400 YEARS OF DRIFTING AWAY

Two hundred and seventeen years ago, the President of the New Republic, George Washington, made a proclamation that We should set aside a day of Thanksgiving to God.
It was the 26th of November,1789.

Prior to that date the Pilgrims had made a Thanksgiving proclamation on June 29th, 1676, and it took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

The governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving.

The proclamation concluded with the following words: "The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."
The language is the same as was used in those early days of the New Americans, and it shows that despite being beset by disease, failed crops and severe weather. The New Americans wanted to thank God for their survival.
The people who would come to be known as the Pilgrims (known as the Pilgrim Fathers in the UK) were brought together by a common belief in the ideas promoted by Richard Clyfton, parson at All Saints' Parish Church in Babworth, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, between 1586 and 1605. This congregation held Separatist beliefs comparable to nonconforming movements not in communion with the Church of England). Unlike conforming Puritan groups who maintained their membership in and allegiance to the Church of England, Separatists held that their differences with the Church of England were irreconcilable and that their worship should be organized independently of the trappings, traditions and organization of a central state church.
The Separatists had long been controversial. Under the 1559 Act of Uniformity, it was illegal not to attend official Church of England services, with a fine of 12d (£.05; 2005 equivalent: about £5) for each missed Sunday and holy day. The penalties for conducting unofficial services included imprisonment and larger fines. Under the policy of this time, Barrowe and Greenwood were executed for sedition in 1593.
Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.
The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement in what was to become the United States of America, the first being Jamestown, Virginia, which was founded in 1607. Their story was to become a central theme in United States cultural identity.
But if you fast forward to today you can readily see that the main reason the Pilgrims came to the "New World", Religion, has been largely discarded and removed from most all forms of our daily lives.
Secular humanism has taken it's place. License has been replaced for freedom. If it feels good, do it. I am O.K. you're O.K. has taken over the real Truth.
Thanksgiving today, is just a day off work, with people of means gorging themselves and watching football. God has been replaced with television and the pursuit of pleasure. It is as if the God of today is the almighty Turkey.
In 1939 President Roosevelt started the movement toward secularizing Thanksgiving when he tried to move the date from the fourth Thursday, as proclaimed by President Lincoln during the Civil War, to the third Thursday of November.
His reason for proposing the change, as verified by his papers in the Presidential library, was to give one more week of Christmas shopping to help quick start the stagnant economy of the depression. He finally settled for the fourth Thursday due to severe pressure of a letter writing campaign against the change. Congress approved the date in 1941.
Tomorrow we all should give thanks to whatever Being you believe has allowed this Country to persevere, despite the threats and calumny that have afflicted Us in the last 400 years.
I myself will give thanks to Almighty God for his blessings and the trials and tribulations that have made us stronger, and I hope all of you will take a moment to reflect on the blessings that we still have and are worth fighting to preserve!

THE REAL THREAT IS IGNORED

In our busy lives we perceive threats to our livelihood, threats to our children, threats to our savings, threats to our freedoms, and the omnipresent threat of global warming.

The media presents an unrelenting cacophony of dire predictions of what CO2 gases we produce will cause in the years to come. But they seldom present articles about the , imminent treat of radical Islam.

This is the one threat that this blogger believes could become an action that happens in the very near future.

The Media and unfortunately too many of our leaders in Washington would have us believe that there are two kinds of Muslims, radical and moderate. The radicals, they say is the small group that is waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as parts of Indonesia.

The rest are law abiding peaceful people who just like us want the freedom to worship their religion in peace.

There are over 2.35 million Muslims living in the United States. Some legally and many illegally. There are over one million in the Greater New York area, and they have a television station devoted to Arab speaking people in that area.

The television station is under investigation for possible subversive activities. The investigators will be looking at the following broadcasts: A broadcast in December included a lengthy speech by Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah. The network later said the speech had not been screened for anti-Israeli content before it was broadcast because no supervisor spoke Arabic.
In another broadcast, Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister and a leader of the hard-line Hamas faction, appeared to support the assertion that the Holocaust was a myth. Also, the network’s coverage of a Holocaust deniers’ conference in Iran has been criticized as insufficiently skeptical.
Another broadcast included printed words at the bottom of the screen that referred to the 1948 founding of Israel by an Arabic phrase meaning “the catastrophe.” The words were discovered and “fixed” after an hour, said Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman.

There are many Muslims who do see, and practice, Islam, as a religion of peace, grace and mercy. And there are clearly many others who do not. Those who want Islam to be a religion of peace have a problem, a conflict, for they cannot follow the inerrant, eternal, unchangeable words of Allah, as recited by Muhammad, as written in the Koran, and also practice Islam as a religion of peace, justice, grace, and mercy, for the Koran demands eternal Jihad, never-ending war against the infidels, until Islam is victorious over all other religions, and all people submit to the supremacy of Islam.

If you don't believe me just go to the Google search and look up what Muhammad did to the men who stole his camels over 700 years ago during his 23 years of preaching as the Prophet of Allah. For those who don't want to spend the time. " A group of eight Bedouin Arabs of the Uki tribe came to Medina and embraced Islam. They stayed with the people of As-Suffa. But the unpleasant climate of the city did not suit them; it 'affected their spleen,' so they went to Muhammad to seek help. Muhammad recommended that they go into the desert in the neighborhood of al-Jammu and drink the milk and urine of his (Mohammed's) milch-camels as medicine. The Bedouins recovered their health despite following this repulsive advice. Then, true to their Bedouin nature, they stole the herd and attempted to escape. The herdsman, called Yasir, pursued the plunderers, but they killed him and took the camels away.
He cut off their arms and legs and impailed them on pointed sticks, then while they died he refused them water.

The Quran itself refers to Muhammad in this way:

Al-Fath 48 (Victory), 29.4
"Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other. Thou wilt see them bow and prostrate themselves (in prayer), seeking Grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, (being) the traces of their prostration."

Thus we have the paradox of the militant Muslims joining in with the Peace Movement here in the United States to further there cause.

How can this be you say? The following is a quote from Dr Walid Phares, the Director of Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, a visiting scholar at the European Foundation for Democracy and the author of the War of Ideas. Dr Phares was one of the architects of UNSCR 1559.

"Jihadism is joined with the antiwar movement even while promoting "holy war," which is the essence of their rissala (mission). The ideology of the Salafists and Khumeinists is to prepare for, mobilize for, incite, and engage in a constant war of jihad against the infidels, who are supposed to be all those who aren't Islamists, including moderate Muslims.
Theoretically, the jihadi connection to the antiwar concept is impossible. But in the realm of reality, it does occur, mainly because of the mutating "pragmatism" of both of the antidemocratic movements. The radical Islamists, as I argued in Future Jihad, have undergone a strategic mutation that has allowed them to coalesce tactically with ideological foes, among them Baathists, Neo-Marxists, and anarchists. The jihadi manipulation of the bourgeois-Neo-Marxist "struggle" has played a central role in the so-called "mass demonstrations" in the West since 2002, and the demonstrations themselves are an important component of the War of Ideas against democracy. On campuses, both in North America and Western Europe, the jihadi-antiwar axis has planted deep roots, and thanks to the skills of university-based anarchist groups, the jihadists have found a cover they can hide under, instead of simply becoming members of the typical Wahhabi-controlled Muslim Student Unions.
The last group, under an international neo-Left umbrella in the West, created the anti-war movement, which is reminiscent of the old Cold War Communist-controlled "peace movement."

Islamists found it easier to insert themselves as partners in an "antiwar" movement than a "peace" movement. Effectively, in the jihadi aqida (doctrine), seeking permanent peace with others is a non issue, given that jihad is constant, regardless of its form. Jihadism cannot accommodate a peace movement in principle."

This I believe is a threat that should be taken seriously by all Americans who value their right to worship or not to worship as the desire. If the Radical followers of the Terrorist movement are successful in Iraq. It won't be long until we here in the United States will find ourselves in the same "pickle" that Holland, France and Spain are presently.

WHO DO YOU BELIEVE? SORE LOSER OR MEN WHO PUT MAN ON THE MOON?

Watching football played by NFL teams on Sundays, during the fall and early months of winter, is a National pastime. I belong to the group of millions of Americans who look forward each Sunday after Church to watching grown men try to maim each other on a green field 100 yards long.

What I have noticed in the last few weeks, is more commercials sponsoring the games by the automobile manufacturers, highlighting their new "hybrid" cars.

Apparently the Auto makers have given in to the pressure of the "Global Warming" crowd. The "Goreites" have convinced a sizable number of Americans that CO2 emissions is causing the Polar ice cap to melt, and endanger not only the Polar Bears but the Human Race.

Even President Bush has succumbed to the "Global Warming" pressures it would seem.

But the profits of doom are not the real climatology experts. They are led by a failed Presidential aspirant, and many other pseudo-climate experts, with a lot of help from the Leftist in every walk of life who would like to see the United States drop back to the middle -ages.

The real scientists have just released a report on the conclusions they reached after going to the site where all this melting of the "ice-cap" is taking place. And the people doing the study are representatives of the group that helped put Americans on the Moon! NASA

The following is a report from James Morison the leader of the scientist who did the study.

" A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming. The team, led by James Morison of the University of Washington's Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, used data from an Earth-observing satellite and from deep-sea pressure gauges to monitor Arctic Ocean circulation from 2002 to 2006. They measured changes in the weight of columns of Arctic Ocean water, from the surface to the ocean bottom. That weight is influenced by factors such as the height of the ocean's surface, and its salinity. A saltier ocean is heavier and circulates differently than one with less salt. The very precise deep-sea gauges were developed with help from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the satellite is NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). The team of scientists found a 10-millibar decrease in water pressure at the bottom of the ocean at the North Pole between 2002 and 2006, equal to removing the weight of 10 centimeters of water from the ocean. The distribution and size of the decrease suggest that Arctic Ocean circulation changed from the counterclockwise pattern it exhibited in the 1990s to the clockwise pattern that was dominant prior to 1990. Reporting in Geophysical Research Letters, the authors attribute the reversal to a weakened Arctic Oscillation, a major atmospheric circulation pattern in the northern hemisphere. The weakening reduced the salinity of the upper ocean near the North Pole, decreasing its weight and changing its circulation. "Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming," said Morison."

The liberals in the Media, Hollywood and the Norwegian NOBEL PRIZE committee would rather you don't read this, but facts and the truth are hard to hide!

HILLARY CLINTON IS NO SNOW WHITE

After last nights Democrat debate in Las Vegas.Charlie Hurst of the New York Post referred to Senator Clinton as "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs".

If ever there was a misnomer, this is a "la la palooza". Comparing the angelic Snow White to Hillary is like comparing a mule to a race horse.

I don't think anyone who lived through the eight years of the Clinton's Presidency could possibly forget the multitude of Scandals that involved both Clinton's or those that were provoked by Hillary Clinton's actions. This story leads to a trail of corrupt campaign funding scandals unlike any in previous political history.

One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.
That total ranks the house with residences in Greenwich, Conn., and Manhattan’s Upper East Side among the top addresses to donate to the Democratic presidential front-runner over the past two years, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of donations listed with the Federal Election Commission.

If that were not enough, consider this fact:Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety.
"It’s not illegal," Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told ABC News. "But, of course, it’s inappropriate and she should return the money. It does raise the appearance that this is payback.
"One can only hope that she wasn’t yet aware of who made the donations," said Sloan.
One of the pardonees who has become a donor to Sen. Clinton is David Herdlinger, a former prosecutor in Springdale, Ark., who, according to press accounts at the time of his pardon pleaded guilty in 1986 to mail fraud after taking bribes to reduce or drop charges against defendants charged with drunken driving offenses.
Now a life and business coach in Georgia, Herdlinger was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001; he donated $1,000 to Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign in August.
Insurance agent Alfredo Regalado, who gave Hillary Clinton $2,000, was pardoned by her husband for failing to "report the transportation of currency in excess of $10,000 into the United States," according to the Department of Justice.
Then there are the allegations of malfeasance and corruption that occurred while Hillary was First Lady:

Hillary Clinton is the first first lady to testify before a grand jury when she was subpoenaed by the Whitewater grand jury.
Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc.
Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.
Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.

Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster's documents in the Rose Law Firm.
Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.
Ordered the removal of documents from Vince Foster's office and told aides to lie about their removal of documents.
Obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.
Lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
Lied to investigators about her involvement in the Castle Grande land flip con.
Ordered the use of the FBI to discredit Travel Office employees.
Lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees.
A Federal judge orders a trial on July 25, 1994 to determine if Hillary Clinton's heath care task force illegally operated in secret.
The White House finally releases more than 2,000 documents on June 25, 1996, relating to the travel office firings, originally requested two years ago by congressional investigators.

If the preceding is not enough to make a mockery out of referring to her as Snow White. Perhaps this item might lead you to believe that Hillary qualifies as the Wicked witch of the North( she was born in Illinois)of the Wizard of Oz.

Former sixties radical David Horowitz says that both Hillary Rodham and Bill Lann Lee, who later became President Clinton’s head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, helped organize the pro-Panther demonstrations at Yale. Others sympathetic to Hillary contend that she was merely among a group of law students who monitored the trial on behalf of the ACLU, which was concerned that law enforcement was violating the civil liberties of members of the party. But Hillary says nothing in her book about even this role.
What is not in dispute is that she served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, a “progressive” alternative to the school’s traditional review, and that its fall 1970 issue was devoted to the trial and glorifying the Panthers.

So, enough of the comparison of Hillary Clinton with the "fairest in the land."

THE BACKLASH MAY HIT LEFTISTS IN CONGRESS

The Associated Press is reporting the following story, and I believe this may be a warning to the RINO and Democrat members of Congress that were elected from districts with large military bases. If they don't believe Secretary Gates they may see a situation develop similar to the one that occurred when President Reagan locked out the striking air traffic controllers.

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that unless Congress passes funding for the Iraq war within days, he will direct the Army and Marine Corps to begin developing plans to lay off employees and terminate contracts early next year. Gates, who met with members of Congress on Wednesday, said that he does not have the money or the flexibility to move funding around to adequately cover the costs of the continuing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "There is a misperception that this department can continue funding our troops in the field for an indefinite period of time through accounting maneuvers, that we can shuffle money around the department. This is a serious misconception," Gates told reporters at the Pentagon. As a result, he said that he is faced with the undesirable task of preparing to cease operations at Army bases by mid-February, and lay off about 100,000 defense department employees and an equal number of civilian contractors. A month later, he said, similar moves would have to be made by the Marines. Some members of Congress believe the Pentagon can switch enough money to cover the war accounts, Gates said. But he added that he only has the flexibility to transfer about $3.7 billion - which is just one week's worth of war expenses. Lawmakers, he said, may not understand how complicated and restrictive the situation is.

Despite the dangling preposition that ended Secretary Gates statement. I believe the 218 who voted to force the Commander in Chief to withdraw His troops by December 2008 should be concerned. I believe it is right and just to cut off funds to the civilians before you take the weapons and ammunition out of the hands of the brave men and women who are on the fighting line.


The House on Wednesday passed, 218-203, a $50 billion bill that would pay for the wars, but require that troops start to leave Iraq in 30 days. It sets a goal of ending combat by December 2008, as well as establishing interrogations standards that would make waterboarding - or simulated drowning - illegal. The Senate planned to vote as early as Friday on the measure. The bill was expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to advance."


If Congress doesn't approve $196 billion for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates says, bases may partly shut down and civilians may lose jobs.
Thursday he said that he will have to lay off 200,000 civilian employees and contractors, terminate military contracts and partially shut down U.S. military bases unless Congress acts quickly to approve additional funding for the Iraq war.


But the Congressional "Queen" from San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, in her "power happy" way says: "House Democrats would refuse to send the president a funding bill free of conditions if Senate Republicans block the House measure. "We're not going to be taking it up anymore over here," she told reporters.


I believe Speaker of the House Pelosi has a short memory. Just five years ago the majority of the House and Senate authorized the Use of force against Iraq in the passage of H.J. Res 114 and S.J.Res. 45, and then followed this in June 2003 with appropriation Bills to fund the military action. My how they have change their minds for political reasons and because of pressure from anti-war Leftist back home!



On October 10,2002 Senator Clinton stood in the "Well" of the Senate and spoke these words: "Now, I believe the facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not in doubt. Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who has tortured and killed his own people, even his own family members, to maintain his iron grip on power. He used chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians, killing over 20 thousand people. Unfortunately, during the 1980's, while he engaged in such horrific activity, he enjoyed the support of the American government, because he had oil and was seen as a counterweight to the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran."....... "So it is with conviction that I support this resolution as being in the best interests of our nation. A vote for it is not a vote to rush to war; it is a vote that puts awesome responsibility in the hands of our President and we say to him - use these powers wisely and as a last resort. And it is a vote that says clearly to Saddam Hussein - this is your last chance - disarm or be disarmed.
Thank you, Mr. President."


Now she is bowing to the anti-war supporters as she campaigns for the seat in the Oval Office that she covets. We cannot let this happen. Please write, email and call your Congressional and Senate representatives and tell them to fund our brave men and women as long as it takes. We have had to give up very little for this war compared to that which our parents and grandparents gave up to defeat Nazi Germany, and the troops will just have to go back again, if we bring them home before the job is done!















The February 6, 2006, testimony of Alberto Gonzales to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority, however indicates otherwise:
GONZALES: There was not a war declaration, either in connection with Al Qaida or in Iraq. It was an authorization to use military force. I only want to clarify that, because there are implications. Obviously, when you talk about a war declaration, you're possibly talking about affecting treaties, diplomatic relations. And so there is a distinction in law and in practice. And we're not talking about a war declaration. This is an authorization only to use military force.
The courts have consistently refused to intervene in this matter, and in practice Presidents have the power to commit forces with congressional approval but without a declaration of war.

THE CREEPING SOCIALISM IN AMERICA

The Tax Foundation estimates that 41 percent of whites, 56 percent of blacks, 59 percent of American Indian and Aleut Eskimo and 40 percent Asian and Pacific Islanders had no 2004 federal income tax liability. The study concluded, “When all of the dependents of these income-producing households are counted, there are roughly 122 million Americans — 44 percent of the U.S. population — who are outside of the federal income tax system." These people represent a natural constituency for big-spending politicians. In other words, if you have little or no financial stake in America, what do you care about the cost of massive federal spending programs?

It all began during the Great Depression when approximately 15 million Americans were out of work ,and with no money for the basic necessities of life. In 1935, President Roosevelt started what is now the Welfare State of America, only if he could come back he would be shocked to to how far Left we have gone.

During the first few years of Social Security, eligible Americans received, on average, $58.06.
Before Franklin Roosevelt's administration, it was unusual for the government to give people money, and some Americans were against Social Security. My how things have slid to to the Left. More than 50% of US Americans depend on the Government for their "daily bread".

Prior to the New Deal, Congress, the Supreme Court, and leading constitutional lawyers had generally interpreted the Constitution in such a way that the principal responsibility for social welfare matters was left to the States. However, State governments proved to be extremely reluctant to undertake costly social welfare measures on anything less than a nationwide basis, for fear of imposing economic burdens on locally based industries that would put them at a competitive disadvantage in the national market, and get them thrown out of office. The result was a major political paradox--a built-in block against social welfare legislation by the States. The Federal Government was the only agency by which broad social welfare programs could be achieved.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's original Social Security plan included provisions that would have allowed people to make personal investments — not much different from the private accounts that President Bush is currently proposing. In fact, this was one of three 'necessary principles' in FDR's legislative package presented to Congress on January 17, 1935:

FDR proposed that along with the funds each employee was required to contribute from his/her paycheck, workers could make periodic investments that would give them certificates redeemable for monthly payments upon their retirement. These certificates were referred to as 'annuity bonds,' and, much like Bush's private accounts, could be redeemed by the annuitant's spouse or beneficiaries upon his/her demise.
Unfortunately, this provision —— initially referred to as 'Title V' —— was deleted from the final bill that came out of Congress due to pressures exerted by the insurance industry.

Insurance lobbyists felt that this plan might cut into their industry's ability to sell such policies, as the government would suddenly become a direct competitor.

The initial monthly cap of the proposed annuity distribution was fixed at $100, this was intended to represent a very significant percentage of one's future benefits. The first monthly check distributed by Social Security was $22.54, or less than a quarter of what one could have received from an annuity bond.

President Roosevelt, a Democrat, promised:
1) That participation in the program would be completely voluntary.
2) That the participants would only have to pay 1 percent of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program. (During the Depression years most wage earners made around $10 to $20 a week.)
3) That the money the participants elected to put into the program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year.
4) That the money would be put into the independent “Trust Fund” rather than the General Operating Fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government program.
5) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month – and then finding that we are getting taxed 85 percent of the money we paid to the Federal Government to “put away” – you may be interested in the following:
Which political party took Social Security from the independent “Trust Fund” and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it? It was Democrat President Lyndon and the Democrat controlled Congress House and Senate.
The Democrat party also eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding.
The Democrat party also started taxing Social Security annuities, with Vice President Al Gore casting the “tie-breaking” deciding vote.
The Democrat party led by President Jimmy Carter also decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants. Immigrants moved into America and, at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments.
Now the Democrat politicians running for public office are lying to Americans by saying the “Republicans want to take away your Social Security!”
For the record, the New Deal “entitlements” were all in violation of our nation’s Constitution.
Finally, after all of the Democrat maneuvering over the past 70 years, the Social Security Trust Fund is broke. There is no money in the Trust Fund. Instead, there is an IOU from the federal government in the amount of $1.7 trillion. This amount increases by over a Billion dollars each month!

The current SS tax rates are 10.4 percent for the wage owner and 6.14 for his/her employer. In 2007 the SS tax base was $97,500, with no maximum for the 1.45% tax for Medicare. Government officials and even AARP, have recommended increasing the taxable income base for Social Security to $140,00.

Presidential candidate Obama has the Chutzpah to tell the American people that if elected he will raise the taxes on Our income for Social Security!
Vote the tax and spend Princes and Princesses in Congress out of office in 2008!

TAX PAYERS MONEY WASTED BY FEMA

The Media has printed hundreds of articles about the Bush failure to respond properly and promptly to National disasters, particularly Hurricane Katrina.

My complaint about FEMA is not directed at the Bush administration, but to the continual waste of taxpayers money in their response to national disasters.

The News was replete with cries from State and Local officials that President Bush wasn't taking their disaster seriously. Blame came from all quarters, and was repeated night after night by the Leftist leaning Media.

It later was revealed that the former Democratic Governor, Kathleen Blanco, and the Mayor of New Orleans, were partially responsible for the delayed evacuation. Hundreds of school buses were sitting idle, and were not made available to the evacuees.

The latest example of Government waste involves FEMA officials and the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans.

Katrina destroyed the aquarium and the majority of its tropical fish. To replace the fish, a dozen aquarium staff members went fishing in the coastal waters off Mexico, Florida and the Bahamas to capture tropical fish. They worked 12 hour days ,but put in invoices for only 8 hour days for reimbursement from FEMA. The captured 1,661 fish for which they paid $99,766.

The problem, that has resulted in a delay in FEMA reimbursement for over 17 months, is the strict interpretation of the Stafford Act. This law, passed by Congress, requires that facilities damaged by disaster can only be restored to their pre-disaster condition, not improved.

FEMA requires that all purchases should be made from approved commercial sellers of tropical fish, and they must be of the approximate age and size of the lost 'specimens"!

How do they determine the fish's age?

The shame of this bureaucratic debacle is that had the aquarium taken the easy way out, and bought the fish from commercial vendors, the cost has been estimated at over $500,000.

New Orleans is just one example of the Government waste of taxpayers money by the nit-picking bureaucrats of FEMA.

FEMA said that as of Aug. 8, it had a total work force of 20,287, up from 8,388 on Sept. 22, 2001.There are 2400 full time administrators located in Washington,DC . R David Paulison is the Chief Administrator.
Most of the increase – 9,346 – came from disaster medical assistance teams transferred from the Health and Human Services Department. FEMA's full time staff rose to 2,400 from 2,132.

Congress has approved more than $62 billion in supplemental spending for the recovery and rebuilding of Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. More such spending is certain to help people recover from Katrina and the follow-up punch of Hurricane Rita.
The Katrina response alone amounted to more than 11 times FEMA's 2005 budget of $5.5 billion. That budget was higher than usual because of cleanup costs due to four major hurricanes that hit Florida last year.
FEMA has borne the brunt of criticism about the Bush administration's lagging response to Katrina. The agency's director, Michael Brown, was removed from on-site command and resigned.

Another example of "turf" protection was related by an attorney from Jefferson Parrish, La. He relates that a group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette the morning of 9/17,2005 (Weds.), and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Department. The “flotilla” of trucks pulling boats stretched over five miles. This citizen rescue group was organized by La. State Senator, Gautreaux from Vermilion Parish. . . .
The State Police waved the flotilla of trucks/boats through the barricades in LaPlace and they sped into New Orleans via I-10 until past the airport and near the Clearview exit. At that time they were stopped by agents of the La. Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries. A DWF agent looked at the boats and told approximately half of the citizens that their boats were “too large” because the water had “dropped during the night” and that they should turn around and go home. . . .many people drowned because of this type of bureaucratic snafu!

My intent is not to join sides with Leftists sites like MoveOn.org and the Daily Kos in piling on FEMA for their response to Katrina. My intent is to point out the problems spun out of control. Large and small Government agencies have bureaucratic rules, policies and regulations that make them much more difficult to administer than business in the private sector.

Despite this fact we have most of the Democrats running for the nomination of their party for the Presidency, advocating an increase in the size and scope of the Federal Government.

Socialized Medicine, expanded college aid, welfare expansion, Amnesty for illegals, universal free kindergarten for every single four-year-old, to name but a few.

Do we really want this?

Senator Clinton is advocating even more spending of taxpayer hard earned dollars. Clinton sponsored or co-sponsored 169 bills increasing spending by a total of $124 billion, while failing to sponsor or co-sponsor a single bill to reduce spending.

DEMOCRATS TELL YOU ONLY WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW

In the spirit of an over protective parent, the Democrats once again only tell you something they want you to hear. They hope the "news" will further damage the image of President Bush. They also hope to bring more voters and protesters to the anti-war front.

Today's MSN News highlights a report leaked to the Washington Post that was compiled by the Democrat's staff of Congress's Joint Economic Committee.

A 21-page draft obtained by the newspaper estimates that the wars have cost the average U.S. family of four more than $20,000, the Post said.
The study concludes that the cost to the average family could more than double, to $46,300, over the next decade, with estimated economic costs to the United States reaching $3.5 trillion if the conflicts continue at their current pace, the Post said.

The study concludes that the cost to the average family could more than double, to $46,300, over the next decade, with estimated economic costs to the United States reaching $3.5 trillion if the conflicts continue at their current pace, the Post said.

What the Democrats are not telling you is that their welfare State and profligate spending over the last couple of decades is costing the American family.

To date, all $3.6 trillion of surpluses of various trust funds have been siphoned-off (of which 76% was siphoned from the social security, federal employee pension and medical trusts) - - all spent on non-pension things and not counted in deficit calculations - an illegal act if done by private sector pension funds. (Some political leaders bragged to the general public "we ran more than $100 billion budget surplus in calendar year 1998 and 1999."

They also said they wanted to 'save social security'. Listening to such rhetoric citizens might be misled-led to believe the federal government cut general spending to produce general government surpluses so as to save social security and reduce total debt. In fact, they ran an operational deficit (not a surplus) AND, 2000, 01 and 02 and 03 each ended with another increase in debt, to a record high. There omitting these facts in their report is not only political bias but defrauding Americans by saying they are paying down debt, whereas there are $44 trillion in unfunded liabilities. NOTE: The accuracy of above was confirmed on July 19, 2001, when Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told AP that trust funds hold NO real assets.

Further research reveals that $4.4 trillion. 44% of the economy controlled by federal, state & local government spending, compared to 12% before - - now costing $14,549 per man, woman & child. America has moved away from the principle of Thomas Jefferson: "The government that governs least governs best."

Federal spending has increased to$2.8 trillion, or $9,223 per person - or 26% of the economy, compared to 3% before 1982. When you compare spending trends by category. The culprit of debt and spending has been social spending, which increased 14 times faster than the economy, as trust in government and voter turn-out rates have plummeted. Democrats and RINO Republicans don't put these facts in headlines.

Another travesty of the profligate spender in Congress, who intend to buy the re-election via spending for the voters back home, is the SIN of the Social Security mess!

The present Social Security tax rates taken from Americans workers is 5 times higher than seniors, now on Social Security, paid and fewer benefits are expected.

While government consumed all $1.6 trillion trust fund surpluses to date, including $139 billion last year (17% more than prior year), spending every penny for non-pension purposes. Politicians 'claim they are trying to save social security, but in fact are siphoning-off all surpluses for non-pension spending! There are presently $44 trillion in un-funded contingent liabilities and an empty trust fund..

Most people know that today, each working person supports more seniors than prior generations, but few know each must also support more State & Local Government employees than ever before. Each year the number of these employees increase faster than the national population, creating today's indicated excess of 12 million employees.

When you go to the polls next time please don't let the Media and Leftist propaganda about the cost of war cloud your judgement. Remember, a bankrupt Country with no monetary security becomes a Country filled with angry people and anarchy follows. Vote for a person who believes in physical responsibility and one you can believe. There are not to ,any politicians out there that are believable, but voting records tell the true feelings and Philosophy of Government that is in their heart.

THE SEMANTICS OF THE GLOBAL WARMING ZEALOTS

"Lord, what fools these mortals be" - Shakespeare is reputed to have said.
With each passing day, Americans are increasingly behaving as though Al Gore's mantra "the debate (over man-made global warming) is over",as if what he says is true. Warming folklore is deserving of incredulity as the extreme Lefts latest armament in its ongoing battle against capitalism and globalization. But instead it has found insinuation into virtually every corner of our culture.

Communism didn't die it found a new home in the Ecology Movement, and carried to its fulfillment, it will destroy Our Republic and the Capitalistic system that runs our way of life.

Even though nearly 20,000 scientists have signed a petition disputing AGW( global warming) and denouncing Kyoto. This must be loudly shouted at those sluggishly slipping into the green stupor to reinvigorate debate and assure that reasoned voices are heard over the irrational drone of this ultimately political machine.

The pomposity of Mr.Gore knows no bounds, as illustrated by his statement at the 2007 Oscars, Gore smugly told the audience -- and an estimated 1 billion television viewers:
"that resolving the threat posed by a warming climate is ‘not a political issue, it's a moral issue."

Thus Mr. Gore has assumed the position of not only the "Real Elected "President in 2000, the inventor of the Internet and the arbitrator of Good and Evil. Only God has that right!

The pompous pseudo-scientific community that has deliberately ignored for their own purposes the effects of the Sun on Our Worlds climate. This despite the fact that most Climate Scientists have postulated the affect that Sun bursts have on Our Climate. The varying intensity of the atomic explosions on the surface of the Sun 82 million miles away from Earth do have a determinate affect on the weather,and this can be sen in recorded history of droughts and "ice-ages through out Our history.

It is not only pompous, but fool hardy for the American public to assume that man can have a lasting affect on the weather patterns due to our activities. Even more outrageous is the argument that what we are doing now will have a lasting effect on our children and grandchildren.

This argument works when we talk about the burden that profligate spending by a Democrat controlled Congress has produced for generations to come. It also has a direct import if we continue to follow the Lefts path "from cradle to grave" welfare state. These are things that we can quantify, and are the truth. The Global Warming scam is fear mongering at its worst and direct lies at best. Many people try to legitimize Mr. Gores arguments by referring to his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize award. A prize that should go to a person who has advanced the Peace process in Our World, not an Environmental zealot.

I would remind you that the august body of Leftists that selects the recipients of the Nobel award also chose in 1973, Le Duc Tho who was born in Nam Ha province, Vietnam on 14th October, 1911. As a young man he became involved in radical politics and in 1930 helped establish the Indochinese Communist Party. He campaigned against French rule in Vietnam and was twice imprisoned for his political activities (1930-36 and 1939-44)! They also gave an award to what I believe was Americas worst President, and anti-Israel nutcase,

Jimmy Carter!

THE ENEMY WITHIN

The Media and too many Americans blame the oil industry for the high cost of gasoline. It is expedient for the Left to blame any catastrophe or negative change in the economy.

Socialists believe and advocate that big government can and should control all forms of commerce for "the common good".

But if you take an in depth look at the real cause of the high cost of gasoline. You will find that the enemy of the American motorist is not Big Oil, but the Ecology and "Global Warming" zealots who have put the U.S. in the sorry state we find ourselves today.

The "Eco Movement" has as their goal the changing of our way of life, as seen in this statement by : Doyle Canning the Organizing Director at the Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project:"Building an ecology movement is embedding the necessity of a systemic response to the systemic breakdown of the planet, in the necessity of synergizing the global movements for peace, global justice, freedom, and direct democracy. It is the project of building a social movement that can simultaneously confront institutions like the WTO and racist war, and cultivate peoples’ food sovereignty and direct democracy at the grassroots level. This is the project of the 21st century ecology movement, and this is the strategy that can ultimately win the struggle to control our lives, and to save the planet. "

Last month, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, visiting the president at his Texas ranch on April 25, chided him with the message that his country could send more oil, but the United States would not have the ability to refine it. Soon afterward, Mr. Bush offered to provide closed military bases for new refineries.

Over the last quarter-century, the number of refineries in the United States dropped to 149, less than half the number in 1981. Because companies have upgraded and expanded their aging operations, refining capacity during that time period shrank only 10 percent from its peak of 18.6 million barrels a day. At the same time, gasoline consumption has risen by 45 percent.

The only effort to refine oil at a new refinery is being attempted in the State of Arizona 100 miles from Phoenix, by a man named McGinnis. He has plans to build a 150,000 barrel capacity refinery on 1400 acres of his own property. The last refinery was built in 1976.He has been trying for six years to get approval for the construction of the new refinery.

Meanwhile, gasoline demand is forecast to rise 39 percent by 2025, to 12.9 million barrels a day, up from today's 9.3 million barrels, according to a long-term outlook by the Energy Information Administration. By then, gasoline alone will account for nearly half the crude oil consumed in the United States.
By contrast, domestic refining capacity is expected to grow only by 0.8 percent from 2005 to 2007, slightly less than the 0.9 percent increase registered between 1998 and 2004, according to Jacques Rousseau, an oil analyst with the investment banker Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.

While ecological concerns and pressures thwart the production of fossil fuels in the U.S., the Chinese are building an oil refinery in Costa Rica.

China, not a signer to the Kyoto Agreement, is a big consumer of fossil fuels and a bigger producer of "green house" gases than the United States, will have fuel to continue it economic growth.

But then in China they don't have Environmentalists who contribute millions of dollars to Democrats each election cycle.

The next time you Big Oil. Curse the real enemy. The Ecologist zealot!

Happy Birthday Marine Corps.!

In 1775 the Second Continental Congress established two battalions of Continental Marines on the tenth of November. In 1778 President Adams signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps.
The Marines have fought in every war since then with courage and valor. Sometimes at great cost to the men who wore the Globe and Anchor.
During WWII the marines lost 5,598 men KIA in 36 days on Iwo Jima, and lost a total of 19,773 KIA during the march toward Japan after Pearl Harbor.
The battle that brought the most consternation to the people at home was the 76 hour battle for Tarawa, in which the Marines lost 990 KIA. Four Medals of Honor were awarded, three posthumously.
The Marine "esprit decorps" and honor among men must be remembered in these days of Leftist anti-military rhetoric. The Marines are sent in to do all the dirty jobs, with little recognition. And for 230 years they have been doing it for this Great Republic. Happy Birthday Marine Corps! Semper Fi!

OBAMA AND HILLARY TRY TO OUT SOCIALIZE EACH OTHER

Democratic candidates for the President of the United States Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both campaigning on a social welfare program that would if implemented, raise taxes for Americans to exorbitant levels and Socialize the Republic that once cherished individual freedoms. Previous blogs have listed Hillary's Socialist agenda. This Blog is about Obama's march toward his Socialization of America.
The McClatchy News Service is reporting that the latest promise Obama has made on the campaign trail includes this "cradle to the grave" proposal.

His program is apparently aimed at women and working-class families.
"The sweeping subsidies and mandates reflect his past as a community organizer.
A retirement plan that would require employers to contribute a 50 percent match on the first $1,000 a year of retirement savings for families earning up to $75,000, an expansion of the current "saver's credit."
Require all companies - except those in their first two years of operation or with fewer than 10 workers - to enroll employees in retirement plans or direct-deposit individual retirement accounts. Workers could opt out.
A $4,000 annual college-tuition tax credit.
A major expansion of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which ensures that workers can take time off for health or family reasons."
The kind of welfare state he has in mind for America has been in effect in European countries for decades with disasterous results.
In addition to government spending, he is proposing "job-killing" mandates for employers of all but start-up companies. As the EU social welfare states like Germany and France have discovered, making it very expensive to hire people tends to make new jobs scarce. And firing an unproductive employee has become almost impossible in Countries like Germany.

Last Saturday, while campaigning in East Los Angeles, California. He gave a speech at the Garfield High School, during which he first said that Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of a Bill that would have extended scholarships to students in the United States illegally, was wrong!
He then said: "Diversity is not the enemy of excellence, it is the engine of excellence," he said. I am a strong believer in diversity, and affirmative action is one tool to help achieve it. He then went on to say: "He would institute an urban bank modeled after the World Bank to fund inner-city development, would press for affordable housing, and would back programs to help middle-school students improve their standing. Noting that Latinos and African Americans have higher dropout rates, he said that the problem would expand to affect everyone as the workforce became dominated by those groups."
Of course all of this would have to be paid by the wage earning tax payers, since the Federal Government doesn't earn money, it just spends Our money!

The NFL used to be my favorite sports organization. The players were not paid multi-millions of dollars, and in the days before television commercials made the NFL a multi-billion dollar industry. Players played because they loved football. They were paid less than $5000 per season on average, where as today the average salary is $1,169,470 reflecting a 5% increase over 1999, according to NFL Players Association documents.

In the "glory days" of NFL football, the league was known for it's hard hitting, mean "take no prisoners" play every Sunday during the fall. But in "the Days" the viciousness was on the playing field.

Players like Dick Butkus, Leo Nomillini, Gino Marchetti, Sam Huff, Ray Nitske and Alan Page, to name just a few,were known for their devastating and sometimes injurious attack on the quarterback and any running back who they could get their hands on. Butkus for one, fought ferociously on the field, and runners and offensive linemen were constantly amazed by the ferocity of his hits. Butkus could run down ball carriers from sideline-to-sideline, cover receivers out of the backfield and make the right calls for Bears coach George Halas' complicated defense.

Today the vicious play is highlighted by the dog fighting scandal of Michael Vick, and his numerous other NFL friends, who ran a gambling ring based on the killing of dogs in "DogFights".

Then there are the rule changes made by the league that have not only affected the defensive players ability to do their job, but have cut the playing time short to allow for more commercials(revenue for NFL) in the three hour television time slot.

Just a few will be mentioned here. One of the goals in revising the rules was to shorten the length of games. The game clock now starts when the ball hits the kicker's foot on free kicks and kickoffs, and when the referee signals the ball is ready for play on first downs, instead of at the snap. Many coaches believe these changes will eliminate 10-15 plays per game, and most coaches aren't happy about the changes in clock management. The TV people like it because it will keep the games in the allotted commercial TV window.

The defensive player can no longer tackle a running back or receiver by grabbing the back of his shoulder pads, the quarter back can only be tackled from the tip of his chin to his belt line. No grabbing the helmet, no hitting below the waist. And he can be in the grasp, throw the football into the ground, and still get away with out being called for grounding the ball! The league will now let a defensive player legally strip the ball by batting it or punching it. This rule hasn't been enforced, even though there was language prohibiting a player from stripping the ball by punching or batting it in the NFL rules. Many times, the officials are late in their whistle blowing during "gang" tackling to allow such events to occur. Makes for more excitement for the viewers, but also causes more injuries.

Commissioner Goodell has had to disciple too many players for off field actions. The NFL has suspended many players for varying amounts of time. Three incidents stand out. Pacman Jones being suspended for the entire season of 2007, for being involved in 10 incidents with the police, one involving a shooting that left a man paralized outside a Las Vegas night club. Chris Henry was suspended for 8 games by Goodell for being arrested four times in 14 months by police. Ricky Williams sat out an entire year for substance abuse, and these I believe are just the tip of the iceberg that is criminal activity now going on in professional football.

Former NFL players Nate Newton, Leshon Johnson and Tyrone Wheatley as well as Qyntel Woods, a first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers in 2002, have all been linked to dog fighting. Both Johnson and Woods were arrested and convicted of staging them. This all happened before the bomb shell was lobbed into the NFL. NFL star Michael Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation so grisly the losers either died in the pit or sometimes were electrocuted, drowned, hanged or shot.
The Falcon's quarterback and three others were charged with competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting and conducting the enterprise across state lines. Finally on August 24, 2007, Commissioner Goodell sent a letter to Vick suspending him indefinitely.

Then there is the scandal involving the NFL players pension and disability plan. The Courts are filled with suits claiming that the "OLD ERA" players are being denied their duly earned disability benefits.

It doesn't help that some of the biggest names in football history - including Mike Ditka, Gale Sayers, Harry Carson, Sam Huff, Mercury Morris, Jerry Kramer and Sandy Unitas, Johnny U.'s widow - accuse the league and the Players Association of abandoning the very athletes who turned the NFL into a $6-billion-a-year enterprise, the biggest attraction in America's sports-industry.

The former players say the plan is set up to stonewall players debilitated by injuries suffered during their careers. The plan will shop for doctors until it gets an opinion it wants to hear, they charge. Delays are frequent and lengthy. It's often difficult just to get plan administrators to return phone calls. Typical is this comment from former Oakland Raider Dave Pear: "The truth is that the NFL disability process is cruel, evil and deceitful and designed to deny benefits."

In 1986, an arbitrator - using the kind of warped logic that could be called ambiguous at best, decided that Victor Washington(former player for Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers) should get $750 a month for non-football related injuries, instead of the $4,000 he would receive if his problems were football-related. The plan's language, the arbitrator said, specified the higher payment for "a football injury." Since Washington suffered multiple injuries, he was out of luck

More than 60% of retired NFL players suffered at least one concussion during their professional careers, according to the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. Retired NFL players with three or more concussions, the center adds, had a nearly three-fold risk of being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to Alzheimer's disease. According to former players - Boyd, Bernie Parrish and Morris, in particular, the NFL and the Players Association are taking a stand against claims that could cost them huge amounts of money.

Former Viking Boyd, testified that plan official Miki Yaras-Davis said that his doctors' reports and brain scans would not be considered because "the owners would not open that can of worms" by approving disability for a brain injury. Chris Goetz, a guard who played for the Jets in the early 1990s, told the Daily News one of his doctors, Robert Neviaser, told him the plan doesn't like to pay out a lot of money so it sets its standards unreasonably high.

And if it were not for the following fact, more details on the evolving scandal of the NFL retirement plan probably would be revealed.

Mr. Upshaw( head of the players union) and the NFLPA have hired a "scandal manager" to cover it up for them using their new "Truth Squad." Lanny Davis wrote the book Scandal Management 101 and came up with the line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," for Bill Clinton and without a stream of NFLPA scandals Lanny doesn't continue collecting his $900 an hour from your NFLPA and Retirement Plan assets.

Gene Upshaw is notorious for having this to say about a ex-player who had the timerity to say something negative about the way the Retirement Fund is managed: "A guy like DeLamielleure says the things he said about me, you think I'm going to invite him to dinner? No. I'm going to break his goddamn neck."

Add this to the scandal sheet. A jury found former Minnesota Viking Moe Williams guilty of disorderly conduct, but cleared him of the other two charges against him for his actions in the infamous sex boat scandal on Lake Minnetonka last October.Williams, 32, charged with indecent conduct, disorderly conduct and lewd or lascivious behavior, stemming from the Oct. 6 cruise chartered from Al and Alma's Restaurant and Cruises, according to WCCO-TV. Williams was found not guilty of indecent conduct and lewd or lascivious behavior.

Earlier in the trial, prosecutors had characterized the party as a "floating orgy".Former Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper was also charged in the incident, but a judge later dropped those charges. Vikings Fred Smoot and Bryant McKinnie have court dates scheduled in May for the same charges.

The Commissioner has fined the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichick, for videotaping the signals of the New York Jets during a game.
Belichick was fined $500,000, while the Patriots were separately fined $250,000 and will likely lose a first-round draft pick in 2008.

The Patriots put microphones on their defensive lineman in order to capture the offensive line calls and quarterback audibles. Then, the audio and the video of the game would be matched up, and defensive players would be given the code at halftime.

If principals of the league's best team engage in an intricate game of cheating, that's as bad as it gets. It doesn't look particularly good for the Champion Patriots, on the video taping front. The Packers, Lions and Bills reportedly observed the team doing the exact same thing, ruling out the possibility that it was some rogue video assistant who was doing this on his own.

Roger Goodell works for management. Of course, it has always been this way, even though the story line is that the commissioner is anything but the collective employee of the 32 owners. I believe his main job is to promote the "money machine" that has become a media entertainment event more than a sport. If you don't believe me, look at the past three Super Bowls.

Consider this, the$23 million in retirement benefits that the NFL annually contributes to the Players Retirement Fund, is only 0.003% of $7.1 billion. Visualizing this, it might be easier; an African Bull elephant weights 7 tons (See $7 billion like 7 tons) the amount the owners provide in retirement benefits to those who built their industry is equal to 9 mice or (4 size 10 ball caps worn sideways) in proportion to that elephant's size. The NFL elephant is $7.1 billion in profit per year.

For these reasons, and too many others that would take up too much time for the reader. I have decided to watch College Football instead of NFL games. The colleges have their problems also, but for the most part the majority of players on the field are in college to get an education that will help them in later life after their playing days. Not many will go on to play on Sunday for the "Big Bucks League".

HILLARY NOW THE TARGET NOT THE SHOOTER

In 1969 during her address to the graduating class of Wellesley College Hillary Clinton fired her first salvo against a Republican Politician in a public arena.
The target of her wrath was Senator Edward William Brooke, United States Senator from Mass. The first African-American to be elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction days.
He was the Commencement speaker at Hillary's graduation. A five year veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the European theater of operations during WWII. who eventually served two terms in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.
Senator Brooke's comments apparently angered the 22 year old Hillary with a Saul Alinsky, leftist leaning position that appears to remain today.
The following are the remarks uttered by the Senator at the conclusion of a lengthy inspirational speech that he hoped would provoke patriotism not radical dissent from the graduating class.
" My message today is a simple one. Lest it be misunderstood in the more complicated discussion of social trends and innovations, let we state it briefly.
This country has profound and pressing social problems on its agenda. It needs the best energies of all its citizens, especially Its gifted young people, to remedy these ills.Let us not dissipate these energies on phony Issues or misguided missions.Let us not mistake the vigor of protest for the value of accomplishment.Let us direct the zeal of every concerned American to the real problems.Let us forsake false drama for true endeavor.Let us, in short, recognize that ours is a precious community that demands and deserves the best--",
Hillary used the Commencement podium, to lash out at the socially liberal Republican Senator that she had once supported, because the distinguished man had the temerity to politely criticize the New Left's anti-war rhetoric, as offering aid and comfort to our communist enemies in Southeast Asia.
Fast forward to 2007 to a Senate hearing on the war in Iraq when General Petraeus was reporting to the Senate on his progress in the fight against militant Islamists. Hillary once again lashed out at her target with biting commentary. She had this to say about the Generals testimony: "Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief." Thus illustrating her belief in the Radical activist Saul Alinsky's proscribed technique of "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." To destroy it/him/her as the situation requires. . For her attack she was praised by the Left wing oriented MoveOn.org with the following: Thank You Senator Clinton for Calling General Petraeus a liar"!
But last week this self anointed champion of radical feminists, gay rights and the gimmee-gimme class has had the tables turned on her. The one whose reaction to any criticism or question, that didn't suit her, pulled out the conspiracy or gender cards has been caught in her own web of deceit.
It occurred last Tuesday night in Philadelphia during a Democratic candidate debate. Senator Obama and Ex-Senator Edwards went on the attack with Hillary as the target.
She was asked about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Clinton tried to demonstrate empathy for her governor's predicament but duck specifically endorsing his position, as she had in a previous newspaper interview. Thus, she opened herself up on two fronts. Her answer was unclear in a way that can live on in video, and it provided Republicans with a possibly useful weapon against her on an issue that fires up the GOP base. Obama and Edwards jumped on her answer as proof of the kind of double talk they'd been accusing her of all night.

WHY HILLARY WILL NOT WIN

Not since the Days of Karl Marx and his friend Engels, when they published the Communist Manifesto in 1847, has there been such interest in "common good" from people running for the Presidency of the United States.

Senator Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards all have made some Socialistic/Communist pronouncements in the name of "common good" as things they will do if elected.

But a study of Hillary Clintons advocacy positions in her campaign for the White House show an alarming similarity of her promises to those written in the Communist Manifesto.

Both Engels and Marx agreed that for the "proletariat to attain dominance over the Capitalistic system, "there must be first the destruction and replacement of individual rights through defined systems of taxation and the destruction of individual property rights.
To accomplish this they advocated the following :
"Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inheritance taxes, abolition of inheritance of property, through abolishment of inheritence tax exemptions.
Transforming the relations between the sexes into a purely private matter which concerns only the persons involved and into which society has no occasion to intervene. It can do this since it does away with private property and educates children on a communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage -- the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of the children on the parents.
They also spoke directly to what must be done in America to establish their "Common Good".
"In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the Communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie(aka property owners), and use it in the interests of the proletariat -- that is, with the agrarian National Reformers." This is the redistribution of wealth to the "have nots" from the earners that have the wealth.
It doesn't take a superlative intellect to associate the statements of Hillary Clinton, and Marx /Engels, regarding her plans for her Presidency, God forbid, if she takes the seat in the White House.
Her program of extending insurance to illegal immigrants and others who aren't now insured will trigger a massive increase in the demand for medical services. The result would be a steep price rise that would force rationing of health care, particularly for the elderly. But she mustn't say any of that - so she pretends that her health-care prescription is just a band-aid to cover the nagging little problem of 50 million uninsured and that her solution won't bother anybody else.
Driver's licenses for illegal immigrants? Certainly, she favors them. During her husband's administration, she helped kill proposals to ban them. In the Senate, she voted against prohibiting them. But she can't say so without seeming to be soft on terror, so she dodges the issue, expressing sympathy - but not support - for the plan.
A day after the other Democrats battered her over the issue in the debate last week she released a statement of "general" support for Gov. Spitzer's (New York) goal of making illegal immigrants eligible for driver's licenses. But, once again, a la Hillary, she sent confusing signals by stating that she hadn't studied it and wasn't "endorsing" any plan. So she's apparently for it but not for it. Get it?
The Alternative Minimum Tax? Bill Clinton vetoed legislation to repeal it in 1999. She voted against repealing it in 2006. She likely intends to limit or terminate it once she's elected, but only in return for other massive tax hikes in its place. But, again, she has to criticize the tax because of her need to attract middle-class voters and speak of opposing a "trillion-dollar" tax increase on them.
The preceding facts were obtained from the web page, "The Hillary Project", and illustrates that Senator Clinton is guilty of one of the most popular forms of the Communist/Socialist movement, duplicity".
Senator Clinton does the "two step" when ever she is asked a question that might reveal her personal opinion not that of her political persona.