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Frisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his candidacy for Governor

Is this your next Governor???...

The San Francisco Democratic Party has given us a lot over the last few years. This is the city that voted to impeach President Bush, the city the banned handguns and the city that elected one of the most liberal mayors in the country - Gavin Newsom - who can't resist an itch to marry gays... Now, this city wants to give us the next governor... 

Pelosi gets smart...

Pelosi's taking the fifth. Finally, someone was able to explain to her that her continues statements and press conference were actually working against her. What a shame...

Obama's National Security policy - Don't count Cheney out

Last Thursday, President Obama and former Vice President Cheney delivered another chapter of their National Security duel. This video does a good job of demonstrating their opposing views.

There are numerous issues that should be known when one considers this dilemma:

• In his effort to promote transparency, and over the objections of five CIA directors, including Leon Panetta, who he had appointed, Obama released highly classified memos describing the limits of our interrogation methods but he refuses to release the memos that will show that these interrogations prevented terror attacks. He claim that he had to release the memos in compliances with a court order, yet he defied a court order to release photos from investigations of detainees and correctly so. 
• On his 3rd day in Office, Obama signed an executive order to freeze the prosecution of terror detainees by military commissions a procedure that had been established by the Bush administration. This week, Obama reinstated the military commissions with a few cosmetic modifications. Yet, in his Thursday speech, Obama claimed that this was a mess left him by President Bush. He fails to realize that President Bush left him a country that was on the offensive against terror organizations – a policy that has kept this country safe from their attacks for almost 8 years since 9/11.

The notion that we should extend constitutional rights to detained terrorists is completely misguided for several reasons:

• The Geneva Conventions do not apply to all prisoners of war. To qualify for full protection under the Geneva Conventions, combatants must wear uniforms, carry arms openly and adhere to the laws of war. Terrorists, of course, fail these tests!
  
• Bringing terrorist to justice in our Federal court system is impractical as well. In most cases, confessions and other evidence against them were obtained without granting Miranda rights, so the court will have to suppress such evidence. 
  

Lastly, we have the issue of known terror operatives that are detained without trial. On this, Obama promises not to release individuals that want to harm America. Well then, if that’s true, all we’re discussing is a change of zip code from Guantanamo to some prison in the US? What will this achieve?

The case of the Bronx Synagogues Bombers raises issue of Islam in Jails

Shockingly, the four people arrested while planting bombs in front of two Bronx synagogues and are alleged to have plotted to shoot a National Guard airplane were not your run-of-the-mill terrorists. They are African Americans who had converted to Islam in prison and had decided to act on their hatred of Jews ad America. Concern about jail-house conversions to Islam, radicalization and recruitment by terrorist organizations has intensified since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, for that reason, the Federal Bureau of Prisons received a seat on the National Joint Terrorism Task Force which includes some 40 government agencies. 

Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York Police Department estimates about 10 inmates that are paroled in New York give authorities “some level of concern”; and “The State of new York has allowed Muslim imams to be prison chaplains since 1972 and some of them preach the fundamentalist Wahabi version of Islam”.

I think it’s time for our government to reconsider its policy concerning Muslim prison chaplains. Naturally, people in prison are already disenfranchised and are ripe for anti-American and anti-freedom preaching. I suggest that we provide Muslim imams on a limited basis for Muslim inmates but we should disallow conversion to Islam in our prisons.

Dianne Feinstein defends bringing Gitmo detainees to the US

The Senate, today, voted to deny President Obama's request of $80 million for the closure of Gitmo and Democrats joined Republicans in warning about the dangers of transferring detainees to US soil. However, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee was running against the grain of her fellow Democrats by speaking in favor of bringing these suspected terrorists into the US, notwithstanding testimony, by Homeland Security and the FBI as to the dangers of such move. 

9/11 is all but a distant memory...

Biden did it again....

Well. This time, VP Biden really outdid himself. When he attended a diner at the Gridiron Club earlier this year, the VP disclosed to people at his table the existence of a highly confidential bunker under the old Naval Observatory. The bunker is where the VP stays in the event of national emergency and that's where Vice President Dick Cheney staid after the 9/11 attacks. Biden said a young naval officer took him on a tour of the secret hideaway and went on to describe that there is a heavy metal door with a complex lock at its entrance and that the hallway was lined with shelves, loaded with communications equipment. 

Most recently, in a televised interview, he said that people should stay away from public transportation to avoid swine flu...

I think that he should be gagged when he lives the house....

Cap-and-Tax

So, what is Cap-and-Trade? 85% of Americans don't understand what Cap-and-Trade means. US Congressman John Dingell, a Democrat from Missouri, actually provides the best answer to this question. He said "Nobody in this country realizes that Cap-and-Trade is a new tax and it's a great big one" In fact, it should be called Cap-and-Tax because we will all pay for it. 

The plan is for the government to regulate energy production and the use of fossil fuels across our entire economy. This is a huge new government mandate. The government plans to cap or limit the amount of greenhouse gases that companies can emit. Companies that will exceed the limit will have to buy permits - from the government of course. This will hit energy companies especially hard, since half of our nation's electricity is produced with coal and another 30% is produced from other fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. Now, make no mistake about this. These additional costs will be passed to you - the consumer. You will pay more for electricity; you will pay more for products made in factories because their energy costs will skyrocket; you will pay more for just about everything because just about every economic activity involves the use of fossil fuels!

President Obama himself told the San Francisco Chronicle, in January of last year: "So, if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they will be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. You know, under my plan of Cap-and-Trade system, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket."

White House aids have told Senate staffers that the plan could raise as much as $2 trillion in revenues for the government. That's a tax!!! the year cost to the American family is estimated at $2000-$3000.

Here we are, in the middle of the worst post-depression recession, and our government is scheming to impose one of the biggest new taxes in history... Think about it...

Military Tribunals resumed

"As President, I will close Guantanamo and reject the Military Commission Act". This was Obama's unadorned promise on the campaign trail. Indeed, in his first days in the White House, Obama signed an Executive Order to close Guantanamo within a year and suspend the military tribunals for 120 days.

Four months later, the complex realities of handling the 241 remaining Guantanamo prisoners have given Obama a nasty reality check. In a very hush hush meeting at the White House Situation Room, on Thursday, it became clear that the administration could not find an alternative to the military tribunals and, on Friday, administration officials announced they were resuming trials of suspected terrorists by military commissions.

While this is happening, the planned closure of Guantanamo is facing mounting opposition on both sides of the aisle in Congress. The issue if resettling some of these suspected terrorist is raising grave concerns across the country as articulated by State and Federal lawmakers.

"By releasing trained terrorists into civilian communities in the United States the administration will, by definition, endanger the American people," warned Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. Obama's own party is not cooperating either. Democrats recently stripped out of the military budget bill $94 million earmarked for relocation of Guantanamo prisoners, telling the president they will reconsider when he puts a concrete plan on the table. Senator Max Baucus, a senior Democrat, said: "We are not going to bring Al Qaeda to Big Sky County. No way! Not on my watch!"

At issue are approximately 80 Guantanamo prisoners that can be released but no country has agreed to take them.

Well, Mr. Obama, you showed that you have the courage to reverse your policies when faced with reality. There are many more unrealistic policies on your agenda and we hope that you will be man enough to change them too.

Do not close Guantanamo! We don't want these people to endanger our families or our troops on Iraq and Afghanistan!

Political payback?

Officials of the Service Employes International Union (SEIU) said that the SEIU spent $85 million in support of the Obama campaign last year and, in-spite of the financial difficulties that union now finds itself in (they had to borrow $25 million), it was well worth it. The Obama administration has appointed union officials to top posts in the White House and the administration is is backing legislation to make it easier for workers to organize. "SEIU is on the field, it's in the White House, it's in the administration," said Andy Stern, SEIU President. 

But I thought that the Obama administration would rid Washington D.C. from special interest groups?...

ENOUGH!!!

The Pelosi fiasco is not dying. In shear stupidity Pelosi deepens the hole she has dug for herself by continuing to give interviews and is now claiming that the CIA lied when they briefed her - one time - in September of 2002 and that they are lying now, in saying that she was briefed numerous times and that enhanced interrogation techniques were discussed in detail in those briefings, especially as they pertained to Al Quaeda operative Abu Zubaydah.

Even her "good friend" former colleague on the Democratic congressional delegation from California, CIA Chief Leon Panetta, turned against her. In a memo Panetta sent to CIA employees on Friday he writes: "CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, describing 'the enhanced techniques that had been employed"; and "There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business, But the political debates about interrogation reached a new decibel level yesterday when the CIA was accused of misleading Congress."

Other CIA officials said on Pelosi's account of the briefing: "That's 180 degrees different from what the CIA's records show"

Pelosi tried to backpedal on Friday, saying that her accusations were against the misleading ways of the Bush administration rather than the CIA but no one is buying this new wrinkle in the Pelosi saga. Even Jay Leno is joking about her, saying: "Oh, and speaking of torture, I love this. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says the CIA and President Bush misled her on waterboarding. Yeah. Apparently she was misled by the Bush Administration. So she spends eight years telling everybody how dumb President Bush is, and the minute she's in trouble, 'He fooled me! I had no idea! He tricked me!"...

Shame on you Nancy Pelosi. These people, at the CIA, serve America at great peril to themselves. RESIGN!!!

A 36 seconds video you won't believe!...

Firefighters are being fired because they speak English...

Introducing Congressman Mark Kirk

US Representative Mark L. Kirk from Illinois has been a steadfast supporter of the state of Israel since he was first elected to congress in 2001.

As a member of the House Appropriation Committee, Congressman Kirk has recently had the opportunity to enter some changes in the language President Obama requested in his 2009 Supplemental Appropriations bill – language that deals specifically with the release of funds to the Palestinians. While the President was satisfied with a compliance, by the Palestinian government, with bills that had previously been passed in Congress (including the need to recognize the State of Israel), Congressman Kirk insisted on adding to the proposed bill, in bold letters, that each and every minister of the Palestinian government shall have to publicly comply with those previous bills in writing.

For Israel’s 61st Independence Day, Congressman Kirk released the following statement:

"I deeply hope that the United States, which under your leadership has done so much to find a just solution, will promptly recognize the Provisional Government of the new Jewish state. The world, I think, would regard it as especially appropriate that the greatest living democracy should be the first to welcome the newest into the family of nations." – Chaim Weizmann, in a May 13, 1948 letter to US President Harry S. Truman.

Sixty-one years after the establishment of the State of Israel, we reaffirm the unwavering commitment of one great democracy to another.  As melting pots of diversity and bastions of political, economic and personal freedom, the United States and Israel are deeply bound by the unique values shared only by the world’s true democracies.

Surrounded by oppressive dictatorships that deny their citizens basic human rights, Israel remains a flickering hope that people of all faiths – Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Buddhists, Hindus, and Baha’is alike – can live together in freedom, peace and prosperity.  

Despite its desire for peace with its neighbors, the people of Israel are forced to defend their right to exist on a daily basis.  From Gaza to Lebanon to Syria to Iran, the enemies of Israel are clear in their objectives – the total annihilation of the democratic and Jewish State of Israel.  We cannot and will not let that happen.

Democracies are strongest when they stick together.  In the coming year, I look forward to working with my friends in Israel in strengthening our strategic bilateral relationship and ensuring this little democracy always has a bottom line.

To the people of Israel: Yom Ha’atzmaut Sameach – Happy Independence Day.

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Congressman Mark is a reserve Navy intelligence officer and won Navy Intelligence Office of the Year in 1999.

More power to you Mark Kirk!!

Pelosi should step down

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi lied when she said she had not been briefed on the CIA's intention to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique. So, the third highest-ranking US government official is a liar. That happens, but she should step down. President Clinton was impeached for less...

Benedict Specter

Prior to announcing his defection to the Democratic side, Senator Specter negotiated a deal whereby not only would he be allowed to keep his committee assignments, but that he would keep the same level of seniority as though he was first elected as a Democrat back in 1980. However, this deal generated an outrage amongst the existing Democrats in those committees so, guess what? Specter was demoted to the junior-most position. 

Sorry Arlen. Only real Democrats get seniority and you, you're neither a real Democrat, nor a real Republican. What are you??...

The Obama administration launches an unprecedented public relations attack on Israel.

As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu’s May 18th visit to Washington D.C. approaches, the Obama administration is ratcheting up its anti-Israel rhetoric and working feverishly to force Israel into a corner, as evidenced by the following:

• Various media sources report that National Security Advisor James Jones told a European foreign minister that the US is planning to build an anti-Israel coalition with the Arabs and Europe to compel Israel to surrender Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. He then explained that the US, EU and moderate Arab states must determine what “a satisfactory endgame solution” will be. Insofar as Jones is concerned, Israel will be left out of these discussions and be presented with a fait accompli that the Obama administration will compel it to accept. 
  
• Tony Blair, the Quartet mediator, announced, in interview with Palestinian reporters, that within six weeks the US, EU, UN and Russia will unveil a new framework for establishing a Palestinian state and that this is being worked at the highest level of the US administration.
  
• There is mounting evidence that the Obama administration is trying to let the Arabs write the plan for the “coalition”. Al-Quds al Arabi, a London-based Arab newspaper, reported last week that Jordan’s King Abdullah urged the Arab League to update the 2002 Arab Peace Plan, the same plan that calls for Israel to withdraw from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the Golan Heights and accept millions of foreign Arabs as citizens as part of the right of return of “Palestinian refugees” in return for normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab world. This same plan has been rejected by successive Israeli governments. The changes proposed by King Abdullah, after his meeting with Obama, were the removal of any reference to Palestinian refugees and a stronger definition of the relations between Israel and the Arab world. Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak hoped to present the changes to the plan to Obama during his visit to Washington later this month but Arab League General Secretary Amr Moussa, Fatah leader Mahmoud Abas and Syrian president basher Assad rejected the changes… However, the administration holds that Israel is the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East. VP Joe Biden used is appearance at the AIPAC conference last week to drive this point home. He said “Israel has to work toward a two-state solution. You’re not going to like me saying this, but not build more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow the Palestinian freedom of movement” – Israel’s national security interests notwithstanding…
  
• For Israel, the main event last week was the visit by President Shimon Peres in the White House. The Israeli government hoped the President Peres would be able to calm the US administration in advance of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the White House next week. However, the Obama administration humiliated President Peres and Israel by barring media coverage of the event. The administration transformed what was planned to be a friendly visit with a respected and friendly head of state into a backdoor encounter with an unwanted guest who was shoed in and out of the White House without making waves.
  
• Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, in his meeting last week with AIPAC leaders, actually blamed Israel for the Iranian nuclear crisis saying that Israel’s refusal to enter a peace agreement with the Palestinians makes it impossible for the Arab world to support international efforts against Iran.
  
• Last week, at a UN forum, US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller said “Universal adherence to the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty) itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea remains a fundamental objective of the United States”, breaking a 40-year old agreement that was signed between Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir and US President Richard Nixon whereby the US will maintain silent about the Israeli nuclear program and protect it from the scrutiny of the international community. Israel agreed not to test its nuclear arsenal and not to use it for offensive purposes. Needless to say, placing Israel in the same bucket with North Korea and Pakistan provides further evidence of the direction of Obama’s relations with Israel.

Even the New York Times criticizes Obama’s Middle East Policy, saying that it is based on ideology and not facts. If it were based on facts, the “two state solution” which have failed repeatedly since 1993, would not be its centerpiece.

In fact, there is a wall-to-wall consensus in Israel that the endgame is a two-state solution. However, in light of the weakness of the Palestinian leadership, and the refusal of their coalition partner, the Hamas, to recognize Israel’s right to exist, a comprehensive agreement based on two sates living alongside each other in peace and security is too ambitious. Progress has to be made in baby steps. Israel withdrew all its civilians and troops from the Gaza to only receive years of bombardment of its civilians by Hamas rockets. The Israeli government’s first and foremost responsibility is to protect its citizens.

Obama’s idea of national security policy is kumbaya. Lets sit with the Muslims, smoke a couple of joints, and have fun… Now that he is safely on the path of compromising America’s national security, he wants to do the same to Israel.  Hopefully, Prime Minister Netanyahu has the mental and political capital to withstand 4 years of freezing relations with the US. 

Sen. Dianne Feinstein – The Peacemaker

In her address at the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) policy conference in Washington D.C., Senator Feinstein said: “Israel must take immediate steps towards a two-state solution. Israel must withdraw from the West Bank as soon as possible. Talk about it in your synagogues, in your communities. Talk about the two-state solution. Until now, there have been “excuses” for why Israel couldn’t move forward. First, Arafat was a problem; then there were other reasons. There must not be other reasons, she said. The time is now!”

Thank you Senator Feinstein for letting us know that now is the time. I understand that you already discussed it with the Hamas and Hizbala...

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Bush, Reagan and Obama

Mecca on the west

After hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, President Obama will host, this week, the president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari and the resident of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. No wonder, after Obama’s heat-warming speech in Istanbul, Muslims consider the White House Mecca-on-the-west, hence the pilgrimage… 

The Chavez saga continues

After embarrassing President Obama in Trinidad, Chavez continues… The Washington Times reports that, on Friday, Hugo Chavez said that Obama must prove that he wants to improve ties with South American. “He says he’s here to make changes… This is not about speeches or smiles”… Being nice to Chavez is really paying off…