OBAMA'S "CZARS"

This information is truly scary. Frightening. I fear for the future of our country.

The following list came through email in some unknown table form. I had to do a lot of reformatting and cleaning up. Blame me for the typos.

The List of Czars and Their, Incompetence, Racism, and Hate for all Things American

The following list of government Czars, appointed officials that do not need Senate confirmation, is astounding. First, I never knew we had so darn many of them. Second, I didn’t know most were racists, communists, and anti-American. Third, notice how many of them are Czars for areas in which they have no education, expertise, or experience. Obama appoints people much like himself!

Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan Czar - Ultra liberal anti-gun. Pro- abortion and legal drug use.

Ed Montgomery, Auto recovery Czar - Black radical anti-business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ. of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.

Jeffrey Crowley, AIDS Czar - Homosexual. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and Special Status, including free health care for gays.

Alan Bersin, Border Czar - Former failed superintendent of San Diego. Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno - to keep borders open to illegal.

David J. Hayes, California Water Czar - Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, "Progress Policy". No training or experience in water management.

Ron Bloom, Car Czar - Auto Union worker. Anti business & anti-nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?

Dennis Ross, Central Region Czar - Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti-gun and pro-abortion.

Lynn Rosenthal, Domestic Violence Czar - Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration.

Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar - Devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of drugs

Carol Browner, Energy and Environment Czar - Political radical and former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership. SOCIALIST on Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

Joshua DuBois, Faith Based Czar - Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism-seek a separate black nation. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.

Cameron Davis, Great Lakes Czar - Chicago radical anti-business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for "Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink." No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member.

Van Jones, Green Jobs Czar (since resigned). - Black activist Member of American Communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said George Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. MARXIST, said whites are poisoning blacks, said transformation from "suicidal gray capitalism to eco-capitalism to the complete redistribution of wealth." Black activist with strong anti-white views.

Daniel Fried, Guantanamo Closure Czar - Rights activist for foreign terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, Health Czar - Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.

Vivek Kundra, Information Czar - born in New Delhi, India. Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Might monitor all private Internet emails.

Todd Stern, International Climate Czar - Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for global warming.

Dennis Blair, Intelligence Czar - Ret. Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as "provocative". Chair of ultra-liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.

George Mitchell, Mideast Peace Czar - Former Senator from Maine, left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into "2 or 3 " smaller more manageable plots". Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro-homosexual.

Kenneth Feinberg, Pay Czar - Chief of Staff to Ted Kennedy. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs.

Cass Sunstein, Regulatory Czar - Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the "common good". Rules against personal freedoms many times -like private gun ownership. Says animals should be able to sue people. Anti-hunting..

John Holdren, Science Czar - Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, anti-business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training. OK to abort a child until the age of two. Thinks trees should be able to sue humans.

Earl Devaney, Stimulus Accountability Czar - spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico.

J. Scott Gration, Sudan Czar - Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations.

Herb Allison, TARP Czar - Fannie May CEO major responsibility for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.

John Brennan, Terrorism Czar - Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or government affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military.

Aneesh Chopra, Technology Czar - No technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti-doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Government health care plan.

Adolfo Carrion Jr., Urban Affairs Czar - Puerto Rican. Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America. Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes to pay for minority housing and health care

Ashton Carter, Weapons Czar - Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America.

Gary Samore, WMD Policy Czar - Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy".

And the best for last

Kevin Jennings, Safe Schools Czar - As a teacher, when a 15 year old said he was having sex with an older man, instead of turning in the man-the law requires this for a teacher, he asked how it was going and suggested they use condoms. Wrote the intro to the book, "Queering Elementary Education." Has repeatedly praised and claims to be inspired by Harry Hay, early supporter of NAMBLA, North American Man Boy Love Association.


What Does All this Mean?

First, it means that we have a shadow government dedicated to destroy all the things that made America great. They are a motley and disgusting group of communists, socialists, racists, anti-Americans, crooks, and pedophiles.

Second, one must ask the questions: Why is Obama surrounding himself with such a horrible shadow government? What are his plans? What form of government will America have if these people move from the shadows to government officials with more formal duties, and more powerful positions? I think America is in trouble, deep trouble.

Please Stop Newt Gingrich, We Don't Need a RINO President

Help!

Before we let another RINO get elected and continue the Obama programs, we need to stop Newt Gingrich’s campaign for president. He has endorsed the global warming alarmists, aligned himself with Pelosi and Sharpton, and the Obama Administration’s Dept. of Education. Mercy, give us strength; we don’t need the discredited dregs on the far left of the Republican Party.

Most people in America identify themselves as conservatives. Newt is so far left of the mainstream that he might as well join the Obama Administration as some sort of Czar. Perhaps he could puff his pompadour hair style a little more and replace the Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings.

Here is a quote from Newt the RINO from the LA Times via Drudge. source.

Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we'll decide, if there's a requirement as citizens that we run, I suspect we probably will. And if there's not a requirement, if other people have filled the vaccum, I suspect we won't.

Gingrich ran through a lengthy list of other possible Republican suspects, praising Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour and Tim Pawlenty and whats-her-name with the new book and the Nov. 16 appointment with Oprah. Gingrich said, "I have no great personal ambition needs to run for president."

If there is anything you can do from letters to his web site here. asking him not to run, to letters to the GOP leadership, to donations to conservatives such as Sarah Palin, please do something to stop Newt.

By the way, isn’t a newt some kind of slimy salamander or something that doesn’t like the light of day? No wonder he gets along so well with Paloosy and Shrimpton.

Illegal Aliens, Losing American Sovereignty, and Invasion by the Most Violent Drug Cartel in the World

Background

Federal agents announced that they have finally made their first serious move against the Mexican drug cartels dominating crime in much of America. As we will see, it is too little, too late. The raids stretched from San Diego to Boston and Seattle to Tampa. Logically, many of the raids were clustered in two Border States, California, and Texas.

Curiously, there were none in the other two Border States, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Since Arizona is by far the most important smuggling route and its capitol, Phoenix is second only to Mexico City in drug related kidnappings, this is indeed strange. It makes me suspicious that these raids were not intended to cripple the drug cartels, but to show some enforcement before Obama’s push for amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens and drug cartel criminals. Like everything about Obama and his corrupt government, it’s a sham. But it’s a sham that may bring millions of new Democrat voters into America. Can you say “One Party System”?

Here are some details of the big raids.

National Drug Raid Nets 300
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., federal officials on Thursday announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across the country aimed at the newest and most violent cartel.

La Familia has earned a reputation for dominating the methamphetamine trade and displaying graphic violence, including beheadings. U.S. officials said the cartel, based in the state of Michoacan, in southwestern Mexico, has a vast network pumping drugs throughout the United States, specializing in methamphetamine. source.

Please read the entire article to gain an appreciation of the significance of Mexican drug cartel takeovers in the US.

Why Did This Happen?

We haven’t had a conservative, patriotic, and loyal American Supreme Court since President Eisenhower appointed the turncoat Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States in 1953. That turncoat (he promised to be a conservative and turned liberal as soon as confirmed); was what today we would call a RINO. We haven’t had a conservative, patriotic, and loyal American president since Ronald Reagan. And, I cannot recall a conservative, loyal American, and patriotic Congress.

President Bush I was deeply involved with corrupt Mexican politicians through oil. President Clinton was liberal, dishonest, and morally bankrupt. Bush II showed early promise after 9/11 but never vetoed a significant spending bill leading the way for the financial meltdown. Incidentally, he also removed the down payment requirement for purchase of a house under the socialist Community Reinvestment Act which together with the act itself (thank Carter), and Clintons’ removal of financial requirements to qualify for a housing loan led to the housing collapse. Meanwhile, Bush II destroyed the Republican Party over his open border and amnesty attempts which led to massive illegal invasion of the United States. Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II share a major responsibility for making the election of the radical Obama possible.

While all this was happening, the border remained wide open to illegal immigrants and the accompanying drug smugglers. The Democrats welcomed the invasion because they knew someday these millions of Mexican peasants would join the dependency class and block-vote Democrat. Finally, naïve but ignorant and unpatriotic Americans favored illegal immigration for cheap labor and because it was only happening in the Southwest; they didn’t take the threat personally. Those opposing illegal immigration, drug smugglers, the invasion of America, and the loss of much of our sovereignty were squashed by the national political leadership and belittled by the naïve citizens and the RINOs.

By the time the Feds recognized the need to stage national raids, the war had been lost. They may keep fighting the battle, but the war is lost, the illegal Mexicans and the vicious drug cartels they brought with them are permanently entrenched in America.

Worse than that, it appears the “Big Raids” were a sham to further Obama’s attempt to grant amnesty and citizenship to the 20-40 million of these invaders. Imagine enough new Democrat voters to guarantee the Democrats control of America forever.

Friday Night and Time to Party

These are world champion dancers from contests in Europe.
Enjoy!

Everyone Has Healthcare, Not Everyone has Health Insurance

Here are bold, but true statements.

Everyone who wants health care in America can have it!
Not having health insurance does not mean you do not have healthcare!

1) It is federal law that a hospital emergency room cannot turn you away
2) Most illegal aliens get their health care this way-everything from routine to emergency care, and ACLU, La Raza, etc. make damn sure no one asks any questions in the emergency room (lawsuit time if they do)
3) All the homeless can also get health care at emergency rooms. Many, when broke or it's cold/hot outside will call 911 and get a free bed & meal for the night
4) Anyone at the poverty level or below gets free health care from state welfare agencies, sometimes money from the states, but mostly funded by the federal government. For example, in California it's Medi-Cal. Money and programs are also directly available from the federal government
5) Children of families of up to 3 times the poverty rate are covered by SCHIP (up to ~$80,000 for a family of 4 because some other welfare benefits are not counted)
6) Medicare for people who worked and are 65 and over
7) Medicaid for those who didn’t and for disabled
8) If you are over the poverty level, you can afford health insurance if it’s a priority to you, so both health insurance and health care are available IF you choose to have it
9) Veterans get health care
10) Indian Health Service for the tribes
11) Everyone who calls 911 is helped onsite or shipped to a hospital, free if you are of the dependency class, insurance otherwise; no one can be refused
12) Colleges and universities usually have some sort of student health service partly paid by tuition, the rest by taxpayers

In addition to the above list, I am sure most people can think of other direct health care or health care related services. There are private charities (some get public funds directly, all get tax breaks so taxpayers are paying a part in addition to the donors) which also help with health care.

Now as to uninsured statistics, they are very deceiving. The “uninsured” include many people from the above list. If you change jobs and are without health insurance for even one day, you are included for the entire year. And, many who can afford health insurance, especially the young and healthy, take the risk that they won’t need it and spend their money on other things. There is also the liberals’ trick of equating health insurance and “affordable” health insurance. Again, affordability for health care is all about priorities just as are restaurant meals, movies, cars, vacations, tobacco, alcohol, fancy clothes, recreational drugs, “bling-bling”, wide screen TV’s, etc., etc. Depending upon your preferences and wants, some or all of these things are affordable or not.

Who Pays

As with every other social program in America, taxpayers carry most of the load for health care. That one fourth of you out there paying income taxes are paying for your health care and that of up to 3 other people. I say up to 3 other people because some health care is paid for by government borrowing, so it will be your income tax paying children and grandchildren who will pay for any of the 3 other people you don’t pay for already.

The income taxpayers in America are already way, way overburdened and there are limits before things collapse. Socialized health care will bust the backs of taxpayers and bring the entire health care system crashing down. Then, many will learn the true meaning of “affordable”.

We need much less government involvement in healthcare and our long term goals ought to be gradual reductions with an eventual end to federal government involvement.

Why Socialized Health Care Always Fails

On a personal note, I have traveled in many countries with nationalized health care and all are dismal failures with far inferior health services to what we already enjoy. I have personally witnessed the failure of nationalized health care in the Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. I lived in Australia for a while and here is how it “worked” there. Everyone who paid taxes paid dearly for nationalized health care and it was horrible: rationed, long waits, outdated technology, poor doctors, and poor facilities. Those that worked and had to pay taxes for nationalized health care could pay extra for private health insurance. The bright side in all these countries but the UK is that private health insurance and private doctors, nurses, etc. were allowed. In the UK national health care is compulsory and (called public payer in our debates) one cannot have private health insurance or private health care.

Why does government run health care always fail? Like all government services those receiving it somehow think federal money is free. Witness all the pork your local congressional elite bring home. Free federal money for their home state. (Aside: As Chrysler, GM, and many banks found out, federal money is not free).

With “free” federal health care the demand always out paces the supply. People will go get care for free service for things that they would never get if they had to pay for all or part of it. So demand grows. And, now with the government running health care, the bureaucracy, and number of union employees, explode and consume vast amounts of the health care budget. As always in huge government programs, efficiency is much less than provided by the private sector. So exploding demand, exploding overhead, and inefficiency make the taxpayers’ cost skyrocket. Health care continues to gobble up more and more of the federal budget so that other services such as national defense shrink. Still costs rise until a limit is approached. Then, health care rationing kicks in with unbelievable cruel, inexplicable, and horrible schemes. Old people are restricted in what expensive procedures they can receive; people diagnosed with deadly diseases which have high cure rates if treated early may wait months or years until it is too late. Or, the latest life saving technology may be unavailable because of its costs. And of course, medical education, research on new procedures, equipment, and drugs is drastically cut so the long-term prognoses for improving health care are not good. All this results in a “brain drain” of the smartest and most highly qualified doctors to other countries (up until now it was mainly the USA).

We Don’t Need Socialized Health Care-It is a Scam

America has the best health care in the world, it is universally available, and we do not need more government in our health care system—we need much less government in our health care. We need much less government involvement in healthcare and our long term goals ought to be gradual reductions with an eventual end to federal government involvement.

Improvements We Do Need to Slash HealthCare Costs

One of the largest costs in American medicine is called “defensive medicine” or “lawsuit risk management”. This means doctors, hospitals, drug companies, medical equipment companies, and others must set aside huge amounts of money to guard against frivolous and excessive lawsuit awards. These set asides for the bottom feeding lawyers add $billions to $trillions to your health and health insurance costs.

We need tort reforms with limits on attorney’s share from medical related lawsuits. Perhaps 10% or less of the actual damage award and none of the punitive damages would be more than fair and prevent the bottom feeders from seeking such huge jury awards. This should include all class action suits as well.

We need to eliminate overlapping payments and programs and election year handouts. These include the SCHIP program (already covered by Medicaid, Social Security, etc.) and the “Seniors Prescription Drug Plan”.

Finally, Social Security should be means tested so that payments are not made to those above 3 times the poverty level and Medicare should be voluntary—if retired persons can get cheaper and better private insurance they should be allowed to do it.

No One’s Getting Fat Except Government

"The way academic life should be" source.

National unemployment is now at about 10% and there are over 9 million people “involuntarily” working part time. source.

But not everyone is suffering. The 2008-2009 budget of the University of Arizona was $1,737,100,000. or about $1.7 billion. About 50% of this comes from state and federal taxpayers, about 20% from student tuition, and the other 30% from all other sources. source.

We shouldn't just talk about the University of Arizona receiving $50% of their funds directly from state and federal taxpayers that is comparable to its tax exemption subsidy. Suppose this institution was taxed like a working taxpayer or a tax paying corporation. The U of A’s land, buildings, and sophisticated machinery, equipment, and facilities are worth $billions. Supposed they paid state and federal income tax, state, and county property taxes, capital gains taxes, etc. etc. The taxes could easily run up to half its annual income or some $870 million per year, and this goes on forever. The tax exemptions plus the direct taxpayer funding of about $870 million is some $1.7 billion per year.

So given this incredible pubic largess and its huge burden how does the University spend its money. The answer is, not well. They have gone too far.

There are taxpayer funded academic junkets every year to luxury hotels in places such as Hawaii, California, and Arizona. Here is a link to the site advertising one of its annual conferences. source.

Notice the nude woman and the caption "The way academic life should be". Then, scroll down and read about their past junkets, wine tasting parties, and conferences bacchanalian enough to make even our Congress jealous.

It is time for real and significant tax cuts and significant shrinkage of government at all levels. These people living on the backs of taxpayers have gone too far.

Finally, remember that there are thousands of colleges and universities in the US and they all live off public funding, even the private ones. Many are like the University of Arizona and they have a duty to be frugal and careful in the way they spend the public’s money. They are putting selfishness and bacchanalianism before duty.

Next Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Nominees Favored to Win

Journalists in Norway and the NYT have leaked information on the leading Nobel Peace Prize nominees for 2011. There is broad support throughout the Left in America, the major tyrannies in the Mideast, and at the UN for these candidates.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
Citation: For showing humanity the way to a new high protein diet, introducing immigrant boys to a new and exciting alternative life style, and thereby helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and global warming through reducing the need for high- flatulence livestock.

Brief Biography

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys – most of whom were of African or Asian descent – between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by fellow Columbia Correctional Institution inmate Christopher Scarver with a bar from a weight machine while on work detail in the prison gym. source.

Osama bin Laden
Citation: For bridging the gap between the magnificent Muslim culture and the western economic leaders in New York, London, and Spain, and thereby forever forming a permanent bond of understanding and trust between East and West.

Brief Biography

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (with numerous variations; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʾAwaḍ bin Lādin) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and one of the founders of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the United States and its associations with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian targets. Bin Laden is on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. source.

Charles Manson
Citation: As one of the earliest community organizers for his contributions to peace and harmony between the races.

Brief Biography

Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi -commune that arose in California in the late 1960s.[1][2][3] He was convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders, carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was found guilty of the murders themselves through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's object.[4][5]
Manson is associated with "Helter Skelter," the term he took from the Beatles song of that name and construed as an apocalyptic race war the murders were putatively intended to precipitate. This connection with rock music linked him, from the beginning of his notoriety, with pop culture, in which he became an emblem of insanity, violence, and the macabre. Ultimately, the term was used as the title of the book prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote about the Manson murders. source.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the resulting celebrations are predicted to be among the most popular in history, perhaps as popular as the celebrations for the 2010 recipient.

Is Obama a Beta Male and Ruled by His Alpha Male Handlers and Advisors?

The concepts of Alpha Male and weaker and less courageous Beta Males are familiar to most of us. The evidence that Obama is a Beta male and always has been is very strong.

Here is an interesting article raising the issue.

October 05, 2009
Did We Elect a Beta Male As President?
By Greg Lewis

We're all somewhat familiar with the body language dogs display when they greet each other. The dominant alpha male approaches directly, asserting his authority, while the beta male genuflects, crouches, tucks his tail, and may even end up on his back, exposing his neck in acquiescence, making sure the alpha male knows he has no intention of challenging him. With his "we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist" opening to the world's dictators, the President is exhibiting classic beta male behavior, in essence rolling over on his back and exposing his throat to them to make sure they know he has no intention of challenging their authority.

Of course, the problem is that he's not simply exposing his throat, he's exposing America's collective throat, sending the message that he's a typical beta male intent on submitting to all the alpha male leaders around the world, and damn the consequences. His response to the discovery of Iran's newest, and heretofore "secret," nuclear facility was, as Daniel Henninger (Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2009) points out, to have our State Department offer to start a direct dialogue with the tyrannical Burmese regime.

The Obama administration has also offered conciliatory gestures to the genocidal Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and it has dispatched none other than John Kerry to meet with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. This, of course, is not to mention his somewhat more visible overtures to the world's alpha male thugs: Obama has consorted jovially with Hugo Chavez and his counterpart Daniel Ortega, he's bowed down to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he's agreed to halt plans to install a missile defense system in eastern Europe to placate Vladimir Putin, and he's offered the aforementioned hand to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite the latter's expressed unwillingness to even agree to acknowledge the truly important issue of Iran's nuclear weapons in our talks, all quintessential beta male behaviors. source.

Lack of Strong father Figures and Influence of a Child Molester in Obama’s Background

Obama and the disturbing influence of Frank Marshall Davis
Much has been written about the fact that Frank Marshall Davis was a mentor to the young Barack Obama. But Davis was an unusual role model for a boy; not only may he have been a sometime pedophile, according to a book he wrote under a pseudonym, but he was also a Communist. Some have even speculated that Davis was Obama’s biological father, a fantasy for which I can find no evidence whatsoever and have dismissed as unlikely in the extreme. source.

Evidence and Possible Causes are Strong Indicators

Mentored, and who knows what else, by an admitted child molester and Communist has left Obama without strong, moral, and decent male guidance from his birth to the present. How grows a boy to a man when his role models are pedophiles, Communists, and Muslims who abandon their families? Not well, not normal, not confident, and not strong.

Rolling over to our enemies and abandoning our weaker allies also fits the pattern. What an embarrassment to have a president of the US bow to a Saudi Arabian king. A Beta Male will roll over to an Alpha Male and then turn around and persecute a weaker ally. We have seen too much of this in Obama already. Example: the Cambridge, MA policeman. How un-presidential to stoop to attacking a private citizen and how unwise and racist to do it before he had any facts.

Extreme lack of Self Confidence and Inarticulate Speech Indicate poor Education and Lack of Self Confidence

Many have examined Obama’ written works and found them poorly written and far from scholarly. But you don’t have to work through such difficult searches (it is hard to find original Obama writings before he became president) you merely need to watch his televised speeches. Other politicians and speakers study and memorize most of their speech and maybe us a few notes or 3” by 5” cue cards. They look straight at the audience or straight at a TV camera so it seems they are looking straight at you. Occasionally they may glance down at some notes, but usually they do not. Obama swings his head left and right as he reads the Teleprompters. He does not look directly at his audience.

Obama is crippled without the teleprompter or the wide screen television, both of which allow him to read a speech he has never seen before. On the times when he tried to speak contemporaneously, it has been an embarrassing mish mash of ahs and uhs and street talk such as “screwed up” or “wee weed off”. Dignity left the White House hand in hand with decency.

How Can Our Nation Recover?

Decent, patriotic, conservative, alpha males (and alpha females) must re-capture our stolen government. The bills written since the first bailout up to whatever the socialists pass before the elections in 2010 and 2012 must literally be read line by line and repealed or replaced by legislation and executive orders to shrink government, lower taxes, and restore freedom, and close the border. Then, we should develop and implement ways of preventing future socialist/communist attempts to seize power in America.

Obama, Bad Michelle, and Oprah May Have Learned a Lesson

As you know by now, the US bid to have the 2016 Olympics in Chicago was defeated in a humiliating manner, and not even the heavyweights in Chicago’s dirty politics, race based-spoils system, and intimidation could save the day. In a stroke of brilliant irony, the Drudge Report had a headline “The Ego Has Landed…”

Sometimes you just cannot buy, extort, or steal something you want. This works in a single party tyranny where the tyrants have an economic stranglehold or life and death control over their subjects. But once in a while, the thugs step out of their domain and try the dirty Chicago politics on the wrong people. The International Olympics decision makers were not cowed and the US was eliminated in the first round of voting.

I bet the half of Chicago’s people who opposed the Olympics in their city is breathing a sigh of relief. Hundreds of millions or perhaps a few billion dollars that would have gone to the crooks in Chicago, at the expense of local, state, and federal taxpayers have been saved.

It is funny, sad, and highly predictable that all of Obama’s pandering to the third world despots and Muslims has made him and America weaker. The international rabble of America haters were emboldened by Obama’s weakness, inexperience, and ignorance. Of course the leftists will blame Bush, but this was entirely Obama’s show and he failed miserably.

I hope Obama and his handlers and advisors did not learn a lesson. I hope they carry on to defeats on socialized medicine, cap and trade, amnesty, and their other plans to change America to a one party tyranny.

(By the way, Good Michelle refers to Michelle Malkin).

Arguments For and Against Legalizing Drugs

Background

Many people argue that by legalizing illegal drug use, more addicts would have safe drugs, the government could control the supply and quality of drugs, and the government could tax the drugs to raise additional revenue. They also argue that by legalizing illegal drugs the dealers and pusher criminals’ profits would disappear and thus crime would be reduced. Furthermore, drug addicts wouldn’t engage in as much burglary, theft, robbery, prostitution, and murder, so there would be additional reductions in crime. Most people would favor safer drugs and less crime. Fewer might support additional taxes to pay for the drugs and the drug addicts. Other than alcohol, there are few quantitative studies on the legalization of drugs in America.

Others argue that illegal drugs are dangerous, harmful, and it is morally wrong for society to legalize drugs and profit from the misery and wasted lives of millions. They also argue that the government shouldn’t establish or raise any more taxes. Furthermore, whether the legalized drugs were distributed by the government or tax free organizations living off government subsidies and grants, the taxpayer would still be stuck for almost all of the costs. The most powerful argument the anti-legalization side uses is the example of legalizing alcohol. They point to the millions of deaths, wasted lives, accidents, children born with birth defects from legal alcohol, and other human tragedies and tax payer supported costs.


Let’s Look at Some Results of Legalizing Alcohol

First up is the problem of drunk driving.

Drunk Driving Statistics for the United States (source.)
• Alcohol-related car crashes kill someone every 30 minutes and injure someone every two minutes.
• In the United States, drunk driving is the leading criminal cause of death.
• More than 17,000 people are the victims of drunk driving accidents every year.
• Approximately 40% of all motor-vehicle fatalities are alcohol-related.
• Frequent drunk drivers are responsible for almost 60% of alcohol-related fatalities.
• In 2007, drivers between the ages of 16-20 were involved in 1,719 drunk driving accidents.

Some other facts on drunk driving (source)

• Alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion in 2000, including $51.1 billion in monetary costs and an estimated $63.2 billion in quality of life losses. People other than the drinking driver paid $71.6 billion of the alcohol-related crash bill, which is 63 percent of the total cost of these crashes.
• A 2008 AAA poll measuring the traffic safety culture of Americans, found that 80% supported requiring drivers who have been convicted of DWI to use equipment that tests them for alcohol, i.e. an ignition interlock device. Also, 88% of the respondents in the poll felt that drunk driving is a serious traffic safety concern.
• Since 1980 (the year Mothers Against Drunk Driving was founded), alcohol-related traffic fatalities have decreased nearly 50 percent, from over 30,000 to under 15,500 and MADD has helped save over 383,000 lives.

Next, Let’s Look at Some Other Results of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a serious disease and even more tragic because it is 100% preventable. Here are some facts and statistics (source).

The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy is one of the leading preventable causes of birth defects and childhood disabilities in the United States.1 The adverse effects associated with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) range from growth deficiency, brain structure and function anomalies, and abnormalities of the head and face.2 It is estimated that in 1992 the cost of treating FAS-affected infants, children, and adults was over $1.9 billion.3 The lifetime cost per child affected with FAS is estimated to be $1.4 million.4

FAS Statistics
• In 1995, four times as many pregnant women frequently consumed alcohol as in 1991.5 Researchers speculate that the increase in alcohol consumption by pregnant women may be attributed to widespread reports on the health benefits of moderate drinking.6
• 51% of women of child-bearing age between 18-25 and 53% between 26-34, report the use of alcohol within the past month.7
• 17% of women of child-bearing age between 18-25 and 13% between 26-34, report binge drinking (five or more drinks on one occasion) within the past month.8
• A national survey found that more than half of women age 15-44 drank while pregnant.9
• Of the women who reported drinking during their pregnancy, 66% reported drinking in their first trimester; 54% reported drinking in their third trimester.10
• FAS is estimated to occur in 1 to 2 live births per every 1,000 in the United States each year.11
• Fetal Alcohol Effects (a less severe set of alcohol-related abnormalities) is estimated to occur in 3-5 live births per every 1,000 in the United States each year.2, 11
• According to the birth defects monitoring program, FAS rates among American Indians are 3.0 per 1000 live births compared to a rate of 0.6 per 1000 live births among Blacks and 0.1 per 1000 live births among Whites.12
• FAS is not just a childhood disorder;13 exposure to alcohol as a fetus can cause a wide range of lifelong physical and mental disabilities.14
• Fetal alcohol exposure may increase the risk for later alcohol, tobacco, and drug dependence in adults.15

Now, Let’s Look at Some Facts about Alcoholism’s Impacts on Family and Friends (I hope none of you see yourselves or loved ones or friends, but you almost certainly will)

Alcohol Use (source).

Prevalence
• Percent of adults who drank alcohol in the past year: 61% (2007)
• Percent of current drinkers who had five or more drinks on at least one day in the past year: 21% (2007)

Mortality
• Number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides: 22,073
• Number of alcoholic liver disease deaths: 13,050

The stages of Alcoholism and some Impacts (source).

1. In the first stage of alcoholism, drinking is no longer social but becomes a means of psychological escape from stress, inhibitions, and problems.

More to the point, early in the disease the person with a drinking problem starts to depend on the "mood altering" aspects of alcohol.

Another characteristic of the first stage of alcoholism is that a gradual increase in tolerance develops, meaning that increasing amounts of alcohol are required in order to feel a "buzz" or a "high."

2. In the second stage of alcoholism, the need to drink becomes more intense. Typically in this stage, the person with the drinking problem starts to drink earlier in the day. As tolerance increases, furthermore, the problem drinker drinks because of his or her dependence on alcohol, rather than because of psychological stress relief. Also during this stage, the "loss of control" does not yet manifest itself on a regular basis; it is, nonetheless, gradually observed by others such as friends and family members.

3. In the third stage of alcoholism, the loss of control becomes more predominant, meaning that the person with the drinking problem is unable to drink according to his or her intentions. For instance, once the problem drinker has had the first drink, he or she can no longer control what will happen, even though the intention might have been to have only two or three drinks.

During this stage of the disease, the individual usually starts to experience serious financial, relationship, and work-related problems. In addition, the problem drinker starts to avoid family and friends and experiences a loss of interest in things that used to be important. Also typical during this stage are "eye-openers," that is, drinks that are taken whenever the person awakens.

Eye-openers are typically taken to lessen a hangover, calm the nerves, or to quiet the feelings of remorse the drinker suffers after a period of time without a drink.

4. The fourth and final stage of alcoholism is typified by a chronic loss of control. In the earlier stages of the disease, the problem drinker may have been successful in maintaining a job. Now, however, drinking starts earlier in the day and typically continues throughout the day. Not surprisingly, few, if any, full-time jobs can be sustained once a person reaches this state of mind.

In the earlier stages of the disease, moreover, the alcoholic had a choice whether he or she would take the first drink. After taking the first drink, the alcoholic usually lost all control and would then continue drinking. In the last stage of alcoholism, conversely, alcoholics no longer have a choice: they must drink in order to function.

The Social Effects of Alcoholism

Alcoholism not only affects the alcoholic, but it also affects those who are closest the alcoholic, his family, friends, relatives, and work associates. The following list is a sample of the "social effects" of alcohol addiction:
• Traffic fatalities on the highways
• Work-related injuries and accidents
• Broken homes
• Wife battering
• Traffic injuries
• Birth defects such as fetal alcohol syndrome
• Destroyed relationships
• Child abuse
• Destroyed lives
• Dysfunctional homes
• Codependent behavior in others

Now Let’s Look at Some Illegal and Legal Drug Problems

Key findings
Data from the National Vital Statistics System Mortality File (source).


• From 1999 through 2006, the number of fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 4,000 to 13,800 deaths.
• Opioid analgesics were involved in almost 40% of all poisoning deaths in 2006.
• In 2006, the rate of poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics was higher for males, persons aged 35-54 years, and non-Hispanic white persons than for females and those in other age and racial/ethnic groups.
• In about one-half of the deaths involving opioid analgesics, more than one type of drug was specified as contributing to the death, with benzodiazepines specified with opioid analgesics most frequently.
• The age-adjusted death rate for poisoning involving opioid analgesics varied more than eightfold among the states in 2006.
Poisoning is the second leading cause of injury death overall, and the leading cause of injury death for people aged 35-54 years, surpassing both firearm-related and motor vehicle-related deaths in this age group (1,2).

During the Healthy People 2010 midcourse review, reduction of poisoning mortality was one of the injury objectives identified as moving away from its target. One of the challenges discussed during the review is a lack of recognition of the extent of the problem.

The CDC data also show that drugs kill more people than automobile crashes in 16 states: MA, NH, RI, CT, NY, NJ, MD, PA, OH, MI, IL, CO, UT, NV, OR, and WA.

And, as cited above, drug abuse deaths are the second leading cause of injury death overall and the leading cause for people aged 35-54; greater than both firearms and motor vehicle deaths.

Making Some Sense of All this Information

Only two dangerous drugs have been legalized, alcohol and tobacco. This essay does not deal with tobacco, perhaps in a future post.

The legalization of alcohol has not been the solution to alcohol problems observed before its legalization. The statistics cited above show that alcohol is a major health, safety, social, and public cost burden.

I urge all of you who have an interest in the discussion of legalizing currently illegal drugs to go see some of the alcohol problems for yourself. Take the time to talk to someone in Alcoholics Anonymous, The Salvation Army, or a recovering alcoholic. You should also talk to some families and friends of alcoholics. Finally, go to your local police department and ask to speak to one of their officers experienced in the tragedies of alcoholism.

You should also visit your local public schools, particularly those with significant numbers of disabled children and see the horrible effects of FAS.

Please consider the above CDC statistics and facts on current drug deaths and consider what the impact of legalizing illegal drugs might be on the number of drug addicts, their families and friends, and the social cost. Consider the moral and ethical issues of a government program to distribute dangerous drugs that already are responsible for so much suffering and deaths in America. Finally, ask yourself about another big government program to tax drug use. Once the government becomes addicted to the tax revenues from legalized drugs will they seek to reduce or increase drug use?