Friday, August 31, 2012

Netanyahu Lets Sparks Fly On Obama Administration



bbU.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro was shouted down by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they met in Israel to discuss the Obama administration’s position on Iran. “Time has run out,” the Prime Minister exclaimed.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Netanyahu was clearly frustrated with Mr. Shapiro:
A source that participated in the meeting said that a particularly angry and stressed Netanyahu began a tirade against the US president, attacking him for not doing enough on Iran. “Instead of pressuring Iran in an effective way, Obama and his people are pressuring us not to attack the nuclear facilities,” the source quoted Netanyahu as saying.
Angered about continued US rhetoric that diplomacy needs more time to work, Netanyahu said flatly: “Time has run out,” Yediot reported.
While Shapiro tried to respond politely, but firmly, apparently he overstepped his bounds. He said that Netanyahu was distorting Obama’s position. He claimed that Obama had promised that Iran would not obtain nuclear weapons and that military options were still on the table.
That did not go voer well and sources claim that is when “spark flew” in a shouting match between Netanyahu and Shapiro took place. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) was also on hand and sat stunned as Shapiro and Netanyahu went at each other.
This is exactly why we should remove the leash and let Israel do what they want about this. They sense a threat from Iran. They have the capability and the fortitude to eliminate that threat. Let them have at it. Why in the world would we hold them back?
It is possible that Netanyahu will meet Obama at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September. One wonders if sparks will fly there as well.


http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/08/netanyahu-lets-sparks-fly-on-obama-administration/



LEADING FROM BEHIND: EMPTY CHAIR TO VISIT LOUISIANA ON MONDAY



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Hours after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romneyvisited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced President Barack Obama would call an audible in his schedule and visit Louisiana on Monday to assess the storm's damage. 

Obama's leading-from-behind reaction to Romney's visit reaffirmed Clint Eastwood's empty chair analogy, which upset the mainstream media, the iconic actor used Thursday night at the Republican National Convention when discussing Obama and his presidency. 
"The empty-chair analogy by Clint Eastwood might be far more accurate and impactful than the Obama campaign and its cheerleaders in the media care to accept," the insightful Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus wrote
The mainstream media juxtaposed images of Hurricane Issac hitting Louisiana next to images of the RNC throughout the week, and they continued to stress the seriousness of the storm. Mainstream media networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and PBS reminded their viewers of Hurricane Katrina, and blamed former President George W. Bush for his inaction during Katrina. 
Yet Obama spent the week campaigning in crucial swing states like Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia (Louisiana is not a swing state). He even took some time to chat online, proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict political speech while on Reddit, an online link-sharing community. He never once visited Louisiana. 
And the mainstream media gave Obama a complete pass. 
"When somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go," Eastwood said Thursday night, in comments that could resonate more in light of Obama's inaction during and after Hurricane Issac.  


Well, Hell! Cut the dems some slack, willya?



Complaints, again, have been filed with authorities in Asheville, N.C., over the activities that happened during an annual “GoToplessDay” in the city, where women strip to the waist in a protest against the “unequal rights” that allow men to be bare-chested by not women.
The complaints were brought forward by former Asheville vice-mayor and clinical psychologist Carl Mumpower, along with former Republican County Party Chair Chad Nesbitt, who have been opposing the exhibitionism in public.
Jeff Johnson, the general manager of his wife’s pediatric practice in Huntsville, Ala., and the sponsor of the event, said nothing illegal was occurring and the women were simply exercising their constitutional rights.
Johnson likened the baring of women’s breasts in public to the civil rights movement and condemned the city council and Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy for issuing a letter urging families and children to stay away from the event.
“Apparently the mayor has forgotten 1964 and the Civil Rights movement,” Johnson said. “As a matter of fact that is why she is the mayor here and doesn’t have to sit in the back of the bus because of those civil rights. We’re invoking those civil rights.”
But a video has been posted on YouTube revealing a man picking up a partially nude woman and sucking her breasts.
And another image has been uncovered clearly showing a man with his hand on a topless woman’s breasts.
“Some shared this picture with us … it shows a gentleman at the event touching the breast of one of the performers. It is our understanding those are two police officers in the background. This picture was posted on the MountainX website until recently,” the email from Nesbitt and Mumpower to Lt. Sean Pound of the Asheville police department said.
“As you know touching an exposed breast is against the law in strip joints – may we safely assume it is also against the law in a public park?” they asked.
The YouTube video has been locked behind a website procedure in which those who want to view it must log in and verify their age. The image from the MountainX site cannot be reproduced or linked here.
On the issue of the video, the complaint explains, the “officers on duty failed to arrest a gentleman who, at one point in the event, made oral connection with a woman’s exposed breast and nipple.”
The complaint also noted that minors were present and that it was unlikely the man needed to be breast fed in public, which is legal under the law. “He was above the age of one who might be seeking nutritional support.”
Several women present also had their breasts painted with the words, “The warship Christ,” a reference to a local punk rock band.
Richard Bernier, who was present at both last year’s event as well as this year’s, said the attendance was significantly less than last year, by as much as 90 percent.
“It was nothing like last year, I think part of it had to do with the city council issuing a letter basically telling people not to go to the event,” he said. “Others undoubtedly stayed away because they didn’t want to be photographed and have videos of them posted all over the Internet.”
This year, Mumpower and Nesbitt sponsored a photo contest in an attempt to shame parents into keeping their children at home that day.
The contest offered a $200 prize for several categories including most degrading event moment for women, most degrading example of public sexual performance and most degrading example of child abuse.
The Daily Mail also reported while there were hundreds of gawkers, there were only about a dozen participants. However, by contrast Mumpower says there were 14 police officers present including a visit by the police chief.
The incident in the complaint, including the police failure to prevent the act, was eerily similar to last year’s event.
WND reported how last year Mumpower and others produced photographic evidence that the law was in fact violated, including pictures showing children as young as 3 or 4 years old watching the nude-fest. Some evidence also suggested that underage girls were among the exhibitionists who stripped nude to the waist.
“This year, we had more police officers present than there were protesters, yet they either did not notice this incident, they were either asleep, indifferent or something. Cameras don’t lie,” Mumpower said.
Interestingly, a YouTube video posted by Bernier was taken down for violating the website’s decency standards and his account was threatened with suspension if he posted a similar video in the next six months.
“They told me my video of the event did not meet community standards and they removed it,” Bernier said. “They then sent me a letter saying I would have my account suspended if I posted a similar video in the next six months. That is a real concern because I currently have over 300 videos up on the site.”
Johnson said he was pleased with the event and hopes to host another one next year.
Despite being in the Bible belt, Ashville is considered to be one of the most liberal cities in America and has been called the “east-coast San Francisco” and the “Paris of the South.” The local Chamber of Commerce slogan is, “Asheville – Any way you like it.”
The current applicable law states that anyone over 18 “who shall willfully expose the private parts of his or her person in any public place in the presence of any other person less than 16 years of age for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire shall be guilty of a Class H felony.”
Following last year’s event, Mumpower and others filed a child abuse complaint that stated among other things that city supported the event by allowing it on public property but failed to enforce the law, despite activities that were clearly illegal.
“Event organizers allowed underage teens to directly participate in the event – including displaying their breasts to public and peer review,” the complaint stated. “Children were in broad attendance at the event and directly observed festive, suggestive, and indiscrete sexual behavior by the adult participants.”
Lt. Wally Welch with the Asheville Police Department said that despite the photographs showing underage children being present, officers saw no sign of any children participating in the events. “None of the officers that monitored that particular event took notice of anyone underage participating,” Welch said then.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/complaints-of-illegal-behavior-again-follow-nude-fest/

From Dennis (The Tin Hat) Kucinich Strikes Again

America Deserves a Raise




This Labor Day, President Obama has the opportunity to defend the economic rights of millions of Americans by supporting a substantial increase in the minimum wage.
Presently $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage is inadequate. The purchasing power of a worker earning minimum wage in 1968 is equal to $10-11 today. That means, at $7.25 an hour, workers today have less wage power than workers in 1968.
Consider that an individual working full-time and taking no vacation or sick time will earn only $1,160 per month. Housing costs alone in a neighborhood in my hometown of Cleveland can easily approach most of the income of a full-time employee earning minimum wage. What about food? What about transportation? What about health care? What about providing for children?
The minimum wage is not a living wage. Taxpayers, through financing a range of social programs, end up subsidizing corporations who do not pay a living wage. Every worker should be paid enough to meet the essential needs of his or her family. Economically secure families make stronger communities which in turn strengthens our nation. This Labor Day let's show that our nation values families by increasing the minimum wage to $10 an hour.
We know that some corporations won't like it. If corporations don’t place value on the dignity, happiness or well-being of the American workers, then government must step in to protect workers' economic well-being. Workers are more than a line item in a corporate budget. The United States of America must be more than a profit-seeking machine. I am not suggesting a government handout, but a hand-up, enabling workers to climb out of a fiscal ditch.
The wealth in this nation has been accelerating upwards, leaving behind too many people who helped build America. The wealth that is produced by working Americans must be accessible to working Americans through an increase in the minimum wage. The Federal Reserve is incapable of stirring the economy, which is another reason to act. With unemployment at least 8.3%, an increase in the minimum wage will stimulate the overall economy
Labor Day 2012. There can be no better way to honor the American worker then to support an increase in the minimum wage, to a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Workers deserve a raise. America deserves a raise. The President can show his recognition of workers by supporting H.R. 5901, Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012, which would increase the minimum wage to $10 per hour. That would be one Happy Labor Day.

 

August 31, 2012 For Immediate Release
Nathan.White@mail.house.gov(202)225-5871

The Adults are Back in Town With RNC; Get Ready for DNC Circus



051712ConsvsLibs“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans… And to heal the planet… My promise is to help you and your family.” — Mitt Romney
That one line from Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech last night struck me as the most illustrative of the choice we face in November: Oblivion as we pursue more taxpayer-funded moonbat schemes, or dealing with economic reality and fixing it.
I have to admit I have not been a big Romney fan, but I was impressed by his RNC speech. He managed to touch all the salient points on Americans’ minds, hit home with some well-placed barbs directed at Obama, yet maintained a gentlemanly tone the whole time.
My one disappointment is the continuing shunning of Sarah Palin, but overall I felt the convention shredded the Democrats’ lie about a “War on Women” with a long list of strong women speakers who powerfully showed everything women can be: intelligent, successful, strong leaders and devoted wives and mothers.
God, America and family were the real stars of the convention, and Romney put a sharp point on the conservative outlook with everything from his discussion about his family’s struggles in his younger days to his direct challenge to Vladimir Putin: “Mr. Putin will see a little less ‘flexibility’ and more backbone.”
The RNC hammered home the point that President Obama has been an unmitigated disaster for the country. As Clint Eastwood said, “It’s a national disgrace.” Eastwood was talking to an empty chair representing the president. Very fitting.
Unfortunately, it will all just go over the heads of most liberals, whose DNC convention is up next in North Carolina.
The RNC had to deal with the threat of a passing hurricane. The DNC will bring its own hurricane with all the hot air that accompanies Democrats wherever they go.
The Occupy-whatever crowd, the Code Pinkos in their vagina costumes and the entire drug-addled, aged hippie crowd that couldn’t get through security at the RNC will be running the show at the DNC.
Expect endless tirades about a GOP “War on Women” and opposition to gay “marriage” (“The Other War on Women”), accusations of racism, how the GOP is really to blame for everything wrong with the country. Oh, and don’t forget the scheduled two-hour Muslim opening prayer, intended to capture the essence of Obama’s America.
Obama and the DNC really don’t have anything to run on, record-wise, so expect a lot of long-winded explanations about how Obama inherited our current mess and how Romney is rich and you’re not.
The one highlight that might make the DNC bearable is if they let Joe Biden talk off-script. He’s always a hoot.
As Eastwood said, “We all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.”


http://godfatherpolitics.com/6851/the-adults-are-back-in-town-with-rnc-get-ready-for-dnc-circus/



November’s Decision: Socialism or Americanism



Americanism v socialismAfter listening to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at the Republican National Convention and reviewing the past three and half years of the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administration, the November election boils down to this: socialism or Americanism.
American was built upon the back of thousands of men and women who worked hard and long to build their own businesses.  They all started small and the vast majority remained small.  The backbone of the American economy is made up of the millions of small businesses across the nation that also supply jobs to millions of people.
Under the Obama administration, small businesses have been closing their doors at a record pace.  Not only are the owners losing their livelihood, but so are millions of workers, other businesses and individuals that rely upon them.  Like a human backbone, it cannot continue to support the body if it keeps weakening and losing pieces.  When enough pieces of the backbone are removed, the body can no longer support itself and it collapses on the floor.
Socialism relies on the collapse of small businesses.  The government assumes the role of provider in all areas and aspects of life.  This is the path that the Obama administration is actively pursuing.  This is socialism, not Americanism.
The Romney/Ryan ticket promises to help small businesses and entrepreneurship to help rebuild the economy, create jobs and strengthen America’s backbone.   They’re not going to do it by borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to use on another stimulus package, but by sound and reasonable business practices that have worked for years.  This is Americanism, not socialism.
The hallmark of the Obama/Biden administration is Obamacare.  Obamacare is nothing more than socialized healthcare.  The government assumes the role of health provider and they will make the decisions on what medical care you do and don’t get.  The cost of Obamacare is far greater than you know.  Not only is it going to cost every American family, rich, middle class and poverty level, thousands of dollars in hidden taxes over the next decade starting this coming January, but it will also cost lives.  Americans will die for lack of proper care.  Others will die because the care dictated to them by the government will not be the right care as in the case of Jacob Stieler.  Obamacare is socialism, not Americanism.
The Romney/Ryan ticket promises to repeal Obamacare and return ownership of your health to you.  They do plan to try to work on a new health plan, but one that will not tax American’s into poverty.  In the process, they will restore the money that Obama took from Medicare and strengthen the program to help make it last.  This is Americanism, not socialism.
Under the Obama/Biden administration, they have reduced the middle class and increased the number of families living at or below the poverty level.  A socialistic society does not have a middle class.  It has the upper governmental elite and then everyone else.  This is socialism, not Americanism.
The Romney/Ryan ticket promises to boost the economy, increase jobs and thus help bring more Americans out of poverty and back into the middle class.  The middle class helped make America strong and will help to strengthen it once again.  This is Americanism, not socialism.
Under the Obama/Biden administration, government entitlements and dependency has increased at an alarming rate.  The administration has made it harder for religious and other non-profit organizations to operate and provide charity.  Instead, the government has been assuming the role of charity and provider.  This is socialism, not Americanism.
The Romney/Ryan ticket has promised to help get many Americans back on their feet so that they can provide for themselves and their families and get rid of the government handout lists.  They will continue to provide care for those that really need it, while at the same time forcing many to take responsibility for their own wellbeing.  This is Americanism, not socialism.
The real choice come November is whether you want a socialistic government and country or the free America of our past?  If you want America to become like the old Soviet Union and Cuba, then cast your vote for Obama/Biden as this is socialism.  If you want to save America and restore it to its former greatness and free enterprise system, then vote for Romney/Ryan for this is Americanism.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/6838/novembers-decision-socialism-or-americanism/


We Can Change America’s Course


Entering the final stretch of the presidential contest, Americans are facing a monumental choice. The American people will decide the direction of government and its role in their lives for the coming years.
The debate in Tampa this week raised a number of issues, including preserving the American dream of working hard to achieve success. The Heritage Foundation has extensive research and policy prescriptions on each of these issues:
Energy: America needs to end energy subsidies and restore a free market in the energy sector. We can and should develop our domestic energy sources in an environmentally responsible way. Go to Energy & Environment
School choice: America’s education focus should be our students. The best way to serve the needs of a diverse population is to give families the freedom to choose a school—public, private, charter, or home school—that best fits their children’s needs. See where your state stands
Free trade: America needs jobs, and promoting free trade is an excellent way to create high-quality jobs in America. We should have a free flow of goods, services, and investments between democratic nations. Catch up on the U.S. free trade record
The federal budget: Tackling the federal budget is a complex task, but it must be done. Heritage’s Saving the American Dream plan details ideas for reforming major entitlement programs, permanently balancing the budget, and reducing the national debt. See the Heritage plan
Tax reform: America’s families and businesses need tax relief. A tax cut here and there isn’t enough; we need fundamental tax reform. A tax system that is simple and fair would spur economic growth and protect those at the bottom of the income ladder. How it could be done
Repealing Obamacare: Obamacare doesn’t stop with government intrusion into your relationship with your doctor. It also raises taxes, adds to the U.S. deficit, and attacks religious and personal freedoms. Top 5 Reasons to Repeal Obamacare
Reforming Medicare: Medicare reform is not an option—it is a necessity. To keep the program working for those it is designed to help, we should give seniors more control over their health care decisions and guarantee better access to quality care. The way forward for Medicare
Next week, the debate will continue in Charlotte, and more policy issues may enter the mix.
There’s no way to predict how the election will turn out. But as Heritage’s Matt Spalding has written, “it will be a turning point in American history: Either our leaders will guide the country even further along the road to ‘progressivism’ or they will begin a long, slow turn back toward the principles of the American Founding.”
“The federal government has acquired an all but unquestioned dominance over virtually every area of American life,” Spalding says. “It acts without constitutional limits and is restricted only by expediency, political will, and (less and less) budget constraints.”
The Heritage Foundation recently published Changing America’s Course, which gives our political leaders recommendations on how to stay within the limits of the Constitution.
To put America on a path toward preserving and growing freedom, Spalding says, “The first step is to reduce the size and scope of government and unleash the engines of economic productivity and the institutions of cultural renewal.”
It is possible to change America’s course.
Quick Hits:
  • Isaac has left homes underwater and power off throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. At least four people have died.
  • President Obama told TIME magazine that he might not have had enough time to explain the stimulus to people.
  • The Pentagon has told the Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the Osama bin Laden raid that he hasviolated an agreement not to disclose classified information.
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak at 10 a.m. today and is expected to address the question of further “monetary easing” policies.
  • Does China “own” the U.S. because of the U.S. debt it holds? Heritage answers, and it might surprise you.