A Different Christmas Poem; Remember the Soldier Who Protects Our Freedom

             The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,            
             I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.            
                 My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,                
                  My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.                  
                Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,                
                Transforming the yard to a winter delight.                
                                                                           
                The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,                
                Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.                
               My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,              
               Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.                
               In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,                
                So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.                
                                                                           
              The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,              
               But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..              
            Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the            
               sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.                
               My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,                
             And I crept to the door just to see who was near.            
                                                                           
            Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,            
              A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.              
               A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,                
                Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.                
                Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,                
             Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.            
                                                                           
                "What are you doing?" I asked without fear,                
               "Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!              
           Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,            
              You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"              
                 For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,                
             Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..            
                                                                           
            To the window that danced with a warm fire's light            
             Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,            
              I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."              
             "It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,              
               That separates you from the darkest of times.              
                                                                           
                  No one had to ask or beg or implore me,                  
            I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.            
             My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"              
       Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."        
             My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',            
                 And now it is my turn and so, here I am.                  
                                                                           
              I've not seen my own son in more than a while,              
          But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.          
            Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,            
               The red, white, and blue... an American flag.              
             I can live through the cold and the being alone,              
                Away from my family, my house and my home.                
                                                                           
          I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,          
               I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.                
                I can carry the weight of killing another,                
             Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..              
                Who stand at the front against any and all,                
          To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.."          
                                                                           
            "  So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,            
              Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."              
            "But isn't there something I can do, at the least,            
            "Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?            
             It seems all too little for all that you've done,            
               For being away from your wife and your son."                
                                                                           
              Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,              
               "Just tell us you love us, and never forget.                
          To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,          
               To stand your own watch, no matter how long.                
              For when we come home, either standing or dead,              
                To know you remember we fought and we bled.                
              Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,              
              That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."              
                                                                           
     PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many    
  people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due  
                                  to our                                  
      U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these      
   festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we  
                             owe. Make people                              
 stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves  
                                 for us.                                  
                                                                           
                          LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN                        
                     30th Naval Construction Regiment                      
                          OIC, Logistics Cell One                          
                             Al Taqqadum, Iraq                             
                                           

It's All About The "O"

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And the decisions and policies he embraces!




Wake Up America!

The Wizard of Oz

The movie "The Wizard of Oz" is 70 years old... Can you imagine!

What a cast, and what a story! A remake could never be as good; it certainly wouldn't live up to the hype.

But today, if Dorothy were to encounter men with no brains, no heart, and no courage, she wouldn't be in Oz, she'd be in Congress. So here's the cast as I see it...


The Wizard of Oz (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain) - George Soros
Dorothy - All 'legal' Americans
Scarecrow - Barack Obama

Tin Man -  Rahm Emanuel

Cowardly Lion - Harry Reid

Wicked Witch of the West (how appropriate) - Nancy Pelosi
The Good Witch of the East - Sarah Palin

The flying monkeys - the remaining 533 people renting seats in Congress


Wake Up America!

Have "They" Gotten To You Already?

December 8, 2009

Dear Senator LeMieux,

On 9/11/09 I wrote to you (see letter below) requesting that you provide me with answers to my specific questions. I have been patient, waiting nearly two months for those answers, and yet I have received nothing – not a letter, not a note, nor an email – to satisfy that request. That is unacceptable to me. You may be a Senator, but I am a U.S. Citizen and I require answers to the questions I ask of my elected officials. The arrogance and disdain so many in Washington have for ordinary Americans is appalling. Though I do have a Representative who will respond to me – every time I write, and who will occasionally send me a letter in response to some question I have, or some information I have requested.

So, please, at your earliest convenience, respond to the questions I’ve outlined below. And while you’re at it, please explain why you felt you could ignore my request in the first place. Thank you for your time.

[Name]

Kissimmee, Fl 34747                                                                                      

                                                                                                                September 11, 2009

Dear Senator LeMieux,

Congratulations on your appointment as US Senator of Florida. I am sure you are very proud of that accomplishment. But with that appointment comes grave responsibility – particularly in these historic times.

I am one of those Tea Party guys – conservative, never politically active, heck, hardly politically aware until recently, although I have always voted for the most conservative choice running. But things all changed for me – and many of us – during this past election cycle. So now I am more politically aware. Now I do write my Senators and US Representative to explain my expectations and learn those of my elected officials who represent Florida and, more importantly, America. Now I do research the issues, watch the voting records, and listen intently to the arguments.

I am enormously disappointed in my government. The more I learn, the more I research, both about our government and this President and his administration and his “Special Advisors” the more angry I become. Like many Americans today, I do not trust the government any longer – because the government has failed us. Many of our elected officials have not honored their oath to serve and protect the Constitution of the United States. I am one of those individuals, from all across America, who will ensure that our elected officials will do so from now on.

You took an oath to protect and to serve the Constitution of the United States. That is a huge responsibility. So I am asking you flat out – will you do everything within your power to do so?

As one of my Senators, I expect that you stand on principle and that you do so with enormous integrity. I expect that you speak clearly, and clearly define your positions. I expect no equivocation, no fence sitting, and no political-speak. I have had enough of that. I am tired of that.

I expect that you will vote against any new spending. Our deficit is out of control, and until we have our debt paid, there can be no more spending. To that end I expect that this Congress ensure that the unfunded liability of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid be addressed and a comprehensive plan to fix those programs be designed and implemented before we take on the burden of creating any other government programs regardless of how minor they may appear to be. That includes Health Care Reform. Do not be bullied, coerced, or manipulated when it comes to spending. Stand firm.

I believe that we have been dependent upon foreign oil as our main source of energy long enough. I expect you to vote for legislation that will allow Americans to research and develop all forms of energy, from wherever it can be found – coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, new refineries, etc, etc. Restrictions that prevent our independence and success in this area must go!

The border issue must be addressed! Our borders must be secured permanently from breach by illegal immigrants and foreign threats - immediately. In addition, the illegal immigrant issue must be addressed. Enforce the immigration laws of this country! Any illegal immigrant must be deported as soon as they are identified. I’m sure there are several ways to do this, yet our government has seen fit not to do so. Why? Here are a couple of ways – first, unequivocally, no licenses or other official documents for illegal immigrants. Secondly, undisputed identification at the voting booths. That means finger/thumb print or eye scan. Forget what the ACLU says – in general, they are a progressive organization out to destroy America. We have an obligation to know who is voting in America – there has been too much fraud in past elections. By implementing this process, if illegal immigrants come to the voting booth they will be identified and can be immediately deported. Thirdly, when an illegal immigrant comes to the emergency room for health care, provide it, and then have them immediately deported. This issue is not going away unless someone, or some ones, in Washington take a stand. Will you have that kind of integrity? Will you stand on that principle? Or will you just be part of the existing morass in Washington?

Lastly I expect comprehensive tax reform. The fair tax is the solution I am for. Sixty thousand plus pages of tax code is ridiculous, would you agree?

I expect all these things to be addressed and fixed before we burden ourselves with issues like “global warming”, or the “greening” of America and all that goes along with that. Those issues have not been satisfactorily proved, as the debate on both sides can provide “proof” of their arguments. So to “fundamentally change” America on a whim is not my idea of protecting America.

I believe the United States of America is the greatest country in the world. I find it laughable, but also scary and frustrating, when I hear progressive liberals (socialists) say that we are the only major country in the world that doesn’t have this, or who doesn’t have that. Why would we want to be like other countries? None are as great, as compassionate, or have sacrificed as much in terms of resources – human and material – as we have. So I ask again, why would we want to be like other countries?

We have Congressmen in office to make these hard decisions and develop comprehensive plans to address the pressing issues of the day. Instead, they continue to avoid these issues. Well, no longer! Will you take this opportunity – given to you freely, but unexpectedly – to fight for the America that was founded 250 or so years ago with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States? Or will you squander it? The choice is yours, but I, and many like me, am watching.

I would appreciate an answer to all my specific questions addressed in this letter. I know I discussed many issues, but I have a right to know your position on them. I would further appreciate that you not send a “boiler-plate” response, as that will not adequately provide the insight I am looking for. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

[Name]

Kissimmee, Fl 34747-2148

Is There A Reason?

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Why legislation has to be written in terms that ordinary citizens find intimidating and difficult to read? I mean other than the obvious one of obfuscation?

 That legislation is written in unreasonable lengths? Remember the Constitution was only 6 pages long, and it created the foundation of a country!

That intelligent people still believe that humankind can significantly influence the climate by changing our behavior?

Why leadership around the world is looking to create a one-world government, a one-world bank, and a one-world currency?

That our own government would be trying to undermine our economy through policy and legislation?

That our President cohorts with not one, but two convicted felons? And that he has surrounded himself with radical thinkers, socialists, and yes, even communists in his cabinet and adviser ranks?

Why our elected officials leave writing legislation to special interest groups, and then vote on that legislation based upon how they feel about the special interest (i.e. how much money they received from that group) without even reading it?

That the "change you can believe in" is still embraced by too many Americans even after everything that has come to light about Obama's associations, and his misrepresentation of his politics during the campaign (didn't campaign on the far left)?

That we would need a 2nd Bill of Rights, something espouse by FDR (and soundly dismissed by the masses), but now once again embraced by Obama and Cass Sunstein?

That our elected officials feel compelled by this administration to ignore the will of the people, even at the peril of losing their careers?

That we allow felons, tax cheats, and corrupt politicians to not only remain in government, but to thrive there because of their illegal behavior!

That the Obama Administration would be following the "how to" manual Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win written in 2006, in jail, by Robert Creamer, husband of Congresswoman Jan Schakowski (D-IL, now there's a surprise), and a convicted felon, almost to the letter?

Why there isn't more outrage by average American citizens? Or why apathy is thriving in our society?

Wake Up America! Pretty soon it'll be too late, and, in the words of lovable Joe Biden, "then what will you do?"

Bet You Didn't See This On The News

Do you think 9/11 was a "man-made catastrophe"? Do you think we're not in a war against terrorism? Do you think we are safe from Muslim extremist terrorists? Still think we shouldn't be profiling to stop terrorist attacks? Perhaps you should think again. This from the Canada Free Press; And remember, this occurred less than two weeks after the Fort Hood terrorist attack.


“Planned and choreographed” incident similar to USAir Flight 300
Security incident aboard AirTran Flight 297 suggests terror “Dry Run”
By Doug Hagmann Thursday, December 3, 2009

On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet. The reasons, I have been told, is fear of predatory lawsuits, negative publicity from accusations of religious profiling, and the obligatory subjugation to mindless mandatory Muslim sensitivity training that make a mockery of our American system of values. Interestingly, one airline official told me “we don’t want to become another flight 300,” which is a reference to a very similar scenario that took place aboard US Airways Flight 300 exactly three years ago.

I was first contacted about this incident two days after it happened by a passenger who was aboard AirTran Flight 297. Based on the allegations made by this passenger, we conducted additional research, interviews and investigation, all of which takes time to insure accuracy, and are now able to release our report of the incident that took place aboard that aircraft. Be prepared to be shocked, angered, and perhaps saddened by our national and corporate acquiescence to mafia-type tactics by Islamists who are engaged in a full frontal assault, and laughing about it.

Unsurprisingly, the facts we developed during the course of our investigation are inconsistent with those being reported in the media, despite the media having the responsibility to report the truth.

The incident

A group of thirteen men dressed in traditional Muslim attire were among 73 passengers who boarded AirTran Flight 297 on Tuesday, 17 November 2009, a routine flight scheduled to depart Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, gate C-16 at 4:43 PM ET to Houston Hobby Airport. Reports developed by this investigator found two witnesses who observed direct interaction among all of these Muslim men at the terminal.

As the passengers boarded the aircraft, two of the Muslim men took seats in first class, while the remaining eleven were seated throughout the remaining rows of the aircraft. Most had carrying-on bags that they stowed in the overhead compartments above their seats.

As the aircraft began to taxi to the runway, a female flight attendant was beginning to issue the normal passenger advisories over the PA system. Almost on cue at the time passengers were told to turn off all electronic devices, one of the Muslim men seated in the front of the plane began to use his cell phone in a manner that was described by a flight attendant and passenger “as deliberate and obvious.” He was talking loudly in Arabic, nearly at the level of the flight attendant. Some reports suggest that this man actually called another Muslim passenger, although this has not been immediately confirmed. It is possible, however, as another passenger reported that a Muslim man seated toward the rear of the plane answered his cellular phone at the same time the man in the front began using his.

At this point, the flight attendant in the front of the plane approached the Muslim man using his telephone and instructed him to immediately turn it off. A second female flight attendant did the same at the rear of the aircraft. Concurrent with this cellular activity, two other Muslim men seated adjacent near the middle of the aircraft began operating what one passenger described as a palm type camcorder, ostensibly to view previously taken footage. It is possible, according to one flight attendant interviewed by this investigator, however, that the camcorder was being used for recording purposes. Whatever its use, a third flight attendant, aware of the incidents taking place in the front and rear of the aircraft, approached the two men for the purpose of securing the camcorder. At least two passengers reported that the men became abusive to the flight attendant and initially refused to comply with her request.

It was at this time that most of the passengers began to notice the multiple incidents involving over a dozen men dressed in Islamic attire. Next, as if previously rehearsed, at least ten of the 13 Muslim men aboard the aircraft began to leave their seats at the same time. At least one passenger stated she observed one of the Muslim passengers using his cell phone to take photos of other passengers on the aircraft, while one other Muslim passenger sang loudly in Arabic. According to information provided to this investigator from one of the flight crew who was alerted to an onboard emergency, the aircraft was now being taxied back to the terminal. The TSA, FAA and FBI were notified.

At the terminal

Once back at the terminal, the thirteen men were escorted from the aircraft by TSA and security officials. According to a report from an airline security official, their baggage was also removed and searched, the search finding nothing of apparent danger. According to a law enforcement official interviewed by telephone by this investigator on Monday, investigation revealed that all of the Muslim passengers are acquainted with each other and are associated with (or have ties to) a large Islamic center that has been the subject of investigative interest.

According to one aircraft passenger I interviewed, what happened next was “unbelievable” and caused a great deal of upset among the aircraft passengers and flight crew (some who opted off the flight in anger, fear, or admittedly, a mixture of both emotions).

After a lengthy delay while officials dealt with these Muslim passengers, ten (one uncorroborated report suggests 11) of the Muslim passengers were permitted to re-board the same aircraft to complete their flight. Some passengers and flight crew, traumatized by the blatant actions of the Muslim passengers, refused to travel with the Muslims who caused this orchestrated disturbance.

The flight continues

According to flight logs and information from one of the flight crew who continued with the flight, AirTran 297 ultimately departed Atlanta and arrived in Houston later that evening. The flight, however, was not without its curious incidents by the very same Muslim men who caused the initial delay and disturbance.

During the flight, one passenger interviewed by this investigator described the behavior of two of the Muslim passengers as less overt but still suspicious in nature. Without apparent legitimate purpose, one Muslim passenger moved a stowed bag from one part of the aircraft to another, well away from his seated position. Another spoke loudly in Arabic, with all appearing to interact in one form or another.

Ultimately, the flight landed safely and despite the early incidents in Atlanta, the Muslim passengers appeared able to leave freely from the terminal.

Comments from flight crew and airline personnel

As initially stated, proper and accurate investigation takes time to corroborate eyewitness accounts, which are often unreliable, contradictive and in cases like this, colored by emotion. Having interviewed a total of seven-(7) individuals directly involved in this incident over the last several days, including two law enforcement officers who handled the after action reports, the situation pertaining to the initial 13 and remaining 10 or 11 Muslim men allowed to continue their travels was far greater than an incident involving the unauthorized use of a cell phone that resulted in a minor flight delay, as reported by the mainstream media.

According to one airline security official, “This was a deliberate, well planned attempt to disrupt a domestic flight that was organized in advance of the boarding of these [Muslim] passengers. The purpose of their actions appeared to be multi-faceted, not the least of which was an attempt to change their status from passengers to victims of religious profiling. The situation was handled in a manner that we believe might have avoided an incident like USAir had in 2006, where everyone from the passengers who reported suspicious behavior to the airline was subjected to legal action by the Muslim passengers.”

While litigation might have been avoided, passengers and flight crew remain traumatized, and our air travel system was unnecessarily disrupted during one of the busiest air travel weeks in the U.S. The agenda of the Islamists behind this incident is clear, yet no one in the media seems to have the desire to expose these ideological cretins for what they are.

Additional information about this incident is forthcoming.



Wake Up America!

A Letter From Jesus About Christmas; The 10 Wishes

When I  began to read this "letter" I was skeptical that perhaps it was written by someone with an agenda to further diminish Jesus, God and Christmas in our lives - but in a sly and devious manner. But, by the time I reached the end of this "letter" I realized that if I truly believe in the power of Jesus, then I have little to fear. For who is more powerful than Him? Who could possibly erode His importance or obscure His message if it wasn't His will? And then I realized that my failure of faith had nothing to do with Jesus, or God, but was based on my own wishes - to selfishly want everyone to believe in those same things that I do. So, here's the letter. You decide what you think...


It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season.

 How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own. I don't care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate My birth, just GET ALONG AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Now, having said that let Me go on. If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn't allow a scene depicting My birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santas and snowmen and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn. If all My followers did that there wouldn't be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town.

 Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree. It was I who made all trees. You can remember Me anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish: I actually spoke of that one in a teaching, explaining who I am in relation to you and what each of our tasks were. If you have forgotten that one, look up John 15: 1 - 8.

 If you want to give Me a present in remembrance of My birth here is my wish list. Choose something from it:

 1. Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way My birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. I know, they tell Me all the time.

 2. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don't have to know them personally. They just need to know that someone cares about them.

 3. Instead of writing the President complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don't you write and tell him that you'll be praying for him and his family this year. Then follow up... It will be nice hearing from you again.

4. Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can't afford and they don't need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of My birth, and why I came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that I love them.

5 Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her.

6. Did you know that someone in your town will attempt to take their own life this season because they feel so alone and hopeless? Since you don't know who that person is, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile; it could make the difference.

7. Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there. Give them a warm smile and a kind word. Even if they aren't allowed to wish you a "Merry Christmas" that doesn't keep you from wishing them one. Then stop shopping there on Sunday. If the store didn't make so much money on that day they'd close and let their employees spend the day at home with their families

8. If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary-- especially one who takes My love and Good News to those who have never heard My name.

 9. Here's a good one. There are individuals and whole families in your town who not only will have no "Christmas" tree, but neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don't know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other charity which believes in Me and they will make the delivery for you.

10. Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Me, then behave like a Christian. Don't do things in secret that you wouldn't do in My presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine.

Don't forget; I am God and can take care of Myself. Just love Me and do what I have told you to do. I'll take care of all the rest. Check out the list above and get to work; time is short. I'll help you, but the ball is now in your court. And do have a most blessed Christmas with all those whom you love and remember :


I LOVE YOU,
JESUS


Wake Up America!

Australia Leads The Way

Has anyone shown you any proof that the sun is not a major influence driving global temperatures? Not that I've heard. No one seems to be addressing the number and duration of sun spots, whether the sun has "seasons", some maybe lasting years, decades or longer, and some hotter than others, or other celestial effects that may contribute to temperature on earth. But yesterday, Australia became the first country to reject Cap & Trade legislation, voting against that initiative. And as more and more countries come to realize that a giant "climate change" hoax has been played on the world as a ruse to engineer the infrastructure for a "one-world utopia" (goverment, currency, bank, etc), let's hope that more countries follow suit. Let's hope that our Senators are not as blind as our Representatives were, and resoundly defeat this legislation when it comes to a vote later this year or early next year.

Wake Up America!

Wipe Your Shoes Mr. Obama, Looks Like You Stepped In A Pile Of Camel Poop

Barack Obama spent the first 8 months of his presidency apologizing to anyone who would listen for the perceived offenses of America. To this day, he continues to hold dear to his heart the concept that "white America", for that is who founded us, must be punished for past grievances and sins - real or imagined. But Obama has come up against the "reality wall" in the middle east as described by Fouad Ajami, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution - and obviously of middle-eastern decent.


'He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America's 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory.

He is hardly alone, this academic. In the endless chatter of this region, and in the commentaries offered by the press, the theme is one of disappointment. In the Arab-Islamic world, Barack Obama has come down to earth.

He has not made the world anew, history did not bend to his will, the Indians and Pakistanis have been told that the matter of Kashmir is theirs to resolve, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the same intractable clash of two irreconcilable nationalisms, and the theocrats in Iran have not "unclenched their fist," nor have they abandoned their nuclear quest.

There is little Mr. Obama can do about this disenchantment. He can't journey to Turkey to tell its Islamist leaders and political class that a decade of anti-American scapegoating is all forgiven and was the product of American policies—he has already done that. He can't journey to Cairo to tell the fabled "Arab street" that the Iraq war was a wasted war of choice, and that America earned the malice that came its way from Arab lands—he has already done that as well. He can't tell Muslims that America is not at war with Islam—he, like his predecessor, has said that time and again.

It was the norm for American liberalism during the Bush years to brandish the Pew Global Attitudes survey that told of America's decline in the eyes of foreign nations. Foreigners were saying what the liberals wanted said.

Now those surveys of 2009 bring findings from the world of Islam that confirm that the animus toward America has not been radically changed by the ascendancy of Mr. Obama. In the Palestinian territories, 15% have a favorable view of the U.S. while 82% have an unfavorable view. The Obama speech in Ankara didn't seem to help in Turkey, where the favorables are 14% and those unreconciled, 69%. In Egypt, a country that's reaped nearly 40 years of American aid, things stayed roughly the same: 27% have a favorable view of the U.S. while 70% do not. In Pakistan, a place of great consequence for American power, our standing has deteriorated: The unfavorables rose from 63% in 2008 to 68% this year.

Mr. Obama's election has not drained the swamps of anti-Americanism. That anti-Americanism is endemic to this region, an alibi and a scapegoat for nations, and their rulers, unwilling to break out of the grip of political autocracy and economic failure. It predated the presidency of George W. Bush and rages on during the Obama presidency.

We had once taken to the foreign world that quintessential American difference—the belief in liberty, a needed innocence to play off against the settled and complacent ways of older nations. The Obama approach is different.

Steeped in an overarching idea of American guilt, Mr. Obama and his lieutenants offered nothing less than a doctrine, and a policy, of American penance. No one told Mr. Obama that the Islamic world, where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one's own tribe when in the midst, and in the lands, of others.

The crowd may have applauded the cavalier way the new steward of American power referred to his predecessor, but in the privacy of their own language they doubtless wondered about his character and his fidelity. "My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the stranger," goes one of the Arab world's most honored maxims. The stranger who came into their midst and spoke badly of his own was destined to become an object of suspicion.

Mr. Obama could not make up his mind: He was at one with "the people" and with the rulers who held them in subjugation. The people of Iran who took to the streets this past summer were betrayed by this hapless diplomacy—Mr. Obama was out to "engage" the terrible rulers that millions of Iranians were determined to be rid of.

On Nov. 4, on the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran, the embattled reformers, again in the streets, posed an embarrassing dilemma for American diplomacy: "Obama, Obama, you are either with us or with them," they chanted. By not responding to these cries and continuing to "engage" Tehran's murderous regime, his choice was made clear. It wasn't one of American diplomacy's finest moments.

Mr. Obama has himself to blame for the disarray of his foreign policy. American arms had won a decent outcome in Iraq, but Mr. Obama would not claim it—it was his predecessor's war. Vigilance had kept the American homeland safe from terrorist attacks for seven long years under his predecessors, but he could never grant Bush policies the honor and credit they deserved. He had declared Afghanistan a war of necessity, but he seems to have his eye on the road out even as he is set to announce a troop increase in an address to be delivered tomorrow.

He was quick to assert, in the course of his exuberant campaign for president last year, that his diplomacy in South Asia would start with the standoff in Kashmir. In truth India had no interest in an international adjudication of Kashmir. What was settled during the partition in 1947 was there to stay. In recent days, Mr. Obama walked away from earlier ambitions. "Obviously, there are historic conflicts between India and Pakistan," he said. "It's not the place of the United States to try to, from the outside, resolve those conflicts."

Nor was he swayed by the fate of so many "peace plans" that have been floated over so many decades to resolve the fight between Arab and Jew over the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. Where George W. Bush offered the Palestinians the gift of clarity—statehood but only after the renunciation of terror and the break with maximalism—Mr. Obama signaled a return to the dead ways of the past: a peace process where America itself is broker and arbiter.

The Obama diplomacy had made a settlement freeze its starting point, when this was precisely the wrong place to begin. Israel has given up settlements before at the altar of peace—recall the historical accommodation with Egypt a quarter century ago. The right course would have set the question of settlements aside as it took up the broader challenge of radicalism in the region—the menace and swagger of Iran, the arsenal of Hamas and Hezbollah, the refusal of the Arab order of power to embrace in broad daylight the cause of peace with Israel.

The laws of gravity, the weight of history and of precedent, have caught up with the Obama presidency. We are beyond stirring speeches. The novelty of the Obama approach, and the Obama persona, has worn off. There is a whole American diplomatic tradition to draw upon—engagements made, wisdom acquired in the course of decades, and, yes, accounts to be settled with rogues and tyrannies. They might yet help this administration find its way out of a labyrinth of its own making.

President Obama is indeed a legend in his own mind. He is not up for the challenge of being the President of the United States, nevermind being the "leader" of the free world. His oratorical armor can no longer hide his naiveté - it has been woefully exposed for the world to see. North Korea and Iran recognized it almost immediately, and have discarded any pretense that they fear us in any way. What other countries, regimes, or terrorist organizations will follow suit? Obama, through his incompetent philosophy and policies, has made this a dangerously unstable world. In doing so, he has also increased the level of danger America faces. More and more, Americans (and people around the world) are realizing that a well-written speech does not equate to leadership skill or common sense policies, and are beginning to understand the damage this man can do to the world. Our best bet? Put handlers on him who will help to lessen that damage.



Wake Up America!

To Honor ALL Our Fallen Military Who Have Died For Our Freedom - Do NOT Forget

And to send out a great big THANK YOU to all who serve today to protect our freedom and our Constitution. God Bless and Watch Over Each and Every One of You!




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Keep Hiding Your Head In The Sand

You think you're full of integrity
You think your back is strong
You think your character will pull you through.
Man, you couldn't be more wrong

And you say you want to change the system
That you want to be part of the solution
But you just play Mr. Potato on the couch
And claim you're too tired for revolution

The government equals the two-party system
But those in each party, they're drunk on the power
Tax and Spend, with no regard for us
The national debt soaring higher by the hour

And you say you want to change the system
That you want to be part of the solution
But you just play Mr. Potato on the couch
And claim you're too tired for revolution

You think of yourself as a patriot, but
That ain't enough if you don't commit to act
Your country's gonna keep slipping away
That ain't no lie, that's fact

Wake Up America!

Does This Surprise You? I Trust It Doesn't

White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate

Friday, November 27, 2009 2:21 PM
By: L.D. Breen Article Font Size


You haven’t heard it from America’s mainstream media yet – even Fox News hasn’t covered it – but the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science.

Holdren is an intractable global warming activist with no time for climate change skepticism. In a New York Times article, he contended that such questioning “has delayed – and continues to delay – the development of the political consensus that will be needed if society is to embrace remedies commensurate with the challenge.”

He has also become something of a celebrity, rubbing shoulders with the Hollywood luminaries at President Obama’s state dinner Tuesday night honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and repeatedly appearing as a guest on the David Letterman show.

But the Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and Al Gore global warming adviser features prominently in the thousands of e-mails and other files made public after the hacking last week of a computer server used by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.

The most embarrassing item for the Obama Administration may be a 2003 exchange between Holdren and TCSDaily.com editor-in-chief Nick Schulz. Schulz challenged Holdren on whether downplaying the significance of the Medieval Warm Period required “what lawyers call the burden of proof.”

Holdren’s retort contained a remarkable assertion coming from a scientist: “In practice, burden of proof is an evolving thing – it evolves as the amount of evidence relevant to a particular proposition grows.”

Canada Free Press columnist and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball says of the correspondence with Schulz that Holdren’s “entire defense and position devolves to a political position.”

The CRU documents also find Holdren disparaging solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, contrarians regarding surface temperatures over the past millennium, who were colleagues of Holdren at Harvard, and Ball wonders if Holdren may have intimidated the two scientists before they “suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray,” as Ball describes it.

As Newsmax has previously reported, Dr. Holdren has a history of alarmingly extremist views. He co-authored a 1977 book, “Ecoscience: Population Resources, Environment,” advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China’s one-child policy, and a “planetary regime” to be policed by the United Nations.

Not long before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion-on-demand throughout America, Holdren co-authored “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions,” which seems to argue that even years after birth a baby is not yet a human being.

“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth,” claims the book’s “Population Limitation” section, “and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.”

Holdren’s “Human Ecology” warns of large-scale disaster that might require “involuntary fertility control” to stop population growth. “Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying,” the Holdren book suggests.

As a member of President Bill Clinton’s Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, Holdren chaired a study providing the groundwork for U.S.-Russian cooperation on securing nuclear materials in the aftermath of post-Cold War disarmament.


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Imagine

I was a Beatles fan for much of my life beginning about the time I reached High School. In particular I loved the songs (music, lyrics, perspective) of John Lennon, specifically the song Imagine. But recent events have made me take another look at what could perhaps be categorized as his greatest work.

Given that those in power in America, and around the world, are products of the "60's" and "70's", and given that they are socialists and communists with a radical agenda, I asked myself this question. Is it possible that these people took the song "Imagine" and built an ideology around it? As their obsession with the concepts inherent in that song became stronger and their ideology began to take shape, many of them gave speeches that contained radical ideas related to population control, one-world government, radical "rights" for animals, and others. Now these same people are trying to take control of our lives through an unprecedented level of liberty infringing legislation and unparalleled power-grabs. Here are some facts...

"Imagine" is the official song of Amnesty International - Founded in 1961, AI has campaigned successfully in recent years for the International Criminal Court and a UN Torture Treaty.

In the Iranian left movement, the song usually relates to Mansoor Hekmat and his Worker-Communist Party of Iran. The WPI plays the song in all of its meetings and demonstrations and in its TV channel.

The song is played repeatedly throughout every episode of the Freedom from Religion Foundation's, Freethought Radio. The nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation works to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism (the rejection of any belief in a personal god or gods. It is in use in the fields of Christian apologetics and general liberal theology), and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state. Since 1978, the Foundation has acted on countless violations of the separation of state and church, and has taken and won many significant complaints and important lawsuits to end state/church entanglements and challenge the “faith-based initiative.”

The song's lyrics, translated into Spanish, appear next to a statue of Lennon in a park in Havana, Cuba, referred to as John Lennon Park.

Here are the lyrics (minus the refrain). Think about what they conceptualize, and what has been happening in our country over the past 40 odd years. Think about the world-wide implications and the international push for one world government (nothing to kill or die for), no religion (only Muslim which is spreading virally around the globe), and "redistribution of wealth" ( a brotherhood of man). Then you decide...


Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world


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Why Can't Every American See This Clearly?

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaiifor his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causesall over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.


As I understand it, he dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish. I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:" We're no longer a Christian nation", " America is arrogant" - (Your wife even announced to the world,"America is mean-spirited." Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House. After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals." Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom. I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, & not to apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes


When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation"stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can. Sooooo, Please spread the word...

Wake Up America!

Remember This Thought This Christmas...

...And then try to carry it through the year.


You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, until you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - Anonymous



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