<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965</id><updated>2012-02-21T15:33:16.543-08:00</updated><category term='wo'/><category term='Thank You Barak OH bama For Waking Us UP'/><category term='How To Stop Muslim Terrorists - Easy'/><title type='text'>WAKE UP AMERICANS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE-HJJ</title><subtitle type='html'>A Concerned American</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>544</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5968142808854304336</id><published>2012-02-21T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-21T15:33:16.554-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake Up America</title><content type='html'>Obama Gestapo Arrests Group for Praying in Front of White House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occupy Washington protesters have been camping on US Park Service property for the past four months. They littered and trashed the park. They urinated and defecated all over it. They even defaced public property and nearby buildings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But few arrests were ever made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, let a group of six religious leaders kneel and pray in front of the White House, only to have Obama’s Gestapo-like US Park Police swoop down like vultures on a fresh kill and carry the men off to jail. From being on their knees in front of the presidential palace, the peaceful protesters were charged with failure to obey a lawful order. After being booked, they each paid a fine of $100 and then were released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Wilde of Priests for Life and Rev Pat Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition organized the prayer meeting in front of the White House to follow up on the lawsuit that Priests for Life filed against the Obama administration to put a stop to the contraceptive mandate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking to a reporter, Father Wilde said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested.&lt;br /&gt;“We knew that was the risk when we gathered today, and we will do it again regardless of the risk. What people of faith – of every faith – need to do now is stand with us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has had presidents and other political leaders lead prayers from the steps of various public buildings. There is a chaplain in both the US House and US Senate and supposedly, the President has at least one spiritual adviser. In the US Capitol Building, there is a room that was set aside by the 83rd Congress as a room to be used for prayer and meditation by members of Congress. In that room is a beautiful stained glass window of George Washington on his knees in prayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the first Congress of the United Statesmet onSeptember 7, 1774, it began with prayer. On that morning, Congress was very concerned aboutGreat Britain’s recent attack onBoston. Reverend Jacob Duché, Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, was summoned to lead the opening prayers. He first read Psalm 35, after which John Adams stated in a letter to his wife: “I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be read on the morning.” Then rather than read a general prayer as was commonly done, Reverend Duché broke into extemporaneous prayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we have prayer banned from the public schools and many other governmental arenas. Now we have people being arrested for openly praying on public property in front of one of the most revered bastions of America’s freedom. Only those freedoms have been revoked and people are no longer allowed to follow the examples of our Founding Fathers. And if those Founding Fathers like George Washington saw America today, not only would they be on their knees praying, but I’m sure they would also be shedding tears over what they see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: Obama Gestapo Arrests Group for Praying in Front of White House &lt;http://godfatherpolitics.com/3771/obama-gestapo-arrests-group-for-praying-in-front-of-white-house/#ixzz1mxnQyJmF&gt;  http://godfatherpolitics.com/3771/obama-gestapo-arrests-group-for-praying-in-front-of-white-house/#ixzz1mxnQyJmF &lt;http://godfatherpolitics.com/3771/obama-gestapo-arrests-group-for-praying-in-front-of-white-house/#ixzz1mxnQyJmF&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5968142808854304336?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5968142808854304336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5968142808854304336&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5968142808854304336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5968142808854304336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/02/wake-up-america.html' title='Wake Up America'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2712098459234814970</id><published>2012-02-16T12:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T12:36:47.645-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The War is On Are You Ready to Fight</title><content type='html'>This is the kind of stuff that is going on all over America... WE do not have any idea of how well organized these folks are and how they are setting to steal the 2012 presidency again... Wake UP folks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a real incident that took place right her in NC in early Feb 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I work a lot in downtown raleigh now in the Wells Fargo Building.  On my lunch break I head over to a pub/grill near the wake county courthouse.  Over the past 2 months, I've engaged a number of the paid shock troops Obama has deployed in Raleigh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got one of the "Organizers" burned for approaching me with a "Get out the Vote" message.  They asked if I was registered to vote... so I played along.  Best thing is she had this nice big - Vote for Obama 2012 button on.  and when it got time to ask me which political party to add to the form she was pretty slick in wanting me to be a democrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked her if she was a North Carolinian, and she said no, she was from Chicago.  I then asked her if she was familiar with North Carolina Laws concerning Voter Registration.  She stated yes.  I asked her for her name, she gave it and then I asked if she'd like to walk with me to the Wake County Board of Elections.    She asked why, and I told her in North Carolina it is illegal to intimidate a person on the street to register for a political party as well as campaigning on the street.  If she was going to wear a button stating vote for obama then she was in violation of our laws.  She stated it wasn't true, and then I stated again, if she'd like to walk around the corner to the Wake county Board of elections.  I told her I had her name and would be walking there immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I filed a complaint and since she was an "organizer" she was barred for 90 days.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2712098459234814970?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2712098459234814970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2712098459234814970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2712098459234814970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2712098459234814970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/02/war-is-on-are-you-ready-to-fight.html' title='The War is On Are You Ready to Fight'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7103321062554012912</id><published>2012-02-02T01:28:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T01:28:57.310-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sing Our National Anthem With DIgnity and Grace</title><content type='html'>National Anthem at the Super Bowl - an editorial&lt;br /&gt;Don’t know who wrote this, but I totally agree. I wish some of these &lt;br /&gt;pop star divas would read this and take it to heart. &lt;br /&gt;“So, with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the next pop star who is asked &lt;br /&gt;to sing the national anthem at a sporting event: save the vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations &lt;br /&gt;for your concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in kindergarten — straight up, &lt;br /&gt;no styling. Sing it with the constant awareness that there are Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and &lt;br /&gt;Marines watching you from bases and outposts all over the world. Don’t make them cringe with your &lt;br /&gt;self-centered ego gratification. Sing it as if you are standing before a row of 86-year-old WWII &lt;br /&gt;vets wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and flag pins on their cardigans and you want them to &lt;br /&gt;be proud of you for honoring them and the country they love — not because you want them to think &lt;br /&gt;you are a superstar musician. They could see that from the costumes, the makeup and &lt;br /&gt;the entourages. Sing “The Star Spangled Banner” with the courtesy and humility that tells the &lt;br /&gt;audience that it is about America , not you.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree, please pass this on. The entertainers need to get the message!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7103321062554012912?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7103321062554012912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7103321062554012912&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7103321062554012912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7103321062554012912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/02/national-anthem-at-super-bowl-editorial.html' title='Sing Our National Anthem With DIgnity and Grace'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7877943576321378964</id><published>2012-01-31T15:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T15:13:59.847-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be.</title><content type='html'>This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;545 vs. 300,000,000 People&lt;br /&gt;-By Charlie Reese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the Housenow? He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Army &amp; Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no insoluble government problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, have the power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.&lt;br /&gt;This might be funny if it weren't so true.&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to read all the way to the end:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his land,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his bed,&lt;br /&gt;Tax the table,&lt;br /&gt;At which he's fed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his tractor,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his mule,&lt;br /&gt;Teach him taxes&lt;br /&gt;Are the rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his work,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his pay,&lt;br /&gt;He works for&lt;br /&gt;peanuts anyway!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his cow,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his goat,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his pants,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his coat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his ties,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his shirt,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his work,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his dirt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his tobacco,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his drink,&lt;br /&gt;Tax him if he&lt;br /&gt;Tries to think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his cigars,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his beers,&lt;br /&gt;If he cries&lt;br /&gt;Tax his tears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his car,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his gas,&lt;br /&gt;Find other ways&lt;br /&gt;To tax his ass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax all he has&lt;br /&gt;Then let him know&lt;br /&gt;That you won't be done&lt;br /&gt;Till he has no dough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he screams and hollers;&lt;br /&gt;Then tax him some more,&lt;br /&gt;Tax him till&lt;br /&gt;He's good and sore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then tax his coffin,&lt;br /&gt;Tax his grave,&lt;br /&gt;Tax the sod in&lt;br /&gt;Which he's laid...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put these words&lt;br /&gt;Upon his tomb,&lt;br /&gt;'Taxes drove me&lt;br /&gt;to my doom...'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he's gone,&lt;br /&gt;Do not relax,&lt;br /&gt;Its time to apply&lt;br /&gt;The inheritance tax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accounts Receivable Tax&lt;br /&gt;Building Permit Tax&lt;br /&gt;CDL license Tax&lt;br /&gt;Cigarette Tax&lt;br /&gt;Corporate Income Tax&lt;br /&gt;Dog License Tax&lt;br /&gt;Excise Taxes&lt;br /&gt;Federal Income Tax&lt;br /&gt;Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)&lt;br /&gt;Fishing License Tax&lt;br /&gt;Food License Tax&lt;br /&gt;Fuel Permit Tax&lt;br /&gt;Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)&lt;br /&gt;Gross Receipts Tax&lt;br /&gt;Hunting License Tax&lt;br /&gt;Inheritance Tax&lt;br /&gt;Inventory Tax&lt;br /&gt;IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)&lt;br /&gt;Liquor Tax&lt;br /&gt;Luxury Taxes&lt;br /&gt;Marriage License Tax&lt;br /&gt;Medicare Tax&lt;br /&gt;Personal Property Tax&lt;br /&gt;Property Tax&lt;br /&gt;Real Estate Tax&lt;br /&gt;Service Charge Tax&lt;br /&gt;Social Security Tax&lt;br /&gt;Road Usage Tax&lt;br /&gt;Recreational Vehicle Tax&lt;br /&gt;Sales Tax&lt;br /&gt;School Tax&lt;br /&gt;State Income Tax&lt;br /&gt;State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal Excise Tax&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax&lt;br /&gt;Telephone State and Local Tax&lt;br /&gt;Telephone Usage Charge Tax&lt;br /&gt;Utility Taxes&lt;br /&gt;Vehicle License Registration Tax&lt;br /&gt;Vehicle Sales Tax&lt;br /&gt;Watercraft Registration Tax&lt;br /&gt;Well Permit Tax&lt;br /&gt;Workers Compensation Tax&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?&lt;br /&gt;Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, &amp; our nation was the most prosperous in the world.&lt;br /&gt;We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom, if agreed,stayed home to raise the kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7877943576321378964?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7877943576321378964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7877943576321378964&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7877943576321378964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7877943576321378964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-is-about-as-clear-and-easy-to.html' title='This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be.'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4686706348006534850</id><published>2012-01-31T02:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T02:22:17.154-08:00</updated><title type='text'>OBAMA VS THE STATE OF ARIZONA</title><content type='html'>BEST VIDEO YET - RE: ILLEGAL MEXICANS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch, and Let this sink in!  The person in this video is a professor (Ph.D.) at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He puts a different spin on what Obama is doing to Arizona Must be why he's rated highly by his students - 3.8 on a 4.0 scale. This may be the best video produced on the illegal alien problems that are being experienced.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; CHECK OUT THIS SITE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/embed/tsH8xvjTAlo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4686706348006534850?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4686706348006534850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4686706348006534850&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4686706348006534850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4686706348006534850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-vs-state-of-arizona.html' title='OBAMA VS THE STATE OF ARIZONA'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7912758379369463858</id><published>2012-01-30T17:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T17:24:39.567-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lets Not Forget Those Who Saved Our Country</title><content type='html'>WHY MR. ROGERS WORE A SWEATER!&lt;br /&gt;Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004, at age 76 , which is odd,&lt;br /&gt;because he always looked to be 76. (DOB: 6/27/27) &lt;br /&gt;His death reminded me of the following story: &lt;br /&gt;Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;is buried in a grave alongside 3 and 4-star generals at &lt;br /&gt;Arlington National Cemetery. &lt;br /&gt;His marker gives his name, &lt;br /&gt;rank (PVT) and service (USMC). Nothing else. &lt;br /&gt;Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time. &lt;br /&gt;Why the heck does he rate burial with these guys? &lt;br /&gt;Well, following is the amazing answer: &lt;br /&gt;I always liked Lee Marvin, but didn't know the extent &lt;br /&gt;of his Corps experiences. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country &lt;br /&gt;in the armed forces often in rear echelon posts where they &lt;br /&gt;were carefully protected, only to  be trotted out to perform &lt;br /&gt;for the cameras in war bond promotions, &lt;br /&gt;Lee Marvin was a genuine hero.&lt;br /&gt;He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima. There is only one &lt;br /&gt;higher Naval award...the Medal Of  Honor! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, &lt;br /&gt;he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery. &lt;br /&gt;The following is a dialog from "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson."&lt;br /&gt;His guest was Lee Marvin...Johnny said, &lt;br /&gt;"Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware &lt;br /&gt;that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima... &lt;br /&gt;and that during the course of that action, you earned &lt;br /&gt;the Navy Cross and were severely wounded."  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;"Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the bottom and they gave me &lt;br /&gt;the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi. &lt;br /&gt;Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys getting &lt;br /&gt;shot hauling you down. But, Johnny, at Iwo, I served under &lt;br /&gt;the bravest man I ever knew...We both got the Cross the same day, &lt;br /&gt;but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. &lt;br /&gt;That dumb guy actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his &lt;br /&gt;troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. &lt;br /&gt;Bullets were flying by, with mortar rounds landing everywhere, &lt;br /&gt;and he stood there as the main target of gunfire so he could get his &lt;br /&gt;men to safety. He did this on more than one occasion because &lt;br /&gt;his men's safety was more important than his own life. &lt;br /&gt;That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends. When they brought &lt;br /&gt;me off Suribachi, we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and &lt;br /&gt;passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, &lt;br /&gt;"Where'd they get you Lee?"  I told him, "Well Bob... &lt;br /&gt;if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!" &lt;br /&gt;Johnny, I'm not lying,  Sergeant Keeshan was the bravest man &lt;br /&gt;I ever knew.  The Sergeant's name is Bob Keeshan. &lt;br /&gt;You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo."   &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;On another note, there was this wimpy little man &lt;br /&gt;on PBS, gentle and quiet. Mr. Rogers (who has now passed away) &lt;br /&gt;is another of those you would least suspect of being anything &lt;br /&gt;but what he portrayed to our youth. &lt;br /&gt;But Mr. Rogers was a U.S. Navy Seal, combat-proven in  &lt;br /&gt;Vietnam with over twenty-five confirmed kills to his name. &lt;br /&gt;He wore a long-sleeved sweater on TV, to cover&lt;br /&gt;the many tattoos on his forearms and biceps. &lt;br /&gt;He was a master in small arms and hand-to-hand combat,&lt;br /&gt;able to disarm or kill in a heartbeat. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After the war Mr. Rogers  became an ordained Presbyterian minister&lt;br /&gt;and therefore a pacifist. Vowing to never harm another human and &lt;br /&gt;also dedicating the rest of his life to trying to help lead children on &lt;br /&gt;the right path in life... He hid away the tattoos and his past life &lt;br /&gt;and won our hearts with his quiet wit and charm.  &lt;br /&gt;America's real heroes don't flaunt what they did; they quietly go &lt;br /&gt;about their day-to-day lives, doing what they do best.  &lt;br /&gt;They earned our respect and the freedoms that we all enjoy. &lt;br /&gt;Look around and see if you can find&lt;br /&gt;one of those heroes in your midst. &lt;br /&gt;Often, they are the ones you'd least suspect, but would most like&lt;br /&gt;to have on your side if anything ever happened. &lt;br /&gt;Take the time to thank anyone who has fought for our freedom. &lt;br /&gt;With encouragement they could be the next Captain Kangaroo or Mr. Rogers! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Send this on. Nothing will happen to you if you don't,  but if you do share it, &lt;br /&gt;you will be awakening others  to what a HERO is made of... &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Amazing what the 1960’s did to Hollywood.  Hero’s like these guys and patriots like Bob Hope dominated&lt;br /&gt;And today Hollywood is a Liberal cesspool home to the celebrated Ossy Osborne and Sean Penn.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MORE IMPORTANT LET US NOT ALLOW THE LEFT TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY AWAY... TOO MANY MEN GAVE TOO MUCH FOR US TO ALL THAT TO HAPPEN... IT IS UP TO US TO FIGHT A DIFFERENT KIND OF BATTLE,, RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY THERE IS A WAR GOING ON OVER THE FREEDOMS THAT MEN LIKE THOSE BELOW FOUGHT FOR, OUR FATHERS MADE SURE WE HAD THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH... LET US NOT FORGET THAT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;--&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7912758379369463858?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7912758379369463858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7912758379369463858&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7912758379369463858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7912758379369463858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-not-forget-those-who-saved-our.html' title='Lets Not Forget Those Who Saved Our Country'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3343963330610118228</id><published>2012-01-29T04:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T04:50:31.129-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our nation is at stake</title><content type='html'>Our nation is at stake - PLEASE send this to anyone and everyone who remembers that America has been, &lt;br /&gt;AND REMAINS the best, last hope for this small planet.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;TO GET RE-ELECTED&lt;br /&gt;An old West Virginia Hillbilly saying:&lt;br /&gt;You cannot get the water to clear up&lt;br /&gt;until you get the pigs out of the creek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR SENDING THIS BECAUSE OF IT'S TRUTH.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who's side he was on? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps&lt;br /&gt;as Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had given the Queen of England&lt;br /&gt;an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America ? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states&lt;br /&gt;in the United States , wouldn't you have had second thoughts&lt;br /&gt;about his capabilities? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk. *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate&lt;br /&gt;as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn't you have winced in embarrassment? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel&lt;br /&gt;to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents' administrations had okayed&lt;br /&gt;Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually got what happened on 9-11? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of&lt;br /&gt;racism and incompetence? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America , would you have ever approved. *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*If any of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO&lt;br /&gt;of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. *&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND NOW-- HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO RE-ELECT HIM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAKE UP AMERICA 2012 IS UPON US.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3343963330610118228?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3343963330610118228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3343963330610118228&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3343963330610118228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3343963330610118228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-nation-is-at-stake.html' title='Our nation is at stake'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3022846807663522079</id><published>2012-01-27T19:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T19:35:51.625-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thsi Man Is Truely On A Mission To Bankrupt Our Country</title><content type='html'>THE PILOTS AND CREW OF AIR FORCE ONE ARE FLYING MORE HOURS THAN A ROOKIE ON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A BEER RUN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1, I know&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our company (Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;two years and I've been doing it for about 8 months now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year (2010) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;day. White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011. They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;do with his health care bill, overspending or other policies, and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;countrymen and women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with less than a year remaining in Obama's never ending presidential&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken. At an Air&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;carbon footprint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$80 Million every time it lands &amp; takes off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats. According to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days. Not counting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;six vacation trips over 32 days.  He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements. That's more&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mouths. In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in public, his speaking works out to about one official utterance every 11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;waking hours.  Aides indicate the "Real Good Talker" believes we need more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related: Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington, plans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to travel more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RELATED: VACATIONER-IN-CHIEF SPENDS $1.75 MILLION TO VISIT HAWAIIAN CHUMS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OBAMA HAS SPENT OVER $100 MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS FLYING AROUND IN AIR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FORCE ONE, AND PROBABLY ANOTHER $100 MILLION ON HIS ENTOURAGE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OBAMA IS JUST ANOTHER TIN-POT DICTATOR LIVING LAVISHLY AT THE EXPENSE OF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HIS SUBJECTS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we seniors have to "tighten our belts"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY WINDBAG IN OFFICE!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLEASE BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3022846807663522079?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3022846807663522079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3022846807663522079&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3022846807663522079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3022846807663522079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/thsi-man-is-truely-on-mission-to.html' title='Thsi Man Is Truely On A Mission To Bankrupt Our Country'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2676566105697255349</id><published>2012-01-27T19:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T19:34:26.443-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The True State Of Our Union - And It Is Not Good</title><content type='html'>By Joseph Curl. From opinion page of The Washington Times. He can be reached at jcurl@washingtontimes.com.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some smal l or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit. This guy is Barack Obama. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;George W. Bush is, for sure, and that evil Dick Cheney, oh, no doubt. House Speaker John A. Boehner — evil, too — is, of course, to blame. But guess what? So is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and every Democrat in the House and Senate.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Now, President Truman made it very clear: The buck stops with him. No passing the buck for that guy. But Mr. Obama blames everyone but himself. Mr. Bush, he says, left the nation in a ditch, a deep ditch, and he’s been digging out since he took office. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And Congress? Those guys are just plain awful, he says. So mean. Wah, they won’t do anything I want done! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama feels so sure about it that he’s basing his re-election campaign on bashing Capitol Hill. But with the president delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday night, let’s pause here to take as hard look at the real state of America, by the numbers, using only cold, hard facts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - There are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 — 12 years ago — and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered “low paying,” up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office — a 20 percent increase.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Some 48 percent of all Americans — 146.4 million — are considered by the Census Bureau either as “low-income” or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people — about one in seven Americans — got food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - The number of low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older holding more than $10,000 in credit card debt has gone up 26 percent since 2005. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - On the macro side, America’s annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion — and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion.&lt;br /&gt; - Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, America, that is the State of Your Union. But remember, Mr. Obama had not one thing to do with it. So don’t blame him when you go to the polls. Blame everyone else, especially yourself. •&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2676566105697255349?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2676566105697255349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2676566105697255349&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2676566105697255349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2676566105697255349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/true-state-of-our-union-and-it-is-not.html' title='The True State Of Our Union - And It Is Not Good'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7880621464812399550</id><published>2012-01-27T04:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T04:39:16.622-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake UP America</title><content type='html'>I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old. I asked, "Is Castro a good guy or bad?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dad said...he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana ...at the time. Dad was in the Army there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ike was president. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba. Our dinner conversation was starkly different than most. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960's. His family was more fortunate than most, as they were able to bring a suitcase...and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide ... while celebrating the birth of our beloved America ... on the Fourth of July. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We began with a simple discussion about our country, and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train. "You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, "You mean just like Barack Obama?" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He responded; "Yes, just like Barack Obama." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember my uncle saying after it started; "Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries. He will never come and take our family hardware store!!" But that is exactly what happened. Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that nice, large four-bedroom home you own...it is now our property also, and ... you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house, because others are moving in with you." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The lesson learned from this discussion, is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office...they can take totally unexpected turns. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society ... would be evaporating, just like it did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960's. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not charged with wrong doing by the U.S. Department of Justice ... because their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets ... without due process by the government! Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight ... only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled ... by the Attorney General.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. borders are over run with crime and illegal activity, and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers ... while the innocent are killed and over run. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed ... and threatened as racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration ... entrusted with enforcing the law.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Without the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution is a sham!! Without the rule of law, our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book ... a culture of corruption has replaced honest government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way this problem will be fixed, is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens that want to be treated equally, must come together ... and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law ... end now!! And yes, it can happen here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!! And ... may God save the United States of America ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*....the least you can do is forward this email. 6 million plus Jews didn't believe it would happen in Germany either!!! If you're a Christian in these United States of America , you're next on the list. The real problem here is, the boy from Cuba did manage to make it to the U.S. We will not have any place to escape to...except death! And, for the most part...even though I'm forwarding this probably only 5 or 10 will even read it. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." Albert Einstein&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7880621464812399550?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7880621464812399550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7880621464812399550&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7880621464812399550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7880621464812399550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/wake-up-america.html' title='Wake UP America'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7622980957235995627</id><published>2012-01-25T09:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T09:39:14.086-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Do Not Miss This Show... Finally .. Sho is This Man Obama</title><content type='html'>This Coming Sunday-- Set Your DVR for the Fox News channel at 9:00 PM eastern. Maybe this is why the White House has been discounting FOX. Sounds like this could be history in the making - someone may go down - either Obama or Fox News. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be that Fox has been withholding this information back due to the sensitivity of it and out of courtesy. But, Obama has taken on Fox and it appears they are ready to spill the ugly beans of truth about the background of this individual who has had an extremely radical past. This Sunday, Fox News is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, Sunday night at 9P.M. Eastern. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report will go back to Obama's earlier days, showing even then his close ties to radical Marxist professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc. It will also reveal details about his ties to Rev. Wright for 20+ years, i.e., how he was participating with this man, and not for the reasons he stated. The report has uncovered more of Obama's radical past and we will see things that no one in the media is willing to put out there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will be a segment to remember. Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: Sunday night, 8 PM CT; 9 PM ET. Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how YOUR country is being sold down the road to Totalitarian Socialism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you care about the direction of our country, pass this notice on to everyone you know.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7622980957235995627?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7622980957235995627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7622980957235995627&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7622980957235995627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7622980957235995627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/do-not-miss-this-show-finally-sho-is.html' title='Do Not Miss This Show... Finally .. Sho is This Man Obama'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7127251210715227113</id><published>2012-01-25T09:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T09:34:36.335-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More  of The OHbama efforts</title><content type='html'>Keep your eye on Waukesha , Wisconsin .....Their biggest employer just moved out.  General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha , Wis. , to Beijing .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In addition to moving the headquarters,the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers.  This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but paid no taxes  -the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the United States .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thanks Jeff, you're a "real" American....give Barrack our Best!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7127251210715227113?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7127251210715227113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7127251210715227113&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7127251210715227113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7127251210715227113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-of-ohbama-efforts.html' title='More  of The OHbama efforts'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2669593987436715335</id><published>2012-01-24T16:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T16:33:53.071-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Tell When The President Is Lying... His Lips Are Moving</title><content type='html'>Subject:  Obama stops soldier from speaking  -   Ft. Bragg connection!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something you'll want to be aware of: Obama stops soldier from speaking.....Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , Va.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. This past weekend we had our annual banquet/fundraiser event in Starkville . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube to come; he's a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed overseas and didn't have much of a chance for survival. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE.   Needless to say, Greg had to cancel his speaking event with us. Didn't know if anyone else was aware of this new policy. You're just starting to see the Obamanation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just how the Nazis did it in the 1930s -- slowly, one step at a time.   This should be forwarded to everyone regardless of party affiliation!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have lost 50% of our freedom of speech in the last 2 years. The news media is not allowed to print anything negative about this evil Obama."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARE YOU STILL GOING TO RE-ELECT HIM ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert D. Sinacola,    COL (Ret), AVN, USAR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks To ALL Who Served And Are Serving........Please Pray For Our Troops And Leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God Bless America ... Land That I love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now take a look at this   copy it to you browser and view what The Man Said about his father&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/service.asp&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2669593987436715335?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2669593987436715335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2669593987436715335&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2669593987436715335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2669593987436715335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-tell-when-president-is-lying-his.html' title='How To Tell When The President Is Lying... His Lips Are Moving'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8660975114766290162</id><published>2012-01-23T07:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T07:10:55.704-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Was Kilroy</title><content type='html'>Who the Heck was Kilroy?  (true story)  Not seen much anymore but back inthe 40's and 50 it was everywhere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories.  For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history.  Anyone born in the teens, twenties, and mid-thirties, is familiar with Kilroy.  We didn't know why, but we had lapel pins with his nose hanging over the label and the top of his face above his nose with his hands hanging over the label.  No one knew why he was so well known, but we all joined in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who the heck was Kilroy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.  Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts, had evidence of his identity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy.  His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed.  Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office.  The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate.  It was then he realized what had been going on.  The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk.  He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.  Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint.  With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them.  As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.  Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first."  As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of l'Arc De Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the war went on, the legend grew.  Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there).  On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference.  Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters.  He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, now you know!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8660975114766290162?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8660975114766290162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8660975114766290162&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8660975114766290162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8660975114766290162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-was-kilroy.html' title='Who Was Kilroy'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1153651572523269104</id><published>2012-01-23T07:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T07:05:54.944-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What Should We Do</title><content type='html'>Democrats don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Republicans don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Liberals don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Allow me to explain:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; What do you think you should do?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Raise the ceilings or pump out the crap?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Your choice is coming next November.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Don't miss the opportunity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1153651572523269104?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1153651572523269104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1153651572523269104&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1153651572523269104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1153651572523269104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-should-we-do.html' title='What Should We Do'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6463765085255953234</id><published>2012-01-23T07:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T07:04:33.741-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Do We Stand For This Abuse OF Power</title><content type='html'>The FACTS ARE IN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of a Judicial Watch filing under the Freedom of Information Act, the USAF released documents detailing House Speaker Pelosi's use of United States Air Force aircraft between March 2009 and June 2010. The data are published in the Judicial Watch Verdict of December 2010, Volume 16, Issue 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the main highlights revealed by the USAF. Keep in mind that all the data below relate to United States Air Force aircraft used by one woman over a sixteen month period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several of these flights included Ms Pelosi's guests such as grown children, grandchildren, various in-laws, friends, and hangers-on. Over 95% of the trips were between the west coast and Washington , DC or what we might call a commute between home and the office. READ it and WEEP!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Total trips: 85 trips over a 68 week period or 1.25 average trips per week.&lt;br /&gt;Total mileage: 206,264 miles or 2,427 average miles per trip&lt;br /&gt;Total flying time: 428.6 hours or an average of 5 hrs per trip&lt;br /&gt;Cost to the taxpayers: $2,100,744.59 or $27,715.00 per trip or $1,285,162.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;Cost of in flight food and alcohol: $101,429.14 or $1,193.00 per trip or $62,051.00 per year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one junket to Baghdad, according to the Air Force report, she had the aircraft bar stocked with Johnny Walker Red Scotch, Grey Goose Vodka, E&amp;J Brandy, Bailey's Irish Creme, Maker's Mark Whiskey, Courvoisier Cognac, Bacardi Rum, Jim Beam Whiskey, Beefeater Gin, Dewars Scotch, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Jack Daniels Whiskey, Corona Beer and several varieties of wine. This was obviously a very important "gubment bidness" trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidence generally speaks for itself, and in Ms. Pelosi's case it speaks the language of abuse and (evidently) a serious familial drinking problem, for in a single year she and her spawn drank an amount in excess of the net income of the average employed American! When she said, "... If the stimulus doesn't pass, five hundred million people might lose their jobs...", I thought she was unintentionally revealing her ignorance. I'm now more inclined to think she was pickled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though she can no longer abuse the USAF, she can either fly on her broom, or fly Southwest Airlines, where bags fly free.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6463765085255953234?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6463765085255953234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6463765085255953234&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6463765085255953234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6463765085255953234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-do-we-stand-for-this-abuse-of-power.html' title='Why Do We Stand For This Abuse OF Power'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6607899447461082626</id><published>2012-01-23T04:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T04:51:20.127-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Democrats Do What They Do</title><content type='html'>Just in case you wonder why Obama and friends are so hot to support labor unions,&lt;br /&gt;This does not post well but the first number is $ given to Democrats and second number is $ to Republicians&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;particularly government employee unions, check out these Union contributions.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Leading Union Political &lt;br /&gt;Campaign Contributors&lt;br /&gt;1990-2010&lt;br /&gt;                        Democrats Republicans &lt;br /&gt;American Fed. Of &lt;br /&gt;State, County, &amp; Municipal &lt;br /&gt;Employees               $40,281,900     $547,700&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Intel Brotherhood of    &lt;br /&gt;Electrical Workers       $ 29,705,600     $679,000 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Education &lt;br /&gt;Association              $ 27,679,300     $ 2,005,200 &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Service Employees       $  26,368,470    $  98,700 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Communication Workers &lt;br /&gt;Of America              $  26,305,500 125,300 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Service Employees &lt;br /&gt;International Union     $   26,252,000     $ 1,086,200 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laborers &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Union                    $ 25,734,000    $ 138,000 &lt;br /&gt;American Federation &lt;br /&gt;Of Teachers              $ 25,682,800    $200,000 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;United Auto &lt;br /&gt;Workers                  $25,082,200 182,700 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teamsters &lt;br /&gt;Union                      $ 24,926,400  $ 1,822,000 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carpenters and &lt;br /&gt;Joiners Union              $   24,094,100    $658,000 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Machinists &amp; &lt;br /&gt;Aerospace Workers Union     $   23,875,600  $ 226,300 &lt;br /&gt;United Food and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commercial Workers Union   $ 23,182,000   $ 334,200 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AFL-CIO                     $ 17,124,300   $ 713,500 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheet Metal Workers &lt;br /&gt;Union                       $  16,347,200 $342,800 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plumbers &amp; &lt;br /&gt;Pipefitters Union   $   14,790,000     $ 818,500 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Operating Engineers &lt;br /&gt;Union           $ 13,840,000 $ 2,309,500&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Airline Pilots &lt;br /&gt;Association     $12,806,600  $ 2,398,300 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;International &lt;br /&gt;Association of Firefighters $ 12,421,700  $ 2,685,400&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;United Transportation &lt;br /&gt;Workers            $11,807,000  $ 1,459,300 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironworkers &lt;br /&gt;Union               $ 11,638,900  $ 936,000 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American Postal &lt;br /&gt;Workers Union      $  11,633,100  $ 544,300 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nat'l Active &amp; &lt;br /&gt;Retired Fed.. Employees &lt;br /&gt;Association         $ 8,135,400   $ 2,294,600&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Seafarers &lt;br /&gt;International Union $ 6,726,800  $ 1,281,300&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Source: Center for &lt;br /&gt;Responsive Politics, Washington , &lt;br /&gt;D.C.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Wouldn't it be nice if the unions put that money in their pension funds?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6607899447461082626?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6607899447461082626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6607899447461082626&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6607899447461082626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6607899447461082626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-democrats-do-what-they-do.html' title='Why Democrats Do What They Do'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7176580111527113907</id><published>2012-01-20T09:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T09:58:55.242-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama Unemployment Explained</title><content type='html'>As explained by Abbott and Costello... now we know where Washington got their ideas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Good "subject". Terrible "times". It's about 9%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: You just said 9%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have &lt;br /&gt;to look for work to be unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: But ... they are out of work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: What point?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work, can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: To who?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: The unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work... Those who are &lt;br /&gt;out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles, that would count as less &lt;br /&gt;unemployment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 9%. Otherwise it &lt;br /&gt;would be 16%. You don't want to read about 16% unemployment do ya?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: That would be frightening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Absolutely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means they're two ways to &lt;br /&gt;bring down the unemployment number?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Bingo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of &lt;br /&gt;the two is to just stop looking for work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an economist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!&lt;br /&gt;And now you know why Obama's unemployment figures are improving!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7176580111527113907?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7176580111527113907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7176580111527113907&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7176580111527113907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7176580111527113907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-unemployment-explained.html' title='Obama Unemployment Explained'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4625029612985977701</id><published>2012-01-20T07:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T07:20:11.415-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It is Tea Time</title><content type='html'>Does anybody out there have any memory Of the reason given for the establishment&lt;br /&gt;Of  the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY During the Carter Administration?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Anybody?&lt;br /&gt; Anything?&lt;br /&gt; No?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Didn't think so!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Bottom line ... We've spent several hundred billion dollars&lt;br /&gt;In support of an agency ...the reason For which not one person who reads&lt;br /&gt;This can remember. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ready???????&lt;br /&gt;It was very simple. And at the time everybody thought&lt;br /&gt;It very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy 'Was instituted on 8-04-1977 &lt;br /&gt;By then President Carter, who is now the second worst President ever for our country&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW IT'S 2012, 35 YEARS LATER .... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT&lt;br /&gt;$24..2 BILLION A YEAR IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And NOW we are going to turn The Banking System, Health Care &amp; The Auto Industry over to government    ALL IN THE NAME OF CHANGE?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4625029612985977701?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4625029612985977701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4625029612985977701&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4625029612985977701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4625029612985977701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-is-tea-time.html' title='It is Tea Time'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4194194095134853898</id><published>2012-01-20T07:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T07:10:27.253-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tea Time Is Now</title><content type='html'>THE PRESIDENCY: SOME WILL APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME WILL NOT.  HOWEVER, ALL OF IT IS TRUE. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After 3 ½ very bad and long years of Obama... here’s your change!  &lt;br /&gt;    January 2009 TODAY % chg Source   &lt;br /&gt;  Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.44 84% 1      &lt;br /&gt;  Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13.75 42.3% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob $13.37 $35.39 164.7% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7% 3      &lt;br /&gt;  Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3      &lt;br /&gt;  Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% 3      &lt;br /&gt;  Number of Fed. Employees 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% 3      &lt;br /&gt;  Real median household income $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4      &lt;br /&gt;  Number of food stamp recipients 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5      &lt;br /&gt;  Number of unemployment benefit recipients 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% 6      &lt;br /&gt;  Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% 3      &lt;br /&gt;  Poverty rate, individuals 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4      &lt;br /&gt;  People in poverty in U.S. 39,800,000 43,600,000 9.5% 4      &lt;br /&gt;  U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 9 n/a 10      &lt;br /&gt;  Present Situation Index 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11      &lt;br /&gt;  Failed banks 140 164 17.1% 12      &lt;br /&gt;  U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 82.03 -8.6% 2      &lt;br /&gt;  U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4% 13      &lt;br /&gt;  U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13      &lt;br /&gt;  National debt, in trillions $10.627 $14.052 32.2% 14      &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history.  Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 &lt;br /&gt;MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH! &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Sources:&lt;br /&gt;(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard &amp; Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 36 months -- so you'll have one year to come up with an answer. Every statement in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS... &lt;br /&gt;I WONDER HOW MANY WILL FORWARD THIS?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"In God We Trust."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Tea Anyone?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4194194095134853898?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4194194095134853898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4194194095134853898&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4194194095134853898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4194194095134853898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/tea-time-is-now.html' title='Tea Time Is Now'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-496214815089692254</id><published>2012-01-19T14:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T14:25:16.710-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Way It Was Intended... Live in America be an American or Get Out</title><content type='html'>Vietnam Immigrant.....Quang Nguyen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         It looks like we did some good after all! On Saturday, July 24th, 2010 the town of Prescott Valley, AZ, hosted a Freedom Rally. Quang Nguyen was asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans. Thought you might enjoy hearing what he had to say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“35 years ago, if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking to a couple thousand patriots, in English, I'd laugh at you. Man, every morning I wake up thanking God for putting me and my family in the greatest country on earth.              &lt;br /&gt;“I just want you all to know that the American dream does exist and I am living the American dream. I was asked to speak to you about my experience as a first generation Vietnamese- American, but I'd rather speak to you as an American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “If you hadn't noticed, I am not white and I feel pretty comfortable with my people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  “I am a proud US citizen and here is my proof. It took me 8 years to get it, waiting in endless lines, but I got it, and I am very proud of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “I still remember the images of the Tet offensive in 1968, I was six years old. Now you might want to question how a &lt;br /&gt;6-year-old boy could remember anything. Trust me, those images can never be erased. I can't even imagine what it was like for young American soldiers, 10,000 miles away from home, fighting on my behalf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “35 years ago, I left South Vietnam for political asylum. The war had ended. At the age of 13, I left with the understanding that I may or may not ever get to see my siblings or parents again. I was one of the first lucky 100,000 Vietnamese allowed to come to the US. Somehow, my family and I were reunited 5 months later, amazingly, in California. It was a miracle from God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “If you haven't heard lately that this is the greatest country on earth, I am telling you that right now. It was the freedom and the opportunities presented to me that put me here with all of you tonight. I also remember the barriers that I had to overcome every step of the way. My high school counselor told me that I cannot make it to college due to my poor communication skills. I proved him wrong. I finished college. You see, all you have to do is to give this little boy an opportunity and encourage him to take and run with it. Well, I took the opportunity and here I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “This person standing tonight in front of you could not exist under a socialist/ communist environment. By the way, if you think socialism is the way to go, I am sure many people here will chip &lt;br /&gt;in to get you a one-way ticket out of here. And if you didn't know, the &lt;br /&gt;only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, &lt;br /&gt;reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I can't remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “Fast forwarding, somehow I finished high school, &lt;br /&gt;finished college, and like any other goofball 21 year old kid, I was &lt;br /&gt;having a great time with my life. I had a nice job and a nice apartment in Southern California . In some way and somehow, I had forgotten how I got here and why I was here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “One day I was at a gas station, I saw a veteran &lt;br /&gt;pumping gas on the other side of the island. I don't know what made me do it, but I walked over and asked if he had served in Vietnam . He smiled and said yes. I shook and held his hand. The grown man began to well up. I walked away as fast as I could and at that very moment, I was emotionally rocked. This was a profound moment in my life. I knew something had to change in my life. It was time for me to learn how to be a good citizen. It was time for me to give back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “You see, America is not just a place on the map, &lt;br /&gt;it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you &lt;br /&gt;are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “Brothers and sisters, to be a real American, the very least you must do is to learn English and understand it well. In my &lt;br /&gt;humble opinion, you cannot be a faithful patriotic citizen if you can't &lt;br /&gt;speak the language of the country you live in. Take this document of 46 &lt;br /&gt;pages - last I looked on the Internet, there wasn't a Vietnamese &lt;br /&gt;translation of the US Constitution. It took me a long time to get to the &lt;br /&gt;point of being able to converse and until this day, I still struggle to &lt;br /&gt;come up with the right words. It's not easy, but if it's too easy, it's &lt;br /&gt;not worth doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “Before I knew this 46-page document, I learned of &lt;br /&gt;the 500,000 Americans who fought for this little boy. I learned of the &lt;br /&gt;58,000 names scribed on the black wall at the Vietnam Memorial. You are my heroes. You are my founders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         “At this time, I would like to ask all the Vietnam veterans to please stand. I thank you for my life. I thank you for your sacrifices, and I thank you for giving me the freedom and liberty I have today. I now ask all veterans, firefighters, and police officers, to please stand. On behalf of all first generation immigrants, I thank you for your services and may God bless you all.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         Quang Nguyen&lt;br /&gt;                         Creative Director/Founder&lt;br /&gt;                         Caddis Advertising, LLC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         Notice that he referred to himself as an American, &lt;br /&gt;NOT Vietnamese - American.&lt;br /&gt;                         How good it would be here in America if all of the &lt;br /&gt;immigrants---no, EVERYONE--- felt like Quang Nguyen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         " God Bless America "&lt;br /&gt;                         "One Flag, One Language, One Nation Under God”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-496214815089692254?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/496214815089692254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=496214815089692254&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/496214815089692254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/496214815089692254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/way-it-was-intended-live-in-america-be.html' title='The Way It Was Intended... Live in America be an American or Get Out'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2828996404743055656</id><published>2012-01-18T13:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T13:29:14.044-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WHERE ARE THEY NOW?</title><content type='html'>WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Surprise.... Answer..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The three who brought down Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who brought down Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae.  Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim Howard - was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.  Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.&lt;br /&gt;************************************************************************************** ***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHERE ARE THEY NOW?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FRANKLIN RAINES?&lt;br /&gt;Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIM HOWARD?&lt;br /&gt;Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JIM JOHNSON?&lt;br /&gt;Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kinda makes you sick to your stomach.  Our government seems to be rotten to the core !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we stupid or what? Vote in 2012..it is the most important election of our lives...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2828996404743055656?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2828996404743055656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2828996404743055656&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2828996404743055656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2828996404743055656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/where-are-they-now.html' title='WHERE ARE THEY NOW?'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-418094701592042923</id><published>2012-01-13T20:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T20:48:10.061-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tell Me Again About Socialized Medicane and Why We Need It</title><content type='html'>There are actually two messages here.  The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                   65% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England             46% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              42% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             US.                    93% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England             15% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              43% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                    90% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England             15% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              43% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                    77% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England             40% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              43% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                    71 &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England             14 &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              18 &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health": &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                   12% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England              2% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada              6% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            And now for the last statistic: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            National Health Insurance? &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             U.S.                    NO &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             England            YES &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Canada             YES &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Check this last set of statistics!! &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.  You know what the private business sector is, a real-life business, not a government job.  Here are the percentages. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            T. Roosevelt................... 38% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Taft.................................. 40% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Wilson ........................... 52% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Harding........................... 49% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Coolidge......................... 48% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Hoover........................... 42% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            F. Roosevelt................... 50% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Truman........................... 50% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Eisenhower................ .... 57% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Kennedy......................... 30% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Johnson......................... 47% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Nixon.............................. 53% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Ford............................... 42% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Carter............................ 32% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Reagan........................... 56% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            GH Bush........................ 51% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;             Clinton .......................... 39% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            GW Bush........................ 55% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Obama..................... 8% &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business! &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should have been in an employment line. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;            Pass this on because we'll NEVER see these facts in the main stream media.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-418094701592042923?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/418094701592042923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=418094701592042923&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/418094701592042923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/418094701592042923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/tell-me-again-about-socialized-medicane.html' title='Tell Me Again About Socialized Medicane and Why We Need It'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8279793234105298865</id><published>2012-01-13T20:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T20:24:19.670-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Be Prepared - Act Quickly - Take Control</title><content type='html'>Experiences of a young Marine in Korea in 1951 and 1952. While a number of Amy units did surrender and it was not uncommon to find them shot with their own weapons with their hands bound behind them, very few Marines surrendered to the North Koreans because they were aware of their brutality and hatred for American Marines.   Marines knew that if they did surrender that they would undergo a brutal period as a prisoner which they would probably not survive and that it was better to die fighting than to live even a short period of time as a Marine in a North Korean prison camp.  From this came the attitude to go down fighting and to take as many of the enemy with you as possible in doing so.                                                                                                                                                             &lt;br /&gt; While the term of fighting to the “last man” is often thought of as being a heroic thing it is more often a just matter of choosing how one is willing to end his life while he has the opportunity to do so. The attached article is directly on point.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;“"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense"……..Winston Churchill, Oct 29, 1941&lt;br /&gt;I do not know the author of the following article but he has a point. Surrender is not an option and this article make a good case for that position.&lt;br /&gt;The Phases of Surrender&lt;br /&gt;The first phase of surrender is failing to be armed, trained and committed to fight. We are prepared to surrender when we are unprepared to resist.&lt;br /&gt;The second phase of surrender is failing to be alert. You must see trouble coming in order to have time to respond. The warning may be less than one second but it will be there and it must be recognized and acted upon immediately.&lt;br /&gt;The Third phase of surrender is giving up your weapons.&lt;br /&gt;The last phase of surrender is up to the monsters who have taken control of your life and perhaps the lives of your loved ones. The last phase of surrender is out of your hands.&lt;br /&gt;Surrender during war&lt;br /&gt;During the American Revolution 12,000 Colonists captured by the British died in captivity on prison ships, while only 8,000 died in battle. Had the 12,000 who surrendered continued to fight many would have survived and they could have done great damage to the British and likely shortened the war.&lt;br /&gt;Civil War prisoners were treated so badly that some 50,000 died in captivity. More Americans have been killed by Americans than by any foreign army in any war. Six hundred eighteen thousand (618,000) Americans died in the Civil War.&lt;br /&gt;As many as 18,000 captured American and Filipino prisoners died or were murdered at the hands of the Japanese during the six days of the "Bataan Death March." Had most of these soldiers slipped into the jungle and fought as guerrillas they could have tied up elements of the Japanese Army for months or years and perhaps more of them would have survived the war.&lt;br /&gt;Of the Americans who actually reached Japanese prison camps during the war, nearly 50,000 died in captivity. That is more than 10 percent of all the American military deaths in the entire war in both the Pacific and European theaters combined.&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the 50,000 captured Americans who died in Japanese prison camps an additional 20,000 were murdered before reaching a prison camp. If those 70,000 Americans had continued to fight, they could have provided time for the United States to build and maneuver its forces, perhaps shortening the war and saving even more lives. Some of them would have likely survived the war. If they had all died in battle their fate would have been no worse.&lt;br /&gt;During the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge American soldiers were massacred by the German troops who captured them.&lt;br /&gt;During the Vietnam conflict many American Prisoners Of War were tortured daily for years by the Communist North Vietnamese. Many Americans died during the process. Only Officers (Aviators) held in North Vietnam were ever repatriated. Enlisted Americans captured in South Viet Nam were routinely tortured, mutilated and murdered by the Communists. As a combat soldier and knowing my fate should I be captured, I was committed to fighting to the death. I made specific plans to force the enemy to kill me rather than allow myself to be captured.&lt;br /&gt;In recent years, American troops captured by Islamic terrorists groups have virtually all been tortured and murdered in gruesome fashion. If I were fighting in the Middle East, I would make a similar vow and plan to fight to the death. Under no circumstances would I allow myself to be captured by our Islamic enemies.&lt;br /&gt;Death by Government&lt;br /&gt;R.J. Rummel, who wrote the book, "Death by Government" states that prior to the 20th Century; 170 million civilians were murdered by their own governments. Historians tell us that during the 20th Century perhaps as many as 200 million civilians were murdered by their own governments. &lt;br /&gt;Some of the Nations where the mass murder of civilians occurred during the 20th Century include Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, The Congo, Uganda, Armenia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Nigeria, Laos, China, Cuba, Manchuria, Iraq, Iran, Biafra, Rwanda and many others. The slaughter of civilians by governments appears to be as common as not.&lt;br /&gt;Most of these slaughters were only made possible by disarming the victims before killing them. Had these people resisted, their fate would have been no worse and perhaps better. Resistance is much more difficult after the government has already taken the means of resistance away from the people. Planned genocide has been the primary reason for weapon confiscation throughout history.&lt;br /&gt;Jews and others who surrendered to the Nazis were murdered in slave labor camps by the millions. Had all the Jews in Europe resisted when the Nazis started rounding them up they could have made the Nazis pay an enormous price for the holocaust. The fact that Hitler confiscated guns in 1936 made resistance far less feasible.&lt;br /&gt;Had the Jews in Germany resisted, the outcome may have been the same but the world would have learned about the holocaust years earlier and may have intervened. Most people would prefer to die fighting and trying to kill their oppressor, than be taken off to a death camp and starved to death or murdered in a gas chamber.&lt;br /&gt;William Ayers, former leader of the Terrorist organization The Weather Underground, and close friend of Barack Obama, told his followers in the Weather Underground, “When we (Communist Revolutionaries) take over the United States, we will have to kill 25 million Americans.” He was referring to those who would never submit to a Communist takeover. Those who would refuse to deny and reject the Constitution would have to be murdered. If this sounds impossible, remember that Genocide by Government was the leading cause of death in the last Century.&lt;br /&gt;Surrendering to Criminals&lt;br /&gt;The Onion Field Murder in California was a wake up call to Law Enforcement Officers everywhere. On March 9, 1963, two Los Angeles Police Department officers were taken prisoner by two criminals. The Officers submitted to capture and gave up their weapons.&lt;br /&gt;They were driven to an onion field outside of Bakersfield.&lt;br /&gt;One Officer was murdered while the other Officer managed to escape in a hail of gunfire. The surviving Officer suffered serious psychological case, having been unable to save his partner. As a result of this incident, the LAPD policy became, “You will fight no matter how bad things are.” “You will never ever surrender your weapons or yourself to a criminal.”&lt;br /&gt;Consider the Ogden, Utah record store murders. Read the book if you do not know the story. The manner in which the criminals murdered their young victims cannot be described here. Resistance might have been futile. Compliance was definitely and absolutely futile.&lt;br /&gt;The courts in this country have ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect anyone. Why do Law Enforcement Officials always tell civilians not to resist a criminal, while they tell their Officers to always resist and never surrender? Police administrators fear being sued by a civilian victim who gets hurt resisting. Furthermore, the police, like all government agencies derive their power by fostering dependence.&lt;br /&gt;According to Professor John Lott's study on the relationship between guns and crime, a victim who resists with a firearm is less likely to be hurt or killed than a victim who cooperates with his attacker. His book is titled "More Guns, Less Crime."&lt;br /&gt;The Doctor and his family in Connecticut complied and cooperated, meeting every demand of the home invasion robbers to whom they had surrendered. The Doctors wife and daughters were tortured, raped, doused with gasoline and burned alive. How did surrender and cooperation work out for them?&lt;br /&gt;In another home invasion robbery, a kindly couple with 9 “adopted, special needs children,” surrendered to the robbers. The victims opened their safe and did not resist in any way. When the robbers where finished ransacking the home and terrifying the children, they shot both parents in the head several times before leaving. How did surrender and complete cooperation work out for them?&lt;br /&gt;Handing over your life by surrendering to someone who is in the process of committing a violent crime against you is a form of suicide. Some survive but many do not. The monster gets to decide for you.&lt;br /&gt;We have heard brutalized victims say, "The robber said that he would not hurt us if we cooperated." Why would you believe anything that someone who is committing a crime against you says? He will be lying if he speaks. As we say in law enforcement, “If a criminal’s lips are moving while he is speaking, he is lying.” Criminals by definition are dishonest and should never be trusted or believed.&lt;br /&gt;You have no doubt heard friends say, I would not resist a criminal, after all why would he kill me? This is stupid and naive. In law enforcement, we call these people “Victims by Choice” (VBC). There could be a long list of reasons why a criminal would kill you despite your cooperation.&lt;br /&gt;You may be of a different race, thus a different tribe. Only members of his tribe are actually human in his mind. He may feel hatred toward you because you have more than he does. Gratification from being in a position of total power is reason enough for some.&lt;br /&gt;Criminals are sometimes members of a Satanic Cult who worship death such as the “Night Stalker” in California. Eliminating a potential witness is often cited as a reason to kill a victim. Sometimes criminals simply enjoy causing suffering and death. There are people who are in fact, pure evil. I have heard criminals say, “I killed her just to watch her die.”&lt;br /&gt;A victim who begs for mercy can give his attacker a tremendous feeling of power which many criminals seem to enjoy. You cannot expect mercy from someone who does not know what mercy is.&lt;br /&gt;Resist!&lt;br /&gt;We each have a duty to ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors, our community, our city, our state and our country to resist criminals. Reasoning with a thug who believes that his failures are because of people just like you is not likely to be helpful. Pleading with a terrorist who has been taught from birth that his salvation depends on murdering people like you is a doomed plan. Resist!&lt;br /&gt;Resist! His gun may not be real. After you are tied up it will not matter. His gun may not be loaded. After you are tied up it will not matter. He may not know how to operate his gun. After you are tied up it will not matter. Resist!&lt;br /&gt;Statistically if you run and your assailant shoots at you he will miss. Statistically if you run and he shoots and hits you, you will not die. Bad guys shooting at the police miss 90 percent of the time. The odds are on your side. Better to die fighting in place than to be tied up, doused with gasoline and burned alive. There are things worse than death. Surrender to a criminal or a terrorist and you will learn what they are. Resist!&lt;br /&gt;If you resist with a commitment to win you may well prevail, especially if you are armed and trained. If you lose it is still better to die fighting in place than to be taken prisoner and have your head cut off with a dull knife while your screams gurgle through your own blood as we have witnessed on numerous videos from the Middle East, brought to us by the “Islamic practitioners of peace.”&lt;br /&gt;Some who have refused to surrender.&lt;br /&gt;History is filled with brave people who refused to surrender. Some of these men and woman have won their battles despite what seemed to be insurmountable odds. Others have gone down fighting and avoided being tortured to death. Some fought to the death to help or save others. Many have fought to the death for an idea or a belief.&lt;br /&gt;When General Santa Ana (also the President of Mexico at the time) ordered 180 "Texacans" to surrender the Alamo, Col. Travis answered with “a cannon shot and a rebel yell.” Eventually General Santa Ana was able to build his troop strength to ten thousand. The Mexicans then swarmed the defenders and killed them all.&lt;br /&gt;The battle of the Alamo delayed the Mexican Army long enough for Sam Houston to build his Texacan Army, which met and defeated the Mexican Army and captured General Santa Ana. General Santa Ana traded Texas for his life and the sacrifices of the Alamo defenders changed history.&lt;br /&gt;Frank Luke was a heroic aviator in WWI. Shot down and wounded he refused to surrender when confronted by a German patrol. He killed 4 German soldiers with his 1911 Pistol before being killed. Luke was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.&lt;br /&gt;When his unit was pinned down by German Machine Guns and all of the Officers and non commissioned officers in his company were killed or wounded, Alvin York never considered surrendering. Instead, he attacked hundreds of German soldiers killing about 25 with his rifle and pistol and then captured 132 others by himself!&lt;br /&gt;Most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (Poland) surrendered to the German Army. They were taken off to death camps and murdered. Between 400 and 1,000 Jews refused to surrender and armed with only a few pistols, revolvers and rifles, they held off the German Army for three months before dying in battle.&lt;br /&gt;During the “Battle of the Bulge,” the 101st Airborne was surrounded by the German Army and ordered to surrender. Faced with overwhelming odds, the Commanding Officer of the 101st sent this reply to the Germans. "Nuts." The Americans refused to surrender and they stopped the German advance. Most of the Americans troops survived.&lt;br /&gt;On Sept 2, 2010, 40 armed criminals took over and robbed a train in India. Some of the robbers had guns, others used knives and clubs. When they began to disrobe an 18 year old girl for the purpose of gang raping her, one of the passengers decided to fight. He was a 35 year old retired Gurkha soldier. He drew his Khukasri knife and attacked the 40 robbers. He killed three of the robbers and wounded 8 more despite his being wounded in this 20 minute fight. The remaining criminals fled for their lives leaving their stolen loot and eleven comrades dead or wounded on the floor of the train. The eight wounded robbers were arrested.&lt;br /&gt;How does one man defeat 40? How does he summon the courage to fight such odds? He utilized all of the Principles of Personal Defense: Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness, and Surprise. He was skilled in the use of his weapon. Most importantly, He refused to be a victim and allow evil to triumph!&lt;br /&gt;If this one inspirational soldier can defeat 40 opponents using his knife, it would seem that we should all be able to defeat a group of armed criminals by using our firearms if we are professionally trained as was this heroic Gurkha soldier.&lt;br /&gt;Final thoughts&lt;br /&gt;How will you respond if you are confronted by evil as some of us have been in the past and some of us will be in the future? If you have not decided ahead of time what you will do, you will likely do nothing. Those who fight back often win and survive. Those who surrender never win and often die a horrible death. Have you made your decision? Remember, no decision is a decision to do nothing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8279793234105298865?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8279793234105298865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8279793234105298865&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8279793234105298865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8279793234105298865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/be-prepared-act-quickly-take-control.html' title='Be Prepared - Act Quickly - Take Control'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1977856683932047749</id><published>2012-01-07T12:21:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:22:50.048-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Seniors Wake  UP</title><content type='html'>Rec'd this from  a Cousin who's good friend in Corpus was diagnosed with cancer last year..  See what his doctor is saying.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, I was at the doctor whom I have been going to since we moved down here (he is the one who discovered my cancer).  I have to get a very expensive shot every 3 months ($3000) that is designed to keep the PSI down and help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer.  Has some uncomfortable side effects, and I was questioning the need to continue with it, which he assured me was necessary.  He then asked how old I was, and when I replied 70, he said that if this legislation goes through as intended by the powers that be, that I probably would not be able to get it next year, as that would be money better spent on someone else with greater longevity.  I would be referred to someone to "counsel" me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked him why the AMA had recently endorsed the plan.  He replied that only about 15% of the nation's doctors were members of AMA, and most of them were not really on the front lines of doctor hood but in some other areas of medicine.  He said he was a member, but would not be after this membership year.  &lt;br /&gt;This man got part of his training in London , and practiced in Canada for 16 years before coming to the US , and he has no use for socialized medicine, regardless of how you wrap it, or what kind of bow to put on it.  He said that we have a shortfall of around 400,000 doctors at the present time, and many of today's doctors are of the baby boomer generation who are nearing retirement and/or will decide to hang it up rather than deal with the results this is sure to bring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scary, my friends.  The picture for our age group is not pretty in Obamaland.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In England no one over 59 can receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama wants to have a healthcare system just like Canada 's and  England 's. I got this today and am sending it on.. If Obama's plans in other areas don't scare you, this should. Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close or knows somebody that is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens.  The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement:&lt;br /&gt;Bloomberg: Daschle says "health-care reform will not be pain free.  Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed for the remainder of their lives. Nor are they subject to this new law if it passes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out.  Talk it up at the grassroots level.  We have an election coming up this year.  And we have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make their lives miserable. Let's do this!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you disagree, do nothing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1977856683932047749?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1977856683932047749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1977856683932047749&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1977856683932047749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1977856683932047749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/recd-this-from-cousin-whos-good-friend.html' title='Seniors Wake  UP'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-579410505539669361</id><published>2012-01-07T12:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:18:22.973-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This Is A Very Real Possibility</title><content type='html'>By Dr. Walter  Williams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Can  President Obama be defeated in 2012?  No.  He  can't..    I am going on record as saying that President Barak Obama will win a second term.&lt;br /&gt;The media won't tell you this because a good election campaign means hundreds of millions (or in Obama's case billions) of dollars to them in advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the truth is, there simply are no conditions under which Barak Obama can be defeated in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;The quality of the Republican candidate doesn't matter.   Obama gets reelected. &lt;br /&gt;Nine percent unemployment?   No problem.  Obama will win.  &lt;br /&gt;Gas prices moving toward five dollars a gallon?  He still wins.  &lt;br /&gt;The economy soars or goes into the gutter.  Obama wins.  &lt;br /&gt;War in the Middle East ?  He wins a second term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America's role as the leading Superpower disappears?  Hurrah for Barak Obama! &lt;br /&gt;The U.S. government rushes toward bankruptcy, the dollar continues to sink on world markets and the price of daily goods and services soars due to inflation  fueled by Obama's extraordinary deficit spending?  Obama wins handily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are crazy Williams.  Don't you understand how volatile politics can be when overall economic, government, and world conditions are declining?  Sure I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's why I know Obama will win.  The American people are notoriously ignorant of economics.  And economics is the key to why Obama should be defeated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when Obama's policies lead the nation to final ruin, the majority of the American people are going to believe the bait-and-switch tactics Obama and his supporters in the media will use to explain why it isn't his fault.  After all, things were much worse than understood when he took office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's reelection is really a very, very simple math problem.  Consider the  following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Blacks will vote for Obama blindly.  Period.  Doesn't matter what he does.  It's a race thing.  He's one of us,&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt; 2)  College educated women will vote for Obama.  Though they will be offended by this, they swoon at his oratory.   It's really not more complex than that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 3)  Liberals will vote for Obama.  He is their great hope,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 4)  Democrats will vote for Obama.  He is the leader of their  party and his coat tails will carry them to victory nationwide,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 5)  Hispanics will vote for Obama.  He is the path to citizenship for those who are illegal and Hispanic leaders recognize the political clout they carry in the Democratic  Party, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 6) Union members will vote overwhelmingly for Obama.  He is their key to money and power in business, state and local politics, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Big  Business will support Obama.  They already have.  He has almost $1 Billion dollars in his reelection purse gained largely from his connections with Big Business and is gaining more every day.  Big Business loves Obama because he gives them access to taxpayer money so long as they support his social and political agenda, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 8) The  media love him.  They may attack the people who work for him, but they love him.  After all, to not love him would be racist, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 9) Most  other minorities and special interest groups will vote for him.  Oddly, the overwhelming majority of Jews and Muslims will support him because they won't vote Republican.  American Indians will support him.  Obviously homosexuals tend to vote Democratic.  And lastly,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) Approximately half of independents will vote for Obama.  And he doesn't need anywhere near that number because he has all of the groups previously mentioned.  The President will win an overwhelming victory in 2012.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--  Dr.  Walter Williams &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN ADDITION TO THE VOTING BLOCKS HE MENTIONS, THERE IS ANOTHER HUGE GROUP: THE NEARLY ONE-HALF OF ALL ADULTS DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES AND, IN FACT, MOST OF THEM RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT. THESE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO "SHAKE THE BOAT" TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP THE FLOW OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO THEMSELVES&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;• &lt;br /&gt;It's believed the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of democracy, with some forty  percent of the nation's population already having reached the  "governmental dependency" phase.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest  danger to our freedom&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-579410505539669361?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/579410505539669361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=579410505539669361&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/579410505539669361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/579410505539669361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-is-very-real-possibility.html' title='This Is A Very Real Possibility'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5233762955269388970</id><published>2012-01-02T05:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T05:31:14.459-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card</title><content type='html'>Subject: OBAMA'S 32 MONTH REPORT CARD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is unreal. Thank God someone had the background, intelligence, and determination to put this together. This took an enormous amount of work. I have to forward this to everyone I know. Please remember that we hold a great deal of power...we can vote!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card&lt;br /&gt;by Rich Carroll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy this article. You will need researched material to mail your liberal friends and/or relatives.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Hope and Change wants to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where we the people are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed.&lt;br /&gt;A gallon of regular gasoline the day Obama was inaugurated was $1.79 on average in the U.S. Today that price is $3.59, a 100.6% increase. The number of food stamp recipients has risen since Obama took office from 31,983,716 to 43,200,878, a 35.1% jump. Long term unemployment soared 146.2% during the same 32 month period from 2,600,000 to 6,400,000. Staggering hope and change isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;American citizens living in poverty have risen 9.5% from 39,800,000 to 43,600,000, and the number of unemployed has jumped almost 25% from 11,616,000 to 14,485,000 as of August 31, 2011. The number of unemployed blacks has risen from 12.6% at the end of George Bush's term to 15.8% today, a 25.4% increase, and finally, our national debt is up 34.4% from 10.627 trillion to 14,278 trillion *&lt;br /&gt;Keep these figures in mind as we recount the number of firsts for this presidency:&lt;br /&gt;First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.&lt;br /&gt;First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.&lt;br /&gt;First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.&lt;br /&gt;First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States .&lt;br /&gt;First President to violate the War Powers Act.&lt;br /&gt;First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .&lt;br /&gt;First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.&lt;br /&gt;First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.&lt;br /&gt;First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs.&lt;br /&gt;First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.&lt;br /&gt;First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.&lt;br /&gt;First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.&lt;br /&gt;First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.&lt;br /&gt;First President to terminate Americas ability to put a man in space.&lt;br /&gt;First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places.&lt;br /&gt;First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.&lt;br /&gt;First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.&lt;br /&gt;First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.&lt;br /&gt;First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.&lt;br /&gt;First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN)&lt;br /&gt;First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.&lt;br /&gt;First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.&lt;br /&gt;First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.&lt;br /&gt;First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.&lt;br /&gt;First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.&lt;br /&gt;First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.&lt;br /&gt;First President to coddle American enemies while alienating Americas allies.&lt;br /&gt;First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag.&lt;br /&gt;First President to go on multiple global apology tours.&lt;br /&gt;First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.&lt;br /&gt;First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.&lt;br /&gt;First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.&lt;br /&gt;First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.&lt;br /&gt;First President to repeat the Holy Qur'an tells us, and openly admit the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.&lt;br /&gt;Remember that 32 months of Obama White House we the people have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation's entire history, as the Obama's plan their next extravagant vacation to the Indonesian Island nation of Bali .&lt;br /&gt;Hope and change anyone ?????????&lt;br /&gt;* sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wall Street Journal, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Dept of Labor, Standard &amp; Poors/Case-Shiller, Federal Reserve, US Treasury, Heritage Foundation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5233762955269388970?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5233762955269388970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5233762955269388970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5233762955269388970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5233762955269388970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2012/01/barack-obamas-32-month-report-card.html' title='Barack Obama&apos;s 32 Month Report Card'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-394457097800610005</id><published>2011-12-29T05:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T05:59:16.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>All I Want For Our Nation</title><content type='html'>HERE IS ALL I WANT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama: Gone!&lt;br /&gt;Borders: Closed!&lt;br /&gt;Congress: Obey it's own laws&lt;br /&gt;Language: English only&lt;br /&gt;Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!&lt;br /&gt;Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!&lt;br /&gt;NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!&lt;br /&gt;We the people are coming!&lt;br /&gt;Only 86% will send this on. Should be a 100%. What will you do?&lt;br /&gt;Please send it on if only to one person.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-394457097800610005?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/394457097800610005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=394457097800610005&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/394457097800610005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/394457097800610005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-i-want-for-our-nation.html' title='All I Want For Our Nation'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7307502262474334200</id><published>2011-12-28T17:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T17:28:38.579-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake Up America Time Is Running Out</title><content type='html'>If he is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished.The following is in simple language that&lt;br /&gt;Everyone can understand. Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling&lt;br /&gt;People. Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going.&lt;br /&gt;This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA .&lt;br /&gt;OBAMA'S COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS OUT&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Hussien Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.&lt;br /&gt;To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing.&lt;br /&gt;He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to create systemic failure,&lt;br /&gt;Economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and&lt;br /&gt;Our country from within.&lt;br /&gt;Barack Hussien Obama was my college classmate&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;( Columbia University , class of '83).&lt;br /&gt;He is a devout Muslim do not be fooled.&lt;br /&gt;Look at his Czars...anti-business..anti- American.&lt;br /&gt;As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is&lt;br /&gt;Following the plan of Cloward &amp; Piven, two professors at ColumbiaUniversity ..&lt;br /&gt;They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system&lt;br /&gt;With government spending and entitlement demands.&lt;br /&gt;Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming.&lt;br /&gt;Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn&lt;br /&gt;The United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority&lt;br /&gt;That desperately needs government for survival ... And can be counted&lt;br /&gt;On to always vote for bigger government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.&lt;br /&gt;Universal health care . The health care bill had very little to do with health&lt;br /&gt;Care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and&lt;br /&gt;Health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions).&lt;br /&gt;Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans&lt;br /&gt;Will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government .&lt;br /&gt;Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of a depression?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with&lt;br /&gt;Health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming.&lt;br /&gt;It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control&lt;br /&gt;Of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors.&lt;br /&gt;Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns&lt;br /&gt;NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants.&lt;br /&gt;They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,&lt;br /&gt;Bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."&lt;br /&gt;Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state?&lt;br /&gt;Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government&lt;br /&gt;Entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?&lt;br /&gt;Certainly not American taxpayers. &lt;br /&gt;But this has been Barack Hussien Obama's plan all along.&lt;br /&gt;His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.&lt;br /&gt;Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants.&lt;br /&gt;Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America .&lt;br /&gt;But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted&lt;br /&gt;On to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?&lt;br /&gt;It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save&lt;br /&gt;GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).&lt;br /&gt;A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).&lt;br /&gt;All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their&lt;br /&gt;bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.&lt;br /&gt;The ends justify the means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job&lt;br /&gt;creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers,&lt;br /&gt;redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did&lt;br /&gt;nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the&lt;br /&gt;system.&lt;br /&gt;Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by&lt;br /&gt;my ColumbiaUniversity college classmate Barack Hussien Obama&lt;br /&gt;using the Cloward and Piven Plan .&lt;br /&gt;"Correctly attributed" says snopes!http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp&lt;br /&gt;NOW IS THE TIME TO SEND THIS TO EVERY AMERICAN&lt;br /&gt;TO WARN ALL OTHERS ABOUT WHAT OUR COUNTRYS&lt;br /&gt;FUTURE FAILURE WILL HAPPEN IF OBAMA STAYS&lt;br /&gt;in Our WHITE HOUSE !!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7307502262474334200?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7307502262474334200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7307502262474334200&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7307502262474334200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7307502262474334200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/wake-up-america-time-is-running-out.html' title='Wake Up America Time Is Running Out'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7110092287218178328</id><published>2011-12-11T04:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T04:33:10.629-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Good Comparision of those on the Left and Right</title><content type='html'>This is one of the very best emails I have EVER received where it gently explains the difference in thinking between people with opposite outlooks.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words, redistribution of wealth.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes and the need for more government programs.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?"&lt;br /&gt;   She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily&lt;br /&gt;   fired back, "That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard &lt;br /&gt;   for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the conservative side of the fence."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.&lt;br /&gt;   If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.&lt;br /&gt;   If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.&lt;br /&gt;   Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.&lt;br /&gt;   A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. &lt;br /&gt;   A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7110092287218178328?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7110092287218178328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7110092287218178328&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7110092287218178328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7110092287218178328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/good-comparision-of-those-on-left-and.html' title='A Good Comparision of those on the Left and Right'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-9175140845889721006</id><published>2011-12-04T00:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T00:22:33.112-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Great Announcement Happened This Week</title><content type='html'>Barney Franks announced he will not see reelection... Prayer do get answered and this is another example...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This man has done more harm to our country in the past 15 years than most of us will ever know.  As Head of the House Committee for Fannie MAY and Freddie MAC he is really the single person who led us into the housing disaster that in turn led our country into financial crisis.  I remember the White House back int he mid 90's going before his committee and warning that a house crisis was looming.  I remember him saying" There is not housing problem.  We are just making sure that anyone who wants a house can afford one."  Really, anyone who wants a house can have one the only thing is scum bag failed to understand is a person must be able to pay for the mortgage.  But then he knew all along that congress would bail them out and who cares if it might bankrupt our country, we will just tax the working class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has blatantly pushed his gay agenda and abused his power.  Hundreds of million of our tax dollars have gone to his cronies and you and I the American Tax payers have and will continue to foot the bills for his miss use of power.  If congress would police their own and the media would do their investigative role, this man would have been run out of town by now.  But instead he and his gang of thieves will have the luxury of living the good life on our dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is not running because he know the public is slowly beginning to know just who he really is and how poor a job he did while in congress.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he lost control on his House committee a great cancer was removed from American.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-9175140845889721006?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/9175140845889721006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=9175140845889721006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/9175140845889721006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/9175140845889721006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/great-announcement-happened-this-week.html' title='A Great Announcement Happened This Week'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3109044421696045797</id><published>2011-12-04T00:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T00:03:15.461-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WHO IS THIS MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE _ REALLY Who IS HE?</title><content type='html'>I have thought about this - Where are Obama's past girlfriends? Surely he had at least one. No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird! &lt;br /&gt;This is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, &lt;br /&gt;especially American citizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that &lt;br /&gt;Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy &lt;br /&gt;wore a back brace, or Truman played the piano. &lt;br /&gt;We are Americans! Our media vets these things out! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president. &lt;br /&gt;Honestly, and this is a personal thing... but it's bugged me for years that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity. &lt;br /&gt;We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House? &lt;br /&gt;Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or "What a great dancer!" Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him. &lt;br /&gt;Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Check for groomsmen. Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. &lt;br /&gt;Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him. &lt;br /&gt;When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? &lt;br /&gt;Every president provides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What has he released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography! And experts who study writing styles etc. claim it was not O's own words or typical of his speech patterns, etc. &lt;br /&gt;Does this make any of you wonder? &lt;br /&gt;Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc? Not one person has ever come forward from his past. &lt;br /&gt;This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movie titled, The Manchurian Candidate? &lt;br /&gt;Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face... someone&lt;br /&gt;remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us. &lt;br /&gt;George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him. Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his &lt;br /&gt;records? Do you like millions of others, simply assume all this is explainable - even though no one can? &lt;br /&gt;NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA &lt;br /&gt;Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted over 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but not one remembers him. For example,Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) a political science major at Columbia , who graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER! &lt;br /&gt;Nobody recalls him. &lt;br /&gt;Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that.. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him." &lt;br /&gt;At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of  Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York , 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him." &lt;br /&gt;Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia , provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia . &lt;br /&gt;How can this be? &lt;br /&gt;NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was. &lt;br /&gt;Some other interesting questions. &lt;br /&gt;Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002? &lt;br /&gt;Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order? &lt;br /&gt;According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.. &lt;br /&gt;WHAT!? &lt;br /&gt;The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived. &lt;br /&gt;No wonder all his records are sealed! &lt;br /&gt;Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school... before he "reorganized" &lt;br /&gt;Chicago and burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm, poise, and &lt;br /&gt;speaking pizzazz. &lt;br /&gt;One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away with it. This is scary on many levels! He's the most dishonest deceiving liar to ever darken the White House!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3109044421696045797?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3109044421696045797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3109044421696045797&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3109044421696045797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3109044421696045797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-is-this-man-in-white-house-really.html' title='WHO IS THIS MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE _ REALLY Who IS HE?'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4852845340582891468</id><published>2011-12-01T19:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T19:25:10.704-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spoken from the Heart</title><content type='html'>Born St.. Louis , Missouri , August 21, 1944&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bar Admissions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina , 1969&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, 1969&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Tax Court&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education: Woodford College , 1966 A.B.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mercer University , 1969 J.D.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phi Alpha Delta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 - 1969&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Professional Associations and Memberships:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina and American Bar Associations (Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mecklenburg County Bar Association&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American Association of Justice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Captain, U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Defense Medal, 1969&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal, 1970&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County , 1971 - 1974&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Chamber of Commerce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chairman, Board of Trustees Providence United Methodist Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Board of Directors, Alexander Children's Home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Board of Directors, Charlotte Culinary Institute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wofford Alumni Executive Council&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life Member, Girl Scouts of America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Ms. Pelosi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a soon to be 65 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike. I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black. I served the country that I love in Vietnam, as my son did in the Middle East. I was awarded two bronze stars. I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You obviously havent read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCulloughs book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husbands investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you, Harry Reid, and now our President. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payers expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States; you only subtract therefrom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husbands canned tuna and pineapple produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I await your defeat in the next election with glee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dont ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded. By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s. You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country. You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4852845340582891468?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4852845340582891468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4852845340582891468&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4852845340582891468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4852845340582891468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/12/spoken-from-heart.html' title='Spoken from the Heart'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3889880639999216685</id><published>2011-11-30T13:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T13:11:37.821-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SIMPLY AMAZING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT</title><content type='html'>INTRIGUING  OR AMAZING ???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Isn't it amazing that, within only one week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade, the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair during the last few years?&lt;br /&gt;And, they even uncovered photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc.!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, they not only know the cause of the family fight, but they even know it was  a 9 iron from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only that, they know which wedge!&lt;br /&gt;And, each and every day, they were able to continue to provide America with updates&lt;br /&gt;on Tiger's sex rehab  stay, his wife's divorce settlement figures, as well as the dates &amp; tournaments in which he will play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for over two years, yet this very same press:&lt;br /&gt;• Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;&lt;br /&gt;• Or find any of Obama's high school or undergrad college classmates;&lt;br /&gt;• Or locate any of his college papers or grades;&lt;br /&gt;• Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia &amp; a Harvard       education                      &lt;br /&gt; *  Or explain why he  applied for college aid as a foreign student, then denied he was a foreigner. &lt;br /&gt;• Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's;&lt;br /&gt;• Or even find (release) Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;They just can't seem to uncover any of this. Yet, the public still trusts that same press to give them the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t you find that amazing?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3889880639999216685?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3889880639999216685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3889880639999216685&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3889880639999216685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3889880639999216685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/simply-amazing-when-you-think-about-it.html' title='SIMPLY AMAZING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2826314562492476045</id><published>2011-11-29T23:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T23:30:29.367-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AARP's Fall From Grace</title><content type='html'>AARP's Fall from Grace!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I find this very interesting reading, so let's keep it going if you agree.. It &lt;br /&gt;only takes a few days on the Internet and this will have reached 75% of the&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;public in the&lt;br /&gt; USA . Seniors need to stand up for what is right, not what the &lt;br /&gt;politicians want or big Corporations want.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This letter was sent to Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of AARP.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;THIS LADY NOT ONLY HAS A GRASP OF 'THE SITUATION' BUT AN INCREDIBLE COMMAND OF &lt;br /&gt;THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Dear Mr.&lt;br /&gt; Rand,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in &lt;br /&gt;AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you were looking for, but this &lt;br /&gt;is the most honest response I can give you. Our gap in coverage is merely a &lt;br /&gt;microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.&lt;br /&gt;While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long &lt;br /&gt;admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse its &lt;br /&gt;abdication of our values. Your letter specifically stated that we can count on &lt;br /&gt;AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer &lt;br /&gt;of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents &lt;br /&gt;neither an impartial&lt;br /&gt; view nor the one we&lt;br /&gt; have come to embrace.&lt;br /&gt;We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented &lt;br /&gt;to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term &lt;br /&gt;goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy &lt;br /&gt;which spawned our 200 years of government.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We &lt;br /&gt;also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we &lt;br /&gt;could not possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging &lt;br /&gt;which we no longer enjoy. The&lt;br /&gt; Socialist politics practiced by the Obama Regime &lt;br /&gt;and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical &lt;br /&gt;insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a &lt;br /&gt;great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of &lt;br /&gt;knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our &lt;br /&gt;membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without &lt;br /&gt;threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;This Obama Regime scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, &lt;br /&gt;but for our proud and bloodstained heritage. But even more importantly for our &lt;br /&gt;children&lt;br /&gt; and grandchildren.&lt;br /&gt; Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic &lt;br /&gt;cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never in my life &lt;br /&gt;endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to &lt;br /&gt;them. I don't have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their &lt;br /&gt;existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance&lt;br /&gt; to the &lt;br /&gt;voice of the Socialist mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great &lt;br /&gt;stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to &lt;br /&gt;embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the &lt;br /&gt;responsibilities it requires.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication &lt;br /&gt;in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? The illegal perpetrators have broken into our &lt;br /&gt;'house', invaded our home without our invitation or consent. The President has &lt;br /&gt;insisted we keep these illegal perpetrators in comfort and learn the &lt;br /&gt;perpetrator's language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I DON'T choose to welcome them.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I DON'T choose to support them.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I DON'T choose to educate them.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I DON'T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;American home invaders get arrested.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American &lt;br /&gt;soil that Americans do not get?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Why do&lt;br /&gt; some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have &lt;br /&gt;to break &amp; enter to be welcomed?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging &lt;br /&gt;over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a &lt;br /&gt;politician on caffeine overdose. Of&lt;br /&gt; all the many good folks he enjoyed on this&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current Regime. &lt;br /&gt;One of us is out of touch with mainstream&lt;br /&gt; America .&lt;br /&gt;Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than ones &lt;br /&gt;that are driven by a need to yield AMNESTY. (aka - make voters out of the &lt;br /&gt;foreign lawbreakers so they can vote to continue the government's free &lt;br /&gt;handouts). This addition of 10 to 20 Million voters who then will vote to &lt;br /&gt;continue Socialism will OVERWHELM our votes to control the government's free &lt;br /&gt;handouts. It is a "slippery slope" we must not embark on!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;As Margret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of Great Britain) once said &lt;br /&gt;"Socialism is GREAT -&lt;br /&gt; UNTIL you run out of other people's money".&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will &lt;br /&gt;encourage them to do the same... With several hundred in my address book, I have &lt;br /&gt;every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement &lt;br /&gt;to you.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I am disappointed as all get out !!!!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I am more scared than I have ever been in my entire life !!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I am ANGRY!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I am MAD as h---, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Walt &amp; Cyndy&lt;br /&gt;Miller Farms Equine Transport&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2826314562492476045?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2826314562492476045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2826314562492476045&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2826314562492476045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2826314562492476045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/aarps-fall-from-grace.html' title='AARP&apos;s Fall From Grace'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6614650460895704952</id><published>2011-11-18T05:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-18T05:23:39.148-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Occupy Wall Street - Who Parented These People</title><content type='html'>Good article but to me it is just what happens to a lot of kids who go through the educational system today... If we, parents, do not teach them how America operates then they come out just like these kids,  waiting for someone to hand it to them.&lt;br /&gt;Couple that with the hand out programs that approx half of America lives on today is it any wonder they expect life to be handed to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a huge change to go through to avoid ended up like most of Europe.  We have seen all of this play out in France, England, Germany etc and yet we did nothing to avert it 10 years ago when we could have... Now going to be  a lot of pain to go through.   Communism does not work, Marxism did not work, Socialism is failing in Europe and other places around the world... Capitalism in the US is on the brink of&lt;br /&gt;a collapse and we have to act now and take some hard cuts to turn it around.  Riots and unrest will all be part of it.  Sad to see the US have to face what Europe is having to do... I mean really we the people know better and yet we let the folks we sent to our State and Federal government fail us and our country...  Shame of them and shame on us if we allow it continue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to get our selves organized and ready to change things come Nov 2012...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HJ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marybeth Hicks&lt;br /&gt;Columnist The Washington Times&lt;br /&gt;Oct 20, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody”.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Life isn’t fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;No matter how you try to “level the playing field,” some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they’re dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Nothing is “free.” Protesting with signs that seek “free” college degrees and “free” health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don’t operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and “slow paths” to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;While I’m pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don’t require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It’s a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn’t evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don’t dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don’t seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• There are reasons you haven’t found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn’t a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It’s not them. It’s you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ed.'s Note: And their mothers likely directed them to a college that doesn't teach or understand Capitalism. The ones that do teach it are few and far between.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"In God We Trust"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6614650460895704952?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6614650460895704952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6614650460895704952&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6614650460895704952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6614650460895704952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-who-parented-these.html' title='Occupy Wall Street - Who Parented These People'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-37161203830111690</id><published>2011-11-18T05:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-18T05:16:18.453-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Occupy Wall Street - Who Parented hese People</title><content type='html'>Marybeth Hicks&lt;br /&gt;Columnist The Washington Times&lt;br /&gt;Oct 20, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody”.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Life isn’t fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.”&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;No matter how you try to “level the playing field,” some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they’re dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Nothing is “free.” Protesting with signs that seek “free” college degrees and “free” health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don’t operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and “slow paths” to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;While I’m pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don’t require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It’s a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn’t evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don’t dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don’t seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;• There are reasons you haven’t found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn’t a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It’s not them. It’s you.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ed.'s Note: And their mothers likely directed them to a college that doesn't teach or understand Capitalism. The ones that do teach it are few and far between.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"In God We Trust"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-37161203830111690?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/37161203830111690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=37161203830111690&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/37161203830111690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/37161203830111690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-who-parented-hese.html' title='Occupy Wall Street - Who Parented hese People'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7997188036149638687</id><published>2011-11-17T14:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T14:25:58.655-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Act Before It Is Too Late</title><content type='html'>The folks who are getting the free stuff, don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now... The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ??United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 235 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that. In 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ELECTION 2012 IS COMING &lt;br /&gt;A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let???s take a stand!!!&lt;br /&gt;Obama: Gone!&lt;br /&gt;Borders: Closed!&lt;br /&gt;Language: English only&lt;br /&gt;Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!&lt;br /&gt;Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!&lt;br /&gt;NO freebies to:???? Non-Citizens!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We the people are coming &lt;br /&gt;Only 86% will send this on. Should be 100%. What will you do?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7997188036149638687?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7997188036149638687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7997188036149638687&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7997188036149638687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7997188036149638687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/act-before-it-is-too-late.html' title='Act Before It Is Too Late'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8514908658152498649</id><published>2011-11-04T10:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T10:26:49.866-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Sound Policy That I Can Support</title><content type='html'>This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge . . . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? &lt;br /&gt;You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8514908658152498649?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8514908658152498649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8514908658152498649&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8514908658152498649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8514908658152498649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/11/sound-policy-that-i-can-support.html' title='A Sound Policy That I Can Support'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7464918886030088047</id><published>2011-09-28T17:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T17:17:14.398-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who Obama threathened ..... Makes sense right</title><content type='html'>Did you notice who 0bama threatened when he wasn't getting his way on raising the debt ceiling?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He threatened to not pay: Social Security Retirees, Military Retirees, Social Security disability and Federal Retirees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to stop payments to illegal aliens! &lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to take frivolous benefits such as Internet access away from violent inmates! &lt;br /&gt;He did not offer to fire some of the thousands of unnecessary federal employees that he hired!&lt;br /&gt;He did not offer to cut down on his or his wife's frivolous gallivanting around!&lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to not pay the senators and representatives or any of their staff!&lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to take benefits away from welfare recipients!&lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten the food stamp programs! &lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to not pay foreign aid! &lt;br /&gt;He did not threaten to cut back on anything that involves his base voters! &lt;br /&gt;The list could go on and on. He is in full political re-election mode! Why are we allowing this person to destroy this wonderful country with his selfishness and his lies? His type of change is killing our country. He needs to be stopped and only our votes can stop him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not forget about his tactics when it's election time.  &lt;br /&gt;Vote 0bama out of the Presidency in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“2012: THE END OF AN ERROR”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7464918886030088047?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7464918886030088047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7464918886030088047&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7464918886030088047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7464918886030088047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-obama-threathened-makes-sense-right.html' title='Who Obama threathened ..... Makes sense right'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5062476009023676514</id><published>2011-09-18T16:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T16:03:50.217-07:00</updated><title type='text'>U.S. POSTAL TIP</title><content type='html'>You may have heard in the news that &lt;br /&gt;a couple of Post Offices in Texas have been forced to take down small posters that say&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'IN GOD WE TRUST,' &lt;br /&gt;The law, they say, is being violated.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, we heard proposed on a radio &lt;br /&gt;station show, that we should all write &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'IN GOD WE TRUST' &lt;br /&gt;on the back of all our mail. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, that's our National Motto, &lt;br /&gt;and -----&lt;br /&gt;all the money we use to buy stamps. &lt;br /&gt;We think it's a wonderful idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must take back our nation from all &lt;br /&gt;the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you like this idea, please pass &lt;br /&gt;it on and DO IT. The idea of writing or stamping............&lt;br /&gt;'IN GOD WE TRUST' &lt;br /&gt;on our envelopes sounds good to us &lt;br /&gt;.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOME PEOPLE ARE HAVING A RUBBER STAMP MADE TO ENSURE IT IS SEEN........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been reported that 86% of Americans &lt;br /&gt;believe in GOD. Therefore, we have a very hard time understanding why there's such &lt;br /&gt;a mess about having '&lt;br /&gt;'In GOD We Trust!' &lt;br /&gt;on our money and having GOD in the pledge of Allegiance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it be that WE just need to take &lt;br /&gt;action and tell the 14% to 'sit down and shut up'? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree, pass this on, if not, delete!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT REMEMBER IF YOU DELETE THIS,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that's one reason why this world is &lt;br /&gt;in the mess we're in now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WE SIT BACK &amp; LET IT HAPPEN!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5062476009023676514?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5062476009023676514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5062476009023676514&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5062476009023676514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5062476009023676514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/us-postal-tip.html' title='U.S. POSTAL TIP'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3714175749093596834</id><published>2011-09-14T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T13:37:08.499-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Well Said Dr Huckleby</title><content type='html'>I kind of have a love/hate relationship with Bill Cosby, myself.  But, love him or hate him, it’s pretty clear here that he’s grown to be a wise old man… &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;"I'm 76 and I'm Tired"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm 76. Except for brief period in the 50's when I was doing my National Service, I've worked hard since I was 17. Except for some some serious health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn't call in sick in nearly 40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it looks as though retirement was a bad idea, and I'm tired. Very tired.  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.         &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honour"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.  &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in Australia, New Zealand, UK, America and Canada, while no one from these countries are allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country to teach love and tolerance..   &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses or stick a needle in their arm while they tried to fight it off? &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;I'm really tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm also tired and fed up with seeing young men and women in their teens and early 20's bedeck them selves in tattoos and face studs, thereby making themselves un-employable and claiming money from the Government. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 76.. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter and her children.   Thank God I'm on the way out and not on the way in. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Bill Cosby&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3714175749093596834?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3714175749093596834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3714175749093596834&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3714175749093596834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3714175749093596834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/well-said-dr-huckleby.html' title='Well Said Dr Huckleby'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7749849842126137689</id><published>2011-09-07T07:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T07:19:26.414-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OH bama can not change his spots !!!!</title><content type='html'>The character of any man is defined by how he treats his mother as the years pass.  The man I speak of below has no redeeming character, and certainly no integrity.  However, there is a ton of attitude and arrogance that defines his shallow past and hollow future ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought and read Obama's book, Audacity of Hope. It was difficult to read considering his attitude toward us whites and 'colonial America'. Let me add a phrase he used to describe his attitude toward whites. He harbors a "coil of rage" -- His words not mine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS OUR PRESIDENT!  AND, HE'S RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERM!   Is anyone out there awake? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone of voting age should read these two books by him: CAUTION:  Don't buy them, just get them from the library because otherwise, you're enriching the enemy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following from "Dreams of My Father":&lt;br /&gt;"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And FINALLY... and the most scary: From "Audacity of Hope": &lt;br /&gt;"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to do so!!! We have someone with this mentality running our GREAT nation! Keep your eye on him and don't blink. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrat, Republican, Conservative or Liberal:  Be aware of the attitude and character of this sitting President. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leopard Doesn't Change His Spots.&lt;br /&gt;Please, spread the word!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7749849842126137689?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7749849842126137689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7749849842126137689&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7749849842126137689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7749849842126137689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/oh-bama-can-not-change-his-spots.html' title='OH bama can not change his spots !!!!'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-2801907457270027923</id><published>2011-09-07T04:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T04:39:53.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OH bama was a great wake up call for America</title><content type='html'>Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America 's future.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America 's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace. That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America . &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Here's why.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives. But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 "FANTASTIC" years--- the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2011 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website,aspenranchrealestate.com&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;IF YOU AGREE, SHARE THIS . IF YOU DON'T, DO NOTHING AND KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-2801907457270027923?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/2801907457270027923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=2801907457270027923&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2801907457270027923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/2801907457270027923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/oh-bama-was-great-wake-up-call-for.html' title='OH bama was a great wake up call for America'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4166376994178358461</id><published>2011-08-23T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-23T19:16:21.051-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes We Noticed...And We Will Not Forget</title><content type='html'>Sherry Hackett, wife of the late Buddy Hackett, is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. I would think that many other Democrats share her position...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett's widow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"WE NOTICED"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September 11 as &lt;br /&gt;a National Service Day. Sir, it's  time we had a talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our &lt;br /&gt;tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance &lt;br /&gt;was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not &lt;br /&gt;honoring our tradition. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you &lt;br /&gt;intended to visit all 57 states. We all know that Islam, not   America   &lt;br /&gt;has 57 states. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a &lt;br /&gt;flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto &lt;br /&gt;the pile without leaning over. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every  time you apologized to other countries for   America 's position on &lt;br /&gt;an issue we have wondered why you don't share our pride in this great &lt;br /&gt;country.  When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and &lt;br /&gt;our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the &lt;br /&gt;British Crown beyond belief. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When your pastor of 20 years, "God-damned    America  " and said that &lt;br /&gt;9/11 was "  America  's chickens coming home to roost" and you denied &lt;br /&gt;having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could &lt;br /&gt;be.  You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor &lt;br /&gt;Wright because it was politically expedient to do so. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you announced that you would transform   America , we wondered &lt;br /&gt;why. With all her faults,    America   is the greatest country on earth. &lt;br /&gt;Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND,..... "if not for    America    and the people who built her, you wouldn't be sitting in the White House now." Prior to your &lt;br /&gt;election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from &lt;br /&gt;Illinois   and from what we can glean from the records available, not a &lt;br /&gt;very remarkable one. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded &lt;br /&gt;yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the &lt;br /&gt;positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority &lt;br /&gt;of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or &lt;br /&gt;affection for this country and her traditions. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are 18 months into your term and every morning millions of &lt;br /&gt;Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to &lt;br /&gt;saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package &lt;br /&gt;that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not &lt;br /&gt;in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled "unAmerican","racist", "mob". We wonder how we are supposed to let &lt;br /&gt;you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated and insignificant.  Until your appointment, Americans had the right to speak out. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only &lt;br /&gt;Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in &lt;br /&gt;whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans. &lt;br /&gt;And YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could &lt;br /&gt;help unite this nation.   In six months you have done more to destroy &lt;br /&gt;this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans.  You &lt;br /&gt;propose to make 9/11 a "National Service Day". While we know that you &lt;br /&gt;don't share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report &lt;br /&gt;your proposal as what it is, a disgrace. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that &lt;br /&gt;you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits &lt;br /&gt;and policy. &lt;br /&gt;YES, "We noticed."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When Americans &lt;br /&gt;come together again, it will be to remove you from office. &lt;br /&gt;Take notice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4166376994178358461?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4166376994178358461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4166376994178358461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4166376994178358461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4166376994178358461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/yes-we-noticedand-we-will-not-forget.html' title='Yes We Noticed...And We Will Not Forget'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4475463076522526483</id><published>2011-08-19T04:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T04:09:55.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Constitution</title><content type='html'>The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the&lt;br /&gt;people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -&lt;br /&gt;lest it come to dominate our lives and interests".&lt;br /&gt;- Patrick Henry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have totally cleaned this e-mail from all other names, sending it to you&lt;br /&gt;in hopes you will keep it going and keep it clean.  This is something I&lt;br /&gt;will fight for and I hope you all read it all the way through.  You will be&lt;br /&gt;glad you did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only&lt;br /&gt;3 months &amp; 8 days to be ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people demanded it.&lt;br /&gt;That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones,&lt;br /&gt;etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to&lt;br /&gt;become the law of the  land...all because of public pressure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty&lt;br /&gt;people on their address list;  in turn ask each of those to do likewise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the&lt;br /&gt;message.  This is one idea that really should be passed around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congressional Reform Act of 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.   No Tenure / No Pension.&lt;br /&gt;  A  Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay&lt;br /&gt;when they are out of office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.   Congress (past, present &amp; future) participates in Social Security.&lt;br /&gt;All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security&lt;br /&gt;system immediately.  All  future funds flow into the Social Security&lt;br /&gt;system, and Congress participates with the American people.  It may not be&lt;br /&gt;used for any other purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans&lt;br /&gt;do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Congress will no longer vote for themselves, a pay raise.  Congressional&lt;br /&gt;pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the&lt;br /&gt;same health care system as the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American&lt;br /&gt;people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective&lt;br /&gt;1/1/12.&lt;br /&gt;  The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.&lt;br /&gt;Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.   Serving in Congress&lt;br /&gt;is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen&lt;br /&gt;legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to&lt;br /&gt;work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, it will only take three&lt;br /&gt;days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message.  Maybe it is&lt;br /&gt;time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4475463076522526483?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4475463076522526483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4475463076522526483&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4475463076522526483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4475463076522526483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/constitution.html' title='The Constitution'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8792176389002971613</id><published>2011-08-19T04:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T04:08:11.682-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What He Didn't Say</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;A few days past President Obama stated that he could not guarantee that Social Security checks would be mailed on August 3 if the debt ceiling was not raised. I wonder if I am the only person interested in what he did not say.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What he did not say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will not be able to get my monthly check for $33,333.33, &lt;br /&gt;Vice-President Biden will not get his check for $19,225.00, and oh by the way, &lt;br /&gt;Michelle will be happy to give up a vacation until we get this mess straightened out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congress will not be able to get their checks which average $14,500.00 per member. My Czars will not be able to receive their checks, some of which receive $14,350.00 per month and others receive $13,208.33 a month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My cabinet members will not receive their $15,941.66 monthly check.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Their Deputy Secretaries will not be able to receive their $14,350.00 monthly check.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Their Under Secretaries will not be able to receive their $13,208.33 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Their Assistant Secretaries, general counsels, and heads of minor departments will not be able to receive their $12,416.66 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My various administrators, board members, commissioners, and others will not be able to get their $11,633.33 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Supreme Court will not be able to receive their $17,341.66 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt;The U.S. Appeals Court and Appeals Judges for the Armed Forces will not be able to receive their $14,591.66 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The U.S. District Court, Claims Court , International Trade Court , and U.S. &lt;br /&gt;Tax Court Judges will not be able to receive their $13,766.66 monthly check.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And the Bankruptcy and Magistrate Judges will not be able to get their $12,665.33 monthly check. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gaggle of Washington TSA bureaucrats will not receive their $8,750.00 monthly checks. The tens of thousands of other various paper shufflers who are pigeon holed in various offices in Washington will not receive their checks which average more than $8,333.33 a month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I heard coming from the lips of the President was that the only folks that should be concerned was people receiving Social Security checks. Isn't it ironic that the only people he feels that he cannot assure with any degree of certainty that they will get their checks are the ones who need the money the most? The national average for all Social Security beneficiaries is $1,079.00 monthly, which totals a whopping $12,948.00 yearly; the money coming from a fund that most have paid into their entire working lives. Or put another way, the average Social Security recipient gets a check each month that equals about 3% of what the President receives each month; and in theory, they are getting back their own money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind that the United States Constitution requires the President to pay Principal and Interest on the National Debt and then Federal Pensions before any other funds can be obligated. It is a foregone conclusion that Mr. Obama missed his constitutional law classes at Harvard. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mere fact that the President, any President, would threaten in any "thinly veiled" manner that the elderly would not get their pension checks is about as contemptible and fear mongering effort as any elected official could use for expediency. This is outrageous even for this chronic avoider of the truth!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All seniors should reward this Prince of Politics in November 2012 in like manner for his obvious lack of respect for our welfare, physical and mental, and his attempt to manipulate the debt ceiling discussion using senior citizens as pawns. &lt;br /&gt;Have a good week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8792176389002971613?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8792176389002971613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8792176389002971613&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8792176389002971613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8792176389002971613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-he-didnt-say.html' title='What He Didn&apos;t Say'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-818003176300490946</id><published>2011-08-10T02:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T02:50:23.859-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm Just Saying</title><content type='html'>                                                 WHERE ARE THE GIRLFRIENDS?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I hadn't thought about this - but where are Obama's past girlfriends - surely he had at least one? &lt;br /&gt;No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!    &lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;OK, this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side. Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American citizens, who know every little tidbit about every other president (and their wives) that even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt; We are Americans! Our Media vets these things out! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president. &lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Honestly, and this is a personal thing ... but it's bugged me for years that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. Taken his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity.... &lt;br /&gt;                                 &lt;br /&gt;We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no secret.  Look at Cheney and Clinton-we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House? &lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was  soooo shy," or "What a great dancer!"&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Now look at the rest of what we know... no classmates, not even the recorder for the olumbia class notes ever heard of him.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Check for groomsmen. Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. &lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Has anyone talked to the professors? Isn't it odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president provides the public with all their photos, etc. for their library. What has he released? Nada - other than what was in this so-called biography! And experts who study writing styles, etc. claim it was not Obama's own words or typical of his speech patterns, etc.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                             Does this make any of you wonder?&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. ? Not one person has ever come forward from his past. This should really be a cause for great concern. Did you see the movie titled, The Manchurian Candidate?&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are... someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face...someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt; George Stephanopoulos, ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. Even George questions why no one has acknowledged that the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus.  Stephanopoulos was a classmate of Obama at Columbia-class of 1984.He says he never had a single class with him. Since he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him?  And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?&lt;br /&gt;Do you like millions of others, simply assume all this is explainable - even though no one can?&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                   NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but not one remembers him. For example,Wayne Allyn Root was (like Obama) a political science major at Columbia, who graduated in 1983.  In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a single classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;                                                      Nobody recalls him.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;Root adds that he was, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At our 20th class reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class?  Me.  No one ever heard of Barack!  And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."&lt;br /&gt;Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;                                                              How can this be?&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;NOTE: Wayne Allyn Root can easily be verified. He graduated valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same '83 class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                             Some other interesting questions.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                 Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;                             Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;According to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama - but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases. &lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                                                  WHAT!?&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.&lt;br /&gt;                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                               No wonder all his records are sealed!&lt;br /&gt;                                 &lt;br /&gt;Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon the scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm, poise, and speaking pizzazz. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;One of the biggest CONS this country has ever seen, and getting away with it. Go watch the movie The Manchurian Candidate, with Lawrence Harvey! Good movie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-818003176300490946?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/818003176300490946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=818003176300490946&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/818003176300490946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/818003176300490946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/im-just-saying.html' title='I&apos;m Just Saying'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7292018968816478145</id><published>2011-08-10T02:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T02:48:17.633-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Learnn From Other Countries Experiences - This Is Real</title><content type='html'>Denmark - a must read! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article could be seen as racist by some but on the other hand it could also be seen as a reflection of our own reality that somehow our politicians refuse to see. The interpretation is up to the reader, however it is food for thought...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SALUTE to  Denmark ... They are trying to fix a huge problem. &lt;br /&gt;This could very well happen here on our Continent... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of   Western Freedom &lt;br /&gt;By Susan MacAllen &lt;br /&gt;Susan MacAllen, a Canadian citizen, is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1978-9 I was living and studying in  Denmark . But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen , one didn't see Muslim immigrants. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went  out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new  brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had  lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive,  where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other  western nation at the time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of Europe  saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive  and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime  rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it  offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare  payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing  and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness  and multiculturalism.  How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in  the streets - all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back  to bite? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and   its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious.  Years of   immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the  Muslim   leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence  of Denmark 's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride  in Danish heritage and history. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars  Hedegaard, in which they forecasted, accurately, that the growing immigrant  problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they reported: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume  upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.' &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;'Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make  up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less  to mix with the indigenous population.  A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male  cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on  pain of death - are one problem.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark 's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of  Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that   Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and   Canada: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their  lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders  in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who, as a teenager, had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying  Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some   70  years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today, Denmark has the strictest immigration policies  in Europe . (Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of  'racism' by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language  classes. You must pass a test on Denmark 's history, culture, and a Danish language test. &lt;br /&gt;You must live in  Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. &lt;br /&gt;You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish  to bring a spouse into Denmark , you must both be over 24 years of age, and  you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to   Denmark with you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen . Although your  children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools  in Denmark , they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society   in ways that past immigrants weren't. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen,  spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare  system, and it was horrifying: the government's welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75  percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system, as it  existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually  bankrupting the government. 'We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how  unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,' he said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A large thorn in the side of Denmark 's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the  new policy toward immigration, 'The number of foreigners coming to the  country makes a difference,' Hvilshoj says, 'There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that  come.' And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, 'In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are  more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu  Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a  Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's  thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money  was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country  is not necessarily what is done in Denmark. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All  managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first  time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and  social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with  supporters of Sharia law. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and  demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst  us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in  our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history.  We would do well to look to Denmark , and say a prayer for her future and for our own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree this article has value, then please pass it on.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7292018968816478145?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7292018968816478145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7292018968816478145&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7292018968816478145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7292018968816478145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/learnn-from-other-countries-experiences.html' title='Learnn From Other Countries Experiences - This Is Real'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7421486658634966496</id><published>2011-07-28T20:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-28T21:00:13.781-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lets Try This Threat Mr President</title><content type='html'>Dear Mr. President, I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks if the debt ceiling isn't raised. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it the scare always has to do with SS, Medicare, &amp; our Soldiers pay? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why not stop your pay, your staff, or Congress and the Senate to save more money for our country? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why use Seniors, Soldiers, &amp; our Needy as examples? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take the money from those who take no risks and reap the benefits!! Repost if you agree &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of threatening to withhold Social Security, VA and disability payments of people who really need the money.... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets hold the paychecks of all house &amp; senate members, then see how fast they resolve the debt ceiling crisis !!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you agree repost this &amp; keep it going across the whole USA.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7421486658634966496?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7421486658634966496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7421486658634966496&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7421486658634966496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7421486658634966496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/lets-try-this-threat-mr-president.html' title='Lets Try This Threat Mr President'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3794085471808993414</id><published>2011-07-27T04:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T04:39:24.392-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Black Man's Point Of View</title><content type='html'>Black Man's Point Of View&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No white man could ever write an article like this and live to tell about it. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A Black Man, The Progressive's Perfect Trojan Horse&lt;br /&gt;By Lloyd Marcus&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As millions of my fellow Americans, I am outraged, devastated and extremely angry by the democrat's unbelievable arrogance and disdain for We The People.  Despite our screaming "no" from the rooftops, they forced ObamaCare down our throats.  Please forgive me for using the following crude saying, but it is very appropriate to describe what has happened.  "Don't urinate on me and tell me it's raining."  Democrats say their mission is to give all Americans health care.  The democrats are lying.  Signing ObamaCare into law against our will and the Constitution is tyranny and step one of their hideous goal of having as many Americans as possible dependent on government, thus controlling our lives and fulfilling Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I keep asking myself.  How did our government move so far from the normal procedures of getting things done?  Could a white president have so successfully pulled off shredding the Constitution to further his agenda?  I think not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Ironically, proving America is completely the opposite of the evil racist country they relentlessly accuse her of being, progressives used America 's goodness, guilt and sense of fair play against her? in their quest to destroy America as we know it, progressives borrowed a brilliant scheme from Greek mythology.  They offered America a modern day Trojan Horse, a beautifully crafted golden shiny new black man as a presidential candidate.  Democrat Joe Biden lauded Obama as the first clean and articulate African American candidate.  Democrat Harry Reid said Obama only uses a black dialect when he wants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  White America relished the opportunity to vote for a black man naively believing they would never suffer the pain of being called racist again.  Black Americans viewed casting their vote for Obama as the ultimate Affirmative Action for America 's sins of the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Then there were the entitlement loser voters who said, "I'm votin' for the black dude who promises to take from those rich SOBs and give to me."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Just as the deceived Trojans dragged the beautifully crafted Trojan Horse into Troy as a symbol of their victory, deceived Americans embraced the progressive's young, handsome, articulate and so called moderate black presidential candidate as a symbol of their liberation from accusation of being a racist nation.  Also like the Trojan Horse, Obama was filled with the enemy hiding inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Sunday, March 21, 2010, a secret door opened in Obama, the shiny golden black man.  A raging army of democrats charged out.  Without mercy, they began their vicious bloody slaughter of every value, freedom and institution we Americans hold dear; launching the end of America as we know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Wielding swords of votes reeking with the putrid odor of back door deals, the democrats landed a severe death blow to America and individual rights by passing ObamaCare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The mainstream liberal media has been relentlessly badgering the Tea Party movement with accusations of racism.  Because I am a black tea party patriot, I am bombarded with interviewers asking me the same veiled question.  "Why are you siding with these white racists against America 's first African American president?"  I defend my fellow patriots who are white stating, "These patriots do not give a hoot about Obama's skin color.  They simply love their country and oppose his radical agenda.  Obama's race is not an issue."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Recently, I have come to believe that perhaps I am wrong about Obama's race not being an issue.  In reality, Obama's presidency has everything to do with racism, but not from the Tea Party movement.  Progressives and Obama have exploited his race from the rookie senator's virtually unchallenged presidential campaign to his unprecedented bullying of America into ObamaCare.  Obama's race trumped all normal media scrutiny of him as a presidential candidate and most recently even the Constitution of the United States ? ObamaCare forces all Americans to purchase health care which is clearly unconstitutional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; No white president could get away with boldly and arrogantly thwarting the will of the American people and ignoring laws.  President Clinton tried universal health care.  Bush tried social security reform.  The American people said "no" to both president's proposals and it was the end of it.  So how can Obama get away with giving the American people the finger?  The answer.  He is black.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The mainstream liberal media continues to portray all who oppose Obama in any way as racist.  Despite a list of failed policies, overreaches into the private sector, violations of the Constitution and planned destructive legislation too numerous to mention in this article, many Americans are still fearful of criticizing our first black president.&lt;br /&gt;  Incredible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; My fellow Americans, you must not continue to allow yourselves to be "played" and intimidated by Obama's race or the historical context of his presidency.  If we are to save America , the greatest nation on the planet, Obama's progressive agenda must be stopped. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lloyd Marcus (black) Unhyphenated American, Singer/Songwriter, Entertainer, Author, Artist &amp; Tea Party Patriot, 2010 Lloyd Marcus - All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;Share This With America !!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lloyd Marcus is one of the strongest voices in the Tea Party movement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3794085471808993414?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3794085471808993414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3794085471808993414&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3794085471808993414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3794085471808993414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/black-mans-point-of-view.html' title='Black Man&apos;s Point Of View'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6408358451076642134</id><published>2011-07-22T02:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T02:48:14.824-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Even I have a past and I'm a nobody</title><content type='html'>Even I have a past and I'm a nobody&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A SLEEPER AMONG US :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very interesting article!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama: Where are his girl friends?????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are his girl friends????? Strange that none have popped up!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Strange to the point of being down right WEIRD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK... this is past the 'birthers' questions... this is just plain old&lt;br /&gt;common sense, no political agendas for either side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American&lt;br /&gt;citizens, who even know that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe&lt;br /&gt;and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or&lt;br /&gt;Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are Americans! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring&lt;br /&gt;for our 'fellow man.' We care, but none of us know one single humanizing&lt;br /&gt;fact about the history of our own president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, and this is a personal thing...but it's niggled at me for ages&lt;br /&gt;that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. The simple fact of his&lt;br /&gt;charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during&lt;br /&gt;his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship&lt;br /&gt;and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden's aneurisms are no&lt;br /&gt;secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton--we all know about their heart&lt;br /&gt;problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White&lt;br /&gt;House?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy," or&lt;br /&gt;"What a great dancer!" Now look at the rest of this.... no classmates,&lt;br /&gt;not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just don't know about this fellow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.&lt;br /&gt;Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging&lt;br /&gt;that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president&lt;br /&gt;gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library. What has&lt;br /&gt;he released?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010?????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this make you wonder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they&lt;br /&gt;knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. ? Not one person&lt;br /&gt;has ever come forward from his past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VERY, VERY STRANGE… This should really be a cause for great concern. To&lt;br /&gt;those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;shadow man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you see a picture called The Manchurian Candidate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's face it. As insignificant as we all are.. someone whom we went to&lt;br /&gt;school with remembers our name or face ... someone remembers we were the&lt;br /&gt;clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something&lt;br /&gt;about us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008&lt;br /&gt;campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in&lt;br /&gt;their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches&lt;br /&gt;on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia--the&lt;br /&gt;class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college&lt;br /&gt;class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his&lt;br /&gt;records?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia&lt;br /&gt;University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there,&lt;br /&gt;but none remembered him. For example, Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama,&lt;br /&gt;a political science major at Columbia, who also graduated in 1983. In&lt;br /&gt;2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that&lt;br /&gt;knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama at Columbia ... EVER!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83&lt;br /&gt;political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer&lt;br /&gt;than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to&lt;br /&gt;be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five&lt;br /&gt;years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class&lt;br /&gt;notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows&lt;br /&gt;everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook, and Obama&lt;br /&gt;consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia ,&lt;br /&gt;provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or&lt;br /&gt;friends while at Columbia ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTE: Root graduated as valedictorian from his high school,&lt;br /&gt;Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983&lt;br /&gt;as a political science major in the same class in which Barack Hussein&lt;br /&gt;Obama states he was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some other interesting questions…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he&lt;br /&gt;is never reported to have lived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No wonder all his records are sealed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please continue sending this out to everyone. Somewhere, someone had to&lt;br /&gt;know him in school...before he "reorganized" Chicago and burst upon the&lt;br /&gt;scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention and made us swoon with his charm,&lt;br /&gt;poise, and speaking pizzazz.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6408358451076642134?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6408358451076642134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6408358451076642134&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6408358451076642134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6408358451076642134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/even-i-have-past-and-im-nobody.html' title='Even I have a past and I&apos;m a nobody'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-656139849069784068</id><published>2011-07-21T13:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-21T13:50:26.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Only O bummer would stoop this low</title><content type='html'>Social Security Checks Aug. 3rd&lt;br /&gt;Just heard Mark Levine on WGST talk radio.  He is a Constitutional lawyer.  He quoted from a U.S. House committee investigative session where it was discovered that the U. S. Treasury will have sufficient funds to pay Social Security and Veterans benefits for the month of August 2011.  So the head of the Social Security Administration was questioned as to how these benefits would not be paid (Obama had threatened to stop Social Security payments on 3 Aug.).  The committee found that Social Security does not have the authority to issue checks.  The Social Security checks are issued by the Treasury Department headed by Timothy Geithner.  Even Geithner does not have the authority to not issue Social Security unless he is directed by President Obama to not issue the checks.  Pres.Obama alone will be responsible if Social Security checks are not issued starting on August 3, 2011.  Every senior citizen and every American should work to remove this tyrant from the White House in 2012.  Had enough change yet?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-656139849069784068?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/656139849069784068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=656139849069784068&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/656139849069784068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/656139849069784068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/only-o-bummer-would-stoop-this-low.html' title='Only O bummer would stoop this low'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8732065935834752004</id><published>2011-07-19T05:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T05:06:13.599-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Do Not Be Fooled</title><content type='html'>If he is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished. The following is in simple language that&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;everyone can understand. Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;people. Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;OBAMA'S COLLEGE CLASSMATE&lt;br /&gt; SPEAKS OUT&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Barack Hussien Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure,&lt;br /&gt;economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and&lt;br /&gt;our country from within.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Barack Hussien Obama was my college classmate&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;( Columbia University , class of '83).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;He is a devout Muslim do not be fooled.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Look at his Czars...anti-business, anti-american.&lt;br /&gt;As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is&lt;br /&gt;following the plan of Cloward &amp; Piven, two professors at Columbia University.&lt;br /&gt;They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system&lt;br /&gt;with government spending and entitlement demands.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;that desperately needs government for survival…and can be counted&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;on to always vote for bigger government.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;will add trillions to the national debt.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government .&lt;br /&gt;Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with&lt;br /&gt;health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control&lt;br /&gt;of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors.&lt;br /&gt;Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns&lt;br /&gt;NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.&lt;br /&gt;The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,&lt;br /&gt;bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state?&lt;br /&gt;Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Certainly not American taxpayers.&lt;br /&gt;But this has been Barack Hussien Obama's plan all along.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democrat voters who are dependent on big government.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America.&lt;br /&gt;But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government.&lt;br /&gt;Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and&lt;br /&gt;eventually Social Security.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their&lt;br /&gt;bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The ends justify the means.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job&lt;br /&gt;creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers,&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.&lt;br /&gt;With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big&lt;br /&gt;government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing&lt;br /&gt;themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussien Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Correctly attributed" says snopes!&lt;br /&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8732065935834752004?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8732065935834752004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8732065935834752004&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8732065935834752004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8732065935834752004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/do-not-be-fooled.html' title='Do Not Be Fooled'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-548502350921263132</id><published>2011-07-17T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T13:58:42.899-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Barack Obama, during a speech in Cairo, said:</title><content type='html'>Barack Obama, during a speech in Cairo, said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story……"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Mr. Obama:&lt;br /&gt;Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed?  Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day?  Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Declaration of Independence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill of Rights?   Didn't think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England?  No..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America?  No, they did not. &lt;br /&gt; In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery..  Your own half brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves."  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country?  Not present.&lt;br /&gt;There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where were Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era?  Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001?  If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No-one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day.  Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims whose asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo, Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11.  To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America.&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates.&lt;br /&gt;They were Muslim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan but has been proven to have Al Qaeda links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That, Mr. Obama, is the "Muslim heritage" in America.&lt;br /&gt;EVERY AMERICAN, CANADIAN, BRIT, AUSSIE and KIWI MUST READ THIS!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-548502350921263132?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/548502350921263132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=548502350921263132&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/548502350921263132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/548502350921263132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/barack-obama-during-speech-in-cairo.html' title='Barack Obama, during a speech in Cairo, said:'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1992495871709350494</id><published>2011-07-11T07:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T07:28:23.246-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Texan's Answer to Welfare…</title><content type='html'>This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX Nov 18, 2010&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge . . .&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for&lt;br /&gt;Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,&lt;br /&gt;blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want&lt;br /&gt;steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women&lt;br /&gt;Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test&lt;br /&gt;recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and&lt;br /&gt;piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get&lt;br /&gt;tats and piercings, then get a job.&lt;br /&gt;Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?&lt;br /&gt;You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your&lt;br /&gt;"home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be&lt;br /&gt;inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your&lt;br /&gt;own place.&lt;br /&gt;In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or&lt;br /&gt;you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of&lt;br /&gt;trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We&lt;br /&gt;will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo&lt;br /&gt;and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”&lt;br /&gt;Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of&lt;br /&gt;the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before&lt;br /&gt;you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem,"&lt;br /&gt;consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for&lt;br /&gt;doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.&lt;br /&gt;If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least&lt;br /&gt;attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system&lt;br /&gt;rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.&lt;br /&gt;AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is&lt;br /&gt;correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will&lt;br /&gt;voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t&lt;br /&gt;welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.&lt;br /&gt;Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1992495871709350494?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1992495871709350494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1992495871709350494&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1992495871709350494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1992495871709350494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/texans-answer-to-welfare.html' title='A Texan&apos;s Answer to Welfare…'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1490677675914603958</id><published>2011-07-08T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-08T13:53:02.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lets make it happen</title><content type='html'>The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3&lt;br /&gt;months &amp; 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it.&lt;br /&gt;That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to&lt;br /&gt;become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty&lt;br /&gt;people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the&lt;br /&gt;message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congressional Reform Act of 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. No Tenure / No Pension.&lt;br /&gt;A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when&lt;br /&gt;they are out of office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Congress (past, present &amp; future) participates in Social Security.&lt;br /&gt;All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security&lt;br /&gt;system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system,&lt;br /&gt;and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for&lt;br /&gt;any other purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans&lt;br /&gt;do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay&lt;br /&gt;will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the&lt;br /&gt;same health care system as the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American&lt;br /&gt;people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective&lt;br /&gt;1/1/12.&lt;br /&gt;The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.&lt;br /&gt;Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress&lt;br /&gt;is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen&lt;br /&gt;legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to&lt;br /&gt;work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take&lt;br /&gt;three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it&lt;br /&gt;is time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please keep it going.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1490677675914603958?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1490677675914603958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1490677675914603958&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1490677675914603958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1490677675914603958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/07/lets-make-it-happen.html' title='Lets make it happen'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3098845672498563217</id><published>2011-06-24T20:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-24T20:47:58.165-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Are You Kidding Me - Wake UP - Tea Party Do Your Thing</title><content type='html'>Entitlement my @ss , I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money , doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. free healthcare , outrageous retirement packages , 67 paid holidays , three weeks paid vacation , unlimited paid sick days , now that's welfare , and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What the in the world's wrong???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1- Calif 's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25  million a year  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone please tell me what the heck's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're "broke" &amp; can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan .....home of bin Laden.  Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter,  children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YET.....................&lt;br /&gt;They have a 'Benefit'  for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. &lt;br /&gt;I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3098845672498563217?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3098845672498563217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3098845672498563217&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3098845672498563217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3098845672498563217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-you-kidding-me-wake-up-tea-party-do.html' title='Are You Kidding Me - Wake UP - Tea Party Do Your Thing'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4482905282042338706</id><published>2011-06-23T20:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T20:19:03.810-07:00</updated><title type='text'>So What Do You Think</title><content type='html'>Shocking facts.....not surprising however.&lt;br /&gt;June 19, 2011 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood and Weiner By Eileen F. Toplansky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far more disturbing than the salacious details of Weiner's dalliances is the fact that apparently his mother-in-law is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Furthermore, Huma Abedin's brother, Hassan, "is listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members." Hassan works at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) at Oxford University. The Egyptian Al-Azhar University, well-known for a curriculum that encourages extremism and terrorism, is active in establishing links with OCIS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How is it that the Western media, with its hourly analyses of Weiner, missed this salient point, yet Arab news sources revealed this connection? Walid Shoebat, formerly with the PLO, explains that Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, a professor in Saudi Arabia "belongs to the Sunni movement's women's division known as the Muslim Sisterhood." During the recent uprising in Egypt, which resulted in Mubarak's removal, "a special women's unit within the Muslim Brotherhood served as 'mules' to deliver messages and acted as messengers for the terrorist group."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslim Sisterhood is also known as the International Women's Organization (IWO) and members are located "across 16 different countries." Its goal is to "work at all levels in accordance with the message of the Brotherhood." The Muslim Brotherhood's goal is Islamic world domination and "[i]t is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the [Muslim Brotherhood] or a derivative organization. Consequently, most of the Muslim-American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This chart on page four of the Domestic Intelligence Briefing by Mark Hass shows the FBI - Identified Terror Networks connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in North America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which should now raise even greater concerns since Huma Abedin-Weiner is the deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State. Did any vetting occur by Clinton's people concerning Huma Abedin, her brother Hassan, or her mother Saleha Mahmoud Abedin, and any connections with known Islamists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then again, would it have troubled Mrs. Clinton? After all, during her husband's time as President, she warmly embraced Suha Arafat the wife of Yasser Arafat, arch-terrorist, right after a speech during which Suha Arafat falsely accused Israel of poisoning the Palestinian water supply. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huma's brother has "worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on a program of "spreading Islam to the west." More intriguing is the fact that the Abedin family left Michigan for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, around 1977, which is the same year that the Muslim Sisterhood was formed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Couple this with the Clinton family playing a key role in promoting Fethullah Gulen who has worked assiduously to overthrow Turkey's secular government. Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania, has told his followers that in order for "worldwide Islamic domination to succeed, every method and path is acceptable, including lying to people." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In March of this year, the FBI was investigating the more than 120 charter schools in the United States that are linked to Gulen's movement. These schools, funded with millions of taxpayer dollars, promote Gulen's worldview that is both anti-Israel and anti-America. In fact, in 2010 it was reported that Bill Gates had given almost 11 million dollars to the Cosmos Foundation, which is a Gulen enterprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, one needs to question why Huma Abedin, a member of a family of devout Muslims, would ever marry a Jewish Congressman -- in a ceremony officiated by Bill Clinton. Sharia law clearly forbids Muslims from marrying non-believers, so what does this portend?       (this is what I said from the beginning!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, when Huma Abedin accompanied Hillary Clinton to the Dar El-Hekma women's college in Saudi Arabia, where Huma's mother is co-founder and vice dean, it was reported that "Hillary explained that Huma holds an important and sensitive position in her office." Where was the scrutiny? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why are so many at the highest levels of American government ignoring the methodology of Islamists like Gulen, who has declared that the best way to seize power is to lie in wait "with the patience of a spider" in order to "wait for people to get caught in the web"? Is Clinton so naïve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, Huma Abedin's position with Clinton in the State Department, as well as her marriage to Representative Weiner, has given her enormous exposure "to state secrets and access to the inner workings of Congress." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would be unsettling enough if it were not also for Obama's latest appointee. The 44th president has just appointed Azizah al-Hibri to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Al-Hibri believes that sharia law is superior to American law. Yet, al-Hibri is only one of the pro-sharia adherents that Obama has placed in influential positions since he became president. Dalia Mogahed was one of the earliest appointees and as Nonie Darwish has written, "[t]he empowerment of Radical Islam under the Obama administration" is extremely disturbing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, Obama appointed two devout Muslims to Homeland Security. Obama's record concerning Islamic terror was alarming from the beginning of his term and it has only become more entrenched. Congressman Keith Ellison aka Keith Hakim, who converted to Islam, is already in place in Congress. His connections to CAIR are troubling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the Weiner scandal really covering up a far more disturbing scenario whereby jihadists continue to infiltrate and influence American universities, military installations, homeland security, even local police forces, all while the press ignores the steady encroachment of these radicals who seek to overturn and destroy America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The disgraceful indifference by the general press to Weiner's in-laws and their connections to the Muslim Brotherhood keeps eroding America's ability to rout those who wish to see her destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fethullah Gulen has exhorted his followers to "move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing [their] existence until [they] reach all the power centers...until the conditions are ripe..." Can America continue to close its eyes to this deliberate hibernation strategy of our enemies?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4482905282042338706?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4482905282042338706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4482905282042338706&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4482905282042338706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4482905282042338706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-what-do-you-think.html' title='So What Do You Think'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-135606110838855661</id><published>2011-06-23T14:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T14:41:46.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>This Will Give You Cold Chills!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a generation or two, the US will ask&lt;br /&gt;itself: "Who lost Europe ?" Here is the&lt;br /&gt;speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party&lt;br /&gt;for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four&lt;br /&gt;Seasons in New York , introducing an&lt;br /&gt;Alliance of Patriots and announcing the&lt;br /&gt;Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you very much for inviting me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I come to America with a mission.  All is&lt;br /&gt;not well in the old world.  There is a&lt;br /&gt;tremendous danger looming, and it is very&lt;br /&gt;difficult to be optimistic.  We might be&lt;br /&gt;in the final stages of the Islamization of&lt;br /&gt;Europe.  This not only is a clear and&lt;br /&gt;present danger to the future of Europe&lt;br /&gt;itself, it is a threat to America and the&lt;br /&gt;sheer survival of the West.  The United&lt;br /&gt;States as the last bastion of Western&lt;br /&gt;civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, I will describe the situation on&lt;br /&gt;the ground in Europe .  Then, I will say a&lt;br /&gt;few things about Islam.  To close I will&lt;br /&gt;tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Europe you know is changing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have probably seen the landmarks.&lt;br /&gt;But in all of these cities, sometimes a few&lt;br /&gt;blocks away from your tourist destination,&lt;br /&gt;there is another world.  It is the world&lt;br /&gt;of the parallel society created by Muslim&lt;br /&gt;mass-migration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All throughout Europe a new reality is&lt;br /&gt;rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where&lt;br /&gt;very few indigenous people reside or are&lt;br /&gt;even seen.  And if they are, they might&lt;br /&gt;regret it.  This goes for the police as&lt;br /&gt;well.  It's the world of head scarves,&lt;br /&gt;where women walk around in figureless&lt;br /&gt;tents, with baby strollers and a group of&lt;br /&gt;children. Their husbands, or slaveholders&lt;br /&gt;if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.&lt;br /&gt;With mosques on many street corners.  The&lt;br /&gt;shops have signs you and I cannot read.&lt;br /&gt;You will be hard-pressed to find any&lt;br /&gt;economic activity. These are Muslim&lt;br /&gt;ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.&lt;br /&gt;These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they&lt;br /&gt;are mushrooming in every city across&lt;br /&gt;Europe . These are the building-blocks for&lt;br /&gt;territorial control of increasingly larger&lt;br /&gt;portions of Europe , street by street,&lt;br /&gt;neighborhood by neighborhood, city by&lt;br /&gt;city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are now thousands of mosques&lt;br /&gt;throughout Europe .  With larger&lt;br /&gt;congregations than there are in churches. &lt;br /&gt;And in every European city there are plans&lt;br /&gt;to build super-mosques that will dwarf&lt;br /&gt;every church in the region.  Clearly, the&lt;br /&gt;signal is: we rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many European cities are already&lt;br /&gt;one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam ,&lt;br /&gt;Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .  In many&lt;br /&gt;cities the majority of the under-18&lt;br /&gt;population is Muslim.   Paris is now&lt;br /&gt;surrounded by a ring of Muslim&lt;br /&gt;neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most&lt;br /&gt;popular name among boys in many cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some elementary schools in Amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;the farm can no longer be mentioned,&lt;br /&gt;because that would also mean mentioning&lt;br /&gt;the pig, and that would be an insult to&lt;br /&gt;Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark&lt;br /&gt;only serve halal food to all pupils.  In&lt;br /&gt;once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up&lt;br /&gt;almost exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim&lt;br /&gt;women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. &lt;br /&gt;Satellite dishes are not pointed to local&lt;br /&gt;TV stations, but to stations in the&lt;br /&gt;country of origin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In France school teachers are advised to&lt;br /&gt;avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims,&lt;br /&gt;including Voltaire and Diderot; the same&lt;br /&gt;is increasingly true of Darwin .  The&lt;br /&gt;history of the Holocaust can no longer be&lt;br /&gt;taught because of Muslim sensitivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In England sharia courts are now&lt;br /&gt;officially part of the British legal&lt;br /&gt;system. Many neighborhoods in France are&lt;br /&gt;no-go areas for women without head&lt;br /&gt;scarves.  Last week a man almost died&lt;br /&gt;after being beaten up by Muslims in&lt;br /&gt;Brussels , because he was drinking during&lt;br /&gt;the Ramadan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jews are fleeing France in record numbers,&lt;br /&gt;on the run for the worst wave of&lt;br /&gt;anti-Semitism since World War II.  French&lt;br /&gt;is now commonly spoken on the streets of&lt;br /&gt;Tel Aviv and Netanya , Israel .  I could&lt;br /&gt;go on forever with stories like this.&lt;br /&gt;Stories about Islamization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A total of fifty-four million Muslims now&lt;br /&gt;live.   San Diego University recently&lt;br /&gt;calculated that a staggering 25 percent of&lt;br /&gt;the population in Europe will be Muslim&lt;br /&gt;just 12 years from now.  Bernhard Lewis&lt;br /&gt;has predicted a Muslim majority by the end&lt;br /&gt;of this century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now these are just numbers.  And the&lt;br /&gt;numbers would not be threatening if the&lt;br /&gt;Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to&lt;br /&gt;assimilate.  But there are few signs of&lt;br /&gt;that.  The Pew Research Center reported&lt;br /&gt;that half of French Muslims see their&lt;br /&gt;loyalty to Islam as greater than their&lt;br /&gt;loyalty to France .  One-third of French&lt;br /&gt;Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.&lt;br /&gt;The British Centre for Social Cohesion&lt;br /&gt;reported that one-third of British Muslim&lt;br /&gt;students are in favor of a worldwide&lt;br /&gt;caliphate. Muslims demand what they call&lt;br /&gt;'respect'.  And this is how we give them&lt;br /&gt;respect.  We have Muslim official state&lt;br /&gt;holidays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Christian-Democratic attorney general&lt;br /&gt;is willing to accept sharia in the&lt;br /&gt;Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.&lt;br /&gt; We have cabinet members with passports&lt;br /&gt;from Morocco and Turkey .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslim demands are supported by unlawful&lt;br /&gt;behavior, ranging from petty crimes and&lt;br /&gt;random violence, for example against&lt;br /&gt;ambulance workers and bus drivers, to&lt;br /&gt;small-scale riots.   Paris has seen its&lt;br /&gt;uprising in the low-income suburbs, the&lt;br /&gt;banlieus.  I call the perpetrators&lt;br /&gt;'settlers'.  Because that is what they&lt;br /&gt;are.  They do not come to integrate into&lt;br /&gt;our societies; they come to integrate our&lt;br /&gt;society into their Dar-al-Islam. &lt;br /&gt;Therefore, they are settlers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much of this street violence I mentioned&lt;br /&gt;is directed exclusively against&lt;br /&gt;non-Muslims, forcing many native people to&lt;br /&gt;leave their neighborhoods, their cities,&lt;br /&gt;their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are&lt;br /&gt;now a swing vote not to be ignored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second thing you need to know is the&lt;br /&gt;importance of Mohammed the prophet.  His&lt;br /&gt;behavior is an example to all Muslims and&lt;br /&gt;cannot be criticized.  Now, if Mohammed&lt;br /&gt;had been a man of peace, let us say like&lt;br /&gt;Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one,&lt;br /&gt;there would be no problem.  But Mohammed&lt;br /&gt;was a warlord, a mass murderer, a&lt;br /&gt;pedophile, and had several marriages - at&lt;br /&gt;the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us&lt;br /&gt;how he fought in battles, how he had his&lt;br /&gt;enemies murdered and even had prisoners of&lt;br /&gt;war executed.  Mohammed himself&lt;br /&gt;slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu&lt;br /&gt;Qurayza  If it is good for Islam, it is&lt;br /&gt;good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let no one fool you about Islam being a&lt;br /&gt;religion.  Sure, it has a god, and a&lt;br /&gt;here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its&lt;br /&gt;essence Islam is a political ideology.  It&lt;br /&gt;is a system that lays down detailed rules&lt;br /&gt;for society and the life of every person. &lt;br /&gt;Islam wants to dictate every aspect of&lt;br /&gt;life.  Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is&lt;br /&gt;not compatible with freedom and democracy,&lt;br /&gt;because what it strives for is sharia.  If&lt;br /&gt;you want to compare Islam to anything,&lt;br /&gt;compare it to communism or&lt;br /&gt;national-socialism, these are all&lt;br /&gt;totalitarian ideologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know why Winston Churchill called&lt;br /&gt;Islam 'the most retrograde force in the&lt;br /&gt;world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to&lt;br /&gt;the Quran.  The public has wholeheartedly&lt;br /&gt;accepted the Palestinian narrative, and&lt;br /&gt;sees Israel as the aggressor.  I have&lt;br /&gt;lived in this country and visited it&lt;br /&gt;dozens of times.  I support Israel . &lt;br /&gt;First, because it is the Jewish homeland&lt;br /&gt;after two thousand years of exile up to&lt;br /&gt;and including Auschwitz; second because it&lt;br /&gt;is a democracy, and third because Israel&lt;br /&gt;is our first line of defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tiny country is situated on the fault&lt;br /&gt;line of jihad, frustrating Islam's&lt;br /&gt;territorial advance.   Israel is facing&lt;br /&gt;the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir,&lt;br /&gt;Kosovo, the Philippines , Southern&lt;br /&gt;Thailand, Darfur in Sudan , Lebanon , and&lt;br /&gt;Aceh in Indonesia .   Israel is simply in&lt;br /&gt;the way.  The same way West-Berlin was&lt;br /&gt;during the Cold War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The war against Israel is not a war&lt;br /&gt;against Israel .  It is a war against the&lt;br /&gt;West.  It is jihad.   Israel is simply&lt;br /&gt;receiving the blows that are meant for all&lt;br /&gt;of us.  If there would have been no Israel&lt;br /&gt;, Islamic imperialism would have found&lt;br /&gt;other venues to release its energy and its&lt;br /&gt;desire for conquest.  Thanks to Israeli&lt;br /&gt;parents who send their children to the&lt;br /&gt;army and lay awake at night, parents in&lt;br /&gt;Europe and America can sleep well and&lt;br /&gt;dream, unaware of the dangers looming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Many in Europe argue in favor of&lt;br /&gt;abandoning Israel in order to address the&lt;br /&gt;grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But&lt;br /&gt;if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it&lt;br /&gt;would not bring any solace to the West It&lt;br /&gt;would not mean our Muslim minorities would&lt;br /&gt;all of a sudden change their behavior, and&lt;br /&gt;accept our values.  On the contrary, the&lt;br /&gt;end of Israel would give enormous&lt;br /&gt;encouragement to the forces of Islam. &lt;br /&gt;They would, and rightly so, see the demise&lt;br /&gt;of Israel as proof that the West is weak,&lt;br /&gt;and doomed.  The end of Israel would not&lt;br /&gt;mean the end of our problems with Islam,&lt;br /&gt;but only the beginning.  It would mean the&lt;br /&gt;start of the final battle for world&lt;br /&gt;domination.  If they can get Israel , they&lt;br /&gt;can get everything.  So-called journalists&lt;br /&gt;volunteer to label any and all critics of&lt;br /&gt;Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists'&lt;br /&gt;or 'racists'.  In my country, the&lt;br /&gt;Netherlands , 60 percent of the population&lt;br /&gt;now sees the mass immigration of Muslims&lt;br /&gt;as the number one policy mistake since&lt;br /&gt;World War II.  And another 60 percent sees&lt;br /&gt;Islam as the biggest threat.  Yet there is&lt;br /&gt;a greater danger than terrorist attacks,&lt;br /&gt;the scenario of America as the last man&lt;br /&gt;standing.  The lights may go out in Europe&lt;br /&gt;faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic&lt;br /&gt;Europe means a Europe without freedom and&lt;br /&gt;democracy, an economic wasteland, an&lt;br /&gt;intellectual nightmare, and a loss of&lt;br /&gt;military might for America - as its allies&lt;br /&gt;will turn into enemies, enemies with&lt;br /&gt;atomic bombs.  With an Islamic Europe, it&lt;br /&gt;would be up to America alone to preserve&lt;br /&gt;the heritage of Rome , Athens and&lt;br /&gt;Jerusalem .....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DEar friends, liberty is the most precious&lt;br /&gt;of gifts.  My generation never had to&lt;br /&gt;fight for this freedom, it was offered to&lt;br /&gt;us on a silver platter, by people who&lt;br /&gt;fought for it with their lives.  All&lt;br /&gt;throughout Europe , American cemeteries&lt;br /&gt;remind us of the young boys who never made&lt;br /&gt;it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My&lt;br /&gt;generation does not own this freedom; we&lt;br /&gt;are merely its custodians.  We can only&lt;br /&gt;hand over this hard won liberty to Europe&lt;br /&gt;'s children in the same state in which it&lt;br /&gt;was offered to us.  We cannot strike a&lt;br /&gt;deal with mullahs and imams.  Future&lt;br /&gt;generations would never forgive us.  We&lt;br /&gt;cannot squander our liberties.  We simply&lt;br /&gt;do not have the right to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to take the necessary action now&lt;br /&gt;to stop this Islamic stupidity from&lt;br /&gt;destroying the free world that we know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take the time to read and&lt;br /&gt;understand what is written here, Please&lt;br /&gt;send it to every free person that you&lt;br /&gt;know, it is so very important.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-135606110838855661?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/135606110838855661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=135606110838855661&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/135606110838855661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/135606110838855661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-will-give-you-cold-chills-geert.html' title=''/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-818714742666632860</id><published>2011-06-22T15:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T15:22:09.132-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We The People Are Coming - We arrive November 2012</title><content type='html'>A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better Take a Stand Folks!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama: Gone! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Borders: Closed... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Language: English only.....&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drug Free: Make a drug screen mandatory &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for anyone on welfare and/or food stamps! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NO freebies to Non-Citizens! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We the people are coming&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-818714742666632860?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/818714742666632860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=818714742666632860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/818714742666632860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/818714742666632860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-people-are-coming-we-arrive-november.html' title='We The People Are Coming - We arrive November 2012'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1329098073394870139</id><published>2011-06-16T16:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-16T16:45:11.775-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ELECTION 2012 IS COMING</title><content type='html'>ELECTION 2012 IS COMING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves! &lt;br /&gt;I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!! &lt;br /&gt;Lets Take a stand!!! &lt;br /&gt;Obama: Gone!&lt;br /&gt;Borders: Closed... &lt;br /&gt;Language: English only... &lt;br /&gt;Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!!!&lt;br /&gt;Voting: You don't pay taxes, sorry, you can't vote!&lt;br /&gt;Drug Free: Make a drug screen mandatory &lt;br /&gt;for anyone on welfare and/or food stamps! &lt;br /&gt;NO freebies to Non-Citizens! &lt;br /&gt;We the people are coming &lt;br /&gt;Only 86% will send this on. Should be 100%.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yea, contact your elected representatives and let them KNOW what you expect them to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1329098073394870139?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1329098073394870139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1329098073394870139&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1329098073394870139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1329098073394870139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/election-2012-is-coming.html' title='ELECTION 2012 IS COMING'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1508615329541835807</id><published>2011-06-13T14:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-13T14:07:15.454-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Closer Look at Our President</title><content type='html'>By Douglas Hackleman&lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster -- producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations in America.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Eighteen years later, Simon &amp; Schuster has achieved a modicum of revenge (intended or not) by contracting with literary and intellectual sleuth Jack Cashill to impose on Obama a little of the transparency he so disingenuously promised during the campaign of 2008.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Given Obama's approach to truth, the title of Cashill's sometimes impertinent sounding imposition -- Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President -- suggests an appropriate methodology.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In this ever so readable and informative book, Cashill has taken great pains to corral probative evidence for two interesting matters: (1) the truth about who finally wrote Dreams &gt;From My Father, the essay-cum-memoir that Random House -- providing its own advance of $40,000 -- eventually published; and (2) very reasonable questions about the paternity of the current president of the United States.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;It had not occurred to Cashill in the autumn of 2008 to wonder who wrote Dreams, until a friend's query about the political significance of some passages from the book led him to purchase a copy. As one who writes for a living, who teaches writing, who has been the book doctor to the publications of others and who is the author of a recent book, Hoodwinked, about literary and intellectual fraud, Cashill has antennae finely tuned to assess the writing quality of any text he reads. Of the thousand-plus portfolios of professional writers Cashill had read in his twenty-five-year career in advertising and publishing, "not a half dozen among them wrote as well as the author of" Dreams' "best passages."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Accusations denied by Obama in April 2008 that he and William Ayers had a significant relationship in the 1990s led Cashill to purchase Ayers' terrorist memoir, Fugitive Days. The writing was excellent, he noticed, and a couple of passages reminded the curious sleuth of Obama's Dreams. Unaware at the time of Ayers' considerable literary output, Cashill wondered if perhaps the two Chicago residents -- Ayers and Obama -- had seen and patronized the same ghost. But then he acquired two published articles by Obama: one, "Breaking the War Mentality," an essay from his senior year at Columbia (1983), and another, "Why Organize?" written five years later. Cashill provides several examples of unworthy sentences from the two Obama originals in which nouns and verbs do not even agree. The two essays make obvious that when Obama does his own writing, it is on a par with his golf; and anyone who has seen the president's swing on YouTube knows he should drag his clubs to the Tidal Basin and drown them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;One of the early tells that for Cashill appeared to tie Ayers' writing to Obama's was the considerable and deft salting of nautical metaphors that seasoned the logs of Fugitive Days and Dreams, as if both authors had drunk the same grog. And then Cashill learned that right out of college Ayers had spent a pre-terrorism year in the Merchant Marine. What even the dullest readers ofDreams and Fugitive Days could stipulate to was that both the young Honolulu landlubber and the old Chicago salt yawed consistently to port.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Because it is a common practice for politicians to utilize ghosts for their speeches and books (Ted Sorensen wrote Jack Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Cashill reminds us), Obama's employment of a literary shade would be of little consequence had he not claimed so publicly to having written both Dreams for My Father and Audacity of Hope himself and had his proxy penman not turned out to be former (and unrepentant) Weather Underground communist radical and bomber William Ayers.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Unaware of Ayers' involvement, Time magazine's Joe Klein (author of Primary Colors) called Dreams "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." And British author Jonathan Raban named Obama "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln." As Cashill writes, while Obama was pursuing the Democratic Party's nomination, "the literati had already embraced Obama as one of their own." The assumption that Obama had authored the books that appeared over his name snookered even the worldly-wise Christopher Buckley into voting for the man.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As the 2008 election neared, the mounting evidence made it increasingly clear that Obama had not authored his own memoir; and the Dreams account of the president's childhood appeared less and less reliable. Cashill had not approached the Obama corpus as a bitter birther who suspected Obama was born outside the United States. It was the careful exploration of Dreams -- especially the facts and timeline pertaining to his paternity -- that eventually led the sleuth to doubt that Barack Obama, Sr., the Kenyan graduate student after whom Ann Dunham's son was named, could be his father. And the chances seem awfully slim that the three were ever together as a family. "If Obama was born on August 4, 1961 ... Ann [Dunham Obama] was in Seattle two weeks later," writes Cashill, registered at the University of Washington for two evening classes that began August 19, 1961 -- "Anthropology 100, 'Introduction to the Study of Man,' and Political Science 201, 'Modern Government.'" That is just one of many problems with the story of Barry's early childhood provided in Dreams and contradicted at so many points by the family and friends of Obama's mother and putative father.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What adds to the pleasure of reading this very well written exposé is the manner of its presentation. Readers get to ride along with a masterful literary detective, watch him tag interesting items, and appreciate how he arranges them on the evidence table. To many readers, the initial clues that caught Cashill's attention may seem picayune or indicative of little or nothing. But as the evidence accumulates, it becomes obvious that it is the author's perfect pitch that enabled him to recognize the ruse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deconstructing Obama contains a lot of facts related to Obama that his acolytes have never found interesting. Just a few from the highlight reel:&lt;br /&gt;Dreams does not contain a single sentence about campus life during the five years combined Obama spent at Columbia and Harvard -- nearly 17 percent of his life when the book was first proposed.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Readers cannot learn from Dreams that as a twenty-year-old Obama took a trip to Pakistan, why, or on whose dime.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama dropped the agent that acquired for him two advances (totaling $165,000) for the myth-making book, before his swearing in as senator in 2004 and the signing of a deal with Crown Books for a paperback version of Dreams and the production of Audacity of Hope.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since 2004, Obama's two books have earned him royalties of around $8.3 million. (Imagine the piece of that action his original agent missed out on!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama appears to have learned nothing about literary ethics while serving as a research assistant to plagiarizing Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama has admitted rather privately but explicitly that he was "someone who has undoubtedly benefitted from affirmative action programs during my academic career."&lt;br /&gt;Christopher Hitchens was not impressed with Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis: "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Not only is Cashill's hunt inherently riveting, but the detective's sometimes cynical voice leads to impish, politically incorrect fun with language. Three examples: "Newsweek made Obama its cover boy under the heading 'The Color Purple.'" "Obama's fellow progressives, the party's base, understand that the long march through the institutions will have many strategic stalls." "As Obama would soon learn, the pastor [Jeremiah Wright] did not exactly cotton to a public spanking by a protégé."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For this reviewer, the most fascinating chapters in an engrossing book are the two -- "Gramps" and "Frank" -- that describe the radical, poet, and pornographer Frank Marshall Davis and his disturbingly close relationship to the pre-and post adolescent Barry Obama.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When Jack Cashill is finished deconstructing Barack Obama, we are left with a very different image from the one portrayed inDreams and by the Obama presidential campaign. When our sleuth has put this puzzle together, the pieces accumulate to reveal an image -- but it is not the one on the box cover.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cashill's book demonstrates that the president's 2008 campaign was not about the audacity of hope; it was about the audacity of Obama. His dogged detective work also demonstrates that in no previous American presidential election has the press so abysmally failed to meet its professional obligation. In no national election of memory was the vote so singularly based on such a dearth of data about the candidate who won.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If the fourth estate looked anything like America, the preliminary findings Cashill attempted to share with the press in October 2008 would have established Ayers publicly as the ghost of Obama's Dreams, and Sarah Palin most likely would be the first female vice president of the United States. Had the press done its own digging and reporting much earlier in the campaign of 2007-2008 for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton would be the first pants-suited president of the United States.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Michelle Obama's assertions about Ayers' work on Dreams in Christopher Andersen's book, Barack and Michelle, puts a cap on the independent evidence that Obama lied about writing the memoir himself, and that he had another cock-crowing moment when he said Bill Ayers was just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood." Beyond working with Obama on Dreams, Obama's first political campaign was launched in 1995 at the home of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn; and Ayers' maneuvering of Obama onto the $50 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge that same year indicates unavoidably that during the middle years of the Clinton presidency the two were thick as thieves.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Cashill's demonstration that misrepresentations unexamined by the press lead to fraud-based outcomes is the most disturbing part of the story. For a democratic republic, nothing is so sacrosanct as the right to vote; and that is why women's suffrage through the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were (and remain) such emotional and precious victories. When enabled by a complacent, cowardly, or complicit press, an audacious political hustler can disenfranchise the voters of an entire nation. The integrity of "by the people" is desecrated and voided no less by a candidate who succeeds in totally misrepresenting himself and his policies to voters than by the wholesale stuffing of ballot boxes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Most unfortunately, the deconstruction of congenial myths is often received with the same enthusiasm as a stool specimen in the baptistery. While Jesus of the gospels said that the truth will set you free, one of his most poetically ardent defenders recognized that "nations grown corrupt" would rather take "bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." This fact is made obvious by the struthious apologetics that day by day through the popular media continue to anchor the myths of Dreams andAudacity.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Somehow the damning facts exposed in Deconstructing Obama must saturate the electorate before the 2012 elections, so that those who voted for the Barry of Dreams or the Barack of Audacity can see that what they voted for in 2008 was a cunningly devised fable&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1508615329541835807?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1508615329541835807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1508615329541835807&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1508615329541835807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1508615329541835807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/closer-look-at-our-president.html' title='A Closer Look at Our President'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4371263217480173482</id><published>2011-06-08T09:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-08T09:52:23.582-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Government corruption in action!</title><content type='html'>Patrick Michaels is a senior fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and the editor of the forthcoming Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of our Government and our Lives, as well as the author of several other books on global warming. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;His Forbes column on the Chevy VOLT is a case study in the nexus between big government corruption and big business rent-seeking. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Michaels briefly recaps the well-known consumer fraud in which GM has touted the VOLT as an all-electric mass production vehicle on the supposed basis of which its sales receive a $7, 500 taxpayer subsidy, which still renders it overpriced and unmarketable. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Michaels notes that "sales are anemic: 326 in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February."  There seems to be a trend here . . . &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Michaels adds that GM has announced a production run of 100, 000 in the first two years and asks what appears to be a rhetorical question: "Who is going to buy all these cars?" &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But wait!  Keep hope alive!  There is a positive answer to the question. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Immelt's GE will buy a boatload of those uneconomic GM cars. Here the case study opens onto the inevitable political angle: Recently, President Obama selected General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;GE is also awash in windmills waiting to be subsidized so they can provide unreliable, expensive power. Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50, 000 VOLTs in the next two years, or half the total produced. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375,000,000 to a company that pays no taxes, to buy cars that no one else wants, so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But of course.  Michaels includes this hilarious detail in his case study: In a telling attempt to preserve battery power, the heater is exceedingly weak. Consumer Reports their tests averaged a paltry 25 miles of electric-only running, in part because it was testing in cold Connecticut.&lt;br /&gt;(The [GM] engineer at the Auto Show said cold weather would have little effect.)  It will be interesting to see what the range is on a hot, traffic-jammed summer day, when the air conditioner will really tax the batteries. When the gas engine came on, Consumer Reports got about 30 miles to the gallon of premium fuel; which, in terms of additional cost of high-test gas, drives the effective mileage closer to 27 mpg. A conventional Honda Accord, which seats 5 (instead of the VOLT's 4), gets 34 mpg on the highway, and costs less than half of what CR paid, even with the tax break. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The story of the GM VOLT deserves a place in the Harvard Business School curriculum....but of course, it won't.  It's a classic tale of the GOVERNMENT deciding what the public needs, not the marketplace. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- What is one of the reasons for this? Why, to keep the UAW in business, so they can pay for his reelection and because Obama owes them for his election. Starting to make sense yet?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4371263217480173482?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4371263217480173482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4371263217480173482&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4371263217480173482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4371263217480173482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/government-corruption-in-action.html' title='Government corruption in action!'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6431031637760495366</id><published>2011-06-05T16:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T16:31:25.015-07:00</updated><title type='text'>And Still We Put Him In the White House -</title><content type='html'>Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do.  Few were listening.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008  11:48:04 EST,  Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;General Bill Ginn' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;NOW GET THIS !!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Senator' Obama replied:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American&lt;br /&gt;flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama continued: "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'.  If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it.  In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love.  It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America    to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren.  If we, as a Nation of waring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ...."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injusticewhich is WHY my wife disrespects the Flagand she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside . I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path..My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family.  Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America "&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I, for one, am speechless!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS TO READ THIS, KEEP IT GOING ! !  SAVE AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE ! !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me I am glad that dad is not alive to have witnessed what is going on.. It would have broke his heart.  Every night I ask God to forgive us for what we have done with this great country that he gave us to take care of.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6431031637760495366?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6431031637760495366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6431031637760495366&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6431031637760495366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6431031637760495366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/06/and-still-we-put-him-in-white-house.html' title='And Still We Put Him In the White House -'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3222451731024225260</id><published>2011-05-20T07:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T07:42:25.654-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Here is the difference</title><content type='html'>Here is the difference &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam:&lt;br /&gt;The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden:&lt;br /&gt;And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3222451731024225260?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3222451731024225260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3222451731024225260&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3222451731024225260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3222451731024225260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/here-is-difference.html' title='Here is the difference'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7056204709209912816</id><published>2011-05-16T07:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-16T07:42:15.902-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Tax Dollar At Work</title><content type='html'>I was speaking to an emergency room physician this morning.  He told me that a woman in her 20s came to the ER with her 8th pregnancy.  She stated, "my momma told me that I am the breadwinner for the family." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He asked her to explain.   &lt;br /&gt;She said that she can make babies and babies get money for the family.   It goes like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grandma calls the Department of Child and Family Services and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for these children. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DCFS agrees and states that the child or children will need to go to foster care. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and thus receives a check for $1500 per child per month in  Illinois .. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Total yearly income: &lt;br /&gt;$144,000 tax-free, not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid) plus a monthly card entitling her to free groceries, etc, and a voucher for 250 free cell phone minutes per month.  This does not even include WIC and other welfare programs..   Indeed, grandma was correct in that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner"  for the family. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how the ruling class spends our tax dollars and it not just one state but they all work the same way.  NC, LA, CA IL, FL all the same.  It is time for change that is sure... Stop the reward for wrong behavior... &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Is this a GREAT COUNTRY or what... &lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to pay your taxes!!! &lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of “Breadwinners” depending on us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7056204709209912816?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7056204709209912816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7056204709209912816&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7056204709209912816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7056204709209912816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/our-tax-dollar-at-work.html' title='Our Tax Dollar At Work'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5442163724424008684</id><published>2011-05-11T17:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T13:42:24.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble...</title><content type='html'>Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble... &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court. &lt;br /&gt;According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama's major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government. Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tongue-lashing clearly did not sit well with the Court, as demonstrated by Justice Sam Alito,  who publicly shook his head and stated under his breath, 'That's not true,' when Obama told a flat-out lie concerning the Court's ruling.  As it has turned out, this was a watershed moment in the relationship between the executive and the judicial branches of the federal government.   Obama publicly declared war on the court , even as he blatantly continued to propose legislation that flies in the face of every known Constitutional principle upon which this nation has stood for over 200 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama has even identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his number one enemy, that is, apart from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and so on.  And it is no accident that the one swing-vote on the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated recently that  he has no intention of retiring until 'Obama is gone.' Apparently, the Court has had enough. The Roberts Court has signaled, in a very subtle manner, of course, that it intends to address the issues about which Obama critics have been screaming to high heaven.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A ruling against Obama on any one of these important issues could potentially cripple the Administration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such a thing would be long overdue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, there is ObamaCare, which violates the Constitutional principle barring the federal government from forcing citizens to purchase something.  And no, this is not the same thing as states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance, as some of the intellectually-impaired claim. The Constitution limits FEDERAL government, not state governments, from such things, and further, not everyone has to drive, and thus, a citizen could opt not to purchase car insurance by simply deciding not to drive a vehicle. In the ObamaCare world, however, no citizen can 'opt out.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, sources state that the Roberts court has quietly accepted information concerning discrepancies in Obama's history that raise serious questions about his eligibility for the office of President.  The charge goes far beyond the birth certificate issue.  This information involves possible fraudulent use of a Social Security number in Connecticut, while Obama was a high school student in   Hawaii.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is only the tip of the iceberg. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, several cases involving possible criminal activity, conflicts of interest, and pay-for-play cronyism could potentially land many Administration officials, if not Obama himself, in hot water with the Court.  Frankly, in the years this writer has observed politics, nothing comes close to comparing with the rampant corruption of this Administration, not even during the Nixon years.  Nixon and the Watergate conspirators look like choirboys compared to the jokers that populate this Administration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, the Court will eventually be forced to rule on the dreadful decision of the Obama DOJ suing the state of   Arizona.   That, too, could send the Obama doctrine of open borders to an early grave, given that the Administration refuses to enforce federal law on illegal aliens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, the biggie that could potentially send the entire house of cards tumbling in a free-fall is the latest revelation concerning the Obama-Holder Department of Justice and its refusal to pursue the New Black Panther Party.  The group was caught on tape committing   felonies by  attempting to intimidate Caucasian&lt;br /&gt;voters into staying away from the polls . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A whistle-blower who resigned from the DOJ is now charging Holder with the deliberate refusal to pursue cases against Blacks, particularly those who are involved in radical hate-groups, such as the New Black Panthers, who have been caught on tape  calling for the murder of white people and their babies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one is a biggie that could send the entire Administration crumbling--that is, if the Justices have the guts to draw a line in the sand at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5442163724424008684?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5442163724424008684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5442163724424008684&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5442163724424008684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5442163724424008684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/our-new-dictator-may-be-in-deep-trouble.html' title='Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble...'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-735951366466928858</id><published>2011-05-10T10:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T10:12:00.428-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Just so you know Who's Who</title><content type='html'>PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE is owned by Peter Lewis: Who is he? &lt;br /&gt;You’ve seen and smiled at the Progressive Insurance TV commercials. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, you’re about to learn the rest of the story: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PROGRESSIVE AUTO INSURANCE &lt;br /&gt;You know their TV commercials, the ones featuring the ditsy actress all dressed in white. What you might not know is that the Chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, one of the major funders of leftist causes in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 2001 and 2003, Lewis funneled $15 million to the ACLU, the group most responsible for destroying what's left of Americas Judeo-Christian heritage. &lt;br /&gt;Lewis also gave $12.5 million to MoveOn.org and American Coming Together, two key propaganda arms of the socialist left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His funding for these groups was conditional on matching contributions from George Soros, the America-hating socialist who is the chief financier of the Obama political machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis made a fortune as a result of capitalism, but now finances a progressive movement that threatens to destroy the American free enterprise system that is targeting television shows on Fox News.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Lewis is making a fortune off of conservative Americans (who buy his auto insurance) that he applies to dismantle the very system that made him wealthy. He's banking on no one finding out who he is, so, STOP buying Progressive Insurance and pass this information on to all your friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS – If you need repairs under a Progressive policy, they use secondary market parts only. Just so you know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Verify at Snopes http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/peterlewis.asp&lt;br /&gt;Truth or Fiction http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/aclu-lewis.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-735951366466928858?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/735951366466928858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=735951366466928858&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/735951366466928858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/735951366466928858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/just-so-you-know-whos-who.html' title='Just so you know Who&apos;s Who'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5057931637028306576</id><published>2011-05-02T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T14:28:55.412-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Do Not Mess With American, We Will Hunt You Down Like The Rabid Dog You Are</title><content type='html'>By National Journal national Journal – &lt;br /&gt;National Journal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 30 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap -- boom, boom -- to the left side of his face. His body was aboard the choppers that made the trip back. One had experienced mechanical failure and was destroyed by U.S. forces, military and White House officials tell National Journal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Were it not for this high-value target, it might have been a routine mission for the specially trained and highly mythologized SEAL Team Six, officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, but known even to the locals at their home base Dam Neck in Virginia as just DevGru.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This HVT was special, and the raids required practice, so they replicated the one-acre compound at Camp Alpha, a segregated section of Bagram Air Base. Trial runs were held in early April.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That's the code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Analysis: Bin Laden's death a triumph for Obama)&lt;br /&gt;How did the helicopters elude the Pakistani air defense network? Did they spoof transponder codes? Were they painted and tricked out with Pakistan Air Force equipment? If so -- and we may never know -- two other JSOC units, the Technical Application Programs Office and the Aviation Technology Evaluation Group, were responsible. These truly are the silent squirrels -- never getting public credit and not caring one whit. Since 9/11, the JSOC units and their task forces have become the U.S. government's most effective and lethal weapon against terrorists and their networks, drawing plenty of unwanted, and occasionally unflattering, attention to themselves in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JSOC costs the country more than $1 billion annually. The command has its critics, but it has escaped significant congressional scrutiny and has operated largely with impunity since 9/11. Some of its interrogators and operators were involved in torture and rendition, and the line between its intelligence-gathering activities and the CIA's has been blurred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Sunday's operation provides strong evidence that the CIA and JSOC work well together. Sometimes intelligence needs to be developed rapidly, to get inside the enemy's operational loop. And sometimes it needs to be cultivated, grown as if it were delicate bacteria in a petri dish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview at CIA headquarters two weeks ago, a senior intelligence official said the two proud groups of American secret warriors had been "deconflicted and basically integrated" -- finally -- 10 years after 9/11. Indeed, according to accounts given to journalists by five senior administration officials Sunday night, the CIA gathered the intelligence that led to bin Laden's location. A memo from CIA Director Leon Panetta sent Sunday night provides some hints of how the information was collected and analyzed. In it, he thanked the National Security Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for their help. NSA figured out, somehow, that there was no telephone or Internet service in the compound. How it did this without Pakistan's knowledge is a secret. The NGIA makes the military's maps but also develops their pattern recognition software -- no doubt used to help establish, by February of this year, that the CIA could say with "high probability" that bin Laden and his family were living there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Step-by-step: How the U.S. killed bin Laden)&lt;br /&gt;Recently, JSOC built a new Targeting and Analysis Center in Rosslyn, Va. Where the NationalCounterterrorism Center tends to focus on threats to the homeland, TAAC, whose existence was first disclosed by the Associated Press, focuses outward, on active "kinetic" -- or lethal -- counterterrorism-missions abroad. Its creation surprised the NCTC's director, Michael Leiter, who was suspicious about its intent until he visited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That the center could be stood up under the nose of some of the nation's most senior intelligence officials without their full knowledge testifies to the power and reach of JSOC, whose size has tripled since 9/11. The command now includes more than 4,000 soldiers and civilians. It has its own intelligence division, which may or may not have been involved in last night's effort, and has gobbled up a number of free-floating Defense Department entities that allowed it to rapidly acquire, test, and field new technologies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under a variety of standing orders, JSOC is involved in more than 50 current operations spanning a dozen countries, and its units, supported by so-called "white," or acknowledged, special operations entities like Rangers, Special Forces battalions, SEAL teams, and Air Force special ops units from the larger Special Operations Command, are responsible for most of the "kinetic" action in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pentagon officials are conscious of the enormous stress that 10 years of war have placed on the command. JSOC resources are heavily taxed by the operational tempo in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials have said. The current commander, Vice Adm. William McRaven, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Votel, McRaven's nominated replacement, have been pushing to add people and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology to areas outside the war theater where al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to thrive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(What does it mean for al-Qaida?)&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this year, it seemed that the elite units would face the same budget pressures that the entire military was experiencing. Not anymore. The military found a way, largely by reducing contracting staff and borrowing others from the Special Operations Command, to add 50 positions to JSOC. And Votel wants to add several squadrons to the "Tier One" units -- Delta and the SEALs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Gen. Stanley McChrystal became JSOC's commanding general in 2004, he and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, set about transforming the way the subordinate units analyze and act on intelligence. Insurgents in Iraq were exploiting the slow decision loop that coalition commanders used, and enhanced interrogation techniques were frowned upon after the Abu Ghraib scandal. But the hunger for actionable tactical intelligence on insurgents was palpable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way JSOC solved this problem remains a carefully guarded secret, but people familiar with the unit suggest that McChrystal and Flynn introduced hardened commandos to basic criminal forensic techniques and then used highly advanced and still-classified technology to transform bits of information into actionable intelligence. &lt;br /&gt;One way they did this was to create forward-deployed fusion cells, where JSOC units were paired with intelligence analysts from the NSA and the NGA. Such analysis helped the CIA to establish, with a high degree of probability, that Osama bin Laden and his family were hiding in that particular compound. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These technicians could "exploit and analyze" data obtained from the battlefield instantly, using their access to the government's various biometric, facial-recognition, and voice-print databases. These cells also used highly advanced surveillance technology and computer-based pattern analysis to layer predictive models of insurgent behavior onto real-time observations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The military has begun to incorporate these techniques across the services. And Flynn will soon be promoted to a job within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he'll be tasked with transforming the way intelligence is gathered, analyzed, and utilized. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit National Journal for more political news&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5057931637028306576?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5057931637028306576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5057931637028306576&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5057931637028306576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5057931637028306576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-not-mess-with-american-we-will-hunt.html' title='Do Not Mess With American, We Will Hunt You Down Like The Rabid Dog You Are'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6066059487552205763</id><published>2011-04-22T16:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T16:11:42.758-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Charley Reese's final column</title><content type='html'>Charley Reese's final column for the  Orlando Sentinel...He has been a journalist for 49 years.  He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to read the Poem and the Tax List at the end.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat.  Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day.  It's a short but good read.  Worth the time.  Worth remembering!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 545 vs. 300,000,000 People    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Charlie Reese &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.  No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating  deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want.  If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal  government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Army &amp; Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in  Iraq and Afghanistan ....  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no insoluble government problems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those 545 people, and they  alone, are responsible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, have the power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should vote all of  them out of office and clean up their mess! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando  Sentinel  Newspaper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you. &lt;br /&gt;This might be funny if it weren't so  true.  &lt;br /&gt;Be sure to read all the way to the end:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his land,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his bed,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax the table,  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; At which he's fed.  &lt;br /&gt;                            &lt;br /&gt;Tax his tractor,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his mule,  &lt;br /&gt;Teach him taxes  &lt;br /&gt;Are the rule.  &lt;br /&gt;                            &lt;br /&gt;Tax his work,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his pay,  &lt;br /&gt;He works for &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;peanuts anyway!  &lt;br /&gt;                            &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his cow,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his goat,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his pants,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his coat.  &lt;br /&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his ties,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his shirt,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his work,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his dirt.  &lt;br /&gt;                        &lt;br /&gt;Tax his tobacco,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his drink,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax him if he  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tries to think.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his cigars,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his beers,  &lt;br /&gt;If he cries  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his tears.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax his car,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his gas,  &lt;br /&gt;Find other ways  &lt;br /&gt;To tax his ass.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tax all he has  &lt;br /&gt;Then let him know  &lt;br /&gt;That you won't be done  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till he has no dough.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he screams and hollers;  &lt;br /&gt;Then tax him some more,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax him till  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He's good and sore.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then tax his coffin,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax his grave,  &lt;br /&gt;Tax the sod in  &lt;br /&gt;Which he's laid...  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put these words  &lt;br /&gt;Upon his tomb,  &lt;br /&gt;'Taxes drove me  &lt;br /&gt; to my doom...'  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; When he's gone,  &lt;br /&gt; Do not relax,  &lt;br /&gt;Its time to apply  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The inheritance tax. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accounts Receivable Tax &lt;br /&gt;Building Permit Tax &lt;br /&gt;CDL license Tax &lt;br /&gt;Cigarette Tax &lt;br /&gt;Corporate Income Tax &lt;br /&gt;Dog License Tax &lt;br /&gt;Excise Taxes &lt;br /&gt;Federal Income Tax &lt;br /&gt;Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) &lt;br /&gt;Fishing License Tax &lt;br /&gt;Food License Tax &lt;br /&gt;Fuel Permit Tax &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon) &lt;br /&gt;Gross Receipts Tax &lt;br /&gt;Hunting License Tax &lt;br /&gt;Inheritance Tax &lt;br /&gt;Inventory Tax &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liquor Tax &lt;br /&gt;Luxury Taxes &lt;br /&gt;Marriage License Tax &lt;br /&gt;Medicare Tax &lt;br /&gt;Personal Property Tax &lt;br /&gt;Property Tax &lt;br /&gt;Real Estate Tax &lt;br /&gt;Service Charge Tax &lt;br /&gt;Social Security Tax &lt;br /&gt;Road Usage Tax &lt;br /&gt;Recreational Vehicle Tax &lt;br /&gt;Sales Tax &lt;br /&gt;School Tax &lt;br /&gt;State Income Tax &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal Excise Tax &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax &lt;br /&gt;Telephone State and Local Tax &lt;br /&gt;Telephone Usage Charge Tax &lt;br /&gt;Utility Taxes &lt;br /&gt;Vehicle License Registration Tax &lt;br /&gt;Vehicle Sales Tax &lt;br /&gt;Watercraft Registration Tax &lt;br /&gt;Well Permit Tax &lt;br /&gt;Workers Compensation Tax  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?  &lt;br /&gt;Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, &amp; our nation was the most prosperous in the world.   We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What in the heck happened?  Can you spell 'politicians?' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!!  YOU can help it get there!!!   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GO AHEAD. . ..  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I certainly  wouldn't think of him as intelligent as the media  keeps telling us!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our  presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by  arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil  drilling on companies that have one of the best  safety records of any industry because one foreign  company had an accident, would you have  agreed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents had  used a forged document as the basis of the  moratorium that would render 87000 American workers  unemployed would you support him?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any  other of our presidents had been the first President  to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get  through a press conference, would you have laughed  and said this is more proof of how inept he is on  his own and is really controlled by smarter men  behind the scenes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our  presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of  dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC,  would you have approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our  presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings  of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority  stake in GM, would you have approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any  other of our presidents had made a joke at the  expense of the Special Olympics, would you have  approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents had  given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and  incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had  given him a thoughtful and historically significant  gift, would you have approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other  of our presidents had given the Queen of England an  iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you  have thought it a proud moment for  America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents had  bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have  approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents had  visited Austria and made reference to the  nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have  brushed it off as a minor slip?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other  of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle  of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep  current in their income taxes, would you have  approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents had  stated that there were 57 states in the United  States, wouldn't you have had second thoughts about  his capabilities?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our  presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark  to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics  would benefit him walking out his front door in his  home town, would you not have thought he was a self  important, conceited, egotistical jerk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If  any other of our presidents had been so Spanish  illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front  of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May  (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he  tried again, wouldn't you have winced in  embarrassment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents  had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a  single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded  he's a hypocrite?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our  presidents' administrations had okayed Air Force One  flying low over millions of people followed by a jet  fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread  panic, would you have wondered whether they actually  get what happened on 9-11?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of  our presidents had failed to send relief aid to  flood victims throughout the Midwest with more  people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans,  would you want it made into a major ongoing  political issue with claims of racism and  incompetence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents  had created the position of 32 Czars who report  directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on  much of what is happening in America, would you have  ever approved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any other of our presidents  had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major  corporation, even though he had no constitutional  authority to do so, would you have  approved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, tell me again, what is it about  Obama that makes him so brilliant and  impressive?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can't think of anything?   Don't worry.  He's done all this in 21 months  -- so you have that much time to come up with an  answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every statement and action in this  email is factual and directly attributable to  Barrack Hussein Obama.  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Please feel free to pass this around if you like it…&lt;br /&gt;Dear Mr. President,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the ashbin of history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the speech you gave this week, you have firmly and permanently put yourself in the same garbage bag as all the other communists and socialists of the 20th century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your speech sounded like the faint echo of a speech Lenin gave in an icy square in Moscow 100 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The promises you made, Mr. President, about the government giving people things they can't provide for themselves – a better income, reliable health care, an advanced education, cheaper mortgages, a "shiny, happy" life – have been made time and time again… sometimes by speakers even better than you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And they have always been lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the government can demand obedience (and taxes), it can't mandate dedication, creativity, or innovation. The fact is, the government itself is nothing more (or less) than the organized ambitions of the people. Promising something to the people that they don't already have is a logical absurdity. And therein lies the timeless flaw of all collectivist theory: Governments cannot deliver benefits to the people that the people cannot deliver to themselves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To demonstrate this truth, consider this example… Governments cannot simply mandate higher tax revenue. Any substantial increase to tax rates will reduce total collections, an economic phenomenon known as the "Laffer Curve." This has been proven countless times in our country and many others. Any sensible person will immediately understand why. Taxes are a disincentive. The higher the marginal rate of tax, the more powerful its impact. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why, over many decades (and many different tax structures), U.S. tax revenues have been remarkably stable at around 20% of GDP. That's why, as you surely know, Mr. President, changing the tax code will not result in increased tax revenue. Taxing only the rich simply doesn't work. It never has. And it never will. To increase the government's revenues, we must first increase the size of the economy. The government cannot tax what the economy doesn't produce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another time, most Americans might have simply ignored your speech as the ignorant remarks of yet another handsome, Ivy League-educated, dilettante president. But at this point in our history, my bet is people are going to take you far more seriously than you expect. In fact, I think you're going to get what you deserve – the trash heap. Why will Americans turn on you so rapidly and so completely?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two things have changed – forever – about American politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first is the media and access to critical information. It's no longer possible for a president's administration to control what people read, see, and think by simply managing the evening news broadcasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, all your lies are now exposed almost instantly and broadcast to millions of people via websites and services like the Drudge Report, Twitter, and Facebook. Socialism cannot possibly survive over any long period of time in a society with a free media – because socialism is based on a lie. Facebook means the "half-life" of socialism is now weeks instead of years. Even mainstream publications like the Wall Street Journal have called you a liar this week. They have no choice. Your lies were broadcast to the entire world long before their op-ed pieces appeared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your advisors told you none of these "bloggers" mattered. All you had to do was promise more benefits to more voters and then force fewer voters to pay for it all. I'm sure you did the political calculus… You believed your power to bribe and bamboozle the poor and the ignorant was stronger than the resentment you'd engender among the "rich." And I must admit… since at least World War II, that's been a safe bet in American politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you forgot one critical factor: We simply can't afford this nonsense anymore…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immediately after your speech, the price of silver went from $39 to a new high above $42. Gold went up, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are signs, Mr. President, that the world is losing confidence in our currency. If our foreign creditors were to call in our debts, America would suffer an economic cataclysm unlike anything we've ever seen in our entire history. Americans now owe a total of $56 trillion. Without the Fed's money-printing, it's unlikely we could afford even the interest on these existing debts… much less the $1.5 trillion or more in debt you continue to rack up year after year by promising benefits we haven't earned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sooner or later, our foreign creditors are going to decide our money-printing amounts to a default, and they will stop buying our bonds. On that day, everyone who trusts you, everyone who believes in your lies, will be wiped out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that won't be as many people as you expect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost every American knows in his heart what made this country great for the 200 years between 1776 and 1976. It wasn't the lies of our presidents. It wasn't our ability to print money and rip off our Chinese creditors. It wasn't the modern crybaby mentality of our school system or our unions. It wasn't the baby boomer's dream of a 40-year retirement with free prescription drugs. And it sure as hell wasn't a suave, made-for-TV version of Karl Marx promising everything to everyone, but with no way to pay for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. What built America was her people's unwavering faith that they were free to enjoy the rewards of their accomplishments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As our country tumbles into bankruptcy and crisis, the people are going to want their prosperity back, Mr. President. And deep down, they all know… even your most fervent supporters know… you don't have the goods. You don't have the foggiest idea of how to deliver prosperity to America because, really, you don't know anything of what America is all about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porter Stansberry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  With today's Digest, I am announcing my complete support for "the rich" – the class of people Mr. Obama and his ilk castigate at every opportunity. Ironically, it is these same people Obama expects to line up like sheep waiting to be sheared. My best advice? Don't get in that line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite what Mr. Obama and his vast team of lawyer buddies, career academics, and professional bureaucrats believe, most "rich" people in America got that way by working hard for a long time. They got that way by taking risks, educating themselves, starting small businesses, and selling valuable services or products to their fellow citizens. They didn't inherit their wealth. They didn't rip anyone off. They didn't buy political favors from people like Barack Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They got that way by working hard to achieve the original American Dream… not Obama's new "progressive" American Dream, where everyone can live at the expense of his neighbor. That's why Obama's grandstanding must be viewed in a new way. We need to realize when Obama vilifies the "rich," he is vilifying the "achievers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Now… before you send me an angry letter, ask yourself this question: If America had the lowest corporate tax rate in the world (instead of the highest), do you think we'd have more companies located here, or fewer? If we got rid of the estate tax, which makes it impossible for successful entrepreneurs to leave their companies to their children, do you think we'd have more family businesses, or fewer? And if we taxed all people at the same (hopefully low) rate, do you think more wealthy people from around the world would want to live here, or fewer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I'll soon be publishing a report by one of the world's leading asset-protection attorneys about how you can convert your IRA into your own corporation. That will allow you to invest in whatever you like – even the things the government doesn't want you to have. This structure will also allow you to get your IRA out of the U.S. before the government seizes it and forces you to buy worthless Treasury bonds to bail them out when our foreign creditors start selling… And yes, that's what will happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porter Stansberry&lt;br /&gt;Baltimore, Maryland&lt;br /&gt;April 15, 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3740341434866747619?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3740341434866747619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3740341434866747619&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3740341434866747619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3740341434866747619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/happy-tax-day.html' title='Happy tax day'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-5843808835918955876</id><published>2011-04-13T22:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-13T22:45:10.096-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Just Who Is This Man We Elected</title><content type='html'>It's just common that citizens have knowledge of their elected officials and their families, for example, that Andrew Jackson's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school, or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.  Why is it that we don't know more about Barack Obama? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good grief... we are Americans!  We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our 'fellow man'.  We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.  Honestly, and this is a personal thing...but it's niggled at me for ages that no one who ever dated Obama ever showed up.  The simple fact of his charisma that caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity...  We all know about JFK's magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed.  Biden's aneurisms are no secret.  Look at Cheney and Clinton, we all know about their heart problems and certainly speaking of the opposite sex - how could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?  Nope... not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was sooo shy..." or "What a great dancer!!"  Now look at the rest of this... no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.... I just don't know about this fellow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who was the best man at his wedding?  Start there.  Then check groomsmen.  Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.  Has anyone talked to the professors?  It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When did he meet Michele and how?  Are there photos there?  Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library, etc.  What has he released?  And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this make you wonder?  Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from President Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.??  Not one person has ever come forward from his past. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VERY, VERY STRANGE.. This should really be a cause for great concern.  To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced shadow man.  Did you see a picture called The Manchurian Candidate?..... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's face it.  As insignificant as we all are.. someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face... someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.  George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.  He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus.  Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia -- the class of 1984.  He says he never had a single class with him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him?  And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?  NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.  In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.  I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia .. EVER! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody recalls him.  Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that."  Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.  At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class?  Me.  No one ever heard of Barack!  And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was.  The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."  Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.  NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some other interesting questions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by Court Order? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.  WHAT?  The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No wonder all his records are sealed! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somewhere, someone had to know him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-5843808835918955876?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/5843808835918955876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=5843808835918955876&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5843808835918955876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/5843808835918955876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/just-who-is-this-man-we-elected.html' title='Just Who Is This Man We Elected'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-6455151255606093139</id><published>2011-04-12T18:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T18:42:36.951-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TYSON's.. No thanks</title><content type='html'>Yes, folks, this did happen but it was not recent, it happened a couple of years ago.  I have not bought Tyson products for sometime and had also sent the company a letter expressing my views on the matter and telling them I would not be purchasing their products.  They did not respond.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yes, I know you think this is overreacting and is another example of my ‘radical’ views.  Keep saying that and  unless we, as Americans, begin to change our way of purchasing (expressing opinion) and thought processes as well as political views, in a  VERY few years we will see who was correct.  Tell your daughters they might think about purchasing Burquas and your sons to get out their prayer rugs.&lt;br /&gt;d.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Subject: FW: Tyson Chicken&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Tyson Foods eliminates Labor Day in favor of &lt;br /&gt;Muslim Holiday !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that you will find this very interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;How do you take over America ?  One American at a time.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tyson chicken anyone??  None for me thanks!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all need to heed this message!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TYSON FOODS ELIMINATES LABOR DAY IN FAVOR OF &lt;br /&gt;MUSLIM HOLIDAY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tyson Food in Shelbyville , Tennessee has eliminated &lt;br /&gt;Labor Day as a paid holiday in favor of the last day of Ramadan&lt;br /&gt;because they have 700 Muslim employees. The fact that they&lt;br /&gt;have almost that many non-Muslim employees is beside the&lt;br /&gt;point apparently!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  will no longer purchase any Tyson products.  It's just one more&lt;br /&gt;little chunk of America that's been bitten off.  If you wish to join&lt;br /&gt;me, then let your e-mail friends know this. If we don't stand up&lt;br /&gt;for something  we will fall for anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was verified http:// www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/outrage.asp &lt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/outrage.asp&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not believe even Snopes, so I checked it out myself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,397645,00.html&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-6455151255606093139?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/6455151255606093139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=6455151255606093139&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6455151255606093139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/6455151255606093139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/tysons-no-thanks.html' title='TYSON&apos;s.. No thanks'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3605583327201173976</id><published>2011-04-05T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T22:43:20.651-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Battle Has Begun</title><content type='html'>. This is what millions of people received on Monday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conservative right best get focused and organized because we have a fight on our hands and it started yesterday and most of us did not even know it was coming.   We have to realize this man has the support of millions of federal works on his campaign staff and we are paying for them.  They have at their finger tips the addresses of most Americans one for or another guess how these email get sent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just get ready this is going to be the fight for America.  Not unlike the fight held in 1776 but fought in a much different manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am removing the recipient’s name and address but he is the brother of a friend of mine.   He is also a conservative so wonder just how many of these went out and to whom on Monday.  We must Wake Up and Now… the battle has begun&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;From: Barack Obama [mailto:info@barackobama.com] &lt;br /&gt;Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:34 AM&lt;br /&gt;To: jandjst &lt;br /&gt;Subject: 2012&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friend --&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, we are filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you -- with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends. And that kind of campaign takes time to build.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So even though I'm focused on the job you elected me to do, and the race may not reach full speed for a year or more, the work of laying the foundation for our campaign must start today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've always known that lasting change wouldn't come quickly or easily. It never does. But as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we've made -- and make more -- we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012, long before the time comes for me to begin campaigning in earnest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we take this step, I'd like to share a video that features some folks like you who are helping to lead the way on this journey. Please take a moment to watch:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the coming days, supporters like you will begin forging a new organization that we'll build together in cities and towns across the country. And I'll need you to help shape our plan as we create a campaign that's farther reaching, more focused, and more innovative than anything we've built before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll start by doing something unprecedented: coordinating millions of one-on-one conversations between supporters across every single state, reconnecting old friends, inspiring new ones to join the cause, and readying ourselves for next year's fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will be my final campaign, at least as a candidate. But the cause of making a lasting difference for our families, our communities, and our country has never been about one person. And it will succeed only if we work together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be much more to come as the race unfolds. Today, simply let us know you're in to help us begin, and then spread the word:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://my.barackobama.com/2012a?keycode=&amp;email=jandjstuben@verizon.net&amp;zip=11758&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3605583327201173976?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3605583327201173976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3605583327201173976&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3605583327201173976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3605583327201173976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/battle-has-begun.html' title='The Battle Has Begun'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-969584345108580790</id><published>2011-04-05T22:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T22:39:14.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We The People Must Make It Stop</title><content type='html'>Found this interesting, Children of congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans. How nice! Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; When you add this to the below,just where will all of it stop? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government &lt;br /&gt;Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50)States to convene a Constitutional Convention. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on. &lt;br /&gt;This is an idea that we should address. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire  with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If each person that receives this will share this with 20 people, in three days, most people in The United  States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-969584345108580790?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/969584345108580790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=969584345108580790&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/969584345108580790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/969584345108580790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-people-must-make-it-stop.html' title='We The People Must Make It Stop'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-753568439480727330</id><published>2011-04-05T11:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T11:24:31.043-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Past Speaker - Madam Elite</title><content type='html'>GOOD GRIEF .....  To me this is the essence of abuse of power... We the people deserve better than this from our elected people... And then they have the gall to talk about Wall Street being greedy...Is that not the pot call the kettle black&lt;br /&gt;Really how can we the people all this to happen... worse yet where do folks like her get off with doing this... come on people lets stand up and take our country back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We made a good start last year but the real fight will be 2012 as the Unions, welfare, illegals, government workers and all the other holding their hands out will be fighting to keep the Liberals in power.   You and I have to take a stand to turn this country around.  Are you ready...........?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Past Speaker&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;As a result of a Judicial Watch filing under the Freedom of Information Act, the USAF released documents detailing House Speaker Pelosi's use of United States Air Force aircraft between March 2009 and June 2010. The data are published in the Judicial Watch Verdict of December 2010, Volume 16, Issue 12.&lt;br /&gt;Here are the main highlights revealed by the USAF.  Keep in mind that all the data below relate to United States Air Force aircraft used by one woman over a sixteen month period.&lt;br /&gt;Several of these flights included Ms Pelosi's guests such as grown children, grandchildren, various in-laws, friends, and hangers-on.  Over 95% of the trips were between the west coast and Washington, DC or what we might call a commute between home and the office.&lt;br /&gt;Total trips: 85 trips over a 68 week period or 1.25 average trips per week.&lt;br /&gt;Total mileage: 206,264 miles or 2,427 average miles per trip&lt;br /&gt;Total flying time: 428.6 hours or an average of 5 hrs per trip&lt;br /&gt;Cost to the taxpayers: $2,100,744.59 or $27,715.00 per trip or $1,285,162.00 per year&lt;br /&gt;Cost of inflight food and alcohol: $101,429.14 or $1,193.00 per trip or $62,051.00 per year.&lt;br /&gt;On one junket to Baghdad, according to the Air Force report, she had the aircraft bar stocked with Johnny Walker Red Scotch, Grey Goose Vodka, E&amp;J Brandy, Bailey's Irish Creme,  Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier Cognac, Bacardi Rum, Jim Beam Whiskey, Beefeater Gin, Dewars Scotch, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Jack Daniels Whiskey, Corona Beer and several varieties of wine. This  was obviously a very important "gubment bidness" trip.&lt;br /&gt;Evidence generally speaks for itself, and in Ms. Pelosi's case it speaks the language of abuse and (evidently)  a serious familial drinking problem, for in a single year she and her spawn drank an amount in excess of the net income of the average employed  American!  When she said, "... if the stimulus doesn't pass, five hundred million people might lose their jobs...",  I  thought she was unintentionally revealing her ignorance.  I'm now more inclined to think she was pickled.&lt;br /&gt;Even though she can no longer abuse the USAF, she can either fly on her broom, or fly Southwest Airlines, where bags fly free.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-753568439480727330?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/753568439480727330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=753568439480727330&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/753568439480727330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/753568439480727330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-past-speaker-madam-elite.html' title='Our Past Speaker - Madam Elite'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-1849180461984278796</id><published>2011-04-05T11:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T11:11:13.413-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Life Has In Store - No One Knows So Be Ready</title><content type='html'>Cheyenne - Story by Catherine Moore &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;"Watch out! You nearly broadsided that car!" My father yelled at me. "Can't you do anything right?" &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge him. A lump rose in my throat as I averted my eyes. I wasn't prepared for another battle. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;"I saw the car, Dad. Please don't yell at me when I'm driving." &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;My voice was measured and steady, sounding far calmer than I really felt. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad glared at me, then turned away and settled back. At home I left Dad in front of the television and went outside to collect my thoughts.... dark, heavy clouds hung in the air with a promise of rain. The rumble of distant thunder seemed to echo my inner turmoil. What could I do about him? &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad had been a lumberjack in Washington and Oregon . He had enjoyed being outdoors and had reveled in pitting his strength against the forces of nature. He had entered grueling lumberjack competitions, and had placed often. The shelves in his house were filled with trophies that attested to his prowess. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;The years marched on relentlessly. The first time he couldn't lift a heavy log, he joked about it; but later that same day I saw him outside alone, straining to lift it. He became irritable whenever anyone teased him about his advancing age, or when he couldn't do something he had done as a younger man. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Four days after his sixty-seventh birthday, he had a heart attack. An ambulance sped him to the hospital while a paramedic administered CPR to keep blood and oxygen flowing. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;At the hospital, Dad was rushed into an operating room. He was lucky; he survived But something inside Dad died. His zest for life was gone. He obstinately refused to follow doctor's orders. Suggestions and offers of help were turned aside with sarcasm and insults. The number of visitors thinned, then finally stopped altogether. Dad was left alone. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;My husband, Dick, and I asked Dad to come live with us on our small farm. We hoped the fresh air and rustic atmosphere would help him adjust. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Within a week after he moved in, I regretted the invitation. It seemed nothing was satisfactory. He criticized everything I did. I became frustrated and moody. Soon I was taking my pent-up anger out on Dick We began to bicker and argue. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Alarmed, Dick sought out our pastor and explained the situation. The clergyman set up weekly counseling appointments for us. At the close of each session he prayed, asking God to soothe Dad's troubled mind. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;But the months wore on and God was silent. Something had to be done and it was up to me to do it. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;The next day I sat down with the phone book and methodically called each of the mental health clinics listed in the Yellow Pages. I explained my problem to each of the sympathetic voices that answered in vain. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Just when I was giving up hope, one of the voices suddenly exclaimed, "I just read something that might help you! Let me go get the article..." &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;I listened as she read. The article described a remarkable study done at a nursing home. All of the patients were under treatment for chronic depression. Yet their attitudes had improved dramatically when they were given responsibility for a dog. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;I drove to the animal shelter that afternoon. After I filled out a questionnaire, a uniformed officer led me to the kennels. The odor of disinfectant stung my nostrils as I moved down the row of pens. Each contained five to seven dogs Long-haired dogs, curly-haired dogs, black dogs, spotted dogs all jumped up, trying to reach me.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I studied each one but rejected one after the other for various reasons: too big, too small, too much hair. As I neared the last pen a dog in the shadows of the far corner struggled to his feet, walked to the front of the run and sat down. It was a pointer, one of the dog world's aristocrats. But this was a caricature of the breed. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Years had etched his face and muzzle with shades of gray. His hip bones jutted out in lopsided triangles. But it was his eyes that caught and held my attention. Calm and clear, they beheld me unwaveringly. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;I pointed to the dog. "Can you tell me about him?" The officer looked, then shook his head in puzzlement. "He's a funny one. Appeared out of nowhere and sat in front of the gate We brought him in, figuring someone would be right down to claim him. That was two weeks ago and we've heard nothing. His time is up tomorrow." He gestured helplessly. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;As the words sank in I turned to the man in horror.. "You mean you're going to kill him?" &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;"Ma'am," he said gently, "that's our policy.. We don't have room for every unclaimed dog." &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;I looked at the pointer again. The calm brown eyes awaited my decision. "I'll take him," I said. I drove home with the dog on the front seat beside me. When I reached the house I honked the horn twice. I was helping my prize out of the car when Dad shuffled onto the front porch. "Ta-da! Look what I got for you, Dad!" I said excitedly. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad looked, then wrinkled his face in disgust. "If I had wanted a dog I would have gotten one. And I would have picked out a better specimen than that bag of bones. Keep it! I don't want it" Dad waved his arm scornfully and turned back toward the house. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Anger rose inside me. It squeezed together my throat muscles and pounded into my temples. "You'd better get used to him, Dad. He's staying!" &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad ignored me. "Did you hear me, Dad?" I screamed. At those words Dad whirled angrily, his hands clenched at his sides, his eyes narrowed and blazing with hate. We stood glaring at each other like duelists, when suddenly the pointer pulled free from my grasp. He wobbled toward my dad and sat down in front of him. Then slowly, carefully, he raised his paw... &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad's lower jaw trembled as he stared at the uplifted paw. Confusion replaced the anger in his eyes. The pointer waited patiently. Then Dad was on his knees hugging the animal. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;It was the beginning of a warm and intimate friendship. Dad named the pointer Cheyenne . Together he and Cheyenne explored the community. They spent long hours walking down dusty lanes. They spent reflective moments on the banks of streams, angling for tasty trout. They even started to attend Sunday services together, Dad sitting in a pew and Cheyennelying quietly at his feet. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Dad and Cheyenne were inseparable throughout the next three years. Dad 's bitterness faded, and he and Cheyenne made many friends. Then late one night I was startled to feelCheyenne 's cold nose burrowing through our bed covers. He had never before come into our bedroom at night. I woke Dick, put on my robe and ran into my father's room. Dad lay in his bed, his face serene. But his spirit had left quietly sometime during the night. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Two days later my shock and grief deepened when I discovered Cheyenne lying dead beside Dad's bed. I wrapped his still form in the rag rug he had slept on. As Dick and I buried him near a favorite fishing hole, I silently thanked the dog for the help he had given me in restoring Dad's peace of mind. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;The morning of Dad's funeral dawned overcast and dreary. This day looks like the way I feel, I thought, as I walked down the aisle to the pews reserved for family. I was surprised to see the many friends Dad and Cheyenne had made filling the church. The pastor began his eulogy. It was a tribute to both Dad and the dog who had changed his life. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;And then the pastor turned to Hebrews 13:2. "Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it." &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;"I've often thanked God for sending that angel," he said. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;For me, the past dropped into place, completing a puzzle that I had not seen before:  the sympathetic voice that had just read the right article... Cheyenne 's unexpected appearance at the animal shelter... his calm acceptance and complete devotion to my father.... and the proximity of their deaths. And suddenly I understood. I knew that God had answered my prayers after all. &lt;br /&gt;                 &lt;br /&gt;Life is too short for drama or petty things, so laugh hard, love truly and forgive quickly. Live while you are alive.. Forgive now those who made you cry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-1849180461984278796?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/1849180461984278796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=1849180461984278796&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1849180461984278796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/1849180461984278796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-life-has-in-store-no-one-knows-so.html' title='What Life Has In Store - No One Knows So Be Ready'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-4028622410967852365</id><published>2011-04-05T10:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T10:51:38.660-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Operative Word Is CUT Yes CUT</title><content type='html'>FOREIGN Aid to African nations and four other small donations of YOUR MONEY.  NOTE that KENYA is BY FAR the largest recipient of this money.  I wonder WHY THAT IS the case?  Expressed amounts are in millions.  Our FOREIGN AID EXPENDITURES are about 60 BILLION annually.  Do not let politicians tell you that is just a drop in the bucket.  If politicians have that attitude, I suggest those moneys be spent right here in this country for health care, social security, school programs, anything but having it just being given away and then being spit on by those same countries.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Oh, yes you can do something about it, get on the phone, get on your computer, text, or even write a letter to you senators and congressfolk to express your disapproval.  The ONLY thing elected officials is having their constituents turn on them for this means a ‘lost next election’.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;If YOU do not do something, you can absolutely bet no one else will for too many might think just as you.  YOUR opinion does matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My suggestion is cut this 25% a year for the next 4 years then hold it at that new level.  We can not afford to borrow to send money to other nations we have needs at home.  Charity begins at home.  HJ&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ivory Coast — $138M&lt;br /&gt;Democratic Republic of the &lt;br /&gt;Congo — $213M&lt;br /&gt;Ethiopia — $584M&lt;br /&gt;Ghana — $175M&lt;br /&gt;Kenya — $714M&lt;br /&gt;Liberia — $219M&lt;br /&gt;Malawi — $179M&lt;br /&gt;Mali — $169M&lt;br /&gt;Mozambique — $415M&lt;br /&gt;Namibia — $103M&lt;br /&gt;Nigeria — $648M&lt;br /&gt;Rwanda — $241M&lt;br /&gt;Senegal — $137M&lt;br /&gt;South Africa — $586M&lt;br /&gt;Sudan — $440M&lt;br /&gt;Tanzania — $550M&lt;br /&gt;Uganda — $480M&lt;br /&gt;Zambia — $409M&lt;br /&gt;Indonesia — $228M  Whats this for, a communist country and muslim at that.  Oh, I guess the latter explains it.&lt;br /&gt;Philippines — $133M  Why do we pay these folks a dime, they kicked our ass out and closed the largest U.S. Military Air Field in the area.&lt;br /&gt;Vietnam — $123M  Why are we giving this communist country any money?&lt;br /&gt;Ukraine — $124M  This money is being paid in order to allow the U.S. to use their bases in event of a conflict.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;By the way the way, almost every country in the world does or has received foreign aid from the United States, and most still do in some fashion or another.  Even in EUROPE over a billion a year is given away to many affluent nations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-4028622410967852365?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/4028622410967852365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=4028622410967852365&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4028622410967852365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/4028622410967852365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/operative-word-is-cut-yes-cut.html' title='The Operative Word Is CUT Yes CUT'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-646362161007220182</id><published>2011-04-03T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T12:33:45.407-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Your State's Preamble</title><content type='html'>Do you know your State's Preamble? &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to read the message in red at the very bottom! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alabama 1901, Preamble &lt;br /&gt;We the people of the State of Alabama , invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution.. &lt;br /&gt;Alaska 1956, Preamble We, the people of Alaska , grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land. &lt;br /&gt;Arizona 1911, Preamble We, the people of the State of Arizona , grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt;Arkansas 1874, Preamble We, the people of the State of Arkansas , grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government... &lt;br /&gt;California 1879, Preamble We, the People of the State of California , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom... &lt;br /&gt;Colorado 1876, Preamble We, the people of Colorado , with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe... &lt;br /&gt;Connecticut 1818, Preamble. The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of God in  permitting them to enjoy. &lt;br /&gt;Delaware 1897, Preamble Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences. &lt;br /&gt;Florida 1885, Preamble We, the people of the State of Florida , grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, establish this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt;Georgia 1777, Preamble We, the people of Georgia , relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt;Hawaii 1959, Preamble We , the people of Hawaii , Grateful for Divine Guidance ... Establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Idaho 1889, Preamble We, the people of the State of Idaho , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings. &lt;br /&gt;Illinois 1870, Preamble We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil , political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors. &lt;br /&gt;Indiana 1851, Preamble We, the People of the State of Indiana , grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government. &lt;br /&gt;Iowa 1857, Preamble We, the People of the St ate of Iowa , grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings, establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Kansas 1859, Preamble We, the people of Kansas , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Kentucky 1891, Preamble.. We, the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties.. &lt;br /&gt;Louisiana 1921, Preamble We, the people of the State of Louisiana , grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy. &lt;br /&gt;Maine 1820, Preamble We the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity .. And imploring His aid and direction. &lt;br /&gt;Maryland 1776, Preamble We, the people of the state of Maryland , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty... &lt;br /&gt;Massachusetts 1780, Preamble We...the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe In the course of His Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring His direction  &lt;br /&gt;Michigan 1908, Preamble.   We, the people of the State of Michigan , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Minnesota, 1857, Preamble We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings: &lt;br /&gt;Mississippi 1890, Preamble We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work. &lt;br /&gt;Missouri 1845, Preamble We, the people of Missouri , with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness . Establish this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt;Montana 1889, Preamble. We, the people of Montana , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty establish this Constitution .&lt;br /&gt;Nebraska 1875, Preamble We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom . Establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Nevada 1864, Preamble We the people of the State of Nevada , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, establish this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt;New Hampshire 1792, Part I. Art. I. Sec. V Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. &lt;br /&gt;New Jersey 1844, Preamble We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors. &lt;br /&gt;New Mexico 1911, Preamble We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty.. &lt;br /&gt;New York 1846, Preamble We, the people of the State of New York , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings. &lt;br /&gt;North Carol ina 1868, Preamble We the people of the State of North Carol ina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those... &lt;br /&gt;North Dakota 1889, Preamble We , the people of North Dakota , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain... &lt;br /&gt;Ohio 1852, Preamble We the people of the state of Ohio , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common. &lt;br /&gt;Oklahoma 1907, Preamble Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty, establish this &lt;br /&gt;Oregon 1857, Bill of Rights, Article I Section 2. All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences &lt;br /&gt;Pennsylvania 1776, Preamble We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance..... &lt;br /&gt;Rhode Island 1842, Preamble. We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing.... &lt;br /&gt;South Carolina , 1778, Preamble We, the people of he State of South Carol ina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;South Dakota 1889, Preamble We, the people of South Dakota , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties . &lt;br /&gt;Tennessee 1796, Art. XI..III. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience... &lt;br /&gt;Texas 1845, Preamble We the People of the Republic of Texas , acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God. &lt;br /&gt;Utah 1896, Preamble Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution. &lt;br /&gt;Vermont 1777, Preamble Whereas all government ought to enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man .. &lt;br /&gt;Virginia 1776, Bill of Rights, XVI Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator can be directed only by Reason and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love and Charity towards each other &lt;br /&gt;Washington 1889, Preamble We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution &lt;br /&gt;West Virginia 1872, Preamble Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God .. &lt;br /&gt;Wisconsin 1848, Preamble We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility.... &lt;br /&gt;Wyoming 1890, Preamble We, the people of the State of Wyoming , grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties, establish this Constitution... &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, one is faced with the prospect that maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!   If you found this to be 'Food for thought' send to as many as you think will be enlightened as I hope you were. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Please note that at no time is anyone told that they MUST worship God.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOD BLESS AMERICA !&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "A prayer without Jesus' name is like a letter without a stamp - it ain't going anywhere!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OF THE 50 STATES ONLY 10 DO NOT REFERENCE GOD BY NAME THEY DO REFER TO A SUPREME RULER ETC BUT OF THE 50 40 CALL ON HIM BY HIS GODLY NAME&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-646362161007220182?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/646362161007220182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=646362161007220182&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/646362161007220182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/646362161007220182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/your-states-preamble.html' title='Your State&apos;s Preamble'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3402539479972523092</id><published>2011-04-03T12:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T12:01:45.135-07:00</updated><title type='text'>YOU SCARE ME AND A LOT OF AMERICANS WHO CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY</title><content type='html'>Chilling Letter from Proctor &amp; Gamble to Obama&lt;br /&gt;Who would have thought, and yet many are thinking it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; By Lou Pritchett,   Procter &amp; Gamble&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A LETTER FROM A PROCTER &amp; GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT* &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE  MOST CHILLING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lou Pritchett is one of  corporate  America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the  world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives  everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.  Lou changed the way  America does business by creating an audacious  concept that came to &lt;br /&gt;be known as "partnering." &lt;br /&gt;Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter &amp; Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA&lt;br /&gt; Dear President Obama:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; You are the thirteenth President under whom I have  lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly &lt;br /&gt; capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because your own political party shrinks from &lt;br /&gt; challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you falsely believe you are both &lt;br /&gt; omnipotent and omniscient.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the &lt;br /&gt; Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.&lt;br /&gt; You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.&lt;br /&gt; Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second  term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. &lt;br /&gt; Lou Pritchett &lt;br /&gt; * &lt;br /&gt; * &lt;br /&gt; This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it. &lt;br /&gt; Big  surprise. Since it hit the Internet, however, it has had over  500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.. It's happening right now.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/pritchett-obama-youscareme.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3402539479972523092?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3402539479972523092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3402539479972523092&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3402539479972523092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3402539479972523092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/you-scare-me-and-lot-of-americans-who.html' title='YOU SCARE ME AND A LOT OF AMERICANS WHO CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7982123379832292969</id><published>2011-04-03T11:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T11:11:14.418-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This guy is a real embarassment to us all..</title><content type='html'>WHY NO PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE BY OBAMA AT MEDAL OF HONOR CEREMONY?&lt;br /&gt;This guy is a real embarassment to us all..!&lt;br /&gt;By REES LLOYD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A moment of national pride took place recently in the White House when an American soldier, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, received the Medal of Honor for bravery above and beyond the call of duty in combat in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sgt. Giunta became the first living American soldier to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. He is now one of only eighty-eight (88) living holders of the Medal of Honor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As modest and self-effacing as he is brave, Sgt. Giunta brought further honor to himself by his humility in receiving the nation’s highest medal of valor. While he made no comment in the ceremony, Giunta said before the ceremony that he was “not at peace” with being “singled out” for the honor as so many other soldiers did so much. And after the ceremony, he said he would trade the honor in a moment if he could bring back those whose lives he attempted to save under enemy fire but was unable to save. He definitely showed that he was an American in whom America could be proud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In contrast, there was another “first” at the ceremony involving the Commander-in-Chief, President Barack Hussein Obama, in whose conduct the nation cannot and should not take pride: As far as is known, Obama became the first President, the first Commander-in-Chief , not to salute the living recipient of the Medal of Honor after presenting the medal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a tradition in the military for all military personnel, no matter how high their rank, including the Commander-in-Chief, to salute a holder of the Medal of Honor no matter how lowly his or her rank. If General David Petraeus was to encounter Sgt. Giunta, it would be the General who would salute the enlisted man, as a sign of respect for that soldier’s extraordinary bravery, but also to show respect to all those who have received the Medal of Honor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At all gatherings of veterans of the American Legion, or VFW, or other veterans organizations, if a Medal of Honor recipient enters the room, even a National Convention involving thousands, the proceedings stop to render military honor to that holder of the Medal of Honor. All veterans rise, come to attention, and salute. It is a matter of pride, of respect, of tradition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, as far as is known, it is tradition that every President who has had the honor to present the Medal of Honor to a living recipient, has shown humility, respect, and national pride in that recipient by stepping back and rendering a salute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was missing in action in the Obama presentation. He is apparently above all that; “like a God,” as an editor of Newsweek once wrote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of rendering the traditional salute, after fumbling as if all-thumbs in trying to affix the blue-ribboned Medal of Honor, Obama, equally awkwardly, tried to “hug” the Sergeant. Yes, a “hug” for the soldier who remained at attention with eyes front in military bearing..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a “hug” is not a “salute,” even in the Age of Obama. While there may be some comedic value in Obama’s pathetic display, it was more emetic than comedic. I didn’t write about it at the time, so as not to distract from Sgt. Giunta’s receipt of the Medal of Honor. But days have passed, and it needs to be said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why? Is it naught but petty carping of poor President Obama? I think not. He is the “Commander-in-Chief” who has in his power the lives of those who serve in defense of the country, which he himself did not deign to do. It is pointing out this man, this professional politician, repeatedly evidences contempt for America, for America’s traditions, and for Americans who respect those traditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is as if he loathes the nation he was so desperate to lead, and be loved by, Messiah-like. It is of a piece with his constant misquoting of the Declaration of Independence by leaving out the words “endowed by their Creator” when speaking of “unalienable rights.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps more aptly: It is of a pathetic piece with Obama’s penchant for declining to abide by the U.S. Flag Code when the Flag passes to place his hand over his heart. Instead, he drapes his arms down and enfolds his hands at his crotch Michael Jackson-style. It is now mocked as Obama’s “crotch salute.” But it isn’t funny. It is contempt by Obama for the Flag, for America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it is unfair to criticize this President of the United States for displaying such contempt for American traditions. Perhaps it is too much to expect an American President to salute a recipient of the military Medal of Honor when that president never served in the uniform of his country; has said that the Rules For Radicals of the America-hating socialist revolutionist Saul Alinsky are “seared into my [his] brain;” who launched his political career in Chicago from the living room of the revolutionist Weather Underground rich-brat-bombers Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn; and who sat for twenty years in a pew of the church of Rev. “God D...n America” Wright, being marinated in hate-filled, grievance-filled, self-defined “anti-white” and “revolutionary” Black Liberation Theology .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then again, perhaps it is not too much to expect anyone who would be America’s president to at least respect American traditions, including honoring the Flag, and saluting those who receive the Medal of Honor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Rees Lloyd, longtime civil rights attorney and American Legionnaire, is the director of the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project of the American Legion Department of California and the Alliance Defense Fund.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7982123379832292969?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7982123379832292969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7982123379832292969&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7982123379832292969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7982123379832292969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-guy-is-real-embarassment-to-us-all.html' title='This guy is a real embarassment to us all..'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-7508957717564507279</id><published>2011-04-03T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T11:00:29.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, here's "The Change". How do you like it?</title><content type='html'>Well, here's "The Change". How do you like it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT HAS ONLY BEEN 2 YEARS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two years ago January, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States . Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                            January 2009 TODAY   % chg      Source          &lt;br /&gt;Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104      69.6%  1&lt;br /&gt;Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02     127.7%  2&lt;br /&gt;Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38    135.9%  2&lt;br /&gt;Gold: London (per troy oz.)         $853.25 $1,369.50   60.5%  2&lt;br /&gt;Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL         $3.56 $6.33     78.1%  2&lt;br /&gt;Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL         $9.66 $13.75     42.3%  2&lt;br /&gt;Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 $35.39     164.7%  2&lt;br /&gt;Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4%     23.7%  3&lt;br /&gt;Unemployment rate, blacks         12.6% 15.8%        25.4%  3&lt;br /&gt;Number of unemployed             11,616,000 14,485,000   24.7%  3&lt;br /&gt;Number of fed.employees ex.milit     2,779,000 2,840,000     2.2%  3&lt;br /&gt;Real median income (2008 v 2009)       $50,112 $49,777      -0.7%  4&lt;br /&gt;Number of food stamp recipients      31,983,716 43,200,878   35.1%  5&lt;br /&gt;Number of unemployment on assist      7,526,598 9,193,838    22.2%  6&lt;br /&gt;Number of long-term unemployed       2,600,000 6,400,000   146.2%  3&lt;br /&gt;Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009) 13.2% 14.3%         8.3%  4&lt;br /&gt;People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009) 39,800,000 43,600,000 9.5%  4&lt;br /&gt;U.S. rank in World Eco Rankings         5    9     n/a  10    Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10) 29.9 23.5   -21.4%  11&lt;br /&gt;Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) 140 164   17.1%  12&lt;br /&gt;U.S. dollar versus Jap yen exc rate 89.76 82.03   -8.6%  2&lt;br /&gt;U.S. money supply, M1, in billions  1,575.1 1,865.7   18.4%  13&lt;br /&gt;U.S. money supply, M2, in billions     8,310.9 8,852.3    6.5%         13&lt;br /&gt;National debt, in trillions       $10.627 $14.052   32.2%   14&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would be doing 1,755 MPH! This is a disaster!&lt;br /&gt;Sources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard &amp; Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-7508957717564507279?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/7508957717564507279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=7508957717564507279&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7508957717564507279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/7508957717564507279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/well-heres-change-how-do-you-like-it.html' title='Well, here&apos;s &quot;The Change&quot;. How do you like it?'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-8051977615803074487</id><published>2011-04-03T10:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T10:13:39.923-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On Federal Spending &amp; Debt</title><content type='html'>On Federal Spending &amp; Debt - By Family Research Council&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fiscal Irresponsibility: 28 Facts on Spending and Debt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We cannot mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt. It's time to put an end to the runaway spending and the record deficits - it's not how you would run your family budget, and it must not be how Washington handles your tax dollars.”&lt;br /&gt; - Sen. Barack Obama, October 1, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. American has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”&lt;br /&gt;- Sen. Barack Obama, explaining his vote against raising the national debt limit, March 20, 2006 -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) On March 18 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) saw the President’s submitted Fiscal Year 2012 budget as causing $9.5 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years. That is more debt than the federal government accumulated from 1789 to 2010 combined.&lt;br /&gt;2) Under the President’s budget CBO estimates that the national debt held by the public—40 percent of GDP before the recession—would soar past 87 percent of GDP in a decade.&lt;br /&gt;3) Senate Democrats opposed H.R. 1, the bill that was passed 235-189 by the House of Representatives, sought to only cut $61 billion from the current budget. All 56 Democrats in the Senate opposed the legislation despite $61 billion would only be 1.6 percent of the $3.8 trillion in federal spending this year.&lt;br /&gt;4) As of March 16, 2011, the official debt of the United States government is $14.2 trillion ($14,232,849,993,955) which amounts to a $45,500 “birth tax” for every child born in America this year or $121,091 for every household.&lt;br /&gt;5) Under President Obama: The debt started at $9.986 trillion and escalated to $14.2 trillion, a 38 percent increase over two years.&lt;br /&gt;6) In 2006, Senator Harry Reid and then-Senator Barack Obama both voted against increasing the debt limit.&lt;br /&gt;7) The last time the public debt decreased was in the mid-1950s. &lt;br /&gt;8) The federal government is borrowing more than 42 cents on every dollar it spends. &lt;br /&gt;9) All spending after July 27 of this year is borrowed spending. &lt;br /&gt;10) The U.S. government's debt ceiling has been raised seven times since the beginning of 2006.&lt;br /&gt;11) If you spent one dollar every second, you would have spent $1 million in twelve days. At that same rate, it would take you 32 years to spend $1 billion dollars. But it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend $1 TRILLION dollars.&lt;br /&gt;12) A trillion $10 bills, if they were taped end to end, would wrap around the globe more than 380 times. That amount of money would still not be enough to pay off the U.S. national debt.&lt;br /&gt;13) There are one million millions in a trillion&lt;br /&gt;14) At his current annual salary of $42 million, basketball superstar LeBron James would need to work 23,809 years to earn $1 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;15) One trillion is more stars than there are in the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy contains approximately 400 billion stars, but some estimates vary by as much as 200 billion stars.&lt;br /&gt;16) One million seconds will pass in the next 12 days. One billion seconds will take 32 years. One trillion seconds will pass in 31,688 years.&lt;br /&gt;17) A trillion seconds ago, civilization didn’t exist. A billion minutes ago, Trajan was emperor in Rome. A million hours ago, it was 1895, and Grover Cleveland was President of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;18) You could spend $10 million a day and it would still take you 273 years to spend $1 trillion.&lt;br /&gt;19) How big is $14 TRILLION dollars? 14 trillion $1 bills, laid end to end, side to side, would pave every interstate, highway, and country road in America—twice.&lt;br /&gt;20) Since 1946, spending has averaged 19.7 percent of the economy, and tax revenue has averaged 17.7 percent of the economy. While tax revenues are predicted to remain near historic levels of the economy, spending is projected to rise to more than 80 percent of the economy.&lt;br /&gt;21) According to Stanford Economist John Taylor, simply to balance the budget in 2019 would require an immediate 60 percent tax increase across the board.&lt;br /&gt;22) CATO estimates that if you add in the more than 100 government trust funds, revolving accounts and special accounts as well as public and intragovernmental debt and implicit debt (representing the unfunded obligations of programs such as Social Security and Medicare) the real national debt is $119.5 trillion, more than 900 percent of GDP.&lt;br /&gt;23) Today, almost half (47 percent) of our public debt is owned by foreign sources, more than a 240 percent increase in the last 20 years alone. China owns more than any other nation - 29.2 percent of our debt.&lt;br /&gt;24) With the interest we pay to China on our debt, China can afford to buy 3 new Joint Strike Fighters every week – with $50 million per week left over.&lt;br /&gt;25) In just the last three years, the promises that Washington can’t afford to keep have grown by 80 percent, from 2008 to 2011.&lt;br /&gt;26) Recently a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found nearly 10 percent of all Medicare payments are fraudulent or otherwise improper, and the government isn’t doing enough to stop them. The report estimates that the federal government is losing $48 billion on the improper payments.&lt;br /&gt;27) The Government Accountability Office released a 345-page report combing the federal catalog of government programs to uncover what it said was evidence of waste and duplication that cost taxpayers, by Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) estimates, over $100 billion each year.&lt;br /&gt;28) Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Veronique de Rugy, using data from the United States Department of the Treasury and the GAO to examine recently reported improper payments within the federal government. Since the implementation&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-8051977615803074487?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/8051977615803074487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=8051977615803074487&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8051977615803074487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/8051977615803074487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-federal-spending-debt.html' title='On Federal Spending &amp; Debt'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3913978429663406513</id><published>2011-03-23T17:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T17:19:34.981-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Always important to watch what is going on behind the scenes!!</title><content type='html'>Always important to watch what is going on behind the scenes!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  U.S. Department of Justice &lt;br /&gt;W E B   S I T E   C H A N G E -   I M P O R T A N T!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;Little by little the subtle changes come until one day we will wake up and be the United Socialist States of America. 2012 is just around the corner so get and stay engaged as if our nation depended on it because it does!!!!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;U.S. Department of Justice ditches red, white, and blue stars and stripes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, how interesting!  It seems the U.S. Department of Justice has changed its web site.&lt;br /&gt;Gone are the colorful red, white, and blue U.S. Flag decorations on the page, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Replaced by stark black and white. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote:&lt;br /&gt;"The common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catchy, huh?  Just one tiny little (too small to be relevant obviously) point --the quote is from C. Wilfred Jenks, who in the 1930's was a leading proponent of the "international law" movement, which had as its goal to impose a global common law and which backed 'global workers' rights.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call it Marxism, call it Progressivism, call it Socialism -- under any of those names, it definitely makes the DOJ look corrupt in their new website with Marxist accessories to match. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See for yourself:  http://www.justice.gov/ &lt;http://www.justice.gov/&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How very interesting that 'they' couldn't find a nice quote from one of ourFounders.  People, we have lost our Republic.  This is an example of the slow, methodical misuse of power our current government is doing as they lead us to socialism, and destroying our republic as we have known it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get ready for 2012  -&lt;br /&gt;*******************************************************&lt;br /&gt;Bring back the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4296292916993396965-3913978429663406513?l=wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/feeds/3913978429663406513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4296292916993396965&amp;postID=3913978429663406513&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3913978429663406513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4296292916993396965/posts/default/3913978429663406513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wakeupamericansnow.blogspot.com/2011/03/always-important-to-watch-what-is-going.html' title='Always important to watch what is going on behind the scenes!!'/><author><name>A CONCERNED AMERICAN - HJ</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02220218710816848332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4296292916993396965.post-3902322407452602539</id><published>2011-03-23T14:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T14:59:06.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our President is Over His Head... No experience and No Brains Sad Situation for America</title><content type='html'>With 100's of millions in rockets and planes going into Libya and if the below article is only half true have we lost our mind. I heard George Soros sold his shares in the Brazilian company that is doing the deep sea drilling after it became public. Old rich George Soros needs PBO to get relected so he can finish trying to  destroy our economy. Harley&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Obama: Drill, Brazil, Drill!&lt;br /&gt; Posted 03/21/2011 07:08 PM ET &lt;br /&gt;Energy Policy: While leaving U.S. oil and jobs in the ground, our itinerant president tells a South American neighbor that we'll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil. WHAT?!?&lt;br /&gt;With Japan staggered by a natural disaster and a nuclear crisis, cruise missiles launched against Libya in our third Middle East conflict and a majority of U.S. senators complaining about a lack of leadership on the budget, President Obama decided it would be a good time to schmooze with Brazilians.&lt;br /&gt;His "What, me worry?" presidency has given both Americans and our allies plenty to worry about. But in the process of making nice with Brazil, Obama made a mind-boggling announcement that should make even his most loyal supporter cringe:&lt;br /&gt;We will help Brazil deve
