New World Order is In Deep Trouble

Government redistribution scam: ‘Poverty’ like we’ve never seen it

And this is before food stamps, free lunches, free cell phones and the like.  It is just another liberal scam to hide their real intent to redistribute the wealth to the “under worked”  class.

Excerpt:  Previously, a family of four was considered poor if cash income was less than $22,800. The new definition sharply jerks up this threshold, especially in large cities.

Now, a family of four with full medical insurance, living in Oakland, can be considered “poor” if its yearly pre-tax income is below $42,500. In Washington, DC, the figure is $40,300; in Boston, $39,500; in New York, $37,900.

Remarkably, for the first time these new poverty thresholds are linked to an “escalator” that will boost them faster than inflation year after year. The income thresholds will rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the actual living standards of the average American.

Look at it this way: If the real income of every single American were to double overnight, the new measure would show no drop in poverty because the poverty-income thresholds also would double. Under this new definition, we can reduce poverty only if the incomes of the “poor” rise much faster than those of everyone else.

The goal of fighting poverty is no longer about meeting physical needs; instead it has been covertly shifted to equalizing incomes, or “spreading the wealth.”

Divorced from actual living conditions, the new government report on “poverty” is merely an advertising tool for expanding the welfare state. 

Read full NY Post article here.

Onions, flu remedy or poison, the good and the bad

ONIONS! I had never heard this!!!
PLEASE READ TO THE END: IMPORTANT

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu…
Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn’t believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser. She said that several years ago, many of her employees were coming down with the flu, and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don’t know about the farmer’s story…but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia, and, needless to say, I was very ill… I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put it into an empty jar, and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs…sure enough it happened just like that…the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don’t know what to blame. Maybe it’s the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn’t eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed’s answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

“It doesn’t even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it’s not really necessary.” He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the ‘victim’ last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it’s not the mayonnaise (as long as it’s not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It’s probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it’s the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it’s not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

OBAMA MAY GO TO PRISON AND BE IMPEACHED KILLING OUR OWN

Navy Vet Sings The Star Spangled Banner

TOP-10 ” Only In America ” Observations ~ by a Canadian:

Received this email today.

TOP-10 ” Only In America ” Observations ~ by a Canadian:

1) Only in America , could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a platecampaign fund-raising event.

2) Only in America , could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black.

3) Only in America , could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America , can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

5) Only in America, would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just ‘magically’ become American citizens.

6) Only in America , could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

7) Only in America , could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

If I Were the Devil – by PAUL HARVEY

Remember, this was aired on April 3, 1965.

In Newark, NJ They Said No - What happened when 12 nurses refused to help their hospital perform elective abortions

Elections 2012, the aftermath

Excerpt:  After months of waging a relentless carpet-bombing ad campaign of lies, and innuendos of murder and cultism, targeting the swing states, President Obama is, in his words, ready to reach across the aisle to get things accomplished for the good of the Nation. This is in direct contrast to what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said prior to the election, “Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his ‘severely conservative’ agenda is laughable,” It makes one wonder what will happen with the Administration’s ‘severely leftist’ agenda.

One problem that exists for the Republicans, is that there is a split in the party, between theBush Mandarins (bureaucrats) and the Reagan Renaissance Men. It is time for the Bush Mandarins, the likes of John McCain, Mitt Romney and Carl Rove, to make way for those who follow the economic principles of Reagan, Kemp and even John F. Kennedy. Younger Republicans, such as Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker are poised to consolidate the Conservative base and recapture the Reagan Democrats to bring the party into the 21st Century. Paul Ryan has been inundated by requests to challenge John Boehner for Speaker of the House.

Read my full Examiner.com article here.

Read related article “The Need to Explain” by Thomas Sowell here.

The End Of The Karl Rove Death Grip Signals A Reagan Renaissance

A great article suggesting where the Republican party went wrong and where it should be going. It is time we returned to the Reagan policies of limiting spending, reducing taxes and regulations and promoting economic growth.

Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Excerpt:  In an intraparty succession barely noticed by the mainstream media the Bush forces supplanted the Reagan forces within the GOP. Keepers of the Reagan legacy tended to end up at positions of respect and influence within the conservative movement. For example Reagan intimate, counselor, and attorney general Edwin Meese III long has held a prestigious office with the Heritage Foundation, the flagship of the Washington conservative establishment. Even though Meese was a General in the Reagan Revolution, though, his influence on a Bush cohort-dominated GOP — one that chiseled Reagan onto Rushmore while ignoring Reagan’s philosophy — is constrained.

Mandarins of the Bush (pere and fils) cohort sought and received mere token presence in the conservative establishment. They sought, and achieved, rather, vast influence in the Republican Party. Mandarin Karl Rove, comrade of Bush pere’s campaign guru Lee Atwater, became the dominant partisan figure.

The enormity of (and surprise at) the defeat of Romney is a huge setback — and perhaps fatal — to the Bush Mandarins’ hegemony over the GOP. If so, the potential re-ascendency of the Reagan wing of the GOP will prove very bad news for liberals and excellent news for the Republican Party. The Reagan wing now can resurge. A resurgence already has begun.

Read full Townhall article here.

Hurricane Sandy – unsolicited advice to the Northeast in the aftermath

Received this on Facebook today.  Well worth passing on to our family and friends in the Northeast.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

UNSOLICITED ADVICE TO THE NORTHEAST IN THE AFTERMATH

“Tonight I’m gonna take that ride

Across the river to the jersey side

Take my baby to the carnival

And I’ll take her on all the rides

`cause down the shore everything’s all right”

Bruce Springsteen,  Jersey Girl

No. It’s not all right and you probably can’t get across the river right now anyway.

My high school years in Bergen County are peppered with memories not of classrooms and despotic Vice Principals, but of subway rides into Manhattan, afternoon rides on the Staten Island Ferry (cheap fun for a truant), and hustling rides ten to a car down the Garden State Parkway to Asbury Park and Seaside Heights, which were never called by name, only referred to as “The Shore.” I picked splinters out of my feet after walking the now destroyed boardwalk in barefeet like an idiot. I was kissed sweetly in the sand that has now buried cars and shifted houses off their foundations. I rode the rollercoaster that now sits in the Atlantic. At least I think that’s the one I rode after being dared.

My last decade has been shaped by the Federal Flood, otherwise known as Hurricane Katrina. The landscape around me has changed since then in both good and bad ways. My interior landscape is forever changed by that experience.

I heard Seaside Heights’ Mayor Bill Akers on CNN this morning. He said that when he hears what’s going on in other areas his heart goes out to them. His voice broke when he said he was trying to keep emotion out of it. For now. I was on my dry couch in New Orleans in tears.

We here in New Orleans watched the NASA shots of Sandy headed your way. She was huge, well organized, aimed at you and we knew how that felt. She was perfect, as Katrina was, actually beautiful when viewed from the safety of a distant satellite lens. We saw the targets on your backs and understood, possibly as no other group of people can.

Initially there was some bitter grousing about our having had to defend our City’s right to exist and be rebuilt, something you might not have to do. We weathered the nasty comments about our being idiots living below sea level, and even nastier comments about tax payer money being wasted on morons and ingrates and freeloaders. These comments were ubiquitous after Katrina, but we wouldn’t wish what you’re dealing with on anyone because we’ve been there.

We endured extreme heat, while you folks have to deal with unbelievable cold, as the power went out and stayed out. We are also a city in which some people don’t have cars, so we understand the New Yorkers who are utterly stranded as the Subway tunnels have turned into something better navigated by gondolas than train cars. We know as we see aerial views of Asbury Park, Seaside Heights, Atlantic City, and all the coastal towns that what we’re seeing in no way shows us the length and breadth and depth of the devastation. We know you aren’t overstating it when you say it looks like a war zone. We understand the loss of everything you own. We know the tears you’ll shed as your kids’ yearbooks and baby pictures are gone forever. We understand your toughness, your determination to rebuild, your compassion for your neighbors and your statements about your family being fine and your losses were “only stuff.”

We get it.

Now for the unsolicited advice:

Expect unexpected consequences. One or more of your leaders will let you down. Right now the adrenalin is flowing and you’re all in shock, as are your leaders, who really seem to be doing a great job. It’s down the road when the issue becomes money and contractors and the actual rebuilding that you’ll be let down by someone. Be prepared to deal with the anger.

Have patience. Your power will come on when it comes on, and all the ranting and raving in the world cannot change that, nor can you expect a timetable from your utility companies. Just two months ago we went through Isaac and the utility issues were exasperating. I say this to you as someone who sat on the porch waiting for bucket trucks, or at least information, in the aftermath of several hurricanes now. Don’t waste your energy (no pun intended) calling them or expecting one of them to say Thursday at 9AM. It won’t happen. Cuddle up and keep each other warm. Oh, and expect your utility rates to jump as the utility companies go to your local civic leaders and ask who’s going to pay for all this repair. It will never come out of the utility company’s profits, it will come out of your wallet. That I can guarantee.

Try not to slug your Insurance Adjuster. As I watched the storm coming in the other night, there was footage of a building in Chelsea. The entire facade had fallen down, and this was before Sandy’s actual landfall. What I heard, in terms of reasons for the facade falling, was familiar: coulda been rain, coulda been shoddy workmanship, coulda been wind, coulda been anything: and so the parsing began. What happened here, and what will no doubt happen there, is that whatever you’re covered for, it will be the OTHER reason that caused the damage. If you’re covered for wind, it will be deemed water damage or vice versa. Don’t count on your insurance carrier to be compassionate. They won’t be. In fact you may find your rates hiked, your policy canceled, your payout to be a pittance that wouldn’t even cover one month’s car payment. Expect that coverage in your area will be curtailed with some companies refusing to write a policy at all. No amount of righteous outrage about the premiums you’ve paid for years will alter any of this. Your carrier will go on the news, make statements about wanting to help, tell you that you’re in good hands, then send you a letter saying they’re dropping you at the same time that they issue their quarterly report on profits. Expect it.

Advocate for your Area. Don’t let the officials make all the decisions as the rebuilding process gets started. Get involved, start neighborhood associations, make yourself heard, fight for your little spot on this planet. If you don’t, monied interests who view disaster as a profit making opportunity, will show up and barrel some ordinance through your City Council; you’ll be really upset after the fact. Get in front of this. You’ve got a little time. First you have to clean up, but remember what I’m saying as the process moves forward. Without your voice, your advocacy, some things will be proposed and moved into your reality so fast your heads will swim, and they won’t always be things you would like to have happen. Governor Christie said today that for a guy his age, the iconic parts of the Shore will never be the same. They’re gone. He’s right. Just don’t let people, especially people who aren’t from there, determine what will be put in place, no matter what city, town or borough you live in. Ask us about the “iconic” French Market some time when you get a chance, and that’s just one little thing. Your sense of community is what will see you through. Without it you’ll be steamrolled by developers with wads of cash and connections. Carpetbaggers don’t just come to the South.

Allow yourself time to cry. And cry. Then cry some more. You’ll be crying unexpectedly for a long time. Ask us. We still cry over the Flood seven years ago, and are crying as we see your devastation because those pictures dredge up visions burned into our souls that we manage not to notice on good days and can’t escape on bad days. You’ll find yourselves three years from now looking for something familiar, something you know you had, then get slugged in the solar plexus as you remember that it was in a box in your basement when Sandy slammed through. Give yourself permission to grieve the loss of the little things that marked your journey through life. While they don’t matter much in the overall scheme of things, they do matter to you, a great deal. Don’t minimize their importance in your determination to stay strong. That last picture of your Dad will haunt you if you don’t allow yourself to mourn it’s simple paper loss.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help, you’ll need it. The mental health issues related to this will not show up in force for a couple of months. Some won’t show themselves until well after the rebuilding has begun. You are in for months and months of stress, and being a hearty lot, you’ll manage. You’ll cope. Then you’ll find yourselves as we did, with a group of friends, and every 15 minutes one or the other of you will burst into tears. Don’t berate yourselves over this. Help the other guy through the sobbing until it’s your turn and they’ll help you and understand and won’t call you a pussy.

Watch your elderly family members. They will quietly weather this, but many of them will internalize it. The deaths of elderly people after Katrina skyrocketed. I am not trying to scare you. I’m just telling you what we experienced and it was not something we expected. Many of us didn’t notice that the old man down the street was struggling because everything he ever knew was gone, never to return. We didn’t always notice when the old lady around the way gave up, and gave in to her broken heart. It was sobering and scary and we carried guilt for being so concerned about rebuilding that we missed signs. These are the things your leaders or the media won’t necessarily tell you. We’ve lived it. We’re hoping you can avoid some of it by knowing ahead of time.

Your little ones will be scared, deeply and for a long time. They’ll need a lot of help and attention. Your usually mellow child might suddenly bolt under the bed at the sound of the wind. As scary as this was and is for you, for them it’s as though a big malevolent foot stomped their sandcastle of security. They’re too young to understand, too young to process some of it, too young sometimes to vocalize their fears, and they’ll try to be strong for you as you are trying to be for them. Make sure that your schools have some kind of program in place to deal with the trauma. If they don’t have one, demand it.

Retain your sense of humor. Gallows humor will get you through a lot of things. Of course, here in New Orleans, gallows humor is our stock in trade, but I know you’ve got a pretty good streak in you too. Use it. You’ll need it and will find it very helpful as you dig out.

Accept what people give you. Don’t let your pride get in the way. We learned that very quickly as packages with cash tucked into them came to us from friends and strangers all over the country. For some of you the cash will be important as your paychecks won’t be coming for a while, if your job still exists. Our initial response was, yup, pride. We don’t need that, we’re fine, we thought. We learned humility fast and we learned to simply say thank you and accept the help. The folks who sent it wanted to help, really wanted to help. They didn’t want to give to an organization, they wanted to help us hand to hand, and they knew that if we knew of a place or person nearby who needed the help they sent more than we did, which was often the case, that we’d make sure it got to those people. You will be touched and humbled by the generosity of people and that’s something else you can lean on during this trying period.

Be prepared for assholes. There will be those who make outrageous assertions about your character or your home from behind a screen as they sit comfortably a thousand miles away. They will say it’s God’s wrath for having gay people among you. They will say you’re idiots for living at sea level. They’ll make all manner of racist comments. They’ll say that rebuilding boardwalks and homes on the shore or the barrier islands is wasteful folly. They’ll call you freeloaders, opportunists, and worse. For every bit of great kindness you receive, there will be an equal amount of venomous hatred. Ignore them if you can or defend if you must. Understand that idiots will come out of the woodwork as fast as the volunteers who show up to help you. They are hateful cowards. Say what you must to them, unless ignoring them is easier on your psyche.

As Thanksgiving is just around the corner, I am reminded of the first Thanksgiving after Katrina. A small group of us got together for dinner at one of the few open restaurants. (Power, by the way, still wasn’t on in many areas of the city.) One of our number asked quietly if we’d mind if he read something. We all said no, of course we didn’t mind. He had searched for days for this passage from “Ulysses” by Tennyson:

“Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Our hearts are with you, and our tears are tears of understanding and memory. I am in hopes that the writing of this will arm you for the battle ahead as what we learned has to have some positive use. I cannot accept that it was all for naught.

Mother Teresa on abortion

The tipping point has been reached

The far left, socialists and communists have attacked the USA from within for years and, with this election, have succeeded in changing our once great Republic, into a Socialist state.  The tipping point has been reached.

Many factors contributed to our demise, the indoctrination of our youth being major, as can be seen in this chart of the election yesterday.

Radicals of the sixties became entrenched in our colleges and universities and left leaning unions corrupted our K-12 school teachers (not all, but enough).   Curriculums were changed, substituting social welfare subjects for history, thus eliminating any reference our children may have had of the greatness of our Country's past and the meaning of our Constitution, our Republic and our capitalist society.

The conscious willingness by our leaders to refuse to protect our borders has destroyed the fundamental of assimilation that was the hallmark of our formal immigration policy.  We have now become a come one, come all squatter society that is creating a drain on our once great economy.  By failing to restrict voting to citizens only, the far left has created just another block to pander to.

The administration has spent millions advertising their mortgage bailouts, free phones, food stamp, disability and welfare programs in order to create an ever increasing entitlement society, the basis of a Socialist state.

This election has also been a tipping point for the left leaning media.  Not even pretending to perform investigative reporting on Fast and Furious, and the Benghazi attack, and actually hiding damaging information from the public, they have become just another arm of the far left establishment.  A candidate fighting and beating an incumbent is extremely difficult, but at the same time, by having your campaign being sabotaged by the MSM, it becomes nearly a hopeless task.

We now have entrenched in our national political structure, far left ideologues who are students of Cloward-Piven, and Saul Alinsky, proponents of the theory of doing whatever it takes to achieve a goal.  For months the President's campaign bombarded the airways in the swing states with character assassination ads and the President lied repeatedly in the debates with no rebuke from the media.  No one will ever know the effects of the Romney votes that mysteriously came up Obama on a number of touch screens across the country or other shenanigans perpetrated by the myriad of voter registration organizations formerly known as ACORN. 

And, although the House of Representatives is still in the hands of the opposition party, it has been weakened by the seemingly unlawful acts of Harry Reid in the Senate who has blocked every attempt by the House to get a budget passed, a legal requirement that would negate the necessity for continuing resolutions raising the debt ceiling in order to keep the government running.  This tactic is being used to demonize those heartless Republicans when they fight to keep our taxes and spending down.  Additionally, the President has taken it upon himself to create legislation through Executive orders and EPA and other agency regulations, thus circumventing Congress, a tactic many believe is unconstitutional.

Can any of this be reversed?  No one knows, but the tipping point has been reached.

The Eagle has died

Voting Day, beware of fraud

Tomorrow is voting day and the Left will look into their Alinsky playbook and come up with any trick they can find to steal this election.  The SEIU is maintaining voting machines in some states and a number of touchscreen voting machines have come up with curious results.  People have been voting for Romney, but when asked to verify, the vote is for Obama.  Make sure you check these screens before you finalize your vote.  If a problem, contact the poll worker before you click enter, then do the following:

Rumor has it that some in the MSM are also looking to call the election early for Obama in order to  depress the Romney vote.  Don't see how they could get away with this, but vote regardless of what you hear.

Pennsylvania and Ohio will become rich states if they vote for Romney

I hope that the people of Pennsylvania and Ohio know the amount of natural resources they have beneath their feet. The author of this piece, Joe Miller, knows what he is talking about. He is from Alaska, the only state that does not have a state sales or state income tax. The government and services are financed by the royalties from their oil production. A vote for Romney sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Excerpt: Voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio have a unique opportunity to make themselves energy producing giants this Tuesday, if they vote for the right candidate.

As geologists and energy experts probe what’s under the ground in these two states, it is becoming apparent they are sitting on huge reserves of natural gas. In addition to gas, they already have huge reserves of other forms of fossil fuels.

But in particular, the gas is near the surface and easy to obtain. If there is willing government cooperation from Washington DC, these states will be booming due to energy production. State treasuries would be overflowing with royalties from the billions in energy sold.

Read the full article here.

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Decatur Utilities crews home after issues with union in New Jersey

Just another example of unions for the unions, and God help the people.

Excerpt:  SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY (WAFF) -

The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews learned they could not help out in New Jersey unless they affiliated with a union.

SLIDESHOW

Utility crews volunteered with Sandy recovery. See photos.

A six man crew from Decatur Utilities headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can’t do any work there since they’re not union employees.

Read the full article here.