All This For Folding A Flag

The following video of Barack and Michelle Obama at the September 11, 2011 memorial ceremony clearly shows how the first couple views our country’s heritage. Michelle states: “All this for folding a flag”, then rolls her eyes.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W5xDBxE_0w

What does the American flag mean to you? Is it a symbol for derision or does it still represent the sacrifice and sacred honor of our nation?

David DeGerolamo

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Obama in Apex, NC – A Centerpiece of Hypocrisy

The president will visit Apex today (September 14th, 2011)  to promote his latest tax and spend initiative. Raising taxes to create jobs is not a function of the government. This administration’s policy was “Never let a crisis go to waste”. This has been replaced with “Never let an opportunity for redistribution go to waste”.

The president is flying to Apex to showcase a company with 25 employees? That is 25 employees in the United States: Obama is not visiting their new 10,000 sq. ft. Costa Rican facility built in order to take advantage of lower labor costs. This also allows WestStar to reduce their US tax burden as most US corporations do to escape our high corporate tax burden. From the Daily Caller:

The owner of the company, Ervin Portman, is a local Democrat on the Wake County, N.C. Board of Commissioners. He donated $1,000 to Obama’s 2008 campaign. Portman and his wife together donated several thousand more to other Democratic candidates and the state Democratic party.

Will the hypocrisy ever end?

David DeGerolamo

 Obama will visit company with Costa Rica plant

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Others Also Looking for William Wallace …

Glad to see I’m not the only one looking:  (ref.1 and ref.2)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

One Day A Leader Will Come

If you are like me, you are waiting patiently (or impatiently) for a leader, a true leader. What we seek is someone, anyone who can galvanize the American spirit and bring to the fore the lost principles that in their absence have left America rudderless in this new age. We have been mis-lead for a long time, by all political parties, who in the end are not capable of leading a free nation.

We need someone bold and willing to attack the abuses of the past, not just figure out a way to benefit from them. We wrap ourselves in the Constitution in order to seek a return to the rightful order of things in a free America, but we have no champion. Whenever the Constitution is brought out and emphasized all of the pork programs and social safety nets are there to counter its re-enactment, its re-affirmation. Because, to insist on Constitutional rigor is to lose those social support mechanisms that have worked over the decades to enslave us to an all powerful federal government.

Likewise, when state supremacy is proffered, we are met with the abuses of the South and racism to counter our demands. Everything that is Constitutional is inconvenient now, with so many reliant on the power and largess of a monolithic federalism. We have lost our sense of self, our understanding of how to be free and therefore recoil from it.

The question comes down to whether or not I want my parents, your parents, their parents kicked off of Social Security and thrown into the street. The answer to that will always be “no” and so the answer to the Constitution and to state’s rights will always be no.

This is exactly why we need a leader, someone who can give us the way, the bravery to say “yes” to those questions and to show us a way to show compassion without resigning our own freedom. We are Americans, we are capable of it, we used to understand how to do it.

If one were to take the time to look back into American history, they would find a more brutal, more insensitive, a more dangerous society, but they would also find the unbridled sense of wonderment and freedom that set us on a course of world domination, not militarily, but economically. We would see the ways that our parents and theirs provided the type of energy and capacity it takes to free the world from absolute oppression and personal degradation.

So, lets make the question easier to answer in the affirmative. Is it worth a little more danger, a little more insensitivity in order to remain the benevolent power the United States has always been? Let us have the bravery to ask ourselves if WE would take care of our own in order to provide the freedom and liberty it takes to be a better nation.

We need a leader that can make us see a better way, that can make that way understandable.

Let me suggest to you that when you look at your parents and your children you have a choice. Which would you consign to destitution and foreign domination? Bring your children around your knee, bring them to you and your parents and lay out a loaf of bread. Who should eat? You choose.

I know you don’t think you have to make that choice, but you are making it every day that you allow the excesses of this government to run along on the bastardized concept of the Constitution on which it currently operates. When you even consider the thought of a Jobs Bill that will rob the bread from your children’s mouths to feed to labor unions, you make that choice. It’s easy, isn’t it, to starve your children for the benefit of others while you secretly hope that one day that they will starve theirs for you?

Yes, a Constitutionally compliant government would be smaller, would allow some bad things to come to pass, would place all of us in more danger. It would leave us victim to some scams and dirty deals. But it would also leave us free to correct them properly. It would leave our children free to dream of ways to make their future work without the crushing pressure of a constantly, exponentially expanding debt, or worse, default.

What we will have, in the end, is a much more dangerous America either way we go. The difference largely is where that danger will come from. Will it come from freedom or tyranny? Will our dangers be presented to us by a USDA-less America, or a largely lawless society devoid of any compassion at all, wandering homeless taking what they want where it can be found? Will it come in the form of a lack of social nannying, or the lack of political independence? When our debtors start calling the shots, will our children be forced to work in miserable conditions to satisfy the demands of our creditors? You might think “no” but that is just a hope, a wish for the future that probably cannot be true. You do not know the future because the United States has never been so far from the protections of our Constitution and therefore so far from the fiscal stability that has always allowed us to set our own rules, make our own decisions.

I am calling for a leader that can project that message and take the medicine that must be swallowed today, before the ailment eats us alive. Where is that leader? Is this leader among those in the Republican debates? Really? Where is that person bold enough to insist on Constitutionality, who is capable of leading the impeachment of Supreme Court justices who would steal from the citizens the protections of the Constitution? Where is the people’s champion?

I ask you, because I don’t see it. I don’t see that leader anywhere on the political landscape. Rise boldly to demand it, or consign yourself to the ultimate demise that we are sure to endure without it. Prepare yourself for the sight of everyone you love starving to death in a nation forced to comply with the demands of a hostile power.

One day a leader will come, who will answer all your questions. That leader will stand before with all the power to make your dreams come true, who will be able to set the nation right. The question before all of you today is will they do so, or will that leader instead slowly grind us all into obedient slaves to their oppression? By our actions up to now I think you know which leader we will ours.

 
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The Consequences of Weinergate for Democrats

FoxNews has announced that Bob Turner (R) has won Anthony Weiner’s seat in the US House of Representatives in an overwhelmingly Democrat district. The media will be playing this victory as a defeat for the president’s policies for the next several days.

Although Rep. Weiner will be remembered for Weinergate on Twitter, let’s not forget his attacks on Glenn Beck for telling people to buy gold at $1100/oz.

David DeGerolamo

Republican Wins House Race in New York, Seen as Obama Rebuke

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Ron Paul’s View on 9/11

Isolationalism is part of our founding principles. In the video below, Ron Paul states that we have 900 military bases in 130 countries. This was not the intent of our founding fathers:

“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”

George Washington’s Farewell Address

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The Current Status of the “Defense of Marriage Act”

Brenda T. Formo and Joyce Krawiec nc.eagle.eye@live.com

September 13, 2011

Defense of Marriage Act Passed in the House in a vote of 75 to 42 with 2 not voting and 1 excused absence, on Monday Sep 12th. The bill will be voted on in the Senate today, Sep 13th. According to Joyce Krawiec who has talked with most NC Representatives and Senators on this issue, three Republican Senators may be wavering on this critical vote, please call them and ask that they vote to let the people decide:

Senator Fletcher Hartsell (Cabarrus, Iredell) (919) 733-7223 and
Senator Richard Stevens (Wake) (919) 733-5653

Senator Bill Rabon (Brunswick, Columbus, Pender) (919) 733- 5963
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  • The Bill:

1. States that: “Article 14 of the North Carolina Constitution is amended by adding the following new section: Sec. 6. Marriage. Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.”

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America Cannot Handle the Truth

Another article from World Net Daily that will be overlooked and marginalized as another “birther story” concerns the president’s social security number. The government’s own E-verify system did not pass his number as being legitimate. The question is not whether the number is valid or not since the court system will not allow this to be investigated. The question that needs to be asked is simple: where are the Congressional hearings that were promised prior to the 2010 elections?

Have we become a nation that cannot handle the truth? A moral and virtuous country would not be in a position where this question would ever be asked. Let’s just keep attacking the messengers as birthers and continue to see the nation unfold.

David DeGerolamo

E-Verify ‘flags’ Obama’s Social Security Number

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Don’t Look at Greece, Look at Italy

The impending economic collapse about to occur in Greece has been responsible for the sharp decline in European stock markets. In an effort to redirect the world’s attention, the Italian economic situation became the main news story today. Whether Greece or Italy collapses first is irrelevant: we must focus on the end result and not fall for misdirection.

One of the reasons that the US stock market rallied at the end of today (September 12, 2011) was the news of a Chinese bailout of Italy from the Financial Times. While the impact of this news will be short-lived, an earlier article from Reuters contradicted this information.

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GPS Jamming Capabilities by North Korea

A United States Airborne Reconnaissance Low (ARL) was forced to make an emergency landing during the joint US/South Korean exercises in March 2011. While the net result was no loss of life and or property damage, the technological advances by North Korea are being overlooked by our government and media.

What’s next from North Korea according to the Korean Times’ report from South Korea’s defense ministry?

The report said that the North could soon begin developing electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bombs that can damage high-tech defense systems such as radars and communication networks.

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Your Retirement Is Being Used to Control the Stock Market

The New York Stock Exchange closed up today as the rest of the world’s markets slid further into the abyss.

Hong Kong 9/12/2011

Germany 9/12/2011

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Ten Years of Blood and Treasure

Ten years after the September 11th attacks from al-Qaida/Taliban forces in Afghanistan, the United States has “reported” approved a plan to begin formal peace talks. Let’s make this easy: burn the poppy fields. The United States has turned a blind eye to the Afghani opium trade which is funding the Taliban. Does anyone think that the opinion of the United States and our soldiers in Afghanistan would change if we destroyed their drug trade?

Ten years of our blood and treasure has been reduced to capitulating to illiterate opiate farmers and terrorists. When we fund terrorism with oil, opium or cocaine trafficking, we will always come out on the losing side. The United States has become the paper tiger that al-Qaida said we were.

David DeGerolamo

Taliban to be brought in from the cold

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Fear Is In The Air

CBOE MKT VOLATILITY IDX is a fund which allows investors to make money off of fear. Although it measures market volatility, it reacts positively when people are afraid and is nicknamed “the fear index”. How afraid is the world? The graphic below shows a 25.47% increase in the past five trading sessions. Compare that with 0.01% annual return on a money market.

While our stock market is down 3.26% in the same period of time, the main reason that it is not down significantly is the large influx of investors fleeing European markets.

David DeGerolamo

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The Fall Into Arbitrary Law

September 17th is Constitution Day and I’m sorry to report our U.S. Constitution is in grave condition. It occurs to me that almost no part of the Constitution remains intact. It’s true we still have government bodies using the same names described in the Constitution, such as a Congress and President, but that’s where our use for the Constitution appears to end. Don’t believe me? I challenge you to attend a class, such as The Making of America, or the Constitution Refresher Course where each clause of the Constitution is examined. As you listen, clause by clause, I believe you will come to the same disturbing conclusion I have.

It is important that people who love the opportunity and freedom America has provided learn about the Constitution. A constitution is the rulebook for a government. Our current national divisions and dire situation are largely because we are no longer operating with our rulebook. Without a constitution there is arbitrary law, which means whoever gets power can do anything they want, which is barely one step above complete lawlessness. Sadly, many believe that whoever wins a national election has the right to unlimited power and sees nothing wrong with a federal government that can and does regulate every human activity. This is the type of arbitrary power practiced in every land during the dark centuries before the U.S. Constitution changed the world with the concepts of limiting government and protecting liberty.

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The New JOBS BILL Will Be Fully Paid For …

… through government T-shirt sales:

 


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September 11, 2011 – National Grandparents Day

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
September 09, 2011
 

Presidential Proclamation
National Grandparents Day
 

        The support of loved ones provides the earliest and often most powerful influence on our lives.  Grandparents hold a special place in our families, serving as elders, caregivers, and sources of lasting inspiration.  On National Grandparents Day, we honor the loving presence of these mentors who have contributed immeasurably to the strength of our families and our Nation.

        As a country, we understand our welfare is determined by that of all Americans, and it is our responsibility to provide for our grandparents as they have for us.  We must keep Social Security strong and viable, while preserving it for future generations.  We must strengthen Medicare by making common-sense changes that encourage high-quality care and address wasteful spending.  After a lifetime of contributions to our Nation and its economy, seniors have earned this support.

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