FINALLY, AN ACTUAL HEARING ON ELIGIBILITY by Joseph Farah
For four long years, compelling evidence has been available that challenges the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to occupy the White House. In fact, I would say the evidence that he does not meet the simple requirements of the law is overwhelming.
But it was not until Thursday that the evidence – any of it – was heard in a single courtroom in America. Not until very recently has any of it been examined by any official public proceeding or reviewed by any agency of government. They say the wheels of justice grind slowly, but this is ridiculous.
The good news for the rule of law is what happened in a Georgia courtroom this week and what is happening in the office of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona. Justice may yet prevail.
In the courtroom of Judge Michael Malihi of the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings, sworn testimony was delivered rapid-fire over two hours to the effect that Obama is not qualified to have his name on the 2012 presidential ballot because his father was not a U.S. citizen, which precludes him from being a “natural-born citizen,” a clear, unambiguous requirement of the Constitution.
Obama refused to honor a subpoena to attend the hearing, produce records answering the charges or even send legal representation to dispute the evidence. Instead, they sent a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp suggesting the judge was letting attorneys “run amok.”
In response, Kemp warned Obama and his counsel that if they chose not to participate in the proceedings, “you do so at your own peril.” The judge is expected to rule in the case shortly. However, he has little choice but to issue a default judgment in favor of the challenge – potentially removing Obama from the ballot in Georgia in November.
That would be an astonishing development to the major media in this country that have collectively scoffed at and caricatured the notion that there is any doubt as to Obama’s eligibility. And that’s not the only eligibility worry for Obama. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” has been investigating Obama’s eligibility for months and is expected to issue preliminary findings soon. This is the very first official law enforcement probe of the evidence.
Unlike the other major contestant in the 2008 election, John McCain, who faced a U.S. Senate investigation over his eligibility, no agency of government, no branch of government – local, state or federal – ever investigated Obama’s bona fides to be on the ballot or to serve in the White House, despite the fact that his own life story, as recounted in his autobiography, more than suggests he is not legally qualified.
Then, of course, there’s the matter of the much-debated birth certificate – first withheld by Obama for years, then produced just as a book titled “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” by two-time No. 1 New York Times best-selling author and WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi hit the top of the best-seller charts weeks prior to its actual release.
Again, overwhelming evidence points to that document’s fraudulence. But, even in the highly unlikely event that it is genuine and accurate, it represents further evidence of Obama’s ineligibility because it would represent documentation that his father was a non-citizen of the U.S.
All of these details have been meticulously and thoroughly reported only two places – here in the pages of WND over the last four years and in Corsi’s “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and in an e-book sequel titled “Where’s the Real Birth Certificate?”
Meanwhile, for our trouble, we have been systematically vilified for providing the facts – a classic case of “killing the messenger.”
Thank the Lord there are still Americans somewhere in government who care more about justice and the rule of law than being popular in the media and “politically correct.” I wonder what all those scoffers and mockers are going to say if and when Obama’s name does not appear on the ballot in Georgia and perhaps other states?
Will they report it? Will they label these actions “racist”? Will they continue to misrepresent the facts and the truth?
Things are about to get very interesting.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. He is the author or co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea Party Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking America Back,"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Global Cooling
The Global Warning On Global Warming
January 31, 2012 by Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty Digest
Outside the pile of money left behind by his tobacco-baron father, Al Gore’s lavish lifestyle is funded almost entirely by his exploitation of global warming fear.
Some time ago, I described the pseudo-scientific theory of so-called “global warming” as “the phrenology of the modern age.” In light of the latest avalanche of actual scientific evidence, it would appear I was actually being a bit on the generous side. After all, while practitioners of phrenology might have been as far off the mark as an Al Gore slide show, at least they were trying to help someone else. The only beneficiaries of the global warming hoax are the hoaxsters themselves. While that means only that global warming is no different than virtually every other aspect of liberalism, it also means that every aspect of American society is threatened.
The latest crack in global warming’s crumbling wall appeared last week in the United Kingdom with a quiet acknowledgement by the UK’s Met Office and the University of East Anglia that not only is the Earth not warming, the oven is off and the pilot light is out. Moreover, data collected from more than 30,000 measuring stations and released last week have put the deep freeze on global warming, instead indicating that the temperature trend pointed to by global 'warmists' peaked in 1997.
Additionally, the current solar cycle has reached its maximum output and is, therefore, headed into what scientists call “Cycle 25,” which researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona have declared will be much weaker than solar cycles over the past century. In fact, the latest Met Office research predicts that Cycle 25 and subsequent 11-year solar cycles will likely approach the “Dalton minimum” for solar output, matching the solar slump which lowered Europe’s mean temperatures by 2 degrees centigrade during the 18th and 19th centuries. Some scientists predict solar energy could bottom out even further, matching the “Maunder minimum” — the coolest period of the “Little Ice Age” — which held the planet in its chilly grip from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.
According to leading observers from respected institutions, the failure of global warmists to credit the sun for its role in global temperature swings nearly obviates the entire global warming industry. Nicola Scafetta, Ph.D., of Duke University notes:
If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories.
It’s fair to presume that he’s already omitting global warmists from the “scientific community” given the remote likelihood that they will abandon the scam which has kept them in clover since the early 1970s, when the same climactic phrenologists who roar about global warmingnow were shrieking about global cooling.
These latest revelations about the myriad flaws and scientific method violations that mark the progression of the global warming theories combine with the well-established fact that global warmists have never employed more than anecdotal evidence that the basis of their fearmongering even exists to produce what ought to be a final curtain for global warming and the entire so-called “climate change” industry.
And yet, I have a theory — based on decades’ worth of firsthand observation — that neither global warming nor the industry its proponents spawned will be headed for the booth next to the tinfoil-hat salesmen at the next Flat Earth Society conference. Despite the altruistic claims of leading global warmists from Gore to the Headlands Institute eggheads, they’re highly unlikely to abandon their cause for the same two reasons nanny-staters have been pressing their jackboots down upon the necks of people across the world since time immemorial: 1. Money. 2. Power.
Consider Obama’s continued devotion to so-called “green jobs” boondoggles, despite the Brobdingnagian barrelsful of taxpayer cash that they absorb without producing any quantifiable benefit. Solyndra, LightSquared and Ener1 (which flatlined right after Obama’s State of the Union address last week) have combined to cost the taxpayers billions of dollars in unrecoverable funds. All of them are fiscal disasters, yet Obama swore during the same address to continue to shovel our money into their gaping maws. In some cases, the output of these “green” ventures is dangerous: What’s the total amount of greenhouse outgassing produced by a burning Chevy Volt?
Gore sells books and video copies of his Oscar-winning slide show. He also lives like a pharaoh. Outside the pile of money left behind by his tobacco-baron father, Gore’s lavish lifestyle is funded almost entirely by his exploitation of global warming fear. And he’s hardly alone. In “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” an opinion piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal last week, 16 scientists noted:
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet.
The column also noted the striking similarities between the global warmists’ method of enforcing their dogma with retribution and even banishment and the intellectual dark ages of the Soviet Union, in which anyone who opposed Trofim Lysenko’s ludicrously medieval scientific theories was stripped of prestige, imprisoned and even killed.
To be fair, the world could probably benefit from a reduction in the population of arrogant pseudo-intellectual academics. And it almost goes without saying that anything that cuts the odds that Gore might show up in your town (flying a private jet, of course) to make you and your neighbors sit through one of his monotonous lectures on bumper-sticker science is — well — good. But global warmists have infiltrated virtually every aspect of public life. They are turning once-respectable universities into black holes of meaningful thought. They drain billions of dollars from the Treasury in pure cash and then drain millions of dollars more in meaningless regulations that have no effect on the jungles, but crush industrial output. They create idiotic bureaucratic boondoggles (like the Kyoto Protocol) that ripple through the global economic strata, hiking prices and ruining lives.
The food we eat, the fuel we need and the items we require (incandescent light bulbs, anyone?) are all more expensive, more scarce and more needlessly regulated because liberals like Obama recognize the value of fear over reason and the value of lockstep-marching minions who act without question.
Scientists ought to be consumed with the search for facts. As last week’s news — along with decades of actual data — proves, one fact is clear: Global warming hasn’t reduced our quality of life; global warmists have.
Ben Crystal
January 31, 2012 by Ben Crystal, Personal Liberty Digest
Outside the pile of money left behind by his tobacco-baron father, Al Gore’s lavish lifestyle is funded almost entirely by his exploitation of global warming fear.
Some time ago, I described the pseudo-scientific theory of so-called “global warming” as “the phrenology of the modern age.” In light of the latest avalanche of actual scientific evidence, it would appear I was actually being a bit on the generous side. After all, while practitioners of phrenology might have been as far off the mark as an Al Gore slide show, at least they were trying to help someone else. The only beneficiaries of the global warming hoax are the hoaxsters themselves. While that means only that global warming is no different than virtually every other aspect of liberalism, it also means that every aspect of American society is threatened.
The latest crack in global warming’s crumbling wall appeared last week in the United Kingdom with a quiet acknowledgement by the UK’s Met Office and the University of East Anglia that not only is the Earth not warming, the oven is off and the pilot light is out. Moreover, data collected from more than 30,000 measuring stations and released last week have put the deep freeze on global warming, instead indicating that the temperature trend pointed to by global 'warmists' peaked in 1997.
Additionally, the current solar cycle has reached its maximum output and is, therefore, headed into what scientists call “Cycle 25,” which researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona have declared will be much weaker than solar cycles over the past century. In fact, the latest Met Office research predicts that Cycle 25 and subsequent 11-year solar cycles will likely approach the “Dalton minimum” for solar output, matching the solar slump which lowered Europe’s mean temperatures by 2 degrees centigrade during the 18th and 19th centuries. Some scientists predict solar energy could bottom out even further, matching the “Maunder minimum” — the coolest period of the “Little Ice Age” — which held the planet in its chilly grip from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.
According to leading observers from respected institutions, the failure of global warmists to credit the sun for its role in global temperature swings nearly obviates the entire global warming industry. Nicola Scafetta, Ph.D., of Duke University notes:
If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories.
It’s fair to presume that he’s already omitting global warmists from the “scientific community” given the remote likelihood that they will abandon the scam which has kept them in clover since the early 1970s, when the same climactic phrenologists who roar about global warmingnow were shrieking about global cooling.
These latest revelations about the myriad flaws and scientific method violations that mark the progression of the global warming theories combine with the well-established fact that global warmists have never employed more than anecdotal evidence that the basis of their fearmongering even exists to produce what ought to be a final curtain for global warming and the entire so-called “climate change” industry.
And yet, I have a theory — based on decades’ worth of firsthand observation — that neither global warming nor the industry its proponents spawned will be headed for the booth next to the tinfoil-hat salesmen at the next Flat Earth Society conference. Despite the altruistic claims of leading global warmists from Gore to the Headlands Institute eggheads, they’re highly unlikely to abandon their cause for the same two reasons nanny-staters have been pressing their jackboots down upon the necks of people across the world since time immemorial: 1. Money. 2. Power.
Consider Obama’s continued devotion to so-called “green jobs” boondoggles, despite the Brobdingnagian barrelsful of taxpayer cash that they absorb without producing any quantifiable benefit. Solyndra, LightSquared and Ener1 (which flatlined right after Obama’s State of the Union address last week) have combined to cost the taxpayers billions of dollars in unrecoverable funds. All of them are fiscal disasters, yet Obama swore during the same address to continue to shovel our money into their gaping maws. In some cases, the output of these “green” ventures is dangerous: What’s the total amount of greenhouse outgassing produced by a burning Chevy Volt?
Gore sells books and video copies of his Oscar-winning slide show. He also lives like a pharaoh. Outside the pile of money left behind by his tobacco-baron father, Gore’s lavish lifestyle is funded almost entirely by his exploitation of global warming fear. And he’s hardly alone. In “No Need to Panic About Global Warming,” an opinion piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal last week, 16 scientists noted:
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet.
The column also noted the striking similarities between the global warmists’ method of enforcing their dogma with retribution and even banishment and the intellectual dark ages of the Soviet Union, in which anyone who opposed Trofim Lysenko’s ludicrously medieval scientific theories was stripped of prestige, imprisoned and even killed.
To be fair, the world could probably benefit from a reduction in the population of arrogant pseudo-intellectual academics. And it almost goes without saying that anything that cuts the odds that Gore might show up in your town (flying a private jet, of course) to make you and your neighbors sit through one of his monotonous lectures on bumper-sticker science is — well — good. But global warmists have infiltrated virtually every aspect of public life. They are turning once-respectable universities into black holes of meaningful thought. They drain billions of dollars from the Treasury in pure cash and then drain millions of dollars more in meaningless regulations that have no effect on the jungles, but crush industrial output. They create idiotic bureaucratic boondoggles (like the Kyoto Protocol) that ripple through the global economic strata, hiking prices and ruining lives.
The food we eat, the fuel we need and the items we require (incandescent light bulbs, anyone?) are all more expensive, more scarce and more needlessly regulated because liberals like Obama recognize the value of fear over reason and the value of lockstep-marching minions who act without question.
Scientists ought to be consumed with the search for facts. As last week’s news — along with decades of actual data — proves, one fact is clear: Global warming hasn’t reduced our quality of life; global warmists have.
Ben Crystal
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Rockdale County Republicans say No TSPLOST / TIA
ROCKDALE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY RESOLUTION TO DEFEAT TSPLOST AND Repeal of HB 277 TIA Creation
A Resolution,
Whereas, the passage of HB277 has created 12 regions throughout the State of Georgia for the purpose of administering transportation projects, and
Whereas, the funding mechanism to be used to fund projects within these 12 regions calls for a 1% sales tax on purchases, but exempts any additional taxes on fuel, and
Whereas, the measure will appear on the upcoming July 31 ballot and the Governor and special interests around the state are spending millions of dollars in advertising supporting passage, and
The reported collections versus funds received back into Rockdale County by a newly formed government entity known as a "Transit Authority" and of the projected taxes collected, we are only guaranteed 28.9% for our County to spend, which does not include any administrative costs,, and
Whereas, these newly formed "Transit Authorities" will have extraordinary powers over local and county governments thus destroying the provision of "Home Rule" within our state Constitution, and these powers include a policing force, and the power of eminent domain that can take ownership of private land from landowners, and
Whereas, the elderly and poor especially those on fixed incomes will pay for these projects while the users of the systems such as the trucking industry are not affected with any new fees, therefore
Be it resolved that the delegates of the 2012 Rockdale County Convention hereby call for the repeal of HB 277 by our legislators, and
That Rockdale County if it desires, should have full control over any new sales taxes and would be better off passing a county sales tax if warranted, and
Be it resolved that the imposition of regional transit authorities, and the new taxes are in direct violation with the Republican Party principles of smaller local governments being more effective and violates our principle of promoting the free enterprise for our economy, and
Finally, be it resolved that the first measure of the sentiments of our delegates be known publicly as we urge all voters to vote against the measure on the July 31 ballot.
Read before the Rockdale County delegation on this 10th day of March in the year of our Lord 2012
A Resolution,
Whereas, the passage of HB277 has created 12 regions throughout the State of Georgia for the purpose of administering transportation projects, and
Whereas, the funding mechanism to be used to fund projects within these 12 regions calls for a 1% sales tax on purchases, but exempts any additional taxes on fuel, and
Whereas, the measure will appear on the upcoming July 31 ballot and the Governor and special interests around the state are spending millions of dollars in advertising supporting passage, and
The reported collections versus funds received back into Rockdale County by a newly formed government entity known as a "Transit Authority" and of the projected taxes collected, we are only guaranteed 28.9% for our County to spend, which does not include any administrative costs,, and
Whereas, these newly formed "Transit Authorities" will have extraordinary powers over local and county governments thus destroying the provision of "Home Rule" within our state Constitution, and these powers include a policing force, and the power of eminent domain that can take ownership of private land from landowners, and
Whereas, the elderly and poor especially those on fixed incomes will pay for these projects while the users of the systems such as the trucking industry are not affected with any new fees, therefore
Be it resolved that the delegates of the 2012 Rockdale County Convention hereby call for the repeal of HB 277 by our legislators, and
That Rockdale County if it desires, should have full control over any new sales taxes and would be better off passing a county sales tax if warranted, and
Be it resolved that the imposition of regional transit authorities, and the new taxes are in direct violation with the Republican Party principles of smaller local governments being more effective and violates our principle of promoting the free enterprise for our economy, and
Finally, be it resolved that the first measure of the sentiments of our delegates be known publicly as we urge all voters to vote against the measure on the July 31 ballot.
Read before the Rockdale County delegation on this 10th day of March in the year of our Lord 2012
RNC Resolution Exposing United Nations Agenda 21
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; and,
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local “sustainable development” policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other “Green” or “Alternative” projects; and
WHEREAS, this United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called “sustainable development” views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment; and,
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment which would be accomplished by socialist/communist redistribution of wealth; and,
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy National sovereignty is deemed a social injustice; now therefore be
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations Agenda 21 and hereby exposes to the public and public policy makers the dangerous intent of the plan; and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that the U.S. government and no state or local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty in that it has never been endorsed by the (U.S.) Senate, and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that the federal and state and local governments across the country be well informed of the underlying harmful implications of implementation of United Nations Agenda 21 destructive strategies for “sustainable development” and we hereby endorse rejection of its radical policies and rejection of any grant monies attached to it, and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of the Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, all Republican candidates for President who qualify for RNC sanctioned debates, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.
Chief Sponsor: Helen Van Etten Republican National Committeewoman for Kansas
Co-Sponsors: Carolyn McLarty Republican National Committeewoman for Oklahoma
Kim Lehman Republican National Committeewoman for Iowa
Paul Reynolds Republican National Committeeman for Alabama
Demetra DeMonte Republican national Committeewoman for Illinois
Solomon Yue Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Donna Cain Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Cindy Costa Republican National Committeewoman for South Carolina
John Sigler Republican State Chairman for Delaware
Steve Scheffler Republican National Committeeman for Iowa
Peggy Lambert Republican National Committeewoman for Tennessee
Jim Bopp Republican National Committeeman for Indiana
Bruce Ash Republican National Committeeman for Arizona
DeMarus Carlson Republican National Committeewoman for Nebraska
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local “sustainable development” policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other “Green” or “Alternative” projects; and
WHEREAS, this United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called “sustainable development” views the American way of life of private property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms; all as destructive to the environment; and,
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment which would be accomplished by socialist/communist redistribution of wealth; and,
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy National sovereignty is deemed a social injustice; now therefore be
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations Agenda 21 and hereby exposes to the public and public policy makers the dangerous intent of the plan; and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that the U.S. government and no state or local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21 treaty in that it has never been endorsed by the (U.S.) Senate, and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that the federal and state and local governments across the country be well informed of the underlying harmful implications of implementation of United Nations Agenda 21 destructive strategies for “sustainable development” and we hereby endorse rejection of its radical policies and rejection of any grant monies attached to it, and therefore be it further
RESOLVED, that upon the approval of this resolution the Republican National Committee shall deliver a copy of this resolution to each of the Republican members of Congress, all Republican candidates for Congress, all Republican candidates for President who qualify for RNC sanctioned debates, and to each Republican state and territorial party office.
Chief Sponsor: Helen Van Etten Republican National Committeewoman for Kansas
Co-Sponsors: Carolyn McLarty Republican National Committeewoman for Oklahoma
Kim Lehman Republican National Committeewoman for Iowa
Paul Reynolds Republican National Committeeman for Alabama
Demetra DeMonte Republican national Committeewoman for Illinois
Solomon Yue Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Donna Cain Republican National Committeewoman for Oregon
Cindy Costa Republican National Committeewoman for South Carolina
John Sigler Republican State Chairman for Delaware
Steve Scheffler Republican National Committeeman for Iowa
Peggy Lambert Republican National Committeewoman for Tennessee
Jim Bopp Republican National Committeeman for Indiana
Bruce Ash Republican National Committeeman for Arizona
DeMarus Carlson Republican National Committeewoman for Nebraska
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Village Parkway
There is a lot of chatter out there to move the “Village Parkway” plan to the top of the City’s projects list. The plan sounds and looks wonderful and I applaud the concept of raised levels as a clever way to separate the various uses! With that said, I have to ask—why would we want to spend $1.1 mil on a non-priority project when we have areas where the traffic is so bad atheists are beginning to pray for some relief?
You might reply that we need to take advantage of the $1.4 mil Federal grant. Why? Even if the Feds do pay about half, that still leaves us with a $1.1 mil debt and no closer to solving any real traffic problem. How illogical is that?
Spending a million here and a million there for “feel good” projects while everyone sits in traffic is insane. Traffic and roads are the number one priority whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.
Dunwoody was developed for housing with no thought in mind of becoming a city. There were lots of trees, plenty of land for big lots, and the only other need was a few grocery stores; after all, we could easily drive to Lenox, Perimeter or Northlake Malls to shop. To rush in to try to quickly turn Dunwoody into an urban setting will be courting disaster.
If we continue to try and function on narrow suburban streets, our economic base will decline because even our busiest streets quickly narrow down to two lanes! This will eventually choke the life out of our City, and as history has shown, once a decline starts it is almost impossible to reverse. (Remember the failed costly “Urban Renewal” projects!)
The fiasco of the toll lanes on I-85 is a good example that the Feds do not always have the best solution. When faced with an angry populace all the State could say was, “uh…uh…duh…” because they suddenly found they had absolutely no authority to manage this explosive situation. Now after months, the State is still on its knees begging the Feds for authority to implement solutions. And what is the answer coming from the Feds? A resounding “No, we’ll handle it our way”…so traffic continues to creep along on one of the busiest highways in the nation! Insanity strikes again!
Let us be cautious of following “Plans” implemented by the agendas of and funded by outside organizations. Nothing is free so let us not be so quick to grab at the “honey pot” that we fail to take into consideration the sting of the bees.
Jeanette Smith
You might reply that we need to take advantage of the $1.4 mil Federal grant. Why? Even if the Feds do pay about half, that still leaves us with a $1.1 mil debt and no closer to solving any real traffic problem. How illogical is that?
Spending a million here and a million there for “feel good” projects while everyone sits in traffic is insane. Traffic and roads are the number one priority whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.
Dunwoody was developed for housing with no thought in mind of becoming a city. There were lots of trees, plenty of land for big lots, and the only other need was a few grocery stores; after all, we could easily drive to Lenox, Perimeter or Northlake Malls to shop. To rush in to try to quickly turn Dunwoody into an urban setting will be courting disaster.
If we continue to try and function on narrow suburban streets, our economic base will decline because even our busiest streets quickly narrow down to two lanes! This will eventually choke the life out of our City, and as history has shown, once a decline starts it is almost impossible to reverse. (Remember the failed costly “Urban Renewal” projects!)
The fiasco of the toll lanes on I-85 is a good example that the Feds do not always have the best solution. When faced with an angry populace all the State could say was, “uh…uh…duh…” because they suddenly found they had absolutely no authority to manage this explosive situation. Now after months, the State is still on its knees begging the Feds for authority to implement solutions. And what is the answer coming from the Feds? A resounding “No, we’ll handle it our way”…so traffic continues to creep along on one of the busiest highways in the nation! Insanity strikes again!
Let us be cautious of following “Plans” implemented by the agendas of and funded by outside organizations. Nothing is free so let us not be so quick to grab at the “honey pot” that we fail to take into consideration the sting of the bees.
Jeanette Smith
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Newt Gingrich – the Strategist
Artful Solutions
Newt’s artful solution to illegal immigration stops the Democrat’s strategy of rapidly populating the U.S. with welfare clients who will become Democrat voters. His EPA solution to turn it into a consulting operation is certainly more acceptable to environmentalists than other candidates’ instinct to abolish it. Newt’s embrace of peace through strength recognizes that Romney Republicans are against any reduction in military spending. He believes abortion should be illegal. Newt says U.N. Agenda 21 implementation should be stopped. He will cancel previous Executive Orders. His positions are generally in line with Tea Party goals and Ron Paul’s positions.
He knows the McCain campaign failed because it offered a “moderate” Republican when a Conservative Republican would have rallied more support. The “big tent” theory was disproved. His style though, is to defang bad laws and practices without becoming a target.
Unanswered Questions
Newt’s pledge to balance the budget and his assertion of states’ rights are good signs, but they lack specifics. He has not come out against K Street and has not come out for a full 10th Amendment solution to the federal government’s malaise.
He appears to prefer to say he is going to restructure and control the Federal Reserve, the U.N., K Street, the EPA and all the other departments and agencies at a time when most of us are angry enough to want them dissolved. This may be Newt’s Bush I moment when General Schwarzkopf suggested that we go to Iraq and arrest Sadam Hussein and Bush said no.
If Glen Beck is right and Newt is a Statist, he may be taking the role of pulling back the Progessive movement’s rapid advance, but leaving the structure alive to resurrect itself later. If this is true, Raon Paul is all we have left. Knowing Newt is an Army brat, he has mentioned his genuine fondness for government employees; that’s certainly not what we’ve been feeling lately. He does admit, he will need to clean house in many agencies, which is code for de communistification.
It’s hard to imagine Newt supporting giving federal lands back to the states, but it’s a good idea. It would send environmentalists scrambling to state capitols. We can no longer afford environmentalists; they are unsustainable. He would opt instead to allow permits to drill, harvest and mine and take the fees as revenue. He would let states determine environmental policy for their state.
Standard Fare
Newt joins all other Republicans in pledging to cut spending, repeal Obama-care, Sarbains Oxley and Dodd Frank. He would stop the “green movement” advance to economic oblivion. Newt, like the others know it will take tax reductions and a pull-back on regulations to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. Candidates’ general take on revenue is that tax increases are not needed or wanted.
Prognostication
If Newt is elected in 2012, he will probably be re-elected in 2016. He will preside over a federal government he intends to reform using Lean Management and his knowledge of the agencies. Because of our banking problems, it will likely feel like our version of Japan’s lost decade. We will continue to have high debt and low interest rates, but we should have a budget balanced enough to begin to bring the national debt back down to $10 trillion. We will need to slog along another decade to move it closer to the $5 trillion it was before this mess began. If we restore manufacturing, we will be improving the fundamentals for our economy. It’s likely that Dodd Frank will be rewritten to end bank bailouts, but with a year or so grace period to allow banks to cease overleveraging. Government will get out of the loan business and Fannie, Freddie and Sallie will be sold. The Federal Reserve will have pulled back its Quantitative Easing to avoid higher inflation, but damage has already been done that will elevate inflation during Newt’s terms. Allowing a period of deflation may mitigate the inflation we would ordinarily experience with the Fed’s 300% increase in the money supply.
We should see a continuation of Social Security and Medicare for retirees with a cut-off where younger citizens will have opted to provide their own retirement. Banking, Healthcare, Education and Environmentalism will have experienced significant reform and cost reduction without the hysteria that normally surrounds sacred cow diets. We should be well on our way to energy independence and increased productivity and the dividends should go toward debt reduction.
The U.N. will still be a den of thieves. K Street will continue to make the congress ineffective. The Federal Reserve will still protect the banks. Environmentalists, Communists and Democrats will carefully plot their return to power. Congress will still meddle in things the Constitution has forbidden them to do and they will consistently screw it up.
We still prefer a clean sweep of the federal government to compliance with the 10th Amendment as the ultimate solution.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
Newt’s artful solution to illegal immigration stops the Democrat’s strategy of rapidly populating the U.S. with welfare clients who will become Democrat voters. His EPA solution to turn it into a consulting operation is certainly more acceptable to environmentalists than other candidates’ instinct to abolish it. Newt’s embrace of peace through strength recognizes that Romney Republicans are against any reduction in military spending. He believes abortion should be illegal. Newt says U.N. Agenda 21 implementation should be stopped. He will cancel previous Executive Orders. His positions are generally in line with Tea Party goals and Ron Paul’s positions.
He knows the McCain campaign failed because it offered a “moderate” Republican when a Conservative Republican would have rallied more support. The “big tent” theory was disproved. His style though, is to defang bad laws and practices without becoming a target.
Unanswered Questions
Newt’s pledge to balance the budget and his assertion of states’ rights are good signs, but they lack specifics. He has not come out against K Street and has not come out for a full 10th Amendment solution to the federal government’s malaise.
He appears to prefer to say he is going to restructure and control the Federal Reserve, the U.N., K Street, the EPA and all the other departments and agencies at a time when most of us are angry enough to want them dissolved. This may be Newt’s Bush I moment when General Schwarzkopf suggested that we go to Iraq and arrest Sadam Hussein and Bush said no.
If Glen Beck is right and Newt is a Statist, he may be taking the role of pulling back the Progessive movement’s rapid advance, but leaving the structure alive to resurrect itself later. If this is true, Raon Paul is all we have left. Knowing Newt is an Army brat, he has mentioned his genuine fondness for government employees; that’s certainly not what we’ve been feeling lately. He does admit, he will need to clean house in many agencies, which is code for de communistification.
It’s hard to imagine Newt supporting giving federal lands back to the states, but it’s a good idea. It would send environmentalists scrambling to state capitols. We can no longer afford environmentalists; they are unsustainable. He would opt instead to allow permits to drill, harvest and mine and take the fees as revenue. He would let states determine environmental policy for their state.
Standard Fare
Newt joins all other Republicans in pledging to cut spending, repeal Obama-care, Sarbains Oxley and Dodd Frank. He would stop the “green movement” advance to economic oblivion. Newt, like the others know it will take tax reductions and a pull-back on regulations to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. Candidates’ general take on revenue is that tax increases are not needed or wanted.
Prognostication
If Newt is elected in 2012, he will probably be re-elected in 2016. He will preside over a federal government he intends to reform using Lean Management and his knowledge of the agencies. Because of our banking problems, it will likely feel like our version of Japan’s lost decade. We will continue to have high debt and low interest rates, but we should have a budget balanced enough to begin to bring the national debt back down to $10 trillion. We will need to slog along another decade to move it closer to the $5 trillion it was before this mess began. If we restore manufacturing, we will be improving the fundamentals for our economy. It’s likely that Dodd Frank will be rewritten to end bank bailouts, but with a year or so grace period to allow banks to cease overleveraging. Government will get out of the loan business and Fannie, Freddie and Sallie will be sold. The Federal Reserve will have pulled back its Quantitative Easing to avoid higher inflation, but damage has already been done that will elevate inflation during Newt’s terms. Allowing a period of deflation may mitigate the inflation we would ordinarily experience with the Fed’s 300% increase in the money supply.
We should see a continuation of Social Security and Medicare for retirees with a cut-off where younger citizens will have opted to provide their own retirement. Banking, Healthcare, Education and Environmentalism will have experienced significant reform and cost reduction without the hysteria that normally surrounds sacred cow diets. We should be well on our way to energy independence and increased productivity and the dividends should go toward debt reduction.
The U.N. will still be a den of thieves. K Street will continue to make the congress ineffective. The Federal Reserve will still protect the banks. Environmentalists, Communists and Democrats will carefully plot their return to power. Congress will still meddle in things the Constitution has forbidden them to do and they will consistently screw it up.
We still prefer a clean sweep of the federal government to compliance with the 10th Amendment as the ultimate solution.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
Ron Paul – the Messenger
Shoot the Messenger
Ron Paul has taken on the role of the Messenger. For his trouble, we shoot at him, because of our tendency to shoot the messenger. He does refuse to fall down. He has seen major parts of his annoying messages acknowledged by primary voters and his fellow candidates and repeated by the media. The result of his tenacity is that now many Americans believe the Federal Reserve is not a sacrosanct, un-attackable, permanent institution. The same goes for Ron Paul’s positions on the 10th Amendment, border closing and reducing spending by $1 trillion a year.
Peace through Strength
The complaint by Republicans about Ron Paul’s insistence on Congressional approval for military actions is valid. Ronal Reagan’s reaction to insurgent actions where U.S. citizens were at risk was to join the UK and invade the Falkland Islands. George HW Bush’s reaction to Sadam Hussein’s invasion of Kwait was a swift war on Iraq. His reaction to Noriega’s drug cartel controlled Panama was to invade Panama and arrest Noriega. The world’s reaction to these actions was to perceive the U.S. as unbeatable. This is our new deterrence strategy of peace through strength. We proved we will show up with full force and the President can do it without the Congress. The attacks on 9/11 effectively challenged that position, George W. Bush’s response to proceed with long term land invasions was too expensive. The development of unmanned aircraft drones has been added to our capabilities as an option to land invasion. We find ourselves scrambling to reconfigure our military to be able to react to anything and we are broke.
Our Global Military Presence
The reaction to Ron Paul’s position on closing our nonessential foreign military bases needs to be analyzed more thoroughly. Even our bases in Germany can be defended by proximity to the middle east where the action is. Our bases in Japan can be defended by proximity to China’s military resurgence. The practical questions involve our allies’ willingness and ability to take over the “policeman” role in their own neighborhoods. Each of our 900 military bases needs to be considered for closure based on its current strategic value. Where strategic value is low, or easily replaced with more aircraft carriers in the region, these bases should be closed. Also, where allies are ready and able to take over more responsibility, they should be encouraged to do so.
Ron Paul’s Military
The fact that Ron Paul’s biggest supporters are current members of the U.S. military is one conundrum worthy of some analysis. It may be that because these soldiers have participated in the rebuilding of other countries, they are cognizant of the costs and have determined that we can’t go on like this forever. They saw the money being spent first hand; we only heard of the money being borrowed and printed. Our mild reaction is easily explained by Glen Beck’s demonstration of a frog being boiled slowly. Our economy is getting progressively worse slowly, by degree. Unless we’ve been laid off and lost our ability to pay our bills, it just feels a little warmer every year.
Democrat Sabotage
If we had been allowed pursue full-out domestic oil and gas drilling over the past 40 years, we would be in a much better position to back off in the middle east. Because we allowed Democrats and Environmentalists to sabotage domestic oil and gas production, we find ourselves scrambling . Our tendency to be everywhere is destroying our economy with excessive government spending.
Securing the Mexican border and deporting illegal immigrants is another issue Democrats blocked. We were incredulous watching Republicans failed to accomplish these tasks.
The EPA has quietly obstructed infrastructure maintenance for decades using the Clean Air Act. It has accelerated its attack to remove our private property rights using the Clean Water Act.
The Community Reinvestment Act and HUD rules forced banks to approve home loans to non-creditworthy loan applicants. The mortgage-backed securities for these bad mortgages caused the 2008 Meltdown and the beginning of our 2nd Great Depression.
Federal Legislation
We were aghast to watch the Congress pass Obama-care without reading it. We were amazed that junk bills routinely filled all Omnibus Bills and Continuing Resolutions. We recognized that Congress needed most of its responsibilities taken away.
The 10th Amendment Movement
It became clear to us that the federal government was incapable of handling their responsibilities in 2008. Our reaction was the Tea Party. We knew that the Judiciary had conspired to interpret the Constitution into oblivion. We knew that the federal government had ruined entire industries by subsidizing and over-regulating them. We noticed that the Constitution and 10th Amendment limited the federal government to exclude the departments that were doing the most harm. The budgets for these unconstitutional departments totaled $1.4 trillion a year. Our simple solution to balance the federal budget is to dissolve these federal departments and transfer these responsibilities to the states.
Ron Paul’s Objective
It’s clear that Ron Paul will continue with the campaign because he sees us hearing his positions, considering them and adopting them. He knows that Newt Gingrich and Ron Santorum will continue to embrace his positions. Whoever embraces the bulk of his positions on core issues is likely to be the conservative nominee. The next question will be if Romney Republicans will rally or go for the conservative argument that the winner must be the exact opposite of Barack Obama.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Ron Paul has taken on the role of the Messenger. For his trouble, we shoot at him, because of our tendency to shoot the messenger. He does refuse to fall down. He has seen major parts of his annoying messages acknowledged by primary voters and his fellow candidates and repeated by the media. The result of his tenacity is that now many Americans believe the Federal Reserve is not a sacrosanct, un-attackable, permanent institution. The same goes for Ron Paul’s positions on the 10th Amendment, border closing and reducing spending by $1 trillion a year.
Peace through Strength
The complaint by Republicans about Ron Paul’s insistence on Congressional approval for military actions is valid. Ronal Reagan’s reaction to insurgent actions where U.S. citizens were at risk was to join the UK and invade the Falkland Islands. George HW Bush’s reaction to Sadam Hussein’s invasion of Kwait was a swift war on Iraq. His reaction to Noriega’s drug cartel controlled Panama was to invade Panama and arrest Noriega. The world’s reaction to these actions was to perceive the U.S. as unbeatable. This is our new deterrence strategy of peace through strength. We proved we will show up with full force and the President can do it without the Congress. The attacks on 9/11 effectively challenged that position, George W. Bush’s response to proceed with long term land invasions was too expensive. The development of unmanned aircraft drones has been added to our capabilities as an option to land invasion. We find ourselves scrambling to reconfigure our military to be able to react to anything and we are broke.
Our Global Military Presence
The reaction to Ron Paul’s position on closing our nonessential foreign military bases needs to be analyzed more thoroughly. Even our bases in Germany can be defended by proximity to the middle east where the action is. Our bases in Japan can be defended by proximity to China’s military resurgence. The practical questions involve our allies’ willingness and ability to take over the “policeman” role in their own neighborhoods. Each of our 900 military bases needs to be considered for closure based on its current strategic value. Where strategic value is low, or easily replaced with more aircraft carriers in the region, these bases should be closed. Also, where allies are ready and able to take over more responsibility, they should be encouraged to do so.
Ron Paul’s Military
The fact that Ron Paul’s biggest supporters are current members of the U.S. military is one conundrum worthy of some analysis. It may be that because these soldiers have participated in the rebuilding of other countries, they are cognizant of the costs and have determined that we can’t go on like this forever. They saw the money being spent first hand; we only heard of the money being borrowed and printed. Our mild reaction is easily explained by Glen Beck’s demonstration of a frog being boiled slowly. Our economy is getting progressively worse slowly, by degree. Unless we’ve been laid off and lost our ability to pay our bills, it just feels a little warmer every year.
Democrat Sabotage
If we had been allowed pursue full-out domestic oil and gas drilling over the past 40 years, we would be in a much better position to back off in the middle east. Because we allowed Democrats and Environmentalists to sabotage domestic oil and gas production, we find ourselves scrambling . Our tendency to be everywhere is destroying our economy with excessive government spending.
Securing the Mexican border and deporting illegal immigrants is another issue Democrats blocked. We were incredulous watching Republicans failed to accomplish these tasks.
The EPA has quietly obstructed infrastructure maintenance for decades using the Clean Air Act. It has accelerated its attack to remove our private property rights using the Clean Water Act.
The Community Reinvestment Act and HUD rules forced banks to approve home loans to non-creditworthy loan applicants. The mortgage-backed securities for these bad mortgages caused the 2008 Meltdown and the beginning of our 2nd Great Depression.
Federal Legislation
We were aghast to watch the Congress pass Obama-care without reading it. We were amazed that junk bills routinely filled all Omnibus Bills and Continuing Resolutions. We recognized that Congress needed most of its responsibilities taken away.
The 10th Amendment Movement
It became clear to us that the federal government was incapable of handling their responsibilities in 2008. Our reaction was the Tea Party. We knew that the Judiciary had conspired to interpret the Constitution into oblivion. We knew that the federal government had ruined entire industries by subsidizing and over-regulating them. We noticed that the Constitution and 10th Amendment limited the federal government to exclude the departments that were doing the most harm. The budgets for these unconstitutional departments totaled $1.4 trillion a year. Our simple solution to balance the federal budget is to dissolve these federal departments and transfer these responsibilities to the states.
Ron Paul’s Objective
It’s clear that Ron Paul will continue with the campaign because he sees us hearing his positions, considering them and adopting them. He knows that Newt Gingrich and Ron Santorum will continue to embrace his positions. Whoever embraces the bulk of his positions on core issues is likely to be the conservative nominee. The next question will be if Romney Republicans will rally or go for the conservative argument that the winner must be the exact opposite of Barack Obama.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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