America’s swan song? “We are not coming back”

This was sent to me on March 23rd.  It needs to be read, and sent to those who still have an ear to hear.

I am forwarding this email but sadly most won’t read it.  “Oh boy, Michael is sending another political email.”  I haven’t sent any since the election mainly because I realized that most people don’t care about politics, ergo, they don’t care about our nation.  Everybody seems to be only centered on themselves these days.  But what most don’t realize is what goes for the country goes for each of us.  This article sums up the attitude of Americans and how this once great country will no longer be great again.  I would just like to thank those who contribute to this.  Truth hurts sometimes!

Please take a moment to digest this provocative article by a Jewish Rabbi From Teaneck, N.J.

It is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard.

 Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jersey

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“The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted.

But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.

Romney lost because he didn’t get enough votes to win.

That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate.

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.

Every businessman knows this; that is why the “loss leader” or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama’s America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which “47% of the people” start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money – “free stuff” – from the government.

Almost half of the population has no skin in the game – they don’t care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese.

They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else’s expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a resident who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters – the clear majority – are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: “Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” Stevenson called back: “That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!” Truer words were never spoken.

Obama could get away with saying that “Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules” – without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the “rich should pay their fair share” – without ever defining what a “fair share” is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to “fend for themselves” – without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending.

Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions – in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.

Obama also knows that the electorate has changed – that whites will soon be a minority in America (they’re already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America. Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his “negative ads” were simple facts, never personal abuse – facts about high unemployment, lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil’s bargain of making unsustainable promises. It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan – people of substance, depth and ideas – to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare – never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. If an Obama could not be defeated – with his record and his vision of America, in which free stuff seduces voters – it is hard to envision any change in the future.

The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy – those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe – is paved.

For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel. They voted to secure Obama’s future at America’s expense and at Israel’s expense – in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.

A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon-and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.

But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there is an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations.. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come.

The “Occupy” riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead – years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution. If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone.

And, sad for the world, it is not coming back.”

Capitol Hill Daily: J.F.K. is Rolling in His Grave

I have made posts regarding Agribusiness and our  food supply; Monsanto and GMO’s, and the PBS documentary Food INC.  This is -largely- not news to me; however there are examples here that I did not know, and felt needed public exposure. PLEASE pass this on. “X”

FIRST, THEIR “ABOUT” STATEMENT:

Washington, D.C. is a city obsessed with power. It has an almost magnetic draw that calls to people thirsty for control. People who want to climb the political ladder and become your master.

And they’re succeeding. Today, the government has a more direct impact on your life than at any other time in history.

Washington has used legislation to strong-arm itself into medicine, farming and food distribution, energy production, banking, capital markets, education, scientific research and more.

I challenge you to find a single area of private enterprise – or even family life – that the D.C. elite haven’t tried to control.

Now, you could ignore what’s happening. But it would be at your own peril.

Our goal is to help you understand what’s really going on in D.C.  We believe you deserve the truth.

Capitol Hill Daily has assembled a team of thinkers, researchers, D.C. insiders and political experts with one goal in mind: to keep you informed, so that you can protect yourself from the jackals that run Washington.

That’s why we’re personally challenging you to read our content for the next 30 days and see for yourself. If we’re doing our job effectively, you should feel more informed and better prepared to protect yourself, your family and your hard-earned money.

THIS RECEIVED VIA E-MAIL YESTERDAY. Frankly, I don’t know which action group had referred me; I don’t recall subscribing. Am adding this to my Action Groups link. “X”

Your God-Given Right to the Truth

By ROBERT WILLIAMS, Publisher, Capitol Hill Daily

As I told you yesterday, what you’re about to read is likely to shock you and represents only a brief glimpse behind the government’s increasingly thick veil of secrecy.
Although Capitol Hill Daily is doing everything in its power to keep its readers informed, the government continues to behave like a secret society in and of itself. Today, I’ll furnish even more proof.
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I don’t enjoy being the bearer of disturbing news, but I’ll come right out and say it…
The food you’re eating is not safe.
Worse yet, as a hidden document I’m about to reveal proves, the government knows it isn’t safe.
Try not to worry too much, though.
In this article, I’ll tell you what’s going on… why I’m so concerned… the steps you can take to protect yourself… and I’ll even show you a unique, underlying opportunity.

Publisher’s Note About Next Week: My team is polishing off a brand-new report this moment – one directly associated with the topic of today’s article. The report details an incredible silver lining for investors. Be sure to check your inbox in exactly six days. The subject line of the email will be “Bone-Chilling News From America’s Ports (Be Very Afraid).”

The reality is that food-borne illnesses already hit roughly 76 million Americans every year.
Such illnesses will send 325,000 people to the hospital over the next 12 months, where 5,000 will ultimately die (mostly either elderly or children).
Yet the problem is far, far worse than anyone realizes.
You see, our nation’s farms are now being run like corporations – they hold profits in higher regard than everything else.
For starters, pesticide use is through the roof. In fact, to foster the highest possible crop yields, approximately 5.1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States every year.
Likewise, our cows, hogs and chickens are being pumped full of steroids to ensure that they’re bigger and fatter.
And the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the livestock industry uses 29 million pounds of antibiotics each year.
Have you ever heard of ST398? (You likely haven’t; the government would like to keep it hidden, too.)
It’s an antibiotic-resistant staph infection – sometimes called “Pig MRSA” – that’s slowly spreading into the general population of farm animals.
Scary stuff, indeed!
More troubling still, the age of globalization in which we presently live has food coming into our ports from virtually everywhere. While you might think that all the food is being inspected, as I’m about to show you, it’s not!
The conditions through which our food is supplied to us are hazardous.
I arbitrarily picked a week from 2012 (October 15 – 19) to see what I’d find in regards to food warnings.
Well, the following “food recalls” were posted on the FDA’s homepage (take note that this happens EVERY week)…
October 19, 2012 (recalled) – Wegmans Gluten Free Double Chocolate Brownie mixes due to tainted milk and pecans.
October 18, 2012 (recalled) – Better Valu Fruit Whirls cereal due to tainted almonds.
October 17, 2012 (recalled) – Iskream ice cream due to salmonella.
October 17, 2012 (recalled) – Dole salad due to listeria monocytogenes.
October 17, 2012 (recalled) – Boots & Barkley pet treats due to salmonella.
October 16, 2012 (recalled) – Gless Ranch, Sun Harvest, Torn and Glasser, and Sprouts peanut butter due to salmonella.
October 16, 2012 (recalled) – Fresh Pak and Energy Club peanuts due to salmonella.
October 16, 2012 (recalled) – Publix frozen shrimp due to tainted soy.
October 15, 2012 (recalled) – Green & Black’s candy due to salmonella.
October 15, 2012 (recalled) – Hines and Dollar General in-shell peanuts due to salmonella.
October 15, 2012 (recalled) – Earthbound Farm salad kit due to salmonella.
How did the FDA know to recall these products? People got sick!
(You can track up-to-the-minute food recalls by following this link. To view some common mistakes that we all make when handling and eating food, click here. **  And be particularly careful with peanuts, peanut butter, cantaloupes and eggs, as they represent the main culprits of food-borne illness.)
I know what you might be thinking…
“I’m not that concerned, Robert, because I have a safety net. It’s called the FDA. The agency exists as a last line of defense between tainted food and me getting sick.”
My response? Not so fast!
What if I told you that my Capitol Hill Daily analysts intercepted a recent document filed by the Commissioner of the FDA to lawmakers… and, in that document, the FDA confesses (in detail) that it’s totally asleep at the wheel?
Would that grab your full attention? I hope so!
The FDA regulates $417-billion worth of domestic food and $49-billion worth of imported food each year.
It oversees more than 420,000 domestic and foreign food facilities, and devotes roughly 1,300 full-time staffers to conduct food and feed inspection and investigational activities.
It presently has 22,325 domestic food firms classified as “high risk,” in regards to having a history of food contamination issues.
Here’s where it gets scary. Really scary.
According to the document we uncovered, of those 22,325 “high risk” firms, the FDA inspected less than half of them last year. (Yikes!) And that’s not the worst of it.
As it turns out, imported food poses an even greater health threat. Of the 10.4 million food lines imported last year, the FDA admits that only 2.3% were physically inspected.
Yet our policymakers assure us that the FDA is out there conducting inspections. I assure you it’s not, as the following excerpt clearly spells out…
“The usual sequence of scheduling certain facilities for inspection and then striving to meet a benchmark did not take place.” - The FDA
Our investigation into this troubling situation suggests that it’s simply the result of cost-cutting measures by the government.
Capitol Hill Daily’s response? We can list 1,000 other government programs to cut that won’t put the public’s health in jeopardy. And we’re happy to furnish our list should anyone on Capitol Hill ask for it!
But believe it or not, there’s a silver lining.
Despite the bad news, all is not lost. In fact, hidden in this sea of oversight is a unique opportunity. You don’t want to miss this one – so check your email in six days. Look for the report titled “How to Turn the FDA’s Massive Backlog into Even Bigger Profits“.
Until then!
Robert Williams Publisher, Capitol Hill Daily

P.S. Speaking of secrets… I just released the shocking results of my investigation into the secret affairs of our nation’s highest lawmakers. While the investigation exposes – at times, even embarrasses – Capitol Hill’s most esteemed aristocrats, even I’m surprised by the findings. In fact, I now know things that very few Americans know. Shocking things. It’s scary, actually.
To view the investigation now, just click here.

http://www.capitolhilldaily.com/

**   FROM THEIR LINK:

Dangerous Food Safety Mistakes

http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/basics/mistakes/index.html

Sometimes a simple mistake can have grave consequences. What may seem like a small food safety mistake can cause serious illness with long-term consequences.

When it comes to some germs, such as Salmonella, all it takes is 15 to 20 cells in undercooked food to cause food poisoning. And just a tiny taste of food with botulism toxin can cause paralysis and even death.

Here are some common food safety mistakes that have been proven to cause serious illness.

Mistake #1: Tasting food to see if it’s still good

Why: You can’t taste (or smell or see) the bacteria that cause food poisoning. Tasting only a tiny amount can cause serious illness.

Solution: Throw food out before harmful bacteria grows. Check the Safe Storage Times chart to be sure.

Mistake #2: Putting cooked meat back on a plate that held raw meat

Why: Germs from the raw meat can spread to the cooked meat.

Solution: Always use separate plates for raw meat and cooked meat. The same rule applies to poultry and seafood.

Mistake #3: Thawing food on the counter

Why: Harmful germs can multiply extremely rapidly at room temperature.

Solution: Thaw food safely:

• • In the refrigerator
  • In cold water
  • In the microwave

Mistake #4: Washing meat or poultry

Why: Washing raw meat or poultry can spread bacteria to your sink, countertops, and other surfaces in your kitchen.

Solution: Don’t wash meat, poultry, or eggs.

Mistake #5: Letting food cool before putting it in the fridge

Why: Illness-causing bacteria can grow in perishable foods within two hours unless you refrigerate them

Solution: Refrigerate perishable foods within 2 hours (or within 1 hour if the temperature is over 90˚F.

Mistake #6: Eating raw cookie dough (or other foods with uncooked eggs)

Why: Uncooked eggs may contain Salmonella or other harmful bacteria.

Solution: Always cook eggs thoroughly. Avoid foods that contain raw or undercooked eggs.

Mistake #7: Marinating meat or seafood on the counter

Why: Harmful germs in meat or seafood can multiply extremely rapidly at room temperature.

Solution: Always marinate meat or seafood in the refrigerator.

Mistake #8: Using raw meat marinade on cooked food

Why: Germs from the raw meat (or seafood) can spread to the cooked food.

Solution: You can reuse marinade only if you bring it to a boil just before using.

Mistake #9: Undercooking meat, poultry, seafood, or eggs

Why: Cooked food is safe only after it’s been cooked to a high enough temperature to kill harmful bacteria

Solution: Use the Safe Minimum Cooking Temperatures chart and a food thermometer.

Mistake #10: Not washing your hands

Why: Germs on your hands can contaminate the food that you or others eat.

Solution: Wash hands the right way—for 20 seconds with soap and running water.

For the record -

Several days ago, I was wanting to make changes to my “about” pg; I had not changed any settings or made other adjustments to my blog, yet the link had changed to show the main pg, and the about pg had vanished. GRR… I needed to reassemble my blogs mission statement, and reset the link. For those unfamiliar with partneringwitheagles, the new link contains PWE’s profile. “X”

Yahoo news – Brain, Interrupted

By Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson | New York Times – Tue, May 7, 2013 6:17 PM EDT

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Technology has given us many gifts, among them dozens of new ways to grab our attention. It’s hard to talk to a friend without your phone buzzing at least once. Odds are high you will check your Twitter feed or Facebook wall while reading this article. Just try to type a memo at work without having an e-mail pop up that ruins your train of thought.

But what constitutes distraction? Does the mere possibility that a phone call or e-mail will soon arrive drain your brain power? And does distraction matter — do interruptions make us dumber? Quite a bit, according to new research by Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
There’s a lot of debate among brain researchers about the impact of gadgets on our brains. Most discussion has focused on the deleterious effect of multitasking. Early results show what most of us know implicitly: if you do two things at once, both efforts suffer.

[More from The New York Times: New Motto for Silicon Valley: First Security, Then Innovation]
In fact, multitasking is a misnomer. In most situations, the person juggling e-mail, text messaging, Facebook and a meeting is really doing something called “rapid toggling between tasks,” and is engaged in constant context switching.

As economics students know, switching involves costs. But how much? When a consumer switches banks, or a company switches suppliers, it’s relatively easy to count the added expense of the hassle of change. When your brain is switching tasks, the cost is harder to quantify.

There have been a few efforts to do so: Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine, found that a typical office worker gets only 11 minutes between each interruption, while it takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the original task after an interruption. But there has been scant research on the quality of work done during these periods of rapid toggling.

We decided to investigate further, and asked Alessandro Acquisti, a professor of information technology, and the psychologist Eyal Peer at Carnegie Mellon to design an experiment to measure the brain power lost when someone is interrupted.
To simulate the pull of an expected cellphone call or e-mail, we had subjects sit in a lab and perform a standard cognitive skill test. In the experiment, 136 subjects were asked to read a short passage and answer questions about it. There were three groups of subjects; one merely completed the test. The other two were told they “might be contacted for further instructions” at any moment via instant message.

During an initial test, the second and third groups were interrupted twice. Then a second test was administered, but this time, only the second group was interrupted. The third group awaited an interruption that never came. Let’s call the three groups Control, Interrupted and On High Alert.
We expected the Interrupted group to make some mistakes, but the results were truly dismal, especially for those who think of themselves as multitaskers: during this first test, both interrupted groups answered correctly 20 percent less often than members of the control group.
[More from The New York Times: Accessories No Longer Tethered to Apple]

In other words, the distraction of an interruption, combined with the brain drain of preparing for that interruption, made our test takers 20 percent dumber. That’s enough to turn a B-minus student (80 percent) into a failure (62 percent).

But in Part 2 of the experiment, the results were not as bleak. This time, part of the group was told they would be interrupted again, but they were actually left alone to focus on the questions.
Again, the Interrupted group underperformed the control group, but this time they closed the gap significantly, to a respectable 14 percent. Dr. Peer said this suggested that people who experience an interruption, and expect another, can learn to improve how they deal with it.

But among the On High Alert group, there was a twist. Those who were warned of an interruption that never came improved by a whopping 43 percent, and even outperformed the control test takers who were left alone. This unexpected, counterintuitive finding requires further research, but Dr. Peer thinks there’s a simple explanation: participants learned from their experience, and their brains adapted.
Somehow, it seems, they marshaled extra brain power to steel themselves against interruption, or perhaps the potential for interruptions served as a kind of deadline that helped them focus even better.

Clifford Nass, a Stanford sociologist who conducted some of the first tests on multitasking, has said that those who can’t resist the lure of doing two things at once are “suckers for irrelevancy.” There is some evidence that we’re not just suckers for that new text message, or addicted to it; it’s actually robbing us of brain power, too. Tweet about this at your own risk.

What the Carnegie Mellon study shows, however, is that it is possible to train yourself for distractions, even if you don’t know when they’ll hit.
Bob Sullivan, a journalist at NBC News, and Hugh Thompson, a computer scientist and entrepreneur, are the authors of “The Plateau Effect: Getting From Stuck to Success.”

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from REALITY that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves….. Pause a Moment … Reflect Back ………… These Events ARE Actual Events from History. They really  happened!!! DO YOU REMEMBER ????

1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim Male.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim Males.
3. In 1972 a Pan Am 747 was hijacked and eventually diverted to Cairo where a fuse was lit on final approach and it was blown up shortly after landing by Muslim males.                                                                                                                            4. In 1973 a Pan Am 707 was destroyed in Rome , with 33 people killed, when it was attacked with grenades by Muslim males.                                                                                                                                                                                                         5. In 1979, the US Embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim Males.
6. During the 1980′s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim Males.
7. In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot … miraculously the Pope survived. By a MALE Muslim
8. In 1983, both the US Embassy and the US Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim Males.
9. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim Males.
10. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim Males. 11. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim Males.
12. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim Males.
13. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim Males.
14. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of People were killed by Muslim Males.
15. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim Males.
16. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by——you guessed it— by Muslim Males.

No, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?  So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people…… Absolutely No Profiling!

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, BUT leave Muslim Males alone ….. or they will be guilty of profiling.

Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason???

Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves — if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story ‘Forrest Gump’ so aptly put it,
‘Stupid Is As Stupid Does’ In God We Trust! Pray for our Country and our Freedom!

Tea party Economist: Internet Sales Tax Passes the Senate, 69 to 27

In view of this, -and other far more brazen actions- I intend to change my “Government” tab to Rogue Government.

Gary North

The Tea Party Economist

Helping you to get through the economic mine field in  one piece.

Internet Sales Tax Passes the Senate, 69 to 27

Written by Gary North on May 7, 2013

Read more: http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/05/07/internet-tax-passes-the-senate-69-to-27/#ixzz2SnleSBfd

Republicans in the U.S. Senate caved in. They voted to force businesses  located in one state to serve as unpaid tax collectors for 45 other states.  (Five states have no sales tax.)

The RINO Party Line is that this is not a tax increase. It is a huge tax  increase. Voters will pay it. Businesses will pay it.

The nightmare of complying will kill tens of thousands of online businesses.  This is a subsidy to Walmart, which pays sales taxes because it is physically  located in all states. Amazon has also joined in — same reason. It has delivery  centers in several states, and it plans to add lots more. These companies want  small businesses to pay. They do not want competition.

The bill makes businesses, that are not under the jurisdiction of 45 states  with sales taxes, serve as unpaid tax collectors for these states.

The debate now goes to the House. If Republicans in the House cave in, you  will find out just how large a tax increase this is.

Online business sites are not fighting this tax. They are rolling over and  playing dead. “What, we should worry?” If this bill is passed by the House, they  will find out just how much they should have worried.

The House Bill is H.R.  684. It is called the Marketplace Fairness Act.

There is nothing fair about this tax. Businesses that get no benefits from  government spending in 45 states will be forced to collect taxes from residents  of those states.  These is a term for this practice: taxation without  representation.

Don’t roll over and play dead. Contact your Congressman. Say that you oppose  any tax increase. Explain that you take this vote seriously enough to determine  whether you will vote for him in 2014. Explain that opposition to this bill is a  non-negotiable political issue in your view. Mention its name and  number. This will show that you really are serious about this.

If you do not know who your Congressman is, use the House’s search service.  All you need to do is supply your zip code.

If the site does not offer a Contact Me email address, call the local office.  Make sure your opinion is counted.

If you are on a social network, warn your friends. Link to my article. If you  post on Twitter, and you need a link shortener, use bitly.com.

There is a Twitter feed on this: No Net Tax.  https://twitter.com/search?q=NoNetTax

Read more: http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/05/07/internet-tax-passes-the-senate-69-to-27/#ixzz2Snkx726C

The Tea Party Economist: Gun Violence in the USA Has Declined for 20 Years

Gary North

The Tea Party Economist

Helping you to get through the economic mine field in  one piece.

Gun Violence in the USA Has Declined for 20 Years

Written by Gary North on May 9, 2013

Gun violence has been falling in the United States for two decades. Between  1993 and 2010, the gun homicide rate fell by 49%.

The public does not perceive this, thanks to media attention to specific  cases of gun violence.

Rates for all categories of violence have fallen. This includes gun  violence.

The same study revealed that 56% of those surveyed believe that gun violence  is worse today than in 1993. Another 26% think it is about the same. Only 12%  think it has declined.

What about mass shootings? These account for 1% of all homicides. But stories  about them attract readers.

The public is uninformed. This comes as no surprise.

The media want gun control. This comes as no surprise.

The public likes to read stories about lunatic murderers. This comes as no  surprise.

Congress refuses to vote for gun control, because gun owners are  well-organized, single-issue voters. This comes as no surprise, but it drives  the gun control crowd to despair.

Continue  Reading on dailycaller.com

Read more: http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/05/09/gun-violence-in-the-usa-has-declined-for-20-years/#ixzz2SniTaNS7

“Potpourri”

I was considering a very different posting; however, my yahoo browser news items distracted me. These are varied, and interesting:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/petition-remove-stone-carving-confederacy-stirs-debate-151726274.html

 

Carving of Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Depending on whom you ask, the enormous monument carved into Georgia’s Stone Mountain is either a proud statement or a blight and an embarrassment.

Depicting the only president of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, riding beside Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, it’s two football fields wide, making it the largest of its kind.

The NBC station 11 Alive reports that a petition that seeks to remake this famous—and infamous—landmark is causing controversy.

“It’s almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture,” the petition’s creator, McCartney Forde, told local 11.

Forde’s online petition on Change.org calls for changes to be made to the mountainside carving, first conceived in 1923 by a charter member of the Daughters of the Confederacy but not completed until 1972.

He writes, “The three men embossed on the face of arguably the most famous landmark in the great state of Georgia are icons for what is widely considered the darkest period in our nation’s history. … It is a monument that perpetuates the perception of Georgia as an icon of racism, slavery and oppression.”

Forde suggests that the current carving be removed and replaced with a monument to Georgia veterans.

So far, just 164 people have signed the petition, but the quest seems to be as controversial as the monument itself.

“We should not erase history,” Calvin Johnson, Jr., a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told the news station.

He added, “These guys [were] regarded very highly in the North and South after the War Between the States, and it’s only been the last 30 or 40 years that I think what you call revisionist history began in this country.”

Symbols of the Confederacy, which to many represent the pro-slavery history of the South, continue to stir up debate. A song by country singer Brad Paisley, “Accidental Racist,” recently caused an outcry because, among other things, it seemed to defend his wearing of a Confederate flag T-shirt.

“The only thing I meant to say is I’m a Skynyrd fan,” he sings.

OOPS! Mega blooper:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/chicago-blackhawks-had-tremendous-amount-sex-season-report-130942430.html

Never mind the #%! “Yuppie” items; this affects us all:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/time-online-tax-free-shopping-111955507.html

Time for an Online Tax-Free Shopping Spree?

By Kelli B. Grant | MarketWatch – Tue, Apr 30, 2013 7:19 AM EDT

Last week, Congress cleared the way for a May vote on the Marketplace Fairness Act, which requires online retailers to collect sales tax on all purchases. Under current law, states can only require online sellers to collect sales tax if they have a physical presence in that state. (Technically, even when those items are tax-free, shoppers are supposed to report such purchases to their state at tax time.) The legislation would spare e-books and other digital content — for now — but there are plenty of other big-ticket purchases that could cost shoppers substantially more, including these four.

Electronics

Being an early adopter is getting more expensive. Amazon.com currently charges sales tax only on orders to Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. Newegg.com charges sales tax on orders heading to California, New Jersey and Tennessee. A $2,998 60-inch Sony 1080p LED television would cost another $209.86 for a Vermont buyer, with 6% state sales tax and up to 1% in local taxes. The 6% sales tax for a shopper in Maryland adds $71.94 to the $1,199 price of an Apple MacBook Air.

Jewelry

Consumers planning to pop the question will need to pad their wedding budget. BlueNile.com collects sales tax only on orders shipped to New York and Washington; Diamonds.com, to Nevada. A $13,015 platinum ring with a 1.51-carat princess-cut diamond would cost $780.90 more for a buyer in the District of Columbia with the 6% sales tax included.

Designer clothes and accessories

Shoppers in the market for a designer handbag may soon find they have less available to fund a matching wallet. Many of the sites selling luxe brands only charge sales tax in a few states — Net-a-Porter.com on purchases shipped to New Jersey and New York; Bluefly.com on orders shipped to California, Colorado, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. For a Rhode Islander buying a $3,525 Bottega Veneta tote, the state’s 7% sales tax would add $246.75 to the bill. A $13,850 Alexander McQueen gown heading to South Carolina could be as much as $1,246.50 extra, with a state sales tax of 6% and local sales tax rates of up to another 3%.

Furniture and fixtures

Buyers taking advantage of low interest rates and still-sluggish real estate markets may find the savings are offset by higher bills to feather their nest. Overstock.com currently collects sales tax only on orders shipped to Utah; Wayfair.com, to Massachusetts, Utah and Kentucky and Build.com, to California. A New Yorker buying a $3,097 sectional sofa could pay as much as $278.73 extra, with 4% state sales tax and up to 5% in local taxes.

Hedonism? This is way over the top…

New Falcons stadium ideas don’t just push the envelope, they shred it

By Jay Busbee

By Jay Busbee | Shutdown Corner – Wed, May 1, 2013 8:39 AM EDT

Alien invasion or football experience? In Atlanta come 2017, there won’t be much of a difference, if an exotic new stadium plan becomes reality.

That there is one of the two major designs for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, proposed to open in time for the start of the 2017 season. Crafted by 360 Architecture, it’s called the “Pantheon,” and it’s a new design on the usual retractable-dome style. How new? This new:

Concept design via 360 Architecture.

The centerpiece of the dome is the “Oculus,” the eye that rotates open depending on the day’s weather and the facility’s needs. It’s meant to resemble the sweep of a falcon’s wing, and you can see it in action in the video below. Sweet, huh?

Also under consideration: the “Solarium,” a more traditional two-paneled retractable-roof facility:

Concept design via 360 Architecture.

360 Architecture, which also designed MetLife Stadium, home of the Giants and Jets, won a $35 million deal to design the estimated billion-dollar stadium. And the amenities, if actually built, will rival any stadium in the world. Enticements could include “impact seats,” which vibrate on a large hit, and a 100-yard-long bar. The Falcons may also create individual sponsorship opportunities for each game on the stadium’s gargantuan video boards.

The major challenge for any team in this environment is to get fans out of their own homes and away from their own HD TVs. “We want to get the fan back to the game and it has to be about the game or about the event,” said Bill Johnson, the project’s lead architect. “I don’t think skimp will be a word that will be used a lot.”

Here’s a concept video filmed by WSB TV: NOTE – this link  one of the two major designs for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, -from above- has a video which discusses, and shows the concept . The concept video didn’t properly embed. “X”

And here’s the complete proposal:

New Atlanta Falcons stadium presentation by 360 Architecture, including concepts of proposed athletic compl…

New Atlanta Falcons stadium presentation by 360 Architecture, including concepts of proposed athletic compl…

Stumbled on this due to a blogger, “ooganhand” who reblogged one of my posts. I wanted to find out what “ooganhand” meant translated, so I did a Startpage search. No translations, just references to a prolific blog.

http://mindweaponsinragnarok.com/2012/03/13/commenter-columnist-has-a-blog/

 

Commenter “Columnist” has a blog, Oogenhand

Posted on March 13, 2012 by mindweapon

I hope Columnist will explain to us what Oogenhand refers to.

Columnist advocates victory through polyglottism.

My father taught me German as a kid and then I learned Russian in my 20′s, which turned out to be much more useful.  My life definitely changed for the better when I became bilingual.  Opportunities opened up for me.  I live among people with better character, on average, than I would have been able to among my own countrymen.

If I lived in a city with people speaking many languages, I would have learned Chinese and Arabic  and Hebrew by now myself.  The obstacle to mastering a foreign language is the need to be among native speakers, to be immersed.

Anyway, if you are free to wander the world, and are not tied down with ties of love and family, which is not a bad thing to be, I might say.  But if you are free to roam, learn 3 or 4 foreign languages.  I’d say Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic.  Those are the languages of the world’s players.  But Hindi and Urdu and Pashtun, and Turkish could also do it for you.  Lots of stuff going on in this languages.

You may even be able to monetize polyglottism, by trading between the languages.  It’s all about making connections.  The Semites and Orientals have this more than we do.  We definitely need a merchant class, and polyglottism can facilitate this.

Having skimmed “ooganhand’s blog, I almost followed it… I’d found lots of intelligent and relevant blogs. Then, [this is the upper - and DOWNER-  of the day] I checked out one blog that simmered of anti-semitism. Lots of “F” bombs and other derogatory remarks…  I left a comment with a few bible references for this person.

Finally -  further “surfing” revealed this – America certainly isn’t alone fighting an uphill battle with socialists… and this is a real “WOW”:

Nils Muznieks: Illegal Immigrants Are More Important Than Indigenous Greeks- Μούιζνιεκς: οι μετανάστες σημαντικότεροι από την Εθνική ασφάλεια!

Posted by xaameriki on April 28, 2013

The European Union’s concept of human rights does not include the well-being of indigenous Greeks. While silent about the suffering Greeks must endure daily, thanks to both the illegal alien invasion and the EU’s very own austerity measures, Nils Muznieks once again opens his mouth to denigrate Greeks. The propaganda caricature of a “Fascist”, as in a political leader that imposes the will of the few on the majority, applies more so to these “humanitarian” liberal internationalists who seek to impose policies in Greece that the overwhelming majority of Greeks say clearly they do not want.

In an annual report criticizing Greek immigration policies, Muznieks states that indigenous people are irrelevant: “Migrants, refugees   and asylum seekers in Europe are faced with policies designed not according to humanitarian principles, but with a view of maintaining the safety of those who take them in” !  George Soros is an obvious inspiration on this individual, as the international Zionist criminal has poured millions into making sure illegal aliens in Greece are well off, while not helping any native Greeks, not even our children passing out in their schools from hunger thanks to austerity cuts and unemployment. 

The liberal internationalists who want to tell Greeks how to govern themselves are welcome to repatriate illegal immigrants if they are so unhappy. If Soros and Muznieks were real no strings attached humanitarians they say they are, they would be sending monetary help for Afghans and Pakistanis in their own country, instead of bribing them into staying in Greece to replace Greeks.  They are not for the humanity of illegals, they are at war with indigenous Greeks.The globalists seek a soulless, rootless, multicultural, “melting pot” Greece incapable of mounting a resistance, and the price to pay is the gradual ethnic cleansing of the unique race of people who have been living there for thousands of years. Golden Dawn is the wrench in their machine, which is why the different groups that claim to be adversaries, are united as a front to make sure the Greek people do not hear our message.

It won’t work , Golden Dawn is flourishing. In the following video our leader Michaloliakos states it clearly: MR MUZNIEKS, NEW YORK TIMES, GO TO HELL!

• FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
• LINKS
• The Manifesto Of Golden Dawn
• What Is Golden Dawn North America?

Hmmm… anyone have a translator program for Greek?

Όσο δυσανάγνωστο και αν είναι το όνομα του Μουίζνιεκς, δεν μπορούμε να ξεχάσουμε τον θρασύτατο αυτόν τύπο, ο οποίος με το ανάλογο υφάκι (προϊόν της ασυδοσίας κινήσεων που του προσέφερε η μνημονιακή συγκυβέρνηση) θεώρησε τον εαυτό του ως γενικό δερβέναγα, που θα επιβάλλει τις απόψεις του στην Ελλάδα. Ερχόμενος σε πλήρη αντίθεση τόσο με την πραγματική ροή των γεγονότων όσο και με την θέληση της συντριπτικής πλειοψηφίας του Ελληνικού Λαού το ‘‘νούμερο’’ αυτό αποδεικνύει, μέσα από τον ετήσιο απολογισμό των δραστηριοτήτων του, ότι η Εθνική Ανεξαρτησία των κρατών της Ευρώπης βρίσκεται σε υποδεέστερη μοίρα από τα ‘‘δικαιώματα’’ των λαθρομεταναστών!

Για την ακρίβεια, όπως επισημαίνει ο Μουίζνιεκς στην έκθεσή του: «οι μετανάστες, οι πρόσφυγες και οι αιτούντες άσυλο στην Ευρώπη έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με πολιτικές που σχεδιάστηκαν όχι με γνώμονα την τήρηση των ανθρωπιστικών αρχών, αλλά με γνώμονα τη διατήρηση της ασφάλειας των Χωρών»! Απίστευτα ανατριχιαστικά τα όσα υποστηρίζει ο χαρτογιακάς του Σόρος. Τα ‘‘δικαιώματα’’ των αφγανών και των πακιστανών βρίσκονται πολύ πιο πάνω στην ατζέντα αυτού του κυρίου από την Εθνική ασφάλεια και την Κοινωνική συνοχή. Οι ‘‘ανθρωπιστικές αρχές’’, των οποίων η ερμηνεία γίνεται ‘‘λάστιχο’’ ανάλογα με τα γούστα του κάθε απάτριδου στοιχείου σαν τον Μουίζνιεκς, βρίσκονται υπεράνω της αντίληψης του Έθνους Κράτους, της ανεξαρτησίας αυτού και της αξιοπρεπούς διαβίωσης των γηγενών κατοίκων μιας Χώρας.

Ο φιλελεύθερου τύπου διεθνισμός σ’ όλο το άπλωμα του θλιβερού του μεγαλείου. Ο κύριος αυτός μπορεί, αν θέλει, να πάρει όσους «μετανάστες, πρόσφυγες και αιτούντες άσυλο στην Ευρώπη» επιθυμεί στο σπίτι του και να καλύψει τα έξοδά τους (όπως και τις κάθε είδους ορέξεις τους…) από τον παχυλό μισθό του. Μπορεί, επίσης, να απευθυνθεί και στον Τζώρτζ Σόρος για οικονομική συνεισφορά. Δεν μπορεί, όμως, να απαιτεί από τον Ελληνικό Λαό να σιτίζει τους λαθρομετανάστες, βρισκόμενος αυτός εκ του ασφαλούς στην πολυτελέστατη οικία του. Όπως, φυσικά, δεν μπορεί να ορίζει ποιο κόμμα θα είναι νόμιμο και ποιο όχι. Οι «καλοί οιωνοί για το μέλλον», όπως τους οραματίζεται ο υπαλληλάκος Μουίζνιεκς είναι μια άεθνη, άθρησκη, πολυπολιτισμική Ελλάδα, ‘‘χωνευτήρι’’ των επιπλοκών της παγκοσμιοποίησης. Η ΧΡΥΣΗ ΑΥΓΗ βρίσκεται εδώ, στις επάλξεις του Αγώνα, προκειμένου να αποτρέψει μια τέτοια φρικτή προοπτική.

ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΜΑΣΤΟΡΑΣ

Porter Stansberry – “Republicans–be careful what you wish for”

The following is, of course, a secular viewpoint. Christians can read between the lines.

To avoid the long, drawn out spiel, click off the tab, and click on  ”stay on the pg” pop up,  to read this economic commentary. This is an excerpt. For the entire analysis. here is the URL:

http://pro.stansberryresearch.com/1304EOAPWAUP/LPSIP4VB/

This Upcoming Event Could Ruin Barack Obama’s Entire Presidency

 And it would result in some of the most dramatic changes to ordinary American life in more than 50 years.

Hello. My name is Porter Stansberry.
Fourteen years ago, I founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. It has since become the largest firm of its kind in the world. We specialize in financial research, and serve hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers in more than 120 countries.
You may know of our firm because of the work we did over the last several years – helping investors avoid the big disasters associated with Wall Street’s collapse.
We warned people to avoid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, General Motors and dozens of other companies that have since collapsed.
We even helped our subscribers find opportunities to profit from these moves by shorting stocks and buying put options. To my knowledge, no other research firm in the world can match our record of correctly predicting the catastrophe that occurred in 2008, and the rebound that has occurred since then.
The video presentation we created three years ago, to explain the financial crisis, and our thoughts on what would happen next, has become the most-watched on-line financial video in history, as far as we can tell.
But that’s not why I created this follow-up presentation.
I reference our success and experience with Wall Street’s latest crisis because we believe there is an even bigger crisis lurking –something that will shake the very foundation of America.
I know that to most people, the situation seems to be getting better. Stocks have recovered nearly all their losses. Real estate has rebounded. Unemployment and bankruptcies have dropped. But here’s the thing:

The unfortunate reality is that we are actually in a much more dangerous and precarious place today than we were five years ago.

And that is why I’ve spent a significant amount of time and money in the past few months preparing this presentation.
In short, I want to talk about a specific event that will take place in America’s very near future… which could actually bring our country and our way of life to a grinding halt.
This looming crisis is related to the financial crisis of 2008… but it is infinitely more dangerous, as I’ll explain in this letter.
As this problem comes to a head, I expect there will be a near-complete shut-down of the American economy. Life as we have known it for more than 40 years will essentially cease to exist. Our governments on both the Federal and State level will shut down. Banks will not open. Businesses will at least temporarily shutter their doors. I expect we’ll see martial law, enforced by the U.S. military.
Believe me, I don’t make this prediction lightly and I have no interest in trying to scare you.

I’m simply following my research to its logical conclusion.

I did the same when I tracked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s accounting. Also with General Motors, Lehman Brothers and the rest. And when I began giving this warning in 2006 no one took me very seriously… not at first. Back then, most mainstream commentators just ignored me.
And when I presented my case and exposed the facts at economic conferences, they got angry. They couldn’t refute my research… but they weren’t ready to accept the enormity of its conclusions either.
That’s why, before I go any further, I have to warn you…
What I am going to say is controversial. It will offend many people… Democrats, Republicans, and Tea Partiers, alike. In fact, I’ve already received dozens of pieces of hate mail.
And… the ideas and solutions I’m going to present might seem somewhat radical to you at first… perhaps even “un-American.”
My guess is that, as you read this letter… you’ll say: “There’s no way this could really happen… not here.”
But just remember:
No one believed me four years ago when I said the world’s largest mortgage bankers – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – would soon go bankrupt.
And no one believed me when I said GM would soon be bankrupt as well… or that the same would happen to General Growth Properties (the biggest owner of mall property in America).
But again, that’s exactly what happened.
No one believed me in 2011 when I said the crisis would cause “riots in the streets.” Then came the protests in Wisconsin, and the Occupy Wall Street movement all over the country.

And that brings us to today…

The same financial problems I’ve been tracking from bank to bank and from company to company for the last six years have now found their way into the U.S. Treasury. I’ll explain how this came to be. What it means is critically important to you and every American…
The next phase in this crisis will threaten our very way of life.
The savings of millions will be wiped out. This disaster will change your business and your work. It will dramatically affect your savings accounts, investments, and retirement.
It will change everything about your normal way of life: where you vacation… where you send your kids or grandkids to school… how and where you shop… the way you protect your family and home.
I’ll explain how I know these events are about to happen. You can decide for yourself if I’m full of hot air.

As for me, I’m more certain about this looming crisis than I’ve been about anything else in my life.

I am literally afraid for my family’s future, and I have taken drastic steps to prepare for what I know must inevitably happen next.
I know that debts don’t just disappear. I know that bailouts have big consequences. And, unlike most of the pundits on TV, I know a lot about finance and accounting.
And this is all coming to a head much, much sooner than most Americans think.
Of course, the most important part of this situation is not what is happening… but rather what you can do about it.
In other words… Will you be prepared when the biggest financial crisis in America in more than 50 years, hits?
Don’t worry, I’m not organizing a rally or demonstration. And I’ve turned down every request to run for political office.
Instead, I want to show you exactly what I’m doing personally, to protect my family, and to protect and perhaps even grow my money, and how you can prepare as well.
You see, I can tell you with near 100% certainty that most Americans will not know what to do when commodity prices – things like milk, bread and gasoline – soar. They won’t know what to do when banks close… and their credit cards stop working. Or when they’re not allowed to buy gold or foreign currencies. Or when food stamps fail… or their Social Security checks come to a halt.
In short, our way of life in America is about to change – I promise you. In this letter I’ll show you exactly what is happening, and why it is inevitable.
Again, you can challenge every single one of my facts and you’ll find that I’m right about each allegation I make.
Then, I hope you’ll take action for yourself.
Will you act now to protect yourself and your family from the catastrophe that’s brewing right now in Washington D.C.?
I hope so. And that’s why I wrote this letter.
I’m going to walk you through exactly what I am doing personally, and what you can do as well. I can’t promise you’ll emerge from this crisis completely unharmed – but I guarantee you’ll be a lot better off than people who don’t follow these simple steps.
But I’m getting ahead of myself just a bit.
Let me back up and show you in the simplest terms possible what is going on, why I am so concerned, and what I believe will happen in the next 12 months…

WND – It’s all about to hit the fan

BETWEEN THE LINES

It’s all about to hit the fan

Exclusive: Joseph Farah believes ‘politics as usual’ cannot  save nation from disaster

Joseph Farah

Have you ever had the feeling the nation is on the brink of utter  disaster?

Has that feeling ever been stronger than it is right now?

• It turns out that after spending hundreds of billions on foreign wars and  nearly an equal amount on a new bureaucracy called the Department of Homeland  Security, Americans are just as vulnerable to Islamic terrorist attacks as they  were on 9/11.

• For days that seemed like weeks, the systematically disarmed residents of  the Boston and Cambridge area cowered in their homes and hid in their closets in  fear of one armed and dangerous terrorist presumed to have been involved in the  Boston Marathon bombing.

• Sometimes it seems the war on terrorism is really a war on the people of the  United States and, particularly, on their liberty, as DHS and other agencies  target entire classifications of law-abiding Americans rather than those who  pose the gravest threat.

• Even when the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate narrowly rejects harsh  gun-control legislation, the DHS and other government agencies impose de facto  firearms restrictions on citizens by buying up billions of rounds of ammunition,  thus removing them from the free marketplace where they could be used for  citizen self-defense.

• As the economy continues its five-year cycle of sputtering, the government  continues unchecked in its policy of insanely unsustainable borrowing and  spending.

• North Korea is threatening all-out nuclear war against South Korea as well  as intercontinental ballistic missile attacks against the U.S.

• Iran continues to build a nuclear arsenal of its own while periodically  threatening Israel and the U.S., which it still regards as “the little Satan”  and “the great Satan.”

• The U.S. continues its slide from moral malaise to cultural hedonism that  makes the late 1960s look like the 1950s by comparison, as support for “same-sex  marriage” grows, the horrors of the “abortion on demand” crusade are revealed in  a Philadelphia courtroom sans media coverage and an epidemic of sex abuse  against children by schoolteachers, clergy and scoutmasters is not only ignored  but results in capitulation by the Boy Scouts of America to the demands of those  who would make the citizenry of Sodom and Gomorrah blush.

• Most of the U.S. press, once considered an important watchdog institution  against government fraud, waste, abuse and corruption, has become a  disinformation factory – out of touch with the values of the people, the  principles upon which the country was established and even the rule of law that  specifically guards the media’s own freedom.

• As the country becomes more divided culturally and jobs become harder to  find for Americans, one of the highest priorities of the ruling elite in  Washington is to ensure that tens of millions of illegal aliens already in the  country are permitted to stay, while its calls for amnesty and an open border  virtually invite more to emigrate, while rolling out the red carpet for  terrorist enemies to enter in their wake.

Do I paint an accurate picture, or do I exaggerate?

It all suggests to me something’s got to give – that we are reaching a  breaking point for America.

Is there any conceivable way “politics” as usual can save the country from  disaster?

Does anyone truly believe government has any answers, or does it illustrate  what Ronald Reagan said: “Government is not the solution. Government is the  problem”?

So what is the solution?

I can think of only one.

That is for those who still sincerely believe America was founded as one  nation under God to humble themselves and pray and seek His face and turn from  their own wicked ways.

Then and only then, does the Bible say, that He will hear our prayers,  forgive our sins and heal our land.

Do you believe that?

If you do, I invite you to join me in  that process over the next 20 weeks, leading up to 9/11/13, and the National Day  of Prayer and Fasting.

I honestly believe it’s our last and only hope for saving America from  catastrophe.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/its-all-about-to-hit-the-fan/#uEbjvJMcLZKsHixb.99