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June 8, 2008

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DISTURBING PICS

Of Young Girl

Holding guns

A Florida theft suspect was arrested on firearms charge after police discovered photos of a young girl holding a gun on his cell phone, according to a report.

Toby Allen, 30, was under investigation for the alleged robbery of equipment from his employer when Brevard County Sheriffs detectives found pictures of an unidentified 6-year-old child posing with a pistol with her finger on the trigger.

Other photos display Allen with an SKS rifle, according to the report.

"It’s alarming to say the least," Detective Steve Hill said. "While the photos are not enough make a case for a child abuse charge, we are very concerned about Allen’s actions and are continuing to investigate."

Allen and a roommate and were arrested without incident during a raid on his home early Friday.

(ANOTHER FUCKED-UP MSM HEADLINE!

What they fail to mention is that the revolver is EMPTY! That's right, there are NO cartridges in the cylinder!

In addition they IMPLY that owning an SKS rifle is illegal!

Child abuse? Illegal firearms? Firearm violations?

Sure am glad these idiots never saw the pictures of my 5-year-old step-daughter holding a 20-gauge Remington 1100 or a Ruger 10/22! Or my 6-year-old step-son holding a 12-gauge Remington 1100 or a 12 gauge Browning BT-99!

What a bunch of dick-wads...)

GIRL WALKING PONY TO SCHOOL BREACHED PEACE

Cocoa the pony may have been quiet, but police in Connecticut say a high school student and her father were breaching the peace.

Sarah Friedson walked her chocolate-colored pony to Westport's Staples High School to celebrate the last day of classes Friday. Her father, Ronald, drove behind them with his blinkers flashing.

The school called police, citing safety concerns and saying the Friedsons ignored warnings not to bring the animal. Ronald Friedson says the pony is docile and not dangerous.

Sarah Friedson, who said she will be attending summer school to earn enough credits to graduate in August, said school officials told her she would likely be suspended for 10 days.

"I really didn't think it was going to blow out of proportion like this," she said. "It's not like I brought him into the school, I didn't."

Breaching the peace is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

A message left late Friday for school Superintendent Elliott Landon was not immediately returned.

(Another example of moronic police!

If these cops and "educators" had half a brain they would be extremely dangerous! As they are without any brain matter, they are simply pathetic.)

GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE, QUICK

I don't know about you, but after hearing Sen. Diane Feinstein's account of the clandestine meeting of Obama and Clinton, which she arranged, I felt like a voyeur who needed to take a bath. As Feinstein told it, she made the two of them comfortable in her home near her fireplace in two comfortable chairs and with a glass of water, and then she went upstairs (in her own home), because she thought they needed privacy to talk.

HUH??

Well, what about all that wasted gas used to ferry the media across the wild blue-black yonder in an airplane for no reason? I don't know about you, but all I could think about while Feinstein was speaking was about the dirty trick Obama and Clinton played on the news media by having them to board an airplane under the guise of waiting for Obama to board before they all were to take off.

And, even knowing that Obama was not coming, the pilot was given orders to lift off that airplane with those journalists aboard before anybody told them Obama was not coming but that he was, at that very moment, attending a meeting in Washington, DC where they already were and which they needed to have known about.

This just might be poetic justice but it definitely is so sleazy and reveals another fundamental flaw in Obama and Clinton's character and Feinstein and the Dems to not be able to see the flaw in that failed logic. It boggles any mind that has one to know the difference between right and wrong - Or is that the noticeable difference between the character of "The Right" and "The Left?"

But, then, as Feinstein finished telling her story to the press, all I could envision was:

And then they smoked a cigarette, brushed their garments down, and ran giddy from the room at being able to get over on the press (one more time).

And, the statement they released made it much worse, because it gave no substantial information about the meeting. In fact, it gave none at all. It was a waste of time, money, energy, and respect for their respective positions. In fact, it was juvenile.

And, for what??? When all they had to do was to tell the truth about their need to have a private, professional meeting together and that they would release a statement to the press following that meeting. Now how hard was that?

Lord, I thank God for the five senses He has given us. Wouldn't you think they'd use at least /one/ of them. But, then, I suppose they would really need to have that SIXTH sense.

Even God has a sense of humor and He knew that we needed a break from all of this political mess.

ONE

Of Iran’s

Useful idiots

"It is the policy of the Iranian government, approved at the highest levels of that government, to facilitate the killing of American and other coalition forces in Iraq. Period," - CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, Washington Post, May 30, 2008

The Iranians have funneled weapons and fighters into Iraq for years - rocket-propelled grenades, shaped charge weapons to penetrate our armored vehicles, explosives for IEDs, sniper rifles, night vision scopes, timers and remote detonators, mortars, money, and advisors - in an effort to destabilize and eventually control Iraq. The mullahs are responsible for the death and injury of countless Iraqi men, women and children, providing the explosives for hundreds if not thousands of bombs, they have wiped out whole families. They have killed hundreds of young American soldiers, scarred and crippled thousands. The suffering and destruction they have inflicted on a democratic Iraq struggling for survival will take decades to overcome. They do much the same in Lebanon, supplying and funding Hezbollah as it fires Katyusha rockets into Israeli towns, and murders democratically elected leaders.

It cannot be denied and it cannot be explained away; Iran’s religious dictatorship is our deadly enemy. Yet the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has a different perspective as she tries to deny the clear success of the surge and the Iraqi army’s success in Basra.

"Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn't happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn't accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians." - Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in the San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 08

Her words leave one speechless. They are as divorced from reality as can be imagined. They indicate a partisanship and ideological blindness that ignores the truth and is not influenced by it. Pelosi sits in the intelligence briefings; she knows what the Iranians have done and are now doing. They are not petulant children that can be swayed by false praise and pandering. The mullahs will see her insipid comments as weakness, the fantasy of "useful idiots." They will feed an evil that already causes suffering for millions, and further legitimize a government that advocates genocide.

One has to wonder. Is she is so thoroughly blinded by partisan political ambition and post-modern progressive ideology that the truth no longer matters? Does she really believe what she says? Does she not understand the consequences of her words? Is she so locked into her own talking points that she has lost the capacity for rational thought?

Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated monumental ignorance of the world or stunning political cynicism. American loss and retreat in Iraq furthers her party’s political aims; they have invested in defeat and so be it. They have chosen their party over their country.

For her statement, Nancy Pelosi must be censured; the sacrifice of too many brave Americans and Iraqis demands it. She is morally unsuited to be Speaker and two steps from the Presidency. If her words are indicative of the Democrat leadership, we dare not let them cling to power, the damage they would do under a Democrat president would be catastrophic. If we blind ourselves to the threats that face us, we cannot defeat them. If we appease and excuse the Irans of the world and let them kill our soldiers with impunity, 9-11 will be just the beginning.

(Who the hell were the idiots who elected this simple bitch?)

MARYLAND TEXTBOOKS ON ISLAMIC TEACHINGS DUMBED DOWN

A textbook monitoring group said that Maryland middle and high school students will be required to read about Islamic teachings that have been dumbed down and are products of political correctness.

According to the New York Examiner, a new report issued by the American Textbook Council said that administrators who approved books for use in the Montgomery County school district caved into pressure by pro-Islamic groups seeking to present a less violent interpretation of Islam.

Gilbert Sewall, director of the council, stated that, for example, the definition of jihad has gone through "amazing cultural reorchestration" in textbooks, losing any connotation of violence, the Examiner wrote.

Other terms, such as sharia law, have been adjusted or removed from lessons to avoid what he called "inconvenient truths."

Montgomery County Public Schools defended the decision to use the books, saying in a statement that all texts used by teachers had been properly vetted and were appropriate for classroom uses.

(It really doesn't matter what the textbooks in Maryland have printed in them.

Why?

Because those moron students can't read anyway! All they can do is look at the pictures and drool.

But, the people who gave approval to this nonsense should all be hung by their external sex organs for public display!

When the hell are THE REAL AMERICANS going to wise-up?

When the hell are THE REAL AMERICANS going to stop all this nonsense?)

LIGHT PLANE CRASH KILLS 6 IN OHIO

A small plane crashed Sunday afternoon in a residential area and killed all six people aboard, including the pilot, a former state lawmaker who had offered joyrides to airport visitors after a charity breakfast.

Gene Damschroder Sr., 86, was flying the fixed-wing, single-engine Cessna when it crashed about 1 p.m., the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. His five passengers also died in the crash in Sandusky County.

"It was just kind of an accident. He was giving airplane rides. He always gives charity air rides," said Gene Damschroder's son, Rex Damschroder, who was not at the airport when the plane crashed.

"Someone said they heard the engine sputter," he said. "The next thing we knew they were down in a field in a residential area."

No one on the ground was injured, and no buildings were damaged, patrol Lt. Tony Bradshaw said. It was too early to tell what caused the crash. The National Weather Service said there was no severe weather in the area at the time.

The Lions Club of Fremont on Sunday held a fly-in breakfast, inviting nearby pilots to fly to Fremont Airport and display their planes.

After the event, Damschroder offered visitors a chance to go up in planes for the cost of fuel, according to a poster at the airport. The joyrides were not related to the Lions Club event.

Authorities could not confirm that those on board had taken Damschroder up on his offer. Also killed were Bill Ansted, 62; Allison Ansted, 23; Danielle Gerwin, 31; Emily Gerwin, 4; and Matt Clearman, 25.

Federal investigators were on their way to the crash site, Bradshaw said.

Damschroder served in the state House from 1973 to 1983 as a Republican. Rex Damschroder later served the same seat from 1995 to 2003.

"He's been flying since World War II. He's been flying for sixty years," Rex Damschroder said. "He's been instructing daily and flying daily since World War II. Flying was his life."

Gene Damschroder was a World War II pilot who bought his Cessna four decades ago. Federal records indicate he was a certified flight instructor and was licensed to fly both single- and multi-engine planes.

(In my original post I mentioned that the pilot was probably flying a Cessna 172. In fact, he was flying a Cessna 206. The 206 is capable of a much heavier payload than the 172, and I had made the statement that he was overloaded for a 172, but he was well within specifications for a 206.
I apologize for both my jumping to a conclusion and for my mis-statement.)

OKAY

So Who Bought

Barack Hussein Hussein Obama's nomination?

Let's start with the major corporation contributors:

By Stray Bullets

While playing in baby pool

Police say two small children were injured Monday after being struck by stray bullets from a nearby shooting while wading in a baby pool in West Baltimore.

Neighbors said the toddlers were playing in the wading pool outside an apartment at about 10 p.m. when they were hit.

The children, ages 2 and 3, were taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

One child was shot in the torso and the other in the leg. Police have made no arrests.

Witnesses said the shooting was up the street, away from where the children were playing, and that as many as 11 shots were fired.

(Okay, it pisses me off that two small kids were shot. But what pisses me off even more is that a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old were outside at 10PM!

Where the hell were the supposed "parents"?)

FROM THE SUDETENLAND TO KOSOVO TO MINNESOTA

The apparently strange alliance and accommodation between Islam and the Left is not strange at all when put in historical perspective. The aggressor and the appeaser are not strange bedfellows. The question is who is fooling who?

We read various reports of school administrators accommodating Muslim students by providing scheduled prayer time, meeting facilities, foot washing basins, instructors and similar conveniences or facilities. Having school sponsored "Islamic Festivals" or "Be a Muslim for a Week" events is also fair game. These same administrators adamantly refuse any such accommodations to Christian or Jewish students. Punishing Christian students for bringing a Bible to school and denying them school facilities for organization meetings and events is standard practice. We never hear of Muslim students being told to leave their Korans and prayer rugs at home. That would violate the principle of "diversity and tolerance".

Accommodating Muslims is also the latest rage in public facilities, whether it’s foot washing basins, prayer rooms or special exemptions from compliance with regulations. Where such accommodations are not made, you will usually see the ACLU behind some complaint against the offending officials. The latest incident to make the headlines involves six Muslim women insisting they be rehired and allowed to wear Muslim garb in violation of a company’s safety regulations.

The Guantanamo detention facility is a story in itself of accommodation that borders on insanity. The rules of war for combating Muslim terrorists are being written by judges, lawyers and politicians devoid of any common sense but with a clear agenda. I personally believe these people are more interested in rubbing their decisions into the faces of Christians and Jews simply to demonstrate that they have the power and there is nothing that can be done about it. That thousands or millions of Americans may die if this war is lost or reaches our shores is a price they are willing to pay for a claim of moral superiority.

The leftist elite are governed by their hormones, ego and just plain cowardice. This is an established historical fact.

The liberal anti-war appeasers of the time gave Hitler one fourth of Czechoslovakia and boasted how they had achieved peace in their time. The fact that the Sudetenland was not Neville Chamberlain’s to give away didn't matter. Like most people on the left, he was more than generous with other people’s property, as long as those people couldn't do anything about it. Chamberlain’s open display of ego gratification and cowardice only encouraged Hitler, who took all of Czechoslovakia after occupying the Sudetenland.

Calling Hitler a "gentleman" didn't make it so.

With Bill Clinton, hormones, ego and cowardice mixed to produce the Kosovo adventure, a success he wanted after his dismal failure in Somalia. Picking a fight with someone powerless (or restrained) to fight back is typical of the Left, whether it was "student" demonstrations in the 60’s or bombing Serbia into submission in the 90’s. Kosovo was handed to KLA Muslim terrorists to satisfy the ego of a coward in pursuit of a legacy. I'm sure Monica was impressed that the "President" could discuss war strategy on the phone while being "serviced". "While he was blowing up Serbia I was," well, never mind. Here again, we saw the generosity of the Left when it comes to someone else’s property. Kosovo is becoming to Europe what the Sudetenland was to Czechoslovakia, a gateway to conquest.

Calling Islam the "religion of peace" doesn't make it so.

Minnesota is becoming a battleground to determine whether it is American values or Islamic culture that dominates. The Minneapolis airport accommodates Muslim worshippers but not Christians and Jews. Muslim cab drivers at that same airport are allowed special considerations to retain their licenses. Will Muslim tortilla makers be allowed to violate a company’s safety rules because of their religious objections to the dress requirements?

These may seem to be trivial cases but will decide whether we are one country or many, one culture or any. Tolerance has its limits as the cowards and egotists of the left will find out. All of these accommodations to Muslim demands will not spare the head of a single leftist politician, judge, lawyer or public official.

Islam means submission, not tolerance.

(Ever since WWII the American and British solution to ending a conflict has been to award the aggressive party a large hunk of land, which did not belong to them! This is what they termed "peace settlement".

It is what I call "give 'em whatever the hell they want just to shut them up" ... "and then give them more as they demand more"!

This is not "negotiation". This is not acceptable "peace settlement". This is pure bullshit!

It is obvious that American politicians have not learned from Nam, Korea, Kosovo and other "conflicts" that if you give away something that is not yours to give away, the receiving party will return in a short period of time demanding more ... and we will give it to them!

The trouble is, when land is no longer available to satisfy the appetite of the aggressors, what are our American "leaders" going to do?

Give away American land? They have already given away American corporations!)

TERRORIST-IN-CHIEF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

We face the prospect of electing as President a man who has never spoken directly with General David Petraeus, the U.S. commander who turned around the War in Iraq that has enabled us to cripple Al Qaeda and pave the way for the emergence of an incipient pro-American democracy in that country. Indeed, we face the prospect of electing a man who, if he ever does meet with General Petraeus, probably won't be able to look him in the eye, so devastating to U.S. security interests are the plans that Barack Hussein Obama has for decimating our military.

Before Obama gets done with his plans to undermine our country's interests, he'll be much more appropriately named Terrorist-In-Chief of the United States Army. Obama's announced agenda of military cuts and negotiating unequivocally with terrorist leaders of every stripe brands him as someone only a card-carrying leftist Democrat could love. Unfortunately, it's precisely those anti-American Dems who have forced this candidate on the American people, and, like the tyrant-wannabes they are, largely by overriding their party members’ expressed desires, thanks to Bob Beckel's insidiously anti-democratic Super Delegate strategy.

Obama's position seems to be "negotiate from a position of weakness, or don't negotiate at all," because among the first things on his announced agenda are withdrawing our military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately, and decimating our military through drastic cuts in military spending.

Now, one of the difficulties we had in responding to the terrorist attack that killed some 3,000 Americans on our own soil on September 11, 2001, was that President George W. Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, had himself gutted the military and weakened us seriously during his presidency. It is widely acknowledged that Islamist terrorists read the Clinton administration during the 1990s as "weak on terror." Generally, Clinton's response to the terrorist incidents that took American lives during his administration was to treat them as requiring what can be characterized as "police action." There is fairly broad agreement that the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were even possible because Osama bin Laden viewed Clinton (and, by extension, the United States itself) as not having the backbone to respond aggressively and militarily to such an attack.

There was a great deal coming from the Clinton Administration to reinforce that notion. During the 1990s, President Clinton decimated America's military resources. Never mind that his predecessor once removed, President Ronald Reagan, had demonstrated that a strong military presence was the foundation for negotiations and policies leading to American triumphs. And never mind that Russian President Gorbachev had responded to Reagan's ringing "tear down this wall," backed by an upsurge in American military might during Reagan’s administration, by actually tearing down that wall.

The facts speak for themselves: During the Clinton Administration, the number of active duty Army divisions was reduced from 18 to 10. And Clinton reduced the number of active ships from 586 in 1990 to 278 at the end of his term. In all, Clinton slashed military spending on everything from planes to guns to bullets to ships by nearly 90% during his terms in office.

Obama plans to follow the Clinton blueprint for military weakness leading to terrorist attacks on the United States to the letter. Obama has promised to "cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful [military] spending." He has also vowed to "cut investments in unproven missile defense systems," to "slow our development of future combat systems," and to "set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons." He vows that the U.S., under his watch, "will not develop new nuclear weapons," and that he will "negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal." (YouTube - Why Obama SHOULD beat McCain)

This, coupled with holding talks with every terrorist regime he can think of, will certainly put us well on the path to another 9/11 attack. Our new Terrorist-in-Chief and his anti-American cronies in the left wing of the Democrat Party will certainly see to that.

JUDGE PRESIDING

Over Obscenity Trial

Posts sexual images online

The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals posted sexually explicit photos and videos on a Web site he maintained that he has now blocked to the public, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday on its Web site.

The revelation about Judge Alex Kozinski came as opening statements were under way in an obscenity trial he is presiding over in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Kozinski, 57, told the Times that he thought the material on his Web site, which included a video of a man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal, couldn't be seen by the public. He took the site down and said he didn't believe any of the images were obscene.

"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he told the newspaper. "I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."

Kozinski became the youngest federal appeals court judge in the nation when he was appointed at age 35 to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan in 1985. He is known as a strong defender of free speech and First Amendment rights.

He is currently overseeing a trial in which Los Angeles businessman Ira Isaacs is accused of breaking U.S. obscenity laws by selling pornographic movies that depict extreme fetishes. Kozinski was assigned to the case under a program in which appellate judges occasionally handle criminal trials at the district court level.

Isaacs' defense attorney Roger Diamond said outside of court he was unaware of the Times report and declined to comment. A phone message left with a spokesman for the 9th Circuit was not immediately returned. A message seeking comment was also left at the Department of Justice.

Before the site was taken down, visitors to http://alex.kozinski.com saw a message: "Ain't nothin' here. Y'all best be movin' on, compadre." Visitors who knew about a subdirectory could see the materials that also included some of Kozinski's legal writings and personal photos, the Times said.

Jean Rosenbluth, a former federal prosecutor and law professor at University of Southern California, said she had not seen the contents on Kozinski's Web site but added the judge should recuse himself to ensure there is no conflict of interest.

"He should do the right thing and step down," Rosenbluth said. "There's such an importance that the public perceive justice be fairly administered.

Trial jurors were scheduled to travel Wednesday afternoon to the 9th Circuit's Southern California building in suburban Pasadena to view the movies, which depict bestiality and fetishes involving feces and urine. The panel includes eight men and six women. Two will be designated alternates later in the trial.

Jurors will be asked to decide whether or not the films are obscene under federal law.

They must decide if the films appeal to a loathsome or degrading type of sexual intercourse and whether the sexual conduct is "patently offensive," judging by the community's standards.

Isaacs, 57, is charged with four counts, including importation or transportation of obscene material for sale. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. Prosecutors also are seeking forfeiture of assets obtained through his video sales. Two of the original six counts in his indictment were dropped.

(Step down my ass! He should be fired!!

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is infamous for it's reversal ratio.)

HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE REJECTS PLAN TO OPEN U.S. WATERS TO MORE OIL EXPLORATION

A House subcommittee on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to open up more U.S. coastal waters to oil exploration.

Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., spearheaded the effort. His proposal would open up U.S. waters between 50 and 200 miles off shore for drilling. The first 50 miles off shore would be left alone.

But the plan failed Wednesday on a 9-6, party-line vote in a House appropriations subcommittee, which was considering the proposal as part of an Interior Department spending package.

With record oil prices and gas prices projected to hover around the $4 mark for the rest of the summer, Republicans have ratcheted up their efforts to open up oil exploration along U.S. coastline. But the long-sought change has so far been unsuccessful.

Most offshore oil production and exploration has been banned since a federal law passed in 1981.

"We are kidding ourselves if we think we can drill our way out of these problems," House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said during the bill mark-up session.

For his part, Peterson said: "There is no valid reason for Congress to keep the country from energy resources it needs."

"I'm disappointed. I did not expect a partisan vote today. I felt we had a chance of winning this. A lot of Democrats have been talking favorably about my amendment. They know we have to do something. But today was an absolute show of Pelosi power, it was dealt from the top down," Peterson said later, adding he was open to other energy solutions, including wind and solar power.

According to Peterson's office, the U.S. Minerals Management Service estimates that 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas can be found along the U.S. outer continental shelf, the area affected by the ban.

Peterson is not alone in his desire to open up the shelf. An effort to unlock the resources has been underway in Congress in recent years, and several interest groups are backing the effort, too.

"Tapping America's huge reserve of deep ocean energy helps us fight terrorism and increases our domestic energy supply, which will help put downward pressure on gasoline prices," Greg Schnacke, President of Americans for American Energy, said in a news release, adding: "With Americans suffering at the gas pump and with higher energy bills, it's a no-brainer that the OCS should be developed."

But the proposal has faced staunch opposition from environmental groups from states where the shorelines are under consideration for drilling, like Florida.

Sierra Club lands program director Athan Manuel told a House committee Wednesday that drilling has been unsuccessful in driving costs down.

"The disappointing part about some of the energy policies being promoted (is) that it calls for more drilling when drilling really is the problem. And all we've got to show for pretty aggressive (domestic) drilling for the last 35 years is, again, $4 for a gallon of gas," Manuel said, adding "since the first Arab oil shock in the 1970s, the U.S. has produced almost 90 billion barrels of oil since then, so we've tried drilling our way out of the problem and it just hasn't worked."

Environment Florida spokeswoman Holly Binns told the Media General news group that offshore drilling has no immediate impact on prices.

"It would take anywhere from seven to 10 years to bring those resources to shore - to have any measurable impact on supply," Binns said, advocating renewable energy sources.

Democrats held their own series of events on Capitol Hill Wednesday to focus attention on global warming and energy independence, but drilling is not on the agenda. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday ongoing calls for more drilling "is the Johnny One-Note of the Republican Party."

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., dismissed the need for oil explanation.

"There are 68 million acres right now that is available for exploration right now that the oil companies have - an area the size of Illinois and Georgia. We ought to be focusing on doing that," Blumenauer said, adding that a legal gap he referred to as the "Enron loophole" exempts energy trading from oversight of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

And not surprisingly, the issue has spilled into the ream of presidential politics as well.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized Democrats, including fellow Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, D-Ill., over recent comments Obama made regarding gas prices.

The comments that McConnell referred to were given during an interview with CNBC. Discussing rising gasoline prices, Obama said: "I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing.

Obama also said that "if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly U.S. automakers, then I think ultimately, we can come out of this stronger and have a more efficient energy policy than we do right now.

McConnell, honing in on Obama's referral to "gradual" price increases, said Obama's remarks are evidence that Obama believes "rising gas prices aren't the problem. The problem, he suggested, is that they've gone up too fast. He said he would prefer a gradual adjustment."

He continued: "Whether it's shutting down domestic exploration in large areas both onshore and offshore, instituting a moratorium on oil shale development, increasing the gas tax, or refusing to pursue coal to liquids, Democrats long ago implemented a 'gradual adjustment' on gas prices that's reflected today in the $4.05 Americans are paying for a gallon of gas."

U.S. COMMISSION FINDS TROUBLING TEXTS AT VIRGINIA ACADEMY

A study finds that textbooks at a private school in northern Virginia teach students it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam.

The Islamic Saudi Academy receives much of its funding from the Saudi government and teaches roughly 900 students in grades K-12 at campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Wednesday that it obtained 17 of the academy's textbooks and found several disturbing passages.

A 12th-grade text says that apostates - those who leave Islam - and adulterers may be permissibly killed. A social studies text states that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people."

OBAMA CAMPAIGN PLANS FUNDRAISERS IN CHINA

Sens. Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain are in the midst of a fundraising binge, and it appears there is nowhere the two White House hopefuls won't go in search of dough.

Next week, the Obama campaign will hold two fundraising events in China.

The candidate himself won't be making an appearance. Instead, guests at the Bejing home of David Brooks, a Coca Cola executive there, will hear from two senior foreign policy fellows from the Brookings Institution who advise the Obama campaign, Ivo Daalder and Phil Gordon. If the June 17 appearance does not satisfy, American expatriates in China can hear the two foreign policy experts opine at an event on June 19 in Shanghai hosted by Ted Hornbein, an executive a Richco, a company that manufactures electronic components for cell phones and the like.

No rules prohibit fundraising abroad, so long as the donors are American citizens. And a number of the 2008 presidential contenders engaged in overseas fundraising during the past 16 months. McCain, for instance, held a March 20 luncheon at Spencer House -- the neo-classical home built for an ancestor of Diana, the late Princess of Wales -- "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon. Nathaniel Rothschild."

But Obama appears to have collected the most funds from overseas, at least $1.6 million, according to Federal Election Commission records. (McCain raised $196,000 from donors living abroad, the records show.) While McCain's contributions are centered largely in London, with a handful from Bermuda, the Obama funds have come from addresses as eclectic as Kabul, Dubai, Palermo, and Sydney.

SUPREME COURT

Lets Guantanamo prisoners

Challenge detention in U.S. courts

A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

The justices, in a 5-4 ruling, handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Dissenting were Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

"Petitioners have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus. They are not barred from seeking the writ or invoking the Suspension Clause's protections because they have been designated as enemy combatants or because of their presence at Guantanamo," Kennedy wrote.

The Suspension Clause is a constitutional guarantee that blocks Congress from suspending habeas corpus.

"The Suspension Clause has full effect at Guantanamo. The government's argument that the Clause affords petitioners no rights because the United States does not claim sovereignty over the naval station is rejected," the opinion reads.

It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than six years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Five high-profile Guantanamo detainees appeared in a military tribunal last week, where one, Ramzi Binalshibh, admitted he was guilty of helping plan the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he wanted to be put to death so he could be viewed as a martyr.

The case before the Supreme Court was brought by Lakhdar Boumediene, one of the remaining prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He's been there since 2002.

After the court ruled in 2004, in Rasul v. Bush, that the prisoners were entitled to have access to the American court system, the government established a military tribunal process. As it stands, the prisoners can appeal adverse rulings to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Solicitor General Paul Clement argues the process provides Boumediene "along with the other enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, [the opportunity to] enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy combatants in the history of warfare."

But the detainees' lawyers contend the current law fails to protect the constitutional rights the court said their clients were entitled to receive in Rasul. They want full habeas corpus rights, a constitutional protection that forces the government to justify in an open courtroom legitimate reasons an individual needs to be behind bars.

Also known as the "Great Writ," it is a universal right that was famously suspended by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

Lawyers for the detainees argued the government, through the 2006 Military Commissions Act, unconstitutionally suspended the Great Writ for their clients. They sought a single remedy: a fair and impartial hearing before a neutral decision-maker to determine if there is a reasonable basis in the law and fact for detaining them.

They have never received such a hearing, although this court ruled more than three years ago that they are entitled to one.

The government contended the Rasul decision does not cover habeas rights and that earlier court rulings make clear that foreign prisoners held outside the United States have no such right. It further argued that the military tribunals passed by Congress are an adequate substitute for what habeas seeks to protect.

Although Congress expressly chose to foreclose detainees from challenging their status via habeas, it decided that aliens detained at Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants should receive administrative hearings before a military tribunal, subject to judicial review in the District of Columbia Circuit.

That system builds additional protections on those available even to conventional prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, and it was designed to track the requirements for due process deemed sufficient for American citizens.

Boumediene is an Algerian native who was living in Bosnia at the time of his arrest in October 2001. He and five others are accused of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo. They were relocated in January 2002 to Guantanamo Bay, where Boumediene remains incarcerated. He denies any involvement in plots against the United States.

This case had provided one surprising twist. In April 2007, the court decided not to consider the matter but reversed itself in June. It is believed to be the first time in 60 years that the court changed course in such a manner.

The reversal required at least five of the nine justices to grant review. Normally, only four need to agree to hear a case, and even then very few are granted arguments.

(Holy shit! You would think that the Supreme Court (just another name for a bunch of liberal assholes) would know that the Constitution of the United States only applies to citizens of the United States!

The people being held at Gitmo are there because they are not being charged with a civil or criminal action. They are there because they are suspected of attempting to wage a war against the very same country that the idiots on the bench are supposed to be protecting!

I think it is about time to have an accident at Gitmo, one that would totally destroy all facilities and terminate the residence of all detainees ... permanently and fatally! A natural gas explosion or possibly one of the detainees would get loose and blow up the munition magazines.

Then the United States could hold a mass burial ceremony (preferably in-line with Christian and Jewish rites), and then bring all U.S. military back to the States to await further orders.

It would also be nice if there were 5 judges from the Supreme Court at Gitmo doing a "fact-finding mission" at the time of the disaster.

Naturally the lawyers defending the detainees would also be present...)

A

Supreme

Error

Upon reading the opinion in Boumediene v Bush, one must conclude that the majority knew where they wanted to go and simply had to figure out how to get there. The trip was not a pretty one. How could it be when the justices seemingly wrote a map based on ideas cherry picked from over 400 years of established law and backfilled with justifications to create a new right for alien combatants that Americans themselves do not enjoy?

They could have saved us all a lot of time if they'd told us what was clearly on their minds.

They don't trust military tribunals to deal with those accused of being enemy combatants, even if the tribunals are following guidelines established by Congress.

That the government has probably detained some prisoners at Guantanamo for longer than they should have.

And that Guantanamo should just be closed.

Though they are willing to give it lip service, they don't really believe we are at war ... at least not a "real" war.

Therefore, they should create a new right for our nation’s enemies commiserate with the displeasure that they and the rest of the "enlightened" people have with this "war," Guantanamo and the Bush Administration.

At least this approach would have been an honest one and based upon about as much legal justification as the approach they took.

But, instead - as Justice Scalia pointed out in his dissent - they for the first time in our nation’s history, conferred a Constitutional right of habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war - a broader right than has been given to our own citizens. The court majority did so acknowledging that they could find no precedent to confer such a right to alien enemies not within sovereign U.S. territory

The majority had simply decided that prior courts had denied such rulings based on "practical considerations." In other words in prior cases and prior wars it had just been too inconvenient to bestow the right of habeas corpus upon non-citizens in foreign jurisdictions. So, by focusing on what they saw as "practical" instead of those pesky court precedents based upon the issues of citizenship and foreign territory ... and the Constitution ... the majority reached the conclusion they wanted to, since what is practical is subjective. One can only ponder the state of our nation directed by the subjective instead of the Constitution.

As Chief Justice Roberts pointed out in his dissent, the court strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.

Among the problems the majority saw was the prisoner’s limited access to classified information, even though his personal representative is allowed access to it and can summarize it for the accused. Exactly what procedures would pass muster with the majority? Well, this has to be figured out by the habeas court later - and most certainly be challenged in endless rounds of further litigation.

At this stage, no one can really tell the extent to which this decision is going to add to judicial confusion, additional administrative difficulty, time and attention of military personnel or how many more prisoners will be mistakenly released to join the at least 30 who were released from Guantanamo only to return to fight the United States.

In reading the majority opinion I am struck by the utter waste that is involved here. No, not the waste of military resources and human life, although such a result is tragically obvious. I refer to the waste of all those years these justices spent in law school studying how adherence to legal precedent is the bedrock of the rule of law, when it turns out, all they really needed was a Pew poll, a subscription to the New York Times, and the latest edition of "How to Make War for Dummies."

It is truly stunning that this court has seen fit to arrogate unto itself a role in the most important issue facing any country, self-defense, in a case in which Congress has in fact repeatedly acted. This was not a case where Congress did not set the rules; it did. But the court still decided - in the face of overwhelming precedent to the contrary - to intervene. This decision, or course, will allow for "President Bush Is Rebuffed" headlines, the implication being that the Administration was caught red-handed violating clearly established Constitutional rights when in fact the Administration, and the Congress for that matter, followed guidelines established by the Supreme Court itself in prior cases.

People can disagree over whether Congress got it right, but at least members have to face the voters. What remedy do people have now if they don't like the court’s decision? None. If that thought is not enough to cause concerned citizens to turn out on Election Day to elect a new president, then I don't know what will be.

I also find it just a tad ironic that in a case involving habeas corpus, which literally means that one must produce a body (or person) before a court to explain the basis on which that person is being detained, the decision of this court may mean more fallen bodies in the defense of a Constitution some of these justices ignored.

THREE OHIO MEN GUILTY OF PLOT TO KILL U.S. TROOPS

Three Ohio men were convicted Friday of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq, a case put together with help from a former soldier who posed as a radical bent on violence.

Mohammad Amawi, 28, Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27, face maximum sentences of life in prison. Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage a holy war against U.S. troops.

The federal jury in Toledo returned its verdict after three days of deliberations. U.S. District Judge James G. Carr did not set a sentencing date, said acting U.S. attorney Bill Edwards.

"Today's verdicts should send a strong message to individuals who would use this country as a platform to plot attacks against U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere," said Patrick Rowan, acting assistant attorney general for national security, in a written statement. "This case also underscores the need for continued vigilance in identifying and dismantling extremist plots that develop in America's heartland."

Mazloum's attorney, Mo Abdrabboh, said he was preparing an appeal.

"It's been a long, long trial," Abdrabboh said. "We're disappointed, obviously. ... We respect that the jury has spoken, but (Mazloum) has maintained his innocence from the beginning of this."

Messages seeking comment from the other defense attorneys were not immediately returned. At trial they claimed that the three defendants, who all lived in the Toledo area, were manipulated by the government's star witness, Darren Griffin.

The undercover FBI informant and former Army Special Forces soldier recorded the men for about two years beginning in 2004 while they talked about training in explosives, guns, and sniper tactics. They often met in their homes and at a tiny storefront mosque where they prayed together.

Defense attorneys noted that Griffin was involved in all conversations the prosecution presented to the jury, and that there was no evidence of telephone conversations or e-mails dealing with the alleged plot among only the defendants.

Griffin won the trust of the men by posing as a former soldier who grew disenchanted with U.S. foreign policy who was now intent on violence against America. Prosecutors said even Griffin's family had been under the impression that he had become a radical.

Griffin said most people at the mosque shunned him and that no one raised any threats until El-Hindi began talking about kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Amawi, Griffin said, asked him to help him train two recruits from Chicago for holy war.

According to one secret recording made by Griffin, Amawi said he was troubled by the loss of life in New York in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but he quickly added: "Killing Americans in Iraq is OK."

Griffin testified that he twice traveled to Jordan with Amawi and also taught Amawi and Mazloum how to shoot guns.

El-Hindi told Griffin, according to recordings heard in court, that he knew two cousins who were eager to receive "jihad training." Griffin asked El-Hindi if he was recruiting for jihad. "Oh no, I just want to take these two," El-Hindi answered, adding that he wanted to take care of them for their families.

The two Chicago-area cousins - Khaleel Ahmed of Chicago and Zubair A. Ahmed of suburban North Chicago - have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill American soldiers and face trial next year.

Amawi, El-Hindi and Mazloum were convicted of conspiring to kill or maim people outside the United States, including military personnel. Amawi and El-Hindi were convicted of distributing information regarding explosives to terrorists.

Defense attorneys said Griffin lied and manipulated the defendants by putting words in their mouths so that he could stay on the government payroll.

Attorneys for the men also questioned how the three men could have been involved in a conspiracy when they never practiced shooting guns together or watched training videos together.

Griffin testified that the three gathered in the same place just once during the two years he investigated them. He also said that he never saw e-mails from the men that talked about plotting to kill soldiers.

Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum came to the U.S. legally from Lebanon. El-Hindi was born in Jordan, and Amawi was born in the U.S. but also has Jordanian citizenship.

They had blended easily into the city's thriving Muslim community.

Mazloum was a college student who helped his brother run a used-car lot. Amawi once worked at a bakery. And El-Hindi was a married father of seven.

(I just gotta ask, "Why the hell did it take the jury three days to reach a decision?")

FRENCH CHOP DOWN HISTORIC 'NAME TREES'
CARVED BY U.S. SOLDIERS DURING NORMANDY INVASION

The names "Thomas and Dorothy" were carved in the bark of one trunk. Another said "Bob and Carma." Other trees were marked with soldiers’ home states - Iowa, Maine or Alabama - and several bore hearts and the names or initials of a wife or girlfriend.

The beech trees of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest in France bore a poignant testimony to the D-Day landings for more than six decades. Thousands of American soldiers stationed there after the liberation of Normandy spent their spare hours with a knife or bayonet creating a lasting reminder of their presence.

Although the trees grew and the graffiti swelled and twisted, this most peculiar memory of one of the 20th century’s defining moments remained visible - until now. Amid bureaucratic indifference and a dispute between officials and the forest owner, most of the trees have been felled, chopped up and turned into paper.

Claude Quétel, a French historian and World War II specialist, was horrified when he discovered what he called a catastrophe and a shameless act. "It is a typically French failing to wipe out the traces of the past," he told The Times. "I am indignant."

Local people are calling for the few "name trees" that still stand to be classified as historic monuments and saved from the same fate.

"It should have been done a long time ago," said Nicolas Navarro, the curator of a World War II museum in the grounds of his family’s 13th-century Château du Taillis nearby. "It’s sad and pathetic that it wasn't."

The beech trees are described as one of the finest World War II relics left in Normandy, but local officials deemed them unsafe. They ordered Patrice Robin, 79, who owns the land, to prune branches overhanging the road.

"I said no at first," he said. "But they threatened to take action against me."

It costs about $1,200 to prune a beech tree but only about $300 to cut it down. Robin chose the cheaper option. "It’s complete madness, but I couldn't do anything else."

(Just another example of French appreciation and consideration!)

BOY!

Am I Ever Catching Shit

Over my post about the french and the "Name Trees"!

Seems that everyone disagrees with me.

Their position is that the trees are on private property and the owner can do whatever he wants with them.

My position is that the french would have NO PRIVATE PROPERTY if it weren't for the G.I.s who landed on D-Day.

My second point was that this was not what the owner wanted to do with the trees. He wanted to keep they as they were.

IT WAS SOME FORM OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT that demanded that he remove them!

That's right ... the same government that wouldn't exist, again, if the G.I.s hadn't hit the beaches on D-Day!

Phuck the phrench!!

NURSE AWARDED $7M AFTER BEING JAILED FOR SAVING COP

A nurse who helped a Chicago police officer from a wrecked squad car and was later accused of stealing a weapon has been awarded $7.7 million by a federal jury for false arrest.

In November 2002, a car ran a stop sign in Rachelle Jackson's neighborhood, slamming into a squad car. According to her attorney, Jackson, who was walking nearby, found the officer behind the wheel unconscious and the passenger, Officer Kelly Brogan, dazed.

She pulled Brogan from the wreckage. Soon after, police approached Jackson and told her that the driver's weapon had been stolen.

Jackson was accused of the theft. She was charged and spent more than 10 months in the Cook County Jail awaiting trial. Her case was later thrown out by a judge and Jackson sued the city of Chicago.

Defense attorney Andrew Hale said the amount the jury awarded Jackson was "excessive."

(Good for the nurse!

I wonder what the Chicago police would have done if she just stood there and let the cop die?

Charge her with involuntary manslaughter?)

MALIK OBAMA CONFIRMS HIS HALF-BROTHER
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GREW UP A MUSLIM

Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack Hussein likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.

As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Hussein Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."

The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack Hussein met in 1985.

In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."

Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.

Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic).

Reuven Koret, Aaron Klein and Daniel Pipes have previously pointed to the attempts by Obama and his campaign to conceal the candidate's Muslim background. The well documented evidence draws upon the on-the-ground interviews by researchers in Indonesia and Kenya, published quotations of Obama's childhood friends and his school records, as well as the candidate's own autobiography.

It is not clear whether Barack Hussein Obama will now disown his half-brother Malik, or throw him under the campaign bus, for acknowledging that shared family background. In any case, some one should notify "Fight the Smear" tout de suite. Perhaps they can get him with the program.

(There is an old Italian saying, "If it walks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, if it looks like a duck, it is a duck!"

[Well, maybe it isn't really Italian.])

38

Obama Falsehoods

The media ignores

1. "Selma Got Me Born" - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.

2. Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well-educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3. Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

4. My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification of that....and for more. Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started.

5. My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

6. My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack Hussein came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro).
Barack Hussein Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro).
What does this mean? Maybe nothing. But, why is Obama trying to hide this? Why does he try to hide is middle name? Why does he try to hide the religious Muslim school he attented as a child in Indonesia? Why doesn't he set the record straight that he wouldn't be the first black President? Why so many cover-ups and hiding of the truth?
Further, at only 6.25% African Negro, would he even be the first President who was part black? Not at all! Our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson was our first part black President. And he's not alone, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were also part black.
President Andrew Jackson was the son of an Irish woman who married a black man. Andrew Jackson was such a high percentage black that his oldest brother was sold as a slave!
President Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man, he had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother also allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents.
President Warren Harding never even denied claims that he was black, because he had black ancestors between both sets of parents and he attended Iberia College, a school founded to educate fugitive slaves.
President Calvin Coolidge was proud of his heritage and claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor" and in Europe the name "Moor" was given to all blacks just as "Negro" was used in America.

7. I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 4-3-08 Article 'Obama was 'quite religious in islam''

8. My School In Indonesia Was Christian - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check his own book). February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.' This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says 'Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.'

9. I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10. Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.

11. I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.

12. I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.

13. An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.

14. A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.

15. I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

16. Voting 'Present' is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17. Oops, I Misquoted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misquote.

18. I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ONLEAVE.

19. I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20. Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.

21. The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

22. I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

23. I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

24. I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25. My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

26. I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

27. I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28. No One on My Campaign Contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

29. I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.

30. I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.

31. I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

32. I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.

33. I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

34. I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.

35. I don't Have Lobbyists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

36. My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

37. I Have Always Been Against Iraq war decision - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.

38. I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.

A JOINT RESOLUTION

A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; and directing distribution.

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."; and

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and

WHEREAS, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and

WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and

WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THIS SESSION OF THE (your State's name) LEGISLATURE:

THAT the State of (your State's name) hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.

THAT this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.

THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of each state's legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the (your State's name) Congressional Delegation.

IRAN HAS TECHNOLOGY

For A Nuclear Warhead

To fit Shehab-3 missile

Some Western military and intelligence were shocked to learn that Iran had the blueprints for making a nuclear warhead that could fit onto its Shehab-3 missiles. The discovery was released by the former UN weapons inspector, David Albright, Sunday, June 16, ahead of the report on his investigation of the nuclear smuggling ring run by the father of the Pakistan nuclear bomb Abdul Qadeer Khan. He alleged that the nuclear blueprints passed to Libya, Iran and North Korea included "previously undisclosed designs for a compact warhead that could fit on Iran’s medium-range ballistic missiles."

On May 22, Swiss President Pascal Couchepin, disclosed that, last December, the destruction had been ordered of a batch of 30,000 documents detailing construction plans for nuclear weapons, gas ultra-centrifuges to enrich weapons-grade uranium and guided missile delivery systems , evidence in a criminal case of a Swiss family of three engineers involved in the Khan ring.

Exclusive sources disclosed on May 30 that these nuclear blueprints were sold in underhand deals to those countries - and possibly also to al Qaeda - in the second half of the 1990s. Tehran has therefore had those designs for between 10 and 13 years.

This discovery makes nonsense of the supposedly definitive judgment in Western and Israel intelligence that Iran lacks the technology for building a nuclear missile delivery system. Because of these estimates, Western governments have been able to keep their sanctions-cum-diplomatic track with Iran rolling as though tomorrow would never come.

It is now evident that not only North Korea and Iran have known for some time how to build and deliver a nuclear warhead, but unknown recipients of A.Q. Khan’s merchandise, including terrorist organizations, may also command hazardous nuclear knowledge.

The three Swiss engineers, members of the Tinner family, are the father, Friedrich, whose ties with Khan went back decades, and his sons, Urs and Marco.

The Khan ring set up marketing headquarters in Dubai and Malaysia. The brothers have awaited trial for four years in a Swiss jail. Their father is out on bail and confined to Switzerland. The evidence against Urs Tinner, the hard disk he stole containing the incriminating nuclear documents, has now been destroyed by the Swiss authorities under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog.

Military experts reported on May 30: If Urs Tinner, a small cog in the Khan network, was able to steal a hard drive containing a mass of the network’s nuclear secrets, three conclusions are inescapable:

1. That Khan did not retain an efficient security system for the data he was selling. Therefore, his system was full of holes and his confederates and agents, whether employed on the technical or marketing side of the business, were able to help themselves to documents, diagrams and other illicit nuclear materials that were put on sale and, perhaps, go into business on their own.

2. It is an open secret among the American and Western intelligence services involved in uncovering the Khan ring that large sections are still going strong out in Pakistan, the Far East and the Middle East through channels still unexposed. They are bound to assume that the documents destroyed by the Swiss government may exist in copies still in circulation.

3. Some of their holders may have hung onto them for the last four or five years and then destroyed them when the Khan ring was exposed, for fear of being linked to the trafficker. On the other hand, it is possible that some of A. Q. Khan’s agents and accomplices sold his nuclear plans and secrets to terrorists linked to al Qaeda.

AL SHARPTON SOAKS UP BOYCOTT BUCKS

Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy's and Pfizer have contributed thousands to Al Sharpton's "charity".

Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton's National Action Network annual conference in April.

Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton - who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a consultant.

The cash flows even as the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn has been conducting a grand-jury investigation of NAN's finances.

A General Motors spokesman stated that NAN had repeatedly - and unsuccessfully - asked for contributions for six years, beginning in August 2000.

(If it were any other person, especially a white person, the charge of "extortion" would have been filed.

What Big Al (my apologies to the Capone family) did was tell corporations that if they didn't support him, he would make sure that black people would not buy their products. He also forced corporations to hire blacks with the same threat.)

HOME, SWEET HOME

A North Carolina man says his house was so overrun with bees that the walls ooze honey.

Mark Jones, of Concord, N.C., was tipped off to the visitors’ presence after discovering a strange substance on a downstairs wall. After tasting it, he realized it was honey.

Jones sought the help of beekeepers, who removed approximately 60,000 of the buzzing nuisances and their hives using a vacuum. Another 1,000 remain inside.

"It didn't seem right to my husband or myself to kill them," Jones’ wife said.

The remaining bees are expected to fly elsewhere, as they have no hive or queen bee, beekeepers said.

DOES YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION HAVE HYDROGEN?

Honda Motor Co. has begun commercial production of its new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car, called the FCX Clarity.

The midsize four-seat sedan, which runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water vapor and none of the gases believed to be responsible for global warming.

Honda says the vehicle offers two times better fuel efficiency than a gas-electric hybrid and three times that of a traditional gasoline-powered vehicle.

The car will initially be available for lease starting July to a limited number of customers in southern California and then in Japan later this year.

One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of wider adoption of fuel cell vehicles is cost and the lack of hydrogen fueling stations.

(You will notice that it is only "for lease". Why, because it is too damn expensive to buy!

And they have you by the balls for fuel...only the leasing dealer will have hydrogen available. Can to see the sign, "Hydrogen - $25 per gallon?)

PARENTS FEAR ACCOMPANYING STUDENTS ON TRIPS
AFTER ACCIDENTAL DEATH AWARD

When she traveled to China with her son's school choir, Teresa Cleary spent a fair amount of time worrying that a student under her supervision might become lost or ill.

She didn't consider another possible consequence: getting sued.

A nearly $700,000 verdict against a chaperone of a cheerleading trip to Hawaii is enough to give a chaperone pause, said Cleary, of Cincinnati.

"Whether it's a trip to the zoo with the first grade or a trip to China with a group of high school students, there's always an anxiety," she said. "I'm responsible for someone else's child."

Add legal liability to the equation, and, "I definitely think it could impact some people's willingness to chaperone."

The Hawaii verdict came in the case of an 18-year-old high school student who fell to her death from a Maui hotel balcony.

Lauren Crossan, of Randolph, N.J., had traveled to Hawaii in 2004 with Susanne Sadler, Sadler's daughter, and another New Jersey cheerleader to perform in the halftime show of the Hula Bowl. Within hours of her arrival at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort, Crossan was seen drinking alcohol.

An arbitrator determined last month that Sadler was partially responsible for Crossan's death and ordered her to pay $690,000 to Crossan's parents and her estate.

Jan Harp Domene of Anaheim, Calif., was grateful for the liability insurance provided by the California PTA when she was sued because a student broke his nose while slam-dancing at a dance she was chaperoning.

"Parents need to be cautious," said Harp Domene, who serves as president of National PTA. "Parents trust that you are watching over their children."

Not all schools provide liability coverage.

Sometimes it takes an event like the Crossan lawsuit to draw attention to a potential risk, said Lisa Soronen, a senior staff attorney with National School Board Association in Alexandria, Va.

"Many parents do chaperone and don't think a think about it for a second," she said. "Almost everything a school does involves some amount of risk."

The key is to work with the school or sponsoring organization to reduce the risks, Soronen said. Students and chaperones should be made aware of the expectations while on a trip, she said.

Others have suggested, in online discussion generated by the Crossan award, that the case is another example of Americans choosing to sue rather than take responsibility for their actions. Critics of the decision note that Crossan, while a high-school student, was 18 ... and drunk!

To Cleary, the benefits of school trips still outweigh the risks. The Winton Woods High School trip to China changed lives, she said.

"They came home appreciating the country they live in," she said. "It changed who they were - grew them up a bit."

(The REAL key here is not the chaperone or chaperone responsibility!

The REAL key here is PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL! In this case, a drunken 18-year-old high school student!

And an award of $700,000? You gotta be kidding!)

CONFEDERATE GROUP

Offers Statue

To Civil War Center

A Southern heritage group is offering to donate a $100,000 statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the American Civil War Center.

Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Virginia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the gift is intended to celebrate Davis's birth 200 years ago this month in Kentucky.

The offer has led to some delicate postwar diplomacy between the SCV and the Civil War Center, which strives to offer a neutral, historical perspective. Officials from each organization met Tuesday, but no immediate decision was expected.

The symbolism of statues is strong in a former capital of the Confederacy where monuments to Confederate heroes, including Davis, already line its most elegant boulevard.

Monument Avenue also includes memorials to Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, both depicted on horseback. The addition of a statue dedicated to tennis player Arthur Ashe, a Richmond native, was opposed by purists who argued the boulevard was intended to honor Civil War greats.

Davis is interred at Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery, where thousands of Confederate soldiers are buried in a rolling green expanse overlooking downtown and the James River.

The majority-black city of 200,000 has taken a more reflective approach to the Civil War in recent decades, recognizing that the symbols and personalities of the period can be offensive to those who associate them with slavery.

The executive director of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP said Richmond does not need another monument to a Confederate figure.

"There's not a need for any more Confederate anything. We're maxed out," King Salim Khalfani said Tuesday.

"It's very offensive to me personally because if their cause was successful I would still be picking tobacco," he said.

Christy S. Coleman, president of the Civil War Center, said her organization is approaching the donation as it would any other gift: Officials will examine whether it fits with the center's collections strategy and consider its future upkeep, among other issues. The board of the nonprofit center will likely take up the matter in August.

"If someone offers us a sword, we may turn it down because we have too many swords," Coleman said. "Or we'll turn something down if it's not authentic, obviously."

Bowling described Tuesday's meeting as very cordial.

"I think they understand exactly what we want and why that is a very good place to have it," he said.

Bowling says the statue is right for Richmond historically and it's the most precise depiction of the angular statesman cast in stone or bronze.

Artist Gary Casteel also brought a little-known aspect of Davis's life to his work: Davis is depicted with his son, Joe, and a mixed-race child, Jim Limber, who was taken in by the Davis family.

"There are lots of places that this statue would be accepted in a second," Bowling said.

(Let's get a few things straight here!

First of all, the American Civil War was the second most important conflict in American history. The first being the Revolutionary War. None of the other conflicts ever had a chance of being held, in any major way, on the soil of the United States. None of the other conflicts would have had any major change in the way the United States is governed. The American Civil War ranks first in the number of Americans who were killed or injured.

Secondly, King Salim Khalfani is full of shit! He would not be picking cotton! He wouldn't even be here, especially with that name. His ass would be in Africa somewhere, running from his own people to avoid being placed in slavery by one of his own tribes, being sold to another tribe for slavery, or being eaten! As for him being offended by a statue of Jefferson Davis, that is his own personal problem. If he cannot accept history as it was, that is his own personal problem. If he objects to a statue of a President of the United States, or the President of the Confederate States, that is his personal problem. And, I suggest he get over it!

Personally, I have a problem. It is with all the bullshit of black people all of a sudden taking names which I find offensive, and of black people attempting to force the majority of the LEGAL citizens of the United States to bow and scrape to the whims and fancies of non-contributing minority people, and non-citizens!

Thirdly, if it weren't for slavery in the United States all of these so-called "african-Americans" and "african-muslims" would still be in Africa, fighting off lions and having sex with monkeys!

Oh, and I fully find it offensive that a statue of a black tennis player is located in an area supposedly reserved for American Civil War monuments!)

WOMAN SUES VICTORIA'S SECRET, CLAIMS INJURY FROM DEFECTIVE THONG

A Los Angeles woman claims she was injured by her Victoria's Secret thong, prompting her to sue the underwear manufacturer.

The plaintiff in the case, Macrida Patterson, 52, attributed the May 2007 injury to a Victoria's Secret "low-rise v-string," according to a court document.

Patterson's lawyer said that a "design problem" caused a decorative metallic piece on the underwear to fly up and hit Patterson in the eye while she was putting the underwear on.

Patterson's product liability lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week.

It was reported that, prior to the lawsuit, officials from Victoria's Secret had asked to see the offending underwear but were refused by Patterson's lawyer.

(Now, I just had to go to Victoria's Secrets site and take a look at a thong that a 52-year-old woman would buy!

Guess what! The only one I saw that had any "metal piece" on it, had the piece on the back of the thong!

Duh? Was this simple bitch guilty of trying to put it on backwards, or did she simply have her head up her ass?)

MAN CLAIMS DISNEY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HIM

A University of South Florida student says Disney officials told him he didn't fit the "Disney look" when he applied for a job.

Now, 24-year-old Sukhbir Channa is suing Disney World. He claims the company discriminated against him because of his turban and uncut hair, which his Sikh religion requires.

He was applying to be a trumpet player during the 2006 holiday season.

A Disney spokeswoman says they have no record of Channa applying for the job.

He's seeking $1 million in punitive damages.

(Oh-oh... Here we go ... another fucking idiot!

This asshole is suing a prospective employer because he didn't meet their hiring requirements?

When I had a retail business I hired and fired whomever I wanted, for any reason I wanted. IT WAS MY BUSINESS! Not the government's business (although they did take a hell of a lot of my money).

If an applicant did not meet my expectations or qualifications, for any reason, I did not hire the applicant! Period!!

I had one asshole ask for a job ... and the interview lasted about 3 minutes. He wanted to be a gun salesman, yet he had no knowledge of firearms! He didn't know a rifle from a shotgun, or a pistol from a revolver.

After I escorted him out of my shop he came back around an hour later with a lawyer.

It took me exactly 10 seconds to "escort" them both off my private property! With some advice...

I never heard from them again.)

SALON OWNER BROKE

After Being Sued

For 'hurt feelings'

A hair salon owner claims her business was driven to the brink of ruin after she was ordered to pay $7,800 to a Muslim woman who claimed her feelings were hurt after she was not hired because she wouldn’t show her hair at work.

Salon owner Sarah Desrosiers requires employees to showcase different looks for clients, as her shop specializes in alternative cuts and colors. Bushra Noah, 19, who made it clear during her interview that she would not remove her head scarf for religious reasons, accused Desrosiers of discrimination.

Desrosiers, 32, was ordered to pay Noah $7,800 for indirect discrimination by way of "injury to feelings,".

"She is simply someone I met for a job interview, who, for a host of reasons, was not right for the job. I cannot see how she deserves $7,800," Desrosiers said. "Because of this, there will be a black mark against my name for the rest of my life. I feel I have not done anything wrong, and this is a terrible price to pay for a meeting that lasted 10 minutes."

She was unable to prove to the court that employing someone with a headscarf would have a negative impact on her business' stylistic integrity.

Noah admitted she had attended 25 interviews and not been chosen for any of them before she met Desrosiers. The extremist Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir later admitted it had "advised her."

"This has ruined my ambitions," Noah said. "Wearing a headscarf is essential to my beliefs."

(What a bunch of bullshit!

Why doesn't she look for a job where she can wear a headscarf and practice her religion at the same time?

Something like cleaning sewers, or mopping floors, or paving roads, or how about suicide bomber?)

DEMOCRATS CONCOCT MICHELLE OBAMA RUMOR
TO BLAME CONSERVATIVES

I must hand accolades to the Obama/Democrat attack machine. As Barack Hussein Hussein Obama’s opponent - John McCain - has barred his campaign from saying anything at all the even remotely speaks to Obama’s true character and weaknesses, the Democrats were left with the dilemma of having to do something to beat up Republicans. So, in order to show their unsuitable candidate as the victim - again - a Democrat operative apparently started a rumor about Obama’s wife Michelle.

The rumor was that Ms. Obama - during a speech from the pulpit of black separatist Trinity United Church - had called Caucasians "whitey." The Democrat operative is Larry Johnson; the same Larry Johnson who had previously said that President Bush Advisor Karl Rove had been indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald. This bogus claim was later discredited. It appears that this latest Johnson claim has, also, been shown to be another dishonorable Johnson claim.

However, the mainstream media - probably 99%+ in the tank for Obama - is still reporting that Republicans (most specifically conservatives and Rush Limbaugh) started the rumor as an "attack" against their Secular Messiah. They, as their own Democrat Party does, these same media are counting on Democrat voters to swallow the lie hook, line and sinker - as they have usually done. Thus far, it seems to be working.

Then Obama, not to be outdone by his mainstream media public relations’ machine, has established a new website - ostensibly to ‘dispel false rumors’. Knowing full well that one of his own Democrats started the rumor about his wife (one has to wonder if this "rumor" was actually planned and disseminated by the Obama campaign) his site continues to blame Limbaugh; when even one of Obama’s adamant supporters - CNN’s Roland Martin - sees through his own party’s deception! WHEW. Now I’m really concerned about Obama’s judgment!

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