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In an amazing Kung-fu political move, embroiled Governor Blagojevich has appointed former state Attorney General Roland Burris to the Senate seat vacated by Mr. Obama. There were immediate outcries from Lt. Gov Pat Quinn and the Secretary of State.

However, they may not have anything to say about it, legally. Mr Burris is a senior statesman from Illinois with a long history of public service. After the announcement, Congressman Bobby Rush took the stage and adamantly stated that it would be a disgrace not to replace Mr. Obama with another Afro-American, as that would leave the Senate without an Afro-American Senator.

House Majority leader Harry Reid has said that he will block the nomination. I would say, at this time, these outcries are much too premature and the politicians concerned have not had a chance to think adequately through their options.

Frankly, I think that opposing this appointment would be political suicide for many of these politicians,  since Roland Burris is so highly esteemed a statesman, and since Bobby Rush has made such an emotional appeal. Also, this might be the only chance the Democrats will have to get a Democrat in that position. If it goes to a special election, surely the populace will vote in a Republican.

I think that basically the politicians were totally caught off guard by this brilliant
tactical move by Governor Blagojevich. Both Bobby Rush and the Governor implored the Public and the Press for Mr Burris to be seated, and not to be tainted by the allegations against the Governor. It is highly doubtful that he would not be seated as a Senator, since the only disqualification would be his lack of qualification or constitutional ineligibility.

Barack Obama himself has weighed in on this issue, saying that Mr Burris is a fine man, but that Governor Blagojevich doesn’t have the power to appoint him. I could be wrong, but I think possibly Obama wanted his own appointee in there, and I think that Governor Blagojevich definitely has the power.

Mr. Burris would serve until the term is finished in 2010 and then decide to run again if he so chose.

Political correctness has been the byword for the past 3 or 4 decades in regards to the Moslem “religion”. Now, Western Europe has started to experience a strong reaction against tolerance of Islam, because the Mosques are funding the jihad and Muslims are leading separate lives from the rest of the populace.

The Netherlands major Labor Party’s Lilianne Ploumen is now in the process of incorporating a new policy that will require a certain amount of assimilation, according to Islam In Action 08.blogspot: speaking the Dutch language and observation of Dutch customs.

Similar stories now exist in Great Britain which is also starting to wake up from its’ slumber, in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which were partially funded by British Pakistanis.

There is also a petition to stop Muslim U.S. Immigration, because it is by definition, a supremacist ideology that is committed to overthrowing our government. Please take a minute to sign it.

Europe is just waking up, and the U.S. may be the “last man standing.” Think about the honor killing, and abuse that is an ingrained part of sharia law. Not only does it define women as 2nd class citizens, but it also allows unbridled abuse, genital mutilation and honor killing. This “honor killing” has already happened in the U.S., with the brutal killing of the Said sisters by their own father.

Additionally, Rukmini Callamachi also brought up another disturbing fact: Muslims are importing children as slaves into the US.  Children as young as 8 and 9 were brought into the country illegally and working 20 hour days for $45/month. When the authorities finally caught up with the Muslims, the families were fined and imprisoned, but upon release, returned to their previous behavior.

Political correctness is a very naive response to the Islamic political ideology. Just listen to what Ayatollah Khomeini’s…notorious rebuke to the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace crowd: “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all!”

He continues: “Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]…. Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight.”

” Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” (Quotation from Khoumeni)

Should we be tolerant to those who would destroy us? I think not. Is it racist of us? Not really, because Muslims encompass all races.

Recently, the name of Liliane Betancourt, came up as one of the people scammed by the Ponzi scheme developed by Bernie Madoff, according to India Times/Economics. She is one of the wealthiest women in the world as heiress to the L’Oreal fortune. Quite a few others were caught up in this scam, which the SEC totally overlooked, as Madoff had been one of the founders of NASDAQ.

But why is everyone so shocked? Barack Obama has just been named Person of the Year and it is his intention to “redistribute the wealth.” Isn’t a Ponzi scheme the same thing? Why does the Press give so much coverage to the wealthy being scammed, when they know full well that whatever these people lost, for the most part, will not devastate them in the least. We know there are a few exceptions. The suicide of Access co-founder Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet is being blamed on his losses in the scheme.

But is the smiling grandfatherly face of Bernie Madoff any different from the smile of Barack Obama? At least Barry is telling people exactly what he intends to do. The problem with socialism, of course, is that the people on the bottom who get some kind of stipend usually have to forfeit quite a bit of their civil liberties.

Now, as most of us know, the people who elected Obama were not the most educated people in the world, by and large. They hardly knew who they were voting for. They were, as was documented, expertly hypnotized and used by slick rhetoric. But the famous example of Peggy Joseph, who said “I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage, filling up my gas tank”, is far from being unique.

There are many in this generation who have been prepared for decades to simply ask for the government to find the solution. They haven’t bothered to study the attempts to introduce socialism in other countries and the consequences. If they had studied a bit, they might be more reluctant to look for a free “handout.”

If they had even referred to the Bible, they would have known that the Lord doesn’t even condone socialism. Look at the Parable of the Talents. The Lord gave talents to three men. When he returned, years later, and found that one of the men had not developed his talents, but had buried them, the Lord gave those talents to the one who had multiplied his talents.

So, let’s be very careful about welcoming socialism.

Barnum T. Bailey said “there is a sucker born every minute.” Now, there have always been hucksters, in every century. Well, here we are again with the big Global warming Hoax of the 21st century.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the environment just like everyone else and animals too. Actually, I am a vegetarian, so I have probably less of a Carbon footprint than most. In a famous UN study, it was pointed out that livestock gases account for way more than automobile emissions. So the UN recommended that the vegetarian diet would decrease Global warming much more effectively than driving a hybrid car. It is this practice of raising livestock for meat that is the man culprit.

Now, many authors have forecast a variety of doomsday occurrences, according to Andrew Bolt, who has pointed out the top 10 duds.

What is even more amazing is that even though the predictions have not materialized, no one seems to be noticing. It must have something to do with human nature always feeling it has to be “on the edge” of catastrophe. Of course, these forecasters continue to sell their books and movies and even win Nobel Prizes. That is very odd, as you would think that someone in the Nobel Prize committee would have a little more insight. Last week, 30,000 scientists decided they’d had enough and sued Al Gore for fraud. Maybe that will stop him. But then again, he does have his First Amendment Rights.

I guess the lesson in all of this is that the Public has to become educated, otherwise, we become victims of the latest huckster. The evidence is there right in front of us, and, in some cases the weather has become even more severe, as in the case with the recent snowfall in the Las Vegas desert.

I remember early this year, when I was studying the “Raw” diet, meeting Philip McCluskey. Now this gentleman was almost 400 pounds and considering having a surgical procedure done.  Fortunately he came across the “raw food” diet.

I believe he lost at least 200 pounds and revolutionized his life as well. He was involved in marketing and went on to become a successful nutritional counselor, who is very much involved with the other Raw pioneers, like David “Avocado” Wolfe, etc. He’s also been on CBS. Now in essence, his diet is strictly vegan and very green.

Let me give you an example of one of his smoothies, and I have several on my raw section in veggiebliss.us:
2 tbsps unsweetened chocolate;
3 handfuls of spinach;
one sliced frozen banana;
one bottle spring water.
Put this in a blender and you will have a great nutritious smoothie and you can watch the pounds and inches fall off.

Now contrast this with the following story that is not as infrequent as you might assume. In a very unusual Russian malpractice trial, two doctors have been charged with killing a former Russian beauty queen, Ekaterina Sumina, according to Alina Kalinina. Apparently, Laser Inc. did not perform any tolerance testing for the young woman in terms of the type of anesthesia used. However, I find that hard to believe, because usually all patients fill out a questionnaire before any surgical operation.

However, what actually did happen is that she stopped breathing. Now, when that happened, of course, they should have taken some immediate steps. However, they seem to have waited.

Again, another unusual practice is that she was not apparently connected to a breathing apparatus the whole time. This I find rather odd, as I believe that when a patient is “under anesthesia” he/she needs to be under artificial respiration. However, medical examiners say that she may not have been breathing for more than 20 minutes.

In another crazy news story, which some are calling a hoax, Beverly Hills Dr. Craig Alan Bittner was using the fat of his patients from liposuction to fuel his bio-diesel car, according to Walletpop.com.

Does it make you feel that possibly cosmetic surgeons do not have the highest standards? That it might attract greedy, unethical types? Apparently Dr. Bittner is being investigated on other charges and the Russin doctors have had their medical licenses suspended for 2 years.

The moral of the story is: run, eat raw, and don’t lipo.

In the beginning of the 2008 Presidential primary, Fred Hollander sued John S. McCain because he said he was ineligible due to his place of birth in the Panama Canal.

Matthew McGill, Amir C. Tayrani and Charles G. Douglas III wrote the “Motion to Dismiss” the suit and you will notice that there are many points they make that are pertinent to the present question of how and, when, to deal with Mr. Obama’s constitutional alleged ineligibity to serve in the Office of the Presidency.

Many of the supporters of Mr. Obama, claim that there is much ado about nothing, when it comes to pointing out Obama’s British citizenship. They point out that the Supreme Court has not held a hearing on the several cases that have been brought to the Supreme Court, so, therefore, there must not be any grounds for worry.

However, today, I read a little about the 20th amendment in the Motion to dismiss by
Matthew McGill, Amir C. Tayrani & Charles G. Douglass III(pg 11) of the reasons why the Supreme Court’s may be reluctant to interfere with the candidate’s eligibility, at this time. According to the Constitution, that is part of the political process
and rests with the respective political parties, voters, and then, the Electoral College.

The Twentieth Amendment, however, does provide that the new Congress will have the responsibility to choose an “eligible” President, if the Electoral College fails to do so. It has been rumored that since Mr. Obama was born a British subject (by his own words), that some members of Congress will challenge the vote on January 6th of 2009.

McGill & Douglas go on to say that “if the court acted upon the question of the candidate’s eligibility before the Electoral college and Congress have acted, then “it may be involving itself in political matters and interfering with the Constitutional authority of the Electoral college and Congress to evaluate the qualifications of the candidate.” It might, furthermore, lead to aggrandizement of power in the Judical branch and the Framers were very careful to create a balance of powers.

McGill & Douglas also state that the courts do not rule on the eligibility to run for the Office of the Presidency, because that would impinge on their First Amendment rights, as well. These lawyers state that “the Supreme court and the lower federal courts have consistently held that voters do not have “standing” to challenge the qualifications of candidates for elected federal office.”

I might also mention that the Senate passed a Resolution (511) based on the scholarly opinions of Larry Tribe and Theodore Olsen that Senator McCain should be considered a “natural born citizen.”

A lot has been written about Senate Resolution 511, which was passed in April 2008 which confimed that John Sidney McCain III was “eligible” to run for President of the United States. Now only an Act of Congress can change the Constitution and children born to American citizens abroad are not regarded as “natural born citizens”, since the 1790 Nationality Act was repealed in 1795.

Of course McCain was born in the Panama Canal while his parents were stationed there in the Navy in 1936.

What happened is that the Founding Fathers were highly skeptical of any kind of foreign influence in the executive office of the Presidency. Now, what I didn’t know before, is that, when the Resolution was introduced, the architects of the Senate Resolution, MacAskill, Leahy & Obama, also introduced the opinion of the legal scholars, Larry H. Tribe and Theodore B. Olsen, of the firm GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP, according to Prowland.wordpress.com. They are, of course, widely respected constitutional scholars as Former Solicitor General, Theodore Olson, and Harvard Law School Professor, Laurence Tribe.

Tribe and Olsen are on record as  saying that it was never the intention of the first Chief Justice, John Jay, or George Washington, in excluding “foreigners” from being President, to exclude “Senator McCain as he is certainly not the hypothetical “foreigner,” as his parents were on a military base defending our country. This would be, according to these scholars, the “original intent “of the Founding Fathers.”

As some of you may know, Leo Donofrio and Cort Wrotnowski both filed “Writs of Certiorari” with the US Supreme Court against McCain, Obama and Calero stating that these three candidates were ineligible and were put on the State ballots improperly by the respective Secretaries of State. Both of those cases are pending, but the request for a “Stay” of the Electoral college was denied on December 15th.

There is another case that is due in January on the 8th, in Washington State. Attorney Stephen Pidgeon has filed a case there, and in that particular state, and only in that state, does an “ordinary” citizen have “standing” to challenge a candidate’s eligibility. Other state cases have been dismissed due to the plaintiff not having “standing.” A famous case, Berg v. Obama asks who does have “standing,” if not the ordinary citizen? However, Washington is the only State with a law to back it up.

Recently, Mike McGrew, a writer for english.pravda.ru remarked that if a usurper president is inaugurated, then no international treaties made during that tenure are binding. So there are very serious questions now, as we are facing a serious Constitutional crisis, and, in fact, if a “usurper” does take the Office, then the Constitution becomes null and void. So, while we think this is only a domestic issue, the implications are international and the situation is being watched abroad.

Mark McGrew who writes for the Pravda has summed up the invisible man, Obama as a “sissy”. In his lengthy article, McGrew summed up most of the law suits demanding that Obama at least have the courtesy to  submit his documents to the Public so that they can have some confidence in what he will be doing.

Otherwise, it continues to be very scary for most people who are now expressing a great deal of “buyer’s remorse.” Even MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough lambasted the press for not properly vetting this unknown candidate, the one who comes from the most crime-infested city, Chicago.

Frankly, there is now a whole online community that already unhappy about the prospects of having someone so secretive in the White House, with access to the nuclear codes. Lawyers and concerned citizens point out that since he is not a natural born citizen, he is not constitutionally eligible to serve as President, as he was born a British subject due to his Kenyan father.

Now, the Blagojevich scandal is threatening to bring down the Obama team, even before he hits office. And, of course, he is responding to the inquiries of any misconduct with his typical Teflon-style. He knows he has a very compliant press, who spent most of their time vetting Trig Palin and Sarah’s wardrobe more than any of Obama’s  connections.

Even when Governor Linda Lingle remarked that no one even knew him from Hawaii and that he had never even called her, the press did not notice. Now they seem to have finally discovered, a la the National Enquirer, that his mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a pervert who wrote the porno novel, Sex Rebel. Too bad they didn’t start to learn about all these things before the election. Even if they knew, some how their allegiances to their funding made them report otherwise. As we know, the media is owned by 4 or 5 major corporations.

Obama has stated that the first thing he will have his legal teams is to negate all the “unconstitutional” executive orders written by Bush. However, since Obama himself will be a “usurper”, any laws or treaties that he passes will have no validity.

The NY Times laid a bombshell in its frontpage-liner story today White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire. Really? I guess they forgot that the Community Reinvestment Act was originally signed into effect in 1977 by Jimmy Carter, and heavily enforced in the 90’s by the Clinton administration.

In fact, when Mr. Obama was a “community organizer“, that was his principle role to agitate with Acorn for Banks to give loans to minority and, very often unqualified home buyers.

For years, both Bush and McCain called congress to tighten up the reins and were met with rebuffs by Congress and the likes of Barney Frank and Rep. Maxine Waters, who said, even as late as the summer of 2008, that all was well and there was much ado about nothing. According to Gateway Pundit President Bush called for tighter regulations “17 times in 2008 alone.”

But, I guess it’s Bush-bashing time for the lame duck, and, never, ever, would the Times go after the Messiah for his role in the Sub-prime mortgage mess and the subsequent economic meltdown. The fact is that, after Chris Dodd, who has been in office for decades, Mr. Obama was the 2nd highest recipient of Fannie Mae money. And he had been in office less than a year.
thanks to the People’s cube for the image.
Short memories. Take a look:

I have written about this before, at other times, but noticed this ad for Tuna Meltdown, and its total misrepresentation that fish is the only source of omega 3 fatty acid oils. The ad and link go on to berate parents who deprive their children of tuna-fish, because of fear of their Mercury contamination.

What they don’t tell you is that fish are not the only source for omega 3 fatty acid oil, which is very important for sustaining cranial growth and activity, not only in children, but also in adults. In fact, the lack of nutritional omega fatty acid oils has been implicated in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Now there are vegetarian sources for these omega 3 fatty acid oils: sunflower seeds, walnuts, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and soy beans, according to PCRM.org.

While it may be true that not all fish are contaminated with Mercury, it is still not true that it is the only source for these nutrients. Plus, very often they don’t tell you what else is in the tuna fish, like dolphins.

Deficiency in these omega 3 and 6 fatty acid oils can not only lead to Alzheimer’s, but also to depression.