Why oh Why?
I am an outlier in my family's statistical data.
I am happy to tell anyone that my blue-collar dad and my mother of ten kids were outstanding, not wealthy, people. Salt of the earth, which I most respect to this day. I call myself a Christian conservative and in the introduction to this SamKat blog skegley.blogspot.com I declare that.
Many of my family declare themselves to be Christian, but few seem to adapt to the conservative ideals, particularly in politics.
The USA is two hundred, forty years old and we have slipped too far from what our intelligent and dedicated founders intended us to be. In my opinion, it would have been wonderful for term limits in politics to be established in the beginning of our republic. Ideally, few people would become professional politicians. Rather, they would run for office, do the good things they can for those they represent, then return to their private careers in caring for their own families with their best efforts.
Perks for the voted-ins came along and have advanced so far more than the represented society. The rock stars have achieved power in politics. A freshman representative or senator quickly sees the power they have been given and none are altruistic to give things back to the people. An insufficiently vetted person can and has become POTUS. He has changed our willingness to have freedom of religion to freedom for one religion preferentially among many other destructive things.
Many in my family do not care. Most young Americans do not know or care.
I have a sickness of enjoying estate or garage sales and I have visited the richer and poorer neighborhoods around Columbus and its' suburbs. Many palatial dwellings in the suburbs would make potentates of countries prior to our country's history quite envious. It seems the dwellers and their kids take this thing of being born and raised in the greatest country on God's green earth for granted. It was there before them and it will always be. Maybe it won't be for very much longer.
So many American families are similar to mine. We old fogeys are just out of step. I have been to only a couple of tea party events, but I notice that those are the salt of the earth people we grew up with in the once home town area of Portsmouth, Ohio, USA.
The elitists of each political party have reached a comfort level they don't want to give up, particularly in our federal government. I read somewhere that there hasn't been a system on earth which selfishness has not destroyed. Our elitists today in the two parties (more parties stand no chance of winning) do not intend to relinquish their perks of office.
I do blame the reps. The hard working and conscientious citizens of America have only recently gathered their too-forgiving selves to the point that a movement has been started. And Donald Trump, a richer than most of the populist citizen, came along, obtained more republican primary voters than any party has ever witnessed and the movement responded. American citizens were angry with the federal elitists who cannot accept that. The party on the left enjoys the power they have in buying votes by the continual give-aways to groups who don't contribute to making America return to greatness. The 'bought' citizenry was made up of a majority of takers from rather than givers to in returning our expected free society.
My half-brother, Ted, served in battles of WW II, my brother, Bud, served in Germany in peace time, I served during the Korean, and Jim and Paul had short service stints. George's congenitally defective feet kept him out, but the point is that in merely being in service we signed over the possibility of death or life-spent wounds to our American government.
I appreciate only the altruistic of our federal leaders, because the elitists want only their perpetuated powers rather than a free America such as we once enjoyed.
The 'I don't know and I don't care people' should wake up in my opinion. What the vast citizenry have enjoyed will not continue so long as long term debt and more give aways continue.
This is the time for all good citizens to awake and vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential. The right much more than the left tend to represent us. At least we will begin a return.
This fogey may not live a whole lot longer, but I would like to see the dreams of my family members and all right-thinking nation have a chance for that realization.
I truly don't worry because I know that God is in control. Yes, Jesus told me so.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Elitist control - Both parties ... Thx Paul C!
Foxes in the Henhouse?
Surely the leftists in AMERICAN politics and their blind followers help elitists control "We the People"
Surely the leftists in AMERICAN politics and their blind followers help elitists control "We the People"
A BRIEF REMINDER
Subject: Fw: A BRIEF REMINDER
To: Those who
THINK they pay their fair
share !
A
BRIEF REMINDER
As
a
brief reminder for those who forgot or for many
that didn't
know
Here
is what happened, quietly, on January 1,
2016:
Medicare
tax went from 1.45% to
2.35%
Top
Income tax bracket went from 35% to
39.6%
Top
Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to
52.2%
Capital
Gains tax went from 15% to
28%
Dividend
tax went from 15% to
39.6%
Estate
tax went from 0% to
55%
A
3.5%
Real Estate transaction tax was
added.
Remember
these facts: These taxes were all passed solely
with Democrat
votes.
Not
a
single Republican voted for these new
taxes.
These
taxes were all passed in the Affordable Care
Act, aka Obamacare. If
you think that it is important that everyone in
the U.S. should know
this as there are many millions who don't,
then pass it
on.
Who is Tim Kaine ... Thx Paul C!
Being stupid in America - Who is Tim Kaine ... Thx Paul C!
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Subject: Who is Tim Kaine?
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Subject: Who is Tim Kaine?
Subject: Who is Tim Kaine?
In keeping with my history of non validation for Fact or Fiction I forward this received for your consideration....Appears there may be a "booger in the wood pile" or sumthang!
I don't understand why the DEMOS can't just find some regular crook or criminal like used to be available in yesteryear.....sometimes you really miss Ole Lyndon or Tip O Neil or even dummies like Reid, Peloise and Boxer....Shapeton,
Jesse Jackson .....OK I'll stop.
Subj: Sen Tim Kaine has a history of embracing Islamists - ClarionDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s newly-announced running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, has a history of embracing Islamists. He appointed a Hamas supporter to a state immigration commission; spoke at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect and received donations from well-known Islamist groups.Appointing a Muslim Brotherhood Front Leader Who Supports HamasIn 2007, Kaine was the Governor of Virginia and, of all people chose Muslim American Society (MAS) President Esam Omeish to the state’s Immigration Commission. A Muslim organization againstIslamism criticized the appointment and reckless lack of vetting.Federal prosecutors said in a 2008 court filing that MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” AChicago Tribune investigation in 2004 confirmed this, as well as MAS’ crafty use of deceptive semantics to appear moderate. Convicted terrorist and admitted U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdurrahman Alamoudi testified in 2012, “Everyone knows that MAS is the Muslim Brotherhood.”Read our fully-documented profile of MAS here.According to Omeish’s website, he was also president of the NationalMuslim Students Association (click there to read our profile about its Muslim Brotherhood origins) and served for two years on the national board of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which the Justice Department also labeled as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial.His website says he was the vice president of Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a radical mosque known for its history of terror ties, including having future Al-Qaeda operative Anwar Al-Awlaki as itsimam and being frequented by two of the 9/11 hijackers and Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting. Omeish’s website says he remains a board member.Omeish’s website also says he was chairman of the board of Islamic American University, which had Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef Al-Qaradawi chairman of its board until at least 2006.Omeish was also chairman of the board for the Islamic Center of Passaic County, a New Jersey mosque with heavy terrorist ties and an imam that the Department of Homeland Security wants to deport for having links to Hamas.Omeish directly expressed extremism before Kaine appointed him. He claimed the Brotherhood is “moderate” and admitted that he and MAS are influenced by the Islamist movement.+In 2004, Omeish praised the Hamas spiritual leader as “our belovedSheikh Ahmed Yassin.” Videotape from 2000 also surfaced where Omeish pledged to help Palestinians who understand “the jihad way is the way to liberate your land” (he denied this was an endorsement of violence).When a state delegate wrote a letter to then-Governor Kaine warning him that the MAS has “questionable origins,” a Kaine spokespersonsaid the charge was bigotry.Kaine obviously failed to do any kind of basic background checking in Omeish.Omeish resigned under heavy pressure, and Kaine acknowledged that his statements “concerned” him. But, apparently, they didn’t concern him enough to actually learn about the Muslim Brotherhood network in his state and to take greater precautions in the future.Speaking at a Dinner Honoring Muslim Brotherhood Terror SuspectIn September 2011, Kaine spoke at a "Candidates Night" dinnerorganized by the New Dominion PAC that presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Jamal Barzinji, who the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch describes as a “founding father of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.”He first came on to the FBI’s radar in 1987-1988 when an informant inside the Brotherhood identified Barzinji and his associated groupsas being part of a network of Brotherhood fronts to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.” The source said Barzinji and his colleagues were “organizing political support which involves influencing both public opinion in the United States as well as the United States Government” using “political action front groups with no traceable ties.”Barzinji had his home searched as part of a terrorism investigation in 2003. U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent David Kane said in a sworn affidavit that Barzinji and the network of entities he led were investigated because he “is not only closed associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.” Counter-terrorism reporter Patrick Poole broke the story that Barzinji wasnearly prosecuted but the Obama Justice Department dropped plans for indictment.Barzinji played a major role in nearly every Brotherhood front in the U.S. and was vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), which came under terrorism investigation also. Barzinji’s group was so close to Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian that IIIT’s President considered his group and Al-Arian’s to be essentially one entity.The indictment of Al-Arian and his colleagues says that they “would and did seek to obtain support from influential individuals, in the United States under the guise of promoting and protecting Arab rights (emphasis mine).”The quotes about Brotherhood operative Barzinji’s aspirations to use civil rights advocacy as a means to influence politicians are especially relevant when you consider that video from the event honoring Barzinji shows Kaine saying that it was his fourth time at the annual dinner and thanked his “friends” that organized it for helping him in his campaign for lieutenant-governor and governor and asked them to help his Senate campaign.Islamist Financial SupportBarzinji’s organization, IIIT, donated $10,000 in 2011 to the New Dominion PAC, the organization that held the event honoring Barzinji that Kaine spoke at. The Barzinji-tied New Dominion PACdonated $43,050 to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign between 2003 and 2005. That figure doesn’t even include other political recipients that assisted Kaine’s campaign.The PAC has very strong ties to the Democratic Party in Virginia, with the Virginia Public Access Project tallying almost $257,000 in donations. This likely explains why Barzinji’s grandson served in Governor McAuliffe's administration and then became the Obama Administration's liaison to the Muslim-American community.The Middle East Forum’s Islamist Money in Politics database shows another $4,300 donated to Kaine’s Senate campaign in 2011-2012 by officials from U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Another $3,500 came from Hisham Al-Talib, a leader from Barzinji’s IIIT organization.It’s worth noting that Barzinji’s IIIT donated $3,500 to Esam Omeish’s 2009 campaign delegate campaign, tying together the cadre of Muslim Brotherhood-linked leaders who got into Kaine’s orbit.ConclusionKaine has no excuse. If he has an Internet connection, then he and his staff should have known about their backgrounds. They were either extremely careless (something Kaine would have in commonwith the top of the ticket) or knew and looked the other way in the hopes of earning donations and votes.Clinton’s choice of Kaine is widely seen as a way of strengthening her campaign’s national security credentials. Yet, Clinton is asking us to trust a candidate on national security who appoints a Hamas supporter to an immigration commission and speaks at a dinner honoring a Muslim Brotherhood terror suspect.And she is asking us to trust her, who chose such a candidate.Ryan Mauro is ClarionProject.org’s national security analyst, a fellow with Clarion Project and an adjunct professor of homeland security. Mauro is frequently interviewed on top-tier television and radio. Read more, contact or arrange a speaking engagement.
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