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WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to 'shape up or ship out !'

President Obama's national approval poll numbers continue to tumble - especially among veterans who increasing feel neglected, betrayed and sold out . Obama's political Afghanistan exit strategy may very well eventually result in his own one term exit : Allen L Roland   As our self proclaimed war president, Barack Obama, receives his tainted Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo, Norway ~ his national approval ratings continue to  dramatically tumble.   His obvious Nobel anointment by the global elite seemingly legitimizes Obama's illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks on Pakistan as necessary Wars for Peace ~ further enslaving the people of those countries and strengthening the ignorance of the public ~ who will now begin to assume, as Orwell predicted, that war is peace.    In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech this morning, President Obama rightfully called his own accomplishments "slight" in comparison to past winners and spoke at length about the irony of winning the award as a wartime president. He evoked the concept of "just war" to argue for the use of force that is "necessary" and "morally justified."  Tell that blather to the active soldiers and veterans, including myself, who are shaking their heads in disbelief at Obama's current Afghanistan surge strategy ~ which is obviously politically motivated.    The following open letter to President Obama is written in response to my column OBAMA IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY / A SYMBOL OF OUR TRAGIC TIMES written on December 2, 2009. http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/12/02.html Allen, the Following is the text of my e-mail to President Obama: Dear Mr. President: As a retired businessman, educator, father of OIF and Desert Storm Marines, Vietnam Vet, long-time Democrat, and outraged citizen, I can only shake my head in disbelief at your announced Afghanistan strategy. How long will you pander to militarism?  This decision counters much of your campaign rhetoric and violates the trust of millions of your fellow citizens who went to the proverbial wall in support of your recent candidacy. From the health care crises bills pending that are an insurance industry-friendly travesty to the bail-out of the banks and Wall Street, to the continued sanction of torture and continued operation of Guantanamo to the continued loss of employment and collapse of State tax revenues, to the mortgage crises you have sold us out. I can promise you that progressive Democrats and millions of us whose lives have been effected (and affected) by war and the continued militarism of this nation are fed up. You've certainly lost me in the next electoral cycle, along with nearly everyone I know who went to the polls buying your rhetorical sap. Two of my youngest son's Marines have committed suicide since returning home, as has the husband of a neighbor, a young Marine whose pending third deployment sent him `round the bend. The human tragedy wrought by Bush is being escalated by the one man we pinned hopes on of standing up to the military establishment. Harry Truman had the courage to stand up to McArthur. You, however, have pandered to Patraeus and McChrystal in what seems an ill-disguised tactical gambit, posturing for the next Presidential election.  Our Nation is in a moral and economic meltdown unprecedented in our history. What we need is a courageous scrapper and advocate for peace and economic recovery, not another yes-man.  The perception and the reality seem to be that we put our trust in another yes-man. For the first time in my 64 years I will look to and work for a third party." Dan Kelly  Multiply this anger by thousands, if not millions, and things could really get interesting in the 2010 mid-term elections. Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/12/10.html

ERIK PRINCE — OUTED AS CIA ASSET (sounds like politics to me - but I'm still thankful) Blackwater founder reveals he was following orders of CIA throughout his career, including participation in an assassination program. Blackwater has not been an private-contractor army after all but a CIA asset. Vanity Fair,   I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. “But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.” Prince—the founder of Blackwater, the world’s most notorious private military contractor—is royally steamed. He wants to vent. And he wants you to hear him vent.

Girlfriends and Double Standards Before Max Baucus there was Paul Wolfowitz. Will the ethical uproar be the same? (The 'not so clean' world of banking)

Lancaster's crime-fighting plane puts focus on civil rights Officials say the proposed airborne surveillance camera would be a powerful tool for police, but the ACLU says the system could be used to spy on law-abiding citizens. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sky-eye27-2009nov27,0,650715.story - CATCHED

important rules in a gunfight

North Korean government issues new currency - giving one new for 100 old. The maximum allowed is equivalent to $740. Those with savings in excess of that will lose it all. The emerging middle class will be destroyed. Inflation caused by fiat money always ends this way. It is the ultimate tax. BBC Posted 2009 Dec 4

"A citizen who shirks his duty to contribute to the security of his community is little better than the criminal who threatens it."

Ed Miliband clashes with Lord Lawson on global warming. Ed Miliband and Lord Lawson on the Politics Show Lord Lawson is a long-standing skeptic of climate change Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has clashed with former chancellor Lord Lawson over global warming, ahead of the Copenhagen summit. They appeared on the BBC's Politics Show, where Lord Lawson, chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, repeated his long-held doubts. He said there had been "no further warming" since the late 20th Century and dissent should be tolerated. Mr Miliband accused Lord Lawson of being "profoundly irresponsible". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8398103.stm

SHERRY PEEL JACKSON BEING MURDERED? 2009 Dec 2 from Rayelan at RumorMill News The feds seem intent upon murdering Sherry Jackson. (Sherry is in The Freedom Force Hall of Honor.) See her own report, below, and you'll understand. She details how the feds denied her medical care in prison and right now she IS IN THE PROCESS OF DYING. Sherry was one of the stars of Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism. She was the former IRS agent who cried out, "SHOW ME THE LAW!". Right now she deserves the support of the entire Freedom Movement. We can give it to her by calling her Congressional Representative imploring him to intercede to save her life. For her service to the Cause of Liberty, WE SHOULD DO NO LESS!! (More)

Have you seen 'Queen Pelosi's New Jet?

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that a “well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”21 The question of the source of this principle is difficult because of the extensive history of debate in England and virtually every other society which has attempted to maintain a balance between anarchy and oppressive government. However, it is safe to say that the American belief in the right to bear arms has its roots in “civil jurists of the period who had specifically dealt with the question of self-defense as a natural right.”22 It has been noted that their doctrine stemmed essentially from the traditional view of suicide as a sin and perhaps as the ultimate sin. To them a failure to defend yourself against an unlawful aggression amounted to suicide by inaction. If a person's life is a gift of the Creator and he cannot destroy it by action, he cannot destroy it by inaction or negligence. If life is not the private property of the person living, then it is not his to destroy or allow to be destroyed: you may voluntarily acquiesce to robbery; you may not voluntarily acquiesce to murder. — excerpt from 'Blackstone's View of Natural Law —

REPORT FROM CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

Incredible Astronomical Clocks - Worldwide What’s even more intriguing -- as well as exciting – isn’t the device itself but the broad hint it sends at how technologically advanced the ancient engineers were. The device is certainly miraculous but it was also a common working machine; not a rarity but instead what could be something that navigators used every day. Who knows what other mechanisms and devices have yet to be found? (Designed for FIREFOX)