MSNBC Host: Your Kids Belong to the Collective
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 6, 2013
In the video below, college professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says your children are not yours – they are owned by the community. She says public education has failed because we have not allowed the state to confiscate more of our money.
“We have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families,” says the professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. Kids belong to whole communities, she insists, and once we realize this we’ll make “better investments” in government indoctrination of children.
Melissa Harris-Perry is regurgitating the Obama “you didn’t build that” meme. “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that,” Obama said during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Virginia. “Somebody else made that happen,” it was not the result of individual initiative. “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”
“Like most people of his ideological bent, Obama either cannot or will not distinguish between society — which is created through peaceful commerce and other forms of private cooperation — and the state — an anti-social artifact built on conquest, coercion, and confiscation of wealth,” writes William Grigg. “Government produces nothing; it is an exercise in pure consumption and, usually, the destruction of capital. As Nietzsche famously said, everything the State has is stolen.”
Stephan Kinsella argues that the primary social evil today is a lack of respect for the fundamental right of self-ownership. Obama and Harris-Perry represent the other side of this argument. They believe, as do all Marxists and socialists, that the state, what Harris-Perry calls the “community,” owns the individual.
Harris-Perry urges us to “break through” the “private idea” that individuals own themselves. Like Marx, she believes the individual is a “communal being” and all human worth is intractably linked to the community, the collective, and the state is the ultimate manifestation of the collective will.
Harris-Perry’s homage to the state was part of a two-year long, multi-million dollar advertising campaign by MSNBC. The network, created through a merger between Microsoft and the death merchant General Electric, has long provided ideological fodder for president Obama, the proud Marxist (as Yuri Maltsev, former advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, characterized him). “We can go backward, or we can keep moving forward,” he said during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University. “And I don’t know about you, but I want to move forward.”
It’s no mistake Obama’s handlers and MSNBC adopted the slogan. The word “forward” has a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It was frequently used as a name for socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals in the 20th century. “The slogan ‘Forward!’ reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism,” writes Victor Morton.
It seems incomprehensible that a multinational corporation like MSNBC would embrace communism. In fact, as Gary Allen noted, it is quite natural.
“If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all,” he wrote. “Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 7:30 am
IF my kids belong to the community why did I have to pay for there doctor bills there school and
there food clothing housing melissa harris-perry must not have kids to love and care for for when
your kids need to be cared for the community does not bring a sack full of cash to help out they
will tell you it is your job you had them you take care of them which it is the oarents job not the
community
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 4:49 am
Melissa, you seem to be confusing the good value of being responsible to one another ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ with a sense of ‘ownership’. Please stop and give thought to the idea that your argument goes to a dangerous place. Children belong to their parents and families. Do you prefer that a ‘collective’ have decision making power over your children rather than you as their parent? I realize that you probably have good intentions with what you said but you need to give greater thought to the implications and consequences of your stated views. Please don’t reflect an atitude or open the door for elitism which ends up as one set of entitlements for those in a position of authority and another for those who have to live with their actions and decisions. Constructive criticism is something we should all listen to. People who make well considered objections are not your enemy. Please acknowlege their right to object to your views and that they also come straight from the heart in what they feel is in the best interest of the future of their own children, born in to a free society in accordance with the Constitution of the greatest Republic in the world, the United States of America.
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akat says:
April 10, 2013 at 1:00 am
I think the uproar over these comments may be a little over the top. This woman is saying we need to invest more in kds as a society. That isn’t a bad message. She awkwardly phrasws it, but I would not jump to the conclusions Limberberger and Palin do from her little mesage. I often have a problem with the Palin and Limberger message anyway. And those two don’t strike me as all that religious or correct on a lot of stuff. And just what is the problem with her quoting the bible? Her wiki profile says she went to divinity school!
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 12:47 am
Mother’s, you didn’t give birth, The Party Did!
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akat says:
April 10, 2013 at 1:02 am
She may know that too, as she has children.
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 12:39 am
Who in the hell is this dumb bitch and how in the hell did she get a teaching job. And this shows just how hard up Tulane U. is for teachers. And screw MSNBC for being just as dumb and a joke.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 11:39 pm
Thanks for finally talking about >
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 10:03 pm
so if we all collectively think she should go f*** herself does she have to?
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 9:53 pm
My kids belong to themselves.
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 6:29 am
No actually they dont, they belong to the federal government. Every baby born since 1933 was turned into a corperation that the government trades on, they back all debt in the USA. Look at their social security cards you will find their names are all cap letters,as your’s will be too, along with your drivers license. It all falls under the well hid u.c.c. laws.
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Louie the Wrench says:
April 9, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Public schools spewing out a lot of bullshit to kids who already know they lie,information they can find online quicker and more accurate then what they teach in schools,someone is behind the times but its certainly not our youngsters. I would say the Department of Education should be defunded and appropriate that money to local education,that would save the country a lot of wasted money,as for her she is a burden on society bring her to your FEMA camp and behead her.
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tjm1410 says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:55 pm
She is what is wrong with our educational system. A socialist with a communist elective. Rather than provide the values and traditions of this America she chooses to insult our way of life, our freedom, and our ability to think and speak freely. She should have her citizenship revoked and ordered to leave this America and take her warped educational direction with her. While this is a country that gives the right to freedom of speech, it is not a country that allows our educating personnel to infuse only their opinion without balancing with America’s traditional way of life to their students. To even suggest that our children are not our children is an approval of a form of slavery equal to Nazism. She is an absolute detriment to the educational system. She is a professor of nothing.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:33 pm
She is what is wrong with our educational system. A socialist with a communist elective. Rather than provide the values and traditions of this America she chooses to insult our way of life, our freedom, and our ability to think and speak freely. She should have her citizenship revoked and ordered to leave this America and take her warped educational direction with her. While this is a country that gives the right to freedom of speech, it is not a country that allows our educating personnel to infuse only their opinion without balancing with America’s traditional way of life to their students. To even suggest that our children are not our children is an approval of a form of slavery equal to Nazism. She is an absolute detriment to the educational system. She is a professor of nothing.
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Cooperfeet says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:10 pm
Brainwashed Negress.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:58 pm
if you were my kid i would slap the stupid right out of you dumbass
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:20 pm
We are the Borg.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Don’t let words like “village” & “community” distract you from what is really being said. They do not mean we should all work together to raise our children, as though a village out of “Father Knows Best” decided to encourage one another to do the best we can to help each other raise healthy, happy children. When Hillary, MSNBC or their ilk say ‘community’ & ‘village’, what they mean is the government. Government has shown itself incompetent to run anything – the military, the economy, even the mail. They can’t even run themselves with even a modicum of success! And now, in the midst of their failures on every side, they want to run our families. MSNBC is simply floating the concept to test the waters, get people talking & let their sycophants know where the new battle is to take place.
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Anonymous says:
April 10, 2013 at 3:23 am
On the contrary, government works very well at getting you to blame “it” instead of those who control “it” for problems. The Billionaires stash billions in Switzerland, taken from your hard work, while you focus on “government” and its “taxes”, which steal a fraction as much of your labor, used to fund the global prision-labor camp / plantation for the Rich.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Sorry about the ‘double dip’ on Part 1! It was unintentional, I hadn’t realized it ‘took’ and reposted it. My mistake folks, I do make many.
Rich in New Mexico.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Part 1:
The most sinister part of this whole sad tale of woe is the fact that this woman is a college professor. In such a position she has the ability to unduly influence young minds; literally poisoning them with her un-American drivel. Some way must be found to identify and wash out these dangerous and dishonest opinions from such positions of influence and authority but how such a task may be accomplished without violating the U.S.Constitution represents a problem. We must find a creative; yet constitutional and effective method to accomplish task, we have to fight back, not accept things as they are.
Perhaps if one were to pay scrupulous attention the grading of students in these individuals classes and find an undeniable and significant statistical bias in the grading; due solely to ones political leanings, they could then drum out the professor based on academic dishonesty. Students should not be subjected to brainwashing and then be forced to parrot such views, even if they should disagree with them, to receive an honest grade, which they are paying heavily for. It ought to constitute some form of fraud to cheat these students out of their properly earned grades in light of the cost and effort which goes into them. In the long run a degree with a subpar grade point average or a grade of incomplete amounts to theft of services and is a criminal offense punishable; in its most blatant form, by a stiff prison term. It is not inconceivable to envision a situation where this sort of prosecution could attain class action status thereby correcting this Liberal bias on an institutional scale, which after all is what we are seeking.
Rich in New Mexico. (I hope this appears in acceptable form. I have been accused of typing too fast, which if you knew me, you recognize it as a ludicrous charge! I am however composing and correcting on MS Word then pasting so that would be it)
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Part 1:
The most sinister part of this whole sad tale of woe is the fact that this woman is a college professor. In such a position she has the ability to unduly influence young minds; literally poisoning them with her un-American drivel. Some way must be found to identify and wash out these dangerous and dishonest opinions from such positions of influence and authority; but how such a task may be accomplished without violating the U.S. Constitution represents a problem. We must find a creative; yet constitutional and effective method to accomplish task, we have to fight back, not accept things as they are.
Perhaps if one were to pay scrupulous attention the grading of students in these individuals classes and find an undeniable and significant statistical bias in the grading; due solely to ones political leanings, they could then drum out the professor based on academic dishonesty. Students should not be subjected to brainwashing and then be forced to parrot such views, even if they should disagree with them, to receive an honest grade, which they are paying heavily for. It ought to constitute some form of fraud to cheat these students out of their properly earned grades in light of the cost and effort which goes into them. In the long run a degree with a sub-par grade point average or a grade of incomplete amounts to theft of services and is a criminal offense punishable; in its most blatant form, by a stiff prison term. It is not inconceivable to envision a situation where this sort of prosecution could attain class action status thereby correcting this Liberal bias on an institutional scale, which after all is what we are seeking.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Part 2:
While this may seem somewhat draconian to some it is a better option than having generations of students cheated out a decent, non-biased education. Many subjects contain room for interpretation, to be sure, but the coercion that is used to intimidate students into accepting obviously ‘spoiled goods’ in the form of utterly distorted factual data, lies and one sided political dogma is beyond the pale and; in the name of education, fairness and diversity of opinion, must be halted. These professors; such as the recent spate of murdering and terroristic new hires as well as many tenured staff, who possess felonious and lengthy criminal records are so indoctrinated, opinionated and filled with hate that nothing short of a jail term may serve to discourage them.
The mere fact that many of these people are not only eligible for high level, tenured positions; not to mention are hired, is astounding. It was not so long ago that it was not lifetime tenure they were looking at; it was a lifetime sentence behind bars for the multiple, terroristic murders of innocents. I can only assume that to those in charge of these ‘institutions’ of higher learning, this sort of criminal element represents what many refer to as role models, or is it that they represent the very form of diversity of opinion that they will not now tolerate from others.
Rich in New Mexico.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 12:10 pm
What planet is she from???
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REED RICHARDS2 says:
April 9, 2013 at 1:37 pm
Planet dipsh*t…………..
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 11:17 am
Liberal radical such as this women are nothing but structured Alinsky race baiting hate groups who practice the tactic of deception and distraction. Alinsky taught the tactic of always supporting what you wish to destroy. Opposition is not allowed and silence of them is the tactic.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 2:54 pm
You are correct. Misdirection and obfuscation are their tools. In fact there are many neat tricks in their bible; “Rules for Radicals”, however the interesting part is that none of them would be in the least bit effective were it not for a complicit media. This media for many years functioned as the Founders had hoped, as a watchdog, a gatekeeper for the truth, what they themselves labeled as ‘The Fourth Estate’. They also stated that this was one of two ingredients required for the survival of our form of government, the other a well educated and informed voting population.
This is why it is evident that the Democrats are destroying all standards in this country. They feel they can more easily subvert our form of government if we are a nation of idiots! They are correct in that assumption as was proven in our last Presidential election. We had a complete and utter incompetent re-elected by a population of low information, bumper sticker Democrats.
There are far too many people voting who do not even speak English, cannot read in any language, receive many free benefits while contributing nothing, people who basically have no skin in the game. This must change. The Democrats would like to see anyone be able to vote as often as they wish, whenever they wish. There are higher standards to checking out a library book, cashing a two dollar check or getting on some forms of public transportation than there are for voting.
There can be only one reason for this, to make it easier to cheat and steal elections. Now the Democrats will tell you they are looking out for your civil rights but if that were the case where were they 1964 and 1965 when the Civil Rights Act was passed not by the Democrats but by the Republicans? Where are these same Democrats in today’s civil rights arena, constantly trying deny everyone their second amendment civil rights? They are only interested in winning, even if it means destroying our nation in order to rule it, they will.
Rich in New…
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REED RICHARDS2 says:
April 9, 2013 at 10:44 am
Anonymous,
I don’t think her comments were taken out of context at all. She clearly says that people should get out of the notion that their kids are their own and their responsibility alone to raise. I totally disagree with that because if you take what she says and couple it with what the asylum states government actually does, it spells out fascist authoritarianism of the worst kind. The government in the guise of protecting children routinely take children away from good decent parents and children who are being abused by evil potheads and drug users are routinely left with said parents to ultimately end up dead some time down the road. Child Protective Services are strategic in which children they take and which ones they do not for reasons that are more than nefarious.
Not to mention the fact that many schools are the pipeline to prison that is rarely, if ever talked about outside of certain media venues. Five, six, and seven year olds are routinely arrested for the most trivial offenses such as drawing pictures of guns, spraying perfume on themselves, and of stealing money that they never stole. Handcuffing and putting elementary school children in jail cells is hardly what I would call “a community” raising children. Sticking small children in jail cells is more akin to grooming the next generation of criminals……………..
AND YOU WANT THIS WOMAN AND A GOVERNMENT HELL BENT ON POLICE STATE FASCISM TO HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH, MUCH LESS CONTROL OVER YOUR KIDS……………??????
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 11:14 am
There was nothing taken out of context. I know someone who was in one of her classes. This is exactly how she feels. She does nothing but preach Alinsky collectivism tactics
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REED RICHARDS2 says:
April 9, 2013 at 11:35 am
I wonder who she slept with in order to become tenured……………Because to allow anyone with this childlike mindset to become a tenured professor really means that the Amerikan empire has no interest what-so-ever in educating children on things that matter. If I ever had the misfortune of being in one of her PS classes, I would rip her a new one during a political debate……………
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RickyConstitution says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:58 am
People should watch wat they say on here. Alex claims( around hour 2) secret service and some sheriffs were outside his studio yesterday trying to serve him some papers of some kind over a threatening comment someone left on here. Which doesnt make sense because SWIM checked and Alex doesnt even own this server, so they wouldnt have served him for the information relating to it. Considering they record less and post it on here surely they would have visually documented this event. Alex sounded like he was trapped in some fictional scenario he fabricated in his mind as he talked about this,lol. Makes me wonder about old AJ sometimes.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 10:27 am
spamming this same comment over and over and over? get a job RickyConstipation
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BROWNING82 says:
April 9, 2013 at 11:40 am
Get a life.
Punk
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:13 am
Her comments have been taken totally out of context. She’s saying that kids are part of the community and contributing to the community when they grow up, so it’s in our interests to educate kids properly with a good state school system so they can contribute and improve the community. It’s about giving kids a better education by funding state schools, not OBAMA WANTS UR KIDS GUIS HES THE NEW JIMMY SAVILLE like this article is trying to put forward.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 10:16 am
BS! You little Statists like to circle the wagons around your collective lemming ideology. It’s one more step by the leftists to control citizens from cradle to grave. It’s based upon the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often called the CRC or the UNCRC. It’s ‘for the children’ we’re told and in that part it’s true; it’s for the control of the minds and development of the child for the State.
Marxism and Socialism are two failed experiments that enslave people to the state. If you statists hate freedom so much, why don’t you go to those supposed bastions of Marxism-Socialism like N. Korea, Cuba and the like and leave the U.S. to freedom loving individuals who just want to live our lives w/o being micromanaged by little Marxists on a power trip.
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Right firstly North Kroea is not a Marxist country, and neither is Cuba (but to a lesser extent). They both break many of the fundamental principles of Marxism. Agree with Marx’s ideas or not, the facts are the facts, and associating him with North Korea does nothing but hinder your point.
Anyway, to the main point. This has nothing to do with state power or “enslaving” people. This is ensuring that kids whos families are unable to afford private education have just as many opportunities as those who do, it’s better in the long run for everyone. Isn’t that one of the main principles America was founded on? Equality of opportunity, otherwise called the American dream?
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Anon, I agree 100%. I watched her speech several times and her comments were taken out of context. She was saying absolutely that educating our children improves communities. This article is ridiculous because Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comment was taken out of context too. He clearly said that through education, mentoring etc. that someone gave encouragement to help one succeed in life. He never ever said anything more.
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REED RICHARDS2 says:
April 9, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Anonymous,
Wrong answer. If you listen to what these people say, and what government actually does, then you would get the complete picture……………
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 3:30 pm
kids are of goats – they could have chosen any other animal but they chose baphamet
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Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:46 am
Evil pure and simple.
The road to hell . . . and she is a signpost.
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ckap says:
April 9, 2013 at 6:31 am
You people throw the word “Communism” around as if it’s a word to describe Satan himself. Jesus was a socialist.
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truthplease says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:50 am
No, Jesus was not a communist, are you kidding me? Are you a Christian? If so, I’d imagine you’d understand Jesus’s views on “community”, not “communism”, and if you’re not a Christian, why use Him as an example. Jesus never encouraged anyone to let the government manage and distribute the collective resources of all the citizens. And Lord help us that anyone attach His name to the idea that all children belong to a community of people with ideas that are completely contrary to biblical truth, such as our children belong to said government community. Jesus’s believers had all things in common with EACH OTHER, not the government. Most Christians want their kids far removed from the deception perpetrated by this world.
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truthplease says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:51 am
Sorry, Jesus was a “socialist”.
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truthplease says:
April 9, 2013 at 7:53 am
Ugh, sorry again. iPhone screen not letting me reread well. Jesus was NOT a socialist. That’s it.
Anonymous says:
April 9, 2013 at 8:16 am
he believed you should pay your taxes and look after the poor, and he gave out free health care. He was certainly left wing. Plus he had two dads and turned out fine.
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truthplease says:
April 9, 2013 at 9:35 am
As most Christians and conservatives believe. Pay your taxes AND look after the poor. Not pay your taxes so that the gov can use that money to pay the poor. Jesus put no trust in men. Your two dads comment is of course ridiculous. You just keep trusting this administration to look after you. I’m sure you’ll survive. Maybe
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Halal Meat Products....... Make up your own mind...
I checked with snopes and they explain it in detail. Think for yourself. Hilal Meat has been sold in the USA since 1996.
Also, it is in demand because of the large Muslim Population in the Midwestern USA. I for one do not want to contribute
to Muslim commerce. Rather I would prefer to eat meat produced in the good old USA. Otherwise, I’d rather be a vegetarian.
THIS IS COMING SO LOOK OUT FOR THIS INTRUSION IN U.S. and CANADIAN MARKETS... "Halal" meat... are you aware of this? Take a look and forward to your friends and family. Do Not buy this meat.
"Costco stocking their meat counters with "Halal" meat."
I shopped for groceries at my local Wal-Mart. As usual, I bought a bag of frozen chicken breasts, but this time I checked to make sure the meat was not labeled "Halal." Here's why: Halal is the Islamic term that basically means the meat is lawful to eat for a devout Muslim.
What makes it lawful or acceptable is that the meat has been processed in a very specific way. Unlike kosher food, where the physical processing of the meat is the focus, for Islam it is the spiritual component that makes the meat lawful.For lawful (halal) meat in Islam, the animal must be killed while the butcher faces Mecca , and either the butcher cries "Allah Akbar" or a tape plays the words over a loud speaker.
Ann Barnhardt is a cattle commodities broker, has more about "Halal."NEVER buy meat that is marked as "Halal."
I am in the cattle business, and believe me when I tell you that Halal kill plants are CONSTANTLY being cited and shut down by the USDA for horrific infractions. Most of these plants are in Michigan and upstate New York.One of the things that halal kill plants are notorious for is putting already-dead animals in the human consumption line. They will go pick up a dead cow off of a farm or ranch and instead of putting it in their rendering tank where the resulting "tankage" is worth pennies on the dollar as pet food or industrial products, they will shackle the dead animal on the normal kill line and process it as human food which is the highest-dollar product.Since Islam teaches dishonesty (taqiyyah) and no regard for one's neighbor, this kind of sickening behavior is standard.Halal plants are also notorious for general citations for filth and uncleanliness. I have toured normal cattle slaughter plants, and guys, you could eat off of the floor. Everything is white and men walk around with water hoses and steam guns constantly keeping everything in a state of spotlessness.Halal plants are filthy. A lot of Halal meat is also labeled as "organic."Again, don't be fooled into thinking that "halal" means "better." It isn't.
I would never, ever knowingly eat halal meat purely from a food safety perspective.THIS IS COMING AND LOOK OUT FOR THIS INTRUSION IN U.S. and CANADIAN MARKETS... "Halal" meat... are you aware of this?
Take a look and forward to your friends and family. Do Not buy this meat!
I checked with snopes and they explain it in detail. Think for yourself. Hilal Meat has been sold in the USA since 1996.
Also, it is in demand because of the large Muslim Population in the Midwestern USA. I for one do not want to contribute
to Muslim commerce. Rather I would prefer to eat meat produced in the good old USA. Otherwise, I’d rather be a vegetarian.
THIS IS COMING SO LOOK OUT FOR THIS INTRUSION IN U.S. and CANADIAN MARKETS... "Halal" meat... are you aware of this? Take a look and forward to your friends and family. Do Not buy this meat.
"Costco stocking their meat counters with "Halal" meat."
I shopped for groceries at my local Wal-Mart. As usual, I bought a bag of frozen chicken breasts, but this time I checked to make sure the meat was not labeled "Halal." Here's why: Halal is the Islamic term that basically means the meat is lawful to eat for a devout Muslim.
What makes it lawful or acceptable is that the meat has been processed in a very specific way. Unlike kosher food, where the physical processing of the meat is the focus, for Islam it is the spiritual component that makes the meat lawful.For lawful (halal) meat in Islam, the animal must be killed while the butcher faces Mecca , and either the butcher cries "Allah Akbar" or a tape plays the words over a loud speaker.
Ann Barnhardt is a cattle commodities broker, has more about "Halal."NEVER buy meat that is marked as "Halal."
I am in the cattle business, and believe me when I tell you that Halal kill plants are CONSTANTLY being cited and shut down by the USDA for horrific infractions. Most of these plants are in Michigan and upstate New York.One of the things that halal kill plants are notorious for is putting already-dead animals in the human consumption line. They will go pick up a dead cow off of a farm or ranch and instead of putting it in their rendering tank where the resulting "tankage" is worth pennies on the dollar as pet food or industrial products, they will shackle the dead animal on the normal kill line and process it as human food which is the highest-dollar product.Since Islam teaches dishonesty (taqiyyah) and no regard for one's neighbor, this kind of sickening behavior is standard.Halal plants are also notorious for general citations for filth and uncleanliness. I have toured normal cattle slaughter plants, and guys, you could eat off of the floor. Everything is white and men walk around with water hoses and steam guns constantly keeping everything in a state of spotlessness.Halal plants are filthy. A lot of Halal meat is also labeled as "organic."Again, don't be fooled into thinking that "halal" means "better." It isn't.
I would never, ever knowingly eat halal meat purely from a food safety perspective.THIS IS COMING AND LOOK OUT FOR THIS INTRUSION IN U.S. and CANADIAN MARKETS... "Halal" meat... are you aware of this?
Take a look and forward to your friends and family. Do Not buy this meat!
One Citizen Speaking...
Gun Control: You can't trust John McCain or his BFF Lindsey Graham
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Gun Control: You can't trust John McCain or his BFF Lindsey Graham
Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:00 PM PDT
First, let’s get something out of the way. John McCain should be thanked for his service to his country. But, he was no hero. The claim that he waited his turn to be released from captivity is negated by claims that he was a North Vietnamese collaborator and that he, single-handedly stopped the United States from officially inquiring into MIAs – by shutting down public access to the records of returning veterans who may have had knowledge of Americans who were left behind.
Second, historically, John McCain was an aisle hopper who was associated with some of the most spectacularly flawed legislation man has ever created. McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform whose unintended consequences allowed even more money shenanigans than ever before. McCain-Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform which proposed to legalize that which was illegal and declare the financial, social, medical, and cultural problem solved. Then there was McCain-Lieberman Climate Control which purported to fix a non-existent problem and bankrupt the United States. In each instance, pushing the democrat socialist agenda forward without benefit to his own party. I shouldn’t really say no benefits, as there was money aplenty for all of the corrupt politicians used to dipping their wicks into the public’s pocket.
And now we find John McCain claiming, “I Don’t Understand Filibustering Gun Control …
John McCain: “I Don’t Understand Filibustering Gun Control”
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) once again demonstrated why he should be on his way out when he is up for re-election. On CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, McCain expressed bewilderment over the proposed filibuster by Senators Paul, Cruz and Lee over Harry Reid’s gun control legislation. “I don’t understand it,” McCain said. “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” “I don’t understand why United States senators want to block debate when the leaders said we could have amendments,” McCain said.
Perhaps John McCain does not understand what is at stake …
It should only take a few moments to review the core concept of the Second Amendment.
The purpose of the Second Amendment is to insure that man’s right of self-defense as well as to combat government tyranny.
This is the Amendment that guarantees that the Constitution will remain the supreme law of the land when it comes to restricting the federal government from granting itself unrestricted powers and imposing laws that would restrict American freedoms.
The Constitution was not designed to empower the federal government, but to restrict its actions – leaving all of the rights not specifically enumerated to the states or to “We the People.”
Perhaps we should look at the context it which the Second Amendment was written by considering the words of Thomas Jefferson …
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
We are dangerously close to the first condition where President Obama and his fellow travelers in Congress are unconstitutionally engaging in wealth redistribution. Taking money from Americans and giving it to foreign nations without any tangible benefits to ordinary Americans. Paying off nations to accept a presidential photo-op is not a prudent use of our tax dollars. Neither is arming terrorists who hate the United States is some perverted war over petro-dollars. Especially when the multi-national oil companies and their bought-and-paid-for politicians have deliberately denied us energy independence and made America more vulnerable. Here in California, one can find no better example of how this malevolent condition is succeeding under democrat control.
As for the second statement, we are finding more and more Americans becoming afraid of their government. Of the outrageous abuse of power by government bureaucracies – sometimes pursuing issues that make absolutely no sense.
Bottom line …
John McCain and his BFF Lindsey Graham are tools. Tools of a corrupt political system. Tools of a corrupt socialist ideology. And, just because McCain was unfortunate enough to be shot down over Viet Nam and survive a prison camp, we should not accord him honors as a hero – as an ordinary soldier, certainly – but not as a hero or one who is enlightened or morally superior to anyone else.
I am afraid of John McCain. He does not appear to be a man of the people and acting for the people. He appears to be a wealthy, privileged members of an old club that is trying to centrally plan the world.
-- steve
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Immigration Bill: ANOTHER 1500-PAGE BILL NOBODY WILL READ BEFORE THEY SIGN -- NO AMENDMENTS ALLOWED?
Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:41 PM PDT
The word is coming down, the proposed immigration bill will be at least 1,500 pages long, cede unprecedented power to the Secretary of DHS – as if she did not already control much of the Administration – and be offered with no opportunity for amendments.
This omnibus legislation in reminiscent of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank – massive bills that nobody read or understood before they voted in favor of incomplete, incomprehensible legislation that greatly extended the powers of the executive branch agencies, while minimizing congressional powers.
Bottom line …
BOHICA: Bend Over Here It Comes Again!
Another fast one pulled by the corrupt socialist democrats and their equally corrupt republicans who are more interested in gaining the Hispanic vote than they are caring for our nation’s safety and security. It is believed, by me and others, that this bill will be so fouled-up that the republicans may withhold their vote and then be demonized by the democrats in the 2014 congressional race.
And, the stupid republicans have no plan or public relations campaign to tell the truth to the American public --- only grabbing money for the upcoming elections based on individuals.
-- steve
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SCARY COMMUNIST TALK FROM MSNBC HOST MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY -- YOUR CHILDREN BELONG TO THE COMMUNITY
Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:41 PM PDT
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we always had sort of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents. Or kids belong to their families. And recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it is everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.
In her own words …
Bottom line …
The idea that individuals are unexceptional population units and must be directed by an enlightened ruling elite for the benefit of the collective is pure communism. As is, the idea that children belong to the state, to be educated by the state, and for the state to dictate their future.
We have always known MSNBC to be a radical left propaganda machine, but it appears that they are starting to broadcast the very rhetoric used by communists and totalitarian regimes.
Unfortunately, with much of our unthinking, uncritical and “go along to get along” public, this is one of those red flags (pardon the pun) that serves as notice that the progressives, liberals, democrats, socialists and communists – or whatever they brand themselves to avoid instant negative connotations and associations – is becoming a clear and present danger to America and her citizens.
The real trouble lies with the endless repetition of this message until it ingrained in our “collective” subconscious, so that it becomes an accepted part of conscious culture – and no longer an outlandish and unacceptable idea.
The truth about public education is that it is not only controlled by socialist unions who fete seniority over merit, the status quo over innovation, the concept of an inviolate lifetime right to a job and benefits, onerous work rules which prevent a parent-volunteer from participating in any act performed by a “classified” school employee, and no accountability for malfeasance or wrongdoing -- but the proof that these incompetent ideologues are educating our children is not present. More and more children are being graduated, if the graduate at all, as functional illiterates – tied to calculators and “cut and paste” computers to be able to perform any task.
There is no constitutional right for the federal government to interfere in education. And if it were not for the coercion of providing taxpayer money to states and local municipalities, the federal government would have zero power over what is essentially a local affair. Even today, when the elements of basic education are well-known, there is no core curricula, no basic achievement standards and textbooks containing “old” information are outrageously priced. It’s not about the children, it’s about the adults – money and power.
And, as we have recently seen, even when standarded tests exists, those in charge of the children CHEAT!
The 35 Atlanta public school employees charged in a testing scandal have been released from jail and are awaiting their first appearance in court. They are accused of running a conspiracy in which they changed students’ answers on standardized tests in order to be paid performance bonuses. By Wednesday evening, a day after they were ordered to surrender at the Fulton County Jail, all the defendants had posted bond and been released. Defense lawyers said they are asking the district attorney, Paul L. Howard Jr., to hold trials before multiple juries. They said there is no courtroom in the county large enough to accommodate 35 defendants, lawyers and family members.
Your children are yours and your responsibility. To cede additional power to the local, state or federal government is to abrogate your rights as parents and to accept that the tenets of communism are acceptable.
-- steve
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Barack Obama, John Kerry and the Liberals being played by Iran and North Korea? Futility of a proportional response?
Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:29 PM PDT
Is this an Iranian ploy to buy more time for their nuclear adventures?
What is the probability that North Korea is playing the United States in order to allow Iran to complete its nuclear weapons works and that any nuclear test in North Korea is actually a test of the Iranian weapon itself, after which Iran will announce that they are now a nuclear state? Because of the number of Iranians in Southern California an the continuing travel between the two countries, it seems that the United States should have better intelligence sources in Iran than in North Korea. And, because of the number of workers crossing the South Korean/North Korean border, one might suspect that there are intelligence moles on both sides of the 38th parallel. So what is the real story?
And, what’s up with a “proportional response?”
Proportional responses were designed by weak powers who are trying to demonstrate to their own citizens that they are “tough” even though they are afraid of provoking a much larger conflict. It appears to me that proportional responses against a country that considers its citizens as unexceptional and bothersome chattel, like North Korea, or cares not a whit for its citizens like the Muslim countries where it is a blessed event to die in the cause of Allah, is just another sign of weakness. You may have a designated military target – and you destroy it completely and thoroughly. If the other side attacks a civilian population center, you respond by destroying two of their cities, completely and thoroughly. The ancient Roman approach to warfare that stops aggression quickly. The trick is not to appear tough, it is to be tough.
From the New York Times …
U.S. Designs a Korea Response Proportional to the Provocation
As North Korea hints at new military provocations in the coming days, the United States and South Korea have drawn up plans to respond more forcefully than in the recent past, but in a limited way intended to prevent an escalation to broader war.
Amid the rising tensions, there were still efforts on many fronts on Sunday to limit the possibility of military conflict. In an indirect but clear criticism of China’s longtime ally, North Korea, Xi Jinping, China’s new president, said in a speech on Sunday that no country in Asia “should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain.”
A senior adviser to President Obama, Dan Pfeiffer, appearing on the ABC program “This Week,” played down the situation as “a pattern of behavior we’ve seen from the North Koreans many times.”
Still, the escalating tensions were underscored Sunday when the commander of American forces on the Korean Peninsula, Gen. James D. Thurman, abruptly canceled a trip to Washington for Congressional testimony and consultations. So did South Korea’s top commander. Source: U.S. and South Korea Devise Plan to Counter North - NYTimes.com
Bottom line …
Let us hope that our nation is not being unduly crippled by the democrats, as it was during Carter whose ineptness brought about Islamo-fascism and jihad, and Clinton who bombed an aspirin factory as a show of force. With foreign policy experts like Joe Biden and John Kerry, perhaps we will mimic France and surrender to North Korean demands in a staggering show of appeasement. Of course, I am not certain that Barack Obama, with his pro-Muslim/anti-Israel sentiments does not mind a nuclear-armed Iran as a counter to Israel’s weapons base. Even though co-conspirator jihadist Saudi Arabia is terrified of a nuclear Iran.
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The Hygiene Hypothesis: Exploring the Connection Between Allergies and an Agrarian Lifestyle
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By Megan E. Phelps
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Whether we’re aware of it or not, many of us are living with immune systems that are slightly out of whack—and, incidentally, making us feel miserable. Take allergies, for example. If you’re an allergy sufferer, you have a lot of company. Maybe it’s pollen that makes your nose twitch, or maybe you—or your child—have a nut allergy that threatens to send you to the emergency room if you accidentally eat something that contains the slightest trace of peanuts. An allergy is the product of an overactive immune system—the body’s natural defenses against infection mobilized against harmless foreign particles.
Asthma is another form of allergic disease, and has its own serious consequences. Like allergies, it often develops in childhood and can be treated, but not cured. And then there are autoimmune diseases—less common but often more debilitating than allergic diseases—including conditions such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. These diseases are caused when the immune system starts attacking the body itself.
Both allergic and autoimmune diseases are on the rise in the United States, and researchers have been working to understand why. In fact, there’s a pretty solid theory about what’s going on. It’s called the “hygiene hypothesis,” and it helps explain a curious fact that has been documented by recent research: You’re less likely to develop allergies and asthma if you grow up on a farm.
Documenting The Farm Effect
I started my research by calling Mark Holbreich, an allergist who has worked in Indiana since 1987. Both he and his wife are physicians, and several years ago, they began to treat people within the local Amish community, many of whom did not have easy access to medical care. But Holbreich quickly realized there was relatively little need for his services among the Amish. They had surprisingly low rates of allergy—even many of the people who came to him for treatment turned out to have other conditions, not allergic diseases.
As it turned out, a similar phenomenon had already been documented in Europe. “Around 2002, the first literature appeared in a German study that coined the term ‘the farm effect,’” Holbreich says. The researchers were looking at asthma and allergy rates among farming families, and found that those who worked in barns around large livestock were less likely to have these conditions. “When that article came out, I said, ‘Gee, that sounds like the Amish.’ And in 2010, I began a collaboration with German researchers,” Holbreich says. The resulting article was published in 2012 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The European study subjects lived in rural parts of Switzerland, and the Amish community in Indiana was living a similar agrarian lifestyle. “We decided to do a study looking at how common allergies were in these children,” Holbreich says. “We weren’t looking necessarily for illness, but for a positive skin test, what we call allergic sensitization.” If you test children in the general population for allergies, about 50 percent will have at least one positive skin test. “In the Swiss farm children, it was about 25 percent; in the Amish children, it was about 7 percent,” Holbreich says. That’s a huge difference—so now the question was, why?
To Holbreich and the other researchers, three protective factors stood out: “First, when the mothers are pregnant they spend time around large animals like cows,” he says. “Second, the children are in the barn at a very early age; and third, the children drink raw, unpasteurized milk.”
Before we go any further, Holbreich wants to be clear that he doesn’t recommend drinking raw milk. “For children and pregnant women, raw milk presents a large risk,” he says. Drinking unpasteurized milk could potentially expose people to dangerous pathogens.
It also seems unlikely that you could get the same effect just by the occasional visit to a farm. After all, the studies in Switzerland were comparing farm kids not to urban dwellers but to other rural children. “I think it’s the whole picture: living on a farm, being pregnant on a farm,” Holbreich says.
In fact, there aren’t many actions we can take right this minute based on research on the farm effect. But it does give us a better idea of how our immune systems work—or why they might not be working—and points us toward therapies that might solve those problems.
This research also helps illuminate the theory about immunity called the hygiene hypothesis. For more information on that area of research, Holbreich recommended I talk to Dr. Andy Liu at National Jewish Health, a Denver hospital and research center that specializes in respiratory diseases. He also mentioned a book that was recently published on this topic, An Epidemic of Absence, by Moises Valasquez-Manoff, which focuses not just on allergic conditions, but also autoimmune diseases.
Why We Need Microbes
When I called Liu to talk about the farm effect studies, he explained that these ideas are not as new as we might think. “People have been thinking about it almost since allergy was discovered 150 or so years ago,” he says. “You can see when people are writing about it they’re asking, ‘Why is it happening to these people who are living in cities and with educated backgrounds, and not happening to farmers or not happening to the poor?’”
It may seem counterintuitive that wealthier people would be the ones getting sicker, but that’s exactly the trend with allergies and asthma. It’s happened in many other countries, Liu explains: As average incomes rise, so do the rates of asthma and allergies.
“Some people think the roots of it are in public or personal hygiene. That’s where the term hygiene hypothesis comes from,” Liu says. This line of thinking suggests that improved sanitation around the early 1900s meant that people encountered fewer germs. While on the whole, improvements such as cleaner drinking water had major benefits for public health, there may also have been some unintended effects. It seems that early exposure to various microbes may actually help us develop healthy immune systems that stay with us for the rest of our lives. “With the hygiene hypothesis, it’s about the immune system and its period of learning,” Liu says.
Specifically, the hygiene hypothesis considers how the immune system learns to regulate itself, how it learns when to launch a full-scale assault against infection and when to calm down because those defenses aren’t needed. “Without the development of that appropriate regulation you see the immune system going after things that it shouldn’t necessarily go after,” Liu says. For example, with hay fever, the symptoms are caused by an overactive immune system attacking pollen as though it were an infectious agent.
The idea that our immune systems seem to have a critical period of learning shouldn’t be surprising, Liu says, because we see it in other areas of development. “It happens with the brain, too—with infants. When they don’t receive stimulation, they fail to thrive.”
How exactly this works is still unfolding, but exposures early in life, including in the womb, seem to be important. There’s also some question of whether it’s simply that we are exposed to microbes that matters, or if there are specific protective microbes. Or both. In any case, farms are a great place to study this. “The farms are rich in microbial environments,” Liu says. “A lot of it seems to be related to animals or to the other people we’re around. To the extent that we can quantify microbial burdens, it’s much higher in farm homes.” You also find richer microbial environments in homes with pets or many young children.
Some of the broader implications of the hygiene hypothesis relate to all kinds of immune dysfunction—not only allergies and asthma, but also autoimmune diseases. But so far, most of the research focuses on allergies and asthma because they are more widespread. “Autoimmunity is so much less prevalent that it’s hard to do population studies,” Liu says. “If you think of the most common autoimmune conditions, you need maybe a hundred times more people to show the same effect compared to allergies.”
On the more extreme end of the spectrum, researchers are experimenting with some really interesting treatments related to the hygiene hypothesis. It’s not just microbes that researchers are examining, but also parasites. That may sound far out, but Liu points me to a clinical study in which a type of pig whipworm is being tested as a treatment for Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. But more about parasites in a minute.
We Didn’t Evolve for an Urban Environment
Finally, I spoke to Moises Valasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. The title points to the underlying idea: It’s not so much what we’re exposed to that’s causing these diseases, it’s the conditions we evolved with that are now missing. As a result, “The immune system is missing critical input, or at least that’s what the theories sort of predict,” Valasquez-Manoff says.
He’s done an immense amount of research for the book, and I wanted to ask something that had been nagging me: Why are we sure it’s not cleaner farm air that’s leading to lower rates of asthma and allergies? Surely these conditions are tied to air pollution? Well, for quite a few reasons, he explains.
“One way to think about the pollution question is simply to look at the epidemiology. At least in terms of airborne pollution, if you were to graph asthma and pollution, the graphs are inverse of each other,” he says. After the Clean Air Act in the 1970s, air pollution in the United States started to decline. At the same time, asthma rates were shooting up. Studies have also been done in East and West Germany. Before the wall fell, East Germany was much more polluted, but it also had lower rates of asthma and allergies than West Germany. “Now, each new generation is more allergic than the previous one in the East.”
Plus, there were the original farm effect studies in Switzerland. “Those studies were in pristine areas of the Alps, where there was no pollution.” Regardless, the researchers found that farm kids had much lower rates of allergy and asthma compared with their rural neighbors, all of whom were breathing exceptionally clean air.
That’s not to say that air pollution doesn’t have an effect on allergies and asthma. “I think we should unwed ourselves from the idea that there’s only one cause for everything,” Valasquez-Manoff says. “And I’m not going to say that breathing car exhaust every day is good for you. But in terms of the greater trend, I think there’s something else going on that’s more biological.”
With the farm effect studies, the low rates of allergies and asthma for farm-raised people appears to point to exposure to microbes, whereas the increase in allergic and autoimmune disease for Americans relates to lack of exposure. Most of us simply aren’t in daily contact with the kinds of microbes our ancestors lived with for thousands of years. People who live on small farms often are. “You think about this in an evolutionary context and you realize that the sort of environment we evolved in much more resembles a Bavarian cowshed than it does a modern apartment in New York or San Francisco,” Valasquez-Manoff says.
And while we’re on the topic, there’s something else that’s missing from many of our lives: parasites. It’s probably not just microbes teaching our immune systems how to regulate themselves. Quite a bit of evidence points out that parasites do the same thing—and have done so for the thousands of years that our ancestors lived with many kinds of worms. Valasquez-Manoff, in fact, infected himself with hookworms as a part of the research for his book because it’s an underground treatment for some autoimmune conditions.
Of course, no one recommends hookworm infection as an allergy treatment. And in research on the farm effect, all the evidence points more strongly toward beneficial microbes (which, fortunately, means that any therapies that come out of that research are likely to be a lot less disturbing).
“Maybe it is just really going to be a probiotic,” Valasquez-Manoff says. Or maybe it will be as simple as drinking milk. Researchers are looking closely at raw milk, and what it is that seems to be offering protection against allergies and asthma. “Whatever it is, we all drink milk, and if you can just preserve it in regular milk, it’s a very easy intervention,” Valasquez-Manoff says. What if we found a new technique for sanitizing milk that improves upon pasteurization? We might be able to destroy the pathogens while preserving whatever it is that’s beneficial. Or the solution could be as simple as adding beneficial compounds to milk in the same way we add vitamin D. “Can you imagine?” Valasquez-Manoff asks. “It would be incredible.”
Allergy Statistics
■ In 2001, one out of 14 people in the United States had asthma. By 2009, it had increased to one in 12.
■ Between 4 and 6 percent of children in the United States have food allergies. This rate increased by 18 percent between 1997 and 2007.
■ 90 percent of food allergy reactions come from the following eight types of food: cow’s milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soybeans and wheat.
■ 18 million adults in the United States (about 8 percent of the population) have hay fever; 7 million children (9.5 percent) have hay fever.
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Whether we’re aware of it or not, many of us are living with immune systems that are slightly out of whack—and, incidentally, making us feel miserable. Take allergies, for example. If you’re an allergy sufferer, you have a lot of company. Maybe it’s pollen that makes your nose twitch, or maybe you—or your child—have a nut allergy that threatens to send you to the emergency room if you accidentally eat something that contains the slightest trace of peanuts. An allergy is the product of an overactive immune system—the body’s natural defenses against infection mobilized against harmless foreign particles.
Asthma is another form of allergic disease, and has its own serious consequences. Like allergies, it often develops in childhood and can be treated, but not cured. And then there are autoimmune diseases—less common but often more debilitating than allergic diseases—including conditions such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. These diseases are caused when the immune system starts attacking the body itself.
Both allergic and autoimmune diseases are on the rise in the United States, and researchers have been working to understand why. In fact, there’s a pretty solid theory about what’s going on. It’s called the “hygiene hypothesis,” and it helps explain a curious fact that has been documented by recent research: You’re less likely to develop allergies and asthma if you grow up on a farm.
Documenting The Farm Effect
I started my research by calling Mark Holbreich, an allergist who has worked in Indiana since 1987. Both he and his wife are physicians, and several years ago, they began to treat people within the local Amish community, many of whom did not have easy access to medical care. But Holbreich quickly realized there was relatively little need for his services among the Amish. They had surprisingly low rates of allergy—even many of the people who came to him for treatment turned out to have other conditions, not allergic diseases.
As it turned out, a similar phenomenon had already been documented in Europe. “Around 2002, the first literature appeared in a German study that coined the term ‘the farm effect,’” Holbreich says. The researchers were looking at asthma and allergy rates among farming families, and found that those who worked in barns around large livestock were less likely to have these conditions. “When that article came out, I said, ‘Gee, that sounds like the Amish.’ And in 2010, I began a collaboration with German researchers,” Holbreich says. The resulting article was published in 2012 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The European study subjects lived in rural parts of Switzerland, and the Amish community in Indiana was living a similar agrarian lifestyle. “We decided to do a study looking at how common allergies were in these children,” Holbreich says. “We weren’t looking necessarily for illness, but for a positive skin test, what we call allergic sensitization.” If you test children in the general population for allergies, about 50 percent will have at least one positive skin test. “In the Swiss farm children, it was about 25 percent; in the Amish children, it was about 7 percent,” Holbreich says. That’s a huge difference—so now the question was, why?
To Holbreich and the other researchers, three protective factors stood out: “First, when the mothers are pregnant they spend time around large animals like cows,” he says. “Second, the children are in the barn at a very early age; and third, the children drink raw, unpasteurized milk.”
Before we go any further, Holbreich wants to be clear that he doesn’t recommend drinking raw milk. “For children and pregnant women, raw milk presents a large risk,” he says. Drinking unpasteurized milk could potentially expose people to dangerous pathogens.
It also seems unlikely that you could get the same effect just by the occasional visit to a farm. After all, the studies in Switzerland were comparing farm kids not to urban dwellers but to other rural children. “I think it’s the whole picture: living on a farm, being pregnant on a farm,” Holbreich says.
In fact, there aren’t many actions we can take right this minute based on research on the farm effect. But it does give us a better idea of how our immune systems work—or why they might not be working—and points us toward therapies that might solve those problems.
This research also helps illuminate the theory about immunity called the hygiene hypothesis. For more information on that area of research, Holbreich recommended I talk to Dr. Andy Liu at National Jewish Health, a Denver hospital and research center that specializes in respiratory diseases. He also mentioned a book that was recently published on this topic, An Epidemic of Absence, by Moises Valasquez-Manoff, which focuses not just on allergic conditions, but also autoimmune diseases.
Why We Need Microbes
When I called Liu to talk about the farm effect studies, he explained that these ideas are not as new as we might think. “People have been thinking about it almost since allergy was discovered 150 or so years ago,” he says. “You can see when people are writing about it they’re asking, ‘Why is it happening to these people who are living in cities and with educated backgrounds, and not happening to farmers or not happening to the poor?’”
It may seem counterintuitive that wealthier people would be the ones getting sicker, but that’s exactly the trend with allergies and asthma. It’s happened in many other countries, Liu explains: As average incomes rise, so do the rates of asthma and allergies.
“Some people think the roots of it are in public or personal hygiene. That’s where the term hygiene hypothesis comes from,” Liu says. This line of thinking suggests that improved sanitation around the early 1900s meant that people encountered fewer germs. While on the whole, improvements such as cleaner drinking water had major benefits for public health, there may also have been some unintended effects. It seems that early exposure to various microbes may actually help us develop healthy immune systems that stay with us for the rest of our lives. “With the hygiene hypothesis, it’s about the immune system and its period of learning,” Liu says.
Specifically, the hygiene hypothesis considers how the immune system learns to regulate itself, how it learns when to launch a full-scale assault against infection and when to calm down because those defenses aren’t needed. “Without the development of that appropriate regulation you see the immune system going after things that it shouldn’t necessarily go after,” Liu says. For example, with hay fever, the symptoms are caused by an overactive immune system attacking pollen as though it were an infectious agent.
The idea that our immune systems seem to have a critical period of learning shouldn’t be surprising, Liu says, because we see it in other areas of development. “It happens with the brain, too—with infants. When they don’t receive stimulation, they fail to thrive.”
How exactly this works is still unfolding, but exposures early in life, including in the womb, seem to be important. There’s also some question of whether it’s simply that we are exposed to microbes that matters, or if there are specific protective microbes. Or both. In any case, farms are a great place to study this. “The farms are rich in microbial environments,” Liu says. “A lot of it seems to be related to animals or to the other people we’re around. To the extent that we can quantify microbial burdens, it’s much higher in farm homes.” You also find richer microbial environments in homes with pets or many young children.
Some of the broader implications of the hygiene hypothesis relate to all kinds of immune dysfunction—not only allergies and asthma, but also autoimmune diseases. But so far, most of the research focuses on allergies and asthma because they are more widespread. “Autoimmunity is so much less prevalent that it’s hard to do population studies,” Liu says. “If you think of the most common autoimmune conditions, you need maybe a hundred times more people to show the same effect compared to allergies.”
On the more extreme end of the spectrum, researchers are experimenting with some really interesting treatments related to the hygiene hypothesis. It’s not just microbes that researchers are examining, but also parasites. That may sound far out, but Liu points me to a clinical study in which a type of pig whipworm is being tested as a treatment for Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. But more about parasites in a minute.
We Didn’t Evolve for an Urban Environment
Finally, I spoke to Moises Valasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases. The title points to the underlying idea: It’s not so much what we’re exposed to that’s causing these diseases, it’s the conditions we evolved with that are now missing. As a result, “The immune system is missing critical input, or at least that’s what the theories sort of predict,” Valasquez-Manoff says.
He’s done an immense amount of research for the book, and I wanted to ask something that had been nagging me: Why are we sure it’s not cleaner farm air that’s leading to lower rates of asthma and allergies? Surely these conditions are tied to air pollution? Well, for quite a few reasons, he explains.
“One way to think about the pollution question is simply to look at the epidemiology. At least in terms of airborne pollution, if you were to graph asthma and pollution, the graphs are inverse of each other,” he says. After the Clean Air Act in the 1970s, air pollution in the United States started to decline. At the same time, asthma rates were shooting up. Studies have also been done in East and West Germany. Before the wall fell, East Germany was much more polluted, but it also had lower rates of asthma and allergies than West Germany. “Now, each new generation is more allergic than the previous one in the East.”
Plus, there were the original farm effect studies in Switzerland. “Those studies were in pristine areas of the Alps, where there was no pollution.” Regardless, the researchers found that farm kids had much lower rates of allergy and asthma compared with their rural neighbors, all of whom were breathing exceptionally clean air.
That’s not to say that air pollution doesn’t have an effect on allergies and asthma. “I think we should unwed ourselves from the idea that there’s only one cause for everything,” Valasquez-Manoff says. “And I’m not going to say that breathing car exhaust every day is good for you. But in terms of the greater trend, I think there’s something else going on that’s more biological.”
With the farm effect studies, the low rates of allergies and asthma for farm-raised people appears to point to exposure to microbes, whereas the increase in allergic and autoimmune disease for Americans relates to lack of exposure. Most of us simply aren’t in daily contact with the kinds of microbes our ancestors lived with for thousands of years. People who live on small farms often are. “You think about this in an evolutionary context and you realize that the sort of environment we evolved in much more resembles a Bavarian cowshed than it does a modern apartment in New York or San Francisco,” Valasquez-Manoff says.
And while we’re on the topic, there’s something else that’s missing from many of our lives: parasites. It’s probably not just microbes teaching our immune systems how to regulate themselves. Quite a bit of evidence points out that parasites do the same thing—and have done so for the thousands of years that our ancestors lived with many kinds of worms. Valasquez-Manoff, in fact, infected himself with hookworms as a part of the research for his book because it’s an underground treatment for some autoimmune conditions.
Of course, no one recommends hookworm infection as an allergy treatment. And in research on the farm effect, all the evidence points more strongly toward beneficial microbes (which, fortunately, means that any therapies that come out of that research are likely to be a lot less disturbing).
“Maybe it is just really going to be a probiotic,” Valasquez-Manoff says. Or maybe it will be as simple as drinking milk. Researchers are looking closely at raw milk, and what it is that seems to be offering protection against allergies and asthma. “Whatever it is, we all drink milk, and if you can just preserve it in regular milk, it’s a very easy intervention,” Valasquez-Manoff says. What if we found a new technique for sanitizing milk that improves upon pasteurization? We might be able to destroy the pathogens while preserving whatever it is that’s beneficial. Or the solution could be as simple as adding beneficial compounds to milk in the same way we add vitamin D. “Can you imagine?” Valasquez-Manoff asks. “It would be incredible.”
Allergy Statistics
■ In 2001, one out of 14 people in the United States had asthma. By 2009, it had increased to one in 12.
■ Between 4 and 6 percent of children in the United States have food allergies. This rate increased by 18 percent between 1997 and 2007.
■ 90 percent of food allergy reactions come from the following eight types of food: cow’s milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soybeans and wheat.
■ 18 million adults in the United States (about 8 percent of the population) have hay fever; 7 million children (9.5 percent) have hay fever.
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#Kerry's claim of #Turkish ‘sensitivity’ astonishes #Israelis
Posted: 07 Apr 2013 07:36 PM PDT
By HERB KEINON
Israeli official tells 'Post' Secretary of state apparently did not read Turkey’s press reaction reports following PM Netanyahu's apology over the 2010 flotilla incident; says reports included gloating.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, April 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters
Israeli officials expressed astonishment on Sunday that US Secretary of State John Kerry praised Turkey for responding “sensitively” and without triumphalism to Israel’s apology for the Mavi Marmara incident.
“They have taken steps to try to prevent any sense of triumphalism,” Kerry said at a press conference on Sunday with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. “It has not come from the government. In fact, there has been limited response by the government itself and I think it’s important for everybody to take note of that.”
“What country is he talking about?” one Israeli official responded. “I’m afraid the State Department did not show the secretary of state the press reports from Turkey following the apology.”
The official said those reports were full of interviews and statements by both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Davutoglu and other government ministers gloating over the apology, which was for operational errors committed that may have led to a loss of life on the Mavi Marmara in May 2010. Nine Turks were killed when Israel Navy commandos, trying to keep the ship from breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip, were attacked by those on board.
The Israeli perception that Erdogan was indeed rubbing Jerusalem’s nose in the apology led Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the seven-person security cabinet, to write on his Facebook page five days after the apology that “it seems that since the apology, Erdogan is doing everything to make Israel regret it. He is running a personal and vitriolic campaign at the expense of Israeli- Turkish relations.”
Soon after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology to Erdogan in a phone call brokered by US President Barack Obama during his visit here, Erdogan, according to the Anadolu news agency, told supporters Israel may have mistakenly thought the Mavi Marmara incident would be forgotten.
The Israeli perception that Erdogan was indeed rubbing Jerusalem’s nose in the apology led Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the seven-person security cabinet, to write on his Facebook page five days after the apology that “it seems that since the apology, Erdogan is doing everything to make Israel regret it. He is running a personal and vitriolic campaign at the expense of Israeli- Turkish relations.”
Soon after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology to Erdogan in a phone call brokered by US President Barack Obama during his visit here, Erdogan, according to the Anadolu news agency, told supporters Israel may have mistakenly thought the Mavi Marmara incident would be forgotten.
But this time, he was quoted as saying, “the Israelis met with a different understanding and structure. The AK Party government did not remain silent against this illegality, aggressiveness and massacre.”
He went on to add, “The Israeli apology was important in remembering the martyrs of Turkey and those of Palestine.”
Billboards sponsored by the Ankara Municipality appeared within a day of the apology, reading, “Israel apologized to Turkey. Dear prime minister, we are grateful that you let our country experience this pride.”
The words were superimposed over pictures of a confident Erdogan and a tired, gloomy looking Netanyahu.
Fresh in the blush of the apology, Erdogan also announced immediately afterward that he was going to visit Gaza and the West Bank with Turkish relief organizations. He was also quoted by the Hurriyet Daily News as telling parliament that the apology changed the overall equation in the Middle East.
“The point we have arrived at as a result of our consultations with all our brothers in Palestine and peripheral countries is increasing our responsibility with regard to solving the Palestinian question and thus is bringing about a new equation,” he was quoted as saying.
Davutoglu hosted a dinner at his residence for the family members of those killed in the incident, as well as some officials of the radical Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) that was behind the flotilla.
One of IHH’s leaders was investigated by the Turkish government in 2012 for funding al-Qaida, and that same year the NGO was banned by Germany for its connections to Hamas.
“Please make yourselves at home,” said Davutoglu. “This is your home as well. Their blood will not remain on the floor. Nothing is no longer the same,” stated the foreign minister, according to the website of the Turkish paper Sabah.
If all that, and more that appeared in the Turkish press, “was not triumphalism, then I don’t know what is,” one Israeli official said.
Kerry, meanwhile, urged Turkey and Israel to restore full relations, calling this vital to regional stability, but said it was not up to Washington to dictate the conditions of rapprochement.
Kerry said it was imperative for Israel to honor its commitment to pay compensation to the families of those killed on the Mavi Marmara, and for both countries to return their ambassadors.
“With respect to the Israel- Turkey track, it is not for the United States to be setting conditions or terms,” Kerry told reporters alongside Davutoglu.
“We would like to see this relationship that is important to stability in the Middle East, critical to the peace process itself – we would like to see this relationship get back on track in its full measure,” he said.
To do so, said Kerry, “it is imperative that the compensation component of the agreement be fulfilled, that the ambassadors be returned and that full relationship be embraced, but it’s not up to us to discuss the timing.”
One thing that Kerry did not mention was Ankara’s boast afterward that Israel had agreed to lift the blockade of Gaza.
Israel made no such pledge.
An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Turkey this week to begin discussing the details of the compensation agreement. Neither country has said, however, when their ambassadors would go back, though the Turkish press speculated this could occur as early as the end of June.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Putin’s Speech on Feb. 04, 2013
Fat chance, but this is one time our elected leaders should pay attention to the advice of Vladimir Putin....how scary is that?
On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia:
"In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for five minutes.
If you keep this to yourself, you are part of the problem.
Interesting bit of Trivia.............
A little trivia to see how much history you know (can guess at). Be honest, it's kinda fun and revealing.
If you don't know the answer make your best guess.
Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.
Who said it?
1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) "(We) .....can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above
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Answers
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
Be concerned, be very concerned. And this was before she hit her head!
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sing out of the same book... and its not a religious hymnal
Guns Save Lives
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Posted: 07 Apr 2013 06:12 PM PDT
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700+ Teachers Attend Massive Gun Training Course in Texas to Protect Students
Posted: 07 Apr 2013 03:57 PM PDT
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RINO Alert: McCain “doesn’t understand” Proposed GOP Gun Filibuster
Posted: 07 Apr 2013 03:22 PM PDT
John McCain is moving more and more into RINO territory everyday and proving that the hope for a true conservative party lies with young Republicans and Libertarians. Speaking about the proposed GOP filibuster of the upcoming Democratic Senate gun bill McCain said, “I don’t understand it. The purpose of the United States Senate is to [...]
[Video] Father Ends Crime Spree by Shooting Armed Robber Outside Burger King
Posted: 07 Apr 2013 09:20 AM PDT
A robbery suspect walked into a Flordia Burger King, flashed a gun, and robbed a family who was eating lunch. The father attempted to follow the man, and at some point during the encounter feared for his life. The father drew his concealed handgun and shot the suspect once, hitting him in the leg. The [...]
[Video] 15 Year Old Girl Who Gave Pro Gun Testimony to Maryland Legislature Interviewed by Fox News
Posted: 07 Apr 2013 09:09 AM PDT
If you haven’t seen the great testimony delivered by the 15 year old Maryland resident to her state’s legislature, make sure to check out the original video at the bottom of this post. We were one of the first gun blogs to highlight the video. The video had several thousand views as of April 2nd [...]
[Video] How a Liberal Writer Learned to Love and Collect Guns
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 08:43 PM PDT
The above video features Dan Baum. Baum is a bit of a paradox in the US. He is an avid gun owner/collector. He is also a self professed liberal in other aspects. He was a writer for the New Yorker as well as other liberal publications. Baum has spent a large amount of time meeting [...]
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Will President Obama’s Budget Balance? “No,” Says White House
APRIL 7, 2013 | VIEW ONLINE
Balancing the budget will “boost the economy immediately,” creating more jobs and opportunities for all Americans. But when President Obama unveils his budget on Wednesday – two months late and three weeks after Republicans passed a responsible, balanced budget – will it be balanced? White House advisors say, “no.”
Click here to see a comparison of the Republican budget and what we expect to see from President Obama, and read more below:
MORE FROM THE SPEAKER’S BLOG
We have a lot of questions about President Obama’s budget: Will it balance? Will the president endorse the job-creating Keystone XL energy project? How much debt will he propose handing over to future generations?
Meager deficit reduction, no net cuts: While the Republican plan balances the budget within 10 years, it appears the president’s budget will only reduce the deficit by a meager $600 billion in the next decade with no net spending cuts. The deficit for this year alone is projected to be $845 billion.
Holding savings hostage for more tax hikes: The president’s last offer was significantly skewed in favor of higher taxes – which he got. He shouldn’t hold needed reforms hostage for more tax hikes that will hurt our economy.
For the sake of balance? A White House advisor said the president doesn’t want to “balance the budget for the purpose of simply balancing the budget.” Neither do Republicans. As Speaker Boehner says, “The very point of balancing the budget is to help our economy grow and to create jobs.”
Pressure builds for Keystone energy, jobs: The Democratic-controlled Senate voted in favor of the popular Keystone XL project, which Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) says would “give our economy a shot in the arm and make energy more affordable – and it won’t cost the taxpayers a dime.”
Why is the president’s budget two months late? Here are some possibilities.
House of Representatives mourns loss of former House historian: “Robert Remini literally wrote the book on the House, bringing to life its stories and personalities in a way that no one had before,” said Speaker Boehner. “He brought the people closer to their House, and left proof that our founders succeeded in making a legislative body that would reflect the will and the spirit of the people.”
Photos from March 2013: From welcoming the Prime Minster of Ireland to Washington, keeping the doors to the U.S. Capitol open for visitors, to passing a balanced budget to help our economy, it was a busy month in the House …
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12 Republican Senators Join Rand Paul, Pledge to Filibuster Upcoming Senate Gun Legislation
NY Attempts to Confiscate Man’s Guns Over Perceived Threat His 10 Year Old Made at School
[Video] Marine Adam Kokesh Rips Congresswoman Who Thought Magazines Could Only be Used Once
[Video] Meet the Press – Why Congress Didn’t Move Quickly on Gun Control
12 Republican Senators Join Rand Paul, Pledge to Filibuster Upcoming Senate Gun Legislation
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:19 PM PDT
Rand Paul’s proposed filibuster of the upcoming Democratic gun bill that is expected to be brought up in the Senate within the next 2 weeks. The following senators have now pledged to filibuster the legislation. Paul, Lee, Cruz, Rubio and Moran started the original movement. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Ron [...]
NY Attempts to Confiscate Man’s Guns Over Perceived Threat His 10 Year Old Made at School
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:17 AM PDT
TheBlaze.com is reporting that a man in NY, John Mayer (no, not that one), has had to transfer all of his firearms out of his name and out of his home to avoid them being confiscated after his pistol license was suspended. What was the suspension in regards to? A crime he committed? Being deemed [...]
[Video] Marine Adam Kokesh Rips Congresswoman Who Thought Magazines Could Only be Used Once
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 06:54 AM PDT
Adam Kokesh, formerly an active duty Marine, currently a libertarian commentator with a popular Youtube Channel. In this new video Kokesh rips into Demoratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette, a multi term representative from Colorado, who at a recent gun control forum seemed to suggest she thought that gun magazines could only be used once. This shows [...]
[Video] Meet the Press – Why Congress Didn’t Move Quickly on Gun Control
Posted: 06 Apr 2013 06:35 AM PDT
On Meet the Press a few days ago the panel discussed why the Congress didn’t move quickly on gun control following the Newton shooting. According to some polls as many as 90% of Americans support “universal background checks” (we suspect many were not told what that really meant and the privacy concerns it brings with [...]
Beyond Disrespect
Abraham asked the Lord to spare 50 righteous people. God responded to Abraham's plea "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all ....Genesis 18:16-33
The movie "Corpus Christi" is due to be released this June to August. A disgusting film set to appear in America later this year depicts Jesus and his disciples as homosexuals! As a play, this has already been in theaters for a while. It's called "Corpus Christi" which means "The Body of Christ". It's revolting mockery of our Lord. But we can make a difference.
That's why I am sending this e-mail to you. If you do send this around, we just might be able to prevent this film from showing in Canada and America . Let's stand for what we believe in and stop the mockery of Jesus Christ our Savior. Where do we stand as Christians? At the risk of a bit
of inconvenience, I'm forwarding this to all I think would appreciate it, too. Please help us prevent such offenses against our Lord. There is no petition to sign, no time limit, or minimum number of people to send this to.. It will take you less than 2 minutes!
If you are not interested and do not have the 2 minutes it will take to do this, please don't complain when God does not have time for you because He is far busier than we are. Hey it's worth a shot! Apparently, some regions in Europe have already banned the film. All we need is a lot of prayer and a lot of e-mails.
JUST GET THE WORD OUT!
....Will God be able to find at least 50 righteous people who are willing to express their concern and voice their opinion against this act of
blasphemy.
Aw, Ain't It a Shame.....
Obama Budget Proposal Cuts Are 'Unconscionable,' Says AFL-CIO
WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't formally proposed his "compromise" budget plan yet, but the White House can already see cracks forming among its trusted progressive coalition over cutbacks to cherished safety net programs.
On Saturday, organized labor quickly made good on its promise to oppose a White House budget that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, with the AFL-CIO labor federation ripping the president's expected proposal with unusually tough language in an email blast to activists.
The email (below) came with the subject heading, "Obama's really bad idea."
DON'T YOU FEEL TERRIBLE THAT OBAMA'S COALITION IS CRACKING?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/obama-budget-proposal-cut_n_3029598.html
WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't formally proposed his "compromise" budget plan yet, but the White House can already see cracks forming among its trusted progressive coalition over cutbacks to cherished safety net programs.
On Saturday, organized labor quickly made good on its promise to oppose a White House budget that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare, with the AFL-CIO labor federation ripping the president's expected proposal with unusually tough language in an email blast to activists.
The email (below) came with the subject heading, "Obama's really bad idea."
DON'T YOU FEEL TERRIBLE THAT OBAMA'S COALITION IS CRACKING?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/obama-budget-proposal-cut_n_3029598.html
Friday, April 5, 2013
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Nuke Attack Wed Apr 11???.........Embassies told to evacuate!
North Korea moves second missile to east coast amid threats against US | The Sun |News
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4874435/north-korea-moves-second-missile-to-east-coast.html
WH Lavish Parties to Continue.....but...........
White House Scraps Jewish Heritage Month Reception | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/04/05/white-house-scraps-jewish-heritage-month-reception/
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