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Even though unscientific and not passing statistical rigor, here are dinglebarry’s grades for his first year in office. Ole messiah has received a dose of reality.

From wnd.com dated 03/09/2010 entitled, “CBS poll: Obama flunks 1st year 6 in 10 give him ‘F’; another 25% grade him with ‘D’“:

An unscientific CBS News poll evaluating President Obama’s first year in office gives him – by an overwhelming margin – a failing grade.

In the poll, which has been online for several weeks and has attracted thousands of comments, not even 3 percent of the respondents grade Obama with an “A,” barely another 3 percent give him a “B” and about 4 percent give him a “C.”

Almost 26 percent give him a “D” and more than 63 percent him an “F.”

Said one person on the poll’s comments section: “Obama may be a Harvard Law School graduate, but when it comes to common sense, he must of skipped that class, or failed it miserably.

“His problem is that because he doesn’t really have any lead[er]ship ability or experiance (sic), he leaves it up to others to make the decisions. Why do you think this whole Health Care Bill is in such trouble, he left it to a bunch of First Class Idiots to compose, and it is so bad they had to buy votes to get it passed in both the House & Senate.”

The poll explains CBS is “giving you the chance to weigh in on how you think he has done on the job.” Readers are asked to choose a grade from an “A” to “F’ scale. The 10 categories are economy, foreign policy, health care, Afghanistan, Iraq, threat of terror, energy and environment, social issues, bipartisanship and overall.

The results showed Americans believe Obama is moving the nation in the wrong direction on every count.

Fewer than 6 percent gave him an “A” or a “B” on the economy. Seventy percent gave him an “F” and another 18 percent a “D.” On foreign policy, more than 84 percent gave him a “D” or “F” and only 3.9 percent gave him an “A.”

On Obama’s proclaimed No. 1 priority, health care, nearly 82 percent graded him with an “F” and nearly another 10 percent handed out a “D.” Only 2.6 percent gave him an “A.”

On Afghanistan, where Obama has maintained many of George W. Bush’s policies – to the point of dispatching more troops to Afghanistan – his grades of “D” or “F” made up about 55 percent of the respondents’ total. Under 30 percent granted him a “C.”

Overall on terrorism, 61 percent gave him an “F” and 21 percent a “D.” On energy and the environment those figures were 58 percent and 22 percent, respectively. On social issues they were 58 and 21.

His “A” grade in those categories was under 4 percent.

One of his poorest ratings was in bipartisanship, following his “I won” remark to congressional Republicans last year and his rebuke to Sen. John McCain that the “election’s over.”

Nearly 80 percent flunked him in that category, while only 2.9 percent gave him an “A.”

Some of commenters on the CBS site were supportive: “The government was in a terrible state when he took over,” said one. “It will take a while to get thing (sic) back in order.”

Others said Obama is doing no more or less than what should be expected.

“Most Americans were not listening or just didn’t want to hear when this president was campaigning. He is doing pretty much what he said he would do … fundamentally transform America, redistribute the wealth etc. Most Americans did not listen when shown his radical friends and acquaintances. It was all there for anyone to objectively see,” said one.

“This guy has zero understanding how to do anything but stand in front of a camera and make another of his long-winded-do-nothing speeches. It is unbelievable that the American voters could even consider a jerk like this with absolutely no experience on how to manage anything,” said another.

“This is the time I have ever seen a president screw so much up, so fast,” added another.

“He has traveled the world apologizing for our mistakes (his conception), his social agenda is too similar to those which failed in fascist and communist countries, he ignores what is sacred to most Americans regarding, religion, patriotism and independence from big government,” added another. “He decries the actions of the opposition regarding healthcare, yet in the present formulation of same, he left them out deliberately. His speeches, which are endless, are repeats of his campaign rhetoric, all promise and no substance. He is charismatic in his delivery of promises and to this 81senior, he reminds me of a few other saviors, Long, Wilkie, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. This may seem harsh, but his embracing the likes of Acorn is too reminiscent.”

Another contributor stated more succinctly: “I think President Obama is doing the worst job any president has ever done.”

Further, there was mention of term limits – “I am talking about both parties.”

Another, a self-described Vietnam-era Marine, said, “We as a collective group elected Obama and now see our mistake. We have a problem with no jobs, illegal immigrants, a corrupt government, a situation out of control with over spending, and I could go on and on and on with problems within our country.”

He continued, “Folks I do not advocate violence. It is time that we grow a backbone and stand up for the values and principals that made this country the best one on earth. It is time that we say hell no to those who are trying to tear it down.”

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For decades pundits have been saying that the New Orleans Saints were so bad at playing football that hell would freeze over before the Saints would ever win The Super Bowl.

On Sunday, February 7, 2010 The Saints won the Super Bowl.

On that same Sunday Washington D.C. was paralyzed under several feet of snow and the Government was shut down.

This, then, firmly establishes the exact geographical position of hell.

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For those Red Pills readers in Utah. I received this via an email alert from Lowell Nelson, Interim State Coordinator, Utah for the Campaign for Liberty group. We have to get this legislation signed!

From email dated 03/11/2010 from Lowell Nelson entitled, “We need the Governor to sign these bills”:

Utah Campaign for Liberty Member,

Thanks to YOUR efforts and to the efforts of liberty-minded citizens throughout the state, HB 143 (Eminent Domain Authority) and HB 324 (Public Lands Litigation) both passed the Utah Legislature.

And right now, we need Governor Herbert’s signature to seal the deal.

Please call the Governor at (801) 538-1000 to let him know you would like him to sign HB 143 and HB 324 into law.

HB 143 (Eminent Domain Authority), sponsored by Rep. Chris Herrod, passed the Senate on March 9 by a vote of 21-6-2, and the House has concurred with Senate amendments. This bill, which can be found at http://le.utah.gov/~2010/htmdoc/hbillhtm/hb0143.htm, authorizes the state of Utah to exercise eminent domain authority on property possessed by the federal government unless the property was acquired by the federal government with the consent of the Legislature in accordance with the United States Constitution, Article I Section 8 Clause 17.

HB 324 (Public Lands Litigation), sponsored by Rep. Ken Sumsion, passed the Senate on March 9 by a vote of 20-7-2, and the House has concurred with Senate amendments. This bill, which can be found at http://le.utah.gov/~2010/htmdoc/hbillhtm/hb0324s01.htm, appropriates money from the Land Exchange Distribution Account to the Constitutional Defense Restricted Account for legal services and just compensation for property taken; directs the attorney general to file certain eminent domain or quiet title actions on property possessed by the federal government; and authorizes the attorney general to file an action to enforce a section of the Utah Enabling Act.

Please call the governor at (801) 538-1000 to let him know you would like him to sign these two bills into law.

As you may know, the federal government controls over two thirds of the land in the state of Utah! This puts the citizens of Utah at a huge disadvantage in our efforts to fund the education of our children. And it means that our taxes must be higher to compensate for the shortfall in revenues that would otherwise be available to Utah were this land productively employed. And it means fewer jobs for citizens of Utah.

If you want to see lower taxes, more jobs, and local control of lands that were never ceded to the federal government, please contact Governor Gary Herbert at (801) 538-1000 and ask that he sign HB 143 and HB 324, companion bills that will enable Utah to begin to reclaim our land.

Help us take back Utah!

For Liberty,

Lowell Nelson
Interim State Coordinator, Utah
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/

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Now I know that Mitt has some qualities, somewhere that I can admire, but his trying to be a politician and interjecting himself and his opinions into my life isn’t one of them. Particularly seeing how Mitt is a “Flip/Flopper” archetype. Every election cycle he endeavors to reinvent himself. No thank you, Mitt, I am not buying your propaganda. We have been the fools watching the same old dog and pony show for the last 100 years and we are on the verge of losing our freedoms. That should tell us that uncritically voting Democrat or Republican or for Mitt. because he has great hair, just isn’t working for us. VOTE PERSON, NOT PARTY. VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE – CONSIDER VOTING THIRD PARTY!

Apparently, I am not the only one with that opinion. I have included selected comments posted by others regarding the article following same.

From poliiticalticker.blogs.com dated 03/09/2010 by Peter Hamby entitled, “Romney to Tea Party movement: No third party bids“:

Mitt Romney has a message to Tea Party candidates nationwide: If you lose your Republican primary bids, stay on the sidelines.

The former Massachusetts governor on Monday warned the grassroots movement not to mount third party efforts in general elections, which he said would siphon votes from Republican nominees.

“If there is a conservative candidate that runs in the general election, then obviously, divide and fail is the result,” Romney said in an interview with the conservative Web site Newsmax. “Hopefully Tea Party candidates will run in respective primaries and they will either win or lose. And if they win, they will go into the general. If they lose, they won’t, and they will get behind the more conservative of the two finalists.”

Romney explained that “dividing our conservative effort in the general elections” would “basically hand the country to Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and that would be very sad indeed.”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made similar remarks last month in a speech sponsored by the Arkansas Republican Party. {Who was that sponsored by again? Which party is Palin associated with? What! Republican! Amazing.} “Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party,” she said, adding that the GOP would be the most natural fit for such activists.

Romney had kind words for the Tea Party movement. “I’m really pleased that the silent majority is silent no longer,” he said, predicting that the movement “will have have an impact on this election.” {LOL .. the flip/flopper is glad you’re not quiet but he wants you to be quiet in the general elections! GO TO HELL, MITT!}

“Not all the Tea Partiers are Republicans, not all of them vote for Republicans, but I think most of them will,” he said. {Don’t think so, Mitt.}

The potential presidential candidate also dismissed his second place finish to Texas Rep. Ron Paul in last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference Straw Poll, which he chalked up to libertarian collusion. Paul’s win broke Romney’s three year winning streak in the straw poll.

“The good thing about libertarians is that when they are called to show up somewhere they do, and when they get a call in the night saying, ‘Hey, we need you to show up at CPAC or show up at a straw poll or show up at an event,’ they will show up, and you’ve got to congratulate them for that,” he said.

“But I don’t think there is a growing portion of Americans who are, if you will, Ron Paul devotees, but he has an influence, and we welcome his participation in the party. It’s a big tent party.” {So that was why you were dismissive of Rep. Paul in 2008? Flip/Flop}

UPDATE: Paul spokesman Jesse Benton responded to Romney’s claim.

“It takes a tremendous amount of both support and organization to win a straw poll with the prestige of CPAC’s,” Benton told CNN in an e-mail. “We are proud that Dr. Paul has both. The message of liberty and sound money is growing everyday, and Dr. Paul is honored to be one of the leading spokesman.”

A few selected comments following the above article:

Dan B. March 9th, 2010 11:53 am ET
Shouldn’t the title of this story read “Romney to Ron Paul: For the love of god, please don’t run third party”? Romney is terrified. Just wait till the SRLC straw poll results. If Paul wins THAT one too, stick a fork in the rest of the GOP. And if the GOP refuses to recognize that the same faction that got Barack Obama elected, college kids, are now increasingly behind Mr. Paul, who represents REAL fundamental changes, then the GOP will be dead in the water as well. It’s time we brought common sense back to the Government. Ron Paul 2012! End the undeclared wars! Save the dollar!

Erniepf March 9th, 2010 11:51 am ET
Here’s what’s sad, Mitt: Both parties are a depressing reminder of what politics in this country has become. Blame it on the Dems as much as you like, but both parties are entrenched, bought and paid for, without any interest in America’s citizens. The Republicans are the same old party of regressive lunacy, bolster the rich, let capitalism run amok, greedy jerks. The Democrats are the same old party of social and corporate welfare. What have you done for us lately, again, Mitt?

Kevin March 9th, 2010 11:50 am ET
The Tea Party doesnt take to kindly to warnings from the likes of Romney. We will do as we sit fit on behalf of the PEOPLE!

CherBear March 9th, 2010 11:49 am ET
Come on, Romney – get a clue! Not everyone likes a party. It’s the individual running that counts.

ivan March 9th, 2010 11:47 am ET
hose Republicans who thought they could co-opt the Tea Party and make it subservient to the Republica Party have created a monster, who is about to devour them.

PacificView March 9th, 2010 11:47 am ET
OK Tea Partiers you’ve had your fun, now buckle down and be a good little Republican.

Dave March 9th, 2010 11:46 am ET
Romney, you’re such a tool. if you get any closer to the lights, I think you’d melt.

David March 9th, 2010 11:45 am ET
What people like Mr. Romney don’t understand is that the Tea Party movement is not about political parties. They are people who are tired of govt. spending, tired of corruption, tired of looking the other way on illegal immigration, tired of giving our country away. It matters not whether the politician is a republican or democrat, it is the ideas and policies that they advocate which matter.

Christopher March 9th, 2010 11:40 am ET
Perhaps the Republican party isn’t getting it. There are conservatives out there that do not share the same social values as those that have corrupted the party. There are plenty of us that are fiscally conservative that want nothing to do with a party that is run by the Christian Coalition or Religious Right.

ACinCincy March 9th, 2010 11:36 am ET
From the article: “The former Massachusetts governor on Monday warned the grassroots movement not to mount third party efforts in general elections, which he said would siphon votes from Republican nominees.” Imagine if Abraham Lincoln had followed this “advice”… Whigs and Democrats were the Big 2 back when he made an unlikely bid as a Republican. Also, I support the Tea Party movement. Everyone I know (Democrat or Republican) believes that the current way government is operated as we know it is BROKEN. At least someone is making an effort to provide alternatives. GO THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES! DON’T GIVE UP!

Hendrik March 9th, 2010 11:35 am ET
This will be the defining moment regarding the true nature of the Tea Partiers. If they listen to Romney they were never anything but Republicans in disguise.

Greg Butko March 9th, 2010 11:34 am ET
Who is Mitt Romney to lecture the Tea Party Movement? Where does he get off thinking that the Tea Parties have some allegiance to the Republican Party? The reason for the Tea Parties was to show rejection of the globalist, special-interest candidates being run by both the Democrat and Republican parties. I personally so no common ground between the current Republican Party, and the Tea Parties. The GOP leadership has contempt for our Constitution, and Constitutional government is what is driving the Tea Parties. The GOP supports continued theft through inflation and the Federal Reserve. The GOP supports undeclared wars around the globe, and the destruction of our civil rights. The GOP supports the phony wars on terrorism and drugs, as well as efforts to disarm the American people. And the GOP refuses to enforce our immigration laws. In my opinion, until the GOP purges its current leadership, and repudiates the globalists New World Order, and starts promoting Constitutional government, it is vital that we run and support third party candidates. The days of voting for the lesser of two evils is over.

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Obviously a publicity stunt from WND but what the heck, works for me. From wnd.com dated 03/09/2010 entitled, “Targeted: Does this photo of Barack Obama go too far?“:

“Provocative.”

“Unapologetic.”

“Eye-catching.”

The adjectives used to promote WorldNetWeekly – WND’s latest innovation – ring ever more accurately as the online news magazine’s latest cover is currently igniting emotion and outrage across blog posts and online forums.

At 400 animated, interactive pages, WorldNetWeekly’s online news-magazine experience requires at least electronically “thumbing” through the free issue to realize just what a reading revolution it really is. But that hasn’t stopped many in the blogosphere from judging it by its cover.

Featuring President Obama with a tomato splattered squarely on his nose, the image signifies not just a thorough booing of him and his policies but is positioned to liken him to common clown costuming. That latter point is reflected in the issue’s headline, “Enough clowning: Americans rejecting ‘greatest snow-job on Earth.’”

Such symbiotic satire was lost on those who projected criminal intents onto the tomato.

At CrooksandLiars.com “Liberalicious” asked, “Is it just me or does that tomato splat in the graphic look like a bullet hole?”

Under the headline “Advertising For Obama’s Assassination,” many at FreakOutNation.com reacted in ways that lived up to the site’s name.

“This picture isn’t even subtle enough to be called subliminal,” posted AlphaAnt1. “It is what it is, loud and clear, the assassination of President Obama.”

The “psychic violence” moved one poster – who “almost never” cries – to tears.

“If there is no organized group that will expose WorldNetDaily for their grotesque inhumanity,” wrote Aviva Gabriel, “then it’s up to individuals (like me, like you) to organize and take this garbage behavior back to the gutter where it belongs.”

Censoring the press was a suggested solution. “Freedom of the press or not,” BobbeeJ opined, “that was created when people had a conscience … these people do not.”

President George W. Bush was often likened to Adolf Hitler by some on the left.

“We had EIGHT LONG YEARS of Duh-bya Bush and didn’t have to see anything like that, but we have to look at crap like this after only one year of Obama?!!” exclaimed Will. “That’s the basic difference between the left and the right. We hated Bush but never wished him dead.”

A writer named “Anok” concurred, writing, “This type of imagery never even graced the pages of magazines, newspapers, general media or the like – which is telling. We didn’t need to be upset by it because, even as upset at Bush as we were, we never stooped that low to begin with.”

Will and Anok may not remember the proliferation of venomous anti-Bush commentary. In one version of her video for “American Life,” Madonna lobbed a grenade at a Bush lookalike. And the 2006 film “Death of a President” features a sniper shooting Bush in Chicago – which one poster to FreakOutNation.com recalled.

“Melodrama much?” wrote Evan. “How an image of Obama with a tomato thrown on it is supposedly promoting his assassination is totally beyond me. I didn’t see anyone on the left decrying a movie made about the assassination of George Bush, or books fantasizing about the assassination of George Bush, or protesters hanging or burning effigies of Bush or people calling for his assassination. What do they freak out about? A tomato. A rotten tomato for a rotten president.”

At the website for MSNBC personality Ed Schultz, Merickson wrote, “Throwing rotten vegetables at politicians is a time honored American practice that has fallen out of use. Its (sic) not a death threat. Rude & disrespectful, but not a death threat. (As the cover suggests, accuracy when tossing out accusations is important.)”

Even an open WND critic at Digg.com tried to quell the frenzy.

“Look, I hate WND as much as the next person, but it’s a fricken’ (sic) tomato,” posted flip2trip. “It doesn’t look like a bullet hole because there is a tomato where the hole should be. Quit trying to manufacture outrage.”

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Sean Penn is about as brainless a human being can be and still breathe, grunt, walk, and chew gum. Penn is obviously a Marxist suck-up, which of course proves my brainless human being assertion. Long ago we stopped watching anything being passed down Hollywood’s GI tract which had Penn associated with it. Repeated sucking up to Hugo Chavez goes beyond the pale. Know thine enemy.

From foxnews.com dated 03/08/2010 entitled, “Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez ‘Dictator’“:

First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.

Penn, appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.

“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”

It was just the beginning of a busy weekend for Penn. When asked on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” about those who question his motives for his humanitarian work in Haiti, he said:

“Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.”

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ senior judicial analyst, said the same constitutional protection that applies to journalists also applies to Penn, who can say pretty much anything he wants in the “political arena” — aside from an immediate incitement of violence.

“What he is saying is protected, as wacky and weird as it is,” Napolitano told FoxNews.com. “But the substance of what he’s saying would be absolutely contrary to the First Amendment, which fully protects all political opinions. So if a journalist says Dick Cheney should go to jail, the journalist is privileged to say that.”

“Mr. Penn is calling for a communist-like regime in which journalists who criticize the government are sent to jail because of that criticism,” Napolitano added. “That is utterly un-American and hasn’t happened here since the Civil War.”

Lis Wiehl, a former federal prosecutor and Fox News legal analyst, echoed Napolitano’s comments, saying Penn’s statement is “completely counter” to First Amendment protections.

“Unless you’re yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, i.e. stirring up immediate violence, you have the right as an American to voice your opinion, even if others (including Penn) disagree,” she wrote FoxNews.com. “And, yes, Penn has the right to voice his opinion as well — that’s the beauty of the First Amendment. And, don’t forget, truth is an absolute defense to any defamation or slander lawsuit.”

According to a study by the Business and Media Institute, news coverage pertaining to Chavez from 1998 to 2006 found the Venezuelan president’s human rights record was mentioned in only 10 percent of stories, and he was described as a leftist in 12 percent of stories.

Napolitano, meanwhile, said Penn apparently prefers “thuggery” to democracy.

“In light of his ignorance of freedom of speech, his wishing rectal cancer on his detractors, and his embracing tyrants, Mr. Penn obviously prefers thuggery to democracy,” he continued. “Were he free to do so, he’d be a tyrant. Now we’ll see if he can get me jailed for saying that!”

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We own a Toyota RAV4 and a Ford F250. As I have stated before in Red Pills, it will be a cold day in hell before I buy a GM machine as long as they are ‘Government Motors’. I was not surprised to see the accusation leveled by Toyota on GM but I was surprised that GM has not yet become similarly aggressive with Ford (at least I haven’t heard about it.) Government in the market place leads to all sorts of abuses including graft, restraint of trade, and use of power and tax payer funds to obtain advantage…ultimately at our expense.

From radio.woai.com dated 03/08/2010 by Jim Forsyth entitled, “Toyota Dealers Fight Back Against “Predatory Tactics” by GM“:

The head of the Toyota National Dealer Council today blasted the federal government for using ‘taxpayer dollars’ to fund incentive campaigns to lure customers away from Toyota, and accused GM of using ‘fear’ in an attempt to lure away its customers, 1200 WOAI news reports.

“As an American citizen, it is tough on my part to pay tax dollars to an entity that can turn around and use those tax dollars to get my fellow American citizens to not do business with me,” Paul Atkinson, who owns Atkinson Toyota in Bryan Texas, and is President of the dealer council, tells 1200 WOAI news.

Atkinson says when General Motors was going through bankruptcy last Spring, Toyota behaved in a ‘compassionate way,’ and did not use GM’s uncertain future as a ‘lever to steal its customers.’ But he says now that GM has been strengthened with taxpayer money, it is using ‘low blow tactics’ to hurt his business.

“The government owns 60% of General Motors, and these American tax dollars are funding business activity for one company, with the express goal of negatively impacting another company,” Atkinson said today.

Atkinson specifically cited GM dealer mailings which he says have been targeted at existing Toyota owners. He called it ‘a nationwide predatory advertising campaign that uses fear in an attempt to lure customers away from Toyota and Lexus dealers.’

“There are some mailing lists which have been given to dealers, and there have been some mailers, in fact, I’ve seen several of them,” he said. “On the outside of the envelope it says ‘important Toyota recall information enclosed.’ But when you open up that envelope, it is nothing more than an advertisement trying to get you to come trade your Toyota in at a GM store.”

Atkinson calls those ‘predatory incentives,’ which he says should not be allowed to be employed by a company which is majority owned by US taxpayers against another company which employs hundreds of thousands of Americans.

“We will be sending letters out to Senators and Congressmen, as well as (Transportation) Secretary (Ray) LaHood,” Atkinson said. “It’s really unfair that American citizens have to fund this.”

Atkinson also suggested that the recent Congressional hearings and federal government concern over Toyota’s accelerator problems may have been sparked less by a desire to protect the public, and more by a desire to protect the federal government’s investment in GM.

“There is a list of twenty manufacturers on these recall lists, and Toyota is number 17,” he said. “If we’re having hearings on number 17, what are they doing about numbers 1 through 16?”

Atkinson said business at Toyota dealerships was down 10% in January and down 8% in February, but the dealerships are standing behind Toyota products.

“Despite all of this, we outsold all of the other manufacturers in February except for one,” he said. “Let’s get these numbers in perspective. Sure, our sales are down, but we are outselling a lot of other brands.”

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Today a friend sent me an email alert which was dated February 26, 2010 and apparently written by Phyllis Schlafly via the EagleForum.org. I checked the authorship via the same article being displayed on townhall.com though it was dated 02/23/2010.

I then dug into the facts a bit further and it seems that Phyllis, no matter how much I like her, is actually using some of the same tactics as championed by that nasty, smelly radical, Saul Alinsky. How do I know? Because I am reading Saul’s book, “Rules for Radicals”. Actually I am gaining insights that I previously did not have. Even though I take issue with Saul on a number of points, he is correct (IMHO) in a number of his assertions.

One of those assertions is that just about any means justifies the end. Obviously one of ends that Schlafly is working towards is the vilification of Obama and his leftist minions. To that end, Phyllis appears willing to stretch the truth. Saul, if I have read him correctly, would argue that is not bad. In fact the same was done during our revolutionary war when the British were vilified when in fact they were maybe (Saul’s numbers) 60 percent ‘bad’ and 40 percent ‘good’. Saul opines it is difficult to rouse the populace in a cause if you state, “Well, shucks, the Brits aren’t all bad, only 60 percent bad.” The firebrand Samuel Adams was one of the leaders of the revolution but when it came to Shay’s Rebellion against the newly minted United States of America government, Adams wanted those rebels put down hard. That is, it’s OK to rebel against the British but when the new government was instituted which included Adams, you can’t rebel against them. Now I know it gets a bit more complicated than just that and we could go another layer deeper but suffice it to say, when finding the means to accomplish an end, do not throw away good ole propaganda as a tool.

Thus in Schlafly’s piece there is a hue and cry regarding a teacher in Perry High School recruiting students for Obama’s Organizing for America. All this when in fact it was only one teacher going against school policy. So I ask that you read Schlafly’s piece then the subsequent article from foxnews.com which sheds a little different light on the truth.

I guess what troubles me is that Phyllis was willing to use half-truths to mobilize hostility against Obama and his minions/policies, just as the Left does against the Right and Bush. If you have been paying attention, I oppose dinglebarry with all that I write in Red Pills but I also, possibly naively, believe that we have to keep to the truth. The truth regarding dinglebarry is bad enough. So the sweet looking grand old lady of the Right has, in my mind, shed her ’sweet’ adjective. Maybe she’s been at this war too long? But I am glad she’s on “our” side.

From a 03/09/2010 email from a friend by Phyllis Schlafly dated 02/26/2010 entitled, “Organizing Kids for Obama”:

President Barack Obama’s budget has added more than $100 billion of federal taxpayers’ money to what is called “education,” so that means it will be spent by alumni of the Saul Alinsky school of radical community organizing and/or the Chicago Democratic machine. We’re indebted to Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com for exposing the shocking use of some of these funds.

Obama is using the public schools to recruit a private army of high-schoolers to “build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda.” We now know that Obama’s “agenda” is to move the United States into European-style Socialism.

Obama’s internet outreach during his campaign, Obama for America , has been renamed Organizing for America (OFA) in order to recruit students to join a cult of Obama and become activists for his goals. Geller discovered that the teacher of an 11th-grade government class in Massillon , Ohio , passed out the sign-up sheet, headed with Obama’s “O” logo, asking students to become interns for Organizing for America .

These interns will be given an intensive nine-week training course using comprehensive lesson plans. Assigned readings include Saul Alinsky’s notorious Rules for Radicals, Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy by the left-wing activist Rinku Sen, and particular sections of Dreams From My Father dealing with Obama’s days as a community organizer in Chicago .

Republican students will be filtered out of the intern program by requiring applicants to answer questions that reveal their politics. One example is, “What one issue facing our country is important to you and why?”

Geller said the purpose of this training to become Alinsky-style community organizers, is “of course, to elect more Democrats.” The internship program is specifically geared to get the kids working in the 2010 elections.

The sign-up sheet for Organizing for America starts with this instruction: “Organizing for America , the successor organization to Obama for America , is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change.” The application explains that this national internship program is “working to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a reality in 2010 and beyond.”

This is not the first time Obama has tried to enlist schoolchildren into an Obama cult. Last fall, the instructions mailed to every school by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan added a very political dimension to Obama’s speech that was broadcast to public school children on September 8.

Geller explained the extensive political dimension of the new intern program. The OFA student interns will be trained in the goals and language of the left: “anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, [Bill] Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, soft-on-jihad, and illegal immigration.”

Another item on OFA’s reading list is The New Organizers by Zack Exley. It brags about “an insurgent generation of organizers” inside the Obama campaign that has “almost without anyone noticing … built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people’s organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.”

The ten-page “National Intern Organizer Curriculum” is very specific in describing the tactics that interns will be taught. It includes these components: “Using Story as an Organizing Tool, Building Relationships and Building Teams, Mobilizing to Win On the Issues (issue advocacy), Health Care Service Project.”

Passage of Obamacare is one of this intern project’s major goals. The curriculum promises to provide “insight on the strategy and plan behind the health care campaign” and “further motivate them to work on the issue.”

The sign-up sheet states that the “purpose” of training these students is “to build community” among the interns and teach them “to be leaders in OFA’s organizing work.” After all, Barack Obama knows a great deal about being a community organizer; that was his only job before he got into politics.

Job prospects may be bleak for many Americans, but they will be rosy for alumni of Obama’s intern program. After the students have been fully trained as Alinsky-style community organizers, they will be eligible for jobs in Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, or Learn and Serve America.

Those three so-called “service” organizations, which annually dole out millions of dollars to left-wing groups, are overseen by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The U.S. Senate just confirmed this Corporation’s new chief executive, Patrick Corvington, who was a senior official of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has given over a million and a half dollars to the ACORN network of organizations.

From foxnews.com dated 02/03/2010 entitled, “Ohio High School Accused of Promoting Political Agenda in Classroom“:

An Ohio high school teacher’s giving students job applications for a Democratic organization that included suggested radical reading material has raising concerns of indoctrination in the classroom.

The government teacher at Perry High School in Massillon, Ohio, handed out forms recruiting students to intern for Organizing for America, a grassroots organization with direct ties to the Democratic National Committee and the successor organization for Obama for America.

Included on the forms was a suggested reading list that included Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and Organizing for America’s mission to build on the “movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change.”

No Republican equivalent was offered to the students, according to Perry schools’ Superintendent John Richard.

In an interview with FoxNews.com on Wednesday, Richard acknowledged that distribution of the forms violated school policy and said they were never submitted to school administrators for approval, but the teacher remains on the job.

“We don’t take sides politically, nor should we, and we certainly would not support students being indoctrinated politically or religiously or anything along those lines,” he said.

Richard said the social studies teacher, whom he did not name, had no intent of proselytizing his students and was “given the material by another person.” Richard said he “addressed” the issue with the teacher, though he declined to say what disciplinary action, if any, had been taken.

“The teacher should have looked through this material,” Richard said.

Reaction to the forms, first posted on the conservative blog site, Atlas Shrugs, has sparked national outrage, particularly in the blogosphere. Some bloggers called it a “sick intrusion” and said it was nothing more than an attempt to indoctrinate students, while another, Elliott Cook, wrote: “This is all voluntary!!! No one is forcing anyone to do anything they don’t want to do.”

One blogger claiming to be the parent of a girl in the class, wrote that students were given no option of signing up for a Republican internship.

“The only handout was this one,” blogger Gracenearing wrote. “My daughter even asked if there was anything else.”

The school also has been bombarded with e-mails calling for Richard to be fired, along with Perry High School principal Don Gregoire.

“I’ve been told to go apply in Cuba for a job,” Richard said, adding that angry e-mailers have labeled him a communist.

In a Feb. 1, 2010, letter obtained by FoxNews.com, Gregoire apologized to parents, saying the incident was “not acceptable.”

“We apologize that your son or daughter was given this information without approval,” Gregoire wrote. “This error in following Board Policy has been addressed and has been clearly communicated to staff.”

Click here to read the letter.

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Since the census forms are due to be mailed this month and because of the confusion over the 10-question census form and the American Community Survey (ACS) I thought Rep. Ron Paul’s article particularly timely.

From voteronpaul.com dated 03/08/2010 by Rep. Ron Paul entitled, “Ron Paul on the Census“:

Last week Congress voted to encourage participation in the 2010 census. I voted “No” on this resolution for the simple, obvious reason that the census- like so many government programs- has grown far beyond what the framers of our Constitution intended. {We can depend on Rep. Ron Paul!} The invasive nature of the current census raises serious questions about how and why government will use the collected information. It also demonstrates how the federal bureaucracy consistently encourages citizens to think of themselves in terms of groups, rather than as individual Americans. The not so subtle implication is that each group, whether ethnic, religious, social, or geographic, should speak up and demand its “fair share” of federal largesse.

Article I, section 2 of the Constitution calls for an enumeration of citizens every ten years, for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats among the various states. In other words, the census should be nothing more than a headcount. It was never intended to serve as a vehicle for gathering personal information on citizens.

But our voracious federal government thrives on collecting information. In fact, to prepare for the 2010 census state employees recorded GPS coordinates for every front door in the United States so they could locate individuals with greater accuracy! Once duly located, individuals are asked detailed questions concerning their name, address, race, home ownership, and whether they periodically spend time in prison or a nursing home – just to name a few examples.

From a constitutional perspective, of course, the answer to each of these questions is: “None of your business.” But the bigger question is – why government is so intent on compiling this information in the first place?

The Census Bureau claims that collected information is not shared with any federal agency; but rather is kept under lock and key for 72 years. It also claims that no information provided to census takers can be used against you by the government.

However, these promises can and have been abused in the past. Census data has been used to locate men who had not registered for the draft. Census data also was used to find Japanese-Americans for internment camps during World War II. Furthermore, the IRS has applied census information to detect alleged tax evaders. Some local governments even have used census data to check for compliance with zoning regulations.

It is not hard to imagine that information compiled by the census could be used against people in the future, despite claims to the contrary and the best intentions of those currently in charge of the Census Bureau. The government can and does change its mind about these things, and people have a right to be skeptical about government promises.

Yet there are consequences for not submitting to the census and its intrusive questions. If the form is not mailed back in time, households will experience the “pleasure” of a visit by a government worker asking the questions in person. If the government still does not get the information it wants, it can issue a fine of up to $5000.

If the federal government really wants to increase compliance with the census, it should abide by the Constitution and limit its inquiry to one simple question: How many people live here?

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