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Amnesty bill set to hit the Congress floor next week


On Tuesday, December 15, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) will introduce new legislation, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, to the U.S. House of Representatives. Gutierrez will have the support of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

An estimated 15-20 million illegal immigrants will grab the golden ticket enabling them to come out of the shadows and become American citizens. The immigration reform legislation comes at a time when the country faces 10 percent unemployment and bankrupt states from coast to coast.

This overly ambitious Congress has passed a plethora of bills despite stubborn recession that continues to put a grip the U.S. economy. Here is a sampling of programs House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has passed just this year; $700 billion financial bank bailout, $787 billion stimulus, $1.5 trillion health care expansion, $200 billion doctor fix, $800 billion cap and trade and a $250 billion omnibus spending bill.

This spendingpalooza is over and above the Iraq/Afghanistan war and yearly federal government budget spending obligations. Where’s the money coming from?

 

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Washington D.C. to raise the federal debt of $12 trillion by $1.8 trillion


In alarming news out of Washington D.C. Democratic lawmakers will add a $1.8 trillion debt increase amendment into a must-pass military appropriations bill. Both Houses have identified the shortfalls in the federal government revenue stream and claims they need more money to operate.

This would be the point when businesses and average citizens would buckle down and cut spending in order to get by, not the federal government. What better way to ensure the $1.8 trillion money will be given to the federal government than to add the amendment to a $636.4 billion Pentagon appropriations bill that includes funds for the surge in Afghanistan.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer-D MD told Politico; “We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills.” Keep reading

National security breeches include discovery of bombs and missiles


President Obama campaigned on change, giving Border States hope with the appointment of Arizona’s Janet Napolitano to Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, however this is where the hope and change ended and business as usual persisted.

A recent press release titled “Secretary Napolitano and Mexican Finance Secretary Agustin Carstens Sign Enhanced Declaration of Principles to Strengthen Bilateral Economic and Security Cooperation” from Napolitano’s office, the release unequivocally proves this case; “Protecting the interconnected security and economic interests of the United States and Mexico depends on close collaboration between our two nations,” said Secretary Napolitano. “Secretary Carstens and I will continue to work together to coordinate efforts to crack down on violent drug cartels along the Southwest border while facilitating the flow of travel and trade.”

The release continues to highlight America’s intent to speed up the flow of human and cargo traffic into the U.S. notwithstanding exactly what and who is getting across the borders in the name of speed. “We are building upon a longstanding relationship and cooperation, which have derived extraordinary results, particularly in matters of trade facilitation to legitimate stakeholders and law enforcement,” said Secretary Carstens. “However, today’s world demands from us a more intelligent and coordinated way to protect our borders and facilitate trade.”

The new joint initiatives and long-term programs used by the U.S. and Mexico are said to augment information-sharing mechanisms and coordinate border management
policy framework for engagement on multiple fronts, “including emphasizing professionalism among law enforcement personnel through integrity-related training and the sharing of best practices and establishing improved mechanisms for information-sharing.”

These new tempered caveats only add to the already expanding relationship with Mexico. Since January the Obama Administration has signed three agreements building on unprecedented levels of collaboration between the two nations. The agreements are designed to combat transnational crime, increase law enforcement partnership and amplify the flow of travel and trade along the Southwest border.

However, the breakdowns at ports of entry have now been established in several stories, using numerous employee statements. Instead of strengthening the borders this administration has only broken them down further. DHS has even weakened the E-Verify method of exposing illegal aliens, and slowed its detention and deportation programs. In hearings on Capitol Hill today, Senator Jeff Sessions-R AL railed Napolitano’s stance on enforcement of these very issues.

Miami, More Porous than the Southwest Border, But the Party Continues Keep reading

60 Minutes and One Sure Fire Plan

12.9.2009 I wrote this blog in November of 2008 and evidently it was prophecy! 

60 Minutes and One Sure-Fire Plan 

As American we love new, improved products and this was never clearer than when Barack Obama was elected president a few weeks ago. After all he is the new, improved and younger version of our previous “products” in government. His whole platform was built on change. He would be changing the old guard of the GOP run show to he new improved, Democratic run show. So let’s review these changes so far, as he picks his cabinet and “new products” for the government. Oh yeah they aren’t new just a little “used” products. The ‘certified used’ version of government. After all his cabinet is starting to look a lot like

Clinton’s cabinet of the 1990’s. As Dr. Phil says, “The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.” So I guess we will see how much change actually occurs.

While watching President-Elect Obama’s first real interview since his election to office, on 60 Minutes  I was shaking my head, not in disbelief but in a “ here we go again “, way. He sounds like every other politician, but with a more polished version of the quid pro quo.   I thought this guy was supposed to be the “second coming”, the visionary, and the prophet for a new

America? Well it sounds like the old

America according to the Democrats. Obama stated at the beginning of his interview when asked if this was the worst financial crisis the

US had ever seen, “It could be worse”. Really? How profound. I remember when John McCain said the same thing on the campaign trail and he was called, ‘disconnected’ to the people and not clearly understating the true crisis that Americans were dealing with every day. John McCain was out of touch but Obama who is plugged in with each and every American household thinks, “It could be worse”. Good I feel better now.

Barack Obama also said he didn’t want more regulation on companies which sounds very much like the John McCain platform on taxing US companies. He had no answer for why the Treasury and Congress have allowed $300 billion to be sifted through unnamed banks and yet no one is better off. Maybe I missed the answer when I blinked. Apparently no one really knows the answer to that question. And when the subject came to the war in Iraq Obama was sure that our troops would be coming home sooner rather than later. This is easier to say now that

Iraq has given us a 3 year time frame for troop reduction. Obama doesn’t say that all of our troops are coming home; we will be shifting our focus from Iraq to

Afghanistan. So don’t be surprised when we are still fighting a war in

Middle East we are just changing locations. That is the new improved version of war.

And now for his “New Deal”. Obama doesn’t believe we can recreate the solutions for the Depression on a situation that is different in the year 2008 on the financial crisis but his campaign used that very fear mongering when he was running for his current position. He also says he wants to be a President who is “straight “with the American people. So why did he seal his records at Harvard and his birth records in

Hawaii. Why is it that I know more about Angelina Jolie’s breast feeding troubles than I do about where Obama was born or his past job performance? I know he was a community organizer but I don’t if any of his core ideas worked to change anything. I am still shocked at the crime rate in Chicago and the fact that a woman and her family were slaughtered by thugs in her home across the street from a church outside of Chicago, but Obama was a hard working Senator from Illinois. If he does for the Country what he seemingly has done for

Illinois we are all in trouble!

It is true that Barack Obama is handsome to some and very charismatic to many but that doesn’t help us in the arena of International politics. His lack of experience evening his job as a Senator scares me. How does one gain experience from job you never actually worked at? He was elected but rarely if ever voted on anything. He didn’t write his won legislation, and I never heard of him doing anything for the people of his own State. Maybe I’m “disconnected” but I would think if he was really great at problem solving they would have been shoving it don our throats for the past two years. Instead they just showed us how inept our current government was; by the way he is actually part of that current government as a Senator.

Even more interesting about the interview on 60minutes was Obama’s claim to be seeking an “orderly” transition while Bush leaves office and Obama takes it. Has anyone ever seen an “un-orderly” transition? I mean by the nature of the job I think men leave the White House running. Bush is probably thrilled by now to be handing the problems of the Nation over to Obama, I know I would. I doubt they will have to tear Laura Bush from the candelabra in the White House. These things are done very orderly and by a list of routine I would suppose. I did feel sorry for Obama and his family though when he mentioned that his routine has been upset greatly by the turn of events and he is beginning to feel “disconnected” from his routines and people due to the Secret Service and pressures that follow being President –Elect. Hmmm, disconnected huh? Sounds familiar. Maybe that is just a by product of being a politician today.

But through it all Obama did in fact express his first concise plan for the Nation…He wants to create a National Playoff for College Football. He explained in great detail how he thought it should work and why. If he could explain his plan for any other problem as well I wouldn’t be so worried. I am put at ease now, knowing that the age-old question of the college football play off debate is now in the hands of the most powerful man in the world, the

US President. I can finally sleep. Now that is change I can believe in.!

Grand Jury Presentment- a case against President Obama


A group of American citizens have decided to put their efforts into bringing a case against the President of the United States, Barrack Hussein Obama for treason, eligibility of Naturalization and fraudulent paperwork filed by the Democratic National Committee.

Charges similar to these have been served more than 400 times in various ‘jurisdictions’ across the country, according to Neil Turner an advocate for this lawsuit. He continues to report that “there are actually 3,141 jurisdictions in which charges can be served.”
“Lt. Commander Fitzpatrick is now serving these very same charges, which include an original two-page charge of Treason, to a sitting Grand Jury in Monroe County, TN,” Turner explained.

As word of the “birth certificate drama” surfaced on the airwaves last week due to a question posed to Sarah Palin by talk show host Rusty Humphries and reported on by World Net Daily, the drama resurfaced. Palin was asked point blank if Obama’s birth certificate was okay for public fodder. “Yes,” was her answer. According to Palin, American’s have the right to request President Obama’s birth certificate; however, in a statement on her Facebook page Palin defers her opinion on this case. “But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.” Keep reading

Senator Boxer compares Viagra to abotions


Yes, liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer of California compared men who use Viagra to women who get abortions and claims she would vote the same way on both issues. Boxer’s claim that insurance companies that cover Viagra for men should also be providing abortions to women sets her apart from most senators.

“We don’t tell men that if they want to make sure their, can buy insurance coverage through their pharmaceutical plan for Viagra that they can’t do it. No, we don’t do that, and I wouldn’t support that. It would be wrong. Well, it’s wrong to single out women and to say to women of this country, they can’t use their own private funds to purchase insurance that covers the whole range of reproductive health care,” Boxer said on the Senate floor.

Boxer goes on to explain to members in her Democratic party that they are showing “a lack of respect for women” regarding their stance on suspending tax-payer funded abortions.

This dissention was in direct response to Senator Ben Nelson-D NE who wrote an amendment for the current health care bill being debated on the Senate floor that strictly hamstrings tax-payer funded abortions. Keep reading

Acting CBP Commissioner Ayhern retires, but will sex ring and security gaffs end?


Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Ahern to Retire- But Will the Cronyism, Sex-rings and Security Gaffs End

After three decades of service to the federal government, Jayson Ahern will be leaving the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency with the blessing of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano. “Jay has led CBP and we have benefited from his wisdom…Jay has demonstrated remarkable leadership and service to our nation,” the DHS Secretary explained.

There are many who disagree with that statement. Once the story unfolds “service” will have a different meaning. Speculation and allegations surround the retirement of Ahern. Even though his career was marred with indiscretions he continued to move up the chain of command. Many who have worked with him throughout the years believe the retirement comes as the ‘writing is on the wall’ and a quiet departure will lead to greater opportunities without scandal.

In fact, scandal has long been documented in public detail and the fallout has followed Ahern and others in Miami (and elsewhere) for years. That, in and of itself is not anything new, but the result of this internal corruption and sexual antics have left a nation open to security breakdowns.

Ahern says of his retirement, “the agency is filled with strongly committed and dedicated professionals whose responsibility is to secure the homeland…Over the remaining weeks; I will undoubtedly recall numerous highlights, accomplishments and challenges that we have shared.”

Let’s look back at Ahern’s career in the CBP and see what kind of legacy he will be leaving to his successor, Alan Bersin, an Obama appointee.

A number of top CBP officials have long been ensnared in sexual misconduct allegations and when it comes time for punishment it has been the whistleblowers who find themselves in trouble. Unfortunately this is not the exception, but a tried and true rule, a pattern that continues to be practiced each day in the Department of Homeland Security.

Sex, Lies, and Videotapes

 

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No mammograms for women 40-49 could result in 11,500 deaths


The recently released medical report that caused a stir within American women regarding mammograms, could cost approximately 11,500 lives due to abstinence of the tests used to screen for deadly breast cancers.

The report stated women in the 40-49 age groups do not need to be tested on a yearly basis because a small number of misdiagnosis could cause panic until the correct diagnosis is made. In these cases it takes more tests and about a month to correct the mistake.

This is a tough sell for women. “I would rather live for a month thinking I have breast cancer than waiting until it’s too late and I die from breast cancer,” says Cindy Harris a 40-year-old nurse. “The tests, in my opinion, save lives, and are worth the cost. Period.”

However, this yearly test could cost or save the federal government millions of dollars per year. Medical literature basically states that mammogram screening for women 40-49 will save the life of one woman in every 1,900 screened. Keep reading

Climategate gets a new name from cap-and-trade’s author Boxer


In a major meltdown within the global warming community, emails were leaked before the up coming U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen, rebuking the fact that climate change is nothing more than a hoax used to gin up political bases. That’s not the way Senator Barbara Boxer-D CA sees it; “You call it ‘Climate gate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate.”

Not exactly as catchy as climate gate, but nevertheless telling with how Senator Boxer feels about purported global warming pact. Boxer said she would like to see the e-mail hackers punished for their shenanigans and did not bother questioning the science behind the e-mails. “I’m looking at these e-mails that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public.”

The e-mails in question were hacked from scientists at the University of East Anglia, England’s equivalent to NASA and know has disputed the facts contained in the emails. “Several thousand scientists have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening. I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

However, the unearthed e-mails quickly gave Republicans new hope in the battle to fight Senator Boxer’s prized cap and trade legislation.

Drafts of the technical documents and photos were discovered that could spark major debates in the world of science and administrations that are promoting economic policy based on the results of that scientific theory. For those who remain leery about whether the globe is actually warming or cooling, these documents could shed negative light within the scientific community. Keep reading

States seeing red with health care reform legislation


 

California Medical Association, the states’ largest doctors group, is the latest organization to jump ship from the $2.5 trillion Senate health care reform bill currently under debate in Washington. They cite, “it (health care reform) would increase local health care costs and restrict access of care for the elderly and low-income patients.”

The large price-tag attached to the health care reform legislation and lack of new jobs has soured the majority of Americans who would like to see the White House concentrate on job creation. The polls tell the tale of an unpopular health care package. Rasmussen Polls show the margin widening for those who do not favor this legislation – 36 percent favor what Washington is offering, while 59 percent do not want this bill.

However, this hasn’t stopped California Senator Barbara Boxer-D from her unwavering support of the largest entitlement program in U.S. history.

“In her rush to pass a massive $2.5 trillion government health care bill, Barbara Boxer has ignored the grim economic reality in her state,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson Marchand. “Given her inaction on the most pressing concern facing California voters, it’s no wonder Boxer’s popularity lags so far behind Dianne Feinstein’s.” Keep reading