Be sure to visit their "What You Can Do" link and get involved in fighting the atrocity of a government take over of OUR health care system. Get involved! Pick some of the things on that list to do and take part in defending freedom and our health care system which IS NOT IN CRISIS despite what the socialist thugs in government and their legions of idiot followers would have you believe.
The Curious Case of Barack Obama gets even Curiouser
Yesterday I posted a reproduction of a letter posted on Hawaii's Kapi'olani Medical Center's website in which Obama is shown to be claiming that hospital as his birthplace:
In 2007 Obama was reported to claim the Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii as his birthplace but his grandmother is adamant that she attended his birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
Today Joe Kovacs of WND reports that now the White House letter has been removed from the Kapi'olani website - why? Hawaiian Democrat Congressman Abercrombie confirms the existence of this letter by reporting on his website that he proclaimed the letter at the hospital's centenary celebrations in January:
How mysterious!
I don't pretend to be smart enough to understand what's going on. Democrat insider Communication Guru, in his comment posted yesterday, inferred "conspiracy". Perhaps he can shed some light?
Back in November of 2007 President Obama, announcing his candidacy for the Presidency, was quoted by UPI as saying he was born in Queen's Medical Center in Hawaii. This assertion was repeated on the MyBarackObama.com campaign website.
However, the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii has recently posted this letter on its website:
Barack Obama states in this letter on White House stationery that he was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. Subsequently Snopes and other public online sources have revised their postings on this subject to conform to the President's latest assertion.
The confusion is compounded by the President's Kenyan grandmother whose testimony is quoted in an affidavit submitted by Rev. Kweli Shuhubia, an Anabaptist minister in Kenya, who is the official Swahili translator for the annual Anabaptist Conference in Kenya. In it he asserts "it is common knowledge throughout the Christian and Muslim communities in Kenya that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., was born in Mombasa, Kenya." Shuhubia further attests in his affidavit that he visited Obama's grandmother at her home in the village of Alego-Kogello, on Oct. 16, 2008, in order to conduct a telephone conference interview that would connect with McRae (of the WND) in the United States. During the telephone interview, McRae specifically asked Sarah Obama twice, "Were you present when your grandson was born in Kenya." "Both times she specifically replied, 'Yes,'" "Ms. Sarah Hussein Obama was very adamant that her grandson, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, was born in Kenya, and that she was present and witnessed his birth in Kenya, not the United States," Shuhubia continued in the affidavit.
The "Certification of Live Birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not distinguish which of the two named Hawaiian hospitals can claim to be the President's birthplace. Nor, for that matter, does it prove that he was born in Hawaii since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii. Requests for release of this long form document have repeatedly been refused by the hospitals' chief executives. This is not unusual, many other requests for documentation have been refused including his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records. Obama used his first full day in residence in the Oval Office to issue an executive order restricting the release of presidential records subject to Obama's permission. So much for the campaign promises of "transparency". He has expended hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign chest to frustrate lawsuits aimed at forcing the release of his birth certificate.
Contrast this with the treatment of Sen. McCain. The Democrat majority convened Congressional hearings to determine whether Sen. McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen", they confirmed that he was. No controlling legal authority has ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Excerpted from World News Daily: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103306
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Howell Wrests Back the Buffoonery Championship Title From Brighton!
If you ever need evidence that Michigan's local governments and school districts need consolidation you need look no further than Livingston County. The current circuses running in the Hamburg Board of Trustees and the Howell School Board provide a multitude of poster children for this need for consolidation. The antics of these two groups abundantly support the assertion that there are too many public service posts for the number of qualified and willing candidates available. The shameful manner of the firing of the Howell Schools Superintendent wins back from the Brighton School District the Buffoonery pennant that Brighton seized from Howell last year. See:
That this was no easy triumph it is only necessary to remember the pathetically abysmal performance of the Howell board in 2007 when confronted with the incompetence of the superintendent incumbent of that time. See:
MSM is an acronym commonly but inaccurately applied, even by conservative commentators, to the mass print or electronic professional journalistic media. It is short for "Main Stream Media" but what the media really stands for is quite different. It is characterized today by fawning puff pieces supporting the new President, his administration and his policies. It acts essentially as the Press Office of the White House. The one exception is Fox News which is accordingly routinely pilloried by the President from the bully pulpit of the White House. Current polls indicate that despite the oratorical excesses and successes of the President, his policies and administration are favored only by a minority of the mainstream public. The people are disturbed by his recruitment to the White House staff and Cabinet of candidates with shady backgrounds, by his obsequious manner when traveling overseas and his openly socialistic interventions in the financial, industrial and medical fabric of the nation. This mainstream assessment is not shared nor reported by the MSM. The acronym needs to be better understood as the "Most Slanted Media". For the media to earn the title of Mainstream it, like the Republican Party needs to move right, towards the center where the mainstream of public opinion rests.
The President was elected mostly by those voters who thought of themselves as "Independents" and who voted for Obama because they were impressed with his oratory or thought that they were fostering affirmative action or thought that when they were promised change they imagined change for the better was in prospect. How disappointed they must be in the light of:
stimulus directed at promoting a socialist agenda
nationalisation of banks and auto companies,
quadrupling of the national debt
indiscriminate printing of money and looming hyperinflation
reading of Miranda rights to Afghani battlefield captives in Afghanistan
palling around with Latin American socialist dictators
failure to access American oil fields and neglect of the nuclear power option
attempting to force Americans to abandon their preference for normal size vehicles in favor of downsized vehicles, less safe but more compliant to Federal fuel consumption edicts
etc
etc
etc
How nervous they must be about the prospect of :
socialized medicine
cap and trade energy taxation
and now, in planning, the AWNA Act
Suburban Voice's Washington insider, Gerlinde VanDriesen of Chicago Il, has obtained a report of this latest plan to subvert the American character. In an exclusive, for SV readers only, here it is:
WASHINGTON, DC President Obama and his Democrat majority in Congress are considering sweeping legislation which provides new benefits for many Americans. Among these is the 'Americans With No Abilities Act' (AWNAA) which is being hailed as a major legislative initiative by advocates for the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition. "Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society" said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 'We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation,employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they do a better job, or have some idea of what they are doing.' The President pointed to the success of the US Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack job skills, making this agency the single largest US employer of Persons of Inability. Private sector industries with good records of nondiscrimination against the inept include retail sales (72%) and home improvement stores. The DMV also has a great record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%). Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million "middle-man" positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility (for example "Community Organizer"), thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance. Mandatory non-performance- based raises and promotions will be given, to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations which maintain a significant level of Persons of Inability in middle positions and gives a tax credit to small and medium businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires. Finally, the AWNAA ACT contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the Non-abled, banning discriminatory interview questions such as "Do you have any goals for the future?" or "Do you have any skills or experience which relate to this job?" "As a Non-abled Person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them" said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at a GM plant in Flint, Michigan, due to her inability to remember 'righty tighty, lefty loosey.'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added. 'With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel" said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) "As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of job in this great nation and a good salary with it.'
The historic Americans with Disabilities Act was a compassionate measure taken by a civilized nation to protect the less fortunate members of society who, through no fault of their own, are physically or mentally unable to adequately provide for themselves. But this new legislative initiative threatening in Washington is quite different and is surely "a bridge too far". The AWNA Act Must be Filibustered!
A modern nation depends for its viability on a deep respect for its citizens' rights of life, liberty and property. All these are protected by the essential application of and respect for the rule of law. Regrettably the Roe vs. Wade SCOTUS decision put the rule of law in conflict with the people's right to life, 49 million of them to date and still counting. It is quixotic that when the President speaks of American values he does so in defense of the so-called rights of terrorists and not of the citizens whose rights he is sworn to protect. However, the murder of Dr. Tiller is an attack on the rule of law and hence on the fabric of society and is to be condemned in the strongest terms. This is true no matter what the murderer's motivation may be. Reprehensible as Dr. Teller's late term abortion of 60,000 babies is, horrific as his performance of hundreds of the savagely barbaric partial birth abortion procedures is, his murder must be deprecated, deplored and denounced. This murder, beyond being a crime against the victim's right to life, is an assault on the foundations of our society.
