From a straight-shooting PAN Patriot: Is It Just Me?

Is It Just Me?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Sisyphus

Is the best man to repeal ObamaCare the one-term governor who hung RomneyCare like an albatross around the neck of Massachusetts? That has been the firm position of the GOP establishment (whatever that means, I’m gong with the GOP’s top ten big donors as voiced by the usual sock puppets today), who are publicly and loudly convinced that only Romney can beat Obama. Only the man with authorial pride in the greatest legislative blow to liberty can deliver us from the horror. What does this mean?

They want it to survive, the people be damned. ObamaCare looks to double the Medicaid roles, a program so good that it is a felony for any US medical personnel to discuss or provide treatment outside of Medicaid’s preposterously complex prescriptions regardless of the consequences for the Medicaid patient. Sarah nailed the scoundrels on the Death Panels. It was easy. They’ve been part and parcel of government managed health care since its mass arrival at the hands of the execrable Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose other hits included the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty. A presidency perhaps best summed up as guns and butter, launching a federal fiscal firestorm that laid the foundation for the Obama bankruptcy drive.

Faced with a grassroots revolt against the disassembly and micromismanagement of the already radically distorted and overmisgoverned American health care market, after a few weeks of tut-tuting and arguing for accommodation of the fait accompli that is ObamaCare (and the grassroots response that resulted in a run on tar, feathers, torches, and pitchforks, and the spasm of anti-Washington sentiment that saw historically radical change in the 2010 off year election) decided that the only way to retain this lucrative influx of mandatory K Street lobbyists to negotiate the quasi-nationalization of all major components of the American health care market. Every doctor I have visited since the passage of ObamaCare not associated with a major hospital or HMO is working on their parachute. As it stands today, many family practices are stretched beyond the breaking point, but are still ready to fight for the dream of serving patients, not Obama or his corporate cronies.

If you haven’t asked your personal physician about ObamaCare yet, why not? If you can, you might want to ask before you cast a primary vote for Willard Mitt Romney. A man who can’t defend his own career, capitalism, or his ridiculous budget busting, liberty smashing, “cost-saving” health care bill.

Electable? A vote for Romney is an endorsement of Obama and his legislative legacy of pain and death.

But do not forget Congress. If you volunteer for only one candidate in one election in your entire life, this is the year, this is the election cycle to do it. If we don’t, our grandchildren will be lashed to the yoke to pay Obama’s bills.

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“And you see; here we are… OH MY GOODNESS”!

That line, taken from The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, a Firesign Theater satire on the ’30′s radio shows, is where we have arrived  after four decades of having “round filed” the conservative Christian values most of our parents tried to instill in us.

My recent post, Big Brother and YOU,  represents only a small part of the many threats we now face from both Government, and Corporate pirates.  WorldWideWeb indeed!  How many of you are aware that Google is somehow tied into WP?  Shudder… Yes, It’s true. 

How did I discover this?  When Patriot Action Network had grown to the point that their old server was no longer viable, they switched to a server more suitable to their needs, and it’s powered by WP.  -BUT – while some members are able to post videos, I have never been able to.

Searching for a solution, in my dashboard under “Settings”, there is  “WordPress Video Plugin”.  At the bottom of the “instruction pg”,  (the plugin is still still not active) is a hyperlink (In German?!) with the Google logo.  I copied/pasted the shortcut into the taskbar, and ended up at a German ad for Google AdWords Express. That was enough. I’m not an investigator; this was just a blind alley persued in trying to be able to post video.  In any event, since I know about Google’s willingness to provide info to the Gov’t this is unsettling.

I forgot, nor recall why when I set up with YouTube that I’d done so with Google.  YouTube (IMO) targets Christian and Conservative sites. Several have been removed for supposed “copyright infringments”, though there are many sites with little more than music videos posted;  tell me these people got permission for all those videos.  NOT LIKELY.  Yet YouTube’s “Thought Police”  never so much as blink an eye.

My Patriot friends on Facebook will do well to omit any personal info from their profiles, use a pseudonym, and inform others who may be intending to “go social” on the  w.w.w. to do likewise.

The public at large continues to go on blithely throwing any and all personal information out into the “wolfpack” with little concern, UNTIL they become victims. God gave us brains, we are supposed to use them, not our backsides when making decisions. 

We need to watch our backs.  ”Nuff Said”.

One year later. – Tea Party Nation

One year later. – Tea Party Nation.  Courtesy of Gds44′s Blog

FRC Alert – Sign the petition to help stop the eviction of NYC churches!

January 28, 2012

Imagine if tomorrow you went to worship with your church only to be turned away because the landlord of the property doesn’t want to rent to people of faith — not because of conflicts with building use, just because of religious discrimination. Imagine then if the landlord was the local government…in an American city. But this is just an urban legend, right?

Sadly this is really happening now in New York City. For the past decade, New York’s Department of Education has given a number of small, mostly Christian, upstart or itinerant congregations the option to hold their weekend services in any one of the city’s empty school buildings. The only condition is that they pay to use the facilities — a nice benefit to the cash strapped public education system. Now, the Department of Education has reversed course, and as many as 100 churches face eviction on February 12, as the school board’s ban against the use of property by religious congregations goes into effect.

The evictions could be devastating to small congregations and church plants in the city. With limited space in one of the most densely populated areas of the world, and real estate costs that are sky-high, opportunities for ministry in many areas of the Big Apple would be effectively shut down.

There is hope, however. This week, the New York Senate Education Committee voted unanimously to bring a bill to the floor that would stop keep this from happening in the future. All 18 senators — including eight Democrats and 10 Republicans — agreed that the Senate should take action to protect the city’s faith community. We expect this issue to come to the State Senate floor soon, but NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg still needs to rescind the eviction order.

We know that the church is more than a mere meeting place, but this is America — not a totalitarian regime. Stand with us and these churches in New York City by signing our petition supporting them. We’ll deliver it to the New York Senate next week to help give the effort momentum, and show the churches that believers throughout the nation stand with them for our First Freedom.

Sign the petition to help stop the eviction of NYC churches!

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

P.S. Please forward this alert to friends, family and fellow church members, and post to your favorite social networks.

Bullwinkle’s Revenge

Read and then check attached photo  This actually happened with some guys from Maine
They dressed the truck up with the guy lying on the roof.
The driver and passengers put on Moose Heads.
They drove down the Maine Toll road causing about 16 accidents and were put in jail.

 

Winning Our Future | “Blood Money” – (Full Video)

Winning Our Future | “Blood Money” – (Full Video).     Courtesy of  American Freedom

Obama has Crossed Catholic Americans Now!

 Courtesy of  http://blogsensebybarb.wordpress.com/

Sewn into the fabric of America … or is it?

‘To Hell With You’

Bridging the Gap
January 27, 2012

HHS Edict Will Force Catholics to Violate Conscience

By Bishop David A. Zubik

It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face. The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, “To Hell with you!” There is no other way to put it.

In early August, the Department for Health and Human Services in the Obama administration released guidelines as part of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The guidelines mandated that by Summer 2012 all individual and group health insurance plans, including self-insured plans, cover all FDA-approved contraception, sterilization procedures and pharmaceuticals that even result in abortion.

A million things are wrong with this: equating pregnancy with disease; mandating that every employer pay for contraception procedures including alleged contraceptives that are actually abortion-inducing drugs; forcing American citizens to chose between violating their consciences or providing health care services; mandating such coverage on every individual woman without allowing her to even choose not to have it; forcing every person to pay for that coverage no matter the dictates of their conscience.

Let’s be blunt. This whole process of mandating these guidelines undermines the democratic process itself. In this instance, the mandate declares pregnancy a disease, forces a culture of contraception and abortion on society, all while completely bypassing the legislative process.

This is government by fiat that attacks the rights of everyone – not only Catholics; not only people of all religion. At no other time in memory or history has there been such a governmental intrusion on freedom not only with regard to religion, but even across-the-board with all citizens. It forces every employer to subsidize an ideology or pay a penalty while searching for alternatives to heath care coverage. It undermines the whole concept and hope for health care reform by inextricably linking it to the zealotry of pro-abortion bureaucrats.

For our Church this mandate would apply in virtually every instance where the Catholic Church serves as an employer. The mandate would require the Catholic Church as an employer to violate its fundamental beliefs concerning human life and human dignity by forcing Catholic entities to provide contraceptive, sterilization coverage and even pharmaceuticals that result in abortion.

There was a so-called “religious exemption” to the mandate, but it was so narrowly drawn that, as critics charged, Jesus Christ and his Apostles would not fit the exemption. The so-called exemption would only apply to the vast array of Catholic institutions where the following applied:

Only Catholics are employed;

The primary purpose of the institution or service provided is the direct instruction in Catholic belief;

The only persons served by the institution are those that share Catholic religious tenets. (Try to fit this in with our local Catholic Charities that serve 80,000 every year without discrimination according to faith. It would be impossible!)

Practically speaking under the proposed mandate there would be no “religious exemption” for Catholic hospitals universities, colleges, nursing homes and numerous Catholic social service agencies such as Catholic Charities. It could easily be determined that the “religious exemption” would not apply as well to Catholic high schools, elementary schools and Catholic parishes since many employ non-Catholics and serve both students and, through social outreach, many who do not share Catholic religious beliefs. Such a narrow “religious exemption” is simply unprecedented in federal law.

Last September I asked you to protest those guidelines to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services, and contact your political leadership in the federal government. I asked that you request that this flawed mandate be withdrawn because of its unprecedented interference in the religious liberty and freedom of conscience of the Catholic community, and our basic democratic process.

You did. And you were joined by Catholics throughout the country (and many others as well) who raised their voices against the mandate, raised their voices against a meaningless religious exemption.

On January 20, 2012, the Obama administration answered you and me. The response was very simple: “To Hell with You.”

Kathleen Sebelius announced that the mandate would not be withdrawn and the religious exemption would not be expanded. Instead, she stated that nonprofit groups – which include the Catholic Church – will get a year “to adapt to this new rule.” She simply dismissed Catholic concerns as standing in the way of allegedly respecting the health concerns and choices of women.

Could Catholics be insulted any more, suggesting that we have no concern for women’s health issues? The Catholic Church and the Catholic people have erected health care facilities that are recognized worldwide for their compassionate care for everyone regardless of their creed, their economic circumstances and, most certainly, their gender. In so many parts of the globe – the United States included – the Church is health care.

Kathleen Sebelius and through her, the Obama administration, have said “To Hell with You” to the Catholic faithful of the United States.

• To Hell with your religious beliefs,
• To Hell with your religious liberty,
• To Hell with your freedom of conscience.We’ll give you a year, they are saying, and then you have to knuckle under. As Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops responded, “in effect, the president is saying that we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.” READ THE REST HERE
  

  DON’T GET MAD – GET INVOLVED!!!

  Get involved and work against he administration that would absolve us of our First Amendment Rights to worship as we choose!

  Choose a PRO-LIFE Presidential Candidate

  FURTHER READING:

• The Black Church’s Commitment to Obama
• Bishop Zubik rips Obama on health care mandate
• American Catholics : To Hell With You!
• Bishop Zubik responds to Obama Health Care Mandate
• Bishop: Obama’s Healthcare Plan Threatens Catholic Service

Big Brother and YOU

All this time I’ve blogged about privacy concerns. The fact that even TSA was hacked, gives me pause about being on too many sites.  In October I posted a Grassfire nation petition about the FCC (50 odd days till an UNconstitutional attempt to control the internet) 

I USE STARTPAGE AS MY SEARCH ENGINE. YOU SHOULD TOO.  Is your  e-mail is run by google?

I keep returning to a hard choice: Is my wish to be “web dead” with my present use of a pseudonym and no personal info in a “profile” pg  sufficient to keep the intruders off track?   I adamantly refuse to get a Facebook account; though some of my patriot connections are on Facebook. The new attack on ALIPAC only confirms my stance about privacy. Here is an article I dug up from my files; note the date!

Killer way to slay the Google beast!

‘They’re telling us they will turn data over to the feds’

Posted: January 27, 2010
8:51 pm Eastern 

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Who in the world knows as much about you and your private thoughts as Google?

That’s the question Katherine Albrecht, radio talk-show host and spokeswoman for Startpage, a search engine that protects user privacy, is posing to American Internet surfers.

“It would blow people’s minds if they knew how much information the big search engines have on the American public,” she told WND. “In fact, their dossiers are so detailed they would probably be the envy of the KGB.”

Google exposed in Joseph Farah’s “Stop the Presses!” autographed only at WND’s online store.

It happens every day, Albrecht explained. When an unfamiliar topic crosses people’s minds, they often go straight to Google, Yahoo or Bing and enter key terms into those search engines. Every day, more than a billion searches for information are performed on Google alone.

“If you get a rash between your toes, you go into Google,” she said. “If you have a miscarriage, you go into Google. If you are having marital difficulties, you look for a counselor on Google. If you lose your job, you look for unemployment benefit information on Google.”

Albrecht said Americans unwittingly share their most private thoughts with search engines, serving up snippets of deeply personal information about their lives, habits, troubles, health concerns, preferences and political leanings.

“We’re essentially telling them our entire life stories – stuff you wouldn’t even tell your mother – because you are in a private room with a computer,” she said. “We tend to think of that as a completely private circumstance. But the reality is that they make a record of every single search you do.”

The search engines have sophisticated algorithms to mine data from searches and create very detailed profiles about Americans. She said those profiles are stored on servers and may fall into the wrong hands.

She pointed to the recent cyber attacks that infiltrated Google’s operations in China. Bloomberg News reported that Yahoo was also among the victims.

Albrecht said the government may also subpoena citizens’ private information after it has been stored by Google, Yahoo and Bing. In a December 2009 interview with CNBC, Google CEO Eric Schmidt divulged that search engines may turn over citizens’ private information to the government.

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Schmidt said. “But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject to the United States Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities.”

A video of Schmidt’s statements follows:

 

“My jaw hit the floor when I heard that,” Albrecht said. “Now they are just coming right out and telling us that they will turn our data over to the feds. Based on what I know about how much information they have on us, it’s really terrifying.”

In addition to information collected from searches, Google also saves sent and received e-mails, including e-mail drafts, attachments and chat messages through its Gmail system.

“What these big search engines have is the eye in the sky,” Albrecht said. “It’s like the totalitarian dictator’s dream. They know everything, and with a couple of mouse clicks, they could find every single person in the country who observes Passover or attends a Catholic or Baptist church or who buys ammunition.”

She continued, “They’ve gotten so sophisticated that they actually boast that they can tell when their own employees are going to quit because they monitor their employees’ mouse clicks.”

 

Albrecht said she was alarmed to discover that another application

, Google Flu Trends, used aggregated Google searchdata to track flu activity around the world. The organization boasted that it could spot a flu outbreak even before the Centers for Disease Control suspected one. The search-engine giant collaborated with the CDC on the project.

 

The following is a Google video illustrating how the Google Flu Trends works:

 

“We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms,” Google explained. “Of course, not every person who searches for ‘flu’ is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries are added together. We compared our query counts with traditional flu surveillance systems and found that many search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in different states and countries around the world.”

Albrecht said Google monitored search patterns that indicated a person may have had the flu. Then it would pinpoint a person’s location using an IP address.

“They turned that map over to the government,” she said. “They didn’t give any personal information about individuals. They didn’t give individual IP addresses or say who the people were – but they could have.”

The search-engine giant uses its search records for marketing purposes, Albrecht explained.

She said some people wonder why Google would give them all this “free cool stuff” like Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets, Google Earth and Gmail.

“When was the last time a company making billions of dollars gave you every single thing they offered for free?” she asked. “They’re not giving you those products for free. You’re the product, and that’s the bait.”

But she said there’s good news. Startpage, and its European brand Ixquick,, are introducing a new search alternative that will protect and never store private information about its users. Startpage will launch its new proxy service tonight at 10 p.m. EST.

Startpage, a private search engine, launches new proxy service tonight.

The proxy service allows users to search and surf the Web anonymously. With each Startpage search, the word “proxy” appears under each result. If a user clicks “proxy,” they may view the result privately.

Startpage visits the selected website, retrieves the information and shows it to the user in a privacy-protected window. A private user’s browser never interacts directly with the external website so the websites cannot capture or record personal data or load malware onto a private computer. Websites only see that a site in the Netherlands is visiting the website, she said. The search engine never records personal information, search data or IP addresses.

“Startpage doesn’t have any information, so even if it was served with a subpoena or, like Google, if it got hacked, there would be no records to obtain because it doesn’t keep any records,” Albrecht explained.

She said she hopes people will start supporting companies like Startpage and move their traffic away from the other big search engines, so Google, Yahoo, Bing and others will learn to respect user privacy.

“As consumers, we almost have an obligation to stop using them until they behave themselves,” Albrecht said. “Sometimes you want to know private stuff. It doesn’t mean you have something to hide or are doing anything wrong. It just means you don’t want other people knowing what you’re thinking about and looking up. It’s nobody’s business.”

Mainstream Media To Bully Bloggers Out Of ‘Fair Use’

Reblogged from The PPJ Gazette:

Jan 28, 2012 by NWR

(NWR) – The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, along with 28 other news organizations, are launching a company which hopes to further profit on their news reporting, by seeking to make paying customers out of websites or blogs which reproduce their content, either in full or in part.

The new company will go by the ridiculous name of ‘NewsRight’, to make it better appear to the general public that these mainstream media outlets have some kind of exclusivity over the very flow of human existence of any significance (or as equally likely, insignificance) taking place anywhere in the world.

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Illegal Immigration Fighting Organization Silenced by Google & YouTube Attack

 by  ALIPAC

 

 

Published on 01-26-2012 10:08 AM Number of Views: 6066

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Illegal Immigration Fighting Organization Silenced by Google & YouTube AttackFor National Release

January 26, 2012

Contact: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
(866) 703-0864 / Press@alipac.us
http://www.alipac.us

Google Inc. gave an illegal immigration supporting activist access to the popular YouTube account of the national organization Americans For Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) at 1:15pm Eastern Time on Sunday January 15, 2012. Within one hour, the attacker had changed the password to the account, defaced the account, and deleted the over 100 videos that ALIPAC had uploaded since 2007 which had been viewed over 4.3 million times.

ALIPAC is issuing a public notice to supporters and the national media about this attack and is calling on Google Inc. to restore the YouTube account ALIPAC1. We are also calling on the FBI to launch an investigation into this attack on our civil rights and to pursue the person or persons responsible for violating the civil rights of our political organization’s supporters. This ‘black hat’ attack comes at a time when the American public has growing concerns about free speech restricting legislation such as PIPA and SOPA!

Since the attack, ALIPAC has contacted Google Inc. five times using their “Hijacked Account” form online, with ten faxes to Google offices around the country, two certified letters, and several useless calls to Google offices requesting the account be restored. Online information indicates that Google has the ability to restore hijacked and defaced accounts. The account ALIPAC1 was listed as being in good standing with YouTube’s policies at the time of the attack, yet Google Inc. has failed to restore the account or respond to ALIPAC’s numerous requests in the past eleven days since the attack.

“A major component of our voice online has been silenced by an attacker who was successful due to assistance by Google Inc. policies or a Google Inc. employee,” said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. “We want Google to do the right thing by restoring our account, and we want federal law enforcement to protect our civil rights by using the online information available to them to apprehend those responsible for this successful attempt to silence us on YouTube.”

What remains of ALIPAC’s YouTube account can be viewed at ALIPAC1′s Channel – YouTube . All videos are removed and the thousands of viewers each day trying to access the videos are erroneously told “Sorry Video Removed by User.”

This account contained videos of all of ALIPAC’s national and local TV news appearances and statements, speeches at rallies and public events, several important talk radio interviews, and other newscasts including the most viewed copy of Congressman Joe Wilson shouting “You Lie!” to President Obama. The account also included exclusive content such as the video documentation of illegal immigration supporters attacking an event featuring Congressman Tom Tancredo at UNC Chapel Hill. ALIPAC’s footage of this event ran on every major network in America. ALIPAC’s main website at www.ALIPAC.us regularly received a lot of web traffic and support coming in from citizens who viewed the contents of ALIPAC1.

On the day of the attack, ALIPAC received an email from Google Inc. stating, “We’ve received a request to change the email address associated with your
Google Account from: WilliamG@alipac.us to BillyXTC@hushmail.com If you initiated this request, you don’t need to take any further action. If
you didn’t request an email change and you think someone may be using your account, please visit the Google Accounts Help Center.”

“We have no idea why Google would allow a 3rd party to change our email and password controls without our permission, especially when the email for our account is the same one that has been on file with them for over 4 years and is an email directly associated with our primary domain,” said William Gheen. “We were never asked to authorize this change, nor did we authorize this change, and God help everyone with a YouTube account if Google is going to make a policy of allowing email changes to be conducted by 3rd parties without authorization.”

ALIPAC has taken back control of the account via the Google help menu, but to protect from further exploits Google Inc. required ALIPAC to enter a cell phone number to associate with the account from this point forward to prevent further attacks.

ALIPAC is issuing the following letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation today (CLICK HERE TO READ) asking for assistance with this matter, and will launch an effort next week to lobby congressional offices for assistance dealing with Google Inc. and the FBI on this matter.

All members of the media and activist supporters are asked to report and distribute this information which will serve as a warning to others and to aid in the effort to seek both restoration of ALIPAC1 on YouTube and justification for those who have been silenced by this ‘hacktivist’ attack on the civil rights of Americans speaking out peacefully against illegal immigration and Amnesty via www.ALIPAC.us