Ron Paul calls on supporters to lobby GOP leadership for no compromise

Rep. Ron Paul has blasted top House Republicans for a lack of leadership, and called on supporters to pressure top GOP officials not to “cut a backroom deal with President Obama.”

In an email sent Thursday evening to supporters of his presidential bid, Paul urged backers to “help [Republican leaders] make up their mind.”

“The Republican congressional leadership is susceptible to our pressure — good old-fashioned grassroots pressure,” Paul wrote. “That’s why I need your help to demand Republican leaders show some backbone and loudly say ‘No!’ to any business as usual, status quo-empowering compromises to raise the debt ceiling.”

“What you and I need is someone who stands for conviction over compromise,” Paul continued.

Paul opposes raising the debt ceiling altogether, voting against the Republican-led Cut, Cap, Balance Act and promising to vote against House Speaker John Boehner’s bill to raise the debt ceiling with spending cuts.

Both he and fellow presidential candidate and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann have promised not to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

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Tea Party traitors

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As I have commented elsewhere:

It does surprise me that he is voting for it, as I believe this is the first thing he has done/said that I’m aware of, that I disagree with.

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It looks like we're going to have the chance to see how serious the Tea Party is about electorally cutting the throats of the politicians that betray it as well as their ability to actually do so:

Freshman Rep. Allen West (R., Fla.), a tea-party star, is under pressure:

"Several Tea Party organizations are working to punish conservative Republicans who plan to vote yes on Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) debt-ceiling proposal. Tea Party leaders announced Thursday that they are targeting Republican Reps. James Lankford (Okla.), Allen West (Fla.), Mike Kelly (Pa.) and Bill Flores (Texas), all four freshmen and declared yes votes for Boehner. . . . West has been particularly vocal in his support of Boehner’s plan, which many consider a surprise endorsement by the Tea Party firebrand not known for falling into line behind his party’s leadership."

In an interview with National Review Online this morning, West was defiant. When asked about whether he is worried about the heat, he looked me straight in the eye, stayed silent, lifted his right hand and brushed off both of his shoulders, Jay-Z style.

“The Taliban targeted me, al-Qaeda targeted me and I’m still alive,” West smiled. He praised Boehner for adjusting the debt-limit bill, calling it a “good move.” The proposal, he said, “does not have tax hikes and is not a clean raise of the debt ceiling. For the first time in the history of the nation, we are having a debt-limit increase with real spending cuts. What more could you want?”

My first thought is that all I wanted was no debt-limit increase period. Increasing the debt ceiling with fake spending cuts - and as we learned from the last go-round, they are fake - serves no purpose whatsoever. My second thought is that it is eminently stupid to place any trust in anyone who runs for office. A politician will always come up with some excuse to rationalize doing what he promised he would not do.

And my third thought is: what an asshole! He's going to strike the tough guy pose contra those who put him in office to stop more government spending? I know nothing else about the guy, don't really care who is in Congress, don't believe the Tea Party will be able to do anything about government spending, and I'd still like to see the Tea Party leave a smoking crater where this guy's career used to be in 2012.

It gets even better. Apparently the real Tea Party hasn't said boo about being betrayed.

"“A press release has been issued claiming Tea Party Nation supports a primary challenge against Allen West. TPN’s name was used without permission. I will be giving a more detailed statement shortly but neither I nor Tea Party Nation supports a primary challenge against Allen West.”

In other words, the Tea Party would appear to be as worthless as the Republican Party.

Reid, McCain, Obama: Shut Up. You Lost

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You're NOT going to get what you want Harry.

You need to read the damned Constitution. ALL REVENUE BILLS MUST ORIGINATE IN THE HOUSE.

YOUR chamber has failed to pass a budget for the last two years. YOUR chamber has repeatedly violated the Constitution by refusing to do so. YOUR chamber is a public disgrace and every last one of you should be removed for violating your oaths of office.

What the House is going to pass today is a bill that will give you a few more months to come to your senses and accept the math: The budget must be balanced.

I know McCain got on the Tee Vee and whined that "this will never happen in the Senate." Fine JOHN. Do you remember 2008? When your campaign advisor and friend Governor Ridge stated to me, in my ear while my picture was being taken with him, that he, and thus your campaign by inference if not in fact, knew damn well that all of this crap-pile related to mortgages and lending was a scam?

I don't forget minutes in time like that. Why did he say that to me? Because a few minutes before I excoriated him and Keating in the meeting room where those of us who paid our campaign contributions got one question each - and mine was why hasn't anyone gone to jail for all this fraud and will McCain change that?

Well, the answer is no, John wouldn't change it. In fact he suspended his campaign to bail out the people he knew were ripping people off.

You want me to reprint my letter to Daucher from that year JOHN? Oh hell - go ahead and read it just so you remember. You were wrong then and you're wrong now.

Screw you Reid and screw you McCain.

The House controls the purse strings. Period. If you don't like that it's just tough crap - that's The Constitution and there isn't a thing you can do about it. The House is saying no more credit - we will live within our means.

Your two choices, and President Obama's, are to either:

• Accept this and live within it. You then have a few months to negotiate exactly how you're going to get there and what mix of tax increases and cuts will take place. Yes, it will suck. Sorry. The math is what it is. See the chart below.
  
  
• Keep playing your damn Senatorial and "Kingship" imperial games. Your time to whine expires Tuesday if you do that, because you cannot force The House to pass anything, and if there's no bill then there's no more debt. Period, end of discussion, full stop, the budget is balanced immediately by default.

Pick one Dingy Harry and the rest of your Senatorial clowncar brigade. Ditto for you Obama. There ain't jack and crap you do about it - these are the facts, and you can either agree to a balanced budget that is negotiated within the next few months or you get one right now.

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 07-28-11

Injustice Everywhere

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Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 28, 2011:

• 5 Fullerton CA police officers are being investigated after witnesses accused them using of excessive force in the brutal beating and tasering death of a homeless man which was partially recorded on video. This came out a couple days ago but it took me a while to make sure I didn’t already have this one recorded in our database. [2] http://ow.ly/1v56RP

• Mt Rainier MD police officer who was voted as cop of the year 2 years in a row and who is now facing a number of charges for the attempted murder of man he allegedly tried to rape is now accused of pistol whipping another man in the back seat of a police cruiser and was accused of a similar sexual assault scheme previously as well. In fact the city also settled two brutality suits against him in recent years as well. [3] http://ow.ly/1v4uOF

• Des Moines IA cop w/questionable history accused of beating handcuffed groom at his own wedding reception [3] http://ow.ly/1v60wj

• US DEA investigator sentenced to 25yrs prison for grooming then sexually abusing 3 boys between 12-16 years of age and videotaping the acts in the child porn case against him. [0] http://ow.ly/1v5Pm2

• La Porte County IN deputy arrested on 8 counts possession of child porn after the sheriff asked for a state investigation into that deputy’s suspicious behavior/ [0] http://ow.ly/1v5tac

• Beaumont TX ISD cop arrested on sexual assault charge for allegedly coercing a drunk woman into having sex with him under threat of arrest while he was working an off-duty security gig. [0] http://ow.ly/1v5t1p

• Berkeley MO cop pleads guilty to statutory rape & sodomy of a 15-year-old girl he knew from a church youth group he helped out with. [0] http://ow.ly/1v5sJL

• Miami-Dade FL cop accused of calling man a “fucking immigrant” before arresting him for driving a stolen car that wasn’t stolen [3] http://ow.ly/1v50gv

• Calgary AB cop convicted on common assault charge for punching drunk driving suspect who grabbed breathalyzer [0] http://ow.ly/1v5UHK

• New York NY police detective suspended after punching lieuteant in face during argument over ticket fixing scandal [0] http://ow.ly/1v5FlB

• Winnfield LA police chief sentenced to 6mo for obstructing federal agents trying to arrest fugitive by inciting a mob against the agents [0] http://ow.ly/1v5W5r

• Dallas TX police forced by judge to rehire cop fired for history of violence, chief vows to keep him off streets [0] http://ow.ly/1v5tke

• Cedar Rapids IA cop arrested on burglary charge for allegedly illegally entering a home and taking two dogs [0] http://ow.ly/1v58iJ

• Denver CO police ordered by judge to stop delaying & release every excessive force complaint record for last 8yrs that were requested by a lawyer. [3] http://ow.ly/1v4MkB

• College Park GA cop fired after admitting to hanging out & doing drugs with members of biker club [0] http://ow.ly/1v5r5b

• College Park GA cop arrested for damaging police cruisers by kicking them in angry fit about administration [0] http://ow.ly/1v5r5b

• Keokuk Co IA sheriff arrested on drunk driving charge during traffic stop, had 2008 boating while drunk conviction [0] http://ow.ly/1v5owt

• Vineland NJ cop who crashed into car, pole & house while drunk off duty suspended until he gets license back in 7mo [0] http://ow.ly/1v4yXF

• Seymour IN cop arrested on drunk driving charge after sideswiping parked car while towing a DARE trailer. If anyone has a picture of this crash, I’d like to have it. [0] http://ow.ly/1v5oYu

That’s it for today, stay safe out there!

Busting Posse Comitatus: Military Cops Arrest Civilians in Florida City

Via Don

Military “crime stoppers” violate Posse Comitatus in Florida. Photo from Homestead ARB website.

In Homestead, Florida, Posse Comitatus is dead. The Air Force now responds to civilian crime in the small city, population around 30,000.

“Here at Homestead Air Reserve Base we have the Crime Stop hotline that allows anyone either on base or off the installation to anonymously report a crime,” explains the Homestead Air Reserve Base website. “If you know of a crime that has been committed, if you see a crime in progress, or if you see a suspicious person, vehicle, or situation that makes you feel a crime may be occurring, call the Security Forces Crime Stop Hotline…”

On July 15, military police – known as Security Forces patrolmen – detained a criminal suspect at a Circle K in until Miami-Dade police arrived.

“Crime prevention is everyone’s responsibility, the better informed we are the safer we can make the installation and the surrounding community,” said t. Juan Lemus, Security Forces Police Services Chief.

Crime prevention off military bases is the responsibility of civilian police, not the military. In 1878, following Reconstruction, the Posse Comitatus Act was passed. It limited the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The statute prohibits Army and Air Force personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

Infowars.com has reported numerous violations of Posse Comitatus since September 11, 2001.

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Islam and Norway X2

REPORTS ON DISCRIMINATION OF ETHNIC NORWEGIANS AND VIOLENCE AND THREATS OF SCHOOL STAFF IN NORWAY…….

The Tundra Tabloids receives a hat tip to the following two stories concerning a Norwegian girl who’s happy to rediscover her identity after having to move away from an area where she was victimized for being an ethnic Norwegian, and about the rise in violence and threats towards employees in Oslo schools.

The situation in Norway is slipping fast from bad to desperate, as everyday people are being forced by their situations to come and speak openly about how dire things actually are. Just this past March the TT reported about a NRK report about how widespread anti-Semitic attitudes were amongst the Muslim immigrant community in Norway.

Teachers would only allow themselves to be interviewed anonymously for fear of their lives. Here are a couple of articles that show just how far the situation in Norway has been allowed to deteriorate. Really shocking.

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Islam and the Fate of Norway

Mike Scruggs

On the front page of the Sunday New York Times of July 24, Norwegian terrorist and mass-murderer Anders Breivik was called “a gun-loving, right-wing, fundamentalist Christian opposed to multiculturalism.” With this mainly false statement, the Times reporter attacked and slandered two of the Times’ favorite enemies: the adherents of traditional Scripture-based Christianity and supporters of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The desired implication was, of course, that conservative Christians, gun-owners, and advocates for limited government and traditional values should take part of the blame for Breivik’s twisted ideology and unspeakable crimes.

Breivik’s 1,500 page manifesto, however, indicates that he doesn’t have a clue about genuine Christianity. He writes in his manifesto and indicates in Internet posts that he is not religious, doubts God’s existence, and does not pray. He is an admirer of Charles Darwin and believes that science should have undisputed authority over religion, which is a crutch for weak people. He candidly admitted that he found no support for his actions in either Catholic or Protestant teachings. Breivik does identify with the cultural Christianity that is a foundational component of European and American civilization. Basically, he identifies with traditional European culture and believes it is being undermined by massive Muslim immigration, which has been encouraged by the Left-Socialist parties in Europe.

Murder, and especially mass murder, is inexcusable in the service of any cause, but that doesn’t mean that many Europeans don’t have some legitimate grievances and frustrations concerning the massive influx and growth of Islam in Europe. They are learning the hard way that the much-touted glories of multiculturalism are fool’s gold.

Multiculturalism insists that all cultural values are equal, so Norwegians and other peoples should not insist on preserving their own culture. They should feel guilty about preserving their culture and gladly give it up.

Just a few months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the first major European leader to stand up and say that multiculturalism was not working and that the German people wanted a German culture. The leaders of Britain, France, Denmark, and the Netherlands have now rejected multiculturalism. Even Sweden is turning to the right. Multiculturalim has been a political and sociological fad for several decades, but its acceptance requires the closing of the mind to observed reality and logic. It is happy-clappy nonsense that many Europeans are now realizing is unaffordable, undesirable, and a serious threat to European cultural and political survival.

Unfortunately, this silly, unrealistic, and logically defective philosophy has now become a totalitarian ideology. Just this year a Norwegian evangelist was arrested while quietly and unobtrusively evangelizing during Independence Day and Gay Pride parades. Hate Speech laws have essentially crushed free speech in Norway except for the multiculturalist left. The Netherlands is now revolting against the demise of free speech, but several years ago even political leaders faced the threat of criminal prosecution for criticizing multiculturalism.

Like Sweden, Norway has seen its crime rate go from near zero to problematic, with rape at the top of the criminal popularity chart. A disproportionate share of this crime wave is attributable to non-Western immigrants. Yet all the pressures of political correctness and the law have silenced any protest. Forty-six percent of Oslo’s welfare recipients are non-Western immigrants and consume 55 percent of the city’s social services budget. Norway is an especially wealthy country because of its North Sea oil reserves. Much of Norway’s welfare budget is funded by a petroleum fund, but the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise estimates that it will be depleted by 2015 unless immigration is drastically reduced. A Norwegian journalist writing in Belgium recently made the statement that there was more free speech in North Korea than in Sweden. This is hyperbole, of course, but the problem is real and just as bad in Norway.

The level of frustration may be higher in Norway. Norwegians see their national retirement and medical care funds being devoured by people who have little identity with or appreciation for Norwegian culture and democracy. They see crime rates soaring. Yet the government is largely ignoring or even denying the problems. Furthermore, the prospects for political change are uphill because of limits to free speech on subjects touching race, religion, and foreign cultures. Christianity is more and more persecuted, while Islam is a sacred cow. Breivik’s atrocity, far from advancing or saving European culture, may have closed the political door to its survival in Norway. I pray not, for I love Norway and her people.

Here is a warning from American history, taken from the minority report of a U.S. Congressional Committee in 1871:

“…when people saw that they had no rights which were respected, no protection from insult, no security, even for their wives and children, and that what little they had saved…was being confiscated by taxation…many of them took the law into their own hands and did deeds of violence which we neither justify or excuse. But all history shows that bad government will make bad citizens.”

White House Caught In a Lie

Lying is routine for the Obama White House as we've seen with the recent debt debate. Many of you believe that Obama lied about his citizenship, and that he is not Constitutionally qualified to serve as President. I’m sure there are also a few of you that think Obama’s citizenship doesn’t matter. Regardless of what you think about the “birther” issue, one thing we can be certain of is that the Obama White House lies.

Earlier this year Liberty Legal Foundation served the White House with some court documents in the Obamacare Class Action lawsuit. These documents were served by certified mail with a return receipt. Normally when certified mail is delivered the recipient signs and dates the return receipt with the postal carrier acting as witness. The return receipt is then returned to the sender of the legal document as proof of service.

Everything is different when dealing with the White House. Unlike certified mail delivery to any other American, return receipts to the President are date stamped by White House staff. The postal carrier is not a witness, so he or she can’t ensure that the correct date is placed on the return receipt.

When Liberty Legal Foundation received its return receipt from the White House on April 11th, it was date stamped by the White House as delivered on May 7th. You read that correctly, a return receipt in our possession on April 11th was date stamped by the White house as delivered a full four weeks AFTER Liberty Legal got the receipt. Unless the President has invented a time machine that he hasn’t told anyone about, the date on this return receipt was impossible. I’ve never received a letter from the future before. I was pretty amazed.

You don’t have to take our word for it. The information age we live in has many wonders. One of which is real-time tracking of mail deliveries by the U.S. Post Office. Once we received our letter from the future we got on-line at the Post Office web site and tracked our certified mail package. According to the U.S. Post Office the White House actually received our certified mail on April 4th.

Giving the White House staff the benefit of the doubt, their date stamp could have been a simple mistake. However, it wasn’t off by exactly a month. It wasn’t off by a single day. Either of these could easily happen by mistake. Other errors could be explained by a believable mistake. But how does a date stamp get “accidentally” set wrong for both the month and the day? Such a mistake is very unlikely.

What makes it even more improbable that it was a mistake was that the Justice department did exactly the same thing, but with different dates. The Justice department received the OCA documents on 4/1/2011 yet the return receipt was date stamped 5/5/2011.

You may be thinking that stamping the wrong date on a return receipt is trivial. Well, it is and it isn’t. It’s true that the world didn’t come to an end. However, the trustworthiness of the U.S. Postal System was damaged. This IS important. The U.S. Postal System is presumed by American courts to be very reliable and even more trustworthy. When a certified mail return receipt is dated and postmarked, it is almost impossible to convince a U.S. court that the date is wrong. This is because of the presumed incorruptibility of the U.S. Postal system.

The Post Office’s reputation has been earned through VERY strict Federal laws with VERY harsh penalties, actively enforced. What do you think will happen to this hard-earned reputation when the leadership of our country blatantly commits mail fraud, with no consequences?

The biggest reason this incident is not trivial is because it was perpetrated by the White House. This particular return receipt, it turns out, is not important. Had all the Defendants committed fraud by stamping the wrong date, they could have set our case back by another 6 weeks. However since most Defendants did not alter the date, this will not determine any important issue in the OCA lawsuit.

But the fact that we have proof that the White House lied is very important. The fact that the White House is willing to place a fraudulent date on a U.S. Post Office document related to a Federal lawsuit proves that the White House will lie about anything. Lying is routine for the Obama Administration. What else have they lied about?

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Pastor John Weaver's Confederate related sermons

He comes to the Sam Davis Youth Camp each year and is a favorite along with one from NC.
Sam Davis Home



Jack Hinson, Confederate Sniper

Little Aleck - Confederate Memorial Day

The Truth About the Confederate Battle Flag

The Revival in the Confederate Armies

William Thomas Overby

Confederate Sacrifices

The Confederate Chaplains

Is The Confederate Flag a Symbol of Hate? Part 1

Is The Confederate Flag a Symbol of Hate? Part 2

Early Failure of the Global System

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It's impossible to fully measure the impact of disruptive attack on a complex system until it actually plays out. Why? There might be hidden negative or positive feedback loops in the system that either dampen or accelerate the initial damage of the disruptive attack. That's the problem with the fight in the US Congress over the debt ceiling. The system that is being upset is soooo complex that we don't have a clue what the damage will be or how much damage has already been done until it plays out.

What we do know is that the financial and economic system that is being disrupted is extremely leveraged. Further, the entire global economy is entirely dependent on massive deficit spending just to avoid another collapse. Which means that nearly any disruption can result in damage far in excess of the original attack. It is also tightly coupled on a global level. This means that any event in Washington can quickly spread to the rest of world in seconds. The best analogy I can think of at the moment is a pilot of an F-16 trying to rewire his cockpit's instrumentation while in a high G turn to evade a bogey on his six. Needless to say, it's unlikely to end well.

The only silver lining I can take from this is that all of the factors causing a slow unwind of the current system have the potential of being accelerated. That's good? Yes, if only for one reason. We're not as bad off as we would be in a couple of years if this current trajectory continued. The problems would only be worse and our ability to recover from them less.

Regardless, take this opportunity to really think about how you can make a living and protect your family in a full blown global economic depression with all of its negative consequences. A six month stockpile of canned/freeze dried goods and two dozen boxes of ammo won't get you through it. You need a real game plan.