Beware Obama's Mortgage Bait and Switch

As the Foreclosure catastrophe continues with no real help in sight it's time to examine the Government Plan to "save" Homes. Last year, as Obama ran for the Presidency, he indicated that if elected, he would save people from having their homes foreclosed. People believed him.

People who were already behind in their mortgage payments believed that Obama would save them. Many of the citizenry were already being foreclosed on and didn't have any resources to fall back on but they believed him. These people didn't have the ability to pay their mortgages in the first place. Many were on Public Assistance or terribly underemployed and under normal circumstances should never been allowed to buy a home.

It would have been kinder to put these people in decent rental housing that they might be able to afford and get them out of Section 8 Hell Holes that the Government created over the last 40 years of the Great Society. Funny how things worked out. You actually had to have a good credit rating and money to get refinanced. Obama crushed the dreams of his most ardent supporters and they didn't see it coming.

Yesterday, on the Rush Limbaugh show, Two callers recounted their experiences in trying to use the Government Plan through the Government website to refinance their homes. Both were referred to Law Firms and told they needed upfront money to determine whether or not they could qualify for a refinance. One man didn't have the $2,700 to send to the Lawyers so he passed on the deal.

The second man was asked to send in his Mortgage information to the Lawyer to see if he could be helped. A few days later, he received a letter stating he could be helped but he needed to send in half of the $2,000 fee so they could negotiate with their mortgage holder. The man sent in the $1,000. A few days later he was informed that he didn't qualify and the $1,000 was not refundable.

These may have been scams. This is from the makinghomeaffordable.gov website:

Beware of Foreclosure Rescue Scams - Help Is Free!

• There is never a fee to get assistance or information about Making Home Affordable from your lender or a HUD-approved housing counselor.
• Beware of any person or organization that asks you to pay a fee in exchange for housing counseling services or modification of a delinquent loan. Do not pay – walk away!
• Beware of anyone who says they can “save” your home if you sign or transfer over the deed to your house. Do not sign over the deed to your property to any organization or individual unless you are working directly with your mortgage company to forgive your debt.
• Never submit your mortgage payments to anyone other than your mortgage company without their approval.

The Obama Administration has launched a coordinated effort across federal and state government and the private sector to target mortgage loan modification fraud and foreclosure rescue scams that threaten to hurt American homeowners and prevent them from getting the help they need during these challenging times.

I typed in makinghomeaffordable.gov and makinghomesaffordable.gov and was taken to the same Government website. These individuals may have been scammed.

The other thing is you have to have a specific type of loan to qualify in the first place. Question #2 on the eligibility section of the application is:

2. Do you have a loan owned or guaranteed by
Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac?

If you don't, you're out of luck. This program states it may only help 7-9 million mortgage holders of the 20 million said to be in foreclosure. Promises made have not been promises kept with this Administration. Commonsense tells us that the Government can't save everyone. People in these desperate situations needed something to believe in and Obama gave it to them with empty words. It has become apparent that whatever Obama says should be taken with a grain of salt. Maybe with several million grains of salt.

Goodbye to the Traitor!...Hip...Hip...Hooray!

Senator Arlen Specter is finally telling the truth. He is not and never was a Republican and he is becoming a Democrat. The writing was on the wall. Specter could not fend off the challenge of Pat Toomey, a Conservative Republican. Maybe his change of heart is because his polling is telling him he cannot be reelected as a Republican.

"I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement.

"I don't have to say anything to them. They said it to me," Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the GOP.

Specter believes that because thousands of Pennsylvanians switched parties last year from Republican to Democrat he can be elected as a Dem. Guess someone forgot to tell him about Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos.

Now maybe McCain will have the guts to make his move to the Dems. My bet is the Democrats will only give the RINO's lip service and little else.

Salvaging America's Soul - According to the Left

The Nation is once again twisting itself into mindless convolutions over the subject of torture. The Left in America is on a rant and they believe they have moral high ground. America had lost its soul contends columnist Paul Krugman and now is finally reclaiming it with the Obama Administrations release of the one-sided torture memos from the Bush Administration. Bush Derangement Syndrome goes on and on.

Waterboarding, has become the cause célèbre for the Left. It is their battle cry against any form of torture to gain information from an enemy combatant. The Left doesn't believe in enemies or combatants. The Politically Correct crowd cried foul over sleep deprivation and pushing someone into a wall as well. Liberals don't believe in torture in any form.
Time-outs may be too demeaning for these people they consider as being held "against their will" on the island of Cuba in a tiny military facility named Gitmo. It[Gitmo] is going to be shut down because war crimes against America, apparently, are law enforcement issues and have little to do with the ongoing War on Terror. Oh, I forgot, the Obama Administration calls the War on Terror an Overseas Contingency Operation; as if the change of language will change the outcome. The lawyers are now definitely in charge of America's moral compass.

The Left didn't make a peep when the Taliban drew the knife blade across the throats of Daniel Pearl or Nicholas Berg. Those depraved enough to watch the beheading videos which were sent, all over the world, by Air Aribia, the Terrorist's propaganda tool, were witnesses to true brutality and barbarism. The video was viewed by millions of "peace loving Islamasist" all over the planet, who cheered at the visions of the murders of captured Americans.

For a glimpse of the true mind of the Arab/Islamic Terrorist you don't have to go any further then to view, if you can stomach it, captured hand drawn pictures of a Terror Manual found in an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq. Drilling, eye gouging, eye removal and even more horrible tortures are depicted in graphic detail.

Apparently even beheading doesn't fall under the category of torture for the Left. Never mind the horror felt by these men as their lives were ended in such a cruel fashion, or their families as they had to endure unending Press reports about the incidents. American society took a terrible hit at the hands of our enemies. It is clear that people of the Left have a blind spot. The safety of the American people is second to the rights of the Terrorists according to their thinking.

To truly understand the mind of the left, on the subject of torture, I had to do a little research. One of the first articles I ran across was entitled, "Torture — a presence without an absence" by Eric Harper, a member of Lacanian Ink. His article didn't help much.

"When someone is subjected to torture, something external impinges and breaks down the individual's protective shield, which leaves the person in a helpless state with the result that, internal and external registers get confused. Having survived, the person is left with a residue of something excessive that is too much to bear, something intolerable that disrupts the process of getting through the day - linear time - and overburdens the signifying apparatus. The disruption of the signifying apparatus, a defect in signification, is the point at which anguish interrupts and the subject encounters the real which engenders non-sense. The object (a) is implicated in a too much and produces anguishing affects due to a lack of signification."

Lacanian Ink is a publication based on the teachings of a somewhat discredited French Psychoanalyst, Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan. He was a hero of the far Left in France from the 1940' which tells you that he was a real radical. His supporters attended his yearly lectures, in Paris, with a cult like devotion. Lacan is a hero of the American Left too, especially feminist. His teachings were mostly about the social acceptance of sexual deviation. He was one of the people who helped start the Free Love movements of the 1960's and 1970's.

The Left's moral compass is skewed at best. Their causes are lost in their debase nature. Everything must be allowed. No punishment for any infractions. Even though many are Lawyers on the Left. the Law is to be made meaningless. The playing field must be level. Gay marriage, legal drugs, the Government provides everything by taking from the producers [Capitalism] and giving to the non-productive welfare state.

While holding themselves up as the only side with morals they are operating with a childish intellect. All people must conform. Individualism is the adversary of Liberal thought. Conformity is the desired state of being. Their socialization of sexuality is to normalize all forms of sexual deviation. Drugs should be decriminalized. Perverse behavior should be the norm. A society operating from these premises is a corrupt institution with no moral value.

What a shame this is America in the new Century, and it is a country divided. Half convinced that the new way, the socialistic view of everything, the collective, is the right way forward. The other half clinging to their "guns and bibles", according to President Obama, and struggling to maintain Jewdeo/Christian values based on individualism and self-reliance. The values that made America great.

The current Administration is Left leaning at best and Socialist or worse in nature. They are masters of communication and persuasiveness. What must be remembered is that they can say anything. Their actions have not always matched their rhetoric. Transparency has met a solid curtain of deceit that doesn't match Obama's promise of the most transparent Administration ever or his promise of the most bi-partisan government met with his arrogant retort to Republican ideas, "I Won".

This, then, is the struggle for America's soul. Not all Collectivists are Liberal. Not all Conservatives are Capitalist. Modern life moves at such rapid pace that analyzing any subject is fast but maybe not as deeply thought out as is needed to make important decisions. We all must pay attention to the direction our Country is headed in, lest we become a Country without a soul. America is worth the struggle.

Partay like it's 1934!

Hat Tip to Janelovesjesus

It appears that history really does repeat itself. Only the names have changed. The copyright is 1934 by the Chicago Tribune. Coincidence? I don't think so...

Why I Carry a Porkbarrel Pig and Go to Tea Parties...

I've been listening to all the pundits debate what the Tea Parties are about. It is a very amusing pastime. Politicians and Journalist (I use these terms loosely and disgustedly) are puzzled as to why people all over the country would venture out in public to protest if they are not being paid or getting something for their efforts. What's in it for us anyway? They just don't get it.

We, the Protesters, or Patriots as we like to refer to ourselves, are in this for the long haul. We are filling a void in our Public lives. I am ashamed to admit this void has existed in my life for more than a few decades. It is apathy, it has almost destroyed our nation as we know it, just in the last few elections. Many of the people who are now in this movement, like me, are just tired of sitting and yelling at their TV screens as we have seen this train wreck approaching.

It is time.

It is time we got up off our collective butts, instead of bleating at our problems like mindless sheep while watching reports of Government corruption, mindless bickering between the parties and all the other crap flickering on the screens of our High Def Boob tubes, and actually start doing something.

I have always voted in National Elections but I ignored local the local elections. The local elections affect the voters almost immediately. They determine things in our lives, like public safety and taxes. I feel their effect every time I buy anything at the grocery store or pay a utility bill or pay my personal property and real estate taxes. I ignore them no more. In my particular case, the replacement of a corrupt Sheriff with a fiscally conservative Sheriff in our Spring election in Wyandotte County was a small victory with larger ramifications. Small steps for sure, but forward steps.

As the oil crisis raged late last summer and the financial crisis loomed, just in time for for the polls to surge for Obama, I watched in horror at how easily our Futures Markets could be manipulated and manipulated they were. It was for a reason. Obama had to be elected at any cost.

There were men with money waiting in the wings to pull the strings of the electorate. These men had found the candidate that fit their template for power. Someone who could capture the imagination of a people tired of war, hungry for Hope and Change and someone who could count on getting 90% of the minority vote. The bonus was he was a far left of Center politician who could look like a Centrist.

The payoff for these rich men has been that fear has replaced reality in Congress and in the financial markets and the people who own the Federal Reserve and the huge Bank Conglomerates have reaped massive rewards for their support of the Democrats and Obama in particular. The banks have shown large profits in these distressed times because they have resisted the very thing the bailouts were supposed to do. Ease credit. The lending institutions have held on to their ill-gotten gains at the peril of the economy. These rich men may live to regret this decision.

The Federal Government [Obama Administration], it seems, is in a Nationalization Mood. Let's take equity shares in the banks instead of a letting them payback their borrowed graft. Why should the American People get their money back any time soon. Obama seems to be drinking Castro/Chavez Kool-aid. He wants to nationalize every thing in sight. The Banks, the Auto Companies and Health Care and he wants to do so asap. Opportunity may be slipping away as the Tea Parties grow.

As these scenarios have evolved, we, the People, have grow more and more convinced that our inaction is the problem. Standing up with clever signs (I love my Prokbarrel Pig) is not the end game. The networking with like-minded people is one of the reasons we go to these Rallies. The data base we are building is already quite impressive. Both major parties have large factions of fiscally conservative voters who believe they are being ignored. We are dissatisfied with the status quo. We are growing in number and are becoming a force to be reckoned with.

2010 is not that far away, incumbents in both parties have not paid attention to the pocketbook issues. This is a breeding ground for a new kind of activism. Not the ACORN type that attempts to steal elections. They are paid by their masters and they don't even know the slavery to failed ideas that they have bought in to. They are bought and paid for and as with any good slave they do their masters bidding, no matter what color they are. The Democrats have always used the race card to beat back detractors but it is not working with this particular group of people who seem to be developing a spine.

We have decided to become involved. The Health Care issue is on the Radar now. The Democrats are pushing the "crisis" card as hard as they can since they laid the ground work for Health Care reform in the Stimulus Bill. People are starting to wake up to the dirty tricks that some in Congress are playing.

The media insists that we, the Tea Partiers' are being paid, by Fox News or some other conservative entity. Well, where's my check. No one that I know in this movement is anything other than a hard working, fed up American who spends their own money to make signs and banners to vent our anger at the massive spending by Congress and our country's move toward Socialism.

It may be too late to hold off all challenges but we intend to make it very uncomfortable for the incumbents to behave the way they always have. We intend to hold their feet to the fire on the out-of-control spending. If they don't start to listen to the People then there will be a political price to pay for their particular brand of arrogance. We mean business. We are the new Activist. Congress and the Senate should be afraid, very afraid.

Kansas City Tax Day Tea Party at JCCC

Sorry this took so long to post for this really fantastic event and I am really sorry about the cheesy music with this slide show. PhotoShow needs to get some new free material or I need to actually buy some good music to add to these shows.
I hope you enjoy the slide show any way.

Congratulation Amanda and Bob and all the volunteers! Job well done.

Official Song of the Tea Party at the Alamo

2 Days to Freedom of Expression about our love of this country and our American way of life!



Hope to see you all at the Corner of College Blvd.and Quivira Rd. Tea Party Event on Tax Day, Wednesday, April 15th at 6:00 pm.

Be vigilant friends. Do not let anyone disrupt the Tea Party. If someone tries to say inappropriate things, have inappropriate signs or start trouble bring it to the attention of the Tea Party organizers. Don't let the left hijack this event. We know what's right or wrong so don't fall for the tricks. Watch this video for example:



The Meeting is being hijacked by a left wing nut case wanting everyone to "Burn the Books". The person who posted this video on YouTube is listed as Cookiecache; if you go to her website she states she's a Christian, but on a list of her favorite Videos she lists Rhino Humping, a very disgusting piece of trash. She appears to be from Tronto, Canada which seems a bit odd in the first place. Take everything said by the people who seem extreme, at these meetings, with a grain of salt. Don't let them goad you into saying or doing something stupid, especially if you are being video-taped.

Keep the faith and have a good time having your constitutionally gaurenteed right to free speech and right to assemble. Lets uphold the 9 Principles and 12 Values. If you don't know what those are go to: http://theglennbeck912project.com/

Planet Green Is Urging us To Go Green like Celebrities Do...

OK, Planet Green, now that means we all have jobs that keep us in the limelight for Green Publicity and we all make Bou Cou Bucks to make the necessary life style Changes. Right? For example...

Daryl Hannah
A passionate activist and proponent for sustainable fuels and transport, Daryl Hannah walks (or, perhaps more accurately, drives) the talk. Last year, she sold her beloved "Badass Biodiesel El Camino" in favor of an all-electric version of the Trans Am her character drove in "Kill Bill," but she couldn't stay away from biofuel. She picked up another El Camino and converted it to run on biodiesel, saying, "My car loves to drink vegetable oil, especially if it's from waste. I only use sustainably-sourced biodiesel." She remains actively involved in the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance and, in between supporting eco-tourism in Egypt and raising awareness about the damage done in the Amazon by the oil industry, Hannah has time to narrate IMAX films about dolphins and whales and host her very own green vlog, DH Love Life. Whew!

Whew indeed! Where does Daryl find the time to sort her recyclables?...

and by the way, why do these environmental wakos think we, the Chattering Classes, don't do anything to help the planet. I've been recycling my household waist for the last year since my Community started a Recycling Program and I took collected recyclables to a Recycling site for years before that. I also got rid of my Petrol-Based-Pariah, my second car, to help the environme...wait a minute...that's not the correct...a little honesty here....I gave it up so I could participate in this lousy economy....my little red 2008 Suzki looked so sad as it rolled away on the back of the repossesor's tow truck...

From Friday Mornings Article...In a decision that I hadn't heard of before researching this article, "Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It". Now I'm thrilled about this turn of events but I bet his supporters don't like it much.

10 Rules for a Radical President

1. Never Apologize on foreign soil for the United States of America.

In Strasbourg, President Obama urged a shift in attitudes. "In America," he said, "there has been a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world,” and there had been “times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

Excuse Me, America has been a world leader ever since we saved the butts of the Europeans in WWII. America supported Europe in the war against Germany, sending, through the Lend-Lease law, One Trillion Dollars of military equipment and financing for Europe and the Soviet Union for which we received military bases in strategic locations for the war effort.

Russia claimed most of the actual capital that was paid as reparations after WWII in both Europe and Japan. The US got German Patent rights and some Scientist and little else. America was left with the unenviable task of rebuilding Europe both physically and monetarily.

2. When you bend at the waist before a Saudi King you'd better be having an appendicitis attack.

The Bows



3. Keep Your Word.

We should have known, when candidate Obama reversed his promise to take public financing if McCain did and then blindsiding McCain by pulling out of that verbal challenge, that Obama couldn't keep his word.

I'm not saying the President is a liar but he has "reversed his position" on so many campaign promises that it is making him seem like man with two faces. His promise of transparency was broken a few days into his Presidency, after his first meeting with his opposition, the Republicans, by his now famous rebuke to their ideas; "I won".

One day after his Administration issued a statement about moving cautiously on off shore drilling the President reversed that decision.

In a decision that I hadn't heard of before researching this article, "Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It". Now I'm thrilled about this turn of events but I bet his supporters don't like it much.

This list could go on but there are other rules to state.

4. When you don't want to reveal your true agenda don't talk to ordinary Joes.

Joe the Plumber



5. Never tell anyone that America is not a Christian Nation...

"One of the great strengths of the United States is, although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation.We consider ourselves, a nation of citizens who are, bound by ideals and a set of values." ----President Obama in Europe

51.3% of Americans identify as Christians. 23.9% identify as Catholics, That means that Fully 75% of Americans profess to having a belief in Jesus Christ. Only 16.1% of Americans have no affiliations to any religion. According to a Pew Forum survey of over 35,000 people.

Our laws are based on the biblical law from the Old Testement and the 10 Commandments. The very symbols that adorn our Capital tell the true intent of our founders. We have Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion. We have most of the rest of the world's Religions represented in America. We are not a secular country.

6. When your teleprompter screws up know who you are.

One St. Patrick's Day
Irish Prim Minister Cowen was set to speak twice at the White House on Tuesday night because there were two different parties going on at the executive mansion. No matter -- he would give the same speech to the two different audiences.
But Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.
Cowen stopped and looked back at the president to say, "That's your speech."
Obama laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been Cowen's remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama for inviting everyone over.

7. When you go on television in front of millions of Americans, know where you are. Kansas City? St Louis?



8. When you are the President of the United States, know how many there are.



9. Know that you are judged by the company you keep.

From an article by Dee Gerrish,

Saul Alinsky – Mr. Alinsky was an avid and open socialist and the king of social activism, commonly called the "father of community organizing." He created many organizations that relied on street agitation tactics, such as the Industrial Areas Foundation, which trained Obama in organizing tactics. He wrote the book, Rules for Radicals, which outlined many of the tactics used today in community organizing campaigns. Barack Obama worked with the Developing Communities Project and the Gamaliel Foundation – both inspired by Saul Alinsky's tactics and socialist philosophy. Barack even wrote a chapter on community organizing in the book, After Alinsky. Saul Alinsky's son, Lee David Alinsky, recently praised Obama on his ability to perform Saul's tactics, saying that Barack "learned his lesson well."

10. Know that because you are a member of a Minority, it should make you more sensitive to other Minorities.

PUMA=Peabrained Unactractive Mindboggleingly Asinine

PUMA. This is General Motors & the U.S. Government's answer to our transportation and energy woes. PUMA stands for "Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility" device.
In other words...

A pregnant Segway.



The Segway, some will remember, was promoted with "Buzz" marketing. In 2002 and 2003 it wa touted as the answer to humanity's problem of getting from here to there economically. The idea of a secret advertising campaign is called "Buzz" marketing and so it went. Week after week, small hints were given to the media. The Segway went by the code names of Ginger and "IT". No one knew what "IT" was. A few weeks into the campaign they learned that Segway was a "Human Transporter" and people started fantasizing that it was like a Star Teck teleporter. They were told it was going to change their world forever.

Disclaimer: If you decide to watch the full episode of South Park excerpted here, be aware there is stromg language and gross adult content. The whole episode does explain where I'm going with this article though.



The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen , an accomplished inventor who designed the first wearable infusion pump, was convinced that his invention could change the world.



He enlisted the the help of Steve Jobs of Apple fame and Jeff Bezos the innovator and founder of Amazon.com to refine and market his invention. Bezos was enthusiastic but Jobs thought the original Segway design was clunky and needed some serious design work. Kamen got the design and marketing help he needed to introduce Ginger or "IT" to the world. but in terms of success, the Segway was a failure. The public was stunned to learn that "IT" was just a motorized scooter. The Segway, since it's introduction in 2003 has only earned $75 million . Maybe General Motors needs to get a clue.

So that brings us to PUMA the "Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility" device. The vehicle is designed for urban driving, going to the grocery store, although I don't know where you put the groceries. Taking the kids to.....er kid to school could prove to be problematic: it only seats two people. Skinny people. You also had to have a terrific sense of balance.

The projected price point, according to GM, is about 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of a full size vehicle. They don't specify which full size vehicle so the price range could be between $10 to $20 thousand per unit. It is an electric car that has a range of 35 miles on a single charge of it's lithum ion battery.

The vehicles would also be part of a communications network that through the use of transponder and GPS technology would allow them to drive themselves. The vehicles would automatically avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and other cars and therefore never crash, "The PUMA vehicle," Larry Burns, GM developer. said, "would not need air bags or other traditional safety devices and includes safety belts for "comfort purposes. Tell that to a New York City cab.

This is NOT the vehicle that is that is going to save General Motor's or solve our energy crisis. Most applications for this vehicle is in law enforcement in malls and rental in tourism spots. This is the type of vehicle that the Government will try to mandate that we drive, and unless, forced by law to drive these glorified, motorized wheelchairs; most people won't buy them. This venture will fail. I only hope the Bankruptcy Court has a date on their calendar. GM needs a good Liquidation Attorney. Bye Bye American Pie...this will be the day that they die.

Tax Day Tea Party Almost Here!

Five thoughts about how to prepare for the Tax Day Tea Party that's just 1 week+1day away.

1. Convince a friend or neighbor to attend the Tea Party with you.
2. Talk to anyone who seems interested in your message. Tell them that everyone needs to make their voices heard. There is strength in numbers.
   
3. Prepare your signs. Put some thought into your message. Call for fiscal responsibility and supporting the constitution.
4. Call a talk radio program to support the Tea Party Movement. We are under attack on all the Cable news channels. We are being called stupid, crazy and most disturbingly - Racist. The racist label is being pushed hard by the Democratic Talking Heads. Disagreeing with the President or calling out his Administration's desire to redistribute wealth is not racist.
5. Talk to friends and Family about the 9 Principles and 12 Values of the 9-12 Project.

I've been reviewing my own blog and I believe I can back up the things I say. I have NEVER been a racist. Some of my articles are based on race because our President had made it a very divisive issue in his campaign to get elected, in his policies and in his campaign to be the "World Leader". He has belittled America at every opportunity and has been willing to throw America under the bus just as he did his Grandmother and his pastor Reverand Wright. He is now the most polorizing President in the last four decades.

Please try to attend an area Tea Party. We hold America's future in our hands.

Site Correction on FOCA

Chiquita Coggs emailed me about my Claire McCaskill Protest article. I mentioned that FOCA was about Union Card Check legislation but what I should have said was Employee Free Choice Act.
Please use the link above (the Headline Link) to see information about that legislation in depth. It's pretty scary stuff. FOCA on the other hand is about the rights of the unborn and is called the Freedom of Choice Act. Go to this site for complete details on this heinous Act:

http://www.nrlc.org/FOCA/LawmakersProposeFOCA.html

The House bill, H.R. 1964, was introduced by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who in the new Democratic-majority Congress is the chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee that has jurisdiction over such legislation. At NRL News deadline on April 25, his bill had 71 cosponsors (70 Democrats, one Republican). (To view an always-current list of co-sponsors, arranged by state, click here.)

The Senate bill, S. 1173, introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.), had 13 Democratic cosponsors, including presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY), plus independent Joseph Lieberman (Ct.). (To view an always-current list of co-sponsors, arranged by state, click here.)

The lawmakers proposing the legislation, and groups endorsing it, repeatedly emphasized that the bill would, among other things, completely nullify the national ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court upheld on April 18 in Gonzales v. Carhart.

The left is on the move on all fronts and we need to be aware of all of tricks being played in Congress. The transparency promises made by Obama during his campaign and since are nothing more than BOLD FACE LIES! The American people deserve better but we must remain vigilent. Speak Out! Be heard!

The Fable of the Hot Dog Stand

Why would anyone in their right mind think that this Administration is doing the right thing to U.S.Automakers or Corporate America. Recently, the CEO of General Motors was fired by a sitting President of the United States of America. The sad fact is that many, maybe most Americans think the move by President Obama was correct and seeing the blood in the water they wanted more. Many pandering, lazy, fetch and carry, Press Persons, who lick the boot of this administration at every opportunity and prop up every misguided scheme proposed by the despots in DC, are lauding this move.

Not only is the President replacing CEO's, but he is also replacing the Board of Directors with hand picked lackys' that will benefit from the President's largess. He is putting in "a more diverse" group of Directors which translates to people of color which translates to political payback pure and simple. This is aimed at the very people President Obama despises the most, Corporate America. He is appointing people whom he, the President, either doesn't think would ever achieve this station on their own or who's opinions on environmental change are the same as his.

While you can agree diversity in the Board Room is a good thing, you can't throw the baby out with the bath water. Minorities have made amazing strides in business and corporate America in the last half century. Shaking things up at the top of Corporate America may not be a bad thing but not at the expense of losing potential investors. The President is not a CEO or a businessman and maybe his failures in the past have colored his opinion but he is certainly on a path that is destructive to American business.

This is the real truth. When he met with CEO's recently in the White House this conversation reportedly took place:

These are complicated companies,” one CEO said. Offered another: “We’re competing for talent on an international market.”

But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation, and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”

“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

The experience of the members of any Board of Directors and CEO's is how stockholders and investors gauge a company. Even if the people he appoints have been on Boards before they won't know their investors or the company as well as the current Boards do. It started with just one Company and now Tim Giethner and the President want to do more of this kind of thing at the cost of dismantling the entire American economy, this in the worst business environment of our lifetimes.

It doesn't make sense so let me leave you with with this little fable:

Pretend you own a chain of hotdog stands and you sell the best all-beef hotdog in the world. Today the Government tells you, "you have to sell only hot dogs made with wagu beef (the most expensive beef in the world at about $120.00 a pound)." Now your hotdogs, as good as they are, are too expensive for anyone to buy, so you have to lay off some of your hot dog stand pushers, but their union won't let you fire them. Now you're broke so you go to Uncle Sam and ask him for a bailout. Uncle Sam says "sure, but your fired," He then replaces you with a stooge and the cart pushers with hand picked sycophants loyal to him and who's loyalty is now being rewarded.

Uncle Sam now runs the Hot Dog stands

and he guarantees every bite.

Too bad no ones buyin' it!

The Devil is in the Details on Obama Appointments

Fleshing out his Cabinet has given President Obama a few headaches but there are even more ominous rumblings in his appointments of Secretaries, Tzars and the Council for the Department of State.

The obvious first choice for review is, of course, Treasury Tzar, err...Secretary, Tim Geihtner. Even though he had tax problems, we were told, he was the only person in the world smart enough to handle the financial mess we find ourselves in. You know, the one the Administration says that "W" left us every chance it gets.

Mr. Giethner's performance has been less than stellar. His first and second bailout plans were so botched that it sent the Dow plummeting.

He can't seem to stay focused. In his recent visit, on Tuesday, before Congress, when asked by Representative Mischelle Bachman (R-MI) if he would "categorically renounce moving away from the dollar" in favor of a new world currency proposed by China and Russia. He stated he would. Less than 24 hours later he took a different view stating in a Press outing that he was open to the idea of a new currency/ The dollar fell sharply on world markets.



He is also at the head of a long lists of Tax Cheats and the cheatin' gose on and on and on. This is a list of the nominees that have run into tax trouble:

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
Tom Daschle, the first HHS nominee,
Chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killefer.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’s (husband)


This week Obama nominated Harold Hongju Koh to be State Department Council. He is a firm believer in putting the U.S. under the authority of the World Court. This discription of Koh's ideas from a March 30th article in the New York Post.

Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

President Obama has nominated Koh - until last week the dean of Yale Law School - to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.

What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.

He even believes judges should use this "logic" to strike down the death penalty, which is clearly permitted in the US Constitution.

According to Glenn Beck, Obama's Transit Tzar, Elizabeth Stoles is going to enact tough new Federal rules on Commuting. This is what she thinks of small town America...

"Mass Transit is a great option for those fortunate enough to have that option, but in small country towns like Boise, Idaho for example, the citizens there haven't been introduced to all the modern technology. Things like mass transit and internet are almost imaginary things to these people. With the climate crisis we don't have time to waste educating them on the issue."

"That's why we're going to crack down on solo commuting. Multi-passenger carpooling will be mandatory and punishable by fees." She also stated that "When your ride alone, you ride with Hitler."

Hat Tip to Free Republic

Meeting Of the Minds in Topeka

Last Wednesday was an unusual day for me. I am not accustomed to thinking of my self as a "Lady Who Lunches", so I was surprised when Chiquita Coggs called a few days earlier to ask me to go to Topeka with her to a reception for the new Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee, Jan Larimer.

I am extremely glad I went. Ms. Larimer was asking for suggestions to take back to Washington and I'm sure she got a few. I hope that many of us convinced her to take the message back to Washington, DC that our Party needs to get back to it's conservative roots.

I am also glad I have gotten to know more about Chiquita Coggs. She is a very impressive self-made woman who has run businesses, raised a family as a single Mom, is a student trying to better her already impressive qualifications, and she has started a Charter School. Talk about an uneven lifepath, but for reasons known only to God our paths have crossed.

It was a partly cloudy day and warm enough not to have to wear a coat. The Luncheon was at the beautiful Topeka Country Club. Warm paneling and crystal chandeliers greeted us as we entered the Lobby of the impressive Country Club. When we were seated in the Lobby where we were welcomed by the Kansas Republican Party Chair, Amanda Adkins. After Amanda introduced Jan Laimer, and she introduced herself to everyone and took a mini-poll about how web savvy we were. It looked as though many of those in attendance were on Facebook or Twitter. The web is where we need to have a huge investment of time and technology for the future.

Chiquita and I sat at a table near the podium with two other women. I sat next to Jana Goodman of Leavenworth County who is running for City Council. We all had spirited conversations over a huge Cesar salad and yummy Cheesecake. I also saw in the large group a few faces that were familiar. The Kansas State Insurance Commissioner, Sandy Praeger and The State Senate President, Steve Morris were in attendance.

We broke off into small groups and networked for the rest of the meeting. I spoke with Jan Larimer, to congratulate her. We talked about the importance of the involvement of individuals in the process so we could get good candidates elected nationwide and in the state of Kansas. We also spoke about the need for people not to be afraid to make even small donations to candidates nationwide.

I had made a $25.00 donation to Jim Tedisco's campaign in New York that morning because I thought it was an important race and I had read that the Democrats were pouring millions of dollars into Tedisco's opponents' campaign. I also spoke briefly with Helen Van Etten, the Kansas National Committeewoman.

Chiquita and I visited with Kenya Cox from Wichita who works for Todd Tiahrt, and Shannon Sims who works for Sam Brownback. I was glad that I had the opportunity to meet with this group of people. They are rebuilding the future of the Republican Party in the state of Kansas and nationally. I only hope I can fit in, in some small way.