Department of Offense

Pat Buchanan had the guts to say it.  It is about time.
                                BUCHANAN  TO OBAMA
                            By  Patrick J.  Buchanan

Barack says we need to have a conversation
about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way
conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to…
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and
demands heard.. And among them are  these:

First, America has been the best country on
earth for black folks. It was here that  600,000 black people, brought from
Africa in slave ships, grew into a  community of 40 million, were introduced
to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and
prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and
thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to
lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since
the ‘ 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell
grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits
and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into
the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in
discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract
set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over
America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult
education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for  blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude???

Barack talks about new ‘ladders of opportunity’ for blacks.  Let him go to Altoona ?  And Johnstown , and ask the
white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League
recruiters handing out scholarships for ‘deserving’ white kids.? Is white
America really responsible for the  fact that the crime and incarceration
rates for African-Americans are  seven times those of white America ?  Is it
really white America ’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American
community has hit 70  percent and the black dropout rate from high schools
in some cities has  reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first
and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is
in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is
Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent
of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes
are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies
were 139 times as common in the first  three years of this decade as the
reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev.
Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to
be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real,
we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all
before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

We are a Christian Nation even if Mr.Obama
says we are not.

This needs to be passed around because, this
is a message everyone needs to hear!!!

The  object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything.

Wanna play?      No?      Too bad, you’re already playing.

And in this game, nobody wins.

Quoted from http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/25/morning-bell-obamacare-puts-transparency-and-accountability-on-death-bed/:

Morning Bell: Obamacare Puts Transparency and Accountability on Death Bed » The Foundry

Morning Bell: Obamacare Puts Transparency and Accountability on Death Bed

• Posted September 25th, 2009 at 9.04am in Health Care.

The New York Times released a new poll today finding that 55% of Americans believe President Obama has not clearly explained his plans for changing the health care system and 59% said they thought the health care changes under consideration in Congress were confusing. In a follow-up interview, Paul Corkery, a Democrat from Somerset, N.J, said: “The Obama administration seems to have a plan, but I’m not understanding the exact details.” Corkery shouldn’t feel that bad. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the independent nonpartisan agency responsible for reviewing legislative initiatives with budgetary implications, has no idea what is in the legislation either. During yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee mark-up, the CBO realized only after the vote, that they had made a $600 million mistake in scoring an amendment by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

The issues that the CBO does not have enough information to analyze are not minor either. In letters released on September 22nd, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf told Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) respectively that his agency simply had not been provided with sufficient legislative language and time to analyze whether insurance premiums would go up under Obamacare or how many unauthorized billions of dollars in health benefits illegal immigrants would receive.

To ensure that the Senate would actually know what they were voting on, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) offered an amendment that would have required that actual legislative text, as well as a final Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate of the cost of the bill, be posted for 72 hours on the Senate Finance Committee website for public review before the Senate Finance Committee could vote on its final passage. The Bunning amendment was defeated on a largely party-line vote, with all Senate Democrats – with the exception of Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AK)- voting against it.

Since proponents of Obamacare have shown themselves to be completely indifferent to what their legislation will actually do to the American people, conservatives have offered other amendments that would hold President Obama accountable for his promise that Obamacare would not cause Americans to lose their current doctor or health care coverage:

• Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) offered an amendment that would have required the Secretary of HHS to certify that at least 75 percent of the physicians in the United States would accept Medicaid patients before the proposed mandatory Medicaid expansions are implemented. That amendment was defeated.
• Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) offered an amendment that would have required the Secretary of HHS to certify Obamacare would not cause more than 1,000,000 Americans to lose the current coverage of their choice. That amendment failed on a party line vote.
• Another Hatch amendment provided that if the Medicare funding reductions in the Medicare Advantage program were to result in a loss of benefits for seniors using Medicare Advantage, those provisions would be nullified. That amendment was also rejected.

The majority in the Senate has completely gutted any semblance of transparency or accountability in the health care debate. They refuse to provide the legislative language and time necessary for the CBO to analyze their legislation and they have rejected all measures that would protect the Americans people from Obama’s broken health care promises. Common sense dictates that Congress needs to step back and start over instead of passing a plan that would reorganize one-sixth of our entire economy without even understanding what the consequences to average Americans would be.

Mike
Monsoor,
Was
Awarded "The Congressional Medal Of Honor" Last
Week,
For
Giving His Life In Iraq ,As
HeJumped On, And Covered With His Body, A Live Hand
Grenade,
That
WasAccidentally Dropped By A Navy Seal,
Saving
The Lives Of A LargeGroup Of Navy Seals That Was Passing
By!
~
During
Mike Monsoor’s Funeral,
At
Ft.
Rosecrans
National
Cemetery , In
San
Diego ,
California .
The
Six Pallbearers RemovedThe Rosewood Casket From The
Hearse,
And
Lined Up On Each Side OfMike
Monsoor’sCasket,
Were
His Family Members, Friends, Fellow Sailors, And
Well-wishers.
The
Column Of People Continued From The Hearse, All The Way To The Grave
Site.
What
The Group Didn’t Know At The Time Was,
Every
Navy Seal
(45
To Be Exact)
That
Mike Monsoor Saved That Day Was Scattered Through-Out The
Column!
~
As
The Pallbearers Carried The Rosewood Casket
Down
The Column Of People To The Grave Side.
The
Column Would Collapse.
Which
Formed A Group Of PeopleThat Followed
Behind.
~
Every
Time The Rosewood Casket Passed A Navy Seal,
He
Would Remove His Gold Trident Pin From His
Uniform,
And
Slap It Down Hard,
Causing
The GoldTrident PinTo Embed
Itself
Into
The Top Of The Wooden Casket!
Then
The Navy Seal Would Step Back From The Column, And
Salute!
~
Now
For Those,
(And
Me)
Who
Doesn’t Know What A Trident Pin Is, Are What It Looks
Like?
Here
Is The Definition And Photo!
~
After
One Completes The Basic Navy Seals Program Which Lasts For Three
Weeks,
And
Is Followed By Seal Qualification Training,
Which
Is 15 More Weeks Of Training,
Necessary
To Continue Improving Basic Skills And To Learn New Tactics And
Techniques,
Required
For An Assignment ToA Navy Seal Platoon.
After
successful completion,
Trainees
Are Given Their Naval Enlisted Code,
And
Are Awarded The Navy Seal Trident Pin.
With
This Gold Pin They Are Now Officially Navy
Seal’s!
It
Was Said,
That
You Could Hear Each Of The 45 Slaps From Across The
Cemetery!
By
The Time The Rosewood Casket Reached The Grave
Site,
It
Looked As Though It Had A Gold Inlay From The45 Trident PinsThat
Lined The Top!

This
Was A Fitting End To An Eternal Send-Off For A Warrior
Hero!
This
Should Be Front-Page News!
Instead
Of TheGarbage We Listen To And See Every
Day.
~
Here’s
A Good Idea!
Since
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Then
We Choose To Make It News By Forwarding It.
~
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Am Proud Of All The Branches Of Our Military..
If
You Are Proud Too, Please Pass This E-Mail On.

Missing: Constitutional Content

• Posted September 16th, 2009 at 5.03pm in First Principles.

The tens of thousands of Americans who traveled to Washington over the weekend to protest profligate government spending didn’t just exercise their constitutional right to peacefully assemble and ask that wrongs be set right.

Taxpayers and voters also demonstrated a healthy understanding that the Constitution is on their side.  “We want our freedom back,” Gary Brown, 53, of Greer, S.C., told The Washington Times. “The Constitution is the law of the land. We don’t need lawyers to interpret it. Get out of our lives.”

Terri Hall, 45, of Starke, Fla., told USA Today that hundreds of billions in new spending by President Barack Obama and Congress compelled her to get politically active. “Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,” she said.

Such reminders over the weekend from everyday people, taking a stand for liberty outside the U.S. Capitol, were particularly apt. They came just before too-little-celebrated Constitution Day, marked Thursday by events  at Heritage and elsewhere.

Renewed public attention to the Constitution’s provisions for a central government of limited powers should be heartening. Not just to Heritage’s constitutional scholars,  but to anyone who believes debates over the federal government’s role in our lives ought to begin with the document that specified the reach of that government.

“Americans want certain problems in the health care system solved, but it is doubtful they want those problems ‘solved’ in a way that does violence to key foundational principles of American political life,” student of government Andrew E. Busch wrote last summer, well before the current hubbub.

One thread clearly connects the Washington rally with April’s “tea party” demonstrations against runaway spending and taxes and the summer’s “town hall” protests of a huge government intrusion into health care: Americans increasingly are insisting that elected leaders reacquaint themselves with the Constitution.

“Is the Constitution a vibrant reality shaping policy debates,” as Busch asks, “or is it a dead letter to our public officials?”

Busch, associate professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College, argues that the declining role of the Constitution in public discourse — from the president and Congress down to those who mix it up at community meetings — has not been good for America:

Ultimately, constitutional government requires a constitutional conversation that includes the people and their representatives. Failure to sustain such a conversation … will contribute to the constitutional illiteracy of the nation.”

Busch’s research showed only three presidents since 1934 averaged more than 10 references to the Constitution in each State of the Union speech: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan (the runaway leader with an average of 16 ). George W. Bush averaged a mere three references — and his rate per 1,000 words tied with Bill Clinton for lowest of any modern president. (See expanded chart here.)

The discouraging trend — not just in presidential communication but in congressional debates — follows “the ascent of Progressive and New Deal philosophies that systematically downplayed the importance of strict adherence to the Constitution,” Busch argues.

The growing blogosphere, he predicts, offers “some hope for a return of written argument” about the need to protect and defend the Constitution.

In February, President Barack Obama didn’t make a single reference to the Constitution in his first address to a joint session of Congress, notes Matthew Spalding, director of Heritage’s Simon Center for American Studies.

Shortly after that speech, Spalding wrote:

The federal government has lost many of its moorings and today acts with little concern for the limits in the Constitution.  As a result, growing numbers are dependent on government benefits and entitlements. Many of our political leaders are rudderless, speaking in vague generalities and mired in small-minded politics and petty debates. As a nation, we are left divided about our own meaning, unable — perhaps unwilling — to defend our ideas, our institutions and ourselves.”

Spalding,  author of the forthcoming book “We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future” (ISI Books), adds:

The change we need, the change consis¬tent with the American idea, is not movement away from but toward our principles … . And so as we look ahead, we must also look back, not as a matter of historical curiosity, but as a guide for our nation. What we seek is renewal.”