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		<title>The citizens have spoken&#8230;</title>
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<p>This nation IS a REPUBLIC, run by representatives ELECTED by the majority of its citizens.</p>
<p>Tonight, the majority have spoken.</p>
<p>How does this affect me?</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t change a thing I&#8217;ve done, been doing, or will do.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t live for my leaders.</p>
<p>I live for my family, my community, and my friends. And, I believe in this nation. We&#8217;ve had harder times than this&#8230;this&#8230;is nothing.</p>
<p>Folks have hit many sore spots in many fairly negative threads, blogs, forums, and comments all over the web.</p>
<p>Do what you believe in&#8230;follow your heart&#8230;but do the RIGHT thing. No matter who&#8230;no matter what&#8230;no matter when.</p>
<p>To NOT help a fellow human because of skin color, party affiliation, race, creed, or anything else&#8230;shows and tells a lot about YOU. </p>
<p>There are words for that&#8230;</p>
<p>Bigot. Racist. Hatemonger.</p>
<p>I believe in the very foundation of this country&#8230;the <strong>Constitution</strong>&#8230;the <strong>Bill of Rights</strong>&#8230;<strong><em>that ALL men are created equal</em></strong>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m seeing a LOT of postings in a few places that I visit with some regularity, from folks that say, and sadly, believe&#8230;otherwise.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like that.</p>
<p>Not one bit.</p>
<p>I will act on my principals&#8230;if it comes to divesting myself from evil.</p>
<p>This community of Americans here on the internet have done great things, helped each other over tough times, and created ideas and potentialities that could bear good for all.</p>
<p>But those few&#8230;and you know who you are&#8230;you don&#8217;t *have* shades of grey, or you have colors you just won&#8217;t accept&#8230;well, you get what you deserve.</p>
<p>For everyone else&#8230;yes, teach your children&#8230;we did&#8230;build your own business&#8230;we did&#8230;move to where you feel free and comfortable&#8230;we did.</p>
<p>When you gets lemons&#8230;.make lemonades&#8230;do what you know to do with them.</p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t, it&#8217;s not MY fault&#8230;it&#8217;s not the government&#8217;s fault&#8230;it&#8217;s not your neighbors fault&#8230;it&#8217;s YOURS.</p>
<p>Act with maturity, integrity, and honor. </p>
<p>And, if you feel this nation is truly in trouble, use the law to change the law, to what YOU believe. </p>
<p>Ayers and Alinsky and other revolutionaries found ways to get inside, or around, the law, and Ayers is still doing it (Alinsky died in 1972). Ayers skipped prison time on a technicality, for his Domestic Terrorism exploits as founder of the Weathermen, where he bombed and killed people.  </p>
<p>He and Alinsky-ists, and their ilk, found a way to use federal grants, which Obama happily helped push forward and apply for, and won enormous grants for educational programs&#8230;again, socialist in nature&#8230;and as so many on the web been have mentioning regarding O&#8217;bama&#8217;s mentors&#8230;.a Marxist is a Marxist is a Marxist&#8230;pure and simple. </p>
<p>Read up on it&#8230;UNDERSTAND all that THAT means. We, as a nation, have a quandary. The minority of non-Obama supporters fears&#8230;are real, and valid. See my previous two posts. Obama has ties to evil&#8230;threats to the American Way&#8230;that go back DECADES. And, I will NOT waste time talking about the criminal syndicate that is known as the Chicago Political Machine&#8230;one of the most corrupt in the nation.</p>
<p>In our case&#8230;regarding YOU&#8230;become a solution to this threat of socialistic dichotomies&#8230;.work for freedom&#8230;for all&#8230;not more laws, taxes, covenents, surveillance, or anti-constitutionalist bull crap&#8230;the very things that Obama fed us in his march to the White House. </p>
<p>Think about change&#8230;not the change that Obama has been pushing ( I mean, all this man has EVER done is TALK&#8230;NEVER worked in the REAL world, gotten his hands DIRTY, had an aching back from a long workday, etc, etc).  Make change, by finding solutions that work for FREEDOM and bust your butt to change your world, change it for the BETTER. </p>
<p>Not for socialism&#8230;not for marxism&#8230;not for the Bourgeoisie (google it&#8230;then visualize Obama as THE bourgeoisie)&#8230; </p>
<p>Do it for the future generations of Americans&#8230;who JUST want FREEDOM. </p>
<p>Think&#8230;William Wallace&#8230;gutted&#8230;strangled&#8230;about to be beheaded and drawn and quartered in front of a crowd of hundreds, if not thousands&#8230;</p>
<p>His last word.  Freedom.</p>
<p>Nothing more&#8230;.nothing less.</p>
<p>Rich</p>
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		<title>To Barack Hussein Obama&#8230;Lies?</title>
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<p>A letter received worth the forward&#8230; </p>
<p>And, it&#8217;s full of truths&#8230;.Too many.</p>
<p>Vote your heart&#8230;but vote for the man who will not DESTROY America&#8230;</p>
<p>Rich</p>
<blockquote><p>To Barack Hussein Obama, </p>
<p>The New York Times carried a story on Saturday, October 4, 2008, that proved you had a significantly closer relationship with Bill Ayers than what you previously admitted. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it. </p>
<p>The Chicago Sun reported on May 8, 2008, that FBI records showed that you had a significantly closer relationship with Tony Rezko than what you previously admitted. In the interview, you said that you only saw Mr. Rezko a couple of times a year. The FBI files showed that you saw him weekly. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.. </p>
<p>Your speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, about &#8216;race&#8217; contradicted your statement to Anderson Cooper on March 14 when you said that you never heard Reverend Wright make his negative statements about white America . While your attendance at Trinity Church for 20 years is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on March 14..<br />
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In your 1st debate with John McCain, you said that you never said that you would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea without &#8216;preparations&#8217; at lower levels &#8230; Joe Biden repeated your words in his debate with Sarah Palin &#8230; while the video tape from your debate last February clearly shows that you answered &#8216;I would&#8217; to the question of meeting with those leaders within 12 months without &#8216;any&#8217; preconditions. While your judgement about meeting with enemies of the USA without pre-conditions is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America in the debate with McCain. </p>
<p>On July 14, 2008, you said that you always knew that the surge would work while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you stated that the surge would not work. While your judgement about military strategy as a potential commander-in-chief is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on July 14. </p>
<p>You now claim that your reason for voting against funding for the troops was because the bill did not include a time line for withdrawal, while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you voted against additional funding because you wanted our troops to be removed immediately &#8230; not in 16 months after the 2008 election as you now claim. While your judgement about removing our troops unilaterally in 2007 is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about your previous position. </p>
<p>You claim to have a record of working with Republicans while the record shows that the only bill that you sponsored with a Republican was with Chuck Lugar &#8230; and it failed. The record shows that you vote 97% in concert with the Democrat party and that you have the most liberal voting record in the Senate. You joined Republicans only 13% of the time in your votes and those 13% were only after agreement from the Democrat party. While it is of concern that you fail to include conservatives in your actions and that you are such a liberal, the greater concern is that you distorted the truth. </p>
<p>In the primary debates of last February, 2008, you claimed to have talked with a &#8216;Captain&#8217; of a platoon in Afghanistan &#8216;the other day&#8217; when in fact you had a discussion in 2003 with a Lieutenant who had just been deployed to Afghanistan . You lied in that debate. </p>
<p>In your debates last spring, you claimed to have been a &#8216;professor of Constitutional law&#8217; when in fact you have never been a professor of Constitutional law. In this last debate, you were careful to say that you &#8216;taught a law class&#8217; and never mentioned being a &#8216;professor of Constitutional law.&#8217; You lied last spring. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden both claimed that John McCain voted against additional funding for our troops when the actual records show the opposite. You distorted the truth. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted against funding for alternate energy sources 20 times when the record shows that John McCain specifically voted against funding for bio fuels, especially corn &#8230; and he was right &#8230;. corn is too expensive at producing ethanol, and using corn to make ethanol increased the price of corn from $2 a bushel to $6 a bushel for food. You distorted the truth. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted like both of you for a tax increase on those making as little as $42,000 per year while the voting record clearly shows that John McCain did not vote as you and Joe Biden. You lied to America </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time when you know that Democrats also vote 90% of the time with the President (including Joe Biden) because the vast majority of the votes are procedural. You are one of the few who has not voted 90% of the time with the president because you have been missing from the Senate since the day you got elected. While your absence from your job in the Senate is of concern, the greater concern is that you spin the facts. </p>
<p>You did not take an active role in the rescue plan. You claimed that the Senate did not need you while the real reason that you abstained was because of your close relationships with the executives of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide, and Acorn &#8230; who all helped cause the financial problems of today &#8230; and they all made major contributions to your campaign. While your relationship with these executives and your protection of them for your brief 3 years in the Senate (along with Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and Chris Dodd) is of concern, the greater concern is that you are being deceitful. </p>
<p>You forgot to mention that you personally represented Tony Rezko and Acorn. Tony Rezko, an Arab and close friend to you, was convicted of fraud in Chicago real estate transactions that bilked millions of tax dollars from the Illinois government for renovation projects that you sponsored as a state senator &#8230; and Acorn has been convicted of voter fraud, real estate sub prime loan intimidation, and illegal campaign contributions. Tony Rezko has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to your political campaigns. You personally used your political positions to steer money to both Tony Rezko and Acorn and you used Acorn to register thousands of phony voters for Democrats and you. While your relationships with Rezko and Acorn are of concern, the greater concern is that you omitted important facts about your relationships with them to America </p>
<p>During your campaign, you said: &#8216;typical white person.&#8217; &#8216;They cling to their guns and religion.&#8217; &#8216;They will say that I am black.&#8217; You played the race card. You tried to label any criticism about you as racist. You divide America </p>
<p>You claim that you will reduce taxes for 95% of America , but you forgot to tell America that those reductions are after you remove the Bush tax reductions. You have requested close to $1 billion in earmarks and several million for Acorn. Your social programs will cost America $1 trillion per year and you claim that a reduction in military spending ($100 billion for Iraq ) can pay for it. While your economic plan of adding 30% to the size of our federal government is of concern, the greater concern is that you are deceiving America </p>
<p>The drain to America &#8217;s economy by foreign supplied oil is $700 billion per year (5% of GDP) while the war in Iraq is $100 billion (less than 1% of GDP). You voted against any increases to oil exploration for the last 3 years and any expansion of nuclear facilities. Yet today, you say that you have always been for more oil and more nuclear. You are lying to America </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you claimed that you &#8216;changed&#8217; your mind about public financing for your campaign because of the money spent by Republican PACs in 2004. The truth is that the Democrat PACs in 2004, 2006, and 2008 spent twice as much as the Republican PACs (especially George Soros and MoveOn.org). You are lying to America </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you have done nothing to stop the actions of the teachers union and college professors in the USA . They eliminated religion from our history. They teach pro gay agendas and discuss sex with students as young as first grade. They bring their personal politics into the classrooms. They disparage conservatives. They brainwash our children. They are in it for themselves &#8230;.. not America . Are you reluctant to condemn their actions because teachers/professors and the NEA contribute 25% of all money donated to Democrats and none to Republicans? You are deceiving America </p>
<p>Oh, Mr. Obama, Teddy Roosevelt said about a hundred years ago that we Americans should first look at the character of our leaders before anything else. Your character looks horrible. While you make good speeches, motivating speeches, your character does not match your rhetoric. You talk the talk, but do not walk the walk. </p>
<p>1. You lied to America . You lied many times. You distorted facts. You parsed your answers like a lawyer. </p>
<p>2. You distorted the record of John McCain in your words and in your advertisements. </p>
<p>3. You had associations with some very bad people for your personal political gains and then lied about those associations. </p>
<p>4. You divide America about race and about class. </p>
<p>Now let me compare your record of lies, distortions, race baiting, and associations to John McCain: War hero. Annapolis graduate with &#8216;Country first.&#8217; Operational leadership experience like all 43 previously elected presidents of the USA as a Navy officer for 22 years. 26 years in the Senate. Straight talk. Maverick.. 54% of the time participated on bills with Democrats. Never asked for an earmark. The only blemish on his record is his part in the Keating 5 debacle about 25 years ago. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, at Harvard Law School, you learned that the end does not justify the means. You learned that perjury, false witness, dishonesty, distortion of truth are never tolerated. Yet, your dishonesty is overwhelming. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty that caused the impeachment and disbarment of Bill Clinton. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty of Scooter Libby. You should be ashamed. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, it is time for us Americans to put aside our differences on political issues and vote against you because of your dishonest character. It is time for all of us Americans to put aside our political issues and vote for America first. It is time for America to vote for honesty. </p>
<p>Any people who vote for you after understanding that you are dishonest should be ashamed of themselves for making their personal political issues more important than character. Would these same people vote for the anti-Christ if the anti-Christ promised them riches? Would they make a golden calf while Moses was up the mountain? Would they hire someone for a job if that someone lied in an interview? Of course not. So why do some of these people justify their votes for you even though they know you are dishonest? Why do they excuse your dishonesty? Because some of these people are frightened about the future, the economy, and their financial security &#8230;.. and you are preying on their fears with empty promises &#8230; and because some (especially our young people) are consumed by your wonderful style and promises for &#8216;change&#8217; like the Germans who voted for Adolf Hitler in 1932. The greed/envy by Germans in 1932 kept them from recognizing Hitler for who he was. They loved his style. Greed and envy are keeping many Americans from recognizing you &#8230; your style has camouflaged your dishonesty &#8230; but many of us see you for who you really are &#8230; and we will not stop exposing who you are every day, forever if it is necessary. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you are dishonest. Anyone who votes for you is enabling dishonesty. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama , America cannot trust that you will put America first in your decisions about the future. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you are not the &#8216;change&#8217; that America deserves. We cannot trust you. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, You are not ready and not fit to be commander-in-chief.. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, John McCain does not have as much money as your campaign to refute all of your false statements. And for whatever reasons, the mainstream media will not give adequate coverage or research about your lies, distortions, word parsing, bad associations, race baiting, lack of operational leadership experience, and generally dishonest character. The media is diverting our attention from your relationships and ignoring the fact that you lied about those relationships. The fact that you lied is much more important than the relationships themselves &#8230;. just like with Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon &#8230; Monica Lewinski and Watergate were not nearly as bad as the fact that those men lied about the events &#8230; false witness &#8230; perjury &#8230; your relationships and bad judgements are bad on their own &#8230;. but your lies are even worse. </p>
<p>Therefore, by copy of this memo, all who read this memo are asked to send it to everyone else in America before it is too late. We need to do the job that the media will not do. We need to expose your dishonesty so that every person in America understands who you really are before election day. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, in a democracy, we get what we deserve. And God help America if we deserve you. </p>
<p>Michael Master </p>
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Originally Posted by RobinYyes<br />
A letter received worth the forward&#8230; </p>
<p>To Barack Hussein Obama, </p>
<p>The New York Times carried a story on Saturday, October 4, 2008, that proved you had a significantly closer relationship with Bill Ayers than what you previously admitted. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it. </p>
<p>The Chicago Sun reported on May 8, 2008, that FBI records showed that you had a significantly closer relationship with Tony Rezko than what you previously admitted. In the interview, you said that you only saw Mr. Rezko a couple of times a year. The FBI files showed that you saw him weekly. While the issue of your relationship is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about it.. </p>
<p>Your speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, about &#8216;race&#8217; contradicted your statement to Anderson Cooper on March 14 when you said that you never heard Reverend Wright make his negative statements about white America . While your attendance at Trinity Church for 20 years is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on March 14.. </p>
<p>In your 1st debate with John McCain, you said that you never said that you would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea without &#8216;preparations&#8217; at lower levels &#8230; Joe Biden repeated your words in his debate with Sarah Palin &#8230; while the video tape from your debate last February clearly shows that you answered &#8216;I would&#8217; to the question of meeting with those leaders within 12 months without &#8216;any&#8217; preconditions. While your judgement about meeting with enemies of the USA without pre-conditions is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America in the debate with McCain. </p>
<p>On July 14, 2008, you said that you always knew that the surge would work while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you stated that the surge would not work. While your judgement about military strategy as a potential commander-in-chief is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America on July 14. </p>
<p>You now claim that your reason for voting against funding for the troops was because the bill did not include a time line for withdrawal, while the video tapes of you from more than a year ago show that you voted against additional funding because you wanted our troops to be removed immediately &#8230; not in 16 months after the 2008 election as you now claim. While your judgement about removing our troops unilaterally in 2007 is of concern, the greater concern is that you lied to America about your previous position. </p>
<p>You claim to have a record of working with Republicans while the record shows that the only bill that you sponsored with a Republican was with Chuck Lugar &#8230; and it failed. The record shows that you vote 97% in concert with the Democrat party and that you have the most liberal voting record in the Senate. You joined Republicans only 13% of the time in your votes and those 13% were only after agreement from the Democrat party. While it is of concern that you fail to include conservatives in your actions and that you are such a liberal, the greater concern is that you distorted the truth. </p>
<p>In the primary debates of last February, 2008, you claimed to have talked with a &#8216;Captain&#8217; of a platoon in Afghanistan &#8216;the other day&#8217; when in fact you had a discussion in 2003 with a Lieutenant who had just been deployed to Afghanistan . You lied in that debate. </p>
<p>In your debates last spring, you claimed to have been a &#8216;professor of Constitutional law&#8217; when in fact you have never been a professor of Constitutional law. In this last debate, you were careful to say that you &#8216;taught a law class&#8217; and never mentioned being a &#8216;professor of Constitutional law.&#8217; You lied last spring. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden both claimed that John McCain voted against additional funding for our troops when the actual records show the opposite. You distorted the truth. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted against funding for alternate energy sources 20 times when the record shows that John McCain specifically voted against funding for bio fuels, especially corn &#8230; and he was right &#8230;. corn is too expensive at producing ethanol, and using corn to make ethanol increased the price of corn from $2 a bushel to $6 a bushel for food. You distorted the truth. </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted like both of you for a tax increase on those making as little as $42,000 per year while the voting record clearly shows that John McCain did not vote as you and Joe Biden. You lied to America </p>
<p>You and Joe Biden claim that John McCain voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time when you know that Democrats also vote 90% of the time with the President (including Joe Biden) because the vast majority of the votes are procedural. You are one of the few who has not voted 90% of the time with the president because you have been missing from the Senate since the day you got elected. While your absence from your job in the Senate is of concern, the greater concern is that you spin the facts. </p>
<p>You did not take an active role in the rescue plan. You claimed that the Senate did not need you while the real reason that you abstained was because of your close relationships with the executives of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide, and Acorn &#8230; who all helped cause the financial problems of today &#8230; and they all made major contributions to your campaign. While your relationship with these executives and your protection of them for your brief 3 years in the Senate (along with Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and Chris Dodd) is of concern, the greater concern is that you are being deceitful. </p>
<p>You forgot to mention that you personally represented Tony Rezko and Acorn. Tony Rezko, an Arab and close friend to you, was convicted of fraud in Chicago real estate transactions that bilked millions of tax dollars from the Illinois government for renovation projects that you sponsored as a state senator &#8230; and Acorn has been convicted of voter fraud, real estate sub prime loan intimidation, and illegal campaign contributions. Tony Rezko has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to your political campaigns. You personally used your political positions to steer money to both Tony Rezko and Acorn and you used Acorn to register thousands of phony voters for Democrats and you. While your relationships with Rezko and Acorn are of concern, the greater concern is that you omitted important facts about your relationships with them to America </p>
<p>During your campaign, you said: &#8216;typical white person.&#8217; &#8216;They cling to their guns and religion.&#8217; &#8216;They will say that I am black.&#8217; You played the race card. You tried to label any criticism about you as racist. You divide America </p>
<p>You claim that you will reduce taxes for 95% of America , but you forgot to tell America that those reductions are after you remove the Bush tax reductions. You have requested close to $1 billion in earmarks and several million for Acorn. Your social programs will cost America $1 trillion per year and you claim that a reduction in military spending ($100 billion for Iraq ) can pay for it. While your economic plan of adding 30% to the size of our federal government is of concern, the greater concern is that you are deceiving America </p>
<p>The drain to America &#8217;s economy by foreign supplied oil is $700 billion per year (5% of GDP) while the war in Iraq is $100 billion (less than 1% of GDP). You voted against any increases to oil exploration for the last 3 years and any expansion of nuclear facilities. Yet today, you say that you have always been for more oil and more nuclear. You are lying to America </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you claimed that you &#8216;changed&#8217; your mind about public financing for your campaign because of the money spent by Republican PACs in 2004. The truth is that the Democrat PACs in 2004, 2006, and 2008 spent twice as much as the Republican PACs (especially George Soros and MoveOn.org). You are lying to America </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you have done nothing to stop the actions of the teachers union and college professors in the USA . They eliminated religion from our history. They teach pro gay agendas and discuss sex with students as young as first grade. They bring their personal politics into the classrooms. They disparage conservatives. They brainwash our children. They are in it for themselves &#8230;.. not America . Are you reluctant to condemn their actions because teachers/professors and the NEA contribute 25% of all money donated to Democrats and none to Republicans? You are deceiving America </p>
<p>Oh, Mr. Obama, Teddy Roosevelt said about a hundred years ago that we Americans should first look at the character of our leaders before anything else. Your character looks horrible. While you make good speeches, motivating speeches, your character does not match your rhetoric. You talk the talk, but do not walk the walk. </p>
<p>1. You lied to America . You lied many times. You distorted facts. You parsed your answers like a lawyer. </p>
<p>2. You distorted the record of John McCain in your words and in your advertisements. </p>
<p>3. You had associations with some very bad people for your personal political gains and then lied about those associations. </p>
<p>4. You divide America about race and about class. </p>
<p>Now let me compare your record of lies, distortions, race baiting, and associations to John McCain: War hero. Annapolis graduate with &#8216;Country first.&#8217; Operational leadership experience like all 43 previously elected presidents of the USA as a Navy officer for 22 years. 26 years in the Senate. Straight talk. Maverick.. 54% of the time participated on bills with Democrats. Never asked for an earmark. The only blemish on his record is his part in the Keating 5 debacle about 25 years ago. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, at Harvard Law School, you learned that the end does not justify the means. You learned that perjury, false witness, dishonesty, distortion of truth are never tolerated. Yet, your dishonesty is overwhelming. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty that caused the impeachment and disbarment of Bill Clinton. Your dishonesty is tremendously greater than the dishonesty of Scooter Libby. You should be ashamed. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, it is time for us Americans to put aside our differences on political issues and vote against you because of your dishonest character. It is time for all of us Americans to put aside our political issues and vote for America first. It is time for America to vote for honesty. </p>
<p>Any people who vote for you after understanding that you are dishonest should be ashamed of themselves for making their personal political issues more important than character. Would these same people vote for the anti-Christ if the anti-Christ promised them riches? Would they make a golden calf while Moses was up the mountain? Would they hire someone for a job if that someone lied in an interview? Of course not. So why do some of these people justify their votes for you even though they know you are dishonest? Why do they excuse your dishonesty? Because some of these people are frightened about the future, the economy, and their financial security &#8230;.. and you are preying on their fears with empty promises &#8230; and because some (especially our young people) are consumed by your wonderful style and promises for &#8216;change&#8217; like the Germans who voted for Adolf Hitler in 1932. The greed/envy by Germans in 1932 kept them from recognizing Hitler for who he was. They loved his style. Greed and envy are keeping many Americans from recognizing you &#8230; your style has camouflaged your dishonesty &#8230; but many of us see you for who you really are &#8230; and we will not stop exposing who you are every day, forever if it is necessary. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you are dishonest. Anyone who votes for you is enabling dishonesty. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama , America cannot trust that you will put America first in your decisions about the future. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, you are not the &#8216;change&#8217; that America deserves. We cannot trust you. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, You are not ready and not fit to be commander-in-chief.. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, John McCain does not have as much money as your campaign to refute all of your false statements. And for whatever reasons, the mainstream media will not give adequate coverage or research about your lies, distortions, word parsing, bad associations, race baiting, lack of operational leadership experience, and generally dishonest character. The media is diverting our attention from your relationships and ignoring the fact that you lied about those relationships. The fact that you lied is much more important than the relationships themselves &#8230;. just like with Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon &#8230; Monica Lewinski and Watergate were not nearly as bad as the fact that those men lied about the events &#8230; false witness &#8230; perjury &#8230; your relationships and bad judgements are bad on their own &#8230;. but your lies are even worse. </p>
<p>Therefore, by copy of this memo, all who read this memo are asked to send it to everyone else in America before it is too late. We need to do the job that the media will not do. We need to expose your dishonesty so that every person in America understands who you really are before election day. </p>
<p>Mr. Obama, in a democracy, we get what we deserve. And God help America if we deserve you. </p>
<p>Michael Master </p>
<p>McLean, Virginia
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<p>Shared with me by a good friend&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>ONLY IN AMERICA:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Only in America </strong>would you find a totally biased press focus on Palin&#8217;s so-called $150,00 wardrobe but totally ignore Hussein Obama spending more than $600,000,000.00 trying to get elected.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> would you find Hussein Obama (the leading candidate in the Presidential election) who could sit in a racist, radical church for more than 20 years and never hear the rantings of his lunatic Pastor, yet still be considered &#8220;brilliant&#8221; by the liberal press and public.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America </strong>can a Presidential candidate (Barack Hussein Obama) SAY he is Christian, yet chose a MUSLIM name for himself as a grown man in college.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America </strong>(while we remain in a contracted war with Islamic terrorism and have lost close to 10,000 lives in the war and terrorist attacks over the last 20 years) can a man even carry the name of BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and still be considered a legitimate candidate for President.<br />
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<strong>Only in America</strong> can a man who began his political career in the home of a known domestic terrorist, (who also bombed the White House and Pentagon and says he wished he would have done more) be considered a good candidate for President because he is &#8220;articulate&#8221; and &#8220;charismatic&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can one candidate (Palin) who is the Governor of the largest state in the U.S. be called &#8220;inexperienced&#8221;, but the opposing candidate for President (Hussein Obama) is called &#8220;ready for the job&#8221; with one term in the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America </strong>can a leading candidate for President (Hussein Obama) promise to lower taxes for 95% of the population when only 60-70% pay taxes in the first place, yet still go unchallenged with his rhetoric and actually be believed by a portion of the voting public.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can a candidate who is favored by the Islamic states and their supporters, Farrakhan, Chavez, Castro, Iran, Korea, Colombia and other terroristic nations be considered a legitimate choice for President.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can Hussein Obama be rated the most liberal Senator in the U.S. claim to be &#8220;moderate&#8221; while he is running for President and yet still go unchallenged by the so-called U.S. media.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can a radical, bigoted, hateful racist (Louis Farrakhan) who has likened White people to &#8220;the Devil&#8221; and embraces a religion which says that whites are &#8220;descendants of the devil&#8221;, call Hussein Obama &#8220;the Messiah&#8221; and a &#8220;great hope&#8221; without people abandoning their support in droves.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can a Presidential candidate (Hussein Obama) claim he is going to reduce the income tax (1 TAX) on people who make less than $250,000 a year, then raise 8-10 OTHER TAXES we all pay, either in direct taxes or taxes that are passed on in the increase cost of goods and services resulting from theses increased taxes, be considered trying to help the &#8220;middle income&#8221; families of America.</p>
<p><strong>Only in America</strong> can a man who is not even constitutionally eligible to hold office be so close to winning the Presidency. Hussein Obama&#8217;s father was not an American and his mother was not a legal resident long enough before he was born to qualify him as eligible for the Presidency. Where is the so-called &#8220;Press&#8221; of this country?</p>
<p><strong>Only in America </strong>can a man who is not eligible for selection to the FBI because of his past terrorist associations be close to winning the White House.</p>
<p><em><strong>ONLY IN AMERICA!</</strong></em>blockquote></p>
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<p><strong>100 Items to Disappear First </strong><a href="http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=288342">http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=288342</a></p>
<p>1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy&#8230;target of<br />
thieves; maintenance etc.)<br />
2. Water Filters/Purifiers<br />
3. Portable Toilets<br />
4. Seasoned Firewood. Wood takes about 6 &#8211; 12 months to become dried, for home uses.<br />
5. Lamp Oil, Wicks, Lamps (First Choice: Buy CLEAR oil. If scarce, stockpile<br />
ANY!)<br />
6. Coleman Fuel. Impossible to stockpile too much.<br />
7. Guns, Ammunition, Pepper Spray, Knives, Clubs, Bats &#038; Slingshots.<br />
8. Hand-can openers, &#038; hand egg beaters, whisks.<br />
9. Honey/Syrups/white, brown sugar<br />
10. Rice &#8211; Beans &#8211; Wheat<br />
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11. Vegetable Oil (for cooking) Without it food burns/must be boiled etc.,)<br />
12. Charcoal, Lighter Fluid (Will become scarce suddenly)<br />
13. Water Containers (Urgent Item to obtain.) Any size. Small: HARD CLEAR<br />
PLASTIC ONLY &#8211; note &#8211; food grade if for drinking.<br />
16. Propane Cylinders (Urgent: Definite shortages will occur.<br />
17. Survival Guide Book.<br />
18. Mantles: Aladdin, Coleman, etc. (Without this item, longer-term lighting is<br />
difficult.)<br />
19. Baby Supplies: Diapers/formula. ointments/aspirin, etc.<br />
20. Washboards, Mop Bucket w/wringer (for Laundry)<br />
21. Cookstoves (Propane, Coleman &#038; Kerosene)<br />
22. Vitamins<br />
23. Propane Cylinder Handle-Holder (Urgent: Small canister use is dangerous<br />
without this item)<br />
24. Feminine Hygiene/Haircare/Skin products.<br />
25. Thermal underwear (Tops &#038; Bottoms)<br />
26. Bow saws, axes and hatchets, Wedges (also, honing oil)<br />
27. Aluminum Foil Reg. &#038; Heavy Duty (Great Cooking and Barter Item)<br />
28. Gasoline Containers (Plastic &#038; Metal)<br />
29. Garbage Bags (Impossible To Have Too Many).<br />
30. Toilet Paper, Kleenex, Paper Towels<br />
31. Milk &#8211; Powdered &#038; Condensed (Shake Liquid every 3 to 4 months)<br />
32. Garden Seeds (Non-Hybrid) (A MUST)<br />
33. Clothes pins/line/hangers (A MUST)<br />
34. Coleman&#8217;s Pump Repair Kit<br />
35. Tuna Fish (in oil)<br />
36. Fire Extinguishers (or..large box of Baking Soda in every room)<br />
37. First aid kits<br />
38. Batteries (all sizes&#8230;buy furthest-out for Expiration Dates)<br />
39. Garlic, spices &#038; vinegar, baking supplies<br />
40. Big Dogs (and plenty of dog food)<br />
41. Flour, yeast &#038; salt<br />
42. Matches. {&#8220;Strike Anywhere&#8221; preferred.) Boxed, wooden matches will go first<br />
43. Writing paper/pads/pencils, solar calculators<br />
44. Insulated ice chests (good for keeping items from freezing in Wintertime.)<br />
45. Workboots, belts, Levis &#038; durable shirts<br />
46. Flashlights/LIGHTSTICKS &#038; torches, &#8220;No. 76 Dietz&#8221; Lanterns<br />
47. Journals, Diaries &#038; Scrapbooks (jot down ideas, feelings, experience;<br />
Historic Times)<br />
48. Garbage cans Plastic (great for storage, water, transporting &#8211; if with<br />
wheels)<br />
49. Men&#8217;s Hygiene: Shampoo, Toothbrush/paste, Mouthwash/floss, nail clippers,<br />
etc<br />
50. Cast iron cookware (sturdy, efficient)<br />
51. Fishing supplies/tools<br />
52. Mosquito coils/repellent, sprays/creams<br />
53. Duct Tape<br />
54. Tarps/stakes/twine/nails/rope/spikes<br />
55. Candles<br />
56. Laundry Detergent (liquid)<br />
57. Backpacks, Duffel Bags<br />
58. Garden tools &#038; supplies<br />
59. Scissors, fabrics &#038; sewing supplies<br />
60. Canned Fruits, Veggies, Soups, stews, etc.<br />
61. Bleach (plain, NOT scented: 4 to 6% sodium hypochlorite)<br />
62. Canning supplies, (Jars/lids/wax)<br />
63. Knives &#038; Sharpening tools: files, stones, steel<br />
64. Bicycles&#8230;Tires/tubes/pumps/chains, etc<br />
65. Sleeping Bags &#038; blankets/pillows/mats<br />
66. Carbon Monoxide Alarm (battery powered)<br />
67. Board Games, Cards, Dice<br />
68. d-con Rat poison, MOUSE PRUFE II, Roach Killer<br />
69. Mousetraps, Ant traps &#038; cockroach magnets<br />
70. Paper plates/cups/utensils (stock up, folks)<br />
71. Baby wipes, oils, waterless &#038; Antibacterial soap (saves a lot of water)<br />
72. Rain gear, rubberized boots, etc.<br />
73. Shaving supplies (razors &#038; creams, talc, after shave)<br />
74. Hand pumps &#038; siphons (for water and for fuels)<br />
75. Soysauce, vinegar, bullions/gravy/soupbase<br />
76. Reading glasses<br />
77. Chocolate/Cocoa/Tang/Punch (water enhancers)<br />
78. &#8220;Survival-in-a-Can&#8221;<br />
79. Woolen clothing, scarves/ear-muffs/mittens<br />
80. Boy Scout Handbook, / also Leaders Catalog<br />
81. Roll-on Window Insulation Kit (MANCO)<br />
82. Graham crackers, saltines, pretzels, Trail mix/Jerky<br />
83. Popcorn, Peanut Butter, Nuts<br />
84. Socks, Underwear, T-shirts, etc. (extras)<br />
85. Lumber (all types)<br />
86. Wagons &#038; carts (for transport to and from)<br />
87. Cots &#038; Inflatable mattress&#8217;s<br />
88. Gloves: Work/warming/gardening, etc.<br />
89. Lantern Hangers<br />
90. Screen Patches, glue, nails, screws,, nuts &#038; bolts<br />
91. Teas<br />
92. Coffee<br />
93. Cigarettes<br />
94. Wine/Liquors (for bribes, medicinal, etc,)<br />
95. Paraffin wax<br />
96. Glue, nails, nuts, bolts, screws, etc.<br />
97. Chewing gum/candies<br />
98. Atomizers (for cooling/bathing)<br />
99. Hats &#038; cotton neckerchiefs<br />
100. Goats/chickens </p>
<p><strong>From a Sarajevo War Survivor:<br />
Experiencing horrible things that can happen in a war &#8211; death of parents and<br />
friends, hunger and malnutrition, endless freezing cold, fear, sniper attacks. </strong><br />
1. Stockpiling helps. but you never no how long trouble will last, so locate<br />
near renewable food sources. </p>
<p>2. Living near a well with a manual pump is like being in Eden. </p>
<p>3. After awhile, even gold can lose its luster. But there is no luxury in war<br />
quite like toilet paper. Its surplus value is greater than gold&#8217;s. </p>
<p>4. If you had to go without one utility, lose electricity &#8211; it&#8217;s the easiest to<br />
do without (unless you&#8217;re in a very nice climate with no need for heat.)<br />
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<p>5. Canned foods are awesome, especially if their contents are tasty without<br />
heating. One of the best things to stockpile is canned gravy &#8211; it makes a lot of<br />
the dry unappetizing things you find to eat in war somewhat edible. Only needs<br />
enough heat to &#8220;warm&#8221;, not to cook. It&#8217;s cheap too, especially if you buy it in<br />
bulk. </p>
<p>6. Bring some books &#8211; escapist ones like romance or mysteries become more<br />
valuable as the war continues. Sure, it&#8217;s great to have a lot of survival<br />
guides, but you&#8217;ll figure most of that out on your own anyway &#8211; trust me, you&#8217;ll<br />
have a lot of time on your hands. </p>
<p>7. The feeling that you&#8217;re human can fade pretty fast. I can&#8217;t tell you how many<br />
people I knew who would have traded a much needed meal for just a little bit of<br />
toothpaste, rouge, soap or cologne. Not much point in fighting if you have to<br />
lose your humanity. These things are morale-builders like nothing else. </p>
<p>8. Slow burning candles and matches, matches, match</p>
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<p>&#8230;for not posting to my very own blog lately.  Because of that, you deserve a little update from Wyoming.</p>
<p>Since my last posting in early April, many things have happened. I graduated from Central Wyoming College with another degree. I lost my job running the college radio station because of that (bad timing, that&#8230;), which I have been doing for over three years. Sadly, my professor, boss,  and good friend Dale Smith, after becoming blind due to complications from chemotherapy, spent the last few weeks of the semester in the hospital, getting out the day of graduation. He also had his job at the college changed from electronic media to humanities by the CWC powers that be. He&#8217;s doing better health wise, but I&#8217;m concerned for him as a friend, and will check with him regularly to see how he is doing.</p>
<p>The day after graduation, the wife and I and grandson loaded up a 5 by 8 Uhaul trailer for my daughter, and left for a cross country trip from central Wyoming, to Nashville, Tennessee, where she was moving. A nice leisurely trip there, got her unpacked and moved in, and then drove south to Birmingham, Alabama to visit family there that we hadn&#8217;t seen since our move to Wyoming in 2000. We spent 3 days there, had a wonderful visit, and still with the Uhaul in tow, headed west to Dallas, Texas&#8230;actually Plano, which is the northern boundary of the huge DFW metroplex. In Plano, we visited my mom and sister, and wife&#8217;s dad and step mom and brother. Stayed there for about 5 days, and then with the Uhaul loaded with tools from my late dad&#8217;s workshop, (which I spent 2 days cleaning out for mom) and a few pieces of furniture, we headed back north, home to Wyoming. </p>
<p>Then things got exciting. This was the day that the <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/16321240/detail.html">huge tornado</a> hit in northeastern rural areas of Denver.   <span id="more-440"></span>We had spent the nite before in Raton, New Mexico, and had just hit Colorado City, and the rest area there for lunch, when I got a call from a good friend, whom we had just visited the day before in Ft. Worth, as we were leaving the DFW area. He was watching the news and weather, and got the news about the Denver twister forwarded to me by cell phone.  In Colorado City, I couldn&#8217;t find any wifi for a net connection, so we headed north to Colorado Springs, the home of Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson Air Force Base.  Got off the highway there, checked the McD to see if it had wifi&#8230;nope. Then, having spent several nites in various Super 8 hotels across the country the last two weeks, found one on the west side of the interstate&#8230;and yes, wifi. </p>
<p>I got on, hit weather.gov, and then the Denver area radar and Nexrad. Holy crap&#8230;the storm cell system I was seeing in real time was the WORST storm system I&#8217;d ever seen, as far as having to personally deal with it Real Soon Now, by having to get through it to get home. The super cell that hit Windsor, Colorado, was in an anti-cyclonic rotation, and was moving counter clockwise, and heading towards Laramie, Wyoming, which was our connection from 287 to Interstate 80, and places west. Warnings were posted in the Denver forecast page of the current storm, tornado, damage, direction, and so forth, and it just didn&#8217;t look good for us.</p>
<p>We heard on the radio about the storms and damage, and decided to take Highway 287 up through Fort Collins..getting of Interstate 25 asap. That took a while to get to, and just as we got through town, and about to get on the highway itself north of Fort Collins, the highway was shut down due to a bus and semi accident. We got detoured through the little town of Laporte to the east, and hit the highway AGAIN, north of the major accident.</p>
<p>All was going well for about 20 minutes. Then, we started seeing a lot of snow on the sides of the road&#8230;LOTS of snow. Next, we started seeing vehicles heading south from the summit on 287, with what looked like snow on their front bumpers and windshields.  Weird. The skies to the north and east were astoundingly stormy and dark. Sunset was approaching quickly, and the storm clouds hastened the effect. Just then, I realized that what we were seeing on the sides of the road wasn&#8217;t snow&#8230;but HAIL&#8230;.INCHES of it. Totally blew me away. </p>
<p>As we kept heading north on 287, it started raining lightly, and soon quite moderately. Within moments, the medium pouring rain was joined by small snow pellets that exploded quietly on the windshield of our car. As it got heavier and darker, the snow pellets turned to pea sized hail&#8230;and then to actual snow&#8230;and then to VERY heavy snow. The road conditions were deteriorating the closer we got to the summit, and the rain slick roads become ice slicked and then slushy fairly quickly. A group of cars, trucks, and a couple of semi&#8217;s (with us in the middle of the convoy) kept plugging along, at about 20 miles an hour, all of us with flashers blinking into what literally turned into a blizzard. </p>
<p>Finally, after what seemed like hours, we hit the crest, and started down the miles long hill that led down into the south side of Laramie. Strangely, it was dark&#8230;where it wasn&#8217;t supposed to be. Seems that the supercell from Denver/Windsor, dropped another tornado, which tore up some houses and a couple of farms, and took out a few hundred blocks of power. We stopped at the Flying J truckstop to gas up, cleaned the snow and ice off the front of the car and the trailer, and hit the road on I-80. The snow, sleet, and rain stopped about 20 miles west of town, and from there on home, it was very dark, and very cold.  Throughout the last 200 miles of our trip, from Laramie to Riverton, the roadway was clear and safe, but the sides of the road held quite a bit of storm passage&#8230;meaning snow as far as the eye could see&#8230;all the way to Beaver Rim, and halfway down that 9 degree grade of that steep hill. </p>
<p>We arrived home around 3:30am, dragged ourselves in, and went to bed. </p>
<p>It took us a week to recover from that 3600 mile trip. Holy crap we were tired. </p>
<p>Since returning home on May 23, we&#8217;ve been busy working on getting ready to move into a new apartment in town, packing boxes, cleaning our storage unit out, and doing a lot of computer work. </p>
<p>And, oh yes, SUMMER college classes&#8230;Society and Self from U. Wyo, History and Statistics from CWC.  10 credit hours during the summer session. </p>
<p>THAT&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been doing since April. </p>
<p>More to be added later&#8230;including some great news about the SurvivalRing website project.</p>
<p>Rich</p>
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