Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Obama Dances Around Question about his "Civilian National Security Force" During Town Hall
You may remember when President Barack Obama said this in a Speech about a Civilian National Security Force:
Now it appears during a Town Hall in Wisconsin, a Young man Had the Guts to ask the President what he meant by that. His answer does not Jive with what he said in the speech above:
How can a Civilian National Security Force that is just as powerful and as well equiped as the military have anything to do with building Schools, Training Police and Farming?
That was a hell of a tap dance around the question...
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Now it appears during a Town Hall in Wisconsin, a Young man Had the Guts to ask the President what he meant by that. His answer does not Jive with what he said in the speech above:
How can a Civilian National Security Force that is just as powerful and as well equiped as the military have anything to do with building Schools, Training Police and Farming?
That was a hell of a tap dance around the question...
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Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa Comes Out in Favor of Tea Parties, AZ Law
Here is an Article from KSDK talking about Tony LaRussa's support for the Tea Party and Arizona:
"KSDK -- Politics at the ballpark.
Tuesday night a group of tea party activists took their political message inside Busch Stadium.
Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa even weighed in.
With Arizona is in town taking on the Red Birds, some local tea party members came to Busch Stadium to show support for the State of Arizona and the state's controversial new immigration law.
We're supporting the State of Arizona in simply guarding the borders," said St. Louis Tea Party Member James Durbin.
Some 46 members of the St. Louis Tea Party took in Tuesday night's Cardinals match-up against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
"Part of the gate goes to the Arizona Diamondbacks and there are a lot of groups that are boycotting Arizona. We're "buy-cotting" Arizona," said St. Louis Tea Party Organizer Bill Hennessy.
They came wearing Cardinals red, but with their political logo on their shirts, as well as Arizona state flags to wave, and copies of the U.S. Constitution to hand out.
"Saying hello to people who aren't Tea Partiers, and we introduce ourselves with a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and just say, "Here's a gift. If you're interested, get a hold of us," said Hennessy.
But some fans were not happy to see the Tea Party inside Busch.
"Tea Party, at the ball game? Yeah, politics and baseball definitely don't mix," said Cardinals fan Brett Arndt.
Another fan, Terrence Brooks, said, "You know I think they should leave that behind, you know, not in here this is strictly baseball."
The Cardinals organization declined our request for an on-camera interview Tuesday night, but they did describe Busch Stadium as a "big tent" where people of all perspectives are welcome.
Meanwhile Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa welcomed the Tea Party.
"This is America right? You're supposed to be able to have opinions and disagree, and a lot of things they do I think are correct. I'm actually a supporter of what Arizona's doing, you know, people don't fix your problem, and the government, national government doesn't fix your problem, and you've got a problem, they've got to take care of it themselves," said LaRussa.
"Anybody, I mean if you had the opposite view and you wanted to come out and have your signs, I mean this is great, you're going to have 40 thousand people here to see it perfect. I don't care," said LaRussa when asked about the ballpark as an arena for politics.
As of Tuesday night at 10pm we'd heard no reaction from any Cardinals players about this.
Also, about 30 members of the Southern Illinois Tea Party attended Monday night's game.
The Cardinals say they are "delighted" to welcome any group helping to surpass three million tickets sold at Busch Stadium.
Follow the Link to Watch the video:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid35146470001?bctid=105736304001
To Read the Story on KSDK Go To:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=205290&catid=3
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"KSDK -- Politics at the ballpark.
Tuesday night a group of tea party activists took their political message inside Busch Stadium.
Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa even weighed in.
With Arizona is in town taking on the Red Birds, some local tea party members came to Busch Stadium to show support for the State of Arizona and the state's controversial new immigration law.
We're supporting the State of Arizona in simply guarding the borders," said St. Louis Tea Party Member James Durbin.
Some 46 members of the St. Louis Tea Party took in Tuesday night's Cardinals match-up against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
"Part of the gate goes to the Arizona Diamondbacks and there are a lot of groups that are boycotting Arizona. We're "buy-cotting" Arizona," said St. Louis Tea Party Organizer Bill Hennessy.
They came wearing Cardinals red, but with their political logo on their shirts, as well as Arizona state flags to wave, and copies of the U.S. Constitution to hand out.
"Saying hello to people who aren't Tea Partiers, and we introduce ourselves with a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and just say, "Here's a gift. If you're interested, get a hold of us," said Hennessy.
But some fans were not happy to see the Tea Party inside Busch.
"Tea Party, at the ball game? Yeah, politics and baseball definitely don't mix," said Cardinals fan Brett Arndt.
Another fan, Terrence Brooks, said, "You know I think they should leave that behind, you know, not in here this is strictly baseball."
The Cardinals organization declined our request for an on-camera interview Tuesday night, but they did describe Busch Stadium as a "big tent" where people of all perspectives are welcome.
Meanwhile Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa welcomed the Tea Party.
"This is America right? You're supposed to be able to have opinions and disagree, and a lot of things they do I think are correct. I'm actually a supporter of what Arizona's doing, you know, people don't fix your problem, and the government, national government doesn't fix your problem, and you've got a problem, they've got to take care of it themselves," said LaRussa.
"Anybody, I mean if you had the opposite view and you wanted to come out and have your signs, I mean this is great, you're going to have 40 thousand people here to see it perfect. I don't care," said LaRussa when asked about the ballpark as an arena for politics.
As of Tuesday night at 10pm we'd heard no reaction from any Cardinals players about this.
Also, about 30 members of the Southern Illinois Tea Party attended Monday night's game.
The Cardinals say they are "delighted" to welcome any group helping to surpass three million tickets sold at Busch Stadium.
Follow the Link to Watch the video:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid35146470001?bctid=105736304001
To Read the Story on KSDK Go To:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=205290&catid=3
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
1,100 Patriots Attended the Lincoln County Missouri Tea Party
Over 1,100 Patriots attended the First Lincoln County Missouri Tea Party in Troy Missouri on Saturday June 19th.
The Lincoln County Tea Party not only put together a set of great speakers like, Dr. Gina Louden, Stephanie Rubach, Diane Jones, John Louden, Steven Kaspar and 97.1 's Dana Loesch, but they followed in the continuing local trend of holding Tea Parties at a fairgrounds. The convenience of Concessions, Vendors, Bathrooms and even a Dunking booth helped to give the event an air of a well planned family gathering.
After 5 hours of the great line of speakers, the Tea Party ended with a rousing speech given by Local Radio Show host and National Tea Party spokesman Dana Loesch. Dana claimed to bring a storm everywhere she went and being true to her word, not minutes after the conclusion of her speech, a very strong thunderstorm hit the fairgrounds blowing tents and lawn chairs everywhere. Luckily no one was hurt and most of the people attending made it to their cars
before the brunt of the storm hit.
This was the First Tea Party in the Lincoln County Area, but I think after the rousing reception that was given to the Lincoln County Tea Party and their event, I do not think it will be the last.
Here are the highlights of some of the speakers at the Lincoln County Tea Party.
I will be posting Pictures of the event later in the Week.
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The Lincoln County Tea Party not only put together a set of great speakers like, Dr. Gina Louden, Stephanie Rubach, Diane Jones, John Louden, Steven Kaspar and 97.1 's Dana Loesch, but they followed in the continuing local trend of holding Tea Parties at a fairgrounds. The convenience of Concessions, Vendors, Bathrooms and even a Dunking booth helped to give the event an air of a well planned family gathering.
After 5 hours of the great line of speakers, the Tea Party ended with a rousing speech given by Local Radio Show host and National Tea Party spokesman Dana Loesch. Dana claimed to bring a storm everywhere she went and being true to her word, not minutes after the conclusion of her speech, a very strong thunderstorm hit the fairgrounds blowing tents and lawn chairs everywhere. Luckily no one was hurt and most of the people attending made it to their cars
before the brunt of the storm hit.
This was the First Tea Party in the Lincoln County Area, but I think after the rousing reception that was given to the Lincoln County Tea Party and their event, I do not think it will be the last.
Here are the highlights of some of the speakers at the Lincoln County Tea Party.
I will be posting Pictures of the event later in the Week.
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Teenage Liberal YouTube Group: "If the Communists Take Over and Give us Health Care then So Be It... Whats the Big Deal.."
The Communist comment is between the 4:00 and the 4:30 mark. This kid is Seriously uneducated and misguided.... A future Voter..how sad.
Monday, June 28, 2010
White House scholar funded Ayers group
Here is a very interesting Article from World Net Daily:
White House scholar funded Ayers group
Obama served as chairman of organization that promoted radical causes
Posted: June 27, 20107:00 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
Vartan GregorianTEL AVIV – A scholar and charity head appointed to President Obama's White House Fellowships Commission served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education-reform project founded by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.
Documentation shows the White House fellow, Vartan Gregorian, was central in Ayers' recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.
Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.
In his role as Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg's selection committee, asked Ayers to "compose the governing board" of the Challenge's collaborative project with "people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago."
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman.
WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project's first year. Ayers also served on the board's governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama's board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation.
WND recently reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election."
To Read the Article on WND Go To:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=171429
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White House scholar funded Ayers group
Obama served as chairman of organization that promoted radical causes
Posted: June 27, 20107:00 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
Vartan GregorianTEL AVIV – A scholar and charity head appointed to President Obama's White House Fellowships Commission served as a point man in granting $49.2 million in startup capital to an education-reform project founded by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and chaired by Obama.
Documentation shows the White House fellow, Vartan Gregorian, was central in Ayers' recruitment of Obama to serve as the first chairman of the project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – a job in which Obama worked closely on a regular basis with Ayers.
Obama also later touted his job at the project as qualifying him to run for public office, as WND previously reported.
Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, was appointed by Obama last year as a White House fellow. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Gregorian served for eight years as president of the New York Public Library and was also president of Brown University.
In his role as Brown president, Gregorian served on the selection committee of the Annenberg Foundation, which funded Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years. Ayers was one of five founding members of the Challenge who wrote to the Annenberg Foundation for the initial funding.
Steve Diamond, a political-science and law professor and a blogger who has posted on Obama, previously posted a letter from Nov. 18, 1994, in which Gregorian, serving as the point man on Annenberg's selection committee, asked Ayers to "compose the governing board" of the Challenge's collaborative project with "people who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago."
Ayers and other founding Challenge members then recruited Obama to serve as the project chairman.
WND was first to expose that Obama and Ayers used the project grant money to fund organizations run by radicals tied to Ayers, including Mike Klonsky, a former top communist activist who was a senior leader in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s, from which the Weathermen terror group later splintered.
National Review Online writer Stanley Kurtz examined the project archives housed at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finding Obama and Ayers worked closely at the project.
The documents obtained by Kurtz showed Ayers served as an ex-officio member of the board that Obama chaired through the project's first year. Ayers also served on the board's governance committee with Obama and worked with him to craft project bylaws, according to the documents.
Ayers made presentations to board meetings chaired by Obama. Ayers also spoke for the Chicago School Reform Collaborative before Obama's board, while Obama periodically spoke for the board at meetings of the collaborative, the project documents reviewed by Kurtz show.
WND reported Obama and Ayers also served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago nonprofit that granted money to far-left causes.
One of the groups funded by the Woods Fund was the Midwest Academy, an activist organization modeled after Marxist community organizer Saul Alinsky and described as teaching tactics of direct action, confrontation and intimidation.
WND recently reported Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two- to four-day intensive course run in conjunction with Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help Obama win the presidential election."
To Read the Article on WND Go To:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=171429
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Supreme Court makes Ruling on Chicago Gun Case
Here is a part of an Article from World Net Daily about today's Supreme Court Ruling:
"The Supreme Court ruling in a Chicago gun ban case that found individuals across the nation do, under the Constitution, have a right to bear arms has opened the door for a long list of legal challenges to city, county and other rules and regulations that now may infringe of the 2nd Amendment, according to several civil rights organizations.
"This kind of flips the burden onto the government and legislatures to show why they need to restrict what the court has already said is an individual right," John Velleco, the director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America, told WND today after the high court's decision was released."
To Read the Article on WND Go To:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=172237
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"The Supreme Court ruling in a Chicago gun ban case that found individuals across the nation do, under the Constitution, have a right to bear arms has opened the door for a long list of legal challenges to city, county and other rules and regulations that now may infringe of the 2nd Amendment, according to several civil rights organizations.
"This kind of flips the burden onto the government and legislatures to show why they need to restrict what the court has already said is an individual right," John Velleco, the director of federal affairs for Gun Owners of America, told WND today after the high court's decision was released."
To Read the Article on WND Go To:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=172237
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Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US Senate panel
Here is an Article from Tech World:
"By Grant Gross
Published: 11:02 GMT, 25 June 10
A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.
Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee website.
The committee unanimously approved an amended version of the legislation by voice vote Thursday, a committee spokeswoman said. The bill next moves to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled.
Obama security review gets mixed reception
The bill, introduced earlier this month, would establish a White House Office for Cyberspace Policy and a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications, which would work with private US companies to create cybersecurity requirements for the electrical grid, telecommunications networks and other critical infrastructure.
The bill also would allow the US president to take emergency actions to protect critical parts of the Internet, including ordering owners of critical infrastructure to implement emergency response plans, during a cyber-emergency. The president would need congressional approval to extend a national cyber-emergency beyond 120 days under an amendment to the legislation approved by the committee.
The legislation would give the US Department of Homeland Security authority that it does not now have to respond to cyber-attacks, Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said earlier this month.
"Our responsibility for cyber defence goes well beyond the public sector because so much of cyberspace is owned and operated by the private sector," he said. "The Department of Homeland Security has actually shown that vulnerabilities in key private sector networks like utilities and communications could bring our economy down for a period of time if attacked or commandeered by a foreign power or cyber terrorists."
Other sponsors of the bill are Senators Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, and Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat.
One critic said Thursday that the bill will hurt the nation's security, not help it. Security products operate in a competitive market that works best without heavy government intervention, said Wayne Crews, vice president for policy and director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an anti-regulation think tank.
"Policymakers should reject such proposals to centralize cyber security risk management," Crews said in an e-mail. "The Internet that will evolve if government can resort to a 'kill switch' will be vastly different from, and inferior to, the safer one that will emerge otherwise."
To Read the Article on Tech World Go To:
http://news.techworld.com/security/3228198/obama-internet-kill-switch-plan-approved-by-us-senate/?olo=rss
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"By Grant Gross
Published: 11:02 GMT, 25 June 10
A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.
Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives the president an Internet "kill switch." Instead, the bill puts limits on the powers the president already has to cause "the closing of any facility or stations for wire communication" in a time of war, as described in the Communications Act of 1934, they said in a breakdown of the bill published on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee website.
The committee unanimously approved an amended version of the legislation by voice vote Thursday, a committee spokeswoman said. The bill next moves to the Senate floor for a vote, which has not yet been scheduled.
Obama security review gets mixed reception
The bill, introduced earlier this month, would establish a White House Office for Cyberspace Policy and a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications, which would work with private US companies to create cybersecurity requirements for the electrical grid, telecommunications networks and other critical infrastructure.
The bill also would allow the US president to take emergency actions to protect critical parts of the Internet, including ordering owners of critical infrastructure to implement emergency response plans, during a cyber-emergency. The president would need congressional approval to extend a national cyber-emergency beyond 120 days under an amendment to the legislation approved by the committee.
The legislation would give the US Department of Homeland Security authority that it does not now have to respond to cyber-attacks, Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said earlier this month.
"Our responsibility for cyber defence goes well beyond the public sector because so much of cyberspace is owned and operated by the private sector," he said. "The Department of Homeland Security has actually shown that vulnerabilities in key private sector networks like utilities and communications could bring our economy down for a period of time if attacked or commandeered by a foreign power or cyber terrorists."
Other sponsors of the bill are Senators Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, and Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat.
One critic said Thursday that the bill will hurt the nation's security, not help it. Security products operate in a competitive market that works best without heavy government intervention, said Wayne Crews, vice president for policy and director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an anti-regulation think tank.
"Policymakers should reject such proposals to centralize cyber security risk management," Crews said in an e-mail. "The Internet that will evolve if government can resort to a 'kill switch' will be vastly different from, and inferior to, the safer one that will emerge otherwise."
To Read the Article on Tech World Go To:
http://news.techworld.com/security/3228198/obama-internet-kill-switch-plan-approved-by-us-senate/?olo=rss
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