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Derek Batchelor’s photo, Unexplainable, Inexcusable

No one has been able to explain to me why young men…… and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense.

On Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

This is an idea that we should address.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform… in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

If each person that receives this will post it on their wall, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ..”

Now, what are you going to do about it? Read and delete, or work for reform? Share on the wall of EVERY congressman, representative, governor, the white house!!!!! Pass it around!!! Make calls, send fax’s and email’s……………

 

POLITCAL SPERMICIDAL INFORMATION VS. JUST THE FACTS PLEASE

Almost daily we see-read, and watch insulting false-incorrect spermicidal information flowing out of mouths of Republicans and the Fox News types. We send that info to each other and post the shocking lies in disbelief them – Republicans and the Fox News types that blatantly say what they say.

When also see the posted fact checks, such as who is really on welfare and who really the welfare president, Mr. George Bush was.
We know who really increased the debt, and increased taxes, three times more than any other president that would be Mr. Ronald Reagan. For the record Obama has raised it the least.
We know eight years of Bush policies all the way up to him leaving office in January of 2009 caused the loss of two million jobs. Please somebody tell Newt to stop saying Obama lost two millions jobs. Fact under Obama in 2009- 2010 only 300,000 jobs were lost, but it open to debate did Obama or did Bush residue cause those jobs to go away. Fact unemployment is back at 8% and going under from a high of 10% This is coming from a man who lost his job too, and still looking …hey in-box me if you need me…

Not many News service will call-out the lies the Republican machine will roll out, and they will say when caught in a lie … “Oh that’s not what I meant.”, but wait here is what we need to do … send facts to those conservative Republicans and Fox News types, on the fence swing voters and so called independents friends you might happen to have.

I know there is the worry you’ll end up debating someone who would rather eat his or her own boggers than submit to the facts. Well no you don’t have to, just send them the facts and then act like they do, ignore them. You can lead an elephant-ass to water but you can’t make-em drink.

I always send them correct information to them, even when I know they most likely will reject the truth because the truth was not they wanted. We, our, people of conciseness of any color or race, and religion know the facts, we know where we are in life, but they- Republicans and the Fox News TYPES DON’T KNOW THEIR ASS IS IN THE POOR HOUSE AND WHO PUT THEM THERE, but hey…by chance if you keep sending them the facts it’s the same liars who they voted for, you might get one to pull the head out of a hole.

Even though Fox News screams loud they are only talking to the same people who choose to be ignorant of facts and fall easy to being led by a corporation of elitist. Most Americans have figured out that is a circus show of easily proven lies.

What we have to be so-much more careful of and aware is WE CAN JADE OURSELVES WHEN WE PREACH TO THE CHOIR. The message we know need to get into the ears of the on fence swing voters and so called independents friends you might happen to have. Why, here is a lie easy to believe in for them. Black voters are the only reason Obama is the President….WRONG…. if not one Black person voted he still would have won…Fact

SEND THEM THE FACTS OFTEN:

Fact:
36 million Americans relied on food stamps. More than 24 million of them were white, 8 million were African American and 6 million were Hispanic of any race. Of the 46 million people living in poverty in America in 2010, the U.S. census revealed that 31 million were white.

Fact: there are only 35 million Black people and of the 8 million living in poverty 6 million are children.

Fact: That state Iowa is 96% white…let me repeat 96% white and has the one of the highest crimes rate percentage in America… will Fox News ever tell you that, I think not!

Fact:
Of the 49 million people without health insurance coverage, 37 million were white; 8 million were African American. Latinos of every race and Asian Americans represented the remaining largest ethnic groups.

Fact:
White Americans, poor and middle-class alike receive the vast majority of tax-funded government assistance programs, from monthly assistance to Social Security to food stamps.

Fact:
TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), the program that provides aid to single mothers, is the most well-known welfare program, but the truth is that Social Security and Medicare are also social welfare services, funded by tax dollars. To that end, nearly 70 percent of all benefits of these programs go to white people. In fact, since African Americans have lower life expectancy, many work and pay into the Social Security and Medicare programs through their tax dollars, only to have white Americans, who have a longer life expectancy, benefit from the income they’ve left behind.

Fact:
Child Poverty in Rural America,” reveals that 57 percent of rural poor children were white and 44 percent of all urban poor children were white.

And for the person who will doubt these facts out of denial of going to look them up themselves. These figures were taking under George Bush and Obama

Kind of funny when you think of it, the poor whites that hate Obama will follow Fox News and never hear this. Yet the same people they vote for are the one keeping them down…

Kind of funny, Black people are stereotyped for saying “The Man Is Keeping Me Down”, and several of the Repubs running for office has said Blacks are the Welfare users, and we look for a hand outs, but the truth is it the other way around.

Kind of Funny, those poor white folk lost many of their blue collar jobs because people like Mitt sold their companies and shut the door on them.

It will be more of the same race baiting this time around of stupid ignorance that will keep the liars out of office with simple minded … “I don’t know what Obama is and where he was born, and he has ties to terrorist, and he not American enough type of crap and that train of thought will keep him office because there is enough intelligent people of all races, and religions who will reject it as they did in 2008
Family Values Obama or Newt
For the people because I come from the people Obama or Mitt
Has Obama made some mistakes yes, but he has not started two wars and then didn’t pay for them and left America broke and Fox blames him for it. No need to answer unless you got the facts

Alvin L.A. Horn an independent minded voter not owned by anyone but by the truth.

FactCheck.org : Newt’s Faulty Food-Stamp Claim
factcheck.org
Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.

Here is more info for you
Catholic leaders tell Gingrich, Santorum ‘to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes’
floridaindependent.com
Catholic leaders issued a letter Friday1/20/2012 to GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, themselves Catholics, urging them to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.

Thank you,  Mr. Alvin L.A. Horn for this article

SOCIAL SECURITY – WTF???

Who Gets Your Social Security When You Die?????

As the Sister Says, Wake up!!!!!!

—KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS READ IT…..
… SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT….

THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN
THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!!!!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?????????????

This was sent to me, I am forwarding it because it does touch a nerve
in me. This is another example of what Rick Perry called
“TREASON in high places” !!! Get angry and pass this on!

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your
employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you
averaged only $30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500.

If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your
employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays
on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you’d have
$892,919.98.

If you took out only 3% per year, you’d receive $26,787.60 per year and
it would last better than 30 years (until you’re 95 if you retire at
age 65) and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on
deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a
lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than
Bernie Madhoff ever had.

Entitlement my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t make my benefits some
kind of charity or handout!!

Congressional benefits —- free healthcare, outrageous retirement
packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid
sick days, now that’s welfare, and they have the nerve to call my
social security retirement entitlements?

We’re “broke” and can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans,
Homeless

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile , and Turkey, Japan,
And now Pakistan ……home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of
DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ receive no aid nor do
they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations
pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$’s and Tons of Food to Foreign
Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most
of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s
time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did
the government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the
*GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn’t it?

VODKA CARAMEL FRIED CHICKEN – whoo-hoo!

Very simple to prepare, and afterwards will make you slap yo Mama, lol lol

Vodka Caramel Fried Chicken

ingredients:  1. Cut up chicken,   2. 1  1/2 cups of Milk,   3. 1  2/3 cups of Vodka Caramel,    4. 1 tsp of Sea Salt,   5.  1 tsp of sugar,    6.  2 eggs beaten,   7.  1 tsp of Black Pepper.

Ok here we go, such fun

Place cut up chicken is a plastic container that we will cover later.  Mix all the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl.  Pour liquid over chicken in plastic container and cover.  Put in fridge for 3 hrs.

Ok, now we are ready to cook this fantastic chicken.

Make sure each piece of chicken is covered in flour, place in a skillet of 2 cups of Olive Oil and 1 stick of butter.  Cook over a med-high temperature until golden brown.  Now don’t start snacking until all is done, you won’t want to eat the rest of your meal.   Feeds 4 folks.

Added attraction – Add spinach, carrots, or corn, or a fresh salad to compliment your meal.

(recipe by Lennis)

 

                               

Forecast for 2012 – hold on it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

BUSINESS -   PART  I

Ponzi Scheme, banks  here and across europe.  The biggest Ponzi Scheme is our very own Federal Reserve, the biggest pimp of  them all.  This even was brought together to assist the sovereign States, and U.S. with money advantages.  Like a short-term loan.  Instead it turned into which USA is so good at, power, ego, greed.  Now they tell us citizens what we can buy and how to spend it.  Wake up folks.  Madoff tried to tell the truth, after he got caught (to a certain degree).  Federal Reserve contractor is the Illuminati, or updated SCAN or Element 15.  Federal Reserve is run by the billionaires not millionaires.  Same as the Vatican ok – one is religious, and one isn’t.  Private hierarchy run to control the masses.

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I.R.S. is another illegal organization.  There are folks living here in the USA and do not pay federal taxes – WHY?  Because they know the  sovereign laws of this nation.  It may take several times in court to win the battle, but you will win, because the IRS   is an illegal organization.  USA government does NOT want their citizens to know which causes you to jump thru hoops, but worth it in the end if you can sustain.  Never pay Federal Income Tax again, no matter how much you work or work less.

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In less than 10 years the Federal Reserve will no longer exist, which is a good thing.  Run by the rich and famous.  Was set up by the millionaires, then billionaires.

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The unemployment rate is more like 22% across the nation, not that B.S. 8.2% they are trying to get the public to believe and digest “really”?  Why is this so high, glad you asked.  a. Military – returning from Iraq, and Afghanistan.  b. College Grads 2011 looking for employment.  c.  Citizens no longer eligible for unemployment, and it’s only going to get worse than better folks.

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This year we will feel a great depression.  Unless we go to war with Iran to build our economy back up.  Damn shame we must go into a depression, mentally, spiritually, and physically to turn this nation around.  Thank you Congress for working with the President to make our nation better.  Recession is just a thing of the past, we have surpass the ideology a long time ago.

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Sorry it sounds so gloom and doom, but these are things I’m seeing right now for the future.  Hope the citizens of our nation rise up and see what is going on around them.  Question your Senators, and Representatives what are they doing to  insure a future we can live in harmony.

ALSO:  Look for the BANKS TO HAVE ANOTHER HOLIDAY!  Hope you have a safe at home to put some money away.  Because access to what you have in the bank will be very limited, to what you can take out during the “holiday”.

OL777O

Newt Vs. Romney!: Can Either Beat Obama?

So that leaves us with Romney and Gingrich. That’s not exactly a snoozefest, but it isn’t a barn burner either. The issue here is not so much who will win the republican ticket. Its about who blows it first! Who will say something that  can be seen as ignorant, racist or homophobic? They are both driving their campaigns like freight trains, headed straight into one another. Its like political chicken.  Who do you think will move out of the way first?

That depends. Newt Gingrich is the Tupac Shakur of the Republican Party. He is smart, fearless, dedicated to his cause, has more friends than you think and will go out of his way to hurt your feelings to win. He can also be reckless in his speech which gives Romney a shot.

Gingrich has recently been quoted saying things that seem to criminalize the poor:

“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.

Newt Gingrich has a long history of saying things that anger and rile up all kinds of people. He speaks in ways that compels everybody to take notice. Today on CNN former President Bill Clinton said that he predicted Newt’s comeback in the polls and added how “resilient” he is.

Mitt Romney always looks like he should be doing better than he is doing. He is dangerous mainly because he got a long history in politics. He knows the terrain well. Romney is well connected. But he talks like your old uncle at the Christmas dinner who has never seen an ipad.

He’s got the entire package of the standard republican: Old, rich, White male.

The truth is, once you scratch beyond that he’s simply not that interesting. Its hard to find a statement from Romney that makes you upset. Even things that might easily rile you up if other people were saying them, just make you shrug your shoulders when Romney is on the mic. If you sprinkle his shameless flip-flops on positions from abortion to healthcare, you can see why the Romney camp is worried about Newt.

In 2006, Romney signed a Massachusetts healthcare law that looked a lot like Obama’s federal plan in 2010. When asked what he thought about Obama’s healthcare plan he said “Obamacare is bad news.” This hurt Romney immensely.  It was clear he was hating on the person (Obama) and not the plan.

I believe Romney much less likely to say something wrong though. Romney is much more likely to get busted doing something wrong. Recently the Daily Beast said that Nancy Pelosi is investigating reports of Romney improperly dumping records of his Governorship in 2008.

The only thing worse than his flip-flops are his faith. It’s that he’s Mormon and nobody likes that idea inside the party. No matter how we might talk about freedom of religion in this country, serious Christian conservatives have deep reservations about electing Romney because he is a Mormon. That’s an unfortunate American reality.

If I were a betting man, I’d bet Gingrich is more likely to say something that ruins his own election. Romney on the other hand as ripe as he may be for the republican ticket is not memorable enough to matter. There is just not enough fire in his belly. This could force him to go on the offensive to get Newt. Without the charisma and ability to be spontaneous, he could blow it overextending himself in a public forum.

Newt’s fearlessness in speech could easily wilt Romney in the spotlight. He could also make Obama look soft and unprepared. Gingrich has to play hard enough to attract the Tea Party, but not cross the line and alienate the real Republican base. If he does that, he can be a big problem for Romney and eventually Obama. Gingrich’s weakness in public speaking that he is more convincing as a one liner guy. In an open debate, he could embarrass himself to irrevocable levels. Not because he’s not unintelligent. Simply the more you listen to Newt, the harder he is to like- let alone believe.

In this game of political chicken, I’m betting Romney fails first. Either by blundering with an overextended attack, or putting the masses to sleep with boredom. Which of these candidates do you think will win and why? Can either of them beat Obama? Post your thoughts below.

NBA -Season in serious jeopardy, but not lost yet

 

 

 If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.

The union has abandoned its right to negotiate on behalf of the players in order to sue the NBA in antitrust court for massive damages within the next 48 hours, according to its revamped legal team. The players in attendance said the decision was unanimous — that the league had backed them into a corner with ultimatum after ultimatum, even after the players gave back the equivalent of nearly $3 billion over a 10-year deal by lowering their locked-in share of the league’s revenue.

“Collective bargaining has totally failed the players,” said Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s outside counsel and commissioner David Stern’s designated villain.

“We put all our proposals out there, and they were rejected,” union vice president Maurice Evans told SI.com. “There was nothing else to evaluate.”

The move will shift the process from the bargaining room to the court system, jeopardizing the season and infuriating Stern, who said on ESPN minutes after the union’s announcement that players had “been badly misled.” Stern dismissed the union’s move as a negotiating ploy that had been in the works since at least February 2010, when Kessler, in Stern’s telling, informed the commissioner the union would go this route if talks broke down. “We were very, very close,” Stern said, “and the players decided to blow it up.”

So Stern has his public relations victory — the players did it! — and a league on the verge of suffering the most disastrous labor relations outcome (apologies to the NHL) in major professional sports history. Let’s be clear about one thing: Nobody knows what happens now. The season is not lost, despite the doomsday rhetoric, some of which agents on Monday characterized as part of Stern’s plot to scare the players into taking the deal on the table. The union and the league could settle their lawsuit in days, and that settlement would include the guts of the next collective bargaining agreement.

And the court process itself is uncertain, despite the common refrain that the NFL players failed in going down this exact path. Labor experts say the appellate ruling that reinstated the NFL’s lockout, after a lower court halted it, is a tricky opinion that did not provide the complete victory the NFL sought. Legal precedent for this kind of case is thin; the NBA believes it gave itself an advantage by filing a pre-emptive lawsuit over the summer declaring any future dissolution of the union would be a sham, but nothing is certain now.

VETERANS DAY – 11/11/11

 

This is in honor of my Dad, Uncles, Brothers, and  exHusband, for there military services.

 

 

 

 

Rapper and Actor Heavy D Has Died

 

 

We don’t have all the details, but he was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM.

He was 44 years old.

Heavy recently performed at the BET Awards in October

real name: Dwight Meyers

 
EUGENICS – Really?

Eugenics was a scientific theory that grew in popularity during the 1920s.  Eugenicists believed that poverty, promiscuity and alcoholism were traits that were inherited.  Some of America’s wealthiest citizens of the time were eugenicists including Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Procter and Gamble fortune and James Hanes of the hosiery fortune.  Hanes helped found the Human Betterment League which promoted the cause of eugenicists.

Eugenics was practiced in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany[4] and actually, U.S. programs provided much of the inspiration for the latter.[5][6][7] Stefan Kühl has stated the Consensus between Nazi Race Politicians and Eugenicists in Other Countries, including the United States, and pointed that eugenecist understood Nazi policies and measures as the realization of their goals and demands.