This is a must see. It lasts about 6 1/2 minutes and is so worth it. Video of an amazing 88 year old lady, Hazel McCallion, mayor of the sixth-largest city in Canada, Mississauga!
We should all be so lucky as to have a Mayor, Governor or President with HALF her chutzpah.
[From WorldNetDaily.com, by Bob Unruh, story here]
Waives initial hearing on charges of failing to obey chain of command
An Army officer who invited his own court-martial to resolve for the nation questions about Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president has waived a preliminary hearing in his case.
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who refused orders from a chain of command led by Obama, also today (June 11th) released a new video explaining why documentation needs to be released by Obama that could confirm that he qualifies to be president under the Constitution’s demand that the office by held only by a “natural born citizen.”
Lakin was scheduled for an Article 32 military hearing tomorrow (June 12th), the equivalent of a civilian preliminary hearing in a court case. But Daniel J. Driscoll, an Army hearing officer, had banned Lakin from bringing in evidence about Obama’s birth as well as testimony from Hawaii officials who may have information on the subject.
“In my view our constitutional jurisprudence allows Congress alone, and not a military judicial body, to put the president’s credentials on trial,” Driscoll wrote in a memorandum determining what evidence the defense for Lakin would have been allowed.
But in a new video, Lakin said the issue is important:
Can you find Kyrgyzstan on a map? Hint - it's in green, just northeast of Afghanistan.
I know many of you are psyched about the big Tea Party Rallies today, and I hope you have a great time and really show everyone the spirit of taking back your country. I also hope you don’t run into any phony Tea Pary activists. Hey, maybe you could carry a fold-up sign that says, “Phony Tea Party Activist” with a big arrow pointing to one side. Than way, when some faker holds up a big sign for the camera with all sorts of swastikas and hate speech all over it to prank all the Tea Partiers, you could sneak up behind him and hold up your sign for the camera, pranking him. It’d serve him right.
But if she gets there first, she gets to use her whip on him all the way back to the starting line.
But hey, all this organizing for freedom and liberty is hard work. If it gets you down, you need a break. You need to go to some nice, pleasant place to relax, unwind, and just get away from it all.
I recommend beautiful, sunny Kyrgyzstan.
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I heartily agree with this writer. No city, state or federal agency should have the authority to ban a private act in a privately-owned business.
If an employee does not like that policy at that business, then even in this economy, you might be able to find employment elsewhere. There are many places of employment that have set their own smoking/non-smoking policies, so you should be able to find something to your liking.
If you’re a customer to a business that allows employees or other customers to smoke and you don’t like that, “vote” with your wallet. Take your money elsewhere. That company is NOT in business to make you happy like a spouse/significant other, child or parent would do, they’re there to sell you a product or service. Period. They only want your money. Your being happy/not happy is a side-effect of their business environment, not the sole source of your happiness/unhappiness.
Also, as far as smoking bans in bars and clubs go, it kind of goes without saying, smoking and drinking go hand-in-hand. Whether you agree or not, they are both still lawful activities. That is, unless you agree with the only public official that ever banned smoking nationally.
Here is the most successful anti-smoking campaign. Ever. Quit smoking or go to jail. 
Before you assume that I’m a chain smoker or have had no dealings with smokers, I assure you, I’m not. I’m a non-smoker. My father passed away from prostate cancer and emphesema when I was 17 yrs old, in my senior year of high school. I also dated and married my spouse, who was a 1/4 pack-a-day smoker before I met my spouse. I have worked for smokers in two different offices. I just chose to protect myself by my own means, rather than having the government do it for me. If I don’t like the environment in a workplace, restaurant or other facility I utilize, I take my business elsewhere.
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[From The Daily Paul.com, story here.]
(These 2 links go together so I thought I would post them together. Please take some time and read and watch. Eye opening.)
“In the past decade, public smoking bans in America have become increasingly commonplace; governmental efforts to institute such bans often prove successful, primarily because the majority of Americans do not smoke. In other words, the majority can only gain from such legislation. Supporters reason that they should not have to inhale second-hand smoke every time they patronize the local bar. This argument is seemingly sound; most ban backers this author has encountered do indeed provide this justification when endeavoring to legitimize their views. Once effective counterarguments are rendered, however, supporters often change the foundation in which their ban advocacy initially appeared to be rooted. They then contend that employers have a responsibility to provide a smoke-free environment for their employees. Neither justification is well-reasoned. Moreover, it is unambiguous that public smoking bans are incompatible with private property rights.
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[Source: Sacramento Bee article]
It was every businessperson’s nightmare.
Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was … 4 cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv’s with an obligation of $202.35.
Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical.
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WAKE UP CALL TO AMERICAN CITIZENS….
The author of the following article, Kitty Werthmann, grew up in Austria and lived through the Hitler regime both before and after WWII, and the suppression of human rights and freedom by the Nazi Party. She moved to the USA and became a citizen in 1962. She is 83 years old and lives in Pierre, South Dakota where she has written and spoken extensively about the danger of loosing our freedoms. The following article is one of many that she has written. You can check out this info for yourself on the Internet by going to Google and searching for Kitty Werthmann.
If you take anything at all from Ms. Werthmann’s words, take this: look at Austria’s mistakes, America, learn from them and DON’T repeat them!!
By: Kitty Werthmann (An Austrian who witnessed what took place under Hitler)
Ms. Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or read in history books.
I am an eyewitness to history. I can tell you that Hitler did not take Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about thirty daily.
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Well, the other day I was driving by the post office in Tomball. I noticed a sign on the front door of McCaul’s CD 10 Tomball Office door…
I wonder what that is about?? Hmmmmm …. 
[From TimesWatch.org]
Long-time welfare-beat reporter Jason DeParle took yet another victory lap in his Thursday story on how food stamps are losing their stigma in a piece co-written with Robert Gebeloff: “Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance.”
These same two reporters wrote a national version of the same story with virtually the same headline less than three months ago, which appeared on the front page November 29, 2009: “Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades.” Both stories are apart of the paper’s occasional series “The Safety Net.”
The triumphal headline and DeParle’s accompanying attitude of barely concealed vindication is no surprise, given his long-time opposition to welfare reform, noted most bluntly in a sour and alarmist piece he penned as a Times reporter, opposing the passage of Clinton-era welfare reform in the July 28, 1996 Times Week in Review: “Get a Job — The New Contract With America’s Poor.” DeParle warned in that 1996 piece:
The risk is that it may also end poverty as we know it. By making it even worse….But the weight of the evidence suggests that most either cannot or will not lift themselves from poverty in an economy where, for more than two decades, the bottom has been dropping out for low-skilled workers. In a nation that already has the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world the poor may indeed get poorer. And more numerous and desperate as well…If he signs the measure as it is, President Clinton will appear to have fulfilled his famous pledge about ending welfare. In truth, he will have abandoned the vision that animated the slogan. Having sought office with the aim of a redefined social contract — health care for every American — he will be seeking re-election with a bill that begrudges poor infants their Pampers….No doubt the harsh reality of an empty stomach will cause some people to do better. Some may indeed get jobs and marry, as [Fla. Rep. Clay] Shaw predicts. Others may turn to prostitution or the drug trade. Or cling to abusive boyfriends. Or have more abortions. Or abandon their children. Or camp out on the streets and beg.
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Today, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 is Debra Medina Money Bomb Day!!
Facebook will only allow you to invite 60 members a day to join a cause, so here is the link if you don’t have it already. You can forward this email once you’ve invited your facebook limit- We have to spread this one far and wide folks! Let’s do this!
Facebook link: http://www.medinamoneybomb.com/
…. or, donate directly through official Debra Medina for Governor campaign site:
Ooops!! Looks like someone forgot to scrub something!! “Home” goes to a home page for a Kenyan newspaper archive for 2004. Updating the format for the web address to “http://www.eastandard.net/” takes you to the current day’s edition of this newspaper.
It’s relatively easy to fake an old internet news article but not an entirely new set of current-dated articles. Especially since most of Eastern and Southern Africa was taken over by British, Danish and Norwegians who like to spell our “z” words with an “s”, for example, ‘organisation’ versus ‘organization.’
An acquaintance of mine sent it to a morning radio show my acquaintance listens to and they talked about it. They said that if the powers that be were ever to respond, it would be only to say that “well, these african papers are not known for their accuracy and fact checking.” Yeah, right. Unlike CNN, who only fact checks SNL when they FINALLY make a lame attempt at satirizing Obama…
It just shows that “they” can’t even do something underhanded like try to scrub the internet efficiently. Lets’ put THEM in charge of every aspect of our lives, huh?