Sadly, competence is not a requirement for the position of Attorney General, as Obama Attorney General Eric Holder proved beyond the shadow of a doubt:

"I think closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban permanent, would be something that would be permitted under Heller," Holder said, referring to the Supreme Court ruling in Washington, D.C. v. Heller, which asserted the Second Amendment as an individual's right to own a weapon.

That someone can be so uninformed and hold the position he does boggles the mind.

The "gun show loophole" is myth. It simply doesn't exist.

According to ignorant people—and sadly, this includes our neophyte President and AG Holder—people can walk into a gun show and face an entirely different set of rules than they would elsewhere.

This is a bald-faced lie.

Whether at his storefront location or at a gun show, a gun dealer must follow the exact same federal laws, which include filling out a form 4473, checking for valid ID, and running a FBI background check.

Private sellers, whether in their homes or at a gun show, do not have to fill out paperwork of any sort or complete a background check.

As for "cop killer" bullets, perhaps the ignoramus in charge of Justice should learn to read. Such bullets have been banned for 21 years. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised as all if these left wing gun confiscation fans in the Obama White House and Pelosi/Reid Congress try to redefine what constitutes "armor-piercing" so that most rifle and pistol bullets fall into that category.

As for assault weapons...

If one was, say, a Constitutional law professor—or even marginally literate—one would note that when the founders created the Bill of Rights and wrote the Second Amendment, they were concerned with making sure that citizens had the right to bear arms suitable for use in the militia. The Second Amendment was not about hunting, nor target shooting, except that those pursuits enhanced the militia's ability to field qualified riflemen for militia service.

Further, what the media and other anti-gun organizations have dubbed "assault weapons" are not actually assault weapons; true AWs are intermediate-caliber, selective-fire weapons, meaning they are capable of automatic fire or single-shots by the manipulation of a selector switch. Contrary to popular belief, automatic weapons, including real assault rifles, have never been illegal in the United States.

There are roughly 240,000 machine guns in civilian hands. Roughly half of those belong to law enforcement agencies, and the other half belong to civilians just like you and me. Just two have ever been used in crime, and one of those was by a corrupt police officer using a department-issued submachine gun to kill an informant.

The firearms Barack Obama and Eric Holder and their anti-Constitutional friends would like to ban are semi-automatic firearms that look identical to commonly-issued military assault rifles, use the same magazines, and fire the same cartridges. The big difference is that these firearms can only fire one shot per trigger pull, just like every other firearm in America.

Being nearly identical to the M14 battle rifle, M16 assault rifle, and M4 carbines issued to our front-line troops, civilian "assault rifles" are precisely the kind of firearms best suited for militia duty. As such, it is only logical that our Founding Fathers would recognize these firearms as precisely those weapons they sought to protect by their function and utility.

The Second Amendment was not written to protect your right to hunt doves or deer. It was not written to protect your right to shoot at paper targets.

The Second Amendment was written so that the militia—codified as all able-bodied men between 17-45—would have ready access to arms suitable for military duty. No firearm in America today fits the definition the Founders intended as well as what Eric Holder and Barack Obama would seek to make illegal.

I suspect, sadly, that they are well aware of this, and they will not let a little thing like the Constitution stand in the way of whatever it is that they desire.

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1 The Second Amendment was written to protect our country from what nObama and his croneys are trying to do to us now!

Posted by: Rich in KC at February 26, 2009 12:21 PM (siQqy)

2 "I suspect, sadly, that they are well aware of this, and they will not let a little thing like the Constitution stand in the way of whatever it is that they desire." You give them way too much credit. They are absolutely clueless, or suffer from a mental disorder. Either way, we're screwed if we don't fight this.

Posted by: EJ Smith at February 26, 2009 01:07 PM (AwOS7)

3 What do Democrats propose to achieve cooperation from criminals?

Posted by: Rick at February 26, 2009 01:41 PM (FWmwx)

4 The Obies are sick of the old rules, even the ones they don't know. Is there any topic, even abortion, that has a greater chance of overturning the Dem House majority than the 2nd Amm? And they are not just tinkering around the edges. They want EVERY Brady Campaign talking point transformed into federal law when possible or policy if not. The Dem legislative majorities rest on a Red to Blue mutation in many districts that is just four years old. Are they so stupid that they think they have been ordained rather than elected? It sure looks that way. These doofs need un-electing and pronto. Your allegedly moderate neighbors are key. They must know of these things. Tell them.

Posted by: megapotamus at February 26, 2009 01:50 PM (LF+qW)

5 "What do Democrats propose to achieve cooperation from criminals?" expect? Criminals got them where they are today... And when law abiding citizens are disarmed, criminals will have a field day. Of course criminals will support a ban on weapons, it will affect everyone except them.

Posted by: J.T. Wenting at February 26, 2009 02:33 PM (hrLyN)

6 It's more symbolism over substance. If they pass an unconstitutional law, and a court overturns it, then they can rally the troops to point out the need to get more liberals in the courts. Holder is simply pandering to their base.

Posted by: MrSpkr at February 27, 2009 03:30 PM (bkUsA)

7 I was speaking to someone that deals with HR and this was their response to holder's talk about Race thing- which just underlines his ignorance as an AG! "And as to AG Holder - the biggest, GIANT thing that jumped out at me about what he said, in regard to "that we should all go into work today and have a frank discussion about race" was HOLY COW! Title 7 (which is actual legislation, something you would think that the AG would know about) specifically prohibits this kind of conversation to be initiated in the workplace, as contributing to a potentially hostile work environment. Although I think it would be interesting to have a frank discussion about race with my friends, I would never, ever broach this as a topic at work. It's illegal. Again, you'd think the AG would know this."

Posted by: Scott at February 27, 2009 06:05 PM (Lj0BN)

8 "Is Eric Holder Too Ignorant to Be Attorney General?" I'll take that as sarcasm as I consider them to be very intelligent and smart in their political maneuverings. Your surmise that they don't care one wit if the Constitution stands between them and where they want to go is accurate. They'll push right on through, take routes to evade it, or change them, as they do with all the other laws, rules or regulations they don't like. After all, that's writing on paper and they know laws, rules and regulations can't fight back, only other people can. Just say no.

Posted by: Dusty at February 28, 2009 08:08 AM (4sMx3)

9 May I add a bit of technical information? Words matter, thus have liberals become “progressives.” There is no such thing as an “assault weapon.” The term is a cynical and deceptive invention of the gun banners whose internal documents long ago revealed their intention to play on the lack of technical knowledge of the general public by trying to turn every firearm that resembles a machinegun into a machinegun. The correct term is “assault rifle,” which describes a class of shoulder fired, gas operated, detachable box magazine fed rifles and carbines which fire an intermediate rifle cartridge, and which are capable of selective (semiautomatic and fully automatic) fire. Such firearms are not available to the general public, only semiautomatic look-alike versions. The media, never known for their knowledge of firearm technology, to say nothing of honesty where firearm issues are concerned, have gladly played along, often using video of machineguns firing to illustrates stories about semiautomatic firearms. Semiautomatic technology is more than a century old. The M14, by the way, is part of a class or firearms properly termed battle rifles. These rifles fire a full power rifle cartridge. The first generation of true battle rifles, such as the Springfield, Mauser and Lee-Enfield were bolt action rifles, but those currently in use, such as the M14, FN-FAL or G3 are shoulder fired, semiautomatic, detachable box magazine fed rifles (not carbines). The M1 Garand was something of a transitional weapon between generations. It is the only widely available rifle that fires from a “clip,” the much misused term for “magazine” (pistols also fire from magazines, not “clips”). While a few of these rifles have been produced in fully automatic versions, the overwhelming majority of battle rifles produced and issued have been semiautomatic only because the cartridges are just too powerful, when fired in a standard weight rifle, to be controllable with fully automatic fire. The much larger and heavier guns developed from battle rifles are properly termed light machine guns. There is also no such thing as “cop killer bullets.” When, more than two decades ago, the gun banners came up with the term (yes, they invented a term, once again, for something that doesn’t exist, just like the “gun show loophole”), their intention was to ban any cartridge capable of penetrating the body armor commonly worn by police officers. This would, of course, encompass virtually all rifle ammunition and some handgun rounds, as well as all truly armor piercing ammunition, which was never the true target of their banning dreams. To thwart them, the NRA worked with Congress to ban actual armor piercing rounds, which ban is still in effect. Only the military and law enforcement may legally possess such specialty ammunition. It should also be noted the the gun banners did not do this out of respect or fondness for the police. Most police officers (most big city police executives excluded) hate gun banners, and the feeling is mutual. Why? Most cops actually support the Constitution, and when the Brady bunch and their pals invented the cop killer bullet controversy, practical, affordable body armor was becoming commonplace among the police, but that fact wasn’t widely known. By publicizing it, the gun banners informed criminals, who began shooting for the heads of cops. Since then, many officers have died from neck and head wounds. I was a cop back then. Many of my compatriots would have loved to have introduced the gun banners to some “cop killer bullets.” Since the ban of these rare rounds, the number of officers injured or killed by actual armor piercing ammunition remains virtually non-existent. Banning “cop killer bullets” is, and always was, a solution in search of a problem. So we have an attorney general who is either a gun banner, and thus a liar, who knows nothing about firearm technology, or both. In either case, he, and many members of the Obama administration, seem blissfully willing to violate theirs oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution.

Posted by: MIke at February 28, 2009 12:16 PM (tCJgQ)

10 Great post Mike. But one correction. "The much larger and heavier guns developed from battle rifles are properly termed light machine guns." A machine gun firing a "full powered" round would be a medium machine gun. A machine gun firing a round intermediate between "full powered" and pistol rounds would be a light machine gun.

Posted by: Matt at March 01, 2009 08:40 AM (rHW2R)

11 Dear Matt: Thanks for the compliment on the post, but by light machinegun, I'm referring to weapons such as the BAR, which fires the same, full-sized 30.06 rifle cartridge as the Springfield and the Garand. Similar weapons have been based on the FN-FAL and variants of the Kalashnikov family. Not true general purpose machineguns such as the M-60, they are all attempts, successful to varying degrees, to provide fully automatic capability with full powered rifle cartridges such as the 30.06, .308, even .303 (the Bren Gun) by increasing the weight and general robustness of battle rifle designs to make the weapons reasonably controllable without the weight and bulk of a general purpose machinegun. MPMG's are the weapon class between light machineguns and heavy machineguns such as the venerable Browning M2. The most common American equivalent is the contemporary SAW, or Squad Automatic Weapon, which is one man portable and fires the .223/5.56mm M-16 family round from a belt, a 200 round battle pack or M-16 magazines. It is merely a continuation of development of light machineguns that use the predominant military rifle cartridge, though certainly not a full powered (battle) rifle cartridge.

Posted by: Mike at March 01, 2009 05:10 PM (tCJgQ)

12 The Second Amendment was not written to protect your right to hunt doves or deer. It was not written to protect your right to shoot at paper targets. The Second Amendment was written so that the militia—codified as all able-bodied men between 17-45—would have ready access to arms suitable for military duty. Sounds as though you'd have no problem with bans on handguns, shotguns, and concealed carry laws which certainly have nothing at all to do with military duty. Sounds good to me. I'm not as sold though on the idea that being an 17-45 male is the equivalent of being in a well trained militia but that may be an argument for another time.

Posted by: Jim at March 02, 2009 02:45 AM (jHMRy)

13 "I'm not as sold though on the idea that being an 17-45 male is the equivalent of being in a well trained militia but that may be an argument for another time." George Mason: "I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." (Elliott, Debates, 425-426) Richard Henry Lee: "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Additional letters from the Federal Farmer, at 169, 178 Back in the 18th century, a "regular" army meant an army that had standard military equipment. So a "well regulated" army was simply one that was "well equipped." It does NOT refer to a professional army. The 17th century folks used the term "STANDING Army" to describe a professional army. THEREFORE, "a well regulated militia" only means a well equipped militia. It does not imply the modern meaning of "regulated," which means controlled or administered by some superior entity. Federal control over the militia comes from other parts of the Constitution, but not from the second amendment.

Posted by: Matt at March 02, 2009 12:18 PM (rHW2R)

14 You sorry rebish crackers.....you will never admit that a Black man is smarter than you......that is your problem. You are so ignorant about the truth...you post stupid stuff on these confed....%^())$## web sites. That only stupid people like you read. An assault rifle is no weapon to be in any man's hand. Then you get upset when your kids are wiped out by one of your nutty brats that you raised with the notion that they are superior to everyone. Grow up....read a book....get understanding....stop being a bigot...white is not right!

Posted by: Auntflossie1 at March 02, 2009 01:41 PM (UYut9)

15 Auntflossie. The only person I see spreading hate or ignorance on this thread is you.

Posted by: Matt at March 02, 2009 03:22 PM (rHW2R)

16 And for the record. This is me. http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/Matt0921/Matt3004.jpg Holy crap, a black man that doesn't agree with Nobama. Oh and here is my wife. http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss57/Matt0921/NATASHA.jpg Yup, thats right. She is of middle eastern background.

Posted by: Matt at March 02, 2009 03:41 PM (rHW2R)

17 George Mason: "I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." (Elliott, Debates, 425-426) Richard Henry Lee: "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Additional letters from the Federal Farmer, at 169, 178 Thanks for the response and the quotes Matt, Founders intent is certainly key here. To be clear I don't believe either Mason or Lee is saying being an adult male means you are a militia. They are saying the well regulated militias should include participation from every adult male. Turning 16 or 17 doesn't make one a trained defender of freedom, it makes you eligible. The Court has been very clear on this, whether I agree or not, and they found an individual right to arms irrespective of the militia wording. I have no problem with that at all, the Court has the final say here and I'm agnostic on the issue. I was really more curious about the argument that military weapons are the only ones that should be protected under the 2nd, and would love to here from the original author if he thinks pistols etc... lack 2nd amendment protection. It's something I had not heard from a gun supported before.

Posted by: Jim at March 02, 2009 06:29 PM (GStBc)

18 "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." Tenche Coxe, Did you miss the part about what they meant by well regulated? Anyway. I must have read something wrong, because I do not believe anyone said that military type arms should be the only ones protected, because every type of arms can be used to defend yourself against a tyrannical government. Though some are better suited for it than others.

Posted by: Matt at March 02, 2009 06:41 PM (rHW2R)

19 Hey Matt the point about military arms in from the original post by Confederate Yankee, here is the part I'm referencing: The Second Amendment was not written to protect your right to hunt doves or deer. It was not written to protect your right to shoot at paper targets. The Second Amendment was written so that the militia—codified as all able-bodied men between 17-45—would have ready access to arms suitable for military duty. No firearm in America today fits the definition the Founders intended as well as what Eric Holder and Barack Obama would seek to make illegal. When I read that it sounds as though he thinks the Founders would rather you and I had access to RPGs than a Glock. Maybe throw in an M1A2 as well.

Posted by: Jim at March 02, 2009 08:34 PM (GStBc)

20 What is the change promised by the annointed one - easy...a chang ein the constitution. These people swear to uphold the constitution, they swear on a bible but lie through their teeth. I see a massive tea party in the works!

Posted by: Patriot61 at March 02, 2009 08:40 PM (6VxJD)

21 Jim, I didn't define what the Founders would prescribe because I can't get in their heads and wouldn't presume to talk for them, but let's go ahead and do that for fun since that is where you seem to want to take the conversation. I suspect that if faced with the array of modern weapons systems and the factors of modern life, they would probably be of a mind that small arms in the form of individual firearms (not crew-served weapons) would probably be the modern equivalent of what they envisioned for the militia. That would mean either the battle rifles and assault rifles carried by the militia in relatively "pure" forms (which would include selective-fire rifles and what we now classify as SBRs), or the reasonably similar semi-automatic copies that are legal under our present laws. It would also cover most handguns and shotguns that might have practical military application, and certainly long-range rifles, including those chambered in .50 BMG. I don't honestly know where they would stand on the idea of individually-portable light machine guns such as SAWs like the M249, and rather doubt they'd be huge fans of rocket-assisted anti-tank weapons and 20mm-25mm anti-material cannons. As for the big stuff--armor, ships, aircraft, etc... clearly not what they had in mine for a militia, and yet a friend of mine legally owns his own Fletcher-class Destroyer (DD-574 John Rodgers), which they probably wouldn't have envisioned either.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at March 02, 2009 09:56 PM (Fe6uK)

22 a friend of mine legally owns his own Fletcher-class Destroyer (DD-574 John Rodgers), which they probably wouldn't have envisioned either. Awesome, any chance he offers charters? Thanks for your response, lot's to think about.

Posted by: Jim at March 02, 2009 10:14 PM (GStBc)

23 Sadly, I can't help you on the charters. It's presently stuck dockside across from a Mexican Naval Base on the Pacific. And I've already called "dibs" on the next big ship he's going after as well. :-)

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at March 02, 2009 10:17 PM (Fe6uK)

24 I can't remember who said it, and I can't seem to find a quote. But essentially one of the framers was asked what arms the people should own. They said those that were not dangerous or unusual. When asked to define dangerous or unusual the framer said something to the effect of. Any weapon a normal soldier would likely be trained to use. As "normal soldiers" are trained in the use of everything from grenades, and medium and light machine guns, then it is likely that crew serves and what not would be viewed as acceptable.

Posted by: Matt at March 03, 2009 08:54 AM (rHW2R)

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We're still fighting a war against radical Islamic terrorism, and it already appears that our inept President has forgotten which side he's supposed to be on.

The Department of Defense's Security Development Plan for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, like the administration's $900 million Gaza aid plan, is directed at the heart of a terrorist haven. But the DoD initiative is directed at curtailing and/or cutting off terrorists from narcotics funding and undermining their stranglehold on and, to the degree that it exists, popular support of the local populations there. An alternative.

The Administration's Gaza reconstruction gift contains none of these counterterrorism dynamics. Not a one. There is but one ultimate distributor in Gaza: Hamas. The Obama administration can claim that "the aid would not go to Hamas but that it would be funneled through nongovernmental organizations," but the fact of the matter remains that the Hamas terrorist organization that dominates Gaza stands to gain from every penny. It most certainly will not be hindered. That equation is nowhere in the calculus.

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President Barack Obama, fresh off the most expensive first month as POTUS in American history, has now tapped Joe Biden to oversee the implementation of the stimulus package.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same Joe Biden that was viewed as being so incompetent that his own Democratic leadership never put him in a single leadership role in a 33-year Senate career that wasn't mandated by seniority?

And now you want him in charge of the most expensive spending plan in history?

Brilliant move, Mr. President.

Let's hope it turns out better than it did the last time.

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Hope. Change. Home Invasions.

A community organization breaks into a foreclosed home in what they are calling an act of civil disobedience.

The group wants to train homeowners facing eviction on peaceful ways they can remain in their homes.

Derek Valcourt reports their actions are not without controversy.

Near Patterson Park, the padlock on the door and the sign in the window tell part of Donna Hanks foreclosure story.

"The mortgage went up $300 in one month," said Hanks, former homeowner.

She says the bank refused to modify her loan and foreclosed, kicking her out of the house in September.

The community group ACORN calls Hanks a victim of predatory lending.

"This is our house now," said Louis Beverly, ACORN.

And on Thursday afternoon, they literally broke the foreclosure padlock right off the front door and then broke into the house, letting Hanks back in for the first time in months.

What a nice little protection racket they've got running. First they bully and cajole lawmakers into rewriting the law so that people can buy homes they can't afford, and when—surprise!—the "victims" are foreclosed upon, ACORN then teaches them to break back in and claim the homes as their own.

I know this is a radical thought, perhaps from a bygone age, but if you can't afford to pay for property, it isn't yours.

These people are at best ignorant and foolish for attempting to buy homes they could never legitimately expect to afford. Now, they seem intent on adding property invasion and squatting to their resumes.

There was evidence of remodeling at the home in this story, suggesting that the home was being made ready for market or was already sold, but thankfully no one was home at the time.

Who is going to take responsibility when ACORN-trained goons go too far, and start "reclaiming" homes that belong to people who have legally purchased a foreclosed home? What happens when ACORN-trained thugs make a mistake, and break into an occupied dwelling and someone gets hurt?

As Rick Moran notes The American Thinker notes, the Obama-trained Marxists goons at ACORN feel such a strong sense of entitlement that they feel justified breaking into someone else's home and taking over someone else's property to "right a wrong" they specifically helped create.

When a group begins to feel they are justified in simply taking what they haven't earned, a society's freedoms become imperiled. This is your handiwork, Mr. President, from a group you promoted, helped finance, and trained.

Somehow, I can't help but wonder if this is precisely what the most famous disciple of Saul Alinsky had in mind.

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1 I love the Obama dagger. Also, remember that ACORN just got 2 billion dollars from the rape-us law to continue their fine work.

Posted by: Mekan at February 20, 2009 04:29 PM (hm8tW)

2 Can't handle a dissenting opinion? I thought you believed in democracy. Turns out I was correct. You SHOULD move to some right-wing autocracy.

Posted by: Faber at February 20, 2009 04:44 PM (gvYR+)

3 I commend groups who are pillaging America's banking and property plutocracy. Screw "property rights" when your right to property includes owning vast tracts of fallow land while there are millions of Americans who would put it to good use. It's all in John Locke, the foundation of Western democracy. Don't like it? Move to some right-wing, autocratic, central-Asian state. I don't want your anti-democratic b.s. in my country.

Posted by: David J. at February 20, 2009 04:51 PM (cmQpZ)

4 If this were Britain, they'd have squatters rights, wouldn't they?

Posted by: Sif at February 20, 2009 10:54 PM (od0G0)

5 A couple of notes, CY. Donna Hanks is an ACORN leader in Baltimore. As for purchasing homes they couldn't afford, this wasn't Hanks case. She bought it in 2001 in cash for $87k and did several re-mortgages until the final one in 2005 for $250K. According to court records, the first foreclosure started the year after, in mid 2006 but that stopped for un-noted reasons. Foreclosure started up again in Feb 2008 and was finalized with eviction in Sept 2008. Here's the NPR story. You can view up the court record summaries here by putting her name in the form. It's the 5th and 6th entries. Hanks had time to avert foreclosure for two years and didn't. She knew she couldn't keep a $1600/mo mortgage on a $2200/mo salary even before it rose to $1900/mo. She did nothing but squat. She should be arrested and prosecuted. The same for her collaborators. What would be interesting to know is if she was with ACORN in 2005 or if she joined later after they preyed on her emotions.

Posted by: Dusty at February 21, 2009 12:50 AM (4sMx3)

6 So, Hanks' problem stemmed from using her once paid off house as a credit card? There goes any sympathy I might have had. As for the ACORNers, when can we expect them to be arrested and prosecuted for breaking and entering?

Posted by: Pablo at February 21, 2009 09:24 AM (yTndK)

7 The Baltimore police were there on Thursday taking fingerprints - I guess the video tape of them cutting the lock and walking through the house wasn't enough. Thought you might be interested in some REAL information related to this foreclosure; Donna Hanks initially purchased her home (315 South Ellwood, Baltimore, MD 21224) on 7/06/2001 for $87,000. At some date between 2001 and 2006 she re-financed the original mortgage for the amount of $270,000 with a mortgage payment of $1,662.00. The FIRST foreclosure on this home was filed 5/31/2006. Donna Hanks filed for bankruptcy 6/16/06 during which a payment plan was approved for the $10,500 she was behind in her payments. This action stopped the original foreclosure. When she did not meet the terms of the bankruptcy re-payment, a second foreclosure action was started in January 2008. At the time she had not made her mortgage payments since September 2007. It should be noted that her salary per the bankruptcy paperwork was $1625 per month and she was working a 2nd and 3rd job (supposedly giving her an additional $1,275 in monthly income - the employers were not listed). Over extended? Also, during 2007 she was renting our her basement illegally (she was taken to court) and receiving rent while she was not making her mortgage payments. The mortgage company "raised" her payment $300 a month - right? Well, not exactly it was $340. The amount that she had agreed to pay back in arrears. Not exactly truthful, but what I would expect from a person with her criminal record (theft and assault 2nd degree and possession of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure). Oh and there is the small matter of breaking and entering. The house at 315 South Ellwood had already been sold at auction on 6/26/08 for $192,000. It just took them until September 2008 to get her out. Nothing like public information - it seems Acorn could have found this same information before they helped this "poor" victimized woman.....................

Posted by: Sherry at February 21, 2009 10:04 AM (yP3rE)

8 I work in bankruptcy and that scenario is all too familiar. No doubt the woman's Chapter 13 was simply dismissed for failure to make payments under the plan and the mtg company sought to complete its foreclosure action. She can't keep a house she can't afford to pay for. And if she refi'd the house she bought for $87K for $270K, where the hell did that money go? ACORN is a pack of thugs and latter day bolsheviks. Screw them.

Posted by: zhombre at February 21, 2009 01:30 PM (cuXMy)

9 Teleprompter Messiah at February 22, 2009 12:46 AM Yeah. I'm thinking the problem wasn't predatory lenders but predatory borrowers.

Posted by: Dusty at February 22, 2009 04:19 AM (4sMx3)

10 Any day now, frenzied Confederate Yankee is going to take his badass gunz and shoot some liberals or maybe some black people. You can tell he's itching for all out war with everyone who voted for Obama (that would be most Americans) though I can't really see him signing up for right wing military duty. After all, he never had the guts to sign up for Iraq. He's an armchair warrior all the way.

Posted by: MacKenna at February 22, 2009 06:31 AM (z697b)

11 Obama and ACORN have set the game up very nicely. You do realize that the only way to resolve this is to get rid of the pesky problem of private property. Home nationalization and state ownership of residential property is right around the corner.

Posted by: HatlessHessian at February 22, 2009 10:09 AM (7r7wy)

12 I am wondering. Things in my area of the South are changing fast. Many people are getting ready for revolution or complete breakdown of the government. What is the situation in your regions? Even Fox seems to be broadcasting programs indicating a breakdown in the next few years.

Posted by: David at February 22, 2009 12:23 PM (g56MD)

13 MacKenna ,,, You should question what comes out of your mouth and from the tip of your pen a little more closely. Confederate Yankee, like most of us who are adult and conservative, doesn't shoot anybody, just because he is irritated at their ignorance. That would be a full-time job in itself. He's far too intelligent for that. You also say that those who voted for Obama would be "most people" in the U.S. Goodness me, young person, since when is 53% of the popular vote "most people" or a landslide, as many liberals call it. If you know anything about math, you know that's a bare majority, not a landslide. My suggestion to you is that you learn to do research, as your teachers and professors should have taught you. And when you've mastered that skill, learn to write clearly and coherently. Yes, you'll have to do that pretty much on your own, since these formerly essential skills are no longer included in the modern scholastic curricula, but persevere. You can do it. Then come back and we'll talk. Marianne Matthews

Posted by: Marianne Matthews at February 22, 2009 02:16 PM (doHlr)

14 This does not bode well. It's the sixties radicals all over again. Oh, wait ...

Posted by: DoorHold at February 22, 2009 02:45 PM (JzCoh)

15 I bought my home from the bank with cash (it was a repo home) I'd just like to ACORN try and "break" into my house to give it back to the old owner. Civil Disobedience is still disobedience, and I'm a Texan, and we've got the right to shoot first and ask questions last.

Posted by: Comrade Tovya at February 22, 2009 03:54 PM (DAaYy)

16 Hi Everybody Kudos goes out to the mods and members on such a great forum! I look forward to sharing and exchanging information with everyone! I have been watching the forum for a while and I just decided to join and participate! My expertise is in lease option / lease purchase homes but, If anyone has any real estate related questions, feel free to tap me. Atlanta Real Estate Agents and Realtors

Posted by: rogyeligo at February 22, 2009 07:26 PM (FCooS)

17 "Loss Mitigation Consultants Gear Up To Make Tons Of Cash From The New Federal Homeowner Bail Out Plan Starting March 4th" http://loanmodifyservice.com - http://loanmodifyservice.com/images/550.jpg If you are interested in starting your own work at home foreclosure business you can check these guys out. They have a fast and easy to understand training course.http://loanmodifyservice.com - http://loanmodifyservice.com/images/lossmitigation.gif

Posted by: inderelazidge at February 23, 2009 01:58 AM (wDJAC)

18 Sherry Great background information. And you bring up an excellent point that has been passed over much too often in the last week--how many of these loans were re-financed to put cash into borrower's pockets? And we are bailing those people out too? BTW, how many of these borrowers are illegal aliens? And how many illegals will be bailed out? Not a question I hear asked. Comrade Ask questions? Someone is breaking into my house, I already have my questions answered.

Posted by: iconoclast at February 23, 2009 05:10 PM (FGCRY)

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I received this via email this morning. I apologize in advance for not knowing who the author is, or knowing if it is particularly accurate, or who has the rights to the images, but found it interesting that it was circulating, and thought I'd share.
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It appears that the manufactured controversy surrounding the Sean Delonas editorial cartoon that used the tabloidesque incident of a chimpanzee mauling a woman in Connecticut as a jumping off point for criticizing the nearly $800 billion Multi-Generational Financial Rape Act—AKA the "stimulus"—has now entered its second day, with New YorkÂ’s blind governor David Patterson chiming in with an opinion about an image he had described to him, but which he cannot see.

Paterson, who had the cartoon described to him during a news conference in Manhattan, said it is incumbent upon Post editors to explain "what the cartoon was intended to portray."

Images of black people portrayed as primates, Paterson said, "do feed a kind of negative and stereotypical way that some people think."

And indeed, if the point of the editorial cartoon was to portray African-Americans as primates, it should be viewed as racist.

But the simple fact of the matter is, as even leftist bomb-thrower Jonathan Chait noted, is that sometimes a monkey is just a monkey.

Unless youÂ’ve been living under a rock during the past week, one of the biggest news stories in the United States today is the horrid real-life tale of Travis the Chimp, a powerful 200-lb. adult male chimpanzee that went berserk in Connecticut, severely mauling his owner's friend before being shot and killed as he attacked police officers responding to desperate cries for help.

The animal shredded the victim's arms—some early accounts claimed he bit off her hands—before biting and ripping off large portions of her face. The owner stabbed the chimpanzee with a butcher knife in an attempt to save her friend, at which point the wounded animal finally broke off his attack.

After the police arrived, the rampaging, blood-soaked primate pinned one officer in his vehicle, and after ripping off the side-view mirror of the police cruiser with his hands, the chimp opened the door to attack the officer. The officer fired on the chimp in self-defense at point-blank range, killing the enraged animal and ending one of the most bizarre and tragic news stories in recent memory.

The vividly imagined aftermath of the attack is the physical event cartoonist Delonas portrayed in his cartoon. In and of itself, the art of the cartoon portrays nothing but a current event, as it shown with this modified version of the image, which shows the cartoon, sans text.

Nor was the text of the cartoon itself in any way racist.

It read, simply:

"They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

The text, of course, refers to the largest single spending bill ever rammed down the throats of American taxpayers under the guise of "stimulating" a U.S. economy languishing in a recession.

The legislation was the handiwork of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, a rich white woman and stereotypical San Francisco limousine liberal who encouraged a team of Democratic Representatives and lobbyists to cobble together a wish list of liberal spending and handouts to loyal contributors and special interest groups—pure, unadulterated "pork." The legislation was thrown together so quickly that few if any, of the Democrats that pushed it through the House of Representatives under Pelosi's leadership read the bill the voted for, nor did any of the Democrats that rejected the bill, which was so poorly written, and so filled with overt graft, patronage, and corruption that it could not attract a single Republican vote.

In the Senate, the House legislation was lightly modified to provide pork-barrel spending that bought the votes of the two Republican Senators from Maine, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter, the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. The legislation passed in the Senate with only the purchased votes of this Republican Senators and without any dissent from Democrats.

The differences between the massive House and Senate bills were hammered between Democrats selected by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, and Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader. Not one single Republican from the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate was allowed to participate in the lobbyist-inspired alchemy that resulted in the final conference bill, which was then rammed through so quickly—and in direct violation of pledges from Democratic leaders—that not one single legislator had a chance to read the Frankenstein's monster of a $787-billion, 1,073-page bill before voting on it in its final form. Unread, and still not entirely understood, it was sent to the President to be signed into law, which he did so Tuesday, also without reading it.

When the art and the text are in its proper context, there is no way any rational person can misconstrue the intent of the cartoon for anything other than what it was; a scathing critique of a stimulus bill so horribly crafted by Congress that it appears it was written by a crazed chimpanzee, a chimpanzee that is now deceased.

Of course, I'm talking about rational people with a reasonable grasp of current events and without a political axe to grind, and not those who are part of a finely-tuned grievance industry in need of a bailout, where everything and anything is "racist," no matter how absurd.

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When your standards are this low to start with, the lying comes easy.

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I don't know who should take the blame for first comparing an American President to the 20th Century's most infamous genocidal fascist, but there is no doubt at all that the odious comparison was perfected by the drones of the far left during George Bush's Presidency, and nowhere was that on display moreso than in the leftist blogosphere.

It is with a great deal of amusement, then, that I see these same angry children up in arms because Michelle Malkin recently took a picture with a guy holding an Obama sign with a swastika in the middle of the "O."

Just. Grow. Up.

"He hit me back!" isn't a valid defense.

If you're going to spend the better part of eight years calling the President a fascist, don't get all up in arms because someone turns your own symbology against you.

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With Judd Gregg back in the Senate and Ted Kennedy back in Florida, the only way the Multi-Generational Financial Rape Act can pass is on the vote of the three turncoat Republicans in the Senate: Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter.

Michael Steele has just taken the reins of the Republican National Committee and must play a simple, direct role in attempting to stop this economy-crippling spending bill. Steele must tell Collins, Snowe, and Specter that if they vote for the stimulus bill, then they will not be supported by the Republican Party in their Senate reelection bids.

Let them provide their own stimulus.

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Barack Obama's choice for Commerce Secretary, Judd Gregg, just withdrew his name from consideration citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the the $789 Billion Multi-Generational Financial Rape Act being pushed by a highly partisan Democratic Congress and supported by the President, along with Obama's naked power grab in attempting to take control of the census:

"Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns. We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy," he said. "Obviously the president requires a team that is fully supportive of all his initiatives."

In referencing the stimulus, Gregg, known as a fiscal conservative, made clear his distaste for the package that his fellow Republicans say is filled with wasteful spending.

Only three Republican senators have supported the spending and tax-cut plan. They were the lone members of their party who pushed a compromise bill expected to cost $789 billion and be on the president's desk in a matter of days.

Gregg was also apparently objecting to the Obama administration's plans for the U.S. Census Bureau director to report to White House senior staff as well as the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau.

Republicans charged that such a move could politicize the once-in-a-decade event.

The outcome of the census has deep political implications, since congressional districts are drawn based on population. Many federal funds are distributed on the basis of population, as well.

Barack Obama has tried to steamroll the American people by using fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) in an attempt to bully a liberal spending bill upon the American people only thinly disguised as a economic plan, and is also attempting to grab control of the Census, which critics cynically suggest Obama will use to redistrict Congressional districts favorably for the Democratic Party, a thuggish stunt that may see the Adminstration sued as a result.

I cannot recall a President showing the level of unbridled arrogance and incompetence we've seen from this President not even one month in office. If he doesn't learn to control his ego, and learn to act as a leader and not a campaigner this current recession may one day be regarded as the high point of one of the most laughably incompetent administrations in history.

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It was never about helping the American people, folks. Never.

If Democrats had wanted a true stimulus to help the economy, they could have easily crafted a bill that both parties would have supported fully for just over $100 billion dollars. Instead, the House and Senate Conference bill is a 1,434 page bloated spending spree costing $798 billion, with even more massive spending in the wings as Democrats will attempt to spend at least that much again on more government bailouts of the financial sector.

While our Easter bunny continues to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) in an attempt to bully the American people into accepting the solution offered by Democrats, the American people are increasing rejecting the pork-filled corruption that is this "stimulus" bill. Further, it is a bill, that like most government intervention, appears to be too little, too late to matter.

History suggests that the worst of the recession may be over, and a rise in retail spending seems to support that possibility. Corporations that have been hard hit are still reporting a curious increase in sales to new customers, and the CBO itself said that without any intervention at all, the economy would correct itself in 2009.

So what does the Democratic Party, firmly in control of the House, Senate, and Presidency, attempt to do? They attempt to rob you blind, paying off left-wing special interest groups with your tax dollars.

No wonder Obama supporters are spending their own money to campaign against this boondoggle.

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are expanding welfare, folks, with with a very clear intention of putting you on it. People dependent on government, embrace government, and Democrats hope if they make enough of you dependent upon them, they'll be in power for decades to come.

Perhaps you'll let them win, and fundamentally change this country into a socialist state, a greater Sweden or France. These are not horrible countries, but they are not the United States.

Americans love their freedom and their independence, and the risk and opportunity that independence brings.

So I have a simple question for you: are you looking to accept this nightmare and become a socialist, or are you still enthralled with the core beliefs of our founding fathers, and not so easily led to slaughter?

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1 There are two reasons for the bill. The first is to fund ACORN and its ilk in their efforts to find imaginary Democratic voters. The second is to transfer large amounts to labor unions that will in turn contribute vast sums to the Democratic Party and its members. It is, in other words, public financing exclusively for Democrats.

Posted by: Ken Hahn at February 12, 2009 01:31 PM (Yk65S)

2 Economist Peter Schiff sums up, accurately I think, how Obama and Pelosi have set us on the road to ruin as a nation--certainly as a superpower. The idiots are now in charge, and we're just along for the ride. Obama likes to use the refrain that he "inherited" this economic crisis. His solution is to worsen it by doubling--perhaps tripling--the debt. The definition of insanity.

Posted by: Just Askin' at February 12, 2009 02:16 PM (esv00)

3 Economist, from what I've read, are saying 2009 is going to be an economic wash with the possible starts of a recovery at the tail end. January markets have predicted the year in 7 of the last 10 years, and markets were down this year. This information is from my daily reading of the Wall Street Journal. Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, was on Morningstar in a video interview. He is no lefty. A true capitalist and unwavering optimist. In his 51 years of investing he's never seen anything like we are currently experiencing. He then went on to say the current climate has only been bested by the Great Depression. I'll trust his word. He knows investing and he knows business. The point is that things ARE in fact bad. Obama isn't making it up. Whether his stimulus package is going to help is a fair debate. The Republican alternative wasn't cheap either. It was a 400 billion dollar bill. There are no sunny options right now, but to claim that the severity of the situation isn't significant is an gross inaccuracy. You are going to need a lot more than a January retail sales report to be convincing.

Posted by: SPW at February 12, 2009 11:33 PM (dL6Y8)

4 On top of the retail sales, the CEOs of the major banks yesterday on Capitol Hill showed puzzlement in regard to TARP II. Since none of them would be seeking additional funds from TARP II (unless the funds were cheap), they had no idea just what Treasury would be doing with the money.

Posted by: Neow at February 13, 2009 12:21 AM (Yozw9)

5 On top of the retail sales, the CEOs of the major banks yesterday on Capitol Hill showed puzzlement in regard to TARP II. Since none of them would be seeking additional funds from TARP II (unless the funds were cheap), they had no idea just what Treasury would be doing with the money.

Posted by: Neo at February 13, 2009 12:22 AM (Yozw9)

6 You mean, a few weeks into Barack Obama's presidency, he stopped the recession????? Clearly, those of us on the right must do something to mess up the economy again. A third war maybe? I vote for an invasion of Mexico. What say you?

Posted by: Herb at February 14, 2009 07:12 AM (zdpq+)

7 Thank goodness we are finally starting to feel the effects of the Hoover Recovery.

Posted by: calling all toasters at February 14, 2009 10:43 AM (OXUt5)

8 I've never really understood why white trash like you don't embrace socielism. You're never going to be rich, after all. Why wouldn't you want free healthcare, a pension, support when you're out of work? Anyway, retail sales rose over December on a seasonally adjusted basis because December was soooo bad. Only you could think it's a cause for cracking out the champagne that things were so bad in December that a truly terrible January is marginally better.

Posted by: Dr Zen at February 15, 2009 02:59 AM (ihOsU)

9 Time to change your diapers, CY...

Posted by: jjcomet at February 15, 2009 12:19 PM (sNkBC)

10 ((((New Retail Spending Figures Suggest Recession May Be Over)))))' hahahahahahahahahahahah~! -->Retail trade sales were up 1.1 percent (±0.7%) from December 2008, but were 11.0 percent (±0.7%) below last year. Gasoline stations sales were down 35.5 percent (±1.5%) from January 2008 and motor vehicle and parts dealers sales were down 22.2 percent (±2.3%) from last year. ____> M3 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS, INVENTORIES, AND ORDERS December 2008 --------------- Released 10:00 A.M. EST February 5, 2009 (M3-2(0 -12) Note: All figures in text are in seasonally adjusted current dollars For Data - (301) 763-4673 For Questions - Chris Savage or Jessica Young (301) 763-4832 Summary New orders for manufactured goods in December, down five consecutive months, decreased $14.8 billion or 3.9 percent to $362.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This was the longest streak of consecutive monthly decreases since the series was first published on a NAICS basis in 1992 and followed a 6.5 percent November decrease. http://www.economicindicators.gov/ ------ There is no bright side to the economy, all signs are that it is going to continue to tank. I see signs that major corporations are going to cut and run with the stimulus money. We can hagle politically , but as i see it. They are all GovCorp and they are all Destroying the country of greed and self indulgence. occasion2b

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Admit it. Your lip twitched into a smile when you read that.

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...that Barack Obama won't be happy until he does to our economy what Chris Brown did to Rihanna.

As if Carter II wasn't causing enough mayhem on his own by spreading FUD about the economy, his Treasury Secretary—that genius who couldn't figure out how to pay his own taxes—just caused the stock market to tumble with a bailout plan investors found woefully inadequate. All the while, a stumbling bumbling, helicopter-head-smacking 44 travels the country, seeking support for a "stimulus" that may cause more long term damage to the economy (and extend the recession) more than doing nothing at all.

It is getting quite farcical, the disjointed cluelessness of our shiny new POTUS. I could almost bring myself to be amused as he implodes his undeserved cult status, but the sad fact remains that he's hell-bent on ill-fitting solutions that are almost certain to wreck the hopes and dreams of the present generation, while saddling the next with undeserved debt.

Yes, many of those who will be hardest hit voted for him. Yes, many of those voted for him did so for the most superficial of reasons. Yes, they do, in some respects, deserve the change they elected.

But nobody should be forced into misery because our last President was a fiscal train-wreck that the new one seems intent on topping in economic ineptitude in his first month in office.

What a sad, sad disaster to watch unfold.

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After listening to yet another doom-and-gloom speech from Barack Obama, I'm starting to think of him as the Easter Bunny President.

Barack Obama: Smooth on the outside, full of stale air on the inside, with no backbone, and a 90% probability of a meltdown under the slightest bit of heat and pressure.

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The Multi-Generational Financial Rape Act of 2009, AKA the "stimulus, bill," has passed in the U.S. Senate.

Congratulations, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid. You deserve all the credit for this bill passing, and I mean that will all sincerity. You own this bill, lock, stock and barrel. All the blame that will thunder down upon you in years to come. All the anger, distrust, and blind hatred that will result from your short-sightness and political greed. You've earned it all.

To their credit, not a single Republican voted for the House version of this toxic pork-laden spending bill, the stench of which was so bad than even 11 conscientious House Democrats could not vote for it

In the Senate, the opportunistic partisanship was equally strong, without a single Democratic Senator having the moral courage to vote against a bill destined to cause long-term economic harm.

As for Hollow Man... well, the bloom came off his proverbial rose far faster than any of us could have anticipated. In just two remarkably bitter weeks, "hope" and "change" was completely abandoned for the cheap theatrical politics of terrorizing the public with threats of impending doom.

President Obama cried of a financial catastrophe if he did not get the special interest pork he desired, irresponsibly undermining consumer confidence as he railed about a second Great Depression that would occur if he did not get his way.

Enjoy your temporary victory while you can Mr. President, for once the true cost is known you will be loved no more.

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I got this parable via email from my father, and it certainly seems to describe what our government is trying to do to Americans today.

A professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The multi-generational financial rape that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and so many members of our Congress are trying to force down our throats—under increasing threats and ever-louder fear-mongering—is a betrayal of the core ideals of our Founding Fathers.

Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin... they did not want a large and powerful government. They went to war against such a monstrosity, one that had strangled them with punitive taxation and oppressive government. The fought tooth and nail for to establish a free republic where Americans could enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Our socialist President and his Democratic Party acolytes are not breaking any laws in trying to ram this $1 trillion dollar of waste down our throats... and wouldn't hold themselves accountable if they were.

As with many tyrannical governments of the past, they're sincere in their belief that encroaching further into our lives—taking a little more liberty, putting up one more fence post at a time—is for our own good.

But power only makes governments hungry for more power, and a point is eventually reached when that strangling power, that encroaching fence, must be put asunder before to envelops those who love liberty and turns them into slaves.

We face a very simple choice here, in early February of 2009, my fellow Americans.

We stop the fencing today.

We stop our government, Republican and Democrat alike, and declare that they will not have their bloated stimulus, this financial rape of our children's future, that dwarfs the costs of the entire Iraq War and Afghan War combined.

We will shout out NO MORE.

Or in the not too distant future, we will face a far darker decision, that of surrendering what little of our freedom that remains to the all powerful government, or sharpening our tusks, and going to war yet again against tyranny. Hopefully, you will act to day and not allow yourself to be led dumbly into that pen. You will stop it, now, before it can successfully be constructed.

There are pig farmers in the White House and Congress that would see you led in captivity so that they may dine on your fatted flesh.

Will you be led to slaughter.

Or will you be free?

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1 I will move to Georgia. The Red States are going to secede. I have no question, myself. It will be good for America - the free America that will be the new nation. If you think about it logically rather than emotionally (in attachment to the 50 state USA), it's a wonderful solution. We can once again be a conservative nation and have free enterprise, prosper, succeed, be free of abortion, homosexual rights legislations, etc. I think of how wonderful it will be to live in a true America again that is like our founders founded. It's a great privilege and honor - one I am looking forward to. From my pov, Obama and his followers are getting into the cage and are the wild pigs. Here's why: without the right - they're going to bear the results of their own leftist policies and foreign relations. They're herding themselves into a prison of their own design. But you and I didn't design it, know better, and want to be free. Good riddance to them. Let's start anew in a new Confederate Yankee nation.

Posted by: l at February 06, 2009 02:32 PM (KquNY)

2 Let Freedom Ring!!!!

Posted by: USMCdaughter1 at February 06, 2009 04:40 PM (mxAK2)

3 Globilization has made many people today simply give up the idea of sucessful competition. Furthermore, they don't want the anxiety of competing. It is easier to say the game is rigged. This massive government intervention cannot be reversed; even more will be called for in years to come as having more than your neighbor morphs into a hate crime.

Posted by: mytralman at February 06, 2009 04:58 PM (26p91)

4 Did you hear that noise? It was the gate slamming behind you. It's too late.

Posted by: Don, the Rebel without a Blog at February 07, 2009 12:38 AM (kMR9P)

5 But eventually the government - any government - will run out of other people's money to pay for the corn...

Posted by: Adriane at February 07, 2009 01:47 AM (W7nzI)

6 Great post! I really enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work. I recently started a new blog that will be highlighting the dangerous advances of the secular progressive movement (pro-gay “rights”, pro-abortion, anti-religious freedoms, etc). We’re looking to build a solid group of conservatives who’ll frequent our site regularly and contribute to some good discussions. The site gets updated daily with breaking news, so you’ll want to check back often, or you can just sign up for our News Feed. If you’ll add us to your blogroll we’ll gladly add you to ours. Our blog is called Religion and Morality. Thanks!

Posted by: Chris Schandevel at February 07, 2009 02:50 AM (tGHYV)

7 This story sounds like the story of "The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp." If you've read it, then you know how the story of the stimulus will end. If not, read it now by googling "wild and free pigs" or read it at www.afn.org/~govern/pigs.html

Posted by: OCBill at February 07, 2009 01:12 PM (gG0Jz)

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In a profoundly dispiriting missive to the Washington Post, Beelzobama, Lord of the Flying Excuse, has issued forth one of the most negative, doom-proclaiming pronouncements ever issued forth from the Oval Office ,The Actions Americans Need.

It is a ledge-walking lament of a false Prophet attempting to extort America into supporting his pursuit of a nakedly partisan ideological agenda.

Barack Obama has put radical orthodoxy over country, and chosen opportunism over leadership. It is, in short, an editorial that deserves to be read and understood so that a trainwreck of a President may be properly mocked and scorned.

The dishonesty begins with the first proverbial stroke of the pen: more...

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In a profoundly dispiriting missive to the Washington Post, Beelzobama, Lord of the Flying Excuse, has issued forth one of the most negative, doom-proclaiming pronouncements ever issued forth from the Oval Office ,The Actions Americans Need.

It is a ledge-walking lament of a false Prophet attempting to extort America into supporting his pursuit of a nakedly partisan ideological agenda.

Barack Obama has put radical orthodoxy over country, and chosen opportunism over leadership. It is, in short, an editorial that deserves to be read and understood so that a trainwreck of a President may be properly mocked and scorned.

The dishonesty begins with the first proverbial stroke of the pen: more...

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In a profoundly dispiriting missive to the Washington Post, Beelzobama, Lord of the Flying Excuse, has issued forth one of the most negative, doom-proclaiming pronouncements ever issued forth from the Oval Office ,The Actions Americans Need.

It is a ledge-walking lament of a false Prophet attempting to extort America into supporting his pursuit of a nakedly partisan ideological agenda.

Barack Obama has put radical orthodoxy over country, and chosen opportunism over leadership. It is, in short, an editorial that deserves to be read and understood so that a trainwreck of a President may be properly mocked and scorned.

The dishonesty begins with the first proverbial stroke of the pen: more...

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