Proof That Barack Obama Is Not A Muslim

Among the various claims of the folks known as “birthers”, people who claim that Barack Obama is not eligible to be President because he is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, is that the man occupying the White House is a Muslim.

I have to tjink that on that count they are wrong.

The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates that 12 spending bills for this fiscal year contained 9,499 congressional earmarks worth $15.9 billion, up from $15.6 billion last year.

There isn’t a true Muslim in the world that likes pork that much.

Senate Candidate Courts Illegal Alien Votes

In Florida, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio does not want illegal aliens counted in the 2010 census.

Governor Charlie Crist, also a contender for a seat in the Senate, does want illegal aliens counted.

Crist’s reasoning is that by the illegal aliens not being counted, the census will not show an accurate reflection of Florida’s population, and therefore will reduce the amount of federal funding that the state receives.

So one the one side, you have Mario Rubio who, in accordance with federal law, does not want   the census to count illegal aliens counted as American citizens.

And then you have Charlie Crist, to whom illegal immigration takes a back seat to Florida receiving it’s “fair share” of federal pork.

A skeptic might consider an ulterior motive to Crist’s position would be looking like a hero to the illegal immigrants, and thus gaining their votes.

Because hey, if they aren’t bothered by breaking one federal law by being in the country illegally, why would they have any qualms about breaking another one by voting for a man who stood up for them?

No Tree Huggers Were Harmed In The Taking Of This Survey

A recent poll shows that global warming ranks dead last as a concern for the majority of Americans.

The economy, deficit spending, the size of the federal deficit and terrorism all ranked higher.

So how will this affect Al Gore?

Where will he find the money for all of the cheeseburgers he is stuffing down his throat?

Well, he can always count on his book sales.

As Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the public’s priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were one year ago. Strengthening the nation’s economy and improving the job situation continue to top the list. And, in the wake of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, defending the country from future terrorist attacks also remains a top priority.

At the same time, the public has shifted the emphasis it assigns to two major policy issues: dealing with the nation’s energy problem and reducing the budget deficit.
About half (49%) say that dealing with the nation’s energy problem should be a top priority, down from 60% a year ago.
At the same time, there has been a modest rise in the percentage saying that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority, from 53% to 60%.

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Obama Declares war On The Middle Class

(I wish some of these millionaire liberals who want to tax everyone to “help out the less fortunate” would send me a few bucks.)

Like a PacMan gobbling up everything in sight, going after folks making more than $250,000 a year is not enough to satisfy Obama’s insatiable appetite for money and power. He wants more. Although it means breaking a campaign promise to only tax the “rich,” Obama’s mad rush for revenue to fund his social engineering has transformed his agenda into a war against the middle class.

While Obama rides his luxury 747 around the globe, glad-handing with other world leaders discussing “healing the planet” and other grandiose plans, the average American is struggling to find work. As Michelle Obama totes around a $6,000 Italian alligator-skin clutch, the only thing most Americans are “clutching” is their wallets, trying to figure out how to get by this month. Obama is out of touch with Middle America. However, even worse than his overt elitism…Read the rest of this entry

Obamacare Is Making Texas Sick

 The Obama administration, as it usually does, is ignoring the U.S. Constitution in it’s push to pass it’s “health-care reform” package.

Some elected officials, however, have not bowed down to the altar of the Messiah, and have no fear of making their views heard.

 

Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as “Obama Care.” But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a “number” of states might resist the federal health mandate.

“I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying ‘no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,” Perry said. “So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.”

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“In The Congress, We Have Our Own Rules.”

A refrain all of us hear on a regular basis is that members of Congress are out of touch with the voters, the very people who elected them to office in the first place.

And the following is a prime example of just how commonplace this has become. The report first aired over a year ago, but the meaning of the message is still the same.

In direct violation of Federal law, Pennsylvania 11th District Congressman Paul Kanjorski wants to earmark 5.6 million dollars to build a parking garage in his hometown.

A building that has been empty for three years.

But according to the Congressman, this is “free money.”

Sorry Congressman, these funds don’t appear out of thin air, this is our money you are talking about.

And when questioned about the Federal statute he is violating, his response is:
“I don’t think the rule should have any attention paid to it. In the Congress we have our own rules.”

Congress has rules?

This is the first I’m hearing about it.

Is Barack Obama Putting The National Security Of America At Risk?

You know, these mind-numbed robots that blindly take in every announcement from President Obama as if it came straight from the Bible are really starting to annoy me!

I won’t even buy Kool-Aid anymore.  Anyway, to answer the question I posed in the title of this piece, the answer is:

DUH!

Consider the Prsident’s plans on closing Gitmo without any idea on where to put the “detainees” (Obama-speak for enemy combatants), to banning the use of the politically incorrect term “war on terror”, and on and on and on.

But perhaps the biggest threat to our county’s security comes from the trillions of dollars of reckless spending the Obama administration has embarked upon.

China, which leave us not forget is a communist country, is America’ largest creditor.
And Obama is making the Chinese a little nervous also.
Recently, Chinese Premier Win Jinbao demanded that the Obama administration guarantee the safety of the 1 trillion dollars in U.S. Treasuries that China holds.
He was further quoted as saying “We have lent a large amount of money to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.”

This is just dandy.
On the one hand we now have a President that is leaving America wide open to further acts of terrorism, given the fact that he is so worried about offending the very groups that are hell bent on causing the deaths of even more of America’s citizens.

And on the other hand he is leaving us open to economic blackmail if the Chinese decide to sell off the Treasury bonds they hold, or at the very least China could demand concessions on a number of trade issues, further weakening the U.S. economy.

Either way, this isn’t the kind of CHANGE that I’m looking forward to.

The New York Times Sees The Future

Not really.

Although the New York Times has some really off the wall people on it’s staff, it has yet to hire a psychic.

But the following article did appear in the Sept.11th, 2003 edition.
I guess no one read it.

New York Times
September 11, 2003

New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

By STEPHEN LABATON

The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.

The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.

The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt — is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.

”There is a general recognition that the supervisory system for housing-related government-sponsored enterprises neither has the tools, nor the stature, to deal effectively with the current size, complexity and importance of these enterprises,” Treasury Secretary John W. Snow told the House Financial Services Committee in an appearance with Housing Secretary Mel Martinez, who also backed the plan.

Mr. Snow said that Congress should eliminate the power of the president to appoint directors to the companies, a sign that the administration is less concerned about the perks of patronage than it is about the potential political problems associated with any new difficulties arising at the companies.

The administration’s proposal, which was endorsed in large part today by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would not repeal the significant government subsidies granted to the two companies. And it does not alter the implicit guarantee that Washington will bail the companies out if they run into financial difficulty; that perception enables them to issue debt at significantly lower rates than their competitors. Nor would it remove the companies’ exemptions from taxes and antifraud provisions of federal securities laws.

The proposal is the opening act in one of the biggest and most significant lobbying battles of the Congressional session.

After the hearing, Representative Michael G. Oxley, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, and Senator Richard Shelby, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announced their intention to draft legislation based on the administration’s proposal. Industry executives said Congress could complete action on legislation before leaving for recess in the fall.

”The current regulator does not have the tools, or the mandate, to adequately regulate these enterprises,” Mr. Oxley said at the hearing. ”We have seen in recent months that mismanagement and questionable accounting practices went largely unnoticed by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight,” the independent agency that now regulates the companies.

”These irregularities, which have been going on for several years, should have been detected earlier by the regulator,” he added.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was created by Congress in 1992 after the bailout of the savings and loan industry and concerns about regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy mortgages from lenders and repackage them as securities or hold them in their own portfolios.

At the time, the companies and their allies beat back efforts for tougher oversight by the Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Reserve. Supporters of the companies said efforts to regulate the lenders tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans for lower-income families. This year, however, the chances of passing legislation to tighten the oversight are better than in the past.

Reflecting the changing political climate, both Fannie Mae and its leading rivals applauded the administration’s package. The support from Fannie Mae came after a round of discussions between it and the administration and assurances from the Treasury that it would not seek to change the company’s mission.

After those assurances, Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chief executive, endorsed the shift of regulatory oversight to the Treasury Department, as well as other elements of the plan.

”We welcome the administration’s approach outlined today,” Mr. Raines said. The company opposes some smaller elements of the package, like one that eliminates the authority of the president to appoint 5 of the company’s 18 board members.

Company executives said that the company preferred having the president select some directors. The company is also likely to lobby against the efforts that give regulators too much authority to approve its products.

Freddie Mac, whose accounting is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and a United States attorney in Virginia, issued a statement calling the administration plan a ”responsible proposal.”

The stocks of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fell while the prices of their bonds generally rose. Shares of Freddie Mac fell $2.04, or 3.7 percent, to $53.40, while Fannie Mae was down $1.62, or 2.4 percent, to $66.74. The price of a Fannie Mae bond due in March 2013 rose to 97.337 from 96.525.Its yield fell to 4.726 percent from 4.835 percent on Tuesday.

Fannie Mae, which was previously known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie Mac, which was the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, have been criticized by rivals for exerting too much influence over their regulators.

”The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied,” said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies. ”Being underfunded does not explain how a glowing report of Freddie’s operations was released only hours before the managerial upheaval that followed. This is not world-class regulatory work.”

Significant details must still be worked out before Congress can approve a bill. Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed. ‘I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.

Stimulus Watch

As part of our commitment to keeping you, our loyal subscribers here at Freedom Medium informed, we are constantly on the lookout for sources of information to provide answers to the many queries we receive.

And lately we have been getting a ton of questions regarding President Obama’s “Economic Stimulus” bill.
“Who is getting the money?”
“What is it being spent on ?”
“How much is my state getting?”

And, as usual, we have tracked down a resource to help answer those questions.

Follow this link to learn what projects are being funded on a state-by-state basis, how much is allocated to each project, and much much more.

How The RNC Might Deal With Turncoats

The Republican National Committe recently chose Michael Steele to be their new leader.
And the new sheriff in town just made it clear that he doesn’t have a much tolerance for the three Republican Senators who broke ranks and voted in favor of the pork-laden “Economic Stimulus Bill.”

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