Keam also attended..."

Dick Lugar was in fact the Republican Barack Obama co-opted to help prepare the Democratic candidate for President for the debates against the Republican candidate, John McCain.   Lugar became known as "Obama's Favorite Republican" and it is easy to find pictures of the two smiling together as Lugar helped get the most radical socialistic Democrat (this side of FDR) to ever win election.   On this one issue alone Dick Lugar should be cast from the Republican side. He was working against Republicans and for a man who we now can see is a radical leftist. He no longer represents any portion of the Republican Party other than those who are aligned primarily with lobbyists and career fatcats.

Picture accompanying a story on the theft of Indiana pension funds by the Obama Administration

Richard Mourdock is a man I met just over three years ago. My first impression was that he is a man of great personal character and also a man of action. His understanding of the US and Indiana Constitution and his dogged determination to keep Barack Obama and his cronies from stealing the retirement funds from Indiana pensioners impresses me to this day. Subsequent personal conversations revealed that he is also a very accessible gentleman who wants to know what Hoosiers think and seeks to promote laws that help Americans in general and Hoosiers in particular while being true to his personal convictions.

Richard Mourdock

I was quite surprised to find that, after a couple of very brief conversations at previous events Richard actually recognized me and my wife at a Lake County Republican Party function where Mike Pence was the keynote speaker. What a gracious, down-to-earth yet accomplished man Richard Mourdock is! Yet the fire is still in his eyes when he describes how the Obama Administration stole money from Hoosiers in the illegal Chrysler Bailout that broke bankruptcy laws and was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court, but not before the Obama Administration had largely stripped Chrysler of all funds and continued to basically give a large chunk of Chrysler to the Italian automaker, FIAT...even worse, the Obama Administration gave the Italians money that they then used to purchase controlling interest in Chrysler!

As you might imagine, I cringe and get angry every time I see a Chrysler commercial now, promoting Detroit and "hard work and character." The Obama Administration stole from every single American to accomplish the bailout and it served to benefit...Italy?! I wonder if Solyndra and other bailouts would not be far more heinous than anything Richard Nixon did in association with Watergate and CREEP? Where are the investigative journalists looking while bailout after bailout rewards Obama cronies and foreign entities while our National deficit climbs to the Moon?

About Richard Mourdock

Richard Mourdock was elected Indiana’s State Treasurer in November 2006 and was re-elected in 2010, leading the Republican ticket with over 62% of the vote. As Treasurer, Richard has been an integral part of the state’s fiscal health. Richard’s leadership earned over $1 billion in investment income for taxpayers and successfully expanded the state’s college savings plan. At the same time, his office has returned an average of 10% of his budget back to the Treasury each year.

Richard is known nation-wide for leading the legal fight to challenge the Obama Administration’s illegal bailout and takeover of Chrysler. Richard took this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Indiana pensioners. His courageous efforts were featured in articles by George Will, the Wall Street Journal, as well as on Fox News and other national media outlets.

A solid conservative, Richard is a popular speaker at Republican events and Tea Party rallies alike. Richard’s conservative message of constitutionally limited government was heard by over one million people during the 9-12 March on Washington in 2009.

Prior to his election as State Treasurer, Richard had a successful 30 year career in the private sector, managing businesses in the energy, environmental and construction industries. He also served two terms as County Commissioner of Vanderburgh County.

Richard is a licensed pilot, has been active in Christian Missions in Bolivia, holds a Master’s Degree in Geology from Ball State University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Defiance College in Ohio. Richard has completed six marathons in the past eight years. He and his wife, Marilyn, live in Darmstadt, Indiana.

I hope to demonstrate the following two important points:

Richard Lugar is no longer a Conservative and no longer represents the views of his Hoosier constituents. In fact it is hard to contend that he is even an Indiana resident. He has left us both physically and philosophically and settled in to compromising contentment in Virginia.

Richard Mourdock has proven his courage and loyalty and by dint of hard work has fought to do the will of Hoosiers and represents Conservatives and mainline Hoosier Republicans.

Obama’s Favorite Republican

August 24th by the Editors

In 2012, Indiana will be asked to choose between a hard-line conservative or “Obama’s Favorite Republican,” Senator Dick Lugar. Lugar has a long history of leaning toward liberalism. Here’s the brutal list of 10 of Lugar’s worst offenses from Hoosiers for Conservative Senate.

1. Voted “YES” for the Wall Street Bailout (TARP) and putting taxpayers on the hook. Senator Dick Lugar Supported the Wall Street Bailout. (Oct. 1, 2008, HR1424)

2. Voted “YES” to confirm Elena Kagan for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.. Senator Dick Lugar was the second Republican to declare his support for this known liberal nominee of President Barack Obama. Lugar knew Elena Kagan was the lead defender of Bill Clinton’s shameless veto of the Partial-Birth-Abortion Ban. Aug. 5, 2010. (Roll Call 229)

3. Voted “YES” for amnesty for illegal aliens. Senator Dick Lugar not only has repeatedly voted for amnesty, but also was a prime co-sponsor of President Barack Obama’s notorious DREAM Act and voted for this bill. Fortunately, conservatives voted against it, and it failed. Dec 18, 2010 (HR5281, Roll Call 625)

4. Voted “YES” to continue taxpayer funding of abortion. Senator Dick Lugar, who claims to be pro-life, voted against Senator David Vitter’s amendment to prohibit funds from being granted to organizations that perform abortions when a woman’s life is not in danger, unless the organization is a hospital. Oct. 18, 2007. (S.Amdt 3330 Roll Call 379) Lugar also voted to support stem cell research, which destroys human life. July 18, 2006 (HR810, Roll Call 206)

5. Voted “NO” to restoring the 2nd Amendment rights to citizens of the District of Columbia. Senator Dick Lugar voted against this basic right to self-defense on February 26, 2009. (S.160, Roll Call 72)

6. Voted “YES” to confirm Sonia Sotomayor for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Senator Dick Lugar gave the White House a “resounding victory” by voting for this liberal nominee of President Barack Obama. More than 70% of GOP Senators voted against her confirmation and the NRA publicly opposed her confirmation. Aug 6, 2009

7. Voted “YES” for the Auto Industry Bailout. Senator Dick Lugar gave the Big Labor Union Bosses a big gift by forcing taxpayers to take over GM and Chrysler. In the process, Indiana retirees lost tens of millions in retirement fund savings, thanks to the legally unprecedented, Obama-Orchestrated bankruptcy plan for Chrysler. Dec. 11, 2008. (HR 7005, Roll Call 215)

8. Voted “YES” to allow Social Security Benefits for illegal aliens. Senator Dick Lugar cast the deciding vote against reducing document fraud, preventing identity theft, preserving the integrity of the Social Security system, and granting Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who engaged in unlawful activity. Feb. 18, 2006. (S.2611, Roll Call 130)

9. Voted “YES” to raise his own salary. Senator Dick Lugar voted numerous times to raise his own salary during his nearly four decades in federal office

10. Voted “YES” to confirm activist Federal Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Senator Dick Lugar supported Hamilton despite his work with the ACLU and ACORN and his openly pro-abortion views. Hamilton also handed down the decision to stop Christian prayer on the floor of the legislature in the Indiana Statehouse. Nov. 19,2009

Senator Lugar is avidly anti-gun rights. Lugar voted to oppose a concealed carry bill written by Senator John Thune. Even Lugar’s fellow Senator from Indiana, Evan Bayh, a Democrat, voted for the bill. According to the Huffington Post, “Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) cast one of two no votes from the GOP. The vote was in character for Lugar, who is no enemy of gun-control advocates.” The NRA has graded Lugar a D+ for his lack of support for Second Amendment rights. Lugar told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt that he supports reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban. The exchange regarding gun control starts five minutes into the video below. Lugar’s anti-conservative credentials should preclude any conservative for voting for him in 2012.

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There is a video on that site that is 21 minutes long, a Bloomberg Media product I cannot reproduce. You will have to go to the Richard Young site to watch it. However, I do have an appropriate and much shorter youtube to display:

There are 14 videos on this site that give a summary of the Obamanation of Dick Lugar.

I would also point out that Dick Lugar is on the National Advisory Board of Campus Network a division of the New York City-based Roosevelt Institute, a big government think-tank and training organization that is functionally a branch of the Democratic Party.

The Roosevelt Institute’s own website proudly proclaims its liberal pedigree:

“Through the Four Freedoms Center think tank, launched in 2009, the Roosevelt Institute incubates and promotes rigorous, progressive policy ideas and value narratives, and deploys the people who are their strongest proponents into the public debate.”

“This is an organization that is justifying wealth distribution through higher taxes and is glorifying the 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters. Why would a Republican US Senator be a part of promoting this agenda? Read the entire post on this subject here.

Now let me share with you a speech given by my friend and fellow Conservative Republican, Suzy Barnhart given at the Lake County Reagan Breakfast on behalf of Richard Mourdock (who was attending a cousin's wedding on that morning. Family first!)-

"Prior to his election as State Treasurer, Richard had a successful 30 year career in the private industry, managing businesses in the energy, environmental and construction industries. He also served 2 terms as County Commissioner of Vanderburgh County from 1995-2002, where he gained a reputation as a results-orientated leader by setting goals and measuring progress.

Richard Mourdock has been a great friend to Hoosiers and the Lake County GOP. He has helped keep the party solvent by serving as the keynote speaker at Lincoln Day Dinners, Reagan Breakfasts, precinct meetings, Rotary Meetings and will be here again in October to go door to door for Crown Point Mayoral candidate Eldon Strong.

Richard Mourdock believes GOP officials have a duty to build the party and not come out just around their elections. We have not seen his opponent here in Lake County in years with the exception of a couple of times of recently.
Richard Mourdock also believes once elected, you have a duty to visit and speak to your constituents and not ask $8,000 for a county GOP Dinner to do so-Yes, I did say $8,000!

Richard Mourdock is a consistent conservative and been a partner to Gov. Mitch Daniels in the Statehouse where as Treasurer he earned over $1 Billion in investment income since he was elected.

He returned an average of 10% of the office budget back to the state each year since elected and has help build the state college savings plan

Richard Mourdock was re-elected in 2010 with 62% of the vote. He received more votes in Joe Donnelly's district (the Democrat opponent next year) than Donnelly himself received in 2010.

Richard Mourdock respects Sen. Lugar's 35 years in office but our Founders never intended anyone to be in office for nearly 4 decades. We can't expect to change what is going wrong with our economy and what's wrong in Washington unless we change the people who we send there.

Thats why Richard Mourdock also supports term limits and laws that require Congress to live by the same laws it passes for the rest' of us.
There are difference between the candidates and we Hoosiers have a true conservative choice:

Richard Mourdock: Opposed Obama's liberal Supreme Court nominees
His opponent: Voted for each one

Richard Mourdock: Believes in balancing the Federal budget and that it should be a top priority
Opponent (Lugar): Voted numerous times for increases in the debt ceiling

Richard Mourdock: Stood up to the auto & bank bailouts
Opponent (Lugar): Voted for them

Richard Mourdock: Believes in ending pork barrel earmark spending
Opponent (Lugar): Condoned the practice

Richard Mourdock: Supports the 2nd amendment
Received an "A" rating from the NRA(National Rifle Association)
Understand that gun control doesn't equal crime controlOpponent (Lugar): Has a "D" rating from the NRA & voted to gut the right to bear arms

Richard Mourdock would NEVER, ever, ever, allow himself to be used in a Barak Obama campaign ad!

Richard Mourdock has received several Endorsements but not limited to:
Commentator Mark Levin
Erick Erickson
Gun Owners of America
Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate
Citizens United Political Victory Funds
Minuteman PAC
National Association for Gun Rights
Presidential candidate Herman Cain
Fox News Dick Morris
National Republican Trust PAC
Tea Party Express
Steve Forbes
and many others...

Various stories & statements about Richard Mourdock have gone recently that are NOT accurate or simply not true.

Remember: Lies have speed but the truth has endurance.

I have known Richard Mourdock for 4 + years and have had the opportunity to consciously observe him in many different situations to see if he was the person of integrity & character I believed him to be. I watched him at events, meetings, social occasions to see if he was honorable. I watched how he treated people and handle difficult situations. What I learned is he honest & of the highest integrity in his personal & political life. He is one of the finest person I have ever met. I am proud to work for him.

Richard Mourdock is ready to take on the Democrats and be a part of the coming conservative majority in the US Senate.

Richard Mourdock has been a role model of integrity and competence to our state & this country. He has been a symbol of conservatism & courage to the nation. He stood alone in the Chrysler Bankruptcy case against Obama's attempt to put unsecured claims ahead of Indiana's secured creditors and he won!

It is with great Hoosier pride I stand before you today and ask for your support & vote next May for Richard Mourdock, the next US Senator from our great state of Indiana!

Thank-you!

Suzy Barnhart
Field Director--Northwest Indiana
Hoosiers for Richard Mourdock, Inc.
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To summarize, the Dick Lugar who is now voting largely along party lines is the one that shows up when his job is in jeopardy. The normal Dick Lugar is the McLean, Virginia resident whose viewpoint is much closer to Barack Obama's than to the average Hoosier's mindset.   Lugar votes in opposition to the Republican majority and the normal Hoosier whenever he is safely voted back in to his comfy position in Washington. The real Dick Lugar voted without hesitation to put the radical Sonia Sotomayor and the completely unqualifed Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court and also voted to approve Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a far left liberal judicial activist who believes the laws of other nations should be applied to Supreme Court cases, which are supposed to be nothing more than a review for adherence to the American Constitution!

Richard Mourdock is a great American success story, a businessman who was successful, a missionary who gave of himself for the good of others, a Tea Party supported, well-educated Indiana Renaissance Man who runs marathons and has many areas of expertise.   As Treasurer of the State of Indiana he has fought against Federal theft and wisely invested and received strong return of those investments for the sake of Hoosiers.   He'll not become a tick embedded in the haunches of the American taxpayers, he'll work to balance budgets, change Congress into a body more in line with the vision of our Founding Fathers and put an end to the concept of the "elected royalty" who are not subject to the laws of the land. He believes we need a Statesman and not a Politician. I agree.

My skin is in the game.   I have collected signatures for Richard Mourdock, worn Mourdock shirts to various events and places, collected a few handouts and bumper stickers to give to others, contributed to his campaign and will be working to see a genuine Hoosier Conservative Republican put into office and allow Dick Lugar to spend more time on that lawn in McLean, Virginia.

Let me ask you this, when you vote for a Republican Senator from Indiana, don't you expect him to 1) act as if he was a Republican and 2) actually be a resident of Indiana? If that is your expectation, then Richard Mourdock is the only choice you have.

Time to retire Dick Lugar!!!

Occupiers and Tea Partiers Unite

noreply@blogger.com (briefs) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:59:00 +0000

I was thinking earlier today that there are some issues that occupiers and tea partiers together can agree on.

They won't align with either political party, because they think they've sold out and both parties are owned by the big corporations.
They even work hard to defeat the politicians closest to their own views unless they are 100% independent and thus unable to raise money or get elected.
They both agree that the banking bailout was a terrible idea
No one from either side seems happy with our current President, although some of his supporters are financing the occupiers don't look behind that curtain.
They both agree in freedom of speech and the right to assemble in protest in a free country

So how about this, how about a group that both occupies and teaparties all the time. They might want to get jobs that pay a living wage too while they're at it. So, how about it, agree to disagree on why you're so mad and learn to work together?

What's the best vision for Portage Indiana

noreply@blogger.com (briefs) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:09:00 +0000

With only a couple weeks left before Portage Indiana residents choose their new Mayor, the current Mayor Olga Velazquez is working feverishly to blunt criticism that she used taxpayer dollars to try and market a project to her residents as a good idea. Times Article

The Mayor has no love lost for me personally so perhaps even writing this article will seem just a counter attack on all the unsavory things she's said about Valparaiso and Mayor Costas and my own associates over the years. This article though is not intended to counter attack but to give my thoughts on why the residents of Portage deserve something different, a vision for something better.

The downtown project has made little if any progress in the last three years. That's a fact. It was a promise that Mayor Olga offered, a project that she inherited from Doug Olson, and one that has really fallen quite flat.
This building that Portage is building has no firm leases, and is therefore a speculative venture in hopes of prying one tenant away from a taxpaying landlord in Ameriplex and getting the state to fund a lease for education.
As the Police, Fire, and Streets Departments have all endorsed James Snyder for Mayor against the sitting Mayor. Why? It causes one to ponder the administration if they don't have the support of their own employees.
Although attacking Valparaiso has become a hobby in Portage, with I'm sure many residents ticked that anyone else in Porter County would even have an opinion. Let's be frank, Portage could use a dose of entrepreneurial fervor and innovation. Portage could use a vibrant and active downtown. Portage could use a good working relationship between the schools, police, and city.

An easy call for me of course as I'm friends with James Snyder and find his energy and enthusiasm for Portage exciting. I hope he wins, that's no secret. But I also hope that the residents of Portage feel the entire county's support for a newly invigorated and dynamic largest City in the County. This would be good for all of us.

I don't envision the Times or the Post digging any further into campaign finance violations, shaking down city contractors for contributions, or unsavory bidding processes for construction projects. The days of that kind of journalism here in the region seem far in the past. Now the residents of Portage will have to do some digging on their own and ask: Do we want this same Portage 4 years from now?

What's Not Beingg Said About the TEA Party

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Gearhart) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:43:00 +0000

First, it should be noted that the image chosen caught my eye because as winter grows nearer my taste buds are calling out for a Sam Adam's Winter Lager. Perhaps the best beer on the planet.

Anyways, I felt the need to write (or vent? or rant?) about how the TEA Party has sort of become the synonym for conservative and how the positives and negatives of this are already being felt.

The TEA Party thing was mostly started as a way for the "silent majority" to get together and protest fiscal issues; some dealing with taxation, some with spending, some with monetary manipulation, etc. Or, at least, that was my main understanding, and when I spoke at several of these that was primarily what I kept to. Sure, there were segments where I might have rambled into another issue here or there, but primarily, I kept it fiscal matters and didn't deviate into other ideological spectrums because, well, not everybody who is a fiscal conservative is going to be socially conservative, or a defense hawk, or etc., etc. I was excited that there was a movement like this to veer the party into a fiscally disciplined direction, and the rhetoric that is coming from our presidential candidates are definitely reflecting those sentiments.

I remember talking to a couple of different buddies about whether or not some kind of strong leadership should be established with this, in order to make sure that it stayed on track; at the time, the consensus was that it was more exciting to see it be run as it was, just a group of like-minded people who spoke out against irresponsible fiscal behavior. Hind sight being 20/20, I think some kind of solid leadership should have been established. The main problem is that TEA Party is becoming a replacement for "conservative" (not in real life, but rather in the words or columnists, politicians, and news anchors). And that isn't good, since there is so many different facets of the TEA Party.

The TEA Party in Pennsylvania is different from the one in Maine, which is different from the one in California, and so on and so on. Heck, the TEA party in Lake County here in Indiana had different rhetoric and direction than the one that was operating in Porter County, which had a very libertarian tone to it. That was the problem. Some TEA Parties focus only on fiscal issues, while others talk about defense, and others talk about social issues, and others talked about immigration. At the TEA Party Presidential debate, the question was asked whether or not somebody who did not have health insurance and was in an accident should die, and a couple of people in the crowd cheered...this did not look good for the TEA Party. Yes, I understand that this only makes up the couple of percent that fall into the fringe; but that couple of percent makes people who don't know any better think that all conservative minded people fall into that category. At some TEA party's there were people with shirts and signs with President Bush on it with "Miss me yet?" written as well, others had pictures of Bush and Obama side by side like they were the same person. There are Facebook groups that demand that the neoconservatives stop taking over the TEA Party, there are others that demand that Obama get tougher on defense.

Given the lack of congruency with this movement, it's sort of troubling when people ask me, "So, are you part of the TEA Party?"

Because I don't know what to say! I usually respond yes, just to make it simple, though Porter County has no active group and I had left the one that had been there before because I didn't dig the whole "anti-vaccination" vibe that was happening. No hard feeling, just not my gig. Plus, I'm a conservative; so while fiscal issues do come first with me, and there are a whole host of other ones I'm willing and able to find middle ground on, social issues, along with defense and immigration, just to name a couple, do matter to me. BUT, with fiscal issues not being the only focus for the TEA Party, does that mean I'm, like, the perfect embodiment of the TEA Party? I don't know, it's sort of like arguing about whether or not one can travel through time (theoretically, a wormhole could be formed...but there is no amount of fuel that can travel faster than the speed of light...and what would happen if I killed my Grandpa? Ahhhh it's so confusing!!!).

Over all, this isn't necessarily a criticism of the TEA Party in general, since each organizer has (and should have) their right to run their ship as they want. But, it still is a bit of a misrepresentation when media starts throwing around the groups name, making is synonymous with conservatism. Though, in that respect, the recent "Flea Party" (the Wall Street Protesters) being compared to the TEA party makes sense. The wall street protesters have no idea what they are protesting, they have everyone from hardcore Communists to college drop outs to hippies and hipsters to Steelworkers. Many aspects of the media have compared this "movement" to the TEA party, and it sort of irked me at first, until I started to look at what was underneath: no organization, no clear cut message. Granted, I haven't read any news stories saying that this was what they meant, and I probably won't because it probably isn't, but it works none the less.

A Country Boy Can Survive...

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Gearhart) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:36:00 +0000

Monday Night Football may never be the same...

Hank Jr.'s "Are You Ready For Some Football?!" intro to Monday night's NFL game is...well...legendary. For as long as I can remember Junior has introduced the Monday Night Football game, but tonight that has stopped. ESPN decided that, because Hank Jr. made remarks of a political nature on Fox's "Fox and Friends", that his intro would no longer run.

Now, ESPN has a rule: No announcer will go on television to talk about politics, one way or another. And that's a fine rule, nobody wants to watch their football game and have to deal with that person jamming his or her's politics down their throat. But, Hank isn't an announcer; he's just a musician who does the intro to MNF...does that really count?

Apparently it does. I sit here watching MNF (I don't know why, a Manning-less Colts vs. the Bucs is a pretty sorry game no matter how it goes) and the exclusion of the classic theme song was definitly sorely missed. Certainly this decision is exclusively up to ESPN, no question about that. Is it within their rights to exclude Hank? Sure. But I still think that it's a hypocritical one.

After all, how many times have people who have been decidedly liberal sang the National Anthem? I know the Dixie Chicks have, and the Black Eyed Pea's have played half time shows, and those are just the first two that pop into my head! Granted, Junior's words about Obama were pretty harsh. He used a "Hitler analogy", and that NEVER goes over well, even if one is making a really great point.

And I mean, really, who DIDN'T KNOW that Hank Junior was conservative?

Anybody?

That's what I thought. It's not a secret, it never has been. I think that this decision has more to do with WHAT he said (regarding the Hitler analogies) and less about the fact that he was talking politics. If that was their case, ok, but that isn't the reasoning that they gave. They tried to lump Hank into the same category as the announcers, and that just doesn't sit well with me. (Also, as a side note, Hank Junior said in that same interview that he will probably be running for Senate, as a Republican.)

I think that, though it is within the rights of that particular broadcasting group to make whatever decisions that they want regarding theme songs or whatever, in the long run it will kick them in the butt. I know I wasn't the only person in America that was missing the theme song, and I know that Hank Junior himself is an immensely popular artist (in my own opinion not as good as his father, but that's another article itself) and his fans are livid about this.

I hope that whoever made that decision over at ESPN changes their mind, because Monday night just won't be the same without Bocephus.

Considering the Information Generation, September 11, Richard Mourdock and Lake County, Indiana

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:28:00 +0000

Warning - You are entering a political zone. History, philosophy and politics have dominated my day and I am sharing that with you...

The day is no more than halfway over but it has been a great day. My wife and I got up early and attended the Reagan Breakfast in Schererville, Indiana (South-East of Chicago) at a venue near the corner of US 30 and US 41, which at one time in history was the busiest intersection in the United States in the days before all the Interstates.

Richard with two boosters

A friend and a Richard Mourdock campaign staffer, Suzy Barnhart, met with us soon after we arrived at The Patrician for the event. State Treasurer and Senatorial candidate Mourdock had planned on attending but then realized that a family marriage (cousin) was taking place and he needed to choose family over politics. So Suzy was suddenly given the responsibility for speaking on behalf of her candidate with only a few hours notice. She was certainly glad to see us wearing our bright red Mourdock shirts! So Richard Mourdock was willing to attend our event had a marriage not intervened, and he had certainly been there at our annual Lincoln Day Dinner even though he was not the keynote speaker (Mike Pence in this case) at the event. He had been the featured speaker at a Tea Party candidate debate during the last round of primaries. I had also met him at a second Tea Party event. I have not seen Dick Lugar involved with any similar events since he apparently only attends very expensive booster dinners devoted to bringing him money. So that means I never see him!

Dick Lugar is running as an incumbent Republican for Senate in the primary. The man chosen to speak on his behalf kept talking about what Lugar had done back 25 and 30 years ago. The sad thing is that Richard Lugar was a conservative Republican at one time. We call people like Dick Lugar "RINO" as in "Republican in name only." Dick Lugar left his conservative and Constitution-supporting point of view behind after a couple of decades of being a Senator and has become a Beltway Boy. Our Founding Fathers never anticipated the concept of a career politician, they were men of work and action who accepted a public office for a time as a service to the nation, not a career. Funny that the listed Indiana address for Dick Lugar is, according to neighbors, a deserted house? Hmmm.

In stark contrast to the RINO Dick Lugar and the incompetent current President, Richard Mourdock as the Treasurer of the State of Indiana has made one billion dollars on the investments he has made for the State of Indiana while in office. One Billion Dollars! Chicken feed to the Democrats, who throw billions of dollars down ratholes but frankly very important to Indiana voters! How many trillion has Obama put us in the red now? It grows exponentially so it is hard to keep up!

One of the other speakers told a joke about a Democrat going to his eternal reward:

"The Democrat went to see St. Peter at the entrance to Heaven and he took a tour of the place. It was really nice and he liked it. St. Peter asked the Democrat if he would like to stay, but the Democrat declared that he wanted to see both sides of the issue, so St. Peter pointed him to an elevator and the Democrat went down to inspect Hell. Well, Hell was beautiful, just lot of sunny beaches and palm trees and clear blue waters, a wonderful paradise that smelled like cocoa butter and oozed peace and relaxation. The Democrat came back up to see St. Peter and said, "Heaven is nice, but I saw Hell and it was better, so I am going to spend eternity down there."

Now the Democrat got back in that elevator for the very last time and went down and the door opened. It was dark and hot and smelly. Nothing but fire and brimstone and just nothing like what he saw before. He then saw the Devil coming and asked, "What happened to this place? It was beautiful when I came to see it before?" The Devil laughed and said, "I was campaigning then, but now you've elected me!"

If you inspected Dick Lugar's record, you could see that just recently he had been voting with Republicans but previously he had voted to accept terrible Supreme Court nominees Sotomayor and Kagan and had a "D" rating from the NRA. The year before the election year he had voted with Democrats quite often, voting for stimulus packages and tax increases and of course helping prepare Barack Obama to debate John McCain during the 2008 campaign. Like the joke, his actions near campaign time do not reflect his actions as a legislator after he gets safely back in the Senate. We don't really want to see that particular elevator door open again.

When the Lugar booster was done with his ancient history lesson about the Dick Lugar of long ago, Suzy stepped up to the podium and discussed the Richard Mourdock of recent history. His accomplishments while in office, his stated positions on important issues and a few of the numerous endorsements he has received.

Suzy pointed out Mourdock's battle against the Obama bailout of Chrysler "... On Sunday (June 7), the Indiana State Police Pension Fund, the Indiana Teacher's Retirement Fund, and the state's Major Moves Construction Fund filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting an emergency stay to delay the sale while they challenged the deal.^[10] The funds argued that the sale went against U.S. bankruptcy law because it unlawfully rewarded unsecured creditors ahead of secured creditors..." Richard Mourdock battled for Indiana pension funds against the Obama Administration all the way to the Supreme Court.

Apparently Dick Lugar would not battle for Hoosiers in court, as he is not too fond of a large part of his constituency:

Richard Lugar Insults Conservatives, Indiana GOP County Chairmen

Posted by Leon H. Wolf (Profile)

Tuesday, May 10th at 8:00AM EDT

Yesterday, I received an interesting piece of spam from Richard Lugar’s campaign. I call it “interesting” because it indicates that Lugar apparently intends to court voters who might be contemplating a vote for Richard Mourdock by calling them morons. And then speaking to them as if they were morons:

Unfortunately, a large number of Republican County Chairmen have been duped into participating in the same failed scheme that resulted in Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle and cost us two crucial Senate Seats in 2010. (If the Republican parties in Delaware, Nevada, and Colorado had taken the Reagan “big tent” approach, we would have already repealed Obamacare.) Mr. Mourdock has hired the same consultants that brought us these unelectable candidates, and with Mr. Donnelly joining the race the pattern is complete.

A few things. First, while a candidate might think voters are morons for not wanting to vote for him, it is generally a bad idea to say it out loud, on the off chance that some of those voters might be persuaded to come home.

Second, while I agree that O’Donnell and Angle were bad candidates (and strongly disagree on Buck), it’s ridiculous to claim that the GOP would have done better if it had nominated the candidates who were routed by the aforementioned bad candidates in the primary. This is the same line of thinking that posits that we lost to Obama because McCain was such a crappy candidate, and we should have instead nominated… one of the people who lost to McCain. Does not compute.

Third, math is apparently not a strong suit of Dick Lugar. The GOP currently controls 47 seats in the Senate. Adding three more seats (CO, NV, DE) would put us at 50. Thus, even supposing Castle would vote to repeal Obamacare, the best we could accomplish on an Obamacare repeal vote would be a tie, which would be broken by Joe Biden. Which is completely academic anyway, since a) the Democrats would filibuster the vote and b) failing all of that, Obama would just veto it. But, yeah, if those TEA Party people weren’t such morons, we’d totally have repealed Obamacare by now.

We’re not halfway through 2011, and Richard Lugar’s campaign already smells of desperation. The main obstacle to his defeat at this point is disunity among the many groups of people Richard Lugar is currently insulting.

Dick Lugar "misremembers" the Reagan Big Tent concept. We do not expand the tent to cover the ones on the outside, we invite them in where the traditional Constitutional Conservative voters have made room for them. During the Reagan Administration, large numbers of voters and Congressmen chose to walk into that big tent. Ronald Reagan had no desire or need to pull up the stakes on the tent and move it, he just kept the opening unzipped and made room for everyone to join him.

We had the pleasure of meeting several good local and state office-holders and the keynote speaker, Andy Card, who was a man that worked with Ronald Reagan and GHW Bush and George W Bush, being the Chief of Staff for the latter President Bush and famed for being the man who whispered in President Bush's ear about the 9/11 attacks.

Never have I heard a long speech that was so compelling and informative. We were aware it was a long speech but the crowd hung on every word. One very short conversation, muffled, by a man answering a cell phone was the only interruption during the entire speech. Andy Card, now a Dean at Texas A&M University, was a Boy Scout, a man who served in the Merchant Marine and also went to Harvard after first receiving a BS in Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He ventured first into local and state politics and eventually into the White House. His inside look at the Bush Administration during the week of 9/11 was one of the most inspirational and moving testimonies I have ever heard. I am much fonder of Bill Clinton than Barack Obama, but the Clintons did manage to separate the CIA and the FBI so successfully that the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated despite the fact that, had the two services shared information, it is pretty certain the ringleaders would have been arrested before they could have carried out their plots. George Bush managed to do the following between 9/11 and 9/14.

He refused to panic at the news. Panic would have scared the children and pleased our enemies.
He acted decisively upon understanding the situation. He made sure the military and the air traffic controllers and all parts of government were aware that war had been declared on the USA and thus strong measures were called for...and were taken.
He gave the FBI a new mission - stop the next attack. The FBI did exactly that. He also made sure that the CIA quit being the CYA and shared information that the FBI needed to have and vice-versa.
He ordered the assembly of a War Council. He scheduled a meeting at Camp David.
He got out of the way of his military commanders and led from the Executive Branch rather than hang around in a big deep bunker in Omaha with them.
He assured the American people that we would answer the attacks.
He went to New York City and encouraged the responders, met the grieving and/or hopeful relatives of the dead and missing and spent time with every single one of them gathered in the giant room set aside for them.
He met with and thanked the volunteers from all fifty states and all thirty-eight countries who came to help look for victims and survivors and deal with the mess.
He went to Ground Zero and stood upon a broken fire truck and spoke with the men and women there who were working to save lives. The crowd, even the Japanese volunteers, broke out in a chant of "USA - USA - USA."
He announced to the World that there was now a choice - be for us or against us. He called upon those for us to join us in defeating the enemy.
He and his advisors and cabinet and staff attended a huge church service filled with military and civilians and prayed and sang hymns and listened to Billy Graham speak, then President Bush spoke to all with courage and conviction.
He identified the primary enemies and determined to attack the nation most responsible while starting the search for the individuals most culpable for the attacks.

Andy Card showed us a compassionate, decisive, determined, brave and intelligent man who was unlike the caricature presented to the public by the liberal news media. President Bush gave detailed instructions and duties to each member of his cabinet with specificity and understanding so that the entire nation would be mobilized and prepared for what might come. All airplanes were grounded. Many of our allies, like Canada, welcomed our flights onto their landing strips in order that the airspace could be cleared. Andrew Card revealed the man of faith and compassion who, at the end of a long Friday collapsed into a seat in the new Air Force One and seemed exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Card told President Bush that he had done everything a President should and could do. President Bush opened his eyes wide for a moment, looked at his Chief of Staff and simply said, "thank you."

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, when speaking of Lake County, Indiana in 1962, called it the most corrupt county in the nation. RFK was a Democrat, but he did not like organized crime and corruption, nor did his brother and then-President F Kennedy. Perhaps that is why both men were killed? Corruption likes being corrupt and the corrupted hate being identified and rooted out. President Bush shared that same opinion of our county. To this day it is still said, for until the last election when County Assessor Hank Adams won office, none but Democrats had held a County elected office since the administration of FDR. Gary, Indiana has been run into the ground by corrupt Democrats and Lake County has been losing jobs and opportunities for many decades because of the corrupt Democratic Machine. Usually the only way a Democrat loses a County office is when he is indicted and convicted of a major crime, which has happened dozens of times in the last two generations. Even the left-leaning local paper, the Times, will admit to this:

Political corruption not limited to Chicago or Illinois

I am not allowed to reprint the article, you will need to follow the link, but I am allowed to post a quote:

"But I got a real shock recently from an article on corruption in Lake County, Northwest Indiana's answer to "Crook"—I mean Cook—County, and found that, on a per capita basis, Lake County prosecutors send 3-1/2 crooked pols to jail for every wayward public official sent to the slammer in Cook. The story also related a comment Robert Kennedy supposedly made in 1962, when he was brother Jack's Attorney General, that Lake was the "most corrupt [county] in the nation."

Corruption "is probably worse in Lake County than Chicago," according to former prosecutor G. Robert Blakey, who wrote the racketeering statutes for Kennedy's Justice Department and helped draft a lawsuit charging former East Chicago mayor Robert Pastrick and 24 codefendants with running the city as a "criminal enterprise."

More recently, the Capitol and Washington blog posted this:

Talk about bad timing: indictments in The Region

By Mike O'Brien

Democrat gubernatorial candidate John Gregg feigned offense at comments made in Gov. Mitch Daniels’ new book Keeping the Republic. The governor criticized Lake County’s culture of public corruption and blamed that in part for The Region’s economic stagnation. Gregg criticized Daniels for daring to criticize any part of the state while he is a sitting governor.

That all happened yesterday.

Today, the U.S. attorney’s office indicted Lake County Coroner Thomas Philpot on five counts of public corruption along with three Lake County police officers for selling confiscated property on the Internet.

Talk about your all-time backfires.

The charges against Philpot, from his previous term as Lake County clerk, include mail fraud, theft and misappropriation of funds. Authorities said the misappropriation of funds amounted to a little less than $25,000 from the county’s 4D child support program.

Officials said arrangements were being made for Philpot’s surrender to authorities.
Additionally, in a separate six-county indictment, three Lake County police officers were indicted. Sgt. Joseph Kumstar and Officers Ronald Slusser and Edward Kabella are alleged to have misused their positions at the Sheriff’s Department to obtain machine guns and laser sights, then sold them on the Internet for profit.

U.S. Attorney David Capp said all three officers have agreed to plead guilty to all counts and will be making statements in the coming days. — The Times

I think we can expect a brief hiatus from Democrats’ staunch defense of Lake County government for a few days. At least until the plea agreements are worked out.—

The Reagan Breakfast had the biggest crowd in history this morning, one-third more people than the year before when THAT was the biggest crowd. It may be that the new Lake County Republican County Chair, Kim Krull, has done more to energize a conservative and Republican base in Lake County than anyone thought possible. Hank Adams won in 2010. Perhaps the corrupt and fattened tick that is the Lake County Democratic Machine can be finally removed from the animal and crushed?

Shaking hands, meeting people, spending time with those met previously in a huge room full of folks was invigorating. After making it back home, I was watching a show on channel 101 about American youth entitled "Our Time." One person who was interviewed was a UT at Austin Fellow and a playwright named David Modigliani who made an astute observation. He said that his generation is the "Information Generation" as they grew up along with personal computers and cell phones and now hand-held devices. He discussed making a film about Crawford, Texas (home of President George W Bush) about "what happens when your new neighbor brings the whole world with him" to a town of a population numbering 700. The people of Crawford were proud of President Bush but were appalled at how the news media would always find a shot of a hay bale and a old barn to represent the town, ignoring the brand new high school and depicting the town as a backwards dump.

Modigliani said that his generation now has "the whole world at their fingertips" but this has come at a price.

"...It also deprives us of the spontaneity that's involved with being truly present somewhere, because we're continually thinking of some other place we might want to be or need to be or should be, as we are able to isolate ourselves more and more through the internet, remember that interacting in a way other than the way you are hearing me speak right now, which is through a TV screen in which I am not a flesh and blood person, but just a bunch of pixels. That is never going to be as powerful as live interaction, go places where people come together, go be in crowds, go immerse yourself with other human beings!"

This is the sad-but-truth. Too many of us are hooked on our cell phones and hand-helds to the point we commonly interact with people electronically and rarely in person. Today my wife and I went to the crowd. We discussed things with many different people; our current State Senator Sue Landske. Cedar Lake Town Councilman Randy Niemeyer. Richard Mourdock staffer Suzy Barnhart. Lake County Right To Life Chairman Len Reynolds. Hammond Republican Mayoral candidate George Janiec. Candidate for Representative Eric Olson. County Chair Kim Krull. Crown Point Mayoral candidate Eldon Strong (currently a Township Trustee).

This is the Facebook/Ipod/YouTube generation. This generation was mobilized to vote in 2008 and with very little understanding but a lot of energy helped elect the worst President who has ever held the office of President of the United States. This President has brought the corruption of the Lake County and Cook County with him to Washington. As if Washington needed corrupting? Because of the liberal bias of the major news media the scandals of this Presidency are being ignored. The "Fast and Furious" firearms disaster, the Solyndra scandal, the obvious forgery of the President's birth certificate, his fake social security number, his associations with terrorists and mobsters and communists and racists and fringe lunatics and econuts are the kinds of juicy scandals the news media would have chased with a vengeance if Barack Obama was a Republican. After all, they tried to pin a faked document on President Bush and now they ignore a similar fake associated with Obama.

Thank God that it was George Bush and not Barack Obama at the controls when 9/11 happened. Barack Obama cannot even handle the job of the Executive Office in the best of times, for everything he has done to the economy and the nation has been negative. Our economy is failing because of the stupid choices made by the Federal Government and our relationships and reputation with the rest of the world is nearing an all-time low point. Barack Obama has even turned victories into losses by boasting of the capture of the HQ of Al Queda, thus losing the primary intelligence value of the records kept on the computers and documents for the sake of a small political boost. We are glad that Usama Bin Laden is dead. We are unhappy that the intelligence agencies were not given a chance to review and utilize the intelligence gleaned from the contents of his hideout before the probable intelligence coup was converted into a political football.

I hope the picture Senator Landske took of my wife and I with Suzy and Len comes out and we get a copy. Ironically, the bright red Mourdock shirts were made in the USA. There were a few people wearing Lugar shirts, blue naturally, and Suzy pointed out to them that their shirts were made in El Salvador!!!

I will let another writer say a bit more about Mourdock to close out:

Hot on the Senate Trail With Richard Mourdock

by Lisa De Pasquale

09/04/2011

Last year the conservative movement was energized by Tea Party activists who helped elect new conservative leaders and retire some others. Next on their agenda is removing Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, a man that MSNBC called “Barack Obama’s favorite senator.” Challenging Lugar in the primary is Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

For those curious as to whether Mourdock can go the distance against someone who has been in the Senate for more than 30 years, you should know he is a marathon runner who has done six marathons in the last eight years. In his campaign announcement, Mourdock said, “Hoosiers want more than a globe-trotting senator, they want a senator who routinely holds town hall meetings, not to talk but to listen. They want a senator who will walk the parade routes, visit the county fairs and festivals, and who will eat pork tenderloin and an ear of corn. They told me over and over again that they want a senator who comes back home.”

Mourdock received national attention in 2009 for his response to the federal government’s asset grab. When President Obama ordered a bailout and government takeover of Chrysler, Mourdock stood up for Indiana pensioners who owned $42.5 million of Chrysler’s debt and took the case to the Supreme Court.

Thanks to Mourdock’s fiscally responsible budget and garnering more than $1 billion in investment income for the state, he has received accolades from some of the conservative movement’s best leaders, including Steve Forbes, Mark Levin, Herman Cain and George Will.

Lugar is the most senior Republican member of the Senate, making him president pro tempore of the Senate if Republicans gain control in 2012. However, Sen. Orrin Hatch disputes that based on how he interprets the seniority rules. Judging by the current climate in the conservative movement, I wouldn’t be too sure that either of them will be fighting for the title after Election Day.

1. If there were a television channel that only showed one movie over and over, what movie should it be?

MOURDOCK: "A Few Good Men" with Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise.

2. What's one of your favorite movie quotes?

MOURDOCK: "The truth? You CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

3. In A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell is strapped in with his eyes propped open and forced to watch images until he is "cured." If you could give President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leader Harry Reid the "Clockwork Orange treatment," what movie would you make them watch?

MOURDOCK: Easy question. .... Bedtime for Bonzo with future President Ronald Reagan. It would drive them nuts (nuttier) to think THAT GUY would ever be one of the most revered leaders in American history. I'd pay to watch them watch the movie.

4. What pop culture souvenir do you own that people would be surprised to learn that you cherish?

MOURDOCK: A six-transistor radio received as a Christmas gift in 1964. The size of my present Droid, but three times as thick. AM and FM with a little earpiece that still works.

5. What's your current "guilty pleasure" non-news television show?

MOURDOCK: CBS' "Survivor." Never miss an episode. I could win that show ... oh yes, I could.

6. Which movie, television or rock star would cause you to lose your ability to speak if you ever met?

MOURDOCK: Sorry, none. They put their pants on one leg at a time too. Although on second thought ... being a Hoosier race fan, I would like to meet Danica Patrick.

7. What was the first rock concert you ever attended and where did you sit and who went with you?

MOURDOCK: Haven't gotten to one yet ... ever.

8. What do you remember most about going to the movies as a kid? How has that experience changed for the better or worse for your kids?

MOURDOCK: Seeing the girl I wanted to date with some doofus and thinking, "What's wrong with ME?" And, come to think of it, that may explain why I don't have any kids.

9. If Republicans and Democrats had theme songs for 2011, what would they be?

MOURDOCK: Republicans song: "Dream the Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha" because we lead best when causing others to imagine a world yet to be. The Dems' song: "Imagine" by John Lennon because they don't live in the real world, only one that they imagine, where there are no countries and "no religion, too."

10. What books were on your summer reading list?

MOURDOCK: A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Jr., The Revolt by Menachim Begin, Mad About Trade by Daniel Griswold and Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg.

11. One mainstay in politics are the grip-and-grin photos that line people's walls and desks. What grip-and-grin photo do you cherish the most?

MOURDOCK: Sorry, don't save such photos. But I will cherish the memories of meeting Jack Kemp and George Will.

12. Tell me about the moment you decided to enter the political arena.

MOURDOCK: I was a frustrated "any man.” I was angry at my congressman and began to imagine myself as a congressman. One day, I gave a brilliant speech while mowing my lawn and decided maybe I should give it a try.

Miss De Pasquale is a writer based in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the former director of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Follow her on Twitter at @LisaDeP.

What happens when the lights go out?

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:45:00 +0000

Two things took me way back in time this week. The first was seeing a press release and, down at the bottom, was this:

-30-

As a journalist, that was how we were taught to end our copy with -30- centered at the bottom, which was shorthand for "the end." I wondered how many journalists working for the Times or the Post Tribune have had classic journalism school training in which they were taught to put the news on the front page and the opinions on the editorial page? Not many, apparently, from the content of the stories I have read recently.

The second thing was a sudden power outage. It was windy outside on Thursday evening but not enough to expect the power to die! Suddenly the only light was the glow of my laptop. I foraged for my small flashlight, with which I found a large flashlight, with which we could search for battery-operated lights and candles. We quickly gathered up seven or eight candles and four or five battery lights plus at least three flashlights. Primitive? Nope. In my father's youth there were no battery-powered lights, so they would have lit candles and oil lamps. At least they had matches.   When my great-grandfather was a boy he had not seen matches.

Suppose the power grid went out and stayed out? Our gas stove uses electrostatic starting mechanisms to light. We have no fireplace nor brick chimney. We have no oil or kerosene or propane lamps. All of our automobiles have computerized ignition systems. Then I thought about one of the greatest plagues of the last 100 years or so - Barack Hussein Obama.

You see, we have innovation because of free enterprise. Back in the middle ages few men could read, all books were hand-written, fires were hard to kindle so people allowed them to burn down to embers and then restarted them with kindling. Most people walked but the more well-off had horses. Most people lived a relatively primitive life. Only the rich could afford very simple plumbing we would consider hilariously incomplete.

But the printing press was invented and the common man could have a Bible and because of the Bible men learned to read. The more who could read, the more that could also be innovative by learning from others. Science advanced rapidly and so did technology. We went from candles to whale oil lamps to gas lamps to big old electric bulbs to modern incandescent lighting.   We went from walking to riding in carriages to riding on horseless carriages to sophisticated and computerized automobiles. We went from kites to hot air balloons and flimsy airships to jet airplanes and rockets that could propel vehicles to the Moon and back.

The government did not invent these things (other than some aspects of the space program) but rather people did. People like Henry Ford would get an idea, build a horseless carriage, figure out how to do it better and faster and soon giant factories were cranking out hundreds of thousands of Fords. Imagine if Abraham Lincoln had demanded that a fraction of the Federal budget would be spent helping inventors build bird-suits that would allow men to fly, or work on a cannon that would shoot a man to the Moon?

Preposterous? So what are all these so-called stimulus packages? What is the push for "green energy" other than yet another way for Obama to funnel your tax dollars to his cronies? It is an attempt for government to shut down private enterprise (note that the Obama Administration fights to stop oil and gas drilling and coal harvesting and etc.) while putting massive amounts of taxpayer dollars into things free enterprise will accomplish on its own. See, whatever new energy source that can actually work and make people money will succeed. Any old "green" idea Obama likes is not necessarily going to be worthwhile and so far it is pretty sure that if he likes it, it doesn't work!!!

The government didn't invent airplanes or automobiles or bicycles or gas lamps or the electric light bulb or jet planes or toasters or microwave ovens or typewriters or personal computers.   The government didn't learn that the black stuff underground could be used to fuel all sorts of things and the government didn't discover nuclear fission or general relativity or bacterial languages such as "quorum sensing."

I am a Christian now, converted as an adult. I went outside and looked up and saw a few stars appear now and again while the clouds whirled past overhead. I asked God if He remembered the days when I didn't know Him and used to look up at the stars and pick out a couple and pretend they were His eyes and I would talk to Him not being entirely sure He was there?   I laughed and I think He did, too. I sang some old songs from my youth. I prayed and I listened to the trees singing in the wind. It was a good night. Then suddenly the power came on and fish tank bubblers and a television came on and lights suddenly popped into brilliance and my dark quiet night was gone.   I hoped that an EMP blast would not take away our technology and leave us scrambling to shoot rabbits and gather firewood. I hoped that the Obama Administration would quit spending hundreds of millions on garbage ideas and quit blocking energy harvesting and only give us one more number. It looks like this:

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Who would you choose as Hypocrite of the Month?

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:09:00 +0000

HOM for September...Hypocrite of the Month!

Let's just give you three candidates and let you choose, shall we? Vote in the comments thread if you please?

CANDIDATE NUMBER ONE: Richard Lugar, current Senator and claiming the Republican Party as his brand, although he has been dubbed "Obama's Favorite Republican" even before helping prepare the then-candidate for the Democratic Party to debate John McCain before the 2008 election.

photo credit

But this time it isn't about Lugar's confusion about which party he belongs with, but rather what country he wants to help out. You see, right now Americans need jobs. Lugar's opponent, Richard Mourdock, has campaign shirts and they are naturally made right here in the good old USA. But how about Lugar's shirts? A little birdie pointed me to a post on Politico:

Lugar's T-shirts: Made in El Salvador - David Catanese. Linked post below:

"September 22, 2011

Lugar's T-shirts: Made in El Salvador

A Republican in Indiana passes along this shot of Dick Lugar's 2012 campaign t-shirts — made in El Salvador.

The GOPer who picked it up at the state fair and is no Lugar fan emails, "I guess when Senator Lugar discusses the need to create jobs and increase foreign trade, he is talking about trading American jobs off to a South American country so they can make his campaign shirts at a cheaper price."

A spokesman for State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who is contesting Lugar for the GOP nomination, said its campaign shirts are made in the USA."

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CANDIDATE NUMBER TWO: Barack Obama. Now for our second of three worthy candidates for HOM, Barack Obama, the President of the United States who has spent more than any President in history, thrown more "stimulus money" at cronies than you can count and whose administration has done as much as possible to cripple energy production in the United States and make life hard for businesses. He wants to take over the health care system and even wants the government to tell you what light bulbs to buy? The guy who is choking the economy with both hands was quoted in AP like this:

"ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama charged Sunday that the GOP vision of government would "fundamentally cripple America," as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast.

Aiming to renew the ardor of Democratic loyalists who have grown increasingly disenchanted with him, the president mixed frontal attacks on Republicans with words of encouragement intended to buck up the faithful as the 2012 campaign revs up.

"From the moment I took office what we've seen is a constant ideological pushback against any kind of sensible reforms that would make our economy work better and give people more opportunity," the president said at an intimate brunch fundraiser at the Medina, Wash., home of former Microsoft executive Jon Shirley, where about 65 guests were paying $35,800 per couple to listen to Obama..."

You know anyone who could affored to pay $38,500 a couple to listen to some guy whining about the milk he himself has spilled? This blogger deals with businesses around North America, many of them with headquarters in a foreign country. I know for a fact that businesses are afraid to invest in America because of Obama's energy-and-business hindering policies as enforced by agencies like the FDA and the EPA and by executive orders. Look at what the deficit and unemployment rate was when BO was elected and compare those numbers to now. You might be astounded at how much damage he has done so fast. You cannot accuse Republicans of "crippling America", Mr. President, when you are absolutely expert at it yourself. No matter how hard the Associated Propaganda, er, I mean Press spins stories to make you look better!

But we have to give him one more part to today's entry because of his possibly illegal connections and actions associated with: "Obama changes law so his donors, CA Dems get Solyndra $ before taxpayers

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Donald Ferguson.

President Barack Obama raised eyebrows when he exempted the now-bankrupt and FBI-raided Solyndra solar experiment from a federal law requiring taxpayers be placed ahead of private creditors when a federally-funded corporation goes bankrupt.

Now we may be finding out why.

“Out of the hundreds of out-of-work employees, vendors, investors and other creditors in the bankruptcy of government-backed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, one name stands out: the California Democratic Party…One investor, Argonaut Private Equity, is tied to George Kaiser, Oklahoma billionaire and fundraiser for Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign,” The Washington Times reports this morning.

Solyndra will not reveal how much cash the California Democrat Party may be receiving. The Party claims to know nothing about the deal.

Solyndra received over a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money from the Obama administration after the Bush administration refused to give the cash.

“Just two years ago, the company received federal loan guarantees of more than $500 million, money it burned through but hasn’t repaid. Because of a subsequent loan restructuring, taxpayers won’t be repaid before the private investors who poured $75 million into the company earlier this year as it tried to stay afloat,” the Times reports.

Obama made Solyndra the centerpiece of his failed “green jobs” political campaign, and the partnership may have paid off handsomely. “This announcement today is part of the unprecedented investment this administration is making in renewable energy and exactly what the Recovery Act is all about,” the Obama administration announced when making the handout.

While taxpayers are stuck with a half-billion dollars in lost cash while Obama donors and California Democrats are first in line for repayment, federally-funded Solyndra donated $7,500.00 to the California Democrat Party and $1,000.00 to three California Assembly Democrat candidates.

“Solyndra employees have donated more than $20,000 to federal lawmakers over the years, most of it going to Democrats. A breakdown of donations by the Center for Responsive Politics shows 72 percent went to Democrats, 27 percent to Republicans and 1 percent to Libertarian candidates,” the Times reports.

When questioned how the Obama-connected firm managed to get a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money the company’s predicted bankruptcy prevented it from getting most private loans, Solyndra executives exercised their right to avoid implicating themselves in a crime.

“In the wake of the company’s collapse and subsequent raid by the FBI this month, Solyndra’s top two executives, citing their Fifth Amendment rights [against implicating themselves in a criminal matter,] refused to testify last week before the House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee, which has been looking at the Solyndra loan deal for months,” the Times reports."

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When you hear Barack Obama say "reforms", he means socialism, blocking energy sources, ruining businesses and handing off taxpayer's money to supporters and contributors to his campaign. He did bring Change, but Hope? Not so much...

Anyway, could there possibly be any candidate worthy of being mentioned with these two incredible hypocrites? Yes, actually:

CANDIDATE NUMBER THREE: The Lake County Democratic Party aka I am shocked, shocked, that there is corruption in the Democrat party!

"Time to Change the Culture of Corruption

by Kim Dugger Krull on Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 8:09pm

On the very day that Lake County Democratic Coroner, Thomas Philpot, was indicted on charges of public corruption, Lake County Democratic leaders are wondering why Governor Daniels said Lake County is known for governmental corruption. This reminds me of the Hans Christian Anderson story about the Emperor who ran around naked thinking he had on beautiful clothes just because some scam artist weavers told him he had on finely woven clothes that you could not see if you were unfit to hold office or a simpleton. So everyone pretended he had on these beautiful clothes because they didn’t want to believe they were unfit.

Lake County has seen at least fifty democratic public officials convicted of some form of public corruption since 2000. For those of you who don’t remember the names, here are a few: George Pabey, Bob Cantrell, Frankie Kollintzas, Robert Pastrick, James Fife, Jewell Harris Sr., Katie Hall, Will Smith Jr., Dozier Allen, Jojuanna Meeks, Peter Manous, and Kevin Pastrick. Now we have our current Coroner, Thomas Philpot, charged with theft for the time he was County Clerk!

How much longer are we going to stand by and let these people fool us? The Democratic Chairman said last year, "I'm two decades younger than these guys. We're all embarrassed by the reputation Lake County has. But I'm not part of it. I just happen to live here.” Really? You aren’t part of the problem? Isn’t it your party that keeps sending a message out to “Punch 10” no matter who is on the ballot to try to ensure that democrats, even if they are charged with a crime like Carol Ann Seaton last year, still get elected? Aren’t you the one that went downstate and hired lobbyists to stop the funding of Operations and Maintenance of the Little Calumet River Commission so your pal democratic surveyor George Van Til and you could cook up a new scheme for your friends and family plan? You Mr. Chairman are good friends with Mr. Woerpel who is the Hammond Democratic Chairman and was caught growing pot in his home. You are also good friends of Mr. Philpot who was just indicted! Excuse me sir, but you are part of the problem. You are the reason why the rest of the state doesn’t respect us. This culture of corruption must stop!

Indiana is ranked 5th in the Top States for Doing Business Survey. However, out of the top 50 public corporations in Indiana only one is located in Lake County. The democratic chairman had this to say concerning that one, NIPSCO, “Somebody has to stand up to this company…. NIPSCO’s done nothing to help me.” Do you mean NIPSCO hasn’t lined your pockets?

As the Republican Chairman in Lake County, I have given voters of Lake County a choice this Election Day. We have attracted many good, honest people to run for mayor and council positions this fall. You can “Punch 10” like you are told by the weavers and continue to pretend the emperor is wearing beautiful clothes or you can vote for honest people who want to be public servants and turn this culture of corruption into a culture of respect and prosperity."

Well, there you go! Which candidate makes the Hypocrite of the Month?

Local News Underscores Gun Rights

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Gearhart) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:56:00 +0000

In today's "Times" there were two separate stories that made me reflect for a moment about gun rights in general.

The first has to do with the highly publicized story of the murder of Amanda Bach. At this time they have a suspect, they have determined that she was shot, and that she did not suffer; there is at least that, I suppose. Now, what I like to do is be a "facebook troll". Yes, I surf around and see what people are saying about one issue or another. It's not only entertaining, it's very informative. For example, I'll see a comment about one issues or another, and I'll check "info" on that person and see what they have to say about themselves. It's kind of like conducting miniature polls for my own amusement; people who say A are more likely liberal, people who say B are more likely conservative, etc., etc.

Not too surprisingly, there were a handful of those that listed "liberal" or "very liberal" in their info who decided that this was an example of why guns should be outlawed. Now, I don't want to automatically pigeon hole ALL liberals; after all, there were many who said nothing of the sort. But the few that there were really made me think to myself, "My God I hope this person never holds any position of power." Rather, I ask the opposite question: What would be different is SHE was packing heat?

Certainly it can't be said with 100% certainty that either A)she wasn't or B)it would have changed the situation any, but it does make one wonder, none the less.

The second story in the paper is one about a man who was open carrying his weapon at the zoo.From what I understand, he was asked by security to conceal his weapon and he made quite the fuss about it; to the point where he was escorted out because other patrons were becoming frightened.

I don't open carry very often; I prefer people to not know that I have my gun on me, because if it's out in the open I'm the first person a "bad guy" is going to shoot, because he knows I have a gun. BUT it is important to open carry every so often, as my buddy Greg at work says, "because if you don't use your rights you lose them". In this situation, first of all, even the security says that it wasn't that he had the gun on him; rather, there were people (and kids) there who were uncomfortable with the gun being out in the open. What the man SHOULD have done was to calmly conceal the gun and go about his day, simply because the fact that it was a public place where children were made it a little understandable that security would be concerned. But it is still his right to carry it that way, and so what security should have done was quietly pull him over to the side, check his permit, and ask him politely if he would conceal the weapon. When the man said no, they should have told him "fair enough" and then told the patrons that were complaining that it was his right, but if they felt nervous they would keep a close eye on him (which is THEIR right, as well). All in all, there is no reason that as a gun owner and carrier that one has to be a jerk about it. There are a lot better places to open carry than the zoo.

Perspectives one week after 9/11, or, Mr. Chicago goes to Washington.

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:36:00 +0000

The man who I consider my Spiritual Father writes an internet newsletter that I truly appreciate. He is willing to learn and has therefore accumulated a great deal of wisdom. Back thirty years ago he was loosely aligned with Fundamentalist Independent Baptists and now he deplores much of what some of the leaders of that movement actually did. Focusing on outward appearances begets legalism begets hypocrisy. This is why Jesus came to Jerusalem and found the vast majority of the Priests and Scribes actively seeking to discredit Him and eventually managing to maneuver the Roman Pontius Pilate into having Christ crucified. We of course know that Jesus knew He would be crucified and absolutely understood it was the only way that God could restore a relationship with mankind. If you don't understand this I will gladly make a blog post explaining it in detail on my worldview blog...again.

Dr. Charles Wood does from time to time reminisce about positions he has changed and often focuses on issues that relate particularly to Christians. On this occasion he had some observations that apply across the board to Americans and the observations are right on point. The anniversary of 9/11 inspired him to write a column. So I will let him just tell you about it:

ABOUT THE MEMORIES:

Although I had left the area long before the World Trade Center was built, the New York Metropolitan area was my childhood home. As a result, 9/11 hit rather hard, and I followed the story closely with an almost morbid dedication to knowing all the facts I could glean. Thus the tenth anniversary brought back many memories. I lost no one in the calamity, and I don’t really know anyone who did. The daughter of a gal with whom I grew up and went to church as a kid was late for work that morning. Had her alarm clock gone off on time, I would have known someone who perished. The weekend left me with some impressions:

Although I thought he lost his focus in the last two years of his Presidency, I have always admired George Bush (and I probably always will). I watched his speech at the dedication of the memorial in PA, and my admiration for him grew even more as I did. How grateful I am to God that we had a real man at the helm of our country, a man who was a genuine leader (and did so with amazing skill and patience). Thank you, Mr President!

Joe Biden is hardly my most admired “person in high places,” but I did find myself impressed with his gracious remarks in introducing the former President at the memorial dedication. Joe, you showed that whatever else you may or not be, you are a genuine human being, capable of compassion and grace.

This must have been a miserable weekend for “Progressives” and other Liberals. Not only was there a great outpouring of national pride and patriotism, but there were frequent mentions of God and declarations that we were the victims and not the perpetrators of the cowardly act. Paul Krugman, supposedly one of the smartest men in America and an even an occasional advisor to the President, will live forever in infamy for the vile editorial he wrote for the equally vile New York Times. Mr. Krugman, if we were the cause of the original calamity, why were we on high alert for further terrorist attacks after almost three years of a smiling, bowing, apologetic President?

DON’T SHOOT! IT’S JUST A SUGGESTION OF A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT.

Let’s get this established: Our country is in a mess, and I don’t have to write a single paragraph as you already have several written in your head. There is no denying the mess, and I would be the last one to do so. I do think, however, that there is another side to the story to which we need to give at least a little thought.

If your only source of news is the networks and the newspapers, you are getting a very distorted view of what is going on in our country. You are being assured that liberalism is the position of the population in general and that evangelicals have no impact or influence whatever on our national culture. Being told repeatedly that you are insignificant and unworthy of any respect or even consideration can have a tendency to wear one down. Finding one’s news on the Internet and through one or two “cable channel” sources can provide a very different viewpoint.

Evangelical believers have no impact on today’s society? Then why are there two openly evangelical individuals, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman, in the Republican primary? And why does Sarah Palin still get so much attention (and people even listen to Mike Huckabee)? Although they didn’t show it the way we thought they should, both Ronald Reagan and George Bush professed belief in Christ as their hope of eternal life (Michael Reagan is a much better source on this than his half-brother, Ronnie-Boy).

Public opinion has shifted - and continues to do so - to the point where well over half the population now either questions or rejects abortion-on-demand. No, evangelicals probably played a much smaller part in this than pre-natal technology, but it has been evangelicals who have kept the right-to-life before the public, continued to point out the murderous nature of abortion and provided help and assistance rather than just condemning those facing the brutal choice between life and murder.

Evangelicals have consistently stood behind Israel, and appear to have been at least one influence that has driven our Islamic-leaning President to soften his apparently innate hatred of the Jews. A tiny minority of our country (probably not much more than one or two percent) has stridently promoted the homosexual agenda. We haven’t always done so with a great deal of grace or graciousness, but evangelicals have - generally speaking - opposed same-sex marriage and other pernicious aspects of this powerful agenda while still seeking to extend grace to its practitioners by pointing out a better, Biblical way..

Atheism is more militant and aggressive than ever. The hollow ideology of emptiness has been trumpeted from what were once the halls of learning and faithfully proclaimed by the media. Science (some of it so incredibly falsified and distorted as to warrant nothing but casual observation and immediate, repugnant rejection) has been set up by the intelligentsia as the new national God.

As I listen and observe, I am left with some critical questions that I think are crucial. If we evangelicals have no national impact, then why is so much time and effort being expended on discrediting us and promoting our opposite? Usually, people who are actually as smart as these people claim to be, don’t waste their time on combating shadow images or non-existent threats. Another big question: if evangelicals have no impact, then why are the “Progressives” and other Liberals so frustrated with the American people in general because they so stubbornly cling to the values the anti-evangelicals have sought to ridicule to death?

Michael Laden is a specialist in foreign relations, but I know nothing of his spiritual state (I would sincerely doubt if he is a believer), who recently wrote an article that included this amazing paragraph:

“Religious revival inspires social and political movements that change America. And not just America. We are in the midst of a global religious expansion that goes hand in hand with a widespread political uprising against oppression and corruption. It is commonly assumed that the most dynamic faith in the global revival is militant Islam, but it isn’t. The blue ribbon goes to American-style evangelical Christianity. You might not know, for example, that a leading Chinese government economist recently wrote a famous study of market economies, in which he concluded that successful capitalist countries have successful churches, and thus that China should embrace religious organizations. As two sharp-eyed British journalists note in their recent book, God is Back, (Evangelical) Christianity is booming in the People’s Republic (and most everywhere else Christians are free to practice their faith), and the Chinese Constitution has actually been amended to make room for it.”

Again, I am not discounting the mess we are in, but I do believe there is another side to the story. If the only place you are getting your information from is the traditional media or if you are totally committed to some interpretation of Scripture that involves signs of His coming or even the United States as the present replacement for old Testament Israel, what I have written will likely irritate you. But there is another side, and we need to see it.

I talked to my friend, Jimmy, today. He is the Chinese-born believer who owns the restaurant where we sometimes eat. We talked about the growth of Christianity in China. He is convinced that Christianity is growing so rapidly in China (whether or not under restraints that vary in different parts of the country) that it is entirely possible that it will topple the Communist government or force it to change in dramatic ways.

It isn’t necessarily all over. There is an election in 2012, there are good things happening virtually every day, some mega-churches are spiritually questionable while many others are growing exponentially while remaining essentially Biblical, and last but not least, there are other places on earth than just the good old U S.A. where God is working. Isn’t it interesting that evangelical Episcopal churches (and there are some) are linking up with an Anglican Episcopate that is located where? Africa. Persecution? Lots of it, but that only proves that evangelical Christianity is a growing threat to dominant religions in other places in the world.

Just some thoughts designed to give you something to think about.

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It is an amazing thought, but apparently there are more Christians in China than there are in the USA now! Yet in truth it is not a big surprise, as missionaries all over the world have been working hard, sharing the Gospel of Christ and eventually men and women of God who seek to do God's Will do get results. So often churches will be formed in areas where being a Christian can get you killed and yet the persecution doesn't stop people from seeking the Truth. Now in China they are slowly changing from killing Christians to jailing them to beginning to accept them as actually a boon to society.

Christians are a plus in society, as we are far less likely to rob you or kill you or break your heart. Christians are more likely to work, work hard and work diligently and do less goofing off. Christians give more money to charity than non-Christians. That we exist is quite annoying to the current President and he and his party would like to end tax deductions for charitable giving. I suspect most Christians give a lot more money than the tax form will let you deduct anyway, so why does Barack Obama want to take charitable deductions away? Does he hate the faith-based organizations that do great work in inner cities because he wants the inner-city poor to be dependent upon The State? How can the Democrats spend like money is trash to be thrown away and then decide they want to end the very small deductions we can take for giving to others? How evil can you get?

It may be that the Obama Administration would like to ruin the economy in order to take over more and more of it for the State. Consider the idiotic course of actions taken to spend tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to develop one "green job" while clobbering every energy-getting attempt by business possible by using the economy-destroying clubs we call regulatory agencies. Here is just one example:

Solyndra Scandal Ends Green Jobs Myth

Email from The Morning Bell @ The Heritage Foundation:

Solyndra Scandal Ends Green Jobs Myth

President Barack Obama's solution for America's unemployment woes has been a stubborn campaign to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on economic "stimulus"--much of it on so-called "green jobs." Report after report has shown the approach to be a total failure. And now, a new scandal involving Solyndra, a bankrupt solar panel company in California, should be the final nail in the coffin for the government’s meddling in the free market.

"[W]e can see the positive impacts [of the stimulus] right here at Solyndra," Obama claimed when he spoke at the company's newly unveiled factory in May of last year. He was correct that the results of his stimulus would be on display at that factory. But he was wrong that those results would be positive. Little more than a year later, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to lay off more than 1,000 employees.

The Solyndra factory where Obama spoke was built after the company received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Energy Department as part of the stimulus's green jobs push. "Through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations," Obama noted. "This new factory is the result of those loans."

But "everyone knew that the plant wouldn’t work," according to a former Solyndra employee. So why was the President so sure of the plant’s success when he spoke there? What's more, the company was built on "a model that says, well, I can build something for six dollars and sell it for three dollars," according to an industry analyst. That would normally be a red flag for investors. So why did the President claim that "the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra"?

The answer to both of those questions: The government's decisions are driven by politics and ideology and are divorced from economic reality. Want proof? Take a look at a January 31 e-mail between Office of Management and Budget staff regarding "Solyndra optics" -- that is, how the issue looks in the public's eyes. "If Solyndra defaults down the road, the optics will arguably be worse later than they would be today," they wrote, adding:

In addition, the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up, whereas a default today could be put in the context of (and perhaps even get some credit for) fiscal discipline / good government because the Administration would be limiting further taxpayer exposure letting bad projects go, and could make public steps it is taking to learn lessons and improve / limit future lending.

In other words, in January the Administration was essentially letting the 2012 campaign dictate decisions on the federal government's financial involvement with Solyndra. They were not responding to normal profit-and-loss signals, as they should. Had Energy Department bureaucrats been investing their own money, they might have been more careful. But it was others' money -- taxpayers' money -- at stake. Self-interested investors, who naturally weed out bad investments, were wholly absent. The result: Taxpayers are likely to lose up to $535 million, while the people who made the decision to throw money at Solyndra have, so far, been completely insulated from reprisal.

Much attention has been paid to accusations of cronyism in the Energy Department, given that a major Solyndra investor is also a big Obama donor. But the fundamental lesson of the Solyndra scandal is not that money buys political favors. That now goes without saying. The real takeaway is that government intervention in the economy is a fool’s errand, as Heritage’s Nicolas Loris notes:

Solyndra exemplifies the government’s abysmal track record of picking winners and losers in the marketplace, and the solar company is not the only example of energy stimulus struggles. With a number of targeted energy tax credits set to expire at the end of this year or next, industry groups are lobbying hard for extensions. Especially given the U.S. fiscal situation, this is a time to end all energy subsidies—not to extend wasteful, market-distorting policies. When the government decides to favor a technology with subsidies, it’s a good bet that subsidy 'winner' is a loser in the marketplace.

Indeed, at least four other companies to receive money from Obama's stimulus package have gone bankrupt, Fox News reports.

Even where companies do create jobs, they do so at such exorbitant cost that the effort cannot reasonably be considered a success. To date, The Washington Post reports, the Energy Department loan guarantee program from which Solyndra benefitted has created one new permanent job for every $5.5 million spent. Lend that kind of money to a private business in an industry that doesn’t rely on taxpayer support, and it will put hundreds if not thousands to work.

Government subsidies are invitations for political favoritism, of course. But more importantly, as engines of job creation, they simply don't work (just ask Spain). Sure, the Administration's "green jobs" program has led to allegations of corruption. But it has also failed even in its foremost task of creating jobs for an economy with a chronic unemployment problem. Columnist Jim Pethokoukis writes, "Solyndra is the logical endpoint of Obamanomics." Unfortunately, the American people are paying the price for getting us there.

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Barack Obama complains about the Republicans blocking his legislation. Republicans should be standing on rooftops agreeing at the tops of their lungs!!! This Administration's policies have been wrecking America, so the guys who turn off the big crane with the massive wrecking ball deserve praise, not blame.

The election of 2008 was a brilliant coup by some remarkably clever political animals who got an unknown and nondescript Senator following in the footsteps of Carol Mosely Braun very quickly in the lead in a Presidential Primary race the Clinton folks thought they had locked up. America was inundated with Hope and Change and the same press that would go without sleep digging up dirt on President Bush and even fake it? They ignored all the questionable aspects of Barack Obama's past. Somehow the man was magically able to pass off connections to organized crime, the Communist Party, a terrorist, a blatant anti-American racist and a record of schooling that still seems to be primarily smoke and mirrors. We still have not seen a birth certificate that was not forged and have to wonder why so many people just ran to vote for Obama? I think I know. I believe that much of the white population felt as if we elected a (half-black, half white) man with dark skin into the Presidency, it would be the beginning of the post-racial America. Yeah, right! Obama's cronies beat the racist drum daily.

In 2010 the public's vote was a rejection of Obama's policies and the two recent special elections both went Republican. If Americans are smart, they'll see that Obamacare is the barnfull of straw that would break the US camel's back and only by tossing the entire bunch out of office will we put a stop to it! Only by changing leadership will we be jobs-friendly and energy-friendly again.

9/11 was a reminder that this is a dangerous world and we need a President who is aware of and respects the history of our nation. We need a President who loves and wants to protect and defend the Constitution, not erode it. We need one who will actually protect the borders and enforce Federal Laws. We need a President who will not appoint completely unqualified loonbats like Kagan to the Supreme Court.

We also need legislators with backbone who will not just sound like they mean business when campaigning, but will also follow through with action once they get to Washington. We need to toss out old Beltway Boys even if they carry the "R" around. Dick Lugar is part of the problem, not the solution. Indiana should have a genuine conservative Senator like Richard Mourdock. We would be out of our minds with joy if the reprehensible Pete Visclosky could be defeated. He gets all the automatic votes from Gary districts where they sometimes vote 100% Democrat even if no one is there as well as the mostly liberal Porter County rubber stamp. He has kept himself out of court, wish we could get him out of office.

Sadly typical Gary building by Thomas Semesky Photography

9/11 was terrible and tragic. The Statist takeover of America is also both terrible and tragic. Fortunately you can vote and put an end to it. "Let's Roll" now means lets get our butts out of our chairs and into the voting booth in the primaries and in the 2012 elections. No excuses!!! VOTE!

BARACK OBAMA, STILL A PRODUCT OF THE CHICAGO MACHINE:

Even the Chicago News media can see what is going on. Barack Obama has been tossing hundreds of millions of dollars at supporters who contributed to his campaign. He is single-handedly remaking the definition of "stimulus" into "the process of screwing the American taxpayer and enriching a few cronies while making a pretense of helping the economy and actually accomplishing the exact reverse." If we have any more "stimulus" bills this depression could begin to rival the one we experienced in the 1930's.

Obama's Solyndra scandal reeks of the Chicago Way

Those of us from Chicago know exactly what the Solyndra scandal smells like. And It doesn't smell fresh and green.

John Kass

September 18, 2011

The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it's being billed as a Washington story.

But back in Obama's political hometown, those of us familiar with the Chicago Way can see something else in Solyndra — something that the Washington crowd calls "optics." In fact, it's not just a Washington saga — it has all the elements of a Chicago City Hall story, except with more zeros.

The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help of the Obama White House over the objections of federal budget analysts.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden got a nice photo op. They got to make speeches about being "green." But then Solyndra went bankrupt. Americans lost jobs. Taxpayers got stuck with the bill. And members of Congress are now in high dudgeon and making speeches.

Federal investigators want to know what role political fundraising played in the guarantee of the questionable loan. Washington bureaucrats warned the deal was lousy. And White House spokesmen flail desperately, like weakened victims in a cheesy vampire movie.

So forget optics. What about smell? It smells bad, and it's going to smell worse.

Or, did you really believe it when the White House mouthpieces — who are also Chicago City Hall mouthpieces — promised they were bringing a new kind of politics to Washington?

This is not a new kind of politics. It's the old kind. The Chicago kind.

And now the Tribune Washington Bureau has reported that the U.S. Department of Energy employee who helped monitor the Solyndra loan guarantee was one of Obama's top fundraisers.

Fundraising? Contracts? Imagine that.

Steve Spinner was the Obama administration official in charge of handing out billions and billions of tax dollars to "green" energy deals. According to the Tribune story, Spinner the other day invited Obama's national political finance committee to a meeting in Chicago.

The name of the Obama fundraising initiative?

"Technology for Obama."

The idea of the Obama fundraisers getting together, talking "green," and perhaps offering taxpayer loan guarantees to insider businesses in the interest of helping the environment — it all seems rather fresh.

Like a mountain meadow.

Until you realize it's the same old politics, the same kind practiced in Washington and Chicago and anywhere else where appetites are satisfied by politicians. When the government picks winners and losers, who's the loser? Just look in the mirror, hold that thought, and tell me later.

Republicans are hoping to hang this around Obama's political neck, and they're doing a good job of it now because his approval ratings are low and the jobless numbers are abysmal and the Democrats are in full killer-rabbit panic. But there have been Republican national scandals, too, and they're always ridiculously and depressingly similar.

At least in Illinois our scandals are quite ecumenical, with Republicans eager to help Democrats steal whatever they can grab.

In Solyndra, like any proper City Hall political scandal, there are similar archetypes.

There are the guys who count. The guys who bring the cash. They count because they do the counting. They have leverage. They're always there at the fundraisers. And so they're the ones who are allowed to gorge at the public trough.

The bureaucrats are the fulcrum so the guys with the leverage can lift great weight without too much effort. And while they might whine privately among themselves, they don't hold news conferences to blow the whistle.

They keep their mouths shut until the deal is done. If anyone gets caught and the problem becomes public, at least they've got email to cover their behinds. And they're doing a good job covering.

But there's one group that doesn't get their behinds covered.

Instead, their behinds are right out there, suspended foolishly, and waiting to get kicked.

We're the taxpayers — in Illinois we call ourselves chumbolones because we're the ones who stupidly end up covering all the losses. As in the Solyndra mess.

It's the Chicago Way, but instead of a paving or trucking contract, it's a "green" solar panel contract. The company received a $535 million loan.

"The optics of a Solyndra default will be bad," according to a Jan. 31 email from an Office of Management and Budget staffer printed in the Washington Post. "If Solyndra defaults down the road, the optics will arguably be worse later than they would be today. … In addition, the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up."

I love the use of "optics." It's one of those bloodless words finding favor these days.

"Optics" suggests bureaucrats might think in terms of symbolism, political hieroglyphs, in grand vistas, rather than in hard numbers, like the $535,000,000 that went poof.

But it's not their money, is it? It's ours.

So this is not about Washington optics after all. The Solyndra scandal is about the Washington smell of things.

Those of us from Chicago know exactly what it smells like. And It doesn't smell fresh and green.

jskass@tribune.com

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Lake and Porter Counties are not so far from Chicago either geographically or politically. Democratic Machines rule and ruin in East Chicago and Gary. How is it that we the people have not seen through the hoax being continually perpetrated upon us by uncaring politicians who live as ticks on the public animal, sucking it dry and seemingly incapable of being removed. Gary will fall completely apart and become a wilderness ruled by stray dogs and gangs before the voting public will do anything but push the automatic "D" button. It defies explanation. Can anyone tell me why?

Gary neighborhood picture.

We Will Never Forget

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Gearhart) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:16:00 +0000

A decade.

A decade is how long it has been since America was viciously attacked by terrorists. It doesn't seem like it has been that long, to me at least, until I think about where I was at on 9/11 (I think most people will always remember where they were that day). I was a Sophomore in High School, taking the ISTEP tests that morning. Now, I'm going to admit something here: I had no freaking idea what the Twin Towers were at that point. I remember Mrs. Waywood (who worked at the school and is now, coincidentally, Hebron's Town Clerk) coming over the intercom and announcing the attack (I wonder, sometimes, also, what those scores would have been if the school had waited until we were done to announce it to us all. Though then a lot of people would have been pretty ticked that they had waited, I suppose).

The next class, after we were done testing, we were finally able to SEE the destruction; it was unreal. I remember all of us standing there, watching people run away from the cloud of dust and debris. People were crying and screaming in the street. It was absolutely horrid, and that day will probably easily be the worst day in America within my lifetime.

There was a lot that happened when I was a Sophomore in High School...and right now I couldn't tell you a damn thing. That's what happens with big, major events like 9/11; it burns into our memories. "We will never forget" is more than just an inspirational, or patriotic saying: it's a simple fact. Nobody will forget that day. It would be like asking me to forget the day either of my children were born, or the day I got married...it's not only that I wouldn't want to, it's that I would be physically unable to.

Today is about remembering. And recognizing that America was changed that day. It isn't about R's and D's after ones name, we can continue to argue and fret and fight tomorrow. For one day, just one day, we are all bound together in commonality...in remembrance. There were all kinds of ceremonies in different areas today throughout NW Indiana, and throughout the country, and running for Town Council it probably wasn't politically smart of me to not go to any. But I chose to remember today in my own way; I spent the day with my family, played with my children, and waited for the Cowboys to play. Because that is the biggest slap in the face to those that wanted to tear our country down. A decade later, and though our innocence as a country has been lost, we can still live here without fear.

So today, spend some time with your family, and say a little prayer for those that lost their lives. And remember.

A Salute to the American Spirit on 9/11

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:18:00 +0000

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From wikipedia, a rare source for me but this descibes what happened well:

September 17, 2001

One of Jack Buck's final public appearances was on September 17, 2001 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. It was the first night that Major League Baseball resumed after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Although looking rather frail (Buck at the time was sick with lung cancer) and struggling to maintain his composure (Buck was obviously showing the signs of Parkinson's disease as well), Buck stirred emotions^[6] by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies. He concluded by silencing critics who thought baseball had come back too soon: "I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes!"

For America

Buck shown delivering a speech on the scoreboard at Busch Stadium.

Buck wrote a poem named For America that he read at the first Cardinals game after the 9/11 attacks to describe his opinion and the general opinion, regarding defeating terrorism, of Americans after September 11. The poem went:

Since this nation was founded under

God, more than 200 years ago,

We've been the bastion of

Freedom...

The light which keeps the free world

Aglow.

We do not covet the possessions of

Others, we are blessed with the

Bounty we share.

We have rushed to help other

Nations...anything...anytime...

Anywhere.

War is just not our nature...we

Won't start, but we will end the fight.

If we are involved we shall be

Resolved to protect what we know is

Right.

We've been challenged by a

Cowardly foe, who strikes and then

Hides from our view.

With one voice we say there's no

Choice today, there is only one

Thing to do.

Everyone is saying the same thing

And praying that we end these

Senseless moments we are living.

As our fathers did before, we shall

Win this unwanted war.

And our children will enjoy the

Future, we'll be giving.

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Even so, Jack, I believe we can recapture the greatness America once had.

My son Rob, Sergeant Binder (In Afghanistan at the time), like his father and grandfathers and great-grandfather before him an Army guy, below:

I was at the concert along with my wife and my daughter and son-in-law plus a couple of random couples who just kind of decided they wanted to sit with us during the concert.   My daughter Sara loves country music and I am trying to get into it but I had no trouble relating to Toby Keith.   This You Tube video includes footage of Toby Keith singing live at that particular concert in Tinley Park and much of the other footage was playing on big screens over his head during the song.   Didn't know until today they were filming for a video at that concert but it is a great venue.   I can tell you the crowd was cheering and crying and jumping and singing along with Toby, he is a great showman and a terrific entertainer but you do believe he means what he says. He is one of the many patriotic musicians who go overseas and spend time with the people who go to the sandbox and go across/over that wire to face the enemy and protect the innocent.   People like Toby Keith and Ted Nugent will go far from the safer zones and go up near the front to be with the men who may well be risking their lives later that day.

Some of us have forgotten that there is still a war on.   The Islamofascists are still blowing things and people to bits.   They still want to force Sharia Law on society or sneak it in by by regulations passed by Dhimmis who kowtow to them.   Islam will not quit trying to destroy the USA and Israel because should America quit caring and should Israel quit fighting the Islamists would rule the entire Middle East!

The socialists and communists have Red China and North Korea and they still want to take the USA over, they want to reacquire and rule the old Soviet Union, they are seeking to consolidate power in South America and they continue to own Cuba right under our Florida feet.    They won't quit.   They must be beaten.

Finally, let us not forget the victims and the heroes of that day.   The thousands who perished in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and on Flight 93 and the words, "Let's Roll" will live on in our memories. Todd Beamer recited the Lord's Prayer over the phone with a GTE representative and then he and his team went to attack and stop the hijackers, his last words ringing in Lisa Jefferson's ears; "Let's Roll."    Thus passengers made sure that plane would NOT hit the White House...at the expense of their own lives, but they understood the situation and they would NOT be part of the cowardly Islamic plot.

Fireman near ground zero

The retired Canadian police officer James Symington and his dog, Trakr, who worked hard to save lives on 9/11 and immediately thereafter.

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May God watch over our friends who are still in military service:
Johnny
Cecil
Chuck
Adam
Andy
Tom
And their families!

When you pray for the soldiers and sailors and air force and marines and coast guard, remember your border guards and port security and marshals. Remember the firemen and policemen and emergency personnel, too. They all risk their lives for your sake. All the men and women providing security, all the first responders who race to danger. God bless them, every one!!!

Kim Krull asks an uncomfortable question. Shall we actually bother to VOTE for every office?

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:45:00 +0000

Unedited, the words of Lake County Republican Chairman Kim Krull. She kindly allowed me to quote her so that you could understand clearly the situation and what appears to be, both to Kim and this blogger, a Constitutional issue that must be addressed,

Kim Krull

Email to IN GOP County Chairs on Changed Election Law

by Kim Dugger Krull on Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 11:55am

Dear Chairmen and Vice Chairmen,

Thank you to all Chairmen or Vice Chairmen who responded to my email on the changed law that states if a candidate is unopposed in a municipal election their name will not be on the ballot in the General Election this year. I have more clarity on the issue because of your responses.

On the surface, it appears like a fiscally responsible law that will save taxpayers money. I had many emails stating what could be wrong with saving money. After all, we are the party of fiscal conservatism.

Others of you stated it was a good law because it wouldn’t print the names of some of the democratic candidates on the ballot. I would imagine you feel this way because you do not want to give them more name recognition. I say shame on me if I cannot field a Republican to challenge our democratic elected officials. Believe me we have a majority of democratic elected officials in Lake County. There are however, just a few uncontested democratic races in East Chicago, Whiting and Hobart where we couldn’t find a Republican to challenge, and in East Chicago there is a Republican Mayor on the ballot so even though there aren’t any Republican Councilmen running, an election would have to be held city wide for mayor. So how much money would really be saved ends up being a drop in the bucket in my opinion compared to what we give up. I have 72 candidates this election cycle (out of about 100) and we have 65 total Republican elected officials in all of Lake County with well over 500 precincts just to give you an idea of what our budget is for elections.

The last and what I believe is the most important email I received came in the form of a question. It asked very simply, “How can anyone be elected if they don’t get any votes?” I think this is why I questioned this change in law in the first place, but just couldn’t put my finger on it. Wayne County Republicans and Democrats have together filed a lawsuit against their Clerk, the SEC, and the SOS to allow all candidates to have their name printed on the ballot this fall. I had one chairman get extremely mad at my email and told me I would put a “black eye” on the Republican party if I didn’t follow this law by placing all candidates on the ballot.

But do we, as a Party, not have an obligation to uphold the most important right of every citizen of this great nation and that is our right to cast a ballot and vote for our elected officials? Many Americans have fought and died for this right. Are we not taking that right away if we allow this change in law to remain unchallenged?

I was also sent information by our Republican attorney for the Board of Elections that this change in law is in direct conflict to the Indiana State Constitution. So I took the liberty to actually read the State Constitution for myself (I'm a nurse not a lawyer) and this is what I found:

ARTICLE 2.
Section 13. All elections by the People shall be by ballot; and all elections by the General Assembly, or by either branch thereof, shall be viva voce.

Section 22. The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws: Providing for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors;
Regulating the practice in courts of justice;
Providing for changing the venue in civil and criminal cases;
Granting divorces;
Changing the names of persons;
Providing for laying out, opening, and working on, highways, and for the election or appointment of supervisors;
Vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys, and public squares;
Summoning and empaneling grand and petit juries, and providing for their compensation;
Regulating county and township business;
Regulating the election of county and township officers and their compensation;
Providing for the assessment and collection of taxes for State, county, township, or road purposes;
Providing for the support of common schools, or the preservation of school funds;
Relating to fees or salaries, except that the laws may be so made as to grade the compensation of officers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required;
Relating to interest on money;
Providing for opening and conducting elections of State, county, or township officers, and designating the places of voting;

As the Constitution states that elections shall be by ballot, how can we not place all candidates on the ballot? It doesn’t say all elections shall be by ballot unless someone is unopposed. And in Article 2 section 22 it states clearly that the GA shall not pass special laws governing the conducting of local elections.

So here lies the dilemma that we are facing. Do we uphold the change in law and not place all candidates on the ballot or do we uphold the Constitution which states elections shall be by ballot? Hopefully the Wayne County lawsuit will clear up this problem.

As we all complain that it is good to keep democrats off the ballot, I complain that it is also keeping republicans off the ballot. In Lake County we have 4 Republicans in Crown Point who are unopposed. We also have a democratic mayor in Crown Point running against a Republican. If the people find out their councilman will not be on the ballot they may decide to stay home on November 8th. This would be a great disadvantage to Republicans who are trying to take back the mayor’s seat in this city.

I apologize to those of you who are also in the GA who emailed me the question as to why was this brought up now and not before the vote. If I had known about it before it appeared in our local paper in the middle of July, I would have questioned it then. I also apologize for the length of the email, but I believe it is an important issue facing us in the next week as we prepare to print our ballots.

Thank you for your thoughts and for reading this missive. If anyone has any further thoughts on this issue, I would be happy to read them.

Have a great rest of the holiday weekend.
Kim Krull
Lake County GOP Chair

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Enjoy your Labor Day Holiday!

"Big flaming ball of fire in the sky to blame for climate change? Who knew?"

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:33:00 +0000

Watching A Green Fiction Unravel

Posted 08/30/2011 06:16 PM ET

Science: Experiments performed by a European nuclear research group indicate that the sun, not man, determines Earth's temperature. Somewhere, Al Gore just shuddered as an unseasonably cool breeze blows by.

The results from an experiment to mimic Earth's atmosphere by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tell researchers that the sun has a significant effect on our planet's temperature. Its magnetic field acts as a gateway for cosmic rays, which play a large role in cloud formation.

Consequently, when the sun's magnetic field allows cosmic rays to seed cloud cover, temperatures are cooler. When it restricts cloud formation by deflecting cosmic rays away from Earth, temperatures go up.

Or, as the London Telegraph's James Delingpole delicately put it:

"It's the sun, stupid."

This new finding of 63 scientists from 17 European and U.S. institutes from an experiment that's been ongoing since 2009 is, if we may paraphrase Vice President Joe Biden, a big deal. Which is exactly why the mainstream media, with so much invested in global warming hysteria, is letting last week's announcement from CERN pass like a brief summer shower, ignoring it.

Even CERN's own director general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, is trying to avoid the meaning of the findings.
He told Germany's Die Welt Online that he's "asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate."

But, as British science writer Nigel Calder points out, Heuer would have no reservations about entering "'the highly political arena of the climate change debate' provided" his results endorsed man-made warming.

How long the Al Gores, James Hansens, Rolf-Dieter Heuers and other defenders of the indefensible can hang on to their fable isn't altogether clear.

With the help of an eager media, they have spun a nearly believable tale of fright and insulated themselves well from the skeptics.

But their days are few. Truth keeps getting in the way of their indoctrination effort.

And it's not just the CERN research creating a problem for them. They also need to explain why sea levels, like presidential approval numbers and consumer confidence, have fallen. According to NASA, the oceans are down a quarter of an inch this year compared to 2010.

Under the rules of climate change, sea levels, due to melting ice and water that expands as it warms, should be increasing in a way that we're all supposed to believe is a threat. But NASA scientists say that El Nino and La Nina, weather cycles in the Pacific Ocean, have caused sea levels to fall.

Apparently these natural warming and cooling cycles are stronger than the persuasion powers of even Barack Obama. It was the Illinois senator who so humbly proclaimed during the 2008 presidential campaign that his nomination as the Democratic candidate signaled the "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow."

Gore never promised he would drain the oceans. But during his propaganda movie "An Inconvenient Truth," he did make the claim that human carbon dioxide output is forcing warming that will push sea levels 20 feet higher "in the near future."

While United Nations estimates are much more conservative, the certainty of rising sea levels is still an article of faith among global warming believers.

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So the news out of NASA, coupled with the CERN experiment, has got to be discouraging for the global warming believers.

That is as it should be.

The promoters of the faith had a long run. They've been feted and joined by the media, and conned a good piece of the public into believing their claims of inevitable disaster. They've made wild amounts of money and increased their realm of influence.

But now it's time for reality to intervene. For sound thinking to overcome shallow thought and trendy pursuit. To rely on observable facts. To move beyond the oppressive reign of junk science.

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Liberal Democrat Andre Carson must be losing his mind! Assuming you think racism is crazy?

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:11:00 +0000

If one party continually plays the race card and the class card, wouldn't you begin to think of them as racist bigots? The Democrats are trying to play on racial fears and hatreds 24-7 because they cannot debate on issues of substance without looking bad. Their policies established Jim Crow laws in the first place. The Democrats invented the welfare state that has turned inner-city poor people into a new group of serfs. The Republicans led the fight for racial equality.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican! Would Carson have lynched Martin?! Shame on this blatant racist Andre Carson and his cohorts!!!

Rep. Andre Carson, Democrat, Stands by Hate-Filled Anti-Tea Party RemarksRep. Andre Carson (D-IN) recently told an audience that the Tea Party is out to lynch black people.

“This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow,” said Carson, the caucus’ whip, or chief vote counter.

“Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens,” he said. “Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”

His off-the-charts hate speech follows other recent remarks by fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus, such as Rep. Maxine Waters saying that the Tea Party can “go straight to hell.”
Today, Carson is standing by his remarks.

Carson’s spokesman, Jason Tomcsi, confirmed the congressman’s comments to USA TODAY.
His “comments respond to the frustration voiced by those in Miami,” Tomcsi said. “People are frustrated by the inability of Congress to do something about the economy and get people back to work.”

Tomcsi said Carson believes “Tea Party members in Congress know when they vote against programs, they know who they’re impacting. They have different priorities — their priorities are to protect millionaires, oil companies and tax cuts for the wealthy. Those people aren’t impacted by programs like child nutrition, Head Start, job training and job creation.”

That’s bull; Carson’s remarks were an incitement to violence against the Tea Party, a couple of whose leaders are currently running for the presidency. Carson should resign his seat. He won’t, but he should, because he is intentionally inciting a race war and promoting violence against other Americnans and presidential candidates. Either that, or he knows that no matter how much hate he hands out, his own constituents don’t really believe him but it comforts them to hear him spin these myths anyway. Put another way, if you really believed that a group of people actually wanted to take you and your family and hang them from the nearest tree, and that group was about to take power, you would do a great deal more than sit there nodding and applauding. The logical consequences of what Carson said are dire indeed.

As the video above shows, the CBC is engaged in a coordinated hate-based attack on the Tea Party. It’s not about policy, it’s about hate and it’s based entirely on generating irrational fear. That coordinated campaign began with the racist smear on the day ObamaCare passed. It shows absolutely no sign of abating, despite the fact that the election of Barack Obama was, were told, going to get us past all this disharmony and strife.

Posted at 11:38 am on August 31st, 2011 by Bryan Preston of PJ Tatler

Racist Hall of Fame inductees August of 2011

Andre Carson

Cedric Richmond

Maxine Waters

Alcee Hastings

Fredrica Wilson

Al Green

The Congressional Black Congress receives a special institutional award.

It is hard to think of anything Barack Obama publicly promising having come through. He has taken the hope from Hope, the Change has been all bad, the economy is tanking because of Obama's policies and unemployment and underemployment have all risen. Meanwhile the National Debt has jumped over 14 Trillion dollars and yet Barack Obama cannot see any agencies to trim or programs to cut in his budget.

Watch this youtube and you will understand much of what Barack Obama and his party stand for. They believe the public is stupid, like cattle, and will blindly follow the dictates of their party rulers.   They have no respect for the voter or for the truth or for the American way of life. Naturally, if a conservative were to go on a rant like this all the major news media would be screeching for him to resign.

Forget skin color.   Everybody is human, the amount of melanin in your skin is meaningless.   Doctor King himself wished for a day when men would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.   It is the Democrats who fear that day.   Hate and fear are their primary motivators. Patriots do not fear that day, we believe that day is at hand and that the haters and fearmongers need to be thrown out on their butts. The Congressional Black Congress is apparently full of men and women that Martin Luther King would be ashamed to know.   He would have a long and hard effort trying to get these racists to understand that either side of the racist point of view is equally wrong.

First one out the door should be Carson, who has shown himself to be a racist blowhard who has no business making any decisions concerning our government.   His lack of judgment and reason are astounding, I only wish he was the only one..but as you saw there are many of them. Ask yourself how many of them are poor? How many of them live in the ghetto? How many of them are unemployed? Ask yourself how many of these hypocritical blowhards are taking lobbyist monies and getting nice dinners and vacations from the special interests who hope to gain during the Obama Administration?   Not one of these racist blowhards are actually crusaders for the poor, otherwise they would join the Tea Party in seeking to shrink government and grow opportunities for the common man.   The Tea Party is about returning America to Constitutional government.   It is about ending the massive burden of government expenditures on the shoulders of companies and workers so that more work will be available.

Ask yourself this? Do you want a tiny stipend from the government to exist, or do you want a job so you can be a success? Do you want to chose the school for your children or do you want the government to choose it for you? Do you like paying extra money for gas and utilities and light bulbs? Are you happy to see jobs leaving the country to go overseas? Does it fill you with joy to know that all sorts of stimulus and bail-out money bailed out failing companies but no one is willing to bail you out of a home loan you cannot afford to pay? That big bank and auto company executives get to keep their companies and jobs but if your little factory down the street closes you are SOL?

If the Democrats are so afraid of the Tea Party, which is just normal Americans who are tired of big, intrusive, corrupt and statist government, then perhaps it goes to show you that we can still end big, intrusive, corrupt and statist government policies and elect people who believe in For the People, By the People?

Christian, Catholic and conservative blogs attacked by cowards with spam site redirects!

noreply@blogger.com (AmericanVet) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:16:00 +0000

Several Catholic and Christian and conservative websites have suddenly found that their blog is redirected to a spam site - "rpc.blogrolling.com". Some miserable cowardly troll(s) of some kind have been trying to shut up the sources that they cannot overcome with their arguments.

If you use blogger, one of your gadgets has been hacked and a redirect script is included in the HTML of that gadget. Instead of going for loading you blog go straight to "sign in" and go to Design and then check the content of every gadget until you find the one that was hacked. They probably only put it on one. Then you should be fine. You are welcome!

Northwest Indiana Politics

Indiana Democrats Scrambling For Leadership

Democrat Party in total disarray

Occupy Wall Street Part Two - Violence - not instruments in an orchestra!

Obama Administration gives guns to Mexican Drug gangs, Americans killed, just to attack our second amendment rights!

Alerts

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Occupy Wall Street are paid organizers and assorted miscreants, not ordinary Americans!

Why Mourdock and not Lugar? Because Indiana needs representation rather than abandonment!

Occupiers and Tea Partiers Unite

What's the best vision for Portage Indiana

What's Not Beingg Said About the TEA Party

A Country Boy Can Survive...

Considering the Information Generation, September 11, Richard Mourdock and Lake County, Indiana

What happens when the lights go out?

Who would you choose as Hypocrite of the Month?

"September 22, 2011

"Time to Change the Culture of Corruption

Local News Underscores Gun Rights

Perspectives one week after 9/11, or, Mr. Chicago goes to Washington.

Solyndra Scandal Ends Green Jobs Myth

We Will Never Forget

A Salute to the American Spirit on 9/11

September 17, 2001

For America

Kim Krull asks an uncomfortable question. Shall we actually bother to VOTE for every office?

Email to IN GOP County Chairs on Changed Election Law

"Big flaming ball of fire in the sky to blame for climate change? Who knew?"

Liberal Democrat Andre Carson must be losing his mind! Assuming you think racism is crazy?

Christian, Catholic and conservative blogs attacked by cowards with spam site redirects!