Comments (0) Might as well end the year dealing with the same question we were facing at the beginning – is Barack Obama a natural born citizen? Does Obama hold the US citizenship requirements of the United States Constitution?
The final installment in Molotov Mitchell’s Proof Positive series which questions Barack Obama’s citizenship qualifications. This is not “birther” nonsense – this is serious stuff folks!
More info at Proof-Positive.com
So we know that a Muslim Al Qaeda Jihadist err, Nigerian Man, tried to detonate his explosives as the plane was landing
No one in the news media is asking the obvious question:
Why didn’t Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab just go into the bathroom and set off his bomb in private without any chance of anyone seeing him?
But this question should be asked first:
If a plane blows up over the ocean and no one sees it does it make a sound? How about Air France Flight 447 in June?
Investigators have yet to pinpoint the cause of the disaster, although they suspect that a malfunction of the aircraft’s speed sensors may have contributed to the crash. A preliminary report published in July said an examination of the floating debris indicated that the plane had hit the water intact.
“We still don’t know what happened in the cockpit, and we will need to find and analyze the recorders to understand,” Mr. Troadec said at the agency’s offices in Le Bourget, near Paris. “Our knowledge of this accident does not allow us to develop a scenario.”
The current hypothesis for AF447 was that bad weather and lightning sent it out of control and into the sea. Folks – let me tell you – planes get hit by lightning all the time – its not a big thing. But if Al Qaeda had dropped Flight 447 out of the sky, and never go the CREDIT for their terror attack, can you imagine they might feel? First, pissed that they did not get the credit for the attack, but secondly how thrilled they would be that whatever bombing apparatus they used on that plane had made it through security and HAD WORKED.
While the lame MSM babbles on about new terror threats, and new ways the terrorists are adapting to our security measures, my question is – who is to say this is latest terror attack is a new technique?
So back to the original question – why did he set off his device while the plane was preparing for landing?
So that people would KNOW this was a terror attack.
There still are more Todd Beamer’s (Lets Roll) in the world. Thank G-d!
Two things jump out at me in this developing story from the Detroit News
“The suspect had been in a law enforcement intelligence database but was not on the government’s no-fly list, a law enforcement official told ABC.”
What the heck does it take for you to go from being on an “intelligence database” to get moved to the no-fly list?? Are we this lame about our own security?
“Two people noticed the attempt to ignite the substance and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News.”
To be clear here, the Northwest Airbus 330 has a passenger capacity of 34 business class seats and 264 coach seats. The terrorist was reported to be in row 19 <updated>. There were 277 other passengers on board. It is quite reasonable to believe that the coach section was near full. The seat map of the Airbus 300 in coach is a 2-3-2 configuration. However elite airline passenger often get last minute upgrades, so its possible the would-be bomber was in a “2″ section with no one next to him. Seat 19 is an over the wing seat, which, if his explosive has successfully gone off possible done fatal damage to the aircraft by igniting near the fuel tanks.
“”The president was notified of the incident this morning between 9:00 and 9:30 Hawaii time by the president’s military aide,” he said. “The president subsequently convened a secure conference call with John Brennan, his Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism adviser, and Denis McDonough, NSS chief of staff. He asked to arrange subsequent secure call and in that call instructed that all appropriate measures be taken to increase security for air travel.
The Department of Homeland Security said passengers might see additional screening measures on domestic and international flights because of the incident and urged travelers to report any suspicious activity or behavior to law enforcement officials.”
Let me get this straight – We are at Security Code ORANGE – a “High Risk of Terrorist Attacks.” We -MIGHT- see additional screening measures? So what could possibly differentiate Orange from Red which is a “Severe Risk of Terror Attacks” Could it be they may actually screen for likely JIHADISTS????!!!!
UPDATE: h/t Jawa Report
Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.
Name ANY religious ceremony that lasts 2 years? WHAT ARE WE DOING??!??
Search engine Google had this as its graphic on Christmas Day. They celebrate every stinking left wing holiday, but take a pass at one of Christianity’s most holy days – ridiculous.
Holidays that Google DID acknowledge include:
Mexican Day of the Dead
Autumn Festival (asian)
30 days of Sesame Street logos
Googles OWN Birthday
Crop Circles (??!:)
UFOs
Michael Jacksons Birthday
Earth Day
Chinese New Year
Carnival (noted only in Brazil Google) may be the closest Google has come to a Christian religious observance
Another fantastic article from Tennessee State Representative Susan Lynn’s. She is so eloquent in describing the nature of Freedom in our country – and the perversion of it by the moochers and looters - the Conservative Women speak TRUTH TO POWER. They are our best hope for the future. Palin , Bachmann and now Lynn! be sure to get a feed subscription to her blog HERE
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Let’s look at some of the foundational principles of American government; the principles that made our nation great.
The purpose of our government is to secure our rights
The Declaration of Independence established the American view of the rights of man and the duties of government. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” They concluded by stating that our “separate but equal station” with Britain and other governments of the world would give us “full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.”
Our Constitution, drafted in 1787, used the Declaration of Independence as a guide to governance. The Constitution up-holds the purpose of our government, to secure our rights, and provides seventeen specific powers to the federal government in Article 1, Section 8. Two years later a Bill of Rights was added by the states in order to prevent misconstruction and abuse of federal powers; succeeding amendments bring the total number of enumerated federal powers to 30. None of those 30 powers grant general legislative authority to the federal government. In fact, such powers belong only to the states; called police powers – states pass laws to secure the rights of individuals.
So what they created is the freest county in the world – with a government that recognizes mans’ unalienable rights, and whose purpose is to secure those rights for its citizens’. In the United States, all have freedom and all understand that we can express our freedoms until we infringe upon another’s freedom. Except where individual actions may infringe on the unalienable and Constitutional rights of another, our government is to stay out of the affairs of the people and of business.
Our government cannot take-away or infringe on our rights
Our nation, our Constitutional Republic is based upon natural rights. But just what are unalienable rights and Constitutional rights? An unalienable right is a natural right granted to man by our Creator; described ever so simply as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence and it is also a Constitutional right. Life is, well, life. Examples of liberty are freedom to believe, or become, or protect yourself; a right to your speech, your reputation, and the things you create. Pursuit of happiness is freedom to make your own way, own your own property or live anywhere; a right to what you earn.
Constitutional rights such as trial by jury, to bear arms and vote don’t seem natural. They are not natural, but they do serve to directly secure our natural rights. For instance, who judges our actions is very important because we can lose our liberty as punishment. Arms are not natural – but protecting yourself, especially from your own government, is a natural right. Therefore, the right to bear arms serves to secure your natural rights. The right to vote protects your right to self-determination and liberty, even speech. All in all, unalienable or Constitutional, our rights are rights which no government can take-away, question or alter, they are unalienable. No social contract can cause us to surrender these rights.
Rights are of no cost to anyone else
My freedom of speech costs you nothing. Your freedom of religion costs me nothing.
The liberal error; confusing needs with rights; confusing positive and negative
What liberals tend to do is to believe that they can “create” rights out of needs and then demand those rights from the government in the form of services – such as for health care. The liberals’ major mistake is that they not only misunderstand what rights are but they also misinterpret rights as “positive rights” – in other words, that the government has an obligation to provide a particular right to each citizen.
For example, we have laws against crime, and in the past there have been times when citizens have sued the government because the police didn’t arrive in time to prevent that crime. While you have a natural right not to be harmed, there is no right to expect that the government will prevent you from becoming a victim of a crime; the government is not at any fault or liability in this instance.
Liberals need to understand that rights are natural and negative. There cannot be a natural right to health care. Making health care a right requires infringing upon your rights and the rights of others. Aches and pains are natural but there is no natural right that someone must tend to your every ache or pain. To take resources (money, labor or goods) from one to give to another violates our natural right to our own property. For the government to force you to buy something that is not for the purpose of protecting the rights of another, such as liability car insurance, is a taking of your property in direct violation of your rights.
America is about freedom
Defending our nation from foreign invaders, serving justice through the courts and constructing an orderly monetary and bankruptcy system are enumerated powers in the Constitution. Each of those federal powers helps to secure the continuance of our government, our liberty and our property. Government financing of health care is not an enumerated power of the federal government nor is health care a natural right.
In fact today, the federal government does thousands of things not enumerated in the Constitution – and although it has become customary in Washington, this is why millions object. You can’t fundamentally change the fact that the whole point and most unique feature of our American government is that the government cannot infringe or take-away our natural, unalienable or Constitutional rights.
Federal legislators have had a good time through the 20th and now 21st century infringing on the states, and satisfying the Liberals by creating all kinds of programs and laws that spend trillions and trillions of dollars, all of it at direct expense to individual freedom and liberty and states’ rights.
What most of us want liberals to understand is that the most important basic principle of our American government is – America is about freedom. The citizen is in charge. He is not just a funding source for the federal legislators’ – there are limits to federal power and purpose. It is the American people that have always solved the problems of our nation – and we must be free in order to continue to do so.
By Rep. Susan Lynn
District 57
Tennessee
Since its the end of the year, I thought I would share the quote that most inspired or impressed me:
#1) “Two More, two more!!”
What Fort Hood survivors shouted at Sgt. Kimberly Munley and Sgt. Mark Todd. Todd thought they meant two more shooters, but the soldiers wanted to make sure that Jihadist Major Hasan was DEAD. Our servicemen and women know the Jihadist danger that we are up against.
#2) “George Washington is rolling over in his grave right now!”
Katy Abram trashing Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting this summer.
#3) “As a small business owner, I could use competition (in insurance choices) …Competition Makes Me Better!”
Catherine Bragg owning California Rep Lynn Woolsey at a town hall meeting
PS: I will not bother repeating the lists of gaffes and other “stupidly” statement – no sense giving the opposition free press.
Tennesseee state legislators Debra Maggart and Susan Lynn have called upon the TN State Attorney General to take legal action against the federal government’s takeover of the healthcare system and unfunded mandates of increased Medicaid spending. These women are the Patriots of today!
“Such an increase would place a great burden on the citizens of this state. It is clear by the wording of the legislation itself that not every state would face a similar and equal burden,” stated Rep. Debra Maggart.
Lynn explained that, “We see this as a violation of equal protection of the law, an affront to our sovereignty, and as a breach of the U.S. Constitution.”
Full Letter Text is below and can also be found HERE:
Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr.
P.O. Box 20207
Nashville, TN 37202-0207
Dear General Cooper,
This letter is to formally request that you prepare to take the appropriate legal action against the federal government in the event HR 3200 passes into law. We request this action in order to grant Tennessee relief from the unfunded mandate contained in the bill requiring Tennessee to comply with the expansion of the federal Medicaid program.
Under this bill, Tennessee would be forced to expand our Medicaid program, potentially costing the citizens of this state $1.4 billion dollars in additional state taxpayer funds annually. Such an increase would place a great burden on the citizens of this state. It is clear by the wording of the legislation itself that not every state would face a similar and equal burden.
We see this as a violation of equal protection of the law, an affront to our sovereignty, and a breach of the U.S. Constitution.
The passage of this bill is imminent, and as Governor Bredesen has noted, “We can’t print money.” This bill would expand the program beyond the fiscal capacity of this state.
Thank you for your timely attention of this matter.
Most sincerely,
Susan Lynn
State Representative
District 57
Debra Young Maggart
State Representative
District 45
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