How can we fix local Gov'ts when Obama does this?

This is a BIG article, So I'll just quote some of it:
Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs

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Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.

Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.

After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House, helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts.

More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.
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But wait, The White house response:
Carney On Donors Getting Gov't Jobs: "Our Methods Of Transparency Are Unprecedented"
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White House press secretary Jay Carney responds to a report that "loyalists" and top campaign bundlers for President Obama in 2008 were given government jobs.

"People were appointed on the merits," Carney said after several questions about the report.

Carney conceded that donating to Obama's campaign doesn't disqualify you from a job. He then went on to praise the administration's track record of honesty and transparency.

"Our ethical standards are unmatched by any previous administration. Our efforts at transparency are unprecedented. And that's not just me saying it, it is outside groups who have said that," Carney said.
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Remember, the Obama administration's "honesty and transparency" and his compassion and his fiscal responsibility and his respect for our injured soldiers and the press ..... What was that campaign slogan? Hope and Change?


Notice who is stepping on the Constitution in the picture?

Dan Emplit WBFD

Obama is at it AGAIN

My friend ZIPBAGS is catching things that the Main Stream Media (MSM) is giving almost NO attention to.
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Is this guy out of his f-in mind?!? We are having our own budgetary problems. And he is offering money to a country who riots at the retirement age being raised from 60 to 62?

Quote, "President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a "disastrous" default by Greece and pledged U.S. support to help tackle the country's debt crisis."
link...

Oh and on a similar note. This is just unreal.

Quote, "U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job."
link...
from ZIPBAGS
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First about Greece
"A proposal for a second Greek bailout package worth 80 billion to 100 billion euros over three years was taking shape, euro zone sources said."
The exchange rate is roughly $1.46 to 1 Euro. So Obama just pledged 116.8 Billion to 146 Billion dollars (over three years) THAT WE DO NOT HAVE!!!! Aren't we facing another government shutdown??! Plus THREE WARS THAT ARE NOT ENDING and an invasion (in everything but name) of illegal immigrants!! But we can't let Greece handle its own problems.

And the Chinese hookers
Ummm ...., "The research will take place in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.".
When the @%$#* did we (U.S. citizens) become responsible for the health of Chinese hookers?!!!
For that matter, when did hookers and pimps become 'female sex workers' and 'gatekeepers'?!!!
I really wonder if our federal administration is trying to destroy our country!

And here is one that I've been watching closely.
Is the U.N. Trying to Strip Americans’ Second Amendment Rights? and if 'The Blaze' Mainstream enough for you, What about Forbes?
U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms

"Under the guise of a proposed global “Small Arms Treaty”… you can be quite certain that an even more insidious threat is being targeted – our Constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to own and bear arms."

"Bell claims that this international treaty, from the Obama administration’s perspective, is an opportunity to increase domestic gun control. If implemented, he believes it will enforce rougher licensing requirements, more red tape, create an “international gun registry,“ ”confiscate and destroy all ‘unauthorized’ civilian firearms’” and severely impede Americans’ right to bear arms."



Do our 'Leaders' ever bother to read the Bill of Rights?
This is Obama trying to get HIS policy done by using a back door around the Senate and Congress. He has got to GO.

Oh, And as a Navy Vet I object when people say, "Obama Is spending money like a Drunken Sailor". That is not true. We stopped spending money when we ran out of it.

Dan Emplit WBFD

Remember, Obama tried to courtmartial SEALs for a bloody nose!

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Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American sailor, who Obama, just a few weeks ago, was debating on whether or not to PAY, did.

In fact, if you remember a little less than two years ago, his administration actually charged and attempted to court-martial 3 Navy Seals from Seal Team Six, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they had punched him during the take down and bloodied his nose. His administration further commented how brutal they were. The left were calling them Nazi's and Baby Killers.

Now all of a sudden, the very brave men they vilified are now heroes when they make his administration look good in the eyes of the public. Obama just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found the bastard. And our Navy Seals took him (bin Laden) out.

Essentially, Obama only gave an answer. Yes or No, to him being taken out.

This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!"

Ed Schriber
Col. USMC (Ret.)
"Semper Fi"


OBAMA'S OWN WORDS TRAP HIM: He Said:

2008: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team."
2011: "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden."


2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial."
2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden."


2008: " Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated."
2011: "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden."
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Thank you ZIPBAGS for sending this.

Seems, much like our dictator, Obama will flip his position to whatever suits his purpose. (IE the city is bankrupt and in a differant breath, "I have brought prosperity to the city" from his own failed senate campaign)

Dan Emplit WBFD

Obama shows his compassion..... NOT

Obama Walks Away From 9/11 Family Member Who Asks About Investigation of CIA Interrogators

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Debra Burlingame, who lost her pilot brother on 9/11 when his plane crashed into the Pentagon, had a reportedly chilly exchange with President Barack Obama today. During a meeting with a select group of 9/11 families, Obama greeted Burlingame and even hugged her after a few pleasantries.

But when Burlingame asked about Eric Holder’s plan to file criminal charges against CIA interrogators, Obama’s friendly manner allegedly stiffened.

Burlingame asked Obama if he would voice his opinion to Holder on the matter of the investigation of the CIA interrogators. She said, “I know that as a former attorney … you can’t tell the AG what to do in an investigation, but these [the interrogators] are unsung heroes….and they have been exonerated in two justice department investigations. But that didn’t satisfy Eric Holder….Would you, in light of what’s happened, speak to him about standing them [the investigating prosecutors] down?”

Obama allegedly responded that Burlingame is right, that he cannot tell Holder how to conduct his investigation. Burlingame jumped in, saying, yes but “You can give him your opinion, will you do that?”

Obama said, “No I won’t.” And then he allegedly turned and walked away.

Burlingame suggested, “You can do it privately.”

Obama allegedly responded, “No.”
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Video clips of FOX interviews of Burlingame are on the original link.
Gotta love that the Main Stream Media will not tell this story. Maybe he couldn't tell her anything but he could've been more compassionate. But that is not on his agenda.

Dan Emplit WBFD

BillBalsamico.com

It seems that I'm not the only Psychotically patriotic blogger out here.
Bill Balsamico posted this,
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"JUSTICE FINALLY SERVED"
On September 12th 2001 was the first of my signs’ and it read “DON’T STOP UNTIL THE BASTARD IS DEAD”, it was my feeling regarding 9/11.

And now 9 1/2 years later “THE BASTARD IS DEAD” thanks to ALL of our armed forces that pursued this goal since 9/12. When you think about it all service men and women can take pride in this accomplishment. Regardless of where you served- Iraq or Afghanistan- the reason he ended up where he was is because of where YOU where, and he couldn’t roam around freely. And the GRAND FINALE was the GREAT MISSION of the Navy Seals along with the Intelligence that was accumulated. This is why America’s military is the BEST in the world. My hat is off to EVERY SERVICE MAN and WOMEN.

Now with all that being said I am slightly disturbed of the “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” that our government ALWAYS feels it must follow. If I had anything to say about the “BASTARDS” funeral arrangements they would have been as follows:

Make sure you have plenty of pictures of the BULLET HOLE in his head.
Take the cowards body and soak it in PIGS BLOOD and wrap it in bacon and the white garb and dump it in the ocean.
Have the news stations run this as many times PLUS ONE that America viewed the collapse of the towers.
That should be the way America disposes of the trash. The BASTARD is dead but it’s MALIGNANT TUMORS are still alive and SPREADING.
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PS Here is bin Ladens 'last' facebook post,





Thank you, sir.
Dan Emplit WBFD
USN 1986 - 1992

Was it a 'Gutsy decision'?

The decision to kill Osama bin Laden is being called a 'gutsy' one by the main stream media, but was it? What was Obamas choice? To not go? Yeah right, with a high probability of bin Laden being in the compound, Obama HAD NO CHOICE. What would have happened to his 'popularity' when (not IF) it got out that Obama had a very good chance of catching the worlds #1 mass murderer and terrorist but didn't do it? It would have destroyed any chance of his re-election. We won't hear the main stream media point this out, but it is obvious.
Remember, A US military man pulled the trigger, not Obama. Not to long ago they almost didn't get paid. Because of politicians. Obama is a politician and was in the middle of that fiasco.


Dan Emplit WBFD
USN 1986 - 1992

Betty Roccograndi, of Pure Bunkun, has a great point

Pure Bunkum posted "I, I, I, I, I, I "
And I've got to say, rarely do I so completely agree with anyone. It's a good read, make that a must read.



Dan Emplit WBFD

A qoute from a WBFD Captain

A Captain from WBFD said this on facebook (I SHAMELESSLY stole... I mean copied and pasted it here)

"Say a prayer, give thanks, & enjoy knowing the terrorist mastermind who brought about the devastation of Sept 11, 2001 is dead. No matter who you support politically it is a good day for everyone in the United States. The responsibility of any Commander & Chief...Rep or Dem...to give the go ahead on a mission like this & place our special forces in harms way is a responsibility I can never fathom." ~ Captain Christopher Buchanan WBFD

Bin Laden is DEAD.

By now everyone knows that Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is 'feeding the fish'. So I'll just put a bit of what I can decipher out here.

US Navy SEAL DEVGRU unit (SEAL team 6) under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command forces, working with the CIA got a tip that a courier was headed to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (which was only a few hundred yards from the Pakistan Military Academy) and it held a 'person of interest'. After a week of observation, it was discovered that Bin Laden was staying there with his youngest wife and one of his adult sons.

The team practiced the mission multiple times at a secret base in the U.S. before the actual raid took place.

At approximately 1 AM local time the SEALs stormed the compound and engaged the enemy in a firefight. The raid lasted about 40 minutes and about 22 targets (excuse me, people) were killed or captured, including the son of bin Laden, the courier and his brother, as well as one woman (the wife?) who was said was used as human shield. Two other women were injured.

According to reports on May 2, bin Laden's body was handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition and was buried at sea less than a day after his death. The burial at sea took place aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, the flagship of the Carrier Strike Group.

Now everything the US military did was PERFECT. The only thing I have a problem with is the burial at sea. That bastard should have been put in a huge jar, pickled in pig urine and had a 24 hour a day web camera pointed at it. Oh and put up a sign over it saying "This is what the U.S. does to cowards".

And just to 'put the tin foil hat' on, What if he was pronounced dead, but is in our custody instead? I'm thinking of a prison jumpsuit made of bacon. SO COOL.

Hats off to DEVGRU and a truly hearty THANK YOU to the man who pulled the trigger.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!

343 NYFD and 23 NYPD Heroes can rest a little easier.

Dan Emplit WBFD
USN 1986-1992

PS The photo going around the internet of Bin Ladens body is a fake, a composite of a real Gun shot with Bin Laden's lower face. The real photos have NOT been released.

President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012

I think the best part is the unicorn crapping a rainbow at the end.

Dan Emplit WBFD

A European's Warning to America

'The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power.

By DANIEL HANNAN
On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. "Pah!" I replied. "Your president was plainly born in Brussels."

American conservatives have struggled to press the president's policies into a meaningful narrative. Is he a socialist? No, at least not in the sense of wanting the state to own key industries. Is he a straightforward New Deal big spender, in the model of FDR and LBJ? Not exactly.

My guess is that, if anything, Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do. He would say he wants a fairer America, a more tolerant America, a less arrogant America, a more engaged America. When you prize away the cliché, what these phrases amount to are higher taxes, less patriotism, a bigger role for state bureaucracies, and a transfer of sovereignty to global institutions.

He is not pursuing a set of random initiatives but a program of comprehensive Europeanization: European health care, European welfare, European carbon taxes, European day care, European college education, even a European foreign policy, based on engagement with supranational technocracies, nuclear disarmament and a reluctance to deploy forces overseas.

No previous president has offered such uncritical support for European integration. On his very first trip to Europe as president, Mr. Obama declared, "In my view, there is no Old Europe or New Europe. There is a united Europe."

I don't doubt the sincerity of those Americans who want to copy the European model. A few may be snobs who wear their euro-enthusiasm as a badge of sophistication. But most genuinely believe that making their country less American and more like the rest of the world would make it more comfortable and peaceable.

All right, growth would be slower, but the quality of life might improve. All right, taxes would be higher, but workers need no longer fear sickness or unemployment. All right, the U.S. would no longer be the world's superpower, but perhaps that would make it more popular. Is a European future truly so terrible?

Yes. I have been an elected member of the European Parliament for 11 years. I have seen firsthand what the European political model means.

The critical difference between the American and European unions has to do with the location of power. The U.S. was founded on what we might loosely call the Jeffersonian ideal: the notion that decisions should be taken as closely as possible to the people they affect. The European Union was based on precisely the opposite ideal. Article One of its foundational treaty commits its nations to establish "an ever-closer union."

From that distinction, much follows. The U.S. has evolved a series of unique institutions designed to limit the power of the state: recall mechanisms, ballot initiatives, balanced budget rules, open primaries, localism, states' rights, term limits, the direct election of public officials from the sheriff to the school board. The EU places supreme power in the hands of 27 unelected Commissioners invulnerable to public opinion.

The will of the people is generally seen by Eurocrats as an obstacle to overcome, not a reason to change direction. When France, the Netherlands and Ireland voted against the European Constitution, the referendum results were swatted aside and the document adopted regardless. For, in Brussels, the ruling doctrine—that the nation-state must be transcended—is seen as more important than freedom, democracy or the rule of law.

This doctrine has had several malign consequences. For example, it has made the assimilation of immigrants far more difficult. Whereas the U.S. is based around the idea that anyone who buys into American values can become American, the EU clings to the notion that national identities are anachronistic and dangerous. Unsurprisingly, some newcomers, finding their adopted countries scorned, have turned to other, less apologetic identities.

The single worst aspect of Europeanization is its impact on the economy. Many Americans, and many Europeans, have a collective memory of how Europe managed to combine economic growth with social justice. Like most folk memories, the idea of a European economic miracle has some basis in fact. Between 1945 and 1974, Western Europe did outperform the U.S. Europe happened to enjoy perfect conditions for rapid growth. Infrastructure had been destroyed during the war, but an educated, industrious and disciplined work force remained.

Human nature being what it is, few European leaders attributed their success to the fact that they were recovering from an artificial low. They convinced themselves, rather, that they were responsible for their countries' growth rates. Their genius, they thought, lay in having hit upon a European "third way" between the excesses of American capitalism and the totalitarianism of Soviet communism.

We can now see where that road leads: to burgeoning bureaucracy, more spending, higher taxes, slower growth and rising unemployment. But an entire political class has grown up believing not just in the economic superiority of euro-corporatism but in its moral superiority. After all, if the American system were better—if people could thrive without government supervision—there would be less need for politicians. As Upton Sinclair once observed, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."

Nonetheless, the economic data are pitilessly clear. For the past 40 years, Europeans have fallen further and further behind Americans in their standard of living. Europe also has become accustomed to a high level of structural unemployment. Only now, as the U.S. applies a European-style economic strategy based on fiscal stimulus, nationalization, bailouts, quantitative easing and the regulation of private-sector remuneration, has the rate of unemployment in the U.S. leaped to European levels.

Why is a European politician urging America to avoid Europeanization? As a Briton, I see the American republic as a repository of our traditional freedoms. The doctrines rooted in the common law, in the Magna Carta, and in the Bill of Rights found their fullest and most sublime expression in the old courthouse of Philadelphia. Britain, as a result of its unhappy membership in the European Union, has now surrendered a large part of its birthright. But our freedoms live on in America.

Which brings me to my country's present tragedy. The fears that the American patriot leaders had about a Hanoverian tyranny were exaggerated. The United Kingdom did not develop into an absolutist state. Power continued to pass from the Crown to the House of Commons.

Until now. Nearly two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the grievances it adumbrated are belatedly coming true. Colossal sums are being commandeered by the government in order to fund bailouts and nationalizations without any proper parliamentary authorization. Legislation happens increasingly through what are called standing orders, a device that allows ministers to make laws without parliamentary consent—often for the purpose of implementing EU standards.

How aptly the British people might today apply the ringing phrases of the Declaration of Independence against their own rulers, who have "combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws."

So you can imagine how I feel when I see the U.S. making the same mistakes that Britain has made: expanding its government, regulating private commerce, centralizing its jurisdiction, breaking the link between taxation and representation, abandoning its sovereignty.

You deserve better, cousins. And we expect better.

Mr. Hannan is a member of the European Parliament. This essay is adapted from the Encounter Books Broadside, "Why America Must Not Follow Europe."

DANIEL HANNAN'


One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project ~ Ronald Reagan

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~ Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" ~ Benjamin Franklin

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery" ~ Winston Churchill

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free." ~ Goethe

"We should all rise up, and we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're destroying this country. They’re driving us into bankruptcy so that they can impose socialism on us, and that’s exactly what they’re doing, and I’m sick and damn tired of it and I know you are too." ~ R. Lee Ermey

"When too much power is concentrated in one person, the government loses touch with the citizens they are there to serve." ~ Me

Dan Emplit WBFD

Do we live in America?

On Dec. 29th a 'Truther' public access news crew for KITV was acosted by Secret Service and Honolulu Police. What for? For trying to get pictures and/or video of our President while he was on vacation. They were turned away and so they left, without incident. Remember, left without incident. The exact phrase on the recording was,“We just wanted to get a glimpse of you but we're moving on because this is a private street and we don't want to make anybody nervous. Aloha!”.
They were then followed by the Secret Service and police. “Behind us we have the Secret Service following us now so this is kind of exciting.”
Exciting turned to scary after they pulled into a gas station. On their video, a police officer approached the car and said, “Stay in the car. Put that camera off of me.” First off, that should have been a HUGE warning. Police vehicles and up to five officers surrounded the car, demanded IDs and registration without explanation. Now as I understand it, this is a violation of the Fourth Amendment (Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures). Then an officer reached out and forcefully took the camera (Assault?), “He grabbed it out of my hand and then he slammed it on top of the car,” Jones said. She said the camera was damaged – the automatic lens cover no longer worked. A violation of the 14th amendment (When a government harms a person, without following the exact course of the law, then that is a due process violation which offends the rule of law.)
Jones’ fingers were gashed by the sharp edge on the camera mount. The officer then appologized, gave his Badge number, and instructed her how to make a complaint (admission of guilt?). However, Kane said other officers on the scene would not let them make a criminal complaint against the officer who grabbed the camera.
Asked if it was legal for police officers to stop someone from videotaping an officer in a public place, the department said citizens are allowed to video in public places. All this with the Secret Service about 10 feet away!!!
Who are these People? The SS? The KGB? This should NEVER happen in the US! If George W Bush had been president and this happened, it would have been on the National news for weeks!!! I understand the need for security and to protect the President, But I also know:
1 “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” - Benjamin Franklin
2 "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." ~ Andrew Jackson
3 "Our liberty depends on the freedom of speach and the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Dan Emplit WBFD