Another good E-Mail...

[shelbyluvv]

ONE

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets.  'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.

'You don't?' I replied.

'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.

'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'

'That's right.'

So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets

 

(Unbelievable but sadly true...)

 

Just last week we went to our local Bar and Eatery. They run a Tuesday special (EVERY TUESDAY), buy 12 wings, get 12 free. I ordered 2 dozen wings, hot, for my son and I.

 

We enjoy our spicy goodness and ask for the check. I look at it before I hand ding bat my credit card and sure enough I was charged for 2 dozen wings.

 

I looked at her, pointed to the extra charge, and asked if the wings were still buy 12, get 12. She Said, "They sure are". "Really? Then why did you charge me for the extra dozen? Either you owe me 24 more wings free, or I only pay for the first dozen."

 

She then said to me, hold on tight fellas, "I did not know you wanted the special."

 

:doh:

[sinkrun]

Just reading this after we had take out subs the wife picked up. She told the kid at the counter dressing on the side. When he finsihed them he did not have any cups of dressing so she says I asked for dressing on the side he says I did I put it on the side of the bread between the meat and roll. This really just happened and best thing is I know the owner and head cook. This kid will not live this one down.

[CWLONGSHOT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=253PiA7zIl4

[CWLONGSHOT]

Stella Awards

 

It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

 

 

Here are the Stellas for this past year -- 2009:

 

 

*SEVENTH PLACE*

 

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

 

Start scratching!

 

 

* SIXTH PLACE *

 

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

 

Scratch some more...

 

 

* FIFTH PLACE *

 

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more...

 

Double hand scratching after this one..

 

 

*FOURTH PLACE*

 

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

 

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..

 

 

* THIRD PLACE *

 

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

 

Only two more so ease up on the scratching....

 

 

*SECOND PLACE*

 

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

 

 

Ok. Here we go!!

 

 

* FIRST PLACE *

 

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?

$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

 

 

Are we, as a society, getting more stupid....

or are more members of Congress serving on juries these days?

[CWLONGSHOT]

A man is driving down a deserted stretch of highway in WEST VIRGINIA when he notices a sign out of the corner of his eye....It reads:

 

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION

10 MILES

 

He thinks this is a figment of his imagination and drives on....

 

Soon he sees another sign which reads:

 

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION

5 MILES

 

Suddenly he begins to realize that these signs are for real and drives past a third sign saying:

 

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION

NEXT RIGHT

 

His curiosity gets the best of him and he pulls into the drive...

 

On the far side of the parking lot is a stone building with a small sign next to the door reading:

 

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

 

He climbs the steps and rings the! Bell . The door is answered by a nun in a long black habit who asks, 'What may we do for you my son?'

 

He answers, 'I saw your signs along the highway and was interested in possibly doing business.... ..'

 

'Very well my son. Please follow me.' He is led through many winding passages and is soon quite disoriented. The nun stops at a closed door and tells the man, 'Please knock on this door.'

 

He does so and another nun in a long habit, holding a tin cup answers the door... This nun instructs, 'Please place $100 in the cup then go through the large wooden door at the end of the hallway.'

 

He puts $100 in the cup, eagerly trots down the hall and slips through the door pulling it shut behind him.

 

The door locks, and he finds himself back in the parking lot facing another sign:

 

GO IN PEACE.

YOU HAVE JUST BEEN SCREWED BY THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS.

SERVES YOU RIGHT, YOU SINNER!

[kro10000]

:rotf:

[Harper]

SHEEP, WOLVES, and SHEEPDOGS

 

February 8, 2008 By CJ

Posted in Why We Serve

 

 

 

By Lt. Col Dave Grossman

 

Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.

 

We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.

 

Then there are the wolves and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy. Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.

 

Then there are sheepdogs and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf. Or, as a sign in one California law enforcement agency put it, “We intimidate those who intimidate others.”

 

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath–a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.

 

We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids’ schools. But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid’s school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.

 

The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The

difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, cannot and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.

 

Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports, in camouflage fatigues, holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.” Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.

 

The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.

 

Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?

 

Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed, right along with the young ones.

 

Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.

 

There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.

 

There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious,

predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically

targeted victims by body language: Slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself.

 

Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that

most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.

 

Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers – athletes, business people and parents. — from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.

 

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. – Edmund Burke

 

Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the

sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision.

 

If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.

 

This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a

matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between.

 

Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. It’s okay to be a sheep, but do not kick the sheepdog. Indeed, the sheep dog may just run a little harder, strive to protect a little better and be fully prepared to pay an ultimate price in battle and spirit with the sheep moving from “baa” to “thanks”. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.

 

We do not call for gifts or freedoms beyond our lot. We just need a small pat on the head, a smile and a thank you to fill the emotional tank which is drained protecting the sheep. And when our number is called by the Almighty, and day retreats into night, a small prayer before the heavens just may be in order to say thanks for letting you continue to be a sheep. And be grateful for the thousands, millions of American sheepdogs who permit you the freedom to express even bad ideas.

[Harper]

And now a few of my own observations.....

 

Sheep are sometimes exasperating to an ol' sheepdog. Not long ago, I was watching Fox News coverage of "Turning Point 4," the 5 day national defense exercise in Israel, wondering how well such an exercise would go in this country. Even if we were under the threats that they face, there'd likely be a lot of whining and complaining by the various civil rights groups that the "peace" that their sheep were enjoying was being threatened.......not by the wolves, but by the sheepdogs!

 

Furthermore, sheep are notoriously stupid. I've no problem with that. However, we have a generation of sheep today that are not only stupid, but are woefully and willfully ignorant. They are so involved with their various diversions that they have not studied the pictures drawn for them by the previous generations of what a wolf actually looks like. They choose to deny that wolves even exist. Or if they believed that wolves might exist, today's sheep couldn't discern the difference between another sheep and a wolf. As for the sheepdog, he's just a mean-spirited hate-monger.

 

Been to 'Nam and back, in '68-'69. My son, thank God, didn't have to go through that. My greatest fear today, with the present "leadership" in Washington, is that my 13 year old grandson, and my 9 year old grandson, and maybe even my granddaughters will end up in some God-forsaken place fighting an ill advised war to profit some statist banker.

 

I'm a conservative, but not necessarily political. Conservatism is a philosophy, a lifestyle. I guess we have to have liberals around, but I don't have to listen to their emotional drivel. And I won't stand for their socialist agenda.

[Pete M]

Can we get this thread renamed to "CW's Political Propaganda"? I think that is a more fitting title.

 

 

snopes.com have fun! :waving:

[CWLONGSHOT]

WHO IS HE ?

 

Ever wondered why no one ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc. Not one person has ever come forward from his past.

 

 

VERY, VERY STRANGE...

 

This should really be a cause for great concern.

 

To those who voted for him, you have elected the biggest unqualifed fraud that America has ever known.

 

Sort of adds credence to the idea of The Manchurian Candidate thing happening here!

 

 

George Stephanopoulos, of ABC News. said the same thing during the 2008 campaign.

 

He too was a classmate of Obama's at Columbia class of 1984. He said he never had a single class with him.

 

 

While he is such a great orator, why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? And, why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?

 

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA !

 

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.

 

 

Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.

 

In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia . EVER! Nobody recalls him.

 

Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that." Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."

 

Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friend while at Columbia.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Ally ... column-one

 

NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major in the same class that Barack Hussein Obama was supposed to have been in.

 

 

Some Other Interesting Questions..

 

Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002? Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by Court Order?

 

It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases. The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.

 

No wonder all his records are sealed!

 

How did he become eligible to run for president of the United States with no background of being an American Citizen?

 

And we are concerned with illegals coming in these United States over our borders without a green card?????????????????

 

 

Pass this on to everyone...

 

Pass it across America !

[smithe1811]

:popcorn: i love this thread, next time in in CT., I'm going to buy you a beer, CW.

[CWLONGSHOT]

:popcorn: i love this thread, next time in in CT., I'm going to buy you a beer, CW.

 

ABSOLUTELY!!! ANY of my CC brothers, end up here in CT, drop me a line! I'd love to meet you and I'll supply the beers!

 

CW

[CWLONGSHOT]

KEEP THIS ONE GOING AND GOING AND GOING......

 

TILL NOVEMBER 2010 AT LEAST.

 

GRRRRRRRRRR....!

I'm MAD AND YOU WILL BE TOO!

 

Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves$4,700 and $5,300 raises.

 

1. They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.

 

2. Your Medicaid premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr.

 

Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for husband and wife

 

3. Over 2-yrs The House & Senate each get $10,000 raises

 

4. Do you feel SCREWED?

 

5. WILL your cost of drugs - doctor fees - local taxes - food, etc., increase? You better believe they will!

 

WILL THEIRS...NO WAY . They have a raise and better benefits. Why care about you? You never did anything about it in the past.

You're obviously too stupid or don't care. No offense; just making a point!

 

6. Do you really think that Nancy , Harry , Chris , Charlie , Barnie, et al, care about you?

 

SEND THE MESSAGE-- You're FIRED.

 

IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF THE SITTING CONGRESS AND Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE,

AND 100% OF THE HOUSE.

 

MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL MAD IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND TELL THEIR REPLACEMENTS NOT TO SCREW UP.

 

It is ok to forward this to your sphere of influence if you are finally tired of the abuse.

Maybe it's time for the........

Amendment 28

 

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United

States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives,

and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or

Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the

United States ."

 

Let's get this passed around, folks - these people in Washington have brought this upon themselves!!! It's time for retribution. Let's take back America .

 

 

If you don't forward this to all your friends you're just part of the problem of national apathy.

 

 

IT'S TIME!!!!!!! JUST DO IT!

 

LET'S GET IT DONE !

 

CNN is showing some anger

 

 

 

 

CNN NEWS, not Fox -- You will not believe this!!!

 

It just keeps getting better.....

> This is unbelievable!!!

>

 

We KNEW this was going to happen. (That way Obama wasn't lying when he said illegals would not be able to get medical coverage under his Obama Care plan. His simple fix is to make them all legal first... and could this have anything to do with slanting the vote in 2010 & 2012....?)

>

> EVERY ONE--PLEASE TAKE TIME TO LISTEN TO THIS--IT TELLS ABOUT THE BILL GOING THRU CONGRESS RIGHT NOW REGARDING IMMIGRATION.

>

> EVEN CNN IS GETTING UPSET ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!

>

> Pass it on after you watch it. REMEMBER, THIS IS FROM CNN, NOT FOX!!!

>

> Click on this link !!!

 

 

> http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17260182/16 ... c-vi26.wmv

 

 

>

> This 3-minute video should be mandatory viewing for every US citizen. If you have never passed anything on before, pass this on! Every American should be outraged!

 

 

 

 

 

>

 

In God we trust

[kastein]

Not an email, but... check this out!

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 09426.html

 

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that gun possession is fundamental to American freedom, giving federal judges the power to strike down state and local weapons laws for violating the Second Amendment.

 

In a 5-4 ruling, the court held that the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right that binds states.

 

"Self defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present day," wrote Justice Samuel Alito. He was joined in reaching the result by Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

 

In 2008, the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave. Justice Alito's opinion said that ruling "unmistakably" required the court likewise to overturn laws in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill., that limited handgun possession.

 

Justice Thomas agreed with the majority on the result but wrote a concurrence offering different constitutional logic for viewing the right to bear arms as a fundamental right.

 

As it did in 2008, the court's majority cautioned that the right to keep and bear arms is not "a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose."

 

Justice Alito wrote that despite "doomsday proclamations," the ruling "does not imperil every law regulating firearms."

 

The Supreme Court's ruling is likely to lead to years of litigation across the country as lower courts decide how far the right to bear arms extends and which restrictions are unconstitutional. Justice John Paul Stevens, in dissent, said the 2008 ruling has already triggered a "tsunami of legal uncertainty." He predicted more "confusion, upheaval and burden on the states."

 

The legal question before the court had much to do with questions of constitutional history. Before the Civil War, courts held that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government. After the Union victory, the Reconstruction amendments were adopted to elevate individual rights over state powers and cement the federal role in enforcing them.

 

The Supreme Court has subsequently held that many constitutional rights considered fundamental to American principles of liberty override state laws. However, more technical provisions—such as the Fifth Amendment requirement that grand juries approve criminal indictments—apply only to the federal government and don't necessarily bind states.

 

Monday's ruling elevates the Second Amendment right to bear arms to the status of a fundamental right that states can't abridge.

 

"It is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty," wrote Justice Alito.

 

Justice Stephen Breyer, in a dissent joined by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, said the majority ruling misinterpreted history. "Nothing in 18th-, 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century history shows a consensus that the right to private armed self-defense…is 'deeply rooted in this nation's history or tradition' or is otherwise 'fundamental,' " Justice Breyer wrote.

 

Justice Stevens, who served his last day at the court Monday, dissented separately.

 

"Recognizing a new liberty right is a momentous step," he wrote. He said he would have proceeded more cautiously and given more leeway to local governments. "This is a quintessential area in which federalism ought to be allowed to flourish without this court's meddling," he wrote.

 

:agree: :banana: :agree: :banana: :USAflag:

[CWLONGSHOT]

SURVIVOR ..... Maine Style

 

Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, Maine

is planning to do its own, titled 'Survivor -Maine Style.'

 

The contestants will start in Bangor , travel up to Millinocket and .

Then they will head southwest to Greenville , then over to Rangely.

From there they will proceed south to Portland and Bath .

The final leg will be back to Bangor again--making a loop around the state !

 

Each will be driving a pink Volvo with Massachusetts license plates and a

HUGE bumper sticker that reads:

I'm ghey. I'm a vegetarian. Beer is harmful to your health. Republicans suck.

Obama is God. Deer hunting is murder, and I'm here to confiscate your guns.'

 

The first one that makes it back to Bangor alive wins.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Courage.

 

You're a 19 year old kid.

 

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .

 

 

It's November 11, 1967.

 

LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 yards

away, that your CO has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

 

 

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

 

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.

 

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

 

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

 

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But ... It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

 

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

 

 

He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

 

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.

 

 

 

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you

at a time on board.

 

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety.

 

 

And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs

and left arm.

 

 

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

 

 

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force,

died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho .

 

 

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.

 

 

 

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen

a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods.

 

 

Medal of Honor

Winner Captain Ed Freeman

 

 

Shame on the American media !!!

 

 

Now ... YOU pass this along to YOUR mailing list. Honor this real American.

 

Please.

[Unglar]

That letter is not accurate, however it does have some basis in fact, this is a much better read if you wish to learn about Capt. Freeman:

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

[Unglar]

The captain passed away August 20, 2008. I salute him. :cheers:

[CWLONGSHOT]

Two aliens landed in the outback, near a roadhouse that was closed for the night.

 

 

 

They approached one of the petrol pumps and the younger alien addressed it saying, "Greetings, Earthling.

 

 

 

We come in peace.

 

 

 

Take us to your leader."

 

The petrol pump, of course, didn't respond.

 

The younger alien became angry at the lack of response.

 

The older alien said, 'I'd calm down if I were you.'

 

The younger alien ignored the warning and repeated his greeting.

 

 

 

Again, there was no response.

 

Pissed at the pump's haughty attitude, he drew his ray gun and said gruffly, "Greetings, Earthling.

 

 

 

We come in peace.

 

 

 

Take us to your leader or I will fire!"

 

The older alien again warned his comrade saying, 'You probably don't want to do that!

 

 

 

I really think that will make him mad.'

 

'Rubbish,' replied the cocky, young alien. He aimed his weapon and opened fire. There was a huge explosion.

 

 

 

A massive fireball roared towards him and blew the younger alien off his feet and threw him in a burnt, smoking mess about 200 yards away into the scrub.

 

Half an hour passed.

 

 

 

When he finally regained consciousness, he refocused his three eyes, straightened his bent antenna, and looked dazedly at the older, wiser alien who was standing over him shaking his big, green head.

 

'What a ferocious creature!' exclaimed the young, fried alien.

 

 

 

'He damn near killed me!

 

 

 

How did you know he was so dangerous?'

 

The older alien leaned over, placed a friendly feeler on his crispy friend and replied,

 

 

 

'If there's one thing I've learned during my intergalactic travels, you never mess with a guy who can loop his penis over his shoulder twice and then stick it in his ear.'

:banana: :doh: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

[CWLONGSHOT]

In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:

 

First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

 

In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families.

These will all expire on January 1, 2011:

 

Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:

 

- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

- The 25% bracket rises to 28%

- The 28% bracket rises to 31%

- The 33% bracket rises to 36%

- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

 

Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

 

The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones.

 

Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

 

Second Wave: Obamacare

 

There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:

 

The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).

 

The “Special Needs Kids Tax” This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

 

The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.

 

Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes

 

When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise—the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired. The major items include:

 

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress’ failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.

 

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be “depreciated.”

 

Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.

 

Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

 

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability will no longer be there.

PDF Version Read more: http://www.atr.org/six-months-untilbr-l ... kes-a5171##ixzz0sY8waPq1

 

Now your insurance is INCOME on your W2's......

One of the surprises we'll find come next year, is what follows - - a little "surprise" that 99% of us had no idea was included in the "new and improved" healthcare legislation . . . the dupes, er, dopes, who backed this administration will be astonished!

 

 

Starting in 2011, (next year folks), your W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are given by the company. It does not matter if that's a private concern or governmental body of some sort. If you're retired? So what; your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you get.

 

You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. For many, it also puts you into a new higher bracket so it's even worse.

 

This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the15% that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases.

 

Not believing this??? Here is a research of the summaries.....

 

On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901) Sec.9002 "requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income."

 

Joan Pryde is the senior tax editor for the Kiplinger letters. Go to Kiplingers and read about 13 tax changes that could affect you. Number 3 is what is above.

 

Why am I sending you this? The same reason I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book.

 

People have the right to know the truth because an election is coming in November.

[CWLONGSHOT]

Which side of the fence?

If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

 

 

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn’t buy one.

If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

 

 

If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.

If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

 

 

If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

 

 

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.

 

 

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.

Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.

 

 

If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.

A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

 

 

If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.

A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.

 

 

If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.

A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended".

 

 

Well, I forwarded it.

:D

[CWLONGSHOT]

The truth about Sarah Palin, etc.

 

 

 

Sarah Palin

Democrat, Independent, or Republican....the second half of this email should make all of us sick, send this on .....especially the second half......

READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!!

AND VERY DISTURBING!!!

 

 

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.

As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVE ON ad about Sarah Palin.

 

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

 

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

 

2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, in Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

 

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of the m and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant.

Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

 

4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

 

5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska Won again.

 

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

 

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screeches are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Should have known better.

 

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.

 

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.

I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.

 

If you've read this far ...............................................now ,open your eyes..........

First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale

 

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

 

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)

4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)

10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)

16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)

17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)

18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

(This is community organizing at it's finest.)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers wholesale duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help,at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

 

FRIENDS.....THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL....MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT'S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????

 

Copyright 2009 CanadaFreePress.Com

 

Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry USA !

 

 

 

 

 

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. G. K. Chesterton

[CWLONGSHOT]

I stopped by the Toyota Dealership yesterday for a look at the new Tacoma . Just for fun, I took it out for a test drive. I wanted to sense that new "feel."

 

The salesman (wearing an Obama "change" lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat describing the truck and all its "wonderful" options. The seats were of particular interest.

 

He explained that the seats directed warm air to your butt in the winter and directed cool air to your butt in the summer heat.

 

Feeling like messing with his mind, I mentioned that this must be a Republican truck. Looking a bit angry, he asked why I thought it was a Republican truck. I explained that if it were a Democrat truck, the seats would blow smoke up your @$$ year-round. :rotf: :clapping: :yes:

 

I had to walk back to the dealership... he had no sense of humor.

[CWLONGSHOT]

I have been on vacation, and neglecting this thread....SO I have a couple posts to add!!! ;)

 

You might want to print this, cut it out and

 

put it on your fridge, so you won't forget.

 

Retribution is only 4 months away!

 

Take a look at this and just remember elections in November 2010.

 

 

U..S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.

They voted to NOT give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.

Your Medicare premiums will go up $285.60 for 2-years

You will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr.

Your total 2-yr loss and cost is $1,600 or $3,200 for husband and wife.

Over these same 2-years each Congress person will get $10,000.

Do you feel SCREWED?

Will they have your cost of drugs - doctor fees - local taxes - food, etc., decrease?

NO WAY.

 

Congress received a raise and has better health and retirement benefits than you or I.

 

Why should they care about you?

You never did anything about it in the past.

You obviously are too stupid or don't care.

 

 

Send the message to these individuals --- "YOU'RE FIRED!"

 

In 2010 you will have a chance to get rid of the sitting Congress: up to 1/3 of the Senate and 100% of the House!

Make sure you're still mad in November 2010 and remind their replacements not to screw-up.

It is ok to forward this to your sphere of influence if you are finally tired of the abuse. Maybe it's time for Amendment 28 to the Constitution..

28th Amendment will be as follows:

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

Let's get this passed around, folks - these people in Washington have brought this upon themselves! It's time for retribution. Let's take back America .

 

If you don't forward this to all your friends you're just part of the problem of national apathy.

[CWLONGSHOT]

EVERYONE, for or against Obama, everyone needs to read this with an open mind. If this is not happening, then we have nothing to fear. If it is (and it is!!!) every person in America had better wake up and take action, lest we all, our children and grandchildren end up living in a socialist/communist country. We have everything to lose!!!

 

 

 

 

 

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT

This verifiable:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp

 

 

Barrack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

 

 

Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward &Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

 

-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. Â It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?

 

-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kickback hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."

 

-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

 

-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.

 

-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.

 

-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.

 

With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.

 

Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.