Keeping A Republic

The entire premise of the superdelegate system is 'we know better than you what we want for the country." It is at its core intrinsically undemocratic. It heralds an age where there was the uberclass who told the plebes what was best for them---which turns out being the best for the uberclass. This premise is usually invoked where the plebes are considered too stupid to know what is best for the country- so a class of people determine they are smarter and they are going to rule and everyone else is too stupid to tie their shoelaces. They are easily manipulated by the media who are good at creating villains and angels. So the only way that the people are going to really be represented in a true democracy is if the superdelegates are removed from the voting equation. It could be they have access to better information- which is why they know better or think they do. But that is a failure of transparency in government. That is precisely why Hillary isn't obviously a fan of transparency and plays hide and seek with government materials on a private bathroom closet server. It is a faux aristocratic model of government where the people don't get to pick, the leaders pick the rulers to pay themselves, and everyone else gets to be happy victims of their 'charity.' It is the Korruptocrat antithesis of true democracy.

We are at a serious crossroads where we have to decide whether we are truly going to be faithful to the vision of the founding fathers or whether we are going to turn the government over to whomever can steal elections the most undetected way and tilt the scale with the superdelegate thumb on it. If there is an extra superdelegate count those superdelegates should be honor bound to vote the way that their constituencies voted. But even that tilts the scale by placing more than a one man/woman vote to certain regions that have superdelegates. Why should those areas count more than areas that don't have superdelegates.

We have a serious problem when the leader of one party, which is the ruling party, can endorse someone that his own Justice Department has under criminal investigation for serious reasons having to do with the National Security. There is something so seriously wrong with that it threatens the Rule of Law.

We are at a serious crossroads now, and we have to decide whether we are a country which is truly Democratic, with full self-reliance and self rule, or are we victim to a Korruptocrat enterprise, where he who has the most money can buy the most superdelegates to win by hook or by crook.

The protest vote against such a rigged system this year leans toward voting the representative of the party who did not rise to power under the superdelegate system but had the overwhelming popular vote in his party.

Every past President has made money in America before by creating enterprise, some inherited great wealth (the Roosevelts), whether they were actors, or oilmen or lawyers or other businessmen. They understood capitalism and how the economy functions, how money is made and grows, and how trade worked.

No past president built wealth by posing as mendicants to solicit donations globally to keep the vast majority of the money for themselves instead of the charities it espoused to garner support -from foreign governments and monied business interests, whether hostile or not to the interests of the country. No past President raised huge sums of money courting foreign hostile governments for hand-outs to run campaigns.

There is something foul in the state of denmark.

And if we intend to keep this Republic we need to get a grip and stop the madness.

Velvet Revolution Interviews Stephen Spoonamore (segment 8)

Presidential Non Endorsement.

OK Wake Up Everybody.  We are in trouble. The country is in trouble.

    After a long silence of 'wait and see' in this Presidential election season I feel now compelled to write to signal an alarm.

Normally I would be thrilled to have a first female break the first female anything barrier but in this case its not worth the applause because of the disconcerting level of "rigged" evidence and foul play that got her there. That plus the fact that she owes everything to a political spouse and is not a self made woman by any stretch- just tagging along learning from a more powerful husband.
That aside.

   This blog (and writer) cannot and will not in any measure approve of or endorse Hillary Clinton. The foulest play of the administration and the DNC and Democratic Establishment as a whole, who have relentlessly shoved this undeserving candidate upon us with every unfairness at every turn imposed on her contender Sanders is shameful and probably in violation of the Voting Rights Act for its suppression shenanigans.

    There are currently serious pending criminal investigations afoot involving abuse and misuse of the public trust by using State Department paid personnel to moonlight double as family foundation workers soliciting and strong arming massive bribes in exchange for state department official policy actions. There are allegations of Clinton's character involving  lying bold faced and repeatedly to just about everyone with such pathological insistence one wonders if she really does believe the sky to be jello green.

   The Clinton family fund, called repeatedly a slush fund for family ambition (and downpayment on Chelsea's 10 Mil Manhattan digs) is the vehicle by which the Clintons are creating their Dynasty. They exploit the public treasury for their profit, they are bastardized public servants. The Clinton Cash movie should be watched by everyone as well as the Benghazi 13 days movie. The scam run through the State Department which caused the Clinton Family foundation advisors to migrate all the State Department emails in violation of several statutes as was explained by the Inspector General Report was done deliberately intentionally paying the IT employee $5,000 to do it in order to hide the conflict of interest self dealing public corruption from the public. The 2 Billion dollar fund that currently exists masquerading as a charity gives only ten percent reportedly of its funds to the causes it solicits for operating essentially as a fraud on the public. The 89-90% apparently goes "in house" for people doing the work "in house" e.g. Chelsea to hug Aides Babies and get the money in her trust fund. This appears to be a massive fraud on the public and it is a failure of the AG in New York and Justice Department to prosecute it.

I am shocked and saddened that the President would not see the impropriety of this endorsement of a candidate who is under FBI investigation with a sitting grand jury and bargaining over 5th Amendment rights for Immunity deals in his own Justice Department going on. That is a move that is frankly, so out of the ball park out of line it questions not only his integrity but his qualifications.

     Clinton as a candidate is not only failed, she is a huge phony. Virtually every position that she mouths now with the conviction of an Oscar winner is a staged rehash of either Bill's old 30 year statements (we need bridges etc.) in direct contradiction to positions she voted for in the past or espoused in the past giving lucrative paid lectures.

   One need only a "googler" to investigate how she feigned support for financial reform while giving paid speeches coddling to Wall Street players, or feigned support for environmental causes while dangling approval of the XL pipeline in exchange for paid speeches to the largest canadian banks investing in it, or feigned sympathy for immigration reform while she voted in the Senate to build "barriers" arguing for aggressive deportations and employer sanctions, or feigned sympathy for the mantra -war only when necessary when she voted for the Iraq war which was completely unnecessary. The woman stands for nothing but her own wealth.

    In short, the cabalistic putsch to enforce this sorry candidate as the leader of the party threatens now to entirely doom the party forever which will be split into those voting Trump and those writing in Sanders or others, and it is certainly predicted to put Trump in the White House unless by miracle Sanders is given the lead position in the ticket- not as a duped side kick cheerleader to Hillary, but as her total replacement. Its Bernie or lose the White House for 8 years. You choose.


http://www.lifezette.com/quickzette/dnc-back-hillary-leave-no-fingerprints/

Miserere

Bishop Barron on Palm Sunday-Happy Palm Sunday and start of Holy Week

David Cameron: A very Happy Easter to you and your family

Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight.

If you watch these two videos you see that Clinton admitted to deleting 30,000 emails (when exactly? while under subpoena to the Congressional Benghazi Committee?) because she deemed them "Personal." Bill says he almost never uses email, maybe one or two, three maybe emails he sent (not even specified to her). So who is she getting personal with? Chelsea must have had a lot of dental appointments (like a 20 something Stanford grad has their mother make her dental appointments.)  or-she must have had so many yoga appointments she should be so limber she can stand on her head on a paddle board.  Seriously Hillary?

Hillary Clinton: A Lying Compilation

Billionary

Hillary's Greed Screed

     When people talk about "Wall Street" influence, they are  concerned about rigging an economy to favor rich at the expense of middle class working people.
   
     The concern isn't just that Hillary gave Goldman a speech and charged over 250k for it- the concern is that she is essentially married to them because two guys from Goldman started a hedge fund with Goldman money with her son in law to found a hedge fund that lost investors their shirts.
Why should that be any of the American citizens' concern? Because Bill and Hillary want to start if she is ever President an Infrastructure Development Bank likely tied to Hedge Fund owner son and his Goldman buddies--- whom one might ask- are exactly how qualified to play around with the US Treasury and who exactly will profit from that cozy enterprise?

   Bill and Hillary ARE Wall Street. They are married to it. They epitomize "limosine liberal" and go one step further because they are setting up the country- the world-for the biggest scam of Western Civilization. How to raid the US Treasury, to set up an Infrastructure Development Bank to enrich their family- the MO clearly demonstrated by their handling of the Family Fund.

   They take the American people for fools and pansies- because these people are about amassing power- massive power and wealth. And just wait till they get their grubbies on the US Treasury.

Banned Documentaries - Episode 1: The Hillary Files

Rest in Peace Justice Scalia

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools…and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

   US  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. 

The Pope Video 2 - Care for Creation - February 2016

"YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE LAW UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THE TECHNOLOGY"

       Retired Federal Magistrate of the US District Court, District of Columbia, 
       Judge John M. Facciola.


http://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2015/08/e-discovery-reflections-from-retired-magistrate-judge-john-facciola/

Dear Iowa

You are my people.

   My maternal grandparents were born and raised in small towns in Iowa- Grinnell, Jessup, Ames and Brooklyn. Yes, there is a Brooklyn Iowa.  Salt of the earth folk.
My grandfather's family has even been written up in a historic account of settlers of Iowa.

  This election is a referendum on whether Honesty Matters Anymore.

I am praying that Iowa returns a hearty "YES" vote to say "YES" Honesty has to matter in public life.

It has to matter that you can trust lawyers, and Judges and politicians. It has to matter that people tell the truth and don't lie regardless of whether they think they can get caught or not. It has to matter when assessing character.

This election season vote "YES" Honesty Still Counts. Your mother taught you that. Your mother was smart.

Iowans, I am praying will do the right thing.  America is counting on you.

SMOKING CANONS

Hillary's Woes Just Got Woeyier.


   The State Department did a last minute before the Iowa Caucus week email dump in which they
released a huge number of emails. You can actually read them because they posted them on line
on their public FOIA page- RIGHT HERE!!!! https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?collection=Clinton_Email_January_29_Release   (click the box on the page and you can see the document image)

   The news headlines are all about the emails they are refusing to release because they contain info so top secret no one should know about them.

   What the news isn't picking up on ---and should--- is the fact that huge  numbers of emails were just released just days before the caucus and these ARE MARKED CLASSIFIED with the confidential and/or privileged parts redacted (a boxed line around an empty space indicates a redaction). In the case where there is a huge redaction and a MARKING OF CLASSIFIED there is a Declassification Date in the future when the document can be declassified. Until then its redacted presumably.

   So what does this all mean?

It means Hillary looked the national audience in the eye on national TV and said she never sent nor received documents "MARKED CLASSIFIED" at the time. So did the State Dept just mark these classified now ?
     To the lay observer this appears a classified marking on emails - it should be explained- to the FBI. When were those markings put on those emails. This is a serious question.

   It also raises serious questions that some 30 plus pages of emails are so top secret they cannot be released in any form even redacted.

   This was all sent on or through unsecured servers from Hillary's private emails run through her husband's homebrew server.

I have just started looking at it and its not even my job. Its the FBIs job and the people paid to be investigative reporters. But clearly- this is beyond troubling. Because even if Hillary wins Iowa she could get a knock on the door by the FBI anytime now.

The kind of information that was contained in those emails also posed security risks in that schedules of when she was leaving her private residence to go places were sent via email -- which means anyone who was trying to find out where our Secretary of State was in any given moment of the morning going from her house to work or to meetings could know exactly where she was when.
If I were Secretary of State I wouldn't want that kind of information public information for any crackpot with a rifle hiding behind the bushes to know.

Other information contains strategically significant important information regarding policy.

Hillary just looks like a seriously pathological reality challenged liar when saying nothing "marked classified" was sent. "Marked" is beside the point if it was (or cut and pasted from documents with that marking or heading) and apparently some WAS MARKED CLASSIFIED---with specific declassification dates (unless State just put that on there for the release and publication of these docs to note the redactions in which case why wasn't it done earlier).

You should be asking yourself- who puts "Classified" on the emails. If I am Secretary of State and I send an email that I have reason to know is classified or should be classified do I have to wait for someone to tell me its classified before I mark it CLASSIFIED on my email transmission?

It is a pretty inevitable conclusion that Hillary knew she was sending classified information on or through her private homebrew server and that it did not have the IT oversight of State, and that she did it all on purpose to avoid scrutiny under FOIA and /or the watchful eye of anyone else in the Administration who could access the government server. She did not do this for the contrived "convenience" she deadpanned, she did it on purpose and its not hard to guess why given the link with the Clinton Foundation cash shake-down which ran on the same server.

Draw your own conclusions, but you owe it to yourself to get all the facts.

 

This is Your Fight Song (Rachel Platten Scottish Cover)

Over A Thousand People Came Together To Break a Record And Bring This Mo...

Beethoven's 5 Secrets - OneRepublic (Cello/Orchestral Cover) - ThePianoGuys

When you vote for Hillary, you also get Bill-----so its important to properly vet BOTH of them.

Before you vote or give another penny to Hillary watch this please-because Bill comes with Hill, with a staff and White House office -again.

Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) - ThePianoGuys

Good King Wenceslas - Jane Seymour and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Good King Wenceslas

Andrea Faustini sings Mariah Carey’s O Holy Night | Live Semi-Final | Th...

Teaser – Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home (15 second)

Museum of the Bible Traveling Exhibits

Quand on a que l'AMOUR [ Hommage aux Victimes ]

Climate Change: Prince Charles Speaks Out

Happy Thanksgiving.

GEORGE WASHINGTON's THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go. Washington

The American Persecution Test

CAN Factor Religion.

    The Politico writers agree with me. Asylum law in this country allows a persecution test to factor religious persecution in granting Asylum preferences into the US. Christian refugees have a prima facie claim for Asylum so should be granted in quicker access to refugee placement- because we don't know if the Muslim ones are militant ISIS or not until more comprehensive vetting is involved.
No Christians are joining ISIS. ISIS has proclaimed itself an Islamic organization that is persecuting Christians. This is well documented and incontrovertible. So for any President to say we don't have a "religious test" and can't consider religion in refugee issues is just wrong.
See, http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/11/yes-we-should-consider-refugees-religion-000325

It's VERY American.

"La Marseillaise" - France National anthem French & English lyrics

James Taylor Performs "La Marseillaise"

Refugee Priority

For Christians.

Should the US have let in Jews before, during and after WWII from Germany and Nazi occupied lands as a priority and precedent over non-Jews? If you said yes, then Christians should be let into America now from ISIS occupied lands because they are specifically targeted for persecution. Like the gold star of David sewn on jackets, a black "N" is scrawled on the homes of Christians standing for Nazarene meaning Jesus from Nazareth follower, and those houses are confiscated -stolen--if the people won't convert to Islam, with the people driven from their homes or killed. All those people would be legally eligible for asylum in America. ISIS was not doing that to Muslims. So, Yes, its Right, Good, Fair, Legal and the only decent thing to do to give refugee priority to Christians coming from ISIS controlled lands.

Just Pray

Christian GENOCIDE

And the Asylum Argument.

    Christians under ISIS controlled territory experienced and are experiencing Genocide. They appear to have prima facie claims for Asylum because of the well founded fear of persecution. CHRISTIANS have been beheaded, kidnapped, shot, imprisoned, hung, crucified, told to leave, convert or be shot and their heads have been decapitated and kicked around like soccer balls- for no other reason than that they are CHRISTIANS. CHRISTIANS are experiencing the worst persecution since NERO by ISIS. There is an Islamic Genocide of Christians going on now by ISIL.

That is why CHRISTIANS should be allowed in as refugees without much question as to whether they are terrorists. Christians are not terrorizing anyone in the Middle East, they are victims of Terror.

So listen Barach. It is highly offensive that you don't get that Christians are being persecuted and are subject to a genocide. It is offensive that you think that protecting them and providing immediate refuge for them isn't something that should be the absolute top of your agenda. It is offensive that you would criticize anyone for one minute wanting Christians to be able to come without delay from ISIS controlled territory. There is an argument for stricter scrutiny on the Muslim ones because ISIS is infiltrating Muslim refugees.

Barach, Sir, Mr. President - what is your problem?  Why are you not getting that this is an intense genocidal slaughter and persecution of CHRISTIANS not Muslims that ISIS is engaged in.

It is absolutely consistent with our Asyum laws and policies to provide immediate refuge for people under imminent threat and fear of bodily harm and genocidal persecution.
Where did you go to law school again?  Clearly you didn't take Immigration Law.

CONGRATULATIONS! BRAVO DELATTRE.

The French-

   Love Them.

France's Ambassador to the UN (formerly France's Ambassador to the US) FRANCOIS DELATTRE  (a career diplomat who may one day find himself running for President of France) has succeeded in passing a UN resolution at the Security Counsel rallying the entire world against DAECH (Isil).

After a period of silence reflecting on the massacres in Paris, the vote was unanimous at the UN to 

crush Daech. 

Understanding Your Enemy

To Undermine Your Enemy

     Hillary on the trail is parroting an approach, that she in fact may have authored originally, to not call the Islamic State In the Levant (ISIL) "Islamic" radicals or "Islamic" terrorists or "Islamic" extremists because she doesn't want to offend all Muslims. Not only is this nuts, it is counterproductive to learning how to undermine them.

    Calling them Islamic radical extremists jihadist terrorists is exactly what they are. Yes, they are also criminal, but understanding why they self-identify how they do is a step necessary toward understanding how to undermine their thinking which is a necessary component on the War against them. You shouldn't call them ISIS or ISIL not because they are Islamic but because they don't merit ever being called a "state."

   Daech or ISIL is a deeply misguided geo-politically imperialist purification fundamentalist strain and vein of Islam. It is a movement that believes it is purifying the earth of the non-islamic non-believing infidels or Kafar and all their vices.  It sees itself as in service of their God (Allah) against vice infected westerners. It is rooted in a misguided theological emphasis on the Koranic versus calling for "Killing" and "fighting" infidels (Jews and Christians mostly) of which there are literally hundreds in the Koran. Pick up a copy, Hillary, and read it. They are translated in English. Anyone who reads it past the first chapter will immediately see all the calls to kill or fight the non believer.

  The other Muslims who are "moderate" or peace-loving, who do not subscribe to the barbarity of taking literally the "Kill" verses of the Koran but adhere to the peaceful pillars of Islam (prayer, service, tithing, etc) know that ISIL is a strain, a version of terrorist criminal Islam that believes it is a purification movement. Those moderate peaceable Muslims are needed to combat the perverse ideology of Daech, to undermine their legitimacy in the religion. It is incorrect to say that Daech has nothing to do with Islam. The fact that their recruits believe that they are God's Army indicates that their motivation is religious. The fact that their texts are the texts of organizing religion through all Islam in the Koran, means they are Islamic. The fact that they shout God Rules (Allah Akbar) while committing heinous criminal atrocities means they are Islamic, the fact that they say on video "Allah commands it" means they are Islamic. They are a brutal, fundamentalist, jihadist, extremist strain or version of Islam, but it is Islam. To quote someone running for President "Do you think they are all from Denmark?" Of course, they are Islamic and it is necessary to understand that this is a religious purification movement under Islam that has its attractiveness to recruits because it is an Islamic purification movement.

    I think sometimes the people thinking through these Foreign Policy strategies think they are a bit more clever than they are. The refusal to call a strain of Islamic fundamentalism for what it is does not help.

   The fact that it is a purification anti-vice movement that uses that as a recruiting tool should tell you that it is not a good strategy to promote things globally that they consider pure vice-like homosexual marriage-and doing that actually inflames them and creates more recruitment. For them its like promoting drunkenness when they are against alcohol. Western society is viewed by them as profoundly vice-ridden, profoundly decadent, and for them Paris the capital of EuroTrash vice. So note to foreign policy crafters: don't flaunt vice like it is a national past-time with a constitutional right in America. If you don't understand that jihadism is an islamic purification movement you don't get that vice matters in foreign policy. Its time to  connect the dots people.

 

   

 

Andrew Neil's message to Paris attackers - BBC News

Happy Thanksgiving

"I would maintain that Thanks are the Highest Form of Thought,  and that Happiness is Gratitude Doubled by Wonder." G.K. Chesterton

The Right to TRAVEL

is a Constitutional Right.

   It is as fundamental as the Right to Marriage well established by the Supreme Court. Revoking passports for tax debts is deeply wrong and a very bad idea.

Any attempt to restrict that Constitutional Right would be likely unconstitutional if based on someone's tax debt.

There is a a bill to revoke passports or not issue US passports if people owe taxes.
This should not pass- and would likely be viewed as Unconstitutional if it passed.

The IRS is a body functioning under the Executive Branch that acts outside Congressional oversight for the most part. It has a political agenda often and we recently have seen political enemies targeted by the IRS. People and organizations that have been hostile to the Democratic Agenda have been targeted by the IRS. See, Louis Lerner

The amount of IRS error is reflected in litigation against the IRS. They make mistakes. They can double or triple a tax debt with penalties, interest and fees.

We live in a Global Economy where it is just as likely that people's business enterprises require they go overseas as much as they go across State lines (or more depending on their business).

People need passports to travel to meet family, or conduct business as well as more frivolous holidays. This penalizes people who have family out of the country potentially. It potentially also impacts the poorest of the citizenry- who might be disputing tax debts or interest and penalties that double or triple the actual debt.

We do not in this country deny rights of citizenship in this country because people are poor or have a hard time paying their taxes.
There is already an enforcement mechanism in place to prosecute tax avoidance and evasion.  Denying a fundamental right to Travel (which people need to make money to pay their debts in some cases) is not only Unconstitutional, its counterproductive.

That is UnAmerican.


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Without doing any legal research I quickly found this on Wikipedia which you can follow up on-

The U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them. In United States v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281 (1920), the Supreme Court reiterated its position that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to protect freedom of movement. However, Wheeler had a significant impact in other ways. For many years, the roots of the Constitution's "privileges and immunities" clause had only vaguely been determined.^[5] In 1823, the circuit court in Corfield had provided a list of the rights (some fundamental, some not) which the clause could cover.^[6][7] The Wheeler court dramatically changed this. It was the first to locate the right to travel in the privileges and immunities clause, providing the right with a specific guarantee of constitutional protection.^[8] By reasoning that the clause derived from Article IV of the Articles of Confederation, the decision suggested a narrower set of rights than those enumerated in Corfield, but also more clearly defined those rights as absolutely fundamental.^[9]

Please Watch this- Senators

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/okeefe-video-syrian-refugees-claim-syrians-using-fake-passports-get-europe/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Safety

FIRST

    The President often says his job is FIRST the Safety of the American People..

There is a bill that passed in the House that the Senate should pass also on refugee policy which places a security check in between unfettered admittance to refugees from countries where ISIS operates. This House bill seems measured, smart, and limited to those countries in which ISIS is operating and aggressively recruiting.

   There are wierd objections that miss the point, of the 'we should be nice and welcoming to refugees' vein. I can't tell you how many times I have been reminded on social media that "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." None of these platitudes are here appropriate because we are not denying refugees admittance with this bill proposal. We are letting them in- once they have been effectively vetted as safe.

  The other objection you hear is that we don't have the manpower at the FBI to effectively clear everyone. Then HIRE MORE FBI. If there is no money to hire more FBI then attach a rider or amendment to the bill that appropriates a huge budgetary allotment to hire more FBI. That is a ridiculous objection.


If the President is really serious about his duty and obligation to FIRST keep American people safe, then he should not Veto this bill.

Because WE NOW KNOW that part of ISIS strategy is to infiltrate the refugee populations. WE NOW KNOW that some people posing as refugees travel on forged passports and have false travel documents created for them in Europe and elsewhere. WE NOW KNOW that ISIS is determined to get to America and do harm.

To not address these serious concerns and just call people calling for better safety measures "UnAmerican" or worse, "UnChristian" is, frankly, disgusting.

copy cats

“It’s quite severe in Europe now, and I also believe that copycats in America will do their best to do what their brothers have done in Europe.”ICYMI: Morten Storm, a former member of Al Qaeda who later became a CIA double agent, said last night that another attack is likely to occur within the next two weeks. http://bit.ly/1MTlgRv     http://bit.ly/1MTlgRv
Posted by The Kelly File on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Sticks and Stones

And Names do Hurt Me.


       There should be no place in the political dialogue of debating policy calling people "UnAmerican" or "shameful" or other slanders because they, upon reasoned judgment disagree with a strategy, policy or government position. Of course it is compassionate to be immigrant friendly and in the American character, but there are sound reasons to make exceptions.

Currently there is a reasoned debate on whether allegedly Syrian refugees should be admitted in the tens of thousands in American States and over half the States are having some pause and saying in light of the Paris attacks, perhaps we might rethink this.

   Sound Reasons to not allow in allegedly Syrian refugees include:

1. High level FBI people have said the sort of usual vetting is either not possible or unreliable because the sort of records and documents that are used to establish identity don't exist. Travel documents from people without passports were created in Greece for large numbers of them, who may or may not have given real information and there is no way to tell.

2. There have been large numbers of immigrant refugees who have in fact been arrested by the FBI in connection with previous ISIS terror plots or aiding and abetting.

3. We don't have effective gun control measures to stop people who are suspected terrorists or even those on terror watch lists from getting weapons in this country. Kids in a candy store.

4. ISIS has said they are coming to Washington to inflict more terroristic attacks in DC. Take them at their word. Do we want to give them a red carpet and food stamps?

So people who don't want refugees from allegedly Syria coming should not be demonized for being "safe not sorry" when dealing with mass casualty possibilities even if perhaps too safe.

Let me say a word about tone.
These are sensitive emotion laden debates. When emotion runs hot facts tend to run out the door.
It serves no legitimate purpose to demonize people who are trying their best to think through solutions given evolving facts.

National Security should not be a partisan issue. Refugee relocation isn't just about "widows and orphans" when we know the majority of refugees are the fit males who survived the passage across the Med. Further, if anyone thought widows were incapable of being terrorists, they didn't read about the woman strapped to a suicide vest who just today died in St. Denis.

National Security is serious business. It shouldn't devolve into Partisan PR epithet-throwing from either side. Our current vetting procedures and current gun restriction legislation look dangerously, lethally even, insufficient to tell us which refugees are ISIS affiliated and would shoot up the Capital given the first gun show they can get to. No Syrian birth, marriage, tax, residency, ID records or any personal identification exists for most of them and documentation was created for them once they got to Europe.

ISIS would not disguise themselves as Christians and it would be too easy to detect them as such. So Christians would be definitionally safer than Muslims to enter the country. That sort of "religious test" is not unAmerican-it is smart strategy. Christians are not terrorists, they are victims of terror in that part of the world. No Christian is strapping a suicide vest to themselves, using their theology to yell "Jesus Rules" and gunning down a concert hall. A national policy that allows in Christians and puts a hold on Muslim ones is a smart strategy because ISIS disguises themselves as moderate Muslims, not cross wearing Christians. This is not "islamaphobic' or "bigoted" or any other epithet the slander happy party wants to throw at people with whom they disagree (note the same strategy was used on people opposing gay marriage-just slander them into the ground with aspersions of "bigot" and the like.)

Slander is not an effective debate tool. It makes the person using it look small. It's not leadership-it has a bullying tone to it. Lets all start acting like grown ups and look intelligently at all the facts.
Please.

Here are some facts. Note-NONE of the below people are Christian.

An immigrant brought here by his family from Kuwait at a young age, and who was later approved for U.S. citizenship, carried out the Islamist attack that recently killed 4 military personnel in Chattanooga. (July 2015)

- An Uzbek refugee living in Idaho was arrested and charged with providing support to a terrorist organization, in the form of teaching terror recruits how to build bombs. (July 2015)

- An immigrant from Ghana, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. (June 2015)

- An immigrant from Yemen, who applied for and received U.S. citizenship, along with six other men, was charged with conspiracy to travel to Syria and provide material support to ISIS. (April 2015)

- A Kazakhstani immigrant with lawful permanent resident status conspired to purchase a machine gun to shoot FBI and other law enforcement agents if they prevented him from traveling to Syria to join ISIS. (February 2015)

- A Bosnian refugee, along with his wife and five relatives, donated money and supplies, and smuggled arms, to terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. (February 2015)

- A college student who immigrated from Somalia who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, attempted to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. (October 2014)

- A Moroccan national who came tot he U.S. on a student Visa was arrested for plotting to blow up a university and federal court house. (April 2014)

- The Boston bombers were invited in as refugees. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on September 11th, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship. (April 2013)

- Two immigrants form Pakistan, who later applied for and received U.S. citizenship, were sentenced to decades-long prison sentences for plotting to detonate a bomb in New York City. (2012)

Read more: http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-war-on-terror-487284/heres-the-long-list-of-foreignborn-14135861/#ixzz3rrlkrdpS

And what might these characters be up to: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/260628-honduras-police-arrest-five-syrians-heading-to-us-with-fake

The fantastique, indominable, indefatigable, formidable French

Vive La France

  and all who love her.

After three official days of national mourning the French are getting their mojo back and defiantly eating in outdoor cafes and living life as usual.

Its about LIFE declared L'Alliance in DC insisting that the Beaujolais festival at the Embassy will go on as usual.

France's export of Joie de Vivre to America is a great blessing- and the Embassy in DC dispenses boatloads of it.  Last night was no exception to the kind hospitality of the Embassy in hosting yet another climate conference, this time where an undersecretary of USDA spoke on carbon sequestration of effective agricultural policies.

Merci Mill Fois (thanks a Million) again for the kind hospitality. The COP21 conference will go on as planned and the French are building a state of art facility to accommodate some 20,000 anticipated visitors. Paris' Mayor is brilliant and making the city safe, beautiful and welcoming.

The French know how to live-which is why so many people want to live there with them. In their hour of struggle against these threats we should be standing shoulder to shoulder assisting them in the defense of all that is sacred. Countez sur moi.

Long Live France- Vive La France- and all who love her.

#PrayforParis

nous sommes tous parisians

I am shocked and saddened beyond belief at the horrific carnage in Paris, from where I just returned a mere week ago.

My thoughts and prayers are with all my compatriots and friends in France. 

In solidarity with the three days of morning this blog will be silent and showing only black space for posts for three days. 

Because there really are no words.

#PrayForParis

Praying

For the People of Paris.

No Words.

Just Pray.

Uncle Al

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    Some people subscribe to a view that being gay is like being left handed. Sometimes they can write with a right hand but its awkward and doesn't work as well and they know its off and not 'natural.' It just feels more natural and really good to write left handed. A small minority of people are left handed and so should be treated no differently than right handed people. (Where are the left handed scissors?) Other people subscribe to a view that a gay inclination or attraction is a reflection of a totally debased debauched mind perhaps coupled with an adjustable hormonal rebalancing perhaps brought on by family trauma or mental illness regardless of how many gays think that they cannot or won't change, and there are plenty of examples of people who came out of a gay lifestyle and live heterosexual lives with families so it is not an "immutable" or "unchangeable" phenotypical or genotypical characteristic but a choice of action and conduct. There is no proof regarding which one  is scientifically valid regardless of how many people feel either way. But to insist that everyone embrace gay sex for life in marriage, against the teaching of three major religions, because you view or adopt the first theory is not sound policy, because the first theory is just a theory. Its the way some people feel about themselves. It is the way a political movement of aggressive gays insist all gays and everyone must view being gay. That doesn't make it true for everyone gay or not. It is not true in fact for everyone-for all those who once were but are not now gay- a population Obama wishes did not exist and ignores because he wants to delude himself into thinking the theory is true. It might be his truth, but that does not make it true for all gays or any gays.

If a private limo driver or cab driver had a pregnant woman jump in their cab with a huge belly and said "take me to the abortion clinic on x street" and driver was against abortion, can the driver refuse service and tell the woman he won't do that as a private business serving the public? Of course- a cabbie can refuse service and tell you they don't want to take you to a bad part of town if he doesn't want to--or the airport--or anywhere he doesn't want to -he reserves the right to not serve people he doesn't want to. Recently a case involving two Muslim truck drivers found the drivers were discriminated against because they would not take a load of alcohol and were fired. It was discrimination against them based on clear religious conviction and belief that its wrong to drink alcohol so they were not going to drive it anywhere. Neither was being asked to drink it. No one shouted if you don't like alcohol then don't be an alcoholic. They were requesting that they not be made to do something against their conscience by participating in something their religion said was immoral and the court found they didn't have to or lose his job. The EEOC brought this action initially.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/30/muslim-truckers-who-refused-to-deliver-alcohol-awarded-240000/

The EEOC's press release HERE: http://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/10-22-15b.cfm

This is no different than Kim Davis or any flower provider or cake baker or anyone else who thinks gay marriage is immoral and they do not want any part of it. No one should shout-if you don't like gay marriage don't get gay married to them. They are perfectly happy baking a birthday cake, just like the cabbie above might have been fine with taking the pregnant woman to her sister's house just not an abortion clinic. If a Muslim truck driver doesn't have to ship liquor or lose his job Kim Davis doesn't have to sign gay marriage licenses. Its her constitutional right not to have to do that if she finds it immoral according to the tenets of her religion- however whacky you may feel about that religion.
No Christian, Muslim or Jew or anyone should have to be discriminated against on the basis of their clear religious conviction that gay sex is immoral- and it does not matter what the state of that Christian's morality is or how many times they were married or divorced or if they are sinfully casting stones- it is a question of allowing that person to live their life according to their conscience. That is their constitutional right. It should be firmly protected.
The view that being gay is nothing different than being left handed, or that it has no moral implication such that it is illegitimate to attribute morality at all to sexual acts, and so should be treated no differently than heterosexual, as opposed to someone plagued with inappropriate sexualization of same sex people immorally as a product of a debased mind, is a value judgment simply made up without foundation in fact or science- even if there are more gays coming out there insisting that they are just left handed. More people sinning doesn't make more morality. More people subscribing to a wrong theory doesn't make the theory right.Gay people being talented, beautiful, funny or "loving" also does not make the theory right-it is irrelevant. Shoving the theory down everyone's throat as if it were universal fact demanding legal respect is just piss poor policy.
The African nations are correct to rebuff the President in his gayification of discrimination laws.
What is completely unacceptable is anyone slandering anyone with labels of "hater", "homophobe" or "bigot" because they subscribe to their religious teachings and have a conscientious objection to actions they find immoral. That is ignorant and unacceptable and it needs to stop.
No one would think to call the Muslim above a WinoPhobe, or a hater of drinkers. He just find the actions immoral. I am sure the cabbie above doesn't hate the woman he is refusing to take to the abortions -to the contrary- he doesn't want to participate in her butchery for her own good as well.

     Whenever accommodations can reasonably be made to accommodate religious views they should be made so long as rights of others are not infringed upon. The Muslim truck drivers schedule could perhaps have been changed so he drove the next load of anything but alcohol (and bacon) and the pregnant girl can catch the next cab. The gay couple wanting a cake doesn't get to insist that everyone in the world will want to facilitate or participate in their celebration while there is a gay baker down the street who needs the business. The Constitution does not demand all Americans must approve of everyone else's conduct. Were that the case the laws which prohibit service of alcohol to clearly drunk people in bars with keys in their hands would all have to be voided.  Were that the case then judges couldn't examine adultery in divorce or custody cases ever.

   The people currently being discriminated against the most are the people who hold true the second theory: that there is a permissible morality assessment regarding gay behavior and they would be violating conscience to participate in something they view as debased or debauched. Those people are the new persecuted in the Western Church. They are losing jobs, clients, having their businesses boarded up, fined and blasted all over the media and social media as "haters" "homophobes" and "bigots" in pure defamation.

    This has to stop and right itself with the next President.

  

The Dog Ate My Emails

Hillary, Hillary, oh Hillary.

Hillary personally assessed security in Tripoli, Cairo and Tunisia and pulled Embassy personnel out and home there-She did pull Embassy personnel out and home in those places-she knew security intel review was her job especially in conflict regions, so why not Benghazi after 600 written frantic requests for security. The answer lies in what the mission in Benghazi was really about and what was her payoff. You heard her say Paris a number of times, meetings were held there about the mission and it was driven by the French who did most of the heavy lifting on the invasion. The French, Sarkozy in particular, followed George Bush's lead in invading countries when there was a clear business interest at stake and in this case it was French Water, notably the international water and waste company Veolia, not an oil company driving an invasion. Veolia is a global leader in desalination plants, they had one in Benghazi which is on the coast. See, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916405006065 click here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916405006065 and HERE http://www.veolia.com/en/veolia-group/media/news/veolia-global-leader-desalination and HERE https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjDuFipWTf4AVNQPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Veolia+Desalination+Plant+Benghazi&fr=yhs-iry-fullyhosted_011&hspart=iry&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_011   AND GET THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF VEOLIA FROM 2010-2014.

Khadaffi, who was just as bad a brutal dictator for about 50 years without anyone wanting to take him out was on the cusp of nationalizing all the water and implementing a huge water program that kept water and waste management in the hands of Khadaffi's people which would have kicked out the French interests and billions of dollars in revenue for Veolia's Desalination efforts. The libyan "water wars" were well written about. Congress should look at the French government interest in Veolia because it is believed to be partially owned by the French government. Congress should also look at how much money the French government and/or Veolia and/or their executives contributed to the Clinton Foundation (that Hillary's daughter runs and husband and she own) from 2011 to 2015. They should subpoena her husband and/or any custodian of records of the Foundation to determine whether she was in fact paid for keeping on the ground an intelligence gathering operation in Benghazi for the purpose of averting a nationalization of Libyan water interests. Congress should be looking at whether Sid Blumenthal got any contracts or payments from the French government or Veolia around this time. The real question is - did Hillary jeopardize the lives of Americans by leaving them unsecured in a war zone when she should have brought them home because a foreign government was pledging to her money through her foundation and other financial personal support. Its all about the water. Are you getting disgusted yet? If not, you are not awake.

     The email situation reflects every lawyer trick in the book to hide what they were really up to- through a secret server in which she alone could determine what was "personal" e.g. anything having to do with payments to the Foundation from the French government or proxies. She could run emails through foreign off shore servers as in Paris or through Oscar de la Renta's house in the Dominican Republic and no one would be the wiser- its outside the subpoena power of the US courts. Unless, those emails are also captured on NSA servers. Congress should subpoena all Clinton emails in 2011, 2012 and 2013 from the NSA who has all her foreign email traffic archived. 

    This is about what let someone be so callous as to ignore about 600 urgent security requests she let four people die in the sand, then lie that it was unpredicted and unpredictable when it clearly was a planned attack that she had intel on, and refused to bring them home. What would make her so miscalculate on purpose the risk to insist they stay? There was  likely a massive payoff.  

    She should have insisted that the French provide private security if she couldn't get the marines in there. Marines usually do guard US Embassy installations but it wasn't a proper Embassy installation in Benghazi. We do put Embassies in war zones but not without the Marines guarding them. No one in their right mind would insist on putting a bunch of unprotected Americans in the middle of a war zone unless they had military security. If she couldn't get military security she should have insisted the French provide private security. Syd Blumenthal apparently even insisted on it. The compound in Benghazi was hit with two bombing attempts previously and the Ambassador was screaming for real military style security. Obviously she was involved evaluating whether Benghazi should be converted into a full Embassy or Consulate a full security review is an integral part of that assessment.

  Was it a "Hard Choice" to leave Americans vulnerable so the French could take out a water project to protect their commercial interests? Maybe Maybe not. But it sure was a dumb one. It will cost her the Presidency. Because she isn't running for President of France.

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Planned Parenthood Says it will stop collecting money for Fetal "Tissue" donations.

As reported in the Wall Street Journal- to take the heat off for human body part harvesting for sale, Planned Parenthood says it will stop collecting payment from people for Fetal "Tissue" (e.g. the baby)    

http://www.wsj.com/articles/planned-parenthood-stops-taking-reimbursements-for-fetal-tissue-1444744800

Pennies for Planned Parenthood.

The Great Deception.

     Unless you live under a rock you know that Congress is holding hearings investigating Planned Parenthood.

Whether this organization is a sham shell game of government funding or not should not be a partisan issue, but it is- because it is a sham shell game of government funding. And it is laundering that blood money back into the coffers of only one party to perpetuate the mass deception and disinfo campaign. This is not about women's health. It is about corruption. It is about the ability of a special interest group to buy an entire party of politicians. It is about the role of mass disinformation campaigns to fund an unethical industry, and yes, it is certainly about exploitation of vulnerable women.

   There is currently a law on the books in which no federal money can be given for abortions. So the games played to circumvent that are legend.

Here is this abortion mill collecting half a billion taxpayer dollars in medicaid reimbursements under the ruse that no money is going toward abortions. Everyone knows it is an abortion mill. Everyone knows few people go there except for abortion. Everyone now should know that in spite of even the President of the org. putting the disinfo out there deliberately that they do mammograms to screen for breast cancer, they do none and don't even have the equipment. This is a deliberate lie-a disinfo campaign to legitimate the existence of this abortion mill.

Congressional hearings have uncovered that it is involved in over-billing medicaid by hundreds of percents of actual costs, by what can only be considered Medicaid fraud. The Justice Department has an entire department of civil litigators devoted to prosecution of Medicaid Fraud but will they investigate Planned Parenthood? Not likely under a Democratic Administration. (cue that photo of Obama hugging Cecile Richards.)

Planned Parenthood has been found to be engaged in such sub-medical quality standard procedures that they risk the lives of women and girls who seek abortions. They have been found to cover up underage statutory rape by not reporting pregnancies from abuse. They have been found to tell hemorrhaging girls with punctured uteruses or other organs to go home, where they then had to be rushed to an ER. People have in fact died at the hands of Planned Parenthood abortionists.

The clinics are not regulated the way hospitals are and the abortionists currently do not have to even have admitting privileges in any hospital. When people try to restrict the practices in any way in the interest of health the abortion industry screams that they are restricting women's rights. Its over the top and unconscionable.

They are engaged in "fuzzy math" suspect reporting of abortion stats to suggest that only a tiny percent of their business is abortion when we know that not to be true now. They do that by almost counting every condom and contraceptive pill they dispense against a one abortion to suppress the figure. A huge percentage of their revenue comes from abortion.

     I am not writing the Congressional report referring this for defunding, but if I were there is plenty of material already and the hearings continue.  I have heard enough for a Justice Department referral for criminal investigation of the routine practices of Planned Parenthood.

What do they do? They engage in mass slaughter of pre-born infants. In some cases they do this by dismemberment inside a woman, they sometimes inject a toxic solution into a womb to kill an infant, they sometimes force labor so a woman delivers a still born-which they then chop up for 'fetal research.'

    The lies told by Cecile Richards are legend. The "Mammosham" one is but one. She peddled the fiction that fetal research cured polio with the Polio vaccine in a Maddow interview when that is a lie (Jonas Salk 1952 didn't use fetal tissue as any basic research reveals.) The "abortion is only 3% of our business" is a lie. The whole-we care about women's health- is also fiction as a former director of one Planned Parenthood affiliate explained.  They care about the bottom line. They care about Manhattan expensive apartments and lambourghinis. They care about extracting from wombs in tact cavalariums to get the best price on baby brains.

   This should not be a Partisan issue. It should be a basic human decency issue. When it isn't and when no democrat will challenge the organization, you know the party is corrupt, bought by this hideous organization.

  Who in their right mind could fight giving the money instead to real health clinics that really do tend to women's health?




 

Bridge Builders

Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation-HCEF.

    When you hear the word "Palestinian" what comes to mind? Rock throwing, suicide bombing
crazies murdering settlers, screaming behind a wall?

   Did you know that Palestinians are also Christians? In fact they are the Christians whose ancestors likely followed Jesus from the time he first walked the earth.

   These Christians are bridge builders of Peace.
Many live in Bethlehem, the place of Jesus' birth. Many live in the West Bank.
They are culturally Arab, and Christian by faith and profession worshipping the Jewish Messiah, the Prince of Peace.

  There is an organization, headquartered in Washington, DC, the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation that works in these communities developing projects to sustain that community, considered the "living stones" of the ancient church. They run programs such as a jobs creation one where they rehab houses for people whose houses need help, they support schooling programs, they support the industry of Palestinians involved in the olive wood craft trade for which they are famous. You can find in the old city these beautiful olive wood craft carvings of biblical characters and scenes in the Old City of Jerusalem and the HCEF now brings them to America for special days at American churches.

   HCEF is having its annual fundraiser gala dinner and conference this week. They are a very worthwhile organization founded initially by a Palestinian Christian Catholic (married to a latin american woman) whose brother was killed in the conflict. Instead of becoming bitter and vengeful he decided to devote his life toward bettering the condition of his fellow Palestinian Christians. His is a remarkable life story in itself.

  You can come to the gala, or other parts of the conference and please do buy some olive wood hand made crafts.

  www.hcef.org
 

     

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