Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?

Here's why a government that wished this country well would live within its means:

April 16, 2011
Moonbattery
By Van Helsing



Just as the malefactors running the federal government live on borrowed money, we are living on borrowed time. Even if we immediately put them in prison where they belong, the total collapse of our economy and our way of life under the weight of this debt is probably inevitable. With every day we allow them to rule us it grows more certain.

Beck Guest: ‘The Day America Turns Its Back on Israel, God Will Turn His Back on America’

"Pastor John Hagee joined Glenn to discuss why it is so important for the U.S. to stand by Israel, as it’s the only democracy in the Middle East"

April 16, 2011
The Blaze

Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Defends Ties to Syria & Iran – Tells Guerillas to Be Prepared to Invade Israel

April 16, 2011
By Jim Hoft

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah also defended the Lebanese terror group’s close ties with Iran and Syria this week. (Press TV)

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told his guerilla group on Wednesday to be prepared to invade Israel.
CNS News reported:

Hezbollah’s leader told his Shiite guerrilla group Wednesday to be prepared to invade northern Israel, a day after Israel’s defense minister warned that the quiet along the tense border could erupt into violence.

The comments by the two sides illustrate the fragile situation along the frontier since they Israel and Hezbollah fought a bitter, six-week war in the summer of 2006. The war ended in a U.N.-brokered truce but officials on both sides of the border believe it is only a matter of time before hostilities resume.

“I tell the holy warriors of the Islamic Resistance to be ready for a day when, if war is imposed on us, your command might ask you to control the Galilee area,” Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech Wednesday. The Galilee refers to land in northern Israel.

On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak toured the Israeli military’s northern command and told soldiers there that the quiet along the frontier might not last.

Just last month it was reported that several members of the Obama Administration are ready to endorse dialogue with the Hezbollah terror group.

Senator Grassley Has Damning Documents on Obama’s Stimulus-Funded Gunrunner Project

"Senator Grassley Has Damning Documents on Obama’s Stimulus-Funded Gunrunner Project"

April 16, 2011
By Jim Hoft

Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has damning evidence that US ATF officials sanctioned or allowed the sale of assault weapons to straw purchasers. The agency was doing this on purpose. The government encouraged this. Two of the weapons ended up at the murder scene of a US border patrol agent in Arizona, Brian Terry. Obama says he and Holder knew nothing about Operation Gunrunner.

Senator Grassley spoke out on his investigation yesterday on the floor of the senate.
This is an amazing video.



Between 13 and 1,700 guns got away and that’s just what has turned up so far. Several of the guns have been connected to criminal acts. Obama’s failed stimulus plan helped fund the program.

The Washington Examiner reported:  Read More

Explosive Bill Ayers Interview: John McCain Is a War Criminal & Pentagon Is a Terror Organization

"The President of the United States launched his political career from this man’s living room."

April 16, 2011
The Blaze

Levin rips Donald Trump to shreds

April 15, 2011
The Right Scoop

Levin points out many things about Trump that show he is no conservative, but a few of the glaring ones are the fact that he support Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio twice, as well as calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush, accusing him of lying to get us in the war. Oh yeah, and he supported Universal Health Care in America, the Canadian style.

And there’s more. To Listen

Paul Ryan: This is the moment to fix America

April 15, 2011
The Right Scoop

His main point is put forth in a question he asks:

[The 2008 financial] crisis caught us by surprise. It was unpredictable – we didn’t see it coming.

Let me ask you this.

What if your President and your member of Congress saw it coming? What if they knew why it was happening, when it was going to happen, and more importantly they knew what to do to stop it and they had time to stop it but they didn’t, because of politics?

What would you think of that person?

Mr. Chairman that is where we are right now. This is the most predictable economic crisis we’ve ever had in the history of this country. And yet, we have a President who is unwilling to lead. We have too many politicians worried about the next election and not worried about the next generation.

Obama’s Spiritual Adviser Father Pfleger Shocked To Learn Even A Black Man Can Be Corrupted By Power

April 15, 2011
The Gateway Pudit
By Jim Hoft

Father Pfleger was temporarily suspended from his church in 2008 after verbally attacking Senator Hillary Clinton from the altar of Obama’s radical church.

This week Obama’s spiritual guide attacked him. Pfleger said he was shocked to learn that even a black man can be corrupted by power.
Via The Blaze:

AZ ‘Birther’ Bill Passes Senate

Requires Presidential Candidates to Show Proof of Citizenship

April 15, 2011
By Jim Hoft

If Barack Obama wants to be included on the ballot in Arizona in 2012 he will have to show proof of citizenship. The Arizona senate passed their “birther” bill last night. The bill will now be sent to Republican Governor Jan Brewer who will sign it into law.

AZ Central reported:

The Arizona Legislature has become the first in the nation to pass a measure requiring presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship in order to get on the state’s ballot.

House Bill 2177 got final approval Thursday night from the House. It will be transmitted to Gov. Jan Brewer, who will then have five days to sign it, veto it or do nothing and allow it to become law.

If Brewer chooses to veto the bill, Republican lawmakers could attempt an override vote. The bill would become law if two-thirds of legislators supported the override.

“It’s essential that we bring back the integrity to the office,” Rep. Judy Burges, R-Skull Valley, said during a recent debate on one of the so-called “birther” measures.

HB 2177, sponsored by Rep. Carl Seel, R-Phoenix, would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to provide the Arizona secretary of state with documents proving they are natural-born citizens. Read More

Hawaii gas prices set record on Maui; near all-time high

The most expensive gas in Hawaii was on the island of Maui

April 15, 2011
Star Advertiser

Hawaii's average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline hit a nation-leading $4.46 on Thursday, 28 cents higher than second-place California.

The state's average on Thursday was 12 cents higher than a week ago, 44 cents more than a month ago and 91 cents more than last year, according to AAA data.

It is just 5 cents below the all-time record of $4.51 set on July 31, 2008.

The most expensive gas in Hawaii was on the island of Maui, where the average price was $4.77, down a penny after hitting a record of $4.78 on Wednesday. The previous Wailuku record was $4.75 in August 2008.

The average price for a gallon of regular in Honolulu was $4.36, just five cents below the record high for Honolulu of $4.39 set on July 29, 2008

As most states brace for gas to climb to $4, Hawaii was the first to reach that mark a month ago. Now three other states share that distinction: Alaska, California and Illinois.

The national average reached $3.81 Thursday. Wyoming was the cheapest in the country at $3.53.

"There's no doubt that across the country the pain is being felt, but more acutely in Hawaii," said Marie Montgomery, spokeswoman for Automobile Club of Southern California, which covers Hawaii.  Read More

Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is Coming...Prepare by Food Dehydration

"As competition for food supplies increases, food prices are going to go up. In fact, at some point they are going to go way up."

April 14, 2011
The Economic Collapse

In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have played havoc with agricultural production in many areas of the globe over the past couple of years.  Meanwhile, the price of oil has begun to skyrocket.  The entire global economy is predicated on the ability to use massive amounts of inexpensive oil to cheaply produce food and other goods and transport them over vast distances.  Without cheap oil the whole game changes.  Topsoil is being depleted at a staggering rate and key aquifers all over the world are being drained at an alarming pace.  Global food prices are already at an all-time high and they continue to move up aggressively.  So what is going to happen to our world when hundreds of millions more people cannot afford to feed themselves?  Read More

Aloha from Maui...For the first time in my life I have begun to store food. Dehydration is the method I have chosen because of the ease and simplicity of the process.

To start I have made a solar dryer box out of cardboard similar to this one.

Maui's sunshine and warm weather should make dehydration a year round possibility. If sun drying is not satisfying I will go the way of a Food Dehyrator such as the one shown in the following videos. These short 5 part videos are extremly helpful in demonstrating the process from beginning to end.

Much Of Northern Japan Uninhabitable Due To Nuclear Radiation?

Already there are indications that areas beyond the evacuation zone will soon be unlivable as well as Stephen Lendman recently noted....

April 14, 2011
The American Dream

With no resolution to the crisis in sight, the damaged facilities at Fukushima continue to pump massive amounts of nuclear radiation into the surrounding environment every single day. So will much of northern Japan end up being uninhabitable due to nuclear radiation? Everyone agrees that the area immediately around Fukushima will be uninhabitable indefinitely. The only question is how large of an area around Fukushima is eventually going to be considered unlivable. This week authorities in Japan finally raised the crisis at Fukushima up to a level 7 disaster on the international scale. In fact, they are now telling us that the total release of radioactive material will likely surpass that of the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl was incredibly nightmarish and there are still vast areas around Chernobyl that are basically uninhabitable. But Chernobyl only burned for 10 days. The crisis at Fukushima could end up lasting for many months. Keep in mind that radiation is cumulative. Every single day the total amount of radioactive material that the world is dealing with because of Fukushima just continues to increase.  Read More

BRICS demand global monetary shake-up, greater influence

April 14, 2011
By Abhijit Neogy and Alexei Anishchuk

(Reuters) - The BRICS group of emerging-market powers kept up the pressure on Thursday for a revamped global monetary system that relies less on the dollar and for a louder voice in international financial institutions.

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa also called for stronger regulation of commodity derivatives to dampen excessive volatility in food and energy prices, which they said posed new risks for the recovery of the world economy.

Meeting on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, they said the recent financial crisis had exposed the inadequacies of the current monetary order, which has the dollar as its linchpin.

What was needed, they said in a statement, was "a broad-based international reserve currency system providing stability and certainty" -- thinly veiled criticism of what the BRICS see as Washington's neglect of its global monetary responsibilities.

The BRICS are worried that America's large trade and budget deficits will eventually debase the dollar. They also begrudge the financial and political privileges that come with being the leading reserve currency.

"The world economy is undergoing profound and complex changes," Chinese President Hu Jintao said. "The era demands that the BRICS countries strengthen dialogue and cooperation."

In another dig at the dollar, the development banks of the five BRICS nations agreed to establish mutual credit lines denominated in their local currencies, not the U.S. currency.  Read More

Let's Have a Government Sale

"If the debt limit is too stifling for Washington D.C. -let's do what so many schools, churches and libraries do when money is tight. Let's have a government sale."

April 14, 2011

By Daniel Greenfield
4/13/11

The big scissors of destiny are clicking and clacking their way to our national credit card. If we don't raise the debt limit, so we can borrow more money to pay the interest on the money we borrowed before, the scissors will come down like economic armageddon. And the big shiny credit card that pays for everything gets cut up in two pieces. But never fear. If worst comes to worst, then we still have options.

Our government is big. Really big. So big that the 2.15 million government employees should be their own state. The population of government employees is already larger than the populations of Rhode Island, Wyoming, Delaware, Alaska, Montana, North and South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska and New Mexico. So big that if government employees formed their own state, it would be the 36th largest state in the union. So why not go for it?

Call it Bureaucratia, its state flag will be a stapler on a manilla background, its nickname will be 'The Inaction State', its state bird will be the Ostrich, its state flower made of plastic and its entire population will spend all their time in committee meetings to determine a suitably inoffensive state motto, pending that its motto will be, "I'm On Break".  Read More 

Birthers Correct FactCheck’s False Claims about Trump

TRUTH: “Citizenship” is not the issue; natural born citizenship is the issue

April 14, 2011

WTPOTUS
4/13/2011
This is in response to an article from FactCheck Blog, “Donald, You’re Fired!”, posted on April 9, 2011. Excerpts from their article are included for ease of rebuttal–an educational effort.

If FactCheck staffers worked for us, we’d have to say: “FactCheck, You’re fired–for incompetence, blatant obfuscation, and use of Alinsky tactics!” When it comes to getting facts straight, FactCheck fails miserably, again, and again, and again.

Point by Point Rebuttal  Read More