They still don't get it! Spineless Republicans are at it again

Spineless Republicans are at it again. They broke their word and they violated our trust. Instead of standing firm and stopping Barack Obama and the Pelosi-Reid Gang from raising taxes on ALL Americans, they're playing Santa Claus with the extreme left and giving them bundles of Porkulous Joy.

Why? Because their insatiable urge to "compromise" with the enemy, for no apparent reason, yet again, was greater than the promises they made to the American people.

We thought they had learned their lesson. Two weeks ago, Senate Republicans showed rare backbone and told Harry Reid and Barack Obama that they would effectively filibuster everything until they agreed NOT to raise taxes on the American people.

But they hadn't learned their lesson. Days later, Obama appeared to blink. He told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he was ready to play Let's Make A Deal and he offered Senate Republicans a "compromise" (there's that word again). But it was no "compromise," ... it wasn't simply a flawed deal... it was a RAW DEAL... and it was a deal that Republicans NEVER should have even considered in the first place.

But like a junkie offered just one more draw off of a crack-pipe, the Republican Leadership in the Senate simply couldn't resist the urge... they gave up their position of strength and jumped on Obama's raw deal without hesitation... they simply couldn't help themselves... their urge to "compromise" was simply too great... the habit was simply too hard to break.

And then, the other shoe dropped. The Pelosi-Reid Gang, showed the resolve, the backbone and the intestinal fortitude that the Republican Senate Leadership should have shown. They drew a line in the sand. Behaving like petulant children, they threw a temper tantrum. Jumping up and down, they screamed and ranted and looked Barack Obama and the Republican Senate Leadership firmly in the eye and said... NO DEAL.

You could almost hear them saying: 'You've got to be kidding... you want us to agree NOT to raise taxes on the American people and you're only offering us hundreds of billions of dollars in senseless pork in exchange... NO WAY. That's not how 'compromise' works in this town... we're supposed to get everything and the American people are supposed to get nothing.'

And, here's the kicker; as things now stand, Republican leaders are defending and fighting for a deal they NEVER SHOULD HAVE MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

But make no mistake, left to their own devises and inclinations, they'll go far beyond championing their idiotic "compromise" with Barack Obama... they WILL EVENTUALLY "COMPROMISE" SOME MORE... they'll sell our children's future and our nation's prosperity to the radical left and get nothing in return... if we let them... and that's why they must hear from you right here and right now.

LTC Lakin's attorney speaks on eligibility issue - VIDEO

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DADT Study Biased!

DADT Study Biased

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Pentagon-DADT-study-was...

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady (Medal of Honor)

I was surprised to see the magnitude of favorable coverage of the Pentagon study on ending the ban on lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people serving in the military. The negatives on a quad-sexual military don't make the front page.

Where was it reported that 1,167 retired generals and flag officers support the ban on homosexuals? Why wasn't the focus that the vast majority of our combat troops and Marines oppose a quad-sexual military?

Let's put this study in perspective. The commander gives the order to take the hill. Wait, let's poll the troops. Duh! The study presented those polled with a fait accompli — not if but how. Amazingly, no question on ban repeal was asked! Why? The pollsters said troops shouldn't vote on policy. Excuse me. The whole purpose of the poll was to support a vote on policy about to be jammed through Congress.

Few Americans object to working with LGBT folks — but most do not want to live with them. Forced intimacy is not an American favorite as we see in the outrage over patdowns in airports. Intimacy is common, indeed, necessary in the military. Who wants to share showers, bathrooms and sleeping areas with those who see them as sexual objects (71 percent oppose open showers)? Rather than asking if our troops were biased against LGBTs in the workplace, they should have asked questions concerning forced intimacy, forced morality and the LGBT medical readiness issues.

Military communities are different. Try searching someone who enters a gated civilian community if you doubt that. Is the military OK with LGBT clubs on posts and near posts; and same-sex couples in military housing? Do military families agree to their children being taught the goodness of same-sex sex in post schools? Are they OK with forced morality at church? Imagine a gay pride parade at Fort Sam Houston. I have seen them in San Francisco; no child should be exposed to one.

Many Americans may be OK with the civilian chain of command dancing together, but many soldiers will have a problem if their commander is seen dancing and romancing another male at the O'club.

Surely it's known that once we legalize sodomy in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (required to legalize a quad-sexual military) we will have to do the same with adultery.

Most egregiously, the military will have to be retrained — and re-moralized — before implementation since there will be zero tolerance for opposition to homosexual conduct. What does that mean? Soldiers will have to abandon their belief system? Are they serious? Think draft.

Nothing in the study cited benefits to readiness (24 percent would leave or consider leaving); astonishingly, the logistics of implementation were ignored. When will some courageous journalist headline the tragic health disparities in the LGBT community? Multiple studies document significant, and costly, health disparities in rates of disease among sexual minorities resulting in loss of productivity (sickness), reduced life span, attempted suicide and substance abuse. An active homosexual cannot give blood, vital in combat. Who would knowingly receive a transfusion from a homosexual?

The military has a saying: Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. For example, one university added special toilet units for transgendered people with privacy concerns costing $2,500 each. Extrapolate that to the military. Amateurs did this study.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady is a recipient of the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, where he flew more than 2,500 combat missions and helped rescue more than 5,000 wounded.

We could all learn something from this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiC_9RHTvsA&feature=fvsr

Madurai, India (CNN) -- Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. But a quick family visit home before heading to Europe changed everything.

"I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food," Krishnan said. "It really hurt me so much. I was literally shocked for a second. After that, I started feeding that man and decided this is what I should do the rest of my lifetime."

Krishnan was visiting a temple in the south Indian city of Madurai in 2002 when he saw the man under a bridge. Haunted by the image, Krishnan quit his job within the week and returned home for good, convinced of his new destiny.

"That spark and that inspiration is a driving force still inside me as a flame -- to serve all the mentally ill destitutes and people who cannot take care of themselves," Krishnan said.

Krishnan founded his nonprofit Akshaya Trust in 2003. Now 29, he has served more than 1.2 million meals -- breakfast, lunch and dinner -- to India's homeless and destitute, mostly elderly people abandoned by their families and often abused.
"Because of the poverty India faces, so many mentally ill people have been ... left uncared [for] on the roadside of the city," he said.



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Krishnan said the name Akshaya is Sanskrit for "undecaying" or "imperishable," and was chosen "to signify [that] human compassion should never decay or perish. ... The spirit of helping others must prevail for ever." Also, in Hindu mythology, Goddess Annapoorani's "Akshaya bowl" fed the hungry endlessly, never depleting its resources.

Krishnan's day begins at 4 a.m. He and his team cover nearly 125 miles in a donated van, routinely working in temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

He seeks out the homeless under bridges and in the nooks and crannies between the city's temples. The hot meals he delivers are simple, tasty vegetarian fare he personally prepares, packs and often hand-feeds to nearly 400 clients each day.

Krishnan carries a comb, scissors and razor and is trained in eight haircut styles that, along with a fresh shave, provide extra dignity to those he serves.

He says many of the homeless seldom know their names or origins, and none has the capacity to beg, ask for help or offer thanks. They may be paranoid and hostile because of their conditions, but Krishnan says this only steadies his resolve to offer help.

"The panic, suffering of the human hunger is the driving force of me and my team members of Akshaya," he said. "I get this energy from the people. The food which I cook ... the enjoyment which they get is the energy. I see the soul. I want to save my people."

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The group's operations cost about $327 a day, but sponsored donations only cover 22 days a month. Krishnan subsidizes the shortfall with $88 he receives in monthly rent from a home his grandfather gave him.

Krishnan sleeps in Akshaya's modest kitchen with his few co-workers. Since investing his entire savings of $2,500 in 2002, he has taken no salary and subsists with the help of his once-unsupportive parents.

"They had a lot of pain because they had spent a lot on my education," he said. "I asked my mother, 'Please come with me, see what I am doing.' After coming back home, my mother said, 'You feed all those people, the rest of the lifetime I am there, I will feed you.' I'm living for Akshaya. My parents are taking care of me."

For lack of funding, the organization has been forced to halt construction on Akshaya Home, Krishnan's vision of a dormitory where he can provide shelter for the people he helps. Despite the demands and few comforts his lifestyle affords, Krishnan says he's enjoying his life.

"Now I am feeling so comfortable and so happy," he says. "I have a passion, I enjoy my work. I want to live with my people."

Want to get involved? Check out the Akshaya Trust Web site and see how to help.

Intellectual Conservative Publishes My Latest Article

Intellectual Conservative Publishes My Latest Article
How to Create a Crisis and Steal a Nation

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/12/08/how-to-create-a-crisis-and-steal-a-nation/

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Gulf of Aden axial magnetic anomaly - some real science on the phenomenon.

Just in case you have heard some of the wild stories about UFOs, time warps, wormholes, etc. I want my readers to know that it isn't all B.S.  Something is going on but it probably has scientific explanation rather than a melodramatic explanation.

Gulf of Aden axial magnetic anomaly and the Curie temperature isotherm


D. Tamsett & R. W. Girdler


School of Physics, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK


The main features of magnetic anomalies over ocean ridges have been explained1 as a corollary of seafloor spreading and geomagnetic reversals. Oceanic crust is formed in a narrow region, becoming magnetized in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field as its temperature falls through the Curie point of the magnetic minerals present. The Gulf of Aden was one of the first places where reversely magnetized sea floor was recognized2. The seafloor spreading direction and latitude are such that the anomaly due to normal magnetization is negative and slightly skewed. Positive anomalies were also observed suggesting the presence of reverse magnetization. A short wavelength magnetic anomaly which frequently occurs superimposed on the axial magnetic anomaly in the Gulf of Aden is now described. Various interpretations are considered; the preferred involves a dramatic shallowing of the Curie temperature isotherm close to the seafloor spreading centre. The interpretation has implications for models of the generation of oceanic lithosphere and for locating possible geothermal areas in rifted regions.



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Advice to presidential candidates

Advice to presidential candidates
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It won't be long now before we see presidential candidates queuing up to impress upon us what worthy successors they will be to Barack Hussein Obama.

I don't think I have ever looked forward to a presidential campaign quite as enthusiastically as I do 2012.

Already we see likely candidates visiting Iowa and New Hampshire and other important primary states. But, before things really get started with declared candidacies and exploratory committees, I have a word of advice for all those considering this challenge.

Before you throw your hat into the ring, locate your long-form birth certificate, your school records, your travel history, your Selective Service registration and your medical reports, and be prepared to release them publicly.

It's not just a word of advice. It's going to be a requirement of American voters in the future. Mark my words.

As I have mentioned before, the production of the birth certificate may even be a requirement of law in some states – a necessary component of getting on the ballot.

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In fact, I would suggest reviewing all these documents long before you craft, or commission a ghostwriter to craft, your autobiography.

Why would I suggest the review?

Because I suspect that was the fatal flaw in Barack Obama's political strategy.

I suspect he commissioned his own autobiography, "Dreams of My Father," long before he ever thought about running for president. I suspect he had much lower ambitions in mind at the time – perhaps the office of mayor in the city of Chicago.

So, with the likely help of wordsmith Bill Ayers, he created a profile. It was not necessarily the profile of a future president. But it was an interesting, well-written narrative, if not entirely honest.

In fact, factually, it is full of holes big enough to drive Air Force One through.

And there's the problem.

Why can't Obama release all those missing documents, from his birth certificate to his college records?

There may be many reasons.

But, I suspect at least one reason is that they will contradict his official life story. They would prove he lied to the American people about who he is. That would be pretty disconcerting, especially given his latest popularity ratings.

That's why I am offering this advice to future presidential candidates: Don't make the same mistake as Obama. Don't let Bill Ayers write your autobiography. Write it yourself and stick to the truth.

There are other reasons I would like to see 2012 candidates forthcoming with their personal records:

It will provide a stark contrast between them and Obama in the increasingly unlikely event he should he choose to run for re-election.


It will increase the pressure on Obama to release his – even late in his first term. I don't think he will ever do it, no matter what, but it's still important to demonstrate to the minority of American voters who don't understand what he's hiding.


The American people actually do have a right to know those they are considering to be their president.


And there actually is a constitutional requirement to prove eligibility for the office.

In the future, we don't need to have any doubts about who the occupant of the White House truly is. It's not healthy for America. It's not good for national security. As we can see from Obama's example, it's not even a good idea for sitting presidents for their credentials to be suspect.

That's why I absolutely support legislation in all 50 states to require future candidates for the highest office in the land to prove their constitutional eligibility before they ever get on a ballot.