Video: Four Minutes of Funny Muslims

"Funny Muslims" video compilation.

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Obama, Jeremiah Wright: Need a Change of Course

"Change" might be an appropriate word to apply to the Obama campaign.

Especially after the day their candidate had yesterday.

"Change!"

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The Audacity of Barack Obama Part II

See "The Audacity of Barack Obama Part 2"

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Febreze Seized in Huge Pot Bust

Eliminate odors from fabrics while spreading a light fresh scent. Whether it’s car, pet, pot, or general home odors, Febreze Fabric Refresher has a great solution.

The Laredo Police Department received an anonymous tip Thursday regarding suspicious activity at a residence near the area of Saunders and Interstate 35. After police set up surveillance it was determined there was enough cause to search the house.

According to Officer Jose E. Baeza, police then raided the residence and found 90 bundles of marijuana wrapped in plastic along with several bottles of Febreze. Four men were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and engaging in organized criminal activity.

Police said the home was a "stash" house located in a residential area. Three heavily loaded police trucks with an armed escort moved the estimated 1 ton of pot with a street value of $803,000 along with "several" bottles of the fabric freshener and household odor remover Febreze.





Produced by Proctor and Gamble, Febreze was first introduced into test markets in 1996.

The product's active ingredient, cyclodextrin, is a type of modified starch having a shape similar to a donut. The molecule binds or entraps various hydrophobic compounds within the donut shape.[2] In this way, malodorous molecules are retained so that they are no longer detected as a scent.

At the site Everything2 one writer warns about too much use of products which mask odors when smoking pot.

Incense, dryer sheets, towels under door, FeBreze, etc. are good ways to mask odors; but their presence consistently leads to suspicion

This wasn't the first time Febreze was implicated in connection to pot, this time in north central Washington on Hwy 97, 15 minutes south of the Canadian border. The stretch of road is known as Smugglers Alley. A woman out for a walk found a backpack stuffed with over $500,000 in cash. Authorities determined the woman had stumbled upon a "drop site".

Both prosecutors and defense agreed that Taber picked up a bag that had earlier contained $507,070 and that a dope smell filled the counting room at the sheriff's office -- along with the scent of Febreze, commonly used to cover such odors. Source - November

Cannibis Connousieurs

Febreze seems to be a favorite for eliminating pesky pots smells as these posters in Cannabis forum highly recommend Febreze for one girl's pot smoking dilemma.

Hey all!

My boyfriend would NOT be thrilled if he knew I am planning on experiementing with herb as often as I plan on it (he knows I'm going to try it... but he isn't happy about it....)

Anyway.... pot has a very strong smell..... if I smoke, how do I make sure I get the smell COMPLETELY off of me so that he won't ever suspect??

I guess... i don't want ANYONE to know if I can help it..... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

***

smoke a few cigarettes or a cigar. the tobacco smell overpowers the weed smell. i do this when i smoke in my room. i smoke the blunt, then i smoke 4 or 5 cigs, and spray with Febreeze so my parents wont know. but unless your boyfriend doesnt want u smokin cigs either, Febreeze is wonderful.

Another member also recommends Febreze:

As for the smell on your clothes, you have a few options available. As a girl, perfume would seem like an obvious choice to me. Febreeze is better suited for ridding the smell in an area (I use it in my basement if I must). I've also found using dryer sheets (The kind where the powder comes off easily) will eliminate the smell COMPLETELY, and makes your clothes smell like fresh laundry. However, it can at times leave amounts of powder visible on your clothes, but this can be rubbed off mostly.

Febreze was seized when police searched a teen's car in Medina, Ohio.

Cigarettes, a lighter and box cutter were found on the teen, and rolling papers, Visine eye drops, Febreze air freshener, a cigarette roller, can of loose tobacco, two small bags of marijuana and a bong reportedly were found in his car. He will be charged through juvenile court on possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, both misdemeanors. Source - Medina Gazette


No word yet if Febreze is now considered to be "drug paraphernalia" but the confiscation by the Laredo police during the 1 ton pot bust and the teen's car in Medina, OH, indicates they consider it as potential evidence and possibly an indicator of pot use.

By LBG

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Source - Laredo Morning Times
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The Audacity of Barack Obama and Trinity Church

"Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization."

Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church celebrates their experiences apart from the American experience.

This can be seen in the '60s-style sermons, such as the "God Damn America" one.

Taken separately, at face value, outside the context of the preaching a constant stream of grievance, injustice and anti-Americanism, this may not appear worrisome. Depending on the Mainstream Media to report the context, or inconvenient facts of the matter, is a losing proposition for those Americans who use information to make better-informed political choices.

Do we want a president steeped in the ideology of the '60s radical, anti-American Left? Let's take a look at this Trinity Church-produced promotional video.



This second video, "The Audacity of Barack Obama" more than likely originated from a Clinton website, ObamaTruth.org. It doesn't make the facts presented false.




Two more things when thinking about what kind of "change" candidate Obama is constantly--but vaguely--referring to.

"Change for Change's Sake Isn't always Good" might be a more accurate, if politically bland, motto.

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Illegal Immigration: Eisenhower Stopped it Cold

"We Can't Deport 12 Million People"
--Various illegal immigration shills



The Big Lie: a propaganda technique.

It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".

We continue to see the Big Lie technique at work in the new century.

Right after Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953, America's southern border was as bad as it is today: porous, with people streaming across into America.

Two years ago, the Christian Science Monitor did a report "How Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico". It's a good read for the so-called immigration "experts" who insist that "you can't deport 12 million people".

It's estimated that as many as three million illegal migrant workers had crossed north for jobs in Arizona, California, Texas and beyond.

Unlike George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Eisenhower cut this illegal flow off--and he did it in a matter of months with only a tenth of the Border Patrol agents the U.S. now has. Veteran Border Patrol agents still talk proudly of the operation, which took less than 1100 agents to implement.

Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike's official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.

General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said "Amen" to Senator Fulbright's proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."

But President Eisenhower has something going for him that neither Bush nor Clinton had: political will and determination about solving the problem. Eisenhower didn't rely on contributions from employers dependent on artificially-low wages, either.

Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.

America "was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale," Mr. Brownell said. "When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint."

Then in 1953, as now in 2008, the magnet north was work for the illegal aliens; the magnet was funded by companies looking to cut labor costs.

Although an on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, farmers and ranchers in the Southwest had become dependent on an additional low-cost, docile, illegal labor force of up to 3 million, mostly Mexican, laborers.

According to the Handbook of Texas Online, published by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, this illegal workforce had a severe impact on the wages of ordinary working Americans. The Handbook Online reports that a study by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas in 1950 found that cotton growers in the Rio Grande Valley, where most illegal aliens in Texas worked, paid wages that were "approximately half" the farm wages paid elsewhere in the state.

The rest of this article relates how Eisenhower cut off the flow of illegal immigrants.

There's NO reason we can't do it today.

Except the American political elites (are we to follow Europeans down the road to a sneering, unresponsive political elite class who tells everyone else what to do--for their own good?), do not have the desire, nor the will, to take action.

Close the southern border, another 9/11. The U.S. can do it, if desired.

Anyone who says otherwise is telling The Big Lie.

by Mondoreb
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Seven Scandalous Celebrity Swimsuit Pix

Pixelaneous #36



Hayden Panatierre



Ariana Sklenarikova

Jessica Alba

Britney Spears

Jessica Alba 2

Model
(ok, not a celebrity)

Tara Reid

OK, we admit it.

Six celebrity bathing suit pix plus one unnamed model.

Nobody's perfect.

compiled by Mondoreb
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* comicvine
* celebrity photos
* flickr
* vox celebrity
* flickr
* javno
* javno

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Barack Obama: New Campaign Poster and Slogan?

A Man with a HAT not HATE

We went looking for a good Barack Obama pic on Google and saw the one above. When we checked it out, we saw its author was no other than our friend, the esteemed SNOOP, from Political Party Poop!

This gives us the perfect opportunity to invite readers to check out Political Party Poop to see a cornucopia of great graphics and stories.

We've been so busy moving lately, we've not had time to stop by many of our favorite sites, but this is a great reminder.

Political Party Poop.

We promise: if you don't like liberals, you'll be so happy, you'll laugh.

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Larry Sinclair: Files $3M Suit Against Anonymous Posters

Anonymous Posters?

Cyberspace is a busy place with millions of posters commenting on blogs and forums, exercising their right to Freedom of Speech as written in the First Amendment of the Constitution unless, according to Larry Sinclair, you voice a negative opinion about Larry, then you're liable to the tune of millions of dollars.

Larry Sinclair, the guy who claims Senator Obama had sex and procured coke for him back in 1999 has filed yet another lawsuit, this time for defamation of "character" while new "details" have emerged in Sinclair's story about his alleged 1999 "tryst" with then State Representative Barack Obama.

One would suppose when someone files a defamation of character lawsuit they will eventually have to prove they had a "character" to defame yet Larry has forged ahead with funds "donated" through paypal on his website.

According to the site, Big Head DC, Sinclair has filed a lawsuit against 3 anonymous posters on the site, Democratic Underground, seeking 3 million dollars in damages for defamation of character.

Sinclair claims the comments of the anonymous three, posted in a public forum regarding his "mental state" and "character" and their belief that Sinclair is lying about a supposed tryst back in 1999 with then State Representative Obama are grounds for Larry to sue.

Who are the three anonymous posters whom Sinclair has filed suit against?

TubeSockTedD, mzmolly and OWNINGLIARS, names which reminds us of Muppets from Sesame Street.

The lawsuit also includes more "details" about the supposed encounter between Sinclair and Obama.

“On the evening of November 6, 1999, Plaintiff’s limousine driver telephoned then-Illinois State Senator Barrack Obama to set up a introduction of Plaintiff to Mr. Obama,” according to the lawsuit. “Later that evening at a bar which Plaintiff believes was called Alibis, Plaintiff met Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama offered to purchasing cocaine for Plaintiff. Mr. Obama made a telephone call from his cellphone to a presently unknown individual during which Mr. Obama arranged the cocaine purchase.

“Mr. Obama and Plaintiff then departed the bar in Plaintiff’s limousine and proceeded to an unknown location where Mr. Obama exited the limousine with two hundred fifty dollars ($250) tendered by Plaintiff and returned a short while later with an ‘eightball’ of cocaine and gave it to Plaintiff,” the suit continues. “Plaintiff and Mr. Obama then ingested cocaine.”

The original story by Sinclair on his Youtube video released at the end of January was vague on details. A third "character", the limo driver, has now emerged in Larry's Fairytale, of Larry in 1999 in his rented limo, garnering an introduction to then State Representative Obama by way of his driver.

According to Larry, after he and Obama, a State Representative meet, he gives Obama money for illegal drugs who then procures an "eightball" of cocaine for the two of them to "ingest".

We're then supposed to believe that the evening progressed with a quickie blowjob, then a later "date" at a Choice Hotel in Gurnee, Illinois between Senator Obama and Larry Sinclair.

Larry's Lawsuits

Sinclair's first lawsuit was filed Feb. 11, at the United States District Court, District of Minnesota against Senator Obama, David Axelrod, and the DNC. The very first line of Sinclair's lawsuit states:

This action is pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1981, 18 U.S.C. 241 and the First Amendment of the United States Constitutions right to the Freedom of Speech.

How ironic that Larry's second lawsuit also involves the First Amendment and Free Speech with Larry suing three anonymous posters at Democratic Underground for comments they posted on an open forum about Larry, for which Larry now claims defamation of character.

Larry wants protection under the First Amendment for his right to Freedom of Speech but not the same protections for the three posters who just happened to voice their opinions about Larry Sinclair.

One wonders if Mr. Sinclair will continue to file lawsuits against every blogger, poster, or persons who believes Sinclair is lying about his encounter with Senator Obama.

Sinclair has set up paypal on his site for "donations" in fighting his "legal" battles. Sinclair has also stated that he will not be turning over any "evidence", that it will be in the "courts" where his allegations against Obama will finally be "proven" true.

Since lawsuits can take years to see the light of day in a courtroom this resolves Sinclair's responsibility to prove his allegations against Senator Obama. In the interim, Sinclair continues to solicit "legal" funds in order to sue those who express their opinion of Sinclair's character and/or veracity. A veritable perpetual motion machine of lawsuits and donations as the wheels of justice slowly grind while allowing Sinclair to string along his allegations and not provide solid proof.


There's Something About Larry ~


It's been since the end of January that Sinclair went public with his sordid allegations against Senator Obama yet Sinclair has failed to come forth with any concrete evidence nor witnesses, not even the mysterious limo driver.

Sinclair maintains he has been an open book in regards to his life yet he has failed to divulge his past. The tabloid the Globe has reported two separate stories that Sinclair's past includes stays in various state prisons, credit fraud abuse, drug and human smuggling, and various other sundries yet Sinclair has not threatened to sue nor called for a retraction.

Anyone can sue for anything these days, the act of filing a lawsuit does not guarantee success, judges find some lawsuits groundless or frivolous the filer can be held responsible for all attorneys fees. But we digress. Those who file multiple lawsuits, this is Larry's second suit in a little over a month, can result in a reputation as being "sue" happy or one who uses lawsuits as a form of intimidation, of attempting to muzzling one's detractors.

Free Speech under the First Amendment not only applies to Larry Sinclair but to his detractors too.

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Wayne Allyn Root, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate: DBKP Interview

Wayne Allyn Root addressing the crowd at the Republican Jewish
Coalition annual event at Palm Beach Florida

"You know what the difference is between Las Vegas and Washington D.C.?
In Vegas the drunks gamble with their own money!"

--Wayne Allyn Root, Libertarian candidate for President

We heard Wayne Allyn Root during his recent appearance on the The Glenn Beck Program and, like Glenn Beck, agreed with much of what WAR--as he's sometimes called--had to say.

We decided to invite Mr. Root on DBKP; both to introduce himself to readers and to expand a bit on where he stands on the War on Terror and other issues.

After an exchange of emails with Wayne, he sent back some well-reasoned, passionate answers.

We hope most of our readers will find the exchange interesting.


DBKP: Why are you running? Was it any one thing or event that made you decide, or a series of things?

Wayne Allyn Root: I decided to run for President of the United States because the same people keep running (and being elected) who have screwed everything up in the first place!

Every recent President or Presidential candidate falls into one of these same categories:

1 lifelong government bureaucrat or politician (people who have never started a business, funded a business, created jobs, paid health insurance for employees, paid millions in taxes, fought through government regulations, or added millions of dollars to the American economy); or,

2 lawyer (same lack of qualifications--but worse: they make their living by suing the people and companies that create jobs); or,

3 big businessman (out of touch millionaires or billionaires like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Ross Perot); or,

4 spoiled brats who have never experienced pain, failure or adversity like the rest of us.

I break that mold. I'm a small businessman (I built a company with 35 employees) and self-made son of a butcher.

The entire U.S. economy is fueled by small business. Small businesses now create the majority of jobs in the USA. Small business creates the jobs, pays the taxes, pays the health insurance, makes the U.S. economy go and grow.

Politicians are always far behind the curve. They fawn over big business, big unions, huge corporations, like GE, Microsoft, Exxon or Halliburton. They ignore a small businessman like me with 35 employees.

I can't afford lobbyists or huge campaign contributions. So we're left out of the national political dialogue.

But guess what? Put all of America's small businessmen together and we're far more important than GE or Microsoft or Exxon or Halliburton. America is a nation of small business owners (and the tens of millions of people that we employ).

Small business owners are the heroes of the American economy- we are the risk takers and daring innovators and business leaders. We risk our own money on our own ideas, putting everything we own on the line.

We are the CEO's and Generals of our own small worlds--we have no Board of Directors, Ivy League lawyers, layers of big shot executives, or highly-paid lobbyists and consultants to assist us. We make decisions all by ourselves on pure gut instinct- and either hit a homerun or strikeout.

We're the last of the rugged individualists. We are like the Wright Brothers or Lewis & Clark. Small businessmen are the courageous explorers who tamed the Wild West on sheer guts, instincts and chutzpah.

We are what America is all about.


I'm proud to be the FIRST small businessman running for President.

Who better to lead a country of small business owners, small investors, entrepreneurs, independent contractors (commissioned salespeople) and the people they employee? Who better than a small businessman to cut the size of government?

I've lived my whole adult life on my wits, gut instincts and a small budget. What a perfect business experience as a model to run the U.S. government. Far better to put a small businessman in charge who has always made do with less money…than some out-of-touch, spoiled-brat, big business CEO, used to spending billions of dollars and delegating authority to a staff of thousands.

If you agree that it's time for a big change- I'm your guy. I'm the guy George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were thinking of when they founded America and created the greatest document ever: the U.S. constitution.

I'm a part-time politician who also runs his own small business. I'm the quintessential Citizen Legislator.

And here's something even more different (some might say "refreshing") about me: I've failed.

Many times.

As a small businessman without a rich daddy or a safety net of any kind, I've been up and down a hundred times in my life. But I'm always fighting, always positive, and never give up. That's the kind of person I think we could use in the White House. A tenacious fighter who has experienced life's ups and downs and bruises--but keeps getting up off the ground.

And being cut from a different mold, i have different answers for our problems. I think my solutions would appeal to the typical American.

I want to get the government out of their lives and out of their business as much as possible. Cut government, cut the bureaucracy, cut the entitlements, and dramatically reduce the tax burden.

Get government out of the way and allow small business and small investors to lead the way- to grow, prosper, flourish and thrive. You will see the greatest economic explosion in world economic history.

DBKP: How do you answer those who say that a serious Libertarian candidate hurts the Republican Party?

Wayne Allyn Root : I didn't leave the Republican Party--the GOP left me.

The first problem with the GOP is that they talk a great game: smaller government, lower taxes, less spending, reduced bureaucracy. It sounds great. But it's only talk.

They only use that talk to get elected. It's just a sales job.

However, Republicans are at least slightly better than the Democrats when it comes to fiscal policy. At least Republicans want to cut taxes. But they don't cut enough; they only play at the edges. And worse, they have no interest in cutting government. They love earmarks, giveaways and spending as much as their Democrat brothers.

I call the 2 parties: big and bigger, dumb and dumber! Both parties want to make government bigger so they control more power, more money, more spoils to handout to their voters. It's outright bribery--and it's disgraceful.

The second reason for my switch is that I'm a fiscal conservative in the mode of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul. But when it comes to social issues, I'm a pure Libertarian. Unfortunately the GOP has morphed into Big Brother when it comes to social issues and personal freedoms. They have decided it's okay to use big government to force religion and morality on the American people. I couldn't disagree more strongly.

Third, while I believe the war on terror is real and I strongly support it, I believe Bush and the GOP have completely screwed it up. The Dept of Homeland Security is just a new bungling bureaucracy.

Making me take off my shoes and getting rid of my toothpaste won't prevent terrorism. Neither will hiring hundreds of thousands of new government employees- most of whom could never find a good job in the private sector.

So are the big shots in the Bush administration. They are so busy fighting the wrong war in Iraq, that as a recent study proved, we are completely unprepared, in case of national emergency or terrorist attack here at home. Very little of our weaknesses and vulnerabilities to terrorism have been dealt with: our port security is lax, cargo on airplanes goes virtually unchecked, and seven long years after 9/11 we have only 20 FBI agents out of 10,000 who speak Arabic. How could that be possible?

Worse, we've used the war on terror to justify taking away our own civil liberties in America. Winning the war against terrorism is not a victory if we give up freedom in our own country to achieve it.

And finally, the war on terror should be fought NOT by invading entire countries, but through the use of specially trained rapid-strike teams and special forces taking out terrorist leaders wherever they may be hiding.

Spending a trillion dollars on occupying Iraq was a costly mistake. It's been a disaster in terms of money wasted, lives lost and instability at home. The military forces of the United States are stretched to the brink. The National Guard has been plundered- it is now virtually useless to defend our homeland.

And we're wasting billions and making enemies around the globe with our incredibly stupid war on drugs.

To be blunt, it is none of our business what people choose to do in foreign countries. The more we spend to eradicate drugs, the higher the price of drugs go, and the more drug dealing billionaires we create. It's all a great big failure.

I've come to realize that Bush and this entire administration are incompetent “Keystone Cops.” I believe in the war on terror- but not the way it's being run right now.

Then there's religion. That's another reason I've left the GOP. I'm a spiritual person. I love God. I believe in the power of prayer. I've seen the studies that prove the healing power of prayer. I've seen the studies that prove religious people are happier and healthier.

So I pray every day. My kids start and end every day with prayer. I believe that America has been blessed by God.

But God and religion are personal issues chosen by each individual. I don't want politics to be used as a tool by politicians to stuff religion and their warped definition of "moral values" down the throats of all Americans. I would fight to the death to protect your right to be religious, to practice any religion of your choice…or to practice no religion at all.

I'm a great believer in personal freedom. Your choices are your choices- and none of the government's business.

I happen to not smoke, drink or do drugs of any kind--EVER. That's my choice of lifestyle.

On the other hand, I love to gamble. I'm a risk taker--whether it's betting on a business idea, a stock, a million dollar real estate investment, or the Dallas Cowboys. That's my chosen form of entertainment.

It's none of your business- and it's certainly none of the government's damn business. I would never try to force my choice of lifestyle or my definition of morality upon anyone else.

Today's GOP disagrees.

They are a big government party playing Big Brother. They spend their time like the busybody old lady peeking out the window to spy on her neighbors. Today's GOP wants to define morality, legislate it and throw people in jail who disagree.

I find this disgusting and offensive. It's just plain wrong.

It's anything but conservative. It's the Nanny State.

I want to lead the battle to stop it- forever. What Americans do in their homes, in their bedrooms, on their computers, watch on their TV sets is none of the government's damn business. The job of government is to protect us from others, NOT to protect us from ourselves. And the job of government is certainly not to criminalize moral behavior. That's why our ancestors left England and fought a revolution. We didn't want the King of England telling us what to do, what religion to worship, or to tax us heavily without representation.

But all of that is happening today. It's our own government taxing us to death, wiretapping our phone calls and emails without warrants, and putting Americans in jail for minor offenses, choices of morality and victimless crimes.

So the real answer to your question is that if I help defeat John McCain and the GOP, it will be better for America.

Will I be happy to elect Hillary or Obama?

Heck no. They are basically socialists. They will destroy our economy. But sometimes the absolute worst outcome leads to a positive solution soon thereafter. Perhaps that kind of defeat for the GOP will wake them up. Perhaps they'll go be forced to go back to their smaller government roots. Perhaps they'll return to the mantle of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Or perhaps in 4 to 8 years, this mess will lead to a Libertarian President. Either way, I have no responsibility to aid the GOP in any way--I am not my brother's keeper.

Wayne and wife, Debra, at the White House--standing
under the portrait of WAR's hero: Ronald Reagan

DBKP: What specifically would you say to conservatives--who are naturally libertarian in outlook--who are worried that voting for a Libertarian means running away from the War on Terror?

Wayne Allyn Root: I am strong on national defense, strong on the war on terror. PERIOD.

I am a New York street fighter. I don't run from fights- I finish them. There is only one way to achieve peace- through strength.

But I will not violate the rights of my fellow Americans to win the war on terror. To paraphrase one of our Founding Fathers, "anyone who gives up liberty to achieve security, deserves neither." If we change our American way of life and willingly surrender freedom, we have lost the war. I won't let that happen.

DBKP: If you had to boil your core message down to a 30-second soundbite, what would you say?

Wayne Allyn Root: I stand for smaller government, less spending, less entitlement spending, lower taxes and more freedom and rights for the individual.

It's that simple.

I am fiscally conservative. I want you to keep more of your own money. Yet when it comes to social issues and your personal decisions, I want government out of your life. I want to close down Big Brother and end the Nanny State. What we do in the privacy of our own homes or bedrooms or offices is none of the government's damn business.



DBKP: What can you say that might persuade that potential voter think about voting for Libertarian Wayne A. Root?

Wayne Allyn Root: Barack Obama (my college classmate Columbia University Class of '83) talks nonstop about change. So do Hillary and McCain.

None of them are agents of change.

They are longtime politicians who live off the taxpayers. They are the problem- not the solution. Barack was just named as the single most liberal member of the entire U.S. Senate. That's based on facts- his voting record.

Is that the change we want? That's not change- that's the same old “soak the rich,” “redistribute the wealth,” “spend like a drunken sailor” “spend trillions on a failing war on poverty” philosophy of big government, out-of-touch, bleeding heart liberals like Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Is this what America calls change?

While China and Russia turn unabashedly capitalistic, do we want to move towards Socialism?

McCain is another big government conservative. He's been in D.C. for 25 years. Hillary wants Universal Healthcare--so we can bankrupt America and throw Americans in jail for trying to choose the doctor of their choice.

Scary.

That's what happens in UK and Canada: if you're sick, you wait in line for weeks or months to see a doctor--who is forced upon you by the government. You don't like that doctor-too bad. He's an incompetent doctor--too bad. You're out of luck. You need a hip replaced right away? Too bad--you'll have to sit in a wheelchair for 18 months until it's your turn.

Anyone want that system?

Who wants to vote for “the same old, same old”? The D.C. insiders are the ones who have ruined things. Our country is in trouble.

It's time for a dramatic change; a non-violent revolution. Who better to lead that revolution than a S.O.B. (son of a butcher). I say “THROW THE BUMS OUT.” A perfect example is found in the final 3 contenders for the major party Presidential nominations: Clinton, Obama, and McCain are people that have been agents of big government their whole lives. Always collecting government checks. Always voting against tax cuts (even though it's our money in the first place). Always feeding off taxpayers. Always bribing the voters to stay in office- thereby increasing government spending and running up a huge deficit.

But here's the worst thing of all: all 3 are sitting U.S. Senators. They collect a 6-figure income from the taxpayers. Being a Senator is a full-time job, isn't it? But these 3 are spending every waking hour campaigning for President. How are they earning their $175,000 U.S. Senate salaries? They're not even present to vote on important bills. They are cheating the citizens of New York, Illinois and Arizona.

It's, in my opinion, fraud to run for higher office while collecting a check for another political office. The rules should be changed--if you want to run for President, you have to step down from your present office. Why should taxpayers pay the cost for absent politicians who ignore the job for which they are being paid?

If what I'm saying strikes a chord--it's time to vote for a complete outsider. A rebel with a pitchfork and musket. A citizen legislator. A small businessman, homeschool dad, S.O.B. (son of a butcher) and Las Vegas oddsmaker.

I am the perfect “OUT OF THE BOX” candidate.

Some people are scared of Vegas. Religious people think it has a negative connotation. You know what the difference is between Las Vegas and Washington D.C.? In Vegas the drunks gamble with their own money!

It's time to shake things up in Washington. Put the rebel and maverick small businessman from Las Vegas in charge. I could certainly do a better job than the fools, hypocrites and greedy thieves that have run this country for the past 50 years.

DBKP: Thanks for the great answers, Wayne.

If readers would like to learn more, read about WAR's interesting background or perhaps donate to Wayne Allyn Root's cause, you can visit the campaign's official website, "Root for America".



We'll be in contact with Wayne Allyn Root in the coming weeks and following his run toward the Libertarian Party's nomination.

We're also going to be offering a poll this weekend to see how many of WAR's positions our readers agree with.

by Mondoreb
Images: Root for America
Sources: email interview; Root for America
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Winning a Seat in Congress Like Hitting the Lottery

Congressional Members Strike it Rich

"Members of Congress, who are now paid about $169,000 annually, saw their net worths soar 84 percent from 2004 to 2006, on average."

The three "M"s: mining, manufacturing and money.

Those used to be the three tried and tested ways to strike it rich in America and elsewhere, with a lot of work--and a little luck.

Now, add "E" and "C" to those letters: Earmarks and Congress.

A study released yesterday said that entering Congress is one of the surest ways to increase personal wealth. Readers probably already guessed that, but the study puts facts to the claim.

Personal wealth of Congressman and Senators has skyrocketed in recent years--no surprise--with lawmakers far more richer than most Americans as of 2006.

Is it any wonder that there's such a battle to eliminate earmarks?

Earmark some project back home--it's only federal money, after all--and voila! Almost if by some force of nature, some of it finds its way back to the politician, his family or his campaign.

The median net worth of senators was estimated at $1.7 million and House of Representatives members at $675,000, said the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington watchdog group that monitors the influence of money on government.

The center released a report saying that until the recent economic slowdown, lawmakers "enjoyed an extraordinary run in their personal investments and other finances."

The report said, "Members of Congress, who are now paid about $169,000 annually, saw their net worths soar 84 percent from 2004 to 2006, on average."

It's no surprise that the "party of the poor", the Democrats, contain some of the wealthiest members.

Having lots of money shields politicians from the consequences of the laws they pass.

Joe Six-pack finds it a lot harder to hire a battery of tax attorneys and lawyers to handle the latest tax, but not wealthy Congressmen--or women.

Congress' wealthiest member was estimated to be California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman. The Los Angeles-area lawmaker is married to Sidney Harman, founder and executive chairman of audio products maker Harman International Industries.

The center said its findings were based on lawmakers' financial disclosure reports filed most recently, covering 2006, and from reports for the preceding two years. Data for 2007 will be made public this summer, it said.

The center estimated Rep. Harman was worth $409 million in 2006, but it said her net worth could be as high as $597 million and as low as $222 million because lawmakers are only required to disclose assets and liabilities in ranges.

"Determining an official's precise net worth is impossible using the financial disclosure forms that Congress currently employs," the center said.

"Like a lot of Americans, as the economy did well, Congress did well -- but lawmakers did especially well," said Sheila Krumholz, the center's executive director, in a statement.

"Now that the nation's economic road is turning rougher, members of Congress have a far more comfortable cushion than most Americans have to ride it out," she said.

Exactly.

No surprise, either that congressional investment flow to industries that seem to need constant legislation from those same congressional investors.

"They have millions of dollars invested in politically influential industries that they also regulate," such as real estate, banking, pharmaceuticals and energy, the center said.

When someone on Wall Street benefits from advance knowledge or inside knowledge, it's a crime. Just ask the many victims of Eliot Spitzer.

And no, we're not talking about the prostitute he had unprotected sex with. We're talking about the many businessmen strong-armed by Spitzer into copping pleas when he was on his prosecuting way to the New York governorship.

In many cases, "insider knowledge" was a Spitzer charge.

If only Spitzer's targets had been congressmen--then they all could have all had a laugh and a drink over the latest legislative coup.

It's only a matter of time before this study is confirmed by events that touch daily life. The one way readers can tell that winning a congressional seat is the way to a quick buck:

The late-night infomercial.

by Mondoreb
hat tip: Powell Gammill, FPhoenix
image: mesastate
Source: Get Elected to Congress and get Rich: study
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Jeramiah Wright: Obama Pastor A Portrait of Hatred from the Pulpit

"God Damn America"

Obama's pastor, a portrait of hatred from the pulpit

You have to see the video of Rev Jeremiah Wright's sermon to get the full impact of his vitriolic " ranting " -by the way, a word that is derogatory in the extreme, whatever youthful bloggers may think, if, that is, they know how to think at all.

Rev Wright's performance in the sermon first telecast on Fox TV is a sight to behold and something else to hear. It is hate filled, worthy of Farrakhan, and simply ugly.

To be very sure, I have been highly skeptical of Obama for some time now , and I have looked for weaknesses to exploit politically. But I never thought that I would find anything like this. Obama's "guru," his spiritual mentor, the man who officiated at the senator's wedding to Michelle, who led the church Obama has attended for 20 full years, turns out to be the "Christian" equivalent of Louis Farrakhan.

The heart of the sermon in question (apparently similar to many other of his sermons ) has been shown on Fox ONLY, as far as I can tell. The other networks, as much as I have been able to look in upon them , have all shown other material, or at most very short segments of the worst parts of that diatribe.

So now I know, as if it wasn't clear before., the mass media is invested in an Obama victory and will not in any way seriously criticize him unless backed into a corner from which escape is impossible.

It is that blatant.

Granted, I favor ( at lest generally ) the economic policies of the Democratic Party.
With very real prospect of a Recession before the end of 2008, this factor has special importance. My "pocketbook" tells me to favor the Democrats. But this is impossible, it has been impossible before today, but now it is ludicrously impossible.

A political expert--I don't recall her name--made an observations that sums it all up. The case of Rev Wright -yelling and screaming that the US government engineered AIDS in order to kill off the Black population, that the government brought 9/11 upon America, etc., etc.--is NOT a matter of guilt by association.

It is a question of Barack Obama's poor judgement in staying with Rev Wright's church for 20 years of hate centered and paranoid delusionary sermons.



Poor judgement of the very worst kind--for 20 years.

Obama sees little that is controversial about his church, as he says. This tells me, very clearly, that he has become so desensitized to hate and paranoid rantings that such nonsense seems unexceptionable to him.

And it is also clear that Michelle's comment, that for the first time in her adult life she has pride in being an American, can now be seen as anything but an isolated sentiment, but as standard fare at Trinity United Church.

A church that also happens to be racist.

As I said, you need to see/listen to the actual sermon. Surely it will be posted on more than one site in the next day or so. When you do see it, there can be no doubt at all.

Rev Wright utterly hates white America. Yes, he may make exceptions, and yes, he is capable of being on his "good behavior" when people like Martin Marty visit the church, but the essence of his views are that white people are to blame for all that is evil in the United States.

This is the philosophy that Barack Obama has willingly listened to for two decades now. And it is no wonder that he let a Freudian slip pass his lips in the days before the New Hampshire primary election, about how " we " are taking over now.

Who is the "we"?

I'm certain you know the answer without my telling you.

In other words, the stuff Obama says at public political events is all hot air. The slips of tongue tell us the truths he dare not profess openly. He may be conflicted about it all, and with good reason., but the fact is that it is his poor judgement that is now on display for the world to see.

Obama is exactly what I said he was about a month ago: a reverse racist.

Yes, he now disavows Rev Wright just as he disavowed Farrakhan a short time ago.
But it is far too late for such protestations to mean much of anything when, for all
the years since 1988, he obviously found little or nothing in their views to criticize or condemn Indeed, until Iowa and even later, he remained pro-Farrakhan and very much a devotee of Rev Wright and his sick values.

The following ABC news story (some emphasis added) is a decent enough introduction to the subject of Rev Wright's demagoguery and hatefulness.

But to say it one more time, you have got to see the video to really get a feeling for how vile Jeremiah Wright actually is. He is Farrakhan's "spiritual" twin.

I'm being excessive?

Not a chance in hell. Do not take my word, however, see the video.

You will say then the same thing , I have no doubts at all.

by Billy Rojas
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Source: Obama's Minister: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

[Billy Rojas is a former college teacher of the Social Sciences, History, and Comparative Religion , at Phoenix college, Alice Lloyd College, Lower Columbia College, and the City Colleges of Chicago. He was formerly assigned to the US Navy as an instructor with the USS Enterprise. His previous article, "Obama and Culture Shock" appeared at DBKP on March 2 2008.]
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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 14 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, PATENTS, IMMIGRATION, LEVIATHAN, GUILTY, NOT GUILTY, SPIES, POLITICS, JEWS, TOP TEN, NICE GUYS, CLINTONS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

TOP TEN

1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.

WAR!

1951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

TERRORISM

1991 a British court overturned the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

2007 The Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."

DISASTER

1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX.

1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA.

1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.

1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80.

1998 An earthquake killed at least five people and left some 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.

NICE GUYS

1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA.

PATENTS

1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.

NOT GUILTY

2003 Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted at trial.)

IMMIGRATION

1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.

CLINTONS

1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery.

LEVIATHAN

1923 President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return.

1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.

JEWS

1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.

GUILTY

1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

POLITICS

1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).

SPIES

2003 Christopher Boyce, whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after a quarter-century in prison.

BORN

1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921).

BIRTHDAYS

Former astronaut Frank Borman is 80. Singer Phil Phillips is 77. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 75. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 74. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 69. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 63. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 63. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 60. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Actor Adrian Zmed is 54. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 47. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 43. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 40. Rock musician Michael Bland is 39. Country singer Kristian Bush is 38. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 29. Actor Chris Klein is 29. Actress Kate Maberly is 26. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 25. Actor Jamie Bell is 22.

DEATH

1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.

1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77.

1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78.

March 14, the 74th day of 2008. There are 292 days left in the year.


compiled by Mondoreb
image: morning-calm
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
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Boys Try to Rob Port St. Lucie Police Station

Located on the southern end of mainland St. Lucie County, Port St. Lucie is a recreation-rich paradise filled with pleasant pursuits. Home of the one-a-kind PGA Village, the PGA Learning Center, numerous other golf courses and Mets Baseball at Tradition Field, sports enthusiasts will find much to love. A wide range of affordable accommodations makes guests feel comfortable. Numerous parks and pristine rivers provide countless ways to explore and experience the best of natural Florida. And fantastic inland fishing will let you cast your cares away. Source - Visit St. Lucie FL.com



Wednesday, two boys, ages 12 and 14, walked into the lobby of the Port St. Lucie Police Station in Florida and "ordered an aide behind a glass enclosure to put up her hands and hand over all her money".

It was the 12-year-old who kept one hand in his pocket as though he held a gun, then picked up a telephone handset and barked out the "hand's up" order to the aide.

According to the Palm Beach Post, the 12-year-old then paced around the lobby, "pointing at his eyes then at an aide, as if to say, "I'm watching you"." It was then that the aide ran screaming to the back of the station.

A half a dozen officers had just returned to the building from defensive tactics training. They stormed the building, one had his gun drawn.

According to the police the boys laughed when they were arrested and neither showed remorse. Evidently the 14-yr-old was no stranger to breaking the law as he was charged with violating his probation. Both boys were booked into a juvenile detention center.

We looked at the data on Port St. Lucie, not a large city, the population in 2006 was close to 140,000, with the median resident age of 39.9 years with an estimated medium household income in 2005 of $49,296 while the estimated medium condo/house value was listed at $227,000.

The crime statistics seem to portray a relatively crime-free area with only one murder, 17 rapes, 27 robberies, 242 assaults, 770 burglaries, 144 auto thefts, and 11 cases of arson listed in 2007.

The average household size is 2.6 people with the percentage of family households, 75.9%. The percentage of residents living in poverty in 2005, 5.8%.


Was this a case of "dumb and dumber" or was it something else? And which of the boys was the "mastermind?"

Why would two boys who live in such an idyllic setting spend their time attempting to rob a police station instead of playing baseball or frolicking at the beach?

We may never know since they'll probably be tried in juvenile court where the records will remain sealed.


By LBG

Source - City Data
Image - Port St. Lucie Real Estate
Source - Palm Beach Post
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Indiana Town Declares New Hamam Business "Not a Turkish Bathhouse"

The Turkish bath, or Hamam, is a cultural institution in the Middle East. After a visit in the Hamam, a customer finds his muscles relaxed, his body cleansed and his mind refreshed.

A customer arrives to the hamam, changes into a robe provided by the bath and enters a beautifully decorated, mosque-like sauna. A masseuse then massages the customer with soap and water for approximately 15 minutes and then bathes the customer with soap and water. The hamam is a body and mind-cleansing experience. Beyond being relaxing and hygenic, the hamam has also become ironically a place for conversation and deal-making. Source - whynot

A new Hamam is open for business in Indianapolis, Indiana, after quite a bit of wrangling with the city planners and objections from local residents.

Traditionally a hamam is known as a Turkish bathhouse, while new owners, Julia Fonte and Karim Bouriga, disagree. When the city required them to obtain a bathhouse permit, the first such permit to be ever be issued, they objected to the "bathhouse label".

“I’m not opposed to regulation,” Fonte said. “I’m opposed to that adult, bathhouse label. I think it showed total ignorance of our business by the controllers office, which made its decision without having knowledge of what a hamam actually is.”

The Turkish BathHouse takes this Middle Eastern institution and adopts it to American society in the same way that Starbucks brought the Italian cafe bar to the United States. Maximum priority will be placed on service, including extreme cleanliness, and training all employees how to provide elegant and relaxing service.

A customer can choose an Express Bath or a Traditional Bath. The Express Bath is targetted at a lunchtime break or quick post-work relaxer and guarantees a system time of 30 minutes. The Traditional Bath offers unlimited time in sauna, and other amenities. Source - Whynot

Fonte, a nurse, contacted the city and after an "estimated 150 calls" the city removed its requirement for the bathhouse permit.

If I hadn’t made all those calls, we would have been forced to get that bathhouse permit,” Fonte said.

“The idea of that was so offensive to me as a nurse and even more offensive to my partner, who is a Muslim.

Pike Fire Marshal Steve Jones disagrees with the city's designation.

“I’m saying this not as the fire marshal, but as Steve Jones, Pike Township resident,” he said. “It’s the city’s job to insure ordinances are being followed, but they’ve allowed her (Fonte) to redefine what it is that she does, and that sounds like a political cave. It fit the description of a bathhouse and that’s why the city put it there. I don’t think the city made a mistake classifying it like that, but it’s easier (for the city) to let it go and hope nothing happens.”

Fonte says that her hamam will be “a discreet facility for complete body cleansing and exfoliation in a unique, private setting,” similar to an American spa treatment.



By LBG

Image - Hamam
Source - Indystar
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Boobs Versus Beer Can Test

It's a question that's been debated by men across the globe: The force of boobs against inanimate objects.

Researchers selected the aluminum beer can to go head to head against women's boobs in the ultimate mammary versus man-made match.

Boobs crash test | Funny Jokes at JibJab

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Rachel Corrie, Cindy, and Sheep: A RAPH Trifecta

With Hugo thrown in for good measure


Came across this collection of graphic goodness from RidesAPaleHorse and thought this might be the perfect time to post it.

"One I did in "honor" of Rachel Corrie....(I know I'm going to hell for this one)......lol"
--RidesAPaleHorse




Two anti-American cheerleaders at work.




Sure to garner a "racist" charge or two.

Humor is one of the best ways to handle stress.

That's our defense.

And the truth.

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images: RAPH

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House FISA Battle Continues While Southern Border Remains Open

Southern Border Security Should be Part of FISA Bill



There's a thought-provoking article at the National Republican Congressional Committee website on the continuing FISA battle in the House.

Our position is that FISA should be passed, but that as long as the southern U.S. border is an open door, why bother?

House Republicans could make a much more convincing argument if the porous southern border was attended to at the same time.

This article does hold the House Democrats' feet to the fire on the expired terrorist surveillance program.

We present the first part of it here. You can read the rest of the article, comment on the NRCC blog and/or sign the petition to try and get FISA moving again by clicking on the link at the end of this story.

The FISA Fight Continues
By: Karen Hanretty
National Republican Congressional Committee.
Communications Director, NRCC

It was over three weeks ago that House Democrats allowed the terrorist surveillance program to expire, and in the dead of the night on February 16, 2008, every single American became less safe. To make matters worse, the following week the House of Representatives skipped town for a ten-day vacation, leaving the security of our nation in limbo.

Since then, Democrats have maneuvered through desperate stall tactics to block the Protect America Act, knowing that it would pass with overwhelming bipartisan support like the Senate bill did earlier in February, by a vote of 68-29. Every member of the Blue Dog Coalition, which consists of 21 moderate House Democrats wrote to House Speaker Pelosi and said "the consequences of not passing such a measure could place our national security at undue risk" (Bloomberg, 2/13/08).

Why do the House Democrats want to keep our intelligence community weak? The answer is quite simple - many House Democrats have received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions by the trial lawyer lobby, and Democrats are working hard to prolong their boon to trial lawyers, who are tying up the court system with frivolous lawsuits against telecommunications companies who carried out their patriotic duty to assist in terrorist surveillance in the wake of September 11th.

It is unconscionable that the House Democrat Leadership would play politics with our national security. The Protect America Act expired almost a month ago and has hindered our ability to intercept conversations between those linked to suspected terrorist networks.

How long will House Democrats continue to leave our national security at risk by failing to pass the critical terrorist surveillance program that expired weeks ago? [Read the rest of "How Long will House Democrats Leave our Nation at Risk: The FIFA Fight", then Comment on NRCC blog and/or sign the petition.

Terrorist surveillance is needed.

With an open southern border that the government seems determined NOT to close, however, some Americans would question the expanded powers of FISA. Closing the southern border should be the number one priority of every House member sponsoring FISA.

It makes no sense to grant government increased surveillance powers in the name of protecting Americans against terrorists, when terrorists can waltz across the Mexican border at will.

Surveillance of those doing the surveillance is also needed to ensure that ordinary Americans are not caught up in the increased power of government.

As long as the government doesn't go fishing or use the information collected against non-terrorist Americans, then FISA should be passed with all due speed.

And building the southern fence should be part of this bill.

by Mondoreb
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Source: NRCC Newsletter
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