While millions in America are without jobs, millions more are losing their homes in foreclosure, the best our Reps can come up with is a bill banning the use of welfare money for alcohol, strip clubs & casinos?

When I see stories like these (See Fox News story below) I move rather quickly into the “Re-elect No One” mode and I get there fast!

Our Reps in DC need to be focusing on three things and three things only:

1. Creating Jobs – millions of them and not the jobs  that are Fed-funded or, jobs that simply add to the Fed payroll

2. Getting our economy in general out of this funk by lowering taxes, pressuring banks to make good loans and getting homeowners back on track and,

3. Getting Obama out of the White House. Remember, he is only a tenant and his lease expires in November of this year. The guy has gotta go!

See this Fox News story to see details of the shame that is our DC representation

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would prevent welfare recipients from spending money on adult entertainment, alcohol or gambling. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Charles Boustany, (R-LA), said that the measure was in response to reports that people had used welfare funds inappropriately.

The Welfare Integrity Now for Children and Families Act of 2011 is part of a package of measures that Republicans want to include in an upcoming agreement to extend the payroll tax cut over the next year. Democrats supported the measure but criticized Republicans for not focusing on larger national problems, such as job creation.

The vote was 395 to 26.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/01/house-passes-bill-to-ban-use-welfare-funds-for-strip-clubs-casinos-and-alcohol/#ixzz1lEBRSRlM

Martin Luther King was, as seen through the eyes of my youth, a “bigger-than-life” figure who I was taught to admire and I guess, to a great degree, I still do. I’ve been asked one hundred times or more in my lifetime to name my heros and King always seemed to make it to the top.

As I have aged, matured and become much more conservative in my outlook, lifestyle and political views,the status I have bestowed on King for a lifetime now fall into question. Why? Even in my youth I always questioned why American Black Muslims always surrounded him. Even in his famous “I Have  Dream” speech from our nation’s capital standing before hundreds of thousands of Americans there they were, an omni-presence in the background – protective? Foreboding? I was never quite sure. Although King preached constantly of “unity”, “tolerance” and “peace” here were these radical anti-white’s by his side.

As I further examine his “record” he was, by all measures, a liberal, a Socialist and if he were alive today I ask; would he be at the forefront of the “radical left” – Obama, Pelosi. Shumer, Reid et al – “leading the charge” for ObamaCare (an oxymoron of a term if there ever was one), welfare, “immigration reform” etc.? I think the answer is “yes”.

In a recent National Review online blog they did bring forth one interesting, and disturbing quote from King that was a part of his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech – Johnson had just defeated Goldwater (Johnson, had just, by the way, “snubbed” King by not congratulating him on the Nobel Prize so as to not anger “southern whites” so close to the election) and here is what King had to say:

“One passage, however, I regard as beneath him — and beneath the occasion of the speech. Johnson had beaten Goldwater the month before, in a landslide. And, in Oslo, King said,

“Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression. The voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right. They defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.”

An older MLK might well have been ashamed of that rhetoric, National Review went on to say, or at least regretted it. For one thing, Goldwater’s view of government and economics was the opposite of fascist: was the classical-liberal view.

So on this day to honor King I have to wonder how would he have viewed Conservatives of today …?

Can anyone see the irony here? A Federal Judge just upheld a Justice Department request that any gun stores making multi-gun sales to buyers report those buys.

The irony – The failed Fast & Furious debacle actually drove just such sales with a more nefarious intention – to force multiple buys knowing the guns were going straight into the hands of criminals. The gun store owners and legal buyers are the victims of this law. Those who died at the hands of the criminals who bought and used the guns in crimes are victims of Holders and Obamas failed policy of which neither of them will be accountable for.

They have now gone so low as to play the race card rather than face the music of their own law breaking ways. See this Fox News.com article for a full story:

A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association’s lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles greater than .22 caliber within five days in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas. “Congress has effected a delicate balance between ATF’s regulation of firearms and the right to privacy held by lawful firearms owners,” Collyer wrote. The ATF’s reporting requirement “did not disturb that balance.”

Gun dealers opposed the requirements, arguing they would effectively require a national registration of gun sales, which they said the ATF did not have the authorization to do. Additionally, the gun industry saw the rules as being a burden to law-abiding retailers and would not have any significant effect on clamping down on the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

The requirement was imposed after ATF acknowledged during congressional hearings it made mistakes in Operation Fast and Furious, a Phoenix-area investigation designed to catch weapons-trafficking kingpins. Agents lost track of many weapons they were trying to track to smuggling ringleaders, and some guns ended up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/13/federal-judge-upholds-reporting-requirement-for-gun-stores/#ixzz1jRGUID7J

Now here’s some real ‘Occupy’ genius – boycott America’s Top 100 Retailers at Christmas (Black Friday). These stores, in case the Occupy Genuis’ didn’t realize, employee hundreds of thousands of American workers – many of whom have that seasonal job to make ends meet. Further, this ‘capitalist engine’ drives the economy. Sure, let’s shut it all down until the lights go off. Now there’s some real, deep thinkig

‘Occupy’-Inspired Campaign Urges Boycott of Black Friday
By Judson Berger
Published November 24, 2011

Occupy Wall Street-inspired protesters are eyeing a new target — Target. And dozens of other companies.

A campaign under the name “Occupy Black Friday” is trying to enlist supporters to boycott just about every major retailer, and quite a few mid-sized ones, the day after Thanksgiving. The protesters are casting a wide net, urging people to demonstrate against the top 100 publicly traded retail stores — a list that includes everything from Wal-Mart to Target to Dick’s Sporting Goods to Dollar Tree.
“The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits,” the group’s Facebook page reads, describing Black Friday as the “one day where the mega-corporations blatantly dictate our actions.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/24/occupy-inspired-campaign-urges-boycott-black-friday/#ixzz1edE8Jjfr

Oh Lord I wish I made this one up!

Osama Bin Laden’s Last FaceBook Post – “BRB – Someone’s At The Door”

Mr. Avery,

To say your actions criticizing the making of care packages for our troops abroad is, at the minimum, despicable would be kind and generous of me to say. Although we in America are all entitled to our opinions, people like you have somehow forgotten who, in fact, makes our ability to sustain those freedoms possible; our very brave men and women in the armed services. If they were not to ‘fight the good fight,’ terrorism would clearly be at our doorstep. One need only to look ‘across the pond’ at our EU neighbors to see what ‘political correctness’ and ‘multiculturalism’ and such ‘anti-nationalism has gotten them; terrorist attacks, anarchy and mayhem in their streets.

The next time you shoot your mouth off against our troops be grateful that no one will threaten you for your hateful speech; no one will attack you or bomb your office; be grateful to those you criticized who fought for you to have that right and your ability to exercise it safely under the umbrella of liberty, freedom and democracy.

‘No one hates war more than the warrior” the old adage says. They are in harm’s way because they believe in freedom and democracy, no because they love war.

Patriotically yours in freedom and liberty,

Stephen

Stephen Xavier
President & CEO
Cornerstone Executive Development Group, Inc.
Durham, NC

If you need someone worthy of your hatred it this guy – Michael Avery – a Law Professor at Suffolk School outside of Boston, MA. In a scathing email blaster he sent to other colleagues at the law school he lambasted fellow Prof. U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Robert Roughsedge.

As reported on FOxNews.com, U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Robert Roughsedge cut ties with Suffolk University in Boston in response to fellow law professor Michael Avery’s defamatory e-mail regarding troops fighting overseas, Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reports.

Avery criticized a school-wide drive to collect supplies for soldiers overseas, writing in an email to colleagues: “I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings.”

Avery, who specializes in constitutional law, also wrote that sympathy for American troops in harm’s way is “not particularly rational in today’s world.”

In response to Avery’s email, Roughsedge submitted his letter of resignation on Monday, telling WTXF in a telephone interview that the e-mail is “hate speech.”

If there every was a man worthy of our anger, is a man like Michael Avery. Sadly, he is representative of, as a recent Harvard study concluded, 95% of academia – extremely liberal, and these are the people shaping the minds of our youth and young adults.

If you are in the mood send Mr. Avery an email or letter. Here is his contact information:

Prof. Michael Avery
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977
e. mavery@suffolk.edu

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/22/law-professor-quits-job-after-colleague-calls-care-packages-for-us-troops/#ixzz1eSgxRkF5

From Fox News Online
Nov 15, 2011

Pro-gay activists have launched a boycott of an Iowa baker who declined to create a wedding cake for a lesbian couple based on her religious beliefs.
Victoria Childress, the owner of Victoria’s Cake Cottage

in Des Moines, has been accused of being anti-gay, homophobic, and a bigot after she refused to make a cake for Trina Vodraska and Janelle Sievers.

Childress told Fox News & Commentary that she made five cakes for the couple to taste – unaware that they were lesbians.

“She introduced herself, and I said, ‘Is this your sister?’” Childress said. “She said, ‘No. This is my partner.’”
At that point Childress told the couple that she would not be willing to make their wedding cake.

“I was straight-forward with them and explained that I’m a Christian and that I have very strong convictions,” she said. “I chose to be honest about it. They said they appreciated it and left. That was all that was said.”

But that wasn’t the end of the story. Soon Childress began receiving hateful emails and then – the local media called.

Vodraska told KCCI that she was offended by Childress. “It was degrading,” she told the television station. “It was like she chastised us for wanting to do business with her. I know Jesus loves me. I didn’t need her to tell me that. I didn’t go there for that. I just wanted to go there for a cake.”

The pair also released a statement, calling the Christian cake baker a “bigot.”
“Awareness of equality was our only goal in bringing this to light, it is not about cake or someone’s right to refuse service to a customer,” they wrote in a statement posted on KCCI’s website.

The Iowa Civil Rights Act was amended in 2007 to include protections for sexual orientation. The couple told the television station they had not decided whether they would file a Civil Rights complaint against the baker. A spokesperson for the Iowa Civil Rights Commission declined to confirm or deny whether they’ve launched an investigation.

State law only allows exemptions from discrimination laws to a bona fide religious institution.
Childress said her decision had nothing to do with discrimination or the lesbian couple.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with them – it was about my convictions,” she stressed. “They can get their cake anywhere.”

Childress said money is not the issue. “I’m being attacked because of my beliefs – my convictions to their lifestyle,” she said.

Childress said she stopped reading the hate mail. “It’s really hard to read things like that,” she said. “I’m a pretty quiet, soft-spoken person. But when I stand up for my convictions against things, I’m very strong when it comes to that.”

She said she’s received a positive reaction from local business owners – along with some cake orders.

“People are telling me they were proud of me for standing up for my beliefs because not many people do that these days,” she said. “Business people are afraid to because they’re afraid to lose money.” But there have been plenty of critics – even among some of her competitors.
“To have someone say, ‘Well, I’m sorry because your lifestyle is different from mine, I’m not going to take care of you and help you. And I don’t want your business,’ it’s wrong on so many levels,” said Dana Schaub, a local baker told KCCI.

Childress said she was simply stating her belief. “I was not rude,” she said. “I was not condescending. It was matter-of-fact. I told them, ‘I’m sorry, I just can’t do that.’”

“As an American, I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name. America gave him the White House, based on the same credentials.”

~Newt Gingrich~

Media Needs To Rename ‘Occupy Wall Street’ ‘Occupy Zuccotti Park’ Until Protesters Move To The ‘Real Street,’ Says Corporate Consultant and Conservative Blogger Stephen Xavier

“With the media swarming around, and passively supporting the “Occupy Wall Street’ movement, it’s time to call the movement out and have a reality check,” says Stephen Xavier, a consultant with numerous Fortune 500 clients to his credit. Xavier, also a conservative blogger – http://www.lifeontheright.com @LifeOnTheRight on Twitter – has been openly critical of the movement since it’s inception nearly one month ago.

“At first the protesters were a small group, with seemingly good intentions, who briefly occupied Wall Street, on a weekend I might add – and were easily chased off by NYPD” says Xavier, “Then, when the heat got turned up, they move to Zuccotti Park, six blocks off Wall Street but kept the ‘Wall Street’ name as their brand.” The move to keep the name is disingenuous at best, says Xavier, keeping the cache of the name known globally while they squat elsewhere is a ruse. “If they had the ‘courage to effect change’ as they say,” Xavier says, “then they’d really occupy Wall Street and cause real interruption.” They won’t, Xavier points out, because if they did take that path, neither Wall Street nor the NYPD would tolerate it for more than a few hours at best.

Multiple celebrity endorsements and celeb ‘walk-on appearances’ aren’t helping their cause either “You can’t have multi-millionaires like rap stars, entertainment moguls and film and TV stars like Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarrandon, for example, showing up to endorse while they make tens of millions for their work. Baldwin, for example, is a spokesman for CapOne, the 7th largest bank in America and they reside on Wall Street.”

“With constant ‘comparisons of ‘Occupy’ to the Tea Party, from both the media and ‘Occupy’, it takes neither a genius or a social scientist to see it’s apples to oranges,” Xavier points out. “The Tea Party organized, protested peacefully, prayed, sang, cleaned up their trash and went home,” says Xavier. “What happened next, however, defined and validated them; they positively influenced a mainstream movement that rocked an election nationally and on every level, right down to City Council Chambers – that’s impact that created positive change that’s hard to argue with.”

“No matter how ‘global’ the US ‘Occupy’ movement claims to be, until they do something dramatic and meaningful, they’re path to irrelevance is just around the corner, says Xavier. And now, with the Black Panthers, American Communist and Socialist Party, The American Nazi Party and the anti-Jewish hate speech we see on YouTube and the news almost daily, a toxic brew is boiling. “It’s been said that we’re known by the company we keep. If true, they need to pick better ‘friends’. At this juncture” says Xavier “‘Occupy’ will either boil over into violence or fade away into irrelevance. Hopefully, it’s the latter and soon.”