Obama Wants to Give The UN Your Money

The above photo shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the maffia. Actually they just represent the Maffia--people who steal your money--but are the cast of the Sopranos. One's bad as the other. Both have their hands in your pocket.


Barack Hussein Obama does, in fact, have a legislative record in the Senate and one of his proudest accomplishments is The Global Poverty Act (S. 2433).

But wait just a minute! Isn't combating poverty around the world a noble goal?

Well... the devil, as they say, is in the details!

Some conservative leaders are already sounding the alarm and telling us that, if passed, Barack Hussein Obama's Global Poverty Act will commit us to a stealth United Nations-inspired global tax of $845 Billion dollars... that comes to approximately an $8500.00 tax burden for every household in the United States!

Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media wrote:

"[T]he legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which... would amount to $845 billion 'over and above what the U.S. already spends.'"

"The plan passed the House in 2007 'because most members didn't realize what was in it.' Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require."

Remember the Food for Oil Scandal? Let's face it; the United Nation's actual record on ending pain and suffering around the world is pathetic and dismal.

The questions to ask are, first, how much of our money that goes to the United Nations right now actually winds up lining the pockets of third-world dictators and despots? And, second, if Obama's plan succeeds, how much of his new $845 billion giveaway will end up in those same pockets?

Barack Hussein Obama's Global Poverty Act MUST be STOPPED! Time is of the essence! Obama's Global Poverty Act actually has the support of some prominent RINOs such as Senator Richard Lugar and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, who just pushed Obama's world welfare bill out of committee. It could be up for a vote in the Senate AT ANY TIME!

Barack Hussein Obama MUST be stopped. But more importantly, his so-called Global Poverty Act -- which has already passed in the House (because most Members simply didn't know what was in it) and is presently being pushed through the Senate -- MUST be stopped.

The New York Times Was Conservative

Isn't it ironic--the New York Times today doesn't resemble what its founders intended it to be. It was supposed to be a conservative paper back in the mid-nineteenth century when it was founded. It's motto: "All the news that's fit to print." That statement has been twisted by the Times into something quite different. It is now a highly left wing liberal paper, an arm of the Democratic Party--though they won't admit it. Look at the following original news clip:

Works by New York Times

1851--The New York Times. The New York daily newspaper with a reputation for accuracy is founded by Henry J. Raymond (1820-1869) as a conservative alternative to the sensational papers of the day. In 1896 it was purchased by Adolph Ochs, and it maintained its reputation as America's preeminent newspaper throughout the twentieth century.

Introducing Michelle Malkin, Writer Extraordinaire

Here is a list of Michelle Malkin's excellent articles. I suggest that when you are done here, get on Townhall (Family Security Matters) and read each of them. Don White


Articles:

* Obama's Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate
* The Democrats' Jimmy Carter Problem
* Snob-ama Is Not Alone
* Say Goodbye to the Glowbama Mystique
* The Left's Escalating War on Military Recruiters
* Berkeley Vs. America, Again
* The Politics of Foreclosure
* John McCain: The Geraldo Rivera Republican
* The Flawed (but Useful) Iowa Caucuses
* Top Story of 2007: The Surge, the Military, and the Media
* The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence
* Stop Before You Gripe
* MoveOn.org Bullies Crack Down on Critics
* Mahmoudapalooza: The Good, the Bad and the Craven
* Sally Field Doesn't Speak for Me
* John Doe in Post-9/11 America
* The Return of the Eagles
* Kill the Bill: Exposing the dirty deal Update- Senators to Bush: Enforce the laws first
* Children of Jihad vs. Children of the West
* Jihadists Exploit Our Hospitality and Open Borders . . . Again
* Whitewashing Jihad in the Schools
* A Gathering of Eagles
* Hillary's Phony Coat of Armor
* The Left's Definition of a "Hero"
* What I Saw In Iraq
* The year of perpetual outrage
* The American Press Should Count Its Blessings
* The Democrats' military disdain
* Blabbermouth, blabbermouth Dems
* The Associated (with terrorists) Press
* Kill Bush mania
* A post-9/11 vocabulary test
* Fauxtography: The media scandal continues
* Fight the bullies of Islam
* A leak is a leak is a leak

Barak Obama--How Many Gaffes Must We Endure?

Michelle Malkin wrote an incisive article about Barak Obama's gaffes, which exceed by far any other candidates. Yet the New York Times and other liberal media constantly look the other way.

Barack Obama -- promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah -- is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

If you would like to read the entire article I would direct you to the Townhouse blog clled Family Security Matters.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/ID.157pub.detail.asp

McCain "Wiser" Choice Than Obama

Older Brains Are Better

Don White

John McCain will be a better president than Barak Obama, if for no other reason than he is older, wiser, and more experienced.

But scientists now tell us there is another reason why older people like the 72-year-old McCain will be more effective and astute in the Oval Office than the much younger Democratic candidate. Yes, Mac has been around the block more times. He knows a lot more about foreign relations. He knows infinitely more about defending our country. He also is smarter in the U.S. Senate, he’s simply been there much longer.

Scientists now believe that brainpower doesn’t decline with age. What is
sometimes confused as a poor memory because someone can’t remember
names anymore might really be a positive, not a negative. Uhraah! For McCain.

At least this is the conclusion of scientists reported by Sara Reistad-Long in a New York Times article on May 20, 2008.

When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.

Research suggests the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to its long-term benefit.

The studies are analyzed in a new edition of a neurology book, Progress in Brain Research.

Ms. Reistad-Long said some brains do deteriorate with age—such as Alzheimer’s disease, for example, which strikes 13 percent of Americans 65 and older. But for most aging adults, the author says, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact, like a name or a telephone number. Although that can be frustrating, it is often useful.

“It may be that distractibility is not, in fact, a bad thing,” said Shelley H. Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard whose work was cited in the book. “It may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind.”
For example, in studies where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, adults 60 and older work much more slowly than college students. Although the students plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand. That indicates that they are not just stumbling over the extra information, but are taking it in and processing it.

The Times reported that when both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students. In a national sense, Obama is the student and McCain the teacher or older adult.

“For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened,” said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute. “But for older adults, because they’ve retained all this extra data, they’re now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they’ve soaked up from one situation to another.”

The article said that such tendencies can yield big advantages in the real world, where it is not always clear what information is important, or will become important. A seemingly irrelevant point or suggestion in a memo can take on new meaning if the original plan changes. Or extra details that stole your attention, like others’ yawning and fidgeting, may help you assess the speaker’s real impact.

Obama has demonstrated time after time his lack of being able to grasp important things. Oh, he can remember names, except when he embarrasses himself by calling a reporter “Sweety” instead of using her name. But in a larger sense, he doesn’t seem to grasp the importance of major topics such showing America by what he portrays and does that he is fiercely patriotic or an America-first guy. You know, this is a guy who has to prove that he’s not a Muslim-hating American with a wife who “for the first time in my life” feels patriotic. He has a terrific Muslim name—Barak Hussein Obama, so why all the fuss about who he is? It’s because he is sending signals that he isn’t who he says he is.

He refuses to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. He has been photographed not fully participating in the Pledge of Allegiance as witnessed by one photo that caught him looking away with his arms at his side while others were saluting or had their hands on their hearts. What was he doing, memorizing his speech at that very moment?

“A broad attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about a situation and the indirect message of what’s going on than their younger peers,” Dr. Hasher said. “We believe that this characteristic may play a significant role in why we think of older people as wiser.”

In a 2003 study at Harvard, Dr. Carson and other researchers tested students’ ability to tune out irrelevant information when exposed to a barrage of stimuli. The more creative the students were thought to be, judging by a questionnaire on past achievements, the more trouble they had ignoring the unwanted data. A reduced ability to filter and set priorities, the scientists concluded, could contribute to original thinking.

This phenomenon, Dr. Carson said, is often linked to a decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex.

Could that be Barak’s problem?

Studies have found that people who suffered an injury or disease that lowered activity in that region became more interested in creative pursuits.

There is a word for what results when the mind is able to assimilate data and put it in its proper place and it’s called “wisdom.”

McCain Starting The VP Choosing Phase

McCain to meet possible running mates

John McCain will host two southern governors to his Arizona home
this weekend, embarking on a phase in his campaign which will culminate in a few weeks in his choice for Vice President.

Republican nominee McCain's campaign is sputtering and needs a boost. These kinds of speculative news-OPs can do him no harm, in fact may boost his popularity ratings and put some pizazz into his efforts.

This is a time for McCain to interview and meditate. First on his agenda is Governor Charlie Crist, the popular Florida governor who is definitely not a conservative, something McCain needs on his ticket. McCain can win Florida without having Crist on the ticket, so I would discount Charlie as McCain's best choice. Second is Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Close observers also said that Mitt Romney, McCain's closest rival for the Republican nomination, was also expected to be in Arizona this weekend, but Romney advisers would not confirm that.

It is hard to see how McCain could greatly profit politically by putting the attractive Louisiana governor on his ticket, but no holds are barred and McCain may see Jindal, who has family ties to India, as his somewhat speculative answer to black candidate Obama who has close ties to Africa--all of this in a year when voters seem to be in love with minority candidates.

McCain needs a zinger or a home run, even if it may sound outlandish. However, he could do worse by choosing others over these fresh new faces who currently abide in a wash of popularity in their own states. One thing is certain, McCain will firm up their commitments to campaign for him in those states, and that's what he needs more than anything. The same could be true for Mitt Romney, a firm schedule of dates when Mitt will travel with the Republican Candidate to various Romney stronghold states.

Don't expect a VP decision real soon from McCain. But here's a clue: When McCain announces (or leaks) the fact that he is meeting with Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, be prepared for a VP announcement. Huckabee isn't the best possible VP choice in and of himself, but this former Baptist preacher carries with him better than half of the country's conservative vote. If McCain is to win in November he must have the backing of conservatives. You could posit that he already has their support because who are they going to vote for, Obama?

There is word out there that Romney has authorized formation of a PAC which will be a fundraiser for him if for any reason McCain falters.

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The Jackasses Are Kicking The Barn Down

WHY CONGRESS IS "HOGTIED"

Don White

What justifies this blog known as "Political Disconnect?" Only the fact that there is a mammoth disconnect today that divides our nation so greatly that Congress has become a battleground instead of a place of good faith and compromise, of leadership and accomplishment. Instead, we have roadblocks and intransigence.

We have too many jackasses in Congress and not enough carpenters. As the incomparable Sam Rayburn once said: "A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one."

Indeed, Congress--whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans--is largely a manifestation of rancor, ill will, and confrontation.

I say we kick out all the jackasses and start over, and term limits is the only way it can be done. Seniority has become the bane of our nation's lawmaking body.

Where are the Sam Rayburns today and other effective vintage speakers of the House. Where are they who carried themselves with the civility and dignity of the Adlai Stevensons, the Bob Doles, and the Wallace Bennetts?

These were men who got things done in Congress because they weren't afraid to call their counterparts in the other party their friends and colleagues.

These fellas no longer exist. They have been replaced by "leaders" who disrespect the opposition. How did we get stuck with the Nancy Pelosis and the Harry Reids? Where are the Abraham Lincolns who, rather than divide the nation, brought it together after the Civil War?

Except for a few exceptional Democrat-Republican friendships like that of Orin Hatch and Ted Kennedy, much of being a Senator or Representative today must have lost some of its more enjoyable moments. Today, we're back in grade school where pettiness and peer pressure is pushing back at union between gentle men and kind women.

In his book, What Color Is A Conservative, former House member J.C. Watts paints a dismal picture. He said he met one of his favorite actors, Denzel Washington, at the Orange Bowl in 2001. They had a lot in common: both were sons of preachers and had journalism degrees. Both were family men. He wanted to take Denzel up to the White House to meet President Bush, but he feared for what might happen to Denzel if he did.

"Given Hollywood's animosity toward all things Republican...I was surprised when Denzel told me that he 'kind of liked George W. Bush.' My first thought was that George W. Bush would like him too, and somebody ought to get them together."

But Watts hesitated and didn't do it for fear of economic discrimination by Hollywood being heaped on Denzel, personal recrimination by national black leaders, and perhaps even rejection by his fans. "His character would be sullied and his blackness questioned."

Watts reminded us that after Abraham Lincoln in 1865 delivered his second inaugural address he did not hesitate to invite to the White House Frederick Douglas, a former slave and fugitive, a fiery spokesman for the abolitionist movement. For a black man to accept an invitation to the White House during the waning days of the Civil War while many of his brothers were still in bondage took a lot of courage and brotherly love.

Watts contrasts this occasion with the bitterness and suspicion that black Americans felt for Bush when he invited four black congressmen to the White House following his inauguration and they refused.

"Liberals, left-leaning activists, black leadership, and national Democrats have created an unholy alliance where the politics of personal destruction have replaced serious philosophical and political debate. We now lie in a world where destroying the careers or ruining the reputations of those we disagree with has become acceptable political behavior.

Liberal black and white leaders "level charges of racism with a chilling casualness." If something is not to the liking of these fellows, racism is the first word they utter. This special unholy coalition loves to divide a nation, pitting rich against poor, black against white, young against old, rural against urban, Berkley students and professors against Marine recruiters and new inductees. This kind of political guerrilla warfare relies on leaks, rumors, unsubstantiated charges, lies, and inuendo.

Of this Watts said "reputations are ruined and lives are destroyed by people who believe that their end justifies winning 'by any means necessary.' "

Watts challenges us to return to the days of civility and respect--and the ideals of Abraham Lincoln and the decency and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King.

If we can't better this situation by any other way, we should start circulating a petition for Congressional term limits--two terms for senators and four for House members. Are we at the point where nothing short of that can break up the confrontation and Congressional log jam and stop the jackasses from kicking down the barn?

Polar Bear Advocates, Rise Up And Applaud!

Something “Stupid” This Way Comes

Don White

Washington--The Bush Administration Thursday placed Arctic polar bears on this nation’s endangered specie list. That not only gives the government license to close down or fine any industry or activity that affects polar bears, but licenses environmental nuts to slow down American productivity.

As if we don’t have enough polar bears. Polar bear numbers are on the rise, not declininga, said nationally syndicated news show host, Glenn Beck on his May 15th broadcast. Since 1972 when we had only 5,000 white bears, their population has grown to 25,000 today, said Beck. Is this a case of plain stupidity on the part of an underling who forgot to check with George Bush who is usually a reliable guy? Or has Bush converted over to the dark side?

The administrative ruling from the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne means the administration can stop any activity they think is causing “bad air” for the bears. That includes manufacturing, transportation, farming, energy, or even household and commercial building emissions that someone certifies is bad for bears. The ruling puts bears in front of humans because it’s believed that millions of people get sick and eventually die from diseases incident to cigarettes, industrial burning, smog, perfumes, and other air-borne contaminates and when has Kempthorne been concerned about that?

My wife and I are in our declining years, and we're both endangered by excessive pollution, whether spewed out by cars and machinery or that worn on people's skin in the form of scented soaps, perfume, aftershave, and smelly deodorants. Get real--polar bears before humans?

I think Secretary Kempthorne has been drinking polar bear milk again and it has slowed down his brain. He needs a quick shot of Gatoraide or Florida orange juice to get him back on track.

This is one of the worst administrative actions the Bushies have taken the past eight years and it needs to be reversed. In it, President Bush—though he says he is against the concept of Global Warming—is playing into the hands of Global Warming advocates.

The attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, Reid Hopper, appeared last night on Glenn Beck's show. He said this action is not warranted because polar bears are already protected by other laws or standards. When that is the case the Endangered Specie Act cannot be broadened or invoked, he said.

This matter is sure to become object of litigation since it adversely affects power companies throughout America, farmers who run machinery on their land, the auto industry, truckers, and a host of companies and industries that allow pollution to enter the atmosphere. Hopper said this will result in higher power and food prices for consumers, in addition to helping to make America noncompetitive in textiles, clothing, mining, and whole host of higher prices for the American consumer on things that we produce here.

Another crazy thing is that it’s a unilateral action. It has no affect on other world polluters, including China, Russia, and India. What it does is give them a foot up on America, making our products more costly to produce and therefore making us less competitive.

India and China are today's biggest industrial nations and the earth's biggest polluters. Scientists are saying 40 percent of California's smog may be caused by China's pollutants in the atmosphere. So, Mr. Kempthorne, before you go about setting rules about polar bears, of which we in the lower 48 have none, check with President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the real perpetrators.

While Ordinary Americans Look On

One of the distinguishing characteristics of America's fighting men and women, whether on the battlefield or at home, is that they care for their own. More than 4,000 of our soldiers, pilots, and naval people have lost their lives in battle protecting America. With more than 15,000 injured, some of whom losing arms, hands, and legs. All of them tramitized by the terrible afteraffects. But each had one thing in common--their personal bravery and valor and their love and devotion to this great nation we call America. If only the masses of people who go to work and come home each day could feel the immediacy and importance of the job these young men and women are doing, it would be a lot easier.
Don White
Photo courtesy of Mayor John Raper, Buena Vista, Florida

Our Country Is Safe Because of These Boys

Where Two Are Gathered In My Name

The Story of Iraq Is Told In Their Eyes

Dear Political Disconnect Friend,

The media and liberal politicians have delivered a steady drumbeat of retreat and defeat in Iraq but our soldiers and marines have a different story to tell. A new voice is telling the true story of sacrifice, heroism and yes -- the success of our troops.

Reporter and former Green Beret, Michael Yon has written a ground-breaking new book, Moment of Truth In Iraq, that will keep you on the edge of your seat, put tears in your eyes, and hope in your heart.


General David Petraeus explains Yon's work best: "He's fearless... provides a candid, soldier's-eye view... from the very unique perspective of being there with them for weeks and months at a time... delving deep into the human component."

For a limited time, you can get a free copy of Michael Yon's Moment Of Truth In Iraq with your subscription to Townhall Magazine. Now, I don't generally ask bloggers to spend a dime for news, but because you care about our soldiers and marines I thought you might want to see this. Go to:
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In Moment Of Truth In Iraq, Michael Yon shares his heart-grabbing and riveting stories and photographs from the war zone. His cover photo of a soldier caring for an injured Iraqi child helped our troops win the hearts and minds of Iraqis and was named the Time Magazine Photo of the Year.

Moment of Truth in Iraq is packed with Yon's trademark thrilling and often heart-rending tales from the battlefield. You'll also read the untold stories of Iraq:

1. The American commander fed up with phony Al Qaeda 'documentaries' that showed terrorists shooting at bombed out American vehicles as if they had beaten us in open battle. The commander and his men staged the "bombing" of a broken down truck, then when the terrorists came to put on their act, Navy SEAL snipers killed every one.

2. Follow the exploits of the great "Deuce Four" battalion that became the center of a "warrior cult" dreaded by terrorists and revered by Iraqis.

3. Think Iraqi soldiers can't fight? Read about the elite Iraqi SWAT team taking down a terror cell for the murder of four American soldiers and a brave Iraqi guide.

4. Think Americans are occupiers, not liberators, of Iraq? Tell that to the wounded Iraqi interpreter, who, convinced he was about to die, begged his U.S. commander to have his heart cut out and buried in America.

5. Learn why so many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers.

In Townhall Magazine's June issue, reporter and former Green Beret, Michael Yon -- embedded with soldiers and marines ? shares his views on Iraq as someone who has been-there-done-that.

In his exclusive report for Townhall Magazine, Yon details:

1. Why we initially failed.
2. The new model for countering insurgents.
3. Al Qaeda's attempts to start a civil war.
4. How U.S. forces fought for the hearts and minds of Iraqis ? house by house.
5. How the "Surge" turned the corner for Iraq.
6. And General Patreaus' next move.

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America Can't Control Multinationals

Fox News analyst Bill O'Reilly has challenged GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt to quit courting our worst enemy, Iran. Unfortunately O'Reilly will never win this battle.

All Americans who think anything of our fighting men and women in Iraq can sympathize with O'Reilly. More than 4,000 Americans have died and 15,00 seriously injured helping Iraq become a democracy and remain free.

The experts tell us if you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq. That's odd considering there are supposed to be many more guns per capata in Iraq.

What should we do, Barak and Hillary? Should we should pull out of Washington? Or should we develop a new strategy for quelling the violence there? This only proves you can do almost anything with statistics.

Iran's Prime Minister Ahmadinejad can come to Bagdad anytime he wants and speak in the streets before tens of thousands of cheering Iraqis with complete confidence. But President Bush must fly in under the cover of dark and leave without seeing any large assemblage of Arabs. Shiites certainly don't revere their modern-day George Washington as they do one of their own--the crooked Iranian leader who visited the UN and Columbia University last year without a shot fired.

Of course that's natural. It would be like World Champion Boston Red Sox staging a big victory parade down Fifth Avenue after the world series. It isn't going to happen.

America seems unable to strike back at the Iranians in their country. Is it politically wrong for us to take out the uranium enrichment facilities? U.S. military intelligence cites new satellite imagery that indicates Iran has reinforced underground uranium enrichment plants that may be largely invulnerable against military strikes.


ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY IN IRAN IS 26 FEET DOWN
The U.N. Security Council has called on Tehran to halt enrichment activity. It asked U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei to report on the Iranian response on April 28, but Iran accelerated nuclear work and stood its ground during a visit by ElBaradei last week.

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said The roofs of the enrichment halls now appear to be eight meters (26 feet) underground. An investigative report in New Yorker magazine this month said the United States was mulling the option of knocking out subterranean Iranian nuclear sites with tactical atomic bombs.

President Bush dismissed the story as "wild speculation" and said he remained focused on diplomacy to defuse the confrontation with Tehran. But U.S. media accounts of air strike planning by the Bush administration have increased.


COULD IRAN ALSO BE PRODUCING BOMBS IN A GARAGE SOMEWHERE?
"Iran is taking extraordinary precautions to try to protect its nuclear assets. Centrifuges are rather small machines and could be built again quickly, experts say. They fear this kind of work could also be going on in a garage somewhere that would be pretty impossible to find.

The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to take out their enrichment process. Iran is believed to currently have enough components to set up at least 1,000-2,000 more centrifuges. Some people are so concerned that they believe if and when we suddenly abandon Iraq under the Democrats, Iran will quickly fill the vacuum, making oil very difficult to obtain in America.


THE DEMOCRAT PLAN IS NO PLAN!
Bush is concerned also with Pakistan. Everyone knows it is the staging area for insurgents coming into Afghanistan. What would Hillary and Barak do to stop the flow of warriors into these countries? Absolutely nothing!

Their plan is to put their hands over their eyes and pull out quickly in the dark of night--abandon the work of more than 300,000 American men and women, turning their backs on the wishes of the families of those who would have died in vain, unaware that a precipitous pullout would spell disaster for America's energy needs.


WHY IS AMERICA SO SLOW TO BOMB IRAN?
America seems inept when it comes to bombing obvious enemy targets in Iran and Pakistan. Just as we were in Hanoi, and we know what the result was there. Always the persuasion of foreign countries wins out over the public opinion of those who fight the wars and we conservatives here at home.

Bill O'Reilly will never get his way with Jeffrey Immelt of GE. Business is business with those people. The thing patriots like O'Reilly and you and I must recognize is that companies doing business with Iran or any enemy may not long be answerable to the United States government. With the shifting balance of power in the world caused by the shrinking dollar--in turn caused by the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates--our dollars are becoming next to worthless in international trade. Save the banks, but damn the torpedoes against the people!

AMERICAN COMPANIES MAY NOT ALWAYS BE DOMICILED IN AMERICA
How long will American multinationals be able to remain in America? For example, Are we close to seeing a Japanese president of Kodak which does more business in Japan than in the U.S.? At that time will Kodak move it's large operation from Rochester, New York to Tokyo?

Perhaps, and this time the Democrats won't be able to blame NAFTA.

But the point is this: America is no longer the world power it once was, and we can blame it on America's people who have become weak financially. We appear to have lost our ability to reign in personal spending as much as Washington has failed to curb spending hikes and balance its budget.

America's multinational companies are only as independent as their American financial pages allow them to be. We aren't as potent anymore as a nation partly because of our failure to live within our means. Instead of each household enjoying massive savings accounts, we suffer from average per capita credit card debt of more than $18,000.

Why Democrat Concepts Are Flawed

Do you have to be illogical to be a Democrat? The concept most Democrats relate to is that of FDR’s New Deal—creating stopgap government jobs and making everyone equal for a day.

To Democrats, equal opportunity means wealth redistribution through taxation. The problem with that flawed idea is that job creation comes from the rich in America and abroad not from government, so stop complaining about free enterprise. Job creation never comes without investment money—money from rich people who see America as the best place to invest. In other words the place where their resources and wealth will grow the fastest.

Rich people can choose America or some other country. If our business taxes and regulations are too tight, naturally the rich choose other countries where they can prosper.

The “liberal” idea of creating a level economic base is a dangerously impossible task. History has shown time and again that an attempt to redistribute the wealth of this nation to every citizen backfires. Odds are that the bulk of it will be spent, squandered or lost within a generation.

“Any approach that doesn’t teach the principles of wealth is doomed to failure, said Robert G. Allen, one of America’s most influential financial advisors and author of best selling books Generating Wealth and Nothing Down.

Democrats have never been known to teach frugality—or about wealth creation. In fact, even the opposite: They almost beg for more dependency on their legislative largess for the empiricist-driven re-election ammunition it gives them.

According to The Oxford Club, the average wealthy American has $1,400,000 in assets, and $275,000 in debts, for a net worth of over $1.1 million. Of those assets, they're fairly equally split between "financial" assets (stocks, bonds, mutual funds and cash), and "non-financial" assets (real estate, personal business equity, collectibles).

Of the $275,000 in debt, about eighty percent is on properties.

For those of you who still have significant credit card debt, you should know that the average wealthy American has less than one percent of his debt on credit cards. These people are planners and never have to rely on government handouts. They don't live beyond their means, but save and invest every chance they get.

Let me give you an example of Democratic-style “giving” that later paid off politically for one guy but backfired economically for an entire state.

Hurricane Andrew leveled many poorly constructed homes in Homestead, Florida. These homes didn’t have a chance, largely because their owners had not planned ahead and made the necessary alterations to render them resistant to ninety-mile-an-hour winds as required in updated building codes. Also, these old homes were not built high and tight enough off the ground to resist ground water or water driven by wind.

Two of the state’s largest insurance carriers, Allstate and State Farm, initially denied parts of many claims due to such wind and water damage and sub-code construction. Their policies had exclusions for homeowner failure to maintain their homes according to code.

To the rescue came Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson who waived these policy provisions. Initial claims estimates had been $4 billion to $5 billion dollars. But after the Commisioner Nelson manifesto, reserves had to be doubled and tripled. Carriers ended up paying more than $15.5 billion to Florida homeowners.

This led to lawsuits and in a liberal state like Florida the outcome was predictable. The insurers lost, causing them to eventually exit Florida. This created an “imperfect vacuum,” a sellers’ market. Rate hikes came in double-digit percentages. In addition, carriers that otherwise might have entered the Sunshine State homeowner market drew back and today you have sky-high homeowner rates for all Floridians.

The moral? Liberal Democrats love to ply people with money but have no idea of final consequences. Translated simply, their actions cause all the people to pay; but in the long term markets restrict and things become very expensive long term for everyone including those who got the state handouts.

The only true winner was commissioner Bill Nelson. Soon thereafter this liberal Democrat ran for the U.S. Senate and easily won the seat he holds today.

You decide. Were Andrew’s political insurance giveaways in the best long-term interests of the people of Florida?

No, but I’ve never met a Democrat who doesn’t like to make his constituency dependent on him, and that’s the real difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Both parties claim they know the solution to America’s problems. The Democrats believe that you create jobs by making people government-dependent. Republicans believe businesses and industry create jobs, not poor people or governments.

The tax and political climate must encourage men of wealth to produce products and services, thus creating jobs for all. That’s the only way America has ever spurred its economy for the long term. President Reagan’s “trickle down effect” was effective, as witnessed by the twenty years of prosperity in America.

Republicans believe that education and capital are the answers. Capital must remain in the hands of the movers and shakers, job creators, and the populace must become trained to do the job of industry.

Don’t take away the ability and desire of capital to make new American jobs. If you do, the investment money will go to foreign countries that have more liberal business tax laws and in the end all Americans will suffer and more jobs will go to foreign lands.

This is precisely what has happened, adding to a falling American dollar that, in turn, caused our oil prices to rise dramatically because the Arabs want to be paid in dollars that are worth something not cheap currency.

When will Democrats wake up and realize that we live in a global money economy? Investors always find the most lucrative countries in which to invest.

Liberals, arise and take heed. Stop treating poor people like wards of the state.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Where’s the logic in short-term giveaways?

by Don White

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Don White Responds To Slate’s Buchanan Promo

Pat Buchanan is one thing, but what about our Republican candidate McCain?

He doesn't mind throwing conservative Republican Mitt Romney under the bus regarding a timetable for Iraq—actually Mac lied to a national audience, misconstruing Romney’s position, and got away with it. This war hero smeared our best conservative hope, weakening him on security matters, probably causing him to lose Florida and to drop out of the primary race; and you ask why most Conservatives wonder how they can support this Arizona Maverick?

McCain cozies up very well with Democrats, including Obama, Kennedy, Feingold, Pelosi, and many more. He even considers himself good friends with Hillary Clinton. When the campaign for president starts in earnest voters will discover just how bad a candidate John McCain is. He's a poor public speaker; his brain often fails him. Worst of all, this liberal Republican hasn't seen a Demo he doesn't love, though he touts this as a strength.

McCain has shown a reluctance to join Nouth Carolina's Republican Party in criticizing Obama and his "running mate pastor" Jeramiah Wright over the "G...damned America" comments that Barak must have heard unless he’s afflicted with sleep apnea in church.

America’s war hero candidate would have us believe he doesn't practice partisan politics, that he wouldn’t stoop to "throw mud," but the Carolinian ad is not racial and it isn't a minor issue. We should applaud the South Carolina Republicans for refocusing attention on Obama’s latent hate-America psychosis, a weakness that would not soon be forgotten if anyone but McCain were running.

It has certainly energized Hillary’s chances. She quietly took joy in the mileage she gained from this festering Obama psychosomatic ailment.

At a time when you have a consensus war hero on one hand and a Barak Hussain Obama, who has never served in the military on the other, what's more germane? What's more of an issue in this election than finding out who is pro-American and who is not?

In my opinion, this issue is so important, so basic and pertinent, that unless we elect a real American we can kiss the USA as we know it goodbye.

Candidate Obama has said, he will go out of his way to negotiate with the leaders of Cuba, Russia, China, Iran and the Hezbola. In doing so, like President Carter with our Arab enemies, he will grant them more legitimacy than most of these America haters deserve and will windup being used. If he is “successful,” it’s goodbye to Taiwan, South Korea, Columbia, and a host of other allies that could be eaten up in Barak's close and reckless encounters with the enemy. Be careful, Barak, the Mexicans feel they got cheated out of California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The Russians want Alaska back and the Chinese are tooling up for World War III.

Slate should stop plugging Buchanan's book--but of course they have to advertise to stay in business--and start writing stories that delve into why McCain won't criticize his opposition. Commission Don White to write it. He knows why McCain is reluctant to criticize the enemy and will thoroughly research it like the professional newsman he is. He is an attorney and an astute thinker, a freelance writer with recent credits in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, Arkansas Times, Meridian, Des Moines Register and many more.

Mr. White has a new book out about real estate, Selling Fast. He should write one about McCain called Selling Out Fast, Follow the Money.

Not a few Republicans believe McCain has no intention of becoming the next president. His heart isn't in it. He's an obstructionist-enemy-lover, always has been. His McCain Feingold bill isn't any good and he's discovering it by having to violate his own bill in this campaign. If these remarks seem off the wall, why then did he keep his seat in the senate when a true patriot would have found it an honor to retire from the senate to run for president? Lord knows he's old enough and has a comfortable retirement coming.

Obama's love affair with things illegal and UNAMERICAN is THE major story of the campaign, no matter what the Demos say. They always point blame at the Republicans, but why then--having controlled Congress for the last 17 months--have we yet to see a single energy bill?

Follow energy and you discover high gas prices, constricted commodity supply and runaway prices, and a host of other problems in America. Let's be frank, Nancy Pelosi is a traitor, every conservative knows that. We're at war with Iran, but she won't even bring to a vote a very special military piece of legislation that could save American lives--the wiretapping bill. Her conduct regarding the Columbian free trade bill shows what a coward she is—all of it to advance her own agenda.

When will McCain speak up? He's the putative spokesman of his party. Our country was prospering under Bush until the Demos came to power.

Don White http://donwhiteportfolio.blogspot.com
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As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand."

Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the wrong course.

Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unemployment is 5 percent and rising. Gasoline, heating oil and food prices are soaring. The dollar has lost half its values against the euro. Homes are being foreclosed upon at Depression rates. The stock market is in a swoon. And 3.5 million manufacturing jobs have vanished under Bush.

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Utopia Without Equality?

In a world of home schooling food cures, and 15-minute face-lifts it’s time we revisit history, and Sir Thomas More is the place to start.

By Don White
It was More who wrote the book entitled Utopia in the first generation of the sixteenth century. There had been earlier examples, but More launched the writing of utopias in the early modern era.

The word “utopia” means “no place.” Today's meaning is a never-never land of beauty, plenty, and no worries, no work--the opposite of dystopia or fear. More's idea was to describe a society where everything was wonderful, a condition that has existed on earth only briefly, but the conditions making it possible are known only to the spiritual among us.

In his book he combined social criticism with imagination, and a long series of writers from Thomas More to the present produced fictional utopias in increasing numbers.

Utopian mentality also motivated people like Marx and Lenin. An important history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the 1980s (by Heller and Nekrich) is entitled Utopia in Power. From the October revolution onward, noble goals combined with bloody means, including deliberately engineered famines, mass executions, and cruel imprisonment in the Gulag Archipelago, the Russian network of concentration and labor camps.

Through control of the press, textbooks, and public demonstrations, and the willing cooperation of some western journalists, the Soviets created the impression of a happy, healthy society.

Like the Berlin wall, it all came tumbling down. As the true story has been told, we discover that for most people the supposed utopia was in fact a long nightmare. The Black Book of Communism, a quantitative analysis by an international team of scholars, reminds one of the gigantic human costs in Communist and other repressive regimes throughout our world today.

The trouble with utopia is human nature. Selfishness continues to canker the soul. Envy produces a desire for revenge. Power brokers utilize social engineering, treating others as pawns. Murder, imprisonment, child abuse, and torture are justified. Sadism seems never completely to disappear.

The term “human nature” has been used with a variety of meanings, but certain human traits have proved so resistant to change that it seems impossible to eradicate them completely. Where in the long history of human existence do we find a body of people capable of maintaining an ideal society?

Hand it to the Democrats and Rev. Jeramiah Wright’s anger and his reactionary use of vitriolic parable. Coded words with esoteric cult meaning are like barbs grinding from Wright’s tongue. Religionists like Wright yearn for liberation from a past of persecution they never lived—the “let my people go” struggle they cling to, exciting partisan sympathy, joy, and hate.

Wright knew what he was doing. He gave Obama a chance to further distance himself from his own political blunder in failing to quit that church 20-years ago. What a clever ploy! Or was it? If it gets Hillary elected the ever-cocky Wright will hate himself.

Liberals attempt to build their own Utopia based on legislated equality: equal in wealth, housing, education, jobs, and insurance. That this utopia has been tried before and always crumbled fails to faze wrong-headed people. What they envision is one step removed from pure communal living, socialism and communism.

The love-your-neighbor attitude brings the religious together, just as it unites other communities of interest. But then pride reasserts itself. Wealth and class divisions once again produce contention, inequality, iniquity, and crime. While some may experience the mighty change of a transformed nature, others — lots of others — remain carnal, sensual, and devilish. Inexorably, human nature bursts forth with a vengeance, reverting to former ways.

When will the Utopians learn? If they want it, they should go off and live together in the wilderness and build their own form of government, schools, legal system, and institutions.

To some, utopia means leveling the economic ballpark. But America wasn’t founded on sameness and boring uniformity but by exceptional conduct.

America rewards brilliance, hard work, initiative, invention, and industry. This nation offers equal opportunity, but some people excel far above the mediocrity of the common man. We would not have defeated Hitler, landed on the Moon, or conquered disease by being average. We are great because of forces for good that utopian equality always destroy—rare genius, faith in God, and incentives for hard work and sacrifice. Why do utopians resemble Democrats?

Don White is a writer, attorney, and author of recently completed SELLING FAST. Don@sellinghousesfast.net

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