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Wednesday
March 11, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 2©
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Barack
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“Bloody
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Commentary
38 Obama vacations costing
us millions
The First Steps
Towards An
American
Monarchy
Lavish trips during crises raise questions among taxpayers
By Shawn
Total Conservative
by
Paul
R.
Hollrah
Rarely do I wait with anticipation to hear what Barack
Obama has to say on any subject.
After more than six years of his
political presence we’ve come to
expect that we can place little faith
in anything he might say on any
subject because he has a totally
different view of what otherwise
reasonable people might believe.
However, as I watched the
Obamas climb the steps of Air
Force One on Saturday morning,
March 7, on their way to Selma,
Alabama to participate in the 50th
anniversary of the historic march
across the Edmund Pettus Bridge,
now widely referred to as “Bloody
Sunday,” I couldn’t help but think
back to March 4, 2007, when
Obama spoke from the pulpit of
the Brown Chapel A.M.E. church
in Selma, the starting point for
the “Bloody Sunday” march. In
that speech, Obama attempted to
fashion an imaginary link between
himself and the events of March
7, 1965.
He said: “...something happened back here in Selma, Alabama… Something happened
when a bunch of women decided
they were going to walk instead
of ride the bus after a long day of
doing somebody else’s laundry,
looking after somebody else’s
children. When (black) men who
had PhDs decided ‘that’s enough’
and ‘we’re going to stand up for
our dignity,’ that sent a shout
across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something
different for his son. His son, who
grew up herding goats in a small
village in Africa, could suddenly
set his sights a little higher and
believe that maybe a black man in
this world had a chance…
“This young man named
Barack Obama… came over to
this country. He met this woman
whose great great-great-greatgrandfather had owned slaves;
but she had a good idea there was
some craziness going on because
they looked at each other and
they decided that we know that,
(in) the world as it has been, it
might not be possible for us to get
together and have a child. There
was something stirring across the
country because of what happened
in Selma, Alabama, because some
folks are willing to march across a
bridge. So they got together and
Barack Obama Jr. was born. So
don’t tell me I don’t have a claim
on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me
I’m not coming home to Selma,
Alabama.”
It sounded good; it was
great oratory. But what was the
truth of the matter? The problem
with Obama’s version of history
was that he was born on August
4, 1961, while the first of three
marches across the Pettus Bridge
in Selma didn’t occur until March
7, 1965, three years and seven
months after he was born.
On March 7, 1965, an estimated 550-600 civil rights march-
See Hollrah, pg. 11
How much does the first family
cost taxpayers for vacations?
While it’s difficult to pin down
precise figures, the Washington
Examiner reports they have
“spent tens of millions in tax
dollars to vacation, and they still
have two more years to go.”
Judicial Watch has compiled
a list of vacations, fundraisers
and other presidential trips and
their accompanying expenses.
A rough tally of this incomplete
list comes to a minimum of
$33,441,728.23.
It is routine for the government to cover a president’s
travel expenses, which can
include security, staff housing
and transportation, communication, prepositioning of aircraft
and other related expenditures.
Some, however, are questioning the sheer cost of travel, and
whether such costly vacations
are necessary during a weak
economy.
Prior to the presidential trip to
sub-Saharan Africa during 2013,
the Washington Post reported,
“Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched
to secure facilities in Senegal,
South Africa and Tanzania. A
Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed
medical trauma center, will be
stationed offshore in case of
an emergency. Military cargo
planes will airlift in 56 support
vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded
with sheets of bullet¬proof
glass to cover the windows of
See Vacations, pg. 9
NRA chief: ‘Dictator’ Obama ‘hates
2nd Amendment’
By Leo Hohmann
.223-caliber “green-tipped” ammunition, also known as the M855 ball ammunition.
In a Fox News interview with
Lou Dobbs, NRA President
Wayne LaPierre blasted President Obama as “acting like
a dictator” in his push to ban
the ammunition for America’s
most popular sporting rifle, the
AR-15.
While the issue has been burning up conservative websites
and blogs, it’s received almost
no coverage from establishment
media giants.
“Why are we not hearing more
of an outcry on this?” Dobbs
asked.
“Probably because the media
doesn’t want the American public to know what this president is
trying to impose on them. This
is a president who, he’s grasping
for straws,” LaPierre said. “He
hates the Second Amendment,
he hates the fact that Americans
have a constitutional right to
own firearms.”
LaPierre pointed out that
Obama’s plans to ban the AR-
15 itself failed in Congress.
That was back in 2013, when
the weapon Democrats tried to
characterize as a “military-style
assault rifle” proved more popular than they imagined among
sporting enthusiasts and hunters.
The AR-15 is branded by Colt
and modeled as a civilian sporting rifle on a semi-automatic
platform, whereas the military
version, the M16, is fully automatic.
Most sportsman use the AR-15
for competitive or recreational
target shooting. It has no history of being used as a weapon
of choice by street criminals,
law enforcement officers told
WND.
Yet, Obama and a small core
of Democrats, including Rep.
Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.,
have targeted the gun relentlessly with the help of advocacy groups funded by Michal
Bloomberg, Bill Gates and other
corporate elites.
“He can’t win at the ballot box,
he can’t win at the Congress,
and now he’s trying to act like a
dictator and planning on forcing
this ammo ban on the American
public by executive regulation,”
LaPierre said.
Watch entire interview with
Wayne LaPierre:
“Why the sudden interest in this
so-called 5.56mm, green-tip ammunition that effectively, then,
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President Obama brings
to mind questions that never
needed asking before. Not questions of philosophy or ideology.
Not questions of patriotism or
religion. Questions that have
factual, constitutional answers.
Questions about the limits of executive authority. Questions about
the president’s right to change or
ignore laws he does not care for.
The answers can be found, but it
seems increasingly obvious that a
large percentage of Americans are
unwilling to look for them. Either
that…or they simply don’t care.
Democracy dies when we
no longer pay attention to abuse
of power. When we let that power
grow one executive action at a
time, more concerned with the
result of a thing than the legal
basis. Why, it’s so sensible to
provide amnesty to illegal immigrant children. Do we really want
to send these poor children back to
their hellhole countries of origin?
How heartless. How cruel. And
so because liberals like the idea of
open borders and a kinder, gentler
America, they are willing to turn
a blind eye to what it plainly an
abuse of power.
To be clear, Obama’s
dreams of dictatorship are chilling. But they do not present any
threat to the country as long as
everyone recognizes what’s going on. There have been plenty of
examples in the past of presidents
trying to legislate from the White
House. Some were even temporarily successful before the courts
rebuked their challenges to the
Constitution. The problem today
– what’s really chilling – is that
we’ve allowed the concept of executive overreach to become just
another Republicans vs. Democrats inside-baseball issue.
Beyond Politics
This should have very little
to do with party politics. It goes
without saying that Washington
is more polarized than ever before, and that the polarization is
borne out of opposite and contrary
ideologies. And that’s fine. But
there comes a point when cooler
heads must prevail. There comes
a time when lawmakers and the
American people – even those
who call themselves Democrats
and believe that there should be
no such concept as “illegal” immigration – must wake up to what’s
happening. This is more than an
individual issue. Much more. This
is about what we are willing to let
our country become.
In our Constitution, it
says that “all legislative powers
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Governor Mary Fallin’s “Oklahoma Now”
THE VIEW FROM HERE
Governor Mary Fallin: The Fallout of the
Latest Obamacare Case on the States
By Neil Carson (CKA Bob McDowell)
The King v. Burwell case before
the U.S. Supreme Court could
present both challenges and
opportunities for our states. The
Court will decide later this year
whether the Internal Revenue
Service had the statutory authority to write a rule allowing
health insurance subsidies to
flow through federally-facilitated exchanges.
As we wrote in our January 29,
2015, letter to House Speaker
John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
we are convinced that states
could do a much better job of
managing programs if we had
greater flexibility and control
of funds and regulatory authority. Putting states in the driver’s
seat would allow us to provide
better services at lower costs to
Petitioners argue that the law our citizens.
clearly restricts the subsidies
to “an Exchange established by We understand that Congress is
the State” under section 1311 working on legislative solutions
of the Patient Protection and to provide other options to the
Affordable Care Act (ACA) and states should the Court decide
that administrative agencies like the IRS acted illegally in allowthe IRS cannot alter legislation ing health insurance subsidies
or spend taxpayer dollars with- in the federal exchanges. We
out authorization by Congress. are eager to have other options.
Government attorneys argue We want to make sure people
that “established by the State” are able to keep their health
is at worst a drafting error and insurance, but many governors
that Congress clearly wanted do not want to be forced to
subsidies to be available in all create a state exchange or see
of the states.
our citizens lose coverage. We
hope that Congress would ofMost of our states did not create fer targeted, temporary relief
a state exchange, but there still for people to maintain their
has been significant disruption current coverage while we
to our health insurance markets. work together on free-market,
Many of our citizens have had consumer-friendly solutions for
no other option but to purchase the future.
the expensive, mandate-heavy,
federally-regulated insurance We hope legislation will return
required by the ACA.
control over health insurance
to the states so we can offer our
constituents a greater variety of
policies and robust consumer
protections without the excessive costs
to comply
with the
A C A ’ s
rules and
mandates.
Republican
governors Gov. Mary Fallin
have written before and continue to
maintain that the “ACA remains
seriously flawed both conceptually and technically. It favors
dependency over personal responsibility and will ultimately
destroy the private insurance
market.”
Regardless of the outcome of
King v. Burwell, governors
need more flexibility to respond
to the different needs of their
constituents. “One-size-fits-all”
approaches to governance are
never the best way to deliver
positive results. As policy solutions are created by Congress in
the aftermath of the Supreme
Court ruling on King v. Burwell, we encourage options
that would allow the states
the opportunity to innovate
and offer health insurance that
better meets the needs of our
citizens.
Congressman Jim Bridenstine Votes Against
Amtrak Subsidies
Washington, DC, March 4, 2015
Today I voted against HR 749, the passenger rail bill which authorizes funding primarily for Amtrak.
100 other republicans joined me in attempting to stop First District taxpayers from subsidizing government passenger rail transport.
Congress should be phasing out federal funding for Amtrak. Instead, this bill increases authorization
levels between 2016-2019 and makes it easier for Amtrak to access taxpayer-backed debt.
Another Year of Writing
It is hard to realize that this
tome is the 364th in the series that
began in March of 2008, yes it
completes a full seven years of each
week thinking, or trying to think, of
something that would be interesting,
informational, and perhaps amusing.
A whole lot of water has ‘gone over
the dam and under the bridge’ in the
meantime. In looking at the very first
time out, it was about a trip made,
by request from the Missouri House
‘Majority Whip’ (No. 2) to testify at
a committee hearing on a bill she had
introduced, for my and others benefit,
to require birth records of adoptees
to be opened. How that came about
is another story, but was a complete
surprise to me.
The writing all began with
a telephone call from Mrs. Donna
Vickers, owner/publisher of the
‘Banner Newspaper’ in Adair, OK remarking that I had written numerous
‘letters to the editor’ and had I ever
thought of writing a weekly column.
Completely taken by surprise, my
reply was that the thought had never
crossed my mind as I did not consider
myself to be an author or writer, but
was willing to ‘try anything once and
if it did not please me not continue’.
The story was told to Charley Biggs,
owner/publisher/editor of the ‘Tulsa
Beacon’ who agreed to also try it.
Thank you both, it has been a
whole lot of fun, even if frustrating
when “writer’s block” raises its ugly
head. A few other papers have been
added to the list, but whether they
actually print them is not known by
me, other than the ‘Oklahoma Constitution’, a quarterly paper in OKC
that prints one of them as a ‘letter to
the editor’.
Now this week reference is
made to a story attributed to the
‘Larry O’Dell of the Associated
Press’ with the headline that read
“Virginia considers taking more
offenders’ DNA”. The story begins
with a murder case that was old with
only DNA from the victim. At the
time there was not the national file
that is in existence today, but a match
was found several years later when
the file was finally in place with
the culprit in another state where he
had been captured on a couple of
sexual assault cases at two separate
Virginia universities. The culprit had
also been convicted of trespassing
earlier, but that would have been a
misdemeanor and thus DNA sample
was not taken. The story goes on
at length to list the supporters of
expanding the list of required sample
taking.
It also lists ‘concerns’ of opponents and their concerns of possible misuse of the records, such
as going after everyone with a
particular “marker” that might turn
up. As expected, the ACLU is at the
forefront in opposing anything
that might make
crime solving
faster and easier
citing the possible misuse of
such records ‘if
they would fall
into the wrong
hands’.
Frankly, it is my opinion, and
desire, that the DNA file should be
open for everyone and anyone to submit a sample for several reasons, all
considered by me to be most valid. It
has been my desire to be entered into
the database for the simple reason of
body identification in the event of
some catastrophe. This would make
it much easier for the forensic team
to obtain identification in such cases.
Also, it would make it possible to
identify ancestry, such as American
Indian tribes.
For example, my daughter,
Mary, was attempting to find my ancestry, because of my adoption status
and the severe secrecy of records in
the State of Missouri, and had me
provide a sample for one of the services. No word has been received by
me of whether the results were filed
in the national database, but it would
not bother me.
Another use for it would be
in the maternity wards of hospitals.
Having such records would certainly
settle any cases of ‘switched babies’,
that have occasionally surfaced in
the news. Or even in cases where a
baby was kidnaped from the nursery.
It would be easy to take samples for
DNA on admission of the mother
and when the baby was born. This
is especially true since it is not necessary to take blood samples for DNA
recording, but only a saliva swab is
adequate.
Frankly, it seems most surprising that this has not been done sooner.
But the granddaughter of my late wife
has been the head of the DNA laboratory for the OSBI and was involved in
setting up the national database, but
was prevented by their rules, perhaps
law, from even considering a sample
from me. Are you listening members
of Legislatures?
The Conservative View
By Russell Turner
Who Will Shed Tears
An amendment offered by Rep. Tom McClintock to end operating subsidies was defeated on the floor
Last Tuesday I listened to the are immune from all of the violence
despite getting 147 GOP votes. Real Amtrak reform would cut off federal subsidies and encourage speech that Benjamin Netanyahu that is happening on the other side
gave to our Congress and the in- of the world. During the cold war
serious -- rather than token -- private competition. HR 749 does neither.
Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s Statement
on DHS Funding
Washington, DC, March 3, 2015
Today, the House passed a
bill to fund the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS)
for the remainder of the fiscal
year. The bill funds President
Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty. I voted no.
Back in January, I voted to fund
every constitutional DHS function and program and to defund
the executive amnesty. Senate
Democrats blocked the Senate
from even debating the Housepassed bill. Senate Democrats
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also prevented the House and
Senate from going to conference
and figuring out a way to fund
DHS without the President’s
executive amnesty.
Ultimately, this outcome was
entirely predictable. The House
should have never passed the
so-called “Cromnibus” back
in the lame duck session in
December. The strategy of
passing a $1.1 trillion spending
bill, but holding out DHS was
never credible. The President
and Senate Democrats always
knew the House would capitulate. Along with other House
conservatives, I voted against
the Cromnibus. The federal
court system is our last hope to
overturn the President’s lawlessness on immigration.
formation that he conveyed to the
American people. It was Thomas
Jefferson that once said that if the
American people are told the truth
they would make the right choice. I
appreciate Mr. Netanyahu’s bluntness and his style of not sugar coating the seriousness of making an
agreement with Iran. Mr. Netanyahu
showed us what it takes to be a leader;
where Israel has a leader, we Americans have a politician occupying our
highest office.
Several Democrat Representatives and Senators refused to attend
the speech, and Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi was quoted after the
speech as saying the speech was “insulting” claiming it undermined international peace and almost “drove
her to tears.”
For all of you that have forgotten, Miss Nancy was the Representative that stated after she voted for
Obamacare, she voted for it so that
she could see what was in it. Ask
yourself a simple question, how is
Obamacare working out for you?
Now she is supporting a secret agreement with a nation that is openly
promoting the destruction of America
and Israel.
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serious topic. We Americans have a
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America and the Soviet Union were
the two players in the nuclear game;
while the Soviets were ruthless, they
were predictable and they did keep
tabs on their warheads. The Iranians
and other fanatic groups will do
anything in
the name of
their religion.
Have we forgotten the
9/11 attacks?
The majority
of the murderers came
from Saudi
Arabia (one
Russell Turner
of our supposed friendly nations). They killed
over 3,000 of our fellow Americans,
and I am sure their only regret was
they weren’t able to kill even more.
If Nancy Pelosi would stop drinking
the Kool Aid, she could understand
that if those same people had access
to a nuclear bomb they would have
no problem destroying an entire
city. The Iranian leadership has
openly stated that one of their goals
is to completely destroy Israel; while
Nancy is insulted and ready to shed
tears, the Israelis are dealing with a
nation whose goal is genocide.
Our current administration is
one of the poorest negotiators in our
history. The only commodity the
Middle East nation produces is Oil,
they do not export food or any other
item we need. One way to put more
pressure on them is to stop buying
their only product - oil. Instead of
making our country energy self-sufficient, our president used his veto
pen and stopped the Keystone XL
pipeline. We need to remember that
the nation of Israel is our only true
friend in that part of the world. The
insult came from the congressmen
that walked out and refused to listen
to Mr. Netanyahu. The American
people need to ask Nancy and Barrack if they will shed tears when one
of our major cities is engulfed in a
mushroom cloud?
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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From My Pointless View...by Ruth Bivens
The Inspection
Hubby and I are spending
more and more time here at the
Getsemani Children’s Home in Morelos, Coahuila, Mexico. Since we
did not have full time students enroll
in our Bible Institute in Altamira,
our teaching jobs there sort of dried
up. Our dear friends, the director and
staff at the Seminary of the Cross in
Reynosa want us to come back there
and teach for a while this semester,
but, Hubby is pretty content working
here. So, I guess this is where we
will be until we have to go South for
a Pastor’s Conference or Convention in Altamira.
Our son John and his wife
Paulina established this ministry
after having worked at another
orphanage in the border city of Piedras Negras. Their initial plan was
to work at that children’s home for
a year and find out everything they
needed to know about starting their
own children’s home. But, after
working there for a year they were
so in love with the children that they
just found it impossible to leave. So,
they stayed there for six years before
coming farther into the frontier zone
and beginning this beautiful work
in Morelos in 2006, and several of
those children came with them.
They contacted the mayor
here in Morelos and discussed with
him their hope to come to this area
and start a children’s home. He was
quiet enthusiastic and told them that,
if they would start an old folk’s
home together with the children’s
home, he would get property donated for them. They agreed to try
that, although it had never crossed
their minds before. So the mayor arranged for a local business man who
owed a large tax bill to donate five
acres to them in return for having
his tax debt erased. After it was up
and running for three or four years
the Department of Family decided
they could not take care of elderly
and children so the elderly folks who
were not able to work had to leave.
One man, Abihu, is still here. He is
70, but, they put him on salary and
he works with the older boys tending
the animals and keeping the grass
and trees watered and trimmed.
This property is out at the
north edge of town, behind a huge
plastic recycling depository. John
says that the first time he walked out
and saw the land he wondered what
in the world he had gotten himself
into. It was a five acre plot of land,
covered with thorn bushes.
He went to work and groups
of supporters from many different
areas came and helped him. Soon
homes to house children were growing up out of the ground like mushrooms. Today the place is a beautiful
property with four homes where
10-12 children could be cared for, an
office building, computer building,
large kitchen and dining room that
will seat at least 60, a huge dorm
with its own kitchen for groups that
come to help, barns for animals and
all kinds of fowl, and a work shop
where any kind of work can be done.
They are suffering from a shortage
of house parents so are currently
limited in the number of children
they can receive. We ask people to
pray for dedicated house parents to
come, people who sincerely love
children, and realize that this is not
a job, but a ministry, healing broken
and hurting hearts of abandoned and
abused children.
The home is under the umbrella of the “DIF” the Mexican
government’s Department of Family, an organization much like our
Department of Human Services.
Everything that is done here has to
meet their standards and rules. Even
in the little duplex where Hubby
and I live there is a sign on the wall
pointing to the “Evacuation Route,”
an “Exit” sign over the back door,
and two fire extinguishers hanging
on the front and rear walls of the
living/dining/kitchen with large
signs over them clearly identifying where they are. With all of the
oversight that they have, one would
expect that they would also be supporting the home financially when
they place children. But, not a peso
comes in from the government. This
is a ministry, totally supported by
donations from generous folks in the
United States who have a burden for
the children here.
About ten days or two weeks
ago Paulina was in Piedras Negras
with a car load of girls and just
suddenly felt like she should go by
the DIF office. When she walked
in the official in the office greeted
her warmly and led her to his office.
Then, he began to speak to her in a
quiet voice.
“This conversation never took
place,” he said. Then he proceeded
to tell her that the government inspectors would be in a meeting in
Nava on Wednesday and then they
were going out to inspect all of the
children’s homes in the area. And,
Getsemani Children’s Home was the
first on the
list. Nava is
a small city
about ten
miles east
of here. So,
given that
information, Paulina expected
the inspection crew
to be here
Ruth Bivens
soon after
noon on last Wednesday. She came
back ASAP and shifted everyone
into inspection readiness mode.
Hubby and I have heard them
talk about these inspections before,
but we have never been in on the
getting ready for one before. I have
never seen such frantic cleaning,
scrubbing and fixing. Our next door
neighbor here in the duplex even got
her kitchen cabinets painted! And,
Hubby did it.
Paulina assured me that we
didn’t have to worry about our side
of the duplex, since no children live
here with us. That was a huge relief,
since I had been down for about a
week with a really bad infection.
But, when I walked over to their
house I could not believe the upheaval taking place.
Hubby had recently worked
on both front screen doors here at
the duplex. Last week he replaced
the damaged front screen door at
House #4, where the teen aged
boys live. And such cleaning and
scrubbing took place there that it
does not look like the same house!
Paulina even went through a stack
of framed pictures we have picked
up at thrift shops over the past year
or so. She found appropriate pictures
for several of the bedrooms that did
not have any pictures hanging on
the walls.
Paulina confessed to me one
evening that her blood pressure was
high. She also told me that she had
been suffering from a headache ever
since this preparation project got
underway. I told her the headache
was probably due to the stress and
that the stress was most likely what
caused her high blood pressure. She
agreed.
So, Wednesday came, and
everything was ship shape. We all
were anxiously watching the front
gate, waiting for a strange car. As
the afternoon wore on, no one came
down the lane. Come five o’clock
no one had showed up. John and
Paulina were sure that no one from
that office would be out working
past four o’clock. The inspectors
did not come!
Hubby and I wondered if
they might come the next day, but
no one else seemed worried about
that. And, it was so. No inspectors
came Thursday either. John told us
that this was the fourth time that they
had been warned about a coming
inspection, got ready for it, and no
one came.
So, once again we were on
the front row. Watching how the
Mexican officials manipulate the
ministry here, and do not keep their
word. Paulina’s whole desire is
that they would come, see what a
sweet place this is for the children,
and understand that it is the Love of
God that makes it so. Her wish is to
show them a Christian witness. Can
you understand why I am so proud
of this couple?
Well, things are back to business as usual now. Nothing was ever
“bad” before. There were just a few
things that needed a little polishing.
A friend from Ada who comes every
three months and brings a donation
of groceries and funds came Friday
and brought another friend from
Illinois who had never been here.
They were impressed with the condition of things, everything squeaky
clean. There will be another group
coming down from Oklahoma on the
13th to do some construction, and
they too will be impressed. Maybe
the threat of an inspection is just a
motivation to keep things in tip top
shape. From where I stand, I would
say it works.
Has anybody inspected your
house lately? I am afraid I would
have to drape a bedspread over Hubby’s recliner and the area around
it. It looks like a disaster area. But,
I don’t dare touch a thing. He has
plans for it all. And, what matters to
me is that Hubby stays happy.
Page 3
Elementary School Dumps Homework
and Tells Kids to Play Instead
By Heather Holland
KIPS BAY — A public elementary school is abolishing traditional homework assignments
and telling kids to play instead
— outraging parents who say
they may pull their kids out of
the school.
Teachers at P.S. 116 on East
33rd Street have stopped assigning take-home math worksheets
and essays, and are instead
encouraging students to read
books and spend time with their
family, according to a letter the
school’s principal, Jane Hsu,
sent to parents
last month.
“The topic of
homework has
received a lot of
attention lately,
and the negative effects of
homework have
been well established,” Hsu
wrote in her letter, which was
sent home with
students.
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“They include: children’s frustration and exhaustion, lack of
time for other activities and
family time and, sadly for many,
loss of interest in learning.”
Hsu explained that the school
spent more than a year “analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework”
and decided that it was more
important for the Pre-K through
fifth grade students to do activities that “have been proven
to have a positive impact on
student academic performance
and social/emotional development” such as reading at their
own pace and playing.
“In fact, you may be surprised
to learn that there have been
a variety of studies conducted
on the effects of homework
in the elementary grades and
not one of them could provide
any evidence that directly links
traditional homework practices
with current, or even future,
academic success.”
The letter recommends limiting
the time kids spend on TV, computers and video games, and told
parents with concerns to speak
to their children’s teachers.
“This is their time to learn now,
when they have good memory,”
said Stanley, a 33-year-old
Murray Hill resident with a
third-grade son at P.S. 116, who
declined to give his last name
A Department of Education out of concern for his son.
spokesman said the city does not
have an overarching homework “I give him extra work, though.
policy, so principals and teach- I go to Barnes & Nobles and
ers can use their discretion in give him my own homework.”
assigning homework.
The changes were supported
The change in homework pol- by P.S. 116’s School Leadericy is not going over well with ship Team, which is made up
parents, who have threatened of staff and parents, according
to Hsu’s letter and minutes of a December 2014
meeting.
According to
the minutes,
the group
became worried last year
because so
many kids
were forced
to sit out at reto yank their kids from the cess after failing to turn in their
school for fear they won’t learn daily homework assignments.
enough.
The School Leadership Team
“They didn’t have much to created a Homework Combegin with, but now homework mittee, which did research and
is obsolete,” said Daniel Tas- found there was “no link beman, father of a second-grader tween elementary school homeat P.S. 116.
work and success in school,”
according to the minutes.
“They’ve decided that giving
homework to younger ages In response to DNAinfo’s inqui[elementary school students] ries, Hsu released a statement
isn’t viable. I don’t necessarily defending the new homework
agree. I think they should have policy — insisting that the
homework — some of it is about playtime, conversations with
discipline. I want [my daughter] relatives and unstructured readto have fun, but I also want her ing was key to education.
to be working towards a goal.”
“We are excited that we are reTasman has already begun look- defining the landscape of homeing for another school for his work — but we are certainly
daughter and recently entered not eliminating homework,”
her in a lottery for a charter Hsu said.
school, he said.
“We are creating opportunities
“I was just thinking maybe I’ll for students and their families to
keep my daughter here for an- engage in activities that research
other year, but this pushed me has proven to benefit academic
over the edge,” he said.
and social-emotional success
in the elementary grades. We
Angry parents said they have look forward to seeing the
begun filling in the gap by positive impact our newly-decreating their own homework signed homework options will
assignments for their kids.
have on our students and their
families.”
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The only way any person can
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Why the Ruling on Net Neutrality
is Bad for Your Freedom
We’re Being Cooked!!... by Joe Esposito
This is the 47th article in the BANNER NEWSPAPER, March 11th, documenting the problems with Oklahoma utilitiesʼ (GAS/WATER/ELECTRIC) Smart Meters (a microwave radiation data mining device)
Anytime the government gets being placed on your property through stealth and forced implementation in Oklahoma. When Federal
in the way the quality of ser- Legislation was passed concerning the implementation of Smart Meters the law stated they (Smart Meters)
vices and good seems to dis- were to be an Opt-In by the ratepayers, however the Utilities have made them MANDATORY. There is
no law that says you have to accept a Smart Utility Meter to destroy your health.
appear.
By Joe Esposito 3/11/15 918-274-8111
Fox News
You can be sure if Obama is
throwing his weight behind
something the end result isn’t
going to be all that helpful for
the advancement of freedom.
While privacy advocates say
Such is the case with the re- Net Neutrality is good for
cently passed Net Neutrality freedom of speech you might
act.
ask yourself how that’s even
possible?
Essentially Obama has extended the federal government’s Under Obama the NSA has
role to now policing the Internet picked up an incredible amount
and helping protect business’s of personal information about
from one another.
private citizens, so privacy has
already been done away with.
American Prosperity writes:
If the government is in control
of the Internet, that means they
might be able to control who’s
Conservatives should be allowed to own a website, what
alarmed at what just hap- websites you’re allowed to go
pened.
to, and it might even open up
the door to possible censorship
In the FCCs vote, Three Demo- of dissenting opinion.
crats voted in favor of the
Internet being regulated like a That’s not exactly in the best
utility, much like the telephone interest of freedom and libor radio is regulated. The two erty.
Republicans of the FCC voted
against the measure.
Many people have been fooled
into thinking that the regulaBut what does all this mean? tion of the Internet was vital.
They asserted big business
For starters it means the fed- was working against the “little
eral government will be able man” and so the “good guy”
to control the Internet. Not government needed to step in.
necessarily the best thing in
the world.
Well you can bank on this.
Democrats voted for the legislation because they believe
it will help keep the Internet open. According to Fox
News, “On its surface, the
plan is aimed at barring service
providers from creating paid
‘fast lanes’ on the Internet,
which consumer advocates
and Internet companies worry
would edge out cash-strapped
startups and smaller Internetbased businesses. Chairman
Tom Wheeler said it would
ensure an ‘open, unfettered
network.’ ”
The more control the government has over private industry
the worse it is for freedom and
liberty.
The idea behind net neutrality is good in theory. But that
theory also presumes the government is benevolent and not
bent towards acquiring power
and control.
This weekʼs BANNER article will be a scientific documentation presented by Dr. Erica Mallrey-Blythe
a UK physician specializing in emergency trauma medicine Dr. Erica Mallrey-Blythe:
A founder of PHIRE (Physicians Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment)
Trustee for the Radiation Research Trust
Board Member for the Cellular Phone Task-force (CPTF in the USA)
Medical Advisor for ElectroSensitivity UK (ES-UK)
Full Member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine
~Additional information on her background can be found on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ericamallery-blythe/39/2b7/300
~Electromagnetic Radiation Health for Children 2014, Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=bqQy-afE05c
~Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Management of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Presented to the British Society for Ecological Medicine, Electromagnetic
Radiation & Health Conference, London, March 7, 2014.
Duration: 36 minutes http://vimeo.com/100623585
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
A Summary by Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe
December 2014
WORKING DRAFT Version 1
http://www.iemfa.org/wp-content/pdf/Mallery-Blythe-v1-EESC.pdf
*(The following will be excerpts from Dr. Erica Mallery-Blytheʼs 79 page document)
~For printing purposes:
The first 1-7 pages are body text, the rest are references. This document consists of 79 pages.
~Author’s note:
This summary is an expanded section of a larger document entitled “Electromagnetic Health for Children”.
The full document is designed in response to requests for information detailing current health concerns
of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) with a focus on radiofrequency (RF) radiation. This is an expanded
subsection covering EHS only.
~Background:
We are currently witnessing the largest change to the Earth’s electromagnetic environment that has
ever taken place in human history. This change has taken place in the very short period of a handful of
decades and continues to escalate at an exponential rate
(Appendix 1). Given that household electricity, which was the first anthropogenic (man-made) electromagnetic
field (EMF), only became prolific after the turn of the century, artificial EMF has barely seen one generation from cradle to grave. The use of higher frequency microwave devices such as mobile telephony, Wi-fi
and smart meters, have suddenly become commonplace despite almost no safety testing and decades of
evidence of potentially lethal effects. This has sparked a political and scientific debate that is gathering
momentum on a daily basis, raising concern about the continued use of such devices. One may assume when
witnessing the vast implementation of, for example
Wi-fi in the home, school, workplace or public domain, that experts have provided sufficient evidence
of safety to overwhelm scientific concern. This is not the case.
You can be sure Obama is rub- The World Health Organization (WHO) / International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Clasbing his hands together, happy sified RF as a Group 2 B ‘Possible Human Carcinogen” (2011). Despite this, there has been no attempt in
the UK at disseminating this important information to the public. Conversely, it was not even mentioned in
with his victory.
The ends to which Obama will
And while that might seem all go to make sure Americans are
well and good, the problem is it trapped every which way is
hands over the regulation of the quite scary.
Internet to a government who
isn’t well known for transpar- Net neutrality has been touted
ency.
as a fix-all by many online
facilities. Companies like
The problems that could come Firefox, Reddit, Kickstarter,
from Federal regulation are and more have praised the inimany.
tiative as being the only way
to prevent big business from
Two of the biggest problems screwing the little guy.
are the amounts you pay for
the Internet will likely increase What they don’t realize is to in(as if they aren’t already high vite the government to control
enough) and the Internet speeds any industry (which is better
you presently experience will left in the hands of private
likely slow down.
companies) invites more ineffective service as well as more
What else would you expect? bureaucracy and red tape.
Mayes County Master
Gardener Seed and Seedling Swap
Thursday,
March 12th, 2015
1 to 3 PM
the AGNIR governmentcommissioned report a year later in 2012. The only safety guidelines currently used
in the UK are those constructed in 1998 regarding ‘thermal (heating) effects’ of non-ionising radiation.
These are not protective of health given the vastly documented non-thermal effect taking place orders
of magnitude below these levels. They are obsolete. Other countries have responded to this information
and have safety limits more biologically sensible, thousands of times lower than here in the UK (see Appendix 2). Mechanistic data is available to explain these effects and every bodily system is affected (as
one would expect from a radiation induced illness). The very broad range of RF emitting devices on
the market were never pre-market safety tested and many now contain fine print warnings from the
manufacturers which warn that one must keep the devices a minimum distance from the body which
in some cases is incompatible with use. The public are generally not aware of these warnings or the
increased vulnerability of certain groups such as children, foetuses, elderly, pregnant women, infirm
and those with EHS.
The full paper gives an overview of facts that should be considered during the policy change that is clearly
necessary, and this subsection concerns Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) only.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS)
A Summary
1. Definition:
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is characterized by an awareness and/or adverse symptomatology in response to even extremely weak (orders of magnitude below current safety levels 1,2) electromagnetic fields
of multiple types (in terms of frequency/intensity and waveforms). Relevant diagnostic coding that may be
used by UK medical doctors include “idiopathic/environmental intolerance (IEI)”, 3,4 code Z58.4 (Exposure
to radiation) under the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), 5 T66 (microwave syndrome)=”
other unspecified effects of external causes: radiation sickness.”6
[Note: All life is electrosensitive to some degree and thresholds for conscious perception will vary depending on age, gender and individual physiology.7,8,9,10]
2. Common symptoms include:
Headaches, dizziness, sleep disturbance, sensory up-regulation, palpitations, unusual pain in multiple
sites, visual disturbance, auditory disturbance (esp tinnitus), membrane sensitivity, muscle twitching,
dermatological complaints, hyperactivity /fatigue (depends on adrenal status/ state of EHS), restless
leg syndrome, memory/concentration disturbance and anxiety11,12,13,14,15 (psychiatric symptoms
such as anxiety and depression are likely to be secondary to the physiological effects rather than a
primary cause 16).
Interestingly, with good avoidance, symptoms tend to disappear in the reverse order that they accumulated.
***(3. thru 17. are different subject headings that follow the above 1. and 2.)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Authorʼs notes:
This is an opportunity for gardeners and horticulturist to share seeds I am contacted on a daily basis by a variety of different individuals including, persons with EHS, medical
and seedling with others.
practitioners, school and parent groups, legal representatives, media and political bodies in the UK looking
for medical advice on EHS or health effects of EMF in general. This is an increasingly demanding task and
There may also be a short presentation on saving seeds by a Mayes therefore I have founded a medical doctors organization entitled PHIRE (Physiciansʼ Health Initiative for
County Master Gardener and an update about the new Pryor Com- Radiation and Environment) in order to increase the available support for those requesting it. PHIRE aims
to:
munity Garden from Christina Stallings Roberson
Mayes County Ag Center, Fairgrounds,
Old Highway 20 East, Pryor, OK
by Mayes Co. OSU Cooperative Extension
1. Create an academic programme for the education of medical practitioners to improve understanding
For more information please call Michael Rose at 918-825-3241. of EMF related health effects.
2. Construct British medical guidelines for diagnosis and management of EHS.
3. Advise educational groups regarding protection of children from EMF exposure.
4. Increase awareness and support for adults and children with EHS and other vulnerable groups.
PH: 918-785-2841
5. Expand current British research teams, and use global connections to maintain state-of-the-art
FAX: 918-785-4423
education.
6. Open constructive dialogue with DOH (Department of Health)/PHE (Public Health England).
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Is Our President a Christian?
Ammo, from pg. 1________
By Walt Thrun
Governor Scott Walker was
asked recently whether he thought
the president was a Christian. He
answered appropriately that it
was not up to him to judge the
president’s Christian faith or the
lack thereof.
Since then many have offered opinions on the subject
stating that the president’s actions
and ideology identify his mindset.
That is Biblically correct.
On the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus did moreover explain how to
tell if a person is true or false, i.e.
authentic or imitation. A person
does in fact reveal himself/herself
by what they say and what they
do.
“For a good tree does not
bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree
bear good fruit. For every tree
is known by its own fruit.” Luke
6:43-45
The next thing then, is to
identify examples of ‘bad’ fruit.
For that we’ll refer to the Apostle
Paul. In his letter to the Christians
in Rome Paul listed numerous acts
and practices that are condemned.
We’ll list a small portion of them
that tend to focus on one’s political
ideology and personal benchmark
for their perceived standard of
justice.
“…murder, strife, deceit…
proud, boasters…undiscerning,
untrustworthy…” Romans 1:2931
Let’s take them one by one.
The Greek for ‘murder’ in the
present context means ‘slaughter’
or ‘cut to pieces.’ Some would say
that defines late term abortions.
The next one is ‘strife’ which
in the Greek means ‘contention,’
or ‘love of strife.’
Then there is ‘deceit’ meaning ‘craftiness,’ ‘bait,’ ‘guile,’ or
‘despiteful.’
‘Proud’ means ‘arrogant’
while ‘boasters’ defines those who
wrong others for the pleasure the
affliction brings.
The ‘undiscerning’ describes
those lacking understanding while
‘untrustworthy’ describes those
whose word cannot be trusted as
truth, or one who goes back on
his word.
Equally significant is the
following verse in the foregoing
Roman passage.
“…Who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those
who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the
same but also approve of those
who practice them.” Romans
1:32
Paul is saying that no one
is totally innocent of all the condemnable actions or practices that
wouldn’t be available to gun
owners, rendering the gun not
he lists.
In other words if a govern- much use?” asked Dobbs.
ment leader, in any branch of gov“Well he tried to ban ARs and
ernment, votes for or approves leghe couldn’t ban ARs from the
islation or issues executive orders
American public, a popular
to protect those who break God’s sporting rifle, so now he’s trying
laws; such a proponent is just as to ban AR ammunition. I actuguilty as the
ally brought a graphic to explain
one who actuthis,” LaPierre said.
ally breaks any
His graphic showed the different
of the specific
sizes of rifle cartridges, starting
laws listed.
with the .223-caliber, also called
There
the 5.56mm, and moving up to
is, however; a
larger ballistics popular among
Biblical prindeer hunters.
Walt Thrun
ciple that came
to light recently that many believe “The one he’s trying to ban is the
the president can relate to.
5.56; it’s a small rifle cartridge.
“You have heard that it was The thing is if he can ban that,
said, ‘You shall love your neighbor because it pierces soft-body arand hate your enemy.’ But I say to mor, he can also ban the 30.06,
you, love your enemies, bless those which is next to it, a really
who curse you, and do good to popular hunting cartridge. He
those who hate you…” Matthew can ban the other two hunting
cartridges, the .300 win mag, the
5:43-44
.375. He can ban every cartridge
Jesus succinctly summarized
in between that,” LaPierre said.
the mindset of one who claims to
“In fact, under this standard
love Him, i.e. a Christian.
he can ban all rifle cartridges,
“If you love Me, keep My because all of them pierce soft
commandments.” John 14:15
body armor.”
Even before the Israelites
entered the Promised Land Mo- WND reported earlier this week
ses told them in advance not only that the president is proposing
what they would do, but what to ban the ammo to protect pothey would think. He told them lice officers, a premise that was
that they would insist on having openly debunked by law officers
and groups representing law ofa king.
ficers.
God already had that planned
and He would provide a king in Obama’s spokesman, Josh EarHis timing. The king that God nest, insisted it was simply
would choose would be one of “common sense” to most people
their brethren; he could not be a that ammo for an “easily concealforeigner. In other words he must able” firearm able to penetrate an
have the same ideology, values, officer’s soft body armor needed
and agenda as outlined in God’s to be banned.
word.
The king should not depend WND’s report revealed that not a
single police officer, anywhere in
on a strong defense for protection
the U.S., has ever been shot with
nor trust in national coalitions. His
an AR-15 handgun that pierced
trust should be placed in the One his protective vest.
who appointed him.
In addition:
Gun Owners of America Chief
“Also it shall be, when he Counsel Michael Hammond told
sits on the throne of his kingdom, WND a citizen revolt is already
that he shall write for himself a under way.
copy of this law in a book, from
the one before the priests, the Lev- “The Second Amendment comites…and he shall read it all the munity is really all fired up on
this,” he told WND.
days of his life, that he may learn
to fear the LORD his God and be
But the average American who
careful to observe all the words is not involved in the Second
of this law and these statutes, that Amendment community likely
his heart may not be lifted above has never heard of the proposal.
his brethren…” Deuteronomy
Chris Cox, executive director
17:18-20
Notice, the same law would of NRA’s Legislative Institute,
apply to the priests and the king. said that’s a shame, because the
method in which the president is
The sum of the matter?
“Therefore by their fruits going after rifle ammo could be
used to go after anything.
you will know them.” Matthew
7:20
“If they can ban green-tip ammo
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“We talk about what this president can do with a Republican
Congress. Apparently he thinks
he can do whatever he wants. He
can completely do an end-run
around Congress, he can rewrite
the statute that allows for a minor
exemption … this ammo was exempted 20 years ago. In 20 years
no .223 round has ever been used
in a crime, fired from a handgun
… or penetrated the vest of an
officer,” Cox said.
“It ought to offend anybody,
whether you like guns or not,
whether you love guns, hate
guns, you should be offended
if you have a president who is
willing to say: ‘I don’t like it, so
I’m going to ban it. I don’t care
what Congress says, I don’t care
what the courts say, I don’t care
if it’s popular, I don’t care if it’s
illegal for me to do it, I’m going
to do it anyway.’ That’s what’s
frightening,” he said.
“And regardless of where you
are on the Second Amendment,
everybody ought to pay attention
to this issue.”
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Bradford Christian Junior High
School Students Venture To The
Towers, Tunnels and More of Tulsa
Written by Matthew Roberson, 8th Grade
On February 27, students from Bradford Christians Junior High
ventured out into the cold to take a guided tour of downtown Tulsa.
The tour, centered around oil giants like Waite Phillips, gave the
students an inside perspective on life in Tulsa during the 1920s. The
group took a look at the beautiful architecture of buildings such as
the Philcade, Atlas Life, and Mid-Continent Tower. The tour also
included a trip underground to the old tunnels Waite had constructed
under key buildings of the time. The original tunnels were small,
damp, concrete archways with little room for comfort. After the
tour the group ate at the Spaghetti Warehouse and concluded with
a visit to the Center of the Universe, which perplexed the students.
Pictured from left to right are students Jonathan Roberson, Nate
Trimble, tour guide Michael Staires, Matthew Roberson, Kirby
Chupp, DJ Rutherford, and Kobe Parker. (Sponsors not pictured
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Just A Taste
By Bill Chupp
After attending the “Taste
of Pryor” featuring a delicious
taste of foods from local venders last Thursday evening, Edith
and I also got a Taste of Tulsa
on Sunday!
The Taste of Pryor is an
annual event held at the MidAmerica
Expo Center, sponsored by
the Pryor
Academic
Excellence
F o u n dation
Bill Chupp
(PAEF).
The foundation provides grants to the
local schools to enable the
teachers to acquire items to help
them in the classroom. With
all the budget cuts happening
to our education departments
throughout the state of Oklahoma, there is always a need for
more funds.
Major building projects
require a large bond issue to
be passed by the voters in the
district. At present, all schools
are faced with the need for expansion. There has to be a lot
of effort put into the proposal so
the public can be insured they
are getting the most for their
bucks in the bond.
At Pryor Thursday evening, the turnout of people
filled the parking lot with vehicles, even after the school
experienced four snow days in
a row.
Food was in plentiful supply from local restaurants and
there was entertainment given
by various departments from
the schools. Funds were raised
by selling food tickets, a silent
auction and ended with a live
auction. The only complaint I
heard was the noise level. With
all the activity it made it difficult to listen to the performances
and the live auction.
A taste of the cultural side
of Pryor came at the Miss Pryor
contest on Saturday evening.
It was sponsored by the Pryor
Creek Sertoma Club with support from the High School, local businesses and professional
organizations. There were
fifteen contestants this year
and over $8,000 in scholarships
awarded.
Although this pageant
does not qualify as a Miss
America preliminary because of
the ages of some contestants, it
is a great stepping stone for the
girls. The four pageant judges
are all involved as directors of
other contests that can boost
them up into the larger titles.
Who knows when one of the
local participants may become
Miss America! Several of our
past winners have placed high
in ratings in the state.
After observing the quality of beauty and talent and the
work of the auditorium and
stage crew, it creates an interest
in attending the High School
play “Cinderella” this spring.
The Pryor Creek Sertoma
Club recognized member Ara
Gregoire as their Sertoman of
the Year for the extra effort she
put forth this past year in their
projects. She also put together
the Miss Pryor program book,
which will be treasured by the
girls as “A Night to Remember”, this year’s theme. The
Service to Mankind award was
presented to non-member Donald Osborn. He has been very
active in helping with the Adair
Boy Scouts that is sponsored
by the local Sertoma Club. In
line with that, he also cooks for
our charity dinner, helps with
the underprivileged children’s
shopping spree, Salvation Army
bell ringing and the Miss Pryor
Contest.
A Taste of Tulsa came on
Sunday afternoon. The first
Sunday in March is “Souper
Sunday” sponsored by Total
Source for Hearing Loss and
Accessories. They have a
smorgasbord of soups from
twenty-two restaurants in the
Tulsa area, plus breads, desserts
and more furnished by twelve
bakeries.
The theme: “Souper Disco” this year had music from
the 70’s and included a costume
contest. The place was packed
with people, a lot with hearing
loss. It was interesting to watch
as several conversed in sign
language.
While waiting in line to
pay for an item from the silent
auction, a lady next to me told
me she had travelled in Holland,
Germany, England and France.
Even in those countries, if you
didn’t speak their language, the
ones who signed understood
when she spoke in sign language.
Well, I’m full of soup and
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ice cream this evening. Even
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Ducks go to water, two by
two. Politicians and lobbyists go
to Congress two by two to protect
the interests of big businesses and
big banks.
Michelle Obama has been
on a campaign for more veggies
in every school cafeteria. Food
assistance programs from the
federal government have risen
to roughly a third of our nation
or over 101 million at a cost of
$114 billion in 2012. This means
the number of people drawing
food assistance outnumbers the
number of people employed on
a full time basis (97,180,000)
in 2012.
Wal-mart took in approximately 18% of food stamp dollars
in 2012 for a sum of about $13
billion or 4% of Wal-Mart’s total
U.S. earnings.
Michelle preaches veggies,
big businesses and lobbyists,
lobby heavily to keep junk food
available on food assistance programs. Making large companies
like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and
others, such as large banks reaping their benefits off of the backs
of the poor. Nothing is passed
through a government program
that is not run through a lard
press, rendering all the fat available to the “well connected.”
Corn Refiners of America,
Coca-Cola and Kraft put on their
bandanas and banded together to
kill a bill in Florida that wanted
to disallow SNAP purchases
for “junk food.” The “Bandana
Gang” was successful in killing
the bill.
Large banks, such as J.P.
Morgan makes billions from every sale paid for with government
subsidized money to process
transactions electronically.
The ole Rancher says,
“Doesn’t it seem funny private
enterprises doing business with
SNAP are the only ones, having
knowledge of what is bought with
public money. When it comes to
big businesses and government,
transparency is as clear as Mississippi mud.”
When disorder is the order
of the day, expect government to
establish order before thinking
of justice, civil rights or liberty.
When the natural behavior of man
is looked at throughout history,
you can almost predetermine
the future. Unbridled political
power slowly turns into a blinded
ideology, which has lead leaders
from around the world down the
same war-torn path for centuries.
Leaders here at home and around
the world create problems with
their arrogance, which forms their
opinions, void of “discriminating
judgment.” Master plans are laid
in alignment with their ideology despite any sound argument
showing flaws in such plan. An
unyielding ideology limits man’s
vision, one must realize and face
the difference between determination and obstinacy. Man’s truths
change with the seasons.
When politicians tell the
generals of their armies how to
fight a war, the results can be
disastrous as Hitler eventually
learned. After many successful
battlefield campaigns, leaders
start believing their own propaganda and began to believe
their judgment and invincibility
is without peer. Since Obama’s
time in the
presidential suite, we’ve
bombed Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and he’s got two more years
to go. When Obama confirmed
the US was showering Iraq again
with humanitarian bombing “to
protect American interests” (oil
companies) and then as an afterthought he
added, “human rights in
Iraq.”
T h e
U.S.-orchestrated coup in
the Ukraine
last year has Corbett Mason
led to another
foreign policy disaster, which like
Libya has become a smoldering
powder-keg. We have a U.S. military buildup in Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania, these Baltic States
have been brought into NATO.
President Obama speaking in the
capital of
Estonia last year, said the
US commitment to protect these
3 Baltic States was unwavering
and eternal. He boasted that our
country would put “more American boots on the ground.”
General Phillip Breedlove,
the head of the US European
Command and NATO’s supreme
allied commander has stated, that
the US European Command has
conducted 67 military-to-military
engagements with Poland and the
Baltic States in 2014, between
April and October. He went on
to say the US military,
“stands side-by-side with
our NATO allies to provide safe;
secure, reliable and effective
nuclear forces to deter aggression.”
When Napoleon was planning to attack Russia, he spurned
the warnings from his chief advisor that advised him not to attack
the Russian Empire, because he
had been there. The advise was
unheeded and the military campaign began on June 24, 1812
when Napoleon’s Grand Armée
crossed the Neman River to find
and defeat the Russian army with
a combined force consisting of
680,00 soldiers, 300,000 were
French departments. By November, 1812; when the remnants of
the mighty French army crossed
the Berezina River only 27,000
“fit” soldiers were left. The
mighty bear had torn and chewed
his armies to shreds, killing
380,000 with 100,000 captured.
Napoleon won many victories
in Russia, but lost the war as did
Hitler’s armies.
So went our intervention
in Viet Nam, in Iraq we won the
war and lost the peace. Since
Viet Nam we’ve been engaged
in conflicts around the world and
have yet to establish a peaceful,
lasting regime. Napoleon’s Russian disaster created a major shift
in European politics. Prussia and
Austria, which had been France’s
allies switched their alliances, and
this triggered, “The War of the
Sixth Coalition.” This coalition
was made up of Austria, Prussia,
Russia, the United Kingdom,
Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a
number of German States. To-
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It’s Time to
Vacate the
Speaker’s
Chair
by Eric Erickson
Red State
This year began with an election
on whether Rep. John Boehner
(R-OH)N/A should continue
as the Speaker of the House
of Representatives. A number
of brave House conservatives,
led by Rep. Jim Bridenstine
(R-OK)91%, Tom Massie, and
Rep. Steve King (R-IA)72%,
waged a historic effort to deny
Boehner the Speakership. What
resulted was an earth-shattering
groundswell of grassroots opposition to Boehner that shocked
every Republican congressman.
It was unsuccessful only because
a handful of otherwise reliable
House conservatives chose to
support Boehner and give him
another chance. And look at
what their vote for Boehner
has wrought in just two short
months.
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Coburn: Convention of States Needed
Because Washington Will Never Fix Itself
By Barbara Hollingsworth
(CNSNews.com) – “Washington is never going to fix itself,”
said former Sen. Tom Coburn
(R-OK), explaining why he
intends to spend the next few
years trying to “cheat history” by
helping to organize the nation’s
first-ever Convention of the
States.
about the federal government’s out-of-control
spending, he pointed out.
“Nobody knows when
this will happen, but it
will happen sooner rather
than later,” he said. “Unless we unwind this, we’re
going the way of the Romans and the Greeks.”
The purpose of the convention will be to rein-in a federal “leviathan” that he says has
overstepped its constitutional
bounds.
Former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
CNSNews.com asked Coburn why his fellow Republi- “Moreover, the Founders trusted
cans, who supposedly support the states and the people to step
limited government, have gone up and defend their own liberty
along with the vast expansion of and sovereignty. So do I.”
federal power.
Coburn dismissed claims that
“The Republican Party is not an Article V Convention would
the party of small government,” open the door to malicious tamCoburn replied. “I’ve been pering with one of the nation’s
in Washington for 16 years, founding documents, pointing
when Republicans controlled out that just 12 states can stop
Congress and the White House, any amendment from advancing
when Democrats controlled to ratification.
Congress, and every combination in between. There is no dif- “What I hear from conservatives
ference. There’s no difference,” is ‘Oh, we can’t do it. We might
not be successful. It might be
he emphasized.
runaway’,” Coburn told Greta
No matter which party was in van Susteran. “You know, 69
charge, the federal government of the 99 legislative bodies in the
continued to grow and Ameri- states are controlled right now by
cans’ liberty continued to dimin- Republicans.
ish, he pointed out.
“But forget that. People in the
“They’ve already stolen the fu- country, outside of Washington,
ture from the next generation,” have a lot of common sense.
he said, adding that the current They’re not about to let our
policies will continue “until the First Amendment, our Second
power is taken away and given Amendment, our Fourth Amendment, our Sixth Amendment
back to the states.”
rights be taken away in some
“It is testament to the wisdom of runaway convention. And beour Founders to have included sides, it only takes 25 legislathe Convention of States provi- tive bodies to stop anything
sion in Article V in the Constitu- that would come out of that,”
tion because they knew someday he said.
government might grow too
big, take on too much debt and “If they go crazy, it’s not gopromulgate reams of regulation ing anywhere,” Coburn told
that stifle American prosperity. CNSNews.com. “Not doing
There is no question that is the anything is worse than the worst
Washington that exists today,” outcome” of an Article V ConCoburn wrote in a recent oped. vention, he added.
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, two-thirds of the state
legislatures can call a convention
to propose amendments to the
Constitution that limit the scope
and jurisdiction of the federal
government.
Alaska, Florida and Georgia
passed Article V resolutions last
year. Two dozen other states are
It resulted in a historic cave from also considering that option.
a personal and iron-clad commitment to fight “tooth and nail” to On January 6, the House of Repblock the President’s executive resentatives passed House Rule
amnesty on the Department of XII, Section 3(c) ordering the
Homeland Security (DHS) ap- chairman of the House Judiciary
propriations bill. Late last year, Committee to keep track of all
everyone knew the plan to split Article V Convention applicaoff the rest of the funding for tions and have the Clerk’s Office
the federal government into the make them “publicly available
“cromnibus,” leaving DHS alone in electronic form, organized
to be funded, had no chance of by State of origin and year of
success. Yet Rep. John Boehner receipt.”
(R-OH)N/A promised he would
fight. He ended up fighting only “It’s a difficult job,” Coburn,
in words. He failed to commit who recently signed on as a
the financial resources of his senior advisor to the Convenparty to move Senate Democrats tion of the States project, told
off a still-untenable position of CNSNews.com. “You have to
filibustering a bill to fund the get 34 states to agree. But the
DHS. The implications of this group is very well-organized
cave go far beyond the policy and has over 200,000 grassroots
of amnesty. The Speaker is not activists helping them.”
just the partisan leader of House
Republicans. He is the guardian Coburn admitted that calling
of the House as an institution a convention of the states is a
and its prerogatives, namely the tacit admission that Washingpower of the purse, and in bow- ton is unable to solve the huge
ing to this President, Boehner problems facing the country, but
showed himself to be unfit for believes the United States has
the office.
few options left.
Once Boehner caved, he commissioned ads against twelve
of the congressmen who voted
against a short-term extension
of DHS funding (many of whom
voted for him in January). The
content of the ads were straight
out of the Obama playbook of
scare tactics, positing that these
congressmen were hurting the
security of the country by standing up against the President’s
lawlessness. If House conservatives somehow thought they
were on the same team as the
Speaker, they now have all the
evidence in the world to the contrary. They are now the hunted.
Beyond amnesty and retaliation, incompetence and liberalism has ruled the House of
Representatives this year. A
common-sense ban on abortions
after five months of pregnancy,
previously having sailed through
last Congress, was pulled the
same week as thousands of abortion opponents traveled to DC
to March for Life. A long-term
reauthorization of No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) was scheduled and whipped extensively
by Boehner’s leadership team
before being pulled at the last
minute because of a conservative revolt. In order to preserve
the NCLB testing mandates
he personally authored with
President Bush and Senator Ted
Kennedy, Boehner made House
Republicans choose between
him and one the chief domestic
failures of the Bush years. And
this week, the House engaged in
a bipartisan love fest surrounding the reauthorizing of Amtrak.
Boehner passed an Amtrak “reform” bill that was supported by
every Democrat and opposed by
over one hundred Republicans.
See Vacate, pg. 8
Page 7
Corbett, from pg. 6______
gether they drove Napoleon out
of Germany in 1813 and invaded
France in 1814, which forced
Napoleon to abdicate his leadership. Today’s allies have a way of
becoming tomorrow’s enemies.
If the US makes a deal with
Iran, the words written in history
will be “Et tu Brute?” An exclamation showing shock of betrayal
by an ally.
We hear our leaders speak
of keeping Iran from obtaining
a nuclear bomb or capabilities.
We can file that with you can
keep your doctor and insurance,
the American government isn’t
spying on its citizens, the nonharmful effects of Agent Orange,
why should Israel or anyone else
believe what spouts up from the
bubbling fountain of misinformation on Capitol Hill? American’s
memories last as long as a cold
beer on a hot day.
When Obama was first
sworn into office, he announced
his intentions to normalize relations with Iran, America’s sworn
enemy. Obama ignores Iran’s
threat to blow Israel off of the
map, Iran’s support of Shia
insurgencies in Arab states, the
Muslim brotherhood, Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, and its consolidation of influence over Baghdad,
Beirut, Damascus and Sana’a.
He seems to believe the Islamic
Republic of Iran is a force for stability. This paragraph was taken
from an article on ACD Blog,
titled “Obama’s Iran Agenda” by
Rachael Ehrenfeld.
The ole Rancher says, “You
poke a bear with a cattle-prod
long enough, he’s liable to stand
up on his back legs and size you
up for dinner. Many early hunters went into the woods to kill
grizzles and became bear scat, a
polite name for bear droppings.
When playing in the sand
with a desert rattler or desert scorpion, due to their inherent nature,
you will receive violence from the
head of one and violence from
the tail of the other. Followed by
much pain and possibly death,
heads or tails, you lose.”
“Most people know Washington
is broken,” he told CNSNews.
com. “Politicians there care
about the next election, not the
next generation. The career politicians make promises knowing
they will be out of office when
the bills come due. And I don’t
see that there’s any way Congress is going to fix this in the
next 10 or 15 years.
“That’s why I left early,” added
Coburn, a family physician who
retired from the Senate two years
before his term expired after
being diagnosed with prostate
cancer.
“I identified $400 billion of
waste, fraud and duplication,
but none of it was eliminated.
Nobody had the courage to
eliminate it. And that’s why we
need a Convention of the States:
to diminish the power of the
federal government.
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Management and Budget] are
not using real numbers and are
not telling Americans the truth,”
Coburn continued.
“We have $144 trillion in unfunded liabilities and we’re
$18 trillion in debt. When you
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it’s more than $500,000 for each
American, which nobody has,”
he said.
“Three thousand businesses
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Who’s going to loan the United
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Officials: Leader of Mexico’s
Zetas drug cartel captured
The leader of Mexico’s notorious Zetas drug cartel was captured Wednesday during a predawn raid in the city of Monterrey, officials announced.
Department offered a reward of
up to $5 million.
The Zetas cartel evolved from a
small group of Mexican Special
Forces deserters that were hired
Alejandro Trevino-Morales, to protect Osiel Cardenas-Guilalso known as “Omar” and len, the former leader of the
“42,” was taken into custody by Gulf Cartel.
federal forces, an official – who
was not authorized to be quoted
by name due to government
policy – told The Associated
Press.
Trevino-Morales is reported
to have run the cartel since
the 2013 arrest of his brother,
Miguel. The Zetas’ other biggest leader, Heriberto Lazcano,
or “El Lazca,” was killed by
Mexican marines in 2012.
Trevino-Morales, 41, is allegedly responsible for several abductions and murders committed in Nuevo Laredo between
2005 and 2006, the U.S. State
Department says. He also was
allegedly the supply source for
multi-kilogram loads of cocaine
smuggled from Mexico to the
United States.
The Mexican government had
offered a $2 million reward for
Trevino-Morales’ capture on
weapons and organized crime
charges, while the U.S. State
The organization grew into a
ruthless security force that took
responsibility for the smuggling
of the Gulf Cartel’s cocaine and
other drugs from Mexico into
the United States, in addition
to running their own smuggling
operations.
Last week, police captured another suspected drug lord, Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, who
was the leader of the Knights
Templar cartel.
Vacate, from pg. 7______________________________________________________________
Thankfully, House conservatives get a do-over. House Rules
provide a privileged (meaning
it takes precedence over other
business) resolution to vacate
the office of the Speaker. It can
be offered by any Member. It
would be a simple majority vote.
If the entire House was voting,
28 Members would be needed to
depose Boehner with all of the
Democrats. Once vacated, a new
Speaker election would ensue.
Again, as I argued in January,
House conservatives do not need
a formal candidate to take his
place. Many will argue that they
do, but they are wrong. It would
be nice, but it is not crucial. The
dynamic would be similar to
that in 1998, when after Newt
Gingrich and Bob Livingston
stepped down, House Republicans themselves recognized the
need for a new person to unite
around. Nobody was running.
They gravitated to Denny Hastert
and tapped him to be Speaker.
The process of “vacating the
chair” is to show that Boehner
cannot continue, signaling that
it is time to find a replacement.
A viable replacement will likely
not step forward until then.
Would Democrats vote to vacate Boehner from his position? Doesn’t he serve their
agenda well already? Couldn’t
Democrats combine with enough
liberal Republicans to install a
Republican worse than Boehner,
as happened with Joe Straus in
Texas? These are the critical
questions that surfaced in January
and would be used as excuses by
many Republicans to skirt a difficult vote against the Speaker.
The Hill is even reporting that
Democrats are now flirting with
supporting Boehner on such a
vote. This is just a bluff to prevent such a vote and preserve
their de-facto majority. National
politics is far more polarized than
in state capitols with a much bigger spotlight. Even with a wink
and nod in the short term by party
leaders, it is simply not viable in
liberal districts to have a vote for
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A
on your record. Democrats will
have to vote, and they will vote
against Boehner. They will do
so because they have to, and
because they can have a partisan
victory of seeing the chaos and
demise of the current leader of
the Republican party.
Nor will a liberal Republican be
able to secure the votes of Democrats and a small minority of Republicans. Joe Straus was initially
able to do that in Texas because
of the limited spotlight on a parttime legislature and by promising
chairmanships to Democrats.
There are few districts occupied
by Republicans currently where
this sort of stunning political
alliance of convenience would
sell. Nor would any coalition last.
Most House Republicans now at
least profess rock-ribbed conservatism. They can get away with
moderation “to govern responsibly.” They cannot be apart of
formal alliance with Democrats.
Any short-term political marriage of the Straus sort would be
immediately vacated by the rest
of House Republicans. If House
conservatives move to vacate the
office of the Speaker, they will
get a better result than Rep. John
Boehner (R-OH)N/A.
We could have been rid of Rep.
John Boehner (R-OH)N/A in January. Unfortunately not enough
House conservatives showed up
to the fight. Since then Rep. John
Boehner (R-OH)N/A has confirmed every negative critique of
his Speakership. He is governing
with Democrats and wreaking of
incompetence in the process.
This is the moment for the House
Freedom Caucus (HFC) to lead.
The HFC is led by Reps. Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-OH)90%, Rep.
Justin Amash (R-MI)88%, Rep.
Raul Labrador (R-ID)Heritage
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Labrador82%House Republican
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(R-NC)85%, Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC)86%, Rep. John
Fleming (R-LA)76%, Rep. Matt
Salmon (R-AZ)94%, Rep. Ron
DeSantis (R-FL)89%, and Scott
Garrett. Six of these influential
conservatives (all except Amash,
Meadows, and Garrett) voted to
re-elect Boehner. If they decide
over the next week of recess that
Boehner should be deposed, he
can be.
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El-Sisi urges ‘Arab ready
force’ to confront ISIS,
questions if US ‘standing
by’ Egypt
The BANNER
Page 9
Will Obama leave office
in 2017?
Joseph Farah examines many examples of Obama’s ‘contempt of the law’
Question: Why are Americans
so certain there will be a presidential election in 2016 and that
Barack Obama will leave office
in January 2017?
“czars” without seeking Senate I’m getting along these lines
confirmation, Obama violated from the public, I’d say there’s
·FoxNews.com
the Constitution according to great concern out there across
Democrats Sen. Robert Byrd, D- the fruited plain.
W.V., and Sen. Russ Feingold,
D-Wis.
Maybe we assume he will reAnswer: Because it’s the law •He signed Obamacare into spectfully leave office after two
and because it’s American tra- law despite the fact that it was a terms because he has publicly
dition.
revenue bill and did not initiate said he would. In 2013, Obama
in the House of Representatives said he and his family might
However, we currently have a as per the Constitution.
remain in Washington after
man in the White
leaving office.
House who respects neither
But that begs
the law nor the
the question of
American tradiwhether Obama
tion of peaceis truthful.
Egyptian President Abdel Fat- targets in Libya -- airstrikes
ful changes of
tah el-Sisi, in an exclusive inter- that, according to the Pentagon, power.
Remember what
view with Fox News, appealed the Egyptians did not notify the
he said about his
to the U.S. to play a greater U.S. of in advance.
With regard to
immigration orrole in helping his country
his contempt of
der before issufight terrorism -- as he urged At the time, even the top Penta- the law, here are
ing it: “This is
the creation of an “Arab ready gon spokesman acknowledged just a few examples:
something I’ve struggled with
force” to confront the Islamic the U.S. and Egypt have a •He abused his executive au- As for his disrespect for Ameri- throughout my presidency. The
thority for the purpose of ef- can tradition, recall that as a problem is that I’m the president
“complex relationship.”
State and similar groups.
fectively changing immigration candidate for the presidency of the United States; I’m not the
The Egyptian leader spoke with While Egypt is not currently law, even after admitting re- he called for “the fundamental emperor of the United States.
My job is to execute laws that
Fox News’ Bret Baier in an launching airstrikes alongside peatedly that he had no consti- transformation of America.”
tutional
authority
to
do
so.
He
are passed. And Congress right
extensive interview conducted the U.S. and other Arab naeven broke administrative law While downplaying and ignor- now has not changed what I
in Cairo. He addressed the need tions in Iraq and Syria, el-Sisi
in the process, according to a ing foreign threats to national consider to be a broken immifor what he called a religious endorsed the idea of an “Arab
federal judge who reviewed the security, Obama and his admin- gration system. And what that
“revolution,” urging moderate ready force” with U.S. backing action and ruled it was illegal. istration have both hyped the means is that we have certain
Muslims around the world to to take on security challenges. Obama’s response? He dug in domestic threat of “right-wing obligations to enforce the laws
“stand up” against terrorists
his heels and doubled down in extremists,” even participat- that are in place even if we think
He said this “ready force” could his determination to carry out ing in a raid of a lawful Texas that in many cases the results
twisting their religion.
include his country, Saudi Ara- his illegal plan, threatening any political meeting in which all may be tragic. … [W]e’ve kind
But in the short term, he said bia, the United Arab Emirates, government employees who re- parties were detained and fin- of stretched our administrative
more military might and fund- Kuwait, Jordan and others, and fused to execute his order with gerprinted.
flexibility as much as we can.”
ing will be needed to confront be “capable of defending our retribution.
the extremist threat and ques- national security” and confront- •He conducted military inter- And then, of course, there’s Remember what he said about
vention in Libya without con- the ever-present reality that Obamacare before it was impletioned whether the U.S. was ing dangers in the region.
gressional approval.
Obama himself may not even mented: “No matter how we
doing enough for Egypt.
•In
Operation
Fast
and
Furibe constitutionally eligible for reform health care, we will keep
The Egyptian president first
ous,
the
Obama
administration
office. In fact, if he’s telling the this promise to the American
El-Sisi, speaking mostly called for such a regional coaliordered gun store owners to truth about his parentage and the people. If you like your doctor,
through a translator, said that tion in a speech last month. In
illegally sell thousands of fire- “birth certificate” he produced you will be able to keep your
while the U.S. has helped Egypt the interview with Fox News,
arms to Mexican drug dealers, after years of demands from the doctor, period. If you like your
for decades, Egypt needs that he stressed that ISIS and other resulting in the deaths of many public is real, he could not possi- health-care plan, you’ll be able
help “more than ever,” and groups pose a growing threat. including Border Patrol agent bly be a “natural born citizen” as to keep your health-care plan,
wants to see a “big response
Brian Terry.
required by the Constitution.
period. No one will take it away,
“We have to admit that terror- •He gave $535 million in taxfrom capable countries.”
no matter what.”
ism is now a major threat not payer dollars to campaign con- So with all of this history – and
He said the suspension of U.S. only to Egypt or even the im- tributors and lobbyists, claiming much more, in fact – why do we Remember what he said about
equipment and arms to his mediate region, but it is a threat it was for a revolutionary “green assume Obama will step aside ISIS? Now what does he say?
country has sent a “negative to the stability and security of energy” startup called Solyndra willingly from the presidency “I didn’t call the Islamic State a
indication to the public opinion the whole world,” the Egyptian that would create 4,000 new following an election in 2016? ‘JV’ team.”
that the United States is not leader said. “We can also see jobs. The company quickly
that the map of terrorism and went bankrupt, after selling its Experience more of Joseph Again, do I think Obama will
standing by the Egyptians.”
extremism is expanding, it is product for less than the cost of Farah’s no-nonsense truth-tell- leave office in January 2017?
production. By publicly over- ing in his books, audio and video Yes I do.
not recessing.”
stating the company’s financial products, featured in the WND
El-Sisi -- who eventually took
condition, Obama broke the Superstore
But, with a track record like
power after former President He also said it’s important to
same law that resulted in Martha
this – and, actually much worse
Mohammed Morsi was over- push to “reinstate the right Stewart, a private citizen, going I’m not saying he won’t. I’m – should we simply take it for
thrown in 2013 -- was refer- meaning of religion.” Address- to prison.
just asking why. And judging granted?
ring to aid and shipments that ing the role of the Muslim •By appointing dozens of from the number of questions
have been held up in the wake Brotherhood in his country, he
of Morsi’s ouster. Though the spoke out against what he de- Vacations, from pg. 1__________________________________________________________
the hotels where the first family rental home.
2009 date night to New York City
U.S. continues to deliver nearly scribed as “political Islam.”
will
stay.
Fighter
jets
will
fly
in
and last year’s trip to New York
$1.5 billion a year in mostly
shifts,
giving
24-hour
coverage
The
2013
17-day
vacation
in
Hato attend the wedding of former
military assistance, some high- He said the people of Egypt
over the president’s airspace, so waii for the president, his family, personal chef Sam Kass. What’s
profile shipments have been have a “real fear of this kind” of
they can intervene quickly if an and staff and security was esti- more, White House reporters told
halted since the military lead- system, adding they feel “these errant plane gets too close.”
mated to cost over $4 million.
Secrets that some trips by the first
ership overthrew Morsi -- and people have turned their lives
lady and daughters are kept secret
particularly since the military’s into a living hell.”
Additionally, “One hundred [Se- Hawaii Reporter wrote, “Last from the media, so a full accountcrackdown on Islamist groups.
cret Service] agents are needed as year, because of emergency ing is difficult.”
This includes holding back He made these remarks in the ‘post-standers’ – to man security budget negotiations, the President
on deliveries of F-16 fighter course of defending the ouster checkpoints and borders around made two roundtrips from Wash- The question of travel and vacajets, M1A1 tanks and Harpoon of Morsi, who had been aligned the president – in each of the ington, D.C. to Hawaii, nearly tion costs is drawing special atwith the Muslim Brotherhood. first three cities he visits. Sixty- doubling the cost of the vaca- tention this year, noted PolitiFact,
missiles.
Responding to characterizations five are needed to meet up with tion to more than $7.2 million. “because the Obamas’ time away
Obama in Dar es Salaam. … In … Obama is popular in Hawaii, came during a period that includIn December, the Pentagon of his removal as a “coup,” eladdition, 80 to 100 additional however, there are people critical ed unrest in Ferguson, Mo., the
delivered a previously stalled Sisi acknowledged that “free agents will be flown in to work of the cost to taxpayers and the launch of U.S. airstrikes against
shipment of 10 Apache heli- and fair elections” resulted in rotating shifts, with round-the- inconvenience the President’s the Islamic extremist group ISIS,
Morsi’s election. But he said clock coverage, for Obama’s and presence causes.”
copters to Egypt.
the beheading of American jourmillions of Egyptians took to his family’s security details …”
nalist James Foley by ISIS, and
The Washington Examiner Se- the spread of the Ebola virus
El-Sisi told Fox News the need the streets when they wanted
for weapons and equipment to remove that leadership -- he Judicial Watch reported the costs crets notes, “While former Presi- in West Africa. The blizzard of
remains “dire,” and Egyptians claimed the country was headed in lodging, entertainment and se- dent George W. Bush took more challenges at a time when the
“would like to feel that the into a “vicious cycle of civil curity for this one trip amounted vacation days than the estimated president was on vacation – and
175 by the Obamas, critics slap often on the golf course – was not
United States is standing by war,” at the time he and other to $2,189,727.60.
Obama because most of Bush’s lost on many of his critics, as well
military leaders intervened.
them.”
During the 2013 Christmas break vacations were taken at his ranch as some of his supporters.”
in Oahu, presidential security in Texas, not the lavish digs he
Asked directly how he and Meanwhile, amid some con- essentially took over the entire prefers in places like Hawaii and “The Obamas are abusing the
other Arab allies view U.S. cerns expressed by el-Sisi about island. In addition to concrete Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.”
public trust and the taxpayleadership in the region, he the U.S. commitment to his blockades and security patrols
ers with unnecessary luxurious
answered briefly in English: country, Secretary of State John around Obama’s vacation quar- CBS White House Reporter Mark vacations and travel,” Judicial
Kerry announced Monday he ters, his rental home was installed Knoller, the unofficial presiden- Watch President Tom Fitton
“Difficult questions.”
will travel to Egypt on March with bullet-proof glass, existing tial record keeper, calculates the said in releasing details of flight
He addressed his country’s 12 to attend an economic de- security systems were disabled, president took 22 vacation trips charges to Martha’s Vineyard and
campaign against terrorism velopment conference. Kerry secure phone lines installed and spanning all or part of 160 days. Hawaii. “These staggering costs
his entourage brought in 20 to The Washington Examiner Seweeks after the Islamic State plans to meet with el-Sisi and
30 vehicles. The Coast Guard crets adjusted those numbers to show why these documents were
released a video showing 21 other senior Egyptian leaders to enforced temporary exclusion 38 by including “separate trips covered up and we had to sue in
Egyptian Christians being be- discuss various issues including zones in Kailua Bay, and armed by the first lady and their daugh- federal court to get them. Another
headed. That video triggered efforts to fight ISIS.
Coast Guard dinghies patrolled ters, Sasha and Malia, as well transparency fail for the Obama
Egyptian airstrikes on ISIS
the canal near the president’s as quick trips like their May 30, gang.”
Page 10 The BANNER
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Commission Briefed on Great Plains Trail Partnership
Members of the Oklahoma
Wildlife Conservation Commission received a status report on the
positive effects being generated by
The Great Plains Trail of Oklahoma
throughout the western part of the
state.
Melynda Hickman, a biologist working in the Wildlife Diversity Program of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation,
presented an overview of The Great
Plains Trail and described how it
is benefiting the Department and
local communities.
The Great Plains Trail is a
highway-based wildlife-viewing
tour that includes 1,777 total miles
in 33 counties west of U.S. 81. The
Trail is divided into 13 distinct
driving loops exploring different
habitats and offering sites providing wildlife viewing opportunities
along the way.
The lead organization for the
Trail’s development, promotion
and maintenance is the Oklahoma
Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance. The Wildlife Department
helps support the Trail with a
$20,000 annual grant.
Hickman told Commissioners that among the Trail’s goals is
to develop nature tourism, which
seems to be on the rise based
on the number of inquiries that
sponsoring agencies have received
about the Trail. Since the Trail was
established in 2006, requests for
Trail maps have risen from 2,000
to 10,000 annually.
“Other benefits from the
Department’s involvement include
more opportunities to develop relationships with western Oklahoma
landowners and small businesses,
and the ability to foster new and
nontraditional partners in wildlife
conservation,” Hickman said.
Commissioners also approved the creation of a youth elk
gun season on private lands in the
Special Southwest Zone only. The
new youth elk gun seasons will
run concurrently with Oklahoma’s
youth deer gun season. The Special
Southwest Zone includes Comanche, Caddo and Kiowa counties,
and no elk harvest quota exists
for the zone. Oklahoma’s first
statewide private-lands elk season
wrapped up this past January, and
hunters reported harvesting 131
March is Big Bass Season
in Oklahoma
Whether you’re a tournament, trophy or recreational angler,
now is the time to hit your favorite
hole or try out a new body of water.
Big bass are on the move, positioning themselves for the approaching
spawn.
The month of March offers
the best opportunity to catch a lakeor state-record largemouth. Fifteen
of the top 20 heaviest largemouth
bass recorded in Oklahoma history have been caught in March.
Three of the remaining five spots
were landed in the last two days of
February.
It’s no coincidence record
bass are caught mostly in March.
“Fat reserves in female bass
are the highest they will be for the
year,” said Cliff Sager Fisheries
senior biologist for the Oklahoma
Department of Wildlife Conservation. “As water temperatures begin
to rise into the mid-50s, these fish
will gorge on available food sources to ripen their eggs in preparation
for the spawning season.”
This offers Oklahoma anglers
a window of opportunity to land a
true giant, an opportunity made possible by the Wildlife Department’s
Florida bass program. Sager, who
coordinates the stocking distribution, and Ike McKay, who oversees
production of the bass, operate out
of the Durant Hatchery, in southcentral Oklahoma. Florida bass are
genetically programmed to grow to
larger sizes than the typical northern largemouth native to Oklahoma
waters. The Department started the
Florida bass program in the early
1970s. “We stock around 1 million
Florida bass fingerlings across the
state each year,” Durant Hatchery
manager Gordon Schomer said.
Since the program’s inception, the
largemouth bass state record has
been broken 10 times, including
two of the past three years.
Your best chance to hook
one of these large fish is on days
preceding or following a cold front.
The next 10 days will provide
Oklahoma anglers the best opportunity to land a big largemouth and
possibly a new state record.
Some lakes, by region, to
find large bass are Lake of the
Arbuckles, McGee Creek and Murray in south-central; Broken Bow,
Cedar and Sardis in the southeast;
Watonga in the northwest, Lawtonka in the southwest; Sooner in
the north-central; Tenkiller in the
east-central; and Eucha and Grand
in the northeast.
“Eucha produces a lot of
7- to 8-pound-plus largemouth,
especially in early spring,” said
Josh Johnston Northeast Region
Fisheries supervisor. “Grand is
arguably the best bass lake in the
Midwest, and Tenkiller is home
to some very healthy smallmouth
bass. It is fairly common in February and March for a tournament on
Tenkiller to be won with a five-fish
stringer of smallmouth in the 25pound range.”
It is important to remember
at this time of year that a bass’
metabolism has slowed to conserve
energy and weight. Typically, large
bass will not exert more calories
than it intakes, so large baits, fished
slowly, will provide the best chance
to hook a big fish.
“A big bass would rather
ambush one large shad and digest
that meal for the rest of the day
than chase around small prey, so
that’s something to keep in mind
when fishing at this time of year,”
Sager said.
If you land a fish you believe
to be a lake or state record contact
a Wildlife Department Fisheries
Division employee or game warden
in your region. See below for a
list of Fisheries regional contacts.
To find the game warden in your
county, go to wildlifedepartment.
com/laws_regs/lawstatemap.htm.
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Fishing Report
Copan: Elevation below normal,
water frozen. Blue catfish slow
on cut bait in the main lake. Lake
should begin to thaw this week as
temperatures begin to rise.
Ft. Gibson: Elevation above
normal, water 40 and clear.
Paddlefish good in the river
channel, rocky points and north
to the main river. All other fishing slow.
Hudson: Elevation normal, water
38. Crappie fair on minnows and
jigs at 12-17 ft. around brush
structure, standing timber and
coves.
Hulah: Elevation below normal,
water frozen. Blue catfish slow
on cut bait in the main lake. The
lake is currently frozen. There
is open water in areas but access points remain covered in
ice. Lake should begin to thaw
this week as temperatures begin
to rise.
Kaw: Elevation 2 ft. above
normal, water 40 and clear. All
fishing slow.
Keystone: Elevation below normal, water 41. Crappie good on
chartreuse and red jigs around
brush structure. Blue catfish
good on cut bait along channels.
Lower Illinois: Elevation normal,
water 45 and clear. Trout good
on in-line spinnerbaits, orange
PowerBait and worms below the
dam and in channels.
Perry CCC: Elevation normal,
water clear. Trout good on PowerBait and spinnerbaits along
shorelines.
Skiatook: Elevation below normal, water clear. Crappie slow
on minnows and jigs at 15-25 ft.
around brush structure.
Sooner: Elevation normal, water
murky. Striped bass hybrids and
saugeye slow on sassy shad,
small lures and rattletraps in the
discharge.
Horoscopes
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
Aries, give a loved one the benefit of the
doubt before jumping to conclusions.
This beloved confidante deserves your
trust and ardent support.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23
A romance at work begins to heat up,
Leo. This may be the perfect opportunity to find your match. Just don’t let
feelings get in the way of productivity.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21
Avoid taking a big financial risk this
week, Sagittarius. Hold on tight to
your money and resist the temptation to
spend any money for the time being.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21
Taurus, expect some powerful emotions
to surface when you meet a new person
this week. You may be immediately
drawn to this individual, so embrace
the attraction.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22
A problem dominates your thoughts as
you work to find a solution, Virgo. Until
you pull away and focus on something
else, you will not be able to see the
answer clearly.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
Capricorn, pressure to complete an
important project will find its way to
you this week. No matter how quickly
you need to get things done, calmly
approach the tasks at hand.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21
Gemini, the week starts off on a bumpy
note but quickly turns itself around. By
Friday, you will have a smile on your
face and be ready to make the most of
the weekend.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23
Libra, you have a difficult decision to
make, but forge ahead with what you
think is best. Keep a level head and
weigh all of the consequences of your
decision.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18
Resist the instinct to keep your feelings
bottled up this week, Aquarius. Get your
thoughts out in the open, and you will
instantaneously feel much better.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, some long weeks have left you
physically and emotionally wiped out.
Take some time out for yourself in the
coming days and resist the urge to jump
back into the fray too quickly.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22
Pisces, you will be very productive this
Friends jokingly suggest you have week as you benefit from a new outlook.
psychic powers, Scorpio. They are put Plan ahead for some magic.
to the test this week when you suspect
something is amiss. Rectify the situation
in due time.
Crossword Answers
elk throughout the state’s seven elk
hunting zones.
Also during Monday’s meeting, the Commission:
Approved bids for mineral
leases on land owned in Grady and
Okmulgee counties.
Heard an update from Assistant Director Wade Free on
measures that remain active in the
Oklahoma Legislature that could
affect Wildlife Department operations. Among the proposed legislation is HB 1104, which would
tighten restrictions on the handling
of feral swine in Oklahoma, and
HB 1774, which would create a
three-day Conservation Passport.
Recognized Kelvin
Schoonover, wildlife biologist
at Hackberry Flat Wildlife Man-
agement Area, for 20 years of
service.
The Wildlife Conservation
Commission is the eight-member
governing board of the Oklahoma
Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Wildlife Conservation
Commission establishes state
hunting and fishing regulations,
sets policy for the Wildlife Department and indirectly oversees all
state fish and wildlife conservation
activities. Commission members
are appointed by the governor and
confirmed by the Senate.
The next scheduled Commission meeting will start at 9
a.m. May 4, 2015, at Wildlife
Department headquarters, 1801 N.
Lincoln, Oklahoma City.
OKLAHOMA OUTDOOR CALENDAR
March 1st thru April 30th: Paddlefish Research Center Open
14: OKTU/TFF Monthly Meeting - Spring Cast Off The first
annual “Spring Cast Off” will
be held Saturday, March 14th
from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM at
4156 S. 72nd E. Ave. in Tulsa.
The venue is just off 41st street
between Memorial and Sheridan.
This event combines our March
general meeting; normally the
swap meet, with our monthly
outing. The event is indoors
with plenty of space. Bring the
stuff you want to trade or sale,
or browse and get some new
to you gear! If you have a lot
of items to display tables will
be available for $5 (our rental
expense). Project Healing Water
Fly Fishing OK will have 8 tables
of fly tying materials for sale.
This selection of materials has
something for everyone! There
will fly tying demonstrations, a
place to practice your casting and
get some instruction, and information tables for our women’s’
and youth initiatives. Lunch will
be available, fresh grilled Burgers and Brats for $5.50 a meal.
The proceeds from this event will
go to our local Project Healing
Waters Fly Fishing program. To
reserve a table or request tables
with access to electricity please
email [email protected] or
call 918-630-4102.
14: Wagoner Ducks Unlimited Waterfowl Party http://
www.ducks.org/oklahoma/
events/36937/weatherford-dinner-event
CLUES ACROSS
1. Slavonic language
7. Solid water
10. Supply with notes
12. Edible bivalve
13. Field game
14. Yellow edible Indian
fruits
15. Lubricant that protects
body surfaces
16. Canadian flyers
17. Took a seat
18. Anthracite
19. Cuckoos
21. Vietnamese currency
unit
22. Subject to payment on
demand
27. Opposite of BC
28. The distance around an
object
33. Blood type
34. Expressing gratitude
36. Bridge-building degree
37. Ribosomal ribonucleic
acid
38. Fiber from the outer
husk of a coconut
39. Great black-backed gull
40. The largest island in the
West Indies
41. Vegetation consisting of
stunted trees or bushes
44. Support trestles
45. Single rail system
48. Call upon in supplication
49. Small compartment
50. Lair
51. Unpleasant nagging
women
Loughlin
3. Egyptian sun god
4. Vessel or duct
5. Belonging to a thing
6. After B
7. Refers to end of small
intestine
8. Baby cow
9. River of Memmert Germany
10. Farmer’s calendar
11. Spiral shelled cephalopods
12. Source of chocolate
14. Diversify
17. A baglike structure in a
plant or animal
18. Freshwater & limestone
green algae
20. Single Lens Reflex
23. Gum arabics
24. Austrian philosopher
Martin
25. Maltese pound
26. An immature newt
29. Popular Canadian statement
30. Norwegian monetary
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31. A journey around a
course
32. Confer a nobility title
upon
35. Idle talk
36. British policeman
38. A citizen of Havana
40. Highly glazed finish
41. A portion of
42. Squad
43. Betrayers
44. Barrels per day (abbr.)
45. Married woman
46. Express delight
47. Neither
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Table 7: Environmental sensitivity symptoms/reactions (page19)
Nervous System
Body system Symptoms
Upper respiratory system
Heightened sense of smell, Difficulty concentrating, Difficulty remembering, Apparent variability in mental processes, Feeling dull or groggy, Feeling “spacey”, Headaches, Restlessness, hyperactivity,, agitation, insomnia,
Depression, Lack of coordination or balance, Anxiety, Seizures, Tinnitus
Stuffy nose, itchy nose (the “allergic salute”), Blocked ears, Sinus stuffiness, pain, infections
Lower respiratory system
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Cough, Wheezing, shortness of breath, heavy chest, Asthma, Frequent
bronchitis or, pneumonia
Eyes
Red, watery eyes, Dark circles under eyes, Pain in eyes, Blurred, disturbed
vision
Gastrointestinal system
Endocrine system
Musculoskeletal system
Cardiovascular system
Skin
(dermatological system)
Genitourinary system
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Heartburn, Nausea, Bloating, Constipation, Diarrhea, Abdominal pain
Fatigue, lethargy, Blood sugar fluctuations
Joint and muscle pain in the extremities and/or back
Muscle twitching or spasms, Muscle weakness
Rapid or irregular heartbeat, Cold extremities, High or low blood
pressure
Flushing (whole body, or isolated, such as ears, nose or cheeks), Hives,
Eczema, Other rashes, Itching
Frequency and urgency to urinate, Painful bladder
spasms
Summary (page 20) Environmental sensitivities may affect every system in the body, so
multiple symptoms are possible, with variation among individuals.
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ers, led by John Lewis of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (who
now represents Georgia’s
5th congressional district in
Congress) and the Reverend Hosea Williams, of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, departed
the Brown Chapel in Selma
and marched east toward Birmingham. The purpose of
the march was to call attention to continued efforts by
white Democrats across the
South to deny blacks their
right to vote under the 15th
Amendment and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
The march was well
publicized in advance and
in the hours preceding the
march Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, a Democrat,
ordered all male residents
of the county, over the age
of twenty-one, to report to
the county courthouse to be
deputized.
The march was peaceful and well-ordered until the
marchers reached the Pettus
Bridge, where they were
confronted by a phalanx of
Alabama state troopers and
deputized civilians. The
marchers were ordered to
disband and return to their
homes, but when the Reverend Williams attempted
to speak to the commander
of the state troopers he was
told that there was nothing
to discuss. It was then that
troopers and the members
of the sheriff’s posse began shoving the demonstrators backward. Many
were knocked to the ground,
beaten with nightsticks, and
tear gassed, while a detachment of mounted troopers
charged the marchers on
horseback. Seventeen were
injured seriously enough to
require hospitalization.
In his passionate remarks on the 50th anniversary of the march, Obama
recounted the progress that’s
been made since the civil
rights era of the 1950s and
‘60s. He said, “Because of
what (the marchers) did, the
doors of opportunity swung
open not just for African
Americans, but for every
American. Women marched
through those doors. Latinos marched through those
doors. Asian-Americans,
gay Americans, and Americans with disabilities came
through those doors. Their
endeavors gave the entire
South the chance to rise
again, not by reasserting the
past, but by transcending
the past.”
Yes, the South did rise
again, and as it did, centuryold Democratic traditions
such as Jim Crow, Black
Codes, and the night riders of
the Ku Klux Klan came to an
abrupt end during the 1950s,
in part because of those
who marched on “Bloody
Sunday.” But as it joined
the 20th century, the South
became the most solidly
Republican region of the
country. Of twenty-six U.S.
senators from the thirteen
southern states, twenty-two
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Nor could Obama resist the temptation to play
the “race card” once again.
He said, “Just this week, I
was asked whether I thought
the Department of Justice’s
Ferguson report shows that,
with respect to race, little
has changed in this country.
I understand the question,
for the report’s narrative
was woefully familiar. It
evoked the kind of abuse
and disregard for citizens
that spawned the civil rights
movement.”
He went on to say, “Of
course, a more common mistake is to suggest that racism
is banished, that the work
that drew men and women
to Selma is complete, and
that whatever racial tensions
remain are a consequence
of those seeking to play the
‘race card’ for their own
purposes.”
It is difficult to understand how a man who
can read a teleprompter as
skillfully as Obama could
possibly have failed to notice
that it is he, his wife, his attorney general, the members
of the Congressional Black
Caucus, and nearly every
member of the “progressive
intelligentsia” who regularly
play the “race card” for purposes of propaganda and
political advantage.
In spite of the fact that
no one in America has access
to a wider variety of information than the man who sits
in the Oval Office, he seems
not to have grasped the fact
that Michael Brown was not
the victim of racial animus in
Ferguson, Missouri. Instead,
he was a common street thug
who was shot to death while
attempting to do serious, if
not fatal, harm to a police
officer.
Then, with a straight
face, he said, “With effort,
we can roll back poverty and
the roadblocks to opportunity. Americans don’t accept
a free ride for anyone, nor
do we believe in equality of
outcomes. But we do expect
equal opportunity, and if we
really mean it, if we’re willing to sacrifice for it, then
we can make sure that every
child gets an education suitable to this new century…
We can make sure every
person willing to work has
the dignity of a job, and a fair
wage, and a real voice, and
sturdier rungs on the ladder
into the middle class.”
This in spite of the
fact that everything he and
congressional Democrats
have done since he entered
the Oval Office has had
the exact opposite effect.
It is clear that he is totally
ignorant of what it is that
causes poverty and who it
is that provides economic
opportunities. In terms of
the educational opportunities
necessary for social and economic progress, it is Obama
and his Democratic friends
who have done everything
in their power to destroy the
quality of a public education
and to eliminate as many
opportunities for parental
school choice as possible…
leaving private schools and
parochial schools to the very
wealthy and the politically
powerful.
He concluded his remarks with a totally insincere
plea for voting rights and
the protection of the right to
vote… what he referred to
as “the foundation stone of
our democracy.” He said,
“Right now, in 2015, fifty
years after Selma, there are
laws across this country designed to make it harder for
people to vote. As we speak,
more of such laws are being
proposed…
“Fifty years ago, registering to vote here in Selma
and much of the South meant
guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar or bubbles on a
bar of soap. It meant risking
your dignity, and sometimes,
your life. What is our excuse
today for not voting? How
do we so casually discard
the right for which so many
fought…?”
Yes, as recently as fifty
years ago, millions of blacks
risked their lives attempting
to exercise their franchise;
thousands were shot to death,
hung, or burned to death by
Democrats hiding behind
masks and white sheets. The
only efforts at voter oppression we see today are efforts
by liberals and Democrats
to make voter registration
and voting evermore fraud
friendly, insuring that every
Republican vote is canceled
out by at least two Democratic votes… one legal, the
other fraudulent. Nor does
it seem wise to increase the
percentage of voting age
people to enter the voting
booths on Election Day.
Generally speaking, the
American people know less
about their government and
basic economics than voters
in any other nation of the free
world. Would any of us want
to live in a country in which
the number of Obama-style
voters was increased by a
factor of two or three? Could
such a nation actually exist?
And if so, for how long?
As one of my black
conservative friends, radio
talk show host Eddie Huff,
quipped in 2007, as Barack
Obama became a serious
contender for the White
House, “We need to ask
some very serious questions
of the senator from Illinois.
It’s not enough to be black,
it’s not enough to be articulate, and it’s not enough to
be eloquent and a media
darling… The only question
will be how deaf an ear, or
how blind an eye, will people
turn in order to turn a frog
into a prince.”
On March 7, 2015,
Barack Obama delivered
what may well be remembered as the signature speech
of his political career. It’s
just too bad it couldn’t have
been delivered by a prince…
instead of a toad (er, frog).
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Team Work
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The second one is collaboration
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- - but ultimately they have
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isn’t going to happen. If you
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and work out a plan - - amazing
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A recent article in the animal
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