Sunday, October 31, 2010
Man gets on his knees as Emperor Obama drives by in his motorcade...
Democrat Prevents Vote on Black Panther Case Until After Midterms; Damning Report Leaked
October 29th, 2010 Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com
However, the left-wing blog Talking Points Memo obtained a leaked copy of the report, which details credible allegations of Justice Department evasion, dissembling, and possible perjury before the commission. The document reveals a commission at the end of its rope dealing with a “recalcitrant” administration that refuses to investigate “serious allegations” of selective and racially discriminatory law enforcement, harassment of dissenters, and a politically controlled Justice Department bowing to the demands of left-wing pressure groups rather than the dictates of justice. (And contrary to TPM, “Much of the commission’s draft report is” not in fact “based on an anonymously sourced story” that appeared in the media. As the report makes clear, several DoJ career officials exposed a pattern of wrongdoing in the decision making process that reached at least as high as the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder.
The stakes could scarcely be higher. The draft report notes, “If the testimony before the Commission is true,” the Justice Department’s handling of the case would “encompass inappropriately selective enforcement of laws, harassment of dissenting employees, and alliances with outside interest groups, at odds with the rule of law.”
Among its most serious allegations, it presents….
Read more.
Why Sarah Palin is Ten Times the Leader Barack Could Ever Hope to Be
By Kelly O'Connell Full Story“Obama against Palin—Are you nuts? Barack would wipe the floor with Sarah in every category without even trying!” Well, that’s what many Americans said when comparing the two in 2008. But oh, my—how the worm has turned! With Barack spending his whole presidency falling in the polls (now at 37%), even his own party can only hope to be elected by pretending they don’t know him.
Anchorage CBS Affiliate Caught on Voicemail Conspiring Against Alaska’s GOP Senate Candidate
The following voice mail message was inadvertently left on the cell phone of Joe Miller campaign spokesperson Randy DeSoto.
The voices are believed to be those of the news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussing creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.
The following is a transcript of a call recorded after CBS Alaska affiliate KTVA called Joe Miller’s Senate campaign spokesperson. The call failed to disconnect properly. It was later authenticated by McDermott, who sent a text to Randy DeSoto stating, “Damn iPhone… I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”
Clearly the reporters were conspiring to set up some type of smear of Joe Miller. With glee, they even cite a recent controversy over an incident involving the Rand Paul campaign, while discussing how they would spread the story via social media after whatever incident they had in mind came off. It also brings to mind another recent episode that ended with Jerry Brown’s California gubernatorial campaign being caught up in controversy when someone from Brown’s camp called Brown’s opponent, Republican Meg Whitman, a “whore.”
This calls into serious question what type of campaign coverage CBS’ KTVA has been providing Alaskans all along, given their reporters’ willingness to conspire against Miller.
The voices are believed to be those of the news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussing creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.
The following is a transcript of a call recorded after CBS Alaska affiliate KTVA called Joe Miller’s Senate campaign spokesperson. The call failed to disconnect properly. It was later authenticated by McDermott, who sent a text to Randy DeSoto stating, “Damn iPhone… I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”
Clearly the reporters were conspiring to set up some type of smear of Joe Miller. With glee, they even cite a recent controversy over an incident involving the Rand Paul campaign, while discussing how they would spread the story via social media after whatever incident they had in mind came off. It also brings to mind another recent episode that ended with Jerry Brown’s California gubernatorial campaign being caught up in controversy when someone from Brown’s camp called Brown’s opponent, Republican Meg Whitman, a “whore.”
This calls into serious question what type of campaign coverage CBS’ KTVA has been providing Alaskans all along, given their reporters’ willingness to conspire against Miller.
C.I.A. Columbia Obama Sedition and Treason Trial – Transcripts
October 31st, 2010
It has been widely reported that our Government no longer operates as a Constitutional Republic, but instead has become a Corporation, and that We The People are unknowingly conducting our affairs in that environment.However, the fact remains that all those elected or appointed to conduct the ‘affairs of State’ still swear an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution (Declaration, 7 Articles, and 27 Amendments) as the Supreme Law of the Land.
Therefore, it stands to reason that We The People, the originators of the ‘contract’ (The Constitution) between us and those we hire for limited and/or conditional terms of employment under that ‘contract’, have the greater responsibility to ensure compliance thereof and therewith.Several key provisions of that ‘contract’ bring us to the how, why, and by what authority we reveal the summary and transcripts of the CIA COLUMBIA OBAMA Sedition & Treason TRIAL. They are as follows:
1. The requirements to make changes (Amendments) to the terms of that contract are well known, time consuming, and laboriously detailed; they cannot be changed by the Judiciary simply enacting new Rules of Procedures, nor by simply violating those terms and getting away with it for, say, a hundred+ years.
There is no statute of limitations on violations of that contract, and their actions become null and void whenever the originators, We The People, deem it so. All complicit parties may also be charged with Treason or Misprision of Treason.
2. Amendment V provides for a Citizens Grand Jury, and as Justice Antonin Scalia said in a 1992 ruling:
“Rooted in long centuries of Anglo-American history, … the grand jury is mentioned in the Bill of Rights, but not in the body of the Constitution. It has not been textually assigned, therefore, to any of the branches described in the first three Articles. It is a constitutional fixture in its own right..”History shows that the Citizens Grand Jury was a common occurrence in the early days of our Constitutional Republic, used as a means to correct the crimes of corrupt public officials. That ‘right’ and ‘duty’ of the People continues to this day.
And this:
“In fact, the whole theory of its function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional Government, serving as a kind of buffer or referee between the Government and the people.” (end quote)
3. Amendments IX and X retain the rights and powers with the people. Hence, the rights and powers of the People to form Citizens’ Trial Courts to act on presentments/indictments of Citizens Grand Juries exist to this day.
4. The Constitution provides for the specific requirements of the Office of President & Commander in Chief:
a. Article II, Section 1:5 says that only a Natural Born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of President;
b. Article I, Section 8 says that Congress (under the authority granted by the People) has the power to enforce offenses against the Law of Nations;
c. The Law of Nations says that a Natural Born Citizen is one who is born in the country of parents, both of whom are citizens of that country;
Based on the understanding that: “With the privilege and honor of knowing of, swearing to, and living under our Constitution, comes the responsibility and duty of defending, maintaining and adhering to it”, a duly formed Constitutional Citizens Court Trial was held in Harlem, NYC at the ATLAH Church Sanctuary/Courtroom on May 14-18, 2010.
The Trial, known as The C.I.A. COLUMBIA OBAMA Sedition & Treason TRIAL, concluded with a verdict of GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS – against Columbia University, past Columbia University President Michael Sovern, and Barry Soetoro/aka Barack Hussein Obama. The deliberations and verdict of this trial were used as some of the evidence for 38 different States Citizens De jure Grand Juries, the ‘True Bill’ presentments/indictments of which were also reported to have been served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in June of 2010.
Let us not forget the history lesson from the Nuremberg Trials in Germany at the end of World War II:
So that none can say “I did not know!”
So that none can say “I was just following orders.”
(Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46, Nuremberg, Germany)
For those of you who might argue that there was no ‘DEFENSE’ at this trial, we would say that ‘Failure to Appear’ is ‘Admission of Guilt’. And for those who would argue that this was an illegitimate ‘Kangaroo’ court, we would say that those Courts (and Courts Martial) that have been telling We The People that we have ‘NO STANDING’ under OUR Constitution are the real Kangaroo Courts – and have abrogated their judicial responsibilities under our contract with them – the Constitution. When they fail to act – not to Act is to Act, Bonhoeffer said – then the duty to act reverts back to and remains with We The People!
We are now entering the ‘Sentencing Phase’ of that earthshaking and historic Trial of the Millennium - a trial concerning the greatest fraud ever perpetuated upon the American people in the over 200 years since the inception of our Constitutional Republic: the usurpation of the Office of President and Commander in Chief, by a publicly acknowledged NON Natural Born Citizen!
Under the terms of our Constitution, our Nation can survive 4 (or even
years of anyone as President, but it cannot survive without our Constitution!What follows is a summary of the transcripts of that trial – to include the charges, the evidence, the summation, and the verdict.
A short summarizing video by the prosecutor, Pastor James David Manning, Ph.D., will also be available after his Press Conference at The ATLAH Church on 27 October, 2010, as well as the complete 400+ pages of transcripts, for those who want detailed proof of the Crime of the Millennium!
Thank you.
Neil B. Turner
Citizens for the Constitution
The transcripts can be found here. Capt. Turner’s video introduction is here.
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BARBARA BOXER...CORRUPT TO THE CORE AND UNDENIABLY INCOMPETENT WHEN IT COMES TO SERVING THE PEOPLE
Barbara Boxer: Family Profits From Fake Indian Tribe She Helped Create
By Proof
Funny thing! I wasn't even going to write about this, I was just going to post a link to it in the Saturday Linkaround and let people read or not read it as they will. Then, getting ready to post the link, I went to The Hill and found this:
Although, if you look, the comments below the "page not found" reference this story. But, I guess it could have been a "broken link", so I took their advice and searched "Barbara Boxer Indian", was taken to this page:
And when I clicked on the link guess where it took me? (Bonus points if you guessed "page not found"). Here's from a helpful email from the Fiorina camp:
With us so far? A defunct tribe of Indians gets reinstated and Boxer inserts language that states in essence, any land they purchase becomes a "reservation". Neat, huh? Get around all those federal and local laws and taxes with the stroke of a pen. But as they say on the infomercials,Wait! There's more!
The rest of the post goes on to examine the, shall we say, less than stellar (or convincing) bona fides of this "tribe." Read the whole thing if it ever goes back up.
Both Boxer and Harry Reid have done very well by their children, by steering millions of dollars their way. Now if someone could only remind them to do right by the people who elected them and the taxpayers of this country.
Could you remind them for me next Tuesday?
*"Senate Ethics" - under Boxer, an oxymoron. (See: "Obama Justice Department")
Cross posted at Proof Positive
Funny thing! I wasn't even going to write about this, I was just going to post a link to it in the Saturday Linkaround and let people read or not read it as they will. Then, getting ready to post the link, I went to The Hill and found this:
Although, if you look, the comments below the "page not found" reference this story. But, I guess it could have been a "broken link", so I took their advice and searched "Barbara Boxer Indian", was taken to this page:
And when I clicked on the link guess where it took me? (Bonus points if you guessed "page not found"). Here's from a helpful email from the Fiorina camp:
The Hill’s Pundits Blog: Barb Boxer’s Indian tribe take
By Rick Manning
October 30, 2010
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/126619-barb-boxers-indian-tribe-take
For the past 10 years Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been playing a game that would make Jack Abramoff blush, a game that can best be described using the language of “Get Smart’s” Maxwell Smart as “the ole family-profiting-off-of-the-Indian-tribe-that-you-created trick.”
Here’s the story.
In 1998, Lynn Woolsey introduced legislation reinstating an Indian tribe in the wine country of Northern California that had been declared defunct by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1958. None of the Indians of the tribe objected at that time; they received a payment and went about their lives. The Woolsey bill would reinstate the tribe but specifically prohibited them from starting a casino. The legislation ran into trouble when the Bureau of Indian Affairs opposed the legislation because it had not seen any evidence that the tribe was significantly tied to the terminated tribe.
In 2000, Boxer helpfully picked up the Woolsey bill, but changed the prohibition against gaming, and designated any land that the group owned to be considered as a reservation.
In the same year, Boxer got her language into the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act of 2000, and with the changes unbeknownst to either fellow Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) or House sponsor Woolsey (D), the bill was signed into law by then-President Clinton.
With us so far? A defunct tribe of Indians gets reinstated and Boxer inserts language that states in essence, any land they purchase becomes a "reservation". Neat, huh? Get around all those federal and local laws and taxes with the stroke of a pen. But as they say on the infomercials,Wait! There's more!
Shortly after passage, the newly minted Indian tribe declared that after much soul-searching, the only thing it could do was open a casino on the outskirts of San Francisco in the town of Rohnert Park.
The tribe turned its fortunes over to two firms to make its dreams of wealth come true — Platinum Advisers, a political consulting/lobbying firm, and Kenwood Investments 2. Amazingly, and I’m certain quite coincidentally, Barbara Boxer’s son, Doug, was a partner in each firm.
To avoid immediate citizen concern about a casino popping up in their posh neighborhood, Doug Boxer’s Kenwood Investments 2 kindly fronted for the casino interests in purchasing a tract of land in Rohnert Park, as well as helpfully taking options on adjoining parcels of land for themselves to sweeten the pot. (Can I say pot and Sonoma County, Calif., in the same breath?)
Then Platinum Advisers sprang into action to try to gain community support for the casino. They apparently didn’t do a very good job, because the casino still is not built 10 years later.
According to Reference.com, Doug Boxer’s take from the project was a very Abramoff-like $8 million.
What makes the story timely is that the federal government just a couple of weeks ago was compelled to declare the land that Boxer’s son had purchased on behalf of the Indian casino a reservation, effectively killing the local zoning and lawsuits that had tied the project up in knots for most of the past decade.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat rightly pinned the federal decision right on the Senate Ethics* Committee chairwoman’s doorstep by pointing out that since she used the word shall, rather than may, in the legislation that birthed this tribe, the federal government had no choice but to declare the property that the tribe subsequently purchased to be tribal lands.
The rest of the post goes on to examine the, shall we say, less than stellar (or convincing) bona fides of this "tribe." Read the whole thing if it ever goes back up.
Both Boxer and Harry Reid have done very well by their children, by steering millions of dollars their way. Now if someone could only remind them to do right by the people who elected them and the taxpayers of this country.
Could you remind them for me next Tuesday?
*"Senate Ethics" - under Boxer, an oxymoron. (See: "Obama Justice Department")
Cross posted at Proof Positive
Today was historic for the ‘pre-depression-era’ liberals. Herded in by Unions (on let’s get a free trip to Washington day), the folks off-loaded from buses and trains to rock the place, that is if you love Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and some hippie favorites from the 60’s. You didn’t want to miss Ozzy Osborne, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and Cat Stevens. Heck, even Tony Bennett from my father’s generation almost stole the show with his rendition of “America the Beautiful.”
Here’s a few photos to show you what their liberal ‘America the Beautiful’ looks like:
Comment by American Grand Jury:
Their world calls ‘this restoring the Sanity.’ If these photos represent Sanity then my world calls it INsanity. Gotta love the liberals — they are still fighting the age old concept of rebelling against the establishment:
Hey man, wanna smoke a joint — cool, let’s plant some ‘peace signs’ on the White House lawn — better yet, let’s get out and vote — nah, on second thought, let’s smoke another joint and chill out — voting is too much of an effort!
The INsanity rally was billed as a competing shindig to the 9/12 Glenn Beck rally held in September. In case you wanted to compare..
Ours:
Theirs:
Thanks to americangrandjury.org
On The Road With the King Street Patriots of Houston, Texas
By Warner Todd Huston18th Congressional District in Houston, Texas, Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee
Saturday, October 30, 2010
FINALLY — A great alternative to body scanners at airports.
The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concernsthat come with full-body scanners at the airports.
It’s a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive deviceyou may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of this crap aboutracial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of a long and expensive trial. Justice wouldbe swift. Case closed!
You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter anannouncement comes over the PA system . . ."Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number XXXX. Shalom!"
Hats off to the Israelis!!!!
SUGGESTION: These classes should be mandatory for all members of Congress AND first session should address NATURAL BORN CITIZEN clause!...
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Bachmann wants Constitution classes for lawmakers | |
| For the Tea Party soldiers worried that the young upstarts they’re poised to send to Congress will lose their constitutional druthers once they get to congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann has a message: fear not, she’s going to set up constitutional classes. Bachmann spokesman Sergio Gor says, “It was something she’s always wanted to do. There’s so many folks that come to Capitol Hill to discuss obscure and mundane topics, but no one coming regularly to discuss bill of rights or the role of government.” Bachmann won’t be teaching the classes, Gor says, but will help organize sessions with constitutional scholars, experts, and judges likely to be held in one of the committee rooms on the Capitol Hill complex. The classes will be open to any members—not just freshman—looking to continue their study of America’s founding documents. They will not be open, however, to staff or members of the press, and the list of speakers won’t be made public. “They’ll provide mechanism for any member to candidly ask questions and learn and explore together,” Gor says. “I think it came about because a lot of good people get elected but a lot of them get co-opted into the establishment. Right now a lot [of candidates] are running as constitutional conservatives and we want to make sure there’s a support group for those members.” As for other plans to reach out to the new members post election? That will have to wait until after Tuesday. “We don’t want to speculate on what she wants to do,” says Gor. “She’ll remain chairwoman of Tea Party caucus and she does have a pretty full plate already.” | |
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The recent series of “Insider Reports” discussing the disarray at the White House and Obama’s mental state in part led Lyndon LaRouche to start pointing to the 25th Amendment as a way to remove Obama, based on his ‘mental disability’.
Initially intrigued by this idea, it suddenly became clear that this is another diversion from Obama’s lack of eligibility–which is his true disability under the 25th Amendment. It would be far easier to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Obama based on his eligibility disability than to prove his mental disability. Therefore it is worth a review again of the text and applications of the 25th Amendment to be clear on the definition of ‘disability’ as a tool to advance this Constitutional method of removing Obama.
The 25th Amendment
The recent series of “Insider Reports” discussing the disarray at the White House and Obama’s mental state in part led Lyndon LaRouche to start pointing to the 25th Amendment as a way to remove Obama, based on his ‘mental disability’.Initially intrigued by this idea, it suddenly became clear that this is another diversion from Obama’s lack of eligibility–which is his true disability under the 25th Amendment. It would be far easier to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Obama based on his eligibility disability than to prove his mental disability. Therefore it is worth a review again of the text and applications of the 25th Amendment to be clear on the definition of ‘disability’ as a tool to advance this Constitutional method of removing Obama.
The 25th Amendment
The Twenty-fifth Amendment was an effort to resolve some of the continuing issues revolving about the office of the President; that is, what happens upon the death, removal, or resignation of the President and what is the course to follow if for some reason the President becomes disabled to such a degree that he cannot fulfill his responsibilities?Continue reading ‘“Disability”: A Second Look at the 25th Amendment’
Republicans set up Election Day Voter Fraud HOTLINE
October 30th, 2010
The Republican Party has set up a Hotline for election day, 1-888-775-8117, which will be staffed by attorneys, to handle polling issues and possible voter fraud or intimidation. If folks even guess that it might be taking place, they should call for free advice.Please share this with EVERYONE!!
This is VITAL!! Twitter, Facebook, copy and paste in an email to all your friends!!
MUST READ FOR ALL OBOTS...ASSUMING THEY CAN READ OR THEY CAN MUSTER THE ATTENTION SPAN...
Confirmed: Hawaii Department of Health is Aiding and Abetting Obama & Gangs Forged Certification of Live Birth, Got Final Nail in the Coffin!?
We already know that Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah AKA Barry Soetoro is not constitutionally eligible to be president, no matter where he was born. I think it is also very critical the fraud at all levels...
You Got That Right
Texas is the only state ignoring federal
greenhouse gas deadline
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press
Oct. 29, 2010
Texas is the only state taking no steps to meet new federal greenhouse gas emission rules that go into effect in January.
The new rules go into effect Jan. 2, 2011. They require the nation's largest industries to meet more stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards in new or significantly modified structures.
The National Association of Clean Air Act Agencies acts as a go-between to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for state governments. It says 49 states have either changed their laws to allow regulation of greenhouse gases or will allow the EPA to issue permits for them. Texas is doing neither.
The EPA and Texas environmental regulators were not immediately available to comment.
greenhouse gas deadline
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press
Oct. 29, 2010
Texas is the only state taking no steps to meet new federal greenhouse gas emission rules that go into effect in January.
The new rules go into effect Jan. 2, 2011. They require the nation's largest industries to meet more stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards in new or significantly modified structures.
The National Association of Clean Air Act Agencies acts as a go-between to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for state governments. It says 49 states have either changed their laws to allow regulation of greenhouse gases or will allow the EPA to issue permits for them. Texas is doing neither.
The EPA and Texas environmental regulators were not immediately available to comment.
A Touching Tribute To JFK
In appreciative memory of JFK
By DAVID GEFFEN
10/27/2010
The Jerusalem Post
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy won the US presidency, a very personal tribute to ‘a good man’ who ‘loved Israel very much.’
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
Those words of JFK, which still resonate with us, I first heard at a dormitory of the Yale Law School where I had gone on Inauguration Day 1961 to visit several old friends. One was George Lefcoe of Miami, Florida, who is now an authority in the field of real estate.
Lefcoe and three of his fellow students, whom I also knew, were sitting in his room when JFK began to speak on January 22, 1961. It seemed that we were all mesmerized. Lefcoe did not hesitate for a moment: “David, how lucky we are to be living at this time in American history. JFK will lead us in a direction which we never thought possible. He has experienced war, survived a major injury and grown to be a statesman. Keep your eyes and ears open, my friend, the US could well be a different country.”
Whether Lefcoe possessed special insight or whether he truly believed in JFK, those of us in that room were moved by John Kennedy and by George Lefcoe.
Another Kennedy line that day has regularly touched me all the years I have lived here in Israel: “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
THAT DRAMATIC election in 1960 between JFK and Richard Nixon had its own meaning for me, a Georgia boy getting ready to cast his first ballot. In 1942 Ellis Arnall, the candidate for governor of Georgia, used the interest of disenfranchised young voters to win the election against the powerful, corrupt Eugene Talmadge. He said, “I’m glad Georgia is first in something at last. I’m tired of us always being at the tail end. If 18 is a soldiering age, it is also a voting age.”
That was a key plank in his campaign.
Arnall promised that if elected he would insure legislation was passed to lower the voting age in the state. Once in office he held to his word, and Georgia residents from 1943 on could vote at the age of 18. In the late 1950s, I was a beneficiary of that electoral privilege.
“David, I know that you will be packing up to go away to school in New York at the end of the summer, but what you have to do is register to vote. You cannot do it from afar – you have to be seen in person to register.” My father would not let me off the hook, even though it was only 1959, and my first federal election was a year away. I reported to the office of Fulton County where I was to register and showed my driver’s license as proof of my age.
Surprisingly, the registrar seemed to know a bit about my family.
“David, I guess your grandfather is Rabbi Tobias Geffen and I think that you have an Aunt Helen.”
“How do you know my family?” I asked with great surprise.
“Well,” the woman replied, “ I went to Girls’ High School with your Aunt Helen and I have seen your grandfather casting his ballot on election days for over 40 years. Please give them my regards.”
That was a special way to become a voter. I have used my voting privileges in numerous states where I have lived and, of course, here in Israel.
NOT THAT I EVER expected anything to come of it, but I did see JFK in person once. When he was the senator from Massachusetts in 1957, I joined a group of district and national officers of Aleph Zadik Aleph, junior B’nai B’rith, at a winter leadership seminar in Washington.
One of our sessions was held in the Capitol, my first visit there. During a break, we went downstairs to the underground level where the lawmakers walked along going from the House to the Senate and vice versa.
All of a sudden the late Robert Levinson, an AZA member from Oregon, later a professor of history and expert on the Jews during the Gold Rush, shouted out.
“Look over there, David, that is Senator Kennedy with another senator I know, Richard Neuberger, of my home state.”
Several of us turned our heads, we had a quick glance, and then they were gone.
When I returned to Atlanta, I told my parents, my grandparents and some of my friends that I had seen Kennedy. The only reply I received was, “David, Sen. Richard Russell is our favorite because he is from Georgia. We do not need any Yankees.”
WHO WAS this Kennedy, many people began to ask in the early months of 1960. He emerged as a presidential candidate since he had failed to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate in 1956.
Now Dwight D. Eisenhower could not run again, Nixon was to be the Republican candidate and the Democrats wanted a strong individual who could win.
There is a Jewish angle to remember.
Kennedy had spent a lot of time with Massachusetts Jews and had addressed Zionist conventions. This is from a speech given by JFK, in 1947, before Israel became a state. It was quoted in a memoir by his close friend and aide, Lewis Weinstein of Boston: “It is my conviction that a just solution requires the establishment of a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, the opening of the doors of Palestine to Jewish immigration and the removal of land restrictions. Then those members of the people of Israel who desire to do so may work out their destiny under their chosen leaders in the land of Israel. If the USA is to be true to its own democratic traditions, it will actively and dynamically support this policy.”
A few weeks after his nomination, he was the keynote speaker at the ZOA convention.
These words about the meaning of Israel are quoted quite frequently and included in printed selections from Kennedy’s speeches: “Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
His moving tributes to the Jewish homeland began to touch the hearts and souls of American Jews.
Of course, interest in Israel was not sufficient, I also had to feel that Kennedy could truly lead the US. A comment from one of his speeches has been kept in mind through the years because it touched a nerve in me and in others as well: “I believe in an America that is on the march. We must not stand still; we must not be at anchor; we must not sit on dead center; we must not content ourselves with the easy life; we must open the gates and stride forward in accomplishment.”
A special element of the campaign were four televised debates. This was first time that television was used in this fashion in an election campaign. At the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York where I was a student, we had only one tiny TV set in the lounge. For each debate we piled up in front of the screen.
I cannot say that I remember the words, but I do recall how the candidates looked.
Here is the description written by Theodore White in his The Making of the President 1960. “The contrast of the two faces was astounding. Probably, no picture in American politics tells a better story... than that famous shot of the camera on the Vice President Nixon as he half slouched... Lazy Shave powder faintly streaked with sweat, his eyes exaggerated hollows of blackness, his jaw, jowls and face drooping with strain.”
Kennedy, on the other hand, was tanned, spoke with authority and was just more attractive.
THE BAY OF PIGS fiasco in 1961, when an armed attempt was made with Kennedy’s support to overthrow Fidel Castro, is hardly remembered. What occurred in 1962, the Cuban missile crisis, has been forever etched in my memory.
I cannot emphasize enough that I thought this was the end of the US, maybe the world. Watching TV, I got the feeling that a major conflict was on the horizon between Russia and our country.
The USSR’s Nikita Khruschev did not appear prepared to retreat. Kennedy was resolved that no more missiles would be delivered to Cuba. Who would flinch? “The dagger only 90 miles away pointed at the heart of America,” as Cuba was labeled, must be removed. Khruschev could not stand up to Kennedy – the world was saved.
This crisis had added leverage for me since in February 1959 I had been in Cuba with the Emory University Glee Club. Arriving only a few months after Castro’s triumph, we visited a number of sites on the island where we sang.
The concluding days were in Havana where we concertized at the university.
My roommate, also Jewish, and I went to the only kosher restaurant, Moishe Pipick.
In our broken Yiddish, we learned from the Jewish Cubans at the eatery that Castro meant business and would build a new nation. They hoped America would help, but if not their leader would find another partner. Castro did turn to Russia when the US failed to aid, and thus the missile crisis had its personal impact on me.
I was much impressed by the civil rights stands Kennedy took. It was a shame that he did not live to see the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The explosions, the beatings and the terrible treatment of the blacks in Birmingham in 1963 finally forced all Americans to realize that something had to be done to grant them their rights as American citizens.
I had quietly advocated for a change, but now I knew it had to be.
America was an enlightened nation and had to raise the standard of living of all its citizens, black and white. Kennedy, through word and deed, made Americans not only take notice but also take action.
WHEN HE was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, my wife and I were students here in Jerusalem at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s Israel branch, now known as the Schechter Center. Early Shabbat morning, November 23, we were awakened by a fellow student who said that the president had been killed. For a moment we thought it was Zalman Shazar. The wife of another student said quite emphatically, “We are talking about President Kennedy. He was killed in Dallas as he and his wife were riding in a motorcade through the city. What a tragedy – he was a special president.”
We all accepted her words and then together we left for a tour of downtown Sephardi synagogues. At the four we visited, everybody said, “We are so sorry to hear about the president.” A few days later a memorial service was held at Beit Hillel on Rehov Balfour.
One of the most moving Jewish tributes given in the US for Kennedy was the one beautifully phrased by Rabbi Morris Adler of Shaarey Zedek in Detroit. Tragically, in March 1966 Adler was himself assassinated on his own pulpit by a deranged student whom he had counseled.
Selections from his address will provide a picture how Jews and Americans felt at that terrible moment in the country’s history: “John Kennedy was not one of many. He was one, one chosen by our people, vested with authority and bearing the hopes and dreams which millions of individuals entrusted to him. Our vocabulary does not yield words to suggest the enormity of the tragedy or the intensity of our shock.
“The bullet was aimed at one man. Its target, however, was the human, civilized, free order under which we live. Its target was the discipline, the mutuality, and the law which through centuries of struggle and sacrifice man has built into his collective life.
“The demented mind that pulled the trigger represents an upsurge of primitivism that threatens civilization.
“We are diminished this day as men and women, as religious believers, as Americans. All who cherish freedom, who uphold the equality and dignity of all human beings and hope for world peace, are personal mourners, poignantly and intimately bereaved by the death of John F. Kennedy.
“We shall not answer violence with violence, raise fist against fist or wield club against club. But we shall so reinforce our resolve, firm our determination, steel our will, that even the men of darkness and violence will recognize that their force and brutality cannot prevail against our inflexible and invincible purpose to realize fully the American promise and hope.
“We shall not despair nor exhaust ourselves in grief. We will walk forward, keeping bright the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and striving to be worthy of it.”
IN 1976 when my wife Rita and I brought our three children, Avie, Elissa and Tuvia, here for a six-month sabbatical, one of the first places we visited was the Kennedy Forest outside of Jerusalem.
We purchased saplings and after planting them in the soil there I said a few words: “President Kennedy was a very good man. He loved Israel very much. Sadly, a person who acted out of hate killed him. With your trees in this forest you now become a part of his life. One day bring your children here and tell them President Kennedy’s story.”
In the spirit of this article, the author’s oldest son, Avie, was selected in 2003 to be a Wexner Israel Fellow and studied for a year at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston.
By DAVID GEFFEN
10/27/2010
The Jerusalem Post
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy won the US presidency, a very personal tribute to ‘a good man’ who ‘loved Israel very much.’
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
Those words of JFK, which still resonate with us, I first heard at a dormitory of the Yale Law School where I had gone on Inauguration Day 1961 to visit several old friends. One was George Lefcoe of Miami, Florida, who is now an authority in the field of real estate.
Lefcoe and three of his fellow students, whom I also knew, were sitting in his room when JFK began to speak on January 22, 1961. It seemed that we were all mesmerized. Lefcoe did not hesitate for a moment: “David, how lucky we are to be living at this time in American history. JFK will lead us in a direction which we never thought possible. He has experienced war, survived a major injury and grown to be a statesman. Keep your eyes and ears open, my friend, the US could well be a different country.”
Whether Lefcoe possessed special insight or whether he truly believed in JFK, those of us in that room were moved by John Kennedy and by George Lefcoe.
Another Kennedy line that day has regularly touched me all the years I have lived here in Israel: “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
THAT DRAMATIC election in 1960 between JFK and Richard Nixon had its own meaning for me, a Georgia boy getting ready to cast his first ballot. In 1942 Ellis Arnall, the candidate for governor of Georgia, used the interest of disenfranchised young voters to win the election against the powerful, corrupt Eugene Talmadge. He said, “I’m glad Georgia is first in something at last. I’m tired of us always being at the tail end. If 18 is a soldiering age, it is also a voting age.”
That was a key plank in his campaign.
Arnall promised that if elected he would insure legislation was passed to lower the voting age in the state. Once in office he held to his word, and Georgia residents from 1943 on could vote at the age of 18. In the late 1950s, I was a beneficiary of that electoral privilege.
“David, I know that you will be packing up to go away to school in New York at the end of the summer, but what you have to do is register to vote. You cannot do it from afar – you have to be seen in person to register.” My father would not let me off the hook, even though it was only 1959, and my first federal election was a year away. I reported to the office of Fulton County where I was to register and showed my driver’s license as proof of my age.
Surprisingly, the registrar seemed to know a bit about my family.
“David, I guess your grandfather is Rabbi Tobias Geffen and I think that you have an Aunt Helen.”
“How do you know my family?” I asked with great surprise.
“Well,” the woman replied, “ I went to Girls’ High School with your Aunt Helen and I have seen your grandfather casting his ballot on election days for over 40 years. Please give them my regards.”
That was a special way to become a voter. I have used my voting privileges in numerous states where I have lived and, of course, here in Israel.
NOT THAT I EVER expected anything to come of it, but I did see JFK in person once. When he was the senator from Massachusetts in 1957, I joined a group of district and national officers of Aleph Zadik Aleph, junior B’nai B’rith, at a winter leadership seminar in Washington.
One of our sessions was held in the Capitol, my first visit there. During a break, we went downstairs to the underground level where the lawmakers walked along going from the House to the Senate and vice versa.
All of a sudden the late Robert Levinson, an AZA member from Oregon, later a professor of history and expert on the Jews during the Gold Rush, shouted out.
“Look over there, David, that is Senator Kennedy with another senator I know, Richard Neuberger, of my home state.”
Several of us turned our heads, we had a quick glance, and then they were gone.
When I returned to Atlanta, I told my parents, my grandparents and some of my friends that I had seen Kennedy. The only reply I received was, “David, Sen. Richard Russell is our favorite because he is from Georgia. We do not need any Yankees.”
WHO WAS this Kennedy, many people began to ask in the early months of 1960. He emerged as a presidential candidate since he had failed to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate in 1956.
Now Dwight D. Eisenhower could not run again, Nixon was to be the Republican candidate and the Democrats wanted a strong individual who could win.
There is a Jewish angle to remember.
Kennedy had spent a lot of time with Massachusetts Jews and had addressed Zionist conventions. This is from a speech given by JFK, in 1947, before Israel became a state. It was quoted in a memoir by his close friend and aide, Lewis Weinstein of Boston: “It is my conviction that a just solution requires the establishment of a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth in Palestine, the opening of the doors of Palestine to Jewish immigration and the removal of land restrictions. Then those members of the people of Israel who desire to do so may work out their destiny under their chosen leaders in the land of Israel. If the USA is to be true to its own democratic traditions, it will actively and dynamically support this policy.”
A few weeks after his nomination, he was the keynote speaker at the ZOA convention.
These words about the meaning of Israel are quoted quite frequently and included in printed selections from Kennedy’s speeches: “Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
His moving tributes to the Jewish homeland began to touch the hearts and souls of American Jews.
Of course, interest in Israel was not sufficient, I also had to feel that Kennedy could truly lead the US. A comment from one of his speeches has been kept in mind through the years because it touched a nerve in me and in others as well: “I believe in an America that is on the march. We must not stand still; we must not be at anchor; we must not sit on dead center; we must not content ourselves with the easy life; we must open the gates and stride forward in accomplishment.”
A special element of the campaign were four televised debates. This was first time that television was used in this fashion in an election campaign. At the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York where I was a student, we had only one tiny TV set in the lounge. For each debate we piled up in front of the screen.
I cannot say that I remember the words, but I do recall how the candidates looked.
Here is the description written by Theodore White in his The Making of the President 1960. “The contrast of the two faces was astounding. Probably, no picture in American politics tells a better story... than that famous shot of the camera on the Vice President Nixon as he half slouched... Lazy Shave powder faintly streaked with sweat, his eyes exaggerated hollows of blackness, his jaw, jowls and face drooping with strain.”
Kennedy, on the other hand, was tanned, spoke with authority and was just more attractive.
THE BAY OF PIGS fiasco in 1961, when an armed attempt was made with Kennedy’s support to overthrow Fidel Castro, is hardly remembered. What occurred in 1962, the Cuban missile crisis, has been forever etched in my memory.
I cannot emphasize enough that I thought this was the end of the US, maybe the world. Watching TV, I got the feeling that a major conflict was on the horizon between Russia and our country.
The USSR’s Nikita Khruschev did not appear prepared to retreat. Kennedy was resolved that no more missiles would be delivered to Cuba. Who would flinch? “The dagger only 90 miles away pointed at the heart of America,” as Cuba was labeled, must be removed. Khruschev could not stand up to Kennedy – the world was saved.
This crisis had added leverage for me since in February 1959 I had been in Cuba with the Emory University Glee Club. Arriving only a few months after Castro’s triumph, we visited a number of sites on the island where we sang.
The concluding days were in Havana where we concertized at the university.
My roommate, also Jewish, and I went to the only kosher restaurant, Moishe Pipick.
In our broken Yiddish, we learned from the Jewish Cubans at the eatery that Castro meant business and would build a new nation. They hoped America would help, but if not their leader would find another partner. Castro did turn to Russia when the US failed to aid, and thus the missile crisis had its personal impact on me.
I was much impressed by the civil rights stands Kennedy took. It was a shame that he did not live to see the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The explosions, the beatings and the terrible treatment of the blacks in Birmingham in 1963 finally forced all Americans to realize that something had to be done to grant them their rights as American citizens.
I had quietly advocated for a change, but now I knew it had to be.
America was an enlightened nation and had to raise the standard of living of all its citizens, black and white. Kennedy, through word and deed, made Americans not only take notice but also take action.
WHEN HE was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, my wife and I were students here in Jerusalem at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America’s Israel branch, now known as the Schechter Center. Early Shabbat morning, November 23, we were awakened by a fellow student who said that the president had been killed. For a moment we thought it was Zalman Shazar. The wife of another student said quite emphatically, “We are talking about President Kennedy. He was killed in Dallas as he and his wife were riding in a motorcade through the city. What a tragedy – he was a special president.”
We all accepted her words and then together we left for a tour of downtown Sephardi synagogues. At the four we visited, everybody said, “We are so sorry to hear about the president.” A few days later a memorial service was held at Beit Hillel on Rehov Balfour.
One of the most moving Jewish tributes given in the US for Kennedy was the one beautifully phrased by Rabbi Morris Adler of Shaarey Zedek in Detroit. Tragically, in March 1966 Adler was himself assassinated on his own pulpit by a deranged student whom he had counseled.
Selections from his address will provide a picture how Jews and Americans felt at that terrible moment in the country’s history: “John Kennedy was not one of many. He was one, one chosen by our people, vested with authority and bearing the hopes and dreams which millions of individuals entrusted to him. Our vocabulary does not yield words to suggest the enormity of the tragedy or the intensity of our shock.
“The bullet was aimed at one man. Its target, however, was the human, civilized, free order under which we live. Its target was the discipline, the mutuality, and the law which through centuries of struggle and sacrifice man has built into his collective life.
“The demented mind that pulled the trigger represents an upsurge of primitivism that threatens civilization.
“We are diminished this day as men and women, as religious believers, as Americans. All who cherish freedom, who uphold the equality and dignity of all human beings and hope for world peace, are personal mourners, poignantly and intimately bereaved by the death of John F. Kennedy.
“We shall not answer violence with violence, raise fist against fist or wield club against club. But we shall so reinforce our resolve, firm our determination, steel our will, that even the men of darkness and violence will recognize that their force and brutality cannot prevail against our inflexible and invincible purpose to realize fully the American promise and hope.
“We shall not despair nor exhaust ourselves in grief. We will walk forward, keeping bright the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and striving to be worthy of it.”
IN 1976 when my wife Rita and I brought our three children, Avie, Elissa and Tuvia, here for a six-month sabbatical, one of the first places we visited was the Kennedy Forest outside of Jerusalem.
We purchased saplings and after planting them in the soil there I said a few words: “President Kennedy was a very good man. He loved Israel very much. Sadly, a person who acted out of hate killed him. With your trees in this forest you now become a part of his life. One day bring your children here and tell them President Kennedy’s story.”
In the spirit of this article, the author’s oldest son, Avie, was selected in 2003 to be a Wexner Israel Fellow and studied for a year at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Bring It Haji
Gazan crowd chants 'Death to America,' 'Death to Israel'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
10/29/2010
Tens of thousands of supporters and sympathizers of the terrorist Palestinian Islamic Jihad group were reported to have rallied in the streets of Gaza on Friday to show their opposition to the stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The crowds were heard chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."
PIJ's exiled leader Ramadan Shallah sent a recorded message from Damascus commemorating the 15th anniversary of the assassination of former leader Fathi Shiqaqi in Malta, suspected to have been carried out by the Mossad.
"Israel will not bring peace to the region, it will only bring war and destruction and therefore, the slogan of all should be that Israel must be wiped out of existence," said Shallah. He warned of a "third Nakba" should the peace negotiations continue to fruition.
Senior Hamas leaders also joined the event.
"The choice of negotiation has reached deadlock, and we are wondering why is there such an insistence by the Palestinian Authority on negotiation with the enemy," said Shallah.
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Well I guess the appeaser-in-chief blew another $400 million and allowed 100,000 of these insane murders into our country and this is what we get in return. Any questions where the "moderate" muslims were to stop these bad boys? Where is their voice denouncing this act?
Steve
By JPOST.COM STAFF
10/29/2010
Tens of thousands of supporters and sympathizers of the terrorist Palestinian Islamic Jihad group were reported to have rallied in the streets of Gaza on Friday to show their opposition to the stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The crowds were heard chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."
PIJ's exiled leader Ramadan Shallah sent a recorded message from Damascus commemorating the 15th anniversary of the assassination of former leader Fathi Shiqaqi in Malta, suspected to have been carried out by the Mossad.
"Israel will not bring peace to the region, it will only bring war and destruction and therefore, the slogan of all should be that Israel must be wiped out of existence," said Shallah. He warned of a "third Nakba" should the peace negotiations continue to fruition.
Senior Hamas leaders also joined the event.
"The choice of negotiation has reached deadlock, and we are wondering why is there such an insistence by the Palestinian Authority on negotiation with the enemy," said Shallah.
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Well I guess the appeaser-in-chief blew another $400 million and allowed 100,000 of these insane murders into our country and this is what we get in return. Any questions where the "moderate" muslims were to stop these bad boys? Where is their voice denouncing this act?
Steve
What's Good For Miller is Good For Obama
From the Steady Drip
by Aristotle the Hun
Hey Obama - The Public's Right to Know Outweighs the Politicians Right to Privacy!
"Mr. Miller's right to privacy is indeed outweighed by the public's significant interest in the background of a public figure who is running for the U.S. Senate."
Let's just rephrase that a little:
Mr. Obama's right to privacy is indeed outweighed by the public's significant interest in the background of a public figure who is running for the office of President of the United States.
From the Anchorage Daily News, Judge orders Miller documents released:
http://www.adn.com/2010/10/23/1515937/judge-orders-miller-documents.html
by Aristotle the Hun
Hey Obama - The Public's Right to Know Outweighs the Politicians Right to Privacy!
"Mr. Miller's right to privacy is indeed outweighed by the public's significant interest in the background of a public figure who is running for the U.S. Senate."
Let's just rephrase that a little:
Mr. Obama's right to privacy is indeed outweighed by the public's significant interest in the background of a public figure who is running for the office of President of the United States.
From the Anchorage Daily News, Judge orders Miller documents released:
http://www.adn.com/2010/10/23/1515937/judge-orders-miller-documents.html
Must Have Been Something I Ate orYemeni Al Qaeda
Almost everyone experiences some sort of disaster either man made or natural at some point during one's life if you live long enough. On the off chance you are a novice or blessed I would like to share some things I've picked up along the way from attending the school of hard knocks.
Some of this will apply, some won't, some of it will depend on your setting rural versus urban. Given the times we live in, it doesn't hurt to accumulate some survivor knowledge along the way. By no means are my comments complete, but taken with other information, it should help some of you.
My experiences have been mostly hurricane related, a kind of regional test tube when practically everything you are used to having to making your life easier suddenly goes away.
Evacuation- If there is a situation looming in my opinion if permissible, it is always preferable to leave an area for a safer location. Two key factors though you would need to take into account, time and being possibly stuck out in the open. A large US city or a couple hundred square mile metro area takes days to empty out. Gridlock from point A within a city starts almost immediately, the outbound freeways and highways in the flight direction stack up for one or two hundred miles. So if you are going to flee an area, try to make an early decision to do it. Three days ahead of the deadline if possible. Safe distance motel rooms will more likely be available then, gas stations along your route will not have run dry as they will during a mass exodus, and food will still be available.
If you vacate, take your irreplaceables, and as much of your portable valuables with you. If you have multiple autos have each person of driving age drive a vehicle. This takes more gas, but you can also save/protect more of your possessions. If you don't have a set of hand held UHF radios get a set. Your cell phones may not function. In a caravan situation radios may come in handy. In case of separation predetermine a rally point where everyone can go to meet backup. (children should have a means of identification and parent contact info, or where a relative can be found on their person.)
If the situation is such that staying home is preferable, be prepared if your electricity, water service, telephones including cells go out. There may very well be no internet, cable, or AC. You will likely experience instant gasoline shortages so fill up ahead of time if possible, hardware stores will be emptied, so will grocery stores. Most grocery stores have back up generators, but that isn't any guarantee they have the fuel to run them for an extended period as short as a week. Your home refrigerator/ freezer will remain cold for about a day. After that everything in them will be spoiled and inedible. Service stations that are open will have spotty fuel deliveries. There will be lines, there will be fist fights and arguments as to who is next in line. If you have spare gasoline containers take them with you and fill them at the same time as your auto. It saves lining up as frequently. The police and fire departments will be soooooo business it will seem as if they are none existent. If your home is damaged, repair people will not be available for weeks, and they will be so overwhelmed the only repairs they will be doing are emergency patch jobs. So if you have a hole in your roof or broken windows have some plastic sheeting or a tarp and some duct tape and nails handy. If you have a medical situation or person with a medical condition all I can say is good luck, you are going to need it.
Practical Stuff- everybody has heard to stock up with batteries,candles, 3 days food and water, and medicine. FEMA has a hard time unassing in less than 3 days. In a multi million person relief effort getting help in under 2 weeks would be miraculous. (Think canned goods instead of frozen dinners.) So be prepared for a longer period than 3 days. Some say 2 weeks. It's a crap shoot any way you look at it. But 3 days is too little. Katrina,Hugo,Ike and the San Diego fires taught that.
If you have a barbeque grill have some spare charcoal and lighter fluid or gasoline in a pinch (not my favorite taste). A propane gas grill is better, because it's quicker and easier to fire up, and a whole lot less wasteful. Two normal size tanks can easily last weeks if not months. You can use your grill to cook on and heat water on for bathing and basic washing, such as dishes and laundry .
Your hot water heater will keep water hot for about 3 days after a loss of power. It can also be a source of drinkable water. It is just as clean as from the tap, the only difference is it has been heated . The water pressure in your home's waterlines (another source of water) will be normal initially, but will weaken quickly from pressure drop to the point the lines run dry. So toilets will function only for a short time. Multiple visits can stretch this out. If you have sufficient water from another source, you can use the toilet just by pouring a gallon size bucket into the bowl. That will cause an emptying function, same as if it were flushed. The hot water heater can be drained manually from a valve at the bottom of the unit. It should have the same basic appearance as a garden faucet . That's an often overlooked source of 40-100 gallons of drinkable water. I've never had to resort to it, but each toilet tank itself has a few gallons of water as well. Pets have no problem with it though.
People generally pull together in times of general deprivation, but there is an element in our society that only know criminal behavior and another element that think only the strong have a right to survive, both of those types will surface immediately. So be careful. Stay wary and carry some type of protection.
Take this for what its worth, add to it , or throw it away but if the need arises do try to look out for your fellow man.
Steve
Some of this will apply, some won't, some of it will depend on your setting rural versus urban. Given the times we live in, it doesn't hurt to accumulate some survivor knowledge along the way. By no means are my comments complete, but taken with other information, it should help some of you.
My experiences have been mostly hurricane related, a kind of regional test tube when practically everything you are used to having to making your life easier suddenly goes away.
Evacuation- If there is a situation looming in my opinion if permissible, it is always preferable to leave an area for a safer location. Two key factors though you would need to take into account, time and being possibly stuck out in the open. A large US city or a couple hundred square mile metro area takes days to empty out. Gridlock from point A within a city starts almost immediately, the outbound freeways and highways in the flight direction stack up for one or two hundred miles. So if you are going to flee an area, try to make an early decision to do it. Three days ahead of the deadline if possible. Safe distance motel rooms will more likely be available then, gas stations along your route will not have run dry as they will during a mass exodus, and food will still be available.
If you vacate, take your irreplaceables, and as much of your portable valuables with you. If you have multiple autos have each person of driving age drive a vehicle. This takes more gas, but you can also save/protect more of your possessions. If you don't have a set of hand held UHF radios get a set. Your cell phones may not function. In a caravan situation radios may come in handy. In case of separation predetermine a rally point where everyone can go to meet backup. (children should have a means of identification and parent contact info, or where a relative can be found on their person.)
If the situation is such that staying home is preferable, be prepared if your electricity, water service, telephones including cells go out. There may very well be no internet, cable, or AC. You will likely experience instant gasoline shortages so fill up ahead of time if possible, hardware stores will be emptied, so will grocery stores. Most grocery stores have back up generators, but that isn't any guarantee they have the fuel to run them for an extended period as short as a week. Your home refrigerator/ freezer will remain cold for about a day. After that everything in them will be spoiled and inedible. Service stations that are open will have spotty fuel deliveries. There will be lines, there will be fist fights and arguments as to who is next in line. If you have spare gasoline containers take them with you and fill them at the same time as your auto. It saves lining up as frequently. The police and fire departments will be soooooo business it will seem as if they are none existent. If your home is damaged, repair people will not be available for weeks, and they will be so overwhelmed the only repairs they will be doing are emergency patch jobs. So if you have a hole in your roof or broken windows have some plastic sheeting or a tarp and some duct tape and nails handy. If you have a medical situation or person with a medical condition all I can say is good luck, you are going to need it.
Practical Stuff- everybody has heard to stock up with batteries,candles, 3 days food and water, and medicine. FEMA has a hard time unassing in less than 3 days. In a multi million person relief effort getting help in under 2 weeks would be miraculous. (Think canned goods instead of frozen dinners.) So be prepared for a longer period than 3 days. Some say 2 weeks. It's a crap shoot any way you look at it. But 3 days is too little. Katrina,Hugo,Ike and the San Diego fires taught that.
If you have a barbeque grill have some spare charcoal and lighter fluid or gasoline in a pinch (not my favorite taste). A propane gas grill is better, because it's quicker and easier to fire up, and a whole lot less wasteful. Two normal size tanks can easily last weeks if not months. You can use your grill to cook on and heat water on for bathing and basic washing, such as dishes and laundry .
Your hot water heater will keep water hot for about 3 days after a loss of power. It can also be a source of drinkable water. It is just as clean as from the tap, the only difference is it has been heated . The water pressure in your home's waterlines (another source of water) will be normal initially, but will weaken quickly from pressure drop to the point the lines run dry. So toilets will function only for a short time. Multiple visits can stretch this out. If you have sufficient water from another source, you can use the toilet just by pouring a gallon size bucket into the bowl. That will cause an emptying function, same as if it were flushed. The hot water heater can be drained manually from a valve at the bottom of the unit. It should have the same basic appearance as a garden faucet . That's an often overlooked source of 40-100 gallons of drinkable water. I've never had to resort to it, but each toilet tank itself has a few gallons of water as well. Pets have no problem with it though.
People generally pull together in times of general deprivation, but there is an element in our society that only know criminal behavior and another element that think only the strong have a right to survive, both of those types will surface immediately. So be careful. Stay wary and carry some type of protection.
Take this for what its worth, add to it , or throw it away but if the need arises do try to look out for your fellow man.
Steve
Is Impeachment Inevitable?
By Fred Dardick Full Story
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I just don’t see Obama getting the message after the Democrats get their tails handed to them in the coming elections. To perceive and learn from failure requires a certain amount of character, humility and ability for personal examination, and let’s be real… Obama isn’t that type of guy.
By Fred Dardick Full Story
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I just don’t see Obama getting the message after the Democrats get their tails handed to them in the coming elections. To perceive and learn from failure requires a certain amount of character, humility and ability for personal examination, and let’s be real… Obama isn’t that type of guy.
Lame Duck Time For Cap and Trade
Dick Morris knows his business very well and the comment he made about a Cap and Trade senate vote may have sailed over my head. Even the experts get caught up in their underware from time to time, so I question what it is Morris is alluding to on Machin. Morris and the rest of us need to be concerned with the "For Sale" senators.
In talking about the future make up of the Senate, Morris pointed to West Virginia as being a pivotal race, where the outcome could decide Cap and Trade. How so Dick? The seat is Byrd's replacement, if Machin wins that would be one Dem replacing another. The vote count in the senate is still 59-41 until noon January 3, 2011.
Delaware West Virginia and one other state I believe seat their senators the day immediate following the election. But if all 3 are current dems how does that change things?
Me thinks Morris was trying to spur the minds of the West Virginia coal miners by playing the Cap and Trade bogeyman card,to get them to vote for the Republican candidate.
Cap and Trade will definitely be on the menu during the lame duck session. They've run out of time. The filibuster will have to be overcome somehow (Collins, Snowe), the vote taken and House reconcilation all in about 59 days. If C & T is delayed past January 3, the House Republican majority will pull the House version back from the Senate and kill it. The Bush expiring tax cuts may be somehow used as a poker chip in this overall high stakes game. Nervous days ahead my friends.
When the House version of Cap and Trade was first sent over to the Senate, back in August 09, bi partisan senators said it was DOA. That was then, this is now.
The time between election day and swearing in (the lame duck seesion) is going to be wild I fear. The out going representatives may no longer feel any type of party loyalty. The graft takers may see this as their last chance dance. Murkowski worrys me. Bennet worrys me. All the rejected old guard just may have some get even anger issues.
Have I mentioned this yet? Lieberman is considering caucusing with the Repubs. Let's say the general election vote turns out 50-50. Lieberman, Snowe or Collins could fetch a very high price for their conversion.
Steve
In talking about the future make up of the Senate, Morris pointed to West Virginia as being a pivotal race, where the outcome could decide Cap and Trade. How so Dick? The seat is Byrd's replacement, if Machin wins that would be one Dem replacing another. The vote count in the senate is still 59-41 until noon January 3, 2011.
Delaware West Virginia and one other state I believe seat their senators the day immediate following the election. But if all 3 are current dems how does that change things?
Me thinks Morris was trying to spur the minds of the West Virginia coal miners by playing the Cap and Trade bogeyman card,to get them to vote for the Republican candidate.
Cap and Trade will definitely be on the menu during the lame duck session. They've run out of time. The filibuster will have to be overcome somehow (Collins, Snowe), the vote taken and House reconcilation all in about 59 days. If C & T is delayed past January 3, the House Republican majority will pull the House version back from the Senate and kill it. The Bush expiring tax cuts may be somehow used as a poker chip in this overall high stakes game. Nervous days ahead my friends.
When the House version of Cap and Trade was first sent over to the Senate, back in August 09, bi partisan senators said it was DOA. That was then, this is now.
The time between election day and swearing in (the lame duck seesion) is going to be wild I fear. The out going representatives may no longer feel any type of party loyalty. The graft takers may see this as their last chance dance. Murkowski worrys me. Bennet worrys me. All the rejected old guard just may have some get even anger issues.
Have I mentioned this yet? Lieberman is considering caucusing with the Repubs. Let's say the general election vote turns out 50-50. Lieberman, Snowe or Collins could fetch a very high price for their conversion.
Steve
Obama To Meeks--Get In Back Of The Bus
I don't care that Clinton was the messenger boy, Obama was talking directly to Kendrick Meeks when he was asked to drop out of the Florida US Senate race in favor of an Independent. Why didn't Massa Obama ask Crist to drop out? Meeks is the demorat.
Obama knows the House is lost, so he is now doing everything including election fraud trying to save the Senate. This accusation is valid because the White House has been wordless regarding the rampant voter fraud taking place. Not one PSA announcement to keep it clean. The Department of InJustice again silent as Silent Bob was to Jay.
Last week when Obama said "they can ride in back", he was including the black voters in Florida as well. Not all black voters in America, just the useful idiots living in the Sunshine State. If I was black it would make me wonder "Who's next?".
Can somebody in Tallahassee plezzz fetch they Massa Obama a ladle fulls of coooool waaaata?
Steve
Obama knows the House is lost, so he is now doing everything including election fraud trying to save the Senate. This accusation is valid because the White House has been wordless regarding the rampant voter fraud taking place. Not one PSA announcement to keep it clean. The Department of InJustice again silent as Silent Bob was to Jay.
Last week when Obama said "they can ride in back", he was including the black voters in Florida as well. Not all black voters in America, just the useful idiots living in the Sunshine State. If I was black it would make me wonder "Who's next?".
Can somebody in Tallahassee plezzz fetch they Massa Obama a ladle fulls of coooool waaaata?
Steve
Bill Gives Obama “Civilian Security Force,” Reinstates Draft
October 29th, 2010 Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily
Rangel, facing ethics charges in Congress, has proposed the Universal National Service Act that would require “all persons” from ages 18-42 “to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security.”
The plan also authorizes “the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes”…
According to the copy of Rangel’s plan, which has been assigned to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel even though it lacks cosponsors, it specifies that “national service” means “military service or service in a civilian capacity that, as determined by the president, promotes national defense, including national or community service and service related to homeland security”…
It gives the president the far-reaching authority to “prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out this title,” including what types of “civilian service” are required, “standards of satisfactory performance,” “penalties for failure” and “such other matters as the president determines necessary to carry out this title.”
Conscientious objectors would be ordered “to perform national civiliain service… as the president may prescribe”…
WND reported earlier when Obama signed into law the “GIVE Act,” H.R. 1388, which massively expands the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars.
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It's Only A Matter of Time
Americans of hispanic descent need to take note of the goings on in Florida. Bill Clinton was sent down to Florida to ask Kendrick Meeks (D) to drop out of the US Senate race in order for Charlie Crist (I) to improve his chance of winning against, Marco Rubio (R).
Early voting is already underway in Florida and with 5 days remaining before Election Day it certainly is rather late to be asking for this last minute change.
Somewhere around 1.7 million votes have been cast already, assuredly some for Meeks. For Meeks to obliged the White House and drop out at this stage would be like throwing these early voter Meeks supporter's ballots in the trash. Disenfranchising 1000's of voters.
As this is happening to the left, I certainly feel little remorse for them. For all I know they will just go vote again anyway.
What this is pointing out though, should be obvious to the non black minorities.
Obama will court them, tell them everything they want to hear, but when it gets down to it, unless you are black, under the bus you go.
Even with Meeks being black and the candidate asked to step aside, it should not go unnoticed by hispanics, Crist is getting Obama's support over the hispainic in the race. Meeks wasn't going to suffer though, I'm sure Obama was planning on rewarding him with some upgrade situation after the election if things worked out.
There has always been an inherent distrust and dislike between blacks and hispainics. Competition over social services/welfare has often made them hated rivals. A rivalry that continues even in penitentiaries. Obama's open borders amnesty plan can be seen by a blind man as nothing more than a power play. Obama has no more long term use for hispanics than he does for whites.
I think Obama would like to Africanize America not Latinize it, he definitely wants to de- Anglicize America. His vision is for a Muslim majority in America. Unless the staunchly catholic hispainic community is ready to convert, they better reconsider their alliances. Making deals with the devil is never a good idea, no matter what he is offering.
Steve
Early voting is already underway in Florida and with 5 days remaining before Election Day it certainly is rather late to be asking for this last minute change.
Somewhere around 1.7 million votes have been cast already, assuredly some for Meeks. For Meeks to obliged the White House and drop out at this stage would be like throwing these early voter Meeks supporter's ballots in the trash. Disenfranchising 1000's of voters.
As this is happening to the left, I certainly feel little remorse for them. For all I know they will just go vote again anyway.
What this is pointing out though, should be obvious to the non black minorities.
Obama will court them, tell them everything they want to hear, but when it gets down to it, unless you are black, under the bus you go.
Even with Meeks being black and the candidate asked to step aside, it should not go unnoticed by hispanics, Crist is getting Obama's support over the hispainic in the race. Meeks wasn't going to suffer though, I'm sure Obama was planning on rewarding him with some upgrade situation after the election if things worked out.
There has always been an inherent distrust and dislike between blacks and hispainics. Competition over social services/welfare has often made them hated rivals. A rivalry that continues even in penitentiaries. Obama's open borders amnesty plan can be seen by a blind man as nothing more than a power play. Obama has no more long term use for hispanics than he does for whites.
I think Obama would like to Africanize America not Latinize it, he definitely wants to de- Anglicize America. His vision is for a Muslim majority in America. Unless the staunchly catholic hispainic community is ready to convert, they better reconsider their alliances. Making deals with the devil is never a good idea, no matter what he is offering.
Steve
Thursday, October 28, 2010
O'REILLY FEIGNS SURPRISE AND DISMAY...Why is Obama meeting with George Soros? Come on Bill..stop the games!...
I heard Bill O'Reilly on his Factor program (XM broadcast) tonight. What a joke. He made a big deal about the fact that George Soros has been to the White House four times! Why is someone so far left as Soros visiting the president? he asked. Why? Come on Bill...get real! Obama works for Soros! Soros conspired with Obama to defraud the American electorate and install this anti-American puppet in the White House. Soros pays Obama the bonus money! Can you say over-seas accounts? Soros is the puppet-master! Bill, stop feigning ignorance and pretending that Obama has America's interest at heart. When are you going to level with the American people Mr. Potatohead? Or is it PIN HEAD?
GOOD LUCK SHEILA! What a laugh...make sure you have plenty of cameras!...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Race Baiter) Asks Justice Dept. to Monitor Tea Partiers At Polls…
October 28th, 2010
(Politico) – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether tea party groups are intimidating black and Hispanic voters in her district.Jackson Lee has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to send poll monitors to her district on Nov. 2 to make sure the King Street Patriots, a local conservative voter turnout and tea party group, aren’t stopping people from voting.
“Many of these incidents of voter intimidation have been occurring in predominately minority neighborhoods and have been directed at African-Americans and Latinos,” she said in the letter. “It is unconscionable to think that anyone would deliberately employ the use of such forceful and intimidating tactics in 2010 to undermine the fundamental, constitutional right to vote.”
“I urge you to order an immediate investigation into these incidents and call for the Department of Justice to send poll monitors to Harris County immediately to ensure a safe and neutral voting environment during the Nov. 2 election,” Jackson Lee wrote.
Source: Weasel Zippers
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...an essay in time…
Dakota Cyclone, October 2010
Less than a week away from one of the first most important elections of our lifetimes–the next one being 2012– I take one more deep breath because the revolution moves to a new level shortly thereafter. We see the internal and external enemies of our Country–we have exposed them and they have exposed themselves acutely in the last twenty months. I am conscious that I have been holding my breath for months.
Leading the way as usual, Lame Cherry warns the Obama democrats, neo-progs and obots: don’t steal the election for if you do, it will unleash a revolution and they will lose by way of 1776 justice. We have all watched closely as Obama’s cloward piven strategy has been to produce that very result: civil unrest that would be an excuse for the totalitarian crackdown on all things American.
The anti-Americans have chosen to roll the dice, a high stakes game to take over America…but the missteps along the way have undermined their own efforts. The one key critical to the domestic takeover is the military and local law enforcement. Well, killing the soldiers by ‘engagement policies’ and dissing every law enforcement effort in the United States, and choosing to associate with a professed cop-killer and unrepentant terrorist punk in open defiance of law enforcement doesn’t inspire a following. Neither does the record of legislation, bailouts, apologies, suing the States, or personal behavior.GOP Rep. Barton: We Will Investigate Obama Administration
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) says the top two priorities of a GOP Congress would be to repeal health care and to investigate programs of the Obama administration.
"I obviously oversee the Obama administration. [I would] make sure the cabinet secretaries come before the Congress and explain their priorities in a way that they're not hiding things and certainly we would do health care, energy, the Environment Protection Agency," Rep. Barton tells CNBC.
CNBC hosts try to get Barton to look past 2008-2010 and ask him to investigate 2010-forward
link to video
from Real Clear Politics
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That's a first step-next hopefully comes Quo Warranto
Steve
"I obviously oversee the Obama administration. [I would] make sure the cabinet secretaries come before the Congress and explain their priorities in a way that they're not hiding things and certainly we would do health care, energy, the Environment Protection Agency," Rep. Barton tells CNBC.
CNBC hosts try to get Barton to look past 2008-2010 and ask him to investigate 2010-forward
link to video
from Real Clear Politics
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That's a first step-next hopefully comes Quo Warranto
Steve
Barnett/Keyes v Obama Appeal: Attorney Orly Taitz and Attorney Gary Kreep File Their Reply Briefs in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Attorney Taitz and attorney Kreep file their separate Reply Briefs in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The first snippet is from the Taitz Brief followed by a snippet from the Kreep Brief. Full Briefs...
The King of the Anti-Birther Movement, Glenn Beck Slides Down to 6th Place on Fox News
By Steve Cooper
The Conservative Monster.com
I guess being the King of the anti-Birther movement has worked well for Glenn? Even that putz Shepard Smith is beating Beck now. I took a lot of heat for taking on this loud mouth, because of his assault against the Obama Eligibility movement. It made me suspicious that there was a hidden agenda by Beck to undermine and derail the eligibility movement.
I want to thank the many thousands that backed me on this issue, because we truly made a difference. The eligibility movement is still alive and well and frauds like Beck, Matthews and Bill O' Reilly have no idea how to shut us down. Sorry, but you can not silence the truth. Many websites helped me spread the word about Operation Flood It and that was a big help.
Millions of Beck's fans have walked away from him due to his deception on the Obama Eligibility issue. Beck insists that Obama was born in Hawaii, but he only produced insults rather than one shred of evidence to prove his point. Beck at one time had 3.7 million viewers, but not any longer. Now, he is down to just 2.1 million viewers.
I was furious when I saw Beck praising the military at his DC rally, but Lt Col Lakin was not even mentioned. Lt Col Lakin, Capt Pamela Barnett and Commander Kerchner are just a few names of military officers that had the guts to speak out on the questions about Obama NOT being a natural born citizen.
Beck made my job much harder due to his constant undermining on the eligibility issue. The left wing blogs praised Beck for him taking a stand to attack and ridicule us with Alinsky tactics against his own fans. I was a fan of Beck's (just look at my older posts), but now he made me his most fiercest enemy. Suppression of this issue is bad enough, but choosing to be the leader of the anti-birther movement was a level of betrayal that put me and many millions over the edge. That is why we abandoned YOU Glenn, because you lost your credibility.
Hey Glenn? You should have kept your mouth shut cry baby and you have only YOURSELF to blame.....BYE BYE
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An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
